Broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Woof - Part 4\n Matthew 15:24-25\n 03\/20\/2025\n\n\n 24 He answered, ``I was sent only to the lost sheep\n of the house of Israel.''\n 25 But she came and knelt before him, saying, ``Lord,\n help me.'' (ESV)\n\n While teaching in the area around Tyre and Sidon, a\n Canaanite woman asked Jesus to cast a demon from her daughter.\n Jesus seemed to ignore her and the disciples who desired that\n Jesus send her away.\n\n He answered, ``I was sent only to the lost sheep of the\n house of Israel.'' But she came and knelt before him,\n saying, ``Lord, help me.''\n\n\n Early in John's Gospel, Jesus told a Samaritan woman,\n ``Salvation is from the Jews.''[1] Jesus was descended from\n Abraham, from the tribe of Judah, from King David. He worshiped\n in the Temple in Jerusalem and fulfilled the Law given to the\n Jews by God. His primary audience was Jewish, as were His\n disciples. Only after He was rejected by the rulers of the\n Temple, only after Pentecost, did the apostles truly reach out to\n the surrounding nations. Yes, Jesus was correct that He was sent\n to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.\n\n Yet the woman, though not Jewish, knew that even from the\n days of the Old Testament, God showed mercy on those not of\n Jewish descent. Salvation is not exclusive to the Chosen People,\n it begins with the message passed through them to the whole\n world. Thus she insisted, ``Lord, help me.''\n\n We don't know when or how the Canaanite woman came to faith\n in Jesus Christ. She calls Him ``Lord,'' confessing Him to be\n God. She calls Him the ``Son of David,'' confessing Him to be\n the Messiah. She does not take silence as answer, so she\n continually prays even when she seemingly is rebuked. After all,\n there is no other help but Jesus alone. May our Lord grant us\n faith to continue to call upon Him in every trouble Amen.\n ____________________\n\n 1. John 4:22<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 20, 2025 Broadcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turn-your-radio-on-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3043,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions\/3043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}