Matthew 4, 23. And Jesus went about all Galilee,
teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the
kingdom. and healing all manner of sickness
and all manner of disease among the people. And his fame went
throughout all Syria, and they brought unto him all sick people
that were taken with diverse diseases and torments, and those
which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic,
and those that had the palsy, and he healed them. And there
followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee and from
Decapolis and from Jerusalem and from Judea and from beyond
Jordan. Christ's healing miracles were
confirmation of who he was. In Luke chapter 7, I'm sure you
remember the story of John the Baptist when he was in prison.
It says, he called unto him two of his disciples and sent them
to Jesus, saying, art thou he that should come, or look we
for another? And when the men were come unto
him, they said, John the Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying,
art thou he that should come, or look we for another? And in
that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues,
and of evil spirits. And unto many that were blind
he gave he sight, And then Jesus answering said unto them, go
your way and tell John what things you've seen and heard. How that
the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the
deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospels preached. And blessed is he whosoever shall
not be offended in me. The Lord Jesus Christ, his life
and ministry on this earth had been prophesied long before. The prophet said that when he
comes, the dead will rise again, the lame will walk, the blind
will see, the deaf will hear. And he told these men, go tell
John what you've seen. And so we know this, these miracles
of healing of all these diverse diseases and afflictions is confirmation
that he's the Son of God. He also gave his apostles gifts
before the Word of God was written and complete in order to give
witness that they preached for him. They weren't just somebody
with an opinion. They came in the name of Christ.
They came in the name of God with a message. And God confirmed
that, gave witness to them How? Hebrews 2.3, he said, how shall
we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Which at the first
began to be spoken by the Lord. In our text, it's spoken by the
Lord. He preached the kingdom of God. And then it was confirmed
unto us by them that heard him. others who heard him preach,
preached what he preached and it was confirmed to us God also
bearing them witness both with signs and wonders and with diverse
miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost according to his own will.
So he gave witness to them that they were speaking for him by
these miracles. But notice that it was as they
spoke concerning that great salvation. Listen to the language again.
How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Which at
first began to be spoken by the Lord. And then what He spoke
was confirmed to us. It was preached to us by them
that heard Him. And God gave witness to those
that were preaching that great salvation. It's not about the
miracles. It's about His great salvation.
The miracles confirmed who it was that was speaking. It was
Christ that was speaking. It was his apostles that were
speaking. It was his messengers that were speaking. That's who's
speaking to you of his great salvation. Someone who's experienced
it. Someone who has the very power
of God behind him because the gospel is the power of God unto
salvation. It was displayed and manifest
in a physical sense then, but we know that same power accompanies
the gospel now, that his word is complete. And we preach it. And if we preach it not with
his power, we preach in vain. If the word is not mixed with
faith by him in you, as you hear it, it'll profit you nothing.
And so we depend on that same power whereby those miracles
were wrought. Not an outward manifestation
of it, but an inward. That power is necessary. Salvation
is not you making a decision. It's a miracle from above. Only
the power of God can turn a black hearted rebel into a loving son
of God. I can't do it. Don't need to. I just need to tell you about
the one who can, who does, who did. It was as they spoke. as they confirm
this gospel. And in our text, what came first
in verse 23, look at Matthew 4, 23 again, what came first?
And Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues
and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing all manner
of sickness. Many in contemporary religion
have tried to imitate these miraculous gifts and they do it for the
same reason, in order to give credibility to their false ministries
and to make money. They do it for the same reason
and a different one, different motive. But even if they were
able to heal diseases and infirmities, if I could heal you this morning,
which they're not able to do, and neither am I. But if I was,
it would be worthless without the gospel. For after that in the wisdom
of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the
foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. It doesn't
matter if you're a walking sinner going to hell or a lame in a
wheelchair sinner going to hell. It doesn't matter much, does
it? God saves sinners by the preaching of the gospel. For
the Jews require a sign and the Greeks seek after wisdom. The
Jews said, show us something. If you're the son of God, they require a sign. The Greeks
seek after wisdom. They want to be able to figure
everything out, but we preach Christ. We're not coming with
a sign and we're not coming with the wisdom of man's words. We
just preach Christ. Unto the Jews a stumbling block,
and unto the Greeks foolishness. That's okay. But unto them which
are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and
the wisdom of God. The power of God is not displayed
in me touching somebody on the forehead and then falling back
and writhing on the ground for a little while and then jumping
up and saying, I'm healed. It's displayed in the gospel
of His grace in Christ Jesus, the substitute for sinners. I'll just remind you of this.
