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Word of Jesus Part 5
- Matthew 8:3 And Jesus put forth
his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And
immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
- 4 And Jesus saith unto him,
See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the
priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony
unto them.
The next actual words of Jesus is to a
leper who came to Him to be healed of his leprosy. The beautiful
words of Jesus were, "I will"
This shows us the heart of God. God wants to
heal. He wants us to live. He wants to give us eternal life. He
wants us to be saved. God does not enjoy seeing suffering, pain and
souls lost forever.
I don't know why everyone is not healed. I
don't know why there is disaster and suffering but I do know from
the words of Jesus that God does not want this for us. We may have
it in this life, or we may be healed in this life but He made a way
in that in eternity those that receive Him into their lives now will never suffer again
but have eternal life.
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Matthew 8:5 And when Jesus was entered
into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching
him,
It is my understanding that a centurion was
an important soldier. This one was some kind of commander.
Notice the compassion that this centurion had
on his servant.
- Matthew 8:7 And Jesus saith unto
him, I will come and heal him.
- 8 The centurion answered and
said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my
roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
- 9 For I am a man under authority,
having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he
goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant,
Do this, and he doeth it.
A centurion asked for the healing of a
servant but felt unworthy for Jesus to come into his house. He knew
that Jesus could just say the word and the healing would take place.
The centurion was a man of authority so he knew his word had power
so he assumed the word of Jesus had power.
- Matthew 8:10 When Jesus heard it,
he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say
unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
- 11 And I say unto you,
That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down
with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
- 12 But the children of
the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall
be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- 13 And Jesus said unto the
centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it
done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame
hour.
Jesus marveled at the faith of this
centurion. He points out that many shall come from other lands (the
Gentiles) and be partaker of the kingdom of God because of their
faith but the ones to whom the kingdom was given originally will be
cast out because they refused to believe.
The centurions servant was healed the same
hour in which the centurion believed.
- Matthew 8:14 And when Jesus was
come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick
of a fever.
- 15 And he touched her hand,
and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.
- 16 When the even was come,
they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and
he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were
sick:
- 17 That it might be
fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
Although Jesus didn't have any recorded words
in verses 14-17, I fell that it should be included in this study
since it contains a very important prophecy of Jesus taking on our
infirmities and baring our sicknesses. This is a fulfillment of :
- Isaiah 53:3 He is despised and
rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:
and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and
we esteemed him not.
- 4 Surely he hath borne
our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him
stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
- 5 But he was wounded
for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we
are healed.
- 6 All we like sheep
have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and
the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
I love how the books in the New Testament
records the fulfillment of the writings and sometimes sayings of the
Old Testament prophets.
- Matthew
8:19 And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I
will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
- 20 And Jesus saith unto him,
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests;
but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
- 21 And another of his
disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my
father.
- 22 But Jesus said unto him,
Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
Jesus was pointing out here the cost of
following Him. He is telling those who desire to go with Him that
sometimes He didn't have a place to lay His head. When one desired
to bury his father first, Jesus pointed out that others who were
dead in sin could bury the dead. He was not being heartless here but
only pointing out the importance of the task of spreading the
gospel. It is actually more important that our jobs, our families
and burying the dead. The reason is that this life is temporary.
Eternity is forever.
- Matthew 8:23 And when he was entered
into a ship, his disciples followed him.
- 24 And, behold, there arose a great
tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the
waves: but he was asleep.
- 25 And his disciples came to him, and
awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.
- 26 And he saith unto
them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he
arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great
calm.
When the wind and the sea was tossing the
ship, the disciples were afraid. Jesus rebuked them for fear and
little faith. This shows us that faith and confidence in God is very
important to our survival. In fact faith is what saves us from sin
and brings us eternal life.
- Matthew 8:28 And when he was come
to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met
him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs,
exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
- 29 And, behold, they cried
out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of
God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
- 30 And there was a good way
off from them an herd of many swine feeding.
- 31 So the devils besought
him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the
herd of swine.
- 32 And he said unto them,
Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of
swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a
steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.
- 33 And they that kept them
fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing,
and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.
- 34 And, behold, the whole
city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they
besought him that he would depart out of their coasts.
Here we see a case where people were more
concerned about swine than a poor man being possessed of a devil and
set free. The only word of Jesus we see recorded here is the word,
GO. He said Go and the devils went into the herd of swine. We also
see the fact the the devils knew who Jesus was and accused Him of
tormenting them before their time. In other words, the devil knows
that his time is limited.
That is all God has to say to free a soul
from sin, heal the sick and raise the dead. GO. Go and our sins our
gone, Go and our sickness is healed. Go and sin no more is what He
says to us.
Words of Jesus
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Words of Jesus
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