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SLIDE 1-2 During World War II battles in the Pacific, a sailor in a United States submarine was stricken with acute appendicitis and was near death.
The nearest surgeon was thousands of miles away.
The sailor’s friend, Pharmacist Mate Wheller Lipes, watched his temperature rise to 106 degrees.
The man’s only hope was an operation.
So Lipes said to his stricken buddy, “I’ve watched doctors do this operation.
I think I can do it.
What do you say?”
The sailor consented.
In the wardroom the patient was stretched out on a table beneath a floodlight.
The mate and assisting officers, dressed in reversed pajama tops, masked their faces with gauze.
The crew stood by the diving planes to keep the ship steady.
The cook boiled water for sterilizing.
A tea strainer served as an antiseptic cone.
A broken-handled scalpel was the operating instrument.
Alcohol drained from the torpedoes was the antiseptic.
Bent tablespoons kept the muscles open.
After cutting through the layers of muscle, the mate took twenty minutes to find the appendix.
Two and a half hours later, the last catgut stitch was sewn just as the last drop of ether gave out.
Thirteen days later the sailor was back at work.
It was a great accomplishment, greater than the appendectomies done by surgeons.
Not because it was better, for it was not, but because an unskilled shipmate performed the surgery.
This story can helps us understand the promise Jesus made to his disciples shortly before he left the earth, when he said in the Upper Room: SLIDE 3
John 14:12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
SLIDE 4 Jesus said that his followers would do greater things than he did.
It’s not that the works themselves are greater, they are greater because of who we are — frail and sinful human instruments who have been empowered by the Holy Spirit.
We are in Luke 9 this evening.
Jesus is going to send out the apostles out in pairs to preach and heal.
Luke 9:1-6 1 When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases, 2 and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.
3 He told them: “Take nothing for the journey—no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no extra shirt.
4 Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave that town.
5 If people do not welcome you, leave their town and shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”
6 So they set out and went from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing people everywhere.
Jesus had already chosen the twelve men who would be his apostles.
Remember, the word apostle simply means messenger.
An apostle is someone sent on a mission with a message.
Jesus sent these twelve men out with a message of God’s kingdom.
It’s what John the Baptist did.
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Matthew 3:1-2 1 In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea 2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
It’s what Jesus did.
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Matthew 4:17 “17 From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
SLIDE 7 Now Jesus is sending the apostles out to proclaim the good news about the kingdom of God.
God’s kingdom is wherever God is being served and obeyed.
In the Model Prayer, Jesus taught us to pray for God’s kingdom: “Your kingdom come.”
And then, Jesus explained what the coming of God’s kingdom meant: “You will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
The apostles were to go out proclaiming as John and Jesus had that God’s kingdom was near.
God’s rule was coming.
Jesus didn’t just send them out to preach though.
Jesus also sent them cast out evil spirits and to heal the sick.
They weren’t just sent to preach, they were also sent to help take care of the needs of the people.
They cast out demons and healed the sick.
There is still that two-fold aspect of the ministry.
General Booth of the Salvation Army was once condemned for offering food and meals to poor people instead of just simply gospel.
Booth responded saying, “It is impossible to comfort men’s hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.”
We need to share the gospel but we also need to do what we can to help those in need.
Remember what James wrote about the religious practices that God accepts.
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James 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
SLIDE 9 James tells us that we are to help take care of those who can’t take care of themselves.
While it's possible to place too much emphasis on the material, the material needs should never be overlooked.
Luke tells us that Jesus gave them both the power and the authority to do these things.
Power is the ability to accomplish a task and authority is the right to do it.
It’s possible to have one without the other.
We were driving down Carter Boulevard Sunday afternoon.
At the four-way stop we noticed lights flashing in front of Loretta’s house.
A car had been pulled over and there were two police cars behind it with their lights flashing.
I texted Laverne and asked if the police had finally located him.
I don’t know why there were two police cars but I also don’t know why the car had been pulled over.
You will see that though.
A car gets pulled over and if there’s another police officer nearby they’ll come as backup.
They have the authority to pull you over if you’ve done something wrong but it may take more than one officer to make sure they have the power they need to enforce their authority.
We’ve heard too many stories about someone getting pulled over and then overpowering the officer.
I remember my mother telling the story of my aunt Carol calling her in tears.
Through her sobs she told my mother that my cousin Sandy had just received her first spanking.
To which my my mother calmly replied, “No it wasn’t.”
There was a time when if you did something wrong down the street you got disciplined there and then you got disciplined again when you got home.
How many people remember getting in trouble at school only to get home and find out you were in trouble there as well?
You got spanked by your teacher or principal and then you got spanked again by your parents.
They had the power and the authority to discipline you.
I still remember the paddles some of my teachers proudly displayed in their rooms.
They still have the ability to spank a child but they no longer have the authority.
Jesus gave the apostles the ability to cast out demons and heal the sick, but he also gave the authority to so.
The ability did not come from themselves, but from Jesus.
It was his power and his authority which he gave to them.
In Acts 19 we read a humorous story (at least it’s humorous to me) about some seven Jewish brothers who were going around driving out evil spirits.
Evidently, they had been around when Paul had cast out some spirits because they used Paul’s name to try and do the same thing.
They would say: “In the name of the Jesus whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.”
It sounds like they had the ability to cast out the demons because they kept doing it.
However, one day an evil spirit answered them and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know about, but who are you?”
Then, the evil spirit left the man and jumped on them.
Luke tells us that the spirit overpowered them beating them up so badly that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.
They had the ability to cast out the demons but not the authority.
When you are going on a trip, when do you start packing?
Do you start the week before?
If we’re leaving in the morning I don’t usually start till the day.
If we’re not leaving till after lunch, I may not start till the day we leave.
In other words, I wait till the last minute.
Mary Anne, on the other starts planning several days before we leave.
That’s because while all I’m packing is my clothes, she’s making plans for everything else we need to take with us.
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