“Even the Dogs Eat the Crumbs…” | Matthew 15:21–28

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Good morning and good morning. We talked the whole night through.

Good morning, good moan, and to you and you and you.

Happy Friday, Happy Friday. Do you know what movie that's from?

By the way, No?

Really, no, really, wow, see I just assumed you did,

but Jeff So used to me saying this, it's Singing

in the Rain. Okay, God, have you ever seen it?

I did, and I did not like the movie? What no, why,

I'm not Apparently it's not for my decade, because this

isn't like five in the fifties, sixties.

I think it's forties, forties. Yea.

I had to watch it like in middle school, high school,

and I remember thinking this is at the time, it

felt like hell having to watch that. What.

Oh did you guys watch it together as a group

of yeah yeah students, yeah yeah, oh that reason? Why? Yeah?

Exactly?

It was okay, all right, go over, very well. What

year did Singing in the Rain release? Singing in the

Rain was released on April eleventh, nineteen fifty two.

Oh it is fifties. Where do you go. Yeah, well

took a wild shot in the dark there on that one.

Oh wow, good job. Yeah, yeah, I definitely you have to.

Probably you watch it in the worst environment poss.

I high school around high school boys or whatever.

Yeah, high school girl. Yeah.

No, it was not received. Well I'll yeah say that.

Well, I mean think about it. I mean, almost any

movie that you see in that environment, unless it's a

fantastic movie, it's not gonna be a good, great movie.

No.

Yeah, but I had a feeling that had you been

exposed to it in your home and your dad would

have said, hey, son.

You gotta watch it.

You gotta watch this. I really like it. You got

to watch it with him. You'll probably like it more.

Do you like It's a wonderful life?

Oh? Every year?

Yeah, So that's that's a movie where yeah, that's another

one where some people have watched it, like in school,

they had like in a weird environment they first saw,

like the movie so bad. I'm like, oh, man, I

love that movie because babies, because the first time you

see it was great.

Yeah, well that's a great movie also, right yeah. Uh

Merry Christmas Emporium. Yeah. Anyway, Okay, so today Kyle, uh

there is a different kind of segment. This is, uh,

the Praise Report with a twist. Have we ever done this?

Not that I've heard, I've not heard this the Praise

Report with a twist. That's very interesting. Each of you

will share something you're grateful for, but you must describe

it like it's a dramatic movie trailer. Example, and she

she gives us an example in a world where laundry

never ends, one woman finds a sock that matches.

Dude can relate to that?

Yeah, yeah, And I can't do that voice, but you

know that famous.

World because in a world, in a world.

Right, so so can I can? I? What is this?

What is?

What has happened?

Happened?

What just happened?

Okay, there you are.

So here's what I did. Guys, I'm cheating a little

bit because what I did was I went to chat

GPT and asked it to write in a trailer from

something I was thankful for. So let me explain to

you what I'm thankful for. First, I am thankful. My

way is gonna kill me when I say this. I

am thankful that my wife, without me asking made pasta

Oh nice, Because I've been married for thirty three years

and I grew up. You know, obviously, my family's Italian,

my half of my family's Italian and my mom's half,

and she was an Italian cook, that was her profession,

and so we always had Italian food, always, always, always, always, always.

There was never a day we didn't have something with

noodles and sauce in the fridge. Not a day because

what always had leftovers. And so all that to say,

then all of a sudden, I marry Liz, who doesn't

necessarily care for pasta, and so I just sort of

got used to not having it. And so I would say,

very very very I'm gonna give three varies, very very

very rarely do we ever have pasta in the house,

not because she's unwilling, probably just because I don't make

a big deal about it. And we do go out

to eat a lot, and I order pasta often. So

I'm thinking to myself, hey, man, it's okay. I don't

want to make her make pasta if she doesn't necessarily

love it, right, so it's not a big deal. But

the other day she made it for me just out

of the blue, Wow, and I was thrilled. So I

actually I'm gonna.

Put together the trailer.

Yeah, I'm gonna here, so here it is ready. I'm

gonna try to read this dramatically. This is what chat

Chipet said. In a world where pasta was only a dream,

one man waited thirty three years.

Three years.

He sat through meatloaf, He endured chicken, He even survived

tuna casserole, but still no pasta. Until one day, when

Hope had almost boiled away. She made it not because

he baked, not because he pleaded, but because she chose

this fall. Love is aldente. It's a thirty three year

journey served with sauce. Oh that's good pasta, the miracle

meal coming soon to a plate near you. Oh my gosh,

that's great.

I want to see that film. Yeah, right, it sounds great.

