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SEARCH FOR A WORTHY PERSON
Passage:
Matthew 10:11-16
Key verse: 11
NIV
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.(A) 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.(B) 15 Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah(C) on the day of judgment(D) than for that town.(E)
16 “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves.(F) Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.(G)
Cross references
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ESV
11 And whatever town or village you enter, find out who is worthy in it and stay there until you depart. 12 As you enter the house, (A)greet it. 13 And if the house is (B)worthy, let (C)your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let (D)your peace return to you. 14 And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, (E)shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town. 15 Truly, I say to you, (F)it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for (G)the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.
Persecution Will Come
16 (H)“Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be (I)wise as serpents and (J)innocent as doves.
Read full chapterCross references
- Matthew 10:12 : [1 Sam. 25:6; 1 Chr. 12:18]
- Matthew 10:13 : [ch. 8:8; Acts 16:15]
- Matthew 10:13 : [See ver. 12 above]; [1 Sam. 25:6; 1 Chr. 12:18]
- Matthew 10:13 : [See ver. 12 above]; [1 Sam. 25:6; 1 Chr. 12:18]
- Matthew 10:14 : Acts 13:51; [Neh. 5:13; Acts 18:6]
- Matthew 10:15 : ch. 11:24
- Matthew 10:15 : Gen. 18:20; 19:28; 2 Pet. 2:6
- Matthew 10:16 : Luke 10:3; [John 17:18]
- Matthew 10:16 : Gen. 3:1
- Matthew 10:16 : Rom. 16:19 (Gk.); Phil. 2:15; [1 Cor. 14:20]
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1. Stay with one person (11-13)
Jesus sent disciples out on a short field trip to teach them the basic principles of bringing the gospel to the world. One person is important in God's history. So Jesus told his disciples to search for one worthy person in each town and stay with him until they left that town. If one person can be changed by the gospel, then the whole town (or campus or nation) can be changed.
2. Sheep among wolves (14-16)
If there is not one worthy person, then the disciples were told to shake the dust off their feet and leave. To reject God's messenger and his message is to invite God's judgment. God's servants must not compromise God's word. Jesus knew that the world into which he would send them was full of wolves. Disciples must also know this. But they must not fight spiritual battles with worldly weapons. They must be as shrewd as serpents and as innocent as doves.
Prayer: Lord, raise up one worthy person on this campus, in this city, in this nation.
One Word: Find one worthy person
