So Much To Do!

Do you ever feel like there are not enough hours in the day?   I realize that we are retired; but it still seems like the days go by so fast.  For those of you reading this who are not retired, I am sure that I am getting a lot of empathy right about now.  Remember that I have been there!  Done that!  

BUT

Think about it, Jesus had three short years to do His ministry here on this earth.  Then He was gone!  He had three short years, 1,095 days, just 26,280 hours to do His Father work, to show us what His Father looked like.  Then He was gone!  

BUT

He said it was "better that He go".  How can that be?  While Jesus was here on earth, He was limited by His humanness.  When He was in Jerusalem, He was not in Samaria.  When He was on one side of the Sea of Galilee, He was not on the other side.  Once He left, He sent His Holy Spirit and empowered His disciples and all His followers, to carry on His Father’s work.  They went into the whole known world.

If you take this in consideration, you begin to realize why He wanted to make everything so clear to His followers.  In Matthew 9, we have seen him heal the “man bourne by four” and heal the women “with the issue of blood”, while on His way to raise the ruler’s daughter from the dead.  That should be enough for one day!  Right?  No!  As He was leaving the little girls house, He healed “two blind men” who believed that Jesus was ABLE to heal them based on their faith, “according to your faith, be it unto you”.   Jesus told them to tell no one.  Need a little break?  Immediately a mute man possessed by the devil was brought to Him.  Maybe Jesus was too tired to heal this man!   No!  Jesus immediately cast out the demon and the man spoke!  

Now a little rest! No!

 

Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

 

Every sickness, every disease!

Then Jesus moved by compassion turned to His disciples, US; and said:

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest."

He was telling them and US, to preach the “gospel of the kingdom”. 

Did He give US, and them, a different gospel or the same gospel?  

Paul told the Galatianns:

“But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.  As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed”.

Paul was preaching the same “the gospel of the kingdom”. 

AND

“God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them”

What is that gospel?  

SAME GOSPEL - SAME RESULTS 

What was He doing while here on earth? 

How much time did Jesus spend doing the things that we typically do in church?

SAME GOSPEL?  SAME RESULTS?

Pray the Lord of the harvest that he will send forth laborers into His harvest, preaching the SAME gospel of the kingdom, getting the SAME results, healing every sickness and every disease among the people”.