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JOIN ME FOR THE SCHOOL OF THE HOLY SPIRITThe Gifts, the Fruit, and the Character of the Holy SpiritA 3-Night Intensive w...
10/24/2026

JOIN ME FOR THE SCHOOL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
The Gifts, the Fruit, and the Character of the Holy Spirit

A 3-Night Intensive with Dr. Anthony Earl 🔥

The objective of the School of the Holy Spirit is not simply to activate gifts. It is to cultivate disciples whose lives are increasingly governed by the Spirit, whose character reflects Christ, and whose gifts serve the purposes of God in His Church and the world.

Three nights. Nine manifestations.
✦ Night 1 · The Vocal Gifts: When the Spirit Speaks
✦ Night 2 · The Revelatory Gifts: When the Spirit Reveals
✦ Night 3 · The Power Gifts: When the Spirit Acts

“Spiritual power must never become an excuse for moral deficiency, and spiritual character must never become an excuse for neglecting the gifts of the Spirit.”

📅 November 16–18, 2026
🕢 7:30 PM EST nightly
💻 Live online, with replay access included

Register here: https://events.anthonyearl.org/holy-spirit-registration

Equipped with Power. Governed by Truth. Transformed in Character.

Taught by Dr. Anthony Earl · Hosted by Jeremiah Company

10/23/2026

The Scribbling Scribe ✍🏾

THE SABBATICAL MUST END!

A Prophetic Exhortation to Those Who Have Withdrawn from the Fellowship of the Saints

There is a growing number of believers who have quietly withdrawn from the gathered community of faith. Some departed because of disappointment. Others because of betrayal, spiritual abuse, disillusionment, or the imperfections they encountered within the institutional church. Still others simply became comfortable with the convenience of worshiping from a distance.

What began as a temporary sabbatical has gradually become a permanent separation.

I want to lovingly challenge you: Has your absence from the fellowship become a place of spiritual stagnation disguised as personal peace?

I recognize that some wounds were profound. Some betrayals were real. Some environments were spiritually unhealthy, and leaving them was necessary. I would never encourage anyone to return to an abusive or manipulative religious environment. Nevertheless, we must distinguish between withdrawing from an unhealthy congregation and withdrawing altogether from the biblical necessity of spiritual community.

The failures of men must never become the justification for abandoning what our Father has established.

Hebrews 10:24-25 exhorts us to consider one another, to provoke one another unto love and good works, and not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together.

Notice the emphasis. We gather not merely to receive, but to contribute. We assemble not simply to be encouraged, but to become instruments of encouragement to others.

You are not merely a recipient of the life of the Church. You are a necessary contributor to its maturity and expression.

I am grateful for technology and the extraordinary capacity it provides to extend the reach of the Gospel across nations. Online ministry has become a valuable instrument of instruction, encouragement, and connection. For the sick, homebound, geographically isolated, and others facing legitimate limitations, it can be an indispensable means of participating in spiritual life.

But for those who are able to gather, we must acknowledge an important distinction: Watching a community is not the same as belonging to one.

We can receive information through a screen, but the fullness of biblical fellowship requires something more. It calls us into relationships where we are known, challenged, corrected, strengthened, and entrusted with responsibility.

The early Church did not merely gather around sermons. They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread, and prayers (Acts 2:42). Their lives became intertwined through shared devotion, generosity, accountability, and mutual care.

The Church was never intended to become a religious broadcast consumed in isolation. It was designed to become a living, functioning body.

Paul reminds us in 1 Corinthians 12:21 that the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of thee.”

We belong to one another.

There are gifts within you that cannot be fully expressed in isolation. There are precious jewels deposited within the treasure chest of your life that another generation desperately needs. Your wisdom, compassion, testimony, spiritual maturity, and even the lessons learned through your failures have value within the household of faith.

Your absence may be depriving someone of the very grace God intended to release through your presence.

And consider your family.

Your spouse needs to witness the authenticity of your devotion. Your children need more than memories of a faith you once practiced passionately. Your grandchildren, nieces, nephews, siblings, and extended family need living examples of men and women who continue pursuing God with conviction.

We cannot expect the next generation to value what we have quietly abandoned.

There is a generational responsibility resting upon us. As the elders among us complete their earthly assignments, others must emerge as pillars of wisdom, stability, prayer, and spiritual strength.

Who will preserve the testimony? Who will model spiritual discipline? Who will demonstrate the beauty of covenant relationships and the necessity of belonging to a spiritual family?

