Good morning, that works for all of you.
I'll just stand down here. If you want me to get back up
there, start pointing Part. Is it on?
Hello I believe it's on. It sounds on to me and I can
hear a little bit of it there. So anyway, good to see you all.
Good to see you all here and I as Terry said, I'm GV airs.
My wife Sarah's with me and we are he used all kinds of labels
on me traveler preacher, businessman.
I think husband was included in that since I'm here with my wife
one you did not use his. Other and that's one of the my
cherish you know you know how it is, you know, how it is the
cherish labels there on you. But anyway, it's delightful to
see you delightful to see you Frankie and Tina and just all of
your all of your legacy. Hear that you hear that, you
have glad that you are able to be here about your business and
about the Lord's business and here at worship and good to see
everyone here today. In 1985 a man by the name of
Michael Card. Wrote a poem.
Actually, it's a song called The Gentle healer and that has
struck a note. No pun intended there.
The struck a note in my heart, the words of that song, and I
want to read it to you, and it's kind of some thoughts from
today, hear the gentle healer. The gentle healer came into our
town today. He touched blind eyes and the
Darkness left to State more than the blindness.
He took their sins away. The gentle healer came into our
town today. The gentle healer came into our
town today. He spoke one word that was all
he had to say. The one who had died, just rose
up straight away. The gentle healer came into our
town today. Oh, he seemed just like an
ordinary man with dirty feet and rough but gentle hands the word.
He says, the words he says are hard to understand and yet he
seems just like a ordinary man. The gentle healer, he left our
town today. I just looked around and found
he'd gone away. Some folks from town had
followed him. They say that the gentle healer
is the truth, the life, the way. Those words touch my heart
greatly and they introduced or tend to introduce to me a
different side of sometimes. Our Lord, we see him as the
Savior. We see him as our creator.
We see him as our lawgiver, as our example.
But sometimes I think we perhaps Miss some of what the scripture
says about him as a Healer and as the gentle healer.
And so with on this rubric of the gentle healer, we want to
talk about some scenes from our Lord's life primarily in the
Book of Matthew, Matthew, the ninth chapter, most of where
this is going to come from. And we see the work of the
gentle healer and some of the significance and meaning of what
these things, what these events meant.
Matthew, the 9th chapter takes place in a city called,
Capernaum and Whedon are not my understanding, is, we don't know
exactly where that is. It was on the Sea of Galilee and
there, but we don't know the specifics of exactly where which
part of where, where it was along the Sea of Galilee and
that's my understanding there. I'm no expert on geography or
those places and things such as that.
The compendium was a city that Jesus made his home.
Now, we think of Jesus of being from Nazareth, Jesus of
Nazareth. But if you look at Matthew, the
fourth chapter Matthew, the fourth chapter verse 13.
It says, and leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum
and that's significant that he dwelt there.
Because later, it's called his City, he refers to it.
And it's referred in scripture as his City.
His town that he lived. So he moved his base.
Ace of operation from where he grew up in Nazareth to
Capernaum. So he's in Capernaum now.
Is that in Capernaum, which is upon the Sea Coast and the
borders of zebulun Nephilim that it might be fulfilled, which was
spoken by Isaiah. The prophet saying the land of
zebulun and land of naphthalene. By the way, of the sea Beyond
Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, the people, which said, in
darkness, saw great light and to them, which said in the region
and shadow of death, light is sprung up.
And from that time, Jesus began to preach and say, repent for
the kingdom of heaven. Is at hand.
And so this is where he began his base of operation.
Basically in his base is preaching, that the kingdom of
heaven was at hand and the gospel that he preached unto the
people round and round about them there.
But something that is very significant about what he did
there in. Capernaum, was that?
Jesus, not only made his home there, but Jesus did many mighty
deeds and mighty works. There here is where Jesus healed
the Centurion sunny. You look at Matthew, the eighth
chapter. Look at what happens here.
He's in, Capernaum, there in the fifth verse, it says, There came
to him a centurion beseeching him now, Centurion was not one
of the is not one of the Hebrews.
He was a gentile, he may have been a Roman, but its interim
was a officer in the Roman army. And so he comes to Jesus.
And look at this man. Look what he says in him.
He says he says, behold in. I'm paraphrasing.
Here is his boat. He says, well, here's what he
says, first of all Lord, he says Lord.
My servant. My servant lies.
Sick of the palsy. He's paralyzed and he's terribly
tormented. And Jesus says, okay, I will
come and heal him. But notice what the Centurion.
