Daily Devotion

 With Pastor Ancel Presnell

“CHRIST TO THE WORLD”

The Gospel of Jesus Christ was given to the Jews first but was not and is not to them only (Romans 1:16). Christ came to seek and save that which is lost (Luke 19:10.) Matthews Gospel is written for a Jewish Christian audience. This is evident in the Matthews Gospel. However, the Lord gives us a little insight to His call and reach to the world in Matthew 8.

Following the healing of the leper, there was a Roman Centurion guard, obviously not a Jew, and he came unto Jesus when Christ entered Capernaum, begging him to heal one of his servants who was miserably afflicted by paralysis. Jesus responded to the Centurion, “I will come and heal him.” The Centurion was reluctant to have Jesus come into his home because he felt unworthy. He asks the Lord to speak his healing into reality from where He was. Jesus healed his servant with nothing more than His word.

Christ did not come to save and heal Americans only. He does not have a tender heart toward any certain group of people over another. His Gospel, Salvation, and healing is available to all who believe. He loves the Muslim in the Middle East no more or no less than He loves the American man living in the bible belt of the south. It’s no harder for Christ to reach the spiritually dead person in Asia than it is to reach the lost man in Europe. Christ is to the world. Thank God for the universal call to all men to repent and believe the gospel. Thank God for the universal availability of Christ to the world. He does not limit Himself to any one people group. He is a mighty Savior and Healer.

Matthew 8:5—9 “⁵ And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, ⁶ And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. ⁷ And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. ⁸ The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. ⁹ For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.”

Matthew 5:13—“¹³ And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.”