We were born for more than private spirituality. We were called into a corporate expression of Christ.

And let me address another matter.

Stop searching for the perfect congregation.

There are no perfect churches because there are no perfected people. Every community is undergoing the process of maturation. There will be limitations, misunderstandings, and areas of blindness. Yet our Father continues working within imperfect vessels to reveal the glory of His Son.

This does not mean tolerating spiritual abuse, abandoning discernment, or submitting to unaccountable leadership. It means refusing to allow ordinary human imperfection to become a permanent obstacle to genuine fellowship.

Ask the Holy Spirit to direct you to a healthy community where Christ is central, Scripture is honored, leadership is accountable, relationships are authentic, and your gifts can contribute to the edification of others.

Ephesians 4:16 reveals that the body grows and builds itself up in love as every part does its work.

Every part!

That includes you.

I sense an urgency concerning this season. It is time for many who have been spiritually disconnected to recover their place within the gathered community. Not merely to occupy a seat on Sunday morning, but to rediscover the joy of covenant, the discipline of discipleship, and the responsibility of spiritual contribution.

Some of you have been absent so long that your absence has become normal. You have learned to survive without the very relationships God designed to strengthen your journey.

But survival is not the fullness of your calling.

Your sabbatical may have been necessary for a season, but it was never intended to become your permanent spiritual identity.

The time has come to arise.

Rekindle the fire of your worship. Restore your appetite for the Word. Reengage in authentic relationships. Allow yourself to be known again. Bring your gifts, your wisdom, your testimony, and even your unfinished places into a community where you can continue growing.

There are books yet to be written, testimonies yet to be shared, lives yet to be transformed, and generations awaiting the impartation of what God has deposited within you.

Do not allow disappointment to determine the boundaries of your future.

Do not permit convenience to replace consecration.

Do not confuse independence with spiritual maturity.

And do not allow the imperfections of yesterday to rob you of the beauty of what our Father is building today.

The Church is not merely a place we attend. It is a people to whom we belong, a body in which we function, and a household in which we mature.

My prayer is that the Holy Spirit will awaken a fresh hunger for authentic fellowship throughout the Body of Christ. May those who have been wounded find healing. May those who have become disillusioned recover hope. May those who have grown comfortable in isolation rediscover the beauty of spiritual family.

And may our gatherings become worthy expressions of the Christ we proclaim, places of truth, compassion, justice, holiness, and transforming grace.

ARISE, PEOPLE OF GOD!

There is still a place for you at the table.

There is still a contribution only you can make.

There is still a generation that needs your fire.

And there is still a glorious work awaiting our collective obedience.

The sabbatical must end. The fire must burn again. And the Body must arise into the fullness of Christ!

“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” Matthew 18:20

More grace to the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ!

10/21/2026

The Scribbling Scribe ✍🏾

You are not an accident. You are fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalm 139:14), intentionally designed by God and included in His divine strategy. There is nothing inherently defective about who He created you to be. Your uniqueness is not a mistake; it is part of the grace He has entrusted to your life.

Does our God make mistakes? Absolutely not!

You may have made choices that complicated your journey. Fear, pain, disappointment, and personal struggles may have interrupted the process. Yet our Father remains sovereign. He knows how to orchestrate circumstances, redirect your steps, and bring you back into alignment with His eternal intentions.

You may have real adversaries, but never forget that the decisive victory was accomplished at the cross. Through Christ, God disarmed principalities and powers, triumphing over them (Colossians 2:15). You are not striving to create a victory; you are learning to live in the victory of Christ.

Some of your greatest battles may not be external. They may be taking place within your thoughts, insecurities, wounded perceptions, and distorted understanding of your identity. At times, we become the very obstacles standing in the way of our own emergence.

So today, release every destructive thought you have entertained about yourself. Release self-rejection, bitterness, shame, and the belief that your past has disqualified you. Your struggles may explain parts of your story, but they do not have the authority to define your destiny.

Jesus declared, “For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again” (Matthew 7:2, KJV).

Extend grace to yourself and to others. Practice mercy. Embrace truth. Refuse to allow yesterday’s wounds to become tomorrow’s limitations.

Today, I encourage you to see yourself through the eyes of our Father. He sees beyond your struggles, imperfections, and regrets. He sees the treasure He has deposited within you.

Paul reminds us, “We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us” (2 Corinthians 4:7, KJV).

