Mark 16:14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. 15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. 17And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;18They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
If Jesus died for our sins, then he died for all sins. He is over all the universe. He said to preach the gospel to every creature.
Let's see what that word creature means..
κτίσιςa founding, foundationκτίσις original formation (properly, the act; by implication, the thing, literally or figuratively)
Derivation: from G2936;
KJV Usage: building, creation, creature, ordinance.
Thayer:1) the act of founding, establishing, building etc
1a) the act of creating, creation
1b) creation i.e. thing created
1b1) of individual things, beings, a creature, a creation
1b1a) anything created
1b1b) after a rabbinical usage (by which a man converted from idolatry to Judaism was called)
1b1c) the sum or aggregate of things created
1c) institution, ordinance
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So, if a living being came across my path, whether from this planet or another, then I'm going to be obedient to the Lord and be telling them about Him. There is only one way to the Father, and that is through Jesus. That holds true no matter where the creation may be that is satient enough to understand.
The example is a good one about what is at stake when spreading the gospel. Elizabeth Elliot marched right back into that tribe that killed her husband along with that missionary group, with her children in tow. Now a son of one of the men killed, Steve Saint is still ministering to that group of people.
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Steve told us, “The Waodani asked me to come out here [to them], and asked me to teach them to do things only foreigners know how to do. [Like:] how to handle medicine, and have access to a little pharmacy. And the tooth thing—doing a little dentistry. And, they wanted to build their own airplane because the jungle is extremely rugged.”
The Waodani now have an airplane, and it shows how far they've come since the days they were known as ‘the killer Aucas.’
The changes have come as tribe members have gradually embraced the Christian faith. The first thing they did was to stop their revenge-killings of one another, which were pushing them to the brink of extinction.
Today, Steve Saint returned to the jungle with a small group of visitors who included three of his own grandchildren. And he brought the granddaughter of fellow missionary martyr, Roger Yudarian, Helena Weatherall.
Helena spoke about the difficulties of missions work. “In college right now there are a lot of students who do trekking and going to Nepal for the summer for fun, And this is fun for a day or two or maybe for a week. But to imagine to dedicate your life and saying, ‘I’m going to stay here to live with the people and possibly to lose my life.’ That’s a little bit of a bigger commitment, to say the the least.”
Maybe creation is thought of in a small sense rather than in a bigger sense.