I've said this to you before more than once, but John the
Baptist was a preacher. And the Lord Jesus Christ said
of him, among those that are born of women, there's not a
greater prophet than John the Baptist. Not a greater prophet. But John the Baptist never did
one single miracle. Not one. Now listen carefully. Those that make much of what
they call miracles these days might say, well, when John was
preaching, the Lord hadn't yet given these gifts. I beg your
pardon. Elijah and Elisha performed miracles. But the Lord Jesus
said, John's a better prophet than them, a greater prophet
than they were. And he did not one single miracle. What does that say about the
ministries of these hucksters in our religious day. The dead
were raised, lepers were cleansed, but Christ said, there's no greater
prophet than this one. What made John such a great preacher? Listen to what people said about
him in John 10 40. And they went away again beyond Jordan into
the place where John at first baptized, and there Christ abode.
And many resorted unto Christ and said, John did no miracle,
but all things that John spake of this man were true. What John said about Christ was
the truth. He's the greatest prophet that
ever lived, according to Christ, other than the Lord himself.
He just told the truth about the Lord Jesus. That's all he
did. That's all we want to do. By God's grace, may he enable
us just to tell the truth on him. That's all. No one has power
to heal, nor do we require it, nor do we need it. The entire
Word of God is written. The Holy Ghost gives witness
unto His Gospel in the hearts of sinners. I don't need healing
power. That gift was unique to the Apostles.
I can prove it to you from Scripture if you need me to. You don't. But only the Apostles were able
to lay hands on other men and transfer those gifts. They could
give the gifts of the Holy Spirit to others. That's why they said,
don't lay hands on any man suddenly. Some are not to have those gifts.
Only those who are blessed of the Lord and mature in the faith
and strong in the Lord are to have these gifts. And so the
apostles would lay hands on some and transfer those gifts. But
what happens when the apostles die? Nobody any longer has the
ability to transfer those gifts. And the ones who they transferred
them to, they can't give them to anybody else. And eventually
they die. And it didn't take long, I wouldn't imagine, before
these gifts no longer existed. But the gospel is preached this
morning, all these hundreds of years later, and God's power
is displayed in the preaching of the gospel. He saves sinners.
He performs the greatest miracle that our Lord ever performed
when the gospel is preached. When He gives a black-hearted,
vile, wretched sinner a new heart and makes a new creature, creates a Son of God, a new creation in Christ Jesus,
that's the greatest miracle our Lord ever does. He's still doing
that miracle. He may do it this morning. He
will somewhere, I'm sure. Oh, that he would display his
power in our midst. We're just telling the truth
about the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what's great. He is great,
not us. The real message of our text
lies in the spiritual significance of this miraculous healing power
of our Lord. As I said, His greatest miracle
is transforming those who were by nature the children of wrath
into sons of God, in experience, in a new creation. And that miracle
of His grace and mercy in Christ is pictured by these other miracles.
Now listen to me carefully. Our Lord Jesus Christ clearly
made this comparison. between physical infirmity and
spiritual infirmity. This is not just me assuming
something that, oh, when he talks about the lame, he's talking
about spiritually lame. I'm not just assuming that. Listen,
turn to Mark chapter two with me. Our Lord clearly draws this very
comparison in his teaching in the gospel. Mark two, 15. And it came to pass that as Jesus sat at meat in
his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with
Jesus and his disciples. For there were many, and they
followed him. And when the scribes and Pharisees
saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples,
how is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
They wouldn't do, the Pharisees wouldn't do that. They would
consider it defiling themselves to associate with sinful people.
