PICK UP WHERE JESUS LEFT OFF
The Great Commission Is Still Our Assignment June 1, 2026
Jesus finished His earthly ministry.
He went to the cross.
He rose again.
And before ascending to the Father, He gave His followers an assignment.
Go.
Preach the Gospel.
Make disciples.
Carry the message.
Continue the work.
During this June 1 livestream, I used a phrase that captures what had been growing in my heart:
We have to pick up where Jesus left off.
Now, obviously, there are things Jesus accomplished that we could never accomplish.
We don’t add anything to His finished work on the cross.
We don’t become saviors.
Jesus is the Savior.
But He entrusted His followers with the responsibility of carrying His Gospel into the world.
He completed the work of redemption.
And then He said:
Go tell them.
The Assignment Didn’t End When Jesus Ascended
Sometimes Christianity can become very inward-focused.
My breakthrough.
My blessing.
My healing.
My purpose.
My destiny.
My promise.
My protection.
My prosperity.
And God certainly cares about us individually.
But somewhere along the way, we have to look up and remember:
There are other people here.
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Billions of them.
People Jesus died for.
People who have never heard the Gospel clearly.
People who have heard a distorted version of Christianity but don’t actually know Christ.
People who are hostile toward Him.
People who are curious.
People who are broken.
People who don’t yet know they’re looking for Him.
And Jesus told His followers:
Go.
The Great Commission Is Not the Great Suggestion
Mark 16 records Jesus commissioning His disciples:
“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”
That’s not merely a ministry department for people with microphones.
It’s not reserved for pastors.
Or evangelists.
Or missionaries.
Or the person who knows all the Scriptures.
Every believer may not preach behind a pulpit, but every believer can participate in making Christ known.
Your testimony can preach.
Your compassion can open a door.
Your generosity can open a conversation.
Your workplace can become mission territory.
Your dinner table can become a place of discipleship.
Your phone can become a tool for the Gospel.
Your business can become a place where someone encounters the character of Christ.
The question becomes:
What has God placed in my hands?
And how can I use it for His Kingdom?
But Keep Your Hands Clean
And here comes Job 22:30.
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At this point, Job 22:30 doesn’t even knock anymore.
It just walks into the blog.
The passage connects intercession with the cleanness of one’s hands.
And that brings us to something incredibly important:
God isn’t merely concerned about what we’re doing for Him.
He cares about what’s happening inside us while we’re doing it.
You can be doing ministry and carrying bitterness.
Preaching and carrying pride.
Praying and carrying offense.
Serving while secretly needing everybody to recognize you.
Doing Kingdom work while privately competing with somebody else doing Kingdom work.
So before:
“Lord, use me!”
there should continually be:
“Lord, search me.”
Philippians 4:8 Is Spiritual Housekeeping
Philippians 4:8 gives us something wonderfully practical.
Think on what is:
True.
Honorable.
Right.
Pure.
Lovely.
Admirable.
Excellent.
Worthy of praise.
That’s not denial.
It’s discipline.
Because whatever we repeatedly allow our minds to rehearse eventually affects our hearts.
And goodness—
some of us have been holding the same meeting in our heads for six months.
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We already fired that committee in the last blog.
Meeting adjourned.
If I’ve forgiven you, I don’t need to reconstruct the offense every night before bed.
If I’ve given something to Jesus, I don’t need to retrieve it every morning for further analysis.
Guard the mind.
Because clean hands and a pure heart don’t happen accidentally.
Don’t Give the Enemy a Foothold
During this livestream, I talked about refusing to give the enemy something in common with us.
That means spiritual warfare isn’t only about what we’re rebuking outside ourselves.
Sometimes warfare is:
Forgiving.
Controlling our tongue.
Rejecting jealousy.
Refusing bitterness.
Telling the truth.
Repenting quickly.
Turning away from temptation.
Taking our thoughts captive.
Choosing love when our flesh would prefer retaliation.
That’s not flashy.
Nobody makes a dramatic movie trailer about:
“SHE FORGAVE HIM.”
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But Heaven takes holiness seriously.
Pray for the Opposition
And we’re back here again.
People who oppose you are still people.
Some may knowingly behave maliciously.
Others may be deceived.
Some may genuinely misunderstand you.
Some may simply disagree.
We shouldn’t automatically assign supernatural motives to every conflict.
But whatever the cause, Jesus gave His followers an extraordinarily difficult instruction:
Pray for those who persecute you.
That’s where Christianity gets real.
It’s easy to pray for somebody who sent you flowers.
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Try sincerely praying for somebody who hurt you.
Not:
“Lord, reveal to them how right I was.”
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No.
Bless them.
Save them.
Heal them.
Correct them.
Reveal Yourself to them.
And while You’re working on them—
keep working on me.
Stand in God’s Counsel
Jeremiah 23:22 talks about standing in God’s counsel and causing people to turn from evil.
That’s serious.
Because if we want to help people find their way toward God, we need to spend time with God.
We cannot substitute religious performance for His presence.
We cannot substitute somebody else’s revelation for our own relationship with Him.
We cannot constantly consume everyone else’s voice and never become quiet enough to hear Scripture clearly ourselves.
