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5.8.22 Mark 7:24-30 Pastor Danny Gardner · HBCWestminster

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  if you have your Bibles open, if you would, to Mark chapter seven, Mark chapter seven. And I know that's a little bit of a curve ball because we have for the last two and a half years here at Highland been studying the gospel of Luke. We were going to and scheduled to conclude our study this morning. We were going to study the last four verses, the ascension of Christ in Luke chapter 24. But rather than doing that, I'm actually pushing that to next week. I wanted to address specifically.
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  Mother's Day and to give an encouragement to our moms. And like I said, not just moms, but spiritual mothers as well who have invested in so many of us. And to follow the advice and even the command of Proverbs chapter 31, Proverbs 31 describing that godly woman actually commands us to rise up and call her blessed. And so that is what we are going to do this morning for Mother's Day. In Mark chapter 7, we come to the story of the Syrophoenician woman, the Canaanite woman who brings
• 0:55
  Her demon-oppressed daughter to Jesus, who so desperately wants her daughter to encounter Christ that she is willing to do anything on behalf of her daughter. And so, with that in mind, Mark chapter 7 and verse 24, if you're able to stand in honor of God's word, allow me to read our text, then we'll pray and begin. Mark chapter 7 and verse 24. And from there, Jesus arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon.
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  And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden. But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet. The woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. And he said to her, let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.
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  But she answered him, yes, Lord, yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs. And he said to her, for this statement, you may go your way. The demon has left your daughter. She went home, found the child lying in bed, and the demon gone. And Lord God of heaven, we thank you and we praise you today for faithful moms. May your word be preached. May your name be praised as we look to the scriptures for truth.
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  and for encouragement today. And we ask these things in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you, church. Perhaps you're familiar with the end of the life of that famous apostle Paul, who in his final days gave a charge to his young protege.
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  timothy timothy who we know was timid in his faith timothy who would one day and not long from this charge being given would eventually take the reins of that new testament church the new testament church the first generation church which was still a fledgling new testament church right on the brink of being stamped out in persecution
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  from the roman empire and he gave this statement which was to be one of the final charge charges he would ever give to his friend his traveling companion his eventual ministry successor he said in second timothy chapter 3 and verse 14 but as for you timothy young man in the faith continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed knowing from whom do you see that whom we're going to come back to that home it's an important one
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  Knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. He tells this young man, hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught. You from childhood, Timothy, have been taught the scriptures, the sacred writings, and they are able to make you wise to salvation. And here the Apostle Paul even points out,
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  That there were people who had invested in the life of this young man, Timothy. We see that from his youth, Timothy had been taught, had been trained in the scriptures. His worldview had been shaped and had been molded to conform to the standards set forth in the word of God. We see that this was not done through any formal schooling nor through any seminary. It was the work.
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  Of a whom. In the Greek, that word whom is plural. He actually says there was more than one person who invested in you, Timothy, from your childhood. More than one person faithfully taught Timothy the scriptures from his youth. Timothy from infancy was intentionally raised in the marinating liquid, if you'll allow me to call it that, the marinating liquid of God's word.
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  To whom was the Apostle Paul referring when he used that word whom and I think the answer can be found just a couple of chapters earlier the same letter second Timothy chapter 1 and verse 5 I'm reminded he says of your sincere faith a Faith that dwelt first and your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now I am sure dwells in you as well And so what the Apostle Paul says is listen Timothy you have got a spiritual heritage
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  Your faith has been passed to you and he doesn't mention dads and grandpas and uncles he mentions a mom a faithful mom and a faithful grandmother in the Lord Timothy we find was the spiritual child of two faithful women his grandma
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  His mom who no doubt church prayed for him and taught him and challenged him to live a life Pleasing to God because that is what moms and grandmas do. Amen Amen They pushed him. They prodded him They asked the tough questions. They guarded him through his adolescence. They didn't allow him to raise himself They were involved in this young man's life
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  If you wanted to put it in modern terms, it would be like mom and grandma wading with young Timothy through the waters of grammar school, crying with him through the emotional turmoil of junior high, praising his successes, punishing his errors through high school. His mom and his grandma provided for him until he was able to provide for himself.
