Good morning. Let's all stand
together. We'll sing hymn number 449. 449. To God O'er the land of the free and
the home of the brave? ? Father in Jesus the Son ? And
give him the glory ? Great things he hath done ? O perfect redemption ? The purchase
of blood to every believer of Christ. The vilest offender who truly
believes That moment from Jesus the pardon receives Praise the
Lord, praise the Lord Let the earth hear His voice Praise the Lord, let the people
rejoice. All come to the Father, through
Jesus the Son, and give Him the glory, great things He hath done. Great things He hath taught us,
great things He hath done, and great are rejoicing through Jesus. but purer and higher and greater
will be our wonder, our transport when Jesus we see. Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Let the earth hear His voice,
? Praise the Lord, praise the Lord ? Let the people rejoice
? O come to the Father ? Through Jesus the Son ? And give him
the glory ? Pray the things he has done Be seated. We'll sing hymn number
257. 257. It is so sweet to trust in Jesus,
just to take Him at His word, just to rest upon His promise,
just to know the Savior. Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him,
how I prove Him o'er and o'er. Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus,
hope for grace, Oh, how sweet to trust in Jesus
Just to trust His cleansing blood Just in simple faith to plunge
me Neath the healing, cleansing flood Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus,
oh, for grace to trust Him more. in Jesus, judged from sin and
self to cease, judged from Jesus, simply taking what they Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him,
how I've proved Him o'er and o'er. Jesus, Jesus, gracious
Jesus, all for grace to trust Him. I'm so glad I learned to trust
Thee Precious Jesus, Savior, Friend And I know that Thou art
with me Will be with me to Thee Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him,
how I've proved Him o'er and o'er. Jesus, Jesus, Christ, Happy Mother's Day. Happy Grandmother's Day, too.
I mean, you know, you've got kids and then grandkids and elders. How often does your birthday
fall on Mother's Day? That's very unusual. Yeah. I hope them kids stepped up.
Birthday and Mother's Day both. I really do. Yeah, but happy
Mother's Day to all of you. And if you will, turn your Bibles
with me to Mark chapter 2. Start reading in verse 27 down
to verse 31. And they were all amazed insomuch
that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? What
new doctrine is this? For with authority commandeth
He even the unclean spirits, and they do obey Him. and immediately
his fame spread abroad throughout all the region about Galilee.
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 anon, or at once, they tell him of her. And he came and took her by the
hand, lifted her up, and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered
unto them. Our great and blessed and glorious
God of heaven and earth. Last week we read we're here
o'er earth and here o'er heaven and Lord the heavens Show your glory. Manifest your
glory. But yet they're not saving, looking
at the heavens. Your glory is manifested in your
blessed son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And it's him we come, in his
blessed name, in his merit, in his righteousness, in his precious,
precious word. Thankful for the blood that was
shed that cleansed us from our sins. Thank the Lord Jesus Christ
who loved us and gave himself for us. And oh, blessed Savior, I pray
that you'd meet with us today, that the gospel would run well
here today. And Lord, we want your presence
more than we want anything else in this service today. We want
your presence. Oh, God, give us of your presence.
