The Supremacy of God among the Nations

God's great goal, in and throughout all of history, is to display His glory for the enjoyment of His people from all the nations. The question now is, why does God want to display His glory by focusing the missionary task on all the peoples of the world?

How does this missionary objective serve best to achieve God's goal?

The first thing we notice in considering this question is how the ultimate goal of God's glory is confirmed through the missionary attention focused on the people groups of the world. For example, Paul said, “Through Him and for His (Christ’s) name's sake, we received grace and apostleship to call people from among all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.”   (Romans 1:5)

Missions is for the glory of Christ! Its goal is to re-establish the supremacy of Christ among the peoples of the world. Similarly in Romans 15:9, Paul says that Christ did His own missionary work and inspired Paul's, "…so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy." Therefore, the goal of Christ's mission and ours is that God might be glorified by the nations as they experience His mercy.

Consequently, the perfect goal of missions is described in Revelation 5:9 as persons from every tribe and language and people and nation; worshiping the Lamb and declaring the infinite worth of His glory. All of this is in accord with the Old Testament call to, “Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples.” (Psalm 96:3)

Truly, the goal of missions is to glorify God!

 

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