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NO MEN’S or WOMEN’S STUDY THIS WEEK Maryanne - S iberia m etromissions brasil 2008 06.10 – 06.20 CC Philly possibility (training). Matthew 15:21-28 “Crumbs From His Table” INTRODUCTION - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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NO MEN’S or WOMEN’S STUDY THIS WEEK

Maryanne - Siberiametromissions brasil 200806.10 – 06.20CC Philly possibility (training)

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Matthew 15:21-28 “Crumbs From His Table”

INTRODUCTIONWe left off last week with the scribes and Pharisees making a 70 mile/8 day journey from Jerusalem to straighten out this “Jesus of Nazareth.”

REMEMBER - They accused Jesus, not of violating the Law of God, but for having violated the “traditions of the elders.”

By this time they considered the traditions of their elders to be weightier than that words of the OT Scriptures.

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REMEMBER - Jesus defined the hypocrite7Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, 8This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. 9But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

1.) Hypocrisy is essentially someone living in a religious framework but their heart is not FOR God and is far FROM God.2.) The hypocrite replaces the Word of God for the words of men

The result is WORTHLESS WORSHIP!

Worship without truth is NOT worship!

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REMEMBER - Jesus made it unmistakably clear that sin is not a matter of externals.

The origin of sin is in the heart.17Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? 18But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. 19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: 20These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

BECAUSE sin is a matter of the heart, there is NO external ritual or religious activity that can make you right before God… NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD…

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We need to BEWARE of becoming “professional Christians.”

1.) Never let our Christianity become rote or routine – but always a matter of our hearts being in love with Jesus.

2.) Always see our relationship with the Lord as more than merely our external activities or actions.

Our hearts are wrong LONG BEFORE our external actions are wrong.

3.) Always let the Holy Spirit speak to our hearts from out of the Word of God. Let Him inspect our hearts with the Word.

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KEY OBSERVATION: When we get to verse 21 He departs from the area of Galilee.

21Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.

KEY INSIGHT: It’s less than a year before His crucifixion.

So they now leave the borders of Israel and go up into Tyre and Sidon (Lebanon of today) - considered Gentile territory.

Considered unclean by religious Jews.

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WOULD YOU NOTE WITH ME that Jesus leaves the borders of Israel.

Jesus crossing over borders.

CRUCIAL APPLICATION: God wants us to think outside of the boundaries and borders of our world and our world view!

God wants to place you and me in places that we never thought of so that we might reach people who need Jesus.

I’m glad that He crossed borders to come into my world - My little catholic world - And He used an old Catholic friend to lead me to faith in Jesus.

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Aren’t you glad that Jesus crosses over borders - that He isn’t limited to just one kind of person or one group of people?

I wouldn’t be here today if Jesus limited His saving grace only to the moral church-goer!

Jesus is STILL into crossing borders – Let’s follow Him there to see what

Borders of Personal comfort he might want us to cross

Social/Economic borders He might want us to cross

Cultural borders he might want us to cross’

Geographical borders

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22And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him,

KEY INSIGHT: Mark’s account

Mark 7:24 And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.

From other accounts we know He could be hidden.

Jn.8:59 “Then they took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.”

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BUT - On this day He Could Not be hidden.

KEY QUESTION: Why?

There was a Woman outside in Agony and in Need…. Possessing genuine faith.

To such hearts Jesus can NOT not be hidden!

He will “hide” Himself from Intellectual Pride and Opposition BUT NEVER from a broken… needy… believing heart!

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KEY INSIGHT: Mark 7:25 tells us WHY she came to Jesus

He says that she had heard of him

LESSON for us – TELL people about Jesus. Though they might not respond on first hearing of Him…. WHEN they are BROKEN and NEEDY… they will KNOW where to run!

Now she’s heard that He’s crossed the border…. “Surely He must be gracious to come into Gentile territory.

22 saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.

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KEY INSIGHT: Matthew – who is writing to the Jew - gives us an interesting detail.

This Gentile woman said, “Thou son of David have mercy on me.”

This Gentile woman recognized that Jesus is the Messiah of Israel!

