JESUS TEACHES HOW TO BECOME HIS DISCIPLE
WELCOMING THE DISCIPLES
Matthew 10:11-12
Whatever city or village you enter, ask who in it is worthy, who welcomes you and your message, and stay at his house until you leave that city. As you go into the house, give it your greeting that is, ‘Peace be to this house’.
Matthew 10:13
If the family living in the house is worthy welcoming you and your message, give it your blessing of peace that is, a blessing of well-being and prosperity, the favor of God. But if it is not worthy, take back your blessing of peace.
Matthew 10:14-15
Whoever does not welcome you, nor listen to your message, as you leave that house or city, shake the dust off your feet in contempt, breaking all ties. I assure you and most solemnly say to you, it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that city, since it rejected the Messiah’s messenger.
JESUS MESSAGE TO HIS DISCIPLES
Matthew 10:34-36
Do not think that I have come to bring peace on the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword of division between belief and unbelief. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household when one believes and another does not.
Matthew 10:27
What I say to you in the dark (privately), tell in the light (publicly); and what you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops to many people.
Matthew 13:17
I assure you and most solemnly say to you, many prophets and righteous men, who were honorable and in right standing with God longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
Matthew 10:32-33
Therefore, the one who confesses and acknowledges Me before men as Lord and Savior, affirming a state of oneness with Me, that one I will also confess and acknowledge before My Father who is in heaven. But the one who denies and rejects Me before men, that one I will also deny and reject before My Father who is in heaven.
WISDOM AND MIRACULOUS POWERS
Matthew 13:51-52, 54
“Have you understood all these things in the lessons of the parables?” They said to Jesus, “Yes.” He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the head of a household, who brings out of his treasure things that are new and fresh and things that are old and familiar.” And after coming to Nazareth His hometown, He began teaching them in their synagogue, and they were astonished, and said, “Where did this Man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers what is the source of His authority?
Matthew 17:14-21
When they approached the crowd, a man came up to Jesus, kneeling before Him and saying, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is a lunatic (moonstruck) and suffers terribly; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water. And I brought him to Your disciples, and they were not able to heal him.” And Jesus answered, “You unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him here to Me.” Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was healed at once. Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and asked, “Why could we not drive it out?” He answered, “Because of your little faith your lack of trust and confidence in the power of God]; for I assure you and most solemnly say to you, if you have living faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and if it is God’s will it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. But this kind of demon does not go out except by prayer and fasting.
THE UNBELIEVERS
Matthew 13:10-14
Then the disciples came to Him and asked, “Why do You speak to the crowds in parables?” Jesus replied to them, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted. For whoever has [spiritual wisdom because he is receptive to God’s word], to him more will be given, and he will be richly and abundantly supplied; but whoever does not have [spiritual wisdom because he has devalued God’s word], even what he has will be taken away from him. This is the reason I speak to the crowds in parables: because while [having the power of] seeing they do not see, and while [having the power of] hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand and grasp [spiritual things]. In them the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says, ‘You will hear and keep on hearing , but never understand; And you will look and keep on looking , but never comprehend;
Matthew 13:55-58
Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary? And are not His brothers, James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? And His sisters, are they not living here among us? Where then did this Man get all this wisdom and power?” And they took offense at Him refusing to believe in Him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.” And He did not do many miracles there in Nazareth because of their unbelief.
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