Title:- Fullness, Futures, and Fishing!
Acts 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams.
Israel Beer Josaphat was originally a bank clerk. However, in 1849, he initiated a prototype news service in Paris, using electric telegraphy and carrier pigeons in his network. Amazing! This same Israel, later changed his name to Paul Julius von Reuter and even today, this ‘Reuters International News Agency’ is still one of the largest and probably the most prestigious of them all.
However, the greatest and most longstanding news agency, even ‘Good News Agency’ is the church of the living God. It has been receiving information, encouragement, warning, and in turn, giving direction through various sources of spiritual mass media, for the whole of these 2000 years or more, even up to these these very last days. Oh yes, we are in the last days now. Remember, these are the end times in which we live, though not necessarily, the time of the end. If that’s news to you, then it just goes to prove my point!
In particular, though, from the New Testament, it is seen that we receive three types of information:Fullness News! How much we have in Jesus, how much He loves us. How much we can become in Him, through Him, because of Him.
Futures News! What Jesus has planned for us when we see Him. What He is doing on planet earth now and in the near, so very near future, as well as in the vast ages of eternity to come.
Fishing News! How we should live on this present lake of tears, where we should go, how we should get there and what we should do in the process, to so gather in the chosen of the Father.
In these end times, according to our text for today that is, everyone, I say everyone has an agency job; receiving news hot from heavens happenings, 24 hours, every day, via night 'video feed' (dreams) as well as 'day video feed' (visions) and of course from the constant teletype of the written Word of God. This is the norm! So tell me, when is the last time you heard from God? Are you really on His Good News team?
Finally, everyone on the Good News Team has a broadcasting job- Prophecy. Oh yes! We are not only the Good News gatherers the Good News distributors, but we are the Good News proclaimers, yes, we are the broadcasting agency as well. So, go into the highways, the vineyard, the village, and the city. Go, into all the world and proclaim the Good News, for yes indeed, freely you have received so freely give.
Listen: - “Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.” Matthew 10:16
Pray: - Your great commission, has been changed by us is our day, into ‘The Great Suggestion’ O Lord, and in my life in particular, has become ‘The Great Omission.’ The teletype is dead in me O Lord. ENOUGH!!! Dear Jesus, speak Lord to me today, that I too might tell, of Your wondrous works in me, amen.
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