Hezekiah and Miraculous Healing(3)

Hezekiah - King of Judah

2 Kings 18-20

2 Chron 29-31

Reforms/temple repair/Levites reinstated

Destroying Baal worship

His healing

Isa 38

2 Chron 32:24

His response to healing

Shows all the kingdom to the Babylonians - secrets of the nation

Modern day miracles

Just as Hezekiah was miraculously healed, so are we… How?

Modern medicine’s advances have been able to do what only God was able to do previously

Adding years and decades to our lives

Surgery

General

Appendix

Kidneys

GB

Tumors

Fractures

Healing of femur fracture and trephening in ancient burial sites

picture of civilization

caring for fellow man

Orthopaedics

Repair

CABG

Grafts bone, skin, etc.

Replacement

Joints

Transplants

Medication

Antibiotics

Cardiac

Diabetes

Many of us would not be alive or at least nearly as well without

Our response

So how are we to respond?

However we have been affected by medicine, it is still a healing provided by God

Might get an argument from quite a few doctors about that!

But God is the one who has created this universe with order and natural laws

And man has been able to learn these laws and patterns in order to figure out how things work, and in some cases how to fix the broken stuff

That’s all medicine is, and without the God-given ability of our bodies to heal themselves, it’s all useless

So however the healing comes, it all points back to God - so how should we respond?

Biblical examples

Hezekiah - 24 In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill; and he prayed to the LORD, and the LORD spoke to him and gave him a sign. 25 But Hezekiah gave no return for the benefit he received, because his heart was proud; therefore wrath came on him and on Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Ch 32:24–26).

Truly a great miracle had been accomplished, God even turning back the sun - 2 Kings 20:9-10

New American Standard Bible Hezekiahs Illness and Recovery

9 And Isaiah said, “This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that He has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps or go back ten steps?” 10 So Hezekiah answered, “It is easy for the shadow to decline ten steps; no, but let the shadow turn backward ten steps.” 11 And Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD, and He brought the shadow on the stairway back ten steps by which it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.

But his response was pride, and he almost immediately gave away all the secrets of his kingdom to the Babylonian emmisaries

Who were the ones to destroy Jerusalem a few years later

Truly, the judgement of the Lord came, just not on his generation!

The 10 lepers

9 left without so much as a thanks

1 returned to give thanks and glorify God

Gadarene demoniac

Sat at Jesus’s feet after he was delivered

Desired to follow Him, but Jesus told him “no”, asking him to return to his people and tell them of God’s grace - Lk 8:39 “Return to your house and describe what great things God has done for you.” And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.”

Which he obediently did, and did it so well that when Jesus returned, many people believed in Him.

Blind Bartemeus

Mark 10:52 - healed , and immediately he began to follow Jesus along the road

Which example should we be following?

Called by God and a miracle happens

What is our response?

One of the 9, or the Samaritan?

Do we glorify God with our healed lives, or do we walk away?