When Jesus Comes Over | Pastor Daniel Batarseh (Gospel of Mark Bible Study Series)

Welcome to all our visitors here.

This is your first time we bless you in the name of the Lord

Jesus. If this is home for you, welcome

home. If you are home here then you

know that we're in the gospel of Mark as a series.

But before we turn to Mark, I asked you to turn your attention

to the prophet Zechariah. I want to make a brief comment

about the atrocious event that took place in Highland Park the

massacre at the parade, where several lives were lost because

of a man who Clearly was influenced by a devil.

Had no fear of God, it just turned to Zechariah.

I'm not going to take too much time here because I can spend

this time explaining biblically. Why these things happen?

And why we're seeing what we're seeing.

But I want to give a message of Hope.

Zechariah Chapter 8. In verse 3.

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This is a prophecy of the millennial reign of Jesus

Christ. That means that we believe Jesus

Christ will return. And when he does return

physically, he will establish an Earthly Kingdom for 1,000 years.

And in that we see so many prophecies in the Bible that

give us a little window into what that world will look like.

And here is a snippet of what the millennial reign will look

like under the perfect dictatorship.

Yes, dictatorship. Of Jesus Christ.

Dictatorship. Intimidates.

Us and the reason is because we've had evil dictators, but

he's a righteous dictator and is Zechariah 8, verse 3, I want you

Zechariah 8:3

to see something. Thus, says the Lord, I have

return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem and

Jerusalem shall be called the faithful City.

And the mountain of the Lord of hosts the Holy Mountain.

Now, look at verse for thus, says the Lord of hosts all the

men and old women shall see. Again, sit in the streets of

Jerusalem, each with staff in hand, because of great age.

And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls

playing in its streets. Not wonderful.

We saw elderly people shot. In their backs, we saw children

scrambling. If you've seen any footage on,

the news children with their little bicycles and the little

lawn chairs running, not knowing what's happening.

And this prophecy tells us that when Jesus comes and he rules

and Reigns, there will be safety in our streets again.

There will be no fear of looking and wondering if something will

happen or if something will do, somebody will do something.

They will be total Serenity trust Comfort because the world

will know, Christ is King over our Earth.

And so I want you to understand that this is what we're headed

to this is what we will know one day but I want to, I want to use

this text to say If any politician is listening that if

you want this reality in America, again make Jesus

Christ, King of this nation submit to his word that you may

know, peace, like a river that you may know, righteousness that

will rule this land only until you submit to the lordship of

Jesus Christ. Or what we have seen over the

past weeks, and months, and years will only grow and

increase because you push God out.

You invite the devil in, it's plain and simple.

But I praise the Lord that when he comes even children will be

able to play in the streets again and that amazing thing

Jesus when he rose he wants kids to play, that's why I love.

Single children, run around in church sometimes.

Yeah, sometimes it makes us nervous.

We don't want to hurt themselves or do anything crazy.

But Christ himself loves the little children when they feel

free to play in his presence, turn with me to the gospel of

Mark. In chapter one, please.

Mark chapter 1. We're beginning here together in

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our Bibles and verse 29, verse 29.

Here's what the word of God says.

And immediately he being the Lord left the synagogue and

entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John.

Now, Simon's mother-in-law, I lay ill with a fever And

immediately they told him about her and he came and took her by

the hand, and lift her up, and the fever left her, and she

began to serve them that evening at sundown, they brought to him

all who were sick or oppressed by demons and the whole city was

gathered together at the door. And he healed many who were sick

with various diseases and cast out many demons.

And he would not permit the demons to speak because they

knew him. Pray with me, please.

This is your word. We Revere it, we cherish it.

And we asked by your grace that you would help us understand it.

And that Lord, everything that the Holy Spirit intended to say

through these verses would be communicated clearly in this

place. Lord, we have heard of the

authority of your son Jesus Christ, while he was on the

earth. We've heard of his anointing.

We've heard of his power. We heard that when he speaks, he

did not speak like the scribes who are void of conviction and

unction. But Lord, in this place

together, we urge and we plead with you Lord, please let us

know something of your Authority.

Let us know something of that anointing.

The anointing of the holy spirit that brings about a great force

behind Ministry. A great power that reaches

beyond the mind but touches the soul, we ask Lord as we submit

to you with great eagerness that we would know something of your

presence in our midst and we give you maximum praise and

honor through our submission to what we hear today and the

precious name of the resurrected Christ.

