Hi, welcome back.
We've been exploring
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Matthew Chapters 8, 9,
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and we are gonna be
moving to 10 in just a moment.
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Just a reminder,
we've been looking at Jesus'
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teaching discourses and
then His healing miracles.
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And they both serve to identify
Him as a Lord and Savior.
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We've looked at
these miracles, where Jesus
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repeatedly shows His compassion
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by meeting
people's holistic needs.
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That their spiritual
needs, their physical needs,
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He deals with a whole person.
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And so, Ranko, as we shift
now, now we're gonna go back
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to looking at discourse.
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What should we keep in
mind as we make that transition?
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Yes. We know who wrote the--
first gospel, it was Matthew.
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And probably in
Chapter 9 verses 9 to 13,
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Matthew puts his
signature into the gospel.
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And explains to us, this
explains to us, why Matthew
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put such a strong emphasis
on Jesus' physical healing,
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what He did and also
His spiritual healings.
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We have
paralytic physical healing,
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but still the spiritual
healing is applied there.
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Matthew did not have
problem with physical healing,
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he need a spiritual healing.
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But his spiritual
healing also impacted
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his physical well-being.
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When Jesus heals people, He
provides the full restoration,
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okay with the
reference to those people.
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And that's why,
Matthew, when he under
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the inspiration
of the Holy Spirit,
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give us these portrait of Jesus.
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It comes as a result
of his personal experience
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what Jesus did personally
for him in his own life.
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He is a recipient of God's
and Jesus' compassion. Yes.
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Now, Jesus' compassion
for the people also leads
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him to say "Others need to be
involved in His ministry also".
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He wants others to
extend that ministry.
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Actually, Jesus
knew that His ministry
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would last for some short
time, He'll have to leave.
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But He wanted His ministry
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to continue after His departure.
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So, let's go back
to that concluding
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text that we saw, Glenn.
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I am asking you, could you read
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one more time
from verse 36 to 38.
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Matthew 9:36. Yes.
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"When he saw the multitudes,
he was moved with compassion
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for them, because they're weary
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and scattered like
sheep having no shepherd.
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Then he said to his disciples,
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the harvest truly is plentiful,
but the laborers are few.
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Therefore, pray
the Lord of the harvest
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to send out
laborers in his harvest."
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See, Jesus was
moved with the compassion.
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Then, he told to His disciples.
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We've verse 38.
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He says "Pray to the Lord".
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Really in Greek,
it's a little bit
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the word is more, more deeper.
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It's not just to pray,
beseech how's God struggled,
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fight with God that
he sense to be moved
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with the same
compassion as Jesus
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was moved and now
Jesus, not only that He request
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His disciples to pray,
but, He sends His own disciples
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to go, to
continue His activities.
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You sense his
longing for labors. Yes.
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So, let's go to
Chapter 10 now. Yes.
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And what do we
find in Chapter 10.
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We find another presentation
of teaching discourse.
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Glenn, the key text
that really we have to read
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is verse 1 and verses 5 to 8.
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Please would you
do it, 1 and 5 to 8?
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Matthew Chapter 10 verse 1
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"And when he had called
his 12 disciples to him,
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he gave them power
over unclean spirits,
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to cast them out, and to heal
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all kinds of sickness
and all kinds of diseases.
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Down to verse 5
"These 12 Jesus sent out,
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and commanded them, saying,
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Do not go into the
way of the Gentiles,
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and do not enter
city of the Samaritans.
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But go rather to the lost
sheep of the house of Israel.
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And as you go preach, saying,
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The Kingdom of
Heaven is at hand.
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Heal the sick, cleanse
the lepers, raise the dead,
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cast out demons, freely you
have received, freely give."
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So, what we learn
here from this text?
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Now, Jesus is
sending His own disciples
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to do the same
work that He was doing.
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What was Jesus work?
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To teach and to preach to
the people and then to provide
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help to the people to heal them.
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We noticed here, is the
same, verse 1, verses 6 to 7.
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This is exactly
what the disciples,
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disciples were
supposed to do the same things,
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that Jesus was doing.
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Jesus instructed
them "You go now to preach
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the message of the kingdom.
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And you also go and
provide that healing
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and other help to the people.
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What a great
educational principle
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of demonstration example
and then put into practice.
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It must have been a
little fearful for them though.
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And so, Jesus now is
gonna present to them
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what they need to
know before they go?
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Actually, Chapter 10
really consists of three parts.
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Verses 5 to 15 are
mission instructions
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that Jesus
provide to His disciples,
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telling them how they really
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should go and preach the gospel.
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We saw preach and then
also the practical side
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of their preaching,
Jesus tried to tell them
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what to take with themselves
in the first century context.
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What to do? How to
relate to the people
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who rejected their message?
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How to relate to
the people who accepted
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their message is
very practical instruction
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that Jesus give them.
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Then, we have the second
part which are verses 16 to 23.
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And Jesus tried to tell
them about the persecution
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and the position
that they will face
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as they preach the gospel.
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Let me tell you, the
preaching of the gospel
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according to the
Bible, it's never popular.
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As Jesus made very
clear to His disciples
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as they go to preach the--
gospel to proclaim the message
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of the kingdom, the
majority will reject it.