I love that that. I mean, that's a legit trailer. Yes,

I love that, right about something incredibly silly? Oh yeah,

hit trailer.

Well, I did the same thing I wanted to. I

wanted to go to chat shebt and I basically one

of the things I'm so thankful for, similar to you

do you got the wife one for me. I am

so thankful for my wife this summer because any parents

will understand this, the driving your kids around all summer

and trying to just keep them busy. My kids have

cheer schedules and social all that stuff, and my wife

has done the bull like eighty percent of all the

driving around. And whenever I am responsible for the driving around,

I'm very thankful for her and that. So here we go.

That's the way night.

You're thankful for your wife driving the kids and the

kids around all yeah, all of the place.

So it sounds like I threw my way from the

bus by saying she never makes me pasta, and you

are praising your wife for all good things.

Yeah. Sure, that's exactly what it is, all right. Here

we go. Here we go in a world where kids

need rides everywhere at once, one woman rises to the channel.

I like it. I like it.

The music swells, the card door slam shut. She conquers

cheer practices, summer chaos, and endless drop offs. She's more

than a wife, She's more than a mom. She's the

driving legend. Nice.

So your trailer's a little shorter, yeah, shortery little shorter.

Yeah, yours is good? Though, Dy, that was really good.

I like hey, I like it.

The driving legend yeah, and Mima's what it was, the

miracle meal.

Yes, yes, the miracle You said that to Lizzy, just

say like, hey, I wrote this trailer.

Well it doesn't matter because she'll she'll hear it, I know.

But what if you send it to her ahead of time?

Oh yeah, but then it's gonna sound like I'm begging

for pasta.

Well, you know, what's rewarded is repeated, that's sure in

that statement before whatever's rewarded is repeated.

Yes, that is true, you know. And but hey, I

just want to go on record and say this because

you praised your wife really well, so I'm going and.

I and I know, I don't think you were dissing.

I just say this, like Italian food, but you go

to restaurants.

But allow me to praise her too.

Yeah.

She is a fin phenomenal cook. Yeah, phenomenal. Yeah, right,

which is why I always struggled with my weight over

the years.

Okay, it's like I gotta keep eating this, dude.

She is an incredible and uh yeah, so there you go.

Yeah, same with mine. Actually, last night, sorry we're bragging out. Hey,

this is good, this is good. We're bregging our wives.

Last night, sheet we had this idea. This is And

I know you're a big theme guy when comes to

your family. You really try to be intentional with your kids,

especially when they're growing up. So I told christ Andals

that we should do these like theme nights where we

pick a theme and we just go all in on

the music we play and the speakers around the house.

We picked the food, we maybe pick a movie or

show or whatever. Games. And so she texted our family

at like five PM, She's like, who's ready for for?

What?

Is she a Mexican night tonight? And so we got

home and she had this Mexican food ready. We put

on Mexican U. It was actually really fun. It was

really sweet. We're trying to watch Natural Lebre they couldn't

find it.

Did you speak Spanish?

Uhh yeah. We just just in like greed like as

much as we could. Yes, But it was phenomenal. I

was like, this is a great It was basically we

basically made homemage Pole. It was incredible.

That's awesome.

Yeah, good for you start doing that.

Very cool. Well, hey, what a fun segments, Kyle, And

thanks Desiree for that innovative praise report with a twist.

Good and Brownie points for our wife.

So that's good.

And you know what else is something that has a twist.

What has a twist is that Jesus talked about the

dogs eating crumbs, and that was sort of out of nowhere.

That is a twist. It was a twist of this conversation.

It's a twist. Let's twist it to the scripture.

All right, hey, twist away, Kyle, all.

Right, Matthew. Fifteen Jesus sends a demon out of a girl.

So chapter fifteen, verse twenty one through twenty eight it

says this. Then Jesus left Galilee and went north to

the region of tyr and Sedan. A gentile woman who

lived there came to him, pleading have mercy on me, o,

Lord son of David, for my daughter is possessed by

a demon that torments her severely. But Jesus I gave

her no reply, not even a word. Then his disciples

urged him to send her away, to go away. They said,

she is bothering us with all her begging. That Jesus

said to the woman, I was sent only to help

God's lost sheep, the people of Israel. But she came

and worshiped him, pleading again Lord to help me. Jesus responded,

it isn't right to take food from the children and

throw it to the dogs. She replied, that's true, Lord,

but even dogs are allowed to eat the scraps that

fall beneath their master's table. Dear woman, Jesus said to her,

your faith is great, your request is granted, and her

daughter was instantly healed. So yeah, seven verses.

