The Church's Marching Orders

To you again from beacon Baptist Church. Thank you for tuning into our lifestream service.

It is the Lord's day. Rejoice in our Savior rejoice in his person.

We rejoice in his finished work on Calvary that secures our right standing with the father tonight. I would want to begin our service with the him that will entitle my message tonight as I preach, it will be the churches marching orders and with that thought in mind, listen to the words of lead on King eternal lead on, O King eternal, the day of March has come, henceforth, in fields of conquest like tense shall be our home through days of preparation, thy grace has made a strong and now old King eternal. We lift our battle song lead on, O King eternal tool sends fierce war shall see, and holiness shall whisper the sweet man of peace for not with swords, loud clashing, nor role of stirring drums, deeds of love and mercy.

The heavenly kingdom comes late on O King eternal. We follow not with fears for gladness breaks like morning where air thy face appeared by cross is lifted over us. We journey in its light, the crown awaits the conquest lead on all God of might wonderful him for the Christian church has inspired worshipers for generations to go to prayer tonight. Let me remind you a few prayer requests informed this morning of the death of Dr. Alan Karen's.

Pray for his family and those who knew him and loved him and affected by his home-going the same concerning the family Ben Vestal in his departure to be with the Lord on a coy sister had surgery this past week. She fell down some stairs had some facial surgery. Thanks for praying for her. Pray for her and her spiritual needs. Alice Marley fell and fractured her pelvis. We support her in prayer and drew Guthrie. She is dealing with cancer. It's been rediscovered and she consults with the doctors and determine a plan of action for her. Thank you for praying for our daughter Abigail and Webster. Ross has come into the world and Abigail and Webster are home.

I was able to drive out Friday with Carly and see him. What a delight.

Rejoice with Dan and Abby and this wonderful gift from God.

So Webster is Lisa healthy ways. He weighed 6 pounds. 9 ounces when he was born dropped a few ounces as he's come home but he's healthy and were thanking God for him to join me as we look to the Lord in prayer. Father, thank you that we can quiet our hearts again before you and around your throne of grace, rejoicing that there is such a place in this universe, a place where we can come and receive grace to help in time of need. How good a God, you are to make provisions for our lives for providing your son to meet the deepest need of our lives we needed to be saved. We needed to be made right with you to be redeemed when needed to be reconciled to you. We needed our sins dealt with and we thank you are God that you have dealt with our sins and punishing them in your son that you might forgive us and maintain your holiness and your justice. What we thank you that we can intercede for others and for the family of Dr. Alan Karen's for the family. Ben Vestal and others who have no sorrow in recent weeks, we ask you to draw near to them and encourage their hearts and fill their hearts with peace and joy and consolation. Father, thank you again that you have not only made provisions for your children in this life, but in the life to come for all eternity. Thank you God for the prospect for all of your children. The one day will be with you forever and ever and ever pray that you be with Margie persons she is recovering from surgery and please father, have mercy upon her and draw her to yourself and salvation. We pray for Alice Marley that you would bring healing to her. She's fallen in fractured her pelvis and then for. Drew Guthrie your sister please minister to her give wisdom to the doctors console her. During this long battle that she's been engaged in with cancer be with Mary Shaw she recovers from shoulder surgery. Thank you for being with John Spencer this past week as he had knee replacement surgery be with our pope as he continues to struggle with COPD be with Brooke Faustus. She is dealing with injuries suffered in a car accident at work in her life and situation and circumstances will we again pray for our country should cause peace to prevail would be a smooth transition of power. Government we thank you God that you order these things to you have ordained in eternity past what would transpire in this time in human history that affects the United States of America. Lord, give us faith to trust you and to submit to your sovereign rule or thank you for rewarding those who are men of faith and of righteousness who who are promoting good in our culture. Thank you for allowing them to be elected to serve in government places again. Lord we ask you to meet with esses. The people of God as we consider your word tonight instruct us and encourage us and build us up in a most holy faith receive our worship and our praises we offer to you in Jesus name, amen, amen. Well, tonight I want to speak to you about the churches marching orders say well that's interesting mean by that. Well, we are in missions month and before I get into the passage that I want to read to you. We are engaged heavily were commissions both locally and then abroad. One of the families that we have partnered with is the Snyders we thank you for we thank you for supporting this work.