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  And here, in 2 Timothy 1 and verse 5, they themselves receive praise from the Apostle Paul because of their many years of diligent labor. We see that this is a theme throughout the Old Testament even. Those scriptures which were taught to this young man, Timothy, is a theme praising the praiseworthy deeds of another. And we find it prominently
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  In a text which no doubt is being read across churches all over the country today, Proverbs 31. An excellent wife who can find. She is far more precious than jewels. Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come. She opens her mouth with wisdom and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. And notice here, here it is, her children.
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  rise up and call her blessed, her husband also. He praises her. Charm is deceitful, beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Today, church, we rise up and call faithful women blessed. We pause to reflect upon the faithful women in our lives, our grandmothers, our mothers, our wives, who have helped to make us who we are in the Lord.
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  We do it by studying the brief biography of this unnamed but faithful Canaanite woman who was willing to do whatever it took to bring her daughter to Jesus. And so let me ask you, moms and grandmas this morning, what are you willing to do for the sake of your child? I imagine all of you are thinking, anything. I would do anything. I would do anything, even if it wasn't my child. I would do anything for the sake of the souls.
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  of those to whom god has given me when my wife who is sitting down here was pregnant with pearson he is our firstborn he is our oldest son many of you know him he's 20 years old now and is significantly taller than either one of us now but when she was pregnant with pearson you know i was 25 years old i was nervous when she was pregnant with him i had never really been around babies before you know it wasn't something that i
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  did growing up. I'd never worked in the church nursery. I'd never babysat. In fact, I had never, before Pearson, I had never changed a diaper. In fact, when she was pregnant with Pearson, people would ask me, don't you think you should practice? No. No. I'm pretty sure I'll figure it out. I'll have plenty of practice when the time comes. That's not something I'm going to practice. I'd never really even been around a baby. I'd never...
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  really, until that moment, ever held a baby. And so I was especially nervous as the day drew nearer and nearer for her to give birth to our firstborn because I thought, honestly, and this was a real fear of mine, what if I don't like him? I mean, do parents just automatically like their kids? Because I've been around some parents who seem like they don't really like their kids, right? And then I thought, well, because I thought initially, well, shame on parents for not liking their kids. And I thought, wait a minute, what if it's not the parent's fault? Because I've also been around some kids.
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  Like, you know what? I don't blame your parents. Like, I don't like you either. And then, church, I met them. There she is. It's about 10, 11 years ago. Chase had just been born. There is Pearson, our oldest, like I said, who is now at least a foot taller than that picture. There's little Zach, who is going to be a senior in high school. You know, the first time I saw Pearson, I'm in that delivery room, you know, and I had no intention, church, of...
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  being the guy in the delivery room. I had no intention. I thought, if I could go back to the 1950s and just be in the waiting room handing out cigars, that's what I would be doing. But expectations on young dads have changed, and so I'm in the delivery room doing what I figured was the doctor's job. And I saw Pearson that very first moment, and all of these fears are running through my head and my heart, and I didn't know what to think, and I'm kind of scrambling in my soul. I saw him for the first time.
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  He was held, set into one of those little rolling tray things, still connected to mom. And I knew in that moment that I would die for him. I knew I would stop a train for him. I would jump in front of a bus for him. I knew in that moment I would take a bullet for him, no doubt. And yet, my willingness to do all of those things for my son pales in comparison to his mom's love and devotion for him.
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  I was willing to take a bullet, but I was unwilling or unable to stay awake all night holding and consoling him. Like, listen, kid, I'll take a bullet, but I'm not laying awake all night. Go to sleep. Like, right? I'm willing to jump in front of a bus. But as soon as his diaper was full, I quickly hoped and prayed that I would hear Hallie coming down the hallway. Don't worry, little buddy. Mom is coming. If our boys were ever sick.
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  Was mommy they asked for. Can I get an amen from the dads in the room? I'm like, praise God. I'm not going to teach them out of that. If for some reason they've gotten stuck disposing their disgusting dormitory couch and they need help getting it to the dump, they call me, okay? But everything that actually matters, they call mom for. Because there's nothing more powerful and effective than a mother's love for her child.
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  This morning we come to Jesus' encounter with what is called here in the ESV a Syrophoenician woman. And a statement that he makes to her, which I think probably needs a little bit of explaining. One man in our church actually came to me a number of years ago and he said, Pastor Danny, I've been reading my Bible. I'm going through the Gospel of Mark. I'm in Mark chapter 7 and I came across a text.