Yeah, and and and so keep in mind that this

was a gentile woman. Right. So it went to the

region of tyr Inside and a gentile woman who lived

there came there pleading, and Jesus is basically saying, I

was only come to help God's lost sheep, the people

of Israel. He was sent to the Jews as a

you know, the promise was given to the to God's people,

the sacrifice of Jesus a salvation. Jesus announced after his

crucifixion that salvation was for everybody. Right. But there is

something to be said here about the fact that, you know,

there's such an unbelievable division between you know, we don't

often think about it because we live post you know,

a New Testament. Right, so we say, oh, Jewish people,

and then non Jewish or gentiles. And you know, we

know Romans, and Romans says there's no difference between you

or Greek or gentile or anybody else, right or Greek

or Jew, you know whatever. And so it actually says

right here as it talks about I just saw this

note here vers Number twenty four. Right here, we have

to admire the patience and the persistence of this gentile mother.

Lord help me was her second plea, and this time

she avoided any Messianic titles. She came as a sinner

needing help, and she offered no argument to his reply.

Jesus did not call her a dog, by the way

the Pharisees would have addressed a gentile. The Greek word

here means a little pet dog and does not refer

to the filthy curs that ran into the streets up

for garbage. The children, of course, refers to the people

of Israel. So, you know, it's so interesting how Jesus

had come to fulfill the scriptures, and in the Old Testament,

the Jewish people were the ones who revered the God

of Israel, and so like, you know, think about, like

remember when we were going through that series, all the

way through the Old Testament. And you remember how it

was such a struggle for the people of Israel to believe.

And you know, here's God wanting, i mean just almost

begging through his prophets. He's begging them to, you know,

just worship him and he'll make them a great nation.

And because they struggled so much, again and again and

again they struggled, and then eventually they were divided for years,

years and years and years and years. They were divided

centuries because they could simply not obey God and have

their faith, you know, just align with the things that

God said. So but for a while there in the

Old Testament, remember King David, he would actually go and

he would destroy other pagan nations. These were nations that

defied the God of Israel. They worshiped other gods. Even

though that they were told about the God of Israel,

they were told about the one and true, one true King,

they refused. And so eventually the enemies of Israel were

wiped out. And that was sort of God's quest, which

is pretty wild, right think about that. But it was

always the Jewish people against those who did not recognize

the One true God. And so and so Jesus comes

as a fulfillment of what some people say three hundred

and fifty plus some people say over four hundred prophecies,

and those were prophecies given about a Jewish man to

the Jewish people, and so and so and so. I

have a tendency when I read this to think, Wait

a minute, why wouldn't Jesus show his love to anybody

who wasn't Jewish? And why in the world would he

ignore a woman who had a legitimate request just because

she's a gentile. Have you ever thought that, no, I'm

you're someone?

When he right away, when he says he doesn't give

her a word, doesn't give a reply, Well, yeah.

Doesn't it. See here's what I'm saying. I still allowed

to say this. Doesn't it seem like he's ignoring her

just because she's not a gentile or just because she's

not a Jew.

When I read it, my interpretation was I think I

thought he wanted to see what the disciples would do

when he ignored her, like he wasn't quick to respond.

But he says her legitimately, I was sent only to

help God's lost sheep, the people of Israel. You know

I'm not I'm not acknowledging your request, I'm ignoring you.

Here's the reason why he says it.

Yeah, I was only to help God's people visually young. Yeah,

I guess. And for me, again, I was wondering if

it had to do with the fact that he was

waiting to see because his disciples were the quickest to

almost say like, hey, get out of the way, we

have work to do, which is also just kind of funny.

Yeah, but not only does he announce his intent right there,

but then he goes even further and said it isn't right.

It isn't right to take food from the children and

talking about Israel and throw them to the dogs, and

he's talking about the gentiles. So Jesus is clearly not

And by the way, I think you're right in that

Jesus always intentionally waits for his disciples to react, so

he could have been doing that also, so that could

be also true. But clearly he's talking about his intent,

and so I just I have to rationalize and logically

piece together twenty twenty five values. Right in twenty twenty five,

we would react to that and say that's not fair,

And how could Jesus, you know, not love anybody who's

not Jewish, and that's not right and that's weird. And

why would he announce that, why would he call her

a dog? Yeah, and we already covered that part of it.

Yeah, it's actually interesting. I'm not actually gonna go because

I honestly that was not a part I was taken

from that. But that's a really good point. But let

me just read this little section here. It says Jesus'

words do not contradict the truth that God's message is

for all people. After all, when Jesus said these words,

he was in Gentile territory and a mission to gentile people.

