I Was Only Sent To The Lost Sheep Of Israel

May the Almighty Jesus Christ of Nazareth bless you, guide you, protect you, and deliver you from the snares of the enemy, whether it be visible or invisible. In his mighty name, may you always be protected, our beloveds. The gospel for today's liturgy service is from St. Matthew chapter 15 and verses 21 to 38, I believe inclusive.

Matthew 15 and verses 21 to 38 inclusive. The Lord Jesus moved into this place and came close to the borderline between Israel and Lebanon and more precisely close to the region of Tyre and Sidon which is in the south of Lebanon and the people of that part at the time they used to worship their god was the Baal, B-A-A-L, their god was the Baal and Baal in the biblical terminology is Satan himself. So they worshipped Satan, the people of Tyre and Sidon, that's why that part was condemned by the Almighty God himself.

This woman, her daughter was being tormented by demon since they worshipped Satan, what would Satan do to those who follow him? He torments them. So she heard, she has never ever seen the Lord Jesus, she has no idea who the true divine God is since all her life all she knew was her god was Baal, Satan. She only heard there is this great healer, great teacher that came in the land of Israel.

On this she left her region and seeked the mercy of Christ for the first time in her entire life, she's having an encounter with this person whom she has heard a great deal of. So she comes with that hope, hopefully this man will heal my daughter and release her from the bondage of Satan. So she came crying out like every concerned mother for the well-being of her children, every concerned mother for the well-being of her children.

Oh Jesus son of David have mercy on me and the Lord Jesus ignores her completely, totally. She was crying out by the looks of it so loud even the disciples of the Lord felt compassionate toward this poor woman, they came to the Lord and said Lord please relieve this woman, she's crying out can't you hear her? They were shocked in a way, I mean for the disciples to show compassion and the Lord not that goes a long way. Who is the compassionate? Who is the merciful? Isn't it God? But the Lord who is all mercy, all compassion ignored her totally and she kept on crying out have mercy on me.

And then he turns and he says to the disciples, he still is ignoring her, he's saying to the disciples I was only sent to the lost sheep of Israel. In other words she is a Canaanite, a Canaanite is a non-Israelite, she is a pagan from the pagan world. I don't recognize people that are outside the Israelite nations circle because I was sent to the lost sheep of Israel first and by the way Canaanites are the true Arabs, are the real Arabs.

Palestinians are not Arabs, they are Palestinians but the true Arabs are the Canaanites and the true Arabs come from the Gulf region, the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, all that Gulf region yeah, Qatar and normally the Canaanites they are dark skinned, they are dark skinned. Their grandfather is Kedar, the inventor of tents, first man ever to invent tents in the history of mankind is their great great great grandfather of the Canaanite world, the Arab world Kedar. So she was an Arab coming from where? South of Lebanon.

Worshipping who? Ba'al, Satan. And she's coming to the Lord seeking mercy. He says I was only sent to the lost sheep of Israel, she is not, she is not from those sheep of Israel, she is an Arab not an Israeli.

And she kept on crying out, she came and bowed before him, bowing here meaning worship. This woman all her life she worshipped Satan, only hearing about Jesus she came with a heart, with a mind, with a faith built on the rock already, she surpassed the apostles put together, she surpassed them all. She bowed before him saying from this moment you are my God, I have faith in you, if there is anyone that can heal my daughter is you, you are my God, I made you my God today.

And then the Lord says something stunning, it is not good to take the bread of the sons and throw it to the dogs. Wow. And the woman replies to the Lord and says yes master, even the dogs eat from the crumbs that fall from the tables of their masters.

And the Lord finally addresses her after this powerful statement from this Canaanite woman, yes master, even the dogs eat from the crumbs that fall from the tables of their masters. And then the Lord acknowledges her directly and says women great is your faith, let it be unto you as you say. Her daughter was healed instantaneously on the spot.

The Lord says I haven't seen such faith, I've been seeking it in the midst of the astral light world. This Canaanite woman, a Baal worshipper, a Satan worshipper, surpassed all of you Israel. So next time don't ever think you are someone special, like even today some Christians, they think they are the chosen people of God.

