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The Student Mission Movement

The Message Bearer’s Mandate: The Message – Part 7

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By Russ Mitchell
Russ is the field director for One Challenge (OC International) in Romania – www.oci.ro.
God’s Judgment
Take, for example, the judgment theme. Three times the psalmist says the Lord will judge the peoples, each time stressing a different attribute of God:
“He will judge the peoples with equity” (v. 10).
“He is coming to judge the earth. [...]

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The Message Bearer’s Mandate: The Message – Part 6

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By Russ Mitchell
Russ is the field director for One Challenge (OC International) in Romania – www.oci.ro.
As we have been looking at Psalm 96, we have made a number of important discoveries about God’s mission and our part in it.
First, we discovered that God’s mission or purpose is to be known, worshipped and obeyed by all [...]

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The Message Bearer’s Mandate: The Motivation – Part 5

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By Russ Mitchell

Russ is the field director for One Challenge (OC International) in Romania – www.oci.ro.
As we have been looking at Psalm 96, we have made two astounding “discoveries” thus far. We observed that all peoples from every nation are called to worship God and those who know God are called to make him known [...]

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The Message Bearer’s Mandate – Part 4

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By Russ Mitchell
Russ is the field director for One Challenge (OC International) in Romania – www.oci.ro.
Psalm 96 highlights two ways by which we can become involved in God’s mission. Let’s take a look at these.
Share the message locally
“Proclaim good tidings of His salvation from day to day.” Psalm 96:2
This is something we can do right [...]

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The Message Bearer’s Mandate – Part 3

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By Russ Mitchell
Russ is the field director for One Challenge (OC International) in Romania – www.oci.ro.

Sing to the LORD, bless His name; Proclaim good tidings of His salvation from day to day.
Tell of His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all the peoples. Psalm 96:2-3
In part one, we began to consider, “What is [...]

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The Message Bearer’s Mandate – Part 2

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By Russ Mitchell
Russ is the field director for One Challenge (OC International) in Romania – www.oci.ro.
Worship: The Culmination of History
History is moving toward the point where all peoples will come and worship the Lord.  The Psalms clearly anticipate this. For example:
All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD, And all [...]

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The Message Bearer’s Mandate – Part 1

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By Russ Mitchell
Russ is the field director for One Challenge (OC International) in Romania – www.oci.ro.
What is your part in God’s plan to glorify his name among all peoples? There are tens of passages in the Bible that could be used to develop this theme.
But here we will focus on one Old Testament passage [...]

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