Welcome to a year in the Bible with daily grace. The Bible tells one big story of

redemption and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to finish, and exploring how all of it

points to Jesus. Hi friends and welcome back to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. My name is

Shelby Turner. I'm one of your hosts for this podcast and today we are

continuing to read through the book of Matthew with

chapters 10 through 12. We're approaching the halfway point in Matthew which is

awesome. Today we're going to see Jesus make some big statements that can be a

little confusing so as we go

through these chapters we'll try to break him down as best we can. In chapter 10

Jesus commissions the 12 disciples he sends them to Israel to preach that the

kingdom of heaven has come near but he sends them with a

warning that now everyone is going to receive the message that they're bringing well in

fact he tells them that they're going to be hated. And there's a popular passage in chapter 10,

verse 30 that God has numbered the hairs on our head. You may have heard this verse before.

This verse was meant as a

reassurance to the disciples that when they experienced hatred and persecution

that God cared and God knew what was going on in their lives, even when they are despised and rejected.

I just love what that context brings to that verse.

He concludes his commission of the disciples with a very compelling

phrase. He says anyone who loses his life because of me will find it. Jesus's

way is upside down and following him doesn't always look the way that we think it will,

and we see this play out with John the Baptist in Chapter 11.

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