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Matthew chapter 28, verse 19. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations,

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, 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, pontata 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, the gospel has gone all over Latin

America, all over sub-Saharan Africa. Yes, there are small pockets in these places, these regions

where the gospel is not yet gone, but for the most part, the gospel has gone, disciples have been made,

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