Go! - Matthew 28:16-20 - April 12, 2026

If you remember a few weeks back when we talked about some end we talked about the little apocalypse here in Matthew, and I said, I I'm not a big end times fan because most of the people that I've known in my life that are big into the end times totally ignore evangelism. It's all about knowing the end. It's all but this scripture right here tells me, like, if how often I don't know how often you've said it, but I've said, like, come lord Jesus. Like, we look around at this world and we see the nonsense going on. We see the wars. We see all the stuff. We see kids being abused. We see all this junk that doesn't make any sense and we just say, come lord Jesus. [01:01:11] (37 seconds)  #DontJustWaitShare

You want Jesus to come back? Start telling people the gospel. It's in black and white that the gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations and then the end will come. You wanna see Jesus come? Let's start spreading the gospel. Let's do tell people who Jesus is. Let's get the word out. Let's take it worldwide to every nation because he has that authority over every life and we see this play out as well in this next path in the next part of the passage. [01:01:49] (29 seconds)  #SpreadGospelWorldwide

And when they saw him, they worshiped him. And this verse for me is one of the proofs of the validity and the truth of scripture. Because if we were trying to tell a myth, if we were just trying to tell a tale to get people to believe in this Jesus who didn't really rise from the dead, who really wasn't who he said he was, those next three words wouldn't be in there, but some doubted. This is the honesty of scripture, and this is why I think scripture can be trusted because things like this are in it. Because if I'm trying to get you to believe a story that's not true, I'm not gonna let you think other people doubted it. [00:50:55] (38 seconds)  #HonestScriptureIncludesDoubt

Right? I'm gonna I wanna make you feel silly if you doubt what I'm telling you, if I'm trying to convince you of something that's not true. Right? If I'm trying to manipulate you into a belief that's not there. But for for the writers of the gospels to put this in there, they worshiped him but some doubted. For me, that just proves the validity of the scripture because here they are and also church, take comfort in this that doubts can be overcome. I think so often in the church, we treat doubts as a wall when they're really just a speed bump. [00:51:33] (31 seconds)  #DoubtIsASpeedBump

I mean, if if we have been so radically changed by Christ that we've went from death to life, should that not be the conversation we wanna have with everybody? Now we often equate it to if you had the cure for cancer, wouldn't you tell people? Well, the number one cause of death is sin, and we have the answer in Jesus Christ. Everyone's gonna die because of sin, and we have the answer to that through Jesus Christ for eternal life in the gospel. That should be the number one thing that we wanna tell people. [01:17:27] (42 seconds)  #GospelIsTheCure

And here's the best part of all this. That's why he tells them, all authority in heaven and earth has been given to me. So that means we go under his authority, not our own. So we're going in the name of Jesus Christ, not our own. He says, go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you and behold, I am with you always till the end of the age. So, here's the best part about the great commission is we don't go alone. He has told us to go but he is going with us. [01:16:00] (36 seconds)  #GoUnderHisAuthority

Now, throughout our life, as we grow closer to him, we have progressive sanctification. That is this discipleship process. But the thing is usually with discipleship, it doesn't happen by yourself. Right? So Jesus is telling his disciples, don't just go preach the gospel. Don't just go tell people who I am. Don't just go get a convert and move on to the next person. Go and teach people who I am. Live with these people. Show them who I am. Teach them who I am so that they can be more like me and disciples make disciples. [01:05:40] (32 seconds)  #DiscipleshipIsRelational

Why does he tell them to baptize them in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit? Well, one, he's telling them to baptize them in the trinity because that is an important part of this. The father, the son, and the holy spirit. Now I know the word trinity never appears in the in the scriptures, but there's the trinity right there. Because if not, then we get when we get to the epistles and Paul's talking about, like, well, you we were all baptized into Christ because people are arguing that Paul baptized me or Apollo's baptized me. This is this is a unifying factor that we are all baptized in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit because there is one church. [01:08:10] (39 seconds)  #BaptizedInTheTrinity