Disciple: “God Has More”

Disciple
“God Has More”
4/27/25
Pastor Mark England

Matthew 28:18-20 (CSB) Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. ¹⁹ Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,²⁰ teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

1 John 5:3 (CSB) For this is what love for God is: to keep his commands. And his commands are not a burden,

Ephesians 4:13 (NLT) This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ.

Mature: and .

Full and Complete: That which has been .

Discipleship happens: at a time.

God has !

Ephesians 3:20 (CSB) Now to him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us

Every time we take a , we experience .

2 Corinthians 3:16-18 (CSB) but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. ¹⁷ Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. ¹⁸ We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.

1. A with God.

2 Corinthians 3:16 (CSB) but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.

Romans 5:1-2 (CSB) Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. ² We have also obtained access through him by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in the hope of the glory of God.

“The more we know Him, the more we will desire to know Him. As love increases with knowledge, the more we know God, the more we will truly love Him. We will learn to love Him equally in times of distress or in times of great joy. Let us occupy ourselves entirely in knowing God.”
-Brother Lawrence

2. A life of true .

2 Corinthians 3:17 (CSB) Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

We think freedom is living with .

We think freedom is living with .

True freedom is living .

3. A role in God’s .

2 Corinthians 3:18 (CSB) We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:4 (CSB) In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

2 Corinthians 3:18b (NIV) So we are being changed to become so that we . And this glory comes from the Lord, who is the .

Question of the Day
If God has all of this more in store, then are we ?

Law of Inertia:
An object at rest tends to stay at rest but an object in motion tends to stay in motion.

God, what is my ?