give the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven. And Lord, we pray
for salvation of your leg, salvation of sinners, salvation of those
who never yet believed you and trusted you. Lord, may this be
the day that the stripped, broken, that they'll see their nakedness,
their emptiness, their poverty, see how desperately they need
the Lord Jesus Christ. God, you're the only one that
can do that. And so, Lord, meet with us today. Please save your
people in this place. Please be with my dear preacher
brethren as they stand. And oh, God, bless the saints
as we gather to worship and preach the gospel of the grace of God
in Christ's name, we thank you. Amen and amen. M number 252. 252. Come, every soul, by sin oppressed,
There's mercy with the Lord, And He will surely give you rest
By trusting in His Word. Only trust Him, only trust Him,
only trust Him now. He will save you, He will save
you, He will save you now. For Jesus shed his precious blood,
rich blessings to bestow. Plunge now into the crimson flood
that washes white as snow. Only trust Him, only trust Him,
only trust Him now. He will save you, He will save
you, He will save you now. Yes, Jesus is the truth, the
way that leads you into rest. Believe in Him without delay,
and you are fully blessed. Only trust Him, only trust Him
Only trust Him now He will save you, He will save you He will
save you now We'll all stand together as we
sing the hymn of the day in the bulletin. Mercy is welcome news indeed. To those that guilty stand, wretches
that feel. what help they need. We'll bless the helping hand. We all have sinned. Against our God Exception none
can pass But he that feels The heaviest load Will Christ's forgiveness
hold? No reckoning can we rightly keep
For whom the suns can glow Some souls are fifty pieces deep And
some five hundred old But let our debts be what they may, however
great or small. as we have not to pay. Our Lord forgives us all. It is perfect poverty alone That
sets the soul at heart While we can call one mind No fool is charged. Be seated. All right, here in Mark chapter
2, continuing our study in Mark, And it says here in verse 28,
immediately His fame spread abroad throughout all the region around
about Galilee. You know, our Lord Jesus Christ, we've already seen so many things
about the truths about Him. He is in the synagogue. And while
He was in there, He taught, and they were astonished, astonished
that He preached as one who had authority, not like the scribes. They were astonished at His authority. And I tell you, our Lord has
all authority in heaven and earth given unto Him, all of it. There's nobody else that's got
the authority that Christ has. And I believe in His authority. I got up this morning thinking
about, boy, I'd hate to get up knowing that I'm left to fate,
knowing that I'm left to chance, knowing that my left is left
to luck. or destiny, instead of by the
authority and will of the Lord Jesus Christ. That'd be a miserable
day, wouldn't it? To get up and not know that He's
not our Lord, our Savior, and His will be done. When we talk
about our Lord, He's in the synagogue, and two things they were astonished
at. First of all, His teaching, His
authority. And then when He had a man who
was in the synagogue at the same time, There was a man of unclean
spirit, and our Lord commanded that unclean spirit to keep his
mouth shut for one thing, and then to come out of him. And
then they were astonished and amazed that he had power and
authority. What is this new doctrine? What
is this thing that Christ said? So his fame began to spread.
But let me tell you, you know as well as I do how fickle human
nature is. One day they're saying, Hosanna,
Hosanna, Hosanna. Blessed is he that cometh in
the name of the Lord. A couple of days later they're
crying out, Crucify Him, Crucify Him, Crucify Him. So human nature,
one day they'll praise Him, the next day they'll curse Him. And
that's what they do. But then it says there in verse
29, They come out of the synagogue
now. They come out of the synagogue. After all this that happened,
he's teaching, astonished at his power and authority over
unclean spirits. And as he come out of the synagogue,
they came and were come out of the synagogue, they entered into
the house of Simon and Andrew. And they took John and James
with them. So they're going into Simon Peter's house here in verse
20, 29. And Simon and Andrew, their brothers,
and James and John, their brothers, remember when they called them?
Our Lord called them from their fishing nets. But Simon's wife's
mother lay sick of a fever, and at once they tell him of her. Tell him she's sick, very sick.
And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and immediately
the fever left her, and she ministered unto them. She lay sick of a
fever. Sick of a fever. First of all,
I want to tell you this. Simon had a wonderful relationship
with his mother-in-law. You know, Peter was supposed
to be the first pope, but he was married. And you're not supposed
to be married when you're a priest, but Simon Peter was married.
He had a wife. And his mother-in-law lived with
him, lived in her home and lived in his home. So he had a wonderful
relationship. She lived in his home as his
wife's mother. And there's two other accounts
of this in Luke chapter four and also in Matthew chapter eight.
But she lay sick of a fever. Now, every one of us know what
it is to have a fever. And you know, there's some fevers
that will absolutely incapacitate you. She lay sick of a fever. She couldn't get out of bed.