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  That is a difficult pill to swallow for me. He said, I believe God to be an intimate, interested, patient, kind, forgiving, long-suffering, and willing Heavenly Father. And I thought, well, yeah, that's who he is. And yet, he said, Jesus makes this kind of flippant statement to this desperate mother, and it makes him sound so calloused and heartless.
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  In fact, when I was studying this text and reading different commentators' opinion about it, some of them actually said that this text shows what they called the brutality of Jesus. And I thought, no it doesn't. Our Savior is not a brutal man. That is the worst word to use. Brutal, uncaring, heartless? I mean, I respectfully, because after all they wrote a book, I guess, I respectfully...
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  But I wholeheartedly disagree with that statement. Is God the bloodthirsty tyrant that some believe him to be? The answer, I hope, resounding in your hearts is no. Okay, if he's not bloodthirsty, if he's not a brutal savior, then what are we to make of Jesus' initial refusal to help this poor woman's daughter? Let's go to the text and notice in verse 24.
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  That it sets it up a little bit with some context. It says, and from there. From there. The there is referring to Jerusalem. Jesus had been teaching. He'd been healing in Jerusalem. Jerusalem, we know, was a hotbed of religious and political activity. At every turn, at every sermon, at every miracle, at every feeding, there were Pharisees, there were temple authorities standing with furrowed brows.
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  You can imagine these men at the back with arms crossed and angry looks, testing Jesus, making every effort to trap him in his words. The crowds at this point in Jesus' ministry were enormous, sometimes into the tens of thousands. And they were only sometimes friendly. In fact, his own apostles.
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  His 12. I mean, these are his guys, hand-selected, hand-picked. These were supposed to be the superstars. Supposedly, even those guys couldn't understand what he was saying half the time. And so when he's ministering to these crowds, healing the people, feeding the people, preaching the sermons, and then he retreats into privacy with the 12, hoping to rest for the next day, what will no doubt be a repeat.
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  of the day before in the evenings he gets questions from his apostles like you know jesus when you were sharing all of those things yeah what on earth were you talking about when you were sharing those parables what were you talking about would you explain those and so now even with his 12 he's going over these things again and again and again he's still even in the evenings teaching guiding and so in short jesus at this point
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  was exhausted and i think seeking some rest he withdraws to tyre and sidon this gentle gentile province would have been on the coast north of galilee where he grew up what is today modern day lebanon notice it continues in verse 24 from there that jerusalem he arises he went from it went away to the region of tyre inside and he just says i got to get out of town not only that i'm getting out of the country and it says he entered a house
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  he didn't want anyone to know right he wanted to remain hidden and yet he could not remain hidden seeking rest he couldn't even find a moment's quiet if you enjoy taking notes and are looking for just a very simple outline two simple points you're going to notice a canaanite woman's request and then you're going to notice the compassionate savior's response not a brutal savior the compassionate savior's
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  response and let's look at her request in verse 25 immediately hadn't even sat down yet he goes into this house he's rented it for the weekend it's his airbnb his vrbo he's looking to get away immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet now church we know that
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  Different people do different things in different ways. If you're ever able to travel and go to different countries, you'll notice that there are different cultural differences. And many of those cultural differences are wonderful. I love seeing and learning about new places. But cultural differences are also sometimes kind of funny. And what may be very acceptable in one place can be very offensive in another place. If you're old enough to remember 1992.
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  30 years ago, our president then, George H. Bush, that is George Bush Sr., was visiting Australia. And he famously, standing at the top of the stairs leading up to Air Force One as he's getting ready to jump on the jet, famously tried to give the peace sign. Anybody remember this? But he accidentally did it backward with his palm facing him. Now in the United States, this is no problem. This is two, right? This is curveball.
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  I mean, that's the U.S. I mean, that's it. But in Australia, this means peace. This is the same as showing somebody the middle finger. So he gets to the top of the steps, he turns around to all of the Australians, and he flips them all the bird on behalf of all of us. And then he gets on to Air Force One. Like this massive cultural faux pas. Like, what are you doing? I was giving him peace. No, you weren't. That was the opposite. Whatever you thought you were doing, it was the opposite.
