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THE GREAT COMMISSION IN
TEN PARTS Part 3
PART THREE: THE PLACE:
ALL THE WORLDThe five accounts of the Great Commission are
in: Matthew 28; Mark 16;
Luke 24; John 20; Acts 1.
There are ten subjects relating to the Great Commission in
these five chapters. Notice three points that will
help us understand the importance of this third lesson.
1 - The significance of Jesus’ words.
Matt All nationsMarkAll the world-Every creature
Luke Among all nations, (KJV)
Acts To Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, all the earth
All these terms were used by the Lord in His teaching during the forty days after His resurrection.
These terms are fitting because He died for all people in all places during all of history
1 John 2:2 NET and he himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins,
and not
only for our sins but also for the whole world.
John 1:29 NET On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of
God who takes away the
sin of the world! John 3:16 NET For this is the way
God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him will not
perish but have eternal life.
Galatians 3:25 NET But now that faith has come, we are no
longer under a guardian. 26 For in Christ Jesus you are
all sons of God through faith. 27 For all of you
who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is neither Jew
nor Greek, There is in this sonship by faith in Christ, no
class
privileged above another, as the Jews under the law had been above the Gentiles there is
neither slave nor free, Christ alike belongs to both by faith;
whence he puts
“slave” before “free.” there is neither male nor female rather,
as Greek, “there is not male and female.” There is no distinction into male and
female. Difference of
sex makes no difference in Christian privileges. But
under the law the male sex had great privileges. Males
alone had in their body circumcision, the sign of
the covenant (contrast baptism applied to male and female
alike); they alone were capable of being kings and priests,
whereas all of either sex are now “kings and
priests unto God” they had prior right to inheritances.
In the resurrection the relation of the sexes shall cease for all of you are
one in Christ Jesus.
Greek, “one man”; masculine, not neuter, namely “one new
man” in Christ (JFB) 29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's descendants, heirs
according to the promise. Titus 2:11
NET For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people. 12 It trains us to
reject godless ways and worldly desires and to
live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present
age, 13 as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in the glorious appearing of
our great God and
Savior, Jesus Christ. 14 He gave himself for us to set us free
from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a
people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.
Romans 1:16 NET For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God's power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the
Jew first and also to the Greek. Here the Greek
refers to anyone who is not Jewish. (NET Notes)
It is His will for all of us to be saved. 1 Timothy 2:4 NET since he wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.
2 Peter 3:9 NET The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as
some regard slowness, but is being patient toward you,
because he does not wish for any to perish but for
all to come to repentance.Revelation 22:17 NET And the Spirit and
the bride say, "Come!" And let the one who hears say:
"Come!" And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one
who wants it take the water of life free of charge.
2 -The example of the early church.
Acts 1-7 They started in Jerusalem and Judea, just
as Jesus had commanded in the Great Commission
Acts 8 They were scattered to many other places due to persecution, but they took
the gospel with them.
Acts 9-28 Luke’s account quickly
moves to examples of preaching and teaching in many other parts of
the world.
3 -Points for us to observe.
There is no distinction in Christ. Galatians 3:28 NET There is neither Jew …Greek…
slave… free… Male… female for all … are one
in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 3:10 NET and have been clothed with the new man that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created it. 11 Here there is
Neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised,
barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ
is all and in all.
Romans 1:16 NET For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God's power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the
Greek. 17 For the
righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel
from faith to faith, just as it is written, "The righteous by faith
will live."
Romans 9:23 NET And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the
objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory
24 even us, whom
he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the
Gentiles? 25 As he also says in Hosea: "I will call those who
were not my people, 'My people,' and I will call
her who was unloved, 'My beloved.' “ (Hos 2:23) 26 "And in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' there they will be called 'sons
of the living God.' "(Hos 1:10)
10:1 Brothers and sisters, my heart's desire and prayer to God on behalf of my Fellow
Israelites is for their salvation. 2 For I can testify that they are
zealous for God,
but their zeal is not in line with the truth. 3 For ignoring the
righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to
establish their own righteousness, they
they did not submit to God's righteousness. 4 For Christ is the end of the law, with
the result that there is righteousness for everyone
who believes.
10:12 For there is no distinction between the Jew and the
Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, who richly blesses
all who call on him.13 For everyone who calls on
the name of the Lord will be saved. (Joel 2:32) 14 How are they to call on one they have not believed in? And how are they to believe in one they
have not heard of?
And how are they to hear without someone preaching to
them? 15 And how are they to preach
unless they are sent? As it is written, “How timely is the
arrival of those who
proclaim the good news.” (Isa 52:7;
Nah 1:15) 16 But not all have obeyed the good news, for
Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?” (Isa 53:1) 17
Consequently faith comes
from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the
preached word of Christ. 18 But I ask, have they not heard?
Yes, they have: Their voice has gone out to all
the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.
