The Great COMission Discipling the Nations

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The Great CO-MissionDiscipling the Nations

• Christ Announces His Reign

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Part 4 The Primary Mandate Disciple Nations

• Session 4.17 The GREAT CO-Mission Overview
• Session 4.18 Christ Announces His Reign
• Session 4.19 Reawakening the Cultural Mandate in
  the Great Commission
• Session 4.20 The Task Is for All Christians -
  Where They Are Deployed
• Session 4.21 The Primary Task -Make Disciples of
  All Nations!

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The Text

• Then Jesus came to them and said, All authority
  in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
• Matthew 28 18

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Outline

• The Setting of the Great Commission
• From Lamb to Lion
• The Rule of God on Earth/ KOG
• Concurrently Building Kingdoms High Tide at
  Midnight!
• The Three Dimensions of the Great Commission

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The Setting of the Great Commission
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Two Settings

• Read and identify the two settings of the Great
  Commission
• Matthew 28 16-17
• Matthew 26 36-46 (42)
• Colossians 1 15
• Matthew 28 5-6

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The Earthly Setting The Galilee
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The Cosmic Setting The Victor
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The Victor

• Written by
• Jamie Owens Collins
• Performed by Keith Green

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From Lamb to Lion

• The Suffering Servant is now the Conquering King

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Revelation 5 5-6

• 5 Then one of the elders said to me, Do not
  weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the
  Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open
  the scroll and its seven seals.
• 6 Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been
  slain, standing in the center of the throne,
  encircled by the four living creatures and the
  elders.

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The Throne of David

• Read the following texts. What do they reveal
  about Christ?
• Set 1 Psalm 2 6-7 Isaiah 9 6-7 45 22-23
• Set 2 Matt. 1 1, 17 Luke 1 32-33 Eph. 1
  22
• Set 3 Philippians 2 5-11 Revelation 17 14
  19 11-16

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The Summons to Galilee is the invitation to
Christs

• Coronation

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The Crown of Christ
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The Rule of God on Earth

• All authority in heaven and on earth has been
  given to me.
• Matthew 28 18

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Then Jesus Said

• All authority in heaven and on earth has been
  given to me.
• Questions
• 1) Of what is Christ the king?
• 2) What are the implications of this for us?

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Are you the king?

• Read John 18 33-37
• Questions
• What is Pilates question?
• How did Jesus respond?
• Why did Jesus come into the world?
• Is Christs kingdom from this world?

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The Kingdom for the World

• Jesus My kingdom is not of this world. If it
  were, my servants would fight to prevent my
  arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from
  another place.
• John 18 36

• N.T. Wright Its quite clear in the text that
  Jesus kingdom doesnt start with this world. It
  isnt a worldly kingdom, but it is for this
  world. Its from somewhere else, but its for
  this world.

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Jesus kingdom is already established in heaven!

• Now he will begin to establish his kingdom on
  earth.

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The Lords Prayer

• Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
  your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as
  it is in heaven.
• Give us today our daily bread.
• Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven
  our debtors.
• And lead us not into temptation, but deliver
  us from the evil one.
• Matthew 6 9-13

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As Jesus Announces His Reign

• He gives marching orders to his ambassadors
• He establishes the charter of his kingdom

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One and Many

• Trinitarian Social Order
• From every nation to every nation
• One kingdom many nations and ethnic groups
• Communion

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The Scope of Gods Agenda

• Read the following texts and describe the scope
  of Gods agenda.
• Genesis 1 26-27
• Genesis12 2-3
• John 3 16-17
• Colossians 1 20

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The Five Essentials of a Kingdom

• A king who rules
• Subjects those over whom the king rules
• A realm or territory over which the king rules
• Laws and Ordinances order of the kingdom
• The embassy of the king the envoys who
  represent the order of the kingdom

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Gods Holy Ordinances

• One desire has been the ruling passion of my
  life. That is in spite of all worldly
  opposition, Gods Holy ordinances shall be
  established again in the home, in the school, and
  in the State for the good of the people to
  chisel as it were into the conscience of the
  nation the ordinances of the Lord.
• Abraham Kuyper
• Prime Minister, Holland

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Freedom Is the Product of Order

• In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old
  age I stress order. I have made the great
  discovery that liberty is a product of order.

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Concurrently Building Kingdoms

• High Tide at Midnight

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Concurrently Building Kingdoms

• Read the following texts and describe what they
  reveal about the conflicting kingdoms.
• Set 1 Matthew 24 6-8 Revelation 6 1-8
• Set 2 Hebrews 11 10, 13-16 12 26-29
• Set 3 Malachi 3 2-4 Matthew 3 12 13
  24-26,30 1 Corinthians 3 12-13

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The Wheat and the Tares
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High Tide at Midnight!
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The Sacking of Carthage

• "All earthly cities are vulnerable. Men build
  them and men destroy them. At the same time there
  is the City of God which men did not build and
  cannot destroy and which is everlasting."Augusti
  ne, A.D. 410

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A Growing Kingdom

• Read the following texts. What do they reveal
  about the kingdom of God?
• Set 1 Daniel 2 35,44-45 7 27
• Set 2 Isaiah 9 6-7 Matt. 16 18 28 20 1
  Cor. 15 25-27 Rev. 11 15
• Set 3 Matthew 13 31-33

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The Three Dimensions of the Great Commission
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The Three Dimensions

• Read the following verses and describe each
  dimension of the Great Commission.
• Acts 1 8
• Matthew 28 19
• Mark 16 15

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The Great Commission

• GEO-GRAPHIC
• Acts 1 8 The Breadth Jerusalem ? Judea ?
  Samaria ? Ends of Earth
• DEMO-GRAPHIC
• Matt. 28 19 The Depth All ethnos (nations or
  people groups) penetrate culture
  
• KTIZO-GRAPHIC
• Mark 16 15 The Scope All Creation

KTIZOGRAPHIC is a construct of two Greek words
KTIZO, the root for KTISIS, meaning creature or
creation GRAPHO, meaning to describe or
delineate.
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Three Dimensions of the Great Commission
GEOGRAPHIC
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done
KTIZOGRAPHIC
DEMOGRAPHIC

• on earth as it is in heaven

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The Demographic Commissionpas ta ethne