Jesus' Command To Go & Evangelize

CHRIST’S SENDING FORTH OF HIS DISCIPLES TO EVANGELIZE

Passage Luke 10:1-12:

Luke 10

1 Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself was about to come.

2 And he said unto them, The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth laborers into his harvest.

3 Go your ways; behold, I send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves.

4 Carry no purse, no wallet, no shoes; and salute no man on the way.

5 And into whatsoever house ye shall enter, first say, Peace be to this house.

6 And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon him: but if not, it shall turn to you again.

7 And in that same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.

8 And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:

9 and heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.

10 But into whatsoever city ye shall enter, and they receive you not, go out into the streets thereof and say,

11 Even the dust from your city, that cleaveth to our feet, we wipe off against you: nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh.

12 I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.

Passage Luke 10:17-20:

17 And the seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject unto us in thy name.

18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan fallen as lightning from heaven.

19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall in any wise hurt you.

20 Nevertheless in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.

In the context of Christians being the light of the world, Scripture urges and strongly admonishes us, " not to put the lamp under the bushel that everyone may see it" . Precisely, are believing Christians the light upon the hill. In other words, whatever charisms or gifts God has endowed upon individuals, such charisms or gifts must be realized and expressed in the services of the Lord's community the Church. Like someone has phrased, "Count not the blessings that you have received but the blessings that you have shared. Mainly, however, the Scriptural verses referred to here apply to proper realm of truth to be beheld or placed in pedestals. They are essentially divine manifestations, whether sacramentally or strictly verbally, of God. For governments and societies, divine truths are guidelines of laws to be made for God's people. For ‘travelers’ in life, divine truths are beacons to show them directions to their way home of peace & sanity. As this is literally what describes the Lord, namely: "He is the ... truth . Both in the Old Covenant, and in the New Covenant, God revealed himself as the truth. God told the people of the Old Covenant of himself as "I AM". And being the "I AM", he ordered for them to receive, listen, and obey his Ten Commandments. But more fully, God showed himself in the person of his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ when Christ proclaimed himself the true image of the Father. This proclamation, however, is specifically the proclamation of the New Covenant's New Kingdom of God in the Person of Christ, the Savior of the world.

Hence, it had become up to Christ that the whole world through all generations be formed and be changed according to this New Kingdom of God. It had become then, the Good News of Salvation .... the revelation and proclamation of this Person of the Lord Jesus Christ, "The truth shall make man free..." . No more shall man be left and deserted to the mere elements of his human weaknesses and helplessness..... if man persists in not turning to the Spirit of Christ, or if he persists in not using the graces of Christ's work of redemption, man will find himself so helplessly inadequate and lost. Only for as long as individual Christian believers, by the grace of God, turn to Christ in faith and conversion shall they find not only relief in the struggles of life but even some modicum of comfort and peace in the uniting with God on their journey through life.

On this journey on earth, Jesus has formulated his ways, and has procured in all time and eternity how believing men and women are to tread the pilgrim living unto heaven and its heavenly reward of the perfect human life. ... Thus, for the believers’ assurances, the following verses are allegorical commending and declarations of how truthfulness fidelity by Christ’s followers are absolutely taken cared of by the Lord Jesus. "Do not be afraid, I have conquered the world..." This is a verbalization of the reality of grace which is given believing men and women on account of Christ’s work of salvation. He gave the assurances that through faith and grace individual men and women need not struggle over life via mere human finite capabilities & means. Man can face many a battle ultimately by the power of grace. "Fear not those who can kill your body ... they can not kill the spirit."

Every instance that we speak about the truths or teachings of the Gospel, we are, in essence, evangelizing, or proclaiming the fundamental message of Christ’s establishing of the Kingdom of believers. A believing Christian who professes of his prior sinfulness remembers how before his experience of repentance and grace his lifestyle was characterized by chaos, emptiness, and lack of peace. But that each time he turned to God through repentance and grace he got to experience some heavenly order about life. For instance, the newly enlightened believer gets to perceive some heavenly meaningful-ness out of suffering, and experiences some heavenly kind of peace from within him including outside of him. In effect, his becoming holy after becoming evangelized in the truth marks and defines his membership in the Kingdom of God forever and ever until eternity..... It is in this manner that it is said God’s Kingdom is already in this world . Like Saint John the Baptist declared; "Behold the Kingdom of God is at hand." He did not say will be at hand, but IS at hand.

But to show that God does execute his judgment now, that God distinguishes those that belong to him and those that do not belong to him is manifested by the marked differentiation between a lifestyle that by grace is lived in holiness and persevered in versus another not lived in holiness and persisted in un-holiness. ....Christ said, "…those who do not believe are already condemned" . Although those that have not still made up their minds do not yet fall under this category. But they better; for the stake is great. The significance and urgency of evangelization consists in this: that whether in terms of our own personal initiation in the Christian faith, or in terms of the obeying of Christ’s Great Commission to spread his teachings throughout the world, Christ’s Message of Good News is being revealed to and professed by all believing mankind. For God has always wanted to reconcile man, his creature whom he created after his divine image, back to his loving embrace, and back to the sharing of his divine splendor and glory.