We pray Amen, and amen. At the end of the Gospel of

John, John leaves us with an interesting phrase, an

interesting statement after giving us the account of his

perspective of the life and Ministry of the Lord.

Jesus Christ, I'm paraphrasing. But he says something on the

long life of Jesus did many, many things, and if all the

things that were written about him, were to be recorded in

books. There would not be enough books,

not enough space to tell us every single thing that the Lord

himself had done when he was in his three-year.

And that statement is is incredible, but it's realistic

because when you and I come to this text that we just read

today, we have to understand that what we learned last week

if you were here last week and what we are about to hear today,

happened all in one day in real time.

And so you can almost say that in the morning of this sabbath

day, Jesus was casting out a double and for lunch, he was

Healing The Sick and it's as though, Mark gives us just a

glimpse on a particular day of what an average.

Average day look like for the Lord Jesus Christ.

When he walked through those streets in Jerusalem and Beyond

and that is exactly what is happening here in marks account.

What Mark is doing by the spirit is that he is Shifting.

Our Focus away from Jesus Christ.

Possessing authority over demons and unclean spirits and is now

showing us that this same. Jesus Christ has authority, over

sickness and disease. That there is nothing in the

body, no matter what the doctor report is, no matter what,

people have said, no matter who signed off on who Jesus Christ.

When he speaks even disease, not just demons have to bow to his

rebuke. And so that's what's happening.

As we come into these verses, here we are seeing the Lord

showing us that there is nothing that can resist his power and

his authority. But a passage like this that we

just read has more to offer us than just a topical study.

Of how God operates in the realm of sickness and ailment and

infirmity. We can take these Texans speak

about how do we understand God's will for suffering and for

healing and does he heal? All why doesn't he heal all?

That's true. We can touch on that, but

there's something here in Mark throughout the gospels.

That is that is important as well beyond that.

If you look at Mark, which is a great emphasis on Miracles as

you heard so many times before, with every Miracle there is a

message and the message is beyond, just the fact that it's

a declaration of the deity of Jesus Christ, that's important.

But the circumstances around the events of his healing and the

different diseases that he's dealt with the situations before

and after teach us something else.

There are there are other nuggets.

There are other Jewels there that would require Meditation.

It's okay. Lord.

What else are you saying? Beyond the fact that you have

the power to heal and that is what you.

And I will explore in a very short way, though we can expand

greatly on them of what these things here that the house and

Simon's mother-in-law and the response and the reaction.

What is that have to say for us as Believers today?

Beyond the fact that Christ is Sovereign over sickness and we

will endeavor to do that by understanding three simple

points. We're going to organize our

thoughts here and three simple ways.

The first One is, we are going to consider the residence of the

healing. The residents of the healing,

where did this healing take place?

Why is that important? What does that say to us?

Secondly, we will explore the request for the healing.

How was it? How was it asked for what's

there for us to understand in terms of how Christ liens and

listens to the way we request something from him.

And lastly you and I will also see you get the, you get the

point here. The third arm, sure, the

response to the healing, the reaction to the healing.

The residents of the healing, we read here in verse 29, that

immediately he being Jesus left, the synagogue and enter the

house of Simon. And Andrew remember Jesus called

a pair of brothers to follow him.

They did, they surrendered everything.

Then we're told by Mark, that Jesus goes into Capernaum, and

he stands in a synagogue and he speaks with authority and a

demon manifest in the middle of his preaching.

And with one simple word, this, this man possessed with a devil

Falls and is rescued and his say Eat from that oppression and you

see that Simon and his brother James and his brother.

They see this. They witness they were in

attendance of that particular service and this this obviously

moved their heart to see this is unlike anybody else that we have

met and so after church so to speak that day, they invite

Jesus. They invite Jesus to come over

to be in their home, namely Peter and Andrew.

And we see here that Jesus is a type of servant through that.

I love this. You look at it through Jesus

perspective and you see the kind of Minister that he was.

You see when Jesus preached in that synagogue, it was a very

public thing. It was a spectacle and I had

such an effect that when you look at verse 28 very quickly,

what you will see is that his Fame spread everywhere

throughout all the surrounding region of Galilee.

