At this time, I want you to take your Bibles and turn to Matthew 28, verses 18-20, our theme for this conference. My theme for this message is, Christians must go and tell the world about Christ. Christians must go and tell the world about Christ. I read from Matthew 28, 18-20, And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations. baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And lo, I am with you all the way, even unto the end of the age of the world. Amen. Shall we pray? Our Heavenly Father, we are so thankful unto you for your word. Thank you for a beautiful day you have given that we can rejoice and be glad in it. As you teach us your word, help us to have receptive hearts to receive your word and to be doers and not just hearers. Grant us that enablement. and cause us to be about our master's business while we have our being. Bless us now in Jesus' precious name. Amen. Many 21st century believers and churches alike have lost their purpose of existence. This is because we have not been telling the world and sharing the good news of Jesus Christ with the world. Before Christ ascended into heaven, he asked the disciples to wait in Jerusalem until they have been filled with the Holy Spirit. He told them that they will receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon them and they will be his witnesses. But Christians of today are living contrary to this call of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some have interpreted passages such as these to mean that when we accept Christ as personal Savior, we must speak in tongues, sing in tongues. We command the Holy Spirit to do whatever we want for us. Always expect miracles and supernatural encounters from the Lord. accept signs and wonders, sow seed with money in the church. But you and I know that all these things are not true. This is man's work. This is what man is doing today to deceive the world. And it behoves upon us to make things clear to the world that Christ came to die according to the scripture, that he commanded us to go and tell the lost about him. And what we need to do is to go. Our churches cannot grow if we neglect this calling. Our country would not change if we neglect our calling. Our world will not change if we neglect our calling as Christians. And so this morning I want us to consider the fact that Christians must go and tell the world about Christ. First of all, we must tell the Word about Christ because all authority has been given to Him. Now that Christ has gained all authority, we don't have any excuse if we don't go. Maybe you may say, I'm very shy so I can't talk to anybody. You may say, I can't speak. I'm not eloquent, but all these things are not necessary where spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ is concerned. When Moses met the Lord in the wilderness, and the Lord sent him to Egypt, he said, Lord, I cannot speak. The Lord said, who made the mouth? So today, if you tell me you are shy, I ask you and tell you that Jesus has all power to cancel that problem for you. If you tell me My tongue is too big, so I cannot do well in languages. I tell you today, Christ has overcome that for you. So today, do well to speak. Many a times, we lay emphasis on the teaching, and it is true. We go and teach. The teaching is the most important thing. But if you don't go out there, how can you teach? Many today are glued to the pews in the church. And so they are not able to go out there and tell the lost. Beloved, do you know that all of us sitting under my son this morning are missionaries? Yeah, we're all missionaries. You know, the dictionary says missionary is somebody who is sent to a foreign country. I don't believe that at all. Every field is a mission field. Your backyard is a mission field. Even the people in your house. They are on the mission field. Because some of them don't know Christ as personal savior. And so it is behoved upon us to walk out there and tell them, go out there and let them know that Christ died for them. The world would never know about Christ if we don't go out there. And so to be a missionary, you are somebody who can herald the Word of God. You can tell somebody how you were saved. Give your testimony as to how you came to know the Lord Jesus Christ. You are spreading the Word. But you see, Christ said, Go ye Many a times we think it means pastors or deacons or elders should go. No. The word ye means everybody, every believer. All of us who have accepted Christ as our personal Savior, Lord and King, we are ye. So the Bible says, all of us in this room, go! And we have to go. Some have been called to other countries. The rest of us, this is our mission field. Just across the street is your mission field. Your neighbor. God planted you in where you are today because there's somebody there who has not heard the word of God. There's somebody there, the Lord wants you to go out from your house and go and tell him or her about Jesus. That is why you are there. He put you there for a purpose. Some say I have not been called. You need not be called because Christ has given a clear command to all believers to go and pray. So you need no other call except of course the Lord calls you to go to another country. But let me remind you of something that we need to know. Missions started many, many years ago. And God used the first country, Great Britain, to start missions. David Livingston and the rest went to the Congo. He did a great work there for the Lord. And they saw the hand of God in that part of Africa. David loved the work so much. He loved the Lord so much that he told his people, when I die, bury me, bury my heart in Africa and send my body to Westminster Abbey. And that is exactly what they did. Today, Americans are going to Great Britain to be missionaries. I see the way things are going in United States today, that if people of