Jesus has a Plan and It's YOU!
July 11, 2021      |     By: Sam McVay, Jr.      |      Category: Sermons      |      Location: El Dorado
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Ephesians 4:8-10 (ESV)
8 Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.”
9 (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth?
10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)

That he might fill all things!!!

Yahweh intends to fill everything, at the micro and macro level, with his glorious loving rule and reign!

From the beginning this is revealed. 

Genesis 1:26-28 (ESV)
26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and FILL the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

In partnership with Man He would fill the whole earth with His rule and reign.

In Matthew 16:13-19 Jesus declares His plan and it is to advance on the earth through the "ecclesia" He builds.

Often the Church is looking for the most effective plan or strategy when She herself is THE Plan and Strategy!

Matthew 16:13-19 (ESV)
13 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”
14 And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”
15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
16 Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
17 And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
18 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

Ephesians 1:19-22 (ESV)
19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might
20 that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,
21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.
22 And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,

Jesus is colonizing everything and everywhere.

The Great Commission is the great colonization plan for Jesus.

The fallen Adam race has been and is the great counter-colonization plan of Satan.

So...
Where you are is where the kingdom is.
Where you are is where the kingdom is needed.

Until you get a special assignment to go to another mission, where you live and work is where you mission.

Your presence brings the kingdom of God, confronts the kingdom of darkness, and releases the love of God to the lost.

In you and through you is the plan and strategy for filling the earth.