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Matthew 10:32-11:19
By Skip Heitzig
Matthew 10:32-11:19

In His second major discourse of Matthew, Jesus equips and instructs His apostles about going into the world and reaping the spiritual harvest. In this passage, Jesus expounds on the courage needed to complete the mission and warns His followers of certain persecution. He reminds us that while not all who hear will believe, God's wisdom is powerfully demonstrated in changed lives.

From the teaching series 40 Matthew - 2011

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Matthew 10 (NKJV™)
32	"Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
33	"But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.
34	"Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.
35	"For I have come to 'set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law';
36	"and 'a man's enemies will be those of his own household.'
37	"He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
38	"And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.
39	"He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.
40	"He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.
41	"He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward. And he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.
42	"And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward."
Matthew 11 (NKJV™)
1	Now it came to pass, when Jesus finished commanding His twelve disciples, that He departed from there to teach and to preach in their cities.
2	And when John had heard in prison about the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples
3	and said to Him, "Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?"
4	Jesus answered and said to them, "Go and tell John the things which you hear and see:
5	"The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
6	"And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me."
7	As they departed, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
8	"But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Indeed, those who wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.
9	"But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet.
10	"For this is he of whom it is written: 'Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, Who will prepare Your way before You.'
11	"Assuredly, I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen one greater than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
12	"And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
13	"For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
14	"And if you are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who is to come.
15	"He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
16	"But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their companions,
17	"and saying: 'We played the flute for you, And you did not dance; We mourned to you, And you did not lament.'
18	"For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon.'
19	"The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' But wisdom is justified by her children."

