Who You Are in Christ – God’s Fellow-Worker

If you’ve accepted Jesus Christ as Lord, then you are God’s fellow worker.

There are a couple of key aspects I’d like you to think about concerning your life. The first is that you’re God’s fellow worker in the sense that He‘s called you and set you apart to do a specific work in His kingdom.

That’s an amazing revelation. God has a purpose for your life that no one else can fulfill. When He considered His plan for the earth, He decided to make you an important part of it. It has always been a part of His plan.

God’s number one purpose for your creation is His great love for you. He wants to have an intimate, personal relationship with you like He did with Adam and Eve in the garden. But there’s more to His plan than that. God also wants you to partner with Him in His plan to redeem the earth and bring it back under the authority of man.

We can see how God set this up with His call to Adam and Eve. Genesis 1:28 says,

God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

God created man to rule with Him. He gave Adam and Eve the right to be fruitful and multiply, to fill the earth and to subdue it. It was always understood that God was the one in charge and man was working under His authority and direction. The wonderful thing is that God decided He wanted to give man authority in His kingdom.

The same is true for you. God wants you to work in His kingdom. He wants to work with you to bring about His will on the earth. It’s a great privilege. There are no small assignments in the Kingdom of God. Each one is vital and filled with purpose and meaning.

So one of the most important things that you can do is to find out what God is calling you to do. Where has God placed you in the body? What has He asked you to do to build up the body of Christ and see His purposes fulfilled in the earth?

Too often we think that only certain positions are important in the kingdom of God. We point to the big five; the apostle, the prophet, the evangelist, the pastor, and the teacher. You may think, “I’m not called into full-time ministry, but you are. You’re to serve God wherever He puts you with whatever He has called you to do.

What we often fail to see is how important our position in the body of Christ is. We compare ourselves with others we think are doing a more important work than we are and think that what we do is insignificant.

Let me ask you a few questions about positions in the military that we can apply to your work in God’s kingdom. Is the position of cook important in the military? Only if you want to eat. Is the position of private important? Only if you want soldiers that will do the work. Are the people who work in the communications department important? Only if you want to relay orders to the troops. Without each of these positions, war could not be waged.

It’s an honor to serve God wherever He places us in His kingdom. Without a cook, the army starves. Without privates, no one takes to the field. Without communications, the army is in the blind. Every person is vital to the mission.

Find your place in the body and serve God with all of your strength. Prepare your heart to say yes to whatever God asks you do and do it. What you do with God as His fellow worker will bring His plan to completion.

A second way that we’re fellow workers is that we’re to be working with others to bring about God’s will. None of us are an island and none of us are to be working for God by ourselves. God has fellow workers that you’re to work alongside of to see God’s purpose come to pass.

Simply put, every person in the body has a part to play in building up the body of Christ. When any part is missing it affects all the others. Ephesians 4:15-16 shows us the importance of every person doing his or her function in the body: It reads,

15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

Did you notice how it says the “proper working of each individual part”? Just remember You’re God’s fellow worker called to work with other fellow workers. We’re all working for the same purpose. The glory of God.

That’s why it is vital that you become an active part in a local church. I can’t say this strongly enough. You must be part of a local church that is seeking to fulfill God’s purpose on the earth.

There are many today who believe that they can be followers of Jesus without being a part of the church. They say that it’s just them and Jesus. They love Jesus, read Christian books, and listen to the word of God on the internet, but that’s not God’s plan.

God’s plan is for you to be an active part of the church. Without it you will not grow as you should in your walk with Christ. Not only that, the body of Christ will be missing an important ingredient that will help the body mature in Christ, you.

When you accepted Christ, you became part of His body. The church is God’s idea. Gathering together is His idea. Jesus participated in Synagogue services. He regularly went to the temple.

There were people in the early church that felt they didn’t have to be joined with others in fellowship. The writer of Hebrews encourages us to get to church. He says,

23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; 24 and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, 25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near. (Hebrews 10:23-25)

Don’t believe the lie of the enemy that you’re unimportant and becoming an active member of a fellowship is unimportant. You’re a vital part of the body. God wants you to rise up as His fellow worker and join with other fellow workers to stimulate one another to do the work God has called you to do.