Responsibility Is The Other Side Of Privilege

Luke 10:2-3  

Therefore said he unto them, "The harvest truly is great, 

but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord 

of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers 

into his harvest. Go your ways: behold, I send 

you forth as lambs among wolves."  

      This passage describes a wider mission than the first mission of the Twelve. The number seventy was to the Jews symbolic. It was the number of the elders who were chosen to help Moses with the task of leading and directing the people in the wilderness. It was the number of the Sanhedrin, the supreme council of the Jews. If we relate the Seventy to either of these bodies they will be the helpers of Jesus. 
    It was held to be the number of nations in the world. Luke was the man with the universalist view and it may well be that he was thinking of the day when every nation in the world would know and love his Lord. 

    To have heard God's word is a great responsibility. A man will be judged according to what he has had the chance to know. We allow things in a child, we condemn in an adult. We forgive things in a savage, we punish in a civilized man. Responsibility is the other side of privilege. 

    My Friends, It is a terrible thing to reject God's invitation. There is a sense in which every promise of God that a man has ever heard, can become his condemnation. If he receives these promises they are his greatest glory, but each one that he has rejected will some day be a witness against him.

Amen!

Reading: Luke 10:1-16

Ref: HGSB; BDSB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry