1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,760 where we're gonna start this morning. 2 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:08,880 I think that my coat is creating static 3 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:09,920 that's making that noise. 4 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:11,720 You guys hear that? 5 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,080 So I'm gonna take my coat off. 6 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:14,920 Is that cool? 7 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:15,760 All right. 8 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:26,680 I am not gonna take my shirt off 9 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:29,600 no matter what happens. 10 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:33,960 That might get a little awkward, amen. 11 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:37,560 I think there's some distractions 12 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:38,880 because I believe this is gonna be 13 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:41,000 a really important sermon. 14 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:42,320 In the life of our church, 15 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,280 this series is a series that I've waited 16 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,280 two years to teach you. 17 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:49,720 And I'm so excited about it. 18 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:51,240 We've talked a lot about the things, 19 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,200 the themes that I'm gonna talk about in today's message. 20 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:55,680 So that part of it's not new, 21 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:57,520 but exactly what I'm gonna tell you 22 00:00:57,520 --> 00:00:59,200 over the next four weeks, 23 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,520 starting last week and going through July 24 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:03,200 are really, really critical. 25 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,720 And so if you're a guest with us here today, 26 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:09,560 you may feel a little bit like you're listening in on, 27 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:10,440 do not touch it. 28 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:11,320 Okay, I got it. 29 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:14,400 You may feel very much like, 30 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:25,400 are we getting a new one? 31 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:32,400 Testing one, two. 32 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:39,400 And he's walking away with the one that works, okay. 33 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:54,400 Blue mic, or am I on? 34 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,400 I'm not sure. 35 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:57,400 I'm not sure. 36 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:58,400 I'm not sure. 37 00:01:58,400 --> 00:01:59,400 I'm not sure. 38 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:00,400 I'm not sure. 39 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,400 So am I on or am I on? 40 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:04,400 I'm on. 41 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:06,400 Hey, forget the blue mic. 42 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:13,400 I'll put it with my jacket. 43 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:14,400 This is fun. 44 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:15,400 All right. 45 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:16,400 Are you guys ready? 46 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:17,400 Let's do this. 47 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:21,400 Have you ever noticed a connection between owning a lot of 48 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,400 something and valuing it less? 49 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,400 You ever notice that connection? 50 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:28,400 I first remember noticing the connection when we got a 51 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,400 club membership. 52 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,400 Like Costco to us up here, right? 53 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,400 Where you got a lot of something and all of a sudden you 54 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,400 could just, you know, thousand cheese balls. 55 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:40,400 I could eat all the cheese balls I want. 56 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:42,400 I didn't value it the same way. 57 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,400 You know, the more you have the something, the less frugal you 58 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:47,400 are with what you have. 59 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:49,400 That could be a good thing. 60 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:51,400 Sometimes it can be a bad thing. 61 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,400 Sometimes the more access you have to something, the more you 62 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,400 take it for granted. 63 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,400 How many of you have ever felt that way? 64 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,400 Maybe you felt that way when you noticed when somebody moved 65 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,400 away, right? 66 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:07,400 You had the chance to, maybe it's a family member or a loved one, 67 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:11,400 and you had years of being able to see them all the time and 68 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,400 connect with them all the time. 69 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,400 Maybe you realized after they left, man, I missed them and I 70 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,400 didn't take advantage of the time that I had because you had 71 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,400 access to it, you valued it less, right? 72 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,400 Absence makes the heart grow, fonder. 73 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,400 From time to time on television or on the Internet, I have come 74 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:35,400 across a video capturing a crisis moment in somebody's life. 75 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,400 A lot of times it's close circuit video and they will see 76 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,400 somebody that gets mugged or gets hurt or they get hit by a 77 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:43,400 car or something like that. 78 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,400 And then these big cities are so many people that people will 79 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,400 see it happen and maybe they just walk by them and don't even 80 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:50,400 help. 81 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,400 And they don't even see it happen. 82 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:54,400 Anybody like that? 83 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:56,400 Anybody like seeing that? 84 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:59,400 Maybe even worse, you have seen people instead of helping the 85 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:01,400 guy they are taking video of it. 86 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:03,400 You have seen those kind of scenarios. 87 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,400 And in recent years you have seen that happening. 88 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,400 We have also probably been, if you have lived in a county like 89 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,400 we do, I know my grandparents lived in Brown County, Texas, 90 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:15,400 Brownwood, Texas, Lake Brownwood, we would go. 91 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,400 I lived there when I was little and I would go back as a 92 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:22,400 state peat Florida, the most populated county per square 93 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:24,400 mile in Florida. 94 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:28,400 But then I would go in the summers to Brown County, Texas, 95 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,400 where there is what separates the houses and what my 96 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:34,400 grandparents' neighborhood is miles. 97 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:35,400 Right? 98 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,400 And we would go down the Lake Road going into town because 99 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:42,400 that was an event when you go into town, live in there. 100 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:47,400 And almost every car that drove by, this is the Texas wave. 101 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,400 And I would go, I don't know who he is. 102 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,400 I would go, I don't know who he is. 103 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,400 When you pass by somebody, everybody waves at each other. 104 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,400 And I would be like, Paul Paul, you know that guy, I have seen 105 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:01,400 him before, I don't know who he is. 106 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:04,400 And I am from Florida where there is people everywhere and 107 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,400 everybody is so friendly, everybody waves at each other. 108 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:11,400 And I think in some ways that is because where there is less 109 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:13,400 people, people are valued more. 110 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:16,400 Where there is more people, people can be valued less. 111 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:20,400 And I think that is what we need to do, but it tends to be the 112 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:21,400 case. 113 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,400 In our culture, we have potential connection to other people. 114 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:28,400 More potential connection to other people than at any time in 115 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:29,400 history. 116 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:31,400 Do you see that? 117 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:35,400 If you want to get a hold of me, you can call me, you can text 118 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:39,400 me, you can Facebook messenger me, you can get me on several 119 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:40,400 social media things. 120 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:42,400 We have a fax machine still. 121 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,400 You could fax me, you could call the church office, you could 122 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:46,400 leave a voicemail. 123 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:47,400 Are you with me? 124 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:49,400 There is a lot of connection. 125 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:51,400 You guys have that too? 126 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,400 We have so much of it. 127 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,400 Whether we are in the middle of a metropolitan city or in the 128 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,400 most remote and rural part of our nation, we have more access to 129 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:02,400 more people than ever before. 130 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:06,400 And as a culture, I believe it means I believe that there is a 131 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:12,400 tendency to value people less and less and less. 132 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:16,400 And what I want you to know today before I start any proposition in 133 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:22,400 the sermon is to tell you this, people matter to God. 134 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,400 People matter to God. 135 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:29,400 You matter to God. 136 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:33,400 There are some that teach a horrible theology that God only 137 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:34,400 cares for some. 138 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:38,400 And I want to teach you that God cares for everybody. 139 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:40,400 God loves everybody. 140 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:42,400 People matter to God. 141 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:45,400 God made people in his image. 142 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:47,400 He is no respecter of persons. 143 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:52,400 The Bible says that man looks on the outward appearance, but God 144 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:59,400 looks on the heart, that he looks on the inside. 145 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:04,400 Big, little, old, young, fat, skinny, American, European, Asian, 146 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:08,400 African, put any human distinction you want on the table. 