The Sermon Gifted For Giftings by David McGee
Dec 21, 2014
Gifted For Giftings (23:31)
Referenced Scriptures: Micah 5
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Micah 5
1) Now shall you gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops: he has laid siege against us; they shall strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.
2) But you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which are little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of you shall one come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.
3) Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she who travails has brought forth: then the residue of his brothers shall return to the children of Israel.
4) He shall stand, and shall feed [his flock] in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they shall abide; for now shall he be great to the ends of the earth.
5) This [man] shall be [our] peace. When the Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.
6) They shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances of it: and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian, when he comes into our land, and when he treads within our border.
7) The remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples as dew from Yahweh, as showers on the grass, that don‘t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.
8) The remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, as a lion among the animals of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he go through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
9) Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all your enemies be cut off.
10) It shall happen in that day, says Yahweh, that I will cut off your horses out of the midst of you, and will destroy your chariots:
11) and I will cut off the cities of your land, and will throw down all your strongholds.
12) I will cut off witchcraft out of your hand; and you shall have no [more] soothsayers:
13) and I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out of the midst of you; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands;
14) and I will pluck up your Asherim out of the midst of you; and I will destroy your cities.
15) I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath on the nations which didn‘t listen.
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Him and the need title of my message today is gifted. Forgive things gifted for gift things that they know how many times I know are in the school system. Why was when I was in school we always had the higher students. The middle students and lower students known as the different grades and elected Telluride with that but but we know that there is a designation for gifted many people who you are while I looked it up in this study, the words that are similar to it are talented, skilled, able exceptional extraordinary remarkable and then having a great natural ability. Now we would look here and look at the kids that were up here. We could say their gifted. They have a strong natural ability, but their natural ability need something need to work. Okay, so it are lives. I believe that God has gifted every individual with special talents for who they are as a person while you are yet in your mother 's womb. The Bible says God formed you he knew you and you and basically he put in there. Everything that we would need in our lives all the skills and abilities of all those things in place that we would need for our life and what happens by life experiences is that we are tapping those gift things and we are either going to pull them out by faith or by grumbling and complaining that we are going to look at them and see how that they are going to develop us and develop our qualities and develop us as a person. Now, sometimes well, now that I'm getting older. Somebody said -year-old was not yet old is always about twenty years older. What you are so not all of until you reach that twenty years older than what you are and in our life. We see that God has given to a special gift things and I believe those gift things are things that we feel called to do yet are afraid of. We are called to wait. We do things we get we we kind of our holding in reserve and say what you know, I'm not quite sure about this. God just dabbling in something Ellen this thing or that thing you're babbling for me was dabbling in writing to be able to be a writer to be a speaker was first of all you try this and keep doing this to keep developing it out when I was teenager. Even in college, even graduate from Bible school I I always thought I would be someplace, second or third help there be a main pastor and then there would be somebody you know I be second or third on the team somewhere. I never thought that I would be a speaker. I never thought that this would be something that I would be able to do, because in my repertoire of gift things speaking in front of people was not one of them. This is not a gift that was yellow. He opened it up and there you are. It was something that you had to work at the work at an decrease longer and hours and hours turned into days of preaching and people finally fell over and up you asleep you know that you made it okay on some weight. We recognize that God has a place for us there is that there is a place so there's a time and a place for us. There is a time for us and our allies. This places for us and just what we run into those things all wrong. There are opportunities always disguised as problems that arise, and as we look at the Scriptures like in Micah chapter five, but you, O Bethlehem, Africa, all at our only a small village among all the people of Judah, yet our ruler, whose origins are in the distant past will come from you on my behalf, so Bethlehem has been designated as the spot where Jesus the Messiah is to be born now. When