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  EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS ON MARK - MARK 16:15-18
  by J.C. Ryle
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We ought to notice, firstly, in these verses, the parting commission
which our Lord gives to His apostles. He is addressing them for the last
time. He marks out their work until He comes again, in words of wide and
deep significance, "Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to
every creature."

The Lord Jesus would have us know that all the world needs the Gospel.
In every quarter of the globe man is the same, sinful, corrupt, and
alienated from God. Civilized or uncivilized, in China, or in Africa, he
is by nature everywhere the same--without knowledge, without holiness,
without faith, and without love. Wherever we see a child of Adam,
whatever be his color, we see one whose heart is wicked, and who needs
the blood of Christ, the renewing of the Holy Spirit, and reconciliation
with God.

The Lord Jesus would have us know that the salvation of the Gospel is to
be offered freely to all mankind. The glad tidings that "God so loved
the world that he gave his only begotten Son," and that "Christ has died
for the ungodly," is to be proclaimed freely "to every creature." We are
not justified in making any exception in the proclamation. We have no
warrant for limiting the offer to the elect. We come short of the
fullness of Christ\

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/jc-ryle/expository-thoughts-on-mark-mark-1615-18/
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