Corona Chronicles 2: (Ep.30) Urgent, Do You Copy?
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Welcome to Corona Chronicles. It's good to be back. We are in job in Mark chapter 6. And we're gonna kick off from verse verse 7. So it says, then Jesus went around teaching from village to village.
Calling the 12 to him. He began to send them out 2 by 2 and gave them authority over impure spirits. These were his instructions. Take nothing for the journey, except to staff, no bread, no bag, no money in your belts, wear sandals, but not an extra shirt. Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that town.
And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, leave leave that place and shake off the dust off your feet as a testimony against them. They went out and preached that people should repent. They drove out many demons and anointed with oil, many people who are ill and healed them. It's quite a quite a contrast to the last place he was at, wasn't it? He where he was he was basically, you know, fucked off that nobody really believed him.
This is just a carpenter's son. Right? Yeah. You know, and he and he couldn't do much there because the people lack faith, but now he's going around Village to Village, and he's taking his disciples of it. Yeah?
Yeah. And and his priority as is often the case with Jesus is to go around teaching from village to village. Yeah. And then and then he gives that role to the 12 that he goes with it. Yeah.
It's really odd. It's really funny, isn't it? And when you're usually going somewhere where you get ready, so then you you you you get ready properly. So, like, when you're in school, it was yeah. I got your bag ready.
Yeah. You got your uniform ready. Yes. A bunch of kids getting ready for that right now, ain't they? Exactly.
They're all they're mentally prepared. But Jesus, in this passage, It's saying, well, don't do all that stuff. Yeah. Just turn up to scoring first day with a stick. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. A stick sheet. That's right. Yeah.
I've got welcome. He doesn't welcome yet. Yeah. But but I mean, the the point there really is is that we haven't got time to faff around. We we, you know, you need to go and take the message out -- Yeah.
-- to teach these people and to really and show them what's what what's important and -- Yeah. -- and what I'm about, I I think. Yeah. Yeah. And and I think for me, it really it's quite striking is it because a lot of these things is is around hospitality, isn't it?
So if if there's a big connection between a town welcoming the message by welcoming the messenger. Right? And so that's why that's that's why he says. Take nothing for the journey. Let let their let their acceptance of the message be evident in in how they treat you.
So let you know, that they'll they'll take you in, stay there the whole time with that until you leave that town. And if they won't listen to you, if they don't welcome you or listen to you, then, you know, leave that place, shake off the dust. And I think I think that's that should be a real wake up call to to to the UK, shouldn't it? You know, this this country has had the gospel preached it in its streets and, you know, in churches for, you know, a couple of thousand years. Yeah.
And And, you know, throughout this lockdown, you you haven't heard the government talk about Christianity. You haven't really You know, you don't really it's not on the agenda, is it? Like, this message of repentance that the the the the disciples preached, that is not high up on the agenda of of our leaders. Or or or our culture is is despised, isn't it? Yeah.
And and why should God carry on being patient with this nation if if no one's gonna listen. So, you know, again, if you're tuning into these corona chronicles and you haven't done anything with this with this message, with the, you know, who Jesus is and what he says about himself. Time is short. You know, these disciples went out of an urgent message And the the message is was urgent for them, and it's urgent urgent for you as well. So don't muck around with it.
I think that's that's exactly right. I think there's there's a couple of things here. I mean, if you're you're a Christian, then then notice the the urgency in which we need to take the gospel out to people Yeah. I don't know it. And the message to plead with people to repent -- Yeah.
-- that, you know, people are heading towards a destruction. Yeah. And we want them to repent and know the healing power of the gospel -- That's right. Yeah. -- as they as they preach.
Yeah. And then if if your if you've heard the gospel, maybe you've got friends and family who've faithfully preached the gospel, accept it now before it's too late and the word is turning away from you.