You are a treasured earthen vessel, carrying something far greater than your human limitations. Do not despise the vessel because of its imperfections. Recognize the immeasurable treasure God has entrusted to you.

I prophetically declare that your story is still unfolding. The Lord is restoring your confidence, renewing your mind, healing wounded places, and bringing you into greater alignment with His purpose. You are not forgotten. You are not disqualified. You are not finished.

Embrace who you are in Christ. Celebrate the grace upon your life. Continue yielding to His transforming work. Our Father is not finished with you!

May grace and peace abound toward you today. Your best days are not behind you, and the hand of God is still upon your life.



10/20/2026

The Scribbling Scribe ✍🏾

LEADERS, ACCOUNTABILITY IS NOT CAPTIVITY!

One of the greatest dangers confronting spiritual leadership is the mistaken belief that accountability threatens authority. Too often, we interpret loving confrontation as an attempt to control us, and genuine concern as an intrusion into our personal sovereignty.

But covenant accountability was never designed to control, condemn, or adjudicate another person’s struggles. It exists to establish guardrails, expose vulnerabilities, and strengthen our capacity to recognize the adversary’s strategies before they become destructive strongholds.

Nahum 2:1–2 presents a sobering prophetic picture. The watchman is summoned to guard the fortress, watch the road, strengthen his defenses, and prepare for an approaching assault. Yet within the same prophetic announcement is the promise of restoration.

What a profound revelation!

Vigilance is our responsibility. Restoration is God’s promise.

Leaders, we cannot afford to become so celebrated that we are no longer correctable, so anointed that we resist accountability, or so accomplished that we mistake isolation for strength.

The adversary often exploits what we refuse to expose. Unaddressed vulnerabilities become avenues of attack, and concealed struggles can eventually compromise what years of faithful service have established.

We need covenant relationships where transparency is not punished, correction is not confused with rejection, and genuine love possesses the courage to confront what threatens our future.

Accountability is not an assault upon your authority. It is a safeguard for your assignment.

Stop surrounding yourself exclusively with people who celebrate your gifts while remaining silent concerning your vulnerabilities.

Find those who love you enough to speak truth, pray with discernment, and stand beside you when the battle intensifies.

And when they ask the difficult questions, do not immediately assume they are attempting to control you. Perhaps they are helping you guard a gate you have unknowingly left open.

Our generation does not merely need gifted leaders. It desperately needs sober, authentic, accountable, and spiritually fortified servants whose private lives can sustain the weight of their public assignments.

This is our reality, and restoration must become our testimony!

Guard the fortress. Watch the road. Strengthen your defenses. Welcome the grace of accountability.

10/18/2026

The Scribbling Scribe ✍🏾

LORD, HEAL MY HEART, THAT I MAY DO YOUR WORK.

Last night, I had a dream that left an indelible impression upon my heart. I awakened with a renewed conviction that personal brokenness is essential to fulfilling the divine mandate of God for our generation.

Dr. Bob Pierce, founder of World Vision, once prayed: “Let my heart be broken with the things that break the heart of God.”

These words profoundly express the sentiments of my own heart. In the dream, I remember weeping and petitioning our God with these words: “Lord, heal my heart, that I may do Your work.”

As I reflected upon this encounter, I realized that there is a brokenness God desires to heal and a brokenness He desires us to carry.

He heals the wounds that distort our vision, compromise our love, and hinder our obedience. Yet He also cultivates within us a heart that remains tender toward the suffering of humanity, the injustices of our world, and the things that grieve His own heart.

Perhaps one of the greatest dangers facing our generation is not the absence of gifting, revelation, influence, or opportunity, but the possibility of possessing all these things while losing our capacity to be moved by what moves the heart of God.

We can become proficient in the work of God while becoming increasingly disconnected from the heart of God.

Our generation does not merely need more gifted leaders. We need men and women whose hearts have been transformed by the very Christ they proclaim.

Brokenness is not weakness. When surrendered to God, it becomes the sacred place where compassion is awakened, pride is dismantled, motives are purified, and our lives become available for His redemptive purposes.

The Psalmist declared, “A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.” Psalm 51:17

I am increasingly convinced that the measure of our success in this generation cannot simply be what we build, how far we reach, or how many follow us. It must also be measured by how faithfully our lives reflect the heart and character of Christ.

May we never become so consumed with fulfilling our assignments that we neglect the condition of the hearts through which those assignments must flow.

And so, I return to the cry that arose from within me in the dream: “Lord, heal my heart, that I may do Your work.”

