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or the upper left-hand side we've got tonight of course we back then on
Thursday at seven as we go through the book of Genesis we'll be in chapter
number 19 this week don't forget the church wide soul winning and
regional times they're listed below as well as the salvation of baptisms and
some numerics regarding the attendances and the offerings. Of course this
morning we celebrated everybody's birthday in the month of May and don't
forget ladies the Mother's Day Tea Party this Saturday at 1 p.m. I know
everyone's pretty much confirmed whether or not they're coming but if there's
any changes in plans please let my wife know so we're gonna be ordering food
this week so let us know if anything comes up. On the back don't forget there
is the trip to the Grand Canyon the soul winning marathon at the end of
next month if you'd like more details on that let me know and I'll
be sure to get you those you have the expectant ladies list and don't
forget not this Wednesday but the following pastor Mejia will be
preaching up in Tempe and we will be there on that Wednesday it turns out we
were already planning on going up there so worked out good for us we're gonna
be there when Pastor Mejia is in town preaching for us so the
wrestle crew will be up there in force you know barring any
unforeseen circumstances but basically that means that I I'm planning on going
up there earlier in the day so I won't be here to drive the church band
so if people want to make use of the church band obviously you have to find
one of the several guys here that are insured on the church van and of course
their schedule has to be open to go up there but that's one option for folks
if they want to kind of carpool together make their way up there make
the pilgrimage to that Tempe and take in the preaching there other than that
that's gonna do it for announcements let's go ahead and quickly count up the
soul-winning going back to Friday if there's anything from Friday to report
or anything from Saturday or anything from today one for today praise the
Lord is that today one just one for today or is it one and one just the
one that went back there and I don't mean it just the one like that I
didn't mean it like that okay I mean as in you know just clarifying it was
only one that's all I meant by that okay all right great work so winning
everybody let's go ahead and sing one more song before we get into preaching
tonight
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Here first Corinthians three, I'll be right back, but I am gonna wrap up mark chapter number seven tonight
I'm gonna finish up in mark seven and in these last few verses in mark seven. This is where we have
The dumb being made to speak and we'll read very quickly in mark chapter number seven
If you remember this morning
He is coming back out of Tyre and Sidon and he says in verse 31 and again departing
From the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. He came under the Sea of Galilee through the midst of
the coasts of the capitalists and they bring unto him one that was deaf and had an impediment in his speech and
They beseech him to put his hand upon them
Says in verse 33
and he took him aside from the multitude and put his fingers into his ears and he spit and
Touched his tongue and looking up to heaven. He sighed and sayeth unto him Ephethah that is be open and
Straightway his ears were opened and the string of his tongue was loosed and he spake plain
Look at verse 36 and he charged that they should tell no man
But the more he charged him so much the more a great deal
They published it and were beyond beyond measure astonished saying he hath done all things
Well, he maketh both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak
So he had this great miracle taking place at the end of mark 7 and there's a couple things that we can
Get out of this
Really just this detailing of events. Really. It's not nothing's being expounded upon
Nothing's being taught necessarily outright. We're just being told, you know kind of you know, ABC
This is what happened. There's what they did. This is the result and it's kind of up to us sometimes as
Preachers when we read these stories to try to read into the text and at the very least make
application try to pull something out of it and feed the flock with that and
That's what I'm gonna attempt to do tonight
He says there again in mark chapter number 7 verse 31
We'll look at the first two verses again when he was departing from the coast of Tyre and Sidon that he came to see of Galilee
Through the midst of the coast of Decapolis and it says a verse or two and they bring him unto him one
That was deaf and had an impediment in his speech and the beseech beseech him to put his hand upon him
So again the impediment there meaning he's unable to speak
Obviously, you know being deaf you don't have you know, I don't understand everything behind
You know people who have hearing loss, but often, you know
If they do speak they don't speak like you and I speak, you know
They make a big part of that is because they can't hear I believe even their own voice
They can't hear the tones that are coming out of their mouth and things like that
So that me might be part of what this impediment is
It's just if the words aren't coming clear or it might be as it says, you know
Cuz his tongue is loose that he just has a complete inability. Maybe he doesn't have
You know the reflexes in his muscles the nerves or something. There's just something physically there and that's important
This is a physical ailment that's afflicting this guy
There's just something physically with his mouth or his tongue or something in his in his vocal cords
That's preventing him from speaking at all. I think that's probably more so the case here
It's not that he's speaking at you know in it with an impediment in the sense that we would use it today
I've often people you'll meet sometimes have a speech impediment and
They simply just maybe they slur or they lisp or they stutter that this is not what it means by impediment
There's something impeding his speech altogether as I believe with what the Bible is showing us here
