Todays sermon was given by our priest in charge the Rev Nick Mwandia on the 2nd Sunday after Trinity, 18th June Download Mp3 HERE! Sermon starts at 4:02 Matthew 9 v 35 – 10 v 23 The Workers Are Few 35 … Continue reading →
Todays sermon was given by our priest in charge the Rev Nick Mwandia on the 2nd Sunday after Trinity, 18th June
Download Mp3 HERE!
Sermon starts at 4:02
Matthew 9 v 35 – 10 v 23
The Workers Are Few
35 Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues,
proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and
sickness.
36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they
were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
37 Then he said to his
disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.
38 Ask the Lord of the
harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”
Jesus Sends Out the Twelve
1 Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out
impure spirits and to heal every disease and sickness.
2 These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (who is called Peter) and
his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John;
3 Philip and
Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and
Thaddaeus;
4 Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
5 These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go among the
Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans.
6 Go rather to the lost sheep of
Israel.
7 As you go, proclaim this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven has come
near.’
8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out
demons. Freely you have received; freely give.
9 “Do not get any gold or silver or copper to take with you in your belts—
10 no bag
for the journey or extra shirt or sandals or a staff, for the worker is worth his
keep.
11 Whatever town or village you enter, search there for some worthy person
and stay at their house until you leave.
12 As you enter the home, give it your
greeting.
13 If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your
peace return to you.
14 If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave
that home or town and shake the dust off your feet.
15 Truly I tell you, it will be more
bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
16 “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as
snakes and as innocent as doves.
17 Be on your guard; you will be handed over to
the local councils and be flogged in the synagogues.
18 On my account you will be
brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles.
19 But
when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time
you will be given what to say,
20 for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your
Father speaking through you.
21 “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel
against their parents and have them put to death.
22 You will be hated by everyone
because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
23 When you
are persecuted in one place, flee to another. Truly I tell you, you will not finish going
through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.