“Jesus Heals Peter’s Mother–In–Law”
Introduction: As we have said, there are some 40 separate miracles of Christ recorded in the Synopsis of Gospels, and they can be divided into four separate categories
One is miracles of nature, where Jesus said Peace be still and the storm stops; walks on water; or turns water into wine. Feeds thousands with very few resources.
Then the raising of the dead.
Last time we saw the casting out demons.
The one we are looking at tonight is a healing miracle, where Jesus healed the sick.
All the miracles of Christ point to the future; they point to truths that are listed in the book of Revelation.
They weren’t just given to us to show us God’s power, which it does. But it was to show us a better day coming, which will happen
The healing of the sick
Revelation 21:4 4 And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”
There’s not going to be any more sickness; there’s not going to be any more cancer; there’s not going to be any more heart attacks; there’s not going to be any more dementia, Alzheimer’s, or Parkinson’s;
So far, we have seen the miracle at the wedding of Cana in Galilee. A miracle of nature
And then we went from that to the healing of the nobleman’s son. Were the noblemen request a healing
And then we saw the healing at the pool of Bethesda, and Jesus asking, “Do you want to be made well?” and that question is to all of us spiritually do you want to be made well?
And then we looked at the catching of the fish by launching out into the deep by going a little further, and with all this, another miracle of nature but He was teaching a lesson about going a little further and not stopping short, staying faithful to what God tells you to do.
And the one that is in that story is the one that is with Jesus now, and that is Peter, and it tells us in this story that even if you’re walking with God and you’re doing the right things, even people in your family and even yourself will have to suffer at times, but Jesus is always there.
And then the one we saw last time was in Capernaum, which is on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, where Peter, James, John and Andrew made their living. And there we see Jesus casting out the demon in the synagogue or church. And now we find out that happened just down the road from Peter’s house
Over the last several lessons, we’ve covered the transition from demonstrating who Jesus was as a person to demonstrating Jesus’ power and authority over all things.
He starts in a synagogue in Nazareth, telling the congregation that He has come to bring good news to the poor, gives sight to the blind, sets prisoners free, and liberty to the oppressed.
They turn him out of town for these claims, and He goes down to Capernaum, and as He preaches, a demon screams at Him, and Jesus delivers this man from the bondages of Satan.
Now we see Jesus is heading to Peter’s house, where his mother-in-law’s likely getting ready for dinner after synagogue:
But like all of us, no matter what our plans are, sometimes problems, sickness, diseases, accidents, and Satan even get in our way.
According to the World Health Organization, there are over 20,000 diagnoses of diseases. Someone may ask, if God exists and He is a loving God, why allow all these diseases?
A Christian’s response is the answer to this question:
What is the root cause of these diseases?
In the book of Genesis, after the sin, it’s when these sicknesses and diseases and problems arise
There are false teachers and healers everywhere who attempt to exploit people’s need for relief from pain and sickness.
Every single one of us has a problem, and that is our human body.
When you hear a preacher say someone has a backache, who here has a backache? Of course, he’s playing the odds. That doesn’t mean it comes from God. He’s trying to look like it did, and he will answer for that someday. That’s not a word of knowledge. That’s just life.
Our birth is the first step to our death.
The moment we are born, we start the dying process. There’s a song that says:
The moment that you’re born is when you start to die, and the first time that you said hello begins our last goodbye.
Even in utero, we fight sickness, disease, and death, and there is nothing we can do to stop it. We can treat disease, and we can treat sickness, but ultimately there is no cure this side of heaven.
Staggering statistics say one out of one people will die someday. The Bible is clear about that:
Hebrews 9:27-28 27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, 28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.
The question is, where will you spend eternity after death?
I’ve been around quite a bit of sickness and death over the years.
I’ve been with families and loved ones as they take their final breath.
I’ve prayed countless times for God to heal people.
Did God hear those prayers? Yes.
Did He answer them the way I wanted Him to?
The majority of the time, no.
I want you to know that doesn’t shake my faith. Why? Because I try to stay in the Word of God.
Psalm 119:67 67 Before I was afflicted I went astray, But now I keep Your word.
Sometimes God allows hard times to come to straighten us out, and other times just to show His glory
You stay in the Word even in the hard times, and sometimes that’s the hardest time to stay in the Word.
But that’s the most important time to stay in the Word of God and seek God’s face and trust in Him
Jesus didn’t bring the gospel to cure diseases; He came to save sinners, and that is the greatest hope we can give someone.
