"Then HE told them, 'Go out to the whole world and proclaim the Good News to all creation. The one who believes and is baptized will be saved; the one who refuses to believe will be condemned.
Signs like these will accompany those who have believed: in MY Name they will cast out demons and speak new languages; they will pick up snakes and, if they drink anything poisonous, they will be unharmed. They will lay their hands on the sick and they will be healed.'" - Mark 16:15-18
(Proclaim the Good News to all creation. The Good News is the seed that will be planted in the world and will flourish, in its proper time, in every field of human endeavor. Salvation is not a matter of saving isolated souls or individual beings. The Gospel is to be proclaimed to all creation in all activities and acts of those who have been renewed by baptism. They are to be the yeast that transforms human history.
On the day of resurrection, JESUS' human nature begins to participate fully in divine Glory [Romans 1:4]. JESUS now asks us to believe in HIS Name, that is, in the divine power HE has just received and that works through HIM.
The Name is a word that has little or no meaning for us. For the Jews it meant the active presence of GOD. This term allowed them to speak of GOD's mysterious presence in the world without disregarding HIS greatness.)
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