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- Welcome to The Rapid Pull, Daily Edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. A verse that is very often misunderstood because, well, people don't always look at the context, but more look at the
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- Greek context. And so what do we have? In Matthew, chapter 28, verse 19 and 20, known as the
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- Great Commission, it says, Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
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- Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you.
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- Behold, I am with you always to the end of the age. So many people focus on that word go and make that the verb, as if that is the command of the
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- Great Commission. And what they don't know is that that isn't actually the imperative.
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- The imperative is the word make disciples. And so what we have here, the word go is more of an adverb.
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- The Great Commission is to make disciples because that is the imperative.
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- Now, sometimes when we look at context, we have to look at the context of the original languages.
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- And that will help us to understand the meaning of the text. So we should go, but the actual way this should be translated, because it's an adverb, because of the way it is in the
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- Greek, it should be going. It is an aorist present participle, and therefore it should say going make disciples.
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- In other words, as you go about your day, wherever you go, you should be making disciples. That's the
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- Great Commission. It's not about us going, it's about us making disciples.
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