The Roman soldier says, he says this Lord, I am not worthy that
you should come under my roof, but speak the word only and my
servant shall be healed for. I am a man under Authority,
having soldiers under me, and I say to this man go, and he goes
into another come, and he comes and my servant do this, and he
does it. So notice what this man says,
first of all, he calls him, Lord, he calls him Lord twice
here and then he says, when Jesus says, I'm going to come to
your house, I'm going to come to your house and heal him.
He says, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof
and so he a gentile refers to Jesus as his Superior.
I am not worthy. I am not worthy.
Now, whether in rank or whether in lordship, I believe it's in
lordship. He's talking about here because
he calls Lord in Lord. Weiss here.
But then, here's what he says, here's what he says to him.
He says, I am a man under Authority.
He says, I know how rank goes and I know the system of rank.
I am under someone and he says, I have soldiers under me and I
tell one, soldier go. He goes and I tell one, come he
comes. I tell my service to do this and
he does it. So, here's a man knowing
Authority and he knows that Jesus.
Greater than him in a spiritual sense there.
And so, here's what he says, he says, just say the word and my
servant will be healed. So he acknowledges Jesus as
Lord, he acknowledges Jesus, as being able to heal but he also
acknowledges Jesus as having Authority, that's all that he
says, he says, I know Rank and he says, I know how to rank
works there. He says, you have Authority, all
you have to do is you have to say the word?
And my servant will be healed. You have that rank, you have
that Authority be able to do that.
Jesus explains there, he says verily, I say unto you have not
found. So great faith.
No, not in Israel. I say that they'll should be
come from the East and the west and shall sit down with Abraham
and Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven, to the
children of the Kingdom shall be cast out.
So, these were the Hebrews. That would be often cast out
here. Is why Jesus saying here is a
gentile, Who understood rank calls on Jesus, to call it in,
and guess you'd say, call the miracle in and just say the word
and he would be healed. It's also there in Capernaum
where Jesus enters into Peter's house.
Now, that's where Peter lived in Capernaum and, apparently,
Peters mother-in-law must have lived with him there too.
But she was sick with a fever there in the next few verses
there and verse 14, he came to Peter's house, he saw his wife
mother laid sick with a fever. He touched her hand, and the Her
left her and she arose and ministered unto them.
Now someone who's sick with a fever you go to them and if
you're going to do anything with them, you stay your distance.
You keep you. You keep your distance from
Jesus touched her Jesus touched her.
They're showing his, his not only his confidence and what he
was going to do. But his ability to do it, he
touched her. And she arose, her fever left
her. And she arose.
This was there in Capernaum. We go next.
It says, and when evening was come, they brought him verse 16.
Teen, that brought him many that were possessed with Devils or
demons, he cast out the spirits with his word and healed all
that were sick, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by
Isaiah, the prophet. And this is from Isaiah chapter
53, about the servant of the Lord, in verse 4.
Well, Isaiah said, himself took our infirmities and bore our
sicknesses And so that's what Jesus was doing here.
And that's what he does with his miracles here.
It's his fulfillment of the prophecy of Isaiah, much of what
it is doing here. And so we want to skip on over
here because Jesus go somewhere else.
But then in chapter 9 verse 1 he comes back to Capernaum.
And so, the gentle healer is here, he came to our town.
Our town is Capernaum here in our way of thinking here, he
came to our town today, and he did all kinds of things for
those who, Sick. Here's what happens in in the in
the ninth chapter of the first few verses.
He came to his own City. That's Capernaum there and he's
in a sit in a house. They're preaching is in a house
preaching and there are so many people around them there.
And this is also a mark and Luke's account as well.
And Mark is probably a little more graphic than Matthew, but
it were talking about Matthew here today.
So we'll just stick with that and refer to the other, they're
on there. So if you don't mind there, but
he's in this house preaching and everybody, the house is packed
and I can imagine the windows, there's people looking in the
windows there and you can't get in.
And so there's four men, there's four men who bring their friend
to Jesus to be healed and they can't get in the house because
of all the crowd and so they go up on top of the house, they
take a look. It's the roof tiles and they let
him down in front of Jesus. And there, the Bible says, verse
to a Matthew 9 Jesus said to the palsy to the paralyzed, man, son
be of good. Cheer, your sins are forgiven
you, oh, the Pharisees and the scribes or the scribes that were
sitting nearby. They think this notice notice,
they don't speak it out loud. They just think this.
They think within themselves, this man, blasphemes Mark says,
who can forgive sins, but God only.
And so, here's what they're saying, he's got, he's got to be
a blasphemer because who can forgive sins, but God only and
you know what, they're exactly right there.
