Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

The title of our post today is In the Beginning.

The charismatic and Jesus people movements occurred simultaneously.

I've always considered them as two parts of one revival.

Recently, I've been sharing a few posts highlighting some of the

weaknesses of these movements to assist us in not making the same mistakes in the coming revival.

Today I'm going to begin discussing another mistake we made. This weakness involved short-term thinking and was caused

by poor theology. It'll take me two or three posts to cover this subject. I'm going to take

my time because I consider the teaching to be critically important.

I love this teaching.

Just before he left for heaven,

Jesus gave two commissions to his church.

Mark 16, 15 through 18, he said to them,

go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. The one who's

believed has been baptized, will be saved, but the one who hasn't believed will be condemned.

These signs will accompany those who have believed. In my name, they'll cast out demons,

speak with new tongues, pick up serpents, and and they drink any deadly thing, it won't hurt them.

They'll lay hands on the sick, and they'll recover.

Matthew 28, 18 to 20, Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, all authority, all authority in heaven

and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore, make

disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit,

teaching them, teaching them to follow all that I commanded you.

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