She was sick. all had fevers and they'll make
you so sick they'll incapacitate you. And in Luke it says there
she was taken with a great fever, great fever. Now I want you to
look over there in Luke with me for a minute in Luke chapter
4 and verse 38. I want you to see something out of this, this
particular Luke chapter 4 and verse 38.
Boy, a fever can sure make you sick. I remember everybody here has
experienced it. I remember one time when me and
Mary and Josh and Doogie and Lenny, all of us was sick. All
of us was sick at the same time. Every one of us had a fever.
I mean everyone was miserable. And they didn't go away in three
or four days. I mean, it was a long time. And
you know, you sweat all your clothes, you get them all wet,
and it was awful. And I had a bunch of cows to
feed and everything, and I couldn't even get out of bed and feed
a cow. I thought some of my neighbors would, but you know. But they didn't. But nevertheless,
everybody here knows what it is. And I'll tell you a story,
a true story. Little old Josh, when he was
a baby, he was probably six weeks old, might have been two months
old. And he got a fever. Oh, he got a fever. He was sick. He was sick. And one night, he
was so sick. And we couldn't, you know, you
don't have no money to go to the emergency room if you ain't
got no insurance or nothing. And they're going to charge you,
you know, take which arm you want when I go in there. So he
got really, really sick. And I prayed, I may have told
you this before, and I said, Lord, and this is being honest
with God, that's what we're talking about, being honest with God.
I said, Lord, we don't have the money to take this child to the
emergency room. We don't. But Lord, you know the shape
we're in. You know what we can and cannot
do. So I'm gonna ask you to please, for Christ's sake, take care
of this baby's fever. And within two hours, that baby
was fine. You know, I was honest with God.
I didn't have the money. When you ain't got money to take
a child to the doctor or the hospital, but thank God we got
a great physician, and that's what happened here. This woman
lay sick of a fever. And the great physician came. The great physician came. But
look what it says here in verse 38 of Luke chapter four. 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
it says he rebuked the fever. Now, I want you to look at this
word TAKEN, TAKEN with a fever. And that word TAKEN, let me give
you some definitions of it. When you take something or something's
taken, it's constrained. It means to be constrained. It
means to hold. It means to keep in. It means
to press. It means to stop. So instead
of putting in the word TAKEN with a fever, put in the word
SIN. Taken with sin. Taken with sin. Constrained by sin. Held in by
sin. Kept in by sin. Lie sick of sin. And stop sin. And I tell you
this, I know to a believer, Sin is a disease. It's an awful awful
sickness that a believer cannot take care of himself No one enjoys
being sick, and I'll tell you what believers don't enjoy sin.
They don't want they don't like sin They hate sin they despise
sin But we also see that it's something that we is born with
and if God don't intervene we'll die with it It's like this woman. We know taken with fever. We're
taken by sin We're held captive by sin. We're constrained by
sin. And what in the world can happen
to us? And look what it says here also.
And they besought him for her. And over here in our text it
says they tell him of her. They tell him of her. And I'll
tell you something, they tell him of her. And I'll tell you
when you got somebody that you love, like they loved his mother-in-law,
and they asked the Lord Jesus to do something for her, that's
the best thing we can do for anybody, tell the Lord Jesus
Christ about them. Tell the Lord Jesus Christ about
their sin. Tell the Lord Jesus Christ about
their disease. Tell the Lord Jesus Christ their
nakedness. Tell the Lord Jesus Christ their
inability. Tell the Lord Jesus Christ that
they're sick, What's got them sick? Sin's got them sick. Sin's
diseased them. Sin's a thing of the heart. And
we can't get up and do anything about it. She couldn't get up.
She lay sick of a fever. And who's gonna get up and take
care of anybody that's like that? And you can't get out of bed
and take care of your sin. So I tell you what, the greatest
thing we can do for anybody that we know of is say, they tell
him of her. And the best thing we can do
for anybody, Lord, I'm gonna tell you about this person. I'm
gonna tell you about my husband. I'm gonna tell you about my wife.
I'm gonna tell you about my children. I'm gonna tell you about my grandchildren.