147 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:12,400 It doesn't matter, and it doesn't change this fact. 148 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,400 People matter to God. 149 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:20,400 And because people matter to God, those who are called by his name, 150 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:24,400 Christians, people should matter to us too. 151 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:27,400 Do you agree with that? 152 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:30,400 But that's not the only thing that matters to God. 153 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:35,400 Truth matters to God. 154 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:39,400 Truth should matter to us as well. 155 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,400 In John 1.14 it says this. 156 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:44,400 John 1.14 it says this. 157 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,400 And the word was made flesh. 158 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:50,400 The word here is talking about Jesus. 159 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:54,400 The word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his 160 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:55,400 glory. 161 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:58,400 The glory is of the only begotten of the Father. 162 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:02,400 This is John writing and he says, I'm going to tell you the story 163 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,400 of Jesus in the coming chapters. 164 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:09,400 What I want you to know is this word, this logos, this eternal 165 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:13,400 one, Jesus who became, God became flesh, he lived among us and we 166 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:14,400 saw his glory. 167 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,400 They were up on the amount of transfiguration. 168 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,400 And God's Jesus, his glory was pulled back. 169 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:25,400 And they saw him as a human, but also in his divinity. 170 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:28,400 He was of the only begotten of the Father. 171 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:35,400 And then it says this, full of grace and truth. 172 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:39,400 What was notable about Jesus according to this verse was that 173 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:44,400 Jesus was not only love and grace, he was truth. 174 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:47,400 It was the combination that was so powerful. 175 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:48,400 Do you get it? 176 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:53,400 He loved people, but he also was committed to the truth. 177 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:58,400 Holiness and love, justice and mercy. 178 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,400 He was the combination. 179 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:08,400 There are only two things that are going to get out of this time, 180 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:13,400 this world in eternity, only two things are going to make out 181 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:14,400 of it. 182 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:15,400 You say, what do you see? 183 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:20,400 Like the Bible, which predicted all kinds of prophecies that 184 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:24,400 have come true already, all kinds of, like you need, if you 185 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:27,400 haven't read your Bible, you need to understand that this book 186 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:30,400 has an incredible track record of saying these things are going 187 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:33,400 to happen in the future and they have. 188 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:34,400 Okay? 189 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:37,400 Like it hasn't ever missed, but there's more coming. 190 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:41,400 And what it says is coming is one day everything on this planet 191 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:43,400 is going to melt. 192 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:47,400 And God's going to bring on a new heaven and a new earth. 193 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:49,400 That's what this Bible says. 194 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:50,400 Are you with me? 195 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:52,400 It's got a great track record. 196 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:56,400 And the only two things, look around at everything. 197 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:59,400 This building is not going to make it. 198 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:01,400 The technology, everything is not going to make it. 199 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:03,400 Two things are going to make it. 200 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:06,400 The word of God and people. 201 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:08,400 That's it. 202 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:10,400 The word of God and the souls of men. 203 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:16,400 Everyone is going to live forever somewhere. 204 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:24,400 Everyone is going to spend eternity somewhere. 205 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:26,400 You get it. 206 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:34,400 And so, interestingly, interestingly, the target of the ministry 207 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:37,400 of the local church that was outlined by the Apostle Paul 208 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:42,400 in Ephesians chapter four is that the people of God be equipped 209 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:45,400 to do ministry the way Jesus did. 210 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaking the truth in love. 211 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:52,400 Ephesians four teaches, I'm not going to teach it all today, 212 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:55,400 but Ephesians four says this is the goal of the church. 213 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:59,400 Leaders equip the saints for the work of the ministry. 214 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:02,400 And what that work of the ministry, as it matures, looks like, 215 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:07,400 is speaking the truth to each other and to the world with this 216 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,400 motivation, love. 217 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:14,400 You can't love people in light of them. 218 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:18,400 But you can hurt people with the truth. 219 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,400 Anybody ever seen that happen? 220 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:27,400 So, effective ministry looks like speaking the truth in love. 221 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:28,400 Do you get it? 222 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaking the truth in love. 223 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:34,400 And so, here is a great description of the mission of our church. 224 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,400 It is my goal in this sermon, and with the coming sermons here 225 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:41,400 in the month of July, to describe the mission of our church. 226 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:44,400 And not only its mission, but what our strategy is. 227 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:46,400 How are we going to accomplish the mission? 228 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:47,400 Who agrees? 229 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,400 If God gave us a mission, we want to do it. 230 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:52,400 And if God gave us a mission, we want to do it faithfully, 231 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:53,400 obediently. 232 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:55,400 We want to do it successfully. 233 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:56,400 Let's just take a straw poll. 234 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:58,400 Who wants that? 235 00:11:58,400 --> 00:11:59,400 Okay, almost everybody in here. 236 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:00,400 That's awesome. 237 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:01,400 Okay. 238 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:03,400 So, today I'm going to describe what the mission is, and then 239 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,400 in the coming weeks I'm going to say, here's our strategy to 240 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:06,400 accomplish it. 241 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,400 Okay? 242 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:10,400 Of course we exist to glorify God. 243 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:12,400 But what does our church exist to do? 244 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:15,400 How do we glorify God? 245 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:17,400 What are we supposed to do? 246 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:20,400 How do we do that as a part of this church? 247 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:23,400 Our church exists to glorify God by accomplishing the mission 248 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:25,400 that we've been given. 249 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:31,400 The mission that God gave us is called the Great Commission. 250 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:33,400 How many of you guys have ever heard that term, the Great 251 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:34,400 Commission? 252 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:35,400 Raise your hands. 253 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:36,400 Okay, that's awesome. 254 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,400 I'm going to help you understand it and define it today. 255 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:43,400 The mission is our Great Commission, and it is our 256 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:45,400 commission vision. 257 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:48,400 And today's message really is an argument for the theology and 258 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,400 philosophy of our mission. 259 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:52,400 And so, here's the big idea. 260 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:53,400 Ready? 261 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:55,400 We must accomplish the mission that God has given to us called 262 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:57,400 the Great Commission. 263 00:12:57,400 --> 00:12:59,400 We got to do it. 264 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:00,400 There's no option. 265 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:03,400 I don't have an option as your pastor to say, hey, here's a 266 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:07,400 different mission, because this mission wasn't something that I 267 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:09,400 came up with. 268 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:13,400 This was something that was stewarded to any local church. 269 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:16,400 Jesus gave it to the disciples and the disciples gave it to us 270 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:17,400 as you will see. 271 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:22,400 This has been the mission of Brother Gene Milione and Dave 272 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:24,400 Schaefer and Mike Spann. 273 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,400 And this stewardship has been handed to me as your pastor. 274 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:30,400 But we're not the only people that do this mission. 275 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,400 If we are, we're in trouble. 276 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:33,400 Who agrees? 277 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:35,400 This is for everybody. 278 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,400 Who calls on the name of Christ and who knows Christ as 279 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:39,400 Savior. 280 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:41,400 So, we have to accomplish this mission. 281 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:43,400 How are we going to do that? 282 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:45,400 We're more likely to do that when we can answer these five 283 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:46,400 questions. 284 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:48,400 Here's question number one. 285 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:49,400 Really simply. 286 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:50,400 Ready? 287 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,400 Number one, what is the Great Commission? 288 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:54,400 What is the Great Commission? 289 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:58,400 Webster's Dictionary defines the noun commission this way. 290 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:03,400 It's a formal, written warrant granting the power to perform 291 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:05,400 various acts or duties. 292 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:08,400 It's a certificate confirming military rank or authority. 