In fact, as we will see next time, the forgiveness of sins is greater than physical healing:
Luke 5:23–24 23 Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’? 24 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the man who was paralyzed—“I say to you, rise, pick up your bed and go home.”
All of this has a critical purpose. This passage we have is a closely knit collection of the purposes of Jesus’ ministry.
The picture of Jesus in this miracle differs from that in the miracle accounts which immediately preceded it.
There, Jesus was described as a figure with vast authority displayed both in his teaching and in his casting out of a demon.
In this miracle, Jesus seems more of an ordinary man. He walked home from the synagogue with his friends.
He did as most people do: He left church and went to get something to eat.
He went into the house where He was staying, ready to eat a meal.
When Jesus learned that Peter’s mother-in-law was sick, He went in to see her. These are all ordinary acts – the acts of a common man.
And then they remind us that while Jesus was truly God, He was also fully human.”
In this passage, we have 3 things that Jesus healed while He was on earth.
He healed the body,
He healed the mind, and
He healed the soul.
He cares more about our spiritual condition than He does about our physical health, and He does care about our physical health.
Isaiah 53:4-5 4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
He’s not just talking about a physical healing; He’s talking about a spiritual healing which is more important. Or as the Amplified Bible reads.
Isaiah 53:4-5 (AMP) 4 Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet we [ignorantly, unwittingly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with leprosy]. 5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole.
Spiritually whole. That’s how we get saved: by His stripes, by His work and act on Calvary’s Cross!
Jesus Has Physical Authority
Jesus is heading to Peter’s house. We know that Peter was married.
1 Corinthians 9:5 5 Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
This was Peter’s house. Peter was married. Tradition tells us Peter had children, though the Scripture doesn’t refer to them.
And when he gets there, he finds his mother-in-law with a high fever; she has some kind of infection.
It was tradition after synagogue to share in a sabbath meal, and so this is what is happening here.
And now to our story:
We saw that after they turn Him out of town, He goes down to Capernaum and, as He preaches, a demon screams at Him, and Jesus delivers this man from the bondages of Satan.
But, if that wasn’t enough wonder and amazement for one day, Mark had more to share about what happened that day.
Mark 1:29-39 29 Now as soon as they had come out of the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
There is a 2nd-century synagogue that can be visited there in Capernaum; It’s rebuilt over the site of the first synagogue where the story happened last time of the demon-possessed man.
And just down the street from the synagogue are the ruins of Peter’s house.
So how convenient it was to simply leave the synagogue and walk down the street to Peter’s place – I wonder how many followed Jesus to that home that day.
But before we get into the details of what took place, I want to make an important point about the fine art of going from church to home.
What we learn and profess, and how we behave in church, ought to be carried home.
Jesus didn’t change when He left the place of worship and went “home.”
We should expect that Jesus would possess and profess the same spiritual truths and power wherever He went – and as we will see, He certainly did.
The same should be true of us – our spiritual church life should be the same as our spiritual life at home.
We shouldn’t leave God behind in the auditorium the way we leave the songbooks.
People should not see us being two different people – one being so spiritual in church and one being so unspiritual at home – when that happens, it is so disappointing to our families, especially with your children.
Dr. David Gibbs said, “Do you know that kids are little spies? They see everything. They don’t mind sharing it in Sunday school and telling the Sunday school teacher. My mommy did this, or my daddy did that, so be careful because those little eyes do see and those little mouths do talk.”
We must bring the closeness, truth, love, and power of God into our daily lives that we experience in worship. What you get here you take home and apply it and use it even there.
Now, back to our story, when Jesus and the group came to Peter’s house, Jesus discovered that Peter’s mother-in-law was sick.
Mark 1:30 30 But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick with a fever, and they told Him about her at once.
Simon Peter must have had a good relationship with her because she seems to have shared a house with Simon Peter and his brother Andrew.
So, what does Simon do – he takes his problem to the Lord.
My lung doctor told me I’m not getting enough sleep. She said that I’m only getting 4 to 4 and a half hours a night, and I need at least 7. My body can’t heal, and I can’t operate with no more sleep than I’m getting.
And I said What do I do She leaned up and she looked me right in the eye, and she said You know what to do: give it to God, lay it at his feet, and pray and ask him to let you rest.
Everything inside of me wanted to tell her Don’t preach at me; I’m the preacher but she was correct.
Whatever the cause of the fever was – it is a miserable thing to suffer!
