Jesus' Love in Matthew 9

In His Hometown

Mark 6:4, 6; Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown is a prophet without honor.” And He was amazed at their lack of faith.

The Paralytic Man

Matthew 9:1-8

• Mark 2:1-12
• Luke 5:17-26

What do you see in Jesus’ love?

What did Jesus see before He healed the man?

• The man’s faith

What were the results of Jesus’ love?

• The paralytic was healed and went home
• The crowd was filled with awe
• The crowd praised God

Jairus’ Daughter

Matthew 9:18-19, 23-26 

• Mark 5:21-24, 35-43
• Luke 8:41-42, 49-56

What do you see in Jesus’ love?

What did Jesus tell Jairus to do?

• Believe (Mark and Luke)

What were the results of Jesus’ love?

• The girl was healed and got up
• News spread throughout the region

The Bleeding Woman

Matthew 9:20-22

• Mark 5:25-33
• Luke 8:43-48

What do you see in Jesus’ love?

What did Jesus say healed the woman?

• The woman’s faith

What were the results of Jesus’ love?

• The woman was healed from that momen

The Blind and Mute Men

Matthew 9:27-31

 

What do you see in Jesus’ love?

What did Jesus say healed the men?

• The men’s faith

What were the results of Jesus’ love?

• The men had their sight restored
• News spread throughout the region 

The Demon-Possessed Man

Matthew 9:32-33

 

What do you see in Jesus’ love?

What were the results of Jesus’ love?

• The man was delivered from the demon and he spoke
• The crowd was amazed

In many of these accounts we read that when Jesus looked – with love – at the individuals that we suffering, what He saw was their faith.

• Sometimes I wonder what it is we see when we look at the people that are suffering around us. Do we look for their faith?
• And I wonder if we attempted to truly love like Jesus loved – the way Jesus calls us to love – if we would see things different

In most of these accounts we read that the affects of Jesus love were far reaching – far beyond the person that had been healed or delivered.

• What affect will our Christian love have on those in our church – our community – our world?

Jesus’ Ministry of Love

Matthew 9:35-36

Our Call to Love Like Jesus

Matthew 9:37-38

A Jesus Timeline

We just began a teaching series on Sunday evenings - "Journey Through The New Testament". Below is part of the outline from week one  - "The Gospels". This is a brief (limited) timeline of Jesus' time on this earth according to the Gospel accounts.

Autumn, A.D. 28:

•          Jesus left Nazareth and went down for Him baptism

•          Right after His baptism He went into the mountains to be tempted by Satan

•          Then He went back to Salem, and then to Cana

◦          The first disciples were from there – John, Andrew, Peter, Philip, and Nathaniel

Spring, A.D. 29:

•          The first miracle was at the wedding in Can

•          Jesus then moved to Capernaum, where he established His base of operations.

•          While Jesus was at Passover in Jerusalem, Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews, came to Him at night and Jesus explained the need to be “born again” (John 3:16)

•          This was about the time of John the Baptists last testimony

 

Winter, A.D. 29:

•          Jesus met the woman at the well at Sycar

•          Jesus went back to Cana and healed the son of a royal official

•          Jesus healed a man at the Pool of Bethesda

Spring, A.D. 30:

•          John the Baptist had been imprisoned in  Jerusalem

•          In Galilee, Jesus began to broaden His public ministry

•          At the synagogue, in Nazareth, Jesus read from Isaiah and the townspeople tried to throw Him off of a cliff

•          Jesus left Nazareth and went back to Capernaum

◦          There He called four more disciples

•          Peter's mother-in-law and a leper were healed

 

Summer, A.D. 30:

•          Jesus healed a paralytic in Capernaum

•          Matthew was called

•          Jesus and His disciples picked grain on the Sabbath

•          Jesus healed a man with a withered hand on the Sabbath

•          Jesus preached the sermon on the mount 

Fall, A.D. 30:

•          Jesus healed a blind and dumb man in Capernaum and was accused of doing this by the powers of Satan

•          From this point on Jesus spoke publicly only in parables

•          The seven kingdom parables in Matthew 13 were spoken

•          The people accused Jesus of being Satan

•          Jesus rebuked the storm

•          Jesus encountered the demonic man in the region of the Gadarenes and permitted the demons to go into a heard of pigs

•          The disciples went back to Capernaum

Winter, A.D. 30

•          Jarius's daughter is raised

•          A woman with an issue of bleeding was healed

•          Two blind men and a dumb man were healed

•          Jesus arrived back in Nazareth and opffened people.

