Mark chapter 5. And the title of the message
this morning is, The Curse, The Cure, and The Confession. Curse, Cure, and Confession. Scripture here says in Mark chapter
25, and a certain woman which had an issue of blood. Twelve years. And had suffered
many things of many physicians. And had spent all that she had. She was nothing better, but rather
grew worse. You want to know, that's the
curse. Here's the cure. And when she
had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind and touched his
garment. For she said, If I may touch
but his clothes, I shall be whole. And straightway the fountain
of her blood was dried up. And she felt in her body that
she was healed of that plague. And Jesus immediately turning
himself knowing in himself that virtue, power, had gone out of
him, turned about in the press and said, Who touched my clothes? And his disciples said unto him,
Seest thou the multitude thronging thee? And thou sayest, Who touched
me? And he looked about to see her that had done this thing. And now, here's the confession.
But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her,
came, and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. And
he said unto her, Thy faith hath made thee whole. Go in peace,
and be whole of thy place. Now here, in this passage of
Scripture, our Lord is on the way to Jairus' house, the ruler
of the synagogue. You remember his 12-year-old
daughter was sick, and at the point of death, he came rushing
to him, Master, help me, my daughter is sick. And Jesus, consenting
to this, began his trek to the man's house, set his heart to
heal this daughter of this man, Jairus. But as he was going,
a crowd began to form. Excitement! Jesus was going to
heal! Jesus was going to perform a
miracle! And so then, a large crowd began to gather, and they
began to throng Him and press Him. A bunch of excitement! I want you to know that these
people were wanting to see some healing. They didn't need any. Very important. They all touched
Him. But they didn't have any need.
Can you imagine then the anxiety
of this man, Jarius? This man whose daughter was at
the point of death. And then all of a sudden this
crowd forms which only slows the progress. It only slows him
down as he's thronged by the people. He cannot make it. I'm
sure that this man was anxious to get Christ there to heal his
daughter, but providence came in. The divine providence of God
seemed to be counteracting the healing that Christ had promised. And once more, there was another
intrusion here. A certain woman came. And this
woman was sick. This woman was at the point of
death herself. She had suffered for twelve long
years. She was sick. Constantly menstruating. Constantly bleeding. Constantly
hemorrhaging. Slowly dying. day after day for
12 long years. And those 12 years she had spent
looking for doctors, trying to find a cure, and she had exhausted
all of her money. She spent it on doctors, but
instead of curing her, she only began to be worse and worse.
What a drastic condition this woman was in. But then she heard of Jesus.
Maybe she heard of Him as He was going to Jairus' house. Maybe
she heard of Him before. However she heard, she heard
that this man was able to heal. This man was going to heal somebody. Surely He could heal me. She
heard of Him. And she heard and she pressed
in secretly. Now there's a reason why this
woman did it the way she did, because under the law she was
unclean. She was bleeding constantly,
and we'll see this in Leviticus in a minute, that she was not
permitted in the crowd. She was not permitted to touch
anyone. And so for fear of being rejected,
for fear of his time being too valuable, he was too busy, she
was too unclean that he could not heal her, she secretly sneaks
in and she says within her own self, if I can but touch his
hem of his garment, Matthew said, if I can just touch his clothes,
I shall be made whole. And nothing stopped her. You
know this press didn't stop her from getting in, did it? She
pressed through the crowd to get to the hem of his garment,
to touch it. She believed. And as soon as
she did touch his garment, the issue of blood was dried up. Immediately she stopped bleeding. And you know what Jesus did?
He stopped. Can you imagine how much that also made Jairus anxious? He didn't just... The crowd wasn't
stopping him now. Christ just stopped, turned around,
and asked the most ridiculous question. Who touched me? The
disciples said, Lord, how could you ask such a question? Everybody's
touching you. There's a crowd around you and you ask, who touched
me? He said, no, no, this is different. Virtue. Power has
gone out of me. He didn't ask for information.
He knew exactly who this woman was. He knew exactly. This was
providence that led her here. This was His will that she should
be there, that she should touch Him. And she did. And He turned
about and it was also His will to make her confess what had
happened. It was His will. He could have
went on, couldn't He? He could have just left. But
it was His will that she should confess what she had done, what
she had experienced. And when she found out, Jesus
looked. He turned about to see her. You
know what? He didn't look around questioning.