Who do you think you are? The Lord can embarrass you with an atheist, because maybe that atheist will surpass your faith my dear friend, just because you're a Christian you think you got faith. Humble yourself, humble yourself. Why would the Lord say it is not good to take the bread of the children or the sons and throw it to the dogs? I'm gonna draw your attention to Psalm 22.

Psalm 22 is the psalm where it begins with my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? In Aramaic, Syriac, Aramaic, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Psalm 22 verse 1, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? You will find the answer to this verse 1 in the same psalm, verses 20, 21, 22. So verses 20, 21 and 22 are the answers to verse 1 in the same psalm, Psalm 22. So the Lord is saying, it's prophecy by King David, which is the Lord talking through King David here, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? And I will read to you verse 20 to 22 and let's see what these verses say.

It says, verse 20, deliver me from the sword, one, my precious, New King James life, not quiet, accurate, my, my precious one, my precious life. In a way it is leading to the right thing, but it is my precious one. And that precious one to the Lord is his life.

Who is the Lord's precious one? The church, my beloved church, which is my life. You are my life. That's why I gave my life for you.

My precious one or my life from the power of the dog. He says, deliver me from the sword, deliver me or deliver my precious one from the power of the dog. Save me from the lion's mouth and from the horns of the wild oxen.

Four things. You see, when the Lord Jesus begins Psalm 22 with my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? When the Lord asks a question, it is a rhetorical question because the Lord knows why the father left him and forsaken him. He is not asking like the way we ask in the hope to find out the answer.

The Lord knows the answer. In fact, the Lord was born for this hour and he said it at the wedding of Cana of Galilee. When our holy and sweet mother Mary, the virgin of all virgins, when she said to her, to the Lord, they have run out of wine.

The Lord turned to her and said, what is it to you women? What is it to you and me women? My hour has not come yet. So the Lord knew why he was coming to be born. He was coming to be born to embrace the cross.

So when he was hanging on the cross, crying out my father or my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? He wasn't asking to find out the answer. He is the answer, but it's a rhetorical question. What is a rhetorical question? Rhetorical question is a question with an, with the answer in it already.

So literally the Lord was saying, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Of course you had to forsake me for the sake of four things. So my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? It should be, it should read this way. My God, my God, you had to forsake me.

You had to, because I came for the cross. Otherwise what am I doing here? My God, my God, you had to forsake me. Number one, to save me, to deliver me from the sword.

Number two, from the hands, deliver my beloved one from the hands of the dogs, from the mouth of the lion and from the horns of the wild oxen. Sword, deliver me from the sword, deliver my beloved one, which is my life, the church, from the dogs. Wow.

It is not good to take the bread of the sons and throw it to the dogs. And Psalm 22 says, deliver me. You kept, you left me hanging on the cross in order to deliver my church, my loved one from the hands of the dogs.

Why is he saying it's not good to take the bread of the sons, sons who the children of Israel are the sons of God. It's not good to take the bread from the sons of the true divine God and give it to the dogs, the pagan world, the Canaanite women. Is the Lord saying to the women, you are a dog? Of course not.

Far from the Lord to speak this kind of a language. So what was he meaning there? The dog here represents the man of the flesh, the human of the flesh, the human being that lives all earthly, the human that lives all worldly, the human that lives for the pleasure and the treasure of this world is resembled by the dog. I'll give you two characteristics of the dog which a human being does when they are totally distant from the Lord Jesus.

Number one, what does the dog do? Barks at everyone that comes and goes, keeps on barking. You say to them, I love you. You say to them, we mean well.

They don't care what intention you're coming, whether it's good or bad. All are alike. I will bark at you as long as you come my way and you go out of my way.

I will bark at you. And what is barking at the human level? Gossip. Did you know, did you know, did you know? I'm going to message my friend.

I'm going to tell him who got divorced and I'm going to tell this girl her boyfriend dumped her and he's with another one. That is barking. It's not funny.

It's not funny. It's not funny. It's not funny.

Don't we do as the dog does? What's it to me to stick my nose where it doesn't belong? Why am I so concerned about my neighbor's affairs? Why am I so concerned about people's affairs? It is none of my business what people do. This is their own private life. They want to build.

