Oct 11, 2026 · 34 min · 10 segments
Jesus calls disciples to himself and shares with them his authority and community. Jesus sends his disciples into the world to specific people in specific places for a very specific purpose…
Like I mentioned last week, this is a turning point in Matthew's gospel where Jesus, up until this point, has been doing the work and now he's handing that responsibility over to his disciples.
This is a crucial point in the story of the gospel.
And last week, our takeaway from Matthew chapter 9 was that Jesus wants us to see the need in the world around us And he calls us to pray.
The harvest is plentiful, Jesus says, but the workers are few.
And here in Matthew 10, God's word challenges us to see that just maybe you will be the answer to that very prayer.
Think about Abraham.
An old man, he calls and God calls him and says, Abraham, get up from the place that you are and go to a distant land that I will show you.
My favorite character in the Bible, Gideon, the weakest member of his family, of the weakest family in all of Israel.
God appears to him in an angel and calls him and says, the Lord is with you, mighty warrior.
And Gideon's looking around like, me? God sends Samuel to call a scrawny David to become king.
Jesus calls his disciples after they come in weary from a night of fishing.
The apostle Paul walking down the road to go kill Christians encounters the risen Jesus.
And there's something similar because I think Jesus still works in the world today.
Here's a slide of two modern disciples of Jesus who had a real impact on the world.
Shout out to Elsa for inspiring this.
And he wrote this in his diary in 1787.
the suppression of the slave trade, and the reformation of manners.
Like I mentioned last week, this is a turning point in Matthew's gospel where Jesus, up until this point, has been doing the work and now he's handing that responsibility over to his disciples.
This is a crucial point in the story of the gospel.
And last week, our takeaway from Matthew chapter 9 was that Jesus wants us to see the need in the world around us And he calls us to pray.
The harvest is plentiful, Jesus says, but the workers are few.
And here in Matthew 10, God's word challenges us to see that just maybe you will be the answer to that very prayer.
Think about Abraham.
An old man, he calls and God calls him and says, Abraham, get up from the place that you are and go to a distant land that I will show you.
My favorite character in the Bible, Gideon, the weakest member of his family, of the weakest family in all of Israel.
God appears to him in an angel and calls him and says, the Lord is with you, mighty warrior.
And Gideon's looking around like, me? God sends Samuel to call a scrawny David to become king.
Jesus calls his disciples after they come in weary from a night of fishing.
The apostle Paul walking down the road to go kill Christians encounters the risen Jesus.
And there's something similar because I think Jesus still works in the world today.
Here's a slide of two modern disciples of Jesus who had a real impact on the world.
Shout out to Elsa for inspiring this.
And he wrote this in his diary in 1787.
the suppression of the slave trade, and the reformation of manners.
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