Exactly right. That Jesus is blaspheming
because only God forgive his sins, the only way he is not.
Blaspheming is if he is God. So their interpretation is
right. Their application is wrong.
And so that's how that's the truth here in this.
So Jesus, then next it says, he knew their thoughts.
They did not have to say, he knew what they were thinking, he
replies to their thoughts. He says, which do you think?
Is it better? Just what, why do you think evil
in your hearts notice? They had applied it wrong.
Their interpretation was right. That he was a blasphemer, unless
he was God. Only God can forgive sins.
What should their conclusion be? That conclusion should have been
that. He was God, he was the son of
God here but that did not they that but that was not their
conclusion that was not their application.
Their weather, is it easier to say your sins, be forgiven thee,
or to say arise and walk, but so that you may know that the son
of man has power on Earth to forgive sins.
He says the sick of the palsy, take up your rise, take up your
bed and go to your own house. And the people were amazed.
They said they glorify God who had given such power unto men.
The son of man here proved himself at this point through
the Miracles that he did here in this town, that gentle heater
showed that he was not just a Healer.
But that he was God on Earth because he said it's the same.
It's the same healing this man, or forgiving sins.
It's the same so that you may know that I have power on Earth
to forgive sins, that was the same called him to rise.
Take up his bed and walk. Let's skip on down here, a
little ways in Matthew, the 9th chapter, and we turn over here
to the next page of my Bible. Verse 18 and verse 18.
It says here he is still in Ian, it says while he spake these
things unto them. Behold there came a certain
ruler, a certain ruler worshipped him and said my
daughter is even now dead. This is also a mark in Luke's
account and this Jew this ruler as we not understand, his name
is Jarius or Jiraiya. So I'm not sure exactly how to
pronounce that, but Jarius comes to him.
And he is at says, he is a ruler ruler.
We understand that he was a ruler of the synagogue.
He was The chief people, perhaps the chief person in the
synagogue there in Capernaum or in a synagogue in Capernaum, he
was the one who organized, who organized and carried out
carried out their services, there he was the ruler of the
synagogue in that point. So he comes to him, he comes to
the gentle healer and he expressed his faith in him.
He says, my daughter is even now dead.
Mark and Luke's account. Says she Lay Dying.
So he speaking concerning the SS that was happening here and he
says, Jesus came arose and followed him with his disciples.
And so here you see the different ways in which Jesus
works miracles, one. He dialed it in there from the
Centurion son here. He you know, he to Peters
mother-in-law. He goes touches her hand to the
sick of the palsy. He says, your sins are forgiven
you all this here and here, here here Jesus, again says I'm going
to come I'm going to come And heal her.
And so he arose and followed him, his disciples, his
disciples, his they the disciples, some of whom he
called there in Capernaum. They come in with him as well.
And while they're on the way to do this miracle, while they're
on the way to visit this little 12 year, old girl who is in the
process of dying. It's not that she was bad sake.
She was dying and she was dead. But while they're on the way to
do a miracle behold, another miracle breaks out What was it
in? Princess Bride at Duane within a
dream here. We have a miracle within a
miracle. And so, as Jesus is going
through the streets of Capernaum with crowds everywhere all
around him, there, this is Behold a woman, which was
disease with an issue of blood. Twelve years came behind him and
touched the Hem of His Garment. So she comes up behind him.
He does not see her. She comes up behind him touches
the border of His Garment. Now, I'm assuming it's about,
you know, down down by his ankle.
There may have been his coat the The the touch but he touches her
and there's people everywhere touching him.
The other accounts say that what do you hear?
Everybody is touching you. And so Jesus, turns around,
Jesus turns around to first, see her.
And says the other accounts say who touched me is like and the
disciples say, well, there's so many people here.
How can you say, who touched me? And so he turns around to her
and I think it's fascinating because earlier, there in the
chapter he knew the thaw Thoughts of the scribes Hearts
here. He asked who it was a touched
me, who it was at touch me. So here he knows it all here.
Apparently, it seems like he may not know it all here in this
probably he's asking this so that they will confess.
So that there will be a confession there.
And she said, within herself, if I may touch His Garment, I Shall
Behold Jesus turned about when he saw her and said daughter be
of good Comfort. Your faith has made you whole
Now, what's going on here? We understand from the other
accounts, that, as she said, as it says here, she had had this
disease, is probably a hemorrhaging ovary or something
of that sort. 12 years, she had gone to doctors, she had not
just gone to one doctor. She'd gone to many doctors and
she had spent everything that she had all of her money on it.
