Jesus commissioned the disciples

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[BIBLEDRB][/BIBLEDRB]In the book of St. Mark Chapter 16:15-19

Jesus is speaking to His disciples, these are Jesus’s last words before acending into heaven to be seated at the right hand of the Father. He said to them:

15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
16 “He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.
17 “These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;
18 they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."
19 So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God

My question is if we are His disciples, shouldnt we be doing this? And should these signs be accompaning our life?
 
Jesus appointed them as His Apostles and tasked them with certain things. Yes, we are all disciples as part of His body, part of His church. We too can be appointed, if we so desire, and if we are willing to meet the requirements and live out the sacrifices and tasks.

God bless you this Christmas Season!
 
fpesce said:
[BIBLEDRB][/BIBLEDRB]In the book of St. Mark Chapter 16:15-19

Jesus is speaking to His disciples, these are Jesus’s last words before acending into heaven to be seated at the right hand of the Father. He said to them:

15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
16 “He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.
17 “These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;
18 they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."
19 So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God

My question is if we are His disciples, shouldnt we be doing this? And should these signs be accompaning our life?
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  Yes, but else where Jesus Christ warns against getting caught up in Signs and Wonders.  And, surely those who pick up poisonous serpents to test the Lord have missed the point.  We should never test the Lord our God.
Being called to dinner.

Peace,
BP
 
Yes, we should all be able to perform “signs and wonders” (aka miracles) as the Apostles did. But, the truth is that their faith was extremely strong. They had lived with Jesus and traveled all over the countryside with Him for three years while He preached and taught them what they should do when He returned to the Father. They were eyewitnesses to all of His miracles, and His power. Occasionally, there are still a few holy souls that can do all of those things, but they’re very rare in the world of today. The faith of many has slowly diminished over time, because the world has developed to the point that people are no longer as innocent as they were back then. Technology and science has cast way too many doubts on people that struggle just to believe that God even exists, at all. It takes a lot of hard work and a very deep faith to be able to perform true miracles. Unfortunately, as a result of man’s ‘advancement’ in society and science, our faith is almost nothing at all compared to the faith of the Apostles and the early disciples. 😦
 
fpesce said:
[BIBLEDRB][/BIBLEDRB]In the book of St. Mark Chapter 16:15-19

Jesus is speaking to His disciples, these are Jesus’s last words before acending into heaven to be seated at the right hand of the Father. He said to them:

15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
16 “He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.
17 “These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;
18 they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."
19 So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God

My question is if we are His disciples, shouldnt we be doing this? And should these signs be accompaning our life?
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  Yes, but else where Jesus Christ warns against getting caught up in Signs and Wonders.  And, surely those who pick up poisonous serpents to test the Lord have missed the point.  We should never test the Lord our God.

   The Bible is true on many levels and in our different stations of life Holy Scripture's meaning grows and grows.  We have to have a personal relationship with God that is open to us through Jesus Christ.   We are humans and learn in steps.  So we have to learn to live our lives in step with our Lord Jesus Christ.  We have to learn to live in kindness and patience of Jesus Christ.  This is a process called sanctification and this process lasts as long as we live.  It is a call to a holy life.   Sometimes the Lord says "My graces are sufficient" and in patience we have to trust in this.
Peace,
BP
 
BluesPicker said:
Yes, but else where Jesus Christ warns against getting caught up in Signs and Wonders. And, surely those who pick up poisonous serpents to test the Lord have missed the point. We should never test the Lord our God.
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   The Bible is true on many levels and in our different stations of life Holy Scripture's meaning grows and grows.  We have to have a personal relationship with God that is open to us through Jesus Christ.   We are humans and learn in steps.  So we have to learn to live our lives in step with our Lord Jesus Christ.  We have to learn to live in kindness and patience of Jesus Christ.  This is a process called sanctification and this process lasts as long as we live.  It is a call to a holy life.   Sometimes the Lord says "My graces are sufficient" and in patience we have to trust in this.
Peace,
BP
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Very well put BP! I’m finding that sanctification is a life long process. I’m also finding that signs are seen everyday. It takes time to look at the day, everyday to see them. No it’s not casting out demons, speaking with new tongues, picking up serpents, drinking any deadly poison, nor healing with hands. But through prayer, and living a sanctified life many miracles are at hand daily. God gives the power to preform Miraculous Miracles to a chosen few. But Miracles through faith are gifts to all.
 
Telstar said:
Yes, we should all be able to perform “signs and wonders” (aka miracles) as the Apostles did. But, the truth is that their faith was extremely strong. They had lived with Jesus and traveled all over the countryside with Him for three years while He preached and taught them what they should do when He returned to the Father. They were eyewitnesses to all of His miracles, and His power. Occasionally, there are still a few holy souls that can do all of those things, but they’re very rare in the world of today. The faith of many has slowly diminished over time, because the world has developed to the point that people are no longer as innocent as they were back then. Technology and science has cast way too many doubts on people that struggle just to believe that God even exists, at all. It takes a lot of hard work and a very deep faith to be able to perform true miracles. Unfortunately, as a result of man’s ‘advancement’ in society and science, our faith is almost nothing at all compared to the faith of the Apostles and the early disciples. 😦
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You’re right, in those days they were with Jesus, but today we have a helper (Holy Spirit). Jesus said it would be better to have Holy Spirit with us than having Himself their. Now we are justified through Christ’s sacrifice to stand in the Holy of Holies (ex. curtain in the tabernacle was torn in half).
 
