After the commission Jesus did not just sit and wait for the report but He Himself went on teaching and preaching. John sent His disciples to enquire whether He was the Messiah or they were to expect another. Remember that John said that He was the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world and baptizes with the Holy Spirit and fire. Jn 1:29, Mat 3:11.
How comes He doubted? Because He thought He would overthrow the government and deliver him from prison but that was not the reason Jesus came, it was for a higher reason, Delivering us from the power of sin and manifesting the power of the kingdom of heaven through our lives.
When you get into problems, what do you do? Do you begin murmuring in your heart wondering why God has not delivered you? Instead of complaining, learn to pray and thank God.
Blessed is the one who is not offended in Christ; the way He runs His business;and in what He sometimes allows us to go through.
The miracles Jesus performed had been prophesied in Isaiah 35:5-6
Jesus speaking to the crowd after the messages went away asked them what they went to see when they went to hear John?
He declared him to be more than a prophet and of all born of women, there was none greater than him yet the least in the kingdom is greater than he. This I believe that in this dispensation we can experience the fullness of the Holy Spirit inside us which to transform us from the inside our heart which the old testament saints could not experience. They only experienced the Holy Spirit on them as a cloth because only Jesus could immerse us in the Holy Spirit.
From the days of the Holy Spirit until now the kingdom of God suffers violence and violent men take it by force. I understand this to mean that there is opposition from the devil which we have to violently resist to be able to experience all that God has in store for us in the heavenly places. God is a generous God. Jam 1:5 but the devil tries His best that we'll not experience all that God wants us to have. If we just sit and relax and think that "whatever will be will be", we'll in spiritual poverty all our lives but we'll only have ourselves to blame for God have given us authority over althe power of the devil. We have to use that authority and bind all the activities of the devil against us and we'll experience victory, peace and joy that lasts.
Only the wholehearted; those who refuse to live average Christian life who decides that they must receive all that God has for them will take violently amidst all opposition.
John was the last prophet but now God speaks to us from heaven through His Son Jesus Christ. Heb 1:1-2
He compares this generation as people who are always faultfinding hypocrites who never find anything good in what the servants of God do.
‘We played wedding songs, and you didn’t dance, so we played funeral songs, and you didn’t mourn.’For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’ The Son of Man, on the other hand, feasts and drinks, and you say, ‘He’s a glutton and a drunkard, and a friend of tax collectors and other sinners!’ But wisdom is shown to be right by its results.”
Are you always finding faults with those who are serving the Lord??? Resign from that business of fault finding and starting interceding.
We also see that Jesus miracles was a call to repentance.
In the same way, the gifts God gives us are to be calling others to repentance to using our spiritual gifts for selfish reasons.
God hides His word from the wise and prudent and revealing it to babes. The problem is not wisdom and prudence because it is God who gives usbut being proud of them making us despise others. Thus we see pride in anything makes us blind and incapable of receiving revelations from God. Whatever we have, we must acknowledge that it was given to us by God and therefore we have no reason for being proud or despising others who don't have it. Child are honest and sincere and most importantly is that they are humble. These are the qualities we have to possess if our spiritual vision is to remain clear.
Come to me all who are sick and tired of their defeated lives and you will find rest. Take my yoke and Learn humility and gentleness from Christ and you will find rest for our souls.
We see the reason for our defeat, a restless life, without joy and peace is that we are proud and hard in our dealings with others. Let us learn to be humble and not make demands on others, and deal gently on them even in their weaknesses and failures. Yoke yourself to Jesus and move in the direction He is moving and in the speed He is moving.
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