1 00:00:09,090 --> 00:00:17,050 Thank you brother. Testimony, praise, gratitude, 2 00:00:17,050 --> 00:00:19,290 Thanksgiving. It just shifts everything, 3 00:00:19,290 --> 00:00:21,650 doesn't it? Shifts perspective. 4 00:00:22,130 --> 00:00:24,810 I can find plenty of problems. I mean, if we had a gripe 5 00:00:24,810 --> 00:00:27,450 session, I could have led the charge for sure on that one. 6 00:00:28,450 --> 00:00:32,689 I mean, let me tell y'all, you know, like, but I don't want to 7 00:00:32,689 --> 00:00:35,680 be an expert in griping. I don't want to be an expert in 8 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:41,160 complaining or whining. I want to wind up the chain of 9 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:45,240 command to the Lord, cast my cares on him and then actually 10 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:47,760 trust him and depend upon him. And yes, I can come to you for 11 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:51,840 prayer and support, but not to just not to just forget that 12 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:54,680 there is a God. I think it was is it Martin 13 00:00:54,680 --> 00:01:01,440 Luther's wife who he came home. So this is in 1500s. 14 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:05,880 So he came home one day, very, very busy man trying not to be 15 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:08,120 murdered and by the Catholic Church, you know, trying to, you 16 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:12,760 know, spread the gospel, very, very active role in the body of 17 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:14,480 Christ. And obviously we're thankful for 18 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:19,080 him still to this day and the way that he has shaped theology 19 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:23,160 back to the Scriptures. But he was also given over to 20 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:28,960 melancholy and discouragement, which is kind of a, you didn't 21 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:32,720 have to say that it's a pastor thing, but it can be a pastor 22 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:36,400 thing at times. So he came home one day and his 23 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:40,160 wife greeted him at the door and she was wearing funeral of a 24 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:42,800 funeral gown, like whatever that would look like, you know, But 25 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:45,480 it was very, you know, it was very officially back then, like 26 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:46,600 you knew what you were dressed for. 27 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,760 And he opened the door and he goes, who died? 28 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:53,880 And she goes, I thought God died based off the way you've been 29 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:58,960 behaving lately and and and he and he, he laughs. 30 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:02,240 And that was one season where, you know, she broke him out of 31 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:05,200 his funk because she was like, well, I was convinced that God 32 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,880 had died because of the way that you've been carrying yourself, 33 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:12,080 pastor. So my point was gratitude 34 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:14,080 blesses us. Gratitude strengthens us. 35 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:17,720 It shifts our perspective and go God, you're so good, you're so 36 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:19,640 faithful. Are there's things that we still 37 00:02:19,640 --> 00:02:21,960 want to stand on his promises for the things we haven't seen 38 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:25,280 yet, of course. And also let's make sure we're 39 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:27,880 starting with praise with Thanksgiving, with gratitude. 40 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:30,440 So what a good way that our hearts are now prepared. 41 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:35,880 We're in Matthew 15. So we took a break for Christmas 42 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:38,880 the week before that. Remember, Jesus was entire and 43 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:42,760 Sidon, he had met the Canaanite woman, he or my daughter. 44 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:45,560 Jesus says, Nah, I'm not going to do that. 45 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:47,080 Why did he do it? He was testing her. 46 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:51,120 He wanted to heal her daughter. He wanted to bless this woman, 47 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:55,600 but he also drew her nearer to him and she was rewarded because 48 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:59,080 of it. But now we're in 15 chapter, 49 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:04,760 chapter 15, verse 29. Jesus went on from there and 50 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,120 walked beside the Sea of Galilee, and he went up on the 51 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:12,400 mountain and sat down there. And great crowds came to him, 52 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,600 bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, 53 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,160 and many others. And they put them at his feet. 54 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:24,880 And he healed them so that the crowd wondered when they saw the 55 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:28,920 mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and 56 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:32,240 the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of 57 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:35,360 Israel. Yeah, we bring you glory even as 58 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:36,880 we've shared testimonies of praise. 59 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:38,640 And there are many other things we could have said. 60 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:42,480 It helps us, God, to be drawn into worship. 