DAVID A. MCMILLEN

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I AM AN 80 YEAR OLD MALE, BORN AGAIN, CHRISTIAN WITH A LOVE FOR JESUS. I DO NOT GET OUT MUCH ANYMORE BUT FIND THAT TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE LOVE JESUS HAS FOR THEM IS NOT ONLY WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO BUT SOMETHING THAT THE WORLD NEEDS.

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THE FOLDED NAPKIN

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By: DAVID A. MCMILLEN
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THE FOLDED NAPKIN


                                          THE FOLDED NAPKIN

 


THIS MORNING, WHEN I WAS STUDYING ABOUT THE RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD, I WAS WONDERING JUST HOW MANY PEOPLE KNOW THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FOLDED NAPKIN THAT HAD BEEN PLACED OVER THE FACE OF JESUS. UNTIL LAST YEAR, I DIDN'T.  I HAD READ THE 20TH CHAPTER OF JOHN MANY TIMES AND JUST NEVER KNEW WHAT IT MEANT IN VERSE 7.  I WILL PUT IT HERE FOR YOU TO READ.  (And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.)  WHAT IS SO IMPORTANT ABOUT A FOLDED NAPKIN?  WELL, I WILL TELL YOU.

 

BEING GENTILES, WE DON'T KNOW THE JEWISH TRADITIONS SO WE MISS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MANY THINGS IN SCRIPTURE, SUCH AS THE FOLDED NAPKIN.  THE FOLDED NAPKIN HAD TO DO WITH THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE AND HIS SERVANT AND EVERY JEWISH FAMILY KNEW WHAT IT MEANT.  WHEN THE SERVANT SET THE DINNER TABLE FOR HIS MASTER, HE MADE SURE THAT IT WAS EXACTLY THE WAY THE MASTER WANTED IT.  THE TABLE WAS FURNISHED PERFECTLY AND THEN THE SERVANT WOULD WAIT, JUST OUT OF SIGHT, UNTIL THE MASTER HAD FINISHED EATING AND THE SERVANT WOULD NOT DARE TOUCH THAT TABLE UNTIL THE MASTER WAS FINISHED.  NOW IF THE MASTER WAS FINISHED EATING, HE WOULD RISE FROM THE TABLE, WIPE HIS FINGERS, HIS MOUTH, AND CLEAN HIS BEARD AND WOULD WAD UP THAT NAPKIN AND TOSS IT ON THE TABLE.  THE SERVANT WOULD THEN KNOW TO CLEAR THE TABLE.  IN THOSE DAYS, THE WADDED NAPKIN MEANT, "I'M DONE".  HOWEVER, IF THE MASTER GOT UP FROM THE TABLE, FOLDED HIS NAPKIN AND LAID IT BESIDE HIS PLATE, THE SERVANT WOULD NOT DARE TOUCH THE TABLE BECAUSE THE FOLDED NAPKIN MEANT, "I'M COMING BACK!"

 


THIS IS WHAT JESUS WAS TELLING US WHEN HE TOOK THE NAPKIN, FOLDED IT AND LAID IT ASIDE.  HE WAS SAYING "I AM COMING BACK"..  ARE YOU READY FOR HIM?

 

WHEN STUDYING THE BIBLE, TAKE TIME TO FIND OUT THINGS YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND.  IT WILL MEAN SO MUCH MORE TO YOU.  I KNOW WHEN I FOUND OUT WHAT THE FOLDED NAPKIN MEANT IT JUST MADE THE SCRIPTURE EXPLODE FOR ME.  I PRAY THAT YOU HAVE ENJOYED THIS.

 

GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

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