And the Bible says, they had not helped her, they had made it
worse, they had made it worse and some of the Significance of
this 12 long years of this bleeding disorder and that's,
that's all of your energy is zaps all of your Vitality to do
that. That's one thing that happened.
But another thing that happened was that a woman who had a
bleeding disorder, according to the, according to the old
Covenant law to according the book of numbers of am not
mistaken that she was considered, ceremoniously
unclean. She could not see if you're
ceremoniously unclean, you can't touch anybody or they become
unclean. You can't go into the temple or
they could not go into the synagogue here.
They would be separated from that.
She had been separated for 12 years.
So her spiritual life was great different, great difficulty
there. You know, all those people, you
know, somebody sick and you don't see them at church.
That's wonder you know you're going to see him the next time,
right. Well, you don't see him again
and again and again sometimes you begin to wonder about their
faith and sometimes that's, you know, that's kind of how we are.
Here was a woman who had been absent from the synagogue absent
from the religious gatherings for 12 years.
So one of the people think about her.
Well, you can just surmise you can guess that doesn't say what
they thought about her, but you can guess what?
That was this woman because of her sickness, because of her
illness. She could not have close
contact, even In with her husband, there she could not
have children. And so you see here that she's
isolated socially, she's isolated spiritually, she's
isolated often times from her family here in this and it's
extremely difficult thing. And so has she lost her faith?
No, she hasn't. Because she says, if I can Touch
the Hem of His Garment, I'll be made whole I'll be made whole,
why in the world would she do that?
You know, the Bible says, and one of the other account says
that Us felt some virtue go out of him in that.
And who did this, who touched me?
And she was terrified terrified here.
She was very frightened here and shook here because of this.
Now, I would suggest to you that there is a reason why she
touched the Hem of His Garment. And I believe it has to do with
something. That is a very minor Prophecy in
the old Covenant in the Old Testament.
If you turn in your Bibles to the last prophet, in the Old
Testament, to the last book of the Old Testament, to the last
chapter of the last book of the Old Testament.
You find the Book of Malachi, Malachi, the fourth chapter.
And look at what it says in. Malachi chapter 4 and verse to
Malachi 4 and verse 2. It says this, it says, but Unto
you, that fear, my name, shall the sun of righteousness, arise
with healing in his wings and you shall go forth and grow up
as calves of the stall. Now, this is obviously, this is
deemed to be a Prophecy of the Messiah.
But here the gentle healer it speaks of the gentle healer here
in this the son of righteousness shall arise with healing in his
wings and you can almost picture that that healing somehow know
some large bird with healing in his wings there.
But I would suggest to you. That that may not be what we
might think of that may not be exactly what.
It's expressing their healing in his wings.
The Hebrew word that's translated Wings.
There's translated a number of things in scriptures translated
wings wings of a bird. Genesis one talks about the
winged fowl Genesis, where talked about Noah Gathering the
animals. The wing, the wing foul winged
animals were gathered there. It's talks about the wings of
cherubims in the Old Testament, as well as their talks about the
corners of the Earth was a passage there, the wings of
corners of the earth there. R but there are passages are
places in scripture where it talks about the borders of a
garment, if you will, if you will look in numbers, I'm not
mistaken numbers the yes. Number of the 15th chapter In
verse 38 speaking to the children of Israel, God says, to
Moses speaking to the shoulder bid them that they make
themselves, that they make them fringes on the borders of their
garments borders. There's the same one that has
wings in Malachi 4, verse 2. Same word that they make fringes
on the borders of their garments throughout their Generations,
that they may put the fringes of the borders.
That's the same word again use there.
A ribbon to Blue, and it may be as a fringe that when that you
may look on it, and remember the Commandments of the Lord Jesus,
that they seek, not after your own.
So anyway, so on and so forth. But here was the commander to
the Israelites that they would put borders on their garments.
And that's that word Wings, Malachi 4, verse 2, This is also
the passage that in. Where's my reference?
Where's my reference in First Kings?
And First Kings, the First Kings, the 15th First, Kings,
the 15th chapter verse 27, when Saul told, our when Samuel told
Saul that you are rejected as king over Israel, Samuel turns
away from him, saw grabs, all, and glazed hold.
It says his mantle and tears, His Garment tears, the border,
the Hem of His Garment off. That's that word there.
That's that word, translated wings and Malachi.
That's also the word that's used later in first Samuel, when
remember when, when Saul is chasing David and Saul goes and
hides, in goes and relaxes takes his, he's in a cave, David is in
that cave. David sneaks up and cuts off a
corner of his robe there. That word is used there at that
place use, not only that, but on just once but three different
times right there, that word that word the wing So, I would
suggest to you, that it might be that this woman who some people
would question, perhaps questioned her faith.