293 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:12,400 It's an authorization or command to act in a prescribed manner 294 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:15,400 or to perform prescribed acts. 295 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:20,400 It's authority to act for and behalf of or in place of another. 296 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:24,400 If then a commission is the authorization and a command for 297 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:28,400 a group of people or persons to perform some duty, what is the 298 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,400 Great Commission? 299 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:31,400 Here it is. 300 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:35,400 Hey, it's a mission statement for every local church. 301 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:39,400 The Great Commission is the mission statement of every local 302 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:42,400 New Testament assembly, New Testament church. 303 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:47,400 Jesus spent three years in his earthly ministry reaching people, 304 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:50,400 teaching people and ministering to people. 305 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:55,400 And while he did this ministry himself, Jesus was incredible at 306 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:56,400 ministry, by the way. 307 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:57,400 You guys know that. 308 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:00,400 Not only did he teach better knowledge, but he did teach 309 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:01,400 better than everybody else. 310 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:03,400 He ministered better than everybody else. 311 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:05,400 He always did it the right way. 312 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:08,400 And when he was doing this ministry, he had guys that he 313 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:09,400 called with him. 314 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:11,400 There were the 12 disciples. 315 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:13,400 He called them to do life with them. 316 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:15,400 And he poured his life into them. 317 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:17,400 While he was doing ministry, he had them with him. 318 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:21,400 And at the end of his earthly ministry, after Jesus did all the 319 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:25,400 ministry and he died on the cross and he rose from the dead after 320 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:29,400 his resurrection, he authorized these ministry to do life 321 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:30,400 with him. 322 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:34,400 He authorized these men and the other disciples that he had 323 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:37,400 trained to make disciples like he had. 324 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:40,400 Assemblies of Jesus Christ, what we call churches, were the 325 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:41,400 fruit of that ministry. 326 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:44,400 They assembled people who had been reached and were being 327 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:46,400 discipled in the context of that ministry. 328 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:48,400 This is the mission of the church today. 329 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:51,400 To make disciples of Jesus Christ of all nations. 330 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:56,400 That's the ministry that is given to every local church. 331 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:00,400 So what is the great commission is to make disciples of Jesus 332 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:01,400 Christ. 333 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:02,400 That's it. 334 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:05,400 You guys are not excited. 335 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:06,400 That's the great commission. 336 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:07,400 Okay. 337 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:09,400 What is the great commission? 338 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:12,400 It's a statement of orders from our supreme commander to the 339 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:15,400 officers in the field. 340 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:18,400 Who agrees Jesus is in charge? 341 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:20,400 God's in charge. 342 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:25,400 And this is like his, as he leaves, this is what he told them 343 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:26,400 to do. 344 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:29,400 The mission was God's mission. 345 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:32,400 He handed his mission to his son, Jesus. 346 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:35,400 And then Jesus at the end of his ministry handed that mission to 347 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:39,400 his disciples who handed it to others who handed it to others. 348 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:40,400 And that's how we got here. 349 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:41,400 Are you with me? 350 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:44,400 That's what he commanded us to do. 351 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:47,400 The Bible speaks about the spiritual battle that's waging. 352 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:52,400 We're in the battle for the souls of men and women, boys and 353 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:53,400 girls. 354 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:56,400 And the great commission is all about the great commission. 355 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:59,400 So our marching orders are summed up in the great commission. 356 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:01,400 What is the great commission? 357 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:04,400 It's also not just our mission statement, not just our orders 358 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:07,400 from Jesus, it's also a statement of principles. 359 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,400 A statement of principles. 360 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:12,400 I want you to listen to this. 361 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:15,400 I have two kind of long quotes from a pastor that I review a lot. 362 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:17,400 His name is Dr. Belmone Rowe. 363 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:20,400 This is what he says about the great commission being a statement 364 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:21,400 of principles. 365 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,400 Law or doctrine upon which others are based. 366 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:30,400 An essential element that produces a specific effect. 367 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,400 You're going to have to think with me on this. 368 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:36,400 That is why the Lord gave the commission, what did he do, to 369 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:40,400 produce a specific effect. 370 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:46,400 Jesus wants something to happen in our church. 371 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:49,400 He wants something to happen in this place. 372 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:52,400 God has a will for Trinity Baptist church. 373 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:56,400 He has a specific effect that he wants to have happen. 374 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,400 I sense many today may be thinking how could the commission be 375 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:02,400 relevant in today's ever changing high tech culture. 376 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:05,400 Isn't the great commission sort of a tired or fashion formula? 377 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:09,400 Allow me to answer that question with one I've already posed. 378 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:13,400 Would Jesus have given us a strategy that he knew would become 379 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:17,400 irrelevant and ineffective before the task was completed? 380 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:18,400 Would he have done that? 381 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:20,400 Of course not. 382 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:22,400 The answer is self evident. 383 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,400 The very nature of the Lord Jesus himself would not permit that. 384 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:28,400 So think of the great commission as a set of unchanging 385 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:32,400 principles universally applicable to local churches. 386 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:35,400 These principles are based upon truth for our Lord spoke them. 387 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:40,400 Principles which if we would but apply could still enable us to 388 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:46,400 consummate the great commission perhaps even in this generation. 389 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:48,400 Do you get it? 390 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:50,400 It's a statement of principles. 391 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:52,400 But here's a really clear thing. 392 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,400 It's also a process. 393 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:57,400 The great commission is a process. 394 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:00,400 Are you with me? 395 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:04,400 We're going to see in the scripture again that this is a process. 396 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:07,400 Again, Brother Monroe, Dr. Monroe says this. 397 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:11,400 A process is a series of events. 398 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,400 I'm going to say this again. 399 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:18,400 A series of events strategically arranged in order to 400 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:21,400 systematically reach a certain objective. 401 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:22,400 Do you get it? 402 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:23,400 That's what a process is. 403 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:25,400 The great commission is a process. 404 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:29,400 That is a series of events strategically arranged in order 405 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:33,400 to systematically reach a certain objective. 406 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,400 What's our objective? 407 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:37,400 Hope you're going to see it the rest of the sermon. 408 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:38,400 Let me give it to you. 409 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:42,400 Our objective is to reach every available person with the gospel 410 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:46,400 of Jesus Christ. 411 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:49,400 Do we want people to be saved? 412 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:51,400 Do we want people to hear the gospel? 413 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:53,400 We do. 414 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:54,400 But that's not where it ends. 415 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:56,400 We want to baptize them. 416 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,400 Everybody who receives them. 417 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:03,400 We want to equip them to become obedient, productive members of 418 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:07,400 our local church who will themselves join in the mission 419 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:12,400 to achieve this objective requires a definite process, 420 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:17,400 a series of events strategically arranged in order to 421 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:19,400 systematically reach a certain objective. 422 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,400 We will never effectively reach our objective with a calendar 423 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:25,400 full of random activities. 424 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:30,400 We cannot just meet together, preach, pray, and hope for results. 425 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:34,400 Effort and activity do not count no matter how sincerely given. 426 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:38,400 There must be a process, a series of events strategically arranged 427 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:39,400 to reach our objective. 428 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:42,400 The process must be carried out in a disciplined and consistent 429 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:43,400 manner. 430 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,400 Just as a general produces a war plan based upon a local 431 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:50,400 conditions, so must we develop a process and a strategy based 432 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,400 upon the local spiritual terrain. 433 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:58,400 It's far easier to have projects and programs than it is to have 434 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:00,400 a process. 