A Voice: A quart of wheat for a whole day’s wage, three quarts of barley for a whole day’s wage, but do not harm the olive oil and the wine!
And when the Lamb broke the fourth seal, the fourth living creature called out.
Fourth Living Creature: Come!
I looked, and behold, there was a pale green house! Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades accompanied him. Together they were granted authority over one-fourth of the earth to kill with weapons, with famine, with disease, and with wild animals that roamed the earth.
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My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me. But I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me. O Israel, put your hope in the LORD both now and forevermore. Psalm 131
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Mark 6:1-13 (TNIV)
Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed. “Where did this man get these things?” they asked. “What’s this wisdom that has been given him? What are these remarkable miracles he is performing? Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. Jesus said to them, “Only in their own towns, among their relatives and in their own homes are prophets without honor.” He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. He was amazed at their lack of faith. Then Jesus went around teaching from village to village. Calling the Twelve to him, he began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over evil spirits. These were his instructions: “Take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in your belts. Wear sandals but not an extra shirt. Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that town. And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave, as a testimony against them.” They went out and preached that people should
repent. They drove out many demons and annointed many sick people with oil and healed them.
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“When that babe grew and became a man, He laid aside His carpenter’s tools one day and went into the little synagogue at Nazareth and announced His manifesto of good news to the poor—the economically disinherited; release to the captives— the socially and politically disinherited; the opening of the eyes of the blind—the physically disinherited; the setting at liberty them that are bruised—the morally and spiritually disinherited, and the proclaiming of God‘s year of Jubilee—a fresh world beginning.” E. Stanley Jones
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“Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, King of the ages. Who will not fear you, O Lord, and bring glory to your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.” Revelation 15:3-4
d o j u s t i c e : l o v e m e r c y : w a l k h u m b l y
Why did Jesus send his disciples out two by two? Couldn’t twice as much ground have been covered if every person went to a different place? Take five minutes to list out possible rationales for this decision. What implications does this way of Kingdom ministry have for us? Join with a friend in an intentional experiment. Choose to go somewhere together (near or far) for the explicit purpose of ministry. Be conscious of this: where two gather in Jesus’ name He is among them.
20. Start tithing (giving 10%) of all your income directly to the poor.
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