Luke 9:51-53 And it came to pass, when the time was
come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to
Jerusalem, And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into
a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. And they did not receive
him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.
The Lord showed me that Jesus SET HIS FOCUS on the Higher
Purpose of the Father which for Him was going to the cross for us. Jesus stedfastly stayed focused to that purpose
and plan of the Father. Jesus sent out
messengers to make ready each place He was to come, yet some villages didn’t
want to receive Him. But a couple of the
disciples wanted to call fire down on them, but Jesus said you know not what manner
of spirit you are of.
Luke 9:54-56 And when his disciples James and John saw
this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven,
and consume them, even as Elias did?
But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know
not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy
men’s lives, but to save them. And they
went to another village.
So Jesus rebuked the disciples telling them that
the Purpose of the Father was to save man, not destroy men’s lives.
It was the Spirit of the Father abiding in Jesus,
and with the disciples, since Jesus was walking with them and had spoken in their
souls by the Spirit of the Father. They had received the Father’s word through
the Son Jesus and were washed. We see
this in John 17 and other scriptures how it is the Father in Jesus that does
the work and speaks His Word that is Spirit and Life. So the Father’s heart was to save men, and
that is why the Father had sent His only begotten Son through the miracle
conception and birth through the chosen and ordained virgin named Mary. Jesus the Son of God and Lamb of God was
about to make all things new, by taking away the sin of the world. His focus was set to accomplish the Father’s
will.
After that rebuke, Jesus instructs all that are
helping him and walking with Him to continue on to the next village.
So during our journey in the earth with the Father
and Son in us by the Holy Spirit, we are to also Set Our Focus on the Higher
Purpose of the Father. And if some
villagers don’t want to receive us then just go on to the next. Pray for them in Grace of the Lord and
continue as the Holy Spirit says to do.
Philippians 3:13-14 …but this one thing I do,
forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things
which are before. I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of
God in Christ Jesus.
Become sons with Son of God: Coheir with Jesus and
Heir of God.
John 1:11-14
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he
power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which
were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man,
but of God.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,
(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)
full of grace and truth.
Amen.
