We Are His Mouthpiece Today

 In this passage, the Lord Jesus commissioned seventy of His disciples to travel throughout the land as His chosen representatives. They were sent to heal the sick, cure the lepers, raise the dead, and proclaim the gospel of the kingdom. They were to be Christ's spokespeople, and by declaring Jesus as Messiah, they proclaimed Him to be the holy One of God.
 Not everyone listened to Christ's words, and not everyone paid attention to the message of the seventy, but those who believed on Him were given the right to become sons of God. Those who accepted the message of the seventy, not only listened the words of Jesus but also to the Father Who sent Him.
 For over two thousand years, those in the Church of God have been Christ's witnesses to a lost and dying world. As members of His Body, We Are His Mouthpiece Today. We are His spokesmen, His ambassadors, His witnesses.
 The Church of Christ are ministers of the New and better Covenant and anyone who listens to us and heeds our words, not only listens to the Lord Jesus but also is listening to the Father in heaven Who sent Him.
 What a privilege and responsibility to discover that these words spoken to Christ's 70 disciples when commissioned by Him in Luke, are equally meaningful to ALL who have been called by His name: "The one who listens to you," Jesus said, "listens to Me, and the one who rejects you, rejects Me; and the one who rejects Me also rejects the One Who sent Me."
Luke 10:16 “Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, what an incredible privilege and responsibility to realize that as members of Christ's Body, we are His representatives on earth and that whoever rejects His people are also spurning the Lord Jesus and the Father Who sent Him. We pray that we may be careful to share the good news of the gospel of grace with those that are dead in their sins so that they may hear and believe in our Father in heaven, and Jesus Christ, Whom He has sent. This we ask in Jesus' name, AMEN.