Volunteering for the Kingdom

Brothers and Sisters in the Lord:
Suppose you have to pack up your things, sell you beautiful house, give up your land, your garden with fresh produce, lose seeing your friends, leave your church behind, and then move to somewhere there is not even good internet connection, no fresh produce, and no security. Would you volunteer to go if asked? Suppose you have to do it to help distant relatives you don't know and don't speak the same language as they, and suppose the new neighbours hate you and everything you stand for! Would you volunteer to go? Suppose you have to do this for someone you saved your life…would you go? Maybe not!

Some Jews in the countryside who survived the Babylonian attacks, were asked to volunteer to go (with their families) to dangerous Jerusalem and settle there. Let's see how they responded.

Our headings are:

1. God chose the volunteers
2. Men honoured the volunteers
3. God honoured the volunteers

Our goals are:
That you will be willing to make sacrifices for the one who sacrificed his life on Calvary for you.