Jesus The Healer - Spiritual And Physical

Jesus the Healer – Spiritual and Physical

Theme: Showing the importance of getting people to Jesus.

Text: Luke 5:17-26

Luke 5:17 Now it happened on a certain day, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present to heal them.

This was a committee of people that had come to “observe” Jesus. They did not come to listen to His message as much to try to find what was wrong. Their heart was not prepared to receive the message.

Parable of the Sower: Is your heart prepared?

Wayside – birds ate

Stoney ground – no root, scorched by the sun

Thorns – choked by the weeds

Good ground – prepared or open

Why is this important?

“And the power of the Lord was present to heal them”

This is good. There was healing in the house but the hearts had to be open to receive it.

(18) Then behold, men (4 Men according to Mark 2:1 – 12) brought on a bed a man who was paralyzed, whom they sought to bring in and lay before Him. (19) And when they could not find how they might bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the housetop and let him down with his bed through the tiling into the midst before Jesus.

Now we are introduced to the paralyzed man. We are not told how he got here, just the fact that he is here. Paralyzed by circumstances, paralyzed by the world and not able to get out.

People outside the church are paralyzed:

1. From hurt of or criticism of the church

2. From conviction

3. From fear of rejection

But thank God for 4 men who was willing to help. Four men who were willing to not leave their friend in the same condition they found him. Four men who were willing to have enough faith in Jesus that they had enough faith for their friend.

Seekers

Believers

Determiners –

Unsatisfied

Four men who were willing to remove the obstacles.

It is never easy:

1. Sometimes you have to remove the obstacles

2. Sometimes you have to carry people

3. Sometimes you have to be patient

4. Sometimes you have to go to the extreme

This man needed more than money or provision he needed a radical life change. He needed someone who would believe Jesus again. Someone who saw him more than a burden but someone whom God could heal.

Jesus in John 4: “the field is white with harvest but the labors are few”

(20) When He saw their faith, He said to him, "Man, your sins are forgiven you."

Their faith

To get him to Jesus

Matthew 9:2 Some people brought to him a paralyzed man on a mat. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, "Take heart, son! Your sins are forgiven."

“be of good cheer” “

Jesus said have joy when we help one another. Jesus is passing by.

“Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2).

“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not” (Galatians 6:9).

Why forgive sins first?

1. This was his greatest need. (In his life, in our life, and in your life)

2. Maybe this disease/brokenness came from sin.

3. Jesus wants to start from within first. “From the Inside Out”

Good Samaritan (These four friends remind me of the Good Samaritian story in Luke 10:33 -34).

“But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, and went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him” (Luke 10:33-34)

Saw him

Had compassion on him

Went to him

Bound up his wounds

Set him on his own beast

Brought him to a place of hope

Took care of him - discipleship

Jesus has to power to forgive sins, Why?

1. He is God

2. He died for our sins

“What Jesus was doing in healing people was not simply performing miracles, which is usually defined as violating or nullifying natural laws, but rather He was showing by these healing miracles that He was restoring a lost order. Disease and death were not natural to God’s creation, they were violations of it. The natural order was what God had created but had been ruined. Jesus was able to get behind the problem and deal with sin first, and then its effects. And as we said before, these individual miracles that He performed in His earthly ministry were signs of what He would do at the second coming when He restores the lost order of creation in full.” – Bible.org 12. Authority to Forgive Sins