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?
