Condemnation

 

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Mark 16 NKJV

14 ¶  Later He appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table; and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen.

15  And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

16  “He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.

1.  Jesus is busy … He always has something to do. You might have to wait, and you may not be the first. He knows exactly when it is the best time and your turn.

a.   Jesus sent a woman and two men to inform the disciples while they were waiting.

b.   A lot of people didn’t believe the prophets and even John the Baptist. They all said, “Jesus will be here in a little while and here is what He needs you to do until then.”

c.    That’s pretty much what I do each Sunday and Wednesday.

d.   But a lot of people, good people, people who love Jesus, just sit there.

e.   What we do while we wait might have something to do with how long we wait.

f.    Jesus said … while you’re waiting for Me, let me give you a:

2.  The Great Commission – “Go into all the world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature!”

a.   That’s our part …Go and tell.

b.   We are not responsible to save anyone, change anyone, criticize anyone, judge anyone, or condemn anyone.

c.    God has a perfect plan, and it demands a personal decision.

d.   God demands we participate in our miracles, especially the salvation of our souls!

                                         i.    People are born and live with an empty spot in their lives that only a relationship with their creator can fill.

                                        ii.    The Holy Spirit works in the hearts and minds of men and women, boys, and girls, to soften and ripen their lives for harvest.

                                      iii.    There are always lost people around us who are ripe for harvest or who need the seed, perhaps watering, a little weeding, and then there are those who are ready to fall off the vine into our hands.

                                      iv.    The harvest is plentiful, the laborers are few. In other words, there are fewer laborers than fruit. Or put into a fishing frame: There are more fish than fishers.

                                       v.    It is only sad that some people will purposefully close their heart and mind to Christ and the message of the Gospel, while others just needed a little more cultivation to say yes.

1.   Romans 1:18 … who suppress the truth …

2.   Romans 1:20 … they are without excuse …

                                      vi.    Romans 10:14 How shall they call upon Him … whom they have not heard.

3.  Saved or Condemned?

a.   John 3:16 God so loved the world … (people – souls)

b.   John 3:17 Jesus did not come to condemn the world but to save the world.

c.    So why are people going to be condemned? They aren’t going to be condemned as much as some people will condemn themselves.

John 3

18  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

19  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

·        Jesus instructed and anointed His followers to go and tell so people throughout the world could hear and be saved.

·        Jesus came from heaven to earth; He was born of a Virgin; He lived a sinless life; He made disciples; He died an atoning sacrificial death; He preached to the captives; He defeated Satan and put him to an open shame; He took the keys of death and hell away from him; He was raised victorious over sin, death, hell, and the grave; He appeared alive to more than 500 after His resurrection; He gave instructions to His followers as to what they should do; He was received up into heaven where He is seated at the right hand of the Father making intercession for us; and He is coming again in the clouds of glory to receive us unto Himself as soon as the Gospel has been proclaimed throughout the world to every ethnos.

Mark 16

19 ¶  So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

20  And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.

Thus concludes our study of the Gospel of Mark.