What role does the Great Commission play in our relationship with Jesus, and how does it connect us with His teachings and the community of believers?

In this video, Brandon Scroggins discusses the significance of the Great Commission, particularly the often-overlooked aspect where Jesus instructs His disciples to teach others to observe everything He has commanded. This command highlights that Jesus serves as our prophet, priest, and king. As our prophet, He instructs and guides us, and we should listen attentively to His teachings. As our priest, His sacrifice atones for our sins, removing our guilt and shame. As our king, He rules and defends us.

Moreover, Scroggins emphasizes that through our relationship with Jesus, we become part of a community of believers, our "siblings in Christ." By being part of the local church, we are not only identified with Christ but also with His people. This communal aspect is crucial in learning to love and walk with Him, as it provides a context for applying His teachings and seeing them displayed in our lives.

Ephesians 4:11-13 (NKJV): "And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ."

To follow Jesus really takes me immediately to the Great Commission or the passage that we normally think of when we think of the Great Commission, which is Matthew 28. And a part of that passage that is often overlooked is that Jesus says, to teach them to observe everything that I have commanded. So everything that he has said, We're to be taught, and then we're to be taught how to live that out. And so what it means is that Jesus is our prophet, He's our priest, He's our king. It means that He's our prophet.

He is teaching us, and our ears are in tune to the voice of our shepherd for instruction. It means that Jesus is our priest. We trust his satisfaction for our sins, and his and his alone. And so his priestly sacrifice takes away our guilt and shame. It means that Jesus is our king.

He's ruling us and defending us, as the old catechism says. And so he's prophet, priest, and king. But it also means that we get siblings in Christ. We have Jesus, but now we have brothers and sisters through the local church. We're identified with Christ, meaning we're also identified with his people through the context of the local church.

And so that's how we learn to love him, to walk with him, and to learn all of his ways and to see that displayed in our life.