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Last week - Fasting, to do or not to do - that was the question
Jarius’ daughter - dead brought back to life
Woman with blood disorder
Two Blind Men
And… indicating these issues were ongoing.
One, after another, after another.
Not only does the woman of blood issues come up and touch His garment, not two blind men are following Him asking for mercy.
They wouldn’t cease in their crying out to Jesus.
They were begging Him to restore their sight.
“have mercy on us”.
How many today have heard of Jesus and what He can do in their lives?
How many today cry out to Him for mercy?
Or have we grown cold, disconcerted, and uncaring?
You see, you don’t have to simply be physically blind.
The men were blind.
They could not see what Jesus was doing.
They could only hear.
The lost are blind.
They cannot see; they cannot understand.
The lost can only hear also.
Not only did they hear, but they believed.
They personally cried out for mercy, accepting and confessing that Jesus was the Messiah.
Jesus questioned the two blind men: “Believe ye that I am able to do this?”
Jesus stands ready to help—always.
There is never a time when He is not ready to help, but there is a prerequisite to His helping.
There is one qualification: “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”
Many balk at the question of faith: “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”
Some do not believe at all.
Some doubt Jesus has the power to help.
Some ignore and could care less.
Some follow after Jesus asking for mercy, but never commit their lives in Faith to Christ.
Some call Jesus Lord, but they lack the one essential: doing what they profess.
They have never turned over their lives to the One they say they trust.
A person has not trusted Christ unless he has entrusted his life to Jesus.
Jesus touched the two men.
Note the tender touch of Jesus.
These men could see nothing; they had a special need so Jesus met their need in a special way.
Jesus exerted His power: He healed them, but it was based on their faith.
What a blessed thought!
Jesus receives our faith, accepts it, and does what we believe.
Jesus’ instruction to these men was a charge that is often needed.
It is especially needed by believers who experience the miraculous touch of Jesus’ power.
The charge was, “see that no man know it”; be humble.
Christ wanted these men to set a dynamic example in humility.
Therefore, Jesus charged them to keep quiet.
He knew the inner recesses of their hearts and minds just as He knows all men.
Apparently, they had a heart that would tend toward boasting in their miracle and in the change wrought in their lives.
There was danger in being so blessed by Jesus.
Pride and self-importance could easily set in.
They could think of themselves more highly than they ought to think.
There is a fine line between honoring Jesus and honoring oneself in a testimony.
The heart makes the difference and only God knows the heart.
But He does know.
A Man Unable to Speak
Notice these others had been in need physically and were healed by their faith.
Here we see another example of different needs.
A man who was mute - unable to speak - but it was not by only a physical issue, but a spiritual issue to.
He was oppressed - by definition he was being held hostage, treated unfairly, prevented from having liberties and freedoms because of a demon.
An evil spirit was holding him hostage, both spiritually and physically.
But note what scripture says, he did not come to Jesus on his own, he was brought to Him.
Many have to be brought if they are ever to come.
They are too weak in spirit, mind, or body to come on their own.
They will not come unless they are brought.
We must go after the needy in order to bring them.
Many would come if we would simply visit and go after them, and if we would make friends and nurture them along the way.
Some are possessed by the wrong spirit, not by God’s Spirit.
Spiritually, they are dumb in their knowledge of Christ.
They have no awareness, no consciousness, no understanding whatsoever of the delivering power that is in Christ.
The fact that there is a Savior is totally foreign to them.
Some are gripped by the deepest form of evil, demon possession.
They desperately need to be brought to Christ.
Note how much power Jesus has.
He can touch the life of a person because of the faith of another.
Intercessory prayer and faith are God’s way for many to be reached.
He can break the greatest of bondages—even the grip and power of Satan when Satan totally possesses the life of a person.
But even in a miraculous even such as the casting out of the demon and returning speech to this man’s lips, there were those who were speaking out against Jesus.
“He casts out demons by the prince of demons”.
Again, the Pharisees, those educated egg heads who should have known, refused to acknowledge.
Even the people reacted positively to Jesus’ power - they were amazed!
They witnessed what they called the wonderful work of God, wonder after wonder.
But note: not all believed.
Despite the amazing work of God, only a few truly trusted Him.
The religionists hated Christ.
They were hostile toward Him, vehemently so.
They were guilty of the unpardonable sin - unbelief.
Harvest is Plentiful, but Where are the Laborers?
The mission of Jesus Christ was to minister.
He went everywhere, in all the cities and villages.
Notice He did not sit inside a church waiting on others to come to Him, He went out.
To the countryside, in the synagogues, on mountains, by the seashore, in boats, by graveyards, in homes.
There was not one place Jesus would not go to minister.
How much more we should go everywhere!
How much more we should not neglect mansion or slum.
He made use of what was available, the existing establishment, although they violently opposed Him.
He went where there was a ready audience when He had the opportunity.
There are places where some believers will not go: the small town, the obscure village, the mill-town, the country, the foreign country, the north, east, west or south, the lower class, the upper class.
But not so with Christ; He went everywhere.
Jesus’ work: teaching, preaching, and healing.
Jesus had a threefold work that should serve as the primary guide for believers.
He preached.
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