Psalm 8:9

Psalms 8:9 O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth!

Kaleo exists to delight in God above all else, to exalt His name among all people, for His glory through Jesus Christ.

Our Mission flows from our affections in God. But make no mistake, missions exist because worship doesn’t.

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church Worship is. Missions exist because Worship does not. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed saints fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship will abide forever.

What we mean by worship is not necessarily just the gathering of the saints to sing songs, but the focus on the inner experience of delighting in God which flows outwardly in a variety of forms.

Worship is the fuel and goal of missions. It’s the goal of missions because in our mission we desire to bring the nations to a white-hot enjoyment of God’s glory. The goal of missions is the gladness and delight of all peoples in the greatness of God.

Passion for God in worship comes before the offer of God in preaching. You can’t honestly offer what you don’t cherish unless you’re a used car salesman. You and I as missionaries will never cry out “Let the nations be glad!” if we cannot say from our heart that we are glad and delight in Him first

Missions begins and ends in worship. Where passions for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak Churches and individuals that are not centered on the exaltation of the majesty and beauty of God will hardly have a desire to “declare his glory among the nations” (Psalm 96:3).

When we think of our mission as a church, we should have a focus upon the glory of God, for the sake of His name and His fame among all people.

We often view missions as something we write a check for and send overseas in some remote part of the world. Though that is true, it is only partially true. If you are a Christian, that is, you are a follower and disciple of Christ Himself, to follow Christ would mean seeking to see others saved that are lost both internationally, nationally, including our next door neighbors.

Our desire for God’s fame throughout the land should be compelling because we see God’s glory and our delight in Him and His commitment to His own name and since we desire to pursue the heart of God, and since God’s heart is committed to His own glory and fame, we are compelled to tell others about the goodness of our God.

Dozens of times Scripture says that God does things “for His name’s sake.” God delights in having his name known The first and most important prayer is “Hallowed be thy name.” This is a request to God that he would work to cause people to hallow his name. God loves to have more and more people “hallow” his name, and so his Son teaches Christians to put their prayers in line with this great passion of the Father. His desire is that people would esteem, admire, respect, cherish, honor, and praise His name. It’s a missionary prayer.

1 Samuel 12:22 For the LORD will not forsake his people, for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself.

It pleases God to make us His people and His motivation for making us His and keeping us His, is for His own name

What does it mean when we say that God has pleasure in His name? It means that God has pleasure in His glory going public In other words, the name of god often refers to His reputation, His fame, His renown This is the way we use the word “name” when we say someone is making a name for himself When we say something is a “name” brand, it means something has a big reputation.

2 Samuel 7:23 And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?

Isaiah 63:12-14 who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to make for himself an everlasting name, 13 who led them through the depths? Like a horse in the desert, they did not stumble 14 Like livestock that go down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. So you led your people, to make for yourself a glorious name.

Psalms 106:7-8 Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wondrous works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled by the Sea, at the Red Sea 8 Yet he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make known his mighty power.

Isaiah 48:9-11 “For my name’s sake I defer my anger, for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off 10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction 11 For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.

We should cry out as Isaiah the prophet:

Isaiah 26:8 Indeed, while following the way of Your judgments, O LORD, We have waited for You eagerly; Your name, even Your memory, is the desire of our souls.

God’s zeal for his fame bursts forth in the Bible again and again. He wants his fame to be spread to all peoples of the world that have not yet known Him.

May God give us this zeal and may we kindle in into a flame that burns bright and hot for the fame of our great God and Savior.