(Ps 19:4) Their voice (that of the preachers of the gospel) has
gone out to all the earth. When the vast multitude converted
on Pentecost were scattered to their homes, they carried the gospel into all parts of the civilized world. Paul was now writing to the church in Rome, where
no apostle had ever been. (PNT) 19 But again I ask, didn't Israel
understand? First Moses says, “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation;
with a senseless
nation I will provoke you to anger.” (Deut 32:21) 20 And Isaiah is
even bold enough to say, “I was found by those who did not seek me; I became well
known to those who
did not ask for me.” (Isa 65:1) 21 But about Israel he says, “All day
long I held out my hands to this disobedient and stubborn
people!” (Isa 65:2)
Romans 11:9 And David says, “Let their table become a snare
and trap, astumbling block and a
retribution for them; 10 let their eyes be darkened so that
they
may not see, and make their backs bend continually.”
(Ps 69:22-23) 11 I ask then, they did not stumble into an
irrevocable fall, did they? Absolutely not! But by their
transgression
salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous. 12 Now if their
transgression means riches for the world and their
defeat means riches for the
Gentiles, how much more will their full restoration
bring? 13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles.
Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify
my
ministry, 14 if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them. 15 For
if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world,
what will their
acceptance be but life from the dead? 16 If the first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the
branches. 17 Now
if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in
among them and participated in the richness of the olive
root, 18 do not boast over the
branches. But if you boast, remember that you do not
support the root, but the root supports you. 19 Then you will
say, "The branches were broken off so that I could
be grafted in." 20 Granted! They were broken off because of their
unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but
fear! 21 For if God did not spare the natural
branches, perhaps he will not spare you. 22 Notice therefore the kindness and harshness of God harshness toward those who have fallen, but God's
kindness toward
you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you
also will be cut off. 23 And even they if they do not continue in their unbelief will be grafted
in, for
God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a
cultivated
olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be
grafted back into their own olive tree? 25 For I do not want
you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and
sisters, so that you may not be conceited: A partial
hardening has happened to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
26 And so all Israel will be
saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of
Zion; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob. 27 And this is my covenant with them,
(Isa 59:20-21)
when I take away their sins.”(Isa
27:9; Jer 31:33-34) 28 In regard to the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but in regard to election they are
dearly loved for the sake of the
fathers. 29 For the gifts and the call of God are
irrevocable. 30Just as you were formerly disobedient
to God, but have now received mercy due to their
disobedience, 31 so they too have now been disobedient in order that, by the mercy shown to you, they too may now receive mercy. 32 For
God has consigned all
people to disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all. First the Gentiles were disobedient, but now were called. Now the Jews
were disobedient,
but would finally be saved. God would have mercy on all, both
Jew and Gentile.(PNT)
33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of
God! How
unsearchable are hisjudgments and how fathomless
his ways! 34 For who has known the mind of the Lord,
or who has been his counselor? (Isa 40:13) 35 Or
who has first given to God, that God needs to repay
him? (Job 41:11) 36 For from him and through him and to him
are all things. To him be glory forever! Amen.
There is equality in Christ Acts 10, 11
Cornelius Prays,God answers,
Peter has Vision, Gentiles Converted
Ephesians 2:1 NET And although you were dead in your
transgressions and sins, 2 in which you formerly lived according to this world's
present path, according to the
ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the
sons of disobedience, 3 among whom all of us also
formerly lived out our
lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of
wrath even as the rest… 4 But God, being rich in mercy,
because of his great love with which he loved us, 5 even though we were dead in
transgressions, made us alive together with Christ by grace
you are saved! 6 and he
raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 to demonstrate in
the coming ages the surpassing wealth of his
grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you are saved through faith,
and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 it is not
from works, so that no
one can boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good
works that God prepared beforehand so we may do
them. 11Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles
in the flesh who are called "uncircumcision" by the so-called "circumcision" that is
performed on the
body by human hands 12 that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of
promise,
having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away
have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For
he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one
and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the
hostility, 15 when he nullified in his flesh the
law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace, 16 and to reconcile them both in one
body to God through
the cross, by which the hostility has been killed. 17 And he came
and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near, 18 so that
through
him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints
and members
of God's household, 20
because you have been built on the foundation of the
apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the
cornerstone. 21 In him
the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being
built together into a dwelling place of God in
the Spirit.
Everyone needs the blood of Christ. Romans 3:23 NET for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 24 But they are justified freely by
his grace through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Romans 5:8 NET
But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, because
we have now been declared righteous by
his blood, we will be saved through him from God's wrath.
Matthew 26:28 NET for this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, that
is poured out for many for
the forgiveness of sins. Hebrews 9:28 NET so also, after Christ
was offered once to bear the sins of many, to those who eagerly await Him he will
appear a second time, not to
bear sin but to bring salvation. Romans 6:3 NET Or do you not know that as many as were baptized
into Christ Jesus werebaptized into his death? 4 Therefore we have been
buried with him through baptism into death, in order
that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the
glory of theFather, so we too may live a
new life.
The simple gospel is the only thing that can save sinful
people. 2 Corinthians 11:3 NET But I am afraid that just as the serpent
deceived Eve by his treachery, your minds
may be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to
Christ. Romans 1:16 NET For I am not
ashamed of the gospel, for it is God's power for salvation to
everyone
who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Multiplied millions of those who are now living have
never even heard the name of Jesus, much
less the pure gospel! What are you and I
doing about obeying the command to get the truth
to everyone on earth before they and we die?