Matthew 4:23–24 (NIV84)
Jesus Heals the Sick
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. 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.
Jesus went about preaching the Kingdom.
We are not told exactly what the text of those sermons or proclamations were, but we do know the results. When Jesus preached the Kingdom people were delivered from oppression & people were healed because, of the authority of Jesus. The Kingdom of God is the place or realm where God is in control. The earthly nature is to try to control and dominate. Micro and macro power struggles abound in the story of our world. As I write this a power hungry dictator in Russia has invaded Ukrain to try to reassemble the Soviet Union empire to prominence on the worlds stage. The desire to control inevitably leads to violence.
Jesus preached the Kingdom of God has come. With this pronouncement the rulers of this world we given their orders to release those whom they dominated. This was not only true of the political and religious power brokers, but it applied to the demons and diseases.
Receiving the Kingdom or being received into God’s Kingdom requires putting your trust in Jesus to control your life. This means you repent of trying to control and dominate. Instead you become one who follows Jesus. Have you given up control to follow Jesus?
Christians use the phrase getting saved. You may ask, what am I being saved from? You are being saved from yourself and the other things that would try to control your life. If you pray to ask Jesus to come into your life, and you give him control, he becomes your Lord (the one who leads) and Savior (the one who heals). Being saved starts with a prayer, but the real act is to give control to God and trusting him to lead you in every pursuit and every dream.
I want to invite you to pray and ask Jesus to be your Lord and Savior. You can use your own words to tell Jesus. He is the one you trust and will follow. Invite him into your life, and he will come in and work His Kingdom in your life.
Jesus is the unexpected king not only because in the unconventional way he lived but also do the way he preached and faced the ones whose we’re supposed to watch over his people
His healings were an expression of his love and compassion but also of one’s faith, God can’t and will not move where there is no faith and lack of repentance.
Jesus didn’t come to overrule the political figures or the kingdoms of these world.
He came to display his kingdom in full view
Now, each one of us have to make a decision, Do I believe Jesus Christ when he announced his kingdom and when he offered eternal life?
Or do I remain content thinking: I am ok, I am not that bad.
Jesus didn’t come to condemn us because we were already condemned and deserved eternal death separated from him
He came to saves so we won’t be eternally lost.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son for whoever believe in him shall not perish but have everlasting life”