61 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:45,400 I pray that we would not just say, wow, look at what the Lord 62 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,400 has done, but I pray we would also say, and therefore we 63 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:50,520 worship you. We continue to honor you. 64 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,360 We continue to glorify you. Draw us nearer to you this 65 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,240 morning because of all that you've done and because of who 66 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:58,240 you are. And also God, I pray that you 67 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:01,640 would pour out your healing power upon this church, that we 68 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:05,120 would experience New Testament Christianity among us, that we 69 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:08,720 would experience New Testament Christianity through us, so that 70 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:11,520 it would be a, a powerful and profound example in our 71 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:13,960 services. But even beyond that, God that 72 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:17,600 we would carry out the power in the presence as missionaries and 73 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:21,000 as ministers to the to the world around us, to the loved ones, to 74 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,160 the friends, to the enemies, to every place you would send us 75 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,360 for influence, glorify your name and help us to bring people to 76 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:32,920 your feet in Jesus name, Amen. So Jesus left tyrant side and 77 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:36,680 remembered north of Israel. And now he's come many miles 78 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:40,160 back down South, many, many, many miles, you know, 40 plus 79 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,440 miles. He's come back down to the Sea 80 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:45,640 of Galilee. He is in in among the Jews. 81 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:49,040 Now he comes and he sits down. If you'll remember back in 82 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,280 chapter 5, the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus sits down. 83 00:04:52,280 --> 00:04:54,200 That was a common thing. He sits down to teach. 84 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:57,200 So oftentimes the rabbi would sit and teach and everybody else 85 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:58,760 would stand. I told you we ought to do that 86 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:00,840 around here. I should get to sit down and all 87 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:03,520 y'all stand up while I preach. I don't, I don't know if I could 88 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:05,800 get that to fly, but that's what they did. 89 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,600 So Jesus sits down on the mountainside, as was his way 90 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,280 probably to teach. And now here come thousands. 91 00:05:12,280 --> 00:05:16,120 Remember, we are definitely, definitely in the last third of 92 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,040 his ministry. I would say very probably in the 93 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:22,680 last quarter of his ministry. He knows that time is drawing 94 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:25,520 short, like I said before. Well, we're only halfway through 95 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:26,840 the book of Matthew, roughly, yeah. 96 00:05:26,840 --> 00:05:29,840 But when we get to 21, we're like in the last seven days. 97 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:33,600 So we cover a lot there at the end, and we're getting closer 98 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:37,760 and closer to that. So his fame is everywhere. 99 00:05:37,840 --> 00:05:41,160 Everybody's heard of somebody who's been healed by Jesus. 100 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:45,680 The testimonies are crazy. You've seen that crippled person 101 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:49,040 your whole life, and now they're not crippled. 102 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,840 You saw that person who you knew was dying like this has spread 103 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:55,760 all over the place. But people still have to live 104 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:57,040 lives. They still have to work. 105 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:58,200 They still have to feed their families. 106 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:01,240 So not everybody has walked away from everything to follow him. 107 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,280 And yet still when they can, when they can make exceptions, 108 00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:06,080 they go. The Lord is doing something. 109 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,160 Many have begun to believe and say this is the Messiah. 110 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,040 Of course, the Pharisees have fought against that truth, which 111 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,880 is why Jesus put them on blast over and over in front of 112 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:18,240 everybody. But now he sits down, probably 113 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:20,200 to teach like he did for the Sermon on the Mount. 114 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:22,280 And now people are brought to him. 115 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:27,120 Great crowds came to him. How many people you know, I'm so 116 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:28,840 thankful for. And we're going to get into 117 00:06:28,840 --> 00:06:31,600 another testimony next week where Jesus feeds the 4000. 118 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:34,880 He already fed the 5000 plus. Could have been 20,000, could 119 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:37,880 have been 25,000 because it said it was just 5000 men. 120 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:40,160 So it wouldn't have included the women and children that would 121 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:41,640 have very definitely been with them. 122 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:45,080 I'm so thankful though, for those two passages to say it was 123 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:46,840 this many thousand. It was that many thousand. 124 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:49,960 Because if we didn't have those, we would kind of be like, oh, a 125 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:53,000 great crowd came and we're like, is that 300 people? 126 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:55,600 Is that 400 people? Maybe it's 1000 people. 