The sovereignty of God is also a glorious truth when it comes to world evangelism. In the “Great Commission” at the end of Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus says: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age” (28:18-20). Taking the teaching of Jesus into the nations of the world has never been easy. It is all the more challenging today with the prevalence of philosophical ideologies like post-modernism and the revival of religions like Islam and various new forms of the old natural religions. But we know that God has given the Son “authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those he has given him” (John 17:3). Since Jesus goes on to tell us that this eternal life involves knowing the only true God and himself as the Christ sent into the world (17:3), this means that God will draw such people to himself. No power in heaven or hell can prevent the Lord from claiming his own. Even when there is great opposition, we should not be cast down. If, as Paul learned when he was ministering in Corinth, the Lord has many people in a city or country, he will bring them to himself through the preaching of the gospel (Acts 18:10).
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