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Go Tell It | Week 2 | Sermon · Rewind

Rock Point Church

53 min

Pastor Bill Bush · Dec 16, 2024 · 4 min read · 53 min listen

The big idea

Quoting the message: Pointing people to Jesus is the point, end quote. of the Christian life, and we can only do that by first being fully engaged disciples ourselves.

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The big idea
Point 1 of 7Jesus's last words were a command, not a suggestion, and it's a blessing rather than a burden.
Point 2 of 7Most Christians agree discipleship matters but don't actually live it out.

Point 3 of 7Know Jesus personally through private practice and public worship.
Point 4 of 7Grow in biblical community by bearing and carrying your own load.
Point 5 of 7Go and live intentionally with your time, talent, treasure, and testimony.
Point 6 of 7The battle between the Spirit and the old self is why this is so hard.
Point 7 of 7Real love for people, including our kids, is best taught by living it ourselves.
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Scripture in this message

Matthew 28:18-20
Philippians 3:10
Galatians 6:1-5
Matthew 5:14
Galatians 5
Matthew 20

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Pastor Bill Bush · Dec 16, 2024 · 53 min watch · 2 min read

Go Tell It | Week 2 | Sermon

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Big Idea
Key points
Application

Scripture in this message

Matthew 28:18-20
Philippians 3:10
Galatians 6:1-5
Matthew 5:14
Galatians 5
Matthew 20

Big Idea Key points Application

Big Idea

Quoting the message: Pointing people to Jesus is the point, end quote. of the Christian life, and we can only do that by first being fully engaged disciples ourselves.

Jesus's final words to His disciples were not a suggestion but a commission: go, make disciples, and teach them to obey. Pastor Bill shows that we can't give away what we don't have — so becoming a disciple who truly knows Christ, grows in community, and goes to live intentionally is how we find the fulfillment we're all looking for, instead of staying stuck behind the obstacles of our old life.

Key points

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1Jesus's last words were a command, not a suggestion, and it's a blessing rather than a burden.
Pastor Bill reads Matthew 28:18-20 and points out that Jesus, having all authority, chose to spend His final words commissioning the disciples to go and make disciples. He argues Jesus isn't taking something from us but offering the life we were built for, so this 'great commission' is not meant to be treated as a 'good suggestion.'
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2Most Christians agree discipleship matters but don't actually live it out.
He cites research showing 81 percent of church people say making disciples is critical, yet that same 81 percent don't organize their time, talent, treasure, or testimony around it. He says the reason is we can't make disciples of what we ourselves are not fully engaged in being.
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3Know Jesus personally through private practice and public worship.
From Philippians 3:10, Pastor Bill unpacks the Greek word for 'know' (ginosko) as intimate relationship proven by experience and trust, not mere information. He describes letting Scripture 'read you' in meditation and stresses that gathering corporately as the body of Christ (corpus) is essential, not optional, illustrating with Vince Lombardi's 'gentlemen, this is a football' approach to fundamentals.
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4Grow in biblical community by bearing and carrying your own load.
Working through Galatians 6:1-5, he distinguishes the Greek word for 'burden' (an outside weight that falls on you) from 'load' (a soldier's pack you're responsible to carry yourself), explaining that healthy community shares real burdens without enabling people to dodge their own responsibility. He warns that thinking you're 'too important' for community is narcissistic and shortsighted.
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5Go and live intentionally with your time, talent, treasure, and testimony.
Using Matthew 5:14, Pastor Bill says good deeds are the light that can't stay hidden, and living intentionally means investing the resources God entrusted to us. He shares giving statistics showing tithers experience more fulfillment and less stress, and warns that withholding money or time keeps us stuck behind the obstacle rather than experiencing God's power.
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6The battle between the Spirit and the old self is why this is so hard.
He turns to Galatians 5 to explain the constant fight between the sinful nature and the Spirit, using his driveway story of the new truck (new life) blocked in by the old CRV (old self) as a picture: the old self never fully disappears until Jesus returns, so we must keep choosing to drive around it rather than let it drive us.
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7Real love for people, including our kids, is best taught by living it ourselves.
Pastor Bill applies this to parenting, warning against pointing Jesus at your kids rather than pointing your kids to Jesus, and tells the story of his daughter turning down an expensive elite soccer team so the family could keep honoring God's priorities, finding another team that didn't conflict with church commitments.

