SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/8/2020
7:43 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “Healing”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matt.
4:23c-25
Message of the verses: “and healing every
kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people. 24 And the news
about Him went out into all Syria; and they brought to Him all who were ill, taken
with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, paralytics; and He healed them. 25 And great
multitudes followed Him from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from
beyond the Jordan.”
Why
do people get sick? Well the first
reason is we are all sinners, and then many times we don’t take care of
ourselves, meaning not enough exercise, eating the wrong foods, or perhaps we
do sinful things like drinking too much alcohol, or perhaps taking some kind of
drugs we should not do and then sinful sickness can come upon us. Jesus healed a man found in John chapter five
and he was sick for a long time, and after Jesus healed him He told him to sin
no more or else something worse could happen to him. The man must have hurt himself doing
something sinful.
In
the book “Strategy of Satan” that I have been quoting from it has a chapter
about Job, and Job did nothing wrong to have all the illness and other things
happen to him, but that was not the case with the Corinthians that Paul
described in the 11th chapter of his first letter to them, as some
of them were doing awful things before taking the Lord’s Supper and the result
was some were sick and some had actually died.
In the 9th chapter of John we read about the man who was born
blind, and Jesus’ disciples asked Him who sinned to cause this man to be born
blind. Jesus told them that his
blindness was to be used to bring glory to God, and so Jesus healed him, and
this man became a follower of Jesus.
John
MacArthur writes “Jesus healing was a divine verification. His words should have been sufficient
evidence of His messiahship, as they were for those who truly believed. The disciples left everything to follow Jesus
before He performed a miracle of any sort.
Many heard Him and believed in Him who had no need of healing for themselves
or for their family or friends. It is
possible that many who hear and believed in Christ never saw Him perform a
miracle—just as many believed John the Baptist’s message although ‘John
performed no sign’ John 10:41.”
The
healing ministry of Jesus was a powerful addition to the evidence of His
teaching and to His preaching as Alexander MacLaren said, “It may be doubted
whether we have an adequate notion of the immense number of Christ’s
miracles. Those recorded are but a small
portion of those done. Those early ones
were illustrations of the nature of His kingdom; they were His first gifts to
His kingdom Subjects.” Let us look at
Hebrews 2:3-4 “3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After
it was at the first spoken
through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard, 4 God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders and by various
miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His own will.” MacArthur adds “Like Jesus’ words, the
miracles were a foretaste of His glorious, earthly kingdom. To get some idea of what the millennial
kingdom will be like we need only multiply His words and His miracles
ten-thousandfold.”
3/8/2020 8:05 AM
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