Yet insiders are engaged in the work of the gospel in mind is going blank in Papua New Guinea and they produced a short video very insightful and inspiring at this time we would direct your attention to the monitor as we preview this missionary update: Trish Snyder this. Thank you for the opportunity of giving you an overview and update as far as the ministry in the coral. I tried.

I am recording this from the heart, cry office here in Rector, Virginia, and as you know from our previous updates.

We moved up to Radford a few weeks ago I we feel settled here and we are working with her cry in the areas of Asia. While I heal up and I thank you for your prayers for my family and I as we transitioned to Radford a few weeks ago.

We are very thankful for the opportunity to continue to serve in the area that God's gift to me to do it. Regarding missions while we are in the states ask you to pray for the Lord's will in the future as to when we go back.

We're still desiring that but were not sure as far as my health. What that looks like, but I'm thankful that you are always pray for Sinnott. You know, my wife and I will talk about this the other night, we feel very loved were always receiving emails and encouragement from you and so we thank you for that. But I like to do for a few minutes during your I thank you for the opportunity of allowing me to give an overview for your November missions month. So what I would like to do is talk about some of the work that's been going on recently and some of the give you some new news regarding the archive missionaries working there, and the core wide so as you know, I think it was a couple years ago that during the November missions month I spoke to you regarding the core. Why try and introduce them to you through some video and you were given overview but if you remember the coral. I tried are in the lowlands of Papua in Benicia. We been serving there now for a decade and we have seen fruit that the Holy Spirit has done through the efforts there and the coral. Why try our it's almost as if it's just beginning. Still, after 10 years of work, the church is been planted in our village that we live in Indiana walking we are ministering to another 12 villages in the northern region.

The coral I tried are a tribe of about 4000 people and they are animistic they are. They worship rocks.

They were the trees. They work, worship, and evil spirits called site and when we went in there 10 years ago, things were just beginning through some of the efforts of the Lonnie men the Lonnie Christians that now heart cry supports and trains and so we been very thankful to partner with them over the years and see people come to faith in Jesus Christ. The efforts for even after 10 years you know it even though it feels still know there's a lot of work to be done. You know, at with with what we've been able to see over the last decade. You know, even through the hardships. It's every hardship is worth it because we we now have a handful of believers that are learning biblical truths that are serving their own people and I think the guys like why you that you see other updates of the good guys like Iris and his wife Debbie thought they are serving their own people. Now, so I ask you to pray for this handful of believers that we've not only seen serve their people, but that we been able to train over the last five years.

We started the salvation history, training, start salvation salvation history training.

When I first got there and we were able to teach these men and their wives throughout the years, salvation history, from Genesis to Revelation, so that they could take the stories they could take the gospel stories to their own people to their respective villages and are still doing that today because of your efforts. These guys are still moving forward in their faith and teaching their own people also like you to pray for Jimmy and paren and use and at the way the heart cry missionaries that are serving with us know we been attained for so many years now.

There like family like you to pray for wife Utah, where praying that why you is my translator. My helper eyes like a son to us like to ask you to pray for him that he would become the first northern coral I pastor. We are in the process of training him and he's finishing up some biblical studies on the coast to return next year.

I also want to update you on Jimmy and paren there are some things that have transpired over the last several months and there's some conflict within the village. In fact it's become violent. As of late due to someone dying and also due to the area of a pig being killed a lot of conflict in the village right now and I'm encouraging them stay faithful in the midst of such persecution, so please pray that God would use this evil for good, and that Jimmy and paren would glorify God in the midst of so much suffering you asked ask you to pray for use when he's been sick for so any months with his kidneys.

There seems to be an improvement. And he wants to return to the village next week with Jimmy paren is been in the village for several months along, so please pray that Jimmy and use these archive missionaries can get back into the village and start the work of shepherding the church again and overseeing the ministry there is been so faithful for what he's how he's kept believers and how he's built his church and we know from Scripture that we are sure to victory, but we also have the responsibility to pray for these men and to do what we must, in order for these believers to grow in their faith. So please pray for the team that we work with and you we sing those on the updates.