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They will face a
strong opposition to that.
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But, Ranko, that
should surprise us,
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because He's sending them
to the lost sheep of Israel.
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He's not sending them
out to the pagan nations
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yet, that will come later.
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But, shouldn't
the people of God,
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welcome and
appreciate this message.
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Why is there such resistance?
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The preaching of the
gospel is never popular.
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You know, today,
we're living in the world
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with many Christians
who preach the gospel,
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they want to be popular.
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And they try to
adjust their message
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to avoid the position, etc.
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And, of course, we
have to be very tactful
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when we preach the gospel.
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But we have to know, if
we preached the pure gospel,
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gospel that Jesus initiated
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with His coming
down to the earth. Okay.
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That gospel will
never be popular.
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You will never be accepted
by the majority of people.
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But, you know, then,
we can ask many questions.
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What is wrong with me?
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But then goes the
third part, verses 24 to 42,
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where actually Jesus explains
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"Don't worry if
you meet opposition.
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Don't worry if people reject
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your preaching
and your message."
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Jesus says "Keep in mind
whatever happens to you."
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This is what actually
happened to me as well.
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You are simply following
in footsteps of the Master.
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Of the Master, all right.
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Now, it's interesting
to notice that He gives
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the instructions to them.
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And there is a mission's
dimension here because--
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when He sends
them to the Israelites,
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they are not to
take things with them.
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They are to trust
in God and to receive
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the hospitality of the people.
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It's a little different when
they're sent out to the pagans
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and so there is an
interesting dynamic
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here of the aspect of missions.
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They're sent to go
forth trusting in God,
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depending on His leadership,
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and also
interacting with the people.
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It must have taken a lot
of faiths to respond to this.
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You know, Glenn.
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There are two
things that we can mention
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within the few
minutes that are left to us.
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Number one is we are
commissioned to go to preach
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the gospel, but not to
think about the results.
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The result belongs to God. Okay.
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We are not the ones who
can change the minds of people.
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We can go to this third part.
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And Jesus said "Whoever
confesses me before men,
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I will also confess him before
my father, who is in heaven.
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Whoever denies me before man,
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I will also deny him before
my father who is in heaven.
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Do not think that I
came to bring peace on earth.
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I did not come to
bring peace, but a sword".
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The gospel
always brings division
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and then the key
text is verse 38.
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"And he who does
not take his cross
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and follow after me
is not worthy of me."
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Now, there is also
an element of warning
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and judgment in these passages.
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He says "When you go,
if they don't receive you,
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there are some consequences
to not accepting Christ,
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they're not accepting
the followers of Christ. Yes.
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The gospel always--
rejection of the gospel
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always has the consequences.
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But our is to go and
to preach the gospel.
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We have to be moved with that--
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you know
compassion that Jesus had.
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We have to go to preach
the gospel to turn in the eyes
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of the people to the forgiving
father who is there in heaven,
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to Jesus Christ, who
loves them, loves them so much.
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If people reject that message--
that's the business with God.
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Our is to go and to
proclaim the gospel.
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You know, we might be
sitting here, thinking,
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oh, it's easy
for those disciples
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to go back to the Israelites.
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I have got to go to
work on Monday morning.
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I have got to go to the factory.
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I have got to
deal with my neighbor.
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I have got to deal with. It's
a lot harder witnessing today.
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But notice the assurance,
Ranko, in Chapter 10 verse 18
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"You will be brought
before governors and kings
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and so forth
there's a testimony.
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They all deliver
you up, do not worry
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about how or what
you should speak".
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Now, this is the
specific context.
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But the principle
applies that as we accept
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that call to go, God is there.
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He is in charge. He is with us.
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You see, the preach of
the gospel is not about us.
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It's about God. By the way,
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if you read the
Chapter 10 constantly.
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You just read this text
"What is that, do not worry."
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If you go to verse
26 "Do not fear them."
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Verse 28 "Do not fear those."
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Verse 31 "Do not
fear". Very reassuring.
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You see, we are
instructed with the gospel,
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with the
preaching of the gospel.
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We are not in charge.
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It's not about us neither
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success or
failure, it's not about us.
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Everything is about
God. We are instructed.
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We are sent out. The word that--
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he said "Jesus sent them
out to preach the gospel".
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We have to go out.
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He sends us. Once
the moment I go out,
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it's not anymore
about me, it's about Him.
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I have to preach the
gospel in tactful way.
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I have to follow
into the footsteps
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of the Master,
but He is in charge.
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Let's remember that,
preaching is not always
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just about words, its
the way we live. Yes, yes.
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By the way, who are those
disciples that Jesus sent.
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They were ordinary people.
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They have personal problems.
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They have issues
among themselves.
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Each one had personal problems.
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They were so much occupied
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and interested
in earthly things.
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They joined some of them,
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they joined Jesus
for wrong reasons, etc.
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But, Jesus uses
ordinary people who are people
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with their own struggles.
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People who have
with their own problems.
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And it is the
transforming power of Jesus
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and His presence with
them that change those people
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that they became
a powerful force,
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the foundation of
the Christian Church.
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The same can
happen with us today.
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We have our problems.
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We may be feeling inadequate.
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It's about Jesus Christ,
who call us and He send us out.
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