Sermon Tone Analysis

THE GREAT COMMISSION: 

Feb 4, 2023 - Cusco, Peru

Youth Conference

What’s up gang?!

My name is Chris Kroger

I’m the pastor of Roots Church in Monument, CO.

So blessed to be here with you.

We have been praying for you, your pastor and his family, this conference.

Praying for your church

Praying for your country

Praying for God’s calling upon your life

And I pray that you know this.

That God has a plan and a purpose, and a calling upon your lives.

If you are IN CHRIST.

You have been born again.

Born of the Spirit.

Born of God.

By faith.

God has placed you where He’s placed you

The time, the space, the place 

The boundaries of your dwelling 

Everything in your life

So, that you would cry out to Him.

Receive Him by faith.

Finding your true identity.

And step into your purpose, and your calling God.

26 And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, 27 so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and have our being //Acts 17:26-28

This is true for you.

This is true for me.

This is true for all of mankind.

True for the entire world.

16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

// John 3:16-19

God didn’t come to condemn you.

God came to save you.

God didn’t come to condemn the world.

But that the world through Him might be saved.

INCREDIBLE!

God’s heart that none should perish.

Everything in our lives, pre-appointed, everything in our lives pre-determined

All lining up, that we would seek the Lord, in the hope that we might grope for Him and find Him

For He is not far from each us

This is the glorious gospel.

If we strip it all away… 

God’s Word tells us we have been created in God’s image and that our purpose, is to glorify Him

Everyone who is called by My name,

Whom I have created for My glory;

I have formed him, yes, I have made him.”

// Isaiah 43:7 (READ)

Created BY GOD & Created FOR GOD. 

“As born again believers in Jesus Christ, our purpose is “To know Christ and make Him known.”

So, now what?!

What does this look like?

I want to look at Mathew 28:16-20

And allow the Lord to speak to us about this.

16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them.

17 When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted.

18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

Amen.

// Matthew 28:16-20

The Great Commission

Commission: an instruction, command, or duty given to a person or group of people.

The Great Command of Jesus 

To you and I as Christians

Those of us in Christ, born again, born of God

By faith.

For by grace you have been saved through faith.

19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; // Mathew 28:19-20 (READ)

Quite a task.

Daunting.

Impossible.

But, the courage that propels me

The courage that propels us in this endeavor 

Is not rooted in OUR wisdom or OUR experience 

But in the presence, power, wisdom, and grace of our redeemer

Of all the ways God could have chosen to reach the world for Christ.

God in His perfect wisdom and sovereignty 

Chose you and me

His church

& The courage that propels us in this endeavor 

Is not rooted in OUR wisdom, OUR knowledge, or OUR experience 

But in the presence, power, wisdom, and grace of Jesus.

Our confidence, our hope, and our motivation

Jesus, His Word, and His Spirit 

His promise to us as His sons and daughters.

The disciples had been through a whirlwind of unimaginable things

The late-night arrest of their Messiah in Gethsemane

The false trial of Jesus and His torture

The public crucifixion of their friend, rabbi, teacher, Messiah

The sight of His empty tomb and His post-resurrection appearances

Try to put yourself in their place

Try to imagine their confusion 

The internal debates

The fear and the doubt and the wonder of the future 

Imagine the joy of His appearances after His resurrection 

Crashing against the struggles of belief that would accompany the miracles and the mystery