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OK, so today we're looking at 
Mark chapter 6, verse 7 to 13. 

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Jesus made a tour around the 
villages teaching. 

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Then he summoned the 12 and 
began to send them off in pairs,

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giving them authority over the 
unclean spirits. 

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And he instructed them to take 
nothing for the journey except a

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staff. 
No bread, no haversack, no 

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coppers for their purses. 
They were to wear sandals, but, 

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he added, do not take a spare 
tunic. 

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And he said to them, if you 
enter a house anywhere, stay 

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there until you leave the 
district. 

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And if any place does not 
welcome you and people refuse to

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listen to you as you walk away, 
shake off the dust from under 

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your feet as a sign to them. 
So they set off to preach 

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repentance and they cast out 
many devils and anointed many 

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sick people with oil and cured 
them. 

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So let's start at the start 
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Verse six says Jesus made a tour
around the villages. 

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So we're still talking in the 
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By the way, Jesus hasn't gone to
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around Jerusalem yet. 
He's just stayed in the Galilee 

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region with although he's had a 
brief journey across the Sea of 

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Galilee to Gentile territory, 
but he's stayed in that northern

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part of Israel. 
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12. 
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earlier in the Gospel of Mark 
he, he's already chosen his 12 

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apostles and now he's going to 
call them aside for a special 

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mission. 
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their initial training and he's 
about to give them specific 

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instructions for how they should
carry out their first 

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independent mission. 
So we're about to hear Jesus 

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give them instructions for their
mission. 

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Remember that earlier in Mark, 
Mark tells us what the function 

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of the apostles was. 
One of them was to be with 

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Jesus, but then another one was 
to be sent out. 

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And so the word for sent out is 
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So that's where we get the word 
apostle from. 

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So the apostles are about to 
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they're about to be sent out. 
Now, I want to emphasise what 

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we're about to hear are not 
instructions for all Christians 

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for all time. 
He's giving the 12A specific 

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mission here with specific 
instructions, so it doesn't all 

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necessarily apply to us in the 
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So he sends them out in pairs, 
and there's a lot that could be 

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sent about the significance of 
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Probably the most obvious reason
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individuals is because going out
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dangerous for one. 
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support of another person, 
you're likely to avoid 

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discouragement and temptation. 
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with a companion. 
And also you think about why not

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and have groups of three or 
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Well, they can cover more ground
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groups. 
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thinking at this point, the 
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is 2 or to have leading a group.
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with them, but it's certainly 
the apostles that are being sent

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out here. 
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of establishing a matter by two 
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Remember, in the Old Testament, 
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want to prove something, you 
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So that could be in view here as
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The actual Greek text here where
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more literally, he began to send
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So that might suggest that he's 
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sending them at different times.
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giving them specific 
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So he could actually be spending
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before he sends them out here, 
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think about. 
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the unclean spirits. 
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his own authority to the 
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out exorcisms. 
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part of their ministry. 
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miracles, cure all the sick. 
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the authority to cast out 
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So it seems like that's their 
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which would echo something that 
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Remember with the parable of the
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the strong man must be bound. 
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that Jesus is doing all over 
Galilee is Satan being slowly 

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bound, his power being reduced. 
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his goods, as in bring the 
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of Satan into the Kingdom of 
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So that's probably what's going 
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There's a lot of exorcisms in 
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ministry. 
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power that they can do ministry.
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authority first. 
He says some verse 8, take 

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nothing for the journey. 
So we'll talk a bit about what's

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going on here. 
Why does he say don't take 

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anything? 
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though, is that this would be a 
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surrounding Galilee. 
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only a few weeks long, he says. 
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in like a stick to help with 
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He says don't take any bread. 
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rely on the hospitality of 
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others, rather than taking their
own bread. 

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But then he says no Haversack or
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So Jesus says they can't even 
take a bad bag to accept goods 

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from other people on their 
journey. 

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If people say, you know, take 
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thank you for coming, have some 
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that's Jesus instruction here. 
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So he doesn't want them to be 
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So they're literally just taking
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stick and that's about it. 
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have poverty on this particular 
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It's because probably he wants 
them to trust in God. 

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Probably also it could be trying
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they're visiting that they're 
genuine and they're not 

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preaching out of like a worldly 
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So they're actually genuine. 
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experience because later in Acts
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says, I have neither silver nor 
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you in the name of Jesus Christ,
the Nazarene walk. 

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So Jesus at this stage wants 
them to live in poverty and just

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accept the hospitality and the 
food from other people. 

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Verse 9 But he does say they 
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So rather than bare feet. 
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Jesus at least allows them to 
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He's not going to make them go 
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So it's not supposed to be a 
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trip. 
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necessities, but he then 
qualifies it by saying do not 

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take a spare tunic. 
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absolute necessities but nothing
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So this will be a challenge. 
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never done this before. 
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wealthy families. 
James and John were quite 

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wealthy fishermen, so quite an 
experience for them. 