I send those out every month we were thankful for the translation that has been done the book that was recorded that I did without my translator why you that was. It took was a five-year project and it took day after day more days that most days were sweat rolling down my arms and concentrating on word one word for a week trying to find the exact word that that the Lord wanted to use their but it took five years to complete that project and now today we have that published the salvation history catechisms in the northern coral I language and that's also been put on solar speakers as well so were very thankful for what God is done through those efforts pray, please pray that God would use that solar recorders the soul recorders with the salvation history catechisms to open the eyes and hearts of the people in the northern coral. Why in this is the northern or I dialect. I just want to say this could not happen without you mean this is not about Paul and Patricia Snyder in Indonesia. This is about the broad local church. We are an extension of your efforts you are sending us to complete a task and that task is to make Christ known and one of those ways is by translation and giving them the good news through the catechisms so that they can listen and learn each. Each day one final thing with the COBIT things are still progressing the Donnie evangelist, not a heart cry. Men and women are still there. There continue to serve amidst much suffering please pray for them and I thank you so much for all your support and prayers through these years and we will talk to you soon. God bless. I hope you been encouraged by that update from Paul Snyder and a little bit better way of knowing how to pray and to be informed with what God is doing, even while there stateside the gospel is running and affecting the lives of people rejoice in the lives of been changed and native men who have embraced the truth and are curing it to their own.

So bless God forward these advancements out tonight because it is missions month because we are focusing on the work of the gospel and are mission outreach.

I want to take a fresh look at the great commission. Let me read from Matthew chapter 28 beginning at verse 16. Then the 11 disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. Jesus came 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 of the son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you. And low I am with you always, even to the end of the age. A man understanding the great commission is interval to the church understanding its marching orders you see missions is not a New Testament idea God is a missionary God with a heart for all the nations you recall when he called Abraham in Genesis chapter 12 he said to him I will bless those who bless you and I will curse those who curse you and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. It was God and God's intention to bless the world bless the Gentile world.

Bless the Jewish nation first, but that all the families of the earth might be blessed through this man Abraham listen to these words from Psalm 67 God be merciful to us and bless us and cause his face to shine upon us. Why that your way may be known on earth. Your salvation among all nations, but the peoples praise you oh God, let all the peoples praise you oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you shall judge the people righteously and govern the nations on earth, let the peoples praise you oh God, let all the peoples praise you, then the earth shall yield her increase God our own God shall bless us and shall bless us and all the ends of the earth shall fear him. See God is a heart for the nations because God is a heart for the nations. We should have a heart for the nations as well. You know when you familiarize yourself with the Old Testament you you see evidences of lives being changed outside the Jewish nation was Rahab the harlot who became a follower of Jehovah. There was Ruth the Moabitess and it's wonderful to see how the reputation of the God of Israel was enhanced on the international stage through the godly influence of outstanding Hebrews. Let me recall several for you Joseph. Joseph became the Prime Minister of Egypt. Daniel became the prime minister of Babylon. Esther became the queen of Persia is you trace the growth of the church through the book of acts the church experienced extraordinary missionary success and indicator of that success can be seen in an incident that took place shortly after Paul and Silas arrived in the northern Greek city of Thessalonica. These two missionaries were dragged before the authorities by an angry crowd who accuse them of what of turning the world upside down by their preaching of the gospel. Acts chapter 17 in verse six, and in just one generation, the gospel went from the extremities of the Empire to the very heart of Rome. There were even those in Caesar's household who had become followers of the Lord Jesus. Paul speaks of them in Philippians chapter 4 and verse 22.

So tonight I'd like to walk you through some aspects of the great commission. I think it's good for us to revisit this.

Don't let the familiarity distract you or hinder you from learning in following this evening we need. I think at times go back to the basis the basics and be reminded of those things that are foundational to who we are as a church and who God is called us to be as we recommit ourselves to the marching orders of King Jesus. So the great commission number one. I want you to think with me about the priority of the great commission. The priority of the great commission, the priority of the great commission is seen in a number of things but the first thing I want to draw your attention is the last words uttered by our risen Lord while he was on the earth relate to the great commission is recorded in four places.

Mark chapter 16 Matthew chapter 28 were were focused here tonight. Luke chapter 24 versus 46 to 49 and then the opening chapter of the book of acts and less we misunderstand the great commission is not the afterthought of a plan that went awry. It's not as if okay Jesus it is time for me to leave and not to give this to you guys want you to finish up what I started.

I didn't have time to finish it. Know this.

