“All Power”
Aim:
“Choose to answer the call of the Lord
of the harvest.”
Introduction: Thanksgiving and Christmas are coming. The
food must be salted perfectly. Tree lights, candle lights will make your
ordinary home beautiful and festive!
The world needs salt and light. Will you labor alongside the Lord of the Harvest
to bring his message of healing and forgiveness to the lost in the world?
1-A paralytic man was brought by his friends to Jesus. He healed
the man-body and soul. "Who will you bring to the Lord of the harvest?"
2- John's disciples were confused about the need for fasting. They brought their questions to Jesus. (John had said, “He must increase and I must decrease.”)
Jesus ate with tax collectors and
sinners. (Cow illustration)
Jesus explained with the illustrations of the
·
new /old cloth
·
new wine/old wine skins
"Is there so someone you need to
love for the Lord of the Harvest?"
3-A ruler
of the synagogue had a daughter who had died. Jesus went to lay hands on her
and heal her.
On
the way a woman with an issue of blood was healed by touching the hem of his (ordinary)
garment. (He had let the Pharisees know that their broad hems were a sign of
their pride.) This woman was unclean.
"Is
there someone you need to “touch” for the Lord of the Harvest?”
4-Two
persistent blind men followed Jesus, begging him for mercy. (They knew that He
knew their needs.) He healed them.
Some
believed; some doubted.
(Jeremiah
29:13 “And you shall seek me….)
He
looked on the crowds and had compassion, for they were as sheep having no
shepherd. They were wandering not
searching. In danger of falling, getting trapped, cast down, dying of hunger/thirst.
Who
are the blind? Who need the salt and the light? Your compassion? Your prayers?
Dietrich
Bonheoffer realized that Hitler was a real danger. He joined a group to set out
to kill Hitler. Bonheoffer was caught, and died in a concentration camp.
Matthew
28:18 “All power!”
“Will
you ask the Lord of the Harvest for that passion?”
Will
you pray, “Lord here am I. Send me to be the salt and the light to a world in
need”?
Mary
Alice McDanal
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