You are loosed

This is a scripture of the new testament so naturally it centers on Jesus. In the scripture we find Jesus in a synagogue. This in itself is not unusual because we find Jesus everywhere, he can be preaching from a mountain, in front of a lake, on a boat. We have found him at the temple , on the roadside and yes like here in a synagogue.

Luke 13:10–17 NLT

One Sabbath day as Jesus was teaching in a synagogue, he saw a woman who had been crippled by an evil spirit. She had been bent double for eighteen years and was unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Dear woman, you are healed of your sickness!” Then he touched her, and instantly she could stand straight. How she praised God! But the leader in charge of the synagogue was indignant that Jesus had healed her on the Sabbath day. “There are six days of the week for working,” he said to the crowd. “Come on those days to be healed, not on the Sabbath.” But the Lord replied, “You hypocrites! Each of you works on the Sabbath day! Don’t you untie your ox or your donkey from its stall on the Sabbath and lead it out for water? This dear woman, a daughter of Abraham, has been held in bondage by Satan for eighteen years. Isn’t it right that she be released, even on the Sabbath?” This shamed his enemies, but all the people rejoiced at the wonderful things he did.

The scripture read by Nevear says that while he was teaching he noticed a woman that was there, who had a spirit if infirmity King James version, and was bent over double. What i didn’t have Nevear read was the the rest of the story. I hope you read it for yourself but after jesus heals the woman. The leader of the synagogue, the same one who had to have invited Jesus to preach,. gets mad. He get mad because Jesus has healed on the Sabbath. And he get mad because somebody else came or brought somebody to be healed. he makes a speech about folk have six days to be healed and seventh day there is no work to be done.

This scripture identifies three main characters.

Jesus , the unknown woman and this leader of the synagogue.

And through these three people we find themes that that are as important today as they were in Jesus’ time.

Synagogue Leader

Through this leader of the synagogue we learn a little about hypocrisy. The act of being a hypocrite. For Jesus tells him about the habit of the righteous men taking care of livestock during a sabbath but this “daughter of Abraham should be made to suffer for your rule”

You see he was a hypocrite because he talked in absolute- never work on the Sabbath but he and the ones like him made exceptions to the rules so that he would not be breaking the rules.

We too have to be careful about hypocrisy. Talking a good game for Christ when in actuality we are playing for the other team. Some of us are playing a role. We have to be very careful not to be hypocritical in our worship. You know say we are standing for Christ when in actuality we are not committed, not devoted and sometimes we are not even saved.

While this leader wanted Jesus at his synagogue, he didn’t really want the real Jesus!

While he was supposed to be leading his people closer to God, in reality he was not serving God or the people but some rules. We have to be careful in our lives that we are serving somebody not just rules or procedures.

Woman

And then we come to this woman

Now we do no get a lot of information on this woman

1. we don’t know her name.

Names are not really important for there is only one name we need be concerned about.

We need only know the name of Jesus

2. we don’t know her marital status, does say she was brought there by her husband. But she probably was for how else would a woman with an illness like this be able to make it if she was not married.

3. we don’t know if this illness was progressive or if just came on her and doubled her up from the beginning.

We do know that :

1. she is faithful, because even what she has to go through, she made her way to the sanctuary. You it must have been painful but what was a little pain when she had a chance to serve her God.

2. She must have been a little self conscious about her condition. but she made it through the stares and the whispers, for what is a little bit of gossip when it comes between you and your God.

3. Scripture says she had a spirit of infirmity,

NIV says crippled by a spirit and New living translation says crippled by an evil spirit

I don’t know what caused it but it bent her double. her Spine had her bent over unable to stand straight.

And she had this condition 18 years.

I know we complain when we have a headache for more than an hour. But Saints she had this condition for 18 years.

The woman with an issue of blood had her ailment for 12 years. it said she had been to every doctor had tried everything, she had expended all of her funds.

The man at the pool at Bethesda had his condition for 38 years. he tried to get to the pool because it was believed that the first one in the pool when the Angels troubled the water would be healed.

These and many of the people we find in the Bible were actively trying to be healed.

Going to the pool of Bethesda like the paralyzed man.

Crying out like Blind Bartimaeus , or the lepers calling out to Jesus Son of David save me.

But his woman neither cried out to Jesus, she didn’t try to touch the hem of his garment. She was just in the synagogue going to worship.

I wonder if this woman was like so many of us, in that we become complacent with what’s going on. we accept what is happening as our due. We know that is how it has been and we expect that is how it is going to be.

We have accepted our fate.

We accept this spirit of infirmity.

We accept cancer because it is after all cancer!

We accept depression because that what it is

We accept abuse

We accept poverty

We accept hatred

We accept out lot in life because we don’t see the alternative.

But one day just like every other day, the sun rose, and just like every other day for even the Sabath day this one struggled to dress.

one day just like every other day she somehow made it down to the synagogue.

on day just like every other day she went into the house.

But what made this day just a little different.

this day Jesus was in the place.

Jesus

I don’t know about you but let me tell you when Jesus is in the place it is not like every other day.

Somebody better hear me today.

Jesus saw her in her condition and in his compassion he called her to him

And in his compassion jesus spoke to her.

And in his compassion Jesus touched her.

NIV says he said you are healed!

new living say he said Woman you are free!

But I Iike how King James reads for he says Woman thou art loosed!

You see some of us are bound down in depression We need Jesus to say you are loosed

Some of us are stuck in a generational curse

we need jesus to say you are loosed.

Some of us are just bound to the enemy Jesus say you are loosed.

I believe in the word of God

i tell you the word still works.

But not only did he speak to her he touched her.

I believe there is power in the touch. I don’t know but even in this day of social distancing i believe there power in in the touch. i have never claimed healing as one of my spiritual gifts but i belief that there is healing in the name of Jesus . if your faith will allow you . be blessed , be Blessed in the name of Jesus

Be free in the name of Jesus

be loosed in the name of Jesus