Jesus left there and went to his hometown accompanied, by his
disciples. When the Sabbath came, he began
to teach in the synagogue and many, who heard him were amazed.
Where did this man get these things?
They asked? What's this wisdom that has been
given to him, that he even does Miracles, isn't this, the
carpenter, isn't this Mary's son?
And the brother of James Joseph, Judas and Simon on his sister's
here with us and they took offense at him.
Jesus said to them only in his hometown among his relatives.
And in his own house is a prophet without honor.
He could not do any Miracles there.
Except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them, and
he was amazed at their lack of faith.
Then Jesus went around teaching from Village to Village, calling
the 12 to him. He sent them out two, by two,
and gave them authority over evil spirits.
These were his instructions, take nothing for the journey
except a staff, no bread, no bag no money in their belts wear
sandals, but not even an extra tunic whenever you enter a
house. Stay there until you leave that
town. And if any place will not
welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet
when you leave as a testimony against them.
They went out and preached. The people should repent.
They drove out many demons and anointed many sick.
People with oil and healed them. Right.
I'm going to start by showing just how up-to-date and modern I
am. And how cool I am by mentioning
Zoila got my timer up by mentioning a TV show that ended
four years ago. So, does anybody here remember
the factor? Yeah, I'm calling down with the
kids. Yeah, you remember the right X
Factor unless you're for. Yeah, I remember the X Factor
all very very well. Truth is I never like The X
Factor. I never enjoyed the X Factor but
I I pretended to like the X Factor for one main reason and
that stir. And I first met Jamey.
She really wanted to go and see the X Factor live, and I really
wanted to hide a me. So I pretended to enjoy X
Factor. I would watch The X Factor with
her. I bought tickets to go and see X
Factor live all in the hope that I could spend more time with
Jamie and persuade worked. So maybe there's a lesson there.
Yeah, I saw Alexandra Burke sing.
Your life. That's not why I'm mentioning it
though. I'm mentioning it because you
remember on that show when it got near the final and the
people are in the final, they'd go back to their hometowns and
the scenes would be just Mayhem. There will be people lining the
streets, over waving and screaming drum, but those scenes
to they still do that in whatever TV shows, cool and hip
and young. Now to this tall like this tall
do Britain's Got Talent. Is that still a thing?
Yes. Do they take the people back to
their Hometown when that happens?
Hey, they did it in The X Factor and when they got there, the
streets will be lined with people waving flags and cheering
and screaming and shouting. You can understand that somebody
from your little town is getting International Fame and the done.
Something you think is impressive.
So they'd line the streets, like it was a royal visit, like it
was cheering and waving, and the performer would get out of the
limo with Louis Walsh or someone irrelevant and they go to their
old job and they check her. I always enjoyed working Working
here, they lie and then they go to their old school.
They were always a model pupil you have course they were and
everyone's still be cheering and maybe it would just be amazing,
a celebrity returning home, it will be incredible and that when
we read verse 1 of this chapter, that's what women to expect as
well. When we read verse 1, we are
meant to expect the same kind of celebrity Mayhem when Jesus
returns home. See, in the chapter, Jesus has
just raised a little girl back from the dead.
That is a big deal. Now, not everyone knew about
that. So, maybe that's not as big a
celebrity thing as we might think it is.
But before that he'd healed, like a local madman, a guy who
terrorizes, local community and healed him from a demon
possession at a ruin that area. You for years before that, he
had had crowds and crowds of people following him wherever he
traveled throughout Capernaum and girl at Galilee.
And that area, he is a celebrity at this time.
There's no other word for it. And so, as he returns back to
Nazareth in verse 1, back to this tiny little town.
Where people think they're probably a maximum of 500 people
living. There, we expect celebrity
Mayhem just like the X Factor, whatever performers, arriving
home. When we read verse one, that's
what we expect scenes crowds Fame, amazement.
And the first half of verse 2, well, it looks like we're going
to get that, doesn't it read it? When the Sabbath came.
