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Go! Go! Go! (Part 2) Matthew 28:16-20. Availability Worship Submission Obedience Power. Go! Go! Go! Matthew 28:16-20. Obedience Therefore – because of this authority Make disciples – believing and learning John 6:66 cf. John 8:31 Luke 18:18-23 Receive and submit
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Go! Go! Go! (Part 2)Matthew 28:16-20 Availability Worship Submission Obedience Power
Go! Go! Go!Matthew 28:16-20 Obedience Therefore – because of this authority Make disciples – believing and learning John 6:66 cf. John 8:31 Luke 18:18-23 Receive and submit True disciples will be making disciples too!
Go! Go! Go!Matthew 28:16-20 Obedience One time command – see Gen. 1:28 Requirements for making disciples Going Baptizing Teaching
Go! Go! Go!Matthew 28:16-20 Obedience As you are going ..... Carries the idea of already happening Clear that church is to go to the world and not the world to the church Romans 1:16 cf. John 4:22 Jews to Gentiles
Go! Go! Go!Matthew 28:16-20 Obedience Baptizing – immerse in water outward profession of an inward event union w/ Christ – death, burial, resurrection act of submission – Romans 6:3,4 no part in the work of salvation – Eph. 2:8 God-ordained & commanded it – Eph. 4:4-6
Go! Go! Go!Matthew 28:16-20 Obedience Teaching – to observe all commanded a true disciple is a learner and a follower studying, understanding, and obeying are a lifelong task – Acts 20:27 Holy Spirit is our teacher but we have been called to be facilitators – Jn. 14:23ff Hebrews 5:9 cf. Romans 6:17
Go! Go! Go!Matthew 28:16-20 Power lo – emphatic reminder I myself am – emphatic form to call special attention reminding us of His constant presence reminding us of power in the Holy Spirit always – all the days until the end
Go! Go! Go!Matthew 28:16-20 Application As you are going, are you sharing the life changing message of Jesus Christ? Have you been obedient to God in the waters of baptism? Are you in relationships in which you are being taught and teaching others?
Go! Go! Go!Matthew 28:16-20 Application Would you consider yourself a true disciple, both a believer and a learner, for the fulfillment of the Great Commission? Is our church doing what is necessary to fulfill the Great Commission?