Gospel Living

Healing the Unhealable | Mark 1:40–45 So, when we read about the leper here, we encounter a man on a desperate mission. Enigmatically, the Law gives a provision for those cleansed of their leprosy, and he’s heard about the healing power of Jesus—though he must enter a populated town and find the Lord. In their encounter, we see the Lord’s heart concerning those suffering, but we also see an image of the sinner coming to Jesus. So, what we see is the Great Physician healing the unhealable. We’re going to see both His compassion as He heals and His command after He heals. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFCPzJVyRbQ Audio: http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=2281718612 Notes PDF:  http://playpdf.sa-media.com/media/2281718612/2281718612.pdf Healing the Unhealable | Mark 1:40–45 Shaun Marksbury | Morning Service | 26 February, 2017 Heavenly Father, • We thank You that You take the wretched and transform us.  I pray that we would ...

We're slowly working our way through good conferences, and in lieu of a devotional this morning, this is David Miller offering the third session from the G3 Conference.  

And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him. 25  And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, 26  and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. 27  She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. 28  For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.” 29  And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. 30  And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?” 31  And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’ ” 32  And he looked around to see who had done it. 33  But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before h...

21  And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea. 22  Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing him, he fell at his feet 23  and implored him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.” 24  And he went with him. Jesus, rejected by the people on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee, returns to Capernaum on the northeastern shore.  Not much time had passed, so we are not surprised to find this crowd of people awaiting Him.  Indeed, the crowds of the opposing shores represent opposing reactions to the ministry of Christ—one of rejection and one of welcome.  Nonetheless, Jesus didn’t follow just anyone in the jubilant crowd, and we see a hint of the only reaction to Christ that means anything. It’s not enough to simply have a positive view of Je...

Last Wednesday's sermon did not record, so that gives us a chance to listen to the next session of hte G3 Conference.  Tim Challies preached in the second session of the 2017 G3 Conference.  His subject was, "Let the Gospel Give You Your Song."

16  And those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and to the pigs. 17  And they began to beg Jesus to depart from their region. 18  As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him. 19  And he did not permit him but said to him, “Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” 20  And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled. The townsfolk come to see what happened to the herd, and they’re stricken with fear.  Even though the “fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge” (Pv 1:7), unfortunately, they didn’t move forward in knowledge.  On the other hand, the demoniac, now set free, develops an instant affection for the Lord.  We see both begging Jesus in these verses, and we note in them two different responses ...

14  The herdsmen fled and told it in the city and in the country. And people came to see what it was that had happened. 15  And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid. Often, when we talk about salvation, we think about justification .  That’s an essential and vital doctrine teaching believers that God declares sinners righteous because of the righteous work of Christ.  There’s no salvation for our sinful souls unless we sinners are justified before the Judge of all the earth. What we see with this man is another doctrine tied to the gospel—sanctification—whereby God delivers sinners away from their sin to Himself.  Much of sanctification happens over time with us believing the gospel and obeying what God commands so we can grow.  Even so, it happens primarily because of the work of God within us.  The sanctification of the demo...