He began to teach in the synagogue and many who heard him
were amazed. Here is Jesus teaches which is
what Jesus does all the way through.
Mark, he teaches us what he came to do, as he teaches that people
in his hometown are amazed. That's a good reaction, right?
If people came to Avenue and said, I really Amazed by how
Avenue was would be really happy with that, right?
And it's a really good reaction, especially when you look at
these verses a really similar to stuff that happens in chapter 1,
verse 21, and 22 in chapter one, it says, when they went to
Capernaum aim, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach
the same thing. And what happens in Capernaum,
the people were amazed It's the same thing happening again, and
Capernaum is what Jesus has had. Probably his most famous
celebrity so far, and people have come to trust him about
their faith in him. And so as we read verse 1 and 2,
having read got to this point, we're meant to think.
Oh, it's happening again. Here we go.
More people seeing who Jesus is more of his Fame spreading were
meant to be thinking about Capernaum, and the amazement
there, that turns to Faith and the whole town, bringing the
sick. And there is People to Jesus to
be healed. Instead were brought back down
to earth with a bit of a bump, aren't we?
Our expectations are up here. I think Mark deliberately right
to get us excited about what is going to happen next.
And then he brings a straight down because the amazement of
the crowd here isn't a good thing like in Capernaum.
And instead the first thing we see from these verses is that
familiarity with Jesus isn't faith in Jesus.
Being familiar with Jesus is not the same as having faith in
Jesus. You see this?
This amazement it's not the same.
Instead, they're amazed the someone could be as arrogant and
as bold as Jesus is being. Listen to what they read, what
they say. Where did this man?
Get these things. They ask.
What is wisdom that's been given to him.
What these remarkable Miracles he's performing, isn't this, the
carpenter, isn't this Mary son? And brother of James, Joseph,
Judas and Simon. I sister's here with us and they
took offense at him. did they listen to Jesus and they say, Do
You Think You Are? Who do you think you are coming
here saying this stuff about God, you're a nobody.
You're just a local Carpenter. I know you.
You fix my bookshelf. You're not this Fancy Pants.
Teacher. Who do you think you are?
We know all about guy they and they know his brothers.
And you know what his brothers are nobody's too.
And if you read in chapter 3, back in March, even his
brothers, Think Jesus is out of his mind as he teaches all this
stuff, his family. Don't think Jesus is all that
and neither do the people of Nazareth.
In fact, it's that because the Nazareth think that Jesus is
acting like he's better than them when they all think he's
worse than them. When they say, isn't this Mary's
son? That is an absolute slam.
They're not just referencing Jesus, family in Jesus day,
people are always related to their dad.
They should be saying isn't this Joseph's son?
Instead clearly gossip Around Jesus birth.
There's not reported in Mark's gospel but they would have known
in Nazareth. Clearly, that gossip is reported
and known and effectively by saying isn't this Mary's son?
They calling him an illegitimate child.
They calling Jesus. Something horrible.
Who do you think you we know where you come from?
Jesus, who do you think you are telling us this stuff?
And in Mark's gospel, this really is out of the blue.
We're not expecting this in Mark's Gospel, wherever Jesus
has gone so far in Mark, the crowds have loved him and flock
to him and praised him and come to trust him.
People have listened to him, they followed him that been
healed by him, that wanted more of Jesus with the exception of
some of the religious bigwigs. Everyone's loved Jesus so far.
But here, where Jesus is best known, where Jesus grew up?
They take offense at him and they refused to listen to him.
They refused to believe in him and they refuse to trust him.
Which leads to a big rig verse 4.
Jesus said to them, a prophet is not without honor, except in his
own town, among his relatives, and in his own home, and he
couldn't do any Miracles there. Except lay his hands on a few
people who were ill and healed them.
Now, that's a weird sentence to read.
He could not do any Miracles when clearly it says he then did
some Miracles, but by healing people, that's not not a
miracle. Clearly Jesus could do some
Miracles because he heals some people.