He did something very, very known and it became even more

known. But I love the Lord Jesus in

this because when he was asked to come to a home, he gladly

went to that home When he was about to be asked to serve

within a Galilean house, he was willing to serve within that

Galilean home. In other words, the

demonstration of Jesus compassion was not limited or

strictly reserved for large platforms.

His Spirit empowered Ministry was ready to be exercised

wherever the opportunity presented itself.

And so if Christ was on the hilltops where you saw a sea of

people and he could have just with one word so multiplication

of food, he would do it out of compassion, but when a family

would invite him over to his house and the only audience can

be counted on one hand, he was still with the same compassion

and eagerness willing to bless that family and blessed that

household. What we see here is just another

example of the the awesome humility of Jesus.

This is not a man who is moved by honorariums how much you can

give him, what kind of what kind of press he would get, who knew

what he was doing. He served with the same Vigor,

the same Zeal, whether people saw him or they didn't see him.

And we see that his compassion for people was the same

privately as it was publicly. And this is our example, Jesus

is your example, if you long to serve the Lord know that this is

your, your example to look too. Shouldn't we be just As

passionate about serving and honoring the father.

In private. If nobody's willing to even

witness our sacrifice, are we still willing to sacrifice?

Are we content and honoring God, regardless of whether crowds

hear about it or not, this is the perfect servant capital P

Capital as perfect. Servant who not only gave

himself when he was invited to synagogues or he was invited to

the homes of a Pharisees or a regularly held worship service.

This was a man ready to demonstrate the character and

the nature of God and all places and all times and may, we be by

his grace like But I like to see this verse from the perspective

of Peter and his brother Andrew. Yes, Jesus was a humble servant,

but look at these two brothers here.

After the meaning of the synagogue, we see that they,

they didn't, they didn't want Jesus to be encountered just at

the synagogue. They want to take Jesus home.

They wanted to know more, they want to no greater blessing and

so they called Jesus over to their home.

And that's an incredible thing to see because unfortunately

what you have as many people who attend their local church, maybe

even regularly to worship Christ or at least in the name of

worshiping Christ and hope. That's not you today.

And they're content with that only to dismiss Christ and leave

him at the church that they were just on.

That nominal kind of faith. There's an only robbed God of

Glory. It will definitely rob you and

strip. You a blessing.

I mean, look at these eager disciples and learn from them.

The testimonies that await The life that awaits, that could be

known when we intentionally and mindfully, practice.

Our faith beyond the walls that you.

And I are in right now. When we say Lord, I'm not just

coming here to visit you for a couple of hours.

Would you come home with me? Would you come home with me?

I'm about to shock you with a statement, but brace yourselves.

We don't come here to worship God.

Take a breath. We come here to worship god with

God's people. You and I worship God, we should

at least throughout the week. We should love him.

Adore him pursue him. Be mindful of him.

And when we come here once a week, we do it with other people

who also have been doing that throughout the week.

That's what it should be. And these men here, they want

Christ to come, they don't want to just thank you Lord, for the

service that was powerful and then just walk out.

Not thinking about I'm not engaging him.

Seeking him, not obeying him not being mindful of him, not

practicing his presence only to come to the synagogue and

hopefully, Jesus will be there again.

That is not the Christian Life. That is a defeated life.

That is a less than ideal. That is not the standard for

you. And I and you see this principle

throughout the scripture that whenever cries whenever God is

intentionally invited and to any setting there is always blessing

consider John Chapter 2, a family wisely invited Jesus to

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their wedding, that's a wonderful thing.

We almost have these events and things in our minds where we

say, okay, this is sacred, this is not, this is religious and

this is not, that is foreign to standard.

Christianity Christ goes, wherever you go.

If he lives in you then he goes where you go.

And so don't be ashamed, right? Don't be ashamed of his name

wherever you are. Whether it's celebratory or its

somber Christ is with us and Christ longs to be with us.

Let me give you an example of this in the Old Testament.

Cement at one point in Israel's history, the symbol of God's

presence which was known as the Ark of the Covenant was missing.

The Philistines took it and they brought it to their land, bad

idea, God began to curse them, so they send it back to the

nation and there is no sacred place where the ark should be.

And so it was kind of hopping around in different places and

at one point it laid in the home of a man named, I've been a dad.