Nowadays we can take Tylenol or ibuprofen; something reduces the fever. Or even call 911; in those days they could not
As Martin Wright puts it:
The world of the first century took fevers seriously, especially high fevers. While the works of Hippocrates (High-pock-ra-teese (Father of medicine)) or doctors had been around for four hundred years by the time of Jesus—the causes of fever were still quite a mystery.
Many in the first century still attributed fever to spiritual causes, such as divine punishment or evil spirits.
Others thought fever was caused by the air someone breathed or by imbalances of blood and something in the body.
First-century treatments for fever often started with things we might still do today–like a cool wet cloth on the forehead, or a cool bath, even trying to “starve a fever” by fasting—but they went on to herbal treatments like chewing on willow tree bark and chewing the leaves of the feverfew plant.
If none of those things worked, bloodletting was always perceived as a viable first-century option.
While the causes of fever were unknown, the results were very well known—fever could be a forerunner of death.
So, when Peter’s mother-in-law comes down with a high fever, he and his household were naturally concerned, so we read that Simon Peter and his wife make a request of Jesus. In Luke’s account of this story, we see Peter and his wife asking for help, and that’s what we should always do: call upon the Lord.
Luke 4:38 38 Now He arose from the synagogue and entered Simon’s house. But Simon’s wife’s mother was sick with a high fever, and they made request of Him concerning her.
“They asked Jesus to help her. “
When Jesus found out that Peter’s mother-in-law was sick, He didn’t say, “That’s too bad, I hope she gets better soon, or I will pray for her.” I’ll drop a card in the mail; I’ll give her a call, a text, or just send word to her that I am concerned.
No, what Jesus did was heal her immediately:
Mark 1:31 31 So He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and immediately the fever left her. And she served them.
Immediately it leaves her. There is no progressive healing. Just as the demon immediately leaves the man at the synagogue, so the fever leaves the woman.
Notice, there is no lingering weakness. Usually, when someone has had a high fever over a prolonged period of time, there is going to be a lingering condition. There is no recovery period here. There are no remaining lasting symptoms. He rebuked the fever; it left her. She immediately rose and waited on them.
Miracles were going to become the new normal for the disciples of Jesus, but for the moment it was very new in their experience.
I love the fact that Jesus didn’t require a great audience or a lot of ceremony and circumstance to do His work; all He needed was a soul in need.
It doesn’t appear that Jesus said a word, but only took her by the hand and helped her up. Luke’s account says this:
Luke 4:39 39 So He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. And immediately she arose and served them.
Rebuked = means to forbid or to take charge of.
The physical touch of Jesus was so powerful.
The fever left her immediately, and she was completely cured
Normally, the recovery from a fever-related illness might take a day or two to regain our strength. Right?
But the miracles of Jesus were immediate and complete – full use and strength replaced disease or affliction.
The healings Jesus performed were intended to confirm His holiness and Messianic role.
When He healed the blind, He didn’t have to go to Pearl Vision and get some glasses. When He healed the deaf, they didn’t have to go to Beltone and get a hearing aid. When He healed the cripple, they didn’t have to go get new crutches; they had new legs. Whatever Jesus does, He does completely.
So, Jesus bent over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her.
She got up at once and began to wait on them.
You are here for a purpose. Do the service of God, do what He’s called you to do.
Mark 1:31 31 So He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and immediately the fever left her. And she served them.
When Jesus healed her, it was so complete.
She did not need any more rest or any more time off her feet.
She was completely healed and completely re-energized—she quite literally hit the ground running and serving and quite probably “running the show” as head hostess that evening.
She was completely restored.
Jesus does not do things halfway!
The things that Jesus had done in Capernaum that day could not be concealed.
The appearance of so great a power and authority could not be kept a secret.
And so, by the end of the day, Peter’s house was overwhelmed with crowds seeking Jesus’ healing touch, and who could blame them – I certainly would have sought out Jesus – how about you?
And the story goes on as Mark reports:
Mark 1:32-34 32 At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to Him all who were sick and those who were demon-possessed. 33 And the whole city was gathered together at the door. 34 Then He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and He did not allow the demons to speak, because they knew Him.
Did you get that the demons knew Him? Just because you know God, just because you know about Jesus, doesn’t mean you have a relationship with Him
But we also need to understand this;
Because it was the Sabbath, the people had to wait until evening to come, but then they rushed to Him with all their afflicted ones. The same as we should
Notice that the passage makes a distinction between those who were ill and those who were demon-possessed.
