Jesus Heals, Sends, and Proclaims the Kingdom

Jacob saw the face of the Lord in that angel or in the Lord. It's a little ambiguous as to exactly who he was wrestling with. And so he named, the place where he wrestled with that holy being, Penel, which means the face of God because he received the the mercy of and grace of God because he didn't die when facing, that angel or the Lord himself. And then when he met his brother, his brother was not full of vengeance and and murder. He was full of forgiveness and reconciliation, grace. And and so, Jacob was able to say, in looking upon your face, brother, I have seen the face of God, the mercy of God, the forgiveness of God. [00:34:28] (42 seconds)  #FaceOfGodMercy

And so whenever something new or different was happening, people were talking about it. People were sharing that news. And so it's no wonder that as the day goes on and as the sun is setting, people are bringing to Jesus their family members, their friends who are sick with all kinds of various diseases, and Jesus still probably hasn't had his nap. Jesus is taking his time out of love and compassion and concern for each and every one of these sick people. And he's laying his hands on them, praying over them, healing them, and Jesus is demonstrating not only his power and his authority over sickness, illness, disease, He's demonstrating his love. How beautiful is that? [00:43:52] (50 seconds)  #CompassionateHealing

We praise the God. We praise the Lord Jesus Christ. We praise him for who he is and we thank him. So let's not let these demons or evil spirits praise God. Well, not praise God, but shout, you are the son of God any louder than we can because they knew he was the Messiah. They knew he was the Messiah. They had the head knowledge, but they didn't have the heart for Jesus to love him, to celebrate being in his presence, to celebrate the life and the love that he offers to all of us. [00:46:48] (42 seconds)  #PraiseFromTheHeart

Now the question remains, why isn't Jesus still healing people like this today? Well, the fact of the matter is he is healing people today, but he isn't healing everyone. Even people who are strong believers, even people that we love, that we lift up in prayer before him. [00:47:42] (25 seconds)  #HealsSomeNotAll

Now if our master, if our lord Jesus needed to have that time away to connect, to to be restored, to be renewed, to be enthused, whatever experience he needed, he received from his father because he took that time away. How much more so as we, as his followers, should be doing the same thing? [00:50:19] (28 seconds)  #RestLikeJesus

We who continue to sin, continue to to get weighed down by thoughts and emotions and and feelings and actions which are not from God that we need to to try to set aside, that we need to give up, that we need the holy spirit to set us free from as we discern the will of God in our day to day lives. And so I commend those of you who set aside time each day to simply pray, maybe to spend some time reading scripture or a daily devotional, and to just have that one on one time with the Lord. [00:50:50] (39 seconds)  #DailyTimeWithGod

but his followers did. After his resurrection, after his ascension, when the holy spirit was poured out upon us, we too had the opportunity, the privilege, the commission to go and to proclaim the good news to other towns. And that is why we're sent. [00:54:09] (19 seconds)  #CommissionedToProclaim

And he goes with us. By the power of the holy spirit, wherever we go as his ambassadors, as his proclaimers, he is there with us. And people experience him and they come to faith. And some of them experience miraculous healings, maybe physically, maybe in their relationships like we talked about last week with Jacob and Esau, maybe in their their mental health, in their relationship with the Lord. [00:54:49] (30 seconds)  #SentByTheSpirit