He's not able to talk right and you can imagine how frustrating that is
And often, you know, we we take things for granted and there's things that we just kind of don't think about in our lives and
You know communication being able to hear and to be heard is an incredible blessing in our lives
I mean imagine if you were to lose that ability
Tomorrow you woke up and just you couldn't hear what was being said to you or you couldn't speak
You couldn't communicate what was inside it'd be like in a sense kind of being trapped in your own mind
It'd be a very
scary thing be a very difficult thing and praise God we live in a time where people who have
Difficulty hearing and things like that. There's a lot of ability for them to still communicate with other people
Through sign language interpreters and even today, you know
I've seen a lot of these things not sure exactly what they're called where they're actually able to restore hearing to some degree. I
Understand it's not the most the clearest thing but they're they're able even to hear to some degree what other people are saying
So praise God for that
I mean we at the very least can walk away from this chapter thinking praise God that you know
We could speak, you know, it's probably not something you'd say about me
You probably wish I talked a little less but you know in generally speaking, you know
We're all glad that we have the ability to communicate with one another
It's a very powerful thing to be able to communicate and this poor guy, you know, he's at a loss here
he's not able to do that and
That's why you see here that there these people bring him to Jesus and they beseech him right they are sympathetic
they're empathetic to this guy and
The situation that he's in and they're just desperately want him to be healed by Jesus and they're saying, you know
Just touch him just lay your hand upon him
You know, they're coming in faith believing that Christ has the ability to just touch this man and just you know
Miraculously in a moment heal him of this
Truly, you know unfortunate
You know disability that he has
And you know the application I want to make out of this is that you know
It was others that brought him to Jesus, you know, that's something we need to always have in our hearts
We have to have a burden for people
Who are unable to get to Jesus on their own right people that are out there
They're in a sense spiritually deaf, right?
They're spiritually blind the Bible says that the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God neither
Can he know them for they are spiritually discerned?
You know the the unsaved person who just picks up a King James Bible
Isn't necessarily under gonna stand everything that's in there. Obviously, there's things that are very simple and plain
There's just the facts of the matter
But the you know
The the meaning the significance of a lot of things that are in there the truth of the gospel doesn't necessarily always come
Shining through to those people someone often has to guide them you think about the Ethiopian eunuch in the book of Acts where
Philip had to come alongside his chariot and he asked him, you know understand what thou readest when he's reading, you know in Isaiah
He's reading the Bible itself
Right, and he asked he said how can I accept some man should guide me?
Except some man should come up into this chariot and explain to me what's being said here, right?
And if you would go back to 1st Corinthians 3 where you were 1st Corinthians 3, you know, there's other people in this world
They cannot hear
What neat what they need to hear they need to hear the gospel
Right and they need to speak who do they need to speak to they need to call upon the Lord
They need to have their tongue loosed in faith and then you'll be able to call out to God and be saved and receive
Christ as Savior, but that's not something that's just gonna happen in and of itself
That's why we as God's people have to go to these people and bring them to Jesus in a sense, right and
Again, I'll emphasize the fact that these people that brought him to Jesus
They did it, you know beseeching him, you know, they were begging basically what I'd say
Imploring him, you know, you get the sense that they had this great burden for this man
You know, that's what we need to make sure we maintain, you know
Many Christians obviously understand that it's their duty to go and preach the gospel
you can't really read the New Testament and walkaways thinking well, I wonder whose job it is to go out and spread the good news of
Salvation by grace their faith. It's clearly ours. You know, that's not something that needs to be
Explained at length the problem is is that people lose the burden for doing that
That's something we have to continually ignite. That's something that we have to keep red-hot in our lives
We cut to constantly fan the flames of soul-winning of having a burden for the lost
We need to make sure that we like these people are burdened for those that cannot
Speak or hear they cannot hear the Word of God the way they need to hear it
They cannot speak the things they don't even know what it is that they need to say the Lord in order to be
Saved, you know
That's why we have to go out there
With a burden with a tear in our eye the Bible in our hand a Holy Spirit in our hearts knocking these doors
And confronting people with the truth of the gospel
We need to beseech them to be saved you'd implore them to receive Christ and to guide them and to lead them in that
We can't just rely on
You know other means to hope that the gospel gets to people
Right, and I bring this up because this is a common practice that's out there today
Well, let's just invite people to church and if they happen to darken the door here
Then we'll get busy about preaching the gospel to them. That's inefficient. You know, I appreciate that at least that's there but it's highly ineffective
You know that the goal is not to just bring people to church
the goal is to leave the church to go out and bring the gospel to them and
So many today they just want to leave a door hanger, you know, not even knock the door
