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A Dogs Blessing

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A Dogs Blessing

What do you do when people call you names!

No one likes to be called a dirty name even if it is just joking or playing a round

Why! Because names hurt, don’t they.

Sometimes people say the cruelest thing not even realizing they are hurting someone else.

If you lived in Honduras where I grew-up and there left for a few years, and then went back this is what you might expect hear.

People who new you would say, Boy look at how fat you got, Well SHOULD I GET OFINDED HERE OR WHAT!

In their way of talking it is a complement, meaning man you really look good.

But if I did not know that, I might have gotten insulted. And said I will never go back there again.

Well, what if you got accused of doing something you did not do. No matter where you go people would look at you and say, yep that the guy, HE did it.

Did what? I did not do anything. I was just blame for it. I took the fall.

It is hard to prove that you are innocent when every one thinks you are Guilty

Church is a place where we should feel safe because we are around other who believed like we do, and we feel like we are all part of God’s Family.

And yes it is true when someone you trust hurts you by saying something or calling you a Name that you’re Mother did not give you it really hurts; sometimes it hurt to the bone. Specialty when it is at church.

Jesus would not do that would he, would He, well would HE?

So we know we need to be very careful

Even when telling the truth. You can hurt someone feelings.

Have you every had a sister in the church come to you and say “How do you like my new hat”.

That’s a Hat ! O yes I see now, O yes love it, it’s really you.

All the time you are thinking it looks more like a Birds nest.

Well you know I can’t lie, so I must tell the truth. I will just hurt the person feeling.

There are ways to tell the truth, and not hurt someone.

One way is to change the subject. By saying “well how many hats do you have”. Or find something about it you like. May be the cooler, You know I love that color blue.

God has giving us wisdom, and we should use it and be careful of the tongue.

It only take one second to hurt someone and forever for the hurt to heal!

We don’t know where a person is in life, they may be on the edge of life and death and the very thing we say to them may be the stick that will push them overboard.
And then that Soul is lost forever

Now I have a question for you,
What would you do if someone called you a Dog?
Don’t tell me just think about it while I go on with the sermons. Let usPray.

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I am going to pose another Question to you:

Faith !
Exactly what it is?

Confidence, Trust, Reliance, Assurance, Conviction, Belief, Devotion, Loyalty, Commitment, Dedication.

I think that sum it up!

Faith is total Trust in Jesus Christ and his sacrifice on the cross, where I have Conviction through Belief that it is he who can save to the up-most. I am Confident that through him Jesus, that Loyal Christians will have the Assurance that through there Commitment, Devotion and Dedication Relining on him we will have eternal life.

Yep that’s Faith.
Let’s explore a little about Faith.

Acts 14:
8: And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked:
9: The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,

Why is it that some people pray and get healing and other pray and do not receive healing?

Why did not Jesus heal every one he passed?

Does God inflict pain and suffering unto us because of our sin’s?

Or because of Sin do we inflict suffering upon our self.

We are told that we must have Faith. The Bible said

Heb:11:1: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

One day a Man told HMS Richard that he did not believe that there was a God. HMS Richard asked the Man why that is. Because I can’t see Him!

Well HMS Richard said Sir. You know, I don’t believe you have a Brain. The Man said pardon me Pastor. Well I can’t see it, so how do I know you have one.

It is not by sight or by hearing or by feeling that we know God! It is only by Faith.

Faith that if God said it I am going to do it. I am not going to let anything get in my way of serving God.

STORY: How many of you like to go Boating?

Yea that what I am talking about, just kicking back letting it all loose, having FUN.

Well in Jesus day’s people did not go boating for Fun, why because it was work and a lot of work.

There were only two ways of making a boat go forward.
#1. Was Wind power, and #2 was elbow grease.

Story of Peter in a Boat: One day Jesus sent his disciples on a head of him onto the other side by boat. That night the weather got bad…

Peter getting out of the boat took a lot of Faith and then he started walking on the water with his eyes fastened on Jesus.

Matthew 14:
30: But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. Or lost his Faith

When he took his eyes off the Savior he lost his Faith

We today are no less different then Peter, if we take our eyes off of Jesus for only a second we will perish in this Sea of sin.

31: And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? Or Why did you doubt

Peter cried out from within his soul JESUS please save Me! Only then did the Son of God reach out and took the hand of faith that called on his name.

As we cried out in despair, as we cried out in trouble, when we are at our last rope JESUS please save ME there we find the hand of Jesus reaching to grab hold of the faith that called in his name, ready to heal, ready to save, and ready to forgive.

You see we can’t judge, why, because only Jesus knows the heart, only he can hear the faint cried from deep down in the soul of man, the cry for help that cry for forgiveness.

Jesus is never late my friend he is always on time. Your life may be one minuet till midnight your mind may be in the darkest darkness but the love of God will always be come through.

Jesus looked at Peter and Said, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?

O thou of little faith, why for even a moment would you doubt God?

Do we sometime hear the same words, when we pray asking for God to help us?

How many times have we prayed and it seamed as if God does not hear what I am saying.

Is it because he did not hear or because I did not believe he would hear.

Matthew 9: A Woman of Faith

20: And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
21: For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.

Did touching Jesus garment do anything? No! “So what did, She had Faith in the one called Jesus”

Who was this Woman? And what was her problem?