Had great faith, had great faith.
In the words of scripture, and in, what was said, in scripture
healing in his fringes, in the borders of his garments healing
in his wings and she said, if I can just touch the border of His
Garment, I shall be healed. And Jesus said, who touched me?
And then he said, unto her daughter be of good Comfort.
Your faith has made you whole, what was it about her faith?
That made her whole, was it simply the power of I think it
can happen? I think it can happen.
No, I think it was claiming the prophecy.
The Fulfillment of that prophecy there.
Your faith. In the prophecy of God about me
has made you whole and we find another passages there in the
New Testament in that in the gospel accounts that there They
brought their people came to him and they touch the borders of
His Garment, the Hem of His Garment and they were healed.
So I think it's a matter of Faith, a matter of faith, in
what the scripture says, not just the matter of the power of
someone's Faith. The exercise of it as a force
itself, but it's their faith in what scripture says.
And so she was healed. She was healed from that moment
on and now we go back to the miracle.
That first, we started with here, Jesus is on his way to the
rulers house. The ruler of the synagogue's.
When he came into the rulers house, he saw the minstrels and
the people making a noise there. Apparently, the cheapest of
people had to hire a few flute players and had to hire
professional, mourners to come and to, you know, to play music
and to, and to mourn at this. And so, this is what was taking
place here. They were already there, they
informed him that she is dead. They had informed that she is
already dead, and Jesus says, give Place.
Make room for the maid is not dead, but sleeps And they
laughed him to Scorn, the scripture says there.
And so, when they put the people out, Jesus goes in with her
mother and father and I believe about three, Three of his
closest disciples. He goes, he takes her by the
hand and the maid arose in the fame, their of went abroad and
all women. So here, you see, the gentle
healer. Raises people from the dead.
The gentle healer raise people from the dead because as Jesus
said in Matthew orange on the 11th, John the 11th chapter,
when he raised Lazarus from the dead.
He said this, he said because I am the resurrection and the
life. There, John, 8:11, inverse,
where are we John? 11 verse 25.
I am the resurrection and the life and he that believes in me
though, Though he were dead yet, shall he?
Live and whoever lives and Believes In Me and Ami and me
shall never die. Believe us down this.
And so this is Jesus, this is the gentle healer showing that
he has power over death, power over death.
Because he will raise people. He raises people from the dead
notice here in this, that, Jesus touches these people, Jesus
touches. These people, he touches the
woman who had the issue of blood.
What would happen? If someone touch this woman who
had an issue of blood, they would be ceremoniously unclean.
Their be ceremonially unclean until the evening, then they
would wash. And sometimes they would offer a
sacrifice have to offer sacrifice their according to Old
Covenant law, but they would be unbe made in clean by touching
her. Someone who touches a dead body.
They were also ceremoniously unclean.
Jesus makes, no makes no shame about.
It makes no, hesitation, he's not afraid for the woman to
touch him. He is not afraid to touch a dead
body, because here's what Jesus does Jesus by his touch, makes
the unclean clean. He reserved, he reversed the
natural order of how things would be.
He did not become unclean, but he made them clean, he made
them, hold, he made them alive there in that.
And that's what we see here in this.
And so, those G, the gentle healer goes to them, goes to
them. And he is like no other because
this with his touch, he heals you and he makes you whole here
in this Matthew, the ninth chapter their verses 20 and 21
here. Here in Capernaum.
Again, the gentle healer, the Bible says that he leaves and he
goes down the road. A ways two, Blind Men, follow
him, crying verse 27, son of David, have mercy on us.
And so these are not just haphazard words they say, but
they cry out to him as the son of David.
Now, I suppose you could say, If people could trace their
genealogies and they did, they could say, there might be many
people who are ancestors or whose ancestry can trace their
ancestry back to David, But what they're saying about him is that
you are the son of David and the son of David here in this
context is the son of David who would be raised up and sit on
his throne the son of David is the Messiah so these men call to
him as the son of David. You are the king of Israel, you
are the Messiah and what do they ask for?
They ask have mercy on me, have mercy on us.
Us. What's the response to Mercy
response to Mercy is compassion? And that's what we're seeing
here in all of the works that the gentle healer is doing his
compassion, for those who are suffering, who are in straights,
and who are having great difficulties as it said from
Isaiah, he bore our sicknesses and carried our sorrows in this
is the compassion of the lord of the Lord.