435 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,400 A project is an evangelistic campaign, a rally, an event, 436 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:05,400 a special day of promotion. 437 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,400 A project has a start time and a finish date. 438 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,400 The Great Commission is not a project. 439 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,400 It is not a program. 440 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,400 The Great Commission is not a program. 441 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:20,400 It's a 365 day a year process. 442 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,400 The process involves a three phase cycle. 443 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:27,400 The first is to go and make disciples or evangelism. 444 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,400 The second is the churching phase where the comfort is baptized 445 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,400 and assimilated or connected to the church. 446 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,400 The third phase is the equipping stage where the believer is 447 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:40,400 trained to know and be obedient to the teachings of Jesus Christ 448 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:43,400 and to become involved in the mission themselves. 449 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:47,400 Only when that cycle has been completed can we really say that 450 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:52,400 we fulfilled the Great Commission. 451 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:54,400 So do you get it? 452 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,400 It's a process. 453 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,400 It's a statement of principles. 454 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:00,400 It's the orders from our Supreme Commander. 455 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,400 This is what the Great Commission is. 456 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,400 Here's the second question. 457 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:05,400 Are you ready? 458 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,400 Question number two. 459 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:10,400 Why is it stated in five different places in Scripture? 460 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:14,400 Why is the Great Commission given in five different places? 461 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,400 How many of you guys noticed that when we had the Scripture 462 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:18,400 that Dave Curtis was reading today, 463 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:20,400 that they had like five different images? 464 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,400 Who noticed that when we did that? 465 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:23,400 Okay. 466 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,400 If you go out into our hallway, 467 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,400 those images are the posters on our walls. 468 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:29,400 Okay. 469 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,400 We put those up a few months ago. 470 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:32,400 We didn't announce it. 471 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:33,400 We just put them up there. 472 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:38,400 They're the five Great Commission passages in the New Testament. 473 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:39,400 Okay. 474 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:40,400 Why do I put them up on the walls? 475 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,400 Because I want you to see them. 476 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:44,400 They're our purpose. 477 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:45,400 They're our values. 478 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:46,400 We don't reword them. 479 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:47,400 We just put them up. 480 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,400 This is what we're supposed to do. 481 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,400 Why are they in five different places? 482 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:53,400 Well, let me just tell you this. 483 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,400 Jesus didn't say it just one time. 484 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,400 Jesus said it multiple times. 485 00:22:58,400 --> 00:22:59,400 It was repeated. 486 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:02,400 In fact, not only was it something he said, 487 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:03,400 it was something that he did. 488 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,400 It was his method. 489 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,400 Well, the commissioning phase of his ministry was at the end. 490 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,400 You know, Jesus discipled his guys. 491 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:11,400 He taught them. 492 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:12,400 He trained them. 493 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,400 He did ministry in front of them. 494 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:15,400 Then he gave them ministry. 495 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:16,400 Then they watched him do it. 496 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:17,400 He told them. 497 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,400 He sent them out before he ever finally sent them out. 498 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,400 He was sending them the whole time. 499 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:24,400 Are you with me? 500 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,400 And at the end, he commissioned them. 501 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,400 He didn't just wait in the end to tell them that's what he was doing. 502 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:31,400 He said it a bunch. 503 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:33,400 He would do ministry while they watched him. 504 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,400 Then he would do ministry with them. 505 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,400 Then he would watch them do ministry and coach them. 506 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:41,400 And finally he would send them out and cheer them on. 507 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,400 These expressions of commission solidified the principles and 508 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:48,400 methods and mission he had already been doing with them. 509 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,400 So why is it repeated so many times? 510 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,400 Because he didn't just say it one time. 511 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,400 He didn't want his followers to forget it or forsake it. 512 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,400 He wanted them to do it together. 513 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:03,400 Have you noticed the name of our series? 514 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,400 Our commission vision. 515 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,400 Our commission vision. 516 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,400 This isn't just for one person. 517 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,400 This is for, point to who it's for. 518 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:14,400 It's for everybody. 519 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,400 It's for a whole church. 520 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,400 Why is it stated in five different places? 521 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:23,400 Jesus did not just say it one way. 522 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:25,400 He said it many ways. 523 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:29,400 In fact, Jesus gave us a cohesive picture of our mission in these 524 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:30,400 five texts. 525 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:34,400 And here's really the guts of our message that I want to give to you 526 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:35,400 today. 527 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,400 Leads us to lesson number three. 528 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:42,400 What are the five different emphases in those five texts? 529 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,400 Jesus said multiple times. 530 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,400 And we recorded five times in Scripture. 531 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,400 When we put them all together, we will get a pretty cohesive 532 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,400 statement about it. 533 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:53,400 Are you ready? 534 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,400 What are the five places and how does it apply to us? 535 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,400 First, Matthew 18, 28, 18-20. 536 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:05,400 This commission shows us that the great commission is a process. 537 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,400 Look at what it says. 538 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:13,400 And Jesus came and spoke unto them saying, all power is given unto 539 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,400 me in heaven and in earth. 540 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,400 Now, before I read that, go back, I'm going to go to the passage 541 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:21,400 myself in my Bible. 542 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,400 Look at what it says. 543 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:30,400 Matthew 28, go to verse number 16. 544 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,400 It says, then the 11 disciples went away into Galilee into the 545 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,400 mountain where Jesus had appointed them. 546 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,400 Jesus had told, hey, go to Galilee, go to this mountain, I'm 547 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:40,400 going to meet you there. 548 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,400 And when they saw him, they worshiped him. 549 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:47,400 But some, what does it say? 550 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:48,400 Doubted. 551 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:53,400 Now, some have said, maybe even thought, what are they doubting 552 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:54,400 here? 553 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:55,400 Are they doubting? 554 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,400 Are they doubting that Jesus is God? 555 00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:59,400 Is that what they're doubting? 556 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,400 I don't think that they doubted that at all. 557 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,400 We're going to see in just a few minutes that he had spent from 558 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:07,400 his resurrection until what's about to happen is ascension here. 559 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:11,400 He spent all that time doing basically a Bible, first of all, 560 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:12,400 he's appearing to them. 561 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:13,400 They had seen him die. 562 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,400 They saw the empty tomb. 563 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,400 They saw him alive. 564 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,400 And then he did this basically a Bible study going through all the 565 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,400 prophecies in the Old Testament showing that all the scriptures 566 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,400 pointed to him and how he fulfilled all of them. 567 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:28,400 So they knew that he was God. 568 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,400 That was not what was questioned. 569 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:31,400 What were they doubting? 570 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,400 What they also had experienced from Jesus is that he kept saying, 571 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:35,400 I'm going to go away. 572 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:36,400 I'm leaving. 573 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:37,400 I'm leaving. 574 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:38,400 I'm leaving. 575 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,400 I'm leaving. 576 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,400 And I think they were worried because the last time he died and was 577 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:49,400 gone for three days, they had all abandoned him. 578 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:51,400 Peter was probably the most notable leader. 579 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,400 He had denied Jesus. 580 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,400 Thomas even doubted that he had risen from the dead until Jesus 581 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:58,400 showed up and showed him, who's with me? 582 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,400 So they kept, Jesus kept saying, I'm going. 583 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:01,400 I'm leaving. 