Do What Jesus Did

Follow Along with the Message

D.O.I.N.G Acronym:  

Jesus' life was defined by His Mission

John 5:19 (NASB95)- Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner. 

Luke 2:49 (NASB95)- And He said to them, “Why is it that you were looking for Me? Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house?” 

Matthew 10:5 (NASB95)- These twelve Jesus sent out after instructing them: “Do not go in the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter any city of the Samaritans; but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 

How do we start living like Jesus did? 

1. Be with Jesus- as Jesus abided in the Father we must abide in Him 

2. Become like Jesus- as Jesus surrendered His life intentionally, we too must lay our lives down at the feet of Jesus 

The first step to doing anything for Jesus is to be transformed by . 

“But who you are is more important than what you do. Why? Because the love of Jesus in you is the greatest gift you have to give to others. Who you are as a person — and specifically how well you love — will always have a larger and longer impact on those around you than what you do. Your being with God (or lack of being with God) will trump, eventually, your doing for God every time.”- Peter Scazzero, The Emotionally Healthy Leader: How Transforming Your Inner Life Will Deeply Transform Your Church, Team, and the World, pg. 38 

DOING well must begin from BEING well 

How Jesus was DOING the Father’s will 

Jesus normalized goodness 

Jesus’ Ministry in Two Categories:  and  

• Healing- physical miracles, but also in matters pertaining to identity 

• Delivering- miraculous, spiritual deliverance, yes. But also, from oppression and condemnation. 

Jesus was interruptible by divine opportunities 

Matthew 15:21-28 (NASB95)- Jesus went away from there, and withdrew into the district of Tyre and Sidon. And a Canaanite woman from that region came out and began to cry out, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is cruelly demon-possessed.” But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came and implored Him, saying, “Send her away, because she keeps shouting at us.”

But He answered and said, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” But she came and began to bow down before Him, saying, “Lord, help me!” And He answered and said, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

But she said, “Yes, Lord; but even the dogs feed on the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.” Then Jesus said to her, “O woman, your faith is great; it shall be done for you as you wish.” And her daughter was healed at once. 

Tim Parker Summery- “This may not be the mission, but this is what the mission is all about.” 

What DOING looks like for us today 

1. Live to normalize goodness in your  life 

Colossians 4:5-6(NASB95)- Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity. Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person.  

1 Thessalonians 5:16-22 (NASB95)- Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. Do not quench the Spirit; do not despise prophetic utterances. But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; abstain from every form of evil. 

James 5:19-20 (NASB95)- My brethren, if any among you strays from the truth and one turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins. 

3 John 1:11(NASB95)- Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God. 

Jude 1:20-23 (NASB95)- But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. And have mercy on some, who are doubting; save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.  

Matthew 25:34-40 (NASB95)- “Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.’ Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink? And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You? When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ The King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.’ 

• Practical step: Pick one or more intentional ways each day to normalize goodness in your life 

2. Pray for wisdom to notice  opportunities 

• Warning: This is near impossible if we live hurriedly or passively.
• Practical step: create space that interruptions can fill 

Matthew 25:29 (NASB95)- “For to everyone who has, more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away.