They just want to leave an invite
It's like well, why don't we just go over here to Davis Motham and just see if we can't hire
You know one of these big what are they see one thirties or something like that and just we'll fill up the whole back with
Pamphlets and invites and we'll just fly over Tucson and we'll just push it out and we'll just litter the whole town
With our invitations and hope that people show up
You know the problem with that is is that a lot of people are shy about going to a church
unchurched people people who you know
Maybe are a little bit more reclusive or just aren't very social
They're gonna be a little more reluctant to just show up
At an independent fundamental King James Church, and then you get then they walk in and this is this is what they got to put
Up with right? This is what they see in here
You know, it's radical right? It's out there and then we you know, they might not even want anything to do with it
right at the first
So that's why we have to go to them. Right? We have to go to them
gently and meekly and
And beseech them to come to Jesus right then and there
Wherever we find them right to bring them to Jesus there
People need to be led to the Lord. Okay, it's not enough for them to just
You know stump they're not gonna stumble upon the gospel and suddenly believe it
They have to be instructed in the way of righteousness. Look at first Corinthians chapter number three verse five
He said then who then is Paul and who is a Paul us
But ministers by whom he believed even as the Lord gave to every man
Of course the contention the problem in the first in the Corinthian Church
Is that one is saying I am a Paul and I have Paul some other of I am a Cephas
They're being carnal in their divisions, you know, and this is just something that's in human nature to be very
Tribalistic right they want to claim one man for themselves people do this all the time. We see this, you know
Everywhere we look you see this is a very big part of human nature
You know, everyone wants to claim their team right? They get all excited about the fact that their team won the game
Even though they did nothing to help their team win a game, right?
They want to fly their flag, right? They want to go and
You know wear their jersey or fly their flag, whatever it is. People are tribalistic, right and Paul is saying look
We're nobody we're just ministers
It doesn't matter who it is
As long as somebody goes out and preaches the gospel and he says there we're just ministers by whom ye believed
Okay, and notice he says at the end even as the Lord gave to every man right the God is given to every person
Someone by whom they will believe which means this that person very well may be you
Why is it that it's important for you to keep a burden for the lost?
Why is it that you should have a desire to beseech people to come to Christ right to see their
You know their their mouths their tongues loosed and to call upon the name of the Lord to see their ears open and to hear
The gospel why is it that you should have that because you know, there might not be anybody else but you that can do that
You know, there's you are unique in the people in the relationships that you have
You know, you can reach people. I can't reach and not just through circumstance, you know, although that's that's another aspect of it
You know people I don't know and probably never will know
Right, but also we might even be just the personality
You know what one person might not really want to receive the gospel for me and understandably so
Right, you know, they might take one look at me and say no. Thanks, you know not interested
Whereas you get somebody else in front of them, you know something about their appearance or their personality
There's something about them their demeanor. Perhaps they'll just say hey, I'll listen to this guy, but you know, not that guy, right?
And again, you know
We can all understand when it comes to me, right my own reflection can't look me in the eye lately
So you understand the point I'm trying to make is that you know people?
you have to
As individuals keep this burden and this desire to beseech people because there's you might be that minister
By whom somebody else might believe and you might be the only one that can do it
Through circumstance or whatever it might be
Whatever limiting factor there is
He goes on and says I have planted Apollos watered and God gave the increase
So neither is he that planteth anything neither he that watereth
But God that giveth the increase now he that planteth and he that watereth are one
And every man should receive his own reward according to his own labor for we are laborers together with God
Ye are God's husbandry. Ye are God's building
He's saying weird labors together with God the people in this story
Took this man and brought him to Jesus and beseeched him to do what only Christ could do
obviously, you know we didn't
Make the you know the sacrificial atonement for their sin
But you know Paul said I buy I become all things to all men that I might buy
Some means save some right that I might save some Paul saying that he might save people
You know, there's nothing wrong with in fact
It's perfectly biblical to say that you got somebody saved because you are a laborer together with God
Don't listen to these these critics these people who want to look down your nose
These you know, these holier now say oh what you didn't get anybody saved. Jesus did everything
It's like yeah, well, duh
Yeah, no kidding. What do you think? We're out there preaching
You know brother Corbin crucified amongst no
We're preaching Christ, obviously, right? We're preaching the gospel
But you know, we are getting people saved he that when if souls is wise
Right, we're winning souls. We're getting people saved
we just have to make sure as
God's laborers as
Ministers by whom others will believe that we continue to beseech others and to not lose that burden
You know, we're because there's people out in this world and if you would go to 2nd Corinthians 4 they have you know, impediments spiritually
They're literally impeded from receiving the truth, right?
