SOME FOLKS EVEN JESUS HIMSELF COULD NOT HELP!

SOME FOLKS EVEN JESUS HIMSELF COULD NOT HELP!

As a pastor, it always grieves me when I seem to fail at reaching someone or helping someone. Some won’t listen and still others won’t apply what they hear so that it might make a difference in their lives. My calling makes it necessary to give unsolicited advice. But I console myself with the thought that there were some people that even Jesus could not help.

Like the Pharisees who had a “system” but no Savior!

Matt 23:27-28

27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

None are so incapable of being helped as those who recognize no need. Some are so enslaved by their religion that they are blocked from any real relationship with Jesus. Perhaps it is time to evaluate your religious belief system to see if it has a heart.

Like those who did not believe!

Matt 13:55-58

55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?

57 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

58 And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

Those of Jesus’ own country had perhaps seen him play stick-ball in the streets. How could this kid be the Messiah? Some can’t get past Jesus’ common humanity to see His divinity. Perhaps it’s time for you to take a closer look at Jesus.

There are those who can’t let go of their stuff!

Matt 19:21-22

21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

John Wesley, commenting on pre-awakened America, said: “A grand hindrance to the progress of religion was the immense trade of America, greater in proportion than even that of the mother-country. It brought in an immense flow of wealth; which was also continually increasing. Hence both merchants and tradesmen of various kinds accumulated money without end, and rose from indigence to opulent fortunes, quicker than any could do in Europe. Riches poured in upon them as a flood, and treasures were heaped up as the sand of the sea. And hence naturally arose unbounded plenty of all the necessaries, conveniences, yea, and superfluities, of life.

          Now this complication of pride, luxury, sloth, and wantonness, naturally arising from vast wealth and plenty, was the grand hindrance to the spreading of true religion through the cities of North-America.”

So Jesus was sometimes forced to let some people wander off unsaved and unaided. Certainly Jesus was no failure but there were some that even Jesus could not help.

Prov 23:26

26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

Dear Lord, help me to not be so proud of my religious “system” as to miss the Savior. Help me never to be so familiar with you that I forget that you are the Lord of Glory. Help me to never have my pockets so full of stuff that I can not rise to heavenly places. AMEN