Application

Pastor Bill frames the charge as getting in the new life vehicle and trusting the Holy Spirit to drive around the old self still parked in the driveway.

Know Jesus personally
Start or deepen a private practice of letting Scripture read you rather than just collecting information, and commit to consistently gathering with the church body in public worship.
Grow in biblical community
Get into a small group and actually be known, share burdens, and let others challenge you rather than staying surface-level friends.
Go and live intentionally
Invest your time, talent, treasure, and testimony in what God has called you to, including giving at least 10 percent, rather than holding back out of fear.
Let your life precede your words with your kids
Parents should model trusting God with priorities like money and schedule, including sports and activities, instead of pointing Jesus at their kids without living it themselves.
Come back to the cross and trust the Holy Spirit
During communion, surrender whatever is blocking you, remember Christ's sacrifice, and choose daily to trust the Spirit's guidance instead of the old self.

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Scripture in this message

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as we come to this last message in the book of Matthew, Jesus gives his final words, and it's this thing called a great commission to us. we're gonna see today by what Jesus calls us to do. There's a challenge in this. it's a challenge to be a disciple. And what we're gonna see, the big idea this morning is simply this, pointing people to Jesus is the point. Matter of fact, it is so critical. It's the final thing that Jesus told. And this is what he says in Matthew 28 verses 18 through 20.
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From the transcript
“if you look at Philippians three ten, Paul writes this, and he's talking about kind of the base heart of what it really means, the foundation of what it means to be a disciple, a follower of Jesus that's accepted his love in your life. It says this, I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead”
From the transcript
“that leads to Galatians six one through five. It says, dear brothers and sisters, if another believer is overcome by some sin, you who are godly should gently and humbly help that person back onto the right path. And be careful not to fall into the same temptation yourself. Share each other's burdens, and this way obey the law of Christ”
From the transcript
“Matthew five fourteen says this, you're the light of the world like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden. No one lights a lamp and then puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is located on a stand where it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see so that everyone will praise your heavenly father”
From the transcript
“if you look in Galatians, again, back in chapter five, it says it this way. So I say, let the holy spirit guide your lives. Then you won't be doing what your sinful nature craves. The sinful nature wants you to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the spirit wants”
From the transcript
“As your word says in Matthew 20, your last word is as you challenged us to live as fully engaged followers, you said, and remember, I am with you till the end”

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Day 1

Jesus did not whisper His final words to a select few leaders and hope it would trickle down. He gathered His disciples on a hillside and gave them — gave us — the clearest possible mission statement: go and make disciples of all nations. Pastor Bill made the point that this is not a suggestion tucked into the back of the Gospel. It is the entire point. Jesus had just defeated death, and His first order of business was to tell the people who loved Him what to do next. That tells us something important about what He values. What He values is people. Every person not yet in relationship with Him is the reason this commission exists. And notice what He said before the command: 'I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth.' The mission does not rest on our cleverness or our courage. It rests on His authority. That is a different kind of foundation than we usually build on. If you have ever felt like the Great Commission belongs to missionaries or pastors, today is a good day to sit with the fact that Jesus said it to ordinary disciples — people who doubted, people who had just spent three years still figuring out who He was. He commissioned them anyway. He commissions you the same way.

For reflection

When you hear the phrase 'make disciples,' what is your honest first reaction — and what might that reaction be telling you?

Pray

Pray for a fresh, personal sense of what it means that Jesus has entrusted this mission to you specifically.

