What does Matthew 9:35-38 mean?
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The truth is we should pray for workers for the harvest even now. How white are the fields in your neighborhood?
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There's more than one way to look at it...\n\nFirst, "generation" doesnt always mean a 40 year generation but also means "race" or "people" Jesus may have meant the Hebrew race.\n\nSecond, He says "Will see the Son of Man coming in His Kingdom" John saw this in the Revelation.\n\nIn the span of eternity, is a couple thousand years a short time or long? "Quickly" is relative.
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Is the one your'e thinking of perhaps Romans 5:17-19?\n\n"17 For if by the trespass of the one [man] death ruled as king through that one, much more will those who receive the abundance of the undeserved kindness and of the free gift of righteousness rule as kings in life through the one [person], Jesus Christ.\n\n18 So, then, as through one trespass the result to men of all sorts was condemnation, likewise also through one act of justification the result to men of all sorts is a declaring of them righteous for life. 19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man many were constituted sinners, likewise also through the obedience of the one [person] many will be constituted righteous. "
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"Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost". Acts 2:38\n \nNotice it says Peter told them to be baptized "in the name of Jesus Christ."  This is right after holy spirit was given on the Day of Pentecost, ten days after Jesus ascended into heaven. \n\n\n"And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days." Acts 10:48\n \n\nNotice that Peter commanded the household of Cornelius "to be baptized in the name of the Lord."  Apparently, no one's reminded him what Jesus said, since Acts 2. \n\n\n"When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus." Acts 19:5\n \nThese were the believers in Ephesus.  Notice it says, "they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus." \n\n\n"For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ." Galatians 3:27\n\nNotice this is talking to those of us who "have been baptized into Christ". \n\nAccording to the evidence I've check and gathered, it's probable that Jesus and the original Matthew 28:18-20" really said, \n\nAll authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.  Go, therefore, disciple all the nations in my name, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you.  And lo, I am with you all the days until the completion of the age. \n\nIt appears that Jesus wasn't talking about baptizing at all, but rather, making disciples of all the nations in his name.\n\nThe oldest manuscripts in existence today that contain this section of Matthew say, "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit".  But, they're from the fourth century, a time when trinity was becoming an established doctrine of the Christian church.  There are only two such fourth century manuscripts, and none older.  However, They still have earlier writings that quote Matthew 28:19.\n\nJesus did not tell the disciples to baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in Matthew 28:19.  In fact, he wasn't talking about baptism at all.  Rather, he commanded them to go, disciple all the nations in his name, teaching them to observe all of his commandments.  And then he promised them that he would be with them until the end of the age.
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matt 5:27-28\n\n "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.' But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
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It's not to be interpreted in the way anyone or everyone thinks. It means exactly what it says.\n\nThe builders rejected Jesus, the capstone. Therefore, they rejected salvation, because it is impossible to be saved any other way except through Jesus.
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Matthew 27:56\nMark 15:40\nLuke 8:2
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That's from Matthew 26:52:\n\n52 But Jesus said to him, “Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword."\n\nPeace.
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ACTS 5:38,39\n "And so under the present circumstances, I say to you, Do not meddle with these men, but let them alone;(because if this scheme or this work is from men, it will be overthrown; 39 but if it is from God, you will not be able to overthrow them;)\nThat is all that needs to be said.\n\n\n\nUmmm for your information  Dixie...we DO believe that Jesus is the Messiah! You are so misinformed!! \n\nAnd we ARE Christians...christian means "christ like" and we are continuing in Jesus Christ footsteps preaching and teaching the good news of his Fathers kingdom as the only hope for mankind, just like he did.\n\nEvbillysunday...we do NOT deny Jesus Christ at all. He is Gods Son, he is the Messiah, he is perfect. He is head over the Christian Congregation.
