The most important part of our suffering and pain is that we remember who Jesus Christ is. He is our great physician.
Sermon Title: JESUS, OUR PHYSICIAN
Sermon Text: MARK 1:40-42
Sermon Series: WHO IS JESUS?
By: PTR. NIC SY
Sermon Notes:
MARK 1:40-45 NIV
40 A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”
41 Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!”
42 Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cured.
43 Jesus sent him away at once with a strong warning:
44 “See that you don’t tell this to anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”
45 Instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere.
A physician is one who is skilled in the art of physical healing.
JOHN 1:3 NIV
3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
COLOSSIANS 1:16 NIV
16 For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.
WHY DOES JESUS HEAL?
MARK 1:40-42 NIV
40 A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”
41 Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!”
42 Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cured.
compassion | Greek: splagchnizomai
“to be moved in the inward parts.”
MATTHEW 14:14 NIV
14 When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick.
Compassion is a call to do something.
JESUS DIDN’T HEAL TO PUT ON A SHOW
MARK 1:43-45 NIV
43 Jesus sent him away at once with a strong warning:
44 “See that you don’t tell this to anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”
45 Instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere.
IS IT GOD’S WILL TO HEAL?
HEBREWS 13:8 NIV
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
“Yes, but…”
MATTHEW 4:23-24 NIV
23 Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.
MATTHEW 4:23-24 NIV
24 News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and he healed them.
MATTHEW 8:16-17 NIV
16 When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick.
17 This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases.”
LUKE 4:40 NIV
40 When the sun was setting, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each one, he healed them.
LUKE 6:17-19 NIV
17 He went down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the coast of Tyre and Sidon,
LUKE 6:17-19 NIV
18 who had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. Those troubled by evil spirits were cured, 19 and the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all.
MARK 1:40-41 NIV
40 A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”
41 Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!”
willing | Greek: thelo
carries the “idea of desire, intention and design.”
1 TIMOTHY 2:4 NKJV
4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
MARK 1:41 NIV
41 Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!”
The most important part of our suffering and pain is that we remember who Jesus Christ is. He is our great physician.
IS GOD WILLING TO HEAL ME?
You are bad enough to be healed.