I believe that Matthew records this as a deliberate jab at the religious establishment of Israel!REMEMBER - Matthew – was a Levite – was burned out on the hypocrisy of the religious system

So burned out that he opted out of his privilege of entering the priesthood of Israel and chose the despised profession of tax collector in Israel.

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Matthew makes it a point to record this event to point out how spiritually blind the religious leaders of Israel were -

In essence he is saying –

You know, you guys are supposed to be the spiritually elite in Israel - but here is this Gentile woman and she knows something about Jesus that you DON’T know, and REFUSE to know.

Not only a Gentile…. But living in the area of Syria no the less (the long time nemesis of Israel) and she recognizes that Jesus is the Messiah.

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my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. WE MUST BEAR IN MIND the moral/spiritual climate that He walked into

The Syro-Phoenicians were involved in idolatry.

Idolatry is not only demonic - but in that time it almost always involved gross sexually immorality.

The Satanic forces behind their idolatry no doubt placed her young daughter in the position of being actually possessed with a demon.

KEY INSIGHT: In speaking of her daughter she uses the term - ‘my little daughter.’

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I still think of my married 28 year old daughter as “my little girl.”

There is such TENDERNESS here… Such PATHOSThis a woman begging…. The original language tells us she was incessantly begging Jesus

Which makes the response of Jesus STRIKING!

A BIT OF A PRE-QUEL here –

His 1st response - Was, No response! (here’s the Living Word of God, not answering a word!)

His 2nd Response - Still wasn’t to her, but to his Disciples!

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His 3rd response - He finally speaks to her, but it sounds demeaning! 23But He answered her not a word.CRUCIAL INSIGHT: His Silence is not a refusal.

Jesus ALWAYS had a definite reason and purpose behind every action and every word… or lack thereof! 

23 “But He answered her not a word. And His disciples came and besought Him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us (keeps yelling about it).” 

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The theme song of this band of men.  

This is the same song they sang for the multitude that got fed.

From what Jesus says next it appears that they said – Give her what she wants and send her away!

24But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.Jesus is definitely going to demonstrate and extend mercy to this woman.

But Jesus has LEFT Israel and is now in Gentile territory.

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He wants the disciples to understand that He’s not forsaking His mission as the Messiah of Israel.

Jesus wants these guys to see that the process will be to the Jew first then to the Gentile.

THAT was the DIVINE agenda… the DIVINE strategy

Acts 1:8 ….. ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.  

Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

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25Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.

BEARING IN MIND this woman’s desperation…. FOLLOW THIS!

FIRST – This gentile comes to Jesus and addresses Him as the promised Messiah of Israel.

Jesus responds with… NO response!

HER response to His NO response…..

She comes and WORSHIPS Jesus!!

The religious leaders of Israel REJECTED Jesus as Messiah….

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The scribes and the Pharisees came to condemn and criticize….

But this gentile woman WORSHIPS Jesus!!

In response to her worship Jesus RESPONDS -

26But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.

KEY INSIGHT: The answers to our Bible difficulties are quite often resolved by means of

Original language….. Translation….. And/or insights into the historical and cultural background.

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This is such an instance –

The apparent harshness of Jesus is explained away when understood in the light of the historical and cultural context –

specifically concerning puppies and chow!

CULTURAL/LINGUISTIC INSIGHT: The Jews didn’t (and still don’t) have curse words like we do

So the Jews would use the saying Gentile dog.THAT insulting word dog meant the large scavenger dog in the streets.

They didn’t keep them as pets.

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BUT - The word that Jesus uses here is is a different word – It is the word that means ‘little puppies.’

It was a reference to the puppies that live in the house.

These puppies were more a less just one step down the food chain from the children!

HERE’S THE PICTURE - They family would eat their dinner and when they were done eating they would wipe their hands on the bread –

because they didn’t have napkins

and throw it on the floor for the house pet.

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BUT - If there was a shortage of food they would never think of giving that last little crust to the puppies when there wasn’t enough food for the children in the house to eat.

NOTICE the FINAL RESPONSE of this woman following the statement that Jesus has just made!27And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.KEY POINT: Jesus isn’t thinking of the woman (and Gentiles) as scavenger dogs - He’s thinking of them as puppies!