I asked if I ask you the question, what is your favorite Christmas memory. What is your favorite Christmas memory. Any takers and anybody have what everybody have one, you have a favorite ironic about all my life I've been so poor and so bad I got call Lisa got cold blood in the furnace of fish did not you have a favorite memory every aim and got through okay kids were little and open up the presence that's a good one. Anyone else. Yes okay going in picking up a tree and Christmas Eve. You see, we all have memories we all have events that have happened and transpired in our lives. Now some don't. Sometimes Christmas is a very difficult time of year is not always the most wonderful time of the year. Sometimes it's a difficult time of year because perhaps you had a time in your life in which you do know why you celebrated Christmas is just another holiday widow have a reason for the season because now, we never got presence. We never gave presence. We just saw everybody else with them. We do never had a place like that the we know that before the Messiah was to come upon the earth. We knew that he would come to a place called Bethlehem and the challenge for us is God knows who you are where you are and what you will become. He has all that out before us, just as in the Old Testament, Bethlehem was set up as the place where the Messiah would come. What if God will know God does know God did know God has no from all eternity past and present, future, you'd be here today. God has been in place. He knows that. But what if God, in having you here at this place has given you specific talents and abilities for this day that God has given you specific things that he has put in your heart to start and that this day, you're going to unwrap them and the unwrapping of the Christmas presents this little echo off the unwrapping of the Christmas present. Sometimes we look at the wrappings that we have the wrappings that we look at our life with. Sometimes people are wrapped too tight at the Little jug people Iraq to fight back. I think your elevator doesn't go the way the top validator only stops and crawlspaces, now not wrapped too tight. They can affect a few bricks shy of a load like I got I got the idea by snow, so whenever we look at the gift things that we have sometimes we look at our gift things we say to ourselves, you know what, if it were really good summary else would happen if somebody else would have this gift. It would be important, but because I have it. It doesn't work so well the challenge for us is to realize that God has given to us gifting the gift of Christmas is Jesus Christ to our life and the begin the crisis given us is eternal life, but God has also given us the ability to share his love with other people. Now sometimes that gifting that we have that we are to gift to others the gift to you. You are the gifted and the gifted that you have is to give something to someone else. Guess what it might be your personality. No, not the grumpy side of you. The current side of you. You heard about the husband and wife. The pastor. The pastor asked the lady did did did you wake up grumpy this morning and she said no. I let them sleep so we have people who are just grumpy, not web personality is, how did you give good giving good a smile and encouragement if someone ever given you a word of encouragement, as someone put placed with you before you something to it. It was just there the right of the Nick of Time fellows to give things. I believe God has given us to be at the right place at the right time to deposit good faith of the people 's lives. Now the the the a little odd clip that I have here oddly have it it's it's it's from. She comes she thought coming on stage and in its form from Britain's got talent is with the first part of it. He put it up there and their lives the okay so whenever we are seeing Christmas. What are the one of the big great things that God has brought to us at Christmas time. Personally we look at everything in the light, the star. Christ is the light that shines in the darkness of our life in the dark places of our life. There is a light of Christ and the antichrist. Also during Christmas. We think of peace. Christ is the Prince of peace and his pieces part of who we are, so there's alike. There's the piece and there is the problems with the problems that we face that it is in the difficult times. It got has come to give us the victory over the obstacles so Christmas is more than just getting Christmas is about giving you see God came to give us. Then, whenever we start thinking of how God has gifted us. He has gifted us with opportunities to share who we are. This is okay if you put it on their letter voiced about it. You want to watch her giving seventeen this is a Susan Boyle is three hundred million people have watched this clip. So if we would not been working so what I'd like you to catch when it plays is that here is this lady. She's forty seven years old. She is the youngest of four sisters and five brothers. She is the font to have a mental disorder because she there was trouble at her birth. They diagnosed her as having a lack of oxygen to her brain. So she was never quite right. That was when she was diagnosed with and and we find her in her abilities. She has tried to sing on occasion, but people were so preoccupied with making fun of her. They never heard her talent now in our gift things God has given to us, every one of us abilities. But somehow, someway we allow them to be buried to be wrapped in criticism fair criticism. What will other people think what will other people say, how are they going to respond to me and we keep those things keeping us off the stage of life. So here is a woman who took care of her aging mother till she was age forty seven. Her mother did the lady is forty seven years old and her mother has