We know about Jesus on earth. But what is He doing now? There is much for Jesus to do.

1. Unfinished Work
Jesus is not through
1 Corinthians 15:24-26

2. IntroductionIntroduction
• Some work does not reach a finish – it
just ends
• Jesus worked before He came to earth
• Jesus was involved in creation and
throughout the OT periods of Bible
history

3. IntroductionIntroduction
• Picture of mischievous boy – “God isn’t
finished with me yet.”
• We often think that when Jesus left
earth and returned to heaven – his work
was finished
• There is much Jesus is now doing for
us

4. Adding to His churchAdding to His church
• Acts 2:47Acts 2:47 - praising God and having
favor with all the people. And the Lord
added to the church daily those who
were being saved.
• As people believe and respond in
faithful obedience – they are added to
the church

5. Adding to His churchAdding to His church
• Jesus purchased the church with hisJesus purchased the church with his
bloodblood
• Acts 20:28 - Therefore take heed to
yourselves and to all the flock, among
which the Holy Spirit has made you
overseers, to shepherd the church of
God which He purchased with His own
blood.

6. Adding to His churchAdding to His church
• He loves the church and died for itHe loves the church and died for it
• Ephesians 5:25 - Husbands, love your
wives, just as Christ also loved the
church and gave Himself for her,
• JESUS IS NOT FINISHED ADDING TOJESUS IS NOT FINISHED ADDING TO
HIS CHURCHHIS CHURCH

7. Edification of MembersEdification of Members
• Jesus gives gifts so the body can beJesus gives gifts so the body can be
edifiededified
• Ephesians 4:11-12 -11
And He Himself
gave some to be apostles, some
prophets, some evangelists, and some
pastors and teachers, 12
for the equipping
of the saints for the work of ministry, for
the edifying of the body of Christ,

8. Edification of MembersEdification of Members
• Matthew 28:20b -Matthew 28:20b - and lo, I am with you
always, even to the end of the age.
• 1 Corinthians 14:401 Corinthians 14:40 - Let all things be
done decently and in order.

9. IntercessionIntercession
• Hebrews 12:25Hebrews 12:25 - See that you do not
refuse Him who speaks. For if they did
not escape who refused Him who spoke
on earth, much more shall we not
escape if we turn away from Him who
speaks from heaven,
• He is mediator – 1 Timothy 2:5

10. IntercessionIntercession
• Hebrews 7:25 - Therefore He is also
able to save to the uttermost those who
come to God through Him, since He
always lives to make intercession for
them.
• Romans 8:34 - Who is he who
condemns? It is Christ who died, and
furthermore is also risen, who is even at
the right hand of God, who also makes
intercession for us.

11. Head of ChurchHead of Church
• Ephesians 1:22-23 - 22
And He put all
things under His feet, and gave Him to
be head over all things to the church,
23
which is His body, the fullness of Him
who fills all in all.
• 1 Corinthians 15:24 - Then comes the
end, when He delivers the kingdom to
God the Father, when He puts an end
to all rule and all authority and power.

12. King of the KingdomKing of the Kingdom
• 1 Timothy 6:15 - which He will manifest
in His own time, He who is the blessed
and only Potentate, the King of kings
and Lord of lords,
• He is NOW ruling and will rule until the
end of time

13. Providential CareProvidential Care
• Matthew 28:20 – I am with you always
• Hebrews 13:5 - Let your conduct be
without covetousness; be content with
such things as you have. For He
Himself has said, “I will never leave you
nor forsake you.
• Matthew 18:20 - For where two or three
are gathered together in My name, I am
there in the midst of them.”

14. Judge the WorldJudge the World
• John 12:48 - He who rejects Me, and
does not receive My words, has that
which judges him—the word that I have
spoken will judge him in the last day.
• 2 Timothy 4:8 - Finally, there is laid up
for me the crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will
give to me on that Day, and not to me
only but also to all who have loved His
appearing.

15. Judge the WorldJudge the World
• 2 Timothy 4:1 - I charge you therefore
before God and the Lord Jesus Christ,
who will judge the living and the dead at
His appearing and His kingdom:

16. Jesus not FinishedJesus not Finished
• Jesus is not finishedJesus is not finished
• The work he left for us is not finishedThe work he left for us is not finished
• Jesus is still working – and soJesus is still working – and so
should we continue to workshould we continue to work