Made Not Manufactured

Acts 4:1-22

What you to do things?

is defined to be the acting on or within a person to initiate behavior.

is a peculiar thing because what motivates one person has no effect on another person.

What does the have to say about motivation for the Christian?

For it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.  Phil. 2:13, NASB

Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.  Col. 3:23-24, NASB

Motivation that and the Lord emerges when believers on the of Holy Spirit instead of strength, effort, and knowledge.

What would a person to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with another person?

• Someone you that you to share the Gospel.
• You a book about to share the Gospel, and so you feel ready to do so.
• You feel if you don’t share the Gospel.
• You feel to do so to be a Christian.

Are any of these reasons a enough motivator to share the Gospel?

They may cause a in the response, but do they a and motivation?

And He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.”  Matt. 4:19, NASB

to live out the Christian faith and share the Gospel in a consistently and manner cannot be through mere effort or manipulation. This is not a enough or enough motivator to our behavior. At best, it may lead to a response.

A change can only be through a and relationship with Jesus and the to and Him.

Consider Acts 4:1-22

The to share Jesus Christ with another person should be to God and His calling on our life as His .

For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.  2 Corinthians 5:14-21, NASB