Last Words

If you had just one more opportunity to speak to someone dear to your heart, would you choose your words carefully, or would you be casual and flippant in your speech? Would you speak of the important or the trivial?

Those are not difficult questions to answer. We would not waste our time on unimportant and insignificant things. Would that not also be true of Jesus?

What was the final message of Jesus to His disciples? Listen as He speaks His closing words to them.

“All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age” (Matthew 28:18-20 NASB).

“Go into the entire world, and preach the gospel to all creation. He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned” (Mark 16:15-16 NASB).

“Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and rise again from the dead the third day; and that repentance for forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things” (Luke 24:46-48 NASB).

“It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority; but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth” (Acts 1:7-8 NASB).

It is not by accident that our Lord’s final message was a call to faith and obedience (baptism), and a charge to take His gospel to the world. His words were not trivial or insignificant! How have you responded to them?

Salvation:  Hear - Believe - Repent - Confess - Be Baptized - Live Faithfully