ARE WE FULFILLING THE GREAT COMMISSION?

If our limited time and energy are not spent preaching the message about the coming Kingdom of God, which plants the seed of the Kingdom into the hearts and minds of people, that hopefully will cause them to repent and be baptized, dying to self, and becoming “new creations” in the lord Messiah Jesus-Yeshua, we are not doing what Jesus-Yeshua has commanded us to do.

We are to be good stewards of what the lord Messiah Jesus- Yeshua has commanded us to accomplish. As the slaves of the lord Messiah Jesus-Yeshua, we are given stewardship over what he has given us physically and what he has given to us spiritually. Remember, you have been bought with the shed blood of the lord Messiah Jesus- Yeshua when he offered himself up to his God and Father Yehovah as a sin-offering sacrifice, which allowed Yehovah to reconcile [bring back] humanity to Himself!

If we are not teaching people the Kingdom message that Jesus taught and if we are not sharing the importance of that message and calling them to obey everything that he taught and preached, then we are not carrying out the Great Commission to preach about the coming Kingdom of God to the world. If we don’t do that, we are failing to follow Jesus' commands, we are failing to be a follower of the lord Messiah Jesus. Remember, faith and obedience go hand in hand, as James said: "Faith without works is dead"!

Scripture tells us that truth saves. Jesus said that his words are spirit and life. If this is so, why do the churches of Christendom not preach the truth about the only true God- Yehovah (John 17:3)? Why do they preach the lie of a triune god, that is blasphemy.  Why do they preach Jesus as a god-man, which is a lie and is based on paganism and Greek philosophy?

Christendom follows the traditions that have been handed down by the Catholic Church since the Council of Nicaea, 325 A.D., and the Council of Constantinople, 381 A.D., and the other Councils that followed.

The book of Acts states that when people heard the preaching and teaching of the message about the coming Kingdom of God, they chose to believe what they heard and were moved to repent, obey, and become followers of the lord Messiah Jesus- Yeshua. If the churches in Christendom preached that message today, their congregation would grow instead of depleting.

Our goals and utilization of our time, energy, and finances must be aligned with the great commission that Jesus gave us to preach the message of the Kingdom of God to the world.

When we have been faithful to Jesus' great commission, then the called-out assemblies will grow; but he told us, there will be few. Most people will reject what is being preached about the coming Kingdom of God. A few people will listen, but of those, only a few will be willing to follow the lord Messiah Jesus-Yeshua and obey the words his God and Father Yehovah gave to him to give to the world. That is the message about the kingdom of God, which is the salvation message. Those who do, we must continue teaching what Jesus taught to strengthen them in their faith and encourage them to endure. The called-out assemblies must feed and protect the sheep in the fold.

We must look and sound like the lord Messiah Jesus- Yeshua! What we need is to become more mature as we grow in our faith, experiencing doing what Jesus- Yeshua has commanded us to do! That is how the lord Messiah Jesus- Yeshua’s disciples grow in faith and service.

Look at the called-out assemblies as temples of God- Yehovah and their missions as an extension of who they represent, taking the message of the coming Kingdom of God to the world. Listen to the lord Messiah Jesus-Yeshua and evaluate, from time to time, whether we are obeying his commands, rather than our own agenda. We will be much better stewards if we do so. We must strive to seek first the Kingdom [Kingship] of God- Yehovah (Matthew 6:33).

Will we hear, "Well done, good and faithful servant," when the lord Messiah Jesus- Yeshua returns and we appear before him, or will he be asking for an account of how we used the "talents" that we were given to cause the message of the Kingdom of God to go out to the whole world?

We must not compromise in any way, and think we are following the lord Messiah Jesus- Yeshua if we are not obeying what he commanded his followers to do.

There is one faith (the faith of Jesus- Yeshua). There is one hope (the coming Kingdom of God). And there is one baptism (baptism-immersion in water, Acts 2:38; 8:12).

As 1 Peter 3:20-21 says, a few were delivered through water, speaking of Noah's deliverance from the flood. This prefigured baptism, which now saves you - not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience to God- Yehovah - through the resurrection of the lord Messiah Jesus- Yeshua.

If we have been baptized, let us pledge daily to follow he lord Messiah Jesus- Yeshua by following his great commission, to preach the message of the Kingdom of God to the whole world!