John Chrysostom was an Early Church Father who served as archbishop of Constantinople. He pointed out that "Christ had the power to set the human race free from all these evils -- not only the Romans but also the Persians and simply every race of barbarians. He succeeded in doing this with no force of arms, nor expenditure of money, not by starting wars of conquest, nor by inflaming men to battle. He had only eleven men to start with who were undistinguished, without learning. ill-informed, destitute, poorly clad, without weapons, or sandals, me who had but a single tunic to wear." These are the men Jesus sends out at the beginning of this chapter and what a difference they would make, but in the eyes of the world, what a group of misfits and losers.
Even as Jesus sent them out here they weren't ready for all that would happen but Jesus is getting them there and this sending out was just the beginning of what He would do through them. God can do great things through you too, if you'll let him.
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