Not merely with greater power, but with greater purity. Not merely with greater influence, but with greater compassion.
Not merely to accomplish something significant for God, but to faithfully reveal His heart to a generation desperately in need of Him.

Lord, break our hearts with what breaks Yours, and heal within us everything that prevents us from loving as You love. ❤️


10/15/2026

The Scribbling Scribe ✍🏾

I believe this so strongly, my friends. Each of us is presented with opportunities to realize dreams we have carried in our hearts for years.

I have come to discover that life’s obstacles are not always meant to stop us. Sometimes they become the very instruments that help us make the necessary adjustments as we move toward what we deeply desire.

Long ago, I dreamed of seeing the world. Today, I have traveled to places I once only imagined and encountered extraordinary people whose lives have enriched my own.

Looking back, I realize that many of the things I once perceived as disappointments were actually preparing me, positioning me, and aligning me for what was ahead. What I thought were setbacks were often part of the journey toward the fulfillment of my dream.

And here I am, living what I once only dreamed about.

So I want to encourage you today: Keep dreaming. Keep believing. Keep moving forward, regardless of what life serves you.

Don’t allow the difficulties of one season to convince you that the dreams in your heart are beyond your reach.

Sometimes the road you never would have chosen becomes the very road that takes you where you always dreamed of going.

Your story is still unfolding, and some of its most beautiful chapters may still be ahead of you.

10/12/2026

The Scribbling Scribe ✍🏾

THE POWER OF A DREAM: DON’T SURRENDER YOUR HOPE!

There are countless people who have struggled to believe in the power of a dream. Yet, I believe that within every human heart resides the capacity to envision a future beyond the limitations of present circumstances.

We have all carried dreams. Some have materialized almost instantaneously, while others have required years of waiting, wrestling, sacrifice, and perseverance. Still, there are those dreams that seem so distant, so improbable, and so far beyond our reach that we quietly begin to question whether they will ever become our reality.

I have come to understand something profound through the journey of my own life: The passage of time does not necessarily diminish the possibility of a dream becoming reality.

Sometimes, what appears to be a delay is actually a season of formation. We are being enlarged, strengthened, and prepared to possess what we once only had the capacity to imagine.

My encouragement today is especially for those who have grown weary of believing. Those who have endured disappointment after disappointment. Those whose circumstances have seemingly contradicted everything they once envisioned. Those who have quietly buried their dreams beneath the weight of life’s struggles.

I exhort you: DO NOT SURRENDER YOUR HOPE!

Hope is not a passive emotion. It is a powerful force that enables us to see beyond our present limitations and remain anchored to the possibilities of tomorrow.

The Scriptures declare:
“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13 (NKJV)

I can testify personally to the sustaining power of hope.

I am living some of the most extraordinary days of my life, not because my journey has been absent of adversity, but because I refused to allow adversity to become the final authority over my future.

I have endured seasons of tremendous struggle. I have encountered disappointments, experienced setbacks, and walked through circumstances that appeared determined to extinguish the dreams within me.

But I kept believing. I kept moving. I kept hoping. And today, I am witnessing realities that once existed only as dreams within my heart.

I am living my best life, not because everything has been perfect, but because I discovered that my most difficult seasons did not have the authority to cancel my future.

So, to the dreamer who has stopped dreaming, I say: DREAM AGAIN!

To the one who has stopped believing, BELIEVE AGAIN!

To the one who has surrendered to disappointment, RISE AGAIN!

Your present circumstances are not the complete narrative of your existence. There are still chapters to be written, territories to be occupied, relationships to be discovered, and extraordinary possibilities awaiting your participation.

Remember the words of the prophet Habakkuk:
“For the vision is yet for an appointed time… Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come.” Habakkuk 2:3 (NKJV)

Not every dream unfolds according to our timetable, and not every aspiration will manifest exactly as we first imagined. Yet, we must never underestimate what God can accomplish through a life that remains surrendered, expectant, and willing to persevere.

Your dream may have been delayed, but your capacity to hope does not have to die.
Do not allow yesterday’s disappointments to rob you of tomorrow’s possibilities.

Keep your heart alive. Keep your expectations anchored in God. Keep advancing toward the future He is unfolding before you.

I am living proof that the struggles of yesterday do not have to determine the possibilities of tomorrow.

And I declare to you today: There is still more life to live, more ground to occupy, and more of God’s goodness to discover!

