S.R. Isaiah

Great Doctor: Hope and Healing Introduction

  1. Recently we had need of a good doctor.
  2. Recent Ice Storm (Feb. 2014) in Birmingham and Atlanta
  3. Do you know an even more dedicated, competent and compassionate doctor?
  1. Prophecies of a Great Doctor to Come:
    1. Isaiah 35: 3-6
    2. Isaiah 61:1
    3. This physician would be identified by His ability to heal. Matthew 11:3-5
  2. Physical healing was only a means to a greater end for this doctor
    1. Luke 5:31-32 “Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but theI have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
    2. Jesus priority was always spiritual healing. (Mark 2:9-11) Greater need.
      1. Physical healing pointed to His ability and authority to forgive sins.
  3. The Great Doctor could do what was Humanly Impossible.
    1. Mark 4:39-41 Jesus calms the storm on the Galilee Sea
    2. Mark 5:1-20 Legion – “no one could subdue him”
    3. Mark 5:21-43 Heal a 12 year old dead girl
    4. Mark 5:25-34 Heal a woman with a 12 year old blood problem
      1. Jesus is about people “getting well” (Mark 5:23, 28, 34)
  4. A Woman with a Blood Problem Found Hope in Jesus (Mark 5:25 – 34)
    1. She had exhausted all other options (Mark 5:25-26)
      1. She may well have run out of hope for a cure.
    2. She heard about Jesus (Mark 5:27).
      1. Do we recommend the good doctor to the hurting and hopeless?
      2. Are we more apt to recommend a good MD than Jesus?
      3. “You never mentioned Him to me.”
    3. She made extensive effort to get to Jesus.
    4. Jesus, the great doctor, knew her need and knew how and when she was healed.
      1. This was not magic and it was not incidental healing.
      2. She needed to know that Jesus knew that He had immediately and intentionally healed her based upon her faith.
      3. Many others would have been touching him in the crowd and they were not healed.
    5. Jesus called her to Him (Mark5: 31-34)
      1. This would have been a very embarrassing moment for her.
      2. She needed to tell Him what He already knew.
        1. Confession – saying about ourselves what God has already known and said.
        2. She told him the whole truth – He already knew it, but she needed to say it.
    6. Many have convenient access to the Great Physician but do not seek healing.
      1. They continue to ignorantly or defiantly act as though they are not sick
        1. Matthew 9:9-13
    7. Jesus offers hope to the hopeless
      1. First, some people are in a truly hopeless situation. She was. She was broke, sick, tired, prodded, poked, discouraged, unclean by Jewish law, and not getting any better. In fact, she was getting worse. Nothing was working. She was out of answers. She was out of ideas. Her medical condition would have made her tired, weak and drained. Jesus was her last hope. Jesus was her only hope.
      2. A person who has lived a lifetime, avoiding and ignoring God, suddenly realizes at the end of his life, that he is dying without hope.
      3. Eph. 2:12 “having no hope and without God in the world.”
  5. Conclusion: This nameless woman of Mark 5 found Hope and Healing in Jesus.
    1. Men didn't have the answers, but Jesus did. Jesus did what doctors could not. Jesus did what all of her money could not do. Jesus healed her, saved her and gave her hope. This woman shows us that in God all things are possible. With God there is hope.
    2. This woman found that Jesus was the Way. That must be our message. The answer is in Jesus. Follow Jesus. Obey Jesus. Listen to Jesus. Learn. Change.
    3. The Great Physician will save those who: place their faith and trust in Him (Acts 16:30-31), turn from their sin in repentance (Acts 17:30-31), confessHim before men (Romans 10:9-10), and are baptized (immersed) into Christ for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38). He will continue to “make whole” those who continue to walk in the light of His word (1 John 1:7).