Please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 10 as we continue our study in the gospel of Matthew, and in this particular passage.  As we have reviewed Jesus' exhortation to His disciples in Matthew 10, before He sent them out into the surrounding villages and towns to preach the gospel of the kingdom, we have commented that in that exhortation, He very much tells them what it means to be a disciple.  And He attempts to prepare them for some of the opposition that they are faced.  And in particular, He desires to correct misapprehensions, to correct misunderstandings,  to correct misinformation that the disciples may have about the mission that they are about to go out on.  We have already said that the disciples expected Jesus’ kingdom to come immediately. …