Matthew Chapter 9<\/p>\n
Faith and forgiveness is the theme of this chapter.\u00a0 Maybe it should be worded forgiveness and faith.\u00a0 Jesus starts the chapter by\u00a0forgiving\u00a0<\/span><\/b>a man who is a paralytic.\u00a0 Don\u2019t ever diminish the miracle of redemption.\u00a0 For us to be spiritually awakened by the miraculous power of God\u2019s resurrection should continuously be breath taking.\u00a0 I am saved! This should be our joyous cry each morning, my sins are forgiven.\u00a0 Dr. R.O. Woodworth, a great man of God, use to enter class almost every morning singing, \u201cI just heard from heaven and this one thing I know my sins have been forgiven they are washed white as snow.\u201d\u00a0 Don\u2019t get over the wondrous transformation by God\u2019s Spirit which has baptized us into God\u2019s family.<\/p>\n Jesus calls Matthew in this chapter and all of Matthew\u2019s friends join him for dinner.\u00a0 The amazing thing is Matthew brought Jesus, and Jesus\u2019 purpose is to seek and to save these tax collectors.\u00a0 Don\u2019t make this into anything but Matthew loving Jesus enough that he brings his friends to meet the Lord.\u00a0 When you first come to Christ you have more lost friends and you need to bring them to Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This Sunday\u00a0we are giving a clear presentation of the gospel through a Billy Graham video, bring someone with you.\u00a0 The chapter ends with seeing a multitude of people that need Jesus.\u00a0 Jesus asks His disciples to pray for workers.\u00a0 Here is the beauty of this prayer; if we will pray for workers and become a worker we will answer our prayer by producing workers.\u00a0\u00a0 What do I mean?\u00a0 If you become a worker and win one this year and help that worker to win one next year we double in people and workers.\u00a0 Yes it has to be a work of God, but do not overlook YOU are a work of God.<\/p>\n Faith is produced through a solid belief in who Christ is and what He has said.\u00a0 The strong doctrinal faith produces a stronger actionable faith.\u00a0 In reading this chapter you see \u201ctheir faith\u201d when dealing with the paralytic man and \u201caccording to your faith\u201d when dealing with the blind man.\u00a0 Faith is an action word that is produced by truth.\u00a0 Do you believe?\u00a0 Maybe your faith is weak and you need their faith.\u00a0 The church is built by Christ to have a joining effect that transforms and strengthens us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}