Demonstration of The Kings Power

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Demonstration of The Kings Power

• Matthew 81-22

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Demonstration of The Kings Power

• Response To Sermon On The Mount
• Response to His Sermon Mt 728-29
• Unlike the scribes, who simply interpreted the
  law, Jesus
• spoke as One who had the right to make the law!
  
• I say unto you , But I tell you
• Jesus taught as one having authority, not as one
  who appealed to authority.
• His insincere adversaries will challenge and
  question His authority by what authority do
  you
• Great Commission All authority in heaven and
  on earth has been given to me

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Demonstration of The Kings Power

• At the end of our last study, we discussed Jesus
  teaching
• as one having authority (728).
• This lesson begins to establish evidence of
  Christs Divine
• authority on the basis of Divine power. It was
  Jesus who
• said Ye shall know them by their fruits (716),
  and it is
• Jesus who understands that His fruit (works) must
  be
• consistent with His claim.
• If evidence of His divinity is provided by divine
  power, and
• His claim to be the Son of God is established and
  
• confirmed with true miracles at His command, then
  to deny
• His authority is inexcusable (112-5 20-24).
• Due to His extraordinary teaching on the
  mountain, great
• multitudes followed Him. The love, mercy, and
  forgiveness
• that He taught, will now be put to practice and
  on display.

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Demonstration of The Kings Power

• The Leper is Cleansed Mt 81-4
• Leper worships Jesus and calling Him Lord
• If thou wilt challenges Jesus desire in
  helping the leper, not
• His power.
• Jesus put forth His hand, and touched him,
• Jesus gives the leper 5 commands.
• 1) What does Lord mean? the leper addressed
  Jesus with this title.
• 2) With Jesus having the power to simply speak
  and make the leper whole, why do you suppose
  Jesus touched him?

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• The Leper is Cleansed Mt 81-4
• Context Behold used as imperative. Behold, lo,
  see. Used to get
• our attention.
• Leprosy skin disease including swellings, scabs
  or spots below the surface of the skin, skin with
  hair in infected area turning white or becoming
  raw flesh. Could eat away the hands and feet
  leaving stumps. Could swell and deform the face.
  Terrible nauseating stench associated with the
  infection and bacteria.
• Luke 512 this man was full of leprosy
• Lev 13 entire chapter this is the law of the
  plague of leprosy.
• Priest were to keep their distance.

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Demonstration of The Kings Power

• The Leper is Cleansed Mt 81-4 (read in class)
• Leper worships Jesus and calling Him Lord
  see Q1
• If thou wilt challenges Jesus desire in
  helping the leper, not
• His power. V3 I will
• Jesus put forth His hand, and touched him, -
  see Q2
• Be thou clean
• His authority and power to command the
  disease.
• Immediately cleansed.
• His authority and power with mercy and
  compassion.
• Jesus gives the leper 5 commands.
• be thou clean, tell no man, go thy way,
  show thyself to the priest, offer the gift
  that Moses commanded.
• Tell no man ?
• Puts emphasis on the mans need to fulfill Lev
  141 ff. Others, who witnessed the miracle,
  would no doubt spread the word.
• Christs respect for the Mosaic Law lepers
  requirements

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Demonstration of The Kings Power

• The Leper is Cleansed Mt 81-4
• Leper worships Jesus and calling Him Lord
• If thou wilt challenges Jesus desire in
  helping the leper, not
• His power.
• Jesus put forth His hand, and touched him,
• Jesus gives the leper 5 commands.
• Questions
• 1) What does Lord mean? the leper addressed
  Jesus with this title.
• kurios supreme in authority, controller. Also
  Acts 236
• With Jesus having the power to simply speak and
  make the leper whole, why do you suppose Jesus
  touched him?
• Demonstrated His mercy and compassion 57.
• Touch is an understood way of showing sympathy
  and affection.

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Demonstration of The Kings Power

• The Centurions Servant is Healed Mt 85-13
• Jesus highly commends the centurions faith.
• A man under authority
• Servant was healed the same hour.
• 3) What relevance is there between the centurion
  and Jesus?
• 4) What noble quality does the centurion really
  have?
• 5) How do you explain verse 12?

