Go Therefore and Make Disciples

[Christsfreeservant]

“And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, ‘All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.’” (Matthew 28:18-20 NASB1995)​

Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, who is God, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – had just been put to death by his enemies on a cross, and he had just been resurrected from the dead, and he appeared to his disciples and to many other people over a period of 40 days, I believe, before he ascended back to heaven to be with God the Father, and then to send his Holy Spirit to indwell the lives of his followers.

But while he was still on the earth, after he had been resurrected from the dead, he spoke these words to his disciples, but not just for the 11 who were left, for this is a commission for all of us who follow Jesus Christ with our lives in repentance and in walks of obedience to our Lord. For we, too, are his disciples, and we are to be those who are the light of the world and the salt of the earth who proclaim the excellencies of God who delivered us out of our slavery to sin and who gave us new lives in him to be lived for him.

But in order for us to go and make disciples of Christ of people of all the nations, in today’s world, we are not all going to go physically to all these nations. Some of us go with the gospel to many nations via the internet, where God has placed us to share his gospel and the truth of his word. And so we are not going to be able to physically baptize all those who believe in Jesus, either. But all of us are to be teaching the people that, as followers of Christ, we must be those who obey our Lord and his commands.

So many people today, though, who claim that they are making disciples of Christ of people, are not teaching them that they must obey our Lord and his commands for us who are under the New Covenant. And so many are not being taught that they must deny self, die to sin daily, and walk in obedience to our Lord as part of what it means to believe in Jesus Christ, to know God, to be forgiven of our sins, and to have eternal life with God in heaven.

But this is essential that we teach this. For many people are making verbal professions of faith in Jesus Christ, but their lives are not changing. Many are continuing on a sinful course, still doing what their sinful hearts desire, and who are not obeying the Lord. But the Scriptures teach that we must die to sin and obey God, for if sin is still what we practice, and not obedience to our Lord, then we do not have the hope of salvation from sin nor of eternal life with God, for we don’t really know God, and Jesus is not our Lord.

“Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts.. Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?.. resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.” (Romans 6:12,16,22)​

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

Seek the Lord

Based off Isaiah 55
Musical Instrumentation by Mark Bradley
An Original Work / July 20, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

“Come to Me all you who thirst; come to waters.
Listen to Me, and eat what’s good today,
And your soul will delight in richest of fare.
Give ear to Me, and you will live.
I have made an eternal covenant with you.
Wash in the blood of the Lamb.”

Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him.
Let the wicked forsake his way, in truth.
Let him turn to the Lord, and he will receive mercy.
Freely, God pardons him.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,”
declares the Lord, our God.

“My word that goes out of My mouth is truthful.
It will not return to Me unfulfilled.
My word will accomplish all that I desire,
And achieve the goal I intend.
You will go in joy and be led forth in peace.
The mountains will burst into song… before you,
And all of the trees clap their hands.”

Go Therefore and Make Disciples
An Original Work / July 8, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love