He turned right to her. He knew exactly who she was.
It says in verse 32, He looked about and He saw her. To see
her on purpose that had done this. But the woman, fearing
and trembling, knowing what was done in her, she came and fell
down and worshipped Him. And she told Him the truth. And
this was His confession to her. daughter. You see, Jairus had
a daughter, but he had a daughter too. He had a daughter right
there. He said, daughter, Jairus, this
is my daughter right here. I came not only to heal your
daughter, but I came to heal my daughter. Daughter, it's alright. It's good. Daughter, thy faith
made thee whole. Go in peace. and be healed of
all. And so what then is this miracle
for? What was this purpose? The purpose
of miracles would never for Christ to do what we would do with it.
We would only try to glorify ourselves. If we had any power
at all, we would put the spotlight on ourselves, we'd get on television
somewhere and do a bunch of miracles in front of people and receive
all the glory and praise for ourselves. Christ did not do
this for that. He created the world with His
voice, with a word. This was nothing to Him to do
miracles. He did these things for the purpose
of displaying His deity and His salvation. That's the whole purpose
of miracles. Friends, we have enough miracles.
He does perform miracles in our day. I don't doubt that. But
miracles do nothing if they don't show us the salvation of Christ. If they don't display the gospel
of Jesus Christ. I know many people who have had
miracles happen to them. Healings in the body, in the
mind. And yet, no, not Christ. What
good is their healings? They will soon die. Their sickness
will soon return. And they will all go to meet
God. So what is more important, the
miracle or the thing the miracle represents, which is the salvation
of the soul. That's what this is about. The
salvation of sinners. And so then, as we go through
this miracle, there are three things that we can see clearly,
plainly, in this text. First of all, we can see a curse.
A curse. This woman was cursed with a
plague. A plague. An unclean plague. And the second thing I want you
to see is a cure. Christ is the cure. Christ is
always the cure for the cursed, for the sinner. And the confession. Everyone who is cured confesses. Confesses and believes on Christ. And Christ confesses them. Christ confesses them. So let's
see these things together. First of all, the curse. What
is this? This is the issue of blood. The constant menstruation
of this woman, the constant flowing of blood from her, was a plague. This woman was constantly bleeding. She was dying. She was weak. She was in poverty. She was cursed. Cursed. And according to the law of God,
this was so vile a thing. that she was unclean before the
law of God. Go to Leviticus chapter 15. Leviticus
chapter 15 deals with this issue of blood, this constant bleeding
and menstruation. Leviticus 15 and verse 25. It says, if a woman have an issue
of blood many days, this woman had this for many days, did she
not? Twelve years. Out of the time of her separation,
or if she run beyond the time of her separation, all the days
of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation,
she shall be unclean." Everything, according to the law that this
woman touched, was unclean. Everything this woman did, she
was separated, because of her uncleanness, she was separated
from the worship of God, from the presence of God, from the
sacrifices of God. She was unclean. Now listen, if anybody desires
to see the evidence of our depraved nature, just look at the body. Look at the sickness of the body.
Look at the difficulties, the troubles. This body is often full of disease
and death. And this is a result, an outward
manifestation of the curse of God upon all men of Adam's race,
that this body is corruptible. Does anyone here that is older
look like they did when they were 20? Why? Why? Because this body is corrupt. This body is susceptible, it
is a prey to all sickness and sorrows and troubles. But this
woman's sickness is used here of the Holy Spirit as an example
of a deeper sickness, a greater curse than just the abnormality
and sickness of the body. For this represents upon us by
our nature the sickness of the soul. the corruption of the heart.
This is the constant issue of blood that made her unclean,
unable to worship God. She was not permitted to touch
anyone as to be unclean. Even so, we are all cursed because
of the constant issue and outpouring of sin. Sin. I know that it is our reasoning
to think sin is an action. That we must do something in
order to sin. No, all we are is sin. By nature, that's who we are.
The scriptures are very clear from the sole of the foot. even to the crown of the head
is nothing but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores. Isaiah said this, we are all
as an unclean thing. He didn't even say person. Thing. A mass of bleeding flesh. A massive corruption and vile
stench in the nostrils of God. By nature from birth we are born
unclean. By nature we are barred from
the worship and presence and acceptance of God. We are like
this woman, unable incapable of healing our own souls. Do what you will. You cannot
heal yourself. Try as you may, you will not
cure yourself of this curse. This is our curse by nature.
