Turn with me, if you would, to
Matthew chapter 8. Matthew chapter 8. Where we are picking up today
with our Lord's ministry as we're going through the book of Matthew,
it begins right here with the Lord healing Peter's wife's mother. All right. What we're about to
look at, that's how it begins. The Lord comes in and he heals
Peter's wife's mother. And I was gonna take some time
to really expose the error of false religion. That's how I
initially started writing my notes. I wadded all of that up
and I threw it away. I really did go into exposing
the error of false religion and the error of popes and All of the lies of men in thinking
and trying to promote that true holiness is in not having a wife. And I decided I'm not gonna do
that. I'm just not gonna do that. I don't wanna focus on error
today. I wanna focus on the Lord Jesus
Christ. Okay, so I wadded all that up
and I threw all that away. And we'll just suffice it to
say, Peter had a wife, okay? The one who they're all looking
to, Peter had a wife. All right, now let's read these
beautiful words that are gonna be our text. Matthew 8, verses
14 to 17. And when Jesus was come into
Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid and sick of a fever. And he touched her hand, and
the fever left her, and she arose and ministered unto them. When
the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed
with devils, and he cast out the spirits with his word and
healed all that were sick. that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying himself took our infirmities
and bear our sicknesses. Now, this account is written
in the book of Mark and in the book of Luke. And I want us to
read both of those places because they expound on this a little
bit. Usually when you read one account in multiple gospels,
you learn more of the full situation. So turn with me to Mark chapter
one. Mark chapter one verse 29 says, and forthwith, when they were
come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon
and Andrew with James and John. But Simon's wife's mother lay
sick of a fever and a non, they tell him of her. And he came
and took her by the hand and lifted her up and immediately
the fever left her and she ministered unto them. So he touched her
hand. That's what Matthew told us. He touched her hand and Mark
tells us that he lifted her up. He lifted her up. Every sinner
saved by the Lord Jesus Christ can say the exact same thing.
Every sinner saved will say, He lifted me up from the deep
miry clay. Once my soul was astray from
the heavenly way and was wretched and vile as could be. But my
savior in love gave me peace from above when he reached down
his hand for me. From sinking sand, he lifted
me. With tender hand, he lifted me. From shades of night to planes
of light, Oh, praise his name. He lifted me. That's what God's people say.
They don't say I lifted myself. I'd had all I could stand and
I knew it was time for me to lift myself out of all my sinking
sand and out of all my darkness. God's people don't cry that they
say he lifted me period. He lifted me. Alright, look with
me at Luke's account. Luke chapter 4. Luke 4 verse 38 says, And he arose out of the synagogue
and entered into Simon's house, and Simon's wife's mother was
taken with a great fever, and they besought him for her. And
he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. And immediately she arose and
ministered unto them. So our Lord stood over her and
rebuked the fever and grabbed her by the hand and lifted her
up and she was well. She was well, she was so well,
she ministered unto them. That's an important thing for
us to take note of. How well she was. She wasn't
well, meaning that she was no longer laying at death's door.
You know, the critical moment was over and she was stable. Thankfully, she was stable and
able to sit up and they ministered unto her and they gave her some
soup and she was able to eat. No, no, no. She ministered to
them. Strength. Health. What can I get you? She was immediately, completely
well. That's what the Lord does when
He heals. Every time. Every time. He heals completely. He does not start the work and
leave it for anyone to finish. He doesn't get us started on
the right path unless, you know, stay the course. When He heals,
it's done. Completely healed. That woman
went from couldn't move a muscle to busy as a bee. Honestly, healed. When the Lord heals, it's an
amazing thing. When the Lord heals a sinner,
it is an amazing thing. When He heals, there is no sign
of sickness left. And here's the reason why. It's
gone. It's gone. It is gone. Oh, the
sickness of sin that we so desperately need to be healed of. Don't we
recognize the sickness of our sin that we so desperately need
to be healed of? I want to be healed by the Lord
Jesus Christ. I want to be healed by him. When word gets out about his
ability and his power to truly heal, true sick people come running
to him. When the announcement goes out
of the power and ability of this man to heal, true sick people
come running to him. Look right here in Luke four
at verse 37, it says. and the fame of him went out
into every place of the country round about." The fame. Hearing how great things this
man has done. Have you heard about this man? The fame went out of him. That's
why verse 40 right here says, Now when the sun was setting,
All they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them
unto him and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed
them. If a sinner ever comes to see
his own sickness of sin, true sickness of sin, and the one
true healer of the sickness of sin, And the
fact that He does not turn away any who have need of healing,
none, He heals them all. If a sinner ever truly sees that,
he will come running, she will come running to the Lord Jesus
Christ. They will come to the Lord Jesus Christ. And then that
sinner will bring all of his or her loved ones who need the
same healing. Don't you feel that need? Seeing
what the Lord has done for you, doesn't it make you want to bring
every single person that you can think of to hear about Him?
