The final sermon on the last words of Christ to the Church before the ascension. We need to devote ourselves to Holy Spirit empowered discipleship way of life not just on Sundays.

1. Marching
Orders
Don’t forget to turn on the recorder
The Last Words of Jesus

2. Matthew 28:18–20
And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All
authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son
and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I
commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to
the end of the age.”

3. Mark 16:15–18
And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach
the gospel to all creation. He who has believed and has
been baptized shall be saved; but he who has
disbelieved shall be condemned. These signs will
accompany those who have believed: in My name they
will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;
they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly
poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the
sick, and they will recover.”

4. Luke 24:45–49
Then He opened their minds to understand the
Scriptures, and He said to them, “Thus it is written,
that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the
dead the third day, and that repentance for forgiveness
of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the
nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses
of these things. And behold, I am sending forth the
promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in
the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”

5. Acts 1:4–8
Gathering them together, He commanded them not to
leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had
promised, “Which,” He said, “you heard of from Me; 5
for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized
with the Holy Spirit not many days from now…but you
will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon
you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem,
and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest
part of the earth.”

6. Holy Spirit Power Review
The Holy Spirit baptizes us in Christ Salvation
The disciple baptizes us in water Water baptism
Jesus baptizes us in the Holy Spirit Spirit Baptism

7. Why?
You receive power

8. Evangelism’s Call
1. Write down 4 unchurched people you know
2. Pray for them for 4 weeks
3. Purposely engage them during that 4 weeks
4. Invite at least 1 at the end of 4 weeks

9. Disciple-to learn, to be instructed,’ a person who learns from another
by instruction, whether formal or informal
Discipleship’s
Design

10. Part of Christ’s commands
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations….teaching
them to observe all that I commanded you…Matthew
• Commanded
Then He opened their minds to understand the
Scriptures…Luke
• Empowered

11. It takes hard work
Be diligent to present
yourself approved to God
as a workman who does
not need to be ashamed,
accurately handling the
word of truth.
2 Timothy 2:15

12. It takes teachers
• Jesus taught
• The disciples taught
• Paul taught
• The Holy Spirit teaches
• It is a gift too

13. Holy Spirit Power
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but
the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the
things freely given to us by God, which things we also
speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in
those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts
with spiritual words.
1 Corinthians 2:12–13
Revelation

14. …that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of
wisdom and of revelation in the
knowledge of Him.
Ephesians 1:17
Wisdom
Revelation
Holy Spirit Power continued

15. Spiritual Stages
Infants-share
Children-connect
Young adults-minister
Parent-disciple

16. Spiritual Infants
Share what you know

17. What’s in a name?
[Barnabas] left for Tarsus to look for Saul; and when he
had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And for an
entire year they met with the church and taught
considerable numbers; and the disciples were first
called Christians in Antioch.
Acts 11:25–26
Taught them to identify with Christ

18. What’s in a name? continued
But this I admit to you, that according to the Way which
they call a sect I do serve the God of our fathers,
believing everything that is in accordance with the Law
and that is written in the Prophets;
Acts 24:14
The Way-a whole way of life
Identifying with the way, truth and life

19. Explain the basics
And according to Paul’s custom, he went to them, and
for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the
Scriptures, explaining and giving evidence that the
Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and
saying, “This Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you is the
Christ.”
Acts 17:2–3

20. Good lesson plan
Reasoned from the scriptures
Explaining
Gave evidence
Used as an evangelistic approach

21. At all stages
But we proved to be gentle among you, as a nursing
mother tenderly cares for her own children. Having so
fond an affection for you, we were well-pleased to
impart to you not only the gospel of God but also our
own lives, because you had become very dear to us.
1 Thessalonians 2:7–8
Affection
Knowledge
Self

22. Spiritual Children
Connecting with them

23. Problem Stage
Self Focused
My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ
is formed in you—Galatians 4:19

24. It calls for progress
As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here
and there by waves and carried about by every wind of
doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in
deceitful scheming;
Ephesians 4:14

25. Roll Models
You are witnesses, and so is God,
how devoutly and uprightly and
blamelessly we behaved toward
you believers; just as you know
how we were exhorting and
encouraging and imploring each
one of you as a father would his
own children
1 Thessalonians 2:10–11
Exhort
Encourage
Implore

26. Spiritual Adult
Kingdom focused Minister
Outwardly focused

27. Takes time
I have written to you, young men, because you are
strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you
have overcome the evil one.
1 John 2:14b
Strong
Word abides in you
Overcome

28. Training and self denial
A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he
has been fully trained, will be like his teacher
Luke 6:40
If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny
himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me…
Luke 9:23

29. Disciple Maker
Spiritual Parent

30. Worthy of emulation
For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet
you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I
became your father through the gospel. Therefore I
exhort you, be imitators of me.
1 Corinthians 4:15–16
Follow me as I…

31. The Mature
Able to teacher
Self controlled
Good reputation
Sound in doctrine
Sound in faith, love and perseverance

32. Be a good example
…in all things show yourself to be an example of good
deeds, with purity in doctrine, dignified, sound in speech
which is beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be
put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us.
Titus 2:7–8

33. Discipleship is not the end product
Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to
explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though
by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again
for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the
oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not
solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is not
accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.
But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice
have their senses trained to discern good and evil.
Hebrews 5:11–14

34. This is many
of us
1. Relationship
2. Teach
3. Encourage
You therefore, my son, be
strong in the grace that is
in Christ Jesus. The things
which you have heard
from me in the presence
of many witnesses,
entrust these to faithful
men who will be able to
teach others also.
2 Timothy 2:1–2

35. Training material for all stages
All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for
teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in
righteousness; so that the man of God may be
adequate, equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:16–17

36. Discipleship’s
Design