But it seems that in the face of the people of Nazareth unbelief,
their refusal to believe, Jesus doesn't, and won't do any
miracles. They refuse to believe so he
refuses to perform. From a last week that happened,
whether people who bother looking at that girl, she's
already dead. Well, they don't get to see
Jesus. Perform the miracle of raising
the curl up and healing her They miss out and that's what happens
here. It seems.
But there was more striking, his verse six, he was amazed at
their lack of faith. See, they were amazed at Jesus
earlier in verse 2, but now he's amazed at And what amazes him is
their refusal to believe in him. There are only two places in all
four of the gospels, where we read about Jesus being amazed
that. We're going to tell you where
the other one is rather than give them to think about it.
One is in Luke 7, where Jesus is amazed at a centurions faith if
you want to amaze Jesus, though, one of the ways to do that is to
refuse to believe in him. If you really want to amaze,
Jesus refused to believe in him. That's what amazes Jesus hear.
The people of Nazareth, refusal to believe in him.
So, what are we to make of this? I think this section in
particular is is a particular warning to those of us who are
very familiar with Jesus who have grown up around Jesus,
maybe who've lived around Jesus for decades, who've heard about
him for years and years, it reminds us of something.
We saw earlier in Mark's gospel to that it's possible to be
around Jesus to be familiar with Jesus.
And not really be with Jesus and to not have faith in Jesus.
It is possible to read your Bible every single day.
More than once to attend every single church meeting every
youth group. Every see you meeting to know,
massive Theology and all of church history to know
incredible truths about Jesus. And to not really be a disciple
of Jesus. And to refuse to believe who he
is. And to do what he says.
He's what the people of Nazareth do here, they weave these
assess. Jesus was teaching them.
And we know that the flow in Mark is that Jesus is Calling
and teaching people to repent and believe because the kingdom
of God is near Repent. He thaws them and they said,
man. Not doing that.
And the disciple, a follower of Jesus, as someone who does what
Jesus says. And that starts with repenting
of your sins and putting faith in him alone.
So before we move on, I need to ask.
Are you a disciple of this Jesus?
Is that something you can say about yourself?
It doesn't matter how long you've been around Jesus.
What prayer you might have prayed, whether you serve in a
team, you've been baptized or whatever.
Else, are you really a disciple of Jesus?
How is that demonstrated by your repentance and how you live for
him? Is there a risk of familiarity
with Jesus? Actually, breeding contempt for
Jesus and leading to a refusal to believe and trust and obey
his call on our life on his call to repent and to obey him know,
Matt and trust him for everything.
That's what a disciple is. Someone who listens to Jesus and
obeys Jesus. Is there anyone here?
Who risks amazing Jesus for all the wrong reasons?
If so, I want to encourage you that there is encouragement In
this passage for you to come and do that for the first time
properly today. You see the sad truth is we
don't hear about Nazareth again. We don't know what happens to
any of these people except for one of them in our translation
is name is Judah. One of Jesus's brothers, but
elsewhere in the Bible is known as Jude, and this Jude ended up
writing one of the books of the Bible.
See you may have refused to believe in Jesus at this point,
but he did believe eventually, there is always hope and
opportunity to trust in Jesus. This wasn't the end of due to
chance to put his trust in Jesus.
And this is not the end of your chance.
Either, if you're here this morning, if you know, that
you've been refusing to believe in Jesus while today is your
chance to change that before, it's too late.
Yes, it might not be easy, might be embarrassing, might be
straightforward, might not be straightforward, but we've got a
church full of people here who would happily get alongside you
and help you to do what you need to do to change, what you need
to change, and keep going, how you need to keep going.
It won't be easy, but it's 100% worth it.
It's probably also worth be clear before we move on that.
This is really, really clear refusal to believe.
Is not the same as doubt. Lack of faith.