Lord, I wanna tell you about them. And I ain't got nothing
good I can say about them. All I can tell you is, Lord,
they're sick, they're naked, they're poor, they're blind,
they're helpless. And Lord, please, oh God, that's
all we can do, huh? That's the greatest thing we
can do for anybody, huh? Oh, it's the greatest thing we
can do for anybody. Now look over here in Matthew chapter
eight. I want you to look at this with
me, show you these other places that our Lord was talking about
this. Mark chapter 8. What is that? Mark chapter 8 and verse
14. And I listed this, And when Jesus
was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid
sick of a fever, and he touched her hand, and the fever left
her, and she arose and ministered unto him. You see, Jesus comes. He come into Peter's house. Let's deal with the Lord Jesus
Christ who come. He come into Peter's house. You
know, that's the thing, and you go through the Gospels, there's
words, and I tell you, when you deal with words, you can get
a lot out of something with words. Jesus had come into their house. And He come into a house where
somebody was sick. So let's deal with this Jesus
come. Jesus come into their house. Jesus was come. Let's deal with
that. You know what the scriptures
tells us in 1 John chapter 5? He that confesses that Jesus
has come in the flesh is born of God. And what does it mean
to confess that Jesus has come in the flesh? That you believe
that He was the eternal Son of God, and God sent Him down here,
born of a virgin, had to be identified with us, and He was made flesh. He had a body. He had a, when
you looked at Him, you touched Him, you felt a body. If you
slapped Him, He felt the slap. If He got, you know, He was,
and whoever confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh,
that Christ is God Almighty coming to flesh. He is born of God. You know how many people that
Jesus Christ don't, they don't know that Christ is coming to
flesh? I tell you people don't. People that's trying to get people
to accept Him, they don't believe He's coming to flesh. People
that tell you about He loves everybody, they don't believe
He's coming to flesh. Those that you know to think that they can
be saved by the works, they don't believe He's coming to flesh.
THOSE WHO WANT TO GO TO THE LORD, THEY DON'T BELIEVE THEY COME
IN THE FLESH. BUT IF YOU BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST COME IN THE
FLESH, AND I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, HERE HE COMES, THEN YOU'RE BORN
OF GOD. AND HE COME IN THE FLESH, WHAT
DID HE COME IN THE FLESH TO DO? WELL, THIS IS A FAITHFUL SAYING. I CAN HARDLY QUOTE THIS WITHOUT
GETTING A TEAR. worthy of all acceptation, that
Christ Jesus came into the world to do what? To save sinners. To save sinners. You know, I
preached a message up at Todd's a couple years ago. How can I
know I'm a child of God? The first thing I said about
it was, I know I'm a sinner. God's word tells me I'm a sinner. My conscience tells me I'm a
sinner. My heart tells me I'm a sinner. My actions tell me I'm a sinner. My words tell me I'm a sinner. The things I do tells me I'm
a sinner. But blessed be God. He came to save sinners. And if he came to save sinners,
I'm gonna be saved. I'm gonna be saved. I'm gonna
be saved. And I tell you, I can't hardly
wait till the day that I never sin one more time. And oh my. And then our Lord said, I come.
I come. Not to call the righteous. I
didn't come to call righteous people. But I come to call sinners
Come to call sinners to repentance. And then John said it like this,
Lord Jesus, come quickly, come quickly. What a blessed thing
when the Lord Jesus comes and when he come into Simon Peter's
house. Oh my, Lord Jesus come. Come
on, please come. Come into our presence today.
Come into preaching. Come into hearts. Come into minds. Come into souls. Oh, Lord. Oh,
what a blessed thing when Jesus comes. And then look what else
it says here in Matthew. In verse 14, and when Jesus was
come into Peter's house, he saw, he saw his wife's mother. You
know why he saw her? Because he knew her. You know why he went to her,
his house? It wasn't to go in there to get a meal. He went
there because he saw, he saw, and he saw his wife's mother.
