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Oct 22, 2023

The Great Commission

The Great Commission

Passage: Matthew 28:16-20

Speaker: Andrew Kerhoulas

Series: That’s the Spirit: Learning to keep in step with Him who indwells

For our Global Missions Sunday we will center our study on The Great Commission with a special guest panel of our Grace Missionaries who serve around the world.

Readings & Scriptures

PRE SERVICE TEXT: Psalm 67:4
“Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth.”

PREPARATION: Psalm 67:1-5
LEADER: May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.

ALL: Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!

LEADER: Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples
with equity and guide the nations upon earth.

ALL: Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!

SCRIPTURE READING: Revelation 15:1-4
LEADER: And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire—and also
those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing
beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands. 3 And they sing the song of
Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,

“Great and amazing are your deeds,
O Lord God the Almighty!
Just and true are your ways,
O King of the nations!
4 Who will not fear, O Lord,
and glorify your name?
For you alone are holy.
All nations will come
and worship you,
for your righteous acts have been revealed.”
The Word of the Lord.

CENTRAL TEXT: Matthew 28:16-20
Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

BENEDICTION:

LEADER: Hermanos y hermanas, ¡nuestro Señor y Salvador Jesucristo vive!

LEADER:  Brothers and sisters, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christr, is alive!

La tumba no pudo retenerlo. ¡Cristo está vivo!

The grave could not hold him. Christ is alive!

¡Hoy hay gozo!

There is joy today!

Id al mundo con su alegría.

Go into the world with his joy.

Muestre al mundo el amor de Dios.

Show the world God’s love.

Cuéntale al mundo que Cristo vive.

Tell the world Christ lives.

Comparte su presencia dondequiera que Él te envíe.

Share his presence wherever He sends you. 

Hagamos discípulos de nuestro Salvador resucitado.

Make disciples of our risen Savior. 

Id, mis hermanos y hermanas, id sin miedo; 

Go, my brothers and sisters, go without fear; 

ve sin vergüenza; ve sin disculparse.

go without shame; go without apology.

Vayan en el nombre de Jesucristo y en el poder de su Espíritu.

Go in the name of Jesus Christ and in the power of his Spirit. 

¿Irán?

Will you go? 

 

TODOS:  Lo haremos.

All: We will. 

LIDER:   Y ahora, de Números capítulo 6: 

LEADER:  And now from Numbers chapter 6: 

 “Que Dios te bendiga y te guarde;

May the Lord bless you and keep you; 

que el Señor haga resplandecer su rostro sobre ti, y tenga de ti misericordia; 

May the Lord make his face to shine on you and be gracious to you;

que el Señor alce sobre ti su rostro, y ponga en ti paz”. 

May the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.”

RELATED SCRIPTURES:

  • Genesis 12:1-3
  • Psalm 67:3-4
  • Isaiah 55:10-11
  • Matthew 24:14; 28:18-20
  • Mark 16:15
  • Luke 24:47
  • John 21:22
  • Acts 1:8; 2:1-11; 10:34-48; 14:3; 15:8-9
  • Romans 1:16; 10:13-14
  • 1 Corinthians 1:16
  • 2 Corinthians 11:28
  • Colossians 1:6
  • Revelation 5:9; 7:9; 15:3-4

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

  1. Try to name at least one thing that is lingering with you from the worship service. How might it shape your view of global missions going forward?
  2. Read the Great Commission again (Matthew 28:16-20). Why do you think Jesus ends the commission the way he does? Why is his enduring presence important for missions? Did you hear any of the missionaries speak about this for their respective callings?
  3. Jesus commissioned his followers to go and make disciples who obey all he commanded. That can make us flinch for all kinds of reasons. How does the gospel, what Jesus has done to save us, empower us to go and make disciples? Discuss.
  4. How can you practically participate in God’s mission to the world here and abroad? To that end, we encourage you to prayerfully consider supporting our missionary efforts around the world above and beyond your normal giving trends.

QUOTES: 

  • Those early Christians had no degrees from the best universities, they had been on no MBA management courses, gone through no psychological Myers-Briggs compatibility profiles, they had no financial investment portfolios—but they had a revelation of God, a revelation of their inheritance in Christ and Holy Spirit power from on high. With this God took 120 people and shook the world. Simon Ponsonby
  • This is a really simple idea that honestly a ton of people (particularly in the West) miss. If you are an apprentice of Jesus, your end goal is to grow and mature (not overnight; but over time) into the kind of person who can carry on the work of Jesus….No matter how complex or challenging our city and our age might be. No matter what stage of life, season of life or stage of discipleship you’re in. All of us can sit around a table with somebody far from God. All of us can grow and mature and apprentice under Jesus to become the kind of people who are about what Jesus is about. All of us can slow down, open our eyes, and see the kingdom of God breaking in like weeds breaking up through the pavement. See what God is up to and join in. John Mark Comer
  • There is special evangelistic work to be done, of course, and there are special callings to it. But if those in the churches really are enjoying fullness of life, evangelism will be unstoppable and largely automatic. The local assembly (the church), for its part, can then become an academy where people throng from the surrounding community to learn how to live. It will be a school of life (for a disciple is but a pupil, a student) where all aspects of that life seen in the New Testament records are practiced and mastered under those who have themselves mastered them through practice. Only by taking this as our immediate goal can we intend to carry out the Great Commission. Dallas Willard
  • The Spirit makes known the personal presence in and with the Christian and the church of the risen, reigning Saviour, the Jesus of history, who is the Christ of faith. J.I. Packer

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