There's Healing in the Word

Kingdom Orientation

Miraculous wedding wine (2:1-11)

A joyful and abundant wedding ceremony

Clearing the temple courts (2:13-25)

The moral cost of the Kingdom

Kingdom Reach

Samaritan Woman at the Well

“[Soon,] you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.” (4:21)

Healing the Official’s Son

Healing by the Word (4:43-54)

John 4:43–54 NIV

43 After the two days he left for Galilee. 44 (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) 45 When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, for they also had been there. 46 Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death. 48 “Unless you people see signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.” 49 The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50 “Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.” The man took Jesus at his word and departed. 51 While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. 52 When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.” 53 Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and his whole household believed. 54 This was the second sign Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.

Superficial Faith

“A prophet has no honor at home”

Galileans welcomed him home

Witnesses of his actions in Jerusalem, at Passover

Royal official looking for a miracle

Faith from signs and wonders

Spoken Healing

Surely the healer must be present

“[Sir/Lord/Master], come down before my child dies.”

The Holy Spirit knows no bounds

“Go, your son will live.”

Faith Transformed

The man took Jesus at his word and departed.

“The man believed the word that Jesus spoke and departed”

Confirmed along the way

A whole household of faith

Worship Reoriented

Many people began to believe in Jesus only because of miracles

Signs aren’t to be worshiped, but to inspire heavenward worship

The Word became flesh such that flesh could point us back to the Word

What God Can Do vs. Who God Is

Testimony has the power to center the miracle or the source

Serving others can center ourselves, the need, or God

Every life is a miracle. Is your life a sign that points to God?