Thoughts on Luke, Luke chapter 10, verses five to seven. The 72, and this is part two of it. Now, you remember I made the point that we're looking at some extraordinary happenings here. This is a unique, special episode, Christ sending out the 70 or the 72. But I believe there are some abiding principles here which we should pick up. I don't say we should copy every detail here. I think, again, it was extraordinary, unique. Now, if you go to this house, he's sending out the Jews, you go to a house and you say peace to this house. Blessing. This is perhaps a unique thing here, that they can offer this blessing to the house. If there's a man of peace in the house, if they're well disposed to you, All will be well, but if not, you can stay there, supported by the people. I don't follow the exact details of all this. If a man of peace would welcome these two disciples, I can understand that. But if there's no man of peace there, how people could stay there, I don't know. But they encourage the worker, and they encourage the work. Do not flit about all over the place, Christ says to them. Be stable, resident. Stay there and start and see it through to the end. Don't just begin at work and then run away from it. Get on with it and stay with it until it's over. I keep emphasizing, and I think I must because it's extraordinary. I'm not urging us to copy all this, but there are certain principles. We have workers in the gospel. God could do the work, I suppose, entirely by his own power, yes. But of course, he chooses to use men. And he sends these men to labor. And I believe, according to the New Covenant Scriptures that we have later on, after the Gospels, after Pentecost, I find there that there is support for those who labor in the Gospel. All believers are laborers in the Gospel, of course. All of us are workers for Christ. All of us are spreading the Gospel. Every one of us is a minister of the Gospel. But there are those who labor in the Word and doctrine, and they deserve support. I believe that's here, too. But there are certain conditions, there are certain limits here. These people are going as ordinary men, laboring amongst these people. But Christendom, as I read the New Testament, that's what goes on in the New Covenant. But Christendom has elevated these princes of the church, these plutocrats. Let me give another name to them, pastors. Pastors are often princes. They can be plutocrats, wealthy. They are so-called pastors, but they're really princes and lords. Peter warns about it, chapter five of his first letter. Don't be lording over God's people. And we know those who wanted to have the preeminence and wouldn't countenance any others laboring. Well, one man bans and so on. This is not the case. It's a two-man sending out here, and they're laboring in the gospel. But we, Christendom has imposed all these titles and kudos and status, and they've marked it out with robes and collars and all the rest of it. It all looks so wonderful to the carnal mind. But the gospel, we're all one in Christ Jesus, and we're laboring for the gospel. Well now, these are extraordinary principles, but as I say, abiding principles here. May we learn to distinguish the two and put into practice the abiding principles.