Day 2

Paul's longing in this verse is striking in its directness: 'I want to know Christ.' Not know about Him. Not know His teachings as facts. Know Him — His resurrection power, the fellowship of His suffering, the whole of who He is. Pastor Bill grounded the entire Great Commission in this reality: you cannot give away what you do not have, and you cannot lead someone somewhere you have never been. Being a disciple starts here, in the personal and private place where Scripture stops being a text and starts being a voice. There is a difference between reading the Bible to check a box and reading it the way you would read a letter from someone you love — slowly, looking for the person behind the words. That second way is what Pastor Bill described when he talked about letting the Word speak to you personally. This is not about reading volume or Bible knowledge as a credential. It is about relational familiarity with Jesus. The disciples who received the Great Commission had walked with Jesus, eaten with Him, watched Him, and been changed by proximity to Him. For us, that proximity comes through the Spirit and through the Word. Both are gifts. The question is whether we are actually opening them — not just on Sunday, but in the ordinary Tuesday morning of our lives.

For reflection

Is your time in Scripture right now feeling more like a duty or a conversation? What is one small shift that might change that?

Pray

Pray for a genuine hunger to know Jesus personally, not just to know more about Him.

Day 3

These verses hold a tension that is easy to miss if you read too fast. Verse 2 says to carry each other's burdens. Verse 5 says each person must carry their own load. That sounds like a contradiction until you realize Paul is describing two different things: the crushing weight none of us were meant to carry alone, and the personal calling each of us was made to walk out. Biblical community, as Pastor Bill described it, is the place where both happen at once. Real community is not the same as showing up to the same room on a weekly basis. It is the kind of relationship where people actually know what is going on in your life — where you are struggling, where you are growing, where you need someone to come alongside you. That level of being known requires risk. It requires letting people close enough to see the real version of you, not the Sunday-morning version. But that is also exactly where growth happens. Iron sharpens iron. Burdens get lighter when they are shared. And the calling you were made for becomes clearer when other people who know you well are helping you see it. If you are not in that kind of community right now, today's reflection is less an accusation and more an honest invitation: that kind of life is available, and it is worth pursuing.

For reflection

Is there a burden you have been carrying alone that a trusted community could help you bear? What has kept you from sharing it?

Pray

Pray for the courage to be genuinely known in community, and for discernment about where that community might be for you right now.

Day 4

'You are the light of the world.' Not you could be, if you try hard enough. Not you will be, once you have it all figured out. You are. Jesus declared it as a present reality about every person who follows Him. Pastor Bill connected this to the call to live intentionally — to steward your time, your talents, your spiritual gifts, your money, and your story around the mission of pointing people to Jesus. Light does not have to announce itself. It simply has to be uncovered. A city on a hill does not need a marketing plan. What it needs is for no one to hide it. The practical question, then, is not whether you have something to offer the mission — Jesus settled that. The question is whether the life you are actually living is arranged in a way that lets the light out. That looks different for every person. For one person, it is the way they treat a coworker who is going through something hard. For another, it is finally sharing their story with someone who needs to hear it. For another, it is giving their time or resources toward something that outlasts them. The common thread is intentionality — choosing, day by day, to orient ordinary life toward the mission rather than letting the mission be a category that only exists on church programming.

For reflection

Which area of stewardship — time, talent, treasure, or testimony — feels most disconnected from the mission right now, and why?

Pray

Pray for clarity about one specific way your everyday life could more intentionally point someone toward Jesus this week.

Day 5

Pastor Bill did not sugarcoat this part. He described it as a war — an ongoing, daily conflict between the Holy Spirit and the sinful nature. And the image he used is one worth sitting with: the old self, still parked in the driveway. The new life Christ died to give is available, fully fueled and ready to go. But many of us spend most of our week driving the old one and only take the new one out on Sundays. Paul's instruction in Galatians is not complicated, even if it is hard: walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. The two are in opposition to each other, which means every day involves a direction you are choosing to move. That is not a guilt trip — it is actually good news. It means the battle is real and normal, not evidence that something is uniquely wrong with you. Every believer fights it. Surrender is not a one-time transaction. It is the daily posture of coming back to the cross, acknowledging that the old self does not get to be in charge today, and asking the Spirit to lead. That can happen in a quiet moment in the morning, in a prayer on a commute, or in a pause before a hard conversation. The point is that it can happen — and it is the hinge on which everything else turns.

For reflection

Where do you notice the pull of the old self most strongly in your daily life? What would it look like to bring that specific area to the Spirit today?

