"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves./But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;"
The twelve disciples carried the simplicity that was in Christ Jesus. We only need look at his instructions to understand it. "Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses." They were to trust in him as the Guarantor for their mobility and upkeep and the Power of the Spirit that has held in reserve in heaven so whichever house or city that refused them were worthy of retribution, "Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city."((v.15). This simplicity in Jesus might have seemed to the casual as wanting in common sense but It behove his Father to set him as the Savior of mankind. This made the Man totally reliant on his Father, "And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him." Jesus was not there to be in the swim of things cutting a fashion plate but as the Word become flesh. Gospel of his Father was his Passport as he now was sending his disciples to preach it to the lost sheep of Israel. "AndthatI do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. "(John8:28-29)
The disciples consequently need not have bothered with their traveling arrangement or with their accommodation. Principle of Association entailed that they were under the same reins as their Master, which were held in heaven by the Power of God, a Spirit.
"But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."(2 Co.11:3)This simplicity in Christ as we shall see became somewhat obscure in the dissatisfaction breaking among the nascent church.
"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves./But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;"
The twelve disciples carried the simplicity that was in Christ Jesus. We only need look at his instructions to understand it. "Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses." They were to trust in him as the Guarantor for their mobility and upkeep and the Power of the Spirit that has held in reserve in heaven so whichever house or city that refused them were worthy of retribution, "Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city."((v.15). This simplicity in Jesus might have seemed to the casual as wanting in common sense but It behove his Father to set him as the Savior of mankind. This made the Man totally reliant on his Father, "And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him." Jesus was not there to be in the swim of things cutting a fashion plate but as the Word become flesh. Gospel of his Father was his Passport as he now was sending his disciples to preach it to the lost sheep of Israel. "AndthatI do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. "(John8:28-29)
The disciples consequently need not have bothered with their traveling arrangement or with their accommodation. Principle of Association entailed that they were under the same reins as their Master, which were held in heaven by the Power of God, a Spirit.
"But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."(2 Co.11:3)This simplicity in Christ as we shall see became somewhat obscure in the dissatisfaction breaking among the nascent church.
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