There's something that's barring them holding them back impeding them from receiving the gospel
A lot of times obviously, you know, people are just not gonna believe no matter who tells of it
Whoever preaches to them, right? They're just not gonna believe but a big part of it is I believe
a big part of the reason why people are impeded from getting the gospel and believing from being saved is
Because simply because of the fact that others won't go that minister by whom they believe
Doesn't want to go doesn't want to go do their job
Doesn't want to go reach them has lost the burden to go and beseech them, right?
We when we're out there reaching people we are reaching people with spiritual impediments, right?
We reach the spiritually blind. Okay, that's another handicap like a physical handicap, right?
But there's the spiritual application look at 2nd Corinthians 4 verse 3
But if our gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost, you know, you and I aren't gonna forget the gospel
You know if we stop preaching the gospel if we stop thinking about the gospel, you know
We're still gonna know that we're gonna be saved. We're gonna be saved. We're gonna be saved
We're saved
If we're ever put on the spot and say how do you know to go to heaven? We're gonna have the answer
And we're gonna stay saved and one day we're gonna go to heaven and we're gonna say yep. No surprise here
You know our it's not hidden from us
If we hide the gospel if we lose our burden if we stop beseeching people it's hid to those that are lost already
That's the only person you're hiding it from
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not
The Bible is telling us that the god of this world little g god
satan
Right that old serpent which is the devil has blinded the minds of them which believe not
He's put a veil over their eyes. He has put scales upon their eyes
He is impeding them from seeing and believing and understanding the gospel and being saved
He's actively working against the gospel
He's poisoning it. He's turning people away from it. He's casting doubt. He's you know doing all manner of things
to keep people away from the gospel
And I think one of his you know
most effective methods of keeping people from being saved is by
Squelching the zeal of those that would go and preach the gospel
Those that have the truth
Those to whom the truth is not hidden that understand it. His greatest tactic is to get them busy doing other things
To get them distracted with the cares of this life to get them discouraged to get them
Uh, you know, maybe just plain old apathetic towards the things of god
That's probably his greatest tactic because really when you think about it, we are his greatest threat
Who's the greatest threat to the the kingdom of darkness to satan today?
It's me and you why because of who we are, of course not but because of the message that we bring
Because we bear the light of the glorious gospel of christ
You know, and if we shine this light
It will bring the knowledge of the gospel to a lost world and and that's why he tries so hard
To keep us from doing that. Okay, keeping our bibles closed and our our, you know
Our backsides where they are and and just indifferent to the plight of other people
Look, we have to see people for what they are if we're going to be burdened for the lost
We have to see them as the bible describes them
spiritually deaf
Spiritually mute spiritually blind and blinded intentionally by the god of this world
He is blind the minds of the which believe not lest the light of the glorious gospel of christ
Who's the image of god should shine unto them for we preach not ourselves, but christ jesus and yourselves
Excuse me and ourselves your servants for jesus sake for god who commanded the light to shine on darkness hath shined in our hearts
To give the light of the knowledge of the glory of god in the face of jesus christ
You know, we have this treasure and earth and vessels. We have this light in our own hearts
We need to take this out into this dark world spiritually dark world and shine that light to others
And satan knows that and he knows that that's his greatest threat and he can't stop that
He cannot stop the power of the gospel. It's unstoppable
The only thing he can do
Is to keep it from being preached to make it difficult
Or make it just undesirable
Somehow to just discourage those that have the light of the glorious gospel in the hearts from going out and shining that light
So state, you know be on guard against that
Because the devil is subtle he's very subtle and he knows how to creep in and he knows how to
You know discourage us and and and get us distracted
and deceive us
He would go back to mark chapter number seven
They're beseeching christ on the behalf of another
They're beseeching him that he would work this great miracle that he would free him
From this bondage that he's in
And obviously the story here is literal. It's a literal impediment of
sound and speech
He cannot hear he cannot speak. I mean
What what a nightmare that would be to live like that how difficult that must be
Especially back then where there were when things probably weren't
People weren't there was you know department of justice
You know, there were no american disability acts
There you know, there were no there was no closed captioning
You know, you just kind of had to deal with it
right
And these people are you know, they are beseeching him because it why is it?