Why does this one who claims to be the son of God, why does
he sit down at the same table and eat with a bunch of notoriously
wicked people? When Jesus heard it, verse 17,
he saith unto them, they that are whole have no need of the
physician, but they that are sick. Who did he heal in our
text? The sick. And now, what does he mean? Is
he talking about people that are physically sick? Is he talking
about the miracles of healing the lame people? No, listen to
the language. I came not to call the righteous, But sinners, the
sick is the sinner. The lame is the sinner. The blind is the sinner. I was
blind, but now I see. The spiritually dead, that's
who he's talking about. The spiritually lame, like Mephibosheth,
we're lame on both of our feet. We can't do anything. We can't
walk for God. We can't act for God. We can't
even think right about God. We're lunatic like the ones in
our tent. We can't think right spiritually. When he talks about the sick
here, he's talking about the sinner. I came to call sinners
to repentance. That's the message of our text. This is his explanation of why
he's eating with sinners because he came to heal such, not of
physical ailments, but of sin. Would you like to be healed of
your sin? Wilt thou be made whole? That's a good question, isn't
it? Wilt thou? We have a clear picture in our
text here of what we are by nature and who our Lord is, what He
has done, what He does when He saves us. He's raising the dead
when He does that. That's why I say It's not just
some natural function of me getting up here and talking and you sitting
there listening. That's the means. But this is a miracle, a powerful
miracle of His grace. It's the same power that brought
again from the dead our Lord Jesus that Paul said. That's
the power that's displayed when the gospel is preached and He
saves a sinner. And we have a clear picture of
that here. In verse 24, we see that they
brought unto Him all manner of sick people with diseases. They had diseases, various diseases. In Isaiah 1 and verse 4, listen
to God describing Israel now. These are His earthly people.
These are the ones who, in our sense, among the nations of this
world, He chose to bless with all of the spiritual Advantages
of having his word and his prophets and the typical The tabernacle
and all the things that typified our Lord Jesus Christ, but listen
to the way he describes them in Isaiah 1 4 ah sinful nation
A people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children
that are corruptors. They have forsaken the Lord.
They have provoked the Holy One of Israel under anger. They're
going away backward. Why should you be stricken anymore?
You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick and the
whole heart is faint." You see how he's talking about sinfulness,
but he relates it to physical leprosy. The whole head is sick. The whole heart is faint. And from the sole of the foot,
even into the head, there's no soundness in it. But wounds and
bruises and putrefying sores, and they have not been closed.
Who's going to close them? Only God can heal. Spiritual
leprosy. If I have physical leprosy, I
could put a bandage on it at least. Even if I can't cure it,
but you can't even put a band-aid on spiritual leprosy. You have
no power whatsoever to do anything about it. You have to cry for
mercy. It brings us to the feet of the
Lord Jesus Christ, the healer of all of our diseases. It causes
us to hang upon his mercy. Behold, I'm vile. My sores are
running night and day and I can't stop them. They've not been closed,
neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Not these sores. This is a description of spiritual
leprosy. Notice what's involved. The head,
the heart, and the whole body from head to toe. The head, our
thinking is diseased, isn't it? We're lunatic, like some of those
that are described in our text. Lunatic, our head. Our brain
is diseased. Our will, our thoughts of God
and who he is, of ourselves and what we are, of how God can be
just and justify a sinner are all perverted and diseased. Our heart, our emotions, we love
evil and hate good. Our heart is faint. And from
the top of our head to the soles of our feet, everything we do,
every faculty, of man is depraved and viable for God. In Leviticus chapter 14 we have
the law of God concerning the cleansing of a leper. Turn there with me. I promise
not to be long, but look at Leviticus 14.4. Leviticus 14 for this is a beautiful
one of the most beautiful pictures Of the redeeming blood of Christ
that I've seen in his word Leviticus 14 for then shall the priest
command to take for him that is to be cleansed and in the
context It's leprosy verse 7. We'll see that Him that is to
be cleansed he the priest is command commands to take two
birds alive and clean and cedar wood and scarlet and hyssop.
And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed."