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Verse 10, Jesus goes on, he says
if you enter a house now this is

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not we shouldn't think of this 
as door to door evangelising as 

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in the apostles knocked on 
people's doors and said, can I 

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preach the gospel to you? 
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they've gone out into public 
squares and preached the gospel 

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that way. 
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house, he means if someone 
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which is what the Jews would do 
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they liked the message they were
hearing from the apostles, a 

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local could invite them to stay.
He says stay there in that house

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until you leave the district. 
So Jesus says you need to be 

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content with whatever house you 
find yourself in and don't be 

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unnecessarily distracted by 
trying to find a better house. 

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Verse 11 And if any place does 
not welcome you and people 

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refuse to listen to you. 
So here Jesus means if any town,

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little village as a whole 
rejects you, if you don't get a 

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good response in a town, then 
he's going to go on to tell them

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what to do. 
But before we look at that, it's

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worth emphasising something 
Jesus says later in the Gospel 

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of Mark. 
He says to the apostles, he who 

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hears you hears me. 
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his people's response to the 
apostles is actually their 

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response to Jesus. 
He's given the apostles his 

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authority. 
They can go in his name. 

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And therefore, if they reject 
the legitimate messengers of 

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Jesus, then they reject Jesus. 
And in fact, that's obviously 

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taken up in Catholic teaching 
because the Catholic teaching is

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similar about the magisterium of
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If you reject the magisterium of
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rejecting the legitimate 
authority that Jesus has set up.

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So with that background, he says
if you go into a town and they 

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refuse to listen to you as you 
walk away, shake off the dust 

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from under your feet as a sign 
to them or another translation 

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is as a testimony against them. 
So what's going on here? 

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Shaking the dust off your feet? 
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Jews considered dust to be holy 
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And so in this culture, 
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from Gentile territory and came 
back to Israel, they would 

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literally shake the dust off 
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They would shake that Gentile 
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entered their home country of 
Israel to to show disapproval of

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the impurity of the Gentiles. 
So shaking the dust off their 

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feet, it could be a visible 
thing, as in people could see 

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them shaking the dust off. 
That would make sense because 

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that would make it a visible 
sign against them. 

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And so basically it's a symbolic
gesture of repudiation if you 

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shake the dust off your feet. 
It's a Jewish way of saying we 

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do not approve of this place and
that that's quite serious. 

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If the apostles end up in a 
place where that happens, it 

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basically means that place has 
rejected Jesus invitation to the

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Kingdom of God and they've 
forfeited their salvation, at 

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least on a on a town level. 
Presumably that happened in some

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towns, although we don't have a 
list of towns or anything like 

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that at this stage. 
Verse 12. 

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So they set off to preach 
repentance. 

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So off they go. 
Now notice what they're 

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preaching here. 
It's not God loves you, it's 

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repent. 
If you want to enter the 

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Kingdom, repent. 
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That's Jesus constant condition.
If you want to enter the Kingdom

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you need to repent as in stop 
sinning, turn around and follow 

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the will of God. 
Verse 13. 

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So they're in the villages and 
it says they cast out many 

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demons with the authority that 
Jesus has given them. 

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And remember, demons being 
exercised is a sign that the 

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Kingdom of God is overcoming the
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So every time a demon is 
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Satan feels the loss. 
He's losing his territory very 

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quickly as these apostles spread
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Then they do something else 
which is unexpected. 

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They anointed many sick people 
with oil. 

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So here we have an example of 
sacramentality. 

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God chooses to use physical 
things to bring healing to 

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people. 
And here the apostles, probably 

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based on Jesus instructions, 
when there's a sick person, they

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don't just say a magic word or 
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They actually use oil as part of
the healing. 

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And so this passage, as well as 
some others later in the book of

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James, become the basis for the 
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sacrament of the anointing of 
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So it's really interesting. 
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which was in Jewish religious 
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It was considered to 
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vitality, and it was used to 
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So oil was a Jewish ritual and a
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And the early Christian 
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its stamp of approval on using 
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later becomes the sacrament of 
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There's a few catechism passages
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So how does the Catholic Church 
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we've heard here in Mark 6? 
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exorcisms, and I'll include 
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there's a couple of other ones 
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So paragraph 1506, which is in 
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sick, you'll hear it quotes 
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Christ invites his disciples to 
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cross. 
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they acquire a new outlook on 
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Jesus associates with them his 
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He makes them share in his 
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healing. 
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that men should repent, and they
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anointed with oil many that were
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So you'll hear paragraph 15-O6 
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Mark chapter 6. 
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a few paragraphs later, there's 
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anointing of the sick, the 
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says. 
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confesses that among the seven 
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especially intended to 
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tried by illness, the anointing 
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This sacred anointing of the 
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our Lord as a true and proper 
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It is alluded to indeed by Mark,
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faithful and promulgated by 
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the Lord. 
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from the Council of Trent. 
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1500. 
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decided on was how many 
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include the anointing of the 
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You'll hear there that the 
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out that the anointing of the 
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this passage in Mark. 
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stages that have found in this 
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Mark. 
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The Council of Trent, which is a
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developed it's teaching quite 
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here, although it does go on to 
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anointing of the sick is more 
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book of James. 
Thanks again for listening. 

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Hope you learned something new. 
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from you. 
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podcast. 
Tell me what you're learning and

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if you have any questions. 
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