Brandon, you said in responce to me, David:
“eliyah, you should know about the verse i was talking about. if you will not reply to me unless i provide the quote, then fine, i will provide it. in the new international version, matthew 10:14-16, “If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town. I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town. I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.”
I didn't provide these words, because I wanted you to read them for yourselves, all the words. But I will help.
Matthew
14 Wherever anyone does not take YOU in or listen to YOUR words, on going out of that house or that city shake the dust off YOUR feet. 15 Truly I say to YOU, It will be more endurable for the land of Sod́om and Gomoŕrah on Judgment Day than for that city.
Luke
4 But wherever YOU enter into a home, stay there and leave from there. 5 And wherever people do not receive YOU, on going out of that city shake the dust off YOUR feet for a witness against them.” 6 Then starting out they went through the territory from village to village, declaring the good news and performing cures everywhere.
NOTICE WHAT IT DOESN'T SAY: Wherever anyone does not listen to your words, LEAVE and shake the dust off your feet.
No, rather it says: Wherever anyone does not listen to your words, “on going out of that house or that city,” shake the dust off your feet. So, when you do leave that house or city, shake the dust off your feet. This is what it says. This is what we do.
IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE, BRANDON, that we’re the only ones who go from “house to house” preaching “the good news of the kingdom.”
Jesus instructed his disciples to “shake the dust off [their] feet” when they left a home or a town where there was a complete lack of interest in Jehovah’s Kingdom. What did he mean by this advice? Shaking the dust off one’s feet indicated a disclaiming of responsibility or accountability for the consequences that a householder would suffer because of lack of interest in God’s message. It implied that Jesus’ followers were peacefully departing and leaving that house or city to the consequences that would eventually come from God.
ACTS 18:6
“But after they kept on opposing and speaking abusively, he shook out his garments and said to them: “Let YOUR blood be upon YOUR own heads. I am clean. From now on I will go to people of the nations.””
DAVID
