THE GREAT COMMISSION: THREE SOUL DIMENSIONS – FOR EVERY FAITH-BASED BELIEVER SOUL-WINNING IN THE GRACE!
“This good news of the kingdom [the gospel] will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end [of the age] will come” Matthew 24:14/Amplified.
The Great Gospel — the good news of the Kingdom — commission of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, is a global, inescapable and supreme task for every believer of God in Christ Jesus, and it is irrespective of status, class, tongues, people, colour and nation [Revelation 5:9-10; Mark 16:15-20].
It is the highest of the highest calls to everyone and is not restricted to a certain few that are clergymen or clergywomen otherwise called Evangelists, as has been attributed over time.
It is a commission calling of — “GO THEREFORE” to the nations of the world. It is not an advice but an order, and none can hide behind any excuse whatsoever.
“And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 GO THEREFORE AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL THE NATIONS, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS THAT I HAVE COMMANDED YOU; 20 and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen” Matthew 28:18-20/NKJV.
Every Believer of God in Christ Jesus has a called default of purpose in our redemption in the grace, and it is irrespective to all, so that none may say it is for someone else [Romans 8:28-30; Ephesians 1:1-12; 1 John 3:8; John 18:37].
And it is irrespective, because you don’t have to be a clergyman or clergywoman to be a WITNESS OF, and WITNESS FOR, Jesus Christ to others — except you have not experienced the saving grace of God that made you a NEW CREATION of God, in Christ Jesus’ stead [Acts 1:8; Isaiah 43:10; Acts 22:15; Acts 20:20-21; John 1:6-8; John 18:37].
And it is the essence of experiencing God’s salvation in Christ Jesus that makes you both a WITNESS and an AMBASSADOR and God’s EMBASSY, to witness Him to others — except there is no genuineness of experiencing God in Christ Jesus in the grace [2 Corinthians 5:17-20; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20; 2 Corinthians 6:16-18].
And the commission to witness the Gospel to others starts from your abode of living to your places of doing life and godly living, which also includes the place of worship. And you are there to witness for Jesus Christ as a witness of Him — indicating that you’ve experienced Him, and are experiencing Him daily, in your path of doing life and living godly in the grace.
And it is this knowing and understanding that will make you not to be ashamed, but to be emboldened to make God known to others in the grace, as Apostle Paul didn’t hesitate to make known about his redemption of God in Christ Jesus, to the legalistic Roman Church that had compromised their faith with legalistic stupidities, as written:
“For I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL of Christ, for it is the POWER of God to SALVATION for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, ‘The just shall live by faith’” Romans 1:16-17.
There are THREE SOULS’ DIMENSIONS of people that are there, and that deserve to be witnessed to in every avenue of opportunity — and they are classified in Luke 15:1-32 in these respective segments:
- The LOST SHEEP: [The unsaved needing salvation to enable them become part of the sheepfold of God in Christ Jesus — they are there in your abode, places of doing life which the clergyman or clergywoman have no access to reach but you only. Hence there is no excuse if they eventually get lost because of your complacency]. Luke 15:1-7.
- The LOST COIN: [The supposedly saved that are in the church but have lost their bearings with God — and are religiously or denominationally bonded and not Christ bonded. These groups are there in your local assembly of worship]. Luke 15:8-10.
- The LOST SON – PRODIGAL: [This group of people were once saved and then backslid from the faith by reason of wealth or opportunities in disguise or such like that are personal to respective individuals]. Luke 15:11-32. [prosperity]
So, it’s time to be a missionary, MISSION-ORIENTED Believer of God in Christ Jesus in the grace, in your place of doing life and living godly in the grace — to share the GOSPEL, the good news of the kingdom, as a living witness of Jesus, and set for the good of others who could be any of the above three categories as mentioned.
Being a Believer who is Gospel MISSION-ORIENTED means you are set to live by PURPOSE from where you are and not waiting for a special title and recognition.
For every soul, it is an open pulpit-altar. Imagine how many billions of pulpit-altars of souls are available to you than the one single-altar in a local assembly that many crave to be applauded and recognized by — without the GOSPEL ESSENCE in it.
