Commission

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0:00 Okay, so today we're going to think about Matthew chapter 28 starting at verse 16 where he says, Now the 11 disciples went to Galilee to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them and when they saw him they worshiped him but some doubted and Jesus came and said to them, All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations by baptizing them name of the Father, the Son,

0:31 and the Holy Spirit and teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you and behold I am with you always to the very end of the age. I'm here with Carol and Brian Carlson, maybe you heard of him and I like the way they think about scripture and so I asked them what questions do they have when they hear that great commission. Questions. Or what does it make you think of? Yeah, it makes me think of where do I go? Where do you go? Yeah, like he wants he says go all to all the places.

1:06 Oh, right. Dude, do I go somewhere? Did you be going somewhere? Do I need to go somewhere? Yeah, I've been a lot of places because I want some instructions but that's just it. That's the instructions. Make disciples. I think it's become more localized the older I get and the more settled into a place that I get living life and sharing Jesus with people.

1:40 Yeah, I think it's a good question from that text. Where should we go? Yeah. That's good. Brian wants to make you think of the. I wonder, you know, all throughout it the disciples are kind of bumbling along and doing things right and then doing things wrong. I'm like, what does worship look like when you don't know what's going on? You're just kind of, they make some mistakes on the way. They're pretty big ones and even at the end right when the verses about to die and so it's

2:12 kind of interesting idea of I'm always thinking that that in the back of my mind about the disciples of getting it right. And they're not getting it right or they're doing things that are just like, oh man, not the thing to be doing right now. And then how does worship look? You know, how did that look to them? Because I think they're, sometimes their realization was the king, you know, the worldly kid, the guy who's going to overthrow the Romans. Yeah, the quote you're saying the question makes you think of is like, what did worship

2:44 look like for them when they were getting it wrong and they didn't understand? Yeah, the whole time, they kind of got it, but they really, I don't think they largely got it. Yeah. It feels like. No, I agree. I mean, even there it says some of them believed and some of them doubted and they're going to see the resurrected Jesus on the hill of Galilee. And some, it's not just Judas. Like we can't just be like, well, that's the one guy. Judas was there. Yeah. Yeah. So it was not Judas. Yeah.

3:15 So it's like, I don't know about this. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think it's interesting that certainly they didn't know where to go because they go back to Jerusalem and then they wait until they're persecuted to go anywhere. And some of them believed and some of them doubted and Jesus gives them the commission anyway. All of you. Yeah, all of them. And so they don't need to know where to go. They don't need to have perfect faith and God will still work in the world through

3:48 them. So it's encouraging to think he might find a way to work through me then in the world. Yeah. Yeah. Even if I take the wrong, what I think is the wrong step. Yes. Yeah. Yep. Cool. That was good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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