Focus on Reproduction, Mentor's Guide, MG12

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III. As Lord of the Harvest, Jesus Precisely Determines Where His Messengers Must Go (Location).

A. As Commander-in-chief of the host of God’s armies, Messiah Jesus sets apart his own for the work he has called them to do.

1. He selects specific servants among all his servants to do a particular mission, task, or service in his name, Acts 13.1-3.

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2. The call of the Lord simultaneously includes a call to suffering for his name’s sake , Acts 9.13-16.

3. Godly workers are set apart by the Lord for the work of the ministry; evangelism and church planting begin with the Lord’s intent.

a. Acts 22.21

b. Rom. 1.1

c. Rom. 10.15

d. Gal. 1.15

e. Gal. 2.8-9

4. Jesus supervises the campaign of his submitted servants step by step, Phillip and the Ethiopian eunuch, Acts 8.26-40; cf. Acts 8.26-29.