Dan C. Balley Via Bulletin Gold
(This is part two of two)
It is beneficial to make good resolutions for the New Year.
When we reflect upon the past and plan for the future,
resolutions are very helpful. How could we ever improve
ourselves without resolving to do so? Here is another
resolution which will help us all to have a happy and blessed
New Year.
Let Us Resolve…To Teach Others What We Know
Jesus gave the great commission to the apostles. “And Jesus
came and spake unto them, saying, 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: and, lo, I am
with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen”
(Matt. 28:18-20). Now think about it for a moment. If Jesus
commanded His apostles to teach the lost, and then
commanded them to observe all things which He
commanded them, then Jesus by implication has given the
great commission to the disciples who were taught by the
apostles. Then, they in turn taught the great commission to
others whom they taught. So today, as Christians, we are to
teach others the gospel and then baptize them in the name
of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. In a parallel
passage we read, “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the
world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that
believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that
believeth not shall be damned” (Mark 16:15-16).
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