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THE COMMISSION
WEDNESDAY, JULY 8
Acts 1:8

Mark 16:15-16

 

“…Go ye into all the world,

and preach the gospel to every creature…”

 

THE COMMISSION
 
The disciples received the Great Commission and they fulfilled what was commissioned to them. The Apostles were charged to preach in God’s power and in God’s Name. As they were appointed as the Lord’s ambassadors, they must learn to renounce their reliance on their own strength and put all their trust in the power of God. What they needed for their missionary work was the power that comes from on high.
 
You shall receive power: The goodness of God is highlighted when He empowered His Apostles (as Jesus called this first batch of disciples). They were promised that it is He who will make them fishers of men. “But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning. Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained” (John 15:26-27, 20:21-23).
 
Ye shall be my witnesses: The word “witness” in Greek has the idea of martyrdom, as one who tells what he believes, even though it may result in his being killed for it. “And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things. And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high” (Luke 24:46-49). Am I empowered by God to be a witness for Him? Am I willing to risk my life for the gospel’s sake? Do I know that this is my commission as a blood-bought child of God?
 
THOUGHT: Am I fully surrendered to the power of God?
PRAYER: Father in heaven, help me to be faithful to Thy Great Commission and to go wherever Thou wantest me to go in order to preach the gospel to every creature.

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