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[Great Commission Video]
By now, we should all be aware that Jesus’ command to go and make disciples is something to take seriously.
We’re all learning day by day how to do this.
At the start of this year, we started walking with Jesus through his ministry, beginning at the Jordan River and His baptism right up to last week where we experienced His empty tomb and the hope of the resurrection.
It makes perfect sense, then, to follow right along that path with Jesus’ disciples and turn our attention to the book of Acts.
As we’ll see, the mission has been handed to the disciples.
Acts tells us how they strove to fulfill that mission.
Once again, we learn by observing and then replicating their activities.
But that’s a scary proposition.
We’re supposed to do what Peter, John & Paul along with so many other great men and women of faith did?
Yes.
And with the same help that they got.
This series will focus on this book we call “Acts.”
Often that’s interpreted as the “Acts of the Apostles.”
It is, more properly, “the Acts of the Spirit-empowered Apostles.”
On their own, a group of less than 150 followers of Jesus could not have achieved all they did without some major firepower.
Jesus provided them divine assistance in their mission by sending the Holy Spirit to empower their words and deeds.
It is in the introduction to the history of the early church that we learn how that was going to take place.
The Promised Holy Spirit
They needed Spirit inspired knowledge.
He immersed them in the Word.
But it wouldn’t just be knowledge.
They would be able to understand and explain through the Spirit.
Clarifying the Mission
They needed direction and timing.
They clearly didn’t fully understand the mission.
They were still expecting an earthly kingdom.
Jesus cautions them to be patient until it’s time.
When they would understand that the mission wasn’t just for Israel but the whole world.
They would promote and help to bring to reality Jesus’ work on the cross to bring the world back to God.
Going Out Until He Comes Back
They needed motivation to be witnesses.
Jesus leaves in a dramatic way to “seal the deal.”
This mission belongs to them now.
(remember the first time you got the car keys without a parent riding shotgun?)
This is the real deal, now.
The angels tell them to get out there with their testimony until he returns.
We tell the story through our willingness to make Christ the Lord in our lives.
We tell the story when His transformational work in our lives is evident to others.
We tell the story when we confess His name and submit to His baptism.
We tell the story when we demonstrate His love to our neighbors.
We tell the story when we go out and help to create a Jesus-shaped vision of the world as God’s kingdom.
Conclusion
How well do we tell Jesus’ story?
Can we say that we’ve relied on the Spirit of Christ for the knowledge, direction and motivation to go out and be Christ to our world?
No more staring off into outer space.
Let’s go out until he comes back.
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