He administered to gentiles on many other occasions. Also, he

was simply telling the woman that Jews were to have

the first opportunity to accept him as the Messiah, because

God wanted them to present the message of salvation to

the rest of the world. Jesus was not rejecting the

gentile woman. He may have wanted test her faith or

may or he may have wanted to use the situation

as another opportunity to teach then the whole dog thing.

So dogs was a term that Jews commonly applied to

gentiles because the Jews considered these pagan people no more

likely than dogs to receive God's blessing. So he was

not degrading the women by using this term. He was deflecting.

He was reflecting the Jews attitude it. So it's to

contra trust it with his own. So anyways, yeah, it's interesting.

Yeah, yeah. So and by the way, that note in

your Bible is exactly where I was going. So it

is an interesting thing to address the feelings of a

twenty twenty five kind of reaction and then to realize

that you sort of have to rationalize and understand if

you go back and if you look at every promise

given to God's people, that is exactly the answer. The

answer is is that God never intended to hold back

miracles or truth or salvation from anybody. It's just the

timing of Jesus was incredibly intentional, right, So Jesus think

about it. Jesus was so incredibly intentional about who knew

he was the Messiah, who wasn't, who should be quiet,

and who should speak right and so, and he's saying that, hey,

at this time, the Jews have to have the first

opportunity to experience the miracles to come to the conclusion

that I'm the Messiah, because salvation is for the world,

but given through the Jews. He says that it actually

says that in the Bible salvation it comes from the Jews.

It comes from the Jews, and so God's chosen people

in the Old Testament. Every promise has to be fulfilled.

Everything has to go the way that that God aligned

it and designed it. And this is just a part

of God's major plan, right, the thirty thousand foot view

from the beginning until where we find ourselves now. Right.

So that's the reason why. And so God's intention is

that salvation has to come, you know, through this way

to get to to get to there, right, And so's

that's really the explanation there.

The onely things that stood up to me is when

he says, your woman, your faith is great. Even that

right there for Jesus to say that your faith is great.

Remember hearing somebody talk about this one time. They said,

there's only a few examples throughout scripture where Jesus was

amazed where it says that Jesus was amazed at somebody,

and it usually has to do with faith, and oftentimes

it's and.

By the way, the other one is from a gentile

from a Roman.

Yeah, well so it's lack of faith or actual faith.

It's how you can amaze Jesus. And it's just because

I look at that, I'm like, man, I want to

be that type of person that when when God looks

at me, when God looks at us, that he says, man, like,

if Jesus were speaking to me, like Kyle has faith,

he has great faith. I think sometimes I think you

and I are very similar. Sometimes it's easy to be skeptical,

so I might not be that person that would go

and say, hey, Jesus, can you heal my doll? Like

I don't know. I want to believe i'd be that person,

you know, but it's hard because there's always those those things.

And this woman here was like unrelenting. She says, gonna know,

I'm gonna go talk to this guy. I heard he

can heal people. I'm gonna go talk to him.

Yeah, Hey, so excuse me, I'm gonna go ahead and

tell a quick story because he says, hey, your faith

is great, your request is granted. And Jeff and I

mentioned this a few weeks back, but basically, you know,

Jesus often talked about great faith versus no faith, little faith,

and people are attempted to think that that's quantity of faith.

But Jesus only referred to quality of faith, right, because

he says, you have to have the faith of a

mustard seed and then and you can do great things

and move mountains. And so when he says where is

your faith, he's not talking about, you know, the quantity

of faith. He's saying, where is your true faith? You

know where where is where is the faith? That's great? Right?

And so in other words, you don't have to have

a whole lot more fail if you only had more

faith galbt heeliaeah no, no, no, no, no, you just had to

have a small uh uh true faith? Right? Uh? Where

is your faith? How little is your faith? He's saying,

where how come you have so little of actual faith? Right?

And so uh so as so as he's referring to

quality of faith, So we have to have a perspective

on how great is our God, not how great is

our faith. So anyway, the point is this is that

two weeks ago, I'm going to tell the story about

somebody praying for me. Right, So I am actually on

stage on this stage, very very very stage, and I'm

and I'm speaking to four services, and I started to have,

uh with with what the doctors call an aura before

a migraine. Anybody who's a migraine knows they see like

lights and spots and things like that. And I've never

even had it before. It really was scary, but it

actually started coming on on my peripheral and it actually

everything got blurry, and then there was these spots. I'm like,

what is that about? And for about ninety minutes they

got greater, greater, greater, greater, greater, and it got to

the point to where I tried everything. I tried closing

my eyes, I tried eating, hydrating, resting, taking outvill I

was doing all these kinds of things. But I was

due on stage just in between services, in between sir,

and then I was due on stage for the next service,

and I was minutes away, and it got so bad

to where like forty to fifty percent of my entire

vision and my left eye was gone, and it was

all blurry and it was strobing like a strobe light.

