Weekly Pursuit – May 19, 2013-May 25, 2013
Verses:
Matt 28:19
Go therefore and disciple all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Matt 24:14
And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole inhabited earth for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
Ministry Excerpts:
The Lord’s present charge to us should be: go and teach the nations (cf. Matt. 28:19) that the present age may be consummated (24:14). In order to take the Lord’s charge, we must keep the oneness. We must have the one accord. If we lose the oneness and the one accord, we are finished as far as the Lord’s move is concerned…
We should only go to teach the divine truths. We should teach people about God. We should tell them how the eternal God is triune and how He is perfect and complete as love, light, holiness, and righteousness. Then we can go on to teach them God’s economy. In God’s economy, He desires to have man as His expression. Thus, He created the heavens for the earth, the earth for man, and man with a spirit to receive Him as life. We need to teach people God’s economy, God’s desire, God’s plan, God’s purpose. We also need to teach people God’s dispensing. We need to tell them how God wants to dispense Himself in His element and essence into our being to make Himself one with us.
We should also teach people about the wonderful process through which the Triune God has passed in order to dispense Himself into us. He was incarnated and lived a human life on earth for thirty-three and a half years. In His living we can see the divine attributes and the human virtues. He went to the cross and died an all-inclusive death to deal with Satan, the world, sin, the flesh, the old man, the old creation, and the ordinances. Through His death, on the positive side, He released the divine life and entered into resurrection. In His resurrection, we were resurrected with Him. He became the firstborn Son, and we, through regeneration by Him and with Him, became God’s many sons as the members of Christ to constitute His Body. We need to teach people all of these things.
The World Situation and God’s Move (Chap 3)