Todays Scripture ---
Luke 10:1-20 GW
Jesus Sends Disciples to Do Mission Work
10 After this, the Lord appointed 70[
a] other disciples to go ahead of him to every city and place that he intended to go. They were to travel in pairs.
2 He told them, “The harvest is large, but the workers are few. So ask the Lord who gives this harvest to send workers to harvest his crops. 3 Go! I’m sending you out like lambs among wolves. 4 Don’t carry a wallet, a traveling bag, or sandals, and don’t stop to greet anyone on the way. 5 Whenever you go into a house, greet the family right away with the words, ‘May there be peace in this house.’ 6 If a peaceful person lives there, your greeting will be accepted. But if that’s not the case, your greeting will be rejected. 7 Stay with the family that accepts you. Eat and drink whatever they offer you. After all, the worker deserves his pay. Do not move around from one house to another. 8 Whenever you go into a city and the people welcome you, eat whatever they serve you. 9 Heal the sick that are there, and tell the people, ‘God’s kingdom is near you!’
10 “But whenever you go into a city and people don’t welcome you, leave. Announce in its streets, 11 ‘We are wiping your city’s dust from our feet in protest against you! But realize that the kingdom of God is near you!’ 12 I can guarantee that judgment day will be easier for Sodom than for that city.
13 “How horrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How horrible it will be for you, Bethsaida! If the miracles worked in your cities had been worked in Tyre and Sidon, they would have changed the way they thought and acted. Long ago they would have worn sackcloth and sat in ashes. 14 Judgment day will be better for Tyre and Sidon than for you. 15 And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to heaven? No, you will go to hell!
16 “The person who hears you hears me, and the person who rejects you rejects me. The person who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”
17 The 70 disciples came back very happy. They said, “Lord, even demons obey us when we use the power and authority of your name!”
18 Jesus said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like lightning. 19 I have given you the authority to trample snakes and scorpions and to destroy the enemy’s power. Nothing will hurt you. 20 However, don’t be happy that evil spirits obey you. Be happy that your names are written in heaven.”
unsafe says ----
We see 72 are sent out ----in 2's this is an important note here as they are being sent out into a hostile world and by sending them in 2's they can strengthen and encourage one another -----the Lambs are going out into the wolves territory
The Harvest is Great--- is the preaching of the Good News and saving souls is the harvest ---but the ones hearing the message will be few and some will get angry and hostile toward the ones sent out -----
They were to take nothing with them and this was because what they were sent out to do was of great importance and Jesus didn't want them to be delayed by people wanting long conversations and inquires -----
unsafe says ----If they were rejected at a place they were to proclaim this message in the streets -----verses 10-12
10 “But whenever you go into a city and people don’t welcome you, leave. Announce in its streets, 11 ‘We are wiping your city’s dust from our feet in protest against you! But realize that the kingdom of God is near you!’ 12 I can guarantee that judgment day will be easier for Sodom than for that city.
unsafe says verses 13-15 --Refer to the response to Unbelievers -----14 Judgment day will be better for Tyre and Sidon than for you. 15 And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to heaven? No, you will go to hell!
Verse 16 sends a very severe warning ------16 “The person who hears you hears me, and the person who rejects you rejects me. The person who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”
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unsafe says ---this is commentary on this verse -----from Matthew Henry ----
Those who despise the faithful ministers of Christ, who think meanly of them, and look scornfully upon them, will be reckoned as despisers of God and Christ.
Benson Commentary -----
And they who despise the faithful ministers of Christ, they who, though they do not hate and persecute them, yet think meanly of them, look on them with scorn, and neglect to attend their ministry, will be reckoned with as despisers of God and of Christ.
unsafe says ----This is for us today as well anyone who reject God's Word who is Jesus is in fact rejecting Jesus and therefore is rejecting God ------
We see in verse 17 that the 72 come back and had great success -----
Verses 18 Jesus said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like lightning.
unsafe says ---Jesus is telling the 72 not to get to prideful and puffed up in their success as all power comes from Jesus not themselves ------and in verse 19 He is telling them that ------
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have given you the authority to trample snakes and scorpions and to destroy the enemy’s power. Nothing will hurt you.
unsafe says -----This above verse is so powerful for us today when we know who were are in Christ Jesus and understand that He gives us the authority to trample on all power that comes from the enemy ---no one can hurt us unless we allow them to ------
20 However, don’t be happy that evil spirits obey you. Be happy that your names are written in heaven.”
unsafe says ---we are to be more concerned and Happy that our names are written in the Lambs Book of Life then we are to be casting out demons and the Like ------saving our soul for all eternity should be first and foremost on our minds -----
