Jesus was saying that He came to seek and to save all that are lost and not just the children of Israel. For the gospel and salvation is for everyone no matter what your ethnicity,
YB Elizabeth has an interesting question, but I disagree with your answer. Many native Americans, over the two thousand some years since the resurrection, continued in their tribal religions. Read John 3 16, and reconsider your position. Faith in Jesus is the only thing that will save someone, not being born a Native American, or being born Hispanic. Please keep in mind that being a NativeAmerican does not make you saved by default, and being Asian or White does not make you less capable of being saved. To say that Jesus can only save certain ethnicities is discounting His love for sinners it is not His will that any perish .
We are in the world but not of the world Jesus is trying to show us that even though we are in the world and the world is all around us we need to keep ourself from the world and keep jesus in our heARTS
This is a very important verse in the Bible.I Believe that if our worship of God is lip service it means that we do not have a relationship with Him because we do not know Him and He is not in that most important place our hearts.We need to stop giving lip service to God and begin to worship Him from our hearts,in Spirit and in truth.
The heart attitude carries Power of what I speak or confess or worship or the teachings that I give or the Gospel that I preach or the offering that I give.
I notice the only commandment almost universally denied is the only commandment denoting and honoring Jesus Christ Son of GOD as creator, and thus the only legitimate personage qualified to be our Savior.
To George Hartwell's question: I believe that this simply means if we continue in sin then we will surely die the death that is spoken of. But, if we believe in Jesus as our Lord and Savior then our sins be forgiven and we are cleansed and will not suffer this death that is mentioned but have everlasting life.
Rosalinasaysonkotapay on Matthew 15 - 10 years ago
(This is my response to Lurline's comment dated 9/15/2013 at 5:20pm on Chapter 15 about verse 4):
God is a JUST GOD. He will NOT let it happen that His words shall NOT make known unto ONE flesh before the end come...In the last days, God shall pour out His Spirit upon ALL flesh ( Acts 2:17)...To pour out His Spirit means to make known His words ( Proverbs 1:23)...This shall be done after the gospel shall be preached to ever creature ( Mark 16:15-16) in all nations ( Matthew 28:9-20)...in all the world, and then shall the end come ( Matthew 24:14).
Re: with respect to Lurlines comment on Mathew 15:4, if I may offer, I can relate to your feelings about your parents with much simalar story. It may take a bit, but if you are willing to seek God in this he will show you that ironically, you are quite Blessed. You have a wonderful opportunity to allow God to Be your True Father that provides trusting worth, delight, and the purist Love that you always never had but always desired in your being, you'll be able to recognize it, For you never had it. The Holy Spirit will Be Your Awesome Mother that will tell you a lot of what the Father is saying, Jesus, Gods Son, knows your story and will allow you to forgive your parents completely, He says, Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I Will come in to him, and Will sup with him, and he with Me. Rev: 3:20 (KJV).
Christianity is following the commands and teachings of Jesus Christ, while Churchanity is following the commands and teaching of human church leaders. When church leaders put themselves in place of God and tell their followers to obey their human teachings, rather than the spiritual truths of God from Jesus Christ, then church members are seduced into following false human doctrine and thus false religion. It is following the commands of Jesus, the Son of God, that saves our soul. Following the false beliefs of human church leaders makes our worship of God "in vain" and totally worthless in God's eyes. We must not allow blind human leaders to lead the blind. We must follow the light of the world, namely Jesus Christ and his teachings. He is our savior, not church leaders.
Jesus was truly saing that whatever that has been planted by the devil shall be aprooted, eg diseases, false teaching, failure and every thing that opposes the right....
He was sent to Israel, His people. The other nations who see the Israelites walk not according to the course of this world may follow in the light that Israel is to be to the heathen. If they do they will not perish.
In the above verse Jesus meant that people have lost focus and have turned to church doctrines made by man but rather should focus on the ultimate commandment which is the love for one another and the love of God. Amen
This bible verse means that, anything negative in you that is not from God shall be removed. E.g sicknesses, diseases, failure, poverty, barreness, troubles, oppressions, lacks, attacks etc shall be uprooted by GOD.
Let all that you do well, be to the Glory of God. Amen.
After Just reading Matthew 15, what i recieved was that, Just because we hear or see dirty things, does not mean that it's planted an evil seed in us, but that it's really what we give ourself over to; Either to say a dirty thing to someone, or think, or do, is what shows what we have agreed with and allowed to be planted in us; So it's really what we fall into agreement with, that defiles us. And what esle i recieve is no matter how distant, or how rejected we feel from God, are persistance, and determination, out of an humble heart can bring us back to God.
It like us showing him how valuable he is to us, by are never giving up to recieve him back in are lives.