And it stayed that have been in that house for 20 years,

finally, David becomes king and one of the first assignments

that comes to David's mind because he longed for God's

presence, he said we need to go back and we need to get that Arc

and we need to bring it back to the city of worship where he

belongs. And so they make this whole

campaign where they go and they fetch for this Arc and is a

whole sermon on that by itself because they did it in the wrong

way. Eventually, because they didn't

do it. According to the protocol of

God's word. God, judges them.

David is afraid and angry at the same time and he goes, I can't

handle it. This is how holy God is.

I got to retract your and rethink this whole thing.

So he sends the ark to the man named obed-edom.

And here's what God's word says, the moment.

The Arcane to this man's house. And second, Samuel 611 and the

Ark of the Lord remain in the house of obededom, the gittite

three months and the Lord blessed obededom, and all his

household. The blessing of God's presence

being in that man's home was so obvious that Outsiders

recognized it, they were able to see it.

So much so that word gets to King David and verse 12 and he

says, let's get it. I want that, I want the

blessings that obededom is experiencing from my life and

for the nation's life. And so he goes and he does it

according to God's word this time, but I find so amazing.

Is that when the ark was an abinadab, his house.

There is no mention that that there was blessing there for 20

years, you don't get one verse one hint that have been in two

halves household was being over overwhelmed with God's blessing.

It's silent. In fact, one of his sons died

for irreverently touching the ark when he shouldn't have, but

for three months, obededom experiences, a shower of grace.

And the only explanation that comes to mind is that Shirley

obed-edom practiced and walked and lived with an awareness of

the presence of God in his home. Unlike a better dad, abinadab in

his sons had an irreverence and I think part of the irreverence

is part of the irreverence that you see, a lot of people who

grow up in the church, They become so comfortable with the

presence of God, with the name of Jesus, with his word that

they are. Able to handle it.

In a way that actually violates the word of God for 20 years,

they grew up with the presence of God and what happens, you

have kids and God forbid, that it would be true here who grow

up and because I'm sure it came from their father who did not

know how to reverently act around the presence of God.

It translated to the children. Perhaps we're now they were

judge instead of blessed, but obededom, I'm sure he had this

Ark and God saw his heart pross. Sure, a man who intentionally

lived with the knowledge that God is in my home.

God is with us at dinner, God is with us at Family Vacation.

God is with us. When guests come over the Lord

saw, his heart, Pasha and blessed him.

And bless them and bless them and bless them.

In the Old Testament, the emphasis of blessing is

physical. The number of children, you have

the wealth that you have the crops that you have in the New

Testament. It's spiritual And you and I

have an opportunity to. So live with an awareness of

Christ in our day-to-day living, that people can actually see

there's a piece in your home. There's a joy in your life.

There is a Harmony amongst yourselves and maybe that are

answered because Christ lives. Here, he doesn't live in some

guest room. He has the deed of this home.

He is the one who is the king of this house.

And so, you see example, after example, of the times, when

people make an intentional effort to say, Lord you are

here, we will obey you. We will walk in the fear of your

presence and reverence to your name that God cannot help but

overwhelm them with his Blessing.

And so we see that here, so, here's my question to you before

you move on, And love. I asked this in my desire for

you to know great joy in life in your walk with Christ, this

Christ abide with you, Or do you just visit him once a week?

Come on, be honest. Please be honest, this Christ

live with you. Or do you just visit him and

maybe once a year? You skip a year or two?

You go on vacation with Jesus at a conference.

Does he live with you? You alone can answer that and if

you're not sure, I beckon you to ask him to come home with you

today and that you would live with him day after day that you

wake up with him, that you go to sleep with him and your mind in

Christ will bless you. I'm sure the residents of the

healing consider. Now, the request for the

healing. We see here in verse 30 now.

Simon's mother-in-law I lay ill with a fever and immediately

they told him about her, Mark loves that word immediately.

Lee and we see here that Peter and Andrew with his, their

friends come over, they're aware of the condition of Peter's

mother-in-law. And after they come from the

service in the synagogue, these men had a strong faith.

Obviously, what they just perceive to bring Christ to a

situation that was also beyond their control.

Therefore, Peter and the rest here, immediately came to the

house and they immediately told the rabbi about a loved one's

need for relief. And if we were encouraged by the

fact that Peter and Andrew brought Jesus to their home, be

further encouraged by the manner of their supplication.

