#1,043 – Wise as Serpents and Innocent as Doves (Matthew 10:16)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Father, help us to be obedient to Your Word. Let's live not for the applause of men, but for the glory of God.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical dot net.
0:04.0	Matthew chapter 10 verse 16 behold I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. So be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
0:20.4	How about that for a pep talk Jesus is giving to his disciples right before he sends them out.
0:28.0	He says, I am sending you out as sheep in the middle of wolves.
0:36.0	Now, we don't do a lot of shepherding with sheep.
0:40.4	I think most of us who are listening to this podcast certainly me like I've I'm not a
0:47.2	shepherd I am a pastor yes I'm a shepherd in a biblical sense but talking about like physically spending all my days
0:55.2	outside with sheep leading them through the land and I'm guessing most of us have not made
1:02.4	our livings that way who are listening to this podcast, but as we read
1:07.8	this imagery, just try to put yourself in the shoes of someone who knows exactly what that means.
1:14.0	Like your job as a shepherd is to keep the sheep safe from the wolves.
1:22.0	That's what you do. It's what you work hard at every day. You feed the sheep, you take care of the sheep, and you protect the sheep. So this is Jesus, the good shepherd, the great shepherd, saying to his disciples,
1:37.4	I'm sending you out like sheep in the middle of wolves. Like, you don't do that if you're a shepherd.
1:46.0	But Jesus is doing that here.
1:49.1	And it's a clear reminder to every single one of us who is his follower that Jesus has not designed us
1:58.9	to live a life of comfort and ease where all we receive is applause and reward from this world.
2:11.6	And that's not what Jesus is saying here.
2:15.7	To his disciples then and to his disciples
2:18.7	all throughout the Gospels and what we see all
2:21.0	throughout the New Testament to follow Jesus is to go into a world where people
2:26.8	are adversarial towards you. Not that you provoke adversaries or try to create adversaries, but the reality is as you go and live like Jesus and you go and proclaim Jesus. It will not be easy for you because the way this world
2:47.6	responded to Jesus, i.e. crucified him, and forms the way we understand how the world will respond to us.
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