Sunday School - Back To Basic Part 7

Okay, well, let me pray for us this morning father. We do come before you thankful Lord for life and breath and Lord that you've given us the capacity to meet this morning. We pray Lord for our families and pray for the family.

Is that yet here. Pray God that you would bless her time together. And it would be edifying to your Saints and equipping us for the work of ministry in Jesus name. Amen. All right, turn your Bibles to Matthew 28.

The Great Commission in Matthew 28

This is a verse that probably it's like very consequential To the Christian life very consequential to My way of thinking of Christianity. It is a fundamental text in order to understand our mission our purpose as a people and It's the departing words of Jesus Christ who his disciples in the month and the gospel of Matthew in chapter 28.

And we're gonna read verse 16 through 20 Matthew 28 and so this is not basically our back-to-basics years. It's kind of done I can do more but but today I want to focus on an area of evangelism since this is still very important to the culture Of our church and where we're heading as a people and so today's lesson is called commended to tell all in order to win some and so we're going to look at that from From the scriptures in Matthew 28 starting verse 16 now.

The eleven disciples went to Galilee to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them and when they saw him they worshipped him but some doubted and Jesus came and said to them all authority in heaven on earth has been given to me.

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son of the Holy Spirit. Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you and behold. I'm with you always to the end of the age now as we commit ourselves to some of our core values a couple months ago when I came in as your pastor we put in some new Core values and also some goals that we wanted to that we want to achieve.

Do you remember what some of those goals are? Maybe the big goal. What's the big goal? For our church, yeah Evangelism but more specifically. What's the end result? What do we want to see in five years?

We want to become a what? Self-replicating church. Which means we want to be a church that's producing churches. So not just a church that is Barely getting by here, but rather that we grow and become a church that's able to Replicate that's able to it's almost like a division of cells, right?

If you have a healthy cell, it'll divide the way it's supposed to if you don't have a healthy cell. It won't divide without without division. You have no growth. And so as a church We want to look forward to the future and see What God would do in our midst in terms of helping us be a planting church or planting another church or being ascending church?

Something to that degree and Part of that way of getting there is through evangelism. And so just a couple weeks ago or last week I think we we ended up knocking on over all the houses on this side of Lakewood Village, which is amazing.

It's quite phenomenal so so praise God for that and. But we still have work to do we still have much work to do and It's an exciting time for us and for the life of the church. But notice what we see when Jesus is resurrection of Christ.

He goes to his disciples and it says now the 11 verse 16 went to Galilee to the mountain to which Jesus directed them. And when they saw him, what did he do? They worshipped. But what happens right after they worship?

What are the words that are added? They worship. But what what's the but here? Some doubted can you imagine that? Think about that for a moment. They encountered the Living Christ the Christ had been dead in the grave for three days had been risen and When they see him they worship.

But some doubted. It's kind of an amazing statement. It's it's it's perplexing. But really it's not that perplexing when we think about it. Have you ever worshiped God in the midst of doubt? Right. It's it's not so uncommon.

We matter of fact some of our best worship. It's when we're confronted with doubt some of the best praise that we can offer to God is when we are struggling with doubt. This is a Important aspect because humans are prone to doubt all of us.

Even the even the 11 who were standing before Jesus who had seen his miraculous works. Who knew he was the Son of Man who knew he was the Son of God who knew that he was gonna be raised from the Dead and yet they doubted because the human heart is prone to doubt.

Maybe some of us are doubting whether God can do this work in our midst. Maybe some of us are doubting whether this church can grow. Maybe some of us are doubting whether we can personally partake in the evangelistic work.

Maybe we're doubting. And that's okay. We're prone to doubt. We're prone to have a heart that wanders prone to wander Lord. I feel it prone to leave the God. I love as the Great Hymn says and yet the risen King Jesus is standing in front of the disciples in this story and The first two inclinations that the disciples had was one worship to doubt.

So I want you I want you to become familiarized and okay with that tension that sometimes Worship and doubt are not mutually exclusive, but rather There are two sides of the same coin. That makes sense.

And so don't be afraid to worship God. Even when there's doubt now, what is doubt? Anyone know what doubt is? Give me an example of what doubt might look like. What made that look like? Sure, that's a form of doubt.

How about in in the Christian context? Sure, how about really basic ones like Man, is this stuff even real? Right. Is God real? Is Jesus real? Is the gospel real? You know sometimes in life life circumstances can push us towards unbelief.

