Scripture & Stories

THOUGHTS on MATTHEW 10:14 -16ff, 21, 25-38 Words of Jesus "And whoever does not receive you, nor heed your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust of your feet.  'Truly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.  'Behold I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; therefore, be shrewd as serpents, and innocent as doves.'" (verses 14-16) If the truth proclaimed by the Apostles was rejected, then the judgment is like Sodom and Gomorrah. Children will rise up against parents..."(v. 21) "Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's enemies will be the members of his household." (Micah 7:6) He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; a