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• The Centurions Servant is Healed Mt 85-13
• Context
• Capernaum village of Nahum.
• On the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee.
• Mark 91 His own city reference when Jesus
  returned
• Centurion Roman officer in charge of 100 men. A
  position known for their loyalty, strength, and
  leadership. Acts 101 271
• Luke 72-5 (read in class)

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Demonstration of The Kings Power

• The Centurions Servant is Healed Mt 85-13 (read
  in class)
• Jesus highly commends the centurions faith.
• Speak the word only
• A man under authority
• As he commands soldiers, Jesus commanded, by
  authority, healing over sickness. Proof of Divine
  power. Power needed to heal his servant.
• Servant was healed the same hour.
• 3) What relevance is there between the centurion
  and Jesus?
• Faith, Authority, Compassion, Humility,
  Servitude
• 4) What noble quality does the centurion really
  have?
• Faith is his quality not his authority.
• Jesus marveled I have not found so great faith,
  no, not in Israel
• Also - Compassion on a slave.
• How do you explain verse 12?
• This Gentiles faith allows Jesus to make the
  point that His kingdom would be open to all. Not
  only Gentile inclusion, but Jews would be
  excluded.

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Demonstration of The Kings Power

• Peters Mother-In-Law is Healed Mt 814-15
• Healing that was not requested.
• Keep in mind that women, by Romans, were
  generally despised. Perhaps treated as second
  class among the Jews.
• Consider 1st 4 recorded miracles of healing in
  Matthew Leper, Gentile, Slave, Woman
• She arose, and ministered unto them see Q6
• 6) How complete was the recovery from her fever
  (puresso to be on fire)?
• So complete and full that she arose and
  served them.
• Also, note again (I believe implied) that
  healing was done instantaneously.
• A true miracle.
• 7) What valuable lesson could we make of this
  about our prayers for the sick
• and their healing?
• Pray for the will of God. Pray that we might be
  healed to serve!

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• Demons and Disease Mt 816-17
• Context when even was come word spread
  quickly after Peters mother-in-law.
• On Isaiah 534 Thou the text of Isa 53 is the
  Suffering Messiah, Matthew applies v4 to the
  power of Jesus to heal physical sickness. It
  would be wrong to conclude that Jesus died for
  our physical infirmities in addition to dying for
  our sins.
• Christ died at Calvary for our sin(s), not our
  physical sickness (1 Pt 224)
• We should not pervert the gospel and come away
  with the Pentecostal twist and apply healing in
  the atonement
• Devils were cast out.
• That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by
  Esaias the prophet.
• Matthew continues to provide prophetic
  fulfillment to establish Jesus as the Son of God.
• All that were sick were healed.
• 8) Search the bible and write a short sentence
  about what you know about demons.
• True demon possession (physical dwelling in body
  and controlling behavior) was exclusive to New
  Testament writings.
• Some believe demons were apostate angels (2 Pt
  24 Jude 6)
• They were unclean spirits

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• Demons and Disease Mt 816-17
• Q8 Continued
• Jam 47 Be subject therefore unto God but
  resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
• Eph 611 Put on the whole armor of God, that ye
  may be able to stand against the wiles of the
  devil.
• Eph 616 withal taking up the shield of faith,
  wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the
  fiery darts of the evil one.
• Zech 131-2 In that day there shall be a
  fountain opened to the house of David and to the
  inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for
  uncleanness. And it shall come to pass in that
  day, saith Jehovah of hosts, that I will cut off
  the names of the idols out of the land, and they
  shall no more be remembered and also I will
  cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass
  out of the land.

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Demonstration of The Kings Power

• The Demands of Discipleship Mt 818-22 (read in
  class)
• Jesus seeks a retreat from the multitudes.
• Perhaps another good reason to say tell no
  man
• Scribe who declares I will follow thee
  withersoever thou goest.
• Count the cost before you sign up! Mt 510-12
• 1st Time Jesus refers to Himself, in Matthew, as
  the Son of Man Dan 713-14
• Disciple who request to first go and bury my
  father (Lk959-62)
• One of the highest forms of filial duty.
• Elisha when called by Elijah (1 Ki 1919-21)
• Even priest were exempt from defilement to
  perform this duty Lev211-3
• Point what was once considered religious
  exemption from duty, is no longer an option.
• Jesus said follow me
• Our first comments on this should not be to
  apologetically soften it.
• Nothing in our life can justify noncompliance.
• He is our commitment and our priority

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Demonstration of The Kings Power

• The Demands of Discipleship Mt 818-22
• 9) Lets not miss this What is the cost of
  discipleship?
• Mt 633 Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and
  His righteousness
• Mt 510-12 suffer persecution for righteousness
  sake reproach for His name sake
• Luke 1426ff
• Love everything else less than Christ
• Bare your own cross
• Count the cost
• Renounceth not all that he hath