They want to destroy. They want to marry, divorce a million, zillion times. None of your business.

If anything is of your concern is pray for them. Don't gossip about them. And you know what the problem with gossiping is? Wow, King Solomon says it.

King Solomon says it in the book of Ecclesiastes. If I'm not mistaken, I'm getting old. He says all, all talking or all talks fall short.

You know what he means? All talks fall short. He's saying, King Solomon comes and talks to me about someone. Far from King Solomon.

But let's say John comes and talks to me. He says, Bishop, do you know so-and-so what they did? Oh yeah, come, come Habibi. Tell me, tell me.

I'm all ears brother. They're going to tell me the whole story If I am extremely smart, the best I could really absorb, maybe 80% of what John said to me. All talks fall short.

Because I can't take everything John said to me word for word. It's impossible. My brain cannot fathom all that.

So I've taken what? 80% of John, of John's story. And then I went to the other person and I told the other person the 80% of the story of John. The other person is also as smart as me.

They took 80% of my 80%. We're going down. By the time it gets to number 100, the whole story is totally different.

The poor guy who said it initially said, I love Rachel. Rachel got it that he hates her guts. And now Rachel gets up and goes and chops his head off.

Poor thing, he did nothing wrong. Chinese gossip. The dog barks, barks at people with good intention and at people with bad intention.

Wow. You see what gossip does? It can destroy people's even good intentions. And the other scary parts where we fall into like the dog barking all the time is if we talk about people, there is a huge percentage that we will fall into something of an extreme, extreme, extreme danger.

Judgment. We'll start judging people. And the Lord said, do not judge, lest you be judged.

Because the only one who can truly judge and fairly judge is God, is the Lord Jesus. You know why? Because the Lord, look what the Lord says here. See, sometimes we read, we don't, we don't get it.

The Lord said, don't ever make an oath. When you talk to your friend, your family, to your cousins, to your friends, don't make an oath. You either say yes, yes, or no, no.

Anything outside of yes, yes, no, no is from the devil. Do not make an oath. Where do you make an oath? Only one place it is permissible by God, court.

He said, anything outside of court, don't say, I swear to you, I'm telling you the truth. You are now falling into a grief, grief, sin called judgment. But when you go to court, whether you like it or not, you have to make an oath.

They'll ask you, are you a Christian? You say yes. Put your hand on the Bible and repeat after me. I will say the whole, the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

So help you God. Take a seat. Why do you make an oath? Because oath is associated with law.

Oath is associated with law. What is law? Law is words put together and made a law. What is the Holy Bible? The law of God.

Words put together and now they are law. And what does law do? Judge you. What does law do? Judge.

The Lord says, don't make an oath. You know why? I'll ask this. This is for every human being, not just Christians, for every human.

Can there be a human being that can stand up with head up, with head high up and say that I can deliver and I can fulfill everything I say? There will never be such a human being. Never happened in the past, nor present, nor future. Never.

There will never be a human being that can make that promise that whatever I say, I will deliver. And I guarantee you, when you are able to say everything and deliver everything you say, then you are permitted to make an oath. In this sense, only God can make an oath.

And the Bible says, and he swore and God swore on his name. Wow, he made an oath. Why? Because God is the only being that fulfills everything he says, because he's capable of it.

Since we're not, don't swear, don't make an oath. It's much bigger than you. So now, when we bark at people's affairs and at people doings and at people characters, what are we doing here? We are coming into judging those people.

I may know the person, no matter how much I know that person, I will never ever be able to know that person 100%. The husband and the wife are the closest to each other because God said, these two are no longer two, but one. There is no one closer to you than your partner in marriage.

Father and mother are distant. That's why God said, the husband, the man leaves his father and mother and be joined to his wife. It's not that he denies mom and dad.

No, he said, respect them. Don't ever deny them because if you do, you're denying God. But what he's literally saying, he's saying, your parents are not your body.

Your wife is, and you are the head to this body. There is no one closer to the head than the body. That's why the closest people to one another is the husband and the wife, the husband, the head, the wife, the body, connected together as one being, not two.