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  20 years or so later, his son, George W. Bush, was giving a press conference, 2008. An Iraqi-born reporter stood up, took off his shoe, and threw it at him. You guys remember that one? He gets hit with a shoe. You know, you can imagine a Secret Service guy standing around like, we did not anticipate. We patted all these guys down. I had no idea he was going to get smacked with a flip-flop.
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  Takes off his shoe and throws it at him. You're like, what in the world? Is that so random? It's not random. In Arab cultures, the bottom of your shoe is horribly offensive. In fact, if you even accidentally direct the bottom of your shoe at someone while crossing your legs, and many of you now even are sitting with legs crossed like this. You sit down. In Arab cultures, you've got to be really careful doing that.
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  Because if you point the bottom of your shoe at somebody, that is offensive. That's the worst thing you can do. You're saying you deserve to be walked on. You're dirt. And so I show my shoe to you. In fact, if you guys remember when the war in Iraq was going on and just coming to a close and they strapped that massive statue. You guys remember the big statue in Baghdad of Saddam Hussein?
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  It's like a 40-foot tall statue. They grab an Abrams tank and they strap it to that thing. And with that tank, they topple this huge statue. Do you remember what all the citizens of Baghdad did? They took off their shoes and were running up to the statue and were smacking it with their shoes, right? Your reign of terror is over. They were smacking it with their shoes. And so this Iraqi-born reporter picks up his shoe and chucks it at George W. Bush in Ecuador.
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  Traditional tribal peoples will promise their sons and daughters to each other to be married based on the quality of that family's ability to produce a certain alcoholic drink called chicha. Chicha is made by chewing up bits of fruit and then spitting that gooey pulp into a container where it's allowed to eventually ferment. You wait a couple of months and then you drink.
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  One of the grosser things I have ever tried. Apparently, you promise your kids to each other in marriage by drinking one another's spit. I mean, there are cultural differences, some of which are wonderful and some of which lack wonder. Those cultural expectations create a sense of do's and don'ts, which if you're in another nation's...
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  culture must be followed if you would avoid disrespecting the people you're addressing that makes sense we know that there are cultural mores social mores expectations we look to the syrophoenician woman sometimes called the woman of great faith you observe in the text that she breaks every man-made cultural barrier that could be broken in order to bring her daughter to jesus
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  In fact, Matthew's parallel account calls her a Canaanite. It doesn't call her Syrophoenician. It says she was a Canaanite woman. This woman could have traced her lineage back several thousand years to some of the first people ever to inhabit that region. Some of the earliest archaeological civilizations on record are the Canaanites. In fact, the very earliest written alphabets were from the Canaanites and the very earliest opponents.
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  enemies of Israel were the Canaanites the Canaanites in the Old Testament are always the bad guys in fact when Joshua and the people of Israel cross over the Jordan River and they come to that very first city that they are called to dispossess and conquer and the city has massive fortified walls who was living inside the Canaanites the Canaanites
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  were the ones who lived in jericho the arch enemies of israel and this is a canaanite woman you can now imagine a canaanite woman imposing herself upon the lord and not only the lord but his apostles she had no credentials she was a gentile a pagan
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  According to Jesus' apostles, she was an outsider because she was outside the covenant of God, outside the blessings of God. In their minds, church, not only was she not saved, she couldn't be saved. She was outside of the gospel's reach, and so now she is intruding on their vacation. On top of that, she was the mother of a daughter who was demon-possessed, which in their minds meant not only is she a...
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  pagan canaanite but she must be a sinner right because only sinners would be oppressed by a demon she must have done something horrible or god would not have cursed her with this demon in their minds she should have gone to her own god you got your own deities for that stuff
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  Go to the temple of Eshmun, right? Which was their God, the Canaanite God of healing. Present your sacrifice. Do whatever it is that you pagans do. If he doesn't work, then go to the very top. Their highest deity was Baal, Baal. Beseech his mercy on behalf of your daughter, but leave Jesus alone. Instead of doing any of those things, she finds her way to a house. And not just any house, she finds her way to the house where Jesus sought to escape.
