Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro:

Feeling out of place

Ever had someone try to make you feel like you are out of place?

not good enough to be somewhere?

That is what is so hard about learning a language - you have to humble yourself to learn, to get

funny story??

where people look down on you

happens all the time - they don’t say anything, but its like, this idiot doesn’t understand anything

That is the situation for this woman and this man here in this story

this woman was a foreigner and enemy

the man talked funny and couldn’t hear

there was division for them - between jews bc of rules, between cultures because of physical defects and people that treated him badly

Story of how I know what it is like to be a foreigner

Hi-so and low so

How we should approach Jesus?

This woman is a model for us

Who is she?

A Gentile ชาติซีเรียฟีนิเซีย

The plan was always that the Gospel go to the whole world

But the Jews didn’t see past their own country

Saw people that weren't like them and called them dogs

They were dirty, out of the family, not God’s people, far from the truth, all other religions and worshipping idols

Sinful?

Yes.

But Jews were supposed to be a light to them, not just judge them

Like us when we call people names instead of loving people.

She knew that she had no Right to come to Jesus - religious, moral, social, right to approach a rabbi

Jews have been waiting for the messiah for hundreds of years

God raised them like children

Promised that the Messiah would come to them

She knows she is unfit for the table with the kids Mk 7:28

"จริงเจ้าค่ะ แต่สุนัขที่อยู่ใต้โต๊ะนั้นย่อมกินอาหารเหลือเดนของลูกๆ"

She knew she was unclean, and therefore disqualified

She humbles herself

We don’t come thinking we are better than anyone

we are deserving

But She is desperate - and therefore Humble

Sometimes desperation, problems, suffering, is necessary for us

God has to teach us this

It is mercy for us to suffer short for joy in the long term

It is the hardest lesson to learn - humility

Bro.

Gardner is good at this - just shows you why what you think is stupid

I just graduated, and thought I knew everything.

I am a dog สุนัข under the table

If God wants to choose the Jews only, is there anything we can do about it??

We have all dishonered Him and deserve punishment

God can do what he wants

Rom 9:20-21 20 มนุษย์เอ๋ย ท่านเป็นใครที่จะโต้ตอบกับพระเจ้า? สิ่งซึ่งถูกปั้นจะกล่าวแก่ผู้ปั้นได้หรือว่า "ทำไมท่านจึงปั้นข้าพเจ้าอย่างนี้?" 21 ส่วนช่างปั้นหม้อ ไม่มีสิทธิเอาดินก้อนเดียวกัน มาปั้นเป็นภาชนะที่ใช้ในโอกาสพิเศษอันหนึ่ง และทั่วๆ ไปอีกอันหนึ่งหรือ?

Jesus is deliberatly scandelous -

Pharisees - hypocrites, scoffing at their tradition,

Insults this lady by calling her a dog

Would you have been offended?

we might say, well if that’s how you feel, then I don’t want anything

We could turn to gods of our own making that don’t offend us, because we think we are so special and God SHOULD help us.

But she was desperate, empty handed, made no claim, humbled herself and accepted God’s judgement and bowed as a beggar for grace.

But Jesus was deliberately trying to get a response from her

He is doing that with you - trying to humble you

not with words, but events.

Showing you don’t belong at the table

Showing you The hidden evil in your heart

Humbling you, bringing you down

What are you doing to do about it?

She knows God’s grace and goodness

She knows this and Asks for crumbs อาหารเหลือเดน vs 28

“He who humbles himself will be exalted.

He who exalts himself will be humbled.”

“He who finds himself will lose himself.

He who loses himself will find himself.”

What happens when we come to Jesus?

She asks not based on her goodness, but His

Give me what I don’t deserve

He heals everyone who comes to him in humble faith - whether jew, gentile, rich, poor, urban rural,

She accepts his answer - “on the ground of this go”

- its simple but we act on it

the 2nd story - Jesus does differen things to help that guy

Jesus comes down to him

Speaks to him in a way he can understand

touches him, and stuff - that we know he doesn’t have to do

the goal is the healing, not the tricks

but He does what is necessary to help us know him

What does this teach us? about Jesus?

Jesus has the power to save

The conclusion of this story, this section is a doxology

Jesus lowers himself to us who are in need Phil 2:7-8

Jesus is enough for everyone no matter their need

Jesus helps those who come to him in trust

Jesus is the initiator - 5000, demoniac, storm, pharisees

it is not what we do, it is what he does - in all these stories

Jesus breaks down barriers

We shouldn’t look down on others

we are all equally bad, and sinful

we are all equally foreigners and unworthy

In Christ there is no more division

if we have something better than someone else - knowledge, money, position - we use that to serve as Jesus served

We are reconciled to God and others

The gospel should humble us beyond anything, but show us how much we are loved more than anything

Those kind of people are not racist, proud, self-righteous,

He is the fulfillment of Is 35:5

But the ultimate fulfilment of Isaiah is Jesus’ ultimate mission - the cross

If we want the ultimate healing, we come to Jesus in the same way