They told them about their precious, loved one, when, if

immediately not later, not next week, immediately, there was no

hesitation on their part. There were not reluctant there

reflex by being in the presence of a great need was to bring it

before a great God. And we see here that for many

professing Believers, the relationship between a need a

real need and that causing of faith-filled.

Cry is either an afterthought or non-existent all together.

Why is it that there's so many delays and on our laying of our

requests down before the feet of the master?

Why is it that we don't think about him as our Shepherd, as

the first person to call tuned to ask for to intervene with his

wisdom and his power. Why is it that we sense

confusion? Or we feel lost or we feel

hopeless or in danger that we do not, we do not immediately turn

to the Lord and our hearts, Underneath our breath, maybe

even desperately coming before him on your knees, as you close

your bedroom door and say, Lord, you need to come and you need to

help. I'll give you two reasons.

I believe. Number one, many believers, do

not comprehend the capability of Christ.

They don't comprehend the capability of Christ.

Could it be that the faith of these men was fueled by the fact

that they just saw him speak to a man filled with the devil and

that devil immediately had to leave?

And they said this, this is something, this is something?

Do you think he can heal, mom? Do you think he can call that

fever to come out the same way? He called that demon to come out

and they had this image so fresh in their minds that they brought

the Lord, and they informed them of a personal challenge that

they could not control. And I believe the reason, So

many Christians do not pray much, it's because they have a

small view of God. A little view of God.

He's the source of everything that we have and he is able to

provide everything that we need everything.

There's not one Avenue want, not one area in life that Christ is

I don't know if I can help you. There every aspect he has a

remedy for every situation, he has a solution for.

So let me ask you. This are any of you suffering

today this afternoon from a broken heart, a broken heart.

I'm not talking about a broken arm.

I'm talking about a crushed Spirit.

I'm talking Emotional distress. I'm talking about something that

is so profound that you wish you would had a broken arm instead

that can be true. Here's what I say to you.

According to Psalms 147 verse 3, he heals the Brokenhearted.

Psalms 147:3

And he binds up their wounds. He doesn't just heal bodies.

He heals hearts. He doesn't just put skin

together. He doesn't just put fresh power

and legs that couldn't walk for years together.

He's able to breathe life into your soul where you can know a

joy again and you can know something of a satisfaction

beyond the fact that you are being distressed by something

that is lacking. Do any of you need wisdom as you

endure trial. Well, James 1:5 says if any of

James 1:5

you lacks wisdom let him ask of God, ask God.

Who gives generously to all without reproach and will be

given him. this fear harassed you this anxiety attack you

constantly And that precious verse in Philippians 4, 6 & 7

verse 7 says, and the peace of God, which surpasses all

understanding will guard your hearts.

That's your emotional state, your hearts and your minds.

That's your thought process. He will guard both of those

things in Christ. Jesus.

What's the diagnosis? He has the Cure.

What's the problem? He has a prescription.

So why is it that we hesitate? I believe it's.

It's because we don't know the capability of Christ.

We don't know how much he is able to zoom in on a particular,

in a particular situation and deal with it accordingly with

surgical precision. People do not comprehend the

capability of Christ. And secondly, they don't realize

the compassion of Christ. They don't realize the

compassion of Christ. I can't help but think that

these disciples not only learn something of the power of Jesus.

I believe they tasted something of his tenderness.

I believe they walk with him, though.

It was brief up to this point, but they caught on very quickly

that this Jesus does not serve people under compulsion, he

chooses with compassion. I when you look at him in the

eyes and when you see the way he handles people, you cannot help

but think that he genuinely loves those that he serves.

And so, they did not hesitate to bring this person.

Their mother-in-law who was Ill who is sick, because they knew

that this was not cause Christ to sigh, but like a great

physician, he would be moved in the innermost parts of who he

was to provide some kind of healing.

Is it good? Doctor have a patient come in

ago. Another 10K, come here, do this?

No, they love what they do, and yes, they have bad days but

Christ does not have bad days. He is perfectly loving and we

see here that they believe that to some degree and Jesus is

willing to move quickly upon our needs though.

He does know as a great physician would went to allow

for painful resistance to remain knowing that it will produce a

greater strength and maturity as a result.

That's why Jesus doesn't answer every single prayer, every

single time because sometimes the best thing is, for that,

burden to stay there. Guess what?

Because he put it there. I bring this point I because you

have many people who have this thought this false impression

that God is just too big to care about the little things.