Keep dreaming. Keep believing. Keep hoping. Your Story is still being written!

10/10/2026

The Scribbling Scribe ✍🏾

We are living in a defining moment in the unfolding purposes of God. The Lord is calling His Church beyond the celebration of spiritual experiences into the responsible stewardship of divine revelation. This is not merely a season of receiving fresh insight, but a season of becoming the corporate expression of what heaven has revealed.

Isaiah 2 declares that in the last days, the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established above the mountains and exalted above the hills, and the nations shall flow unto it.

This prophetic vision speaks of more than religious prominence. It reveals a people so established in the nature, wisdom, righteousness, and government of Christ that the nations are drawn to the authenticity of His presence and the excellence of His ways.

But we must understand that we cannot establish in the earth what we have refused to surrender to within ourselves.

The government of Christ must first occupy the territory of our hearts.

We must confront the ambitions, contradictions, inherited limitations, and competing influences that have been permitted to coexist with divine intention.

Israel entered the territory of promise but failed to completely displace what God had commanded them to remove. What they tolerated eventually became a source of compromise, conflict, and generational struggle.

We must not repeat that failure. What one generation refuses to confront, the next generation may be forced to contend with.

This is a moment for the restoration of authentic apostolic life, not merely the recognition of apostolic titles or the multiplication of religious structures, but the recovery of Christ’s nature, doctrine, authority, and mission within His Church.

It is also a moment for the restoration of genuine spiritual fatherhood and sonship, where divine life is transmitted, generations are established, and relationships are governed by covenantal love rather than personal ambition.

We need both the wisdom of restraint and the courage of unrestraint.

May divine restraint preserve us from premature movement, unauthorized advancement, and the presumption of moving beyond God’s timing.

Yet may holy unrestraint deliver us from fear, hesitation, religious confinement, and the limitations of yesterday’s understanding.

May restraint forbid us from moving ahead of God, while unrestraint forbid us from remaining behind Him.

There are territories of divine intention that will never be occupied by those who insist upon remaining within the boundaries of what is familiar.

God is calling us into greater dimensions of obedience, maturity, responsibility, and kingdom representation.

Our hands must be strengthened for the work before us. Our discernment must be sharpened. Our relationships must be purified. Our understanding must mature, and our obedience must become the evidence of the revelation we profess to possess.

We cannot continue gathering around profound truths while remaining unchanged by their demands.

Revelation without transformation eventually becomes information without manifestation.

Therefore, let us emerge from this season with renewed resolve.

Let the instructions we have received become the architecture of our obedience.

Let our homes, churches, communities, institutions, and regions become territories in which the wisdom and government of Christ are increasingly visible.

Let us raise generations who will not merely inherit our language but embody the substance of our faith.

Let us move beyond maintaining what has been established into faithfully advancing what God has entrusted to our stewardship.

And above all, may our hearts become territories wholly surrendered to and fully occupied by the government of Christ, until nothing remains within us that resists His lordship, contradicts His nature, or obstructs the fulfillment of His eternal purposes.

The measure of this season will not be determined by the profundity of what we have heard, but by the faithfulness with which we obey, the territories we transform, and the generations we establish.

May the nations increasingly discover, through our collective obedience and corporate expression, the mountain of the Lord’s house, established, exalted, and radiating the wisdom and glory of our God.

Let us not merely speak of the mountain. Let us become a people through whom its reality is made visible.

Let us not merely announce His government. Let us embody its order.

Let us not merely celebrate revelation. Let us assume responsibility for its manifestation.

Arise and occupy what heaven has assigned. Establish what God has revealed. Displace what contradicts His government. Strengthen the apostolic household. Prepare the generations.

And let the nations behold, not the prominence of our ministries, but the supremacy of our Christ.

“Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD … and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.”
Isaiah 2:3 (KJV)

10/01/2026

The Scribbling Scribe ✍🏾

THE WISDOM, AUTHORITY, AND
COMMISSION TO GO

This morning, I’m off again to the nations, something I have been privileged to do for more than 35 years. As I prepared to leave, this thought came to mind, and I felt compelled to share it with you.

Have you ever really considered what Jesus is declaring in Matthew 28:18–20?
Or have we become so familiar with the passage that we simply glance over it, as we sometimes do with familiar Scriptures, without stopping long enough to discover the wisdom concealed within the text?