A man’s mission is encompassed by the vision of acknowledging God’s universal gospel mission that they are to partake in, in the grace.
And you can only be GOSPEL PURPOSEFUL and PURPOSE-DRIVEN when you know and understand the vision and mission of your commission — this is in order to ensure and be assured of your pursuit in the grace, by the opportunities you have and that are before you to use to reach that single or groups of souls, through your place of doing life.
Without being crazy as some, to be entitled with titles — but expressing the GO COMMISSION in the obedience of the Gospel essence as being the commission of you as a believer in the grace.
Let me say again that, in this great commission of the Gospel, it is irrespective to all, and it is without sentiments, prejudice and dissimulation.
More so, it is beyond the walls of any denominational doctrine and it is a commission to all born of God in Christ Jesus in the grace [Galatians 3:6-9, 26-29; Romans 10:8-15]. And there is no room for adulteration, perversion, distortion and such like, when it is genuinely and scripturally faith-based, VISION-MISSION-COMMISSION in essence in the grace [Galatians 1:6-9; Philippians 1:15-18; Jude 1:3-4; 1 Peter 5:8-10].
And because you are God’s AMBASSADOR and EMBASSY to witness on His behalf the goodness of the kingdom to others, that qualifies you and makes it the primary reason He has EMPOWERED you — to ensure His PURPOSE in your life is possible in all spheres.
That God has empowered you and He is empowering you to become what you are today, it is not for show or applause, but to ensure you exhibit and showcase His DEFAULT PURPOSE in you through the Gospel with His ENDOWED AND ENDUED POWER. This is to make you FUNCTION in the fullness, for the good of others to assure their SALVATION is true and sure in the grace.
Having PURPOSE without POWER is a phase of being delusional, and having POWER without PURPOSE is destructive on all levels.
Hence, for God’s purpose to make an essence, He has accompanied it with His power to make it all good in the grace in Christ Jesus’ stead. Amen [Luke 24:49; Acts 1:8; 1 John 3:8; 1 John 2:20, 27; John 7:37-39; John 18:37; Luke 4:1-4, 14, 16-22; Acts 10:38].
How I do pray for you today, to hear and listen to that inner voice telling you to share the good news Gospel as you’ve experienced and are now experiencing, to your work colleagues, business partners, family members and friends of yours before it is late to do it. And it could be by using the platform that is available to you to make a direct personal encounter with such persons or groups of persons, that may be rare to be seen or reached again with the opportunity that has been availed to you right now.
Go forth therefore and be in obedience to THE GREAT COMMISSION to the THREE SOULS’ DIMENSIONS, as per the opportunities God has given and positioned you to occupy in life to make it all possible in the grace.
SELAH- PAUSE AND THINK!
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH READING AND PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“But you shall receive POWER when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth” Acts 1:8.
“Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with POWER from on high” Luke 24:49.
“And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” 19 So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. 20 And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen” Mark 16:15-20.
“Then all the tax collectors and the sinners drew near to Him to hear Him. 2 And the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, “This Man receives sinners and eats with them.” 3 So He spoke this parable to them, saying:
THE LOST SHEEP:
4 “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? 5 And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6 And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’ 7 I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.
THE LOST COIN:
8 “Or what woman, having ten silver [c]coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? 9 And when she has found it, she calls her friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece which I lost!’ 10 Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
THE LOST SON:
11 Then He said: “A certain man had two sons. 12 And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood. 13 And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. 14 But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want. 15 Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 16 And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the [e]pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything. 17 “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, 19 and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.” 20 “And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. 21 And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ 22 “But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. 23 And bring the fatted calf here and kill it and let us eat and be merry; 24 for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry. 25 “Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. 26 So he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant. 27 And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and because he has received him safe and sound, your father has killed the fatted calf.’ 28 “But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him. 29 So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends. 30 But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.’ 31 “And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours. 32 It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.” Luke 15:1-32.
