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马太福音10:9 -15:
9腰袋里不要带金银铜钱。10行路不要带口袋，不要带两件褂子，也不要带鞋和拐杖，因为工人得饮食是应当的。11你们无论进哪一城，哪一村，要打听那里谁是好人，就住在他家，直住到走的时候。12进他家里去，要请他的安。13那家若配得平安，你们所求的平安就必临到那家；若不配得，你们所求的平安仍归你们。14凡不接待你们、不听你们话的人，你们离开那家或是那城的时候，就把脚上的尘土跺下去。15我实在告诉你们，当审判的日子，所多玛和蛾摩拉所受的，比那城还容易受呢！”
我们可以从耶稣对十二门徒的教导中学到一些东西。首先，他告诉他们不要带食物去旅行，而是依靠人们的慷慨来支持他们。为什么?“因为工人得饮食是应当的”。保罗虽然自己搭帐棚，但我们却不要期望那些把全部时间都用在福音事工上的人也这样，因为他们得饮食是应当的。
第二，你要在一个似乎对福音信息没有任何回应的人身上工作多久?耶稣说:“若有人不接待你们，不听你们的话，就离开那家，或那城，把脚上的尘土跺下去。简单地说，如果有人不想让你和他们分享福音，不要感到内疚。”他们拒绝了福音，而不是你。继续前进，因为有更多的机会，人们会倾听你的。
当我在那些有可能成为信徒的人或者不再来教会的会友身上进行福音事工时，这个建议对我很有帮助。只要他们欢迎我，愿意听我带来的话，我就会一直回去找他们。但是当他们说，“不要回来了”，那么我知道是时候继续前进了。当我离开的时候，我祈祷耶稣会找到一种方法去触及他们的心，去做我不能做的事情。
祷告:
亲爱的耶稣，请赐给我勇气、耐心和恒心，用你的话语来帮助尽可能多的人。请教导我不要轻易放弃，因为每个灵魂在你眼中都是宝贵的。但如果有人拒绝倾听，请赐给我智慧，让我知道什么时候有一扇门为我关闭，好让我能继续把福音带给别人。我奉你的名祷告。阿们。
马太福音10章16-20
你能想象在你接受教会差派的那日听到这些话吗?东亚和世界其他地区的兄弟们可以很好地理解这些话。从字面上看，他们冒着生命危险去传道，奉耶稣的名传福音。
但是请注意，耶稣说他们会“在会堂里被鞭打”。神的话仍然被那些不愿意听的人反对，甚至在教会里。我记得我曾经讲过一篇道，是关于爱我们的财产胜过爱上帝的危险。一个教友在做完礼拜后把我拉到一边说:“牧师，如果你继续这样讲道，教堂的座位上就不会剩下很多人了。我们只是为我们需要的东西而努力工作罢了。“ 事实上，我们应该多么感谢他没有惩罚我们这些没有遵守他旨意的人呢！
耶稣又说:“你们要灵巧像蛇，驯良像鸽子。”这是一个强有力的回答，也是一个温和的回答。该说话的时候说话，该沉默的时候沉默。我们不必招致迫害，但也无法避免。我祈求耶稣永远赐给我智慧，使我能按他所赐给我的环境传福音。
祷告:
亲爱的耶稣，虽然我已经服事了四十年，但我知道我一直在学习。我遇到的每一个情况都需要智慧，只有你能给我。我求你赐我勇气，无论环境如何，都能传扬你的话语，又赐我智慧，使你的福音能被清楚地传扬。我奉你的名求。阿们。
Matthew 10
Matthew 10: 9-15: “Do not get any gold or silver or copper to take with you in your belts—10 no bag for the journey or extra shirt or sandals or a staff, for the worker is worth his keep. 11 Whatever town or village you enter, search there for some worthy person and stay at their house until you leave.12 As you enter the home, give it your greeting. 13 If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you. 14 If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. 15 Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
We can learn something from Jesus’ instructions to the twelve. First, he told them not to take provisions for the journey, but to count on the generosity of the people to support them. Why? “For the worker is worth his keep.” While Paul made his own way by making tents, we should not expect that of those who give themselves to the full time work of the gospel. They are worth their keep.
Second, how long to you keep working with someone who doesn’t seem to be responding to the message of the gospel? Jesus says, “If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake off the dust of your feet.” Simply put, don’t feel guilty if someone doesn’t want you to share the gospel with them. They’ve rejected the gospel, not you. Move on because there are more opportunities where people will listen to you.
This advice has helped me when I’ve worked with prospects or members of the church who stopped coming to church. As long as they welcome me and are willing to listen to the word when I bring it to them, I will keep coming back. But when they say, “Don’t come back,” then I know that it’s time to move on. As I leave, I pray that Jesus will find a way to reach their hearts and do what I was unable to do.
Prayer: Dear Jesus, give me courage and patience and persistence to reach out to as many people as I can with your Word. Teach me not to give up easily, for every soul is precious in your sight. But when some refuse to listen, then give me the wisdom to know when a door has been shut for me so that I can move on to bring the gospel to others. I ask this in your name. Amen.
Matthew 10:16-20: 16 “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. 17 Be on your guard; you will be handed over to the local councils and be flogged in the synagogues. 18 On my account you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles. 19 But when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given what to say, 20 for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
Can you imagine hearing these words on your ordination day? Brothers in East Asia and other parts of the world could relate well to these words. Literally, they put their life on the line when they to out and preach the gospel in Jesus’ name.
But notice that Jesus said they would be “flogged in the synagogues.” God’s Word is still opposed by those who do not want to hear it, even in the church. I remember preaching a sermon on the dangers of loving our possessions more than God. A member took me aside after church and said, “Pastor, if you keep preaching like that, you won’t have many people left in the pews. We work hard for the things we have.” We can be thankful they outlawed flogging!
Jesus also said, “Be shrewd as snakes and innocent as doves.” There is a time for a strong answer and a time for a gentle answer. There is a time to speak up and a time to remain silent. We don’t have to invite persecution, but neither can we avoid it. I pray that Jesus will always give me the wisdom to preach the gospel according to the circumstances that he has given me.
Prayer: Dear Jesus, in spite of forty years of ministry, I know that I am always learning. Every situation that I run into requires wisdom that only you can give me. I pray that you would give me the courage to proclaim your word no matter what the circumstances, and the wisdom to do so in such a way that your gospel is clearly proclaimed. I ask this in your name. Amen.