This that this refusal to have faith is not the same as
doubting. We're going to see over the next
few weeks that doubting in Jesus isn't the same as refusing to
believe that Jesus loves to meet us, in our doubts, and our
worries, and our fears, and to reassure us through them.
You see doubt and unbelief of very different from each other.
They're very different from each other.
Doubt struggles to believe finds it hard to believe, and trust
unbelief refuses to believe, will not believe doubt struggles
to believe, unbelief, refuses to believe, and they're very, very
different things because only things that are alive struggle
Only things that have life, struggle dead things, don't
struggle. So, if you are struggling with
doubts, or questions or fears or worries today, I want to
encourage you. That is good.
That is a sign of Life. Please don't believe the lie
that they are the same as unbelief.
They're not. And Jesus loves to take our
doubts and build us through them.
As he shows us again, and again, how he calms all our doubts and
our fears. And if, you know the spending
time doubting today, that's okay?
Let them doubt, dude, himself. The guy who Jesus is brother in
his letter. Verse 22 tells us be merciful to
those who doubt It's okay to doubt.
Our job as brothers, and sisters of doubters, is to love them,
and encourage them, and show them that doubts are okay.
And to bring them to Jesus, be gentle and patient.
And kind on those who doubt Because that's what Jesus is.
Doubt is not unbelief. Doubt is a sign of life.
And so we've seen that familiarity with Jesus isn't the
same as faith in Jesus. But in the next few verses, we
see the kind of flip side of that coin and we see secondly
that discipleship feeds people making discipleship leads to
disciple-making. So after this rejection at
Nazareth, Jesus doesn't just give up.
Which is what I do instead Jesus knows that the gospel is going
to bear fruit all over the place, even if in some places
it's rejected. We read verse 6 and Jesus went
around teaching from Village to Village.
He carried on doing what he came to do, to teach teach people
about the kingdom of God, and to call them to repent.
And then he gathers his twelve closest disciple, who him, and
he, then sends them out on the same mission that he's been
doing so far. Verse, seven calling the 12 to
him. He began to send them out, two
by two, and gave them authority over impure spirits.
So he sent them out to do, what? Well, there's something about
being able to drive out impure spirits.
But it seems that that's only mentioned to show that Jesus is
the one who has the authority over those impure spirits.
And he gives that to his disciples when he sends them
out. Their primary task, though is to
carry on Jesus's mission teaching.
Their primary task is to carry on.
Jesus is me also. Jesus carry on Jesus's mission
for him. True Disciples of Jesus carry on
Jesus's mission for him, and they do it with his authority.
And so these 12 go out and they preached that people should
repent. That's what he seems that
they've do me. Read it in verse 12 and they
summarize what's happening. And this message of repentance
is also accompanied with Miracles and healing and driving
out demons. And the truth is our mission as
Disciples of Jesus is the same Mission today.
I was not exactly the same. I'm not saying go to the areas
around Nazareth and start reaching out there and shaking
dust off your feet and all those things.
But if you're a Christian here today, our mission is also to be
disciple making disciples. To tell other people about
Jesus, and to call them to repentance and Faith to turn
away from rejecting God, and to obey everything that Jesus
taught us. That's the mission of every
disciple of Jesus, no matter how confident are strong.
You feel in doing this today. Now, how we're going to do that
is going to a very different from person to person.
I'm not saying everyone has to do it.
Exactly the same as me or you're doing it wrong.
That's not what this is about. Some people are going to feel
more confident boldly saying things wherever they are however
they want to say it. Others are going to be more
confident, doing that quietly one-to-one with people, they get
to know when they got opportunities.
But one thing is clear, if you're a disciple of Jesus, not
sharing the gospel isn't an option.
I think about what's been happening so far in the flow of
Mark, the last few chapters. The so and his seed is all about
sharing. The gospel news and leaving the
results of that up to God, the lamp on the stand and the
Mustard Seed Parables. They're all encouraging us about
the spread in the growth of the kingdom of God.
