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

The title of today's post is Revival and Reformation Part 3.

We are discussing the concepts of revival and reformation and how they relate to God's great commissions of Mark 16, 15 to 18, and

Matthew 28, 18 to 20. Each of these commissions corresponds to one of the two mandates

God gave humankind through Adam and Eve in Genesis 1, 26, 7, and 8.

The first of these assignments was to be fruitful and multiply,

give me more kids, God said.

The second was to steward, manage, or govern the earth.

You will represent my kingdom's government on this outpost of the kingdom, he told them. If you did not watch or read the first two posts or

would like to reference these two assignments in more detail.

You can use the links here and do so.

Both of these assignments were interrupted at the fall.

God temporarily lost his family and to his ambassadors on the earth.

Jesus, of course, was sent to recover and restore this.

When he said in Matthew 16, 18, and 19,

I will build my church.

The word build is Oikata meo, which means to build a family or household.

In choosing this word, Jesus was saying, I've come to get the family back.

That's awesome.

Church is the word ecclesia, a called out assembly of people.

Certainly, this is the bride and body of Christ called out of darkness, calling clases ec out.

So the word literally means called out, those called out of darkness into God's light.

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