Take Nothing With You

Intro

Luke 10:1–11 NIV

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road. “When you enter a house, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’ If someone who promotes peace is there, your peace will rest on them; if not, it will return to you. Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house. “When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is offered to you. Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go into its streets and say, ‘Even the dust of your town we wipe from our feet as a warning to you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God has come near.’

Faithfully reading the text:

It’s most immediate context:

A. The Harvest is Plentiful

B. The Message is Urgent: Commission

The “Peace” of God

C. The Kingdom is near!

The Message is the same to those who receive the message and repent and to those who don’t

More bearable on that day for Sodom

Faithfully Reading The Text In Our Context

Reminded of the wording in...

Take Nothing With You!?!

Bitter

I’m going to say a word. And when I say that word I want you to see a face. Are you ready that word is Bitter. Bitter. do you see the face?

I see the face...

Mother of child in our after-school program on the Westside of Chicago:

Don’t tell he is as good as everyone else because we both know that it’s just not true.

Man about my age, grew up as the only male in a household of women whose lives have been greatly harmed by men. Taunted, teased, and abused he’s decided all women should be and never will be trusted by him...

Man so angered by the fact that he wasn’t let in to the flow of traffic at a stop light that he rammed the car that was in his way. And started yelling at the world that nobody is going to cut him off again.

Now I want you to imagine more faces...

The elder of a jewish village, respected by all, forced to carry the pack of a lowly roman legionary one full mile like a common slave

An older brother standing outside the door because his father has inexplicably welcomed back that derelict of a brother with a full rager of a party.

The unmerciful servant who can’t let a debt go...

Water Bottle Illustration

Faithfully reading the text:

It’s most immediate context:

A. The Harvest is Plentiful

B. The Message is Urgent: Commission

The “Peace” of God

C. The Kingdom is near!

The Message is the same to those who receive the message and repent and to those who don’t

More bearable on that day for Sodom