A CLASSIC: Master, Mission, Mate (Part 3 of 3)

random thoughts below ... just explore it yourself ...

from my personal notes on MMM ... Pastor JR here :-)

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"I personally believe that one of the JOB DESCRIPTON of a YOUTH Pastor or Leader is to teach godly & Holy Sex Education to his congregation and live it before their eyes ..." Pastor JR


"don't walk what you preach ... rather preach what you walk"

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Wisdom Says …

“It is wise to learn from experience and much wiser to learn from the experiences of  others”

"Don't leave that girl or boy without any godly reason and a desire to serve God and others
    YOU WILL JUST BE DEPRESSED!"  In fact that's why most young people enter this
    boyfriend - girlfriend business because they are depressed and bored in life!

IF YOU LEAVE WITHOUT GOD'S LEADING FOR YOU TO SERVE HIM YOU WILL
    JUST END UP WITH ANOTHER GIRL OR BOY ALONG THE ROAD OF ROMANCE.
    Remember romance is never love and love is never romance! 
    It is just a part of it -- and it must better be in marriage and marriage alone, or at least when you     are seriously thinking of entering marriage!

DON'T PLAY MARRIAGE if you are not yet married!

If you are doing something in the Kingdom of God, you will not be BORED!  (NEVER!!!)
    You will sleep with it ...
    You will talk about it ...
    You will eat with it ...
    You will dream it ...
    You will pray for it ...
    You will have disciples around it ...
    Do the works of God!  "... he who wins souls is wise" (Proverbs 11:30)

The point of MMM is not that you will have NO GIRLFRIEND or NO BOYFRIEND
    and do nothing or being idle
    BUT
    if you have a girlfriend / boyfriend you LAY THEM ASIDE for they are DISTRACTIONS.
    They would lessen your FOCUS … worse YET if they are your FOCUS-INSPIRATION instead     of God.
    Do not use them FOR GOD!  Be WITH GOD 1ST!

You should be possessed by the CALL of God to lead others, to pray for others and save some!
    Therefore you even to a point leave these special people behind for a higher call in the Lord Jesus Christ. God makes beautiful everything in His Time.  Do not force the issue yet. Do not be a grabber … be a “surrenderer”!



Master-Mission-Mate is about SURRENDER!

• Remember The Isaac Principle (lay it at the altar)

    “When they arrived at the place where God had told Abraham to go, he built an altar and placed the wood on it. Then he tied Isaac up and laid him on the altar over the wood.”   (Genesis 22:9)

• Remember The King David Principle (I will not offer anything that costs me nothing)

    “But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on buying it, for I cannot present burnt offerings     to the LORD my God that have cost me nothing.”  So David paid him fifty pieces of silver for the     threshing floor and the oxen.”   (2 Samuel 24:24)

• Remember The Jesus Principle (I am to do my Father’s Business)

    “But why did you need to search?” he asked. “You should have known that I would be in my     Father’s house.”  But they didn’t understand what he meant.”   (Luke 2:49, 50)

• Remember The Eunuch Principle (choosing not to marry for the Kingdom of God)

     “Some are born as eunuchs, some have been made that way by others, and some choose not to marry for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. Let anyone who can, accept this statement.”   (Matthew 19:12)

•   Remember The Paul principle (Live a Celibate Life / Have A Wife or Husband)

    “Now about the questions you asked in your letter.  Yes, it is good to live a celibate life.  But     because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.”   (1 Corinthians 7:1,2)

THE PRINCIPLE OF SACRIFICE -- admitting that something is costly YET THE CALL IS COSTLIER!

Not good for a man to be alone!
    But boy, what a tragedy for a boy and girl left all alone together!

Leave that girlfriend / boyfriend  if she / he could not live first alone in God and what she / he wants is only you by her / his side!
    God will give you a wife who will say till death do us part!
    God will give you a husband who will cling for richer or for poorer!

