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This description sounds great doesn¶t it, that is until perhaps it occurs to us that the
same phrase was one uttered over God¶s people of the Old Testament. The same
people over whom Jesus pronounced those scary words like ³vipers brood´,
³whitewashed tombstones´ and other comments along the same line.
The fact of the matter is that we have been chosen for the same reason that God
originally chose the descendants of Abram, the father of Israel. In each case God
chose that they, and now we, would be a blessing to the Nations. Unfortunately, the
Biblical record indicates that the people of Israel did not act on their mandate.
Instead of reaching out to the other people around then the ³people of God´ chose to
codify the rules of life that they were living under into law and used them as a
measure by which any God follower who strayed their way was to be considered for
adoption into the family of God.
It is at this time that Jesus the Messiah arrives upon the scene and makes those
above pronouncement s. This is the scary bit. He came as a Jewish Messiah, the
long awaited King of the Jew s, but the Jewish leaders rejected what He offered.
Now for the word of warning, our mandate is to c ,
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are also told in the third chapter of John¶s Gospel that God expects us to reach out to
every tribe with His Good News before the Return of the Christ and the end of days.
If we don¶t like the world we are living in then there is only one group that can do
something about it, us the chosen of God.
There are two truths in place as of today. First is that if the Book of the Revelation is
to be held as future, and hence current truth, that we have in excess of 2000
language groups who do not have a verse of the Bible in their heart language.
The second, and this is almost as great a challenge, is that there is no such creature
as a second generation believer. Each of us who name Jesus as King do so
because we, not our parents or our country, chose to believe His claims. This means
that we cannot rest on the decision we made because if we did that we would
potentially be allowing friends and family to quite literally ³go to hell´.
There is a third question, one that is prompted from the Jewish experience. They had
no idea that God had a curve ball in the mix; Jesus came as the Saviour to the whole
world not as a Jewish Messiah for the Jews. What might be our experience if He yet
has another one and we fail to live up to our mandate, could it be a bit like the
Promised Land where we have another go around until we fulfil our mandate?
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