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Good morning!

I hope everyone is doing great this morning!

Let me first thank you all for the opportunity to go and be poured into at the pastors conference last week, I can assure you every time I am able to go God speaks fresh and new into my heart and it kind of refocuses me and gets me back on track so I thank you.

Let’s go to the Lord in prayer and then we will get started.

(pray)

We are in our 4th week on the six things every Christians needs to start, and master during there time here on Earth, if they want to feel the excitement and the joy that comes from following the Lord Jesus during their time here on Earth.

This morning were going to look at Discipleship: making Jesus’ final words our top priority.

Jesus called a meeting, that meeting is recorded for us in .

We know it as the great commission it is the only meeting Jesus ever called between His resurrection and His ascension to Heaven, He only called one meeting.

He had a number of meetings but He only scheduled one.

3 groups attend this meeting that He called:

Matthew 28:16

So the 11 disciples are at the meeting.

That is minus Judas.

So

says that more than 500 brethren attended the meeting, the 11 are part of the 500 so about 489 that attended this meeting on the mountain.

Theres a third group that attends the meeting because

Well the age has not yet ended so you and I are at the meeting, so since weve been invited to the meeting why don’t we mosey on up the mountain and find out what all this meeting is about and how it applies to you and me.

Were told in verses 17 of

Some had questions, questions about Him, questions about the resurrection, questions about thier new responsibility, questions about the establishment of the church.

THEY HAD QUESTIONS, and wouldnt you if you had seen someone die a horrific death and now He is standing on a mountain top speaking to you?

But their questions didn’t keep em home, their questions brought them out.

Because it says that they came and worshipped with questions, with doubts.

Perhaps your here today and youve got questions, questions about our world, questions about your family, questions about your faith.

But your questions didn’t keep you home they brought you out.

So did theirs.

After this mountaintop worship service was over after the prayers were prayed and the songs were sung.

Jesus steps to the podium and this is what He says in verse 18.

Matthew 28:18

Translation: “I’m in charge now” I’m not only in charge up there “Heaven” I’m in charge down here Earth.

I’m not only in charge in Heaven I’m also in charge History.

I’m not only in charge in eternity, I’m also in charge in time.

ALL AUTHORITY so there is nothing that sits outside of my Kingdom Rule NOTHING NO ONE.

The word authority is an interesting word because there are a number of Greek words that can be translated authority, the main one in the NT is the word sunamis which is where we get our word for dynamite.

IT means explosive power.

But thats not the word used here the word that is used here is the word:

ἐξουσίαf, ας f: the power to do something,

It means authorized use of power.

It means not only does he have the strength to do anything, He also has the right to use that power in anyway He so chooses.

He says to them I am in charge and with that He issues a commission there are 5 commissions in the NT (Matt, Mark, Luke,John, and Acts) but this one is called the great one.

Because this is the only one that uses this command, “MAKE DISCIPLES” that’s the command its an imperative its not a request its a command.

Don’t just make converts, dont just make Christians, MAKE DICIPLES.

So that raises a question:

What is a Disciple?

A Disciple is a man or a woman, who is consistently operating under the rule of Jesus Christ in his or her life.

A Disciple is not merely a person who has accepted Christ to go to Heaven, a disciple is also one that get’s to experience Heaven coming to them on Earth.

A disciple is a man or woman who is consistently living under Christ’s rule in thier decision making.

It means I don’t just come and sing about Jesus on Sunday, it means when my feet hit the floor I realize that my plans are subject to His plans.

MY life is not my own, I was bought with a price and I have a relationship to cultivate because I have a God who wants to meet with me and because He is my Lord and my master HE GETS DIBBS ON ME.

Discipleship is to come under the rule of God in your decision making.

To consistently apply that across every area of your life.

As you increasingly make decisions through the filter of what the Lord says about issues you face, you are increasingly becoming a disciple.

As you decrease in your decision making without asking Christ what He would have you do, you are decreasing in your ability to be a disciple, even though you may be a Christian, because Discipleship is consistently operating under the rule of God.

Being a disciple is first knowing Christ let’s talk for a brief moment about that.

“Do you know Christ?”

gnosis- to know by experience

So the better way to ask is this: ARE YOU EXPERIENCING CHRIST?

This type of knowledge is the same type of knowledge to people who grew up together might have but its deeper than that.

It describes a deep inner knowledge that comes through deep meaningful time spent with one another.

You see this type of relationship when you witness two men who fought with one another overseas and they havent seen each other in years and they see each other after a long time and they rejoice even unto tears because of the deep bond they share through thier time spent with one another.

(two older men)

“He lives, He lives....”

Listen to me when you get to Heaven there not going to be any BIBLE TRIVIA because being a disciple hasn’t got to do with how many odd facts you know about the Bible or how many sermons you heard.

Jesus either knows you or He doesnt know you.

Either you are experiencing Him or you are robbing yourself of the Joy and power that comes from being His disciple.

Some of you in this room if I were to ask you if you were a CHjristian you would tell me yes and you would probably be telling the truth.

But if I asked you if you were a disciple of Jesus what would your answer be?

ARE YOU EXPERIENCING THE PRESENCE OF KING JESUS?

ARE YOU CONSISTENTLY COMING UNDER THE RULE OF CHRIST IN YOUR DECISION MAKING?

The idea of Discipleship is to have transferred to your mindset, and to your life the thought process of Jesus applied on the fiedl of play, as it has been recieved from the Kingdom above.

As we do that in EVERY decision we make, we reflect Jesus’ thoughts decisions and actions in our everday life and experience.

The problem today is not that we don’t have enough Christians the probelm today is that Christ doesn’t have enough disciples.

He has people who will go to church, but not people who will make consitently their decisions underneath His rule.

“All authority under Heaven and Earth has been given under me and I want you to MAKE DISCIPLES”

When I was a young believer I used to order Cd’s of preachers who did series on different subjects.

A CD ministry, or even a youtbue ministry, or facebook live ministry is a vital way to reach people who may never step foot in a church but they can be reached by the truth of God’s word reaching them where they are.

Our church used to do Cd’s for our shutins Gene Kirkland started that before I even got here, but over the years and two cd burners burnt up.

We havent done it in awhile.

Heres how this cd burner works.

I get up Sunday morning at our church and I preach a sermon and its recorded on the master CD, then we take that master Cd and place it in a master duplicater, and this machine has 10 drives called slave units these slave units make copies of the master.

So 10 can be run off at a time in a few minutes and then they are mailed to people who need them.

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WHAT PEOPLE GET IN THE MAIL IS A COPY OF THE MASTER, THEY DONT GET THE MASTER, BUT THEY GET A COPY OF THE MASTER IS SO MUCH LIKE THE MASTER THAT IT MIGHT AS WELL BE THE MASTER EVEN THOUGH ITS NOT THE MASTER BECAUSE IT REFLECTS THE MASTER.

What God is looking for is copies of the master, were not the master.

All authority has been given to Jesus Christ but He wants to spill out on us, and make us copies of Him so that our decision making will reflect His decision making.

WE ARE MADE TO REFLECT JESUS CHRIST!!

He said make disciples, why is it important that you and I not merely accepting Jesus as Savior to go to Heaven, but also following Jesus Christ as Lord?

Because ONLY disciples get to share His authority… remember?

ALL AUTHORITY HAS BEEN GIVEN TO ME NOW MAKE DISCIPLES

HE wants us to make disiples so that we can share in His authority with Him.

I remember years ago I was working security for Florida State football games, I worked down on the field level for one game.

I remember the officer who I was coupled with taking through doors I never knew existed in the football stadium, we didnt have to fight through crowds to get down to the feild we rode an elevator and then out next to the locker room closer than any fan could get.

I met Bobby Bowden and we had a nice exchange and I remember thinking man this is awesome!

Now I was a security guard but if I had walked down there by myself I wouldnt have even been listened to, but since I was with the officer who carried the clearance into those levels of the stadium we were able to enter areas unseen by most common fans, not because of who I was but because of who He was.

I was able to benefit from the rights and privelages that belonged only to him.

I walked to the center of the field for the coin toss, stood there alongside Ernie Sims, Nigel Bradham and other players I thought highly of, I remember standing there as the ABC cameras were swirling over our heads what the heck am I doing here, I probably look like a fool surrounded by all these people.

All of those things I will never forget and they all happened because of the person I was walking with.

GUESS WHAT JESUS SAYS:

BE MY DISCIPLE AND YOUR WITH ME, THAT THE RIGHTS AND PRIVELEGES I I POSSESS YOU CAN PIGGY BACK ON.

Jesus says “Make Disciples” because disciples get to share in authority and all authority belongs to ME.