Paul Washer As You Go Make Disciples

It is a great privilege for me to be in a church where a historical, and more importantly a biblical gospel is preached.
A church that believes the great doctrines of the new testament, of the reformation, of the great preachers down through the ages; such as Spurgeon and others,; of great missionaries down through the ages such as William Carry, the father of modern missions.
Becauseultimately, the work of the great commission is the transmission of truth, the transmission of a true gospel.
A dear brother that I know was once asked, because of his theological position, are you against evangelism? He said yes and no. I am against evangelism the way it is done primarily in America. But I am not against biblical evangelism and missions. I have given my life to that.
So much is donetoday in the name of the gospel and yet if you question those who preach that message, you find quickly that their gospel is contemporary. It is watered down. It is far away from the New Testament.
So I praise God that I am among a group of believers who have set themselves down on a New Testament gospel, no matter the scandal it might create in the community and every where else their voice isheard.
Because never forget this, when our gospel ceases to offend men and ceases to be a scandal, it is no longer the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Lets go to Matthew 28 verse 16.

This is known as the Great Commission.
Let me give you Webster’s definition of a commission: a formal warrant of authority granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certainacts or duties, a warrant conferring authority to raise and command a body of troops.
The church of Jesus Christ has been given authority by Jesus Christ to carry out the Great Commission, to preach the gospel to the whole world and to use whatever biblical means necessary to carry out that Commission.
I want to state 4 things at the very beginning of this sermon.

First of all the church hasbeen placed under a solemn and irrevocable obligation to make disciples of all nations.
Listen to that, solemn and irrevocable. In our binocular if you identify yourself with the person of Jesus Christ, you have better take this commission seriously.
And then I will follow by saying this:
If this commission has cost you nothing, I don’t care who you are or how much you talk. You have nottaken this commission seriously.
And furthermore I will say this:
There are people hearing my right now, who have not taken this commission seriously thought they claim the salvation of Christ.
Lets not minst words. This is true.
What has the Great Commission cost you?

Secondly, the church has the warrant of authority to raise whatever size army of gospel preachers that might be necessary forthe completion of her obligation.
We have the obligation and the right to use all our resources to rise up an army of gospel preachers.
Not untrained, unbiblical, atheological persons who just want to get involved in some activity that sounds like mission. No, we need to rise up an army of men who know the scriptures and see it as their primary task to go over into the nations and preach thosescriptures until either the nations are converted or the preacher is killed.

Thirdly, the church has the authority to send her preachers to every or any nation upon the earth without the limitation of jurisdiction or restriction of number.
I remember when the emperor of France in one of Spurgeon’s sermons, the emperor of France had made some decree that he would no longer allow evangelicalpreachers as such to come over and preach in France and Spurgeon stood at the pulpit and said, “The daughter of Zion wags her head at thee, who are you little king, to tell the King of Kings where He will send his men? We will fludge your country with preachers.”

Fourthly the church will always be the church militant on earth until she is the church victorious in heaven.
There is ease in Zion...