"Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me"

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 “As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him.  And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her.  She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. “Who touched me?” Jesus asked.   When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the people are crowding and pressing against you.”  But Jesus said, “Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me.”   [Luke 8:42-46]

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 "Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me"

In the crowd was a timid, yet desperate woman, who had been afflicted with a flow of blood for twelve years. Luke the physician admits that she had spent all her life-savings and her income on physicians without getting any help. Mark in his gospel adds that she actually got worse.

She sensed that there was power in Jesus to heal her, so she eased her way through the crowd to where He was. Stooping down, she touched the border of His garment, the hem or fringe that formed the lower border of a Jew’s robe. Immediately the blood stopped flowing and she was completely cured. She tried to steal away quietly, but her escape was blocked by a question from Jesus, “Who touched Me?” Peter and the other disciples thought that this was a silly question; all kinds of people were shoving, pushing, and touching Him!

But Jesus recognized a touch that was different. As someone has said, “The flesh throngs, but faith touches.” He knew that faith had touched Him, because He sensed an outflow of power—the power to heal the woman. He perceived that power had gone forth from Him. Not, of course, that He was any less powerful than He had been before, but simply that it cost Him something to heal.  The woman came trembling before Him and gave an apologetic explanation of why she had touched Him, and a grateful testimony of what had happened. Her public confession was rewarded with a public commendation of her faith by Jesus.

No one ever touches Jesus by faith without His knowing it, and without receiving a blessing. No one ever confesses Him openly without being strengthened in assurance of salvation.

Do you want to touch Him in prayer by faith? Do you want to be healed?  Do you touch Him as a Savior, who can give you eternal life?


She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak

"Who touched me?" 

 “Who touched me?” Jesus asked.  When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the people are crowding and pressing against you.”

But Jesus said, “Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me.”

Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed.  Then he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.”  [2 Kings 5:13-14]

Naaman dipped himself seven times in Jordan

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 “Naaman was the commander of the Syrian army. The LORD had helped him and his troops defeat their enemies, so the king of Syria respected Naaman very much. Naaman was a brave soldier, but he had leprosy. One day while the Syrian troops were raiding Israel, they captured a girl, and she became a servant of Naaman's wife. Some time later the girl said, "If your husband Naaman would go to the prophet in Samaria, he would be cured of his leprosy.”   [2 Kings 5:1-3]

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 "I am sending Naaman to you. Would you cure him of his leprosy?"

When Naaman told the king what the girl had said, the king replied, "Go ahead! I will give you a letter to take to the king of Israel."

   Naaman....carried the letter to the king of Israel. It said, "I am sending my servant Naaman to you. Would you cure him of his leprosy?"

    When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes in fear and shouted, "That Syrian king believes I can cure this man of leprosy! Does he think I'm God with power over life and death? He must be trying to pick a fight with me."

    As soon as Elisha the prophet  heard what had happened, he sent the Israelite king this message: "Why are you so afraid? Send the man to me, so that he will know there is a prophet in Israel." Naaman left with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elisha's house. Elisha sent someone outside to say to him, "Go wash seven times in the Jordan River. Then you'll be completely cured."

    But Naaman stormed off, grumbling, "Why couldn't he come out and talk to me? I thought for sure he would stand in front of me and pray to the LORD his God, then wave his hand over my skin and cure me. What about the Abana River  or the Pharpar River? Those rivers in Damascus are just as good as any river in Israel. I could have washed in them and been cured."

   But one of Naaman’s servants was brave enough to remind him that he had come for a miracle. Miracles are not about our status or about what we deserve. They are not about elaborate ritual or magical waters.  Miracles come from a God who is greater than his creation. The simplicity of Elisha’s instructions is what made them beautiful. They showed Naaman the God of Israel heals, and not rituals, rivers, or prophets.

  When we need God to work in our lives, there’s no need for elaborate solutions, only the willingness to see God work in his own way.


Naaman dipped himself in the river Jordan and cured

    

Naaman dipped himself seven times in Jordan

 His servants went over to him and said, "Sir, if the prophet had told you to do something difficult, you would have done it. So why don't you do what he said? Go wash and be cured."

