The Great Commission – A Biblical Guide To Change The World
” IT’S JUST A LITTLE HANDFUL. HUH, HUH, HUH, HUH, AND THEY’RE TO GO OUT AGAINST THE IRON LEGIONS OF ROME. THEY’RE TO GO OUT AGAINST THE SOPHISTICATION AND THE INTELLECTUALISM OF GREECE. THEY ARE TO GO OUT AGAINST THE STIFFNECKED BIGOTRY OF ISRAEL AND THEY ARE TO BE HIS WITNESSES TO ALL THE WORLD.
I MEAN, HOW DO YOU THINK THEY FELT WHEN HE SENT THEM OUT TO DO THIS? [MUSIC] I WANT YOU, UH, TO TURN TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 28, AND A FAMILIAR PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE, MATTHEW 28 BEGINNING IN VERSE 18. MATTHEW CHAPTER 28, IN A MOMENT, I’M GOING TO BEGIN READING IN VERSE 18. SOME YEARS AGO, I HEARD ABOUT A MAN WHO DIED, AND, AH, SOMEONE ASKED HIS LITTLE BOY, “WHAT WERE YOUR DAD’S LAST WORDS?” AND HE SAID, “WELL, DADDY DIDN’T HAVE ANY LAST WORDS,” SAID, “MOMMA WAS WITH HIM RIGHT UP TO THE END.” [AUDIENCE LAUGHTER] UH, HUH, HUH, HUH, UH.
LAST WORDS ARE IMPORTANT. AND IF SOMEBODY, JUST BEFORE THEY STEP OVER INTO GLORY, IS GIVING SOME LAST WORDS, WE OUGHT TO PAY ATTENTION. WE OUGHT TO PAY DOUBLE ATTENTION IF THESE ARE THE LAST WORDS OF OUR LORD BEFORE HE ASCENDS TO HEAVEN. LISTEN TO HIS LAST WORDS BEFORE HE ASCENDED TO HEAVEN, “AND JESUS CAME AND SPAKE UNTO THEM, SAYING, ‘ALL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH.
GO YE THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY GHOST: 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.’” NOW IT, I WANT YOU TO TAKE YOUR BIBLE AND IF YOU DON’T MIND MARKING IT, I WANT YOU TO MARK IT AS I HAVE MARKED MINE.