If any man will be cleansed of his sins, if any man will be
saved, he must first recognize his need. If you don't know this
about yourself, you'll never come to Christ. Never come to
Christ. Except you know. Why do you think
we spend so much time in preaching the gospel that God spends so
much time telling you who you are? Because if you don't know
who you are, you will never come at all. If you think you still have something
to offer God, you'll never come. You'll never come to Christ. Except you know this first, you'll
never be healed, never be saved from your sin. You must first
see your own uncleanness. You must see and feel your own
depravity. You must know your own issue
of blood. Your own curse has made you unable
and unwilling to cure your own soul. This is only done by the Holy
Spirit. I can tell you about this all
day long. I can make it as descriptive as possible. I try to, but that
really has no effect without this one thing, the Holy Spirit.
You just can't make a person see their need. They're blind,
they're deaf, they're dead. They cannot know it. We ourselves
were like this. We could not know it except the
Holy Spirit reveal it. Isn't that what Christ said that
He would do? He would convince men of what? Sin. That's the
first thing, isn't it? Man, if you don't know you're
a sinner, and I don't mean you've done bad things. I mean all you
are, all you think, all you do is sin. That's it! That's all you are at your best
state, is full of vanity and sin. Except you see that, you'll
never come. I like it when it was once said,
depravity is not a doctrine to be learned, it must be experienced. How many people know the doctrine
of depravity, yet do not know of their own God's got to show it to you.
He has to, if you're ever going to come, He must first expose
you. Expose you. And listen, I like that hymn,
it says, A sinner is a sacred thing, the Holy Ghost hath made
him one. The Holy Ghost can reveal that.
Only He can do that. And when He does, what this woman
did is exactly what we did. We who know our sin nature understand
this woman because this is exactly what men do when they are exposed. What did our parents do? They
ran to grab fig leaves and sewed them together. Isn't that right?
What did this woman do? She went to the doctor. She went
to doctors. She tried to find a cure. That's what she tried to find.
And this is how she did it. Look at the text. She had suffered
12 long years. Had suffered many things of many
physicians. Spent all that she had and was
nothing better but grew worse. Even so often does the sin-sick
soul first look toward religion. Isn't this where we look first
when a man is convicted of a sin? We look to religion. Religion. The doctors of religion. These
are what the scripture call physicians of no value. Physicians of no
value. Imagine, if you will, a poor
sinner convicted of his sin. understanding his depravity and
need of mercy, need of grace, need of comfort, need of salvation
that he cannot provide for himself, he goes to this first doctor,
Dr. Freewill. And what does Dr. Freewill tell
him? All you got to do is make a decision to be better. You just make a decision for
Jesus, you shall be healed. You shall be healed. Jesus has done all He can do.
Make no mistake, that's His message. Jesus has done all He can do.
And the rest is up to you. I'll tell you that sinner will
not grow better, he will grow worse. He will grow worse. There's also a doctor called
morality. Not a doctor of religion today,
doctor of morality. All you need to do is get right.
You just need to stop doing this and start doing something else.
You need to stop drinking, stop smoking. You need to go to AA.
You need to get better. Get your life better. There's
nothing wrong with a moral person. That's a pretty good thing, isn't
it? Nobody can deny that that's a good thing, to have a moral
person, an upright person, a man who is a good citizen. There's
nothing wrong with that. But it will not heal the disease
of sin. You can be as sober and as good
and as moral as you can be. But that will not cure this disease. And there's Dr. Legalism. Well,
you just need to obey the law. You need to believe in Jesus.
But, you need to obey the law of God. You need to just live
by the Ten Commandments. There's nothing wrong with the
Ten Commandments, are there? They're good. The problem is the curse. The problem is you're unclean.
The problem is obedience to the law can never cure your sin and
never make you whole before God. By the deeds of the law shall
no flesh be justified in the sight of God. Paul said that's
evident. That's clear. If you be circumcised, if you
add one thing to Christ, Christ shall put you nothing, not cure
you. You got Dr. Duncombe. All you
need to do is be baptized. I ain't get you in the water.
