People recognised Jesus and they brought all the sick and as many touched Him they were healed. They begged Him to allow them touch Him and ask many touched Him they were healed.
Here we learn that it is when people don't recognise Jesus that they don't take all their burdens to Him. When people don't recognise that Jesus cares for every detail of their lives, and loves them and also is able to help them, they will not tell him all their problems.
Is there anything that is bothering you that you have not taken to Jesus?
All you told Jesus all that you are going through at home or in your place of work?
That debt that you have not repaid, have you told Jesus? That promise that you made and haven't kept, have you brought it to Jesus?
If there is something bothering you and you are yet to take it to Jesus in prayer, it is because you still have not recognised Jesus. You don't believe that He cares, you are not convinced that He is willing and able to help you. You are not sure that He loves.
Jesus cares about everything in your life, He is able and willing to help you out of every problem and situation that you are in, He loves you and will do it for you if you trust Him.
The Scribes and Pharisees accused Jesus' disciples of breaking the tradition of elders and Jesus replied to them, asking why they broke the commandments of God to keep the traditions of elders like washing your hands before eating.
Their priorities were wrong. Are you one who is very careful that you have to wash your hands before eating but are not careful to cleanse your heart? Do you sins that you have not confessed to God and forsaken them but are very careful to wash your body everyday? Washing your body is good that you don't stink before others, but cleansing your self from sins has greater value before God for you stink before God's face if you are living before God.
You maybe very careful to match your clothes from head to the toes, and it's important; but this is more important; that you match your inner life with your outer life. The impression that you give to people on Sundays, that it be a true reflection of the inner condition of your heart.
You may be getting hurt by others and mourn for days, but do you mourn when you hurt the heart of God? Let first things be first in our lives.
Oh that we may be disturbed by only the things that disturb God!!!
Pharisees taught that one should not help their parents financially; they said that the money they would have helped their parents they have given it to God, thus in this they Dishonored their parents.
They worshipped God in their mouths but their heart were from God. In vain did they worshipped teaching as commandments the traditions of men.
Are you one of them? Do you say things to God which you don't mean in your heart? Do you say to God that you love him? If you love Him, He says keep His commandments. Jn 14:15.
Do you say to God that you surrender all, then through the week going against the voice of your conscience?
Do you insist on things that men teach not on what the bible teaches? He says all such service to Him is in vain.
Jesus said to everyone that not what one eats that defile him but what comes from their hearts and the Pharisees got offended. Do you get offended like the Pharisees when you get corrected?
Prov 6:23b REPROOFS FOR DISCIPLINE ARE THE WAY OF LIFE
Prov 9:8b-9
Reprove a wise man and he will love you. Instruct the wise, and they will be even wiser. Teach the righteous, and they will learn even more.
He said that every plant that His Father did not plant will be uprooted. He mostly understand this verse to mean only the evil things; but it's more than this.... Even every good thing or idea from our clever mind that did not originate from God will be uprooted. It is like Ishmael, he was a good child, and healthy but God rejected Him because it was originally not God's idea but a bright idea from Sarah shared to Abraham.
If a blind lead the blind, both will fall in a ditch. That is we must seek God to open our eyes.
What comes from the heart first is EVIL THOUGHTS. This is the test where many fail because no one sees but only God. It's like saying to God that the opinion men have about us, our reputation is more important than what God thinks about us. When was the last time you asked God to forgive for having evil thoughts?
He continued to list murder, sexual immorality, theft, false witnessing and blasphemies as the thins that defile men.
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