died. She has not been out in public since her mother 's death she took the bus from her home through this audition. Wiccans got talent and she got on the wrong bus and she had to make a changes in buses to get to where she was supposed to be and when she arrived there. She feels is your right. Are you ready yet. Not yet when we arrived at the when I got there, we find that people people responded to her, and this is where the response of people have, to her appearance. What we always say man looks on the outward appearance. God looks on the heart potato be good there. She has I have a will is I him and him to buy a sewing on your lady. What's your impression. What are you pricing on this lady was forty seven years old. As a child in school. She was bullied. She was also called Susan because she wasn't quite up to par with our disorder because of her inability because of her lack of oxygen in the brain that was what you would like us, with over forty seven years, she's been living with this understanding, she's not quite right. Enjoy this time she's trying to say that people will listen to her because she was too simple. He him me the biggest wake-up call ever been. You see, that's the town to seek God has placed in us talents and here's a woman who are whole life. No one would listen to her voice because they couldn't get by what they saw and she was labeled mentally deficient sample because of a birth defect, which left her with lack of oxygen to the brain and you see in our lives. There are talents. There are things inside of us that we label certain ways, we look at them, and we say I can't become because and God has a way of biggest wake-up call ever is the way that God 's gifting in this Christmas is about the gift things that God has already wrapped and put inside a bus and we are challenged by the Holy Spirit to tap those things inside a bus to continue to. She had a dream and joy her dreams, she would go and take vocal lessons and things like that but never could sing in public very well. She went to church. She was in her church choir, but didn't have any specials in and so we look at all the children they were up here and some that weren't here, but inside of every one of us are talents and gift things in our challenge is to allow the Holy Spirit to open the dreams that are in your heart because he isn't done with us no matter where you're at in your life. He's not done with you here. This is just the beginning of what is going to do and then. But here again to you because to is a boil on the Internet. This lady in two thousand thirteen sold over nineteen million albums, nineteen million and she couldn't find her way to the show but she did, she didn't give up on her dream and no one would listen to her till after her mother died. She was alone and said I've got to do this and went and tried out. Never let your. Never let your dreams die. The place is just guide yes, that we all have dreams allow the spirit to tap those dreams and make them real unwrap them this Christmas keep unwrapping your abilities. The matter how many mistakes you make the worry about it. Keep on trying, because what's birthed inside of you is what God has created you for the men father, we thank you. Thank you for the season in which we are reminded, Lord of the great gifts that you have laid in store inside of us and we leave them there untapped unopened because of some reason in our thinking, but God there is the reality of your Holy Spirit, the creative power of God. The same spirit that moved upon Mary and birth the child in her womb is the same spirit that moves inside of our hearts and lives and gives birth concedes that inside a bus of what you want us to be in God, we thank you that these talents and abilities are there but the opportunities we have to bring them out are just presenting themselves bless, O Lord, give us faith to believe in you and the believe of God, and what you have put in place in us that we may accomplish her purpose in serving others, whether it's a smile. Thank you the hug whatever. Let us be that to someone else. We pray in Jesus name amen andHim and the need title of my message today is gifted. Forgive things gifted for gift things that they know how many times I know are in the school system. Why was when I was in school we always had the higher students. The middle students and lower students known as the different grades and elected Telluride with that but but we know that there is a designation for gifted many people who you are while I looked it up in this study, the words that are similar to it are talented, skilled, able exceptional extraordinary remarkable and then having a great natural ability. Now we would look here and look at the kids that were up here. We could say their gifted. They have a strong natural ability, but their natural ability need something need to work. Okay, so it are lives. I believe that God has gifted every individual with special talents for who they are as a person while you are yet in your mother 's womb. The Bible says God formed you he knew you and you and basically he put in there. Everything that we would need in our lives all the skills and abilities of all those things in place that we would need for our life and what happens by life experiences is that we are tapping those gift things and we are either going to pull them out by faith or by grumbling and complaining that we are going to look at them and see how that they are going to develop us and develop our qualities and develop us as a person. Now, sometimes well, now that I'm getting older. Somebody said -year-old was not yet old is always about twenty years older. What you are so not all of until you reach that twenty years older than what you are and in our life. We see that God has given to a special gift things and I believe those gift things are things that