584 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,400 And I think they were doubting, what were they doubting? 585 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:06,400 They were doubting if Jesus was God. 586 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,400 They were doubting what are we going to do now that Jesus is gone. 587 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,400 Jesus had said, you're going to do greater things than I did. 588 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:17,400 And they're going, how are we going to do greater things than 589 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:18,400 Jesus did? 590 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,400 That makes no sense. 591 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,400 Well, I think these five passages will help you understand how 592 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,400 they're going to end up doing greater things. 593 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,400 He says they doubted. 594 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,400 And Jesus, when he knows what's going on in their hearts, this is 595 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:32,400 what he says to them. 596 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:36,400 Jesus came and spake of them saying, all power, all authority 597 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:42,400 is given to me in heaven and in earth. 598 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,400 Go ye therefore. 599 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,400 Go ye therefore. 600 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:48,400 What's it therefore based on? 601 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:54,400 Go out under my authority. 602 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,400 You know what you're authorized to do? 603 00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,400 By Jesus. 604 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,400 You're authorized by Jesus to make disciples. 605 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,400 If you know Jesus Christ is your Savior, God has authorized you 606 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,400 to make disciples. 607 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,400 Let me ask you a question. 608 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,400 Are you making disciples? 609 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,400 Are you making disciples? 610 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,400 I'm going to show you over the next few weeks how we can do it 611 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:17,400 together. 612 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,400 He says here, go ye therefore and teach. 613 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,400 The word therefore teach there is mathatousate. 614 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,400 It literally means make disciples. 615 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:26,400 Make students of. 616 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,400 Make followers of. 617 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:29,400 Make disciples of. 618 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:34,400 Who are they supposed to make disciples of? 619 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:35,400 Dave Fawcett. 620 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,400 Who are they supposed to make disciples of? 621 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,400 All the nations, but who are they following? 622 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,400 Jesus. 623 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,400 Make disciples of Jesus among all the nations. 624 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:46,400 What does it say? 625 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:50,400 Baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and of the 626 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:51,400 Holy Ghost. 627 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,400 Teaching them two words. 628 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:54,400 What does it say? 629 00:28:54,400 --> 00:29:00,400 To observe or to obey all things whatsoever have commanded you. 630 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,400 Here's the good news. 631 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:03,400 And lo, I'm with you. 632 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:07,400 Even unto the end of the world. 633 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,400 Do you see the process? 634 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:13,400 The process is help people believe in Jesus. 635 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:17,400 Help people profess Jesus once they believe in baptism. 636 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,400 Following that obedient stage. 637 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,400 Fallen that obedient act. 638 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,400 And then teach them to obey. 639 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,400 Don't just teach them to know. 640 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:31,400 Teach them to obey everything I taught you to obey. 641 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,400 Are you with me? 642 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,400 And by the way, even though I'm going, I'm still going to go 643 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,400 with you even to the end of the age. 644 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:39,400 Isn't that cool? 645 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,400 So it's not just winning people to Jesus and not just helping 646 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:43,400 them get baptized. 647 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:47,400 It's helping them learn how to be obedient to Christ. 648 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,400 How to follow all that Christ commanded us. 649 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,400 Has he given us a lot here? 650 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,400 He has. 651 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:55,400 So there's a process. 652 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:56,400 We reach them. 653 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:57,400 We teach them. 654 00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,400 We send them out to minister. 655 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,400 That's what we do. 656 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:05,400 That's the great commission in Matthew 8, 2018. 657 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:06,400 It's a process. 658 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:11,400 The great commission in Mark 16, 15 carries a message. 659 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,400 It says in Mark 16, 15, and he said unto them, 660 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:21,400 Go ye into all the world and preach the, what's the word? 661 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,400 Gospel to every creature. 662 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,400 What does gospel mean? 663 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,400 Gospel means good news. 664 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:31,400 What is the good news that Jesus Christ died for our sins 665 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:35,400 according to the scriptures, that he was buried and that he 666 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:39,400 rose again the third day according to the scriptures. 667 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,400 The message must be given to every person in all of the 668 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:44,400 world. 669 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,400 First Corinthians, if you have your Bible, quickly go to 670 00:30:47,400 --> 00:31:02,400 1 Corinthians, chapter 15. 671 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,400 Here's a definition of the gospel. 672 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:05,400 So clear, right? 673 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,400 More overbreeding. 674 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,400 I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, 675 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,400 which also you have received and wearing you sand, 676 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,400 by which also you are saved. 677 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:17,400 What does the gospel do? 678 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,400 It helps us be saved. 679 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,400 If you keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless you 680 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:23,400 believed it in vain. 681 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,400 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also 682 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:27,400 received. 683 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:28,400 What is Paul saying? 684 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:29,400 This isn't new to me. 685 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,400 This isn't original to me. 686 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,400 This is what I received from Jesus and this is what all of 687 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:35,400 the other apostles are believing. 688 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,400 What is it? 689 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,400 How that Christ died. 690 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:42,400 Who's Christ? 691 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,400 Jesus, the only begotten. 692 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,400 The word Christ means Messiah. 693 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,400 That Jesus, that God became flesh and that he died. 694 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,400 Why did he die? 695 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,400 He died for our sins. 696 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,400 How do we know that it was for our sins? 697 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,400 Because he said it would be and that's exactly what the 698 00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:58,400 Scripture said would happen. 699 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,400 According to the Scriptures it means God predicted it would 700 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:02,400 happen. 701 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,400 Jesus came, he died, when he died he died for his sins. 702 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,400 He died according to the Scriptures it was predicted. 703 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,400 Verse 4, and that he was buried and that he rose again the 704 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:16,400 third day according to the Scriptures. 705 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,400 After that he was seen of Cephas, Peter, and then of the 706 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:21,400 12th. 707 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,400 After that he was seen of 500 brothers at once of whom the 708 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,400 greater part remained as the present but some fallen asleep. 709 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,400 And after that he was seen of James, the brother of Jesus, 710 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:32,400 the half brother of Jesus. 711 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,400 Then of all the apostles and last of all he was seen of me as 712 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,400 one born out of due time. 713 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,400 The Bible itself defines what the Gospel is. 714 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,400 Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures. 715 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:44,400 He was buried. 716 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,400 How do we know that God accepted Christ's sin, his 717 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,400 atonement for sin, his offering for sin on the cross because he 718 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,400 rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. 719 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,400 Are you guys excited about the Gospel? 720 00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,400 Like this is our hope. 721 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,400 And so where the Great Commission is a process it's 722 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,400 all, it's energized. 723 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,400 It's not just some process like training like, you know, 724 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,400 we're like Amway or some corporation that's trying to 725 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,400 get people to do things. 726 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:17,400 This is a supernatural, life-giving, life-altering message 727 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:21,400 by which we are made alive in Christ and how we get to heaven 728 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:25,400 and have every spiritual blessing get placed into Christ. 729 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,400 This is our only hope. 730 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:32,400 And this Gospel has got to get to everybody. 731 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:36,400 To everybody. 732 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:37,400 To everybody. 733 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:41,400 Everyone is going to spend eternity somewhere. 