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  She was unclean, disqualified, and was now interrupting his rest. She was creating a horrific cultural faux pas. You can imagine her taking off her sandal and whacking him with it. She's breaking every barrier that could be broken. She was committing every social no-no in the book. Why? She didn't care that she was creating this awkward moment. She didn't care, did she? She didn't care. Why did she not care?
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  Because her daughter needed Jesus. And she was not going to stop until her daughter had an encounter with Jesus. Praise God for moms, for grandmas, for aunts, for spiritual giants in the faith who bring their kids and grandkids to Jesus. Timothy Keller has worded it this way. There are...
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  Cowards. Then there are regular people. Then there are heroes. And then there are moms. Moms, he says, aren't really on the spectrum from cowardice to courage because if her child is in jeopardy, a mom simply does what it takes to save them. Her normal personality is irrelevant. She will do whatever it takes. And here is such a mom. Does not care. Is willing to confront.
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  13 jewish men despite the fact that she was a canaanite gentile she was never going to give up and let me let me just encourage you moms and moms in the faith if you are one of those if you are one of those moms who has just been desperately and unceasingly bringing your kids and grandkids to jesus don't give up
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  I know that many of you may feel like you're walking that road by yourselves. Maybe you feel like you don't have the support you'd like to have at home. Maybe you feel like you're not even on the same page with your husband in this regard. You're living in a home that is spiritually one-sided. Let me encourage you, if you're a mom sitting out there and your family is here this morning, because of you, don't give up. I'm well aware that attendance on Mother's Day
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  increases in churches and attendance on Father's Day decreases in churches. Because moms, for the most part, and I even sent an email, many of you got in this regard, moms of Highland, rise up, right? It's time. Invite your kids. Invite your grandkids. They can't say no to you. It's Mother's Day. Invite them to church. You get to Father's Day next month. You're like, Dad, what do you want for Father's Day? Please don't make me go to church.
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  Right? That's typically what happens. It's the weirdest thing. I understand that that's real. And listen, ladies, if you're living in a home which is spiritually one-sided, if your family is here today because of you, don't give up. You notice the text this morning says nothing of this woman's marital status. Do you notice that? Never mentions her husband at all. For all we know, she was married. Never says she was a single mom. If that's the case, where was her husband in this moment?
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  Doesn't matter. She had taken it upon herself to bring her daughter's need before the Savior and she would leave blessed and her daughter would find healing because of it. Notice in verse 26, the woman, a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth, begged him to cast the demon out of her. She begged him. That word, that phrase, she begged him is in the present progressive tense. That means that she begged him and then kept on begging. Please.
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  Please, please, please. And now she's being set aside, cast aside, interrupted by the apostle. Leave him alone. Can't you see that he's busy? Can't you see that he's tired? I have to talk to him. Please, please. Matthew's account in verse 22 says that she cried out, saying, have mercy on me, O Lord, son of David. My daughter is severely oppressed by a demon. Please.
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  Lord Jesus, have mercy on me for the sake of my daughter. Alistair Begg, I think, words it well. He says it this way, the cries of the needy are at their apex. The very highest cry of a needy person is the cry of a mother for her child. And in the same way that our hearts break when we see parents pleading for their children, so also our Heavenly Father's heart breaks when we plead.
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  for our kids if you are a parent willing to pray for your kids if you are a grandparent willing to pay pray for your grandkids then keep in mind church those prayers are not quickly and easily cast aside god listens as we plead for the good of our kids when i speak to parents of spiritually successful grown children i still have
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  Three, technically, kids in the home. I know that my oldest is in college, but listen, you guys know, we pay for everything still, so he still counts, all right? We're still in the weeds, I mean, of parenting, and we are still praying desperately for our kids, and we're still trying to figure out how to do it right. And we'll go to parents, a generation ahead of us, whose kids are already grown, and those kids are spiritually successful. And we go to those parents, just like all of you do, and we say, listen, tell me the secret.
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  What'd you do? There's got to be a formula. What did you do? Those parents typically blush a little bit. And then they say something like, you know what? Their success is actually despite our parenting, not because of it. And then they invariably say this. We failed a lot. And then we prayed a lot. We failed a lot. We did our best. And then where we failed.
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  We've filled in all of the gaps and the cracks with prayer and successful parenting, I believe, is doing your best and then praying a lot, a lot. And whatever you can do for your child's soul is worth it.