And so when bad things happen, our inclination is to doubt like why first question usually comes is why? Right God. Why would you allow this to happen? God? Why me? God why my child why why why we always ask and we do so often in a way that expresses our doubt in the providence goodness mercy love and kindness of God and These are all things that are Natural to the human disposition.

We are naturally prone to doubt. Doubt is the feeling of uncertainty or lack of convictions. That's what doubt is. Right. So if you know, you'll encounter Christians maybe who will say well, I'm not so sure about reformed theology.

I've got my questions. I've got my doubts, right? Now that's one thing but someone says well, I have my doubts about Jesus being God. Well, that's a whole different story, right? That's a level of doubt that puts you outside of the Christian Orthodoxy Christian mainstream and yet we can still doubt and wrestle with theological quarries and questions.

Like you're going through the Sabbath right now, and you still got questions. You're skeptical and you got some doubts and that's okay. We all are entitled to our doubts our own our feelings of uncertainty or a lack of convictions in certain areas.

It could also mean doubt can also mean however fear. Right doubt and fear are usually very closely linked especially in the scriptures. This is why the Lord says do not fear 365 times in the scriptures.

It's why fear and doubt are often time very closely linked together. The disciples in this story are afraid. They're fearful one of the reasons why they may be fearful is because They buried Jesus. If you buried someone and you saw them alive, you'd probably be a little freaked out too.

Wouldn't you? Matter of fact, we know from Luke's gospel Luke 24 That when the disciples meet Jesus there it says it used the phrase that they were afraid and Jesus has to bring them near and says come see that isn't myself.

Handle me touch me see that I am myself. Because a spirit or ghost does not have flesh and blood as you see that I have Right, and so he has to let them handle him because they're afraid and the reason why again, these are real people.

We're not talking about fairy tales here. If it was a fairy tale the story of the resurrection would look a little bit different it probably looked like, you know. The disciples triumphantly running to the tomb and saying yes, we knew it right.

It's like in the movies, right? But no in this case, they're running to the tomb and they're afraid you're like what is going on people don't usually Come back from death, especially after three days.

The body is already decomposing there's natural processes at work and yet the scriptures foretold that the Son of God would not see corruption and That that God would not forsake his son in the grave and so these in these disciples run to the grave and they find Jesus and they Are afraid there's some doubt there.

Even after seeing him they're asking themselves. Are my eyes deceiving me? Am I actually seeing the Lord of Glory? Is this actually happening? You know, there are some theories in the world that say that the disciples.

And you know, there's a in Acts and 1st Corinthians chapter 15 it says that there were 500 eyewitnesses to the resurrection of Jesus at one time and and some Skeptics have said that the reason they had this vision of Jesus or they saw Jesus was because they were all likely taking hallucinogenic.

So think about that for a moment. Everyone everyone was eating mushrooms and then they saw Jesus at the same time usually though when you're having a hallucination. You know, everyone gets a different Hallucination, they don't all get the same hallucination.

So there goes that that theory but again, that's the tendency of the human heart to doubt what scripture says and to Add in their thoughts and perspectives now doubt and fear is the enemy of obedience.

Once you remember that Doubt and fear is the enemy of obedience for if you lack the conviction to do what's right. Remember doubt can be the lack of conviction. To do what is right? You'll fall for your uncertainty.

If you don't have the convictions, which is basically in the world would say have a backbone. You don't have a backbone you're just gonna fall for anything and we need to have a theological spiritual backbone to believe and To receive and to do what God is required of us and doubt is usually the result of a lack of knowledge it's usually a lack of faith and Conviction.

These are all things that are company with doubt and again, we've all have a level of doubt in our lives. It's not something that like oh man, I've got doubts. And so therefore I'm I'm wicked. I'm a sinner.

That's all true, but That's not the heart of the issue is not your doubt. It's your unbelief. Unbelief. And unbelief leads to doubt and so again as disciples We've all encountered doubt when it comes to our faith but we've also Demonstrated as the disciples that demonstrated doubt to To demonstrate doubt is to be human.

We recognize that it's a human tendency. So as the disciples demonstrated To doubt again is to be human and even I as your pastor I have doubts a lot of things that I Have questions about or a lack of conviction about and not everything.

That's a lack of conviction. This is certainly a bad thing, right? So there are certain things that some people may have stronger convictions on than you do and it doesn't mean that you're any less than.