BluesPicker said:
Yes, but else where Jesus Christ warns against getting caught up in Signs and Wonders. And, surely those who pick up poisonous serpents to test the Lord have missed the point. We should never test the Lord our God.

Being called to dinner.

Peace,
BP
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Jesus warned us about false signs and wonders. If we keep Jesus in our hearts and not let signs and wonders puff up our pride, then signs and wonders “follow” our faith. We do not discard all signs and wonders because Jesus warned us about false signs and wonders.

Yes, we surely do not pick up poisonous snakes to test our faith. That proves we don’t have enough faith. If we have faith and a poisonous snakes happens to bite us we can rest in Jesus’s words (they will not harm us).
 
MS_SURVEYOR said:
No it’s not casting out demons, speaking with new tongues, picking up serpents, drinking any deadly poison, nor healing with hands. But through prayer, and living a sanctified life many miracles are at hand daily. God gives the power to preform Miraculous Miracles to a chosen few. But Miracles through faith are gifts to all.
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How can you say it is not casting out demons, speaking in new tongues, etc., as these are Jesus’s words commissioning His disciples? Although prayer and living a sanctified life is not in question at all.
 
No! The question is have you cast out demons, spoken in new tongues, etc. I haven’t.

Got to go I’m late!

Peace Be With You!

MS
 
MS_SURVEYOR said:
No! The question is have you cast out demons, spoken in new tongues, etc. I haven’t.

Got to go I’m late!

Peace Be With You!

MS
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No, the question is not whether “someone else” has cast out demons or spoken in tongues. Why do you think you aren’t able to do that?
 
Come on everyone. We need to believe that all that Jesus says is available for us, is truly for us. These are the words of our SAVIOR:

John 14:

11 “Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves.

12 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.

13 “Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

14 “If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.

15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

There is no limitation in the spirit to what we can do! We only need to believe. Step out in faith and persist in it. That is why we have to know what God’s word says. It has many wonderous promises for those who believe.

It doesn’t come cheaply. You have to have the desire in your heart. You need to give up everything that gets in bettween you and God. You literally have to “die to self” and “live in Christ”. You must become the servant of all.

But also know, that whatever you give up for the sake of Jesus Christ will reap immeasurable treasure both here on earth and more importantely in Heavan.

It’s TRUE, it’s REAL, SEEK it and it will be found by you.
 
fpesce said:
That is a quote straight from Jesus to his disciples. What are you trying to say?
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I’ll pass on the snake handling. I’d wouldn’t have to worry about dying from a venomous snakebite either, because I’d die from a heart attack.
 
mark_a said:
I’ll pass on the snake handling. I’d wouldn’t have to worry about dying from a venomous snakebite either, because I’d die from a heart attack.
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mark a,

Lol, predictable! You may think there is no way I can ever do that in real life. The truth is in your present state you can not do it.

But you have to remember who you are. You are a child of the most high God. You know all the miracles recorded in the bible. Moses, parting the Red Sea, getting water from a rock, etc, Samson had miraculous strength, Joseph going from slave to the second most powerful man in Egypt. Daniel was thrown into a lions den with hungry lions and they didn’t touch him. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were thrown into a blasing hot furnace and didn’t have a hair singed hair. There are plenty more… And this all happened before Jesus was crucified for us.

All those people from the Old Testament were very special people selected by God to accomplish his work.

Then Jesus was born, the Messiah. He had tons and tons of miracles, right? John wrote the world could not contain all the miracles if they were to be recorded.

John 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written.
Jesus taught the disciples and they also had alot of miracles.

When Jesus accomplished his work and ascended, our Father sent the Holy Spirit to everyone. If you can get a grip on what that means for us, it would leave you astounded. Truly!

What that means is literally everyone from the time Jesus acsended until this very moment and beyond can do all the miracles that Jesus did. Not only just the works that Jesus did, but even more than what Jesus did.

John 14
11 “Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves. 12 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. 13 “Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 “If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Jesus, said ,“TRULY TRULY”. not just truly, but truly truly. He really ment it and wanted you to believe it.

Jesus is not a repecter of persons.

Acts 10
34 Opening his mouth, Peter said:
“I most certainly understand now that God is not one to show partiality

So what he says goes for everyone. No one on earth is more loved than anyone else one earth. No one is more special than anyone else. Because we are all special and all loved by God as much as He loved Jesus. So all I’m saying is all you have to do is believe. That is easy to say, but how easy is it?
 
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