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We were just sitting down to dinner when we heard a knock on the door.
When I opened it the oil lamp shown out on two men.
One said his name was Peter, the other Andrew.
“Can we join you at your table?
I have some good news for you,” the one named Peter said.
I hadn’t seen these men in the village before.
It was strange.
There are bandits on the roads these days and these men were clearly traveling, but without the usual bags.
They said they were fishermen who had their business in Capernaum.
They looked harmless enough and we enjoyed hearing news of the other villages from travelers, so I welcomed them into the light and closed the door.
We offered them seats at the table.
My wife and children squeezed together and we removed an empty place setting.
Once we were all arranged we ate our meal, then we settled back to hear their tale.
They told us that they had been sent by Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth.
We had heard rumors about this carpenter turned prophet.
Some of the men in our village had heard him preach.
They brought wild tales of miracles and healing.
They said he even drove out evil spirits.
We were eager to hear more.
Peter said they had been with Jesus for months walking around Galilee.
One story disturbed me.
It seems that his own village had refused to accept him as a prophet.
He didn’t do anything wonderful there, just made claims they thought might have been blasphemy.
Think of it, the local carpenter, the repairman, stopped fixing broken doors and started preaching like he was an authority, even claimed a particular passage in Isaiah referred to him personally!
No wonder they threw him out of town.
Maybe he was just a false prophet.
But these men who had been with him were eyewitnesses of his words and works.
They were convinced he was the Messiah!
Either they were crazy or it was true.
It was just that outrageous.
Peter insisted that what our men had reported about Jesus was true.
Not only that, Andrew astonished us even more by telling us that Jesus had sent them out to do the same thing he was doing, healing, preaching, and casting out demons.
I suppose my wife and I were looking at them skeptically.
They were just fishermen.
Then, Peter remembered that we had set the table for someone who was not at the table.
“Where is the person who was sitting there,” he asked.
“That’s my son.
He’s lying over by the fire, says he doesn’t feel good and doesn’t want to eat.” “Can I talk with him?”
“ Certainly.
Eli, this man wants to talk to you.”
The heap of blankets by the fire stirred and my son, a small boy, slowly rose and slumped over to Peter.
When he stood there, Peter put his hand on the boys shoulder and said, “The Kingdom of God has come to this house.
In the name of Jesus be healed.”
Eli straightened up, his eyes brightened and he decided that maybe he could eat a little of that stew his mama had made.
So we made a place at the table and watched him wolf down his food.
Then Andrew said, “We have come to tell your village the good news that the Kingdom of God has come.
Jesus told us to take nothing for our journey, but to rely on the people who God has favored in each village.
May we stay with you while we minister among your people?” “Certainly,” I replied, but thought, “How could my village be expected to believe these two fishermen who just wandered in around dinner time.”
My neighbors watched them closely.
They didn’t seem possessed.
They certainly weren’t religious leaders or scholars or teachers.
They were just fishermen.
But they demonstrated the power of God right in our town staying for several days, healing, casting out demons, and telling us all about Jesus the carpenter turned Messiah, and the kingdom of God.
I have to say that the rumors didn’t tell the half of it.
Let’s read the passage, Mark 6:7-9.
/7 He summoned the Twelve and began to send them out in pairs and gave them authority over unclean spirits.
8 He instructed them to take nothing for the road except a walking stick: no bread, no traveling bag, no money in their belts.
9 They were to wear sandals, but not put on an extra tunic.
10 Then He said to them, "Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that place.
11 If any place does not welcome you and people refuse to listen to you, when you leave there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them."
12 So they went out and preached that people should repent.
13 And they were driving out many demons, anointing many sick people with oil, and healing./
We also find versions of this story in Matthew and Luke.
Luke’s account is also very brief, but Matthew uses the story as an extended opportunity to tell the warnings Jesus gave his disciples.
However, we will concentrate on the passage in Mark.
In verse 7, Jesus told them to go two by two.
There were at least three reasons for going in pairs.
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It was for mutual support, so they could encourage each other on the way.
2. It was because Deuteronomy required two witnesses to authenticate testimony.
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And humans being who we are, it was that two people would be self corrective.
They would make sure no one started down a wrong path of teaching.
No one’s ministry was to be a one man show.
In verse 8, Jesus tells them what to take and what no to take.
If you compare the three accounts you may begin to wonder about the difference in the items the disciples were allowed to take and forbidden to take.
I don’t know why but I suppose they remembered it differently.
The point of all three accounts was that the disciples were to travel so lightly that they had to depend utterly on God and His people.
Sounds familiar to me, thank you Reba and Ginny for giving me a place to stay each week.
Jesus’ instructions have been a pattern for missions ever since.
Of course, that has modified as people brought their families.
When you look at the biblical record, you can see that Peter and the other apostles took their wives along and had houses to live in.
Paul took very little with him and usually worked for a local tent maker as hired help in the places he intended to stay for awhile.
So, Jesus’ instructions for his disciples on this first foray into missions have been taken as a flexible description rather than a commanded rule for future missions.
In verse 10, he tells them to stay in one house in each village and not to go searching for better accommodations.
Jesus intends it as a blessing on that home.
He wants to make sure it doesn’t become a competition among the people of the village because that would be a great distraction from the purpose of the mission.
It would be divisive and a curse rather than a blessing.
Shaking dust off the feet in verse 11 was Jews did when they left Gentile lands.
They felt that even the dust of heathen lands was defiling.
For the disciples to do it as they were rejected from a Jewish town signified in a massively insulting way that the people in that town were pagans; not designed to make Jesus and his disciples popular!
It was to serve as a warning to them that the Kingdom of God was no longer available to those people.
It’s also interesting to remember that Jesus gave them this instruction right after he was evicted from his own home town.
If you read Matthew 11:20-24 you can see Jesus condemning the towns of Galilee to judgment.
But the purpose of the whole journey is two fold.
First, Jesus was training his disciples in ministry.
Second, He was advancing the Kingdom of God.
Although Jesus was the Son of God, He was one man, limited in his human body to being only one place at a time.
In order to advance His kingdom, he needed to work through other people.
He had chosen these twelve men from the hundreds that followed him around.
He had demonstrated to them how the kingdom of God attacked and overcame the kingdom of Satan.
He was showing them how to do it.
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