Section 142 & 143, The Great Commission
Section 142
THE GREAT COMMISSION GIVEN
(Time and place same as last section.)
MATT. 28:18-20
MARK 16:15-18
LUKE 24:46, 47
It's easy to glide over this passage--it's familiar, it's grand, it's hard to get traction with. All authority? Go?
Always with me? Of course, I know the pat answers, and that's why it's easy to just keep sliding through it instead of intentionally engaging and wondering.
"And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me." Matthew 28:18
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations — rather, “make disciples of all nations”; for “teaching,” in the more usual sense of that word, comes in afterwards, and is expressed by a different term. -JFB
"The adaptation of the Gospel message to all. It deals with all men as on one level. It addresses universal humanity. ‘Unto you, O men, I call, and My voice is to the sons of men.’ It speaks the same language to all sorts of men, to all stages of society, and in all ages. Christianity has no esoteric doctrine, no inner circle of the ‘initiated.’ Consequently it introduces a new notion of privileged classes." -MacLaren
"and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world."
This is a promise not of bare companionship, but of full sympathy and support (Isa. 43:2; Ex. 33:15; Josh. 1:5). The duration of this promise shows that it is intended for all disciples.
Section 143
NINTH AND TENTH APPEARANCES OF JESUS
(Jerusalem.)
LUKE 24:44-49
ACTS 1:3-8
I. COR. 15:7
..."and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name unto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem." Luke 24:47
"And he said unto them, It is not for you to know times or seasons, which the Father hath set within His own authority. But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. " Acts 1:7-8
"Jesus enlightens them as to their duty, and not as to the kingdom." -Fourfold
So often we want the nitty-gritty of the lofty overview but not the marching orders.
THE GREAT COMMISSION GIVEN
(Time and place same as last section.)
MATT. 28:18-20
MARK 16:15-18
LUKE 24:46, 47
It's easy to glide over this passage--it's familiar, it's grand, it's hard to get traction with. All authority? Go?
Always with me? Of course, I know the pat answers, and that's why it's easy to just keep sliding through it instead of intentionally engaging and wondering.
"And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me." Matthew 28:18
"The adaptation of the Gospel message to all. It deals with all men as on one level. It addresses universal humanity. ‘Unto you, O men, I call, and My voice is to the sons of men.’ It speaks the same language to all sorts of men, to all stages of society, and in all ages. Christianity has no esoteric doctrine, no inner circle of the ‘initiated.’ Consequently it introduces a new notion of privileged classes." -MacLaren
"and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world."
This is a promise not of bare companionship, but of full sympathy and support (Isa. 43:2; Ex. 33:15; Josh. 1:5). The duration of this promise shows that it is intended for all disciples.
Section 143
NINTH AND TENTH APPEARANCES OF JESUS
(Jerusalem.)
LUKE 24:44-49
ACTS 1:3-8
I. COR. 15:7
..."and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name unto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem." Luke 24:47
"And he said unto them, It is not for you to know times or seasons, which the Father hath set within His own authority. But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. " Acts 1:7-8
"Jesus enlightens them as to their duty, and not as to the kingdom." -Fourfold
So often we want the nitty-gritty of the lofty overview but not the marching orders.
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