Notice over here in verse 36 of Matthew 9, when he saw the
multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them because they
fainted and were scattered. It abroad as sheep, having no
Shepherd. So, these men cry out, son of
David, great, testimony of Faith, great statement of faith,
have mercy on us. They asked they beg for him to
have mercy. And Jesus walks on, apparently.
Because he doesn't reply to them, he goes back to the house.
He goes inside the house. And they're left behind.
But notice next year, what happens here, and when he was
come into the house, the Blind Men came to him.
Oh, he leaves them outside, but they find their way inside.
They come to him. And Jesus says, then believe
you, that I am able to do this. And they say, yay Lord!
Yes! Lord, you can do this.
He touched their eyes saying according to your faith.
Be it unto you. According to your faith, be it
unto, you does that leave. Like okay, with one man has two
Blind Men there. One has great faith when has a
little faith and so this man gets perfect vision, this one is
only cured in one eye, according to your faith, you know, have a
no, no, that's not it, that's not what they're saying.
Their faith was son of David have mercy on us Messiah, you
can heal us, please heal us, according to your faith.
Be it unto you. And I would like to suggest to,
you hear that, what we see here, the gentle healer doing is G.
The gentle healer is doing a unique Miracle among the sons of
men. That this was a unique Miracle
of the Messiah. Healing, someone who was born
blind if you turn to Matthew or touch or not Matthew to John the
ninth chapter John, the ninth chapter, you have an entire
chapter, we're not going to go through all of that there but
John the ninth chapter, here is a man who was born blind.
And that, the first of the chapter kind of the Preamble of
it, the disciples come to Jesus and says, who sinned?
This, man. Standard did his parents sin
that he was born blind. And Jesus simply says this, he
says neither. Neither has he sent or did they
sinned but he was born blind so that the works of God should be
made manifest in him. You know, the a simple way to
boil that down his. This man was born blind so I can
heal him today. That's what he's basically
saying. And so Jesus, then heals him.
He says he makes he spits on the ground and he takes that spit.
And he mixes it with the dirt, the dust and he makes some clay
out of it and puts it on the Man's eyes.
And he says, Go and wash a said, go and wash in the pool of
Siloam and so he does it. He comes back and he comes
seeing he comes see. Now it's interesting here, the
gentle healer can heal. However, he wants to, he can
heal dial it in as we said, he can heal by speaking forgiveness
of sins, he can heal by touching with the hand.
He can heal by being touched and here he can heal with spit and
mud. They're heal the eyes of one,
born blind, but this causes a big brouhaha there on that
occasion. And John the John, the Night
chapter because this was done on the Sabbath day.
And so the Jews say this, man, is healing on the Sabbath day.
We know that he is not of God because he, he is, he is working
on the Sabbath day. Not only was he healing, but he
makes he's making mud, and he's putting on people's eyes here on
this. And so, they, they make a big
deal out of It's a even implicate, his parents in it
there, and they implicate him, they come to him and they say,
what do you know about this man? What can you say about him?
And the they say they reviled him verse 28 and said, you are
his disciple to the blind man to formally blind, man, you're a
follower of this man who is not from God because he heals on the
Sabbath day. We know that, but we are Moses
disciple. We know that God spoke to Moses
as for this fellow. Though, we don't know where he
came from, we don't know what his source of authority is.
Now, here the blind man. Teaches his teachers.
The blind man teaches his teachers.
In those days it was difficult and I understand it was his very
difficult for a blind man. To get an education, like others
would be most of his education. Obviously, he could not read the
books that were there. He had to have someone else read
into them or he could not hear a, he could not do many, of the
things that the others would do. He would hear and learn at the
synagogue there, where these Pharisees were, these Jews were
probably prominent citizens there in the synagogue.
And so here's what he says, I'm to the Jews and to the Jewish
leaders, then he says we're here in is a marvelous thing.
This is amazing. He says, we know not from which
he is and yet he has opened my eyes.
You don't know where he comes from and yet he's opened my
eyes. Listen to his logical reasoning
here next. He says, now we know number one,
that God hears, not Sinners. But if any man be a worshiper of
God and do it this hill, it is, Will him he heareth.
Now this is the formerly blind man.
Who says this to the Jewish leaders there in his town.
He says What he learned that God doesn't hear sinners.
But if any man be worse with God and do some does his will he
hears that? Where'd you learn that from?
He learned it from them, then the ones who teach you, And then
secondly he says since the world began verse 32 was it not heard
that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.
That's the second thing he says, it has never been done since the
beginning of the world. Someone opened the eyes of one
that was born blind, And then he says, if this man were not of
God, he could do nothing. Very logical what he is
thinking. If he's a sinner as you say, God
wouldn't hear him, no one opens. The eyes of someone born blind.
