Matthew 28:16-20
The Great Commission
16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 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, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.
Matthew 1:23
God With Us
23 “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).
John 14:1-4
Jesus Will Go and Prepare a Place for His Disciples
1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.”
John 14:15-31
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
15 “If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
22 Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”
23 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
25 “All this I have spoken while still with you. 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
28 “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29 I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. 30 I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me, 31 but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me.
“Come now; let us leave.
Surrounding the statement of the Great Commission is the mention of the Holy Spirit...The Great Commission is all about sharing the gospel with others...After Jesus' death and His resurrection He gives His disciples His Great Commission....The Great Commission says to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you...So we hear about the Holy Spirit in the Great Commission statement, and then Jesus follows this statement with more information, in the very next statement, about the Holy Spirit...
As we read about the Great Commission, we see that He surrounds His Great Commission with two very important sentences...In the sentence in front of the "Great Commission's main sentence", Jesus tells us that all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Him by God...So we know that God has given Him the complete authority in all the universe, in heaven and on earth...All authority is His...He has the authority and divine ability to keep us in touch with Him, if we are His Disciples...So then He surrounds the Great Commission with this statement...And surely I AM with you always, to the very end of the age...So Jesus is telling us that He will always be with us -always, always...He will be with His Disciples until the end of the ages...He will be with us forever...He will be with us eternally...
We see and learn from these three statements that Jesus has been given all the authority over everything...From the second sentence He wants us to share the gospel...And He doesn't say we have to be good speakers, good communicators, or really good at anything to share His gospel...He just wants His Disciples to share the gospel...
And then we learn from the third statement that Jesus will always be living and alive...Surely, He says, that I AM with you until the end of the ages...He will always be with us...And if He is forever with His Disciples, then we must believe that there is this indwelt Holy Spirit in all of us...God is with us...How could a Dead Man always be with someone, without another Being or Entity indwelt in and with us?...It is the indwelt Holy Spirit that is with us...It is the Holy Spirit that He promised the night of His arrest that is with us... This is one part of His teachings that is about us sharing the gospel and that we don't always hear about...And this teaching is a teaching until His Second Coming...He wants us to make Disciples of all nations...God wants everyone to go to heaven...God wants all His children with Him...
God wants us to share the gospel with everyone...He wants us to "so to speak" wake up the Holy Spirit in everyone so that they too can trust in Him and His Son and live with Him in His mansion...