Instructions continued
Mat 10:24 "The learner is never superior to his teacher, and the servant is never superior to his master.
Mat 10:25 Enough for the learner to be on a level with his teacher, and for the servant to be on a level with his master. If they have called the master of the house Baal-zebul, how much more will they slander his servants?
Mat 10:26 Fear them not, however; there is nothing veiled which will not be uncovered, nor secret which will not become known.
Mat 10:27 What I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what is whispered into your ear, proclaim upon the roofs of the houses.
Mat 10:28 "And do not fear those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
Mat 10:29 Do not two sparrows sell for a halfpenny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's leave.
Mat 10:30 But as for you, the very hairs on your heads are all numbered.
Mat 10:31 Away then with fear; you are more precious than a multitude of sparrows.
Mat 10:32 "Everyman who acknowledges me before men I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in Heaven.
Mat 10:33 But whoever disowns me before men I also will disown before my Father who is in Heaven.
Introduction
Jesus is preparing His Disciples for their first Mission into the Villages of Israel. Many of the Leaders and the Religious Hierarchy were hostile to Jesus, His Message and Ministry.
He told the Disciples that they should expect slander and persecution.
Mat 10:24 "The learner is never superior to his teacher, and the servant is never superior to his master.
Notes
The Learner G3101 μαθητής Mathētēs Thayer Definition: 1) a learner, pupil, disciple
Or in plainer terms, A scholar is not above his teacher. The saying itself requires no comment, its truth and reasonableness are self-evident, but to the spirit and design we should carefully attend. Jesus is the great teacher: we profess to be his scholars. He who keeps the above saying in his heart will never complain of what he suffers. How many irregular thoughts and affections is this maxim capable of restraining! A man is not a scholar of Christ unless he learn his doctrine; and he does not learn it as he ought unless he put it in practice.A.C.
Mat 10:25 Enough for the learner to be on a level with his teacher, and for the servant to be on a level with his master. If they have called the master of the house Baal-zebul, how much more will they slander his servants?
Notes
A disciple should think himself very well off, be entirely satisfied, yea, abundantly thankful, if he meets with no worse treatment than his master; if he has the same honour done him his master has, this is more than could be expected by him; and if he has the same ill usage with his master, he need not wonder at it, but should solace himself with this consideration, that it is no other, nor worse than his master had before him: and the same is equally true in the other case,J.Gill
If they have called the master of the house Baal-zebul, how much more will they slander his servants?
That is, you must expect the same treatment which I have received. They have called me, your Master and Teacher, Beelzebub, the prince of the devils (see Mat_12:24; Luk_11:15; Joh_8:48), and you must expect that they will call all of the family by the same name. “Beelzebub” was a god of the Ekronites. See 2Ki_1:2. The word literally means “the god of flies,” so called because this idol was supposed to protect them from the numerous swarms of flies with which that country abounded. The correct reading here, as in Luk_11:15, Luk_11:18-19; Mar_3:22, is supposed to be, not “Beelzebub,” but “Beelzebul” (Griesbach, Hahn, Robinson, Lexicon) an Aramean form of the word meaning the “god of dung” or “filth.”
The name, thus altered by the Jews by changing a single letter, was given to Satan to express supreme contempt and aversion. The Jews seem to have first given to Satan the name of a pagan god, and then, to express their sense of the character of Satan, to have changed that name by altering a single letter so as to express their aversion in the most emphatic manner. By giving the name to Christ, they poured upon him the greatest possible abuse and contempt.
Mat 10:26 Fear them not, however; there is nothing veiled which will not be uncovered, nor secret which will not become known.
Mat 10:27 What I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what is whispered into your ear, proclaim upon the roofs of the houses.
Notes
that is, There is no use, and no need, of concealing anything; right and wrong, truth and error, are about to come into open and deadly collision; and the day is coming when all hidden things shall be disclosed, everything seen as it is, and every one have his due (1Co_4:5)JFB
Mat 10:28 "And do not fear those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
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| Beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya |
Notes
Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul;
Fear can paralyse you and cause you to make wrong decisions and act foolishly. Only fear the Lord who has the power to destroy both soul and body in Hell. The fear of the Lord is the Beginning of wisdom.is creation is under His care.
Mat 10:29 Do not two sparrows sell for a halfpenny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's leave.
halfpenny G787 ἀσσάριον assarion Thayer Definition: 1) an assarium or assarius, the name of a coin equal to the tenth part of a drachma.
“Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? — In Luke (Luk_12:6) it is “five sparrows for two farthings”; so that, if the purchaser took two farthings’ worth, he got one in addition - of such small value were they.
and one of them shall not fall on the ground — exhausted or killed
without your Father — “Not one of them is forgotten before God,” as it is in Luke (Luk_12:6).” JFB
Mat 10:30 But as for you, the very hairs on your heads are all numbered.
Notes
How exacting is the care of our Heavenly Father. He even knows the count of hairs on our head. Oh what a wonderful Carer and Saviour we have.
Mat 10:31 Away then with fear; you are more precious than a multitude of sparrows.
Mat 10:32 "Every man who acknowledges me before men I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in Heaven.
Notes
Acknowledges me before men The same word in the original is translated “confess” and “profess,” 1Ti_6:12-13; 2Jo_1:7; Rom_10:10. It means to acknowledge the Lord Jesus Christ, and our dependence on him for salvation, and our attachment to him, in every proper manner. This profession may be made in uniting with a church, at the communion, in conversation, and in conduct. The Scriptures mean, by a profession of religion, an exhibition of it in every circumstance of the life and before all people. It is not merely in one act that we must do it, but in every act. We must be ashamed neither of the person, the character, the doctrines, nor the requirements of Christ. Barnes
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Confessing Christ before men
Praise and Glory to Our Lord Jesus Christ for all the faithful and bold young people that identified with Jesus this morning by attending the See You at the Pole Event at their school!
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Mat 10:33 But whoever disowns me before men I also will disown before my Father who is in Heaven.
Notes
disowns G720 ἀρνέομαι arneomai Thayer Definition:
1) to deny 2) to deny someone 2a) to deny one’s self 2a1) to disregard his own interests or to prove false to himself 2a2) act entirely unlike himself
3) to deny, abnegate, abjure 4) not to accept, to reject, to refuse something offered - verb
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| Jihadists forced a Syrian Christian man to deny God and salute Mohammed as the messenger of Allah. Immediately afterwards, the leader ordered that the man ...be beheaded |
Let it be remembered, that to be renounced by Christ is to have him neither for a Mediator nor Savior. To appear before the tribunal of God without having Christ for our Advocate, and, on the contrary, to have him there as our Judge, and a witness against us, - how can a man think of this and not die with horror! A.C.
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