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WHAT DOES THE GREAT COMMISSION MEAN TO US TODAY

In a world of hustle and bustle and no one having time for each other when most people only think of themselves and their family how does this leave the Church with respect to the final words of Christ before he went back into heaven

Here Jesus in both of our scriptures is exhorting us to

Go into all the world and preach the gospel

lets just split this verse up a wee bite so we can get a understanding of what Jesus wants us to do.

1 GO

2 INTO ALL THE WORLD

3 AND PREACH THE GOSPEL

Before we look at these three i want to see who jesus was talking to and weather this has any bearing upon us today.

in our reading we see that Jesus was on the mountain with his dieciples just before he went up to heaven

Many people have taken the words of someone who was going away or dieing to be of great inportannce.

Here jesus was passing a message onto his dieciples that would be key to the christian message being passed on to generations to come.

here jesus was telling his diciples to go and tell this was different to the many time he had told people whom he had healed to tell no one.

jarus daughter.

deaf and dum speak

christs transfiguration.

was this a case of reverse phycology or did jesus not want people to know at that time

or was it that Jesus only wanted the truth to be told without exaggeration and man without the Holy spirit would be more pron to exaggetate what Jesus had done

Its True that without the Holy Spirit nothing in our lives cane be done and we know this because the HolY Spirit is amoungst us.

but while jesus was walking upon earth the Holy spirit was only living in the life of Jesus.

the effect that the Holy spirit had during the time that Jesus was upon earth was that which came through the life of Jesus.

Jesus had gathered these 12 men and the holy spirit was changing there lives as Jesus taught them as an external power.

just as a teacher teaches us a subject something new that we have never learned before until we have learned it we are unable to teach any one else.

But the Holy spirit when he come to live in our lives he becomes our comforter and he teaches us all things not from a external teacher but from the internal creative spirit that created the whole universe

although ezekiel was talking about the people of Isreal you can also see ourselves in this reading.

we have to be clean to allow the Holy spirit to come in.

so why was Jesus at this point telling his disciples to now go and tell.

He knew that he was going away but he was going to send the Holy spirit

Here we see the promise that was given to the diciples

i am going to make a sterteling statement here and some might not like it.

If you don’t have the power for service then you don’t have the power of the Holy spirit!

The power of the Holy spirit the Baptism in the Holy spirit gives you the power for service.

He is the one that teaches you from within

The Holy spirit is the best bible teacher you will ever know

direct from the father by the spirt to you with no interference.

this is how God wants us to be a life connected to him by the holy spirit.

then we will have a disire for the lost of this world.