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027 - Reach Every Nation
027 - Reach Every Nation
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Ask the Lord to use this study to prepare your church to support PRACTICAL WORK
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• Memorize Genesis 22:18: “through your offspring all
nations of the earth will be blessed.”
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THE OLD TESTAMENT • Share your missionary vision and the teachings of this study
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nations.” (Matthew 28:19) God’s plan of reaching all the nations of • Pray for missionary work weekly, with the whole church.
the world had been revealed ever since the first book of the Bible. 027-210
According to Galatians 3:8, the Gospel was announced to Abraham. • Take up a monthly offering for missionary work abroad.
In Genesis 12:1-3, God promised Abraham that “all the nations of 027-211
the earth” would be blessed through his offspring. Later, God • Encourage your congregation to be a missionary church.
repeated this promise when Abraham had been willing to obey the Prepare and send missionaries.
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying: “Whom shall I send, and
Israel who will go for us?” As did Isaiah, let us answer: “Here am I,
send me.”
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(Isaiah 6:8)
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F The Israelites. 027-016 Today, the Lord asks His churches:
F The Edomites. 027-201
027-017 “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
How then can they call on the one they have not believed in?
But when the Lord decides something, nothing stops Him. And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not
Isaiah 49:6 declares, “I will make you a light for the Gentiles, that heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to
you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth.” Eternal them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is
salvation came, not through the whole nation of Israel, but through written, ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!’”
one Israelite descended from Abraham, Jesus the Son of God. (Romans 10:13-15)
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He is the Messiah, the King anointed by God, who brings blessing
to all nations.
The last pages of God’s Word show who will gather before God’s
throne. (Revelation 7:9)
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“After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude
that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and
language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb...”
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YOU WILL SUFFER!
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Philip preached in Samaria. The Samaritans were a neighboring
people with a different culture and religion. There was always tension
between them and the Jews.
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What was the purpose of the vision Peter had in Acts 10:9-16? FIVE BARRIERS WE MUST CROSS
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Peoples where the majority has not yet heard the Gospel form half of
027-066 the population of the world. God’s plan is to have in His presence, in
glory, families from all these groups. To achieve this, He wants
Acts 1:8, the Lord Jesus commanded them to go to Samaria, a churches planted in each group. Satan tries to prevent us fulfilling this
neighboring people of different customs. What cultures or people Great Commission of the Lord. He discourages us with various
groups correspond to “Samaria” for your church (having another formidable barriers:
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“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the
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rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark
world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly
Acts chapters 13 to 28 relate the missionary Paul’s journeys. He
realm.”
went to Asia, Greece and Rome, the capital of the Roman
(Ephesians 6:12)
Empire. Churches were established in these places, in more
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distant nations.
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Christ, the only Son of God, or His saving power over every spirit.
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placate the spirits which they believe affect every aspect of their lives.
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disease.
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They did not wait to evangelize all the cities of Judea before going to
Aspects of the Gospel which must be emphasized, to free
Samaria. Paul did not stay in one region until it was all evangelized.
animists, are:
Once he had started a work somewhere, he left it in the care of the
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local elders and went off to some other unevangelized place. He
• God created all things, plants, animals, etc. (Genesis 1 and 2)
traveled far from his own country.
God has power over all Creation.
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followers of their religion. They send Muslim missionaries to other
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countries to win followers. They do not allow Christian missionaries
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to enter their countries. They persecute and kill those who have been
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converted to Christ.
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Muslims believe in one God, Allah. They accept parts of the Bible as
his word, but they believe that Christians have changed the Bible.
They do not believe Christ to be the Son of God, or that He saves.
They think He is only a prophet.
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With the growth of the evangelical movement, and increasing They follow the teachings of Buddha (the enlightened one). Like the
translation of the Scriptures, many separated from the Roman Hindus, they believe in a type of reincarnation. Some Buddhists
Catholic Church to be able to read and obey the Bible. Other spend a long time in meditation. They seek to escape from the cycle
sincere Christians stayed within the Roman church, hoping to of reincarnation, and to stop living totally, because they believe that
reform it from inside. life is suffering. Others have made Buddha their god; they pray to him
027-089 and to other gods or spirits, to get help here on earth.
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Since the Protestant Reformation, which began in the year 1517, the
whole Bible has been translated into hundreds of languages. They do not know God, personal and almighty, who has delivered us
Translations of the Scriptures are still needed for thousands more from evil in our lives, through Jesus Christ.
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Like Hindus, Buddhists believe reincarnation. What does this mean?
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F evangelized widely, and was faithful to God’s Word.
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What do we have to tell them, so that they can escape from their
idolatry, superstition and wrong belief in an endless cycle of
reincarnation?
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100 Muslims or follow Confucius.
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Africa
027-103 Thank the Lord that there is strong growth in the Chinese church. But
South there are still hundreds of millions of Chinese who have not heard
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the Gospel.
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HINDUS
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Many of the first missionaries died through not being used to the
The majority of Hindus live in India. They are the most idolatrous
climate or the new diseases they met. Nevertheless, they continued
people on earth. The Gospel has penetrated some parts of the
going out, because they had a passionate desire to reach the utter-
country, especially in the south. But there are still hundreds of cultural
most parts of the world in obedience to the Lord. Many traveled in
groups with different languages, who have not heard the Gospel.
groups, others alone, as merchants.
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China is the country with the highest population in the world. Of these efforts, many millions of
every five people on earth, one is Chinese. Under their present Africans have been converted
to Christ.
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In 1882 Francis Penzotti started WHAT REMAINS TO BE DONE?
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countries of Latin America. What have we yet to do, to fulfill the Great Commission of going to all
Although he was jailed for his South
America nations? Where in the world are there still no disciples of Christ?
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work. Through the vision of
missionaries such as he, the The population of the world has increased so much during the past
Gospel has reached nearly all of century that only half have heard the Gospel. There are 12,000
Latin America. cultural groups which still have no church, and where the Gospel has
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From 1865 on, Hudson Taylor
mobilized 800 missionaries, There are whole nations with no church. In some countries, a
moved by his vision of reaching single missionary tries to reach a million people (and at the same
China for the Lord. He suffered time must work for his living, without letting the authorities detect
much. He buried his wife and his missionary work).
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persevered. He and other
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faithful missionaries in China left What proportion of the world’s population has still not heard the
a vast work which even now Gospel? 027-133
has continued to grow under F A quarter. 027-134
violent persecution. F Half.
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(where there is also great need), we would not have received Christ’s
Gospel. Thanks be to God that they obeyed Jesus Christ!
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