Jesus Will Finish the Mission

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Christ can promise universal victory because he is sovereign. He knows the future because he makes the future.

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0:00.0	16. Jesus will finish the mission.
0:06.7	This gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony
0:11.7	to all the nations, and then the end will come, Matthew 24, 14.
0:19.2	I don't know any more inspiring missionary promise than this word from Jesus.
0:28.1	Not this gospel should be preached.
0:30.9	Not this gospel might be preached, but this gospel will be preached.
0:38.7	This is not a great commission, nor a great commandment.
0:44.4	It is a great certainty, a great confidence.
0:48.8	Who can dare talk like that?
0:51.8	How does he know it will?
0:54.8	How can he be sure the church will not fail in its missionary task?
1:01.1	Answer, the grace of missionary service is as irresistible as the grace of regeneration.
1:10.6	Christ can promise universal proclamation because he is sovereign.
1:16.9	He knows the future's successive missions because he makes the future.
1:23.4	All the nations will hear.
1:27.6	A nation is not a modern country.
1:30.6	When the Old Testament spoke of nations, it referred to groups like Jebiusites and
1:37.0	Parasites and Hivites and Amorites and Moabites and Canaanites and Philistines.
1:42.4	Nations are ethnic groups with their own peculiar language and culture, Psalm 111.
1:52.4	Praise the Lord, all nations, extoll him, all peoples.
1:58.8	Nations are peoples, people groups as we call them.
2:03.9	As the sovereign son of God and Lord of the church, Jesus simply took up this divine purpose
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