Victory Life KY

Commissioned V

Episode Summary

What is the Christians final authority of truth? So if we go strictly according to scripture, what’s it teach us concerning teaching, preaching, and healing?

Episode Notes

• Commissioned- Entrusting someone with supervisory authority for a specific action.

• Matthew 28, MSG,CEV- God authorized and commanded me to commission you: Go out and train everyone you meet in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and teach them to do everything I have told you.

• As a disciple, at what point do we embrace the fact that everything Jesus told His first disciples is just as much a reality for us today.

• When you’re open to His guidance, never underestimate what He'll do through you. So don't underestimate yourself.

• Here’s something we all need to take a closer look at as part of His body here and now; because the minute Jesus started His ministry, He stared with teaching, preaching, and healing.

• And when He’s commissioning His first disciples, He tells them to train everyone they meet to do everything He told them.
• And one of the first things He shows His disciples is teaching, preaching, and healing.

• But as we look at today’s church, we’re good at teaching and preaching the gospel of the Kingdom today, but what’s up with the healing part?

• Did Jesus change His mind? Did He change His will? Is healing just for certain people? Did God give the modern day church doctors to replace His power? Was it just for the early church? Did it go away with the last apostle? Was it just to prove who Jesus was?

• What is the Christians final authority of truth? So if we go strictly according to scripture, what’s it teach us concerning teaching, preaching, and healing?

• So why would He train His first disciples to live and minister a certain way,
• Then command them to train everyone they discipled to live the same way,
• Then He move back to Heaven and expect us to live a different way and not even say anything about it to His closest followers, not to mention something in His Word?

• Now as with everything pertaining to Jesus and His Kingdom, faith is the constant.

• Matthew 8:1-3,NKJV- When He had come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed Him. And behold, a leper came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” Then Jesus put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I AM WILLING; be cleansed.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

• Matthew 8:7,NKJV- Jesus told the centurion, “I WILL come and heal him.”

• We’ve got to understand that repeatedly God reminds us that He shows favoritism or partiality to no one. The scripture also makes it clear that Jesus and His word doesn’t change.

• Matthew 8:14-17,NKJV- Now when Jesus had come into Peter’s house, He saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever. 
• So He touched her hand, and the fever left her. And she arose and served them. 
• When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, 
• that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: He Himself took our infirmities And bore our sicknesses.

• Remember, we’ve been commissioned, entrusted with supervisory authority for a specific action.

• And that action is to go and make disciples, teaching them to observe all things Jesus told them. So does that include healing?

• When we follow the life of Jesus, why do you think He healed everywhere He went?

• John 6:38,NKJV- For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

• He even said, "if you've seen Me, you've seen the Father."

• And according to the leper and the centurion, Jesus said, “I am willing”
• And God repeatedly lets us know in His word that He shows favoritism or partiality to no one. Not to mention the fact that neither Jesus or His word change.

• This assignment isn’t just about telling people that Jesus offers humanity eternal life, it’s creating disciples that openly acknowledges our allegiance and reliance to Christ.

• I think it’s important we have talks like this because there are so many different views on the life and ministry of Jesus, especially healing, unfortunately to the degree that we leave it out of the gospel message.

• Matthew 8:13, Jesus tells the centurion, “As you have believed, so let it be down for you.”

• Remember, Jesus told us, "if you've seen Me, you've seen the Father." So the whole if it be God’s will thing is out.

• I believe that everything Jesus did with His life here was not only pointing to what He was about to accomplish for all on the cross, but showing what humanity, anointed by the Holy Spirit is supposed to look like.

• Remember Matthew, You go and teachthem to do everything I have told you.

• Matthew 8:23-26,NKJV- Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed Him. 
• And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves. But He was asleep. 
• Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!” 
• But He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

• Then they land in the region of the Gadarenes and some demon possessed men met Jesus and said, “have you come to torture us before our time?”

• In Matthew 9, Jesus goes back to His home town and right away, guess what’s the first thing He does? I like Marks version of this passage.

• Mark 2:1-12,NKJV-  And again He entered Capernaum after some days, and it was heard that He was in the house. 
• Immediately many gathered together, so that there was no longer room to receive them, not even near the door. And He preached the word to them.
• Then they came to Him, bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men. 
• And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying. 
• When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.” 
• And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, 
• “Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God alone?” 
• But immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, He said to them, “Why do you reason about these things in your hearts? 
• Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘ Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk’? 
• But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins” —He said to the paralytic, 
• “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.” 
• Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”

• Then He calls Matthew to be a disciple and immediately goes to hang out with Matthew’s sinner friends, where He makes this radical statement from the prophet Hosea in v.13, “But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

• Matthew 9:17 Jairus comes to Jesus about his daughter and is interrupted by the women with the issue of blood.

• Once again Mark gives us much more detail. Jesus tells Jairus, “Don’t be afraid, only believe.”

• v.29, He tells two blind men, “According to your faith, let it be done to you.”

• Matthew 9:35-38,NLT-  Jesus traveled through all the towns and villages of that area, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom. And he healed every kind of disease and illness. 
• When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. He said to his disciples, “The harvest is great, but the workers are few. 
• So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send more workers into his fields.”

• Matthew 10:1,NKJV-  And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease.

• v.7-10,“And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ 
• Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give. 
• Provide neither gold nor silver nor copper in your money belts, 
• nor bag for your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staffs; for a worker is worthy of his food.”

• He warns them of persecution, He also tells them they’ll be brought before kings as a testimony.
• v.26, It’s enough that a disciple be like his teacher. Then he says whatever I tell you in the in the dark, speak in the light and preach from the housetop.
• Don’t be afraid, I know the number of hairs on your head.

• 10:37-40, “He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. 
• And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. 
• He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it. 
• He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”

• In chapter 11, John the Baptist asked if Jesus was the Christ or do we look for another? 

• v.4-5, “Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John the things which you hear and see: The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them.”

• v.11, “Assuredly, I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen one greater than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.” 

• v.28-30, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 
• Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 
• For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

• The legalistic, religious system of that day was a severe burden, but Jesus is introducing a brand new way of living.

• Matthew 12:7-14,NKJV- But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. 
• v.8, For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.” 
• v.9, Now when He had departed from there, He went into their synagogue. 
• v.10, And behold, there was a man who had a withered hand. And they asked Him, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—that they might accuse Him. 
• v.11, Then He said to them, “What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out? 
• v.12, Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.” 
• v.13, Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and it was restored as whole as the other. 
• v.14, Then the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him.

• Later in the chapter Jesus is still teaching about the Kingdom and He says that any kingdom divided against itself cannot stand.

• v.31-32,“Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. 
• Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.”

• A tree is know by its fruit. This is a heart thing. Remember, from the abundance of the heart... this is why v.37 tells us that by our words we will either be condemned of justified.