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<p><strong>Matthew 10:32-11:19 - Matthew 10:32-11:19</strong><br /> From the series: 40 Matthew - 2011<br /> <em>By Skip Heitzig </em><p></p> <p><strong>MESSAGE SUMMARY</strong></p> <p>In His second major discourse of Matthew, Jesus equips and instructs His apostles about going into the world and reaping the spiritual harvest. In this passage, Jesus expounds on the courage needed to complete the mission and warns His followers of certain persecution. He reminds us that while not all who hear will believe, God's wisdom is powerfully demonstrated in changed lives.</p> <p><strong>DETAILED NOTES </strong></p> <p><ol type="I"><li>Introduction<ol type="A"> <li>Christianity in the Roman empire <ol> <li>60 million slaves (almost half the population) <ol type="a"> <li>Many slaves Christians <ol type="i"> <li>Gospel attractive to poor and downtrodden</li> <li>Treated masters with dignity and respect</li> </ol> </li> <li>Slave owners and royalty came to Christ (household of Caesar [see <span class='verse'>Philippians 4:22</span>])</li> <li>Believers treated one another as brothers and sisters under one Master: Christ</li> <li>Socio-economic status effected</li> </ol> </li> <li>Romans suspicious of Christians and leveled false accusations <ol type="a"> <li>Cannibals; the Lord's Supper</li> <li>Revolutionaries <ol type="i"> <li>Refused to say Caesar is Lord <ol type="a"> <li><em>Κύριος </em><em>Καίσαρας</em>;  <em>kurios  </em><em>Kaisaros</em>; Caesar is lord</li> <li>Jesus is Lord</li> </ol> </li> <li>Spoke of Jesus the King, who is coming to rule and reign</li> </ol> </li> <li>Immoral <ol type="i"> <li>Romans were lewd and immoral</li> <li>Accused of drunken orgies; love feasts</li> </ol> </li> </ol> </li> <li>Jesus predicted the persecution</li> </ol> </li> <li>Background <ol> <li>"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves" (<span class='verse'>Matthew 10:16</span>)</li> <li>Expect persecution <ol type="a"> <li>From religious circles</li> <li>In secular courts</li> <li>In personal circles</li> </ol> </li> <li>Problem: "The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few" (<span class='verse'>Matthew 9:37</span>)</li> <li>Solution <ol type="a"> <li>Look at it; see people as Jesus does</li> <li>Pray for it; "Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest" (<span class='verse'>Matthew 9:38</span>) </li> <li>Go for it; commissioned to go </li> </ol> </li> </ol> </li> <li>Outline of Matthew <ol> <li>Revelation of the kingdom (chapters 1-10) <ol type="a"> <li>Person; in genealogical records back to David</li> <li>Prophet; John the Baptist (see <span class='verse'>Matthew 3:3</span>)</li> <li>Preaching; Sermon on the Mount</li> <li>Power; ten recorded miracles</li> <li>People; the 12 apostles</li> </ol> </li> <li>Reaction against the kingdom (chapters 11-12) <ol type="a"> <li>John the Baptist doubts</li> <li>Capernaum, Chorazin, Bethsaida indifferent</li> <li>Pharisees hostile</li> <li>His own family thinks He is crazy</li> </ol> </li> <li>Retirement of the King <ol type="a"> <li>Withdraws from public life</li> <li>Tells the kingdom parables</li> </ol> </li> <li>Rejection of the King</li> <li>Resurrection of the King</li> </ol> </li> </ol></li><li>The consequence: Matthew 10:32-42 <ol type="A"> <li>Outward confession is inward reflection <ol> <li>What you believe is demonstrated outwardly</li> <li>No such thing as secret discipleship <ol type="a"> <li>True disciples desire to see others follow Christ</li> <li>True disciples tell others how to come into relationship with Christ</li> <li><em>μαθητ</em><em>ὴς; mathētēs</em>; disciple </li> </ol> </li> </ol> </li> <li>"Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword" (v. 34) <ol> <li>Shocking statement <ol type="a"> <li>Jesus the Prince of peace </li> <li>"Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!" (<span class='verse'>Luke 2:14</span>) </li> <li>Disciples’ idea of Messiah included unity of families and Israel </li> </ol> </li> <li>Not Jesus' goal to deliberately divide people </li> <li>Division is the effect of the gospel <ol type="a"> <li>Ultimately the gospel brings peace <ol type="i"> <li>Inwardly when you receive Him </li> <li>When He reigns on the earth </li> </ol> </li> <li>Intermediately, the gospel brings division <ol type="i"> <li>The good news comes with bad news </li> <li>Not everyone believes </li> </ol> </li> </ol> </li> </ol> </li> <li>God is a jealous God <ol> <li>He loves the family <ol type="a"> <li>The family is His idea </li> <li>"Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh" (<span class='verse'>Genesis 2:24</span>) </li> </ol> </li> <li>Family is never to be our number one priority </li> <li>God comes first <ol type="a"> <li>Obedience to Christ </li> <li>"Well I pledge my wife to heaven, for the Gospel,<br /> Though our love each passing day just seems to grow.<br /> As I told her when we wed, I'd surely rather be found dead,<br /> Than to love her more than the one who saved my soul."—"Pledge My Head to Heaven," by Keith Green</li> </ol> </li> </ol> </li> <li>The cross <ol> <li>First mention verse 38</li> <li>Take up your cross <ol type="a"> <li>Not trial or hardship</li> <li>Jesus faced many trials before the cross</li> <li>Roman torture and execution</li> <li>Prisoners carried their own cross to execution</li> </ol> </li> <li>Die <ol type="a"> <li>To our own ambitions</li> <li>To our own plans</li> <li>To our own comfort</li> </ol> </li> <li>Follow after Him obediently</li> </ol> </li> <li>Paradox of the Christian life <ol> <li>We find our life by losing it</li> <li>Give up all</li> <li>"But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith" (<span class='verse'>Philippians 3:7-9</span>) </li> <li>Moses gave up treasure of Egypt to suffer with Israel (see <span class='verse'>Hebrews 11:25</span>) </li> <li>The worst God offers is better than the best the world offers </li> </ol> </li> <li>Prophets are spokesmen for another <ol> <li>Old Testament prophets spoke for God</li> <li>Apostles spoke for Christ <ol type="a"> <li>Represent Christ</li> <li>Not everyone rejects the gospel</li> </ol> </li> </ol> </li> <li>Persecution <ol> <li>Darkest days of persecution were days of greatest revival <ol type="a"> <li>In ancient Rome, the gospel spread</li> <li>"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church."