If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.
But let's talk about that. Just a little bit what it says
they're about the opening of the eyes of the one that was born
blind. If you turn to the Book of Luke,
Luke the fourth chapter please we'll go right there and Luke
the fourth chapter Jesus goes into Nazareth, goes into the
synagogue of and as sorry. I thought I had this Mark but
maybe I did. Goes into the synagogue on the
Sabbath day and the Bible says, what he does.
He goes into the synagogue and he is doing the reading of
scripture that day. My understanding was that most
often that he is reading was not just a random scripture, but it
was, this was their organized. This is an organized system of
reading scripture, and so the Bible says he, Gabrielle right
chapter to read this. Look for in verse 17, there it
was delivered in him. The book, The Scroll from the
book of Isaiah which he had opened the book, he found the
place where it was written. This was the reading for the
day. This is from Isaiah, 61 verses 1
and 2. Here's what he reads.
He says, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has
anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.
He has sent me. Me to heal the brokenhearted to
preach Deliverance to the captives, the recovering of
sight to the blind to set at Liberty, them that are bruised
to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
So that's his text to verses from the Old Testament to
prophecies from the Old Testament and he closes the book
gives it to you know the that synagogues version of Jarius
there, the president, the leader of the synagogue gives it to
him. Gives it to the minister.
It says he sat down and so he would stand to read scripture
and sit down to deliver the message.
There about expound upon the scripture.
He sets down the eyes of all of them were in the congregation
were fastened on him, and he began To teach them this day.
Is this scripture fulfilled in your ears?
I wanted to look at what something I had here.
And that is that one translation says this, I am the Fulfillment
of this scripture. I'm sorry.
My chicken scratching here is not good enough here so I cannot
see this. Oh here's what the is V says.
This day, this scripture is fulfilled as you have heard it
red. This scripture has been
fulfilled as you have. Heard it read The Gentle healer,
here tells the people of his own town.
I am the Fulfillment of that prophecy there.
If you turn over there again, in Luke, the 7th chapter, just a
couple of pages over there. You find a time in which Jesus
is working miracles and doing things.
John has been cast John. The Baptist has been thrown into
prison. He sends a couple of his
disciples to Jesus with a question.
He said, are you he that should come or should we look for
another? Are you the Messiah or should we
look for another? I don't think John had doubts
about who the Messiah was because John was the one who
announced the Messiah Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the
sin of the world. I don't think John John, I don't
think John lost his faith there, but I think John is saying to
him. If you're the Messiah come out
and tell people come out and tell him come out and say it,
and here's what Jesus reply is to his two disciples.
He says Jesus answering said of them verse 22, go your way and
tell John what things you have seen and heard.
So Jesus here during his ministry, he was not about
carrying banners saying, I am the Messiah, he was not about
that, that's not what he was doing.
And that's not what he was going to do.
But rather what he was doing, was he saying?
I'm throwing the evidence out there.
I'm healing the palsy man. He said, I'm telling him, your
sins are forgiven. I'm raising people from the
dead. I am healing people from a
distance. I'm healing those who touch me?
I'm doing all these things. What?
Is that that is evidence of who I am.
And this is what he says here to John's disciples here.
He says go your way. I'll tell John the things you've
seen in her house. That the blind, see the blind,
see the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the
dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them
and blessed he who is not who is not offended in me.
So, the words The Works that Jesus did that was the testimony
about him as the Messiah. That's what it was.
And so the gentle healer here. This was a unique miracle that
the Messiah would do nobody else heals the, the eyes of someone
that was born blind, we have some who were healing.
Some who had been blind later. Remember ananias came in and
touch Saul and the scales fell off his eyes later.
Paul makes a man blind for three days there.
I guess that's a little reverse there, but it's not someone who
was born, blind only Jesus. The Messiah would do that and
I'm going to side I did it. And so back in John the ninth
chapter, when this formally blind, man tells you know, God
doesn't hear sinners. Nobody hears nobody from from
the beginning of the world, nobody heals.
The one that was born, blind. If this man were not from God,
he could do nothing. And the Bible says, and when
they heard this, they answered and said unto him.
You were all together born in sin.
Do you teach us? Were the teachers and you're
trying to teach us. Now, what they learned it, when
he learned that he learned it from them.
Their interpretation was correct, their application was
wrong. Their application was wrong.
Do you teach us and they cast him out?
They cast him out of the synagogue.
So let's go on before, we way, way before we belabor your your
your courtesy here. Let's look then.
After this, after this it says so Jesus healed them according
to your faith, be it unto. You is what he says.
