The Lord Hath Need of Him

This blog today was written by Brother Don Hutton Jr...from Ohio...it was so good that I had to share it on my blog space...Thankful for all these writings...Hope that you enjoy...and God Bless
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 I was asked to write on this subject by a person in the group. As stated when I created the group if anybody wanted someone to write on a certain subject to inbox them or something  and we’d do it. This is the first one I’ve been asked to do and id like to credit the title of this study to Sister Pamela Stewart. 


What I am going to be writing on today is a story that we are all probably familiar with or have at least heard of, It is “ The Lord hath need of him”.  The actual meaning of this word is “House of mercy”. I am going to use this pool as an example. All of us who are saved has Gods grace to sustain us, his grace is sufficient for us. Sinners on the other hand only has his mercy and this is only by the prayers of the saints for God to have mercy on them. Every breath that a sinner takes is the mercy of God extended to them to allow them a chance at the grace of God. We are under the mercy of God to but we have his grace while the sinners only have his mercy. Some “saved” people can be living under mercy instead of grace if they are not careful. Well I suppose we could go back to what I previously said, sinners only have Gods mercy.  This pool was touched by an angel from God to extend mercy to the sick and diseased people that was around the pool. We could call sinners sick without God spiritually. They could be spiritually lame, not doing Gods work, they could be spiritually dumb not using there calling to speak Gods word to the lost, and so on. This pool is like Gods mercy to sinners, but only the ones that get to the pool and step into the mercy of God are made whole of there infirmity, we could call this the grace of God once it is accepted by the diseased. Maybe we could look at it in this respect also. Gods mercy was in the old testament as carnal ordinances given to man for a supplication for there sins. The pool could represent this, the old testament and the law. Jesus came and brought grace, this could be, he personally going to the man and healing him. Instead of the man having to be under mercy any longer Jesus came to him personally and healed him. Gave him the choice, he said rise up and walk and the man did. He called the man from among the other impotent people, the one man out of the many by the pool. It had different porches round about the pool. We could look at this metaphorically speaking and say these are other churches which have the mercy of God. Not to say that they don’t have the grace of God, not by any means. Its like the gentiles being grafted in. The Jews was the original people of God and God allowed the gentiles to have grace by his mercy. The very body of Christ was walking among them but Jesus chose the one man out of the many. Many are called but few are chosen. The body of Christ chose the man, if it binds something its bound, if it looses something its loosed.  The Lord chooses people out of the world to be healed. If a person is called, the calling is without repentance. The lord says to sinners “ I have need of you” and its your choice to get up and be healed. He has a calling for those to fulfill. He has need of you to spread his word in whatever form it may be. Will we answer the call of Christ?