"And Jesus came and said to them, 'All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.'"

Look at how Jesus opens this moment. "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me." This is the dominion that was lost in the garden, now concentrated in the person of Jesus Christ. He is reclaiming what Adam forfeited and what Noah never received back. Jesus is saying... I have it, all of it, heaven and earth.

And then comes that word... "Therefore." Because I hold all authority, and dominion rests in Me, you can now operate with it again. Go.

Do you see what's happening? The same pattern from Genesis 1 is showing up all over again. Empowerment precedes expectation. God blessed Adam first, then commanded him. Now Jesus declares His authority first, then issues the commission. This is not coincidence. This is design.

And what is the commission? Make disciples. That's fruitfulness and a disciple who makes a disciple is bearing fruit, producing from their own transformation another transformed life. But then He says, "teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you" that is multiplication. Because when you teach a disciple to obey everything Jesus commanded, you're not just making a convert. You're making a disciple maker. You're transferring the capacity to reproduce. You're building someone who can bear their own fruit and then multiply it in someone else (see 2 Timothy 2:2).

So what I'm seeing is this... the Great Commission isn't structured as addition, where you reach one and then reach another. It's structured as multiplication, where you reach one who reaches others who reach others. And the scope? "All nations." Not one city, not one church. All nations. Filling the earth. Just like Genesis 1.

Now here is something you need to see. Matthew's Gospel opens in chapter 1, verse 1 with the phrase... "The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ." That word translated "genealogy" in the Greek is the word genesis. The book of the genesis of Jesus Christ. Matthew was telling us from the very first verse that Jesus was inaugurating a new creation, a new humanity with a new mandate that echoes the original.

The Great Commission is not a new idea. It is the original idea... restored.

The design in Genesis 1 gave us multiplication with dominion.
The fracture in Genesis 9 gave us multiplication without dominion.

But the redemption in Matthew 28 gives us multiplication with restored dominion. And that means we don't multiply to become something. We multiply because we've been made something. Multiplication isn't the path to becoming. It's the response of what we've already been made.

We're not multiplying to gain authority or to earn dominion. We are multiplying to exercise the authority and dominion that have already been restored to us in Christ. And right now, that changes everything about why we go, why we make disciples, and why this matters.

But here's the incredible part... Jesus didn't entrust this restored command to an army. Tomorrow we'll see who He actually gave it to, and it might just change the way you see yourself in this calling.

Identify one person in your life who is a young or growing believer and commit to walking alongside them this month. Not just inviting them to church, but teaching them to observe and practice the things Jesus commanded.