GO AND MAKE DISCIPLES--MATTHEW 28.18

ISAIAH 50.4 

The Sovereign Lord has given me a well-instructed tongue,

to know the word that sustains the weary. 

He wakens me morning by morning,

wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.

 

Romans 15.9-12

It is written:

I will praise you among the Gentiles; I will sing the praises of Your Name.

Rejoice, you Gentiles, with His people.

Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles; let all the peoples extol Him

The Root of Jesse will spring up, one who will arise to rule over the nations;

in Him the Gentiles will hope.

 

2 Corinthians 5.14-20 

For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all,

and therefore all died. 

And He died for all, that those who live

should no longer live for themselves

but for Him Who died for them and was raised again.

 

So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. 

Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: 

The old has gone, the new is here!

 

All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ

and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:

That God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ,

not counting people's sins against them.

And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

We are therefore Christ's ambassadors,

as though God were making His appeal through us.

We implore you on Christ's behalf: 

Be reconciled to God. 

 

 John 3.16   

For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son

That whosoever believes on Him

Should not perish

But have everlasting life.

 

Isaiah 50.4 promises unlimited provision--"everything we need for a godly life."  2 Peter 1. 2-4
  

Romans 15.9-12 expresses God's purpose in making us into "fishers of men," "salt and light," "witnesses," "makers and teachers of faithful men"--

To bring Gentiles from throughout the entire world

to faith in and faithfulness to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

 

2 Corinthians 5.14-20 tells of the source of energy, authority, and power given by the Holy Spirit to fulfill His purpose in and for our lives is the love of Christ.

John 15.1-17 tells how to receive all that God wants for us, which is exceedingly above, all that we can ask or think--great and mighty beyond anything we can imagine: 

 

"ABIDE IN ME."  JOHN 15.5,7-8