This is been the purpose and plan of God from eternity past, we have these words in acts chapter 1 and verse one. The former account I made, oh Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach the book of acts is a continuation of orator it's a record of the continuation of the work that the church would do as Jesus left the earth, the great commission is a continuation of what Jesus began both to do and to teach. So there is the priority of the great commission is not just a commission. It is the great commission and as I said earlier, these are the last words recorded by the risen Christ before he left this earth. And if the if they are the last things he had to say they are perhaps some of the most important words he had to say they are the marching orders for the church so number one the priority of the great commission number two think with me about the mandate of the great commission. The mandate of the great commission back to Matthew chapter 28 we have these words and Jesus came and spoke to them who the 11 disciples who'd gone away into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had appointed for them. Jesus came 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, that is the mandate that is the commandment that is the injunction is a mandate from our Lord, not a suggestion, not something to think about or consider, but a mandate and behind that mandate is all authority, all the authority of the Lord Jesus. He says all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

That's absolute and universal authority granted to the Lord Jesus Christ by his father as a reward for his obedience in the incarnation, and in his death in Calvary. The mandate of the great commission and that's why we cannot relegate the great commission to a sideline of the church, something we just dabbled a little bit. It's got to be at the heart of who we are as a church. If were going to honor the head of the church, the Lord Jesus Christ.

This is a mandate that we have. Think with me. Number three about the core message of the great commission, or perhaps maybe a better way of saying it is the central activity of the great commission and what is that. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations out of bed and off a lot of ink spilled over this matter, but in my opinion it's very clear. There are number of action words in the great commission, we have the word go. We have the word baptize.

We have the word teach. We have the verb make disciples and the challenge is to understand how they are related to each other. Here's how I believe there related to each other. The main verb in the Greek is make disciples. There are three participles that modify the main verb we make disciples by doing three things by going by baptizing and by teaching, but the emphasis is on the going.

The emphasis isn't on the baptizing. The emphasis is on the teaching. The emphasis is on making disciples in the way we go about making disciples is these three activities of going in baptizing and teaching all things whatsoever have been committed committed to us at a discussion with a man some time back and he was arguing with me about this and he said the emphasis of the great commission is on the word go and so I said to him I said well defend that from the Scriptures and this is what he said to me. We talked a bit about some of the things that I've already mentioned to you and he observed with me that the great commission is the last words of the Lord Jesus before he left this earth, and he agreed with me that the book of acts is a continuation of all that Jesus record of the continuation of all the Jesus both taught and did through his church and then he went to the book of acts, and he said after you get past acts chapter 1 and verse eight he says just turn the pages of your Bible. If you have a red red letter by voices. Where do you find red ink again so we did that and we came to ask chapter 9 that's the account of the conversion of Saul of Tarsus and he drew my attention to these verses. Ask chapter 9 hear the words of again, the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul said salt is what you want me to do. Then the Lord said to him, arise, and go into the city and you will be told what you must do so is it did see that arise and go.

Ananias was dispatched to go and have a ministry to the apostle Paul. So the Lord said verse 11 to him, arise, and go to the street called straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus for behold, he is praying. And then verse 15 but the Lord said to him, go for he is a chosen vessel of mine to bear my name before Gentiles. Well that's an interesting observation, and I certainly don't want to minimize the emphasis on initiative and going, but that is not the heart of the great commission, we had a ministry here for years and years that was headed up by Gerald counts and Jerry Gerald and it was called, go ye and go ye was a visitation ministry want. So one day a week.

The men would gather and disperse into the community and with an emphasis of taking the gospel.

Now I've no problem with the ministry being called, go ye but we don't want to miss the point that the heart of the great commission is making disciples.

Yes, we must go in order to reach the lost. Reach the nations. And yes, we need to make converts and as converts are made.

We need to incorporate them into the local church by baptizing them and then we need to make disciples of them by doing what teaching them to observe all things whatsoever is been commanded by our Savior to us so the core activity of the great commission is what it's making disciples is not making converts is not necessarily planting churches although planting churches is a means to the end of making disciples with the core of the great commission is making disciples. And that's why God is pleased to earth people into the kingdom of God, and they become members of a local church. For instance, let's talk about Zimbabwe.

