Category Archives: Gospel of Matthew

2018, Gospel of Matthew, Guests

That Doesn’t Sound Right!

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Matthew 10: (KJV) 34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.  source

How many of you, me included, have read this verse and scratched your head thinking, this does not sound like the JESUS that has been preached to me for, well, all my life?

Well, y’all if you will watch this you will find an answer that works!

If you are pressed for time at this very reading moment you can skip to 21:28 in the video BUT please, please watch and hear it all.

Happy Friday!

2018, Gospel of Matthew

Even on a Monday

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The weekend is spent and perhaps you are too, even for a Monday.

Matthew 11: (TLV) 28 Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.  source

Yes, even on a Monday.

 

2018, Forgiveness, Gospel of Matthew, Repentance

Dust Shaking

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"Jesus knows how powerless rejection 
makes a person feel." 
Beth Moore. The Quest. Page 119.

So what do we do when we are rejected?

Matthew 10: (HCSB) 14 If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that house or town.  source

How do we do that? Perhaps each of us would seek the LORD, asking Him what He meant when He spoke these words.

I have a start for me.

He said shake the dust off your feet. If you will, picture with me a prisoner of old. What does he have attached to his ankles? Chains. What do chains do? They shackle us. They impede our walk.

Could JESUS be saying pick up your feet, shake off that chain of rejection and keep on walking with ME? Could He be saying to us: Let it go. Let them off the hook. Break that chain of torment; release them from the shackle of you owe me and pray for them. Pray they come see that JESUS takes such rejection personally. Pray they receive the gracious gift of repentance and forgiveness before time escapes. 

We don’t have to be shackled to unforgiveness. We can kick up some dust and shake it off! We can pray for mercy. We can hold our peace, pray and wait for the HOLY ONE to work a miracle on that house and on that town.