THE GREAT PHYSICAN

The Threefold Ministry of Jesus: Matt. 4:19; 9:35; Isa. 53:5

Teaching, Preaching, Healing.

The "All manner of sickness and disease" comprehends more than bodily illness.

Note: Isa. 1:6 repeated I Pat. 2:25. It was not the beating He took, but the death He died that heals.

I The Physical Healing Ministry

Wherever Jesus went there were all kinds of healings

· He had compassion on hurting people

· His miracles gave witness to his divinity.

Jesus still heals today. Scripture refers to the gift of healing but the fellow who claims to be a healer, probably isn't.


II Healing of the Mind

Dr. Paul Ernest Adolph, retired Lt. Col. of the Medical Corps. "Eighty percent of all illnesses encountered in general practice in our large American cities have a predominantly psychic causation, the half of these 80% involve no demonstrable organic causative factors whatsoever.

Dr. Carl Jung, Psychiatrist (in Modern Man In Search of a Soul) - "During the past 30 years people from all people from all civilized countries of the earth have consulted me. I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among all of my patients in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life."

Dr. William Sadler, Psychiatrist - Writer of Medical Textbooks for physicians - A Doctor's Doctor - Gives strong emphasis on prayer and systematic Bible reading.

Stress is a major crippler and killer.

Illustration: The lion caged, restless and stressed, has very large adrenal and thyroid glands, lives about 25 years. The lion has a furrowed brow "like a man making out his income tax forms." The crocodile has very small adrenal gland, lives a lazy life and is still young at 100. (Don't misunderstand me to say that if you'll just lie around all the time you'll live to be 100!)

III Jesus is the Healer of broken hearts

No need, no problem is too small or too personal to bring to Him.

· He is the Perfect Comforter

· Ps. 23; "He restoreth my soul."

IV Jesus is the Healer of Personal Relationships

Carry with you the Golden Rule and lay it down on all human relationships.

See Matt. 5:23-24 - Remember, Reconcile, Return

V Jesus is the Healer of the Soul's Disease - Sin.

The Moslem says, "Go to Mecca; The Catholic says, "Go to Rome," but Jesus says, "Come unto me."

"Come as you are, and come now." All sins have forgiveness when confessed, repented of and abandoned. Jesus came to give healing for the whole man as stated in 1 Thess. 5:34 - Spirit, soul, and body.

Admittedly, this is a lop-sided outline of a larger message. We desire to emphasize the exercise of the will, the adjustment of attitudes, the bringing all under the will of God and in conformity to Christ.