Friends Church Sermons

We left off in our study of Matthew 2 weeks ago as Jesus gives His now empowered Apostles the directive to go and share the Gospel that the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. This next piece is vital to our understanding of following Jesus as King and Rabbi. This is the part that most of the time we minimize or put in small print. There is a cost to following Jesus – the very idea that following Jesus is easy or safe disregards both the direct teaching of Jesus and the history of those who have followed Him. Ten of the twelve apostles who are being sent out in this moment will lose their lives for following Jesus.