As we share it, even the mission, Jesus gives the demon
possessed guy, when he heals him shows this, I love that moment.
The guys brand new convert, our, can I come with you is first
prayer. Jesus as know.
Instead, he sends him on a mission, what does he say?
Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has
done for you. That's what disciples of Jesus
do. If we claim to know Jesus and
yet we never even think about sharing the gospel with people
we know and love. That's disobeying Jesus.
Yes, we want to think about the best ways to do that, but
Disciples of Jesus seek and pray to make more Disciples of Jesus.
They start in their own home and they spread out from there.
But wherever we are, that isn't just the job of pastors and
evangelists and that sort of thing or church staff that is
the job of every disciple of Jesus is to be a disciple making
disciple. It feels overwhelming, right?
I know there's some people going to be sought here going.
I know this done but I can't do anymore.
And so I think there are encouragement that Jesus gives
us in these verses as an aside. One of the encouragement is if
we were going to plan a short-term mission trip, we
would not choose these 12 men. Not in a million years I never
ever. Would you choose these 12 guys?
They've got no real skills. They're mainly fishermen not
known for their public speaking. That improperly get the gospel
message and they didn't properly understand who Jesus was in Mark
so far. The Disciples of only really got
in the way of Jesus's mission. They've got exasperated at Jesus
twice and of even opposed him at points.
You wouldn't send these guys out on the mission, if you are
planning your mission. But if you were one of marks
original readers, you'd be feeling bad and weak aware of
your own frailties and feeling like the gospel message, you
were sharing was mostly rejected and bearing no fruit.
And as a result, the sending of these idiots at this stage of
their understanding of Jesus would give you brilliant
comfort. And it would comfort you that
the power of the word of God doesn't depend on the abilities
of the messenger. But on the power and authority
of Jesus. The impact and the power of out
through us, it doesn't depend on our abilities on our power.
It depends entirely on the power and the authority of Jesus.
Which is both encouraging and humbling, right?
So no matter how weak we feel that encourages us, no matter
how strong we feel that. Humbles us, that we can do
nothing in our own strength, no matter how overwhelming.
What I've just said might feel how successful we are.
Doesn't depend on us. It all depends on Jesus.
And so we can go boldly in our weakness and trust him to do
what only he can do, wherever he calls us to do it.
And in this Mission Jesus gives the disciples and us, three
things to encourage us as we come to the last 10 minutes of
the sermon three things that we should expect.
As we go out on mission for Jesus, three things for us to
expect where we are. At least a few to expected.
You go to Nigeria, all of us are ever God, calls us to be a
disciple, making disciple. We can expect the same things
here. And the first thing we can
expect is for God to provide spoiler alert.
We can expect God to provide Verse 8 to 10.
These are his instructions, take nothing for the journey except a
staff, no bread, no bag no money in their belts wear sandals, but
not an extra shirt whenever you enter a house, stay there until
you leave that town. Now, what this is, I don't know
how many bags you're planning on taking with you tonight.
Syria. Add imagine at least one very
big suitcase. But to the disciples Jesus says
Pack Light. In fact, he says, pack
ridiculously light, it would be like, saying to the place is
just take your passport and a toothbrush, and you'll be fine.
No food, no bag, no money, no extra clothes, just go.
He says, cloak belt, sandals and staff off.
You go. Why why does Jesus tell them to
pack so light? Why does he tell them to only
take those four things and nothing else?
Primarily its to make sure that they Place their trust in God to
provide everything that they need instead of trusting in
their own supplies and their own abilities and their own
resources. See True.
Discipleship of Jesus is characterized by dependence on
Jesus for everything And dependence on Jesus is shown by
going where he calls us doing what he calls us to.
No matter the needs and the questions we might have about
that like these disciples and I also booked a hotel in advance
They have to turn up. Imagine that manly.
So now you just turn up in Nigeria where we going to live.
Let's wait and see instead when they go to a town and someone
welcomes them into their house as they would have done in these
days there to stay in that house.