The closest person to you, whether it's be a wife or a husband, they don't even know each other 100% because there are things the husband keeps to himself, never reveals to the wife and vice versa. The only one who knows the heart of that human is Jesus Christ of Nazareth, God. Can the husband and wife misjudge each other? Yes.

Poor husband, he was trying to surprise his wife. He copped it. And she kept on nagging him, you better tell me what you're up to.

Habibti, my darling, my center link, I am surprising you. If I'm going to tell you what I'm about to do, it's going to be spoiled, ruined, gone with the wind. So leave me.

No, no, you're up to something. I know, I know your eyes is on Rachel, the neighbor's girl. Poor guys, he went to buy her a couple of tickets and surprised her a weekend away.

He copped it badly. The ticket was canceled. The trip was canceled because she misjudged him or vice versa.

The dog barks. Don't gossip. Don't stick your nose where it doesn't belong.

The other thing, which is a bit yucky, but we do it. The dog, out of all the animals, the dog eats and then vomits. I didn't want to use the word.

Throws that food that he just ate out and then goes back and eats it again. No other animal does that. Yeah, you're saying, oh, yuck, yuck, yuck.

No, no, don't worry, Habibi, we do that. Congratulations. The dog eats, throws it out and goes and eats it again.

Don't we do that? We sin and we come back and ask for forgiveness and we go and do the same sin again. We eat the same vomit. Don't we do it? It is not good to take the bread of the sons and throw it to the dogs.

So who is the dog? The worldly person, the materialistic person, the physical person, the earthly person that plays in the mud all their life. This kind of a person, the Lord Jesus says, I do not hear, I do not give an ear to such requests, to such cries, because as long as you are living for the flesh, I will never hear you because I came seeking those who are willing to be transformed by me, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, from earthly to heavenly, from physical to spiritual. I will hear the cries of those who are seeking spiritual life, not physical, filthy, ugly, dirty, earthly life.

So if you are living in the mud of this world and you come and pray to me, I will not hear you. It's not that I do not hear, but I cannot hear someone living for satan and expecting Christ to serve them. You either choose Christ or satan.

You can't live for satan and expect the Lord to be with you and for you. I want you to be my child, not a slave. I don't deal with slaves.

Slaves, I have a day to judge, but children, they live in my home and my children, I have the right to discipline every time they make a mistake. So as a Christian, if you're copying it all the time, well of course, because your heavenly father, when he comes out and sees you playing with the neighbor's children in the mud, he will come and smack you, not the neighbor's children, because parents only have the right to smack their own children, not the neighbors. If you smack the neighbors, they will call the police on you.

But when you smack your child, they will still call the police on you. Oh, what a feeling, great countries we live in the Western world, man. We need to come back to family values.

I'll be the next prime minister, introduce back family values into this nation. The whole problem begins when family is divided. That's where trouble begins.

And the Western culture is deliberate to devour the family bond. They're very, very sneaky. They've put a system to demolish family bond and leave it individualistic.

It's an individualistic driven culture where it is selfish. And when you are on your own, you're vulnerable. You're an open prayer to the lion, the lion Satan will come and devour.

But a family bond no one can break. So the Lord says, a Canaanite woman worshiping Satan, coming from south of Lebanon, Tyre and Sidon. She is worshiping Satan.

She has been living all her life till this very moment, earthly flesh in the flesh living for this world. I cannot hear such a cry coming from the flesh. I came to change the earthly people into heavenly people because I speak the language of heaven and the language of heaven is love.

Not love as they do it nowadays. In the name of love, embrace everyone. In the name of love, you embrace Satan.

If you're a Syrian, you'll understand what I'm saying. What kind of a love is this? You embrace Satan. You step on Satan.

That is called love. The love of God, the love of Christ, who is God revealed in the flesh. You step on Satan.

So my beloved, that's why the Lord ignored. He said, I'm not talking about the Canaanite. I'm talking about every human being that chooses to live worldly.

If you choose to live for the flesh only, I will not hear you. The day you come asking for my help, genuinely seeking my mercy, genuinely like this Canaanite woman did. She came genuinely seeking for my mercy.

When I put her to the test and I said, I knew from home before leaving her home in south of Lebanon, I knew what kind of a heart she has. I knew what kind of an intention she was coming seeking me. I knew because I am the God of hearts.

