WEBVTT 00:00:00.580 --> 00:00:17.032 Welcome to Commission Thursday, where every believer is a witness of the gospel of the kingdom and where every believer is an ambassador of the kingdom of God and where every believer is the salt and the light of the world. 00:00:17.032 --> 00:00:24.542 Remember Jesus died for everyone and Jesus loves everyone In the book of John. 00:00:24.542 --> 00:00:28.992 Let me take us to the book of John, chapter 10, verse 16. 00:00:28.992 --> 00:00:34.530 And I'll read I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. 00:00:34.530 --> 00:00:36.527 I must bring them also. 00:00:36.527 --> 00:00:43.594 They too will listen to my voice and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. 00:00:43.594 --> 00:00:47.631 What does this even mean to us in today's church? 00:00:47.631 --> 00:01:08.884 It means that there are people who are out there in the world, lost in the world, bonded by many things like substance abuse, different sex orientation, lgbtq, and we are called by Christ to reach out even to this one, because Christ came for us all. 00:01:09.245 --> 00:01:23.543 You may wonder how can you reach out to these people who are bonded in different things substance abuse, drug abuse, people who are addicted to various things, various vices in the society? 00:01:23.543 --> 00:01:30.786 We are told in the book of Romans that unless we preach to them, they cannot know this truth. 00:01:30.786 --> 00:01:37.662 Let me take you to the book of Romans, chapter 10, verse 14 to 15. 00:01:37.662 --> 00:01:50.968 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in and how can they believe in the one of, in the one of whom they have not had, and how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 00:01:51.590 --> 00:02:32.328 You may be wondering how you can reach out to these people and in whatever it is that God has placed you, whether it's in your school, whether it's in your social media platform, whether it's in your social media platform, whether it's in your marketplace you can actually be the light and the salt in that space that God has placed you, by dispensing the truth of God, whereby people struggling with even sex orientation, that you can take them to the truth of God, where you can tell them that God created man and woman and that's it, and just leave it for God and the Holy Spirit to manifest the goodness of his word. 00:02:32.949 --> 00:02:49.635 As I conclude, we find that Jesus died for all people and, in John 3, 16, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. 00:02:49.635 --> 00:03:02.415 We find that, even these people, jesus died for them and he desires for them to come to the saving grace, to come to this and take the gift of salvation. 00:03:02.415 --> 00:03:06.550 You may be wondering how you can plug into this great mission. 00:03:06.550 --> 00:03:15.425 You can plug in through the details that will be shared on the screen, and then you can come and be part of this great commission. 00:03:15.425 --> 00:03:16.606 God bless you.