Well, just because you know, it's the right thing to know because they had a genuine burden for this person
You know and it's very likely it's people that knew him
Could be relatives parents brothers sisters. Who knows?
People that knew him
right
I mean think about it. Don't we have people in our lives that we have a burden for
That we want desperately to see saved
That we want to come want them to come to jesus look we have to
Maintain that burden not just for you know our own that we care about but also for others
Everybody is somebody's brother. Everybody is somebody's sister or mother or spouse or whatever the relationship is
Notice here in verse 33 jesus, you know is is moved and he and he does this miracle
And he took him aside from the multitude and put his fingers into his ears and he spit and touched his tongue
Now this is this every time i've ever read this i've always wondered what why is he doing it like this?
I mean we just read this morning where when the woman came to him and besought him upon
You know for the sake of her devil-possessed daughter
That jesus just said it's done
It's just a word
And we've seen elsewhere where he does the same thing where he just he doesn't even go and see the person
He just says, you know
According to thy word it's been done because for this saying thy daughter is healed, right?
And she just goes back and it's taken care of he didn't have to show up and you know, and like feel her pulse, you know
Anything and yet when we get to this passage?
Jesus going is going through these motions here. Whatever this is these
Very specific things right? He's putting his fingers into his ears
And he's touching his tongue and he's spinning and you know, I don't mean to be sacrilegious
it always kind of I just kind of imagine the scene it always kind of
Makes me chuckle a little bit like how did he you know?
You could just see him kind of putting his fingers in his ears and spitting right and then touching his tongue
Right, and then of course he looking up to heaven he sighs
and he says
How do you say this
I don't know that is be opened, right?
It's like the double ph there
But he looks up and says be opened right and it's kind of an interesting scene
You say well, what's the point in this right?
Why is it that jesus had to you know, put his fingers in the ears and spit and touch his tongue and kind of go
through this
you know this
You know this this process
Why did why why did he did it do it this way?
Why is this manner of healing unique, right?
It's not like all the other ones
Well, I think the reason why he did this
Maybe is to make a distinction
between
spiritual and physical ailments, right and if you would go to mark nine mark nine because we'll see where
He heals
Another person who's dumb and deaf right and dumb meaning you can't speak, right?
Obviously today dumb has a different meaning. Okay, we use it differently but in the bible dumb just means the inability to speak, okay
And there's another person that he heals but he doesn't do it like this. Okay notice in mark nine verse 24
And straightway the father the child cried out and said with tears lord. I believe helped out my unbelief
you remember this is jesus has come back down from the mount of transfiguration with peter james and john and
There's a multitude there and the disciples are unable to heal this man's son, right?
And so the man comes to jesus
You know begging him to heal his son
And jesus said, you know if thou believeth all things are possible and he said I believe lord help mine unbelief, right?
Verse 25 and when jesus saw that the people came running together. He rebuked the foul spirit
Saying unto him thou dumb and deaf spirit
I charge thee come out of him and no more enter no more into him
And the spirit cried and rent him sore and came out of him
And he was one at he was as one dead in so much that many said he is dead
But jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up and he rose
And when he was come into the house the disciples asked him privately saying why could not we cast him out?
And he said unto him this kind cometh not come can come forth by nothing but by prayer and fasting
Right. So jesus we see that, you know, there's two people that have the same symptoms, right? They're dumb
And they're deaf they cannot speak and they cannot hear
And yet jesus is showing us that there's two causes for those symptoms
Right, there's two root causes, you know in in mark seven it appears to be just a case of
Some physiological defect right just something physically is wrong with the guy
And then in mark, uh nine where we just read it's very clearly a spiritual problem, right?
Because he immediately begins rebuking a devil, right?