Then you'll wash away your sins. What does all these doctors have
in common? They are trying a carnal means
to deal with a spiritual problem. They're all dependent upon you. What you must do. How you must
live. How you must feel. That's another
one they did today. Doctor feel good. There's one. Man, you just need to throw off
the blues. You just need to cast off your
guilt. You just need to be happy. You need
positive thoughts. That's what you need. You need
positive thinking. The church of positive thinking. And like this woman, she spent
all she had on these positions of no value. She truly trusted
they were good doctors. She trusted that they would be
able, their method was reasonable. And listen, these religious doctors,
all their method is reasonable to the flesh, reasonable to the
cursed nature, but totally opposed to the Word of God. Totally opposed
to God's Word. And listen, if you go to these
doctors and they can do something for you, your sickness is only
skin deep. I've met people like that. They
come in with conviction. They had conviction of their
sin and their guilt and their curse, and they went to these
bogus doctors. And they said, I'm all better
now. Listen, you know why? Because their conviction was
not of the Holy Spirit. If your conviction is of the
Holy Spirit, listen, these men will not heal you. You will only
grow worse. If a man is truly convicted of
his sin and he puts the law in front of him, do you suppose
he gets better or worse? The law can only expose. The
law can only condemn. It doesn't make us better. I
can't throw off this guilt. I can't think enough positive
thoughts. to alleviate my conscience of
sin and guilt before God. That's conviction of the Holy
Spirit. You can make ten thousand decisions for Jesus and never
one of them will cure you. You can be dunked in the water
a hundred times and it would never wash away the stain. When
one is convicted of the Holy Spirit, these doctors can do
none that you can grow none better, but only worse. Sinners, Poor,
weak, and dying. Look not to the doctors of prescribed
physical remedies, but I'm here to point you to the cure. The
only cure. The only hope for you and me
is Jesus Christ. That is the only cure. The only cure. But I know this
within the depths of my soul, until you've spent all you have,
you'll never come. Until you've exhausted every
avenue and found them to be nothing but liars, you will never come.
This woman spent all she had and so will every sinner that
will come to Christ. He must be empty. He must be without merit, without
worth, without hope. I'm speaking of a vital need,
the need of spiritual healing to the soul. So I compel you
to come to Christ now. Are there any sick sinners? Die. You should go to Christ. There
is the only cure. The others will not make you
better, you will only grow worse. You should come and you should
come now. I told you before this crowd,
there were many people touching Christ that day, but they didn't
need anything. They were excited, but they didn't
need anything. You know what they received?
Nothing. If you need nothing, you receive nothing. It's only those who have need
of a cure will receive a cure. But it only comes from one. Those
who come for spiritual healing will benefit. Jesus said they'll
benefit spiritually. Isn't that what Christ said in
John chapter 6? He says, it's the spirit that
quickeneth. What is the flesh prophet? Nothing. Nothing. Many people are coming
to Christ for riches. They're coming to Christ for
physical healing. They're coming to Christ for
many physical, carnal things. And truly, if you get any of
these, it is of His hand, is it not? If anyone's healed of
any sickness at all. Did not Christ do that? Yes.
You may receive many carnal benefits. But what good is that if your
soul is bleeding? If your soul is dying? What good
are all these benefits? Come to Christ. How should you
come? You come believing. Believing. And this is the cure. The second
thing, the cure is Jesus Christ. Now, we know that unless this
woman had not seen her needs, she would have never come. Even
so, unless you see your need of sickness, you will not come
to Christ. But the cure is not your knowledge of your sickness.
This is a very deceptive thing that is taking place in this
generation, is that people think because they know their depravity,
they think somehow that gives them merit. Isn't that Strange,
isn't that a evidence of depravity itself? Is to think that depravity
can commend you to God. This woman could have all the
knowledge of her sickness, but had she not come to the cure,
she would have never been cured. So it's not the knowledge of
our condition, and listen, it's not even the knowledge of our
need, or even knowing Jesus is the cure. That heals us. The only thing that can heal
you and me is Jesus himself. Jesus himself. Center the difference between
the doctors of no value and the great physician is this. They
point you to a carnal cure, Jesus points you to himself. I am the
way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to God but by me.
I am the door. He that entereth in shall find
rest. He that entereth in shall find
green pastures. He shall live and be saved. I am the bread of life. He that
eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood shall have everlasting
life. I am. He's pointing to himself.