One area in the world where we are heavily invested in the work of the gospel in fulfilling the mandate of the great commission making disciples. There not just seeing people converted but making disciples so we go and we do what we carry on training conferences why we doing that because were interested in making disciples were training pastors and pastors that are able to shepherd and care for the converts in their churches and see people grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Someone said, well, our disciples making disciples are disciples born or are they may. That's a good question to think through our disciples born or are they may and I believe the biblical answer to that question is yes and yes there born from above disciples are born into the kingdom of God through the new birth through regeneration, but they need to be made disciples. They need to be trained how to follow Christ. So the core activity. Core message of the great commission is to make disciples as were doing that as were making disciples seems to me that there are two things that have to be crystal clear in her mind, because if they're not then things become hazy and fuzzy and we miss the concentration of our efforts. What are they well it's like taking a coin in coins that are struck have a pattern embedded upon them. They bear an image in every single one of those coins bears that image both on the one side and on the other. So be good for us to for minute just to think about discipleship making disciples.

In this way.

There are two sides of this to emphases. There is number one sound doctrine and there is number two, godly lifestyle all Disciples of Christ are to be conformed to these two patterns there to bear this image like a coin sound doctrine.

Think with me and listen to me listen to Tim and second Timothy chapter 1 and verse 13, Paul is writing to Timothy and he says what you heard from me keep as the pattern of sound teaching with faith and love in Christ Jesus. There is a pattern.

There is a system of sound doctrine that is part of making disciples and then godly lifestyle, not either/or but both Van Philippians chapter 3 in verse 17 Paul there is writing and he says join with others in following my example brothers and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you so it's not just sound doctrine.

It's godly lifestyle.

That's what were looking for in the making of disciples. People who have been trained in sound doctrine and that sound doctrine translates into godly living. There is a relationship between how we live and what we believe and it has to be both. So talking about the great commission aspects of the great commission number four. Let's think for a moment about the recipients of the great commission.

The recipients of the great commission who received this great commission who is it intended for. Some say well it's for the apostles.

It's for these 11 there in Matthew chapter 28 is for those who were gathered there and ask chapter 1. Well, it certainly includes them. But it's not for them only say well on what basis do you say that listen to the language of verse 19 go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you. And low I am with you always, even to the end of the age even to the end of the age.

If the great commission was confined to the apostle to those who walk with Jesus then this promise of his abiding presence to the end of the age makes no sense because the promise of his abiding presence to the end of the age is attached to the great commission. So the great commission is binding on churches along until Christ returns in judgment of this world, the second coming were under the mandate of the great commission as long as Jesus tarries is coming and who is it it's the church. It is the church's responsibility is not for individual Christians individual Christians are to baptize other Christians know Baptist baptizing of Christians is incorporation into the local church coming into the local church is how we bring ourselves under the authority of God appointed pastors and teachers, and grow up in the most holy faith, so this is the church, the recipient of recipients of the great commission is the church of the Lord Jesus Christ for all the ages think with me about the sphere of the great commission. The sphere of the great commission. That's pretty obvious.

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations of all the nations, our missions program has an emphasis on local missions.

There's an aspect of that and there is emphasis that moves from their into the most remotest parts of the earth week we heard about the Kawai there. Papua New Guinea the tribal people as you look at the book of acts where Jesus gives the mandate. There he says to them and ask chapter 1 shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth that one verse gives us a bit of an outline to the development of the book of acts and the spread of the gospel, you know, persecution came upon the church and the church was dispersed from Jerusalem.

Focus initially was in Jerusalem but because of persecution.

There was a scattering in the gospel went to areas of Judea and Samaria and ultimately to the ends of the earth, so the sphere of the great commission of all the nations and to the ends of the earth. Number six. The enabling of the great commission. The enabling of the great commission say will why why do we have. Why do we need an enablement wealth because these men and you and I are feeble and frail and doubting and timid and fearful. I find it interesting that were told there in verse 16 then the 11 disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them and when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. Some doubted today doubt I don't think they doubted the resurrection because they had visibly all seen him so I don't think it was that, but they had doubts and had misgivings.

The same is true in in Mark's account.

Mark says in Mark chapter 16 verse 14 where we have a Mark's account of the great commission. It says verse 14. Later, he appeared to the 11 as they sat at the table, and he rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart because they did not believe those who would seen him after he had risen so here are men. The 11 that initially were going to receive this great commission mandate and they were men of unbelief and hardness of heart, and they doubted while in Luke chapter 24 where we have another record, Luke's account commissioning of the great commission is that a few verses before they were commissioned. It says in verse 38 of Luke 24 and he said to them, why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your heart behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself handle me and see for spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have when he said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. But while they still did not believe for joy and marvel. He said to them. Have you any food here and again these are not man of great courage.

