The Patience Of Jesus With the Patients Of Jesus

I. Ancient Medicine

Ex.1:15, midwives Ex.15:26, obedience gave health (rest,

foods, marriage regulations, quarantines) Code of Hammurabi Egyptians: brain surgery Isa.1:6, needed cleansing, bandaging,

and ointment (Lk.10:34)

Jer.8:22, Gilead’s balm (medical ointment)

Mt.27:34. (1 T.5:23) Every Jewish town was required to

have a physician. