I don't care if you're Premil, Amil, or Postmil. Until Christ returns—the Great Commission command applies equally to us all! Read the Gospels. See how Jesus trained His men to turn the world upside-down by preaching God's Law and Gospel everywhere perishing sinners were found: synagogues, city centers, Athenian squares, riverfronts, jailhouses, courthouses, and normal houses too! Read the book of Acts. See how Christ's men went from cowering to marching through the world as Christ's fearless Gospel soldiers turning the world upside-down. Don’t ask, "What would Jesus do?" Do what Jesus did! Do what Jesus trained and commanded the Apostles to do! Do what the Apostles did! Pastors, get out of your pulpits and train your churches to "Go therefore!" by boldly going therefore to preach the Word of God in the highways and byways where men, women, boys, and girls are perishing in abominable sin and Satanic deception. Make the Great Commission great again!
If you believe Christ is coming soon, do you want to be found on the Gospel battlefield or hiding in your church bunker, waiting for the rapture, singing about how you love Jesus while you refuse to obey Him? If you believe Christ isn't coming for centuries or a few millennia, do you want to be found hiding in your church bunker, smoking cigars, and talking theology when death comes for you and you go to Jesus, in your own personal rapture of sorts, to give an account for the one precious life He gave you to be spent for His glory in the redemption of sinners? If you love Christ—you'll obey Him and "Go therefore!" If you love perishing sinners—you'll obey Christ and "Go therefore!" If you love your nation and the Constitution upon which it stands, you won't just whine and complain about its moral decline, Satanic debauchery, and imminent destruction—you'll obey Christ and "Go therefore!" Genuine love of Christ and love of neighbor conquers self-loving, self-preserving, self-serving, hard-hearted evangelistic apathy and Gospel silence. For love of Christ and love of sinners—obey Christ and "Go therefore!"
"When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, 'Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's will save it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.'" -Mark 8:34-38
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