As the church in our day lost sight of its purpose,

have you? Are you in mission mode or are you in maintenance mode? Today on Truth

for Life, Alistair Begg encourages us to reassess our spiritual priorities by

reminding us of the claim that only Jesus can make and the command that only he

can give.

In a moment I'm going to read from Matthew and chapter 28, but before I do I want

to read briefly two other passages and to save you from leaving through them and

to save me waiting for you to find them. You can look for them later on. All right,

but the first is the statement that we find in Daniel chapter 7 where Daniel says,

I saw in the night visions and behold with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man

and he came to the ancient of days and was presented before him and to him was given dominion and glory

and a kingdom that all peoples, nations and languages should serve him. His dominion is an ever

lasting dominion which shall not pass away and his kingdom, one that shall not be destroyed.

And then in John 17 and verse 20, Jesus is praying, says to his father and praying that as you

have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world and from verse I think 17 is where I was.

Yeah, they are not of the world just as I'm not of the world sanctify them in the truth. Your word

is truth as you sent me into the world. So I have sent them into the world and for their sake I

consecrate myself that they also may be sanctified in truth. I do not ask for these only

but also for those who will believe in me through their word. And now I reach Matthew and chapter 28.

Now after the Sabbath toward the dawn of the first day of the week Mary Magdalene and the

other Mary went to see the tomb and behold there was a great earthquake for an angel of the Lord

descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like

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