127 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,840 Like it's a ton. It's thousands and thousands and 128 00:06:58,840 --> 00:06:59,480 thousands. So much. 129 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:00,680 So the disciples can't count them. 130 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,160 They don't know, but they're just saying it's, it's a great 131 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:07,480 crowd. And they brought to him they've 132 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:11,480 or they brought with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, 133 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:17,040 the mute, and many others. And they put them at his feet. 134 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,960 So I'm going to be brief with our message this morning and 135 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:24,400 then we are going to take time to pray together for healing. 136 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:28,680 Verse 30, it references the lame mini lame. 137 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:31,880 What is lame refer to? Lame refers to any issue with 138 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:34,880 walking. It could be a limp, it could be 139 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:36,960 a maimed foot, it could be an injured knee. 140 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:40,120 It it includes anything and everything pertaining to 141 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,800 walking. And then he says the blind. 142 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:44,960 Matthew says the blind were healed. 143 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:47,880 This would include anything pertaining to the eyes. 144 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:52,160 The Holy Spirit doesn't have the Gospel writers go into extreme 145 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:55,520 detail because Jesus is healing thousands of people all the 146 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:57,240 time. So what he's doing is 147 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,840 emphasizing the ones that seem the most spectacular to people 148 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,720 because obviously everything under that would be included. 149 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:08,720 The Lord did this thing that seemed impossible to us. 150 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:09,680 Well, did he do that? Wait. 151 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:12,160 Yeah, He did that. Of course he did that. 152 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:14,000 Well, I don't have that great of a need. 153 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:15,680 Well, then yours is easily covered. 154 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:19,440 By the way, the great need is also easily covered. 155 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:22,320 The lesser need is also easily covered. 156 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:25,360 The crippled. This refers to anyone who is 157 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:30,120 crooked or bent, and it could also be used in place of lame. 158 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:34,520 So people with back injuries, people with deformities, you 159 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:36,799 name it. Someone who is mute. 160 00:08:37,039 --> 00:08:40,799 This includes any and all speech issues as well as hearing 161 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:42,600 issues. So I would think mute. 162 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:44,840 That just means they don't speak, but that was also used to 163 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:47,840 refer to issues of hearing. So they can't hear well, they 164 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:49,600 can't see well. Like what's going on? 165 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:51,360 Do they have to be completely blind? 166 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:55,800 Jesus heals them all over and over and over and over and over. 167 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,280 You should expect and know what He wants to do because He's done 168 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:01,120 it. He wants to do the same thing 169 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:03,360 for you. Any list of healings in the 170 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,600 Scriptures is not to be read and search for what's not there. 171 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,400 That is not the way you go to a list of healings and you go, 172 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,120 they did this, they did this, Oh, the thing I needed wasn't 173 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:15,440 listed. That would be reading it wrong. 174 00:09:15,680 --> 00:09:18,120 What's what we're supposed to do when we come across a list of 175 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:20,240 healings? We're to rejoice over them 176 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:22,920 because the Holy Spirit wanted to show, like I said, the most 177 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:27,160 extreme cases are covered. So obviously everything else is 178 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:30,000 included, thousands and thousands and thousands of 179 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,400 people coming to Jesus and they're being brought to his 180 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:35,200 feet and they're being healed. How does he heal each of them? 181 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,440 We don't know. We don't know what his most 182 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:39,880 common practice was. Throughout the New Testament, 183 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:43,040 throughout our gospels, we see all kinds of unique exceptions. 184 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:48,240 He spits in the dirt, makes mud, and rubs it in a man's eyes. 185 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:50,400 Is that the way you heal the blind? 186 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,640 Is that the formula you and I can follow to heal every person 187 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:56,000 with vision issues? I would recommend not. 188 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:59,480 I would recommend being led by the Holy Spirit, no matter how 189 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:02,280 ridiculous it seems. Obey the Holy Spirit, it'll be 190 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:04,760 the right thing. Or it could be, I don't know. 191 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:06,960 How did he heal? Person after person after person 192 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:09,160 after person? It's not that important. 193 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:12,240 What's important is that the will of God is being revealed 194 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:15,480 again and again and again. God healed. 