Plenty Of Harvest 1/27/2023
Daily Devotions: by Christina FarrisMatthew 9:35-38 KJV
35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
37 Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;
38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
Jesus went teaching where in the synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God. He healed the sick and diseases. Interesting thing to note is he taught in the synagogues, a little temple, perhaps even a meeting place of the people that may of even disgusted other things beside about faith but about their communities. However it would not of been a place to worship foreign gods and goddess. What was Jesus teaching but from the scrolls, the parables perhaps, that he spoke in outside gatherings, but it would of been about God's kingdom. What is God's kingdom really about, it about godly life style, godly living, and not least Godly fear and love for God and fellow man. To live a godly life meant peace and tranquitlity to the people if all agreed to live this way. It is easy to think that what Jesus was teaching was some how different then what the Jewish religious order taught, but it was not. If we can grasp that one idea, we can see why some would stay with the Temple when the holocast of Christians began. It had to do with not faith but willing to take a stand in the brutal lines of faith called sacrifice. Why would there be a need for sacrifice within the lines of faith, what does sacrifice teach, but to stand one ground even in adversity and in the grounds of freedom. Did Roman conflict with the Bible. I say on certain laws it did. Sexual immorality of the pagan culture and society would of been in full swing in Roman, but not in Jewish communities and even the Gentiles of Jewish communities often followed in their culture.
As more and more tv shows show the homosexual life style is their a religious fear that everyone will choose to be homosexual due to their comfort zone with the same sex connection. I suspect there is a great fear among not just religious people but communities in general that do not agree with that life style. What can a nation of homosexuals produce only children through invitro ferilitzation. Think on that for a moment. With society fighting against aboriton are we setting women and men up to take another sexual route that deviant from God's design. After all Solomon had 800 wives and they sacrificed their children to Astrothe. Solomon never put his foot down on what his wives did. The question remains is society spiraling into sinful society and a destructive society in regards to population and the ability to reproduce. Or is man loosing his place in society with the only need of him is sperm. Freeing woman society to extreme that men will have to go give their healthy sperm and then they die, sounds like a scifi movie, after all some spiders do eat their mates after production. Nature having it own way of dealing with abundancy of males in their ranks.
People we need to wake up, the homosexual agenda is away of government introducing away to control population. The homosexual ability to force their offspring to be homosexual too is not given because unless they have both contra parts it is not something inbreed into society, it something encouraged by not abstracting from an idea that it is wrong to God's design. Society is saying you do not have to follow God's design of procreating. It a society that says act on your emotions and not own what good for society. Some saying even produce when young and when old
do what you want society. The bottle neck problem of sin in the older generation filtering to the younger generation. What am I talking about woodstock society, free love and so forth. What generation 60s and 70s. now in the offspring of society even the 80's, 90's, 2000's, 2010's, and now 2020's. 50's were consider still a fairly clean society from the sin of things not designed by God for men and women to do, why because of war, because of population anniliation of culture of God. The Jewish society being exterminated by semitism. Now one has a government seeking ways through sinful behaviors(anything not in line with God's original plan for man), changing population, changing how society thinks. The term woman have the right to do whatever they want with their body is not something of God in regards to human production and sexual immorality. We live in society that embraces those ideas not of God.
How is not of God for women to do whatever they want with their body? Starvation diet, the purging of food and other ways of loosing weight unnaturally, does more harm to the body then good but it taught to women why so they will look like a barbie doll around the waist for sexual immorality, lust of the eye, and desire of flesh to men. Yes some men and women are turned on by obesity and not just just barbie doll breast, waist and buttocks. Yet society teaches it through imaging, through what seems popular, what looks good or pleasing to the eye that it is right for society.
Is looking healthy and being healthy, about sex, no it is not. Godly living deals with fasting, but did God tell Adam and Eve to fast? Did he tell Abraham or Sarah to fast. No fasting was because of food shortage and to have at least a meal if not two instead of three. The learned to conserve food when possible. Fasting came by way of teaching the need for sacrifice in society. Then it became vogue to fast and pray because to sacrifice food meant you were getting real about the situation with God. Meaning you were getting down to expressing how serious the need for answer prayer is to God. Sack cloth and ashes expression of sorrow of sin, but does not cleanse the heart. Fasting is only good if it represents the seriousness of the need for the answer to the prayer. Yet to forget to take care of yourself because God said no; disenables you from doing what; ministering to people, by forcing others to wait on you by being weak when fasting. God sees you seriousness with the first missed meal or even a week of fasting.
What does godly society produce for government. It means less people to have to contend about theft, murder, corruption of society unless it inflitrates their neighborhood. When sin inflitrates the church society to the point it causing a problem, the old preacher gets up behind the pulpit and preaches against it and then the church obeys for a week or two and then the preacher reminds them it is against God and tries to drive that information right into the heart of the people. Man for a few weeks will not do again. Some sin can be purged and other sin is continual issue like gossip. God gives man Jesus to take into their heart to correct them of sin and to teach them about sin.