Right, for instance, some may have a stronger conviction on the Sabbath. Some may have a stronger conviction of You know of the Lord's Day or other I you know things that are not necessarily trivial but are non-essential to the overall dogma of the Christian faith and.

Evangelism, Doubt, and Worship

So my question to you this morning. So have you ever had an experience? Where you're out and about and you see someone. And you feel God leading you to stop to them to talk to them about faith. We were had that experience before where you're out and about and you just see someone and like man, I feel call To minister to this person and maybe we do it or maybe we don't but if you ever had that impulse that feeling before.

Yeah, I Mean I get it all the time. I you know, I. Well, I think I was in LA this week, right? Yeah, and and I was with some friends and I was just Feeling there were unbelievers. And so I was waiting for my for my in to talk about faith because I Just felt that leading like I need to tell these guys, you know, some important things and I wanted to hear me and.

And sure enough the opportunity Rose and sometimes in life, you'll you'll have those times where opera you you have an in you have an opportunity a window To speak into someone's life other times. It may be very Out of the blue.

Maybe you're at the line at the gas station or at the Walmart or whatever the case may be and you feel a leading to Talk to this person about faith, whatever. There's something that has has been pressed on you to speak and witness to an individual and I would say that that that voice but then you know, the that voice that tells you to That pushes you to evangelize is one that should be heated.

Because then what happens is that it's almost like the story of like, you know, the cartoons you have the bad angel and the good angel and. Because as soon as you get that that feeling like that press I should talk to this person about Jesus.

What's the next voice you hear? What's the next voice? Ah, there's a voice of doubt. There's a voice that doubt that comes. This is oh, well, there's this probably my imagination or you know that person, you know.

Probably doesn't need to really hear this right now or whatever the case may be. We start to we let that voice of doubt creep in which is why I get it earlier. I said that that doubt is the Is the enemy of obedience?

It's the enemy of obedience. Because when we are told what to do in Scripture and God tells us what is right. What is good and what is that we are to do that is to make disciples? We get that little voice in the back of our head.

It says now's not a good time or you know. It compounds and it robs us of the joy of being obedient. Interesting how that happens doesn't it? And it's every single time because it happens to me too where I'm trying to you know I feel a pressing to speak to a person and then I hear the voice of doubt.

Come in my mind and say, you know. Now's not a good time or that person's busy or I'm busy and I got all these things going on right now. And I just I can't juggle all this right happens to me. Doubt is the enemy of obedience and.

So doubt kills in fact the joy of obedience and so don't keep that voice of doubt. As the disciples did when they encountered Jesus where they worshiped him, but some doubted. As a church that desires to live by Bible truth and principles and to be a people of the book.

That's really important. We want to be a people of the book. That's this book God's Word the inspired Word of God. We must meet doubt with worship. We must meet cynicism. With obedience and it's not a matter of not having doubt for we all again have doubt to some degree.

But that when it arises that we meet it with true worship. So, how do we deal with our doubt? We meet it with true worship and true worship is obedience to the law and decree of God it's not a matter again, you know of.

Having doubt or not having that we all have it. It's how we meet it and it's what we do with it. So don't let doubt get in between you and your mission. What is your mission? Let's read what Jesus says in verse verse 18.

Jesus came and said to them. All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. You know Jesus assures the disciples in this verse not by telling them it's okay guys, it's me it's Jesus. Again a very cartoonish Response that would have been saying I know you're doubting.

I know you're skeptical guys, but it's okay. It's me. It doesn't say that. Instead how does Jesus assure his disciples? He assures him by proclaiming the extent of his power. By saying all authority and heaven and on earth has been given to me Jesus Christ by virtue of his incarnation and self-humiliation obedience even unto death on the cross has caught had conquered.

The conquering authority even over death itself and he's demonstrating all authority is mine. He's not reassuring them by giving them some empty platitudes. He's assuring them by by demonstrating. He's a true sovereign of all things.

All authority and heaven on earth has been given to me that text proof something actually really important to it proves that Jesus Christ is Almighty God if you look at the definition of what it means to be Almighty, it means to have all authority and Who has all authority?

Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ then is Almighty God. Now some questions may arise in that. How if Jesus is God, how can he be given all authority? Wouldn't it be innate wouldn't be intrinsic to his nature to his deity?

And the answer is found in Philippians chapter 2 where we see that Christ in his self-humiliation takes on this form of a servant and. And and by becoming obedient even as far as death on a cross Jesus was given the name above every name.