You know what I love about this, there's a debate about what the

fever was. How intense was?

It was, it was it a deadly fever with it, just a mild fever.

I was enough for this person, not to be able to move, but when

we hear fever in comparison to the dead being raised and in

comparison to the blind seeing in the deaf hearing for the

first time, I mean, if we had a scale of sickness, this isn't

seem that big of a deal but it is to the Lord He cares.

He cares about the little things.

He cares about the things that hinder us, even at a small

percentage and the Lord shows up here and he wants to prove that

he actually does have this deep longing for us to be whole for

us to know something of his touch.

And so this idea that God is too distant, and he only cares about

like, big things in our lives is false.

It's absolutely false. And what's amazing?

I was having this conversation with a couple of Brothers last

night is when you look at mark from the cover of it and the

start to the finish, what you will see is Jesus ministering

often with his hands with his hands over and over.

You see several times the Lord using his hands too.

Watch those who are in need of that touch.

Let me ask you a question, you have to answer it audibly and I

hope we can all agree with this. Cannot the Lord Heal any disease

or casts out. Any Devil by just his word.

We've seen a more than one occasion where he's just sends

his word. He doesn't need to even be in

the same space as the person who is suffering for them to be

relieved and rescued. And yet what you see in the

Bible is that Jesus intentionally comes close to

people and he holds them by the hand or he lays his hand

wondering Why would the Holy Spirit?

Show us that? Let me prove it to you first.

You have your Bibles right? Good Mark chapter 1 we read it.

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Verse 31, and he came and took her by the hand.

Scroll down to verse 41, here's a man with leprosy Moved with

pity, he stretched out his hand and touched them.

A leper and said to him, I will be clean.

Go to Mark, chapter 5 verse 41, Mark 5:41.

Mark 5:41 Mark 5:41

Taking her, by what the hand, he sets her Talent Akuma, which

means little girl, I say to you arise, Mark, 8, chapter 23, and

there are other places, but I'm just coming to just a few of

them Mark 8:23. And he took the blind man by

Mark 8:23

what by the hand and led him out of the village.

And when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he

asked, do you see anything by the hand, by The Hand, by the

hand? Why, why does it matter for one

simple reason? His touch would communicate that

he is not only able to heal, but he was deeply willing to be

involved. The hand of God willing to be

near a variety of fragmented lives.

Shows us that he is willing to be near not in a compromising

way. But in a way in which He is

wanting to make us whole regardless of how broken we are.

So why hesitate to come broken before the Lord when he is eager

to embrace you in that state of Brokenness?

Why hesitate to come with your concern?

When he launched to put the pieces together, this is Christ.

We should not hesitate. We should not be reluctant for

one simple reason. Through this action alone, we

see that he is showing us that he's ready to be near hand in

hand. If you will, here's what

Spurgeon said, quote, make a practice Spurgeon said, make a

practice of telling the Lord all about your family concerns,

bring sicknesses and other troubles to your best friend.

Do it at family prayer but do it also at your bedside alone.

If Jesus has come to stay with you .1, bring them home.

If Jesus has come to stay with you, he will not hold himself

aloof. From your anxieties.

He comes with his great sympathetic, heart to be

afflicted in your afflictions and quote.

Mark, here wants us to see the faith of these men by saying

immediately, Lord, hears our mom would you do something with her?

Please. We saw what you did in that

synagogue. You can surely do something

here, but I love what Matthew does.

He tells the same story, but he puts a different emphasis and I

want you to see it because it will encourage you to do

something that we call people. The practice, read your Bible

slowly. Matthew chapter 8, verse 14.

Matthew 8:14

Look at this in your Bibles and it's so comforting.

When you realize the detail that he adds to the scene, Matthew

Matthew 8:14

8:14, the same story. Same Miracles, same Jesus,

different emphasis. And when Jesus entered Peter's

house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever.

Matthew doesn't mention the faith of these men, Matthew

doesn't mention their prayer. He doesn't mention their

request, the focus turns to Jesus that when he enters into

that same house, he himself sees the Mother-in-law who is sick,

and then acts accordingly Mark. He was told he was asked and

then he moved upon their faith. Matthew, he saw it and he did

something about it. Teaching us what?

That in Matthew, we learn Christ is already aware of the

situation that you need to be answered.

He already recognized that he already sees it, he's already

there with the problem in mind completely mindful of you as you

deal with it. And that comforts me because as

I come before the Lord and pray, I'm not asking about something

that he is not aware of. He's already there, he already

perceives it. He's already calculated, he's

actually there. He sees it.

Well, then if he sees it, why doesn't he just do something

about it? Well, Mark tells us because he

moves by faith, your faith, and he awaits for you to call upon

him. He waits for you to seek him, to

honor him with that request. So that he can move and bring

glory to him. Through that prayer, being

answered. But I love to know that the Lord

sees it because even though I pray about something because I'm

not going to use a text like this and say, everything you

pray for, Jesus will immediately answer, but I can be comforted

when I come to Matthew to see that even though he doesn't

answer it immediately, at least he's aware of it, and if he

doesn't answer it, then it means that he knows that it's best to

delay. It.

And I rejoice in the Lord because of that, we see the

request of the healing last. So, we come to the response

after the healing. Let's go back.

Mark together as we close on a moment.

In Mark, chapter 1 verse 31. And he came and took her by the

Mark 1:31

hand and lifted her up and the fever left her and she began to

serve them. You see the reaction of the

woman? Humble domestic service was the

response of the woman. After she received fresh

strength, she got up and she saw Christ, and she realized the

healing came from his hand. And she said, I want to serve my

healer. And so she begins to do so and I

believe that the reaction should be no less for those who have

experienced way more than healing from a fever.

She was raised from her sick bed.

You know what you were raised from the dead spiritual death

and you were raised into New Life.

How much more should we be willing to immediately?

Say Lord, you've touched my heart.

Now, I want to serve you from the same heart.

You are worthy of my life being surrendered, for your service,

whatever it is. And in the case of this woman,

like a good middle eastern Mom. I'm sure the service had to do

something with food. What else do you do in the home?

Hosting people here. She begins to host, she begins

to show honor and glory to the one that touched her.

And I find it very difficult for people who claim that Jesus

transform their hearts while showing no evidence of service

to him. How?

That would be like this woman being healed.

You getting up and leaving the house immediately to go about

your own affairs. It seems also almost insulting

there's an it. When you hear it that way.

And yet you have so many people who claim.

Yeah. Jesus he's my, he's my Lord and

He transformed my life. I when And they just there's no

evidence of service. There's no evidence of

gratitude, there's no evidence of Lord.

Here's my life, here's an aspect of my life that when I dedicate

to you in a particular Ministry but here's my whole life.

For what you have done. But what I find amazing here is

that Peters mother-in-law did not only direct her service to

Christ. She ministered to his followers

as well. What does it say?

She began to serve them. Not just the Lord them his

followers, his disciples she spread out a banquet and how

you? And I love and serve the body of

Christ is a major indication of what Christ has done in you.

And who Christ is to you? She served them.

And for those who are discouraged because they think

that they cannot serve Christ unless it's in a particular way,

realize that this woman serve Jesus in her home.

The very same place where she slept every night, the same

place, where she cleaned the same place where she had many

responsibilities is a very same place where Jesus Christ was

served. And glorified.

And I think that is an encouragement to many people who

feel limited, because they have a desire, great desire to do

great things, but they feel like their life is at home, mom's pay

attention future, mom's pay attention.

Jesus can be served at home. He can be blessed at home.

He can be pleased at home. And I want you to see that these

disciples also were blessed at the home of these men.

And Peter's family was Pious, indeed, Peter invited Christ to

the house and his mother-in-law hosted Christ in that same house

and what became of this home as seem to be just an average home

in the streets of Capernaum. Look at verse 33 and the whole

city was gathered together at the door.

Imagine that one day, you've a handful of people and it within

a few hours you have the city at your door, lined up to meet with

the Jesus. That is at that house.

I'm not saying that will happen every single time but there is

no knowing listen. What can happen to a person who

says Lord even my home is yours, Even where I live.

Is yours, my resources are yours, whatever it is that you,

you asking me belongs to you, there will be no telling what

Christ will do. As a result of that.

For some it will look like hosting disciples from time to

time with good Middle Eastern food.

For others. It may be using that home and

blessing. Ministers who are out there

serving on the streets serving in the synagogue's, I am a

recipient of many people who have said, I'm sending something

to your house. It's at the front door, I hope

you enjoy it and you know who you are.

I say thank you from this Pulpit because that has helped me study

more that has helped me Council more and your services unto

Christ for others. It may look like you being at

the synagogue regularly and teach It may be like the

disciples going out into the streets, going out into the

city's, to preach, whatever it is, that it looks like Christ is

worthy to be served wherever his Providence places us.

And in this case, this Highbridge Galilean home with no

Revival in their living room, And that excites me and not

shows me that you have no idea what awaits when you take this

thing beyond the meeting. Please do that.

I'll end with a story when I was in college, I moved into an

apartment after I first got saved.

A my roommate was a Christian first Christian roommate, he's

from The Young Adult Ministry that we were part of that was

not too far from our church. And so we began to move in and

we began to ask what we needed to purchase and all that.

And finally, it came down to the living room.

Some of, you know, this story, some of you don't I hope it

encourages you. And so we were there in the

living room and he looked at me. He says, well I think we need to

get a TV. What do you think?

And I looked at him, I said, I don't know.

Why don't we not? Let's do something.

This is what we stood there. In the empty living room.

We looked at each Isis. Why don't we why don't we pray

and dedicate this living room to the Lord?

And he did not even hesitate. He says listen to it.

So he grabs my hand this and we put our foreheads against one

another. This is the first time for me,

but I went with it. And there was an earnestness in

that prayer. Lord.

This living room is yours. Not very big, not much.

We're going to leave it empty for you, do as you please.

Within a few weeks. We had a regular meeting in our

apartment. We weren't too far from the

college. We weren't too far from the

downtown area of Toronto. And five people came and we

worshipped in that living room. We read our Bibles.

We would go into the college campus and witness a few weeks.

Came 15 people few weeks came 20 people it became a meeting of 50

people on a regular basis. And Not only was there.

No room for a TV. We didn't even use the TV.

We had one, we had to get rid of our couches.

And our living room was filled with foldable black chairs.

That's all look like. So if you walked into the

apartment you would just see black chairs stacked up in the

living room with nothing else because we reserve that space

for those meetings we would pray on Friday night, go out on

Saturday. And that prayer that we prayed

didn't come to mind, but when we were leaving that apartment, we

didn't have much to move out. It dawned on me, he heard that

prayer. He heard that prayer and he

filled it with people. And it was an easy all the time,

it wasn't because we would have people sleep over a lot to go to

church on Sunday morning. We didn't have space.

We have to serve people, we have people would come late, people

would all these different things.

People would stay late to be prayed for and all these things,

and it's just like this. I mean, you see these people

coming to the front door as a much of that.

That's a blessing, there's natural burdens that come with

that. So worth it.

So worth it. Am I saying if you leave here

tonight and you go to your living room, put your head on

somebody else's head and you pray They have to get rid of

your furniture. And your, I'm not saying that

I'm just giving you one real example. but if you really

sanctify, it unto the Lord, He might blow your mind.

And he is faithful. Bring Jesus home.

And watch what he'll do with it. Let's pray.

We thank you for this this study.

In a few verses. That has shown your Supremacy

over sickness. You can still heal today.

But thank you for the lessons underneath.

Lori ask. That with the difficulties of

different scenarios even from this church where you have one

spouse, who's a believer? And the other is not.

Or you have one sibling who's a Believer.

And the others are not. Whatever the situation may be

Lord. We just ask that on the

individual basis, you would be more real in our day-to-day

lives. And that whether or not a spouse

wants Christ in that home or the children want Christ in that

home. Your word tells us in First

Corinthians 7, that when a believing spouse remains in the

house of an unbelieving spouse, they are sanctified.

And those children are made holy because of the presence of that

believer in that house. We asked for that Christ would

be more real even in the homes where there is not a unanimous

decision for Christ to be in that home.

And Lord, we just ask that you would have your way Beyond these

meetings, but that Lord, they would be testimonies in our

living rooms. In our kitchens and our

conversations over dinner. And Lord, we just pray that you

would be magnified. And that you would be glorified.

Where we sleep, and where we eat, and where we have memories

and where we celebrate Christmas and Easter Lord be there.

Today, we make a conscious decision that as we leave this

place, you will come with us. You'll be worshipped and praise.

And lugged where we do life, you are the author of life.

We give you praise in Jesus name.

Amen. Can we stand and Worship the

Lord together?