He saw her. He knew her. And our Lord Jesus
Christ saw his elect. from eternity. He looked down,
and beloved, he saw all that the Father would give him, and
he saw every one of them would come to him. Our Lord saw his
elect from eternity. He saw Zacchaeus up a tree. Oh my. He saw an infant cast
out, and he said, it's the time of love. And let me show you,
you keep Mark, keep Matthew there, and let me show you something
in John chapter five. John chapter five. My Bible's
getting thin here. You know, we're at the pool of
Bethesda. And our Lord Jesus came by, and
there's a pool there. And it says in verse five, and
a certain man was there which had an infirmity 38 years. And listen to this now, and when
Jesus saw him lie. There's a whole bunch of people
there. But when Jesus saw him lie, and listen to this now,
and knew knew that he had been now a long time with this infirmity. He asked him, he said, Will thou
be made whole? The impotent man, I want you
to notice that, the impotent man said, Sir, I have no man,
when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool, but while
I am coming, another steppeth down before me. Our Lord said
unto him, rise up, take thy bed, and walk, walk. And I tell you,
he saw him, and he knew him, and he knew everything about
him. And that's what he said when he's come into her house,
he saw her, he knew her. Our Lord has always seen his
elect. And I tell you what, he sees
what's, and our Lord Jesus sees what other people can't, can't
see. He comes, and when He comes to
us, that's when we start coming to Him. We don't never come to
Him until He first comes to us. And here's what's so wonderful
about it, they said, He saw her, and they said, tell Him about
her, and the best thing we can do is tell somebody about something. And when our Lord comes, blessed,
blessed things happen. Now look while He was in her
home, He saw her back over here in Matthew 8. He saw her. He was present with her. He was
present in her home, in His home, in her home. He is present with
her. And where His presence is, there's
always salvation. Where our Lord comes, there's
salvation. Wherever our Lord goes, He brings
power and blessing and salvation with Him. And look what it says
here now in verse 15, and He touched her. He touched her hand. He reached
out and touched her hand. You know, it talks about the
woman with issue of blood. She touched Christ. Whether he
touches you or you touch him, there's something going to happen.
He touched her and he rushed down and she's laying there.
She's sick. She's feverish as she can be. She's incapacitated and the Lord
Jesus, her hand's laying there and he just reaches out and touches
her hand. Oh my, touched her hand. Christ deals with people in different
ways. Sometimes he'll just say he will
something, he will something. He said, I will, I will, I will. Sometimes he does it with a word. It s like the centurion s dog. Our Lord Jesus Christ, they told
him, You know, go over here, this man s got a servant that
s sick, a servant, and he started over there, and that centurion
said, Lord, I m not fit, not worthy that you come under my
roof. He said, All you got to do is speak your word, and it
ll be done. And our Lord said His word. And
when that word got there, that servant was healed. Said His
word. I don't know how far it went,
but I know one thing, it comes from heaven all the way into
a person's heart. Huh? And that's what Paul said, you
know, he's not far from every one of us. It's not far from
every one of us. We're the ones that's far away,
but he's not far from anybody. I mean, he can go to anybody,
anywhere, anytime, and do anything he wants to. But he come in this
woman's house, reached out and touched her, touched her. And
oh, sometimes he uses means. It's like the man that was blind.
He spit on the ground, and he mixed it up with his finger,
and he made some mud. I spit, and here's mud. Our Lord
spit, mixed it with some dirt, and made some mud. He put that
mud over that fellow's eyes. I tell you when you're sinless,
even you spit sinless. And He put that clay over that
fellow's eyes. I mean, how would you, if I had
clay, you know, I have to put stuff in my eyes to keep my eyes
clear, and here he is, he comes and puts mud over a fella's eyes. He can't see a lick, and he's
there because he's blind. And then he puts mud in his eyes.