So at the name of Jesus every knee should bow every tongue confesses He's Lord to the glory of God the Father. This is a statement about his his two natures. Jesus Christ is God and man and as the God man he is enthroned with a A divine glory as man and as God that was.

That is unique to his incarnation and his glorification as the Son of God and the Son of Man. And so put it to put it simply the cosmos will forever be reigned and ruled by a son of Adam it is the two natures of Christ and the haplocytic Union coming into into full view here the one man Jesus Christ being fully and eternally glorified as The one who has all authority to heaven on earth.

It is it is the the two natures as they are joined together that now as one person We see the glorification of Christ in this way. So it's a really marvelous truth of Holy Scripture any questions so far and anything.

Yeah. Yeah. Correct. That's right, that's right and it's the answers that is the two natures of Christ, right? So Christ is God, but he's also man. And so in in that taking on of human flesh Christ in his in his Humanity is limited Christ in his humanities fully human, you know.

But then as the one through his obedience Hebrews 3 says as a son He learned obedience for things he suffered. And so this is not in relation to his divinity. Obviously, this is in relation to his humanity.

He was truly human. Philippians 2 makes that point very clear. And so it's in it's as one person. Both divine and human. He is now enthroned as the one who's have it's been given all authority in heaven on earth.

Okay, it's the it's the mystery of the hypostatic Union. It's the two natures how they come together and. And how God glorifies himself in the Sun right now Jesus does say in John 17 5 father now glorifying me.

With the glory I had with you before the world was so was was Jesus glorified in heaven. Absolutely. Did he enjoy the same glory as a father? Absolutely prior to his incarnation. But that's why Jesus says in the high priestly prayer in John 17 5 now father at the conclusion of my ministry Glorify me and this is glorified.

Let me enter into that glory again the same glory I had with you before the world was. Does that make sense? Yeah, which that's verse would make no sense if Jesus was not God, you know John 17 5 because Jehovah says in Isaiah 42 a I am Jehovah.

That is my name and I would not share my glory with another nor my praise to graven images. So there's no way that that Jehovah would share his glory with a creature. When God says his glory is exclusively his it is exclusive.

It is exclusive to his nature and yet Jesus says now father glorify me with the glory that I had with you before the world was and so. It's a pretty strong text. Any other thoughts or questions so far?

Jehovah's Witnesses, Blood Transfusions, and New Light

Yeah. Yeah, it's my older brother. When he was born. And he was a newborn. He had a blood clot in his brain. That almost killed him and he needed to get a blood transfusion in order to save his life now my parents were Jehovah's Witnesses and they did not want to give him a blood transfusion this is back in the 80s and the state of Connecticut Actually took custody of my brother and.

And they and they gave him a blood transfusion against my parents wishes which saved his life. Even though my parents did not want to give him a blood transfusion, you know, they were gonna let him die because of their belief on a blood transfusions, so it's a Someone hits home to me.

You know, essentially the Jehovah Witness doctrine of not getting blood transfusion comes from your understanding of really two key texts. I think this acts are Leviticus 17 or 19 that talks about the blood that.

That you that you should not Prolong your life by the blood of another and that blood is sacred that the life is in the blood. And so it would be inappropriate for you to take someone else's life force in order to sustain your own life force.

And that the prohibition against eating blood. Which is a weird one because a transfusion is not eating. It doesn't go into your You know dietary system it goes into your circulatory system, so it's completely two different things even the Jews they don't follow that strict view of Or interpretation as Jehovah Witnesses do and they're pretty strict on blood and then they also take Acts 15 where the Jerusalem Council Prohibits the believers from things sacrifice idols or to blood and so there's a another prohibition both Old New Testament to the blood.

And they say so it would be an appropriate for Christians to partake or to be you know use You know blood transfusions, and they really view as like a martyrdom issue. Like they will they know that if they were to die in obedience.

There's a likely there's a higher likelihood of them being resurrected because they don't have assurance in their religion. So if they died obedient through not taking a blood transfusion, it's like an easy ticket into paradise and so.

That's unfortunate the way many Jehovah Witnesses view that and their doctrine has evolved over time because now they do allow for blood parts. But not blood whole so the blood is primarily hemoglobin water.

Yeah, plasma. These are these are all you know just basically three major things that make up the blood so you can they can. Hospitals can now divide the blood into certain aspects. And so you can get blood parts and Jehovah Witnesses allow for that for whatever reason.

