We are a people utterly obsessed with looking right or left instead of up and down.

We are disciples of Christ.

Our direction is north and south.

Our direction is up to the throne of God who rules over the kingdom of heaven and the universe that he brought into being out of nothing and the down south to the pages of Scripture.

That everything we get, our entire value system is built up and down, not right and left.

I was raised to think constantly about missions.

So by the time I would have been three years old, everyone,

I would have known these passages by heart.

So I want to say them to you, I'm going to be reading out of the CSB,

a translation.

This is Matthew chapter 28.

This is after the cross and the resurrection.

And this is when Jesus is giving them what many of us call the Great Commission.

And it says in verse 18, Jesus came.

And this is to his 11 disciples. and he had directed them to the mountain where he would speak these last words over them before his ascension.

And it says, he said to them in verse 18, all authority has been given to me in heaven and on

earth.

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, teaching them to observe everything I've commanded

you. Let me say that again. Teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember,

I am with you always to the end of the age.

So this is the great commission that is upon Jesus followers throughout the generations.

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