Last week we began to consider the first sentence of “The Great Commission”: “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth” (see Matthew 28:18). This is probably much more than we can even comprehend in this life. Even so, it is the foundation upon which the rest of the mandate is based, so we should seek to not only understand it, but to let it be a guiding principle of our lives. As we begin to comprehend this, we begin to understand the Apostle Paul’s statement in Romans 8:38-39:

          For I am...

         The first sentence in The Great Commission is the foundation upon which the rest of the mandate is based:

        “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth” (see Matthew 28:18).

          This was the core of the Lord’s entire message when He walked the earth and is the basic message of the kingdom. A kingdom is where a king’s authority is recognized. The kingdom of God is where the Lord’s authority is recognized.

          Grasping the depth of the Lord’s teaching and proclamations about His...

           As we began to cover last week, our basic mandate as Christians is recorded in Matthew 28:18-20:

“All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

“teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

          One of the tragic failures of Christianity has been the devotion to making converts...

          We are in the times of the beginning of a new epoch for Christianity. True apostolic Christianity is being restored to the earth. This will result in nothing less than the greatest manifestation of Christ on the earth since He Himself walked the earth.

          The last and greatest charge that the Lord gave to His disciples before His ascension was to fulfill “The Great Commission.” The single greatest failure of Christianity has been a devotion to making converts instead of making disciples. This has led to superficial Christians and superficial Christianity. This is about to change, and The...

         This can be our best year yet if it is one of increasing love for God and drawing near to Him. Nothing is more contagious than a person who is getting closer to God, and this is the greatest thing that we could ever do for our loved ones, drawing them to the ultimate human purpose—loving God and serving Him.

          Every year it seems that we say “good riddance” to the past year and turn with hope to the new year. If our hope is in the Lord and remains in Him, we will...