"These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans.
Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel. As you go, proclaim this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’ Whatever town or village you enter, search there for some worthy person and stay at their house until you leave. As you enter the home, give it your greeting. If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you. If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town." NIV
Sweet Lord,
I am sure most all folks in that era knew the story of what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah. They were gentile town whose sins were so great You led Lot and his wife and daughters out of Sodom and then rained down fire and brimstone which destroyed them and all that lived within them. Their sins were great indeed.
Lord, You make it very plain that the Jews in those towns to which the disciples were sent would suffer a greater fate if they rejected their Messiah.
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