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Introduction
Have You Ever Heard the Story About the King Whose Palace was Overrun With Mice?
He Had Mice Everywhere!
In the Kitchen, Dining Hall, Pantry
In the Bedrooms, Closets, Bathrooms
They Were Everywhere, and He Had to Come Up With a Solution
So He Got Some Cats to Run Off the Mice
They Did Their Job, But Then He Couldn’t Get the Cats to Leave
So He Got Some Dogs to Run Off the Cats
But Then He Couldn’t Get the Dogs to Leave
So He Got Some Lions to Run Off the Dogs
But Then He Couldn’t Get the Lions to Leave
So He Got Some Elephants to Run the Lions Off
But Then He Couldn’t Get the Elephants to Leave
So You Know What He Did?
He Got Some Mice to Run Off the Elephants
Matthew 8:14-17
Matthew’s Gospel Account is Structured Around 5 Major Teaching Discourses of Jesus
We’ve Finished the First One (Sermon on the Mount)
And Now We are in a Middle Section Between the Sermon on the Mount and Jesus’ 2nd Discourse in Chapter 10
Here, Matthew is Telling Us About Some of the Miracles that Jesus Performed
Matthew’s Focus is to Show Us the Authority of Jesus Over Sickness and Demonic Forces
Matthew Structures These Miracles into 3 Groupings of 3 Miracle Stories Each
We are Now On the 3rd Miracles in the First Grouping
Matthew is Trying to Show His Readers Something Very Important About Jesus
He Reaches Out to Those Who No One Else Will
1st He Healed a Leper
2nd He Healed a Gentile’s Servant
And Now He is Going to Heal a Woman (Considered a 2nd Class Citizen in Jewish Society)
Matthew 8:14 (NASB)
When Jesus came into Peter’s home, He saw his mother-in-law lying sick in bed with a fever.
Mark and Luke Tell Us that They Have Just Left the Synagogue
And Mark Tells Us This Took Place On the Sabbath Day
That Information Will Be Pertinent to Us in a Few Minutes
So Jesus Goes to Peter’s House
Mark and Luke Tell Us that this House Belongs to Both Peter and Andrew, His Brother
There are the Remains of 1st Century House in Capernaum that Many Believe was the House of Peter and Andrew
This Would Have Been the House Jesus Healed Many People In
Cast Out Many Demons In
And Taught Many People In
We Also Find Out in this Passage that Peter was Married
Because His Mother-in-Law Was Sick with a High Fever
Matthew 8:15 (NASB)
He touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she got up and waited on Him.
Again Jesus Heals Someone By Touching Them
He Will Continue to Do This Throughout His Ministry
It Seems Like Many Religious Leaders Would Rarely Touch a Woman
They Wanted to Avoid Any Possibility of Becoming Unclean By Touching a Woman During Her Menstrual Cycle
But as With Each of These First 3 Miracles…
Jesus Isn’t Concerned With Becoming Unclean
He Touched the Leper
He Was Willing to Enter the Home of the Gentile
And He Touched the Woman
In Every Dealing With a Potentially Unclean Person…
Jesus Never Becomes Unclean
But the Unclean Always Become Clean
When Jesus Touched Her, She Immediately Became Well
Well Enough to Immediately Get Up and Start Working
In This Short Miracle Story, There is a Clear Chiastic Structure
Chiasm = A Literary Device Where a Sequence of Ideas is Presented and Then Repeated in Reverse Order
And the Part in the Middle of the Chiasm is the Main Point
A - He Saw His Mother-In-Law
B - Lying Sick in Bed
C - With a Fever
X - He Touched Her Hand
C’ - The Fever Left Her
B’ - She Got Up
A’ - [She] Waited On Him
The Situation Completely Reversed
What Caused Such a Transformation of Circumstances?
The Touch of Jesus
The Touch of Jesus Can Transform Our Circumstances Too
He Takes Away Our Spiritual Sickness that Leads to Our Eternal Death
And the Transformation that We See in Peter’s Mother-In-Law…
Is Exactly the Transformation Jesus Expects to See in Each of Us
We Were Helpless, Sick, and Dying
We Deserved No Healing, No Kindness, No Grace
But That is Exactly What He Has Given Each of Us
He Touched Us, Healed Us, Forgave Us…
By Being Punished and Dying For the Sins We Committed
We Had Nothing to Offer Him But Our Love and Devotion
And That’s All He Expects
By Placing Our Faith in Him as Lord and Savior…
By Dying, Being Buried, and Resurrecting With Him in Baptism…
We are Cleansed and Made New
And Like Peter’s Mother-In-Law…
We are Expected to Get Up and Serve Him
Mark and Luke Tell Us that She Served “Them”
But Matthew Tells Us She Served “Him”
Matthew Tells Us This Intentionally
This is an Illustration of Basic Discipleship
She Didn’t Serve Jesus in Order to Be Saved
She Served Jesus Because She Was Already Saved
Service to Christ is Not Something We Do to Be Saved
It’s Something We Do Because We are Saved
It’s the Only Appropriate Response to the One Who is Giving Us…
And Will Give Us Everything We Could Ever Dream Of
He Has Given Me Everything to Hope in and Live For
And So I Will Hope and Live in Him
Matthew 8:16 (NASB)
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