If you try to do the work of God without currently experiencing the saving/sanctifying grace of God you are simply doing religious works of the flesh. If you try to do the ministries of God without meeting the requirements of God you are a hireling. Remember, we are saved to be sanctified and we are sanctified to serve.
The concept of being qualified is recognized in every arena, every discipline of life. The idea of being qualified comes from God.
Two reasons the work of God does not get done.
1. People are not interested in doing the wok of God (the work that God calls them to do).
2. People want to do the work of God
a. Without allowing God to transform them from self seekers to God seekers. Mt. 16:24-27
b. Without allowing God to conform them to the image of His Son. Ro. 8:29; 12:2
Matthew 16:24-27
(24) Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
(25) For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
(26) For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
(27) For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
Romans 8:29
(29) For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Romans 12:1-3
(1) I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
(2) And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
(3) For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
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