SUMMARY:
The message teaches us that the Great Commission is not optional, not for clergy only, and not limited to church buildings. It is a global, inescapable, supreme task for every believer. Every redeemed person is called to be a WITNESS, AMBASSADOR, and EMBASSY of Christ, empowered by the Spirit, to reach THREE CATEGORIES OF SOULS in their daily sphere of influence.
KEY POINTS OF THE MESSAGE
- THE GREAT COMMISSION IS FOR EVERYONE
- Matthew 24:14/Amplified: “This good news of the kingdom [the gospel] will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end [of the age] will come.”
- Matthew 28:18-20/NKJV: “GO THEREFORE AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL THE NATIONS… TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS THAT I HAVE COMMANDED YOU.” This is an order, not advice.
- Revelation 5:9-10; Mark 16:15-20 — It is irrespective of status, class, tongues, people, colour and nation.
- It is not restricted to clergymen, clergywomen or Evangelists. Every believer has a “called default of purpose” in redemption [Romans 8:28-30; Ephesians 1:1-12; 1 John 3:8; John 18:37].
- WHO QUALIFIES TO WITNESS?
You don’t need a title. You only need to have experienced salvation.
If you are a NEW CREATION in Christ Jesus [Acts 1:8; Isaiah 43:10; John 1:6-8], then you are:
A WITNESS OF and WITNESS FOR Jesus Christ
An AMBASSADOR and God’s EMBASSY [2 Corinthians 5:17-20; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20; 2 Corinthians 6:16-18]
Your field starts from your abode, workplace, and worship place. Your daily life is the proof that you have experienced and are experiencing Him.
Like Paul: “For I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL of Christ, for it is the POWER of God to SALVATION” [Romans 1:16-17].
- THE THREE SOULS’ DIMENSIONS TO REACH [Luke 15:1-32]
Every believer will encounter these 3 groups. There is no excuse for complacency.
THE LOST SHEEP[Luke 15:1-7]
The unsaved. Those outside the sheepfold of God. They are in your home, office, market, community — places clergy may not reach but you can. If they are lost because of your silence, there is no excuse.
THE LOST COIN[Luke 15:8-10]
The supposedly saved but misplaced. In church, but religiously or denominationally bonded, not Christ bonded. They are in your local assembly. They need to be found and restored.
THE LOST SON – PRODIGAL[Luke 15:11-32]
Those once saved who backslid due to wealth, opportunities, or personal reasons. They left, but the Father is waiting. You are positioned to call them back.
- YOUR LIFE IS THE PULPIT-ALTAR
For every soul, your life is an open pulpit-altar. There are billions of “pulpit-altars” in daily encounters, far more than one church altar.
A man’s mission is tied to God’s universal gospel mission. You are GOSPEL PURPOSEFUL and PURPOSE-DRIVEN when you know your commission and use the opportunities before you.
Don’t chase titles. Express the GO COMMISSION in obedience.
- THE COMMISSION IS PURE, UNIVERSAL, AND EMPOWERED
- Irrespective to all: Without sentiments, prejudice or dissimulation. Beyond denominational walls [Galatians 3:6-9, 26-29; Romans 10:8-15].
- No adulteration: Must be genuinely, scripturally faith-based [Galatians 1:6-9; Philippians 1:15-18; Jude 1:3-4; 1 Peter 5:8-10].
- PURPOSE + POWER: God has EMPOWERED you with ENDOWED AND ENDUED POWER to fulfill His DEFAULT PURPOSE [Luke 24:49; Acts 1:8; 1 John 3:8; 1 John 2:20, 27; John 7:37-39; Luke 4:1-4, 14, 16-22; Acts 10:38].
Purpose without power is delusion. Power without purpose is destruction.
- THE FINAL URGENT CHARGE
Listen to the inner voice today. Share the Gospel with your colleagues, business partners, family and friends before it’s too late. Use the platform and opportunity God has availed you now — it may not come again.
Go forth therefore and obey THE GREAT COMMISSION to the THREE SOULS’ DIMENSIONS in the place God has positioned you.
REV. CHUKIE MORSI
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