    Naaman walked down to the Jordan; he waded out into the water and stooped down in it seven times, just as Elisha had told him. Right away, he was cured, and his skin became as smooth as a child's. [2 Kings 5:13-14]

JOHN 3:16 - Tim Tebow

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 “Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.  For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”   [John 3:15-17]

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 John 3:16

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. "

Nowadays, the inscription John 3:16 sometimes decorates athlete’s eye black strips or bedecks signs held up by exuberant people on street corners. But what is so significant about this Bible verse that we see publicly displayed by many in our society?
In the few sentences of the verse, the writer summed up God’s loving plan for every person in every community and isolated spot on our planet. That passage declares God’s amazing promise of a whole and lasting life.” It declares that a life does not end in ruins when the physical body dies.

Because of God’s faithful love, he offered his only Son, Jesus, to come to earth to rescue people of every ethnicity and offer them a freeing life with a future reservation in heaven. Gratefully, God doesn’t point a finger at our mistakes and misdeeds. He doesn’t scold us for our bad. And he never forces faith on anyone.
Instead, God extends help and a choice. Choose to accept his gift of eternal life or choose to pass on it. Jesus came not to make individual lives right again.

“That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.” Romans 10:9-10.

What Tim Tebow is doing is acknowledging his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ before millions of people watching the game. [45 million watched his last game].

"Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven.” Matthew 10:32
Tebow praying before the game began

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Tim Tebow  -  John 3:16

 Tebow was born in Makati City in the Philippines, to American parents who were serving as Christian missionaries at the time. His mother, Pamela Elaine, is the daughter of a U.S. Army colonel, and his father, Robert Ramsey Tebow II, is a pastor. While pregnant, his mother suffered a life-threatening infection with a pathogenic amoeba. Because of the drugs used to rouse her from a coma and to treat her dysentery, the fetus experienced a severe placental abruption. Doctors had expected a stillbirth and recommended an abortion to protect her life, although abortions are illegal in the Philippines, but she decided not to have one. To read more Click here.

Tebow decorates eye black stips with John 3:16

    




Lessons From The Airplane

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 “Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.  For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.  But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.”   [2 Timothy 4:2-5]

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 Lessons From The Airplane

In order to learn how to fly, you need to find your way to the runway. In order to land correctly, you must start making decisions miles away from where you touch down, when the airport looks like a tiny postage stamp far away.

In this passage, Paul was nearly there. His landing gear was locked, and he would soon touch down on the runway of eternity. But before he landed, he sent this last message to Timothy, the young man he had be mentoring.

Just as an airplane relies on instruments so that it can fly through clouds, fog, and darkness without veering off course, so also we Christians need truth as revealed by God to keep us from veering off course and missing our final destination. Pilots who ignore their instruments can become distracted and disoriented, fly into storms and crash far from the safety of the airport.

Some people may try to convince you that the gospel has gone out of style. Paul reaches forward through the centuries to assure you that never goes out of style. God remains the same. The truth will get us home.






   

...and the time for my departure is near...

 For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my departure is near.  I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.  Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.    [2 Timothy 4:6-8] 




They will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well...

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 “There was an estate nearby that belonged to Publius, the chief official of the island. He welcomed us to his home and showed us generous hospitality for three days.  His father was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him and, after prayer, placed his hands on him and healed him.  When this had happened, the rest of the sick on the island came and were cured.”   [Acts 28 :7-9]

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 They will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well...

As soon as the crew and passengers reached shore, they learned that they were on the island of Malta. Some of the natives of the island saw the shipwreck and witnessed the victims struggling through the water to get to shore. They very graciously build a fire for the new arrivals, who were thoroughly drenched and cold, both from the sea and from the rain.

When Paul was helping with the fire, he was bitten by a poisonous snake. It fastened on his hand, not just in the sense of coiling on it, but actually biting it. At first the local citizens concluded the apostle must be a murderer. Although he had escaped from the shipwreck, yet justice was tracking him down and he would soon swell up or suddenly fall down dead.  When Paul showed no ill effects from the snake bite, they changed their minds and decided he was a god! This is another vivid illustration of the fickleness and changeableness of the human heart and mind.