this country would not wake up to the call of the Lord Jesus, to go and tell there's coming a time when others will come from China or Africa or Japan to come and tell. I don't think you want that to happen like it has happened to Great Britain. And so, beloved, let us rise to the occasion. Let us go as the Lord has commanded us. Paul put it this way in Romans chapter 10 and verse 14. Romans 10, 14. Paul says, How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? How can the preacher do it unless you go there? The Muslims have a saying. They said, if the mountain would not come to Muhammad, Muhammad will go to the mountain. And beloved, The world will not come to us. We have to go to them. And that is why Christ said, go ye. Because he knew that the world would never just get up and come to serve him or to know him unless we go there and tell them about Jesus. But you know something? God knows better than we do. He knew that if he does not go with us, we will not go. So listen to what the Lord said. He said, hello, I am with you all the way. All your fears have been counseled by the Lord Jesus Christ. I remember many years ago when I was staying in New Jersey in the Christian Admiral, which is by the beach. Every Saturday or almost every day, we go to the beach distributing troughs. Some would not receive it. Some would say, just leave me alone. But we never, never stop distributing tracts. Because we need to go and let the world know that they have a savior. Beloved, people are propagating around today that Christ died for some people, but he didn't die for others. And so they, which means some have been mandated to go to hell. That is never true. I tell you today, if somebody goes to hell, the person went there by choice. But you and I need to go there and tell that person. And when he or she refuse to accept what we tell them, then they go to hell. by their own doing and not God destined them to hell. It's never true. The Lord commanded us, like we heard this morning, how can they be baptized if we don't go and tell them? If we tell them, they will do what? They will believe. And then when they believe, we do what? We baptize them. You see, so we have a chain of what to go through. Number one, we go. If we don't go, we'll never teach them. If we go and teach them, they will believe. And when they believe, then we can do what? We can baptize them. So beloved, those of us who have been commanded to go we need to do our job. We have sat too long on the wonderful preaching from our pastors and whatever. Time has come for us now to run out there and let the world know in our schools, in our workplaces, in our community, elsewhere, everywhere we find ourselves, we need to present Christ and him alone crucified. When Christ was here on earth, He said in John 9, for I must do the work of him that sent me while it is day, the night comet that no man can wake. Time has come for us now to go. This country is going backwards instead of forward. Many things are coming into society, things that yesterday were not allowed, now they are being allowed into our society. And if we don't go early, things will go to the wrong direction. Beloved, when I read some of these things, I weep within my heart that human beings could change what God has made into their own image. And so, it has never before come so urgent for believers to go out there and proclaim Christ. We have more on our hands today than yesterday. If ministry is difficult, then this is the time. Because there are some countries, United States citizens cannot enter. But if we can bring their people here and train them and send them back, they will be able to go and tell. And people are doing that. And you need to do that more, because time is not on our side. I must do the work of him that sent me while it is day. Now that we have our being, now that we know what is happening, beloved Christians, we have a bigger responsibility. This is the time for us to wake up and go. You know, I find it difficult to believe that we are not able to match the Jehovah Witnesses and the Mormons. Every day they are there telling lies, and we have the truth, and we are not there like them. We need to go. Time has come for us to go. If you have made up your mind that you have not been called, I'm telling you today that Matthew 28, 19 calls you to go and tell. Because the ye is all of us. I try to tell. May you also go and tell. When we sang the song, tell me the old, old story. How can you tell that story if you don't go out there? You can't tell the story here, because all of us, the Lord said, and when we, when they have been baptized, they should be joined to the church, and we teach them all things whatsoever. So we are learning all things whatsoever. But when we learn them, we need to go out there and tell the rest. Are you willing to go? Are you willing to go? Because the commander says, go! Never be afraid, for I'm with you all the way, even unto the end of the age. And that is true. I travel from Ghana to United States, the Lord is with me all the way. The same way you can go to the corners, the byways and highways, the Lord is with you. He will go with you. So never fear. Never fear. Beloved, when Christ asked the disciples to wait in Jerusalem until they have received their spirit, To give them power, they waited. The Holy Spirit came. And then they stayed in their comfort zone. What did the Lord do? He brought persecution. Are we waiting for persecution before we go? Beloved, let us go now before the persecution comes. It is a privilege. If you don't know, I'm telling you today. It is a privilege for us to go and tell the lost about Jesus. Ask me why? Because God could have taken us home. Immediately we are saved and bring angels in heaven to come and witness. And so if he has left us here to be witnesses unto him, then it's a privilege. And we need