HELEN REDMAN, PRESIDENT
NEWSLETTER
May 2008
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It is significant to note that Christ’s greatest commission to His disciples was given shortly after His resurrection. When He arose from the grave it was an inspired hour which signified final victory after death, hell and the grace. Jesus stood in full triumphant power. His presence radiated a sense of “mission accomplished” for He had fulfilled the commission received from His Father. Now He must perform one final act. He must commit to His disciples their SUPREME COMMISSION. During the forty days following His resurrection, Jesus shifted the attention of the disciples from a very small religious community to a vast unknown heathen world. This briefly-trained, insignificant group faced the challenge of focusing the attention of the whole world upon the risen Christ. As each disciple pondered just how this great task would be accomplished, Jesus spoke. “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature...and these signs shall follow them that believe.” This work “go”, was an imperative command and carried a sense of urgency that no previous commission contained. While the word, “ye” is very personal. At the same time it includes every believer in its all-encompassing scope. The two previous commissions of Christ, recorded in Matthew 10 and Luke 10 were limited to twelve men and then to seventy. In contrast, the great post-resurrection commission was limitless—-it extended to all believers giving them power and authority over all the power of the enemy. We have a lot to live up to today, for the evangelization of the world is still the direct responsibility of every believer. The post-resurrection commission, “Go…” is not optional, but rather it is an imperative command. Every Christian must find a way individually and in co-operation with others to carry the message of the Kingdom of God to all the world. If we take this commission seriously, as Christ intended, this challenge will not only transform our individual lives, but it will also bring every segment of the church into a major revelation. Yes, a revelation is needed in the Church. This is made evident by the fact that the knowledge of Christ is not found in the market places of the world. The Church has unquestionably lost sight of its divine purpose. When believers submerge their individual purposes and begin to bend every effort to fulfill the great post-resurrection commission in making Christ known to all people, then the Church will fulfill its true mission in the world. Every year thousands and thousands of Indian pilgrims, Hindus by religion, make their way to the Ganges River to pay homage to the sacred waters. They cash their rupees into small coins and scatter them to the heathen gods along the way. Holy men sit with cow dung on their foreheads, cross legged, with closed eyes, praying to whatever God they are taught to believe in. Paul put it in graphic terms when he said, “Having no hope and without God in this world.” May the words of Jesus ring in our ears, “I must do the work of Him that sent me while it is day, for the night is coming when no man can work.” Would you pray that God would raise up people at home and abroad to get involved in this great commission? Only 120 people were in the Upper Room when God moved in new spiritual dimensions. They changed their generation. If God’s people in our generation can get their priorities straightened out, it can be done again. cc |
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