we feel called to do yet are afraid of. We are called to wait. We do things we get we we kind of our holding in reserve and say what you know, I'm not quite sure about this. God just dabbling in something Ellen this thing or that thing you're babbling for me was dabbling in writing to be able to be a writer to be a speaker was first of all you try this and keep doing this to keep developing it out when I was teenager. Even in college, even graduate from Bible school I I always thought I would be someplace, second or third help there be a main pastor and then there would be somebody you know I be second or third on the team somewhere. I never thought that I would be a speaker. I never thought that this would be something that I would be able to do, because in my repertoire of gift things speaking in front of people was not one of them. This is not a gift that was yellow. He opened it up and there you are. It was something that you had to work at the work at an decrease longer and hours and hours turned into days of preaching and people finally fell over and up you asleep you know that you made it okay on some weight. We recognize that God has a place for us there is that there is a place so there's a time and a place for us. There is a time for us and our allies. This places for us and just what we run into those things all wrong. There are opportunities always disguised as problems that arise, and as we look at the Scriptures like in Micah chapter five, but you, O Bethlehem, Africa, all at our only a small village among all the people of Judah, yet our ruler, whose origins are in the distant past will come from you on my behalf, so Bethlehem has been designated as the spot where Jesus the Messiah is to be born now. When I asked if I ask you the question, what is your favorite Christmas memory. What is your favorite Christmas memory. Any takers and anybody have what everybody have one, you have a favorite ironic about all my life I've been so poor and so bad I got call Lisa got cold blood in the furnace of fish did not you have a favorite memory every aim and got through okay kids were little and open up the presence that's a good one. Anyone else. Yes okay going in picking up a tree and Christmas Eve. You see, we all have memories we all have events that have happened and transpired in our lives. Now some don't. Sometimes Christmas is a very difficult time of year is not always the most wonderful time of the year. Sometimes it's a difficult time of year because perhaps you had a time in your life in which you do know why you celebrated Christmas is just another holiday widow have a reason for the season because now, we never got presence. We never gave presence. We just saw everybody else with them. We do never had a place like that the we know that before the Messiah was to come upon the earth. We knew that he would come to a place called Bethlehem and the challenge for us is God knows who you are where you are and what you will become. He has all that out before us, just as in the Old Testament, Bethlehem was set up as the place where the Messiah would come. What if God will know God does know God did know God has no from all eternity past and present, future, you'd be here today. God has been in place. He knows that. But what if God, in having you here at this place has given you specific talents and abilities for this day that God has given you specific things that he has put in your heart to start and that this day, you're going to unwrap them and the unwrapping of the Christmas presents this little echo off the unwrapping of the Christmas present. Sometimes we look at the wrappings that we have the wrappings that we look at our life with. Sometimes people are wrapped too tight at the Little jug people Iraq to fight back. I think your elevator doesn't go the way the top validator only stops and crawlspaces, now not wrapped too tight. They can affect a few bricks shy of a load like I got I got the idea by snow, so whenever we look at the gift things that we have sometimes we look at our gift things we say to ourselves, you know what, if it were really good summary else would happen if somebody else would have this gift. It would be important, but because I have it. It doesn't work so well the challenge for us is to realize that God has given to us gifting the gift of Christmas is Jesus Christ to our life and the begin the crisis given us is eternal life, but God has also given us the ability to share his love with other people. Now sometimes that gifting that we have that we are to gift to others the gift to you. You are the gifted and the gifted that you have is to give something to someone else. Guess what it might be your personality. No, not the grumpy side of you. The current side of you. You heard about the husband and wife. The pastor. The pastor asked the lady did did did you wake up grumpy this morning and she said no. I let them sleep so we have people who are just grumpy, not web personality is, how did you give good giving good a smile and encouragement if someone ever given you a word of encouragement, as someone put placed with you before you something to it. It was just there the right of the Nick of Time fellows to give things. I believe God has given us to be at the right place at the right time to deposit good faith of the people 's lives. Now the the the a little odd clip that I have here oddly have it it's it's it's from. She comes she thought coming on stage and in its form from Britain's got talent is with the first part of it. He put it up there and their lives the okay so whenever we are seeing Christmas. What are the one of the big great things that God has brought to us at Christmas time. Personally we look at everything in the light, the star. Christ is the light that shines in the darkness of our life in the dark places of our life. There