334th Post Jesus On Admonitions & Exhortations Con't. - Charging His Disciples Con't. - Matthew 10: 5 - 15 Con't. 4th Post.

Matthew 10: 5 - 15 Continued.
And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, when you depart from that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet. Assuredly, 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!
This was spoken by Jesus about 1.1/2 years into His earthly ministry. Jesus spoke these words before He sent His disciples out two by two, on their first ministry journey, by themselves. This is the last part of this passage, and says something about the power the disciples now have in representing Jesus themselves. This passage starts out with the people not accepting the message. Jesus tells them (disciples) that when they are to go out of the house or the city, they are to shake the dust from their feet. This is a form of judgment, they would not listen to the good news, so they were to shake all remnants of that visit from their bodies. "They rejected Me, I will reject Them!" is what Jesus is saying to His disciples, they are acting as His agents. People say that Jesus did not mention the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah, and therefore did not charge those cities for their unbelief. This is not what this passage is saying. Look at the words of the text, clearly it says the judgment will be worse for this city than Sodom and Gomorrah, not the Sodom and Gomorrah will go unjudged. The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is in Genesis Chapter 19. The reason judgment will be better for Sodom and Gomorrah, is because God destroyed those cities for their sins without sending a prophet there to warn the people before the destruction took place. In this case the disciples had come in that capacity, but were rejected. This can happen to people also. Has God sent someone to minister to you? How did you treat them?? Only you and God know the answer to that question. There is still time to change. Talk to God and confess your sin, and then go to a Church and tell the Pastor, they will help you from there.