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2000-03-26 - Jesus as our Great Physician
Passages about Jesus, Part 6
We are grateful for the abilities God has given many doctors, whom He uses
to heal us, and for the care they show us. But there is one Physician Who
is Omniscient and Omnipotent, and Whose timing is perfect, and who knows
us so intimately that He knows the numbers of hairs on our heads. Today we
will see passages that relate to Jesus as the Great Physician. All passages
are from the New Living Translation (NLT).
Jesus has the power to heal physically.
Mat 11:3 "Are you really the Messiah we've been waiting
for, or should we keep looking for someone else?" 4 Jesus told
them, "Go back to John and tell him about what you have heard and
seen-5 the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cured, the
deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, and the Good News is being preached
to the poor.
Jesus is God of the seemingly impossible. This woman had tried for a dozen
years, to acquire healing.
Mat 9:19 As Jesus and the disciples were going to the
official's home, 20 a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve
years came up behind him. She touched the fringe of his robe, 21
for she thought, "If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed."
22 Jesus turned around and said to her, "Daughter, be encouraged!
Your faith has made you well." And the woman was healed at that moment.
Sometimes He doesn't heal on this earth, but there is nothing which we
can't handle, through His strength.
2 Cor 10:7 But to keep me from getting puffed up, I was
given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from Satan to torment me and keep
me from getting proud. 8 Three different times I begged the Lord
to take it away. 9 Each time he said, "My gracious favor is all
you need. My power works best in your weakness." So now I am glad to boast
about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may work through me.
10 Since I know it is all for Christ's good, I am quite content
with my weaknesses and with insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities.
For when I am weak, then I am strong.
He also wants to heal us spiritually and emotionally.
Mat 9:10 That night Matthew invited Jesus and his disciples
to be his dinner guests, along with his fellow tax collectors and many other
notorious sinners. 11 The Pharisees were indignant. "Why does
your teacher eat with such such?" they asked his disciples. 12
When he heard this, Jesus replied, "Healthy people don't need a doctor-sick
people do." 13 Then he added, "Now go and learn the meaning of
this Scripture: 'I want you to be merciful; I don't want your sacrifices.
For I have come to call sinners, not those who think they are already good
enough."
In Heaven, where we will live with our Perfect Physician, we will be compltely
whole; there will be no physical or emotional illness, pain nor death.
1 Cor. 15:42 It is the same way for the resurrection of
the dead. Our earthly bodies, which die and decay, will be different when
they are resurrected, for they will never die. 43 Our bodies now
disappoint us, but when they are raised, they will be full of glory. They
are weak now, but when they are raised, they will be full of power. 44
They are natural human bodies now, but when they are raised, they will
be spiritual bodies. For just as there are natural bodies, so also there
are spiritual bodies.
Rev. 21:4 He will remove all of their sorrows, and there
will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. For the old world and
its evils are gone forever.
Jan
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