Actually, I know the reason why it's because one of the members of the leadership governing body was dying and needed a blood transfusion. That was the only way out so they allowed for that. And they also had a prohibition in 1960s until 1980s on Organ transplants they thought organ transplants were cannibalism.

And so you if you're a Jehovah Witness from 1960 to 1980 you were not able to save your life by getting an organ transplant that again changed when people or Some of the older men in the in the organization started to get sick and needed organ transplant.

And they changed their theology on that so. Yeah, that's that's the answer. Maybe one day. I'll do maybe next week. I'll do a whole Jehovah Witness teaching on the peculiar beliefs of Jehovah Witnesses.

Yeah, well, you know their cop-out is that they have what's called. They call it new light so they take Proverbs 4 18 which talks about the day of the righteous man is like the day that gets brighter and brighter until the day is firmly established and.

And they say that you know ours is a progressive Organization and that Jehovah gives us more and more spiritual light. So we may not have everything 100 right. But we know that Jehovah will give us more enlightenment and through the organization he'll enlighten us to more and more truth.

So anytime there's a change in doctrine, they just brush it off and they celebrate it as oh look Jehovah gave us more light. So now we it's you know, oh, it's not that we were being taught Falsehood, which is what they're being taught.

But it's oh, no, they repackage it. They say oh, it's new light. It's wonderful God's given us more clarity on something. And so that's how they they repackage. Change in doctrines. Yeah. It's it's very subtle and it's and it's yeah, it's the mark of a cult.

Yeah, that's how cults act, you know. That's how they operate. And so let's ask ourselves some pretty important three questions in relation to the main topic today. Which is committed to tell all in order to win some.

What is the mission is number one? To who is it? Or so what who and why what is the mission who is to share in the mission? And why is it important? Okay. So the first one is what is the mission and we see in Matthew 28 verse 20 the mission is Sit in your church pews and do nothing.

Is that it? No. Oh, how about this? Just hire a pastor to do all the work for you. That's not it either verse 19 go therefore and make disciples of all nations. That's the mission. That's the mission is to go not sit go not just You know being the comfort of the four walls of a church.

It's go therefore and make disciples of all nations. That's the call. That's the mission. That's the command. The mission is to go and make disciples of all nations. So in other words, the mission is to we are commended to tell all.

We're to tell everyone in order to win some. So here's a reality ours is a is a mission that involves telling everybody about Jesus. Even though we know not everyone will come to receive Jesus. Okay, so that's what we're commended to tell all in order to win some and the sum being the elect of God.

Chosen before the foundation of the earth that they should be chosen as sons of God. And this is the doctrine of election as it corresponds to the doctrine of evangelism. We're commanded to tell all every person who has You know a human soul is to hear the gospel.

But of course not every human soul will receive the gospel only those who are chosen. And who received this gospel by faith? By grace through faith in Jesus Christ. These are the ones who inherit eternal life.

And so during Jesus's earthly ministry Christ says many times like in You know Luke 17. He says the kingdom of God is at hand this is a Urgent matter. God's kingdom is at hand. In Luke 17 20 and 21 Jesus says being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come he answered them.

The kingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed. Nor will they say look here it is or there for behold the kingdom of God is in the midst of you. Now this is a really fascinating text because Jesus is saying to the Pharisees who are asking for signs.

Everyone asks for signs, right? It's it's the natural thing to do. It's that we think the answer to our doubt is signs and Our brain is conditioned as such that we look for signs everywhere matter of fact.

I was watching a documentary or video on YouTube or something that talks about the human inclination to believe in conspiracy theories for instance and. And we and we love conspiracy theories because we love Connecting dots and when we see dots can be that can be connected our brain will automatically make those connections.

And so it is way more fantastical to believe that there was a coordinated you know dark an Agenda to kill JFK than it is to believe that the most powerful man on earth was killed by a lone gunman in Dallas, Texas.

Right. It's way more fantastical to believe that no it had to be more because the truth doesn't just it doesn't satisfy. It's not it's not Engaging it's not sexy enough, right? And it's easier and it's more fun to believe that there's a more nefarious Cause behind the death of the most powerful man on the earth like JFK.

Regardless of what you believe on the death of JFK. But our human minds have an inclination to quickly Ask for signs because when we see signs we connect the dots and And that's why Jesus is saying to them.

Listen, there's gonna be you're not gonna be able to connect the dots so easily. The kingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed. What do you think Jesus means by that? What does Christ mean by that it cannot the kingdom of God is not coming ways it can be observed.

