The Great Condition...

Matthew 28:16-20 (NewInternational Version)

The Great Commission

¹⁶Then the eleven disciples went toGalilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. ¹⁷Whenthey saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. ¹⁸ThenJesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth hasbeen given to me. ¹⁹Therefore go and make disciples ofall nations, baptizing them in^[a] thename of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰andteaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with youalways, to the very end of the age."

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–noun

1.	the state or quality of being obedient.

2.	the act or practice of obeying; dutiful or submissivecompliance: Military service demands obedience from its members.

3.	a sphere of authority or jurisdiction, esp. ecclesiastical.

Chiefly Ecclesiastical.

a.	conformity to a monastic rule or the authority of areligious superior, esp. on the part of one who has vowed such conformance.

b.	the rule or authority that exacts such conformance

We are quick to reach the disconnected andsometimes slow in growing the connected. That is not because of churchleadership or anyone else around us, but rather, because of our individual unwillingnessto submit and obey and grow. In ourrecent posts we have been talking about purity and moving toward holiness. In Mathew 28, we read about Jesus charging usto go and making disciples, BUT we sometimes miss the rest of that sentence, “²⁰and teaching them to obeyeverything I have commanded you…” Didyou get that? Not only does He say to goand make disciples, but he says to teach them to obey everything that God hascommanded. We do that throughobedience. Through multiple exercises ofdiscipline in reading God’s word, praying and meditating and talking with Himdaily, hourly and whatever we need to do in order to stop beingdisobedient. Obedience will clearlybegin the process toward purity.