Where is our society going? why did Jesus teach to the gentiles in the country side and villages in the street. To teach them about the kingdom of God and healthy living that is good for all of society. There would always be sin in the world because this world was the world of Adam and Eve to make a choice of how they wanted to live. To live in the corruption and destruction of society or to live wholesome and good for all of society.
What Jesus was teaching was love for one's fellowman, to help one another to care for each other. To obey God rather then man in the since of sinful behaviors. People were in need of a shepherd, in need of God and the knowledge of healthy living verse evil corruption of society. What does adultery do but produce jealouse of spouse, causing divorce, separation of parents and kids. Lust itself might never produce sin beyond the heart, but it does produce sin if acted on. The people needing a teacher, someone to help with society issues that cause corruption. Someone asked if my anti abortion agenda was political and I said religious and political. Why because abortion effects society, women's health in some cases and definitely the emotional health of many young women in need of love, compassion and hope. That where strong young men need to be ready if they impregnant a woman, need to say I will help get your degree, work and take care of our child instead of saying, it not my responsibility. These decisions are often made before sex, because it is the difference of healthy wholesome relationship and a relationship of many one night stands and a life that can lead to even death.
Some people will still I will do what I want with my body, instead of hearing the wholesomeness of healthy relationship which produces good over all health in women and men, because of sexual and communiable diseases. Immoratily is not really defined by the opposite of marriage comment, but a relationship comment between partners. Marrage may be coming but will the relationship if one gets pregnant still remain. Is that knowledge of relationship commitment strong enough to stand in hardship and struggles of life in general. That were the work of love is. Not in the bed, it in the hardship and problems of committed relationship.
Did Jesus talk about sex, he did talk about divorcement, because it was part of Jewish culture, he did not talk about homosexuality as in the Old Testament but it would be part of culture in different regions. He taught more about love and caring for people and not shunning them. He brought everyone to his table to eat, and allowed them to minister to him as he minister to them. The woman that anointed Jesus was known harlot in one passage of scripture. Where is the purity in who Jesus was around, it was not. He taught all sorts of people that need not only love but compassion. That the job of a minister. Job of those that seek to teach the ones in need of God and his kingdom. These people do change over time, but they also bring a compassion to people that are like they use to be are were before Jesus made a change in their life.
Jesus was gathering the lost sheep of Israel by calling to those with a desire for God and his kingdom. What type of society are your breeding, one of love and hope, or one of betrayal and evil intent. I make it sound simple, but in society it not so simple. Scripture teach much about society and clean living and the problems of going astray and doing it your own way. Does it talk ever about unhealthy living being okay. Romans implies God created heavens and the earth, but some people wanted a society different then his design and decide to worship idols, following after the serpent and tasting of what is not good for man. All because the desired and it felt good. How the desires of sin deceived many to living in sin.
Jesus fame in the day and time of what he taught perhaps did not cause wide reception as the healing. After all the lawyer and the rich man walked away sad. How many that asked a question walked away sad. Nothing changed people walk out of church sad because they do not want to submit to God's way of living because the world says it is okay to live in oppositon to the church world. It is more easier to be accepted not in church but in the world. That should not be, because we all have sin and desire things of our world we live in that may or may not be healthy to our spiritual, mental and even physical health.
The healing part was to gather the lost sheep but some would still wander away from the teaching of God and the hope for the world. The hope of eternity is the life style of God not the place of torment and pain in a devil's hell. What your choice today, try it God's way or the devil's. I will be honest, my husband might think I am a devil at times, but he knows as well as I do certain things must be done by both and by even just one of us at times. My husband had been taking out the garabage from the time he stopped working, and I have to say it was nice, because I no longer had to worry about it. He had time to do it. However when he took his fall, I had to take it out and I about forget to do it on more then one occassion. There is a point when society stop caring whether in the world or in the church that is when society is really going to the devil not before. If love is absense then yes the world and the church has gone to devil. Devil has no love for society. Love comes from God. True love comes from God. It is not love without sacrifice but a love of compassion. There many chores my husband does that I can do as well, but my least favorite is garabage detail. I hate having to carry bags of trash, though I want it removed. Yet it also a sign of taking out what no longer necessary in one home. The garabage in the heart has to be removed the same way, it got to go out and not come back in. It not something that can be recycled beyond compost, mulch and decomposing into soil to make healthy soil one day. Garabage does have a purpose remember but it does not belong in the heart of man or the society of man. Not the home and not the world on the street. Sacrificing oneself for society gain, for society to see the evil of their sin. To show their corruption with their sin.
When we ask Jesus into our heart, we are asking him to make a clean sweep of our sin and cleanse us with his power to not sin, to hear his voice in obedience tohis word. To learn to follow in his footsteps of love. Simple, but will you allow Jesus to clean your heart today. Go to the salvation button if you want to know Jesus today and learn how to pray a very simple pray of receiving Jesus as your Lord.
Dear Heavenly Father, as we look at the teaching of Christ and not just all the healings that brought the people to Jesus, help us examine how it helped society what he taught man. In Jesus precious name, Amen.
Continual Scripture Study: Luke 24:45-48 KJV
45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
48 And ye are witnesses of these things.
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