734 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,400 Jesus said I'm the way to treat the life. 735 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,400 No man comes to the Father but by me. 736 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:49,400 So what's the command to get the Gospel to all nations? 737 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:53,400 And that's why it has to be our commission, vision because I 738 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:57,400 can't by myself get the Gospel to all nations. 739 00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,400 Not by myself. 740 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,400 You can't do it by yourself. 741 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,400 It's as much your responsibility as it is mine. 742 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,400 Who's thankful for the Gospel? 743 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,400 Too much is given, much is required. 744 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,400 And so it's a message. 745 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,400 It's the good news. 746 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,400 The Great Commission carries a message. 747 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,400 The Great Commission is about the person of Jesus Christ, 748 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,400 Luke 22, 24 says this. 749 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,400 And he said unto them, these are the words which I spake into 750 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,400 you while it was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled 751 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,400 and the law of Jesus was written in the law of Moses 752 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,400 and in the prophets and in the Psalms concerning me. 753 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:37,400 This passage in Luke 26, again, is after Jesus' resurrection. 754 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,400 He's appearing to these disciples. 755 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,400 He's training, one last training before I go. 756 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,400 And he says, this is what I told you about. 757 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:50,400 How that Moses spoke about me and the law spoke about me. 758 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:54,400 And the Psalms spoke about me that I was coming. 759 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:55,400 Verse 45. 760 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,400 And he said unto them, open their understanding that they might 761 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:01,400 understand the Scriptures. 762 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,400 The Gospel is all about Jesus. 763 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,400 What did the Scriptures say? 764 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:06,400 Verse 46. 765 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,400 And he said unto them, thus it is written and thus it behoved 766 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:13,400 Christ to suffer and arise from the dead the third day. 767 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:18,400 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in, 768 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,400 in whose name? 769 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,400 Who agrees this is about Jesus? 770 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,400 It's about Jesus. 771 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,400 The remission and repentance and sin should be given in his name, 772 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,400 preached in his name, where? 773 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:35,400 Among all nations beginning at Jerusalem. 774 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,400 And ye, he said to the disciples, you're witnesses of these things. 775 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:42,400 And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you. 776 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:43,400 What was that promise? 777 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:48,400 The indwelling Holy Spirit. 778 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,400 But you tear ye in the city of Jerusalem until you be in 779 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,400 duty with power from on high. 780 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,400 The message of the Gospel and the commission of Christ is to 781 00:35:56,400 --> 00:36:00,400 make disciples not of ourselves. 782 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,400 I'm not trying to make disciples of Ben Jennings. 783 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:10,400 Jesus said follow me, Paul and us, what we say is follow me as I 784 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,400 follow Christ. 785 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,400 We're trying to make disciples of Jesus. 786 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:19,400 This great commission is about the person of Jesus Christ. 787 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:23,400 In John we see the great commission is delegated authority. 788 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,400 Is delegated authority. 789 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:26,400 Look at this. 790 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:30,400 Then said Jesus to them again, this is him showing up. 791 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:36,400 Peace be unto you as my Father hath sent me, what does he say? 792 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:40,400 So send I you. 793 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:44,400 The Father has a mission. 794 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,400 God the Father has a mission. 795 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:50,400 The great commission that we're on, it's a commission because 796 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:54,400 we're doing God's mission in the world. 797 00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:56,400 You get it. 798 00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:00,400 He's not willing that any should perish, but that all should 799 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,400 come to repentance. 800 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,400 For this reason, he sent Jesus. 801 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:08,400 Jesus constantly said that he came to do his Father's will. 802 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:12,400 In this commission he stated that he had come with the Father's 803 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:13,400 authority. 804 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:17,400 He was now handing over authority to the disciples to make 805 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:18,400 disciples of Jesus. 806 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:21,400 This is similar to what he said in Matthew 28, authority is 807 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,400 given to me in heaven and earth. 808 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,400 Go ye therefore and make disciples. 809 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:26,400 So here's the deal. 810 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:27,400 Ready? 811 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:32,400 The Father sent the Son, the Son sent the Spirit to us, and 812 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:36,400 he sent us into the world with that Spirit. 813 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,400 So you don't do this thing alone? 814 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,400 That's why he said, and I'll be with you even to the end of 815 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,400 the world. 816 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:47,400 He says, as the Father has sent me, so send I you. 817 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:52,400 Now, let me be clear about something that impacts our 818 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:53,400 church. 819 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:58,400 Every Sunday at the end, as we're about to leave, I say, you're 820 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:01,400 not dismissed. 821 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,400 You're set. 822 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:09,400 What I'm trying to say when I say that, I mean, you're really 823 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:10,400 clear. 824 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,400 I want you to get this. 825 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:17,400 What I'm trying to say is that the ministry has not just been 826 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:22,400 accomplished only to be done again in this building at the 827 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:26,400 next service or the next Lord's Day. 828 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:31,400 What I'm saying is that the point of this gathering is for 829 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:35,400 you to be further equipped to go out into the world to do 830 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:37,400 ministry all week long. 831 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,400 Do you get it? 832 00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:43,400 The ministry is not over when the service is over, and it's 833 00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:47,400 not only done by professionals. 834 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,400 The ministry is to be done outside of this building by 835 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:54,400 every Christ follower who's been given the authority to make 836 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:58,400 disciples of Jesus Christ. 837 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,400 And you're not going out under my authority. 838 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,400 I'm not saying I'm sending you. 839 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:08,400 No, I'm saying you are sent, not by Pastor Ben. 840 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,400 Point to who we're sent by. 841 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:12,400 That's it. 842 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,400 We are not dismissed. 843 00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:17,400 This is not just, okay, now it's time to go get lunch. 844 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:19,400 Although we go get lunch. 845 00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:20,400 It's great. 846 00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:21,400 Right? 847 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:22,400 What are we? 848 00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,400 We're sent by Jesus. 849 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:28,400 And by the way, I'm not saying you're sent by me. 850 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,400 You're not going out under my authority. 851 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:35,400 We're going out under the authority of the resurrected Jesus 852 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:39,400 who gave it to us as he received it from the Father and who has 853 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,400 empowered us with this Holy Spirit. 854 00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:45,400 The Great Commission is a delegated authority. 855 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:49,400 Last thing in this part. 856 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:54,400 The Great Commission is to be done locally, regionally, and 857 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:55,400 globally. 858 00:39:55,400 --> 00:40:01,400 In Acts 1, this is how Jesus said it. 859 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:06,400 But you shall receive power. 860 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,400 After that the Holy Ghost has come upon you. 861 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:14,400 And you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and in all 862 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:20,400 Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth. 863 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:22,400 Where should the Great Commission be done? 864 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:26,400 Of course it's done internationally. 865 00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:30,400 We get to support some 130 missionaries all over the world. 866 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:32,400 Who thinks that's awesome? 867 00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:37,400 And the missionaries we support, we try very diligently to make 868 00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:41,400 sure that those missionaries are gospel preaching, church 869 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:46,400 planting, missionaries that support that effort. 870 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,400 In our church context, we emphasize the gospel getting to 871 00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:50,400 the nations. 872 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,400 We're praying that the Lord would see fit that someone would be 873 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:56,400 sent from our church to a cross-cultural international 874 00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,400 ministry somewhere in the world. 875 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:02,400 Jesus committed that the commission be done in the 876 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:03,400 uttermost. 877 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,400 Who agrees with that? 878 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:09,400 But he also said it's done in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria 879 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,400 and then to the uttermost part of the earth. 