Grace for the Race (Matthew 6:19-20)
The greatest desire in the heart of God is that all neb sgould come to the knowlege of God but the big question is: Will you “arise and go?”
If you are a student of the Bible, you would have long doscovered that God had only one Son and He was a foreign missionary.
– This Jesus left a holy place and came down to a hellish place;
– He left a blessed place to come to a broken place;
– He left a sanctified place to come to a sinful place;
– He left his crown in heaven to be lifted up on a cross on a Calvary’s hill.
In the Gospel narratives, Jesus lived with sinners and saints and in death at Calvary, He hung between two thieves. When the one on the right received Him and the one on the left rejected Him, Jesus became the “link” between those who choose righteousness and those who choose unrighteousness and the cross became the greatest moral intersection of all time. Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross of Calvary gave humanity the opportunity to go to heaven and to live forever and when He was about to ascend to heaven, He pronounced the Great Commission
In Matthew 28:18-20 and Mark 16:15-18, Jesus commissioned His disciples to evangelize the whole world. They were called to make disciples, not decisions. Their accomplishments were not to be measured by “counting,” but by “conversions” and all through the first century, the New Testament Church evangelized their world for Christ.
Today, the command behind the great commission is still in force. As believers, we have all been called into the race and God’s grace is available in every place and to every race.
Regardless of the level of your leadership in your local church, regardless of your age and position in the society, the command is to “arise and go.” and as I sign off this week, the question begging for an answer is: Will you “arise and go?”
Tunde Igbode
Resident Pastor If you are a student of the Bible, you would have long doscovered that God had only one Son and He was a foreign missionary.
– This Jesus left a holy place and came down to a hellish place;
– He left a blessed place to come to a broken place;
– He left a sanctified place to come to a sinful place;
– He left his crown in heaven to be lifted up on a cross on a Calvary’s hill.
In the Gospel narratives, Jesus lived with sinners and saints and in death at Calvary, He hung between two thieves. When the one on the right received Him and the one on the left rejected Him, Jesus became the “link” between those who choose righteousness and those who choose unrighteousness and the cross became the greatest moral intersection of all time. Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross of Calvary gave humanity the opportunity to go to heaven and to live forever and when He was about to ascend to heaven, He pronounced the Great Commission
In Matthew 28:18-20 and Mark 16:15-18, Jesus commissioned His disciples to evangelize the whole world. They were called to make disciples, not decisions. Their accomplishments were not to be measured by “counting,” but by “conversions” and all through the first century, the New Testament Church evangelized their world for Christ.
Today, the command behind the great commission is still in force. As believers, we have all been called into the race and God’s grace is available in every place and to every race.
Regardless of the level of your leadership in your local church, regardless of your age and position in the society, the command is to “arise and go.” and as I sign off this week, the question begging for an answer is: Will you “arise and go?”
