“TODAY AT THIS TYRE AND SIDON YOU ARE WHOLE”

The Devil was bested by Christ in the Wilderness - - - but only left until an opportune

                                                                                                                                  time.

 

 

 

                When you’re not in the Word

 

                When you’re not in Prayer (in the Word)

 

                When you’re not drowning the Old Adam (in the Word of Baptism)

 

                When you’re not longing for or receiving the Supper (the Word Distributed)

 

 

 

 

The Devil is to blame for misfortune   NOT GOD

 

 

The World is to blame for sorrow NOT GOD

 

 

You, as SINNER are to be blamed for misery and suffering NOT GOD

 

 

    Adam told God He wanted to do things his way - -       So do you

 

 

    Cain murdered Abel - -    you kill your brother, sister, neighbor, friend when you

 

                                              hold grudges,  fail to put the best construction on actions

 

                                             and demand your own way

 

 

 

These are the opportune times for Satan - - then devils will vex

 

 

When one is not in Eden, b/c of sin, they will be in the wilderness

 

 

 

When one is not with Christ in the “Promised Land” of His Green Pastures, the

                                   New Israel of His Fold/Church they will be in Canaan

 

 

           A spiritual wilderness of non-belief, paganism, Pharisaism….DEVILS

 

 

 

If the Commandments do not get ones attention….

 

 

      Then death will                               Then pain will                    Then heartache will

 

 

 

      Then having ones little daughter demon possessed will.

 

 

 

You feel devils prowling about don’t you?       You feel sin crouching at your door don’t

                                                                                                                                      you?

 

 

 

  Jesus HAS departed from Heaven and come into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon

 

     i.e.  Jesus has departed from Glory to become your Savior!

 

            Jesus has come to the Tyre and Sidon (the Gentile abode) of your tumultuous life

 

 

 

 

The Woman called out “Have Mercy on me, O Lord”

 

 

      Why?                             She believed He would (she hoped… isn’t that faith, even

                                                                                                                               weak?

 

 

 

At some point the HS had given Her Jesus;  had given Her faith.    Her faith had     clamped down on the Lord.

 

 

You call out to Jesus today (as you did yesterday, and as you will tomorrow)

 

              “HAVE MERCY ON ME, O LORD”

 

 

Have mercy on me for I am grievously vexed by devils!

 

 

 

     At first Jesus did not answer the woman -  -   He exercised her faith to make it grow

                                                                              stronger,   even as He would soon

                                                                              exorcise the demon to make Satan’s

                                                                              kingdom grow weaker.

 

 

 

       At first the Lord may appear not to be answering you. 

 

 

             Jesus cares.        He loves not with feelings but with flesh        Not with earthly

                                                                                                   “benefits” but with blood

 

 

             Jesus will grant you your faithful request to be given Mercy.

 

 

 

            Jesus is the Merciful One.     He is Mercy in bodily form…. not the emotion of sympathy but the embrace of true empathy.

 

 

            Jesus doesn’t feel sorry for you.   He works for you.      He suffers for you

             Jesus died for you.

 

 

            How will he not now keep you and protect you   AND FEED YOU what’s best

 

 

             Jesus became like a solitary stalk of wheat, a lone seed crushed, ground up, destroyed and thrown to the ground…. into the ground, the tomb

 

 

 

            Jesus kneaded roughly  (whipped, slapped, punctured) like dough –

 

                    baked hellishly hot in the furnace of the Father’s righteous hatred of your

                                                                                                                         trespasses

 

 

 

             Jesus rises like the most delicious, golden, sweet buttery smelling loaf of bread

                     on Easter morn….. for you!

 

 

             For He is not your crumb fallen from the table but Your BREAD OF HEAVEN

                      placed on  your tongue at the Banquet Altar… your wedding toast…..

 

 

               A toast, a promise, a guarantee, a TESTAMENT of the even better Feast yet to

               come!

 

 

 

 

Blessed Son and Daughters… from this very hour…. your own demon possessed daughters and sons are made well, today at this Tyre and Sidon you are made well, WHOLE!

 

 

 

 

In Jesus Name