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It is true now and read below to soak in the full meaning.\n\n"I hope the seriousness of these verses will strike all of us to the very marrow of our being. Israel had rejected the word of God and had gone after idols. They had fallen into a depth of iniquity that has rarely been equaled in human history. God had sent various judgments upon them but they had not repented.\n\nWhen Amos began to cry out against the sin of Israel, he was rejected. The religious and political leaders tried to send him packing. Amos 7:12-13 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court. This is the king’s chapel. This is where the king goes to church and you ought to bridle your tongue, round the corners and water down what you say in this place. Do you want to embarrass the king? Go down into the land of Judah, that unsophisticated portion of the nation, and do your preaching against sin down there. We are a gentle people here. We pride ourselves in our liberal attitude. Leave us alone here in the kings court. \n\nDid God have Amos tone down his message? Absolutely not! God warns them of the worst famine yet, a famine of not hearing the word of God. No judgment brought upon a nation can equal this kind of judgment. The day would come when they would run to and fro in the land seeking the word of God and could not find it. They would go from sea to sea and from the north to the east seeking the word of God and would not find it. Their young people would faint from thirst, a thirst to hear the word of God expounded but to no avail.\n\nThere are several things that are suggested in this text to which I would call your careful and sober attention.\n\nWE SHOULD REMEMBER THAT\n\nFAMINE WAS NO STRANGER TO ISRAEL\n\nFamine was no stranger to Israel. They knew what it was to run hither and yon seeking food. They had the history of their nation written in the five books of Moses and knew there had been famine before. \n\nWe read of a famine in the land in the early days of Abraham. Genesis 12:10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land. This was bad enough that Abram had to leave the land and go down into the land of Egypt for the duration of the dearth.\n\nIn the days of Isaac there was another serious famine. Genesis 26:1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. Instead of Egypt, Isaac went to the Philistines for sustenance during the famine.\n\nThen there was the famine in the days of Jacob and Joseph which drove Jacob and his family to Egypt to live. The account of this famine and circumstances in it take up several chapters in Genesis beginning with chapter 41.\n\nThis was a seven year famine. Genesis 41:30 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land. One can only imagine the suffering. This famine was very serious. Seven years in duration and the people suffered greatly in all the lands. Genesis 41:57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands. Seven months would be a long time to go without rain. I can’t imagine the effects of seven years.\n\nThis famine was not just in that particular part of the world; it extended over all the known inhabited earth. Genesis 41:56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt. Even Egypt suffered in the latter years of the famine. Genesis 47:13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of E
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Scriptural references are needed to explain:\n\nRomans 8:29-30\n[29] For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.  [30]  And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.  (NIV)\n\nHebrews 10:35-39\n[35]  So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.  [36]  You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.  [37]  For in just a very little while, "He who is coming will come and will not delay.  [38]  But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him."  [39]  But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved.  (NIV)\n\nThere are those who shrink back… and they will be destroyed.  Nonetheless, your own soul tells you whether you are one of them or not.  Do you desire to shrink back?  Or did God call you?  There are Christians who choose Christ… and there are Christians who are called.\n\nAs in Jesus’ own words:\n\nJohn 6:66-71\n[66]  From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.  [67]  "You do not want to leave too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve.  [68] Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. [69]  We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God."  [70] Then Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!"  [71] (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.)  (NIV)\n\nThere are numerous passages that I can refer too.  Basically, predestination and the human being’s freewill are tied together and are complicated. It depends whether you delight in wickedness or whether you hold on to the truth.  If a certain practice that you partake in becomes genuinely revealed as wicked… Will you abandon it to hold on to the truth… or will you ignore?  Satan tempts and deceives… but he cannot effect your will.\n\nGalatians 6:7-8\n[7]  Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.  [8] The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.  (NIV)\n\nIf a Christian never seeks to please the Spirit, but only pleases his sinful nature, he will not reap eternal life… he will, instead, reap destruction.\n\nSalvation is in three phases:  Justification, Sanctification, and Glorification.  \n\nThe Process of Salvation Defined:\n\nJustification – Declared righteous – I am saved.\nSanctification – Ongoing growth – I am being saved.\nGlorification – Future without sin – I will be saved.\n\nTo be justified is to be saved… confessing that Jesus is Lord… believing in your heart that God raised him from the dead.  Some people, sadly, stop there.\n\nBeing sanctified is described in these words:  \n \n1 Corinthians 6:11\nAnd that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.  (NIV)\n\nSanctification is done by the Spirit of God… it is being refined by him.  The Spirit of God is the Counselor… and yet so many deny that God speaks.  To be sanctified, a Christian must have a true growing relationship with God.  And how can one have a relationship without communication/fellowship with the Spirit of Jesus?  A true maturing Disciple is not easily outwitted by Satan’s schemes… because he or she knows about his scheming.\n\n2 Thessalonians 2:11-12\n[11] For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie [12] and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness. (NIV)\n\nThe fakes will no
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Matthew 26:28:\n28This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins\n\nLuke 24:46,7\n46He told them, "This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, 47and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.\n\nActs 2:38:\n\n38Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.\n\nthere are more, but here are a few!