Pray

Pray for daily awareness of the Spirit's leading, and for the willingness to choose surrender in the moments when the old self is loudest.

Day 6

Jesus said He did not come to be served, but to serve — and to give His life as a ransom for many. Pastor Bill pointed to Matthew 20 as part of the foundation for understanding what the Great Commission cost and what it is asking of us. The mission is not built on ambition or obligation. It is built on a life laid down freely, out of love. That reframes everything. When the commission feels like pressure — like one more thing on a list that is already too long — it helps to come back to this: Jesus did not commission us from a position of demanding. He commissioned us from a position of having already given everything. The cross was not a transaction that left us in debt. It was an act of love that freed us to live differently. Servanthood, then, is not self-erasure. It is the natural overflow of a life that has been genuinely transformed by what Jesus did. When you understand the ransom He paid, pointing someone else toward that same freedom stops feeling like a burden and starts feeling like the most natural thing in the world. The mission and the motivation are the same person: Jesus. That is why Pastor Bill kept bringing everything back to the cross — not as a guilt mechanism, but as the only place where the whole life of discipleship makes sense.

For reflection

How does remembering what Jesus gave up change the way you think about what following Him is asking of you?

Pray

Pray for a deepened gratitude for what Jesus gave, and let that gratitude shape your posture toward the people around you today.

Day 7

You have spent six days looking at the pieces. Today is a day to hold the whole picture. The Great Commission is not a program. It is not a season of church life or a personality type suited for extroverts. It is the shape of the life Jesus died to give every single one of His followers — and it holds together in three movements that Pastor Bill traced all week: knowing Jesus personally, growing in genuine community, and going to live with intention. None of those three is complete without the others. You can be deeply knowledgeable about Scripture and still be isolated. You can be in community and never take a step toward anyone outside it. You can be busy with mission activity and running on your own strength instead of the Spirit's. The call is to all three, held together, sustained by daily surrender rather than willpower. And here is what Pastor Bill left us with: the joy you are looking for is on the other side of the zigzags. The obstacles are real. The daily choice is real. But so is the promise at the end of Matthew 28 — 'I am with you always, even to the end of the age.' The same authority that grounds the commission is the presence that sustains the one who answers it. You are not doing this alone. You never were.

For reflection

As you look at all three movements — knowing, growing, and going — where do you sense Jesus most clearly inviting you to take a next step?

Pray

Pray for the courage to take that one next step, and for trust that Jesus' presence goes with you into it.

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Think about the last time something felt genuinely worth the effort — when the hard parts didn't make you quit because you believed what was on the other side. This message puts that same question to the Christian life and to the Great Commission.

Discussion questions

1
In Matthew 28:18-20, Jesus gives His final words to His disciples as a commission to go and make disciples. What do you notice about the weight Jesus places on this command — and what does it tell us about why He framed it as His last and most important word to them?
2
Pastor Bill made the case that you can't make disciples without first being one, pointing to Philippians 3:10 and the idea of knowing Christ personally. What does 'knowing Jesus personally' look like in practice — and how is that different from simply knowing things about Him?
3
Galatians 6:1-5 pictures a community where people bear one another's burdens so each person can carry their own calling. What does it look like in real life when a group of people is actually doing that — and what tends to get in the way?
4
Pastor Bill described 'going to live intentionally' as stewarding your time, spiritual gifts, treasure, and your own story around the mission of pointing people to Jesus. Of those four things, which one do people tend to think of least as a discipleship tool — and why might that be?
5
Pastor Bill used the image of a new car sitting in the driveway all week while we keep driving the old one — describing the ongoing pull between the Holy Spirit and the old self in Galatians 5:16-18. What does daily surrender to the Spirit actually involve, and how might that shape the ordinary rhythms of a week?
6
Pastor Bill closed by saying that real trust in Jesus means believing He knows better than we do how to find what we are actually looking for, and that the joy on the other side is worth navigating the zigzags. How might that kind of trust change the way we as a community talk about the hard or inconvenient parts of following Jesus?

Pray together

Daily surrender to the Holy Spirit — and the courage to trust that what Jesus is leading us toward is worth every step of the journey

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