Even if a better option comes up trusting that God will provide
all their needs on this mission for him and they can expect for
God to provide all their needs on this mission for him.
So they don't need to plan ahead and they don't need to plan for
God not to provide because he promised he will.
And these four items that they're told to take what also
reminded marks readers of somewhere in the Old Testament
because they are the exact same for items.
That God's people are told to take with them when they leave
Egypt in The Exodus, there's a deliberate mirror here by Mark
and mark is telling us that the mission of The Twelve announces
something. As equally as important and
revolutionary insignificant as The Exodus did for the people
leaving Egypt, God is doing something new on this Mission
and it's exciting and it's a big deal.
So it's disciples. We need to be ready for that and
living like that's the case. Free from anything that might
distract us or slow us down on this new project that God has us
involved in. And the same is true for us as
we go out to make disciples wherever we go we can and we
should expect God to provide all that we need money, energy,
people, places to live. God will provide all of our
needs as we go out on mission for him.
Somalis, I'm not saying don't sort of house out to live in.
I'm encouraged you to do that. Do that.
But when that, if that falls apart, when it's not as great as
it could be, when things do go wrong, you can expect God to
provide for every single one of your needs for all of us in our
communities, and our families, in our schools, in our
workplaces. God will provide all that we
need, as we reach out for him. Expect that.
Don't plan to fail. Then you weren't really try.
Expect God to provide As a church family, we've talked
about about finances as a church, but we expect and trust
that God will provide everything we need financially, as we go
forward and seek to make disciples in Clarendon Park and
beyond for him, we trust that God will provide the people we
need for the things. He calls us to do, we expect God
to do that because he's promised, he'll provide, all of
our needs. We don't want to go out in our
own strength. We got in our own strength will
achieve some stuff the way of any Eternal consequence.
We want to go out and his strength expecting God to
provide trusting him to provide praying for him to provide
calling on him to keep his promises.
That's something we can do together but there is impressed
nians together and call on God to do what God's promises going
to do for us. God loves it when he's people do
that. We are to expect God to provide
And the second thing we're to expect, though is rejection.
We are to expect rejection as we go out on mission for Jesus.
Rejection of both us and the message that we bring.
You see rejection is going to happen.
That's why this sending out comes just after Jesus himself
has just been rejected, if even, Jesus gets rejected, of course,
we're going to get rejected too. Verse 11.
If any place will not welcome you or listen to you, leave that
place and Shake the Dust off your feet as a testimony against
them. Jesus prepares the disciples for
the places. They go to not pay any attention
to the good news, even in the promised land, there are people
who will reject the promised one When they do Jesus says, leave
that place. He said something weird to us,
Shake the Dust off your feet. It's not because he even towns a
particularly dirty because in those days, if you were a Jewish
person, you have to fish territory for whatever reason.
When you came back into Jewish land, you would Shake the Dust
off your feet from the place you come from in case, any of that.
Dirty Heathen, dust pollutes. Your clean Promised Land It's a
symbol of those Outsiders are not welcome Where We Are.
And here Jesus is basically saying that if people reject the
message of the Apostles of the disciples there to be treated
like Outsiders to God's kingdom as heathens equal to dirty
Gentiles as far away from God. Disciples had to reject expect
rejection and we should expect the same.
Now, confession time, I've really struggled for many years
reading a lot of books on evangelism.
I won't name any by name that wouldn't be helpful, but one of
the reasons I've struggled reading them because when you
read them, they're always at her.
I went to a night party and Jesus, and people came, there
was another doesn't happen in my life.
That doesn't happen in my Rugby Club in my changing rooms in my.
See you at Uni, wherever that doesn't happen.
That's not my experience. The overwhelming wants to people
listening to Talk about Jesus who don't know him is, okay,
what's good for you? Very rarely people will outright
reject me and ever, right? Go with me.
But this usually indifference or rejection of the message.