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“The Sign of Jonah”\n\nWhen scribes and Pharisees asked Jesus Christ for a sign, he said: “A wicked and adulterous generation keeps on seeking for a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah the prophet.” Jesus added: “For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish three days and three nights, so the Son of man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.” (Matthew 12:38-40) Jewish days began at sundown. Christ died on Friday afternoon, Nisan 14, 33 C.E. His body was placed in a tomb before sunset of that day. Nisan 15 began that evening and ran until sundown of Saturday, the seventh and last day of the week. At that time Nisan 16 began and ran its course until sunset of what we call Sunday. Consequently, Jesus was dead and in the tomb for at least a period of time on Nisan 14, was entombed throughout the entire day of Nisan 15, and spent the nighttime hours of Nisan 16 in the tomb. When certain women came to the tomb on Sunday morning, he had already been resurrected.—Matthew 27:57-61; 28:1-7.\n\nAt Matthew 12:38-41, Jesus told the religious leaders that the only sign that would be given them was “the sign of Jonah.” After three days and three nights in “the belly of Sheol,” Jonah went and preached to Nineveh, thereby becoming a “sign” to the Ninevites. (Jonah 1:17; 2:2; 3:1-4) Similarly, Jesus spent parts of three days in the grave and was resurrected. When his disciples proclaimed the evidence of that event, Jesus became a sign to that generation. According to the Jewish method of measuring time and the facts in fulfillment of Jesus’ case, this period of “three days and three nights” allows for less than three full days.\n\nThere are times when the Hebrews used ‘day and night’ to mean only a portion of a solar day of 24 hours. For example, 1 Kings 12:5, 12 tells of Rehoboam’s asking Jeroboam and the Israelites to “go away for three days” and then return to him. That he did not mean three full 24-hour days but, rather, a portion of each of three days is seen by the fact that the people came back to him “on the third day.” At Matthew 12:40 the same meaning is given to the “three days and three nights” of Jesus’ stay in Sheol. As the record shows, he was raised to life on “the third day.” The Jewish priests clearly understood this to be the meaning of Jesus’ words, since, in their effort to block his resurrection, they quoted Jesus as saying: “After three days I am to be raised up,” and then they requested Pilate to issue a command for “the grave to be made secure until the third day.”
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John 11:35  Jesus Wept.
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Matthew 28:5-7 reads, "The angel said to the women, 'Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.  Then go quickly and tell his disciples , He has RISEN FROM THE DEAD, and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.' Now I have told you too".\n\nLuke 24:45-49, reads, Then He, (Jesus), openend their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.  He told them "This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and RISE FROM THE DEAD on the third day, and repentence and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem". - Here, Jesus reinstates it was he who was crucified. \n\nIf anyone also wants to read more about Christ's crucifixion and death & his ressurection, read the book "The Case for Christ", chapter 11.  You'll understand that Jesus died on the cross after you read Lee Strobel interview with Alexander Metherell, M.D.,PH.D.  Metherell uses his expertise as a physician to describe in vivid detail just what Christ went through, and how He died on the cross.  He leaves anyone reading his account convinced that Jesus did die on the cross and wasn't just swooned or faint from what he went through.
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The number 40 seems to correlate with a trial or testing by the Lord. During Noah's era the flood lasted for 40 days. The Israelites were tested for 40 years after not accepting God's promise to deliver them to the "Promised land." Jesus was tested for 40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness where he defeated all temptation.
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First we are not in the tribulation period and Matthew 24 doesnt have anything to do with us [as it is about the trib. period], but other then that here is a good prophecy link on some fullfillments and other future things to come:\n\nprophecy: http://www.livingwaters.com/Merchant2/graphics/tracts/prophecy/index.html \nthe gospel: http://www.needGod.com do you know what it is? think again. it might surprise you.