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TITLE: You Go
TEXT: Mark 16:15-16
PROPOSITION: The Great Commission is still in effect.
QUESTION: Why?
KEY WORD: Questions
SCRIPTURE READING: Same
INTRODUCTION:
- The last words a person speaks are often most
remembered.
- Final requests and wishes are granted.
- Deathbed confessions are accepted in courts.
- Here is the final command, last wish of Jesus on earth.
What is Jesus asking of us?
- Must everyone sell their home, quit their job, and move
to some foreign land?
- Is Jesus requiring all of us to become preachers?
- What training is required for this work?
Who should do this? (You)
- In a command (imperative) the subject is an understood
you
- The subject is the person addressed.
- If I am speaking to my son, Mow the lawn not
addressed to others
- Jesus is speaking to the eleven remaining apostles (Mark
16:14)
- Preachers, elders, deacons, SS teachers
- Pew-packers, all members, all who have learned should
share that with others
- Not required:
- Experience
- Training Theology, mission work, Bible college
- Special skills Scripture memorized, counselor, Greek
and Hebrew
What should I do? Go
- Present active = as you are going wherever,
whenever, as you go about our activities, whoever you come in contact with
- This could mean Russia, China, Central America, Fargo,
North Dakota
- Isaiah 6:8 Who can I send? Who will go for us? Here am
I, send me
Who should I teach? Whole creation (KJV every creature)
- We must be a respecter of persons
- All who dont know need to know
Am I included in this command?
- Matthew 28:18-19 Go teach baptize teach them to
keep commands (including this one)
- 2 Timothy 2:2 leaned from me teach to faithful men
teach others also
- How did you hear the gospel message?
- How did they learn the gospel message?
- Everyone in this room is included:
- You are one who needs to hear and obey the gospel
- You are one who must share the message with others
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