JUST TWELVE MEN

Matthew 26:20   
Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.

Just twelve men

And by anyone's reckoning they were ordinary men at that.

  • Uneducated
  • Unimpressive
  • Without financial, familial or personal clout

They are just twelve men that sat with Jesus that night.
  • There were others that had believed
  • There were others whom Jesus loved

But these twelve men were destined, not only to lay but to be the very foundation of that thing which Jesus loved and gave himself; the local church..

Just twelve men
Diverse one from another

We do not know much about their backgrounds; nothing about most of them but:
  • Four were fishermen
  • One was a tax collector, maybe we could think if him as an accountant
  • One was from a Greek influence
  • One was an instinctive skeptic

They hadn't always agreed.
But in this night there was unity among them.

Their focus, purpose, passion was Jesus Christ and the truth He brought to them.

Just twelve men
But they change the world still today.

Of course one of the twelve was a devil.

All but one died violently; only one died miserably.
All twelve died eventually but only this one died at his own hands.

Just eleven men
But together, with hearts fixed upon Christ, they changed the world.


Will you change the world for Christ?

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