Good morning. After
raising the little girl from the dead, Jesus passes on from there, and is
followed by two blind men. “Have mercy on us, Son of David”, they cry. Son of
David is one of the expressions denoting the Messiah. In this version, Jesus
does not ask them what they want. He asks if they believe that He is able to do
this. They say yes, and He touches their eyes, saying, “be it done to you according
to your faith.” So we have the woman and the two blind men healed because of
their faith. The little girl was raised from the dead because of Jesus’ faith.
“Don't tell anyone”, Jesus says to them. Could you be quiet, if you had been
blind and Jesus just healed you? I know I couldn't. Besides, people would
notice that they could now see. Then Jesus comes across a demon possessed man.
He cast out the demon, and everyone marvels - except the Pharisees. They said
that He cast out demons by the ruler of the demons. He could do no right in
their eyes. It sounds like the mainstream media today. Jesus addresses their
comments later in Matthew. Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages,
teaching and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of
disease and sickness. He has compassion for the multitudes because they were
distressed like sheep without a shepherd. He says, “the harvest is plentiful,
but the workers are few. Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out
workers into His harvest.” This is the same thing that Jesus said to His
disciples in John chapter 4 with the woman at the well. Matthew does not say
that they were in Samaria; but it is very possibly the same situation. Father
thank You that the reader has the faith to be made whole. Meet every one of his/hers
and his/her family's needs.
Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me
Good morning. Paul then gives a list of a lot of things that he has gone through as an apostle. I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. There could be many people that you listen to either in church or through the Internet or other means; but there was only one person (as a general rule it was a person) that lead you to Christ. Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me. He was saying that just like a child imitates his or her father, they were to imitate him. He says that again seven chapters later. Since it is easy to forget some things about people we have not seen in a while, Paul says that he sent Timothy to them to remind them of his ways which are in Christ, just as he taught everywhere in every church. Some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. I shall find ou...
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