Walking In Spirit

Day 9 Matthew 28:19-20

As I write from my hotel room in MN, please excuse my grammer and spelling as I am without the luxury of spell and grammar check. To make matters worse, I am trying to transcribe my handwritten notes from the plane trip here this morning.

"To be or not to be" isn't the question. The question, is "To go or not to go".

It is not merely enough to sit idle within a congregation and never contribute to the great commission. However, this participation may look differently for each individual. Does this merely mean visiting or contributing monetarily towards local and global missions? No... "Missions", starts at home and it has been commanded since the beginning. "The beginning?" you ask? The great commission was neither new to the New Testament nor is it commanded firstly in this context by Jesus.

The great commission has been repeatedly commanded through the ages. Take the first instance we have recorded in scripture:

Genesis 1:28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Over and over this same command is repeated throughout scripture. Genesis 9:1, Genesis 17:20, Genesis 35:11, Exodus 1:7, Isaiah 60:22, Jeremiah 23:3 Malachi 2:13-15 and then here again in Matthew 28:19. The chief end of Men was/is to Glorify god. So again I say, Missions begin in the home. As parents it is our duty to raise Godly children, respecters of men and observers of God's glory. We should prepare them to walk along the mission fields. Preparing them to also raise their own Godly children. Feeding them from the abundance of the table for the wedding feast.

We are to help create disciples in our homes and within our community. We are also to teach them to build up disciples of their own and support them when they move out on their own. This is not a mission that ends. Even when our children are out on their own, perhaps God will bless them with their own children. We then must help support them and continue on in the area of missions that God gives us. There is a need for light in such a dark world. Be the salt of the Earth.

Remember that Christ was to be called Immanuel, "God with us". Even to the end of the Age.

Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.

The end of the age will come. The word must be preached/taught till it reaches all the nations. Failure to participate in the commission is the spirit of anti-Christ. It delays the preaching of the Gospel and works against bringing saints into the Kingdom.

Don't give them a choice over hearing the Good news or the Bad news... Go, and give them the Good news first.