The Most Valuable Thing In All The World - A Sermon on Luke 9-10

When the days drew near for him to be taken up...

So he's going to die on the cross, he's taken up, and then he's going to ascend.

But he's headed to Jerusalem, right? When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to Jerusalem, and he sent messengers ahead of him who went and entered a village of the Samaritans to make preparation for him, but the people did not receive him.

The people did not receive him there in the Samaritan village because his face was set towards Jerusalem.

I'll explain that later.

And when his disciples, James and John, saw it, they said, Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from Haman and consume them? But he turned and rebuked them, and they went on to another village.

As they were going along the road, someone said to him, I will follow you wherever you go.

And Jesus responded, And said, foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head.

To another he said, follow me.

But he said, Lord, let me first go and bury my father.

And Jesus said to him, leave the dead to bury their own dead.

But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.

Yet another said, I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home.

And Jesus said to him, no one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.

After this, the Lord appointed 72 others and sent them on ahead of him two by two into every town and place where he himself was about to go.

And he said to them, the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

Therefore, pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest.

Pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.

Go your way.

Behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves.

Carry no money bag, no knapsack, no sandals, and greet no one on the road.

Whatever house you enter, first say, peace be to this house.

And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him.

But if not, it will return to you and remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages.

Do not go from house to house.