195 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,800 God heals. This reveals His will. 196 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:20,440 I've preached many sermons to you on healing. 197 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:24,000 I'm going to continue to do so with joy and without apology, 198 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:25,760 but I'm going to continue moving fast. 199 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,600 This morning, verse 30, great crowds came to him, bringing 200 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:32,800 with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many 201 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:35,600 others. That's where all the other 202 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:37,280 things were included. Well, I don't have that, but I 203 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:38,880 have that. Well, you're the many others. 204 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:42,480 The answer is yes. The Lord gives his yes to you. 205 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:48,840 He gives His Amen to his people, says they put them at His feet. 206 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:52,720 And we'll just make the obvious connection here. 207 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:57,280 Where else can the incurable go? Where else can the incurable 208 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:00,080 spirit of a sinful man go? Where can you go with your guilt 209 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,920 and your shame? Except for the feet of Jesus? 210 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:07,880 Where can the incurable broken mind of man go except for the 211 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:09,960 feet of Jesus? And where can the incurable, 212 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,080 sick, injured, malfunctioning body go? 213 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:15,600 Except for the feet of Jesus, The feet of Jesus that were 214 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:22,560 pierced for our transgressions. Yes, the Lord wants to provide 215 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:26,040 spiritual healing. Yes, the Lord makes us new 216 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:27,760 creations. That is the greatest miracle. 217 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,280 Sherry said that well earlier. The greatest miracle that you 218 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:32,640 and I will ever see and experience is the miracle of the 219 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:35,080 new birth. You are dead and now you're 220 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:37,320 alive. That's it. 221 00:11:38,680 --> 00:11:42,000 But we would be stupid and unbiblical to say that's the 222 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,400 only thing that matters, because clearly it doesn't. 223 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:47,280 It's not the only thing that matters. 224 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,960 What you find strangely absent from many of the healing 225 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:52,880 passages in the Gospels. What's the spiritual state of 226 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:57,480 these people, Jesus? Are we doing a full inspection 227 00:11:57,480 --> 00:11:59,960 on everyone who comes to make sure that they have a saving 228 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:02,400 faith in the living God, or are we just healing them? 229 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:05,160 I would. It seems to me that the text is 230 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:08,680 just saying you're being healed, you're being healed, you're 231 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:10,120 being healed, you're being healed. 232 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:11,880 What do you qualify? Qualify. 233 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:16,720 Nobody qualifies for anything but Jesus in his grace and His 234 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:19,680 kindness. He heals and He heals and He 235 00:12:19,680 --> 00:12:22,600 heals. It's not to say that we want sin 236 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:24,120 in our life. It's not to say that we want to 237 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:26,600 be separated from God. And yet we're just taking the 238 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:30,000 text for what it's giving us. The Lord heals people. 239 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,280 How many people we don't know, but we know God has given his 240 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:37,000 yes to people who believe that He rewards those who diligently 241 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,720 seek Him. And we know that these people 242 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:41,080 have diligently sought him. The passages that are coming 243 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:43,960 next week we're going to see as he's feeding the 4000, he tells 244 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:46,240 his disciples, He says these people have been with me for 245 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:48,400 three days and they haven't had anything to eat. 246 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:50,960 So there's diligence among this crowd. 247 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:54,680 At least 4000 people have been following Jesus for three days 248 00:12:54,680 --> 00:12:55,880 on the mountainside and he's going. 249 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:58,520 We've been here, we've been camping at night, I've been 250 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:00,960 preaching during the day, I've been healing people during the 251 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:02,960 day, I've been ministering to people during the day. 252 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:04,600 And he's looking out over his flock. 253 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:06,840 He's gone. My, my flock's hungry. 254 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:08,080 These people haven't eaten in three days. 255 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:10,760 We can't send them home. They could, they could faint 256 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:14,080 along the way. So he's being gracious, He's 257 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:16,400 being kind, but they have diligently sought him. 258 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:19,080 We can't miss that part. It doesn't. 259 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:22,200 It doesn't say Jesus goes door to door, does it? 260 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:24,360 Anybody sick in this house, All right. 