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  Even now, if your children are already grown and they're not walking with the Lord, if there seems nothing can be done, if your loved ones are grown themselves and it's no longer under your control whether they attend church or take communion, may I encourage even you to do your best and then to pray a lot. I love how J.C. Ryle words it. He says, Wonderful as it may seem, God is pleased.
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  to do great things for souls you know god actually enjoys forgiving people he does not begrudgingly forgive like unbelievable danny's asking for forgiveness again but after all i'm the one who said 70 times seven so i guess i have to follow my own advice okay you can be forgiven again like no he thrives on redemption
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  It was his plan, right? We didn't coerce him. He was under no obligation to redeem us. He loves doing it. God is pleased, it says, to do great things for souls. And then catch this, especially when friends and relations are moved to pray for them. He loves doing it most when it's in response to prayer. After all, the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
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  Again, J.C. Ryle, the day of judgment will show that one of the greatest links in drawing some souls to God, one of the biggest reasons some souls are in heaven is because of the intercessory prayer of friends and family. Why did that kid get saved? Because he had a grandma who prayed the Canaanite woman's request. And now notice the compassionate Savior's response. And I'll let me at the outset dispel the myth that the Lord has anything but compassionate love toward this woman.
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  His response is a little bit strange, but the end shows the genuineness of his love toward her. Look down at verse 30, the very end. It says, she went home and found the child lying in bed and the demon gone. Was Jesus brutal? No, he was loving. He did what she asked. He healed her daughter. When she went home that day and finds her daughter there, the demon is gone. Her daughter is well restored and now whole. Do you think that Canaanite woman thought back just to a few hours earlier and thought,
• 34:43
  What a disrespectful man Jesus is. No! She rejoiced in the compassionate love of the Savior. Look at verse 27. Notice his response. Let the children be fed first, for it's not right to take the children's bread and to throw it to the dogs. Now what a weird thing to say, but don't forget, much may get lost in our ability to read the body language and tone of his response. In other words,
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  The text is there. What is missing is the emoji. All right? You guys all know what emojis are. Our 8 o'clock crowd didn't know so much. But you guys all use them. You know, you send a text, and in the text there's nothing about tone or body language. And so you attach to the text this weird little face, right, which is smiling, or which is crying, or which is doing that.
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  like sideways kissy face with a heart thing you know and you text it alongside it so that they'll know this was a joke don't be offended i'm joking i'm laughing i'm smiling i'm crying i'm doing whatever you attach that the emoji is missing here william barclay says we can be sure that the smile on jesus's face and the compassion in his eyes robbed the words of all insult
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  and the bitterness. It's like he's taking her aside and saying, listen, it wouldn't be right for me to take food from the kids, referring to these apostles, and give it to the dogs. And you can imagine him smiling at her and almost whispering to her, watch what the apostles are about to do. Just watch. They're going to love this, and I'm going to spin it on them. Just watch. And so he says, it wouldn't be right for me to take it from the kids and to give it to the dogs. And you can imagine all of the apostles saying, that's right! Tell her to go away!
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  She doesn't deserve to be here. Get rid of her, Jesus. Totally appropriate. And she replies with, look at verse 28. Yes, Lord. But even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs. Don't forget, Lord Jesus, that masters take great care of their dogs too. And he said to her, for this statement, you may go your way. The demon has left your daughter. In this moment, you can imagine the apostles just going.
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  Wait, what? You're not sending her away. No, I'm not sending her away. What's wrong with you? You're going to heal her daughter. Of course I'm going to heal her daughter. Because a good master not only takes care of the kids, he takes care of all those who have been entrusted to his care. His rebuke cuts right through his own apostles' prejudice. For this statement, you may go your way, the demon has left.
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  your daughter and she went home and found the child lying in bed and the demon gone jesus would ensure that not only would this woman leave blessed but that his own apostles would leave with an understanding that he came to bless the whole world today is mother's day and we rise up and call blessed women who are willing to do anything to endure anything to bring their kids
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  their grandkids, their spiritual kids to the Savior. Lord, thank you for this text. And I pray, God, that it would not fall on deaf ears. Lord, that we would see in our moms, our grandmas, our wives, those traits which are praiseworthy and we would call them blessed and praise them today. We are so thankful for the shoulders upon which we stand. And it's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.