Yeah, it's not gonna be so easily distinguishable. It's not gonna be like the you know, the kingdom of God is not coming on the you know, any second airborne or something it's not it's it's not gonna be as palpable as The coming of a regular kingdom so to speak.

Manuel you got something. No, okay. This is a great text for pre millennia for post-millennialism as well because a lot of folks use this text for that. But I would say that's also a good text for our millennialism because the kingdom of God is Like a mustard seed.

Jesus said that didn't he? He says the king of God was like a mustard seed. I think that's in Luke 11 and It's a mustard seed. It's very small. You know when I preach that I preached Before I became the pastor at the last church.

I was at I preached there and I preached on the mustard seed and. And someone a dear sister Came up to me afterwards and she gave me a little mustard tea. She carries him with her little mustard seeds.

It was super tiny. It's like like that small you could barely Hold it and she said I love your message. I want you to have this mustard seed to remind you I said, this is great. I love it. And a mustard seed is incredibly small.

I mean, it's smaller than a grain of rice. It's how small it is. It's so small out of that little mustard seed. Can grow something large and beautiful over, you know a tree a plant that's over nine feet tall out of that little tiny less than half a grain of rice and.

And that's the kingdom of God it's it's small it starts with 12. Then it grows to 70 then it grows 120 and it grows to 3 ,000 then 5 ,000 and here we are two millennia's later. Worshiping the God Jesus Christ.

Kind of amazing, isn't it? It's the mustard seed. It's the kingdom of God. It's not coming in ways that can be observed. But it's not gonna be like one that you can say look here it is or there or find like look there it is there's the building there's a cathedral there's a.

For behold the kingdom of God is in the midst of you. The kingdom of God's the midst of you that is to say God's kingdom is at work in the lives of believers. The kingdom of God is growing in the individual life of the believer.

That's amazing. This is powerful stuff here. So Jesus made it clear to the disciples that this disciple making work is a kingdom work and we're called kingdom citizens in the scriptures and our job is to infiltrate the kingdom of darkness and Build up the kingdom of God here on the earth.

And this is the fulfillment of the words of our Lord Jesus when he says in the he taught us how to pray Our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy what? Kingdom come. We get the privilege of being partakers in that work.

We get to be a part of seeing the fulfillment of God's kingdom coming on earth. That's our joy. That's our gift. Now the question is so now we know the what what is our mission it's the Great Commission.

The Great Commission is our Work it is our mission. Now the question is who is to share in the mission? Who's to share in this mission? Clergy Pastors who all Blood-bought believers in Jesus Christ fill the spirit are called to this work.

So if you're a Christian, guess what? This is your work. If you believe in Jesus, this is your work. If you go to church, this is your work. This is our this is our mission. And if we're not doing the mission, what does that make us?

Let's just be real blunt about it. What's that? Wimps. Yeah, that's one way to put a minute. Especially with D. That's that's a good word to think I'm a little bit of a different word. Disobedient. Disobedient now you're in the army Emanuel.

If what would it look like if you were disobedient to a commanding officer? What would be the consequences? Pretty serious then, huh? Pretty serious stuff and that's just with that's just the US Army.

Okay. And with pretty powerful force on the earth, right probably the most powerful force on the earth. But we're talking about the Lord Jesus Christ. We're talking about the Lord of glory. We're talking about the one who created all things and we would dare be derelict in his face.

We will dare to say to our King to our Redeemer the one who bought and purchased us with his own blood. And we would say to him. Oh, Lord, it's just not for me. We would dare be derelict in our duty to him.

When we would not do so to earthly forces to earthly powers, we wouldn't do that to our bosses. We wouldn't do it to the US military. But we somehow feel the freedom. To not be obedient to our master.

I don't get it. I don't get why we do that and It's something that that needs to Be uprooted in our lives so we can trust in Jesus and do as he commands us to do if you love me. He says you will do. You will keep my commandments.

You will keep my commandments. And so all blood-bought Christians are to partake in this work of ministry to partake in this sharing of the Great Commission and so By Jesus's enthronement as the risen King of God's Kingdom we are commissioned as kingdom proclaimers.

He's given us the marching orders. Here. It is Great Commission, Matthew 28. And he's given us a message and he's given us also an ambassadorship. We're ambassadors of God. Imploring them to repent and turn to King Jesus, but I can hear some of you already saying pastor I'm too shy.