Are You Ready For This???

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Jesus continues to move through the area healing the sick and casting out demons as He was filled with compassion. The multitudes were lost and without a shepherd, they were ripe for the harvest but there are few ready for the harvest. Do we have faith enough to believe to listen, act on His command?

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Are You Ready For This? Jesus still does miracles today, Jesus wants to use you to do miracles, He wants to touch your life and the life of those who are around you. But the question is are you ready for this, are you ready to listen, to respond to His voice, are you ready to act as He guides?

As Pastor Toni said this last week, “Prayer minus activity is procrastination”!

Jesus is still moving and shaking the world around us and some of us see it others are complaining one why Jesus isn’t doing anything. I have been working with this guy for almost two months now and says a lot this isn’t working and Friday i was ready to straggle him, because he was so negative and he couldn’t see what we were doing was working. It was slow going at first and you had to put your back into it, he was going about it half heartedly and that was driving me crazy.

Let me ask two questions before we get started!

Do you believe in miracles?

Miracle is “semeion (sa-ma-on) miracles are also known as sign, wonder, or mighty work. A work so superseding in its higher forms the established laws of nature as to evince (demonstrate) the special interposition of God.”

Do you have faith to believe?

Faith is “Pistis (pis-tis) conviction, confidence, trust, belief, reliance, trustworthiness and persuasion. Pistis in the NT setting is divinely implanted principle of inward confidence, assurance, trust and reliance in God and all He says.”

Let me share my miracle from God, back in January 1982, I had an electrical panel blow up in my face. Metal shards blew out and the guy I was working with had them hit him and his safety glasses were pitted. But I was hit by none of them, but I was burned on my hands, face and neck my hair was melted into tiny knots on my head and my beard did the same.

The Dr. said I should have been blind or dead, but neither happened, why because God did a miracle. My wife called our pastor and told him that I was on my way to the hospital and that i was in an accident at work. The Lord showed him a vision or picture of His hand in between my face and the panel. That is my miracle!!!

Matthew 9:27–38 ESV

27 And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, “Have mercy on us, Son of David.” 28 When he entered the house, the blind men came to him, and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord.” 29 Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.” 30 And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them, “See that no one knows about it.” 31 But they went away and spread his fame through all that district. 32 As they were going away, behold, a demon-oppressed man who was mute was brought to him. 33 And when the demon had been cast out, the mute man spoke. And the crowds marveled, saying, “Never was anything like this seen in Israel.” 34 But the Pharisees said, “He casts out demons by the prince of demons.” 35 And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. 36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; 38 therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”

Matthew 9:27-38

Last week we say a miracle with in a miracle, this week we are going to see a miracle following a miracle following another miracle. Jesus is the Son of God and He is moved to heal the sick, the demon possessed and all that will come to Him looking for a touch from God.

Jesus is moved with compassion as He see’s the state of the people, that they are frazzled and moving about aimlessly because they have no shepherd nor direction in their lives.

How many of us can say that is me???

So Jesus and His disciples are leaving Jairus’s house are followed by a multitude of people and two of which are crying out Son of David have mercy on us. they were not just crying out, they were doing it loudly so that they would draw attention to themselves.

Are we willing to do what it takes to get Jesus attention so we can receive the miracle that we need.?

It was prophesied in that the blind would see, the deaf would hear and the mute would speak.

that the blind would see, the deaf would hear and the mute would speak

Isaiah 35:5–6 ESV

5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; 6 then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute sing for joy. For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert;

Isaiah 35

They cried out and Jesus asked, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” Yes, Lord!

Life Application Bible Commentary, Matthew Jesus Heals the Blind and Mute / 9:27–34 / 90

The focus of this story is the power of faith. Jesus asked these blind men first if they had faith (Do you believe … ?). Then he healed them according to their faith (9:29). These men answered Jesus’ question about their belief, saying, “Yes, Lord.” The use of the word “Lord” reveals their faith in Jesus’ power and authority to heal them.

Jesus sternly tells them not to speak to anyone about what just happened!

Life Application Bible Commentary, Matthew Jesus Heals the Blind and Mute / 9:27–34 / 90

But these blind men were too excited to heed Jesus’ words. Jesus had sternly ordered them to keep quiet but they went away and spread the news about him throughout that district. NRSV Obviously the blind men would not be able to hide their healing for long. The power of God and the miracle were so great that no one could keep silent.

Are you ready for what the Lord has cookin???

Then they bring Him a deaf mute who was demon possessed!

Life Application Bible Commentary, Matthew Jesus Heals the Blind and Mute / 9:27–34 / 90

This time, as Jesus and his disciples were leaving, a man who was demon-possessed and could not talk was brought to Jesus. The word translated “could not talk” is kophos, which can mean deaf, unable to talk, or both. Such disabilities are not always the work of demons, because Jesus healed many people of illness and disability without casting out demons.

Jesus cast

The people were amazed at the miracles that Jesus has done, they have never seen anything like this before.

Who here has seen a true miracle from God that only He could do, not what regular people call miracles?

Now remember what Pastor Tony said last week!

Matthew 9:34 ESV

34 But the Pharisees said, “He casts out demons by the prince of demons.”

Now remember what Pastor Tony said last week!

You have to remove the naysayers from your midst and walk in the power and might of the almighty God!

If you want to walk in the power and be used by the Lord then you need to rid yourself of all negative influence around you. There will always be doubter and people who want to rain on what the Lord is doing in and through you.

Life App. Comm. “Matthew showed how Jesus was maligned by those who should have received him most gladly. Why did the Pharisees do this? (1) Jesus bypassed their religious authority. (2) He weakened their control over the people. (3) He challenged their cherished beliefs. (4) He exposed their insincere motives. While the Pharisees questioned, debated, and dissected Jesus, people were being healed and lives changed right in front of them. Their skepticism was based on jealousy of Jesus’ popularity. The opposition to Jesus was intensifying; Jesus was far too powerful and popular for the Pharisees’ comfort.”

Jesus would go into the cities and villages teaching preach the gospel and healing the sick.

Matthew 9:36 ESV

36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Matthew 9

Life Application Bible Commentary, Matthew Jesus Urges the Disciples to Pray for Workers / 9:35–38 / 92

Wherever Jesus went, crowds gathered. But when Jesus saw these multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them. The word “compassion” describes the deep inner mercy of God, often described in the Old Testament. The prophet Ezekiel compared Israel to sheep without a shepherd (Ezekiel 34:5, 6; see also Numbers 27:17; 1 Kings 22:17); Jesus saw the weary and scattered people as sheep having no shepherd.

Ezekiel 34:5–6 ESV

5 So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild beasts. My sheep were scattered; 6 they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with none to search or seek for them.

Ezekiel

He was moved with compassion is “to be moved to ones bowels which is thought to be the seat of of love and pity.” “truest compassion is only found in the nature of God, because only God knows the full depth of an individual’s pain, need, or suffering.”

Cornerstone Biblical Commentary, Volume 11: Matthew and Mark Notes

But the needs of the multitudes were not the only reason for the compassion of Jesus—his pity for the crowds was heightened because their state of distress and helplessness was similar to that of sheep without a shepherd (cf. Mark 6:34).

When we see people who are lost and wondering aimlessly how does it make you feel? It moved Jesus to action!

Jesus make a statement here asking His followers to pray and ask the Lord of the harvest to send more labors from the harvest.