SCRIPTURE: Matthew (NIV) 28:19 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.”
OBSERVATION: Here Jesus was giving His disciples the Great Commission. It was their responsibility to carry on the ministry He had started. They had been with Him from the beginning of His ministry. He had even sent them out two by two in preparation for His ministry time coming to their area. Jesus had taken them aside to teach and answer their questions.
But Jesus was not depending on them to remember everything. He was depending on His presence, His Holy Spirit!
NOTE: Jesus was not commanding them to be with Him; He was promising to be with them!!!
Members of the SOAP teams in Sierra Leone and Liberia recently went to the Muslim country of Guinea to join with SOAP workers there to present Jesus to the people there. They found that the Jesus who walked the roads and streets of Israel and who was with the disciples in Acts was with them in Guinea! He made blind people see and paralyzed people walk!
APPLICATION: Jesus is the same, yesterday, and today, and forever! Heb 13:8
PRAYER: Lord, You are the same today as the days of the Gospels and Acts. Holy Spirit, stir our hearts and faith to allow you to flow through us to the world around us. May You be fully YOU in me. Amen
Pastor Leon
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