Don't you wish everybody you knew could hear about this man
and believe on this man and cast their all on this man? Well, that's what they did in
our text. Look with me at Matthew 8 again,
Matthew chapter 8. Verse 14, it says, and when Jesus
was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid
and sick of a fever. And he touched her hand and the
fever left her, and she arose and ministered unto them. When
the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed
with devils, and He cast out the spirits with His Word, and
healed all that were sick, that it might be fulfilled which was
spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities
and bear our sicknesses." Now, the Lord Jesus Christ is the
healer of the sick. He is. He is the healer of the
sick. And what I want us to see in this is what exactly he heals
his people of and how he heals his people, what he heals them
of and how he heals them. It says that he did all of this
right here so that the scripture would be fulfilled. It says he took these things
and bore these things. So the scripture would be fulfilled. And I'd like for us to see what
did he take and bear and how did he take it and how did he
bear it for his people? And I want us to see that from
two scripture reference references that are here in my Bible. If
you have a center margin. I have two of them for verse
17, verse 17 says that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken
by Isaiah, the prophet saying himself took our infirmities
and bear our sicknesses. The two references are Isaiah
53 and first Peter chapter two. All right. Turn with me to Isaiah
53 where our brother just read. Isaiah 53 verse 1 says, Who hath
believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the
Lord revealed? The only way that any sinner
can believe the report. The only way. Is if the Holy
Spirit of God reveals the report of the finished work of salvation
of the Lord, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit must reveal that
to a center. That's the only way that any
center can believe the report. God must reveal these things
to all of God's children. Eternal healing, spiritual healing
is not of man. It's of God. It's God's doing
in a person start to finish. So verse one says, who hath believed
our report and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed to whom
is Christ. The Savior, the healer, the friend
of sinners, the arm of the Lord revealed. Verse two says, for
he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root
out of dry ground. He hath no form nor comeliness. And when we shall see him, there
is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected
of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we
hid as it were our faces from him. He was despised and we esteemed
him not. This is the man who healed us. Is that not amazing? This is
the man who healed us. He is despised and rejected of
men. Verse three says, a man of sorrows
acquainted with grief. We hid as it were our faces from
him. He was despised. We esteemed
him not. But in spite of us, because of
his promise that the scripture might be fulfilled, Verse 4 says,
Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet
we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. That's
what he bore for us. We just had a brother tell us
to imagine what it would be like emotionally bearing all that
Christ bore. That cannot be imagined. That
cannot be imagined. Think about all of the grief
that Christ bore for us and all of the sorrow that Christ carried
for us. He said in the garden, I sorrow
unto death. I could die from the sorrow I'm
bearing. He bore our griefs. He carried
our sorrows. When Christ healed his people
on the cross of Calvary, He healed them from their grief and their
sorrow. That's a wonderful thing. You
think about physical pain. I'd rather have that than emotional
sorrow and depression and torment. Our Lord bore our grief. He bore
our sorrow. That's what He bore for us. as
He was healing us there on the cross of Calvary. Don't turn back, but our text
in Matthew says, the wording there says, He bore our infirmities
and our sicknesses. Isaiah 53 words it by saying,
He bore our griefs and carried our sorrows. Matthew 8 says,
He bore our infirmities and our sicknesses. Which one is it?
