Should We Keep Praying for the Hopelessly Lost? | Matthew 21:14-16
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Should We Keep Praying for the Hopelessly Lost? | Matthew 21:14-16

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Matthew 21:14-16 - Jesus heals the lame and blind in the temple, and the priests and scribes don't like it....But find out what happens to many of them weeks later. This reminds us that no one is beyond the far reaching hands of the grace of God!

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[00:00:00] Hi everybody, welcome back to Daily Truths. Do you sometimes pray for people in your life

[00:00:13] that are far from God, that are a tough catch for the kingdom of God? I mean they resist,

[00:00:20] they make fun of Christianity, you continue to invite them to church, they rebuff and rebuke

[00:00:25] you, you pray for them but you think this is just a lost cause. There is no hope for this

[00:00:32] person, this person will never come to faith. I think I'm just going to move on to somebody

[00:00:36] else and I know there's portions of scripture that say that as a matter of fact Jesus said

[00:00:40] disciples when you go to a town and they reject you just shake the dust off your feet and

[00:00:45] move on. I understand that but should we ever give up on people and think there's

[00:00:50] no way they're ever going to come to faith? You know there are lost cause.

[00:00:54] Well we're in the book of Matthew chapter 21 and this is remember this is right on the heels of

[00:01:00] Palm Sunday and verse 14 we picked this up and the blind in the lame came to him,

[00:01:05] this is after he cleared the temple and the blind in the lame came to him in the temple

[00:01:09] and he healed them. We talked about this yesterday now verse 15 but when the chief

[00:01:14] priest in the scribe saw the wonderful things that Jesus did and the children crying out

[00:01:19] in the temple, Hosanna to the son of David they were indignant. What? And they said to him,

[00:01:28] do you hear what these are saying and Jesus said to them yes have you never read out of the mouths

[00:01:34] of infants and nursing babies? You prepared praise I'm going to talk about that passage

[00:01:40] tomorrow but think about this think about what the chief priests and the scribes had seen

[00:01:45] okay they heard Jesus come into town people saying hey Hosanna son of David blessed is he

[00:01:51] who comes in the name of the Lord then he clears the temple that ticked him off I'm sure

[00:01:55] he clears the temple the money changers and the business people now the blind are coming to him

[00:02:01] and the lame are coming him to be healed in the temple. They're seeing this they're witnessing

[00:02:06] this the chief priests and the scribes are but what's happening? They're rebuking Jesus

[00:02:11] they're telling him to be quiet they said don't you see what's happening here their eyes were blinded

[00:02:19] now obviously this is the sign of the coming of the messianic kingdom because Isaiah chapter 35

[00:02:26] written 700 years before Jesus of Nazareth ever came on the scene said this is a sign of the

[00:02:32] messianic kingdom then the eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears of the deaf and stop

[00:02:38] then shall the lame man leap like a deer and the tongue of the mute sing for joy now I gotta ask you

[00:02:47] did the chief priests and the scribes know that verse oh yeah did they know most the Old Testament

[00:02:54] by memory oh yeah and so when these things were happening even though they weren't connecting

[00:03:00] the dots or maybe they were my wife said the only reason they didn't want to recognize Jesus

[00:03:05] as Messiah is they didn't want to lose their position and and their job right because they knew

[00:03:10] if they confessed the name of Jesus they no longer could serve in the temple as the priests right

[00:03:16] so so they're thinking of their job they're thinking of their security but they're starting

[00:03:20] to think I believe and I'm gonna prove here why in just a minute they're starting to think

[00:03:25] maybe he is who he claimed to be

[00:03:32] so what happens later that week he's nailed to a cross three days later he rises from the dead

[00:03:41] and then for 40 days he appears to people many people giving undeniable evidence that he is a

[00:03:48] son of God that he has defeated death that he is the promised Messiah now listen to this this is so cool

[00:03:56] in the book of Acts chapter six verse seven this is obviously after Jesus has ascended up into heaven

[00:04:04] after Pentecost this is what it says in verse seven of Acts chapter six and the word of God

[00:04:10] continued to increase listen to this and the number the disciples multiply greatly in Jerusalem

[00:04:17] here it is and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith what did you hear that these

[00:04:29] hard-hearted stubborn resistant folks who said Jesus is not the Messiah Jesus is not the Messiah

[00:04:37] Jesus is not the Messiah then they started connecting the dots and the Holy Spirit started

[00:04:42] to work on them and then what happened they were brought to faith these hard-hearted stubborn

[00:04:48] resistant guys were brought to faith by the power of the Holy Spirit my friend there are people in

[00:04:54] your life that you think are a lost cause don't quit praying for them there's a fella in bolder

[00:05:03] that i'm working on right now who's been very resistant his wife goes to church but he does

[00:05:07] not go to church and i've talked to him a few times i've established a relationship with him i think

[00:05:13] he likes me because we talk a lot of sports and stuff but he's been very resistant i'm not going

[00:05:18] to give up praying for him and i've even told him there's going to be a day i pray that he

[00:05:24] comes to faith in Jesus and yes he's resistant but i believe as i continue to pray for him

[00:05:32] he's going to come to faith and he's going to join his wife in church there's the same thing with

[00:05:38] certain people in your life it might be a friend it might be a family member it might be someone at

[00:05:45] work it might be someone at school that is so resistant look at how resistant the leaders

[00:05:51] of the of the temple were and finally many of them many of them said okay we get it we've

[00:05:59] connected the dots he's done all this stuff in fulfillment of prophecy we're in i pray for people

[00:06:06] that you know who are so resistant that someday by the holy spirit's power they might say we're in

[00:06:15] okay let me pray for that right now your father i come before you in behalf of this fella that

[00:06:21] i'm thinking of who's been very resistant to coming to church with his wife but lord i believe

[00:06:27] your spirit is working on him and lord it's amazing to me that the chief priests and the scribes

[00:06:34] who were so resistant to the gospel even when jesus was performing miracles in their midst in

[00:06:41] the temple they still resisted but eventually they connected the dots and came to faith by

[00:06:48] the power of the holy spirit lord i pray for the very same thing for people that watch dt

[00:06:54] that have friends or family members who are so resistant to the faith encourage us by your holy

[00:07:01] spirit to continue to pray for them to not give up on them because you never do lord you continue

[00:07:07] to seek them and seek them and eventually we pray you find them and bring them into a saving

[00:07:14] relationship with your son the lord jesus christ god thank you for dt thank you for the opportunity

[00:07:21] you give me to share your word every day and make dt continue to grow but even more importantly lord

[00:07:27] may it impact people who may be wandering away from the faith re-encouraging them to come back to jesus

[00:07:35] to worship him in his temple to join the fellowship of the saints in church and be restored knowing

[00:07:42] indeed that jesus is the way the truth and the life and no one comes to the father except

[00:07:49] through him and lord i pray that for those who are very resistant to the faith who are friends of

[00:07:56] the people who are watching dt right now let it be so and let it be done to the glory of your holy

[00:08:02] and saving name you lord jesus christ in your name we pray amen and that is today's daily truth

[00:08:10] have a great day sorry i went so long eight minutes oof man sometimes i get long winded but i love

[00:08:19] sharing this word and i'm learning so much i pray you are too have a great day in the lord jesus christ

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