“On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, 'Peace be with you.' When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, 'Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.' And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, 'Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.'” John 20:19-23
1. THE MISSION
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him." John 3:16-17
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THE CO-MISSION
“Jesus said to them again,'Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.'” John 20:21
APPLICATION:
Jesus declares to them (His disciples), “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” He stands in the same relation to the Father as that in which they stand to Him. He declares to them, and they in His name are to declare to the world, the fulness of the Father’s love, and the peace between God and man, witnessed to in His life and death. He and they stand also in the same relation to the world. At this very moment they are assembled with shut doors for fear of the Jews, who are triumphing over Him as dead. But, to that world, which will hate, persecute, and kill them, as it had hated, persecuted, and killed Him, they are sent as He was sent; they are to declare forgiveness, mercy, love, peace, as He had declared to them, to every heart that does not harden itself to them; and they are to find in His presence, as He had ever found in the Father’s presence, the support which will ever bring peace, power and promise to their own hearts. He came to us. We are to go to them.
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