Stand in His counsel.
Then speak.
That’s different from speaking first and asking God to endorse it afterward.
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We’ve tried that.
Dual Citizenship
During this livestream I described believers as having a kind of dual citizenship.
We live in this world.
We have responsibilities here.
Jobs.
Families.
Communities.
Laws.
Bills.
Appointments.
Yes, clocks.
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But Philippians also describes our citizenship as being in Heaven.
That means our deepest allegiance belongs to the Kingdom of God.
We live here—
but we’re learning to live according to His values.
And Kingdom citizenship should be visible in how we treat people.
Under His Feet
Scripture describes Christ as exalted above powers and authorities, with all things placed under His feet.
Our confidence, then, isn’t:
“Look how powerful I am.”
It’s:
“Look how exalted Christ is.”
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You know what time it is.
GIANT FOAM FINGER.
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Every conversation about authority has to eventually point back to Jesus.
Otherwise, authority can quietly become ego wearing church clothes.
Praise Before the Victory
Then we talked about 2 Chronicles 20.
Judah faced an overwhelming enemy.
Jehoshaphat sought God.
And eventually singers went ahead of the army, praising the Lord.
I love that.
Praise went out before they saw the victory.
That’s faith.
It’s easy to praise after everything works.
The email arrived.
The bill was paid.
The diagnosis changed.
The opportunity opened.
The prayer was answered.
Then:
“HALLELUJAH!”
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Wonderful.
But can I worship while the battlefield still looks like a battlefield?
That’s different.
Obedience Has Its Own Reward
Sometimes we obey God expecting the reward to look like an immediate external result.
But there is a reward hidden inside obedience itself:
You become someone who trusts Him.
Every yes strengthens the next yes.
Every surrender makes the next surrender more familiar.
Every time you discover that God sustained you after obedience cost something, your history with Him grows.
Eventually you have receipts.
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Prophetic Ledger.
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And when the next assignment comes, you can remember:
He was faithful there.
I’ll trust Him here.
Communion: Remember Jesus
You also talked about communion during this livestream.
And communion brings everything back where it belongs.
Jesus.
His body.
His blood.
His sacrifice.
His covenant.
His finished work.
We don’t treat communion like a magical formula.
We remember Christ.
And perhaps that’s one reason Jesus told His followers:
“Do this in remembrance of Me.”
Because we forget.
We become distracted.
We become impressed with ourselves.
We become impressed with problems.
We become impressed with darkness.
So Jesus continually brings us back:
Remember Me.
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There’s that finger again.
Don’t Let a Label Become Your Identity
You also talked about rejecting diagnoses, curses, and labels.
There’s an important distinction here.
Medical diagnoses can provide useful information and guide appropriate treatment; receiving one doesn’t require making it your identity.
A diagnosis may describe something happening in your body.
It doesn’t define the entirety of who you are.
Likewise, another person’s negative words don’t automatically determine your future.
We can acknowledge reality without allowing a label to become lord over our identity.
Our deepest identity remains:
I belong to Christ.
The Assignment Is Still Open
Jesus ascended.
The apostles preached.
The Gospel spread.
Generations came and went.
And now—
we’re here.
The Great Commission hasn’t expired.
The assignment didn’t disappear because technology changed.
Actually, now someone can sit in Maryland, open a phone, and speak to somebody on the other side of the world.
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Think about that.
The mission is ancient.
The tools keep changing.
Livestreams.
Blogs.
Books.
Shirts.
Conversations.
Businesses.
Hospitality.
Coffee.
Whatever God has placed in our hands can become something we surrender back to Him.
Pick Up Where Jesus Left Off
So preach.
Teach.
Write.
Serve.
Pray.
Forgive.
Intercede.
Disciple.
Feed somebody.
Encourage somebody.
Share your testimony.
Invite somebody to church.
Tell somebody what Jesus did for you.
And don’t wait until you feel spiritually impressive.
The first disciples weren’t perfect.
They were still growing.
Still learning.
Still being corrected.
But Jesus entrusted the Gospel to them.
And now the message has reached us.
So what will we do with it?
The world doesn’t need another generation of Christians endlessly discussing whether we’re qualified enough to begin.
We have an assignment.
Not to replace Jesus.
Not to add to His finished work.
Not to build our own kingdoms.
But to carry the message of the King into the places He sends us.
PICK UP WHERE JESUS LEFT OFF.
The Gospel is still good news.
The captives still need freedom.
People still need reconciliation.
The nations still need Jesus.
And until He returns—
the assignment continues.
Closing Prayer
Father, thank You for entrusting Your people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Keep our hands clean, our hearts pure and our motives surrendered to You. Guard our thoughts, our tongues and our hearts from bitterness, pride, jealousy and offense. Teach us to pray sincerely for people who oppose us and to remember that our assignment is reconciliation, not revenge. Give us courage to participate in the Great Commission using whatever You have placed in our hands. Let our homes, businesses, conversations, writing, ministries and everyday lives point people toward Jesus. Keep us from becoming impressed with ourselves or intimidated by opposition. May everything we do return attention to Christ. In Jesus’ name, amen.
Charnette Kay ⚔️
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