It was strobing like this. And I'm telling you, I

was so scared. And I've heard other people describe these

kinds of things it's different for everybody. But I'm thinking, oh,

here comes a migraine. And I've had migraines before that

it paralyzed me, but I've never had this aura. And

my daughter struggles with these things and so she's told

me about it. So anyway, and so I walk over

to Wesley and I say, Wesley, you need to be

on the side of the stage with a microphone with

my message and you need to like which is what

I told you right the other day. And I said,

and I said, you need to be ready in case,

in case I go down, Yeah, wow, right, And because

I don't know what's going to happen. And then I

told my stage hand, who is a volunteer who's related

to one of our guys on staff, and he's just

a volunteer guy who works as an assistant, you know, backstage,

and I said, can you have a stool ready in

case I need a stool, I'll just call for it.

And he said, yeah, absolutely sure. So I'm ready to

go on stage. And then he just walks over to

me and he just puts his hand on me and

he says, God, we pray for complete healing Jesus in

the name of Jesus, we pray for complete healing. So

I bowed my head because He's praying for me, and

then all of a sudden, I opened my eyes and

it's gone. So it was constantly in my vision to

where it was small, and it got so big that

no matter what I did, it was there for ninety

minutes straight. Wow, he prayed for me. I closed my

eyes for ten seconds. I opened up and it was gone,

and I said, it's gone, and he goes and he goes, Oh,

Praise God. And I said, no, you don't understand it's gone.

I mean it's completely gone. And I was like, Wow,

that was an app healing. And the funny thing is

I always have a belief that God can if he

wants to heal me, but I don't necessarily live with

an expectation that my eyes is gonna be gone. So

there's a difference between belief and expectation, right. So I

have my number one spiritual gift is faith. So I

believe that I have faith that God can, but the

belief that God will in that very moment, it's because

sometimes he doesn't, right, And so why would I ever

believe that that was going to happen? Even though I

know it can. So so it's like, so there's this

fine line. Fine and so anyway, so I opened up.

But Dave Wilson said to me, he goes, hey, goes,

because that's just proof that it really wasn't your faith

that healed.

You know, he said it was it was his faith.

The faith of the guy who prayed.

Now he's saying, hey, I'm gonna pray and I'm praying

for complete healing. That's right.

It's like it's like, remember when they lowered the man

through the roof to Jesus.

Or this, it's it says, your request is granted, and

her daughter was instantly healed.

That's right. Yeah, that's that's right. So the daughter was

healed based on the faith of the woman. Yeah right,

and so and so he and but when they lowered

the man through the roof, it's actually it says, the

faith of your friends has made you hold right. And

so it's it's an interesting thing, how uh uh. You

know again, it's not it's not it's not that I

needed more faith. It's it's it's the quality of our faith,

not the quantity of our faith. And so anyway, that

was an unbelievable thing for me. And I know that

some people who in my old world and the denomination

that I came from, would be like, oh, that sounds

pretty that sounds pretty charismatic to me, you know, to

where you know they put God in a box, right,

to which I would just say, listen, uh, here's what

I know for a fact. What I know for a

fact is is that for ninety minutes, no matter what

I did, that thing would not go away. And then

this guy with great faith says to me, in the

name of Jesus, we played pray for complete healing, and

I hope my eyes and it was gone. There is

absolutely no way that anybody could ever convince me that

wasn't a healing in that moment, right, And not many

people would rebuke that.

No, But I love that. That's great And it's a

reminder though, especially in our world, when people a lot

of times think, oh, that's somebody else can pray that prayer.

Somebody else can, that's not for me. I don't I don't,

you know. I think this is a really good reminder's

reminder from me too.

And by the way, that guy wasn't a pastor. That's

your point.

Yeah, right, like any it's for anybody.

That's right. Yeah, and so and so. Yeah. I think

that the interesting thing about this scripture is that she

is a gentile woman with great faith. He's marveled and

he's amazed by the faith of this woman even though

she's not a Jewish person, and that her faith actually

saves her daughter. Yeah, wild, yes, yeah, which is incredible.

Softer you know, after all, we just have to understand

that that faith, believing in God and who he is.

We don't need a lot of it. We just need

to have true faith and who God is to see

great things no matter who you are. That's good.

That's good.

That's a great place to end. So thank you for

joining us this week, Happy Friday, and hopefully we'll see

you Monday on the Bible guys, mhm