I read every mind and every soul and every heart. I knew exactly what kind of a woman she is, but I wanted to make her an example to you, disciples, Israelite people and the entire Israelite nation. I want to say to you next time when God calls you and makes you his own child, don't ever think you are someone special because I'll make, I'll embarrass you in front of this Canaanite woman.

Because I'll teach you this lesson for you not to forget for the rest of your life and forevermore. This pagan Satan worshiper, this Canaanite Arab woman surpasses all of you Israel's faith. Yet you think you are the only chosen people of God and everyone is a I'll show you who the rejects are.

It's you, not the Canaanite woman. And this is why the Lord, he was showing his disciples this kind of a faith I am after. It is not good to take the bread of the sons, the apostles are the sons, and throw it to the dogs, the Canaanite woman.

And the Canaanite woman immediately replied, yes master. Also dogs eat from the crumbs that fall from the tables of their masters. She was not offended by what Jesus the Lord said to her.

She was not upset, she was not angry, she did not retaliate. In fact she submitted to the Lord and said, yes Lord, all I want from you is give me a little crumb from your table and let me be that dog. I am more than happy to be a dog and next to you than a son and in the bosom of Satan.

I choose to be that dog and be next to you Lord, than to be the son and in the bosom of Satan dwelling. Wow, how this is faith. Yes Lord, so truly you said, I am a dog because I lived like a dog all my life.

I ate, I threw up and I ate it again. I sinned, I repented and I sinned again. I repented and I sinned again.

I repented and I sinned again. I am a dog but please I love to be that dog as long as I'm with you Lord. Don't let go of me.

I accept to be that dog with honor, with pleasure, with a big huge smile on my face. Stunning, stunning, stunning. What kind of a humility, what kind of a humble person is she? For the first time ever having an encounter with a stranger, with an Israelite guy, with a Jewish man coming from the tribe of Judah.

An Arab speaking to the Jewish, look what's happening. The world's problems will only cease when the world embraces Jesus. Neither Isaac nor Ishmael will do you any good.

It is the Lord Jesus who changes the heart. I'm saying it with humility. I love the Jews, I love the Palestinians but until when are we going to fight over a piece of land which will be the very grave of every one of us? We're fighting for the land which is our grave and this is our portion from this world.

You can have mansions, you can have millions and billions and trillions of dollars in your bank account, you can drive luxurious vehicles, you can have a penthouse on the hundred and something floor up high in the sky but at the end what is your portion in this entire world and from this world? The grave and that casket, when they place me in that casket, that casket has no windows, has no pockets, has no vents, it only fits me. It does not fit my chair, it does not fit nothing that I have earned throughout my life on earth. It fits me only because the Holy Bible tells me and teaches me.

It is obvious that I came from my mother's womb empty-handed and it is also obvious that I will go back to her empty-handed. My earthly mother gave birth to me with an empty hand and I went to my earthly mother into the grave empty-handed. It is the Lord that's supposed to be that land you need to inherit, not a piece of land called Jerusalem or Al-Quds or whatever.

It's the Lord. There will never be peace in any human being until you receive Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the Prince and the King of Peace and Jesus Christ got nothing to do with Christians. Jesus Christ is God revealed in the flesh.

God is for everyone. God loves everyone because He is the one who created everyone. God wants your heart.

I don't care you are Aussie, you are Arab, you're Chinese, you're American, you're Canadian, you're European, Asian, I don't care. I created you. Do you think you came out of that big bang? Well, those people have got it all wrong.

Their heads are that big bang. It is I who created everyone. I love the human being.

I created you to be my own son, my own child. In my image, according to my likeness, I created you. What are you fighting on and for? Peace of land, peace of land is nothing but a grave, a grave, a grave.

This realization only God gives and for God to give it to any human, it takes the Canaanite woman's faith built on the rock, bowed before Jesus Christ of Nazareth, saying to him just by this gesture, you are my Lord, my God, I worship you today. No more Baal, no more Satan. I want to come to you.

She came with a contrite heart. She came with a repentant soul. She came from home seeking repentance.

The Lord, He is the Christ of the repentant souls.