What Was Jesus Thinking--What Jesus Thought About His Enemies

Isaiah 55:10-11--KJV--For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater. So shall My Word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

I never noticed that verse 11 states that the rain and the snow have to come back and answer for what they did on the earth. That's holding their feet to the fire. Rain and snow have been making things grow ever since creation. And so has the sunshine, oxygen in the air and the bees that fly around and pollinate growing things. God oversees His Word and makes sure that every Word out of the mouth of the Father works to God's satisfaction. By the way, that is a phrase that Jesus used on the devil during his time of temptation.

We need to rejoice when we realize that God doesn't necessarily have to have any mortal man's approval to bring His Word to pass. There is enough Creative Power in everything He says to bring to pass God's hearts desire. (Zero in on God's hearts desire. It has a lot to do with your prayers.)

God didn't need Pharaoh's approval to bring Abraham's children out of bondage after 400 hundred years of slavery. God didn't need Pharaoh's help, either. As a matter of fact, God threw in a couple of situations that made Pharaoh angrier and meaner than normal. It didn't bother God at all. When God got through putting Pharaoh and and his kingdom through the wringer, Pharaoh was mad enough to do stupid stuff and Abraham's children walked out rich and free people instead of poor slaves. 

And, Pharaoh couldn't get over his hatred and larger than life ego so he chased after God's people to bring them back into bondage. After all, they didn't have any weapons to fight with. Think about this. They had the Word of Almighty God and God's Word could NEVER return to Him without doing what it was supposed to do.

If it came to a vote, the people of Sodom and Gomorrah would have voted to stay alive and keep their cities in one piece. HOWEVER, that was not the Word of God that went out of His mouth. God's Word said that they were going to be destroyed because of their wicked ways. There was no stopping His Word.

David was only half Goliath's size and probably half his age. David was not quite a man, yet. But he knew in his heart that the Covenant Word of God was undefeatable. He acted on what he knew and what his heart told him to do. God didn't care how big Goliath was. He didn't care how great a man of war he was either. And He never asked Goliath if he minded getting killed by a pimply-faced teenager. All of God's integrity stood behind His Word of the Covenant. 

Jesus' own kin people and the townspeople of Nazareth didn't believe Jesus was a miracle worker. Jesus didn't care what they thought. If they didn't want miracles then they could just stay sick. And pushing Him off a cliff was NOT the way God's Word said that Jesus would die. So, Jesus let them rant and rage all they wanted. He let them bluster and walked through the middle of them. 

You see, their opinion didn't count to Jesus. God's  Word said that Jesus would heal and bring deliverance. There was plenty of sick people that wanted to be healed. Nazareth didn't want healing but people in Galilee certainly did. 

If you're a student of the gospels, you know that the religious people hated Jesus and plotted against him. They confronted him and constantly challenged His authority as well as His sanity. Very few of the big wigs had anything good to say about Him. You'll never see where Jesus was depressed or said anything contrary to the Word of God. He refused to let what anyone say to Him get under His skin. He expected people to be against Him. That's what God spoke hundreds of years before He was born. Jesus was going to continue to perform miracles. BECAUSE, both rejection and miracles were Words that came out of God's mouth. 

Jesus chose to ignore the ugly words and rejection because God said it would happen. In all probability Jesus rejoiced. How do I know that? Because in Matthew 5, Jesus told everyone to rejoice when men would revile and persecute them. And besides, their threatening words did not come from God so they were empty phrases. Let 'em jabber all they wanted to. God was going to have the last say and God didn't need the high priest's or the Roman government's approval to do it, either.

Here's where we put this blog in action. Jesus said in John 16:33 that trials and heartaches would come. BUT, we could still have peace in Him because He had already overcome the world. John 14:1, don't allow your heart to be troubled. When circumstances seem to point to defeat or heartache, get the Word of God firmly fixed in your heart and mind. God's Word will come to pass just like He promised. God doesn't need your spouse's approval, your boss's approval, or anyone else that puts you down. 

One of the things that you CAN rejoice in when trouble seems to surround you is remember what the 23rd Psalm promised. God promised in verse 5 that He would prepare a table in front of us right in the middle of our enemies. So, if you are surrounded by a bunch of nay-sayers, (relatives or not) then cheer up. They are the ones that will be ashamed when God gets through preparing YOU a table RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM.


Here's the bottom line. It was settled in Jesus' mind, therefore it was settled in His heart. There was no power, physical or spiritual, that was able to keep His Father from bringing His spoken Word to pass. God didn't need the devil's or anyone else's permission or authority to raise Him from the dead. Jesus' enemies were welcome to talk, to yell, to throw dust, to cuss, to lie about Him and anything else their poor old pudding heads concocted. God's Word WOULD NEVER return to Him void.