is a light of Christ and the antichrist. Also during Christmas. We think of peace. Christ is the Prince of peace and his pieces part of who we are, so there's alike. There's the piece and there is the problems with the problems that we face that it is in the difficult times. It got has come to give us the victory over the obstacles so Christmas is more than just getting Christmas is about giving you see God came to give us. Then, whenever we start thinking of how God has gifted us. He has gifted us with opportunities to share who we are. This is okay if you put it on their letter voiced about it. You want to watch her giving seventeen this is a Susan Boyle is three hundred million people have watched this clip. So if we would not been working so what I'd like you to catch when it plays is that here is this lady. She's forty seven years old. She is the youngest of four sisters and five brothers. She is the font to have a mental disorder because she there was trouble at her birth. They diagnosed her as having a lack of oxygen to her brain. So she was never quite right. That was when she was diagnosed with and and we find her in her abilities. She has tried to sing on occasion, but people were so preoccupied with making fun of her. They never heard her talent now in our gift things God has given to us, every one of us abilities. But somehow, someway we allow them to be buried to be wrapped in criticism fair criticism. What will other people think what will other people say, how are they going to respond to me and we keep those things keeping us off the stage of life. So here is a woman who took care of her aging mother till she was age forty seven. Her mother did the lady is forty seven years old and her mother has died. She has not been out in public since her mother 's death she took the bus from her home through this audition. Wiccans got talent and she got on the wrong bus and she had to make a changes in buses to get to where she was supposed to be and when she arrived there. She feels is your right. Are you ready yet. Not yet when we arrived at the when I got there, we find that people people responded to her, and this is where the response of people have, to her appearance. What we always say man looks on the outward appearance. God looks on the heart potato be good there. She has I have a will is I him and him to buy a sewing on your lady. What's your impression. What are you pricing on this lady was forty seven years old. As a child in school. She was bullied. She was also called Susan because she wasn't quite up to par with our disorder because of her inability because of her lack of oxygen in the brain that was what you would like us, with over forty seven years, she's been living with this understanding, she's not quite right. Enjoy this time she's trying to say that people will listen to her because she was too simple. He him me the biggest wake-up call ever been. You see, that's the town to seek God has placed in us talents and here's a woman who are whole life. No one would listen to her voice because they couldn't get by what they saw and she was labeled mentally deficient sample because of a birth defect, which left her with lack of oxygen to the brain and you see in our lives. There are talents. There are things inside of us that we label certain ways, we look at them, and we say I can't become because and God has a way of biggest wake-up call ever is the way that God 's gifting in this Christmas is about the gift things that God has already wrapped and put inside a bus and we are challenged by the Holy Spirit to tap those things inside a bus to continue to. She had a dream and joy her dreams, she would go and take vocal lessons and things like that but never could sing in public very well. She went to church. She was in her church choir, but didn't have any specials in and so we look at all the children they were up here and some that weren't here, but inside of every one of us are talents and gift things in our challenge is to allow the Holy Spirit to open the dreams that are in your heart because he isn't done with us no matter where you're at in your life. He's not done with you here. This is just the beginning of what is going to do and then. But here again to you because to is a boil on the Internet. This lady in two thousand thirteen sold over nineteen million albums, nineteen million and she couldn't find her way to the show but she did, she didn't give up on her dream and no one would listen to her till after her mother died. She was alone and said I've got to do this and went and tried out. Never let your. Never let your dreams die. The place is just guide yes, that we all have dreams allow the spirit to tap those dreams and make them real unwrap them this Christmas keep unwrapping your abilities. The matter how many mistakes you make the worry about it. Keep on trying, because what's birthed inside of you is what God has created you for the men father, we thank you. Thank you for the season in which we are reminded, Lord of the great gifts that you have laid in store inside of us and we leave them there untapped unopened because of some reason in our thinking, but God there is the reality of your Holy Spirit, the creative power of God. The same spirit that moved upon Mary and birth the child in her womb is the same spirit that moves inside of our hearts and lives and gives birth concedes that inside a bus of what you want us to be in God, we thank you that these talents and abilities are there but the opportunities we have to bring them out are just presenting themselves bless, O Lord, give us faith to believe in you and the believe of God, and what you have put in place in us that we may accomplish her purpose in serving others, whether it's a smile. Thank you the hug whatever. Let us be that to someone else. We pray in Jesus name amen and