CHRIST’S GREAT COMMISSION

CHRIST’S GREAT COMMISSION

“Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages”, entreats the Shulamite unto the king in verse 11 of Chapter 7 in the Song of Songs. The field means the world (Matt.13: 38). You have to entreat Christ to go forth into the world along with you. This means you have to “go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). You cannot do it on your own. You have to go to the world along with Christ. This means you ought to be filled with His Spirit and power and to be led by Him to those places in the world where the Holy Ghost wants you to preach the gospel. Don’t be in a place or nation, which has already been reached by the gospel. As you entreat Jesus to accompany you to the field, He will take you to the right place in the world. Secondly, you have to entreat Him to lodge with you in the villages. Village means an assemblage of houses smaller than a town. Town means a populous place bigger or less rural than a village, inhabited by an urban community. Spiritually speaking, a town is a group of people who have become populous with the advent of the light of the glorious gospel whereas a village is a group of people who have not heard the glorious gospel. In the world, there are many places, which have not yet been reached by the gospel. You have to lodge and not merely visit such villages along with Christ. Missionaries belonging to organizations like FMPB, Blessing Youth Mission, and IMS etc. in India lodge in these villages for the sake of the glorious gospel.

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