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15他又对他们说：“你们往普天下去，传福音给万民听（“万民”原文作“凡受造的”）。16信而受洗的必然得救，不信的必被定罪。17信的人必有神迹随着他们，就是：奉我的名赶鬼，说新方言，18手能拿蛇；若喝了什么毒物，也必不受害；手按病人，病人就必好了。”
19主耶稣和他们说完了话，后来被接到天上，坐在 神的右边。20门徒出去，到处宣传福音。主和他们同工，用神迹随着，证实所传的道。阿们！
《马太福音》、《路加福音》和《约翰福音》给了我们更多关于耶稣复活到他升天到上帝右边之间的四十天的细节。但耶稣给他的门徒和教会继续行动的命令是清楚的——你们往普天下去，传福音给万民听。对那几个门徒来说，这是多么大的任务啊!这对今天的教会来说是多么大的任务啊!
我们生活在一个“资源有限”的世界。我们总是精打细算，做各种预算。我们会设置一个预算底线，这往往决定我们无法做得更多。我们负担不起另一个牧师，或另一个老师，或另一个传教士。我们应该计算要付出多少代价，就像耶稣曾经告诉他的门徒那样。与此同时，耶稣邀请我们把目光向更远处看，超越自己的方法，看到教会的主有无限的资源可供他支配。
启示录3章7-8节，耶稣提醒非拉铁非教会同样的事情，“那圣洁、真实，拿着大卫的钥匙，开了就没有人能关，关了就没有人能开的，说：我知道你的行为，你略有一点力量，也曾遵守我的道，没有弃绝我的名。看哪，我在你面前给你一个敞开的门，是无人能关的。” (启示录3:7-8，也见以赛亚书22:22)。“大卫的钥匙”是列王时代宝库的钥匙。当耶稣站在神的右边，拿着大卫的钥匙，进入神国度的宝库时，谁能说我们“资源有限”呢?当我们“计算代价”时，我们不能忽视我们的救主，他手里拿着大卫的钥匙。
祷告:主耶稣啊，当我们在世上传扬你的福音时，求你赐给我们所需的一切资源，使我们能达到你的目的。求你赐给我们牧师、教师和宣教士，使他们毫无惧怕的奉你的名去做工。赐予我们慷慨的心来支持你的使命，直到世界的末了。阿们。
Mark 16:15 -20: He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. 16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18 they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”
19 After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God. 20 Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it. (NIV)
Matthew, Luke and John give us much more detail of those forty days between Jesus’ resurrection and his ascension into heaven to the right hand of God. But the marching orders which Jesus gives to his disciples and to his church are clear. Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. What a large task for those few disciples! What a large task this still is for God’s church today!
We live in a world of “limited resources.” We are always counting our pennies and making our budgets. We look at the bottom line and often determine that we can’t do more. We can’t afford another pastor, or another teacher, or another missionary. We should count the cost, as Jesus once told his disciples. At the same time Jesus invites us to look beyond our means and to see that the Lord of the church has unlimited resources at his disposal.
Jesus reminds his little church in Philadelphia of the same thing. “These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut” (Revelation 3:7-8, see also Isaiah 22:22). The “key of David” was the key to the treasury in the times of the kings. Who can ever say that we have “limited resources,” when Jesus is at the right hand of God with the key of David and access to the treasures of God’s kingdom? When we “count the cost,” we dare not lose sight of our Savior, who holds the key of David in his hand.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, as we go about your work of proclaiming the gospel in this world, we pray that you will give us all the resources we need to accomplish your purpose. Provide us with pastors and teachers and missionaries who are not afraid to go in your name. Give us generous hearts to support your mission to the very ends of the earth. Amen.