880 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,400 For the disciples, Jerusalem was where they were. 881 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,400 Judea was surrounding the surrounding area where there 882 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:22,400 were people who were culturally homogenous, who were the same. 883 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,400 Samaria was near them geographically, but it was 884 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,400 cross-cultural ministry. 885 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:30,400 They were nearby, but they were a different culture. 886 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:33,400 We have that happening too, don't we? 887 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:37,400 Of course, the uttermost part of the earth was the expansive 888 00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:41,400 of in geography and completely cross-cultural in language and 889 00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,400 religion and culture. 890 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,400 But notice something very important about that verse. 891 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:50,400 He says, you're going to receive power if the Holy Ghost has 892 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:56,400 come upon you and you'll be my witness, both in Jerusalem and 893 00:41:56,400 --> 00:42:04,400 Judea and Samaria and to the uttermost part of the earth. 894 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:05,400 It's not. 895 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:06,400 You have an option. 896 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:11,400 You can either do it here or here or here or here. 897 00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:12,400 What does he say? 898 00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:14,400 Where is it supposed to happen? 899 00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,400 Everywhere. 900 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,400 It's everywhere. 901 00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,400 The great commission making disciples, evangelism, 902 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,400 discipleship, sending is not just for missionaries and for 903 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:29,400 lands and not just for churches here at home, nor is it just 904 00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:33,400 for churches here at home with no effect to the nations. 905 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:36,400 So how can we do great commission in all those places at the 906 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:37,400 same time? 907 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:43,400 The truth of the matter is I can't and you can't, but we, we 908 00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:44,400 can. 909 00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:49,400 It's our commission vision. 910 00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:54,400 So let's put it all together. 911 00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:55,400 What did we just say? 912 00:42:55,400 --> 00:43:00,400 We said that the great commission is a process, that it 913 00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:06,400 includes that we reach people, we baptize them, we train them, 914 00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,400 we send them out to do the ministry, which is to go reach 915 00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,400 people, teach people, send them out to do ministry. 916 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:12,400 It's a process. 917 00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:14,400 Who agrees it's a process? 918 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:18,400 That it contains, it's empowered by this message, the 919 00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:24,400 message of the gospel, that it's about Jesus, that it's about 920 00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:28,400 doing it locally, but it's also about doing it regionally and 921 00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:29,400 globally. 922 00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:33,400 How did, here's question number four, are you ready? 923 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:37,400 How did the disciples and the early church flesh out this 924 00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:38,400 great commission? 925 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,400 How do they do it? 926 00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:44,400 If you have your Bibles, go to Acts chapter 2. 927 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:47,400 Acts chapter 2. 928 00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:55,400 I'm giving you a lot today. 929 00:43:55,400 --> 00:44:03,400 In Acts chapter 2, at the very beginning, the disciples, there's 930 00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:09,400 120 of them, 12. 931 00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:13,400 Actually 11, and then they added a 12th because Judas had gone. 932 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,400 There's 120 of them in the upper room. 933 00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:19,400 They get filled with the Holy Spirit that Jesus promised would 934 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,400 come and come down and filled into them and dwelt them. 935 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,400 Amazing things were happening. 936 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:29,400 It became pretty evident they got out of that upper room and 937 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,400 they were probably in the temple as they were being in 938 00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:34,400 Dwelt and doing all these sign things. 939 00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,400 They started speaking and as they were speaking, they were 940 00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,400 speaking and everybody that was there internationally heard it 941 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,400 in their own language. 942 00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:46,400 And as they were speaking, in fact, if you go and look at verse 943 00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:52,400 number 9, it starts describing verse 8, how here we every man 944 00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:57,400 in our own tongue, where we were born, part of theans and 945 00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:00,400 Elamites and the dwellers of Mesopotamia. 946 00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:03,400 Verse 10, they were all amazed and in doubt saying one another. 947 00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:05,400 What mean is this? 948 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:09,400 So the disciples are endowed by the spirit, they are speaking and 949 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,400 as they are speaking, everybody is hearing in their own language. 950 00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:15,400 This is a reversal of what happened at the tower of Babel. 951 00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:19,400 Where God confused their languages because they were trying 952 00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,400 to get to God in their own way. 953 00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:26,400 God provided a way and now he's unifying the languages as a sign 954 00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:30,400 to Israel to say, I'm doing something new. 955 00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:33,400 But I'm doing something that I predicted. 956 00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:35,400 What did they contribute? 957 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:36,400 What did they say? 958 00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,400 Verse 12, they are all amazed and in doubt saying one to another, 959 00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:39,400 what mean is this? 960 00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:43,400 Others mocking said these men are full of new wine. 961 00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:45,400 These guys are drunk. 962 00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:46,400 The dumb. 963 00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,400 Anybody ever get drunk and do something miraculous? 964 00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:50,400 I probably didn't. 965 00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:51,400 Don't raise your hand. 966 00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:52,400 Okay. 967 00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:55,400 We won't take volunteers on that. 968 00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:59,400 Verse 14, but Peter standing up with the 11 lifted up his voice 969 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:04,400 and said unto them, ye men of Judea, and all that dwell in Jerusalem, 970 00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:09,400 be known unto you and harken to my words, for these are not 971 00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:14,400 drunken as you suppose, sing it be but the third hour of the day. 972 00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:15,400 It's noon. 973 00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,400 We're not drunk. 974 00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,400 This isn't five o'clock somewhere kind of thing. 975 00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:21,400 Right? 976 00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:22,400 We're not drunk. 977 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,400 But this is which was spoken by the prophet Joel and it shall 978 00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:29,400 come to pass in the last days and say, I will pour out my spirit 979 00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:30,400 upon all flesh. 980 00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:32,400 The prophet Joel is in the Old Testament. 981 00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:34,400 He's quoting here. 982 00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:37,400 And your sons and daughters shall prophesy and young men shall 983 00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:41,400 see visions and old men shall dream dreams. 984 00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:44,400 He goes on to verse 22 and this is what he says. 985 00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:48,400 You men of Israel hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth, a man 986 00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:52,400 approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs 987 00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:55,400 which God did by him in the midst of you as you yourselves know. 988 00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:59,400 Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge 989 00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:03,400 of God ye have taken and by wicked hands crucified in slain 990 00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:08,400 whom God hath raised up. 991 00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,400 Now that's an interesting message. 992 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:12,400 We're not drunk. 993 00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:16,400 You guys blew it. 994 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:19,400 This power that you're seeing exhibited in us isn't because 995 00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:20,400 we're great. 996 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:24,400 This is exactly what God said would happen. 997 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:29,400 In the latter days God would pour out his spirit to declare a 998 00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:33,400 message and this is the message, Jesus the one you crucified, 999 00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,400 God raised from the dead. 1000 00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:39,400 He goes on and says, this is what David said in the Psalms. 1001 00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:43,400 He quotes a bunch of things and he preaches this incredible 1002 00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:48,400 sermon and by the way, this is crazy. 1003 00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,400 Just a few weeks later what was Jesus doing at the fire, 1004 00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:55,400 what was Peter doing at the fire? 1005 00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:57,400 He time. 1006 00:47:57,400 --> 00:47:59,400 Aren't you one of his disciples? 1007 00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:00,400 I don't even know him. 1008 00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,400 He denied him three times. 1009 00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:03,400 What was the difference? 1010 00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:05,400 Jesus rose again. 1011 00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:07,400 And he restored him. 1012 00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:10,400 And so his message now, Peter standing up and he says, this one 1013 00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:12,400 you crucified, God raised from the dead. 1014 00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:16,400 He declares unto them all these amazing things. 1015 00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:20,400 Verse 37, we heard this, they were pricked in their heart. 1016 00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:25,400 Verse 40, verse down, go down to verse 40. 1017 00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:30,400 And with many other words that he testified and exhorts saying, 1018 00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:33,400 save yourselves from this untoward generation. 