These are men who are fearful and doubting and so the enabling of the great commission they need enabling.

They need help outside themselves.

That's exactly what God provides for them. Verse eight of acts chapter 1, but you shall receive power due to miss a Greek word from which we get the word dynamite you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the to the end of the earth, so that power that enabling power the Holy Spirit is given for the purpose of carrying out this great commission mandate we have that same Holy Spirit indwelling us we have access to the same power source so there is no excuse.

Yes, where like them were doubting were fearful were lacking courage and fortitude. There is opposition, there is persecution there is all kinds of difficulties to overcome, but we have the enabling of the great commission, sort of.

We sing we see number one, the priority the great commission.

The mandate of the great commission. The central activity of the great commission. The recipients of the great commission. The sphere of the great commission.

The enabling of the great commission and finally the promise attached to the great commission. What is that promise promises and low I am with you always, even to the end of the age.

The promise of his abiding presence. The one who by his incarnation is a Manuel God with us will not forsake us, as we engage in the worldwide endeavor of gospel work in making disciples so for our purposes tonight.

It's good I think to just step back, go to the main text. Think about the great commission haven't clarified in our minds reassess our commitment to it.

The think about it in these terms.

We believe it's a priority. It is a priority in our church is not left to a mission society. A group of women in the church. It's something embraced by the entire church is a priority to us with taken seriously. This is a mandate. This is a command from our Lord. This is something were to be engaged in for how long till the end of the age jelly comes the work is never done.

There's no coasting. That's why we're committed to those ministries that that emphasize and are committed to the same things were committed to making disciples. I think of equipping nationals worldwide.

Dr. Bill Hill is the director of that ministry was the heartbeat of that ministry. It's making disciples.

That's the central focus of our commitment to Zimbabwe making disciples, we understand that in order to do that we need the enabling spirit of God to motivate us to push us out of our comfort zones and to grow and be stretched to be more involved in the work of the great commission.

Then with this wonderful promise that he will be with us to the end of the age. As we give ourselves to this wonderful task and it'll be worth it all. When we see Jesus listen to the words of this hymn, for my sake and the Gospels go for my sake and the Gospels go and tell redemption story is Harold's answer. So in thine Lord, all the glory they preach his birth, his life, his cross the love of his atonement for home. They count but loss is rising his enthronement Park Park.

The trump of Jubilee proclaims to every nation, from pole to pole by land and sea glad tidings of salvation is nearer draws the day of doom while still, the battle rages the heavenly dayspring through the gloom breaks on the night of ages still on and on. The anthem spread of hallelujah voices in concert with the holy did the warrior church rejoices their snow white robes are washed in blood the golden harps are ringing earth and the Paradise of God. One trying song are singing becomes whose AdVent trumpet drowns the last of times evangelists Emmanuel crowned with many crowns the Lord of saints and angels all life light love the great I am triune who changes never the throne of God and of the Lamb is nine and thine forever shall we pray father how I thank you for the spirit of God that indwells us that it now allows us to be changed more and more into your likeness. We might be engaged in the very things that you're committed to. We thank you for beacon Baptist Church for the way you have led and guided through the years in our commitment to worldwide missions. We prayer God that we would never grow weary or tired. In this work that you would encourage us in this work that we would understand that were still under the mandate of our R's of our Savior King Jesus, we ask our God that you will bless the efforts of the Snyders as we've heard of their work again tonight. The Kawai of these hard cry missionaries and all that they're facing and the obstacles in the unrest in the villages we prayer God that you will give them wisdom that you will cause the gospel to penetrate deeper and deeper into the villages sustain these men provide for these men encourage these men build these men up in the most holy faith. We thank you for the training that these disciples have received on the history of salvation and is they have it in story form and they go from village to village Lord, would you accompany that work with your power and would eyes be opened and hearts be opened and people birthed into the kingdom of God. Thank you. Our father for these servants of yours who have obeyed you and gone sustain them, strengthen them, help them to regain their strength that they may return to the field. It you have called them to. We thank you father again for this Lord's day in our consideration of your word. We pray our father that would that would be peace to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. A man and a man