Luke 13:10-14
Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.” And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God. But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, “There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.”
* Miracles are not for sale. Jesus didn't charge anybody.
* Spirit of division - Denominations. Hell breeds division. Hell knows there's a certain level of dominion when we get in unity. A certain power when we work together (Pentecost)
* Real shepherd smells like sheep. Some pastors with big thrones, celebrities
* You need help because you're hurt, so I can't really serve you because my pains keeps serving me.
* You cannot be one that keeps getting infected by everybody else's sickness but then call yourself a physician. I need you to be tough because there are a lot of people who won't honor the person you are. Honor flies at low altitudes. As long as you stay humble before Me, I'm the One that's gonna honor you. It's better that I know your name than anybody else know your name. My Presence is better.
* Some of the most sweetest people I met in church, and also the meanest in church. That's why you need discernment.
18 years of being crooked and bent over. Was she used to this? Used of being broke? I wonder how a lot of us got used to crookedness. Just used to this state of dysfunction, used to pain, or never having enough. Or was she waiting, and hoping for a miracle.
ANYTIME GOD HAS YOU WAIT, YOU'RE IN GOOD COMPANY.
Abraham, Noah, Joseph, even Jesus had to wait on God. If God has us waiting, it's for the purpose of what He's doing on the inside of you.
WAIT - WEIGHT
God wants us to strengthen our faith, our perspective, discipline, prayer life. There's some things God wants us to grow in. He is not punishing us.
* Don't give up on the church because you encountered the wrong church. This woman has an issue for 18 years, but still going to church. The man with leprosy on his hand, still was on church. Matthew 21:14 - this man blind and lame, at church. The blind and lame - How did you get to church?
They pursued despite how they feel, despite their issues, despite their illnesses, they still got to the house.
If it rains a little too hard, are we in church? We have all these excuses, but when it is time to party, it didn't matter if you got a class, it didn't matter if there's an exam, but still someway and somehow, you still manages to go to the party. But when it comes to the things of God, we have all of these excuses. But these individuals, got to the house anyway. Why? Because PURSUIT REVEALS VALUE. Whenever you value a thing, you pursue it. Despite everything that happened, these people still came to church.
We have to fall in love with Jesus, because when you fall in love with Jesus, you begin to fall in love with what Jesus loves. You can't be done with the church and say you want a kingdom man. Because he says "Husbands love your wives like I love the church." Jesus is saying there's a level of love, that I want this man to love you and the way he loves you, I want him to love you the way I love My church. Because God loves His church.
This woman had no idea. What if she missed church that day? What if she was like, my back hurts too much that day. She had no idea that this would be the day that she would be loosed and no longer crooked.
This could be the day that you could be finally be loosed from that addiction, but you had no idea because sometimes, when you come to the house, you just don't come to hear the Word. Sometimes, you come to hear "a Word".
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