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This morning I want to simply share three texts with you that have profoundly impacted my life. Three texts that I think are all connected with each other.
The first text is found in Matt 28.19-20.
19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
What name or title do we typically give this text?
Why do we call it the Great Commission?
19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Main verb idea?
Teach all nations
μαθητεύω- make disciples
How?
Going-
Baptizing-
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Teaching-
What are we to teach them?
Does this text- this command apply to each one of you?
Is it great in your life? Is is the main thing in your life? How are you doing it right now?
What would it look like if we really were obedient to the Great Commission?
2nd text:
I believe that in the book of I Thessalonians we find the NT model of disciple making.
6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
What do we know about the church in Thessalonica?
Spiritual young church, mostly Greeks and a majority of them women, heavily persecuted for their faith, and a church that financially was in deep poverty. Folks, I if told you about a church like this today- young believers, not a lot of men in the church, suffering for their faith, and they are all broke- that sounds like a recipe for disaster doesn’t it?
We would expect a church like that to be in deep trouble spiritually.
The exact opposite is true of the Thessalonians! They are thriving spiritually. They are spiritual healthy, and they are accomplishing the task of making disciples and of actually doing the work of the great commission unlike any other church that we read about in the NT.
6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
Followers-
μιμητής- mimickers, imitators
Followers of us- who is the us? Paul, Silas, Timothy
And who else did they follow? the Lord? In what way?
1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
So they followed the NT pattern of disciple-making in that the Thessalonians became followers / imitators.
7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
Paul, Silas, Timothy spiritually reproduced themselves in the the lives of the Thessalonians so much so, that now the ordinary regular church members became examples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
So- they followed / imitated a spiritually mature believer, then they led people in their own Jersualem to Christ through the gospel, they won a soul to Christ. And, then they became examples to those believers- they led someone- they spiritually reproduced themselves in someone else’s life.
And what was the result?
8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
Third Text:
Why does this matter?
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
20 For ye are our glory and joy.
What can you do?
Follow One
Win One
Lead One