This entry will be short, but I promise it will be sweet. The Great Commission is something we are all familiar with, I have preached on the passage before, and we all can probably recite it. If you do not know the Great Commission, here it is:

Matthew 28:18-20
Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

Dr. David Platt, a pastor in Alabama, recently came to my school and preached about where Christ fits into this Great Commission. If you remember last Sunday I had said there are three things we need to do as we read the Bible and meditate on what it is saying:

1. Ask, "What does this tell me about God? His character? His qualities? His attributes? What is God like or described as in this passage?"
2. Ask, "How did Christ fulfill this truth about God in His life?" For example, because God is all knowing, then Jesus had no need to worry about the future.
3. Ask, "How can I, while striving to be more like Christ, fulfill this truth in my life?" For example, because Christ was humble, we should strive to be humble in our lives.

Because Christ has been given all authority, we therefore should take the Gospel, the same Gospel that saved us to the nations. I would like you to listen to his first sermon entitled, "The Presence of Christ in the Great Commission." I promise you, you will not be disappointed. This may have been the first of two of the best sermons I have ever heard.

http://www.sbts.edu/MP3/fall2008/20080902platt.mp3