261 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:26,120 Anybody sick in this house, all right? 262 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:28,920 What we see is people come to Jesus. 263 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:31,840 So if we were going to say there's a prerequisite, hunger 264 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:34,160 and thirst, again is the prerequisite, what are you going 265 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:35,640 to do to get to the feet of Jesus? 266 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:38,920 Well, you know, there's all these exceptions. 267 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:41,320 Well, the exceptions can't stop you from getting to the feet of 268 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:43,360 Jesus. That's the thing that you've got 269 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:44,840 to find a way. The woman with the issue of 270 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:46,560 blood, she had no right to be in the crowd. 271 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:49,160 It was not right. She was ceremonial, ceremonially 272 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:51,160 unclean because of her bleeding issue. 273 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:54,320 She should not have done what she did and the Lord did not 274 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:57,680 rebuke her for it because she was saying I've got to get to 275 00:13:57,680 --> 00:14:00,560 him a diligence to seek the Lord. 276 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:06,120 Verse 31. So the crowd wondered that word 277 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:08,480 wonder doesn't mean I wonder what's going on here. 278 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:11,400 It means they were filled with awe and wonder. 279 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,040 They were overwhelmed at the goodness of God. 280 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:17,760 The wonder means that they were utterly amazed and that they 281 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,680 marvelled. They said wow. 282 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:24,280 But that's an understatement because they didn't just stop 283 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:26,840 there. They glorified God, they praised 284 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:31,560 God and they worshiped God. They they wondered when they saw 285 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:35,080 the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking and 286 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:38,800 the blind seeing and they glorified the God of Israel. 287 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:42,200 This is this is the important destination that everybody 288 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:46,280 should arrive at instead of wow, God, that's a good start. 289 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:49,480 Keep going, keep going. Don't just be impressed. 290 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:53,800 Don't just be thankful. Be drawn all the way in to 291 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,080 worship. Don't just say, wow, that sunset 292 00:14:56,080 --> 00:15:00,240 was beautiful, wow, God, you're so good, I worship you again. 293 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:03,200 Wow, my wife is beautiful. God, you're so good. 294 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:05,200 I worship God again. Wow. 295 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:07,000 Look at all the good gifts that he has given. 296 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,640 Look at all the provision and blessing he's poured into your 297 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:11,520 lives. We don't just say wow. 298 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:14,960 We always make sure that the horizontal things that we see, 299 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:18,120 they are intended to draw as vertically, the horizontal 300 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:20,640 things are not to be worshipped. That is what that is where we 301 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:23,920 build idolatry in our hearts. Natalie and I jokingly say when 302 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:26,840 we've ordered something new on Amazon, we say it ironically and 303 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:29,880 jokingly, we say that gets here on Tuesday and then I will be 304 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:33,440 happy. We, we say this, this show as a 305 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:37,040 this will, this will be the thing like this $7.00 kitchen 306 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:38,240 item that we found like that's good. 307 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:40,240 And then my soul will be satisfied. 308 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:42,720 No, it won't. No, it won't. 309 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,200 I told you my story about when I got the hot tub, right? 310 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:46,960 I got in the hot tub the very first night. 311 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:49,880 I was all alone out there. And it's like finally after 312 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:52,160 after having a goal for years, I have a hot tub. 313 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:53,680 I set my hot tub the very first night. 314 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:59,760 All right, it's hot. It's a tub. 315 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:02,800 It didn't do what I thought it was going to do. 316 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,800 And in that moment, I went from going horizontal and I went 317 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:08,480 vertical and I said, God, thank you for this blessing. 318 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:10,640 This is a wonderful gift. And by the way, I've enjoyed it 319 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:13,960 a ton since we put it in there. But if I was looking to it to be 320 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:16,680 the fulfillment like I think I was for a moment and I was like, 321 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:20,200 come on, hot tub make me happy. Hot tubs, like I can't do that. 322 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:23,480 I'm just a hot tub. I can't fulfill everything you 323 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,120 need in your soul. Only Jesus can do that. 324 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:29,040 And that was a moment for me. I was just like, Lord, look at 325 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:31,160 me being an idiot. And I dollar her again. 