The leading citizen of the island of Malta at that time was Publius. This wealthy Roman official received Paul and his friends courteously, and provided accommodations for them for three days, until permanent quarters could be arranged in which they would spend the winter.  The kindness of this Gentile did not go unrewarded. At about that time, his father took sick with fever and dysentery. Paul went in to him and prayed, and he laid his hands on him and healed him. News of this healing miracle spread quickly throughout the island. During the next three months the sick were brought to Paul and were all cured.

"..they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well." [Mark 16:18]


Paul Ashore on Malta Island

 The islanders showed us unusual kindness. They built a fire and welcomed us all because it was raining and cold.  Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand.  When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, “This man must be a murderer; for though he escaped from the sea, the goddess Justice has not allowed him to live.”  But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.  The people expected him to swell up or suddenly fall dead; but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.    [Acts 28:1-6]  

A snake hanging from Paul's hand

    




Be holy, for I am holy

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 “Be alert and think straight. Put all your hope in how kind God will be to you when Jesus Christ appears. Behave like obedient children. Don't let your lives be controlled by your desires, as they used to be. Always live as God's holy people should, because God is the one who chose you, and he is holy. That's why the Scriptures say, "I am the holy God, and you must be holy too.”   [1 Peter 1: 13-16]

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 Be holy, for I am holy

First, Peter urges the saints to have a “girded” mind.  A girded man is one that is strong, composed, cool, and ready for action. It is unimpeded by the distraction of human fear or persecution. In  other words, "Be alert and think straight."

Next, the saints are urged to have the optimistic, forward-looking mind: rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.  The assurance of Christ’s Return is held out as a compelling motive for endurance through the storms and tribulations of life.

The revelation of Jesus Christ is generally taken to refer to His coming back to earth when He will be revealed in glory. As obedient children of God, they should not indulge in the sins which characterized them in their former life. Now that they are Christians, they should pattern their life after the One whose name they bear. The things they did in the days of their ignorance should be put away now that they have been illuminated by the Holy Spirit. The former lusts means the sins they indulged in while they were still ignorant of God.

Instead of imitating the ungodly world with its fads and fashions, our lives should reproduce the holy character of the One who called us. To be godly means to be Godlike. God is holy in all His ways. If we are to be like Him, we must be holy in all that we do and say. In this life we will never be as holy as He is, but we should be holy because he is.

Peter reaches back into the Old Testament for proof that God expects His people to be like Himself. In Lev. 11:44, the Lord said: “Be holy, for I am holy.” Christians are empowered to live holy lives by the indwelling Holy Spirit.







   Be Holy

 I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy....  I am the LORD, who brought you up out of Egypt to be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy.    [Leviticus 11:44-45] 




 

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Eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels

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 “Jesus answered, “The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man.  The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one,  and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.  As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.  They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father.”   [Matthew 13:37-42]

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 The Parable of the weeds

The Bible is very clear about eternity.  The parable of the weeds once again explains that.   Jesus identified Himself as the sower.  He sowed the Word of God directly during His earthly ministry, and has been sowing through His servants in succeeding ages.

The field is the world. The good seeds mean the people of the kingdom.  It might seem bizarre and incongruous to think of living human beings being planted into the ground. But the point is that these sons of the kingdom were sown in the world.

The weeds are the sons of wicked one. Satan has a counterfeit for every divine reality. He sows the world with those who look alike, talk like, and, to some extent, walk like disciples. But they are not genuine followers of the King.

The enemy is Satan, the enemy of God and all the people of God. The harvest is the end of the age, the end of the kingdom age in its interim form, which will be when Jesus Christ returns in power and glory to reign as the King.

The reapers are the angels. During the present phase of the kingdom, no forcible separation is made of the wheat and the darnel. They are allowed to grow to gather. But at the Second Advent of Christ, the angels will round up all causes of sin and all evildoers and throw them into the furnace of fire, where they will weep and gnash their teeth.  The hell is a place where the fire never goes out. It is a place where the worms that eat them do not die, and the fire is not quenched.

Jesus paid the penalty on the cross to save you and me from that horrible place. Do you believe in the Savior, who suffered and died for your sins?




 

The lake of fire

    

Eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels

 Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.”   [Matthew 25:41]