1019 00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:38,400 They asked him back to verse 38, what did they ask him in verse 1020 00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:41,400 37, sorry, verse 37, said unto Peter, and the rest of the 1021 00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:44,400 apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do? 1022 00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:46,400 What do you think we should do? 1023 00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:49,400 Verse 38, then Peter said unto them, repent and bring 1024 00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:51,400 back the sins of the dead. 1025 00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:55,400 And the rest of the apostles, repent and be baptized every one 1026 00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:58,400 of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins 1027 00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,400 and ye shall receive the same spirit, the gift of the Holy 1028 00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:03,400 Ghost that we have received. 1029 00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:05,400 They asked him, what should we do? 1030 00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:09,400 He said, here's what he said, you need to believe and you need 1031 00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:11,400 to be baptized. 1032 00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:13,400 What was he saying? 1033 00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:16,400 Become a disciple of Jesus. 1034 00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:19,400 What was he saying? 1035 00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:21,400 What was he saying? 1036 00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:24,400 He said, go make disciples of all nations. 1037 00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,400 The baptism didn't make them saved. 1038 00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:29,400 The repentance made them saved. 1039 00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:32,400 The baptism identified them publicly with Jesus. 1040 00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:34,400 Look at what happened. 1041 00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:37,400 Now this is what, so why am I telling you all this? 1042 00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:39,400 Look at verse 41. 1043 00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,400 Here's what it says. 1044 00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:45,400 Then they that gladly received his word, who were they? 1045 00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:50,400 Those who heard it, repented, believed, what does it say? 1046 00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:56,400 They were baptized and the same day they were added to them 1047 00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:58,400 about 3,000 souls. 1048 00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:00,400 What was that part? 1049 00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:03,400 Who agrees they were reached? 1050 00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:05,400 Were these people reached? 1051 00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:07,400 They got saved. 1052 00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:11,400 They got baptized and baptism is what added them to the local 1053 00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:14,400 church and then it was over. 1054 00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:16,400 What was it saying? 1055 00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:18,400 Is that what it says? 1056 00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,400 Look at the next verse. 1057 00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:26,400 It says, and they continued steadfastly in the Apostles' 1058 00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:28,400 doctrine. 1059 00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,400 Where did the apostles get their doctrine? 1060 00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:33,400 From Jesus. 1061 00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:36,400 They continued steadfastly in the Apostles' doctrine and in 1062 00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:39,400 fellowship and in breaking of bread and in prayers. 1063 00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:42,400 And fear came upon every soul and many of them were 1064 00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:46,400 done by the apostles and all that believed were together. 1065 00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:48,400 That's the church, right? 1066 00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:52,400 And all things in common, they sold the possessions and 1067 00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:55,400 parted them to all men, every man as they need. 1068 00:50:55,400 --> 00:51:00,400 And they continuing daily with one accord. 1069 00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:04,400 In the temple and breaking bread from house to house, large 1070 00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:06,400 groups, small groups. 1071 00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:09,400 They did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of 1072 00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:13,400 praise in God and having favor with all the people and the 1073 00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:16,400 Lord added to the church. 1074 00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:18,400 How often? 1075 00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:19,400 Daily. 1076 00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:22,400 Did it just happen on Sunday when they gathered? 1077 00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,400 It happened every day. 1078 00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:28,400 Daily such as should be saved. 1079 00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:31,400 Who wants people getting saved around here daily? 1080 00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:34,400 How did it happen? 1081 00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:37,400 Before they had programs. 1082 00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:40,400 Before they had buildings. 1083 00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:45,400 Before they had worship bands and choirs. 1084 00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:47,400 Before they had anything. 1085 00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:52,400 They had doctrine and fellowship, breaking of bread. 1086 00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:53,400 They had prayer. 1087 00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:55,400 They did evangelism. 1088 00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:58,400 They made disciples. 1089 00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:03,400 And here's how many people got saved. 1090 00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:08,400 It says, what did it say? 1091 00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:11,400 As many as received this word were baptized and the same day 1092 00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:16,400 was added to them, 3,000 souls. 1093 00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:19,400 I ask you this question. 1094 00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:25,400 If we had a move of the spirit here on a Sunday. 1095 00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:35,400 What would we do with those people? 1096 00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:40,400 What would we do with those people? 1097 00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:45,400 Keep coming. 1098 00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:47,400 Would we need more services? 1099 00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:49,400 Yeah, we would. 1100 00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:53,400 I want to submit to you. 1101 00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:55,400 What would we want for those people? 1102 00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:57,400 What would we want to happen? 1103 00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:00,400 We want them to get baptized. 1104 00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:02,400 And we want to teach them to observe all things. 1105 00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:06,400 What's over commanding you. 1106 00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:07,400 Who agrees? 1107 00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:11,400 I can tell somebody, hey, you should be in your Bible every day. 1108 00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:13,400 You should do that. 1109 00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:15,400 Here, new convert. 1110 00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:18,400 Master this. 1111 00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:20,400 Ready? 1112 00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:23,400 Good luck. 1113 00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:25,400 Hope you enjoy it. 1114 00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:26,400 Read John. 1115 00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:28,400 John is a good one. 1116 00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:31,400 Is that what we should do? 1117 00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:38,400 How could 3,000 people, give my Bible back. 1118 00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:43,400 How could 3,000 people continue steadfastly in the Apostles 1119 00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:46,400 doctrine and fellowship and breaking up bread and in prayers. 1120 00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:52,400 It's because Jesus had equipped 120 in his ministry. 1121 00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,400 And he had poured his life into 12. 1122 00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:57,400 And he had poured his life into three. 1123 00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:02,400 And I believe the three helped the 12 who helped the 120 so that 1124 00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:06,400 when 3,000 people got saved, there were people there that could 1125 00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:07,400 help them. 1126 00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:11,400 And not just say you should read your Bible but say hey, let's do 1127 00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:12,400 this thing together. 1128 00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:15,400 Let me teach you to pray. 1129 00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:17,400 Let me teach you how to be in God's word. 1130 00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:20,400 Let me tell you, let me teach you that you got saved and you're 1131 00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:23,400 going to, but you're going to sin again and you're going to have 1132 00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:24,400 doubts. 1133 00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:26,400 Let me help you with those doubts. 1134 00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:27,400 Are you with me? 1135 00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:33,400 I don't want to have spiritual babies and then leave them and 1136 00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:37,400 hope that they can fend for themselves. 1137 00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:42,400 And although that might seem like a slow process, the 1138 00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:47,400 multiplication possibilities are unbelievable when we actually 1139 00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:50,400 help the people that get saved know how to follow God 1140 00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:56,400 themselves and then generationally learn how to help others do 1141 00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:57,400 the same thing. 1142 00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:01,400 And by the way, that's what the Great Commission tells us to do. 1143 00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:06,400 Not just walk an aisle, pray a prayer, get saved and you're 1144 00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:10,400 golden, keep coming, right? 1145 00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:14,400 But to help them come to know Christ, to baptize them and to 1146 00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,400 teach them to observe all things I've commanded you, which 1147 00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:26,400 ends up in you're not dismissed, you're sent. 1148 00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:29,400 What would a church look like that was prepared for that? 1149 00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:34,400 Maybe the reason we don't have 20 and 50 and 75 and 100 people 1150 00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:39,400 getting saved is because we're not ready for them. 1151 00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:43,400 But what if we could be? 1152 00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:46,400 What if we could be? 1153 00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:50,400 More on that next week. 1154 00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:52,400 What's our mission? 1155 00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:55,400 It's the Great Commission. 1156 00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:59,400 It's a process that carries a message. 1157 00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:04,400 It's about the person of Jesus. 1158 00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:11,400 It's to be done locally, regionally, nationally and 1159 00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:17,400 internationally and it can't be done just by one of us. 1160 00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:22,400 It's our co-mission vision. 1161 00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:35,400 Would you bow your heads and close your eyes with me?