Somebody got to die, don't they? If spiritual leprosy is going
to be cleansed, somebody's got to die. An innocent victim has
got to suffer in the place of the leper. And so he said, kill
one of the little birds. In an earthen vessel over running
water, And as for the living bird, he shall take it, and the
cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip
them and the living bird in the blood
of the bird that was killed over the running water. And he shall sprinkle upon him
that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times. and shall pronounce him clean. There's no sweeter word to a
leper than this, clean. And there's no sweeter word to
a sinner either. Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst
make me clean. And shall let the living bird
loose into the open field Have you
ever seen a more beautiful picture of his sin-cleansing blood than
that? The priest didn't kill the bird
and then tell the leper to do something. The leper's just standing
there, getting sprinkled, getting washed. Something's happening
to him. That's my testimony. Something
happened to me. The Lord Jesus Christ did something
to me and for me. He washed me clean in His blood.
That's what He did for me. And He killed that bird and then
He dipped that bird in the blood, the live bird, in the blood of
the dead bird. And He took the hyssop and all
that and He splashed the blood on the leper and then said, You're
clean! And then having dipped that live bird in the blood of
the dead bird. Well, who's that? Who's that
live bird then? He just splashed the leper with
blood. And we know that this little
bird was dipped in blood. That's the leper washed in the
blood. And he opens his hands. As he says, you're clean, he
opens his hands and that little bird flies away into the open
field. Free. Free, alive and free and
clean. free from the law. Oh, happy
condition. How come Jesus has bled? And there's your mission cursed
by the law and killed by the fall. But Christ has redeemed
us once for all free. If the sun therefore shall make
you free, you should be free indeed. Have you been dipped
in the blood? It's his redeeming blood that
cleanses us of all of our disease. The leprosy of sin has engulfed
our entire being inside and out. But our great high priest has
applied the blood and said, you're clean. You're clean every way. And then in our text, he healed
those that had torments. Have you ever been tormented
by the guilt of your sin before God? If not, you don't know what
torment is. No idea. Can you imagine the
torment of our Lord? Not once did he cry out concerning
the nails in his hands and feet. Not once did he make comment
concerning the crown of thorns that was pressed upon his brow.
What he did say is this, my God, my God, why has thou forsaken
me? Torment. That was the torment
of the cross, to be forsaken of God, to have the wrath of
God abiding upon our very soul because of our sin. Have you
ever been there? In Mark chapter 5 and verses
1 through 20, let's turn there to Mark chapter 5. In our text
in Matthew, the next three descriptions of those who were healed by Christ
are these. those in torments, those possessed
with devils, and those that were lunatic. And all three of those
apply to this man, this Gadarene, in Mark chapter 5. He was tormented,
wasn't he? Let's read it together. Mark
chapter 5 and verse 1. He pictures us in our sinful
condition before God, Mark 5, 1. And they came over unto the
other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. And
when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out
of the tombs, a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling
among the tombs. And no man could bind him, not
with chains, because that he had been often bound with fetters
and chains. And the chains had been plucked
asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Neither could
any man tame him. And always, night and day, he
was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying and cutting himself
with stones. You see the torment of his soul. What a miserable wretch he was,
crying and cutting himself. But when he saw Jesus afar off,
he ran and worshiped him. and cried with a loud voice and
said, what have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou son of the
most high God? I adjure thee by God that thou
torment me not. He was so possessed. And that
was the other thing in our text, wasn't it? They were tormented,
but they were also, there were many that were possessed with
devils that came. This man was so possessed that when he opened
his mouth, it was the devil speaking and not him. Well, I've never seen that happen
before. Are you sure? Are you sure? The Lord said to
Peter, when Peter said, Lord, be that far from, you're not
going to the cross. The Lord said, get thee behind me, Satan.
Who was talking when Peter said that? And the Lord said unto him, verse
eight, come out of the man. Thou unclean spirit." How gracious
he is. How direct and to the point that
is. You see that? What needs to happen? Come out of him. Come out of
him. And he asked him, what is thy
name? And he answered saying, my name is Legion, for we are
many. And he besought him much that he would not send them away
out of the country, Now there was nine to the mountains, a
great herd of swine feeding, and all the devils besought him
saying, send us into the swine that we may enter into them.
