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Matthew chapter 28 verse 19 go therefore and make disciples of all nations bapt baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

So much we could talk about here, so much we could pray based on just that one verse in the

Great Commission but I want us to pray based on one truth and what we just read that I think many people often miss.

So when Jesus says make disciples of all nations.

That is not a general command

to make disciples among as many people as possible.

No, that's a specific command to make disciples of all nations,

Pontataa Ethne, of all the ethnic groups, of all the ethnic groups of all the peoples of the world.

So Jesus has told us to go to every ethnic group,

every people group in the world, and make disciples there.

So what that means is if we are not working in our lives, our families, and our churches to take the

gospel to people groups, ethnic groups, places where the

gospel is not yet gone, then we are disobeying the Great Commission, disregarding what Jesus has told us to do here.

And the reason this is so important is because, well, we already in our lives and families and churches even in our churches

we spend so little on missions, taking the gospel to other places, but then even out of that which we spend

on missions, did you know that 90 plus percent of missions resources in North American

churches, so resources we're spending on missions are actually going to places in the world where

the gospel has already gone where churches have already been planted. Many churches

even Christians when we think about missions, we think all over Latin America,

we think all over Sub-Saharan Africa.

When the reality is, by God's grace,

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