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| Rev. Brian Wilkie |
Pastor of St. Andrew's Christian Community
Rockland, Ontario
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PODCAST LINK to re-broadcast - Sunday, November 24th, 2019:
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Broadcast Notes:
Good Morning! I'm your host
today, Brian Wilkie of St. Andrew's Christian Church in Rockland. As we begin today, my prayer is that The Good
News of the Lord Jesus Christ would encourage and strengthen you today!
'You can't take it with you'
Matthew10 (ESV)
The Twelve Apostles
10 And
he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean
spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction. 2 The
names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and
Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; 3 Philip
and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of
Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;[a] 4 Simon the Zealot,[b] and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Apostles
5 These twelve Jesus
sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of
the Samaritans, 6 but go rather to the lost sheep of the house
of Israel. 7 And proclaim as you go, saying, ‘The kingdom of
heaven is at hand.’[c] 8 Heal the sick, raise the
dead, cleanse lepers,[d] cast out demons. You received without
paying; give without pay. 9 Acquire no gold or silver or copper
for your belts, 10 no bag for your journey, or two tunics[e] or sandals or a staff, for the laborer
deserves his food. 11 And whatever town or village you enter,
find out who is worthy in it and stay there until you depart. 12 As
you enter the house, greet it. 13 And if the house is worthy,
let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to
you. 14 And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your
words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town. 15 Truly,
I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of
Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.
Persecution Will Come
16 “Behold, I am sending
you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as
doves. 17 Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to
courts and flog you in their synagogues, 18 and you will be
dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and
the Gentiles. 19 When they deliver you over, do not be anxious
how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be
given to you in that hour. 20 For it is not you who speak, but
the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. 21 Brother will
deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise
against parents and have them put to death, 22 and you will be
hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be
saved. 23 When they persecute you in one town, flee to the
next, for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of
Israel before the Son of Man comes.
24 “A disciple is not
above his teacher, nor a servant[f] above his master. 25 It is
enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his
master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more
will they malign[g] those of his household.
Have No Fear
26 “So have no fear of
them, for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not
be known. 27 What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and
what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops. 28 And do
not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who
can destroy both soul and body in hell.[h] 29 Are not two sparrows
sold for a penny?[i] And not one of them will fall to the ground
apart from your Father. 30 But even the hairs of your head are
all numbered. 31 Fear not, therefore; you are of more value
than many sparrows. 32 So everyone who acknowledges me before
men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, 33 but
whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in
heaven.
Not Peace, but a
Sword
34 “Do not think that I
have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a
sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and
a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
36 And a person's enemies will be those of his own household. 37 Whoever
loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son
or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And whoever
does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39 Whoever
finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find
it.
Rewards
40 “Whoever receives you
receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. 41 The
one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's
reward, and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous
person will receive a righteous person's reward. 42 And whoever
gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a
disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”
Footnotes:
- Matthew 10:3 Some manuscripts Lebbaeus, or Lebbaeus called Thaddaeus
- Matthew 10:4 Greek kananaios, meaning zealot
- Matthew 10:7 Or The kingdom of heaven has come near
- Matthew 10:8 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13
- Matthew 10:10 Greek chiton, a long garment worn under the cloak next to the skin
- Matthew 10:24 Or bondservant; also verse 25
- Matthew 10:25 Greek lacks will they malign
- Matthew 10:28 Greek Gehenna
- Matthew 10:29 Greek assarion, Roman copper coin (Latin quadrans) worth about 1/16 of a denarius (which was a day's wage for a laborer)
Prayer:
Lord Almighty, we know that you are good,
that your love endures forever, and that what you called Holiness is Abundant
Life and the secret to joy and peace. And so Lord, we pray that you would
strengthen us to give up all that is unholy, all that distracts us, all the
other activities and possessions and attitudes and opinions that draw us away
from you; to focus on the tasks that you've called us to, and do this one thing
forgetting all that is behind, to run the race that you have set before us. We
pray that you will lead us to its fulfillment in completion in the day of our
Lord Jesus Christ, in whom is our hope and our Salvation. AMEN.
Rev. Brian Wilkie
St. Andrew's
Christian Community, Rockland,
Ontario
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