Go Into All The World

Introduction

Missions ~ Bible Study ~ 3/12/14

Grace Church of Lockeford

Introduction

DON’T READ.

Salt Shaker – Taste.

Lights on stage – Switch on and off.

Flashlight – under towel.

Let Your Light Shine!

Jesus never intended us to keep gospel to ourselves. Needs to be heard by everyone! records a little different look at the great commission.

This verse challenges us to reach the lost.

This verse commands us to preach Christ.

Only through the gospel of Jesus Christ are people saved.

Because that is true we need to take two actions.

Action #1…

1. Go

What do you think of when you hear the word go?

Action word! Do something. Specific action, thought out, preplanned.

Paul missionary journeys, route planned goals in mind. Not haphazard. Have specific plan and method.

Be consistent and planned when sharing the gospel.

When a conversation starts, be thinking of how to lead it to Spiritual things.

How can we practically do that?

Into all the world – the command was to reach the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Not just where you live, but other nations. Not just other nations, but where you live!

Look at v. 20.

They preached everywhere.

Think about where apostles preached, the worship centers of other religions (temple, mars hill), prison, house arrest, as a castaway on an island, in a chariot, by a river and the list goes on!

They preached Christ everywhere they went because they took the commands of God literally!

God meant what He said! And they acted on it!

What would going everywhere look like today?

Bars? Mosques? Rock concerts?

Is the command only for them?

We too are commanded to go.

Go to your neighbor, your friends, your acquaintances. Go to other nations, if you are retired and bored, go be a missionary! (S).

Acts 1:8 NKJV

But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Lifestyle! Preach everywhere! Be witnesses of what Christ has done in your life.

For the gospel to be effective, lost people need to hear it.

That means you and I need to get out of our comfort zone and reach them.

Action #1 is to Go. Go and do what? Say nice things?

Action #2. Don’t just go be nice. Go and…

2. Preach

Verse 15, preach the gospel to every creature.

As we go, we preach.

Just like the apostles, we should preach Christ everywhere we go!

Not just good words, but the gospel.

I know of people who travel the world preaching that God loves you, but not that Christ died for you.

Missing the whole point! Ephesians tells us God’s love caused Him to send Christ!

The love of God and the sacrifice of Christ are inseparably linked!

Who are we to share the gospel with? Every creature.

We are to preach the good news of Jesus death, burial, and resurrection to every creature because it is good news! It is good news to every creature because Christ died for every creature!

Otherwise there would be no reason to preach to them all! Every man woman and child can be saved by believing in Jesus Christ!

tells us God’s heart on the matter (S).

2 Peter 3:9 NKJV

The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

Not willing that any should perish. Any and all clearly indicate that God’s desire is for everyone to be saved.

Then why aren’t they? God won’t force mankind to accept Him. He woos and He convicts and He draws, but He never forces.

There is only one condition for salvation, belief.

This is clearly spelled out in (S).

John 3:18 NKJV

“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.

If you believe, you are not condemned. If you don’t believe, then you are condemned.

When the Philippian jailer asked Paul and Silas what he could do to be saved, Paul said “…Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved...”

Preach the good news about Christ.

Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again.

What do we preach? Turn to (p. 1323).

(p. 1323)

1 Corinthians 15:1–4 NKJV

Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,

Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again.

It’s that simple! Christ died for you! Believe in Him and be saved. That is what we preach! That is what we believe!

For the gospel to be effective, it must be proclaimed.

Conclusion

Are you going into all the world? Are you preaching the gospel to every creature? If not, why not?

No one is excluded from the grace of God.

We must practice every creature evangelism.

May we be burdened for those headed to an eternity separated from Christ!

Go to the lost.

Preach the gospel.

Mark 16:14–20 NKJV

Later He appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table; and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen. And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.