Working With a Working God
October 02, 2022      |     By: Jonathan Brickley      |      Category: Sermons      |      Location: El Dorado
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Hebrews 13:20-21 (NIV)
20 Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,21 equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

1) for doing
2) in us
3) to Him
4) through Jesus

Radical that:
 God works
 God loves

Isaiah 64:4 (NIV)
4 Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.

Genesis

Adam

Abraham (Genesis 18:19)

Genesis 18:19 (NIV)
19 For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”

Philippians 2:12-13 (NIV)
12 Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling,
13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.

Mark 14:13-16 (NIV)
13 So he sent two of his disciples, telling them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him.
14 Say to the owner of the house he enters, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’
15 He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”
16 The disciples left, went into the city and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.

Sabbath - where God’s work & man’s intersects

Working from rest

John 5:16-20 (NIV)
16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him.
17 In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.”
18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
19 Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed.

“Agape” - John 3:35
Powerful, sacrificial, Noble. God‘s love for his people. Good Samaritan.

“Phileo” - brotherly love. Philadelphia. Close friendships. Deep generosity and affection. Seeks to make the other happy. David and Jonathan

John 3:35 (NIV)
35 The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands.

John 15:14-15 (NIV)
14 You are my friends if you do what I command.
15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

Friendship With God
1) fear him - Psalm 25:14
2) promote and defend
3) intentional time together 

Psalm 25:14 (NIV)
14 The Lord confides in those who fear him;
   he makes his covenant known to them.