SNT 1239 Our Commissioning: Opening of Rock of Ages ’84
We have been commissioned to be living epistles, to be witnesses, and to go forth and teach the greatness of God's Word. Beautiful Ohio - Sue Watson Star Spangled Banner It's Good to Be Home Again Opening; Prayer Wierwille Road and Highway 29 - J.P. Wierwille WOW Ambassadors - Brian Bliss Ambassador Song - Vicky May Tears of Thankfulness - Brian Bliss Living Epistle Mat 28:18, 20; Mar 16:15-20 Mar 6:7-12; Luk 10:1, 2, 16-18 Act 1:4, 8; 2:38, 39 Born Again to Win - Brian Bliss ------------------------------------------ Our Commissioning Opening of the Rock of Ages ‘84 Victor Paul Wierwille – Sunday Night Teaching Transcript – August 12, 1984 Heavenly Father, we thank you for your wonderful love and grace. Thank you that we can be living epistles for you. Thank you for your love, your grace, your mercy and your goodness unto us, through Christ Jesus. Amen. I’d like for you to take your Bibles and turn to the gospel of Matthew chapter 28. And welcome to the opening teaching session of the Rock of Ages, 1984. It is good to have all of you here again. This believers’ family gathering has to be one of the unique things happening in our day and in our time. It takes a voluminous amount of planning and work to make all of you as comfortable and as blessed as we can. Some of our staff are required to work from one Rock of Ages to the next, and then all of our in-residence and graduated Corps come in early to help. The Way Corps being responsible for the welcoming home of our WOWs. It’s always exciting and thrilling to me. However, nothing is ever more exciting to me than when I have the privilege and joy of saying: God bless, and welcome to the Rock of Ages. It’s good to be home again. It takes approximately 4,000 dedicated believers to help to take care the best we can for all of you. We wish we could do it better for all of you. But, you know, our workers and our believers are just fantastic. Maybe not everything is always to your liking, but there can’t be anything wrong
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And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,… And then the corruptors of the text added the rest of that verse. So those words, “baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:” are scratched. And it reads, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations.” And verse 20: Matthew 28:20: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I [Jesus Christ] am with you alway, even unto the end of the world…. There’s also a record in Mark 16 that I’d like for you to look at; Mark chapter 16, verse 15: Mark 16:15: And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach [or herald] the gospel to every creature. The word “creature” is the word one. It doesn't do much good to teach the Word of God to a German shorthaired pointer. A word. To preach the gos