Commissioned Together: Overcoming Doubt to Make Disciples

Always. Always to the end of the age. Always. And that always is actually three words in Greek. of the days that we put together and make the word always. I am with you, Jesus says, all the days, all the time, always. I am not sending you out alone. with you. I put my spirit upon you. Go and share this good news, and I will act. I will work. I'll be at work in you and through you. That helps, doesn't it? That helps, doesn't it? [00:52:58] (49 seconds)  #AlwaysWithYou

The rest of these, they've got their act together. I'm the screw up. But Jesus looks at the doubters and he says, I am sending you. Why? Because you are my children. Why? Because I've saved you. And you, y'all, are saved by grace and sent to share good news. Amen? Amen. [00:57:07] (27 seconds)  #SavedAndSent

He is risen from the grave. We're not just going to see a great prophet. This is our God that we are going to spend time with, and it just doesn't seem appropriate what it says then. Here in verse 17, it says, and when they saw him, they worshiped him. That's appropriate. Right? To bow down and worship the savior who has risen from the grave and has overcome your sin. But then it says, but some doubted. [00:39:11] (24 seconds)  #WorshipAndDoubt

Also, notice that he didn't address their doubts. He didn't say, you three, I want you to stay after class. I'm gonna send the rest of these people down the mountain. Y'all go ahead and get started making disciples. I'm gonna deal with the doubters for a little while. He commissioned all of them. The ones who were sure and ready to roll, and the other ones who weren't too sure were looking at themselves and going, I might not be enough. I really think what they were doubting is the fact that they had screwed up so badly. [00:55:44] (28 seconds)  #SentDespiteDoubt

What's he trying to do? Put doubt in her mind about who God is and what God really said. And that's the way he's been working throughout history, and it's the same thing he did to those disciples, and it's the same thing he does to us. Did God really say that? And if it that doesn't work, I think he shifts it just a little bit, and he goes like this. Did God really say that to you? [00:41:04] (26 seconds)  #DidGodReallySay

It's these words like, he didn't mean you. When he was telling you to go share good news, he doesn't mean you because you are too big of a screw up. Remember that thing that you did? The rest of these Christians, they can do it. They've got their acts together, but you are a mess. You have made mistake after mistake after mistake. And I want you to watch in this text what Jesus does. Because here's the thing, Jesus knows that some of them are doubting. [00:42:26] (31 seconds)  #YouAreSentToo

And I'm convinced more than anything, what Satan loves to have is people who do not believe in Jesus. Because if you don't believe in Jesus and you die, he gets you. But if he can't have that, then what he wants to do to follow as a Christ is create doubt in your heart to shut you up. Because the next best thing to someone who doesn't believe in Jesus is someone who believes in Jesus, but doesn't talk about it. And I think the number one thing that does that to us is doubt. [00:41:55] (32 seconds)  #SatanLovesSilence

People, I have been in this book for a long time. I've been through it cover to cover many times in my life. I've studied every book of this bible in different levels, and yet, I am continually blown away when I'm studying it going, I've never seen that before, Or it's never hit me like that before, because this word is alive and it is active. And one of the things I believe Satan works on us again and again is he says to you, yeah, but you don't know enough. [00:49:59] (32 seconds)  #ScriptureIsAlive