Go Therefore….And Promote Your Team!!

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The Great Commission Matthew 28:16-20

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[b] 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.”

We have to become serious about making Jesus’ final words our first work.

But he also gives us the great commission. It’s our assignment.

To understand the word is to understand that this happened. Because the commission happened and the beginning of the church before Acts, or Saul (Paul) ever did.

2 Timothy 2:1-7 English Standard Version (ESV)

A Good Soldier of Christ Jesus

2 You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, 2 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men,[a] who will be able to teach others also. 3 Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. 5 An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. 6 It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops. 7 Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything. https://i2.wp.com/covoneministries.com/wpcontent/uploads/2018/05/IMG_2361.jpg?w=960&ssl=1 (picture)

Someone told Paul….Saul….someone was praying for Him by the name Anninnas.

1. Go Therefore

Someone told me a couple of weeks ago they wanted to support our church because we were a mission church worried about the community and going into the streets. And I thought to myself isn’t the church supposed to be missional.

Don’t we have an assignment?

Didn’t Jesus give us a commission?

When it becomes us four and no more. There is a problem.

When it doesn’t burden you while driving to church on a Sunday morning that not many people are doing the same. There is a problem.

When you have lost that fire to reach your coworkers, your friends, your family, There is a problem.

You have lost sight of the assignment. The assignment of eternity.

Absolutely we are to play for God’s team, learn His word, pray, make sure we stay qualified, and serve here in community and GET OFF THE SIDELINES…All while following our assignment…our commission.

As you follow His commandments, you will want to follow his commission. They are all tied up together. When you love God and people you will want to go, therefore.

Its why when you got saved, you didn’t go straight to heaven. He said Go Therefore.

Psalms 2:8 Ask of me and I will give you the nations as your inheritance.

You want to know what to pray for. Pray this constantly, and specifically, and with power.

You don’t even have to go to the nations anymore, the nations have come to us. Vietnam. Mexico. Nicaragua. El Salvador. Philippines (even more or coming). Honduras. Netherlands. Japan. Columbia.

Preach the Gospel. Stop and Tell someone about Jesus. Make it a part of your conversation.

Work a VBS.

Invite them to church.

Pray for the nations as your inheritance.

Go to Hope To the Streets.

Talk about Jesus every single day!!

And then people will stop. But Jesus doesn’t.

2. Make Disciples

Notice that there is no comma in this passage. The idea is “all “verbs of therefore go and make disciples. The same sentence. The same message. The same theme.

Disciple

1. follower of person or idea: somebody who strongly believes in the teachings of a leader, a philosophy, or a religion, and tries to act according to them

2. or disciple or follower of Jesus Christ: one of the 12 original followers of Jesus Christ, according to the Bible.

Many of us make converts, but few of us will make disciples “someone who follows the teaching and practices of the Lord Jesus Christ.

But this is the rewarding and heartbreaking part all at the same time.

Rewarding when they follow,

And heartbreaking when they quit.

But we are called to it nonetheless.

Making Disciple is a Lot like Raising Children

1. Until they learn to feed themselves…you have to feed them.

2. Word, worship, feed them, zeal, show them passion for the Lord.

3. Teach them how to walk

4. When they get into trouble, correct them then help them out.

5. You train children. They don’t know how to live. Train them.

I am doing that with my girls right now. They don’t how to pray. They are children so I must teach them. So I got them a journal, we right down a date and our prayer request.

And this past week we read them out loud.

And the surprise of how God has been answering our prayers. That is discipling.

And When You Get to Heaven

You get there and God asks how life… was and you agree that it is hard and there were many struggles. But then you turn around and say but here is Fredicka. And Fredicka turns around and points to Pablo and Minh. And here you have spiritual children and grandchildren and great children. And we have disciples that are making disciples. Cycles are being broken and legacies are being made.

Most things are caught rather than taught. It is not in the sermon, or great message, but in how you live out the message. Because we are living out the “great commission.”

Most likely I will not go to many nations, but the ones that I am training up…they will.

Jesus was the same way. He lived in a thirty-mile radius and poured his life into the twelve.

Then his disciples took the message and made it a commission and brought Christ to the nations.

And here we are 2000 plus years later!!

1 Thessalonians 3:6-10

6 But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you— 7 for this reason, brothers,[b] in all our distress and affliction we have been comforted about you through your faith. 8 For now we live, if you are standing fast in the Lord. 9 For what

thanksgiving can we return to God for you, for all the joy that we feel for your sake before our God, 10 as we pray most earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith?

1 Thessalonians 3:17 “And now we really live because you are doing well”

What a way to live.

When someone that you have bought to Christ begins to live out the ways of Christ.

Wow what a feeling.

And it is to happen over and over again.

It’s our assignment.

It’s our commission.

We are not to grow weary.

We are to keep the fight.

And wait for our inheritance.