THE COMMISSION / THE ANTIDOTE TO UNBELIEF

(Mark 16:9-20 ESV)
[[Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.
After these things he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.
Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen. And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs.]]
The real issue here according to Mark is unbelief. Jesus made it plain, “Whosoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whosoever does not believe will be condemned.” Jesus gives His church the commission as the antidote to unbelief.
We proclaim this gospel to the world around us by living this gospel to the world around us; proclaiming is acting out what we believe. In this the gospel is simply how we treat people. Love does not force its presence Love invites its presence; therefore, Jesus does not give us the commission to become intrusive but rather to become contagious.
Christianity is a call to the anointing in Christ. Demonstrating His anointing is being a witness unto Him. Walking in the anointing is the church providing the presence of Jesus in this world. His way of thinking, His way of living, and His way of being is His anointing.
The commission is Christianity providing the means for God’s Kingdom to display the Father’s heart to His lost children. God releases His love to this world through His Son living His anointing out of us. Jesus said, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord” (Luke 4:18-19). This is our message and this is our anointing in Christ.
Christ manifesting His presence through us becomes the commission in action; He is our anointing, He is our ability to become the antidote to unbelief.