And then he said, now you go over there at that pool, and
you wash that mud out of your eyes. And he went over there
and he washed that mud out of his eyes. And when the mud got
off his eyes, he had 20, 20 vision. Oh my. And Lucas said he rebuked
the fever. And I'll tell you what, when
he rebukes something, he can do that, his voice is commanding. And look over here with me now
in Mark, keep Matthew, we're gonna look at that again in just
a minute. But it said here in Mark, look down in chapter, verse
40, talking about how our Lord Jesus Christ done things different
to different people. In Mark chapter one, verse 40,
and there come a leper to him. that's the best place anybody
can come, beseeching him, kneeling down to him, and saying unto
him, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. If it's your will,
oh my. And Jesus moved with compassion,
put forth his hand, and listen to this, touched him. And saith
unto him, I will be thou clean. When the Lord tells us, be thou
clean, you reckon, now you're clean through every word I've
spoken unto you. And oh, this fever left her.
Sit back over here in Matthew 8. And it says in verse 15, he
touched her and the fever left her. Now where in the world did
this fever go? Got to go somewhere. Where'd the fever go? It left
her. It left her. Where'd it go? And then look
what it says there. And one place it tells us that
He lifted her up. He lifted her up. And the fever
left her immediately. And then it says here, down in
verse 17, that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities
and bear our sicknesses. Where'd that fever go? It went
in the Lord Jesus Christ. This is an amazing thing to me.
You think about it. It says that He Himself took
our infirmities. and he took our iniquities, he
took, you know that issue of blood, that woman that touched
him with the issue of blood, he said, virtue has gone out
of me. And when that virtue went out
of him, whatever her sickness was went into him. And yet he
was unaffected by it. He could touch a leper, and not
be leprosy. If you and I get around somebody
that's sick, somebody comes in here with a fever, and we get
around them, we'd get sick. We'd get sick ourselves. We communicate
diseases to one another, fevers to one another. Diseases to one
another. That happens. And that's what
happens here. Our Lord Jesus Christ, if we
get in touch with somebody, it's going to affect us. But our Lord
Jesus Christ, listen, He took all of our sicknesses, all of
them. And you know what the worst sickness
He took, the greatest sickness He took? He took our sin. And
the scripture says He bare every single one of them. He bare them
in His own body on the tree. Now how could He bare sin and
yet never commit sin? How can he put sin away and bear
it in his own body and yet never have committed a sin in his life
when sin was on him and when he was on the cross and when
he was in the grave and when he resurrected? You tell me how
that can be. Ain't you thankful? that our
Lord Jesus Christ can take everything that's wrong with us, everything
that's wrong with us, and He has to do it every day. He don't
do it just, you know, He didn't put it away once and for all,
but yet every day, every day, He has to take our infirmities.
He has to take our weaknesses. He has to take our inabilities.
He has to take our sin and deal with them, and yet unaffected
by them. And the only one that it has
any effect upon is us. And I thank God that we can go
to Him and we can be honest with Him, that we come unto a throne
of grace to obtain mercy and find help when in time of need,
in time of need. Oh my, when it says by his stripes
we're healed, that's not physical healing, that's not physical
healing. There was a fellow one time,
he was a doctor, and I got to talking to him, we got to talking
quite a bit, and one day he was telling me that he had had a
back problem for three years, and he claimed Isaiah 53 for
his healing. He said by his stripes we're
healed, and I said, Why in the world would it take the Lord
three years to heal you? If physical healing's in the
blood of Christ and in the stripes of Christ, why did it take three
years for Christ to heal you? He said, I never thought of it.
I said, he's not talking about physical healing there. He s
talking about SIN! Sin s a disease and it takes
the stripes of Christ and His body being beaten and bruised
and blood coming out of Him to put away the disease. And I tell
you what, and after a while, I talked to that fella, gave
him a couple of books, and I believe he went from being a soul winner
to a soul that was born. I really believe it. He was an
old man, but boy, he started his whole conversation became
different. He'd come and talk to me about
what God said and what Christ said, and he thought you could
be lost again. And I said, how could you be lost again if Christ
died for you? And I said, when you was born,
I said, what did you have to do with it? He said, nothing.