326 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:33,520 Lord, I dedicate this hot tub to you. 327 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:37,800 May it, may it bring you glory. May it bring me rest, may it 328 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:40,520 bring my family fellowship, you know, just glorify. 329 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,640 It's, it's just yours again. And now I can enjoy my hot tub 330 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:45,920 appropriately and I go, I love my hot tub. 331 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:47,440 I love it. I enjoy it. 332 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:49,760 I love my motorcycle. I'm gonna ride my motorcycle 333 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:51,480 today, but it's just a motorcycle. 334 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:54,280 You could take it away and I'll be all right because it's not 335 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:57,360 the deep joy of my soul. But I am thankful to receive the 336 00:16:57,360 --> 00:16:59,240 blessings that the Lord has provided. 337 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:01,240 All that was free. Wasn't planning any of that. 338 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:04,319 Keep going here. They glorify God. 339 00:17:04,319 --> 00:17:06,920 That was the point, the horizontal thing that you saw 340 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:09,319 the goodness of God, the healing of God. 341 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:13,680 But think about that. Thousands of people, we know at 342 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:15,720 least 4000 people on this mountainside. 343 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:17,839 And you're seeing the sick, the crippled. 344 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:20,839 People are sitting around, people are resting, people are 345 00:17:20,839 --> 00:17:22,400 camping. Jesus is up there. 346 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:25,119 Have you gone up to see him yet? No, I haven't gone up to see him 347 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:28,560 yet. You saw that crippled guy hobble 348 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:30,520 up there earlier and you're like, is he going to? 349 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:36,040 And you watch up on the hill, 100 yards up and you watch him 350 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:38,600 straighten up and you watch him rejoice and you hear people 351 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:40,880 break out into song like this happened. 352 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:45,160 It was awesome. And people are going praise God. 353 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,640 So people are praying and people are conversing and the disciples 354 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:52,440 are probably among the crowd saying he is the Messiah, he is 355 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:54,480 the one. You know, they're connecting all 356 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:57,480 the dots. We're we're reading past a lot 357 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:01,720 that was taking place there. But all, all the humanness, all 358 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:04,360 the joy that happened, thankfully they didn't stop 359 00:18:04,360 --> 00:18:05,480 there. They allowed it to draw them 360 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:09,640 vertically and they praised God, they worshiped God. 361 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:12,440 It's not enough to marvel. It's not enough to stop and say, 362 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:15,600 wow, you should worship and you should love. 363 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:19,760 And the other point I'll remind you of in this passage, like 364 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,560 other passages on healing, and I'm closing because like I said, 365 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:26,040 I want us to pray together. This passage is not to be over 366 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:29,040 spiritualized. There are plenty of passages in 367 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:31,720 your Bible that are spiritual in their nature and what they're 368 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:34,400 getting at. This is not one of them. 369 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:38,000 These verses are about physical healing. 370 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:43,120 They are the physical healing of real people who have real 371 00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:46,680 physical bodies. Like we said, is our spiritual 372 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:48,200 need greater than our physical need? 373 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:53,800 Yes, a million times yes. And still the Lord cares deeply 374 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:58,840 about physical healing. He cares present tense. 375 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:01,680 He cares deeply about physical healing. 376 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:04,160 He loves you like he loved those people. 377 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:08,080 He loves your loved one like he loved and cared for those people 378 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:11,640 on that mountainside that day. So this is what you and I are 379 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:13,720 going to do. We're going to bring ourselves 380 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:15,840 and we're going to bring one another, and we're going to 381 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:17,840 bring our loved ones to the feet of Jesus. 382 00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:20,760 How do we do that? We do that through prayer and we 383 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:24,360 do that through actually sharing the gospel with them because the 384 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:27,120 gospel is the power of God unto salvation. 