to go about that work with speed. So from today on, let us go. That is the command from the master. Go. And if you go there, you'll be able to tell. What you are going to say, the Lord has given it to you already. He said, He died. He rose the third day. He's sitting at the right hand side of the Father, interceding for us. What we need to go through, He went through for us. He died in my place. He died. in your place, why not go and tell somebody else that Jesus loves him or her? This is our responsibility as believers. Let us not behave as though we are the only people to enter into the kingdom. Let us hold hands with others and with their beauty of love let us enter into the kingdom with joy that Christ died for our sins according to the scripture. What a joy will it be that when you enter heaven somebody will come and whisper into your ear Do you remember me? I am that man you spoke to many years ago and I gave my life to Jesus. What a wonderful day would that be. What a joy would it be in heaven. But you need to go before you can do this. This is my prayer. Believers everywhere are doing the same thing. They don't want to go. People say, I've not been called. You have been called. Matthew 28, 19 calls you. It's automatic call. You don't need to have a special call. That is the general call. And then we have the specific call. The specific one is where the Lord talks to your heart to go to China or Japan or wherever. But being here in this country, every place is a mission field. The Lord said, the harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. It is because we don't want to go. That is why the laborers are few. But we are plenty here. And if we go, we can cover a lot of places. Brothers and sisters, let us heed to the call of Jesus Christ because he has promised to be with us. But let me tell you something. Even if you go there and somebody harms you, and you are lifted by the angels to heaven, which one do you like? I have a question for you. How many of us would like to be in heaven tomorrow? Okay. The next question. How many of us would like to die tomorrow? You see, this is the problem we have. We love to go to heaven, but we don't like to die. If I go out there and somebody shot me today, I know I'm going to be with Jesus. And Paul says that is far better. But you see, since we have not seen heaven before, we think we are in the best place. But the day that you enter heaven, then you realize you have missed something. And so beloved, let us take the mantle today. And let us take the command that the Lord has given to us seriously. And everywhere we go, let us proclaim Christ, that he died for us, the death that we should have gone through, so tomorrow we can have life and have it more abundantly. But a statement is, go and tell. I must promise my God that I'm willing to go. And you have to promise your Lord that you are willing to go. So that the song that we sang, Anywhere With Jesus I Can Safely Go, will be a reality. May the Lord bless us and lead us and guide us. Thy now be to go, we'll take the strength from Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, and move on, not fearing, because we know he's with us, even unto the end of the age. May the Lord bless us all. Amen. Shall we pray? Our Heavenly Father, we thank you so much that we have somebody like you, who love us so much, and you love the world that you created, and you said, having saved that, we should go there and tell the rest so they can also be saved. We thank you for the promise attached to it, that you are with us even unto the end of the age. Help us to go. Help us to tell, so that the rest of the things that you want us to do, we'll be able to do accordingly. May your loving kindness help us to do this, for in Christ's precious name, we have prayed with thanksgiving. Amen. Thank you, brother. That was great encouragement from the word to go. Did you get that message? Go. Go. You're going to see that word everywhere you look today. You've heard it from the pulpit many times today. It's on the wall back here. It's on the table up here. It's everywhere. When you sit down to eat, you're going to see that word go. And it's just a reminder to you that God has given you that calling to go. Have you been called? Yes, yes, that's what our brother said. You've been called. This is a general call. The Lord has commanded us all to go. Now where you go will be determined individually. It might be to the neighbor next door, to your fellow student, to a co-worker. It could be to somebody across town, somebody you meet on a daily basis or weekly basis. Or it could be some foreign mission field. And that's up to the Lord to lead you in that way. But it's very clear that we have all been called to go. And so let us not be like the farmer who would be sitting in his comfortable chair in his farmhouse while the fields are widened to harvest. And he just sits there. And he sits there until it's too late for the harvest. I have detected a theme. All three of the speakers thus far have mentioned John 9, 4. I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day. The night cometh when no man can work. Do you sense the urgency and the call that the Lord has given to us? It's a sobering thought that Dr. Bob Jones III likes to say this just as a reminder to us. The most sobering thing in the world today is that people are dying and going to hell today. You don't know if you'll have another chance to share the gospel with that family member or that neighbor. Who knows what a day may bring forth? I mean, that person could be gone tomorrow. Or you could be gone. Or the rapture could take place. And so there's a sense of urgency here. We need to go. And we need to go now without delay. I like what our brother said, the world will never know if we don't go. The world will never know if we don't go. So let's get going.