He is saying, I am the cure. Come to me. Don't come to the
front. Don't come to the preacher. Come
to Christ. Come to Christ. When? Now. Now. There's no more acceptable time
than now. Now. When does every believer
come to Christ? Now. When do I? I come to Christ
now. I've never stopped coming to
Christ. I must come to Christ. I must have Him. And so is true
with the initial salvation of the sinner. He is the cure. And listen, this cure, is the
work of God. This cure is completely the work
of God. And this you can see a five-fold thing that happens
in this text. Five things concerning the work
of God in curing her illness is the same thing God does in
every sinner He will cure. First of all, providence is the
work of God that leads us to Christ. The providence of God. God working all things in the
life of the sinner to bring them to the point of their greatest
need and showing them the greatest cure. Providence is the work
of God. This woman's sickness, was it
by chance? I like this, a certain woman.
Didn't matter. This woman was a chosen woman.
She was an elect woman. This woman had a sickness. It
was not by chance, but by providence. And the very thing that seemed
to destroy her, to be for her destruction, was only meant for
her good. See then the sovereign grace
of God that moves all circumstances and events and time and eternity,
even the fall of Adam and the sin of our own heart, to do this,
to bring us to Christ. Everything is purpose for this
one thing, to bring the sin-sick soul to the only cure. The providence
of God does this. You remember that happened with
Joseph. His evil brothers sold him into
slavery, but when they came to him and he had been made Pharaoh,
what did he say to them? You meant it for evil, but God
meant it for good. Which would have been better,
this woman never been sick or to be sick? If she'd never been
sick, she'd never come. If she was sick, she was to come. This was the purpose and providence
of God. It was His purpose in Providence
to take her, to call her. He said, I will take you from
among the heathen and gather you from all the countries. This
is what God is doing in Providence. He is moving all things for this,
the salvation of His people. Now, that's not what the world
thinks, is it? But that's exactly what's happening
in her life and in ours. The second work of God is the
Word. The Word. She would have never come to
Christ had she not heard. Now what the scripture says,
when she heard of Him. The Word of God. No man will
ever be saved apart from hearing the Word of God. How can you know to come to the
cure if you've never heard the cure? Whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on Him
in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe on
Him in whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without
a preacher? And how shall they preach except
they be sent? Faith cometh by hearing, and
hearing by the Word of God. Now listen, a natural man has
no use for preaching. No use. None whatsoever. To him, it's foolishness, waste
of time. You suppose it's a waste of time
for this woman to have heard of him? No. She had a need. And to hear of
him was good news. Good news. Without the Word of God, no man
would come. And so, therefore, we preach
Christ Jesus, the Lord. We preach of His sovereign election
that gave His elect to Christ. We preach of Christ coming into
the world to save His people. Thou shalt call His name Jesus,
for He shall save, He shall save His people from their sins. We
preach of Jesus who came into the flesh for sin, and in the
flesh condemned sin. In His flesh He condemns sin,
being crucified, satisfying the justice of God for the sins of
His people. Listen, the cure for your blood,
your sin, is this. God hath made Him to be sin for
us, who knew no sin, that we sinners might be made
the righteousness of God in him." This is the cure. He's the cure. He's the cure. I testify that
He upon that cross by His one offering forever sanctified,
forever satisfied the wrath of God and perfected all those that
He died for. He having obtained eternal redemption,
God has raised Him from the dead and seated Him upon the throne
of heaven where He now lives. forever reigning for this one
purpose, to cure sin-sick sinners. That's His purpose. He's the
cure. This is the work of God, that
the Word of God be preached, and the work of God is the grace
of God by which it makes this Word effectual. Now, I can preach
this to anyone I do. I preach to anyone and listen.
But listen, it's not going to be effectual unless the work
of God in grace applies it to your heart. The seed will just
bounce off your heart every time. Sometimes it'll get in under
your conscience and it'll grow a little bit and then it'll wither
away and you'll go back to where you were. Your dog returns to
his vomit, that's what it is. But listen, if God ever makes
this effectual, if God ever reveals to you who you are, This is a work of grace. It's
a work of grace. It's a new creation. You must
be born again. And this work of God also works
faith in us. By this new creation, He works
faith in us. We who could not and would not
ever come to Christ by nature, now we are willing to come to
Christ. Was this woman willing to come
to Christ? When she heard of Him, was she willing? You bet she was. Matter of fact, she was determined.