In verse 29 of Matthew 92, these two Blind Men According to your
faith. Your faith in me, is the Son of
God. Your faith in me as the Messiah,
your faith in me as the Fulfillment of scripture, they
may not have thought about Isaiah 62, healing the one
who's, you know, the blind one, healing of the blind, but they
had faith in him as the Messiah, according to your faith, be it
unto you. And this is what the Messiah
doesn't. And so, I will heal the Brian
there and their eyes were open and they Jesus straitly, charged
them saying, don't tell anybody. But they went out and they told
Body basically is what it was and as they went out, behold,
they brought it to him, the dumb, the mute man, possessed
with a demon and when the devil was cast out of him, the mute
man, that dumb man, spake and the multitudes marveled saying
it was never seen in Israel, but the Pharisees says he cast out
Devils through the prince of devils.
And Jesus went about all the cities and Villages teaching in
their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and
healing every sickness. Sickness, and every disease
among the people. And so it talks about the
completeness of what the Messiah did, the completeness of what
the gentle healer did he healed every disease and every sickness
among the people but you know, he did not raise all the people
from the dead along the countryside.
He raised the people from the dead that he came in contact
with, he did not heal, all the people who are disease, because
there were other people that were diseased.
There was a lame man in Acts the syntax of the third chapter
there. Jesus didn't heal him during his
ministry. He was a lane, man.
He didn't heal everybody there. But he'll those that he came in
contact with why, so they can bear their infirmities and carry
their weaknesses as the prophet. Isaiah said, also, here in this,
this is that there will be a time in which Jesus will will
raise all of those from the dead Jesus said.
In Matthew the fifth chapter verses 28 and 29.
He said, Marvel, not at this, for the hour is coming in, which
all who are in the graves, shall hear his voice and shall come
forth. They that have done good to the
resurrection of Life, they that have done evil to the
resurrection of damnation. This is what the gentle healer
says. This is what the gentle healer
was pointing to by his miracles. That he was of God, he was the
son of God and that he could in that he was the one who could
bear their weaknesses, their abilities, and also, and also
would do that someday raised people all of those from the day
and acts the second chapter in Acts.
The second chapter when Peter is preaching on the day of
Pentecost to the Jews. Here's what he says about the
gentle healer at this. He says, you mean of men of
Galilee permit, not that you men of Israel.
Hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God
among you a man proven by God among you.
By Miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in
the midst of you as you yourselves.
Also, no, He said these miracles signs and wonders which God did
through Jesus, this was his proof.
This was God's proof that Jesus was the Messiah.
And he makes it so plain to them.
He did them in your midst. That would have been enough.
It seems like God did them in your midst.
As you yourselves in the midst of you.
He says as you yourselves also know he did it and you know he
did it here again. They understood it.
They did not apply it. They did not apply it to their
lives and so they were Wicked people because of that.
He says, then you took him by Wicked hands.
You crucified you slew him and he said in God has raised him up
having loosed. The Pains of death was caused
impossible, that he should be held by there's some moments
more things we could say. About the gentle healer but the
gentle healer has compassion on people.
The gentle healer has compassion on you how wonderful it would be
for the gentle healer to be here today.
And to heal those who are sick, they're those probably who have
sicknesses that we can't see that.
You don't may have not have shared with anyone.
There are those who have loved ones who have sicknesses and
illnesses. Those are though there are those
who have lost loved ones. Wouldn't it be amazing for the
gentle healer to be here and touch those people and raise
them up from to touch those with tumors or those with illnesses
and those sicknesses and and heal them.
I would love to have the general.
He would come and poke his finger in my ear, as he did in
the Book of Mark there. And and, you know, make my ear
to work there, but he's not going to.
He's not going to not here, but honey will do is you will help
me to hear his word. He will help me to see his
truth. He will Me to have life through
him and he will give me life through him.
And so that's what the gentle healer can do.
And that's what the measurement Ministry of the gentle healer is
even today. Giving us hope giving us healing
giving us, he mean in our lives and hope of the resurrection of
the Dead, through our belief and through our obedience to him.
So this morning, if you are here in your need of the gentle
healer, If your life needs healing, if your life needs to
be put back on the right track, if you need to make your life,
right? Won't you come today Believing
on the son of David, the Lord, the Messiah, Jesus.
The gentle healer, make your faith known be immersed in water
for the remission of your sins and and and then you can rise to
walk in a new life, New Life as a scripture teaches there.
If you're here, you need need to obey the gospel.
Won't you come if you hear you need to return to the Lord.
Won't you come as we stand and seen the invitation song?
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