No. 72, The Great Profession

Go therefore and make disciples (literal Greek translation is students) of all nations, Baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember that I am with you always, to the end of the age. Matthew 28:19,20.

Imagine that this one little Mark did not exist among all the commands of Jesus. Instead He said, “Tell no one the good news. Keep it to yourself. Keep it in Jerusalem. Baptize no foreigners. Ignore the gentiles. Separate yourselves and obey all the other commands which I have commanded you, My chosen people.”

Imagine the freedom from responsibility to God and to humankind. Imagine the void, imagine the darkness. Imagine the cessation Christ’s ministry as a second expulsion from Eden. Imagine that Christ never offered you immortal life because no Christian ever came to America. No child of God went to Rome; no Jew went to Greece.

Now open your eyes and see how this Mark turned twelve disciples into twelve trillion children who make up the Bride-of-Christ Church, militant, and triumphant.

How crucial for aspiring immortals to teach about God. I must still recruit students of God, baptizing and teaching them to obey Christ’s commands. God is knowledge. Ignorance is deadly. Teaching and learning is the fountain of Life.

Is anyone else who reads these Marks as amazed as I am at how powerful so many of them are? Like stars come to Earth; like Christ being with us always, to the end of the age.

Learn and Live.