HE CAME UNTO HIS OWN

April 9, 2008

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MINISTRY TO GENTILES

MESSAGE OF THE KINGDOM WAS NOT GIVEN TO GENTILES.

GENTILES WERE HEALED

Matthew 15:28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman (Gentile from Canaan), great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.

JESUS HEALED A CENTURION’S SERVANT

Matthew 8:5-7,13 And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, 6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. 7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. 13 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.


	In Matthew 10:5-6 we can see the restrictions placed upon his disciples as to who they would go to. They were not to go to the Gentiles and only the suburbs of the cities of the Samaritans. They were to go to the lost or straying sheep that had left the fold. This was not the whole house of Israel. The message that they were to give pertained to the kingdom of heaven and not the kingdom on earth.
	He told the disciples to go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. The word “lost” is also translated “stray”. For a sheep to stray it had to be in the fold with the other sheep, so ownership is not the question as far as the sheep are concerned. Even the house of Israel are called “the people of God” in Luke 1:68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
	In Matthew 15:24 Jesus further affirms that he is not sent to Gentiles but to the straying sheep of the house of Israel.
	In Matthew 15:26 further light is provided when he told the Canaanite woman that was not right to give the children’s food to Gentile dogs. The woman affirms this but taking the illustration Jesus gave, she said that there would be crumbs from the table. The Lord told Abram in Genesis 12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, … and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.