Through the Bible Study - Matthew
Jun 21, 2026 · 41 min · 11 segments
Pastor Nate Holdridge walks through Matthew 10:26–42, where Jesus calls his disciples away from the universal craving for safety and comfort and toward a life of danger and reward. Working through…
Nate HoldridgeHost
Okay, this section of Matthew's gospel, Matthew 8, 9, and 10, I've called it the kingdom collides with darkness.
This morning and at the beginning of that section, the kingdom colliding with darkness is done exclusively through Jesus.
He's doing all the things and the disciples are watching him do what he's doing.
But then at the close of this section, Jesus begins saying that there's a need for laborers to go into the harvest.
And then he goes up to the mountain and calls 12 of a broader group of disciples to become his apostles.
He lists those people, Matthew does, they're in the earlier portions of this section.
And then Jesus begins to teach that group of what it will be like when they go out into the world.
And we've given ourselves three weeks, this being the third Sunday, to look at the teaching from Jesus to those disciples on what it will look like to go into the world as really his missionaries.
So the idea of this whole section is that, yes, Jesus is colliding with darkness.
He's bringing a kingdom that's colliding with darkness, and he is not doing that alone.
So as we say, the kingdom collides with darkness, you could say synonymously, the church is meant to collide with darkness as we are extensions of the kingdom.
The question that will come up, however, for us, especially as we interact with the words of Jesus today, because he'll say some very hard things about acknowledging him, not fearing people, laying down our lives, taking up our crosses.
The question that will come up is, why would I want to do such a thing? And, uh, If you grew up in church at all and you grew up going to a kid's ministry, you know that 95% of the time the answer to the question is Jesus.
Okay, this section of Matthew's gospel, Matthew 8, 9, and 10, I've called it the kingdom collides with darkness.
This morning and at the beginning of that section, the kingdom colliding with darkness is done exclusively through Jesus.
He's doing all the things and the disciples are watching him do what he's doing.
But then at the close of this section, Jesus begins saying that there's a need for laborers to go into the harvest.
And then he goes up to the mountain and calls 12 of a broader group of disciples to become his apostles.
He lists those people, Matthew does, they're in the earlier portions of this section.
And then Jesus begins to teach that group of what it will be like when they go out into the world.
And we've given ourselves three weeks, this being the third Sunday, to look at the teaching from Jesus to those disciples on what it will look like to go into the world as really his missionaries.
So the idea of this whole section is that, yes, Jesus is colliding with darkness.
He's bringing a kingdom that's colliding with darkness, and he is not doing that alone.
So as we say, the kingdom collides with darkness, you could say synonymously, the church is meant to collide with darkness as we are extensions of the kingdom.
The question that will come up, however, for us, especially as we interact with the words of Jesus today, because he'll say some very hard things about acknowledging him, not fearing people, laying down our lives, taking up our crosses.
The question that will come up is, why would I want to do such a thing? And, uh, If you grew up in church at all and you grew up going to a kid's ministry, you know that 95% of the time the answer to the question is Jesus.
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