—Tertullian</li> <li>In China, church experienced greatest growth under harsh government</li> </ol> </li> <li>"Jesus answered, 'My kingdom is not of this world'" (<span class='verse'>John 18:36</span>) <ol type="a"> <li>"In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple" (<span class='verse'>Isaiah 6:1</span>) </li> <li>The Lord reigns regardless of who is in office </li> </ol> </li> <li>As days grow dark, be glad <ol type="a"> <li>Separates the chaff from the wheat </li> <li>The darker it is, the brighter light shines </li> </ol> </li> </ol> </li> </ol></li><li>The confrontation: Matthew 11:1-19 <ol type="A"> <li> John the Baptist <ol> <li>In prison <ol type="a"> <li>Confronted Herod Antipas about his affair with his brother Phillip's wife, Herodius </li> <li>Machaerus prison </li> <li>"He must increase, but I must decrease" (<span class='verse'>John 3:30</span>) </li> </ol> </li> <li>Doubt and uncertainty <ol type="a"> <li>The prophets said Messiah would open prison doors and set captives free </li> <li>He expected Messiah to act in kingdom authority </li> <li>Leaders go through periods of doubt <ol type="i"> <li>Moses did not want to lead Israel </li> <li>Elijah wanted to die </li> <li>Jeremiah wanted to quit </li> <li>All believers, especially leaders, become targets </li> </ol> </li> <li>John had a different perspective than New Testament believers </li> </ol> </li> <li>Jesus’ answer: What you hear and see <ol type="a"> <li>The witness, your testimony </li> <li>Reed: at the Jordan River <ol type="i"> <li>Flexible, easily moved </li> <li>John was unbendable, inflexible </li> <li>"He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways" (<span class='verse'>James 1:8</span>) </li> </ol> </li> <li>Self-denial <ol type="i"> <li>Camel's hair </li> <li>Ate bugs </li> </ol> </li> </ol> </li> <li>John: the prophet who fulfilled prophecy </li> <li>"Among those born of women there has not risen one greater than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he" (v. 11) <ol type="a"> <li>Worldly standards of greatness <ol type="i"> <li>Wealth</li> <li>Education</li> <li>Prominence</li> <li>Neither John the Baptist or Jesus met standards</li> </ol> </li> <li>What made John the Baptist great <ol type="i"> <li>Filled with the Holy Spirit from the womb (see <span class='verse'>Luke 1:15</span>)</li> <li>Faithfully proclaimed Christ</li> <li>Forerunner of Christ</li> <li>Turned many to repentance</li> <li>Last of Old Testament prophets <ol type="a"> <li>New covenant not yet established </li> <li>See verse 13</li> </ol> </li> </ol> </li> </ol> </li> </ol> </li> <li>"He who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he" (v. 11) <ol> <li>Not in character </li> <li>In position <ol type="a"> <li>John the Baptist anticipated the kingdom </li> <li>He died before the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus </li> </ol> </li> </ol> </li> <li>Violent take the kingdom by force <ol> <li>John's message evoked strong reactions <ol type="a"> <li>Physical abuse </li> <li>Verbal abuse </li> </ol> </li> <li>They tried to take Jesus by force (see <span class='verse'>John 6:15</span>) </li> <li>Force the Messianic kingdom and overthrow Rome </li> <li>Pressing into it (See <span class='verse'>Luke 16:16</span>) <ol type="a"> <li>It keeps moving </li> <li>The tenacious are found in it </li> </ol> </li> </ol> </li> <li>Elijah who is to come <ol> <li>"Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And he will turn The hearts of the fathers to the children, And the hearts of the children to their fathers, Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse" (<span class='verse'>Malachi 4:5-6</span>) </li> <li>John the Baptist <ol type="a"> <li>"He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,'" (<span class='verse'>Luke 1:17</span>) </li> <li>Not the person of Elijah </li> <li>A preview of the Elijah who will come in the end times </li> </ol> </li> </ol> </li> <ol> <ol> <ol type="i"> <li>"'Assuredly, I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.'" Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves; and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him. Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, 'Lord, it is good for us to be here; if You wish, let us make here three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.' While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, 'This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!' And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces and were greatly afraid. But Jesus came and touched them and said, 'Arise, and do not be afraid.' When they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only. Now as they came down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, 'Tell the vision to no one until the Son of Man is risen from the dead.' And His disciples asked Him, saying, 'Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?' Jesus answered and said to them, 'Indeed, Elijah is coming first and will restore all things. But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him but did to him whatever they wished. Likewise the Son of Man is also about to suffer at their hands.' Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them of John the Baptist" (Matthew 16:28-17:13) </li> <li>Elijah did not die </li> <li>Moses’ body was disputed over and preserved for future ministry </li> <li>Two witnesses of Revelation 11 <ol type="a"> <li>Moses, the Law giver </li> <li>Elijah, the greatest prophet </li> </ol> </li> </ol> </ol> </ol> <li>The children of Israel like little children <ol> <li>Acted like spoiled brats </li> <li>Scribes and Pharisees <ol type="a"> <li>Thought John the Baptist was too harsh </li> <li>Though Jesus took too much liberty</li> </ol> </li> <li>Child's games <ol type="a"> <li>Wedding</li> <li>Funeral</li> </ol> </li> <li>The problem isn't with the message of the messenger, it's with the people</li> <li>God's wisdom is demonstrated in changed lives</li> </ol> </li> </ol></li></ol><p><strong>Greek Terms</strong>: Κύριος Καίσαρας;  kurios  Kaisaros: Caesar is Lord; μαθητὴς; mathētēs: disciple <br /> <strong>Figures Referenced</strong>: Tertullian<br /> <strong>Publications Referenced</strong>: "Pledge My Head to Heaven," by Keith Green<br /> <strong> Cross References</strong>: <span class='verse'>Genesis 2:24</span>; <span class='verse'>Isaiah 6:1</span>; <span class='verse'>Malachi 4:5-6</span>; <span class='verse'>Matthew 3:3</span>; <span class='verse'>Matthew 9:37</span>; <span class='verse'>Matthew 9:38</span>; <span class='verse'>Matthew 10:16</span>; Matthew 16:28-17:13; <span class='verse'>Luke 1:15</span>; <span class='verse'>Luke 1:17</span>; <span class='verse'>Luke 2:14</span>; <span class='verse'>Luke 16:16</span>; <span class='verse'>John 3:30</span>; <span class='verse'>John 6:15</span>; <span class='verse'>John 18:36</span>; <span class='verse'>Philippians 3:7-9</span>; <span class='verse'>Philippians 4:22</span>; <span class='verse'>Hebrews 11:25</span>; <span class='verse'>James 1:8</span>; Revelation 11</p></p> <p> </p>

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We Believe that all people are sinners by nature and choice and, therefore, are under condemnation; that God regenerates by the Holy Spirit, those who repent of their sins and confess Jesus Christ as Lord.

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Matthew 10:32-11:19
By Skip Heitzig
Matthew 10:32-11:19

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40 Matthew - 2011

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