Sermon Tone Analysis

The Healing Power of Christ

1. Scripture Reading: Luke 13:10-17

Be seated

2. Prayer

3. Introduction:

a.

When Abraham was called out of Ur, in Chaldea, he and His family thought that God was a capricious, vengeful being that needed to be appeased.

This was the image of God or gods prevalent in all cultures at the time.

It is the concept of God that is prevalent in most non-Christian cultures today.

It is a concept that led to practices like human sacrifice and temple prostitution.

From it, people got the notion that they were victims of god or gods.

These gods had explicit or not so explicit rules, and if you broke those rules, you would be punished.

For this reason, when people see others who are suffering and afflicted, they assume they must have done something to anger God.

b.

God separated Abraham out of that culture to correct those beliefs.

God instructed him to go to Canaan, which would become his land.

He was to separate himself and his family from these corrupt practices andn views of God - God was redeeming Him from the consequences of this corrupt worship.

Make no mistake, Abraham was a sinner like the rest of us, but God had chosen Him to redeem a people from sin.

b.

The true God is the opposite of the vengeful, legalistic, proud God of the Pagans and has many wonderful attributes - He is gracious, loving, merciful, just, holy, righteous to name a few, but in this passage, we see His loving mercy demonstrated in many ways.

God has lessons for us here for many issues: salvation, the Sabbath, regeneration, and sin.

In this encounter, Jesus addresses both the pain and sin of this woman, as well the sin of a Jewish Leader.

Jesus demonstrates how He glorifies God, by healing and saving this woman and by rebuking Satan by correcting the legalistic attitude of a Jewish official.

Today, we will focus on how Jesus heals and saves this woman, His mercy and kindness in doing so, and we will only touch briefly on how He addresses the matter of healing on the Sabbath and how the Sabbath practices of the Jews violated God’s intent for the Sabbath.

To provide some context, this event takes place during Jesus Galilean ministry, as He is enroute to Jerusalem - He knows what He will do there.

This is phase two of two, for His ministry on earth.

Jesus is going to Jerusalem to accept the punishment for the sins of His people, and atone for those sins.

He is going to die for this woman.

c.