And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. Not a devil, not a man,
not a worm moves until the Lord Jesus Christ gives them leave.
Do you realize that? Do you know who we're dealing
with? Do I? I wonder. He gave them leave. And they went out into the swine.
The herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea. And they
were about 2,000 and were choked in the sea. Verse 14, and they
that fed the swine fled and told it in the city and in the country. And they went out to see what
it was that was done. And they come to Jesus and see
him that was possessed with the devil and had the legion sitting
and clothed and in his right mind. He was tormented, he was
possessed with devils, and he was a lunatic. He was a madman
before he met Christ. But not anymore. They were astonished
that he was in his right mind. And they saw it. Do you know
what astonishes people? It's not that astonishing to
see a lunatic. It's sad, isn't it? But if you
want to astonish somebody, Show them somebody that's in their
right mind that tells the truth. Somebody that knows God, that
knows what's real, that has seen the reality of God in the person
of Christ and His work for sinners. Somebody that knows the gospel.
Somebody that, as Paul said, has the mind of Christ. When
that man speaks and acts, it'll astonish this world, this wicked
world. They were afraid. In verse 16,
they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed
with the devil, and also concerning the swine. And they began to
pray him to depart out of their coasts. When he was coming to
the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that
he might be with him. Once you've been with him, all you want is
to be with him. Howbeit Jesus suffered him not,
but saith to him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how
great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.
And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great
things Jesus had done for him, and all men did marvel. Our Lord Jesus Christ relieved
him of his torments. He didn't cry out anymore. He
didn't cut himself. He cast the devils out of him.
He gave him his right mind. Can we be like this gathering
and just simply tell what the Lord Jesus Christ has done for
us? By God's grace, let's do that. May he give me grace to
do that this morning. Because of Christ, I'm no longer
tormented I no longer labor, nor am heavy laden with a burden
of my guilt before God. That's what tormented. When the
Lord Jesus cried out, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me? We know the answer to that, don't
we? It was because our sin was on him. And that's what torments
the sinner. When the Lord turns on the light,
It's the weight of our guilt, the burden of our sin before
God and the whip of the law, the fear of God's wrath. I know
now that there's therefore now no condemnation to them which
are in Christ Jesus. I'm not crying out anymore. I'm
not cutting myself anymore. People beat themselves up, don't
they? Over a sense of their guilt. before God. Our Lord Jesus Christ
bore our guilt. He redeemed us from the curse
of the law being made a curse for us. I know that I'm sprinkled
with his sin cleansing blood and I'm free. I know that he
made peace for me between me and God with the blood of his
cross. And now I say with the psalmist, I can both lay me down
in peace and sleep. That madman was running around
in the tombs all night, crying out, no rest, in torment. But the master of the sea, when
he says, peace, be still, there's a peace which passeth all understanding
in the heart and in the soul. Because of the Lord Jesus Christ
and his righteous life as my representative, and sin atoning
sacrifice as my substitute, I'm no longer possessed with devils.
Chris, you were possessed with devils before? Yeah, you too.
And there may be somebody here that yet is. Our nature is satanic. Like Satan, we love the preeminence. Like him, we have said in our
hearts, we'll be God. We'll ascend into the throne
of the most high. Like him, we do not savor the
things that be of God. That's the reason that Christ
gave to Peter for what he said to him. Get thee behind me, Satan.
Because you don't savor the things that be of God, but the things
that be of men. That's all of us by nature. That's our nature.
It's satanic. The Lord said to the Pharisees,
you're of your father, the devil, and the lusts of your father
are what you will do. That's what I used to do, too. And that's what the flesh still
does. But Christ has overcome, and
now he rules in our hearts. In Luke 11, 19, they accused
Christ of being a devil. And here's what he said to them.
