The Commands Of Jesus - Part 1 Series

Matthew 28:18-20

18. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

19. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

20. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

The Great Commission has three different categories for fulfillment. They are:

• Go

• Baptize

• Teach

INTRODUCTION

I. Go

A. Nothing happens without movement!

1. Jesus sent the seventy out, and they “went.” (They were essentially the advance teams for Jesus’ ministry)

Luke 10:1 After these things, the Lord appointed other seventy also and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.

2. Jesus explained the need for workers in the harvest field of souls.

Luke 10:2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.

3. Luke 10:17 – The result, they came back saying, “Even the devils are subject to us in your name.”

B. Across the Street and Around the World

1. Jesus commanded us to go into the highways and the byways. – Luke 14:23 (The Great Banquet Invitation – A Type of our invitation to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb)

2. The empowerment to witness had a domino effect. – Acts 1:8

• Jerusalem – Our Hometown

• Judea – Our Region

• Samaria – Our Nation

• Uttermost parts of the world – Global Evangelization

C. The New Testament Church had two headquarters

1. Jerusalem – Headquarters for the start-up of the Church and the Jewish people. (Apostle Peter – Acts 1-12)

2. Antioch of Syria – Global Headquarters (Apostle Paul – Acts 13-28 and beyond)

• Question 1: What if the early Apostles had refused to “Go?”

• Question 2: Who is waiting for us to leave the comforts of our modern facilities and “Go?”

II. Baptize

A. The baptism of Jesus (John 1:29-34) provided key turning points in the (1) Proclamation of the Gospel, and the (2) Formation of the Church.

1. The “Head of the Church” and the “Central Figure of Humanity” was making His grand entrance into humanities marketplace of religious ideas as “The Way, The Truth, and the Life!” – John 14:6

B. Jesus commanded us to baptize new believers in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

1. In the book of Acts, we see the Apostles baptizing new believers regularly.

C. Water Baptism is a testimony to the world that we are dead to our old ways and are walking in the “newness of life.”

Romans 6:4 Therefore, we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so, we also should walk in newness of life.

III. Teach – The Command of Jesus to “Teach” is also part of the Great Commission.

A. The Commands of Jesus must be taught! “Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.”

B. The Commands of Jesus Center around the Great Commandment and parallel the Ten Commandments.

Matthew 22:37-40

37. Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38. This is the first and great commandment.

39. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

40. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

1. The first five commandments parallel the First Great Commandment, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.”

Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21

• You shall have no other Gods before me

• You shall not make for yourselves an idol

• You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God

• Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy

• Honor your father and mother

2. The second five commandments parallel the Second Great Commandment, “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21

• You shall not murder

• You shall not commit adultery

• You shall not steal

• You shall not give false testimony

• You shall not covet

3. Even Jesus said so, “On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”