great commission 3

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?