Here on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall recently started a biographical study on the life and ministry of Jesus called The Greatest Life of All.

And over the next couple of programs, he'll bring this comprehensive 20-part series to a close.

In doing so, Chuck invites us to contemplate the last conversations

that Jesus held with his followers. His words, his commands, his encouragement,

ignited a revolution that we experienced to this very day.

In message number 19, Chuck takes us to the very spot where Jesus delivered his great

commission. Chuck titled his message,

Challenged by Jesus on the Mountain.

I want to read for you from two sections of the New Testament.

Both have to do with the great commissions seen through different eyes.

The first is at the end of the gospel by Matthew,

Matthew 28 beginning at verse 16 and then if you'll hold your place there and

locate the book of acts, chapter one. We'll read a section there in the

center of that. Acts one, but first, let's look at Matthew chapter 28, verse 16.

But the 11 disciples proceeded to Galilee to the mountain which Jesus had designated.

And when they saw him, they worshipped him.

But some were doubtful. 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. And over in the book of acts, chapter one, let's begin at verse six, same setting

seen through different eyes. And so when they had come together, they were asking him saying, Lord, is it at this time

you are restoring the kingdom to Israel. He said to them,

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