*This is the scripture reading for Desperation and Deliverance sermon* Works as a great introduction. Shows insight and the connection between the whole chapter 9 of Matthew.
Scripture to Desperation and Deliverance
Mat 9:1-38
(1) So He got into a boat, crossed over, and came to His own city.
(2) Then behold, they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their (4 according the Mark 2) faith, He said to the paralytic, "Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you."
(3) And at once some of the scribes said within themselves, "This Man blasphemes!"+
They viewed this man as being cursed
(4) But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?
(5) "For which is easier, to say, ’Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ’Arise and walk’?
It is easier to tell someone that there sins have been forgiven because it is just words. But to see a miracle happen is something greater.
(6) "But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins"; then He said to the paralytic, "Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house."
So Jesus did this miracle to show that God have given him power on earth.
Mat 28:18-20 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. (19) "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, (20) "teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
(7) And he arose and departed to his house.
(8) Now when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such power to men.
They knew where He got his authority from. They marveled
(9) As Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, "Follow Me." So he arose and followed Him.
(10) Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples.
This was at the party that Matthew had thrown for Jesus according the Luke 5
(11) And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, "Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
(12) When Jesus heard that, He said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 13 "But go and learn what this means: ’I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance."
Pr 21:3 ¶ To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Ho 6:6 For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Your relationship with God is more than ritual. It is a lifewalk.
(14) Then the disciples of John came to Him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?" (15) And Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast. (16) "No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse. 17 "Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved."
Don’t stay with old traditions. People want new wine not what you have done in the past but what is God doing for you now.
(18) While He spoke these things to them, behold, a ruler (of the synagogue Mark 5) came and worshiped Him, saying, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay Your hand on her and she will live."
This young girl had died during the time this ruler was waiting on Jesus to come to his house Mark 5 & Luke 8
(19) So Jesus arose and followed him, and so did His disciples. (20) And suddenly, a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years came from behind and touched the hem of His garment. (21) For she said to herself, "If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well." (22) But Jesus turned around, and when He saw her He said, "Be of good cheer, daughter; your faith has made you well." And the woman was made well from that hour.
As you know in Mark 5 the Bible tells us that Jesus asked the question, “Who touched me?” The disciples were surprised because the crowd was around him and many were touching Him. Yet it seemed that only one touched Him with faith to be healed.
There are many people praying for a miracle, a healing yet who are touching Jesus with faith.
(23) When Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the flute players and the noisy crowd wailing, (24) He said to them, "Make room, for the girl is not dead, but sleeping." And they ridiculed Him. (laughed and mocked Him)
(25) But when the crowd was put outside, (sometimes you have got to get away from those unbelievers to receive from the Lord) He went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose.
(26) And the report of this went out into all that land.
(27) When Jesus departed from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out and saying, "Son of David, have mercy on us!"( we find in Mark 10 that the blind man named Bartimeaus was mentioned, he stood out for some reason to be named)
(28) And when He had come into the house, the blind men came to Him. And Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" They said to Him, "Yes, Lord."
(29) Then He touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith let it be to you."
(30) And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them, saying, "See that no one knows it."
(31) But when they had departed, they spread the news about Him in all that country.
(32) As they went out, behold, they brought to Him a man, mute and demon-possessed.
(33) And when the demon was cast out, the mute spoke. And the multitudes marveled, saying, "It was never seen like this in Israel!"
(34) But the Pharisees said, "He casts out demons by the ruler of the demons."
(35) Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
(36) But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.
(37) Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few.
(38) "Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest."
Everything was done for this purpose.
