Commissioned to Collide (Matthew 9:35-10:15)

About this episode

Pastor Nate Holdridge discusses how Jesus commissions his followers to engage with the world through compassion and action.

Title : Commissioned to Collide Speaker : Nate Holdridge Overview: In this Sunday message, Pastor Nate Holdridge walks through Matthew 9:35–10:15, where the compassionate King who has been colliding with darkness begins to multiply that work through ordinary people. Jesus looks out over crowds that are harassed and helpless—sheep without a shepherd—and is moved with a gut-level compassion that becomes the engine of everything that follows (Matthew 9:36). Rather than rushing to strategize, he commands his followers to pray that the Lord of the harvest would thrust laborers into the field, then forms a strikingly diverse band of twelve and sends them out to represent him in his own self-giving way (Matthew 10:1–8). Pastor Nate shows how the mission still flows downhill from Christ's heart rather than uphill toward God's approval, and how the same King who once sent the Twelve commissions us today to carry his kingdom into the dark places around us. A warm, gospel-centered call to see ourselves not as spectators of Jesus, but as participants in his ongoing collision with darkness. Link to Sermon Notes

People in this episode

Host: Nate Holdridge

Topics covered

• mission
• compassion
• darkness
• Jesus
• discipleship
• kingdom

Keywords

• commissioned
• collide
• harvest
• laborers
• gospel
• dark places
• sheep without a shepherd

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Matthew 9:35-10:15

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