Luke 10:1-4; 17-24.... Well, this is a passage that I read this weekend and was impactful as well as the other passages that I had read. When reading this passage you realize that the Lord had sent the 72 people out in pairs of TWO, NOT alone. "He sent them two by two" and if you continue reading then you see that they were sent ahead of Him to every town and place where he was about to go...
He sent them ahead of Him (we are sent out to plant the seeds in people's lives and be there to start the process of people getting to know Christ and then the Lord will come behind us and take care of the rest) Now that takes off a lot of pressure of trying to get pople to say yes to enter into the kingdom of God!!! I know that I have struggled with this in the past where I knew that there was someone that was not a believer and I thought if I do something wrong then it's all downhill and that if they say no to the invitation of allowing God into their lives then I must have failed and did something wrong. BUT, NO... We are called ahead of God, we are called to plant the seeds, and then the rest is up to God and that person. As leaders, we need to take risks and go ahead of God and start planting those seeds in people's lives and that brings me to the next point.
"The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send you out into the harvest field."..... harvest is PLENTIFUL, but workers are FEW. Being on the college campus, I have realized this to be true. There are many out there who do not know Christ, more so than there are those who do, or at least that's how it is on this campus. We as Christians and leaders need to be willing to get out and "work" as the Lord has called us to do... We just need to ask Him to send ud out and he will and He will be with us... Again, we are called to plant the seeds and God will do the rest!!!!
"I am sending you out like lambs among wolves"... well, first of all God is our shephard so He is going to watching over us since we are his sheep. This "lambs among wolves" is telling us straight out that the job is not easy and WE can't do it. But, God can but He needs us to help Him out. We as leaders need to get out of our comfort zones and step out into faith and trust what God is doing and follow his command to GO!!!
This is just a passage that I could talk about for a while since there is so much in it but the main thing to get out of it is that we are called to go 2 by 2 not alone, God sent the 72 out in pairs and that's what we should do. We should evangelize 2 by 2, we should lead a Bible study 2 by 2, we should have an investigative Bible study 2 by 2 . You get the point, we should do things 2 by 2 and NEVER be alone. Now, this can look differnt to people but still never go into the battle field alone but always go 2 by 2!!!!
Another main poin that I did not go into detail about is that We have been rewarded for knowing Christ (John 10:23-24) "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it." We as Christians have been given the oppertunity to see things that others wish they could see and we are able to see the work of the Lord in and around us. As it is said in scripture (Matthew 7:7) "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you"
Just consider what has been said and NEVER go alone, no matter what it is that you are doing!!!
