Jesus The Healer lesson 2 The Children’s Bread
Matthew 8:16 When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, 17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: "He Himself took our infirmities And bore our sicknesses."
Jesus set free those in bondage to evil spirits and sickness. Jesus healing all who are sick and setting free those who are demon possessed is a fulfillment of the prophet Isaiah. As we studied the ministry of Jesus our healer, I pray your expectations are raised to level of the word of God.
Psalm 103:2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: 3 Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, 4 Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, 5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
The prophetic utterance of Psalm 103 shows where the expectation of the believer should be. It is time to remember all His benefits. All iniquities forgiven and all diseases healed. Our lives redeemed from destruction, and crowned with lovingkindness and tender mercies. Our expectation should be He will satisfy our mouth with good things. Oh, that we would exalt the word above our experience, our own understanding, and traditions.
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Faith is the substance!
Faith is the evidence!
Faith is the substance of the confident expectations of the promises of God. The manifestation is not the proof. Faith is the evidence; it is the body of proof that what we have what we have not seen in the natural. If we cannot see it in the spirit it will never manifest in the natural. Faith has substance and faith is the evidence.
Matthew 15:21 Then Jesus went out from there and departed to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22 And behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to Him, saying, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon-possessed." 23 But He answered her not a word. And His disciples came and urged Him, saying, "Send her away, for she cries out after us." 24 But He answered and said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
A woman of Canaan cried out to God with a religious line. “O Lord, Son of David!”. In truth, she was not of Jewish heritage and had no right to approach God upon the covenant words “Son of David” Jesus ignored her cries and the disciples were annoyed with the woman’s false cries. Jesus speaks a word to go to the heart of the situation “I was not sent except to lost sheep of the house of Israel”. Jesus was not rebuking her for seeking Him but rather rebuking her for coming under false pretenses.
Matthew 15:25 Then she came and worshiped Him, saying, "Lord, help me!" 26 But He answered and said, "It is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs." 27 And she said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters' table." 28 Then Jesus answered and said to her, "O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that very hour.
Look how the woman changed her cry out to Jesus, “Lord, help me!” Jesus declared to her it is not good to give the children’s bread to the dogs. This did not stop the woman’s pursuit; instead she found hope in the words of Jesus. She did not see herself as good enough to get from the Master. The Master’s words built faith that she could receive; she declared even little dogs get the crumbs. Only twice in Jesus' ministry did he declare someone had great faith; this woman was one of those two.
Mark 7:25 For a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard about Him, and she came and fell at His feet. 26 The woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. 27 But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs."
This is the same story only written in Mark. Mark does not give the detail that she was crying out under false pretense; but brings out her heritage is a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician. Clearly portraying her as not from Jewish descent. Jesus clearly wanted to build her faith by bringing her to seek Him truthfully.
Mark 7:28 And she answered and said to Him, "Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs." 29 Then He said to her, "For this saying go your way; the demon has gone out of your daughter." 30 And when she had come to her house, she found the demon gone out, and her daughter lying on the bed.
These two passages I have meditated upon quite often. I knew there was an element that I was missing. “God show me what I’m missing as you keep drawing me to these verses”. A couple of years ago, God made it come alive to me. The cross allows us to set at the children’s table. Jesus makes us sons and the bread belongs to us. If we are believer’s we are not on the outside looking in; the bread belongs to us. Jesus wants you to know healing and deliverance is indeed the children’s bread. Those without this revelation often go without their healing.
John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Receiving Jesus as your Messiah gives you the right to become one of His children; only those who believe in the name of Jesus!
Galatians 4:4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!"
The redemption of Jesus Christ brings you the spirit of adoption; the bread belongs to you!
Romans 8:31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
God wants to unleash His goodness upon the children; far too many, are still seeking Him for the bread crumbs. The Father freely gives to those who have placed their faith in Jesus. You qualify; the bread belongs to you!
2 Peter 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
His divine power has given us all things … that we may be partakers of the divine nature!
Hebrews 6:13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, 14 saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you." 15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 16 For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute.
The Father wants you to be convinced. He made the promise and then swore an oath by Himself.
Hebrews 6:17 Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us. 19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, 20 where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
The two immutable things. 1. The Father confirmed it by an oath. 2. He made Jesus your forerunner into His presence. This is a strong consolation; this is an anchor of our soul! THE BREAD BELONGS TO YOU; COME AND EAT FROM THE TABLE OF HIS GOODNESS!
Jesus is the faithful God
God is good all the time!
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