The Great Commission
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SO let me catch you up to where we are going to be today...
The great commission!
As we come to the great commission and this passage in the text of matthew we may have missed teh entirety of what he has been teaching in the book of Matthew… and he is about to commission us to go out and do what they were called to do and this really is what our purpose is.,..
Some may say fellowship… and that is an important part… let me tell you...
Others would say for teaching… also an important part...
Praise… and you’d all argue about the right way to do it...
If the point was fellowship he would have taken you straight to heaven…but why are we still here… if the point of our life was fellowship we would have just went straight to heaven because there is pure fellowship...
If its teaching… straight to heaven…because we would as paul says see clearly.. .we would know him fully...
Praise… straight to heaven… right in front of you… so why are we still here and why do we exist… and this tells us… it isn’t any of these things.. the real why is the mission… to reach people for the cause of christ and spend our entire lives and energy giving to one purpose seeking and saving the lost… PERIOD… and that is why we exist… to reach and serve the lost...
And you would say I thought we exist to glorify god… but nothing glorifies God more than when a sinner gives his life
When a lost person comes to know Jessu God is most glorfied because the mission of the church is being done… are you on the mission to do all that in your relationships… and we make the mistake of coming to church. and thinking the teaching and the worship are the end goal… but its not it… the reality is the apostle paul tells us we should be running the race to get the crown… there is a difference between training and actually running the race, and when we come here and do communion and worship… this is the moment of training… it isnt the actual race… and we have to train and go out and actually compete in the race...
None of the training means anything until you get in the game… Shawn example? there is a difference between training and the actual competition itself...
Some of you are just sitting at the practice and yo uare afraid to get in the game and tell people about Jesus.. but that is why we exist...
5 things about how we train to do the great commission.
16 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them.
17 And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted.
18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
1st one… availability.... vs 16 He told them in
7 Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and behold, he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him. See, I have told you.”
They were in Jerusalem… galilee is pretty far away.. and the greatest ability you can have is availability.... these guys were pretty simple normal dudes and there were probably 500 there that day… 1 Cor 15… he appeared to 500 at once.... so picture 500 people for the great commission… Gallilee they were fisherman… and it was the hicktown… Jerusalem was the elites… and Galilee were just the normal guys… RT France said he had such an accent people knew where he was from… ANd he was fitting this stereotype and he brings these guys back to this place… and availability is what you need FIRST… you need to be available… Im not the best guy… uI ran away I didnt listen.. I dont know all of the answers but I decided to make myself available for God...
When he asks us to move, we just say okay, because IM available.. and some of you he has been asking to do stuff… use your money, move. and you won’t.
I have given them your word… JOhn
There will be a group of people who believe in Jesus because of the work of the disciples throughout history… and he is saying he taught us all these things… and just as you sent me… now I am standing in front of these people and I am sending them out… and he ask for three things as he sends us out, that we will be kept from evil, secondly… that we would be pure, that he would sanctify us.... some people arent even thinking about purity anymore…
Secondly how do we actually do this, first availability, then worship
WHen they saw him they worshipped him but some doubted...
ALl of us worship something, and what the call of the great commission is that we would be profoundly impacted by him and move to worship him as the center of your life....
THe call is to actually worship Jesus… share with him that he is God… THe trinitarian vs 19… 3 in 1… they worshipped Jesus as God as you should… some doubted… some of you do right now… but the text is saying stop doubting… this means matthew isnt white washing teh story.... if he was you wouldnt write that people STILL were doubting him… hes about to fly.... and why would you show people doubting unless that is what really happened… and Jesus is saying I am sending you on a mission. the reality is the great commission questions what you are really doing with your life as a whole and not on Sunday… it asks those questions
Small church plant people showed up… want to do handbells before they started every week… and at that moment he realized he didnt want anyone at his church… just the peopel on mission for Jesus… Thats why I told Daniel when he left… know what God has called you to and dont sell out.
Quiet talks with World winners...
CLimbers Mt. Blanc french alps… climber taking up novices… rope backpack shoes… leave all the non essentials behind…only thing that can make it is the necessary stuff… one guy was like naw… wine… lenses.... and he said you wont make it to the top with this stuff… dude went ahead of them and as they follow… blanket…camera lens… empty bottle of wine… couldnt make it with all that stuff S.D. GOrdon makes this statement
“SO many people when they find they cant make it to the top with all their accessories, they let the top go and pitch their tent in the plain instead.” I dont want that to be your lfe… you can start chucking stuff off so you can get him.... or let this stuff keep you back.
Thirdly, submission...
18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
ALl authority is JEsus’ in your life… and what is fascinating about the great commssion is if you go back to the temptation story in matthew 4.... he is offering him all these things and then it says this...
The devil offers Jesus the kingdoms of the earth.,.. and Jesus says all authority on heaven and earth has been given to me,… everythign that the devil offers on a temporal plane… God was giving him on an eternal plane...
In order to get the better you have to submit.
Fourthly, obedience
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Not just converts but disciples… teaching them to observe… not just teach them to say what you say… teaching them to observe what I have commanded you… that people actually love Jesus and dont just do it out of obligation. Pick up that shirt..... EWWWWWW. no.,., you are going to do it with joy.... Not just know but love it....
Baptizing them…
The last idea is power… the only way we are ever going ot be able to do it is because he is going to give us the power to do it
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