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Saturday Mar 28, 2020
Saturday Mar 28, 2020
“Anatomy of an Illness: The Church’s Ministry of Healing”
John 9:4 (Part 3)
I First, sickness gets our attention and it gets the attention of Jesus (9:1).
II Second, sickness makes us uncomfortable (9:2).
III Third, sickness is caused by alienation (9:2).
IV Fourth, oftentimes our best theological or commonsense explanations for sickness are not good enough (9:3a).
V Fifth, sometimes sickness happens for a good reason, so that God can be glorified in our life (9:3b).
VI Sixth, all believers in Jesus are called to help sick people find health (9:4).
A. The first thing this verse tells us is that we are living in the day.
B. Second, this verse says that we are workers with Jesus.
C. Third, ministering healing to the sick is a responsibility of the ______________.
1. Many see the church’s calling as solely and totally the work of _______________ proclamation.
2. The church is called, not just to tell people about Jesus, but to _______ what Jesus did, and here we see him ______________.
a. I say that for two reasons – the first reason is _______________.
1. Jesus didn’t only say that we would repeat his m_______________, but he said that we would repeat his a_______________.
2. In fact, Jesus said we would do _________ than he did.
3. We also know that the ministry of healing did not stop when Jesus _______ the earth – It continued after he returned to heaven.
4. Then, in 1 Corinthians 12, Paul describes the gifts of the Spirit and he identifies one of those gifts in verse 9 as “gifts of _____________.”
b. The second reason I say healing belongs to the ministry of the church is ________________.
1. There was a time in history when the only place to find health care for the body was the _____________.
2. Many Christians, without realizing it, are better defenders of __________ than we are defenders of the __________.
3. We believe that the ___________ is what is crucial to life and the __________ is only a throw-away item.
4. Why did Jesus spend as much time healing people as he did preaching the Gospel? Because Jesus knew the creation account, and he knew God saw the physical body as something “_______ _________.”
5. It is amazing how so many Christians have completely d_______________ the care of our physical bodies from the care of our soul.
-This accounts for two things:
a. First, it explains why many “conservative Christians” seem to have so little interest in the issue of __________ _________.
b. Second, this explains why “liberal Christians” seem to have so little interest in _____________ healing.
D. Fourth, this verse teaches us that the ministry of healing is _________________.
1. There are two indications of urgency in this verse:
a. First, Jesus says “we _________ do the work.”
b. Second, Jesus says n________ is coming and when this happens all work will s___________.
2. Sick people need for the church to be ___________ as they face the darkness of disease and disability.
Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
“Anatomy of an Illness”
John 9:1-38
Last Sunday we said that John 9 gives us an anatomy of illness. An anatomy is a study of how something works. This chapter shows us how sickness works and how people respond to it. What does John 9 teach us about sickness?
I First, sickness gets our attention and it gets the attention of Jesus (9:1).
II Second, sickness makes us uncomfortable (9:2).
III Third, sickness is caused by _________________________ (9:2).
A. Alienation comes from the word alien which means s____________ or o____________. Alienation is the act of ____________ someone into a stranger or an “other.”
B. There are _________ forms or kinds of alienation that we see in Genesis:
1. First, there is ________________ alienation.
a. Why was there a tree of the knowledge of good _____ evil? Why didn’t God __________ allow them to know good?
b. To be good you must be able to choose good, but you cannot choose good unless you can also choose __________.
c. Because of their sinful choice, Adam and Eve were __________ from the Garden of Eden, which was the place where God used to walk and talk with them.
2. Second, there is __________________ alienation.
-What does social alienation do? It creates ______________; it leads to crime and war and hatred and racism and acts of violence, and it endangers our _____________.
3. Third, there is _________________ alienation.
a. Before the fall Adam and Eve didn’t fight animals or eat animals – instead they ______________ the animals.
b. Now, because of sin we are alienated from the ___________ kingdom and from the _____________ earth, and that alienation has made us __________.
4. Lastly, there is _______________ alienation.
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
“Anatomy of an Illness”
John 9:1-38
In 1979 Norman Cousins wrote a groundbreaking book entitled, Anatomy of an Illness. He wrote that book because he was suffering from a connective-tissue disease which had crippled him and he had to try and make sense of it. We may not be at the mercy of such a disease, but sickness is so common that we must make sense of it. The Bible can enable us to do that.
I John devotes an entire chapter to the healing of a blind man so that we can see an illness in all its d________________.
A. You and I cannot afford to see the healing miracles of Jesus in a shallow and superficial way because sickness is a terrible _____________ to everyone.
B. Two decades ago the U.S. ranked eleventh in terms of life expectancy, but we have now fallen to __________-_____________ in the world.
C. There is another statistic we cannot ignore: the mortality rate, and the mortality rate still stands at ___________ percent.
II What do we learn about sickness in this chapter?
A. First, sickness gets our __________________ (9:1).
1. The disciples noticed the blind man, but what John emphasizes in verse one is that Jesus noticed ___________.
2. Why would Jesus go to the trouble of noticing another sick person? Because that was his God-given _______________.
3. According to Isaiah, the work of Jesus in saving us from sin, and his work as healer, are somehow ____________ _________________.
4. That means that just as Jesus could not help but notice s____________, so also he could not help but notice the s___________.
B. Second, sickness makes us ________________________ (9:2).
1. The disciples needed an explanation for the man’s blindness that could keep them from seeing him as a _____________.
2. We are so threatened by the idea that terrible imperfection can exist in our world that we try to find someone to ____________.
3. We feel that something is wrong with a world in which people are born blind and children die of cancer, and the Bible says we are _________.
Wednesday Oct 17, 2018
Wednesday Oct 17, 2018
C&MA Day!
Exactly what kind of church is FAC? How did we get to be this way? What do we think is important? All these questions can be answered when we talk about Dr. A. B. Simpson and the organization of churches he founded more than one-hundred years ago.
I Dr. Simpson believed we need to tell the world about Jesus: The first thing our founder believed we need to tell the world is that Jesus is S____________.
A. Simpson understood that everyone needed to be r________ as he had been and that Jesus came “to s______ and to s_______ the lost.”
B. The story of the C&MA is the story of w_________ m___________.
1. It’s the story of people like R__________ A. J___________.
2. And it’s the story of people like M__________ F__________.
II The second thing our founder believed we need to tell the world is that Jesus is our S____________.
A. The Sanctifier is the one who has the power to make people h__________________.
B. Sanctification is not a t____________, it’s a p__________.
III The third thing our founder believed we need to tell the world is that Jesus is our h__________.
A. There weren’t a lot of ministers talking about divine healing – for these reasons:
1. Advances in m___________.
2. The p____________ nature of divine healing.
3. The fear of d________________.
B. There are reasons why some are not healed, but God calls his children to trust him, not only for _____________ health, but also for ____________ health.
IV The fourth thing our founder believed we need to tell the world is that Jesus is our C___________ K__________.