•          John the baptist was beheaded

•          The Apostles were sent out in pairs

•          Jesus returned to Capernaum

Sprint, A.D. 31:

•          The twelve apostles returned to Capernaum

•          Jesus then returned to Bethsaida, which became a major base

•          Jesus fed 5,000

•          Jesus walked on water and returned to Capernaum

•          Jesus preached His sermon on “the Bread of Life”

•          Jesus was accused of eating with unwashed hands

•          Jesus went to the region of Decapolis

•          Jesus healed a deaf and dumb man and fed 4,000

•          Jesus went to Magdela where the Pharisee's demanded a sign

•          Jesus took a ship to Bethsaida where he talked about the yeast of the Pharisee's

•          Jesus traveled north to Caesarea Philippi

•          Jesus went up on the Mount of Transfiguration

•          Jesus healed a possessed boy and returned to Capernaum

•          Jesus went down to Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles where He declared Himself to be the Living Water

•          He forgave a woman of adultery and returned to Galilee

Winter, A.D. 31:

•          The Samaritan's rejected Jesus

•          Jesus went to Perea, east of the Jordan and presented several parables

◦          the good Samaritan, the unrighteous steward, the rich man and Lazarus

•          Jesus sent out the seventy disciples

•          Jesus traveled to Jerusalem and healed a man born blind

•          Jesus stayed at Bethabara

Spring, A.D. 32:

•          Jesus traveled to Bethany

•          Lazarus was raised from the dead

•          Jewish leaders plotted to kill Lazarus and Jesus

•          Jesus moved to the village of Ephraim

•          Jesus encountered ten lepers and gave a number of parables

•          James and John's mother made the request that Jesus make her sons one and two

•          Jesus traveled back to Jericho where He healed blind Bartimeus

•          Jesus called Zaccheus and presented the parable of the ten talents

•          Jesus went to Bethany for His final week – the “Passion Week"

The Jesus Perspective

I found an article I wrote for the newspaper some time back and thought I would post it on here.

This past week I was reading Mark 5:1-20, an account of Jesus meeting a demon possessed man on the shores of Gadara. He delivers this man and sends the demons into a nearby heard of pigs. Take five minutes to read it yourself. As I read through this I considered the people of the region, Mark calls them the Gerasenes.

Jesus meets this demon possessed man, a human being and delivers him from bondage. Hallelujah, it is time to celebrate! But instead, the men that were tending the pigs, ran off to tell others about this tragedy. But, if they missed the miracle of the moment when Christ took those demons out of the man, they will get another chance to rejoice.

Up to this point many of the people of this region only knew him as ‘the possessed guy,’ ‘the crazy guy,’ ‘the screamer’ or ‘the cutter.’ Now, they get the chance to see him whole again, “dressed and inhis right mind.” Now they can show pity on him and be glad that he has been delivered. But it reads “they wereafraid.” To be clear, minutes ago he was hanging out in the tombs, he was cutting himself and screaming out in pain day and night and he was breaking chains with superhuman strength and now they are afraid?

The people begin to tell others the whole account. They share what has happened with the man who was possessed for such a long time, of thousands of demons came out of him and into the pigs that ran off the cliff and of Jesus, His power and control.

Jesus’ supremacy can no longer be doubted. Scripture reads that the people pleaded with Jesus to leave their region. They wanted Him out of there. The truth is that they would have rather had the pigs then Jesus.

Later, as the man begins to give a first-hand account of his deliverance in the ten-city region, we read people were amazed. Translated, it meant that the people marveled, they admired Jesus, His power and of the miracle.

People were always one step behind, afraid after the man had been delivered and marveled after Jesus left town.

It is my prayer that we do not emulate the Gerasenes, that we are not one step behind, running away when we should rejoice, fearing what we should embrace and dismissing the One we should welcome.

Maybe you feel a bit like the man at the beginning of the passage, you are facing the pressures of life, the loneliness of culture and the shame of the past. You are one step away from being free. And just as the man in the passage did, you need to run and fall on your knees in front of Jesus. Maybe you feel like the Gerasenes or you know someone who is struggling, you see someone hurting and know that something needs to be done.

Are you going to pass on by or stop and see what Jesus sees? It is all about the perspective that we take, the moment we pause and consider what a person is going through and how some of the simplest actions we take can change a person’s life forever.

Acts 3:6 : what I have I give you

I was reading from Acts chapter 3, it has a lot of great insights. But this morning, verse 6 caught my attention.

"Then Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.”

Words spoken to a crippled beggar who was sitting at the temple gate  asking from money. This statement by Peter was followed by a miraculous healing. This statement verbalizes the true Spirit of Christ - give to those in need.

This does not mean that we, as Christians, are to always give to a person exactly what they are asking for, but rather that we should give out of the abundance, out of the gifts, that God has given to us. Read through chapter 3 of Acts and you will notice that this man was begging for money, Peter did not give him money, but rather, he gave him out of the abundance of what God had given to him; the gift of teaching, healing, and leading.

This crippled beggar at the gate was asking for money. This man was poor and helpless due to his disability. Notice the steps that Peter takes here:

1. Peter looked straight at him.
2. Peter spoke to the man and called for his attention.
3. Peter saw through his felt need (money) to the heart of his problem (his crippling disability).
4. Peter spoke healing into his life and into his body.
5. Peter helped him up and walked with him.
6. Peter stood beside the man and defended him.

This is exactly what we are called to do; take notice of those around us, call for their attention, see through their felt need to the heart of the matter, speak healing into their life through the gifts God has given to us, and walk with others, standing beside them and defending them in difficult times.