SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/31/2022 7:50 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “Intro to ‘Compassion for the
Outsiders’”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matt.
15:29-39
Message of the verses: “29 And departing
from there, Jesus went along by the Sea of Galilee, and having gone up to the
mountain, He was sitting there. 30 And great multitudes came to Him, bringing
with them those who were lame, crippled, blind, dumb, and many others,
and they laid them down at His feet; and He healed them, 31 so that the
multitude marveled as they saw the dumb speaking, the crippled restored, and
the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel. 32 And Jesus
called His disciples to Him, and said, "I feel compassion for the
multitude, because they have remained with Me now three days and have nothing
to eat; and I do not wish to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the
way." 33 And the disciples said to Him, "Where would we get so many
loaves in a desolate place to satisfy such a great multitude?" 34 And
Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" And they said,
"Seven, and a few small fish." 35 And He directed the multitude to
sit down on the ground; 36 and He took
the seven loaves and the fish; and giving thanks, He broke them and started
giving them to the disciples, and the disciples in turn, to the
multitudes. 37 And they
all ate, and were satisfied, and they picked up what was left over of
the broken pieces, seven large baskets full. 38 And those who ate were four
thousand men, besides women and children. 39 And sending away the multitudes,
He got into the boat, and came to the region of Magadan.”
I want to show a time when the Lord showed
compassion on His people even when they had sinned against Him, as we know that
His compassion is great, and He has an abundant patience. Let us look at 2 Kings 13:23 “But the LORD
was gracious to them and had compassion on them and turned to them because of
His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them or cast
them from His presence until now.” This
took place during the time of oppression under Aram. One more account, and this time it has to do
when Judah had been defeated by Babylon “13 He also rebelled against King
Nebuchadnezzar who had made him swear allegiance by God. But he
stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD God of
Israel. 14 Furthermore, all the officials of the priests and the people were
very unfaithful following all the abominations of the nations; and they
defiled the house of the LORD which He had sanctified in Jerusalem. 15 The
LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to them again and again by His
messengers, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.” This happened during the time that Babylon
ruled Judah, Zedekiah, the appointed Jewish king at Jerusalem, not only
rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar but also against God, Jeremiah, and the other
prophets. The priests and the people
were also unfaithful and wicked, Yet ‘the Lord, the God of their fathers, sent
word to them again and again by His messengers, because He had compassion on
His people.”
As
we have been studying the book of Matthew for a very long time now we have seen
over and over how the Lord Jesus Christ had compassion for Israel, and I
suppose that after He was accused of doing miracles through the power of Satan
that His compassion was still there but He was indeed upset with Israel and in
70 AD would allow the Romans come and destroy Jerusalem and millions of Jews
would die and the rest would be dispersed around the known world for almost 2000 years not
returning to have Israel became a nation until May of 1948. In bringing this about the Word of God was
fulfilled as Ezekiel, through the Holy Spirit wrote that this would happen, and
even though Israel still does not believe in their Messiah, He still has
compassion for them and He still has a future for them knowing that during the
tribulation period that what Paul wrote of them will come true “all Israel will
be saved.”
John
MacArthur writes “After departing from there, the region of Tyre and Sidon
where that woman lived (v. 21), Jesus went along by the Sea of Galilee, and
having gone up to the mountain, He was sitting there. We learn from Mark that Jesus went around the
Sea of Galilee, apparently on the east side, stopping in ‘the region of
Decapolis’ (Mark 7:31), another Gentile area.
Although His primary ministry was still to the Jews, the Lord
continually reached out beyond the covenant people, giving a preview of the
extension of the kingdom into the whole world (cf. Matt. 28:19; Acts 1:8).”
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