Acknowledging FAITH beyond boundaries:- Rev.Dr.William Thompson Smith, Director, E.C.I. Bangalore.

Psalm 125, Acts 10: 24-33, Isaiah 44:28-45:8, Mathew 15:21-28.
1. let us thank our merciful God who created the entire world and He is gracious to all that He had made.
2. Lord help us to understand His abiding love in the lives of all people so that we may affirm the dignity of life, through the love of Jesus Christ our Lord who lives and reigns.
3. Almost all of Jesus’ entire ministry took place within the traditional borders of Israel in areas dominated by Jews..
4. Mathew 15:21-28 Jesus’ ministry beyond Israel.
5. Yet Jesus also traveled to the regions of Tyre and Sidon, where he healed a Gentile woman’s daughter and to the region of Decapolis, where he healed many people.
6. It was also at the extreme northern border of Israel at Caesarea Philippi that peter made his confession that “you are the Christ, the son of the living God “and Jesus declares “on this rock I will build my Church” Mathew 16:18.
7. Acts 10:26 I too am a man:- compare Herod’s opposite in Acts 12:20-23.
8. Psalm 125:1-2 the security of Zion. The psalm begins by describing the secure position or those who trust in the Lord they are like mount Zion, which cannot be moved (Psalm 10:6).
9. The Lord’s protection ,as he surrounds his people like a high wall encircling the city.