She was sick and for the passed 12 years she spent all she had trying to get well. Going from one doctor to another, trying one new cure and then another and still nothing worked.

Sounds a lot like us today don’t it. We try everything else first and when nothing seams to work we rub a little Jesus on it and it goes away.

Finally in her desperation she turned to the only real source of healing, Jesus. She listened to him talk each day and felt herself being drawn to him, until at last unbelief gave way to Faith and Faith turned into action and this Child of God was healed.

Faith turned into action! That is what happens when you believe things start to happen because of your Faith. If you are looking to see it you won’t, if you are looking to feel something it will never come, only as you Believe will it happen. Why because it is Faith.

Jesus said who touch me. There were many people there but Jesus knew the touch of Faith, he understood the hand that had reached out unto him. That is why he told Nickcodeanus and if I be lifted up I will draw all Men unto Me.

Lk:6:19:
And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.

Is there any different to day in how God works with his people. They could reach out and physically touch him, what about us.

We can physically reach up and touch him in faith. We can grab hold of his garment and say I will not let go till thou has blessed me. The problem is we don’t have time to wait

Luke 8:48 (KJV). And He said unto her, “Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.”

This woman hade Faith my friend and She was healed.

I want to tell you a story about another Woman who hade Faith, her story is told in the Gospel of Matthew 15: 21-28

One day Jesus said to his disciples lets go for a walk, the Bible says that Jesus went and came unto the cost of a place called Tyre and Sidon.

21: Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.

What was Jesus doing here; he had never before gone out of Judea, why now.

So as they were walking guess what started to happen, someone recognized him as Jesus. People all over knew who he was, except for the Jewish Leader that is.

So as he was walking a Local Woman came out when she heard of him.

22: And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.

What was so different with this Woman then anyone else, who here would have came out to see Jesus. She had a problem and could not do anything about it. But she recognized in Jesus that he was someone who could do something about her problem.

More then likely she had never seen Jesus before; she only could hear the Stories that people told coming out of Jerusalem, Stories about a Man of God who could heal with just the power of his Word. Perhaps she heard the Stories about how Jesus fed over 5000 Men plus Woman and Children with only two small Fish and a few loafs of bread, or about how he held 10 Men all at one time who had the incurable disease of leprosy.

We are not told how this Woman knew about Jesus we are just told her story. She saw Jesus and she went to ask him for help.

23: But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.

Now this just does not sound like Jesus does it. This Woman was asking for help pleading with him even crying after him for help. And what is Jesus doing Nothing

It did not turn her away she just kept coming.

There is nothing worse that someone who cries all the time. We call them winners; in fact my wife is always telling me if I would like some cheese with that wine, I am not to sure what she means by that.

In other words after a wile you just get tired or just fed-up with there Constance cry. But that was not the problem here was it.

No; Jesus knew who she was, but Jesus also wanted to teach his Disciples a lesson to see what they would do in this type of situation.

The Woman was not a Jew or a descendent of any Jewish family. The Jews had nothing to do with those people who were not part of the promise giving to there Father Abraham.

Jesus finally gives this Woman an answers look at verse 24

24: But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

So Jesus told her to go away I am not going to help you. I am here to help only those who are the children of the promise.

25: Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.

The heart of Jesus was yearning to help this poor child of God, but he must first teach his disciples a lesson. They would need to know how to treat other after he is gone from them.

At first when you read this part of the Gospel, you would come away with the through that Jesus did not want to help this woman. But if you study the lesson closely you must first ask a question. What was Jesus doing in this part of Palestine anyway, he had no business for being there, very few if any Jews so why was he here.

There is always a reason when Jesus does something. Jesus knew this child of God needed help and so he walked all the way there to help her.

Listen to what Jesus now tells her.

Matthew 15: 26
26: But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.

I am not sure I read that right, I know some where I must have made a mistake!

Any one in here has a different version of the Bible.

What does your say

Just about all Bibles will translate this scripture exactly how Jesus said it.

But why?

If this was you, what would you have done. You are in need of some help so you go to this guy who has help many of others but when he gets to you he calls you a Dog.

Listen: He is saying I am not going to take the Blessing that belongs to the rightful airs of the Father and through it to a Dog.

But this lady was different you can see that in her answer to Jesus.

27: And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.

What she is saying is Lord I am not looking for one of those big blessings just a little crumb Blessing and I will be satisfied.

Jesus could not help but to honor this Woman.

28: Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.

Great is your Faith Woman you will have what you are looking for because you have the Faith to believe you have received it.

And the Bible said that from that very hour, her daughter was made whole.

Would you have passed the test,

Don’t answer the question to me, answer it to Jesus. Do you have the faith that if some one would call you names to bring your case before Jesus and seek his strength

We know from God word that trouble times are just ahead of us and we will need Faith to get through it.

But we need not fear all we need it to Believe, Jesus will take care of the rest.

Remember that the closer to the flame the hotter it gets it is at that point that only Faith can take hold and move forward. It is at that point that Jesus will pick you up and carry you through the trials until you can stand again on your own. My friend all I can say is thank you my Lord and savior for giving me just a Dogs blessing.

God Bless and Keep you all and don’t worry when the world calls you names just be grateful for the crumbs that fall from the Masters table to his blessed and loving Children

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