FOR Students and Singles
    Master = 1st and Foremost
    Mission = Next in Life
    Mate = Gift from God

FOR Family People (coming soon ....)

    Master = 1st and Foremost

    Mate and Family = Next in Line (The Gifts of God)

    Mission = Together in the Vision

"I personally believe that one of the JOB DESCRIPTION of a YOUTH Pastor is to teach
    Godly & Holy Sex Education to his congregation and live it before their eyes" 
    (Pastor JR)

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Master Mission Mate (Advanced)
God's Choice, My Choice or My Choice God's Choice?  
(MMM for Young Single Professionals)

• Implies  that you have responsibly obeyed God's moral standards to a point that you have reached freedom of choosing things in life which includes even your Mate.  This is having the "mind of Christ" in you! 

• This requires strict adherence to:

  (1)  Biblicalness of your Standards.
  (2)  Holiness unto the Lord.
  (3)  Prayerfulness.
  (4)  Spirit-filledness.
  (5)  Humbleness.
  (6)  Total Embracing of God's Desires in General!

As John MacArthur said in his book "FOUND:  God's Will", 
"You can do anything you want to do after being sure of the following personal experiences:

  (1)  You are Saved (A Child of God and thus having Special Privileges).
  (2)  You are Sanctified (Holy in your Heart, Mind and Will).
  (3)  You are Surrendered (Doing the basic Christian Disciplines of a Disciple).
  (4)  You are Spirit-filled! (walking in the Holy Spirit of God evidenced by His Fruit)
   
Have you reached this point in your life that you are doing the ways of God -- therefore godly? 
That you are thinking the "thoughts of God" -- therefore in obedience to Philippians 4:8?

• That you are loving the ways of God -- therefore, holy? 

• That you are mastered by the Word of God -- therefore, prophetic -- moving in accordance to the "rhema" of God? 

• That you are consumed with His Cause - therefore a man or woman of faith?

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supplementary
borrowed from Jaron Ministries)

Immorality in ANCIENT Times

    Greece - We keep prostitues for pleasure, we keep mistresses for the
                   day-to-day needs of the body ..." (Demosthenes of ancient Greece)
    Rome - Women married to be divorced and divorced to be married
                     (Seneca of ancient Rome)

Immorality in MODERN Times

"Sexual activity has increased among American adolescents since the early 1970's. 
National statistics show the average age at first sexual intercourse is 17 for females
and 16 for males. 

By age 20, three out of four females (3 out of 4) and five out of six males (5 out of  6)
                    have had sexual intercourse at least once.
                    One in six (1 in 6) fifteen year old boys and one in twenty (1 in 20) 15
                    year old girls have had sexual intercourse. 
(Source:  C. Brandis adn R. Jeremy, Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting in California: 
A Strategic Plan for Action, University of California at San Francisco, 1988).

Kinsey Report is quoted as saying,
"It is time to admit that incest need not to be perversion or a symptom of mental illness ... Incest between ... children and adults ... can be beneficial." 

Sadly, the problem is epidemic among our Christian youth, as well.

The following statistics concerning the sexual activity of "church youth" are taken from
the executive summary report of the Teen Sex Survey In the Evangelical Church
(Josh McDowell Ministry, 1987, p. 3):

By age 13 -- 20%  of church youth have engaged in fondling
                            and / or sexual intercourse

By age 16 -- 53 %  of church youth have engaged in fondling
                            and / or sexual intercourse

By age 18 -- 65 %  of church youth have engaged in fondling
                            and / or sexual intercourse

By age 18 -- 43 %  of church youth have experienced sexual intercourse.
36 %  were not able to state that sexual intercourse was unacceptable
            before marriage.

68 % attended at least one "R" rated film within the last 6 months

10% attended at least one "X" rated film within the last 6 months

73 % stated they got "A LITTLE" or "NONE" of their
information about sex from the CHURCH


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