My comment is on the whole of Matthew. Son of Man is mentioned some 42 times in this gospel. Son of David at least 12 times and Son of God at least 12 times. What stands out is Jesus lineage as "Son of Man" Too many believe the apostacy that Jesus is God. He was both. He inherited mortality from his human Mother Mary but gained immortality as "the wages of sin is death (Mary) As Jesus in "all points was tempted as we are, yet without sin", death had no hold on him hence he became the first fruits of the ressurrection thus showing us the way through him to God his Father and God ( John 20:17)
I do believe that we are still taking the words of God out of their contexts simply because we do approach the Bible with our minds already made up with denominational doctrines. Otherwise something written in a plain English text shows that the Lord Jesus` accepting to be worshipped proved Him to be God ( John 20:28, Revelation 1:17-18). Another truth that this passage has also displayed is that the Jews were the FIRST CHURCH ( Acts 7:38), and that the Kingdom of God belongs to them because of the �Covenants� that God had made with their father, and again what the Syrophenician woman displayed here is that through faith the Gentiles will receive mercy and be part of the Kingdom of God. It is very wrong for anybody to teach that God has taken the Kingdom away from the Jews and gave it to the Gentiles. The only way that we can harmonize the Word of God is when we begin to crosscheck what was said in one place with another; and not apply theories to the words of God. For example what the Lord Jesus said here was in agreement with John 4: 22 where He says that, salvation is of the Jews, and in the same manner the Apostle Paul had followed Him with that tone. He disapproved every theory that the Kingdom was taken from the Jews for he always said, of the Jews first then the Gentiles Romans 1:16, etc.
This verse clearly means that worshipping Jesus Christ by anybody is false. Jesus Christ gives a clear statement regarding this. And such worship is in vain. We must only worship the God whom Jesus prayed to. Hoping for a reply.
Response to Elizabeth Lee: �Jesus said that he was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel� (Mathew 15:24) Here our Lord Jesus testing her faith only. Kindly refer under mentioned verses, and there are many other verses also.
Ref. John 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. John 4:42, And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
8:12, Mathew 28:16 � 20 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Praise The Lord
@Elizabeth Lee,
This is why Christians need to study dispensational truth by Clarence Larkin. I Timothy 2:15, God�s plan of salvation for all mankind has never wavered, Ephesians 1:4, Matthew 25:34, God�s method may change, but not his plan. Jesus first purpose was the Jews and have the Jews to have the oracles of God and to evangelize the world, but the Jews rejected him as their messiah John 1:11. So the kingdom of heaven was postponed and ushered in the church age (kingdom of God). The responsibility has now been given over to the gentiles ( Ephesians 3:1-10) until the time of the gentiles become in ( Romans 11:25), at the rapture of the body of Christ. When Christ stated that it is finished on the cross of Calvary, salvation was available for mankind and extended to whosoever would invite Jesus into their heart as savior, Romans 10:9-13, I Timothy 4:10.
Sin, sicknesses, oppression, failure, fear, disappointment, depression, ... since they are not planted by the father they can be uprooted through faith in Jesus Christ.
If Jesus said that he was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel (Mathew 15:24)
How can then Jesus be for the whole humanity as he himself says he was only for Israel and how can he take all the sins of the world when he was only limited for Israel
I think what Jesus meant in that statement was that every doctering, religion or teaching that is contrary to the word of God shall be cut off at the end time.
God is a JUST GOD. He will NOT let it happen that His words shall NOT make known unto ONE flesh before the end come...In the last days, God shall pour out His Spirit upon ALL flesh ( Acts 2:17)...To pour out His Spirit means to make known His words ( Proverbs 1:23)...This shall be done after the gospel shall be preached to ever creature ( Mark 16:15-16) in all nations ( Matthew 28:9-20)...in all the world, and then shall the end come ( Matthew 24:14).
After Just reading Matthew 15, what i recieved was that, Just because we hear or see dirty things, does not mean that it's planted an evil seed in us, but that it's really what we give ourself over to; Either to say a dirty thing to someone, or think, or do, is what shows what we have agreed with and allowed to be planted in us; So it's really what we fall into agreement with, that defiles us. And what esle i recieve is no matter how distant, or how rejected we feel from God, are persistance, and determination, out of an humble heart can bring us back to God.
It like us showing him how valuable he is to us, by are never giving up to recieve him back in are lives.
Ref. John 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
John 4:42, And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
8:12, Mathew 28:16 � 20 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Praise The Lord
This is why Christians need to study dispensational truth by Clarence Larkin. I Timothy 2:15, God�s plan of salvation for all mankind has never wavered, Ephesians 1:4, Matthew 25:34, God�s method may change, but not his plan. Jesus first purpose was the Jews and have the Jews to have the oracles of God and to evangelize the world, but the Jews rejected him as their messiah John 1:11. So the kingdom of heaven was postponed and ushered in the church age (kingdom of God). The responsibility has now been given over to the gentiles ( Ephesians 3:1-10) until the time of the gentiles become in ( Romans 11:25), at the rapture of the body of Christ. When Christ stated that it is finished on the cross of Calvary, salvation was available for mankind and extended to whosoever would invite Jesus into their heart as savior, Romans 10:9-13, I Timothy 4:10.
How can then Jesus be for the whole humanity as he himself says he was only for Israel and how can he take all the sins of the world when he was only limited for Israel
Please respond to me with accurate answer