Sunday August 11, 2019

Notes from Sunday's service: (Thanks, Jean)

Dr. Barclay

Something to think about: With great compassion Jesus heals the whole body.

Mark 5:25-34 Blind Bartimaeus.

Mark 10:46-52 Woman with the medical issue of uncontrolled bleeding.

Bartimaeus longed to see, he cried out to Jesus with great faith and he received his sight. There was also a woman who had a terrible sickness that caused her to bleed for many years, she sought help from physicians and spent all the money she had, yet she received no help and her sickness only became worse. Yet with great faith she reached out and touched Jesus garment as he was passing by and she was immediately healed. Both this woman and Bartimaeus would have had andodor and perhaps a sick unkept look and ostracized and isolated from the general society due to their physical uncleanness. For these two people Jesus gave a physical and spiritual healing. Their physical bodies were healed enabling them to live a normal and productive life. Thus they had a physical revival and a spiritual revival as they nowhad hope and joy. Just like blind Bartimaeus we are all blind to ourselves and our sin, we can spend all kinds of money and do all kinds of things and yet never clean ourselves up. Like these two people only Jesus can clean us up and take away the sin and filth in our lives. Jesus brings a physical and spiritual healing, he takes care of every aspect of our lives.

Roxann Spicer

Theme: Humility

The most godly man we can ever know is Jesus Christ.

Proverbs 18:12

1 Peter 5:6

James 4:10

Proverbs 3:33-34

Genesis 37,39-47

The story of Joseph is a great lesson in humility. Joseph’s brothers were jealous of him, because they knew he had his father’s heart. Joseph was sold in to slavery with no resource and no one to go to, but the one person he did have to cry to was the Lord Jehovah. Yet even after Joseph was falsely accused by Potiphar’s wife, which resulted in him being thrown in jail, Joseph did not have a pity party or feel sorry for himself at all. By the Lord’s blessing, Joseph was raised from the lowest of the low to the second in command of Egypt. When Joseph’s brother’s came to him to plead for food in Egypt during the famine, Joseph had long ago forgiven them, he gave them food and all they needed for their families and Joseph said to them (Genesis 45:5) But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.

Joseph stayed humble throughout his life. The Lord preserved Joseph, not just to save the nation of Egypt, but to save the lives of his entire family. Just like Joseph, Jesus went through tremendous hardship on this earth, yet with love and forgiveness saved our souls through his death on the cross. Just like Joseph saved the lives of his family when his brothers came pleading to him. Jesus saves our souls when we come pleading to him, so we may spend eternity with him. Both Jesus and Joseph serve as wonderful examples of humility for us to follow.