And elsewhere we learn that you know this devil off tear him and cast him into the fire
And into the water right this this this kid this young man
Whatever he might have been the son this child of this man
Was in a very
You know desperate situation as well very tormented spiritually
So I think that's part of the reason why in mark seven jesus is doing things a bit differently
Because of the fact that it's a physical ailment. It's not there's nothing to rebuke there
You know, there's nothing to
You know call out there's nothing spiritual about it. It's a physical ailment. So maybe he's kind of doing some physical gestures
To just correct those things. Okay
Obviously, we're not going to understand everything. It's it's open for interpretation, you know or an application
And I think that's that's mainly what what I get out of it
You know, we need to make sure that we don't chalk up everything that people have
As you know some kind of a spiritual dilemma, right?
And people do this
Charismatics pentecostals. I mean there's a devil in every bush, right?
Stuck you stub your toe satan, you know, you know a car broke down the devil
You know anything happens. Oh, you know the devil's trying to get to me, you know
Devil's trying to stop me from doing this the devil's trying it's like it's like I think you might think a little too highly
Of yourself like you're just so important
That the devil had to make sure you had a flat tire when you went out to go to work that morning
It's like okay
No
All right, that stuff happens to everybody stuff happens people have ailments and physical things happening, you know
When we see other people going through things say up
You know, you're being judged
Should just immediately assume that oh got a headache. Well, I wonder what you were into
you know
People I guess you didn't read your bible this morning, you know or whatever right, you know
You know god is making a distinction here. Hey, there's physical ailments that people just have because of
Living in a fallen sinful world and fallen sinful flesh
You know, sometimes we see things happen to people physiologically. We can't explain it
We scratch our heads, you know, why are some people have a deformity or some kind of a handicap, you know?
Well, it's just it's genetic, you know
Man has been around for a long time and we're just we're you know, everything tends towards decay and disorder in this world
You know, it's just everything is falling apart constantly
We as human beings, you know genetically are no different, you know, we're going to have uh flaws that that appear right
Things are going to show up. It doesn't mean necessarily
That you know, it's always the devil's at the root of everything now
Obviously, we don't want we're not ignorant of his devices. The devil does work
And maybe sometimes you know, we need to give a little more heat to that
But let's not be in a hair trigger
To just the devil the devil the devil the devil every single thing that happens. Okay
so I think that's um, really
part of the reason why
Uh, he did things this way, right?
To do with the fingers and the tongue and the spitting and the sighing and the calling and all that stuff
And I think also he did this to prove the miraculous nature of his healing, right?
Because think about it if someone is standing there and they're seeing this because it does say he took him aside, right?
But it's not like he went into a private place. People are seeing what's happening
And other people are saying oh, okay, so that's how you do it, you know, they're gonna go so it's like this
You know, so if someone and so, you know, you have to wonder and it wouldn't shock me at all
If somebody was there that day it saw this said, aha, you know, that's and then would have tried it on somebody else, right?
Well, he it worked for jesus and and you know what it didn't work for them
It failed, right?
You know, he's showing us that you know these physical actions, you know
They could be replicated and would fail and when somebody else probably tried to do things just the way he did it in this instance
It failed and they were like, oh, well, what's what's the
You know, what's the variable here? What's the difference? Well one well one he's jesus. He's the son of god
You know, he's the creator
And you're just a human being, right?
so I think that might be part of it too one to make a distinction between
The physical and the spiritual ailments that people have in this life
And two to prove the miraculous nature of what he did
It's not so simple as you know
Getting some ear wax on your fingertips and spitting on the ground
You know, it's yeah, you also have to be the son of god. So good luck with that
Now the other application I want to make here is um
The fact that jesus gives personal attention to this person. I think this is an important aspect right because he says
uh again there in verse 30, uh, where we
Uh verse 33 and he took him aside from the multitude and put his fingers and so on and so forth, right?
So jesus takes him aside from multitude. It doesn't say that he went into a private place
But you know
There is this idea of something a little bit more of an intimate setting a little bit more of a one-on-one interaction
That's taking place
Where other people aren't interfering or involved there's this personal attention
That's being given to this man
You know, that's an application I want to close with out of the story is that
You know if we want god to work in our lives, we have to have personal attention with god
There has to be some personal time alone with the lord, right? Because obviously this is the power of god
That's being put on display here
There's a great miracle that's taking place. This is god moving in this world
And having a direct effect on somebody right and obviously we want the same things for our lives
At least we should we would want we should want god to move on our behalf
You know, we want god to save, you know, those that we care about we want god to work through us
As his as his workmanship as his husbandry
We want as the the vessels of god that we are to be used by him, right? We want to see god move
You know, it might maybe not as specifically as in this instance
But no doubt we want god to have an influence and a power in our lives
How are you going to get it through personal attention?
