Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
To whom did Jesus preach His Sermon on the Mount--to His disciples or to the multitude?
Some say that God is NOT the Father of "all humanity" but only of those who are converted. All the rest are children of the devil. But Matthew 5:1 says that when Jesus saw "the multitudes, He went up into a mountain" and preached, about "your Father which is in heaven," and "after this manner pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven," etc. (chapters 6, 7).
The Muslim is told that he must make himself pure before he can come to Allah. But Jesus says, Come, and I will make you pure. He became one of us so that He might invite us to regard His Father as our Father. True, there are many who are unconverted; but why ... ? Is it because they have finally, irrevocably, determinedly rejected Christ, or for many is it because they have never understood the gospel? Are they wolves, or could they be lost sheep who haven't been "found" yet?
We know that Jesus said, "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd" (John 10:16). In those words He describes the soul-winning work of that fourth angel who "comes down from heaven, having great power; and the earth [is] lightened with his glory" (Rev. 18:1-4). That "voice" will call to those "lost sheep," "Come out of [Babylon], My people, … that ye receive not of her plagues."
A wise writer says that when Jesus was baptized and a voice was heard from heaven declaring, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased," that Voice embraced humanity (Matt. 3:17, The Desire of Ages, p. 113). If you have felt like you are an orphan outside the "family," please accept the Good News: The Father has "adopted" you "in Christ" (Eph. 1:5, 6), and He invites you to pray, "Our Father ..." You are as precious as that discouraged five-times-loser at Jacob's well when Jesus told her, "True worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him" (John 4:23).
Yes, He is seeking YOU! Come.
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: December 6, 1998.
Copyright © 2011 by Robert J. Wieland.
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