And for a long time, very few books on evangelism that I read
really reflected that I can recommend some that don't do
that if you read any but on our mission is disciple making
disciples of Jesus. We should be prepared for people
to reject the message not in a, what's the point anyway.
Then Still do it, just be aware. It's going to happen.
Some people are going to reject the message, some people as
we're going to see in future weeks will reject the messenger.
Be prepared for that. Don't let It Crush you because
there are worse things that can happen Than People rejecting the
message you bring. But a more excitingly.
The third thing. We should also expect, it's
forgot work. God to work.
Look at what happens in verses 12 and 13 out and preached that
people should repent and they drove out many demons.
And Anointed with oil, many people who are ill and healed
them. Despite the link there in
Nazareth, they refuse to believe.
So there's no healings here, there are healings.
So the implication is people are believing the message.
And these hopeless unpredictable unprepared, idiot, disciples go
out, they share the gospel and they see God do incredible
things. Isn't that remarkable?
You would never have picked these men?
You'd never have chosen this method but they have the
authority of Jesus with them. And so they go and they
Faithfully obey, Jesus is called to go and make more disciples.
That's the same call we all have.
That's the same gospel. We all have is the same
authority. Jesus gives to us because he's
with us wherever we go and mission for him.
We might feel unprepared and unpredictable and hopeless, we
might feel like idiots, like these disciples but we have the
same authority of Jesus with us, so we too can go and expect God
to work. Discipleship of Jesus breeds
disciple making disciples how and where could we be more
deliberate? And praying, and thinking about
that, as a church, family in the next couple of weeks, maybe
spend some time in home groups, this week, praying about just
one person that the Lord has put on your heart that you'd love to
share the gospel with. Ask for help in doing that pray
for opportunities to share about them in the weeks ahead and pray
for them to come to know him for themselves.
And remember it is him. We want them to know.
That's our mission to promote Jesus.
So Jump Ahead to the next verse will, you I know it's
technically mics for a couple of weeks time but I'm sure we'll
let me read it. So the disciples go out on
Mission in verse 12 and 13. And how does verse 14?
Start King Herod heard about this.
So the disciples got a mission Herod hears about it.
What does he hear about? Because Jesus is name had become
well-known, the Disciples of the ones out on Mission.
Jesus gets heard about more, not the disciples.
And it's him. We want to lift up, not us but
our church not Avenue or a church for as mon-sol or
anything other than Jesus is name.
How can we do that this week? How could we be thinking in our
lives, that how where we could be more disciple making
disciples to? We can do it, expecting God, to
provide all that, we need expecting and prepared for
rejection. So, we're not crushed by it.
But expecting God to work, all all authority has been given to
Jesus and he's with us wherever we go.
So we can go to Let's not let our familiarity with Jesus, and
let's be honest, a familiarity with the rejection, Jesus faces.
Stop us from having faith in Jesus and doing what he calls us
to do. Let's go and be disciple making
disciples confidently going out for him in his authority,
expecting God to provide. Yes, expecting people to reject
us but also expecting and looking forward to seeing where
God is going to work, even though we can do nothing in our
own strength. Let's be praying for each other
as we go and do that this week. I'll hand over to Kate in a
moment. We're going to throw our final
song, A Caitlin introduce it. But the dude is a probably
possible. The first verse of the final him
up. Please.
I love this. A very old him and it's not
necessarily about Avengers and but I think it helps us think
about this, not this one. So I meant the final one dude,
Judah. Sorry, not the last, say we rest
on thee, it's a him. Reminding ourselves, rest, not
drank we rest on God. And in his strength, he's our
Shield, he's our Defender. We don't Go alone against the
enemy. We don't go out world alone,
seeking to call people to repentance and faith.
We go with him with us cover. Next slide, please Judah.
With strong in his strength was safe in his keeping and we rest
on him. And in his name we go that's our
call his disciples. That's the promise God gives us
the he'll be with us wherever we go.
That's the promise God gives us the he'll be with us wherever we
go.