2016-08-16

I've been put in charge... Go into all the world & make disciples - of all the people groups... by...



God, help us obey your choice
of "Leader of Humanity",
as we learn, ignoring noise
from worlds - which (claim, but) aren't free.

"Go to all the world", he said
and "make disciples (as you've seen
me do with you - now un-dead)
disciples, who are just like me."

For I've been a "Matheetees"*
myself, and learning from "Ă„bba"^.
Son of Man does what he sees
is being done by his father!

As a "father" teaches "son" 
- approaching all this world like him;
so their family is one
in goal and in their purposing;

"God, you need to help them do
in action, & in practices,
all the things we told them to
till the day their father says."

Christened "Lord", & "Emperor",
"High - Prime Minister/ President",
"High- Priest/ Prophet/ King, and Shah",
the "Coach", and "Boss", where-e'r you went,

God is sending you back "soon",
we want to do what we're told
(not because you're a baboon
but) because your wise Love’s Gold!



 * Matheetees (greek) word used in the NT and in the LXX for the "disciple" of a Jewish Rabbi (teacher).
^ Abba (Aramaic) word used by sons & daughters for their own father. According to Mark 14:36, used by Jesus in private, when addressing God when in anguish in the Garden of Gethsemani, & subsequently referred to by Paul (in "Romans" & "Galatians") as what the spirit of Christ would enable his disciples to call out to God too.

The Lord [a]God has given Me the tongue of disciples,
That I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word.
He awakens Me morning by morning,
He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.

The Lord God has opened My ear;
And I was not disobedient
Nor did I turn back.
6 I gave My back to those who strike Me,
And My cheeks to those who pluck out the beard;
I did not cover My face from humiliation and spitting.

For the Lord God helps Me,
Therefore, I am not disgraced;
Therefore, I have set My face like flint,
And I know that I will not be ashamed.

He who vindicates Me is near;
Who will contend with Me?
Let us stand up to each other;
Who has a case against Me?
Let him draw near to Me. (Isaiah 50:4-8 NASB)

18 Jesus drew near and said to them, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. 19 Go, then, to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples: baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, 20 and teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. And I will be with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:18-20 GNB)

By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.  The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;  but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked. (1 John 2:3-6 NASB)

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