Just a scripture that is on my mind for today.
“But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.”
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Main note here with this study, God has an order. It is the main working in any and all circumstance to include “Our daily bread” and the true believers agree wholly in His will being first and foremost above all our desires.
His will is the important issue.
Matthew 6:33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Now to the study.
The Canaanite Woman
John 8:29
And He that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone: For I do always those things that please Him.
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Matthew 15:21
21 Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
Is Jesus going to this place by His choosing or by accident or by purpose?
He is leaving Jewish territory.
What He came to do, there should be no question to His reason, His time, His season, and His purpose. He is there to do the will of His Father.
If nothing else is learned of Jesus’ way in this scripture, He is a God of order.
He has a plan and purpose…..ultimately, the Kingdom come,
Redemption!
His order is from His Father….not just giving to us..He gives in His order.
This method Jesus uses in this ministering to this Canaanite , is hard for the Americanized Professing Church to accept as their teachings are to their various doctrines created by their denominational beliefs.
It is not as the most of the TV preachers display of Jesus and His methods here. His method just does not fit most doctrines, and rightly so.
While He was in Gennesaret the religious order disputed with him about and operating ceremonial uncleanness. Their perception of Jesus kept them from seeing the Son of God, as manner of many still do today. Doctrine matters.
A note here should be seen, this marks how the Jewish authorities play their role in the rejection of the Messiah by the religious and the Jewish people as a whole, and a turning to the Gentiles which signals a Gentile focus and not just accidental beneficiaries. Learn there is an order saints….all in order.
Each person has their own expectation of Messiah. It must be a right expectation. It must be truth.
The Canaanite people knew who God was.
Rahab……..Joshua 2
9 And she said unto the men, I know that the Lord hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
10 For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
11 And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the Lord, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:
This heathern people knew and ask the God of Israel, for the benefits given to Israel. This was not news to this woman. Our enemies know much of our God….and His mercy was available to Rahab….the Canaanite woman.
Rahab submitted to God’s order just as this Canaanite woman. These understand the order of God or plan and purpose comes first.
Above all dear saints of God, learn God’s way and order.
22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan (a Cannanite woman not in her land) came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
Mercy is what she ask.
Not personal things is Her desire……not money, fame, more things.
Her daughter is her desire.
She expresses who He is.
O Lord……She addressees Him respecting who He was….. three times she addresses him Lord….. This shows the Lord, she is ubmissive…..
I submit to you Lord, I submit to your plan, I submit to your purpose.
She understood what Jesus was there to do.
She also addresses Him as the Son of David……the term of Messianic .. Promises of David to Abraham.
She saw what most of her day could not see.
She understands He is Messiah. What the Holy Prophets prophesies of Him. She understands His mission and His diety.
But she has a daughter with a need, and Jesus has the power and desire to set her daughter free of this condition even if she does not fit in His purpose, but yet mercy fits her in.
This daughter is possessed with an evil demon….
Look how the demons have created havoc in the lives of people in the
Gospels…..
We read of examples of demons throwing people into the fires, causing those posessed to run naked in the cemeteries, and all manner of destruction to the soul of a person.
She was grievously vexed, possessed…..unredeemable? The only answer was in one that was sent to redeem.
She knew this God…She knew her answer was in this Messiah.
23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
He ignores her…..
How you react…to the seemingly silence of God matters. Yes sometimes God is silent.
How do we react when we pray and hear nothing?
Her attitude was better than His disciples
His disciples…
Jesus is teaching them and their reaction is not even that of this Canaanite woman.
They had seen Him heal all manner before, but they have no concern of this woman,…. Or her daughter.
I wonder if she follows each one begging them to speak to the master, who spoke not a word to her? They had no heart to do anything for her.
Send her away……was their response. We do not want to fool with this need. Somethings it is necessary for God to get us to a place, He can speak to us......and in His order, He does speak.
24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel
To whom did Our Lord Jesus say He was sent?
ONLY to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Jesus, in theory, was Israel’s Savior because the Lord’s purpose in sending Christ was to solve the deadly problem of sin among His chosen and set apart a people, Israel.
On our timeline we use almost daily, we show how for 2000 years, God dealt with all men, but found one man, Abraham to raise out of Him a people, that would be used to bring redemption to the world.
The very nation He was sent to. The lost sheep of the house of Israel.
In fact in Matthew 10 Jesus explicitly instructed the 12 Disciples to go ONLY to the house of Israel with the Gospel and to avoid gentiles.
Much later, of course, we find the risen Jesus confront Paul on the road to Damascus and instruct him that the time has come to take the Gospel to the gentile world
Romans 15:8-12
8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
9 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.
10 And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.
11 And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people.
12 And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.
This Canaanite woman is not Jewish…..but that is not an issue with Messiah…..He has an order…..His purpose will be fulfilled while yet meeting the need of every cry of any child seeking Him. He never turns away a seeking heart.
Are we getting it? God has an order. Until we learn that, we have conflicts in scriptures, in our beliefs, but there is the right order, and this woman has it.
Did she have a revelation? She at least had a knowing of who this Messiah is and what He has come to do……an unshakable knowing.
25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
She understands His order. His purpose….His disciples forgot them.
Do not expect those around you to understand God’s order….
Paul warned us of the church of the end times. At best they are lukewarm as a whole…..Only the true believers will understand……
This Canaanite woman sees past the supposed non answer from Messiah.
She has in her heart, that this does not exclude her, as she in excitement, a deep knowing He will show to all who could see it, the nation of Israel, was the source of gentile redemption, in it’s perfect order. He would meet her need.
A tone of hope is in her….see the next verses.
26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
It is not God’s will for me to leave Israel and go to the Gentiles was His teaching to those listening. However, more is to come.
He did not call her a dog….as many teach today….My order is being worked. He lets those who can hear it, my order is to the Jew, and then to the gentile…..
God’s order comes first…….but the gentile time is coming and they too will be handled……
First the children get fed, and then you, but you will get fed. I will feed those at the table and those around the table. My order is full and complete…
God got her attention by what he says and see how she handles this response matters.
27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
I got the truth of this Lord……I will get fed in my order…..the children eat first but then the dogs eat…..not only eat but satisfied.
The blessing of Israel also feeds the gentiles…….God has an order, she knew it…..do we?
This Canaanite woman shows in action, I know you have a way for me to see my daughter made whole…
28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
She was faithful and got what she wanted. God’s leftovers are not inferior…they are kingdom fulfillment and a total supply of need. The crumbs have full potential. They filled the dogs.
Redemption is final and full in her life..Read the scriptures…see the truth…..as she did…..
The Canaanites knew in the day of Rahab the power of the God of Israel…..and that same God was working here. It is amazing how these under the table could have that much faith…..
Jesus did not say anything to this daughter, did not lay hands on her…..He did not address anything to the demon possessed daughter……nor the demon…….He simply performed the Father’s will. Do we get it?
There is an order, and in that order, is the answer we seek when we seek God’s will.
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