She pressed through the crowd with this one thought, this one
hope, this one faith, if I can but touch Him, I will be made whole. Did she
know a lot about doctrine? She knew Him. and she knew he alone was the
cure she believed and forsaking all else she touched him I think of this wonderful thing faith He puts us in union with
Him. When she touched Him, was she
not in union with Him? She became in union with Him.
And His power came from Him to her. And so it is by faith when
you touch Him. His mercy, His grace, His power
comes down and cleanses us from all unrighteousness. He heals
us. And we become in union with Him. Now what it is? A transference?
Isn't that what salvation is? My sin imputed to Him and His
righteousness imparted to me. Wonderful grace. How? Touch. Union. Abide in Me. And I in you. and you shall bring forth much
fruit." What a work of grace! This faith was not an act of
my will. No glory belongs to my will. It was a work of God that made
me to believe. It was a work of God's grace. For by grace you are saved through
faith, and that faith to touch Him is not of yourself. It, faith
in Him, is a gift of God, not of works. See, any man should boast. No
boasting here. And it was the work of God's
saving power that cleansed her of her issue of blood. And it
is the power of God that cleanses us. It is the power of the Spirit
creating us a new holy nature by which we now believe and serve
and worship and trust in Him. Would you be free from your passion
and pride? There's power in the blood. Would you be free from your burden
of sin? There's power in the blood. There's power in God. So powerful does He dry up this
issue of sin that He creates in us a new nature. So then,
whose work is this? Whose work is this? Yours? Or
God's? The whole healing of this woman
was God's work. It was God's will. It was God's
providence. It was God's grace. It was God's
power. It was Christ's blood, righteousness that healed her. So it is with every sinner who
comes to Him. And the last thing is a confession.
This woman, when she was found out, she was made to confess. She thought she would do it secretly.
Isn't that right? She thought she would touch Him,
be healed, and go about her business. That never happens. Now, salvation
is something that is done in the secret recesses of a man's
heart. It is. It's a work of God that
He does in you before you even know what happens. This woman was as good as cured
even before she was cured. Why? It was the will of God that
she be cured. So it is with the sinner. But God never lets us keep it
inside. Jesus, He stops in the middle
of this crowd and He says, Who touched my clothes? And the disciples
said, Everybody's touching you Lord, how can you say that? And
He looked about to see her. He knew who it was. Remember the first time Christ
looked at you? Oh, the guilt, fear, terror in our hearts. But surely it is a look that
moved this woman to adoration and worship, and she came and
fell down before him and told him all the truth. When Christ heals a man of sin,
He will confess it. He will confess it. I remember
someone told me the story of Brother Ralph Barnard's preaching.
A lady came up after the service and said, Brother Ralph, the
Lord saved me. I said, that's great. He said, well what do
I do? He said, don't worry, it will
get out on you. It will. It will! I confess the truth
that I am a sinner. I confess the truth that Jesus
is the Christ, the Son of the living God. I confess His blood
has washed me. His righteousness robed me. I
confess it is His Spirit that keeps me. I confess that I am
nothing and Christ is everything. Now what she said, she told the
truth. She was unclean. He was the cure. We confess this, that He has
made us whole. And this is His confession to
you, daughter, child. Thy faith has made thee whole.
Now listen, was it her faith or the object of her faith? Faith
is necessary. It's vital. You must believe. or you will never be cured. When you are cured, that faith
that God gave you is vitally important that we keep it. It must be faith. Always faith. Constant faith. When I grab a
hold to that hymn, I've not let go of his hymn. Have you? Hold
fast to him. That's what we do. By faith we
hold fast, continually abiding, touching, always him, in union
with him. And he confesses to us, you're
my child. I have made you whole. Go in
peace. Be thou cured of thy plague. Listen, believer, does that plague
still bother you? The old man? What do you need
to hear constantly? Be thou cured of thy plague. Was she cured? Yes! And yet he
said, be thou cured. Why? We need constant curing.
constant forgiveness constant mercy that only the great physician
can give that's his confession to you may God himself expose you cure
you move you to confess him Listen,
if you've not confessed Him in baptism, you should. If you're
a believer in Christ, if He's healed you, you should openly,
publicly confess Him. Why? For His glory, for His praise. Baptism doesn't do anything for
the cure, it only confesses the cure. You should do that because He
commands it. I pray God would work his work
in each of us this morning. The stand be dismissed in prayer.