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Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible Study

Are You Willing to Sacrifice? | New Testament | Matthew 10

Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible Study

Ten Minute Bible Talks

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Christianity, Mental Health

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

What does it take to follow Jesus? Are you willing to give things up in order to be a part of God's kingdom? Will you face rejection for the sake of God's kingdom? In today's episode, Tanya discusses Jesus's directions in Matthew 10. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Join the TMBT community in reading the entire New Testament in 2023. Get your FREE reading plan here. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Matthew 10

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0:00.0

Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.

0:05.0

Where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

0:11.0

I'm Tanya Wilmoth. Every Mission Impossible movie begins the same way.

0:17.9

Tom Cruise and his allies are somewhere they're fighting an enemy and they barely survive only to scrape through and get back

0:25.2

together to communicate with the person who's leading their operation. Then they're

0:29.6

invited to listen or watch a tape that explains the next mission.

0:34.1

And it never sounds like something you or I would say yes to.

0:37.9

It sounds like if you choose to accept this mission,

0:40.3

you will fight for your life.

0:41.6

You will cut ties with your family

0:43.0

you will change your identity you will never return to life the way you knew it before

0:48.0

will you accept?

0:50.0

Of course is Tom Cruz or rather Ethan Hunt.

0:52.7

This is what he was made for.

0:55.1

He would rather take on the mission and risk his life

0:58.1

than go back to living the way he was before.

1:01.4

We tend to think of the disciples and Jesus' first followers as people who were weak and

1:06.3

weary who followed Jesus because he was kind and meek and his invitation was appealing.

1:11.6

But in the sermon on the mount the things Jesus tells the disciples

1:16.8

about being rejected and hated and persecuted, well they aren't really appealing. And the way Jesus teaches is with power and authority.

1:27.2

He doesn't shy away from exclusive statements and hard truths. But the disciples chose to accept because they didn't want to go

1:36.4

back to life the way it was before. We might think of poor and an educated

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