THE KEY TO THE MISSIONARY

     All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth. Go ye
     therefore, and teach all nations.

     — Matthew 28:18-20

The basis of missionary appeals is the authority of Jesus Christ, not
the needs of the heathen. We are apt to look upon Our Lord as One Who
assists us in our enterprises for God. Our Lord puts Himself as the
absolute sovereign supreme Lord over His disciples. He does not say
the heathen will be lost if we do not go; He simply says – “Go ye
therefore and teach all nations.” Go on the revelation of My
sovereignty; teach and preach out of a living experience of Me.

“Then the eleven disciples went . . unto a mountain where Jesus had
appointed them.” v. 16. If I want to know the universal sovereignty
of Christ, I must know Him for myself, and how to get alone with Him;
I must take time to worship the Being Whose Name I bear. “Come unto
Me” – that is the place to meet Jesus. Are you weary and heavy laden?
How many missionaries are! We banish those marvellous words of the
universal Sovereign of the world to the threshold of an
after-meeting; they are the words of Jesus to His disciples.

“Go ye therefore. . . .” Go simply means live. Acts 1:8 is the
description of how to go. Jesus did not say – Go into Jerusalem and
Judea and Samaria, but, “Ye shall be witnesses unto Me” in all these
places. He undertakes to establish the goings.

“If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you. . . ” – that is the
way to keep going in our personal lives. Where we are placed is a
matter of indifference; God engineers the goings.

“None of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto
myself . . .” That is how to keep going till we’re gone.

On this day…

• Self-control – 2024
• Meekness – 2024
• Daniel 1 – 2023
• Jeremiah 5 – 2023
• JC Ryle Category – 2011
• Global Missions – 2011
• Unreached of the Day – Prayer – 2011
• Deuteronomy 15:15 – 2011
• ANGER – 2011
• BOLD – 2011