I said, that's the way it is in the second birth. You got
nothing to do with it. And I tell you, after a while,
he just, he asked one question after another. And that's what
we're talking about here. Our Lord Jesus Christ, He comes
and He touches us like He did that woman and the fever left
us. And when He touches us, sin leaves us. When He touches us,
hatred leaves us. When He touches us, love comes
in. Oh my. Oh, he could touch lepers
and not become leprosy. He could heal the woman, bear
the sickness of the woman with this unit of blood. And I'll
tell you, his stripes healed us of all of our sin. And I'll
tell you, we'll get sick from one another. I'll tell you, you
know, when they had this, this thing they call the COVID virus
that God sent. You know, you'd get around, everybody
wore masks, and you know, they wouldn't get close to one another,
and you know, you'd have to stand here, and somebody had to stand
way up there, and I mean, it was a rig of a row. It was a
farce. But anyway, to make your long
story short, nobody wanted to get that virus. They'd done everything
they possibly could not to get it. But we've got it anyway. And
that's what happens to us. We get around somebody sick,
we're gonna get sick. But Christ felt all the effects
of all of our sin, all of our fever, and did not affected by
any of it other than satisfying God on our behalf. putting all
of our sin away once and for all. And the scriptures tells
us she arose, there in verse 15, Matthew 8, and he touched
her hand, the fever left, left her, and she arose, and listen
to this, and started taking care of them. She was in bed sick
and had to be taken care of. Our Lord did something for her,
and she got up and started taking care of them. I think she got up and started
cookin'. I'm gonna tell you what, this is one of them things I'm
gonna read between the lines if you don't care. I think she
got up and went to cookin'. You know, they'd been busy all
day, and our Lord Jesus Christ, I mean, He'd been workin', He'd
been healin' people, and He'd been up early, and she arose
and started cookin' for them. I wonder how good the meal was. How would you like to fix a meal
for the Lord Jesus Christ, and James, and John, and Peter, and
Andrew? And Peter was used to eating
their food. John and James wasn't. And I tell you, I believe she
cooked the best meal she ever cooked in her life. And the Lord
Jesus ate with her. And I'll tell you, she got up
and ministered to them. And I'm gonna say this in closing.
She arose and she went from being taken care of to caring for them.
And when God saves a man, like he did her, touches him like
he did her, he becomes a servant. He wants to be a servant. He
don't wanna be, he don't, you know, A servant, a bond slave. Now I'll tell you something,
the Lord never commanded her to get up and start doing something.
Peter never commanded her to get up and start doing something.
She got up and done what she did because she loved him. And
she wanted to be a servant. She wanted to do for them. And that's what the scriptures
tells us. We are to become bond slaves
of Christ. You know, our Lord Jesus Christ,
this fellow's arguing over who's going to be the best, who's going
to be the greatest. And our Lord knew that, and He said, I'll
tell you what, He that's the greatest among you, let Him be
the servant. Let Him wait on everybody else.
Let Him take care of everybody else. And if our Lord Jesus Christ,
if our Lord Jesus Christ humbled Himself And He said, I came not to be
ministered unto, but to minister, to be a servant, be obedient
even unto the death of the cross. You reckon the Lord's touched
anybody today? You reckon He's come down and,
oh, if He touches your hand, that's wonderful, but oh, to
touch your heart. to come in and touch your heart. Oh Lord, come touch our hearts.
Touch our hearts. Make us servants. Don't let us think we're somebody
when we're nothing. Our Father, in the blessed name
of our Lord Jesus Christ, Thank you for your great mercies, great
and wonderful blessings given us in Christ, even before the
world ever began. You gave us grace and you called
us with a holy calling. And oh Lord, we thank you. We
thank you that you come and touch us. You have touched us. You continue to touch us. You
have saved us and you are saving us. And Lord, every one of us
look forward to the day when we shall be completely, eternally,
blessedly saved once and for all to spend eternity with our
Lord Jesus Christ and behold him face to face, face to face. Oh God. And as John said, Lord
Jesus, come quickly, come quickly. Amen, amen. Did you hear what
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