Does Jesus heal people today? Part 1 [1/11-12 Hebrews #6 serve fair, give, pray]
2020Covid – ambulance, Mayo, prayed stood/walk “healed/miracle”; home, MRI = gone
- 1 Person 2 parts = 1. Spiritual sin 2. Physical suffering (general & specific)
- OT promised Savior would come w/healing miracles
Isiah 61 quoted by Jesus in Luke 4:18-19, 21, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor… “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
- 27X Jesus heals individuals
- 10X Jesus heals groups of people [STUDY GUIDE]
= Jesus went to Heaven, XN’s kept seeing miracles/healings Dr. Luke 12/28 Acts
Jesus Heals the Deaf and Mute
Mark 7:31–37 – Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him. And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue. And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.” And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. And Jesus charged them to tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”
Man
- Gentile
- Deaf (can’t hear); Mute (can’t speak) = painful lonely life
- Friends or Family – brought him & begged Jesus (desperate loved ones)
Jesus
- Looks to Heaven (Kingdom Down) = thin place
- Laying on hands (1. Add faith 2. Comfort 3. Ministry presence 4. Invite HS)
- Tells crowd to be silent, opposite happens (most did not get miracle)
Jesus Heals the Blind
(Matthew 9:27-31, 20:29-34; Mark 8:22-26, 10:46-52; Luke 18:35-43; John 9:1-38)
John 9:1–38 – As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man’s eyes with the mud and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing. The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.” They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.” They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a division among them. So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.” The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.” (His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.) Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.” So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.” He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.” They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” He answered them, “I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?” And they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.” The man answered, “Why, this is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes. We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him. Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” They answered him, “You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they cast him out. Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and it is he who is speaking to you.” He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.
OT – could not find someone born blind & healed sight
- #1 miracle Jesus – sight to blind
- Karma or “compassion” = Jesus #1 emotion
- Suffering for a greater purposes unknown to the man
- Jesus = no pattern or magical formula
- Man trusted Jesus enough to find the pool & wash his face
- Religious – 1. Sabbath (7x) 2. Work (mud) 3. Travelling
- Parents – torn between joy & fear of religious leaders
- Man – healed & saved (physical & spiritual blindness healed) “Lord” & “worshipped”
- Humble beggars make good XN’s (not religious leaders. Hands full or empty)
6 Reasons People Suffer
- Suffering caused by personal sin.
- Suffering caused by family sin.
- General suffering because the world is fallen and broken.
- Suffering caused by demonic attack.
- Suffering because someone sinned against you.
- Mysterious suffering that has an unknown cause.
Jesus Heals Lepers
(Matthew 8:2-4; Mark 1:40-45; Luke 5:12-16, 17:11-19)
Luke 17:11–19 – On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance and lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.” When he saw them he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went they were cleansed. Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice; and he fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan. Then Jesus answered, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?” And he said to him, “Rise and go your
way; your faith has made you well.”
- Leprosy – chronic infectious skin disease. Skin thickens. Deformed. NO Sensation
- Spiritually – ritually unclean (OT chapters on treating people, homes, clothes)
- Sometimes punishment from God (King Uzziah)
- Like COVID – everyone fearful & stays away
- Rabbis – not eat egg purchased same street. Threw stones @ to keep away
- Healed over time – walk in faith
- Show priests – verify healing, return to society
- 10 healed. 1 (Samaritan cult) said thank you not entitled
Jesus touched. We don’t make Jesus unclean. Jesus makes us clean (2 Cor. 5:21)
Miracles = Kingdom Signs – TODAY – not home, but on our way home
- Not mute – pray & praise
- Not deaf – hear Word God
- Not spiritually blind – see Jesus as Lord
- Not leper – spiritually healed & cleansed
Believer – this is our Hell.
-Miracles are signs pointing to the Coming King & Kingdom
