An amazing walk with Jesus as He much more than heals others in Mark 5. This was delivered at a Shepherd’s Conference to a few thousand men to help them lead in their ministries.
Quotes:
- tsunamis and earthquakes, catastrophes, and disasters, and all of that – one might be prone to think that God is harsh. Is this how we define our God? Do we give Him the privilege of doing all of that as the sole understanding that we have of Him in a fallen world?
- But what He chose to do was to heal sick people, deliver demon-possessed people, and raise the dead. Why? Because along with the power came compassion. This is a display of mercy.
- the things that kind of contribute to a lasting ministry, and one of them is separation, making sure you’re cleansed from all filthiness of the flesh, endeavoring to perfect holiness, and the fear of God
- The second one is sincerity, having integrity and making sure all the pieces of your life fit together with your message. And the third one is sympathy. If you want to have a long-term ministry in a congregation where there’s reciprocal love and trust, they need to know you care.
- You can give them the sovereign answer from the pulpit. You can tell them their cancer is for the glory of God. You can tell them their suffering is because of a divine purpose, and you will be right. But you had better be there to wipe away their tears, because God would have you be there, because He only came into the world one time, and it was one massive display of compassion.
- the very God who inflicts the pain within the purposes of His providence, who is there to catch the sufferer.
- Unlike many religious leaders, Jesus didn’t seclude Himself. His entire ministry was spent in public. He didn’t have an office, He didn’t have a study, didn’t have a home, didn’t have a church. His entire ministry was in the street, in the field, in other people’s homes, in synagogues, on the road, on the sea, with only occasional retreats into isolation to restore His energy, rest His body, and fellowship privately with His disciples and give them the inside scoop on the parables. But He always came back to the crowds.
- He would bring down rulers and exalt those who were humble.
- He was accessible. That’s just a general term meaning he could get at Him. Available takes it a deeper step.
- Because of that divine compassion He did what He did; and in order to do what He did and make the demonstration of divine compassion, it was indiscriminate. Do you understand that? It was indiscriminate. He healed everybody.
- He was interruptible.
- He is intentional.
- Whenever power goes through Him and out of Him into another person, He feels the flow and He knows where it goes. He actually experiences every expulsion of divine power and divine energy that comes from Him to heal and deliver and save sinners. He’s actually involved.
- He has chosen to make a personal living union with us in which He is fully involved in giving us life, and sustaining that life, and sanctifying that life, and one day glorifying that life, so that we can all say with Paul, “Not I; but Christ lives in me.”
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