385 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:31,200 It's also been said that healing is the dinner bell for 386 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,240 salvation. So you ring the dinner bell to 387 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:36,800 bring people in. So healing gets people's 388 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:40,040 attention. Healing makes somebody go, wow, 389 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:44,120 that's, that's incredible that God would be so kind to me. 390 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:45,400 You don't know how long that's bothered me. 391 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:46,600 You don't know how long that's hurt me. 392 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:50,040 You don't know how long this has affected my life. 393 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,600 And they're shown the love and the kindness of God. 394 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:55,360 There are many, many ways that God shows His love and His 395 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:57,320 kindness, but healing is one of them. 396 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,840 And it is my prayer that we would see like I I am honest 397 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:05,280 enough to acknowledge the massive gap between my life and 398 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:08,800 what I read in the scriptures. And I say I'm the one found 399 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:10,880 wanting. I'm the one found lacking. 400 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:13,280 God's word is true. God's word is faithful. 401 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:15,680 But I don't get into condemnation. 402 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:19,040 I just say Lord, lead me, help me. 403 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:21,320 I want more. I want to see your people 404 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,360 blessed. I don't want to see people sick 405 00:20:23,360 --> 00:20:25,520 and ailing. Like Adam said, it's so easy for 406 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:27,880 me to become passive. Oh, I got a little pain. 407 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:29,760 What kind of things do I tolerate? 408 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:33,440 What kind of things I'm like, oh, I've prayed about it, you 409 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:36,440 know, prayed about my elbows, you know? 410 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,080 But, you know, it just kind of is what it is. 411 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,120 And it's a, it's easy to become comfortable with things because 412 00:20:43,120 --> 00:20:45,320 life happens. These bodies are wearing out. 413 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:48,800 Everybody on that mountainside that day, by the way, they're 414 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,760 dead. Like they died of something 415 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:56,160 eventually, you know, so, so they didn't just keep on living 416 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:59,320 forever and ever and ever. And yet the Lord healed 417 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:03,120 everybody who came to him. So I want to continually bring 418 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:06,240 this before you said you would have a hunger and not just have 419 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:08,440 the question of, well, how come and why not? 420 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:10,760 Let's hunger. Let's not just sit back as 421 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:13,880 skeptics and cynics and go, well, I would like that. 422 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,520 I guess it would be nice. But let's press in farther and 423 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:19,720 say, Lord, just show me. Just show me what it is I need 424 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:21,520 to do. Show me how it is I can believe, 425 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,040 but that's what we need to do. We need to believe. 426 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:26,400 And that's the problem with a lot of healing passages. 427 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:29,360 I'll listen to a few sermons on the passages that I'm preaching 428 00:21:29,360 --> 00:21:31,520 ahead of time each week from different sermons, different 429 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,880 pastors and a lot of times there's there's pastors that I 430 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:36,520 love and trust faith woman of God. 431 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:40,600 And yet when you come to healing passages, they go and here what 432 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:42,520 we can learn from this. I go here we go. 433 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:44,840 He's like God wants to heal us spiritually. 434 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:50,120 My right, yes, but also get back to the book path. 435 00:21:50,120 --> 00:21:52,600 Get back to the book. Pastor, you said a true thing, 436 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:54,280 but that's not what you got from that text. 437 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:56,880 So why'd you do that? Well, I'm not going to condemn 438 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:58,920 him, but it's unbelief. It's unbelief. 439 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:00,400 I've been there. You've been there. 440 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,200 We've all been there. Again, without condemnation. 441 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:07,080 We can call a spade a spade, but let's be hungry and thirsty and 442 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,080 let's actually expect, let's put the pressure on God. 443 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:13,040 You're not the miracle worker. You're not the master healer. 444 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:17,720 There's no pressure on you to perform or to do anything. 445 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,560 Put all the pressure on God. That's what faith does. 446 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:24,200 Faith puts him in the hot seat and says, Lord, I'm going to 447 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,760 walk in obedience. And if anybody looks bad, it's 448 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,120 not going to be me. It's going to be you. 449 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:31,160 And I know you're not going to look bad. 450 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:32,880 You're going to glorify your name. 451 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:34,720 You're going to love the people that I pray for. 452 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:36,160 You're going to show up in power. 453 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:39,160 But you've got to get used to hearing the voice of the Holy 454 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,560 Spirit. He will whisper quiet confidence 455 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,160 to you. The enemy, though, I mean, he'll 456 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,520 do jumping jacks in front of you to prevent your obedience. 