Matthew 28:18- 20 is commonly known as the “Great Commission”. Jesus is speaking in this text and He says, All 
power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.
The Great Commission is the last command of Christ, apart from the related order not to begin the Great Commission without divine power, to wait in the Upper Room. The command is simple: Get the message of Christ’s coming – His Life and message, His death, burial and resurrection, His ascension and enthronement”- to every city and nation, every tongue and tribe.
This command is also written in Mark 16:15 and it says, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature”. A few years ago I received a book and a devotional from the Church of God International office regarding the Great Commission and over the next few weeks I will share some of the meditations from that material written by Dr. Culpepper and P. Douglas Small.
Mark 16:15 is the mandate given by Christ to the church. Think about this…Lord, I wonder how I would have felt standing in the crowd, only a few yards from You, when You uttered the words “Go, tell the nations!”
Would I have felt differently about them than I do now-a continent and two millenniums removed? Would I have assumed You were talking to someone else? “Peter, He’s talking to you!” If You had looked at me, would I have assumed that You were gazing at someone else?
“Surely, Jesus, You can’t mean me! Me-go? Me-preach?” Interpreting the-word preach as “share,” I still might have protested, “Me? Into all the world? To every creature?”
I wonder, had I been there that day, could I have forgotten it all? Too much had happened: the miracles; the mind-bending teaching; the healings; the crowds everywhere You went; the confrontations; the radical ideas-good news for the poor and the oppressed, healing for broken hearts, the opening of prisons for the wrongly exploited, the unshackling of those in bondage, the Year of Jubilee; and the bloody Crucifixion followed by the mind-boggling Resurrection and the astonishing Ascension.
Maybe for us in the twenty-first century, this is too much like a suspense novel or action-thriller’ movie, too unbelievable. But it is no mere dream. You’re waiting right now for my answer, aren’t You? Am I going to break my silence and share? Anywhere? Everywhere?
Will the reality of who You are and what You did become so compelling that it bursts forth from me like an unstoppable fountain? Eight or eighty, rich or poor, white-collar or blue-collar-help me say, “I will no longer be silent!”
OUR MISSION-4 Steps to Becoming a Great Commission Christian
1. Write out a list of friends, family members, and people you live or work next to whose relationship with God is doubtful.
2. Tell someone today “l am a Christian!” Say it publicly. Confide in another believer, “l want so much to tell others about God’s love.”
3. Prayerfully pick a nation. Do research. What percentage of that nation is Christian?
4. Pray for that nation to have a great awakening.
GREAT COMMISSION QUOTATION: Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.-Oswald J. Smith
GREAT COMMISSON FACT: Two billion people have not yet heard about Jesus. Most live in areas dominated by Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. They are the poorest of the world’s poor.
