If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Matthew, chapter 10.  From Matthew 10:24, to the end of this chapter, the Lord Jesus Christ is continuing this message in which He commissioned His disciples on their first journey to spread the word of God abroad in the villages and towns of the surrounding countryside.  We said that in this commissioning, some of the things He told them were specifically related to that first mission, although there were points and applications that we could all draw for ourselves from those points.  However, much of His message is a universally applicable message.  It's far broader than just that particular place and time, particularly today from verse 24 through the end of the chapter.  This section of Matthew 10 tells us much…