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Intro
When I was first serving as an intern I was required to go on a short-term international mission trip to Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
One of the most incredible and beautiful places I have ever been.
Amazing People.
But I had an awkward experience.
Crack land
Parking under an overpass
Going through hole in a wall singing this little light of mine.
I felt completely out of place in this broken place that desperately needed the gospel how in the world was I going to take Jesus to these people?
I remember giving out bread and juice and praying for the people.
When like a flash I missed Hannah.
We were newly married and this was the longest we had been apart.
Jesus in that moment put this thought in my heart.
As much as I long for and miss my bride, how much more does he long for and desires to reconcile his bride to himself.
I remember praying for them and thinking Jesus how?
Perhaps you have felt this too.
Maybe you have a coworker you love dearly and they are far from Jesus.
Maybe it’s a family member that you wish felt the way you did about Christ.
Maybe you’ve shared your faith, walked through the reason for your confidence in Jesus and felt like it landed flat.
Sermons like this can feel, weighty.
They can feel like a good challenge but then as the reality of sharing the gospel comes you feel inadequate.
My hope is that this would be an encouragement to you today.
I pray that you would see the Great Commission with fresh eyes today.
We are landing the plan in our How to Love your Neighbor sermon series.
Today we are again looking at the Great Commission
Here is the Bid Idea:
Big Idea: We are called to go to our neighbors with the hope of Jesus.
That’s the idea.
Go.
Today before we really get to the meet of the text in verses 18-20 I want to start by looking at verse 16-17 to preface our time together.
Matthew 28:16–17 (ESV)
Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them.
And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted.
Before Jesus commissions the disciples there is a posture of heart for those who approach him.
So Coram Deo let me ask you this question, what posture do you bring this morning?
Do you come expectantly?
Or do you come doubting?
Do you coming willing, eager to see God move?
Or are you coming indifferent…cold and distant?
Part of me wanted to build to this point but I am realistic and I know that your mind may wonder as I preach.
So I want to give you this gold nugget from the beginning.
Because if you hear nothing else, though I hope you stay with me…I want you to hear this.
If you are like me, the great commission has felt ominous.
Maybe you have been at times been inspired to go, but you lose that zeal.
How are we ever going to accomplish this.
Pastor Jack Miller once posed this and it has radically changed the way I think about this passage.
The Great Commission or missionary command has two sides: 1.
A Command to go and disciple (an impossible task), and 2. A Promise from Jesus to be with us as we obey the command (the power to do: am impossible task).
_Jack Miller
Just sit with that for a minute.
I said last week that you don’t save anyone.
But how often have you believed that you do?
Do you realize that disciple making is an impossible task?
Have you felt that reality.
Let me just ask, can you make anyone sincerely follow Jesus?
More than outward obedience.
Can you change the human heart?
The answer is no.
But the one who goes with you…He can.
It’s with this understanding Coram Deo that I want to go to the rest of this passage.
Because this will turn everything on it’s head and I pray, it will inspire you to go to your neighbors with the hope of Jesus.
Let’s jump in first with a kingdom proclamation
I. Kingdom Proclamation (v.
18)
Matthew 28:18 (ESV)
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
This is a Kingdom Proclamation…the king has been enthroned!
A brand new day has dawned.
Jesus has won the decisive victory over sin, death, and satan.
He has accomplished this through his perfect obedient life, his atoning death on the cross, and his glorious resurrection.
Because of this Jesus is now exalted by the father in this new enthroned position with all rule and authority.
Jesus friends is the King of kings and Lord of lords.
This is a fulfillment of Daniel 7.
Daniel 7:14 (ESV)
And to him was given dominion
and glory and a kingdom,
that all peoples, nations, and languages
should serve him;
his dominion is an everlasting dominion,
which shall not pass away,
and his kingdom one
that shall not be destroyed.
The everlasting dominion has begun Jesus tells us.
Now buckle up cause we’re gonna do a little bit of theological work together and then I’ll help to unpack it.
Jesus, now risen from the dead, is saying in His Kingdom proclamation that Daniel 7 has been fulfilled in its first stage.
Jesus, the Son of Man, is now on the throne.
He is the King of the nations.
Jesus is declaring in no uncertain terms that He is Lord of the harvest and that His grand redemptive purpose is to bring into the barn of salvation all the chosen people of God from the nations of the earth.
Legally, Jesus won His victory through His obedient life and death on the cross.
By His substitutionary atonement He canceled the debt incurred by our sins and with that legal stroke officially destroyed Satan's authority over the nations.
As long as there was no effective atonement for sin, the nations stood under God's curse and the condemning authority of Satan as legal accuser.
But with Christ's assuming human nature and undergoing a vicarious death for sinners meaning dying in our place, Satan's right to condemn transgressors is over.
The resurrection shows the Father's acceptance of His Son's atoning sacrifice and the dethronement of Satan.
In other words Jesus has put death in the ground.
He as satisfied the wrath of God.
He has crushed the head of the snake, shutting the mouth of the accuser.
Now does Satan still work?
Does he still blind and bind the nations, yes but now his work in in an illegal guerrilla warfare operation because he knows the war has been won.
The people are no longer under the authority of the Evil One, but under the authority of the Son of Man.
This is like you being on a play ground, getting pushed over and beaten down by a bully.
But now your bigger stronger older brother has showed up.
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