We should not conclude that all illness was or should be related to the work of demons.
Can you imagine the scene? Can you imagine hundreds or thousands of people showing up outside of your house to see Jesus? Do people know that if they can come to your house, they can be introduced to Jesus? Are you being that kind of witness that you should be?
Are you living in such a way that people know that Jesus is in your house?
When I was growing up, any guest that came to our house expecting to stay the weekend knew to either bring a change of clothes to go to church in or be in the house by themselves while we went to church
It’s the way it is when Jesus is involved in something people want to see. Calvary, as long as you keep doing the right thing, as we’ve done and seen with the Bible ministry. And Operation Christmas Child, and with this ministry that is starting with skateboarding.
I’ve heard people saying they want to start a food ministry here, and even someone said that there was somebody that has a coat and blanket ministry that we need to get involved in.
No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care, Calvary; you care, you prove that all the time. This little group of people amazes me, and God’s going do so much because what you’re doing is not in vain.
And let God be God, and people will come and see what’s going on, as James Earl Jones said in “Field of Dreams”:
The following is the speech of Terence Mann (played by James Earl Jones) from the film Field of Dreams.
Ray, people will come, Ray. Ohhhhhhhh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.
They’ll come to Iowa for reasons they can’t even fathom. They’ll turn up your driveway, not knowing for sure why they’re doing it. They’ll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past.
“Of course, we won’t mind if you look around,” you’ll say. “It’s only twenty dollars per person.” They’ll pass over the money without even thinking about it. For it is money they have and peace they lack.
And they’ll walk out to the bleachers, and sit in shirt-sleeves on a perfect afternoon. They’ll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they’ll watch the game, and it’ll be as if they’d dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick, they’ll have to brush them away from their faces.
People will come, Ray.
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball.
America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.
This field, this game — it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again.
Ohhhhhhhh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.
But you say there aren’t that many of us; what good can we do
Jesus changed the world with a handful of disciples, and look what He’s doing with Calvary Baptist Church here in Powder Springs. He sent thousands of Bibles to Peru. He’s sending support to 40 missionaries around the world. He’s sending 400 little boxes to minister to 400 young people around the world.
He has put a burden in the heart of people in this building to go out and try to reach these kids down here in the skate park.
We’re doing the right thing, Calvary. Don’t get defeated because of what we don’t have. And look at what we do have: we have the hand of God on us right now. Be so careful with that because Satan would have nothing better than to tear it down.
We need to get busy doing stuff for God. So how much is too much? Too much is never enough. There’s no discharge in this war; we got to keep going.
In the times that we feel defeated, as Ceylon said about Sunday School, sometimes he thinks he needs to give it up, but he knows that God’s called him; God has put him in that ministry, and you just can’t quit.
Someone suggested building a pavilion out here on our property, clearing that mess. And build a prayer pavilion.
As you come into the Parkway at West Ridge, to your right is a pavilion, a little gazebo. It’s called a prayer pavilion. It’s got plaques with verses all over the place; it’s kept clean, it’s blown out, no spiders, no bees, no bugs. And you can go there and just sit, and it’s so peaceful and pray, and I’ve done so many times we can have one here until God builds a youth building out their cause that’s going to happen too.
And a story goes on:
People came from every corner of the city, and perhaps from the outlying areas as well.
Can you imagine the hope that must have been in the air that day?
Perhaps this prophet can give sight to my blind friend.
Perhaps He can heal our mother who is dying.
Perhaps He can make our little girl able to walk.
If you know of someone suffering, you can bring the problem to Jesus in prayer
James put it well in James chapter 5 verse 13-15:
13 Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. Is anyone happy?Let them sing songs of praise. 14 Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord.
There is no such thing as a faith healer outside of God; it’s not the one anointing, it’s not the one praying; it’s God that does the healing; it’s Jesus that does the work
15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up.
If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.
The same Jesus who healed Peter’s mother-in-law still heals today.
While Simon Peter might not have realized it at the time, he was very much living out the words of the prophet Isaiah:
Isaiah 55:6 (NKJV) 6 Seek the LORD while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near.
Simon Peter sought the Lord for someone he cared about, and we should too! We used to have a prayer meeting called Standing in the Gap…
Ezekiel 22:30 30 So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.
Jesus did all this marvelous work, and as John said in his last chapter in the last verses
John 21:24-25 24 This is the disciple who testifies of these things, and wrote these things; and we know that his testimony is true. 25 And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen.