It's not enough to just be with the multitude
Look, if you want the power of god in your life showing up to church is not enough
There's you know, there's quite frankly, you know, i'm not trying to be mean here. There's nothing spiritual about walking through that door
It doesn't instantly make you uh, you know
Some holy person just because you walk through the doors of a church and sat down and listened to a sermon
You know, you have to you have to leave here
And take what you've heard from the word of god and apply it
You have to have your own personal devotions with god
You know that that goes for all of us, right the same application can be made for children, you know
The children the young people in this room. You have to have your own walk with god
You know someday you're going to have to stand spiritually on your own two feet
you're going to have to get up in the morning and read your bible because
Because you love god
You know, you're going to want to have to follow through and obey the commandments
And and and do those things which are always pleasing to him because you consider god your heavenly father
Personally, right? We need to make things personal with god in our lives. We need to have some personal time with him
Away from the crowd alone with god in the place, you know
Close the door behind us and lock, you know
Go into the closet and lock the door and pray to our father which seeth in secret that he may reward us openly
as jesus taught
Look at verse 36 and he charged them that they should tell no man
But the more he charged them so much more a great deal. They published it
And you know, you can't humanly speaking. You really can't blame them, right?
I mean if we saw something like this take place that would be hard to keep to ourselves, right?
And you say why is jesus not wanting them to tell him because he wants to be able to get where he needs to
Go, he needs he's got things to do and everywhere we go
He's going and mark you're seeing he's just constantly being stopped constantly being interrupted
And it's not like he's inconvenienced or annoyed by this
But it's just that you know, he has an agenda. He has a schedule he wants to keep
And a lot of times I think he's just saying hey, I don't need to be thronged here right now. Okay
But he knows that it's it's kind of uh, you know futile. It's a losing battle the more he charges them
The more they publish it abroad
Quite frankly who can blame them. I mean, it's a great thing if you and I saw anything like that today
You know, i'd have a hard time not getting on facebook or whatever and and letting the whole world know myself. Okay
And verse 37 and they were beyond measure astonished
Saying he hath done all things. Well, he maketh the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak, right?
Look, they they couldn't keep it in why because good news cannot help but be shared
When something great happens, it's like that you want to share that with people, right?
I mean think about you know, the good things that happen to us, you know, we like to tell people
When you know, we got a promotion or we got that raise or you know, we're hey
We're having a baby or we're getting married or whatever, you know, it's my birthday
You know, we always want to tell people the good news that the pleasant things that are happening to us in our lives, right?
You can't really you know
Blame these people too much for not keeping their mouth shut even though jesus told it repeatedly, right?
Because people just like to share good news because people like to hear good news
And look it here's the thing you have the greatest news to share that could ever be shared. It's called the gospel
That's you know, that's literally what gospel means glad tidings good news
Right you have the greatest news there is to share
You know, what do I have to say? Hey, I got saved
Right
You know, one of my my children my young children just recently got saved
You know and she after the next day she came into my office and she just big smile on her face
I got saved right because they love to share that and and praise god
You know, let's not lose that in our christian life. Yeah, I got saved 20 years ago
You know it was cool, yeah, i'm glad it happened
You know, it's like where where's the you know, and I say that jokingly but that's a real thing
You know, it loses its it becomes lackluster. It loses its appeal for some reason
You know if your salvation has become dull to you, you know, you need to break out the shine of the holy spirit
You know shine that thing up, you know buff that thing a little bit with the word of god
You put the shine back on your salvation
And let that light shine
You know and be a joyful person
You know, we don't want to be uh, you know the biggest downer in the room
Even and we we have when we have the most to shout about
We have the most to be excited about
We have the greatest news to share
You don't want to be some spiritual eor right for you winnie the pooh fans out there. Yeah, I got kids
I was a kid right just a little
Well, guess i'm at least i'm on my way to heaven
At least i'm not on my way to hell
It's like well
Yeah
You know, maybe you could be more of a tigger. I don't know, you know
You can get a little more excited right? You got the honey here, right? Maybe you need a little bit more like poo. Okay
And get excited about the honey that you have the sweetness of the christian life. Okay. I don't know where that
Illustration is coming from but there you go, right good news
Can't help but be shared
So share the greatest news that there is the news of the gospel
You know and if it's and if it's become a little dull to you
Well, then maybe you need to focus more on the fact that people need to hear it
That they're spiritually blind spiritually impeded people in this world
That are desperate to hear the gospel that desperately need to have somebody take them by the hand and be brought to jesus
You know and I love how this ends
It says he have done all things. Well, he maketh both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak
You know, he does all things well
And I believe they're what they're saying is like the quality of what he does is just exceptional right? It's top notch
It's not like well, he doesn't do any bad things. That's I don't think that's what it's saying
Right there what I believe what they're saying is that man when he does something
It's it's picture perfect
He does all things well everything he does is good it's right and it's perfect and it's done at at the highest level of quality
You know and you would expect nothing less of the lord
Here's my question here's the thought I want to close on tonight are we doing the same in return
Are the things that we're doing for the god that opened our ears that loosed our tongue
That gave us the greatest news there is to share
Something to be glad over every day of our lives are we in turn doing what we do for him well
Or is it half-hearted?
