After the Jews rejected Jesus as their King, He was crucified for the sins of the entire world. He was raised from the dead by His Father, and He established a new entity, the Church. Jesus only issued one command to His newly formed Church. This command is found in Acts 1:4. As He stands in front of the founding members of His Church, He commands them not to leave their present location until they have received the Father's gift, the baptism with the Holy Spirit.
In Acts 1:4, the word "command" is a military term, meaning, to give orders to. It is a word a general would use to direct his troops. Most Bible scholars believe Matthew 28 to hold a command because in the verse "Go into all the world and make disciples," the word "Go" is in the perfect present tense of the verb. This would make this a command for all time. However, the language of Matthew 28:19 does not rise to the same level as the command of Acts 1:4. According to Matthew 28, Jesus has just been given all authority in heaven and in earth by His Father. He is standing before His Church as King of kings and Lord of lords and handing down a direct order. If "Go into all the world" is a command because it is in the perfect present tense, then Acts 1:4 rises to the same criteria because the word "wait" is also in the perfect present tense.
Moreover, most Bible scholars interpret that since the disciples perfectly fulfilled the command to wait in their present location for the baptism with the Holy Spirit, taking that power to witness to Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost part of the earth, Christians today are exempt from obedience to this command. Since when does man have the right to set aside the commandment of God? This is exactly what the Scribes and Pharisees had done in Mark 7, setting aside the commandment of God to honor father and mother to obey their interpretation and Jesus rebuked them for it.
Curiously, the commandment of Jesus to wait for the baptism with the Holy Spirit is the only commandment Jesus gave the Church, and it is the only commandment the Church willfully and consistently disobeys. They don't even repent of their disobedience because their leaders tell them not to worry with obedience; this command does not apply to you.
The majority of the Church looks on the gift of tongues as an enemy, a foe. Yet it is a gift of the Holy Spirit, who is God, and God is love. How can a gift of love be an enemy of the Church? Jesus said we would be His friends, if we obeyed His commands. What does that make us if we disobey the only command He specifically gave to us? We might should consider that all of Jesus' other commands were given to Jews, under the old covenant, before the Church existed. How can we say we love Jesus while we blatantly disobey His command?
Just something to think about.