Whenever we read the words of Jesus, we must remember His declaration that He did not come to abolish the Law or the Prophets, but to fulfill them. Therefore, His words are not disconnected from what came before Him. In Christ, the wisdom, promises, patterns, and prophetic expectations of Scripture find their fulfillment.

Consider what Moses told Israel:
“Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding…”
Deuteronomy 4:6

Moses teaches us that the Word of God is not merely information to be studied. It is wisdom for living.

Now listen again to Jesus:
“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.” Matthew 28:18

He begins the Great Commission with authority. Before He tells them to go, He establishes the authority under which they are being sent.

Then He says:
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations…”

We are not sent into the world possessing some independent authority of our own. We are sent under His authority, representing His Kingdom, proclaiming His message, and demonstrating through our lives what submission to His reign looks like.

Mark records another dimension of this commission:
“And these signs shall follow them that believe…” Mark 16:17

Whatever discussion one may have concerning the manuscript history of Mark’s longer ending, the reality expressed in the passage is certainly not foreign to the remainder of the New Testament. The book of Acts demonstrates it.

Believers proclaimed Christ with boldness. They cast out unclean spirits. The sick were healed. Spiritual gifts operated among them. Signs and wonders accompanied the advancement of the Gospel. Paul himself testified that his ministry among the nations occurred “by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God” (Romans 15:19). And these testimonies did not simply disappear from Christian consciousness when the book of Acts ended.

Early Christian writings contain accounts of healing, deliverance, prophetic activity, and manifestations of the Spirit continuing within Christian communities.

So when Jesus declares, “All authority…has been given to Me,” and then commands, “Go,” He is not sending powerless representatives into the nations.

The authority remains His, but we have been commissioned to function under it. This distinction is essential. We do not possess autonomous Kingdom authority. We exercise delegated authority because we have been sent by the One to whom all authority belongs.

We do not chase signs. We follow Christ. We obey His commission. We proclaim His Kingdom. We minister in the power of the Holy Spirit. And we expect the life and power of Christ to become visible through a believing and obedient people.

But where does He send us? To all nations.
The Greek word translated “nations” is ethnē, referring to peoples, nations, and ethnic groups. Therefore, going to the nations does not always require an airplane, a passport, or crossing an ocean.

The nations may already be living across the street from you. They may work beside you. Their children may attend school with your children. They may live in your neighborhood or worship in your city.
So perhaps we should ask ourselves a difficult question: Why have we been conditioned to remain almost exclusively within our own people groups?

The Kingdom calls us beyond what is familiar. Your life becomes part of the witness of your faith when you intentionally engage people who may not look like you, sound like you, come from your culture, or share your history.

The Great Commission confronts our tendency toward cultural isolation.
Jesus did not say, “Make disciples of those who are like you.”

He said:
“Make disciples of all nations.”

But verse 20 is where I really want to land:
“Teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.”

Notice that Jesus did not merely command us to gather converts. He commanded us to make disciples and teach them how to obey.

This takes us right back to Moses.
Moses declared that God’s instruction was Israel’s wisdom and understanding.
Jesus, who fulfills the Law and the Prophets and in whom are hidden the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, now commissions His disciples to teach the nations how to live according to everything He commanded. This is much more than acquiring biblical information.

Scripture teaches us how to live under the government of God. Christ reveals how redeemed humanity is to walk under the authority, wisdom, and dominion of His Kingdom.

Therefore, study the Scriptures not simply looking for another sermon.
Study them for wisdom. Study them to understand the ways of God. Study them until His Word reshapes how you think.
How you speak. How you forgive. How you love. How you lead. How you serve.
How you treat people who are different from you. How you exercise the authority entrusted to you. And how you represent Christ among the nations.

There is wisdom from above available to us.
As that wisdom becomes embodied in our lives, we learn how to walk faithfully under the authority and dominion of the Kingdom.

Then Jesus closes this extraordinary commission with one of the greatest promises ever given to those who are sent:
“And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Think about that.

The One who possesses all authority in heaven and earth promises His abiding presence to those He commissions.
We are sent under His authority. We are instructed by His wisdom. We are empowered by His Spirit. We are commissioned to the nations. We are commanded to make disciples.

And we never go alone.
After more than 35 years of traveling among the nations, I remain convinced that there is still so much for us to discover about what Jesus actually meant when He simply said: GO.

The authority is His. The commission is ours. The power is of the Spirit. The nations are the field.

The Scriptures are our wisdom. And Christ receives all the glory. Go. Teach. Disciple. Demonstrate.

The nations are closer than you think.

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