We can’t write down everything that God can accomplish It’s what John was saying
The Ministry of Sickness
Is God touching your life or the life of someone you love to help you realize how much you need Him?
Understand that sickness is not about Sin. The reason we have sickness is that sin entered into the world, and a lot of sickness can be related to sin in our lives. You overeat, you get diabetes; you smoke too much, you get cancer; you fool around, you get sexually transmitted diseases; you drink too much. You have sickness from that, but not all sickness is because of sin. Jesus said that himself in the book of John
John 9:1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
But what we are given here is an unforgettable picture of Jesus and His love.
It had already been a long and tiring day, and can you imagine how long it must have taken to minister to each person?
Jesus didn’t refuse them; rather, His divine love and compassion were made available to those in need.
How many times have you and I been too tired or selfish to meet someone’s need? Probably too many times, but Jesus never did.
And the days go on
Mark 1:35-39 35 Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He (Jesus) went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed.
Sometimes you got to get alone, just you and God
Charles Swindoll, in his study guide on this story, finds three principles worth remembering in this incident.
- Time alone, away from the demands of ministry, is neither selfish nor unimportant.
- Others may not always understand our need to get away. People won’t set our boundaries for us; we must set them ourselves.
- We must guard against a limited scope of ministry. The Lord may lead us to other places, and we must go.
[Charles Swindoll. “The Origination of Something.” Bible Study Guide (Luke 1:1-6:49) (Anaheim, Calif.: Insight For Living, 1994) p. 106]
Mark 1:36-39 36 And Simon and those who were with Him searched for Him. 37 When they found Him, they said to Him, “Everyone is looking for You.” 38 But He said to them, “Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because for this purpose I have come forth.” 39 And He was preaching in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and casting out demons.
The service of Christ never ends:
Ecclesiastes 8:8 8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
Jesus, He alone has the authority and power to heal.
We do not.
What Jesus did was not anything short of creative.
He replaced crippled legs. With strong legs
He replaced blind eyes with seeing eyes.
He replaced deaf ears. With hearing ears.
Look at Luke 4:40 Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them. Luke 4:40
So why did he do it, according to the book of John,
John 20:31 but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
As our Savior ministers to us, He enables us to minister to others
Summary: What effect did the healing of Simon Peter’s mother-in-law have on the local population
Story: I have a wonderful mother-in-law…37 years since I have put my eyes on her but this time of the year we text every week, rooting for each other’s football team until they’re playing against each other together and she Usually ends our conversations with, I love you and I believe she does and I love her also
God used Paul to heal many, but God allowed Paul to suffer with a thorn in his flesh for all of his earthly life.
We read:
2 Corinthians 12:7-10 7 And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure. 8 Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. 9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Some think it was to do with his eyesight, as he says this to the Galatian church in
Galatians 4:15 15 What then was the blessing you enjoyed? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.
Like death, suffering seems to be a part of the human condition—a side effect of living in a broken and fallen world.
What is it Jesus says in John 16:33:
“In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
But we can be sure of this —Jesus will be with us in our sufferings if we come to Him
Jesus used healings to confirm his message. We too need to use every opportunity to share our faith with others
- This is the testimony that Jesus has the power over the natural world, the effects of sin on our bodies, and the effects of sin on our minds in the supernatural world.
It is critical not only that we have our bodies delivered from the curse of sin, but that our minds be free.
We want to have our minds purged and purified. We want to think the way God thinks. Every sin starts with a thought; a temptation. If you have a sin problem, you have a mind problem.
- Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. (Romans 12:2)
- Jesus Has Authority Over Eternity
Our first priority is always to preach the gospel. Look, as I mentioned before, the day we are born, we start the process of dying. Why?
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, (Romans 3:23)
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)
This passage we have is a closely-knit collection of the purpose of Jesus’ ministry. In this, we have 3 things that Jesus healed while he was on earth. He healed the body, He healed the mind, and He healed the soul.
God does His work by the preaching of the gospel.
The healing of our bodies happens at the rapture of the church.
The healing of the mind is a continual renewal as we battle this earth awaiting our homecoming.
The healing of the soul happens the moment you receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior and reject the systems of this world.
Someday we will have a body free from the effects of sin.
Someday we will have a mind free from demonic deception.
Someday our eternal destination will finally be complete in heaven. Why? Because Jesus has full authority over the eternal realm.
20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. (Philippians 3:20–21)
PRAY
Calvary Baptist Church Sunday night, November 1, 2026
