This week’s scriptures are: Acts 9:36-43, Psalms 23, Revelation 7:9-17, John 10:22-30
Please pray with me:
Dear Heavenly Father, I pray that the words of this sermon are YOUR words, and not mine. I pray that the message here touches those that need to be touched. I pray that those receiving this sermon remember that all Honor and Glory are yours, Lord, both now and forever. Amen and Amen.
Grace and Peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Some people are blind to the things right in front of them. Some people need to have things spelled out for them, before they'll believe what they are seeing.
In today's lessons, we see a couple of examples of this. In Acts we read about Tabitha and Peter. Tabitha passed away and after her body was attended to it was put in a room upstairs. The people of that town sent for Peter to come to her. After he had prayed and told her to stand, she stood up.
People of that town needed to see a miracle before they believed in God, in Jesus.
In the book of John, we read how the people asked Christ to stop keeping them in suspense. They asked if He was the Messiah. Now Christ had been there for a while. He'd done miracles and He'd been teaching and preaching. Yet they asked Him if He was their Messiah.
How blind are those who refuse to see? How deaf are those who refuse to hear? Christ is RIGHT THERE! He's doing things that had never been done before. He's doing everything EXCEPT verbalizing that HE is the son of God. And so they asked.
Jesus told them that He and the Father are one. But did thy believe? I mean did they TRULY believe? Even the devil knows that God exists, but that does not mean he believes in God or trusts in God.
Jesus tells us that He knows His sheep and that they know Him. A shepherd knows his sheep by name. He can callout to them and they will follow him. Others can call out to the same sheep and they will not respond. Christs sheep will follow His voice. The KNOW Him. They KNOW He will keep them safe.
The Shepherd will meet all of our needs. There'll be no need to want for anything. The Shepherd will take us to the greenest pastures and allow us to rest and revive our spirit.
Even when we're going through dark times and dark places, we can be sure that the Shepherd will be with us. The Shepherd will keep us safe. So there's no need to fear. The Shepherd will protect us and comfort us.
When we are hungry, the Shepherd will feed us. Even in the presence of our enemies, He will prepare a place for us to eat. He will provide so much for us to eat and drink that everything will be overflowing. The Shepherd will anoint us so that we will be His.
The Shepherd will have goodness and mercy following us for our entire lives with Him. He will allow us to experience good things and He will have mercy on us when we stumble. We can spend the rest of our days dwelling in the Shepherd house. Protected, provided for and prospering in Him.
But just because the Shepherd is there for us, does not mean that we are with Him. The Shepherd is still gathering His flock. He has provided us with His word and His teachings in the form of The Bible. He has provided us with an Owner's Manual and a Perfect Guide To Life.........it's called the Holy Bible.
It took many people in Joppa (or Jaffa depending on the translation you're reading) had to see Tabitha raised fromt eh dead before they would believe.
For many people it took Christ telling them point blank that He and the Father are one, before they'd believe.
All of these generations later we are here. As you read this, I have just one question: What will it take for YOU?
Amen. Amen.
May the reading of this sermon bless you. May God be with you and you with Him, until we meet again.
Amen. Amen
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