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Jesus is basically saying –

“I want to feed the house of Israel

You’ll get yours but Let the children (of Israel) first be filled

And she was good with that!

I WONDER what she was seeing in His face and in His eyes?These are things that aren’t recorded here As hard as these words of Jesus sound to us when we read it – there must have no doubt been a look in Jesus’ eye that said something else –

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Because she didn’t go away. She knew 2 things –

1.) That she was a Gentile

2.) That He was the Jewish Messiah.

But she HAD to have seen something in His eyes as He was dealing with her that CAUSED her to RESPOND with confidence……

“Alright I’ll take the crumbs.”

“Lord, just the leftovers will do for me.”

“I’ll just take what falls on the floor.”

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CRUCIAL APPLICATION: I believe that with the eye of faith we have all seen that look of Jesus.

The Bible tells us HOW it is that we came to TRUST our hearts and lives to Jesus

2 Cor 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. There was no VISIBLE view of the FACE of Jesus when the light of the knowledge of the glory of God shined in our hearts.

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The Bible says that Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever!

I believe that in a very real way… not physical but in a very real spiritual way….

Every follower of Jesus saw that same look in the FACE of Jesus Christ….that this desperate woman saw

When she admitted that at best she deserved “puppy chow”

A look in the FACE of Jesus that made her so BOLD

That look in the FACE of Jesus that said - “Trust me!”

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AND THE RESPONSE OF JESUS to her response28Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. Jesus is amazed at her faith!

Her faith was great because

She Persisted in Asking and Trusting when everything seemed against her!

Race…. Gender

It seemed the Disciples were against her

It seemed Jesus’ word’s were against her

Yet ALL of these things made her persist in asking!

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There is only ONE other time… ONE other person in the Gospel where Jesus notes the greatness of faith…..It was the faith exercised by another non-Jewish person…. a Roman centurion.

INTERESTING – Both were Gentiles…. And both miracles were done at a distance.

An awesome picture of the saving power of the Gospel coming to the non-Jewish world that was afar off, until Calvary!

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KEY OBSERVATION: She calls Jesus Lord. Romans 10:9-13 9that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” ◙ 12For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. 13For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” ◙

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I bet He smiled when He looked at her and said…NKJV 28…… Let it be to you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.

Mark 7:30 KJV And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.

I think she got more than the crumbs, don’t you?

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Mark says, when she came to Jesus she fell at His feet (7:25)!

QUOTE: “The Demon Drove her to Jesus, so she Parked at His feet!”

She believed Him and went. She walks of the pages of Scripture to find the demon gone and her daughter sleeping and at rest.

How long since she had seen that? We’ll see this woman in heaven.

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TWO THINGS IN CLOSING 1.) She is a great EXAMPLE of what it looks like to COME to Jesus….

She has HEARD from somewhere…

We know from Matthew that the NEWS of Jesus has BLAZED out from Galilee all the way to Syria and Lebanon

SOMEONE touched by Jesus has TOLD this woman about Jesus.

REMEMBER – Jesus CROSSED borders to MEET her in her desperation!

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When she comes to Jesus she doesn’t question Him

NO demands…. NOTHING that even resembles – “But I deserve”

No option! No plan “B” for her desperation!

Just keeps PRESSING in… KEEPS asking!

QUOTE: Spurgeon – “When the door is shut in her face, she knocks at it, and when Christ calls her “Dog”, she only picks up what Christ has said, as a good dog will pick up his master’s stick, and bring it right to his feet.”

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Her 1st plea was trying to approach Jesus on Jewish ground!

BUT - Her 2nd plea struck… not A chord … but the chord in His heart

She simply came as a sinner needing help!

“Lord, Help Me!”

This was her “911”!

2.)The importance of coming to Jesus for our kids.

KEY QUESTION: Am I as desperate as this woman to bring my kids to Christ?

I need to be.

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I give them all kinds of things.

There isn’t anything greater that I can give them

If you have a teenager you may have often wondered

“What in the world has gotten in to them?”

“What in the world are they thinking?”

“What has possessed them?”

Jesus IS the same, yesterday, today and forever!Do like this woman –

Go to Jesus for them!

He’s the same… having mercy on us everyday.