It's both. It's all of it. He bore all of it. You know,
the scripture says that on the cross, He was marred more than
any man. Physically, just all of the effects
that come to these bodies, the sickness, the effects of sickness,
the effects of our infirmities. He bore all of it. When Christ
healed His people from their sickness, He healed them from
their emotional sickness. He healed them from their physical
sickness. Most importantly, though, He
healed them from their spiritual sickness. He bore all of it. He bore all of it. Go with me
to the other reference we had there, which is 1 Peter 2. First Peter 2 verse 21, it says, For even here unto were you called,
because Christ also suffered for us. And if you have a center
margin in your Bible, I love how it translates, for you. Christ suffered for you. Leaving
us an example that you should follow His steps, Verse 22 says,
who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth, who when
he was reviled, reviled not again. When he suffered, he threatened
not, but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously. He committed himself to the judge. Verse 24 says, who his own self
bear our sins in his own body on the tree, that we being dead
to sins should live unto righteousness by whose stripes you were healed. For you were a sheep going astray,
but are now returned unto the shepherd and bishop of your souls. When Christ Jesus our Lord healed
us, He healed us from our griefs, He healed us from our sorrows,
He healed us from our physical infirmities and our sicknesses,
and He healed us from all of our sin. All of our sin. And how did He do that? He bore
all of it in His own body on the tree. This is amazing to think about
the spotless savior, the happy, peaceful, joyful savior, the
perfect sinless savior. The one who verse 22 says did
no sin. Neither was guile found in his
mouth. He healed us by taking every
vileness and every decaying wit wickedness of sin. that was on
us and in us, He delivered us from all of it by burying it
in His own body on the tree. He took it into His own body. I've told you so many times the
story of Parris Reedhead being in the jungle, but what a good
example, what a wonderful example, physical example of what our
Lord did for us. This was a man who was a missionary
back in the early 1900s, and he was in Ethiopia, walking through
the jungle with some native men, and they heard someone crying
faintly, somebody help me. Barely heard
this voice crying, somebody help me. And they listened and followed
the voice until they came up on this man laying on the jungle
floor in the end stages of leprosy. And they said, oh, they said
to look at this man. He was half a man. Leprosy had just eaten him away. And you could just see his bones
and just see it just, it was awful. And he said that that
man was laying there, he had half a face, just barely being
able to say, somebody help me. And he said, we knew there was
nothing we could do for this man. But he said, as I was standing
there looking at this man and looking at all of that vileness
and all of that decay and all of that rot, he said, the thought
went into my mind, something that you don't want to touch.
It's just so vile, but knowing if you do, that disease could
come to me. And he said, the thought went
through my mind as I was standing there that if I could somehow
pick this man up and every, all of this stanch and rot, if I
could press this to my body and press that face to my face and
take all of his death into me and all of his rot into me, And
if I could impart all of my health and youthfulness and life into
Him, and we could completely change conditions, He said, if
I could do that right now, I would have a better understanding of
what my Lord Jesus Christ did for me on the cross of Calvary. He took all of my griefs, my
sorrows, my infirmity, my sickness, my sin, everything that I am,
everything that I have, everything that is ruining me and killing
me, He bore it all in His own body on the tree. And He truly, truly healed His
people. Somebody hears that and they
say, well, why am I still sinning then? And why do I still get sick?
And why am I still sad? It's because He bore all the
sin and all the infirmities and all the griefs and sorrows from
the cradle to the grave. We have not finished living it
out yet. He bore all of it, all of it,
all of it. And here's when we're gonna realize
it. The moment that we step foot
into His sinless, sickless, guiltless eternity, that's the moment we're
gonna know He truly did heal us from all our diseases. Look at all his benefits. He
redeemed our life from destruction. He healed us from all our diseases. All of it. We just had a brother
read Revelation 21 to us. Turn there again. Revelation
21. Revelation 21 verse 1, I saw
a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the
first earth were passed away and there was no more sea. And
I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God
out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Christ
has a bride too. Verse 3 says, And I heard a great
voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with
men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people,
and God Himself shall be with them and be their God. And God
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be
no more death." What that means is no more sin. That's what it means. The wages
of sin is death, and if there's no more death, it means there
is no more sin. Why? Because Christ bore all
of it in His own body on the tree. That's the whole reason
why. Verse 4 says, God shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying. That means no more grief, no
more sadness. Why? because Christ bore all
of it in His own body on the tree. In that one moment, He bore all the grief, all the
sorrow, all the crying. Verse 4 goes on to say, neither
shall there be any more pain, physical pain, bodily infirmities,
sicknesses. Why? Christ bore all of it in
His own body on the tree. He touched the sin of His people,
the infirmities and sickness of His people, the feeling of
the sin and the sickness and the infirmities of His people
when He completely healed them in His own body on the tree. And when the realization of that
healing comes to one of His own, When that realization comes,
there is a moment where the Lord reveals Christ to a person, one
of His own. And it's not about the law anymore,
and it's not about me anymore, it's all about Him. And when
that moment comes, and every time thereafter, that we go out
into the world and we forget about these things and we get
so down and so sick and so full of sin and so whatever, and we
come back in here and we hear about Christ again, the healer. Every time that realization comes
back to us, it makes the child of God want to rise and minister
unto Him. For Christ's sake, for the healer's
sake, for the gospel sake, for his people's sake. It makes God's
people want to say, thank you. Thank you. That's all God's people
want to do is they just want to say, thank you. Thank you,
Lord, for saving my soul. Thank you, Lord, for making me
whole. Thank you, Lord, for giving to
me that great salvation, so rich and so free. All of God's people
will cry, Lord, all the glory for all healing goes to you. If I'm healed in any way, shape
or form, you did it and you get the glory for it. All right,
Brother Eddie, you come.