Jesus' Authority: Healing, Forgiveness, and Radical Discipleship

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"immensely personal and he knows amidst those moments of despair and loneliness where you feel like nobody else understands know this he understands he is familiar with your pain in a way that nobody else in this world is and he is committed as your Lord and save to meeting the deepest needs of your hearts in the middle middle of your heart in the middle of your struggle that's really good news hope that encourages you even in a room full of people tonight I think you do not get lost in the crowd when it comes to Christ you have his attention he brings hope in the middle of despair and he brings life in the midst of death." [37:29]( | | )

"absolute allegiance from the world so did you notice how in these stories there were three types of people that we saw on one hand we saw the crowds watching all this take place and the crowds Revere Jesus first miracle in this chapter Matthew chapter 9 the crowd saw it they were afraid last miracle crowd saw it there marveled so Matthew's given us a picture of here of crowds who are being attached to Jesus who are following Jesus but at the same time they're following him they are admiring him their revering him from a distance and very few from these crowds will be with him along a dusty difficult road to a cross in Jerusalem." [49:34]( | | )

"so some trust in the one who has authority over sin let him sever the root of suffering which is sin in your heart if you have never trusted in Jesus to forgive you of all your sin to wipe the slate clean in your heart urge you to do that and if you have I urge you to proclaim that as the good news of the kingdom and nothing else but death that leads into the next story Jesus has authority over sin and Jesus has authority to save." [19:07]( | | )

"they make a way for me to conquer death so I checked the tomb of Buddha and it was occupied and I checked the tomb of Confucius and it was occupied and I checked the tomb of Muhammad and it was occupied and I came to the tomb of Jesus and it was empty and I said there is one who has conquered death and I ask the second question did he make a way for me to do it and I opened the Bible and discovered that he had said because I live you shall live also brothers and sisters death is real death is sobering death is serious death is immensely painful but with Jesus death is always temporary." [40:10]( | | )

"and she will live so see this dad's put yourself in in the story here your daughter has just died your young daughter she's pleading come and lay your hand on her and she will live and she just rose and followed him with his disciples and behold a woman who had suffered from a discharge of blood for 12 years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment for she said to herself only I touch His garment I will be made well and she just turned and seeing her he said take heart daughter your faith has made you well and instantly the woman was made well." [33:57]( | | )

"all of our physical struggles all of our physical suffering all of our physical pain in addition to emotional struggle spiritual struggles they all go back to the fact that we have sinned and we are separated from our Creator all suffering goes back either to sin in your life specifically so I mentioned last week and I want to mention again much of the suffering in our lives is due to specific sin in our lives when we disobey God when we flirt with sin we will suffer you can mark that down we will suffer the consequences of sin and those consequences are painful even the discipline of God out of his love and mercy toward us is painful to draw us away from sin." [09:48]( | | )

"the guy didn't even ask for forgiveness of sins right like I try to put myself in this guy's shoes or on this guy's mat more appropriately and so friends bring you in you're paralyzed to Jesus the first thing he does he look he's got all these healings that he's been doing and so so he looks at you he says take heart my son and you're thinking your friends are thinking the scribes around you are thinking he's about to heal this guy who's for alysus and he looks at you I'm trying to picture this just looking at me paralyzed on a mat and he says son your sins are forgiven and what's going through my mind I'm probably thinking okay it's not really what I was looking for but I'll take that it's not what anybody was looking for friends weren't thinking this the scribes clearly weren't thinking this." [06:30]( | | )

"New Testament fasting though everything's different New Testament fasting is looking backward and forward right New Testament fasting is looking back and seeing yes the King has come yes we have reason to rejoice and celebrate he's conquered sin he's conquered death he's conquered the grave and we have tasted the satisfaction of Christ in the king who has come at the same time there is longing looking forward because we know that we what we've tasted and what we've seen in Christ we know there's more to come it's not that we're mourning because we don't have any satisfaction no we got satisfaction in Christ at the same time now this is where we realize why understanding how Matthew chapter eight and nine are put together and the whole structure of this thing is so important." [30:45]( | | )

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