457 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,200 Don't do it, Don't do it, Don't do it, Don't do it. 458 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:52,560 All kinds of reasons, all kinds of accusations. 459 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:55,600 That's what he does. That's his specialty, is to 460 00:22:55,600 --> 00:23:00,680 accuse you, to harass you, to intimidate you, to get you to 461 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:04,040 give up your hope, because hope deferred does make the heart 462 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:05,800 sick. We know this. 463 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,160 It's true. Many of us have experienced 464 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:14,520 that, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life, and the Lord 465 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:19,520 wants to fulfill desires. So what I want to do is I want 466 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,200 to give you an opportunity to bring yourselves and one another 467 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:28,600 to the feet of Jesus. So I'm going to take the last 12 468 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:32,200 or so minutes that we have together this morning to put us 469 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,160 into groups. You can gather however you want 470 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:36,720 to. You can turn around, you can 471 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,840 shift around. We're going to do groups of 4-5 472 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,280 if you have to, and we're just going to pray for one another. 473 00:23:43,360 --> 00:23:45,880 Whatever you have need of say, hey, I've got a need in my body. 474 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:47,480 Maybe it's something really, really detailed. 475 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:49,160 You don't want to get into detail and you just say, hey, it 476 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,920 pertains to this. The Saints are going to pray for 477 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:53,160 you. You might be in a group that 478 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:56,120 says none of us have anything, all right, but we have a loved 479 00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:58,440 one. We got somebody that we love. 480 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,240 Hey, my friend, my brother, my so and so, somebody else in the 481 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:02,720 church. We're going to pray for Miss 482 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:05,320 Sandy. Whoever else could think of 483 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:06,440 somebody. You all know somebody. 484 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,240 If you don't have something in your body, you know somebody's 485 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:11,720 got something in their body, so bring them to the feet of Jesus. 486 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,160 Let's do that through prayer. Heavenly Father, right now we 487 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,720 come to you by faith with an expectation. 488 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,680 We're not praying just because we are supposed to pray. 489 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,320 We are praying because we love you and we want to bring 490 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:25,880 ourselves and others to your feet. 491 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:30,600 The feet that were pierced, the feet that carried us, the feet 492 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:34,560 that carried the cross, the feet that carried salvation that 493 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,320 would include the healing for our bodies. 494 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,720 Build faith in your church and answer these prayers that are 495 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:45,160 getting ready to to come into the your very presence in Jesus 496 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:46,880 name. Amen. 497 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:51,000 So go ahead and break up. Take 30 seconds and find a 498 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:55,240 couple of chairs to move to. Like I said, groups of four at 499 00:24:55,240 --> 00:25:00,400 the most, 5 if you have to. And y'all are going to take 10 500 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,080 minutes to pray together. I'm not going to give you a 501 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:29,760 formula. Hey, Brock, I want to put you 502 00:25:29,760 --> 00:26:01,800 over here with Mr. Adam. None. 503 00:26:30,480 --> 00:27:01,440 So. Yeah. 504 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:45,400 None. OK. 505 00:27:56,360 --> 00:28:44,760 None. Well. 506 00:28:51,520 --> 00:29:32,960 All right. And the fact that. 507 00:29:50,280 --> 00:30:09,160 And that. 508 00:30:41,080 --> 00:31:01,560 Yes. I everything goes here. 509 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:08,400 I just thank you that you are and how you are and how how many 510 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,760 people you are. And how? 511 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,000 How? Many people you are this is what 512 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:25,840 they see you and how how many people are and my daughter that 513 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:57,200 also. None. 514 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:51,240 I. So. 515 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:39,640 None. None. 516 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:24,880 The. You're a filler of. 517 00:34:26,040 --> 00:35:16,920 You're a filler of. The thank 518 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:49,120 you. She cut up about two or three 519 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,200 minutes, everybody about two or three minutes. 520 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:30,920 None. I. 521 00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:55,160 Do you want us to feel the empty what we might not see that in 522 00:36:55,160 --> 00:37:00,680 the natural blood? Delicious worship, the Sarma, 523 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,120 and great villain with all of worship. 524 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:51,080 Yeah. None. 525 00:38:13,920 --> 00:39:02,040 No. Yeah. 526 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:57,480 None. None. 527 00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:30,040 None. Yeah. 528 00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:27,600 Me too. Are you going to?