Or is it just are we just going through the motions?
Or are we are we seeking to excel? I mean, I don't know where I know that from
And such it always comes to my mind
Are we are we trying to do better? Are we giving our best to the master as the song says?
Okay
Jesus did all things. Well, you know one thing he did exceptionally well
Was save us redeem us
You know, he lived that perfect life that sinless life that none of us can live he made himself that that sacrifice
That atonement for us. He did all things. Well, he saves us completely. He seals us
He's redeemed us unto our god eternally. It cannot be lost. It's a perfect salvation. It's complete entire
world
He's done it well
He's given us the perfect infallible word of god
And not some dull book
Not only is it a living
Powerful book. It's also a pleasure to read
It's it's a great work. It's the the greatest work of literature there is
And you know, we would expect nothing less because he doeth all things well
If god wrote a book
You would expect it to be
Magnificent in its nature and you know what shocker it is
Well, not a shocker I should say
And you hold this book up against any of these other so-called
Spiritual texts and they they come
So short it's it's not even funny
It's it's laughably short when in comparison the quran
It really boggles my mind when you go somewhere and someone's got you know, I just I was down here at the missions garden the other day
We were soloing right here, but you know the missions garden right by at the at the foot of centennial peak
a mountain
Right right down here
And I was like man. I've always wanted to check out the missions garden
So, you know, we I kind of snuck in there for a second and I walk in and it's like they have a plaque
I'm like, oh, what's this plaque say? That's cool. And there's a little quote and it's it's the quran
I didn't even finish the quote. I just went
Second there's nothing moving about the quran. It's it's trash literature
You know, that's why this book is the greatest book it's the most best-selling book
It's the most read book. It's the most influential powerful book that's ever existed. Why because god does all things well
When he makes a book it's going to be exceptional in nature
He does everything well
And you know, and why did he do this for for us for me and you so you and I could have the words
Of christ the words of god that we could have this spiritual man or the spiritual bread that we need to live on day by day
You know and it's not and praise the lord. He didn't just serve up, you know some
some bland bowl of mush
and live on that
This is a it's a spiritual feast
You know if
It's it's got poetry. It's got stories. It's got adventure. I mean it's got action. It's got
all of it
It's got prose. It's got
Everything doctrine. It's all in there
It touches every area of our life
So let's read it be thankful for it
And let's do what it says
And let's take it let's take this good news and let's go share it with other people let's beseech them
Let's bring them to
The word of christ and let's get them saved
Let's help them to have their eyes open their ears open their tongues loose and call upon the name of the lord
Don't lose that burden. Let's go and close the word of prayer dear lord again. Thank you for
Lord the fact that our eyes have been opened lord that our tongues have been loosed and that our ears
Are open to hear and to receive the word of god
or
Every day we can pick up this book we can read it and we can have the very god of heaven
Speak to us through it and through the ministry
Of your holy spirit which dwells in us lord that we've been sealed in the day of our redemption
By that holy spirit what a great treasure we have
In this earthen vessel lord, and I pray that you'd help us to take this good news to a world that needs it
And needs to hear it help us to understand that if we don't
So few others will or that potentially there might not be anybody else that could reach somebody
That we can reach that every one of us
Plays an important role
In your kingdom man woman boy girl
child
Adult it doesn't matter lord that we all
Have somebody that we can reach in our life and throughout the course of our life
and lord, I pray you'd help us to
Have the joy of your of our salvation always with us and that we would
Lord not not be able to help but to share it with others. We ask these things in christ's name. Amen
All right, we'll go ahead and sing one more song before we go
Please open up your song
It's a song 169
Is
Me
You