The Injured Can't Serve

I. EXORDIUM:

Are you injured?

Yes. but GOD healed me. Isaiah 6:10

Isaiah 6:10 (Amplified Bible)

Make the heart of this people fat; and make their ears heavy and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn again and be healed.

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To show that we need to acknowledge our brokenness before and come to JESUS to be healed. Without the necessity of seeing our brokenness, we will not require healing.

IV. TEXT:

Leviticus 21:19 (King James Version)

Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,

Leviticus 21:19 (Amplified Bible)

Or who has a fractured foot or hand,

V. THESIS:

Praise, worship and thank You very much for You have healed me giving me understanding of the heart, renewal of mind and healing.

Isaiah 6:10 (Amplified Bible)

Make the heart of this people fat; and make their ears heavy and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn again and be healed.

VI. TITLE:

The injured can't serve

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Author: Moses

B. Keywords: Access and Holiness

C. Name: derived from tribe of Levi

D. Central Person: high priest

E. Subject Matter: Digest of Divine Laws

F. Central Theme: Holy (mentioned 80 times (NIV)

G. Companion Book: Hebrews

H. Date of Writing: 1490 B.C.

VIII. MAIN BODY:

Leviticus 21:19 (Amplified Bible)

Or who has a fractured foot or hand,

You need to come first to the LORD to heal you.

Isaiah 6:9-10 (Amplified Bible)

And He said, Go and tell this people, Hear and hear continually, but understand not; and see and see continually, but do not apprehend with your mind.

Make the heart of this people fat; and make their ears heavy and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn again and be healed.

Then you can come.

A. Fractured foot

"Or a man that is brokenfooted,"

Fractured foot, Brokenfooted or "sheber sheber" and "regel" meaning broken footed or resembles

Nahum 3:19 (Amplified Bible)

There is no healing of your hurt; your wound is grievous. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over [what has happened to] you. For upon whom has not your [unceasing] evil come continually?

Ezekiel 32:9 (Amplified Bible)

I will also trouble and vex the hearts of many peoples when I bring your breaking and trembling and destruction and carry you captive among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.

Majority of the people that comes to the LORD are not thru the altar of the local church where wounds are healed. I accepted the LORD in a school canteen where they invite people to come to the altar this is what I prefer because in GOD's Presence in the altar, the wound and broken hearted, broken footed are healed by the LORD, and the HEALER. Then the healed one can rejoice and celebrate the Great Physician, not his healings, not his abilities enhanced but the healed one will rejoice in the Healer.

Jeremiah 8:22 (Amplified Bible)

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people restored? [Because Zion no longer enjoyed the presence of the Great Physician!]

Exodus 15:26 (Amplified Bible)

Saying, If you will diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord your God and will do what is right in His sight, and will listen to and obey His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon you which I brought upon the Egyptians, for I am the Lord Who heals you.

B. Fractured hand

"or brokenhanded,"

Lamentations 2:11 (Amplified Bible)

My eyes fail from weeping, my emotions are deeply disturbed, my heart is poured out upon the ground [in grief] because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and nurslings faint in the streets of the city.

Jeremiah 10:19 (Amplified Bible)

Woe is me because of my hurt! [says Jeremiah, speaking for the nation.] My wound is grievous and incurable. But I said, Surely this sickness and suffering and grief are mine, and I must endure, tolerate, and bear them.

Remember GOD wants wholeness, both foot and hand are healed. Peter requesting his head and hands be washed not only his foot, for in the mind of Peter, the washing of feet is the work of the lowest slave, but not for JESUS, HE came to wash us from our sins and be whole before Him.

John 13:9-10 (Amplified Bible)

Simon Peter said to Him, Lord, [wash] not only my feet, but my hands and my head too!