He said, if I, by Beelzebub, cast out devils, by whom do your
sons cast them out? Therefore shall they be your
judges. But if I, with the finger of God, cast out devils, the
finger of God. No doubt the kingdom of God has
come upon you. If that's what's happening here,
the kingdom has come upon you. When a strong man armed keepeth
his palace, his goods are in peace. But when a stronger than
he shall come upon him. That's what happens when the
Lord casts out the demons. Somebody stronger just came along.
When he that is stronger shall come upon him and overcome him,
he taketh from him all his armor wherein he trusted and divided
his spoils. That's what the Lord Jesus Christ
did for me. He that is stronger came and
cast out the devils of my soul, my satanic nature. And he rules
in my heart by his grace and power. Because of Christ, I,
like the Gadarene, by His grace, am sitting in clothe and bless
God in my right mind. I've been accused otherwise before.
By His grace, I'm in my right mind. I'm resting in Christ,
sitting at His feet, like Mary. By His grace, have you chosen
that good part? And I'm clothed with his righteousness.
I have on the wedding garment that he gives, that he provides,
and that gives me acceptance and access to his wedding feast. And since he granted me repentance,
my mind has changed. I've cast off my insane notions
of God being impotent and of myself being able to exercise
faith and do things spiritual. My insane notions of God being
accountable to me and needing me and trying but being unable
to do anything unless I let him. I've abandoned those false notions,
those insane whims of man. I've abandoned my insane ideas
of my own imagined goodness. Imagine a leper coming into the
presence of the king and saying, well, I'm vile and wretched and
disgusting, but I've done some good thing. I've got some good
qualities and they outweigh my bad. No, they don't. You don't
have any. First of all, even our righteousness
is there's filthy rags in the sight of God. But in my right
mind, I see my sin as Paul did exceeding sinful. But also in my right mind, by
his grace, I see how God can be just and justify a vile leopard
like me. In my right mind, I've seen no
other way but to cast myself upon his mercy and say, Lord,
if you will. That's a right mind. And that's
the miraculous power of Christ that gives that. Thy people shall
be willing in the day of thy power." Willingness to bow to
him, that's a right mind. And he healed me of the palsy.
That's the last one there in Matthew 4. There were many that
had the palsy. The original word for palsy there
is the word from which we get our word paralyzed. that had
the palsy, that one man that had the palsy that laid on the
bed. There were four that carried him. He couldn't even get around
on his own, unable to do anything effectively, unable to move,
impotent, without strength. What was it Paul said? That when
we were yet without strength in due time, Christ died. for
the ungodly. What was it that happened that
cleansed the leper? The blood. What's the remedy
for those who are without strength? The blood. Christ died for the
ungodly. By nature we have no ability
to do anything for ourselves or for God. We're palsied and
all of our members and faculties paralyzed. We still as believers
in this sinful flesh are unable to do anything meritorious. We
know that. Our merit is the Lord Jesus and
what he did before God. Meritorious just simply means
deserving of reward or praise. What have you done that deserves
anything from God except wrath? but by his grace through Christ
Jesus, we're not spiritually impotent. We're able to worship. How? Because like Lydia, he opened
our hearts. We're able by his grace to love
and serve him and not just serve ourselves. That's the power of His mercy
that does that. That's the power of His blood
that accomplishes that. By His purpose and grace, we're
His ambassadors. We can do all things through
Christ, which strengtheneth us. Thank God for the spiritual healing
that is ours, in and by Christ Jesus, the Son of God. If you're
here this morning and you have an ailment of some kind, I can't
do anything for you. If you have a physical ailment,
I might be able to recommend some kind of medicine that will
help you, if it's been my experience. I can certainly pray for you. I can't guarantee that God will
heal you. He may be pleased not to. He may not fix it. But I can tell you this, without
hesitation, And without fear, if you're spiritually sick, if you're diseased in your heart
and soul and mind, if you're a lunatic, if you're paralyzed, leprous,
and tormented, I can tell you of somebody that's promised that
if you come unto him, he will heal all your soul's diseases. That's who I've been telling
you about, the Lord Jesus Christ, the one who healed all these
physical ailments, and pictured thereby his almighty power on
earth to forgive sins. Come to him, the healer of souls,
and be made clean. Let's bow in prayer.