Sermon Tone Analysis

Scripture Reading

John 20:19-20

I. Why did Jesus appear to His disciples

Over the last couple of weeks we have been talking about the authority that Jesus has given to the church pawned his Ascension to heaven.

So the question today is why did Jesus appear to his disciples to give them this Authority.

Why did Jesus feel it was necessary to give this Authority unto his disciples?

Jesus, did not come to assure them of his conquest of death and the triumph of his kingdom.

He has come also to instruct and prepare them for what lies ahead.

He was there to commission them, commission for what?

ome to assure them of his conquest of death and the triumph of his kingdom.

He has come also to instruct and prepare them for what lies ahead.

He was there to commission them, commission for what?

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John 20:21

Jesus is appeared to His disciples to give them authority, to continue the work His Father had sent Him to Start.

The mission which He had told them in the upper room, is now imminent and He has sets them apart for this very moment, as He commissions them.

The words here mirror his words in

these words mirror His words in

As the Father has sent me, I am sending you (21).

Echoing words uttered in his prayer before his passion (17:18), it also mirrors the ‘Great Commission.

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So, what is this mission?

Let’s Look at what scripture say

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To Do HIS will.

John 6:38-39

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2. To Speak HIS words

John 12:

3. To Perform HIS works

4. Win Salvation For All Who Believe

John 3

The disciples were sent to continue the words and works of Jesus.

It is seen in various places in the Gospel:

That the disciples were sent to continue the words and works of Jesus is foreshadowed at various places in the Gospel: Jesus urged them to lift up their eyes and see fields ripe for harvest, and told them he had sent them to reap where others had laboured (4:35–38), he said those who believed in him would do the works he had done and greater works than these because he was returning to the Father (14:12); he told them, ‘I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last’ (15:16), saying that when the Counsellor comes ‘he will testify about me.

And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning’ (15:26–27), and when he prayed for his disciples he said to the Father, ‘As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world’ (17:18).

This last text, which parallels 20:21, confirms that the sending of the disciples was ‘into the world’, i.e. with a mission to the world.

The other texts reveal the essential content of their mission was to ‘harvest’ men and women for the kingdom by their witness to Jesus by word and deed, alongside the ongoing witness of the Spirit.

Jesus urged them to lift up their eyes and see fields ripe for harvest, and told them he had sent them to reap where others had laboured

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He said those who believed in him would do the works he had done and greater works than these because he was returning to the Father

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he told them, ‘I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last’

he told them, ‘I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last’ (15:16), saying that when the Counsellor comes ‘he will testify about me.

And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning’ (15:26–27), and when he prayed for his disciples he said to the Father, ‘As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world’ (17:18).

This last text, which parallels 20:21, confirms that the sending of the disciples was ‘into the world’, i.e. with a mission to the world.

The other texts reveal the essential content of their mission was to ‘harvest’ men and women for the kingdom by their witness to Jesus by word and deed, alongside the ongoing witness of the Spirit.

John15:16

Saying that when the Counsellor comes ‘he will testify about me.

And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning’

saying that when the Counsellor comes ‘he will testify about me.

And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning’ (15:26–27), and when he prayed for his disciples he said to the Father, ‘As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world’ (17:18).

This last text, which parallels 20:21, confirms that the sending of the disciples was ‘into the world’, i.e. with a mission to the world.

The other texts reveal the essential content of their mission was to ‘harvest’ men and women for the kingdom by their witness to Jesus by word and deed, alongside the ongoing witness of the Spirit.

John15:26–27), and when he prayed for his disciples he said to the Father, ‘As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world’ (17:18).

This last text, which parallels 20:21, confirms that the sending of the disciples was ‘into the world’, i.e. with a mission to the world.

The other texts reveal the essential content of their mission was to ‘harvest’ men and women for the kingdom by their witness to Jesus by word and deed, alongside the ongoing witness of the Spirit.

And when he prayed for his disciples he said to the Father, ‘As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world’

John17:18).

This last text, which parallels 20:21, confirms that the sending of the disciples was ‘into the world’, i.e. with a mission to the world.

The other texts reveal the essential content of their mission was to ‘harvest’ men and women for the kingdom by their witness to Jesus by word and deed, alongside the ongoing witness of the Spirit.

This last text, which parallels 20:21, confirms that the sending of the disciples was ‘into the world’, i.e. with a mission to the world.

The other texts reveal the essential content of their mission was to ‘harvest’ men and women for the kingdom by their witness to Jesus by word and deed, alongside the ongoing witness of the Spirit.

The Mission to the church

While Jesus’ words about sending his disciples as the Father sent him applied primarily to the Twelve (), there is a sense in which all believers are privileged to share in this commission in so far as they all are recipients of the Spirit whom he bequeathed to his disciples.

The Spirit provides, each plays a part in continuing the work and witness of Jesus.

Several of the fundamentals of the church’s mission in every generation are expressed here.

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The importance of mission.

The key to the statement is the parallel it draws between the sending of Jesus into the world by the Father and the sending of the apostolic community into the world by the risen Son.

If the parallel holds good, then mission must have the same importance for the community as it had for Jesus.

In the latter case, as we have seen, the significance could not be greater.

In the Gospel of John, Jesus defines himself as the ‘sent one’;19 and correspondingly the Father is defined as ‘the Sender’.20 Thus the Godhead is defined in terms of mission.

Mission reaches back into the eternal relations of the Trinity in the dynamic inter-relationship of Sender and Sent.

The challenge is evident.

As Jesus is defined by the mission of the Father, so the church is defined by its mission to the world.

The same conclusion is arrived at by another route when we recognize that if God is in this sense a missionary God, the summons to be like him assumes a precise focus.

The degree to which individuals and churches are committed to mission, both locally and throughout the world, will be a measure of how God-like (or how godly) they are.

2. This commission of Jesus helps us understand the character of mission.

The tenses of the two verbs in the sentence are different.

The second verb is present: I am sending you; but the first is a perfect, which implies a past action continuing in the present: the Father has sent me.

What Jesus has in mind therefore is not a double mission, first Jesus’ mission and then afterwards our mission.

Rather it is one single action, the great movement of the missionary heart of God sending forth his Son into the world, initially through the incarnation, subsequently through his church.

The one mission of God has two phases: the first, that of the Son in his incarnate life; the second, that of the Son in his risen life through his people.21

‘The apostles were commissioned to carry on Christ’s work, and not to begin a new one.’22

He is in our midst as we go forth for him to the world!

This understanding of the missionary task carries implications.

It touches the issue of authority in our service.

Because Jesus’ mission continues through ours, our mission partakes of his divine authority.

We can compare the classical form of the commission: ‘all authority … has been given to me.

Therefore go … and I am with you’ ().

The presence of the exalted Lord is the authorization of our mission.

This is what ‘apostle’ means—one whom Jesus sends and accompanies.

In this sense the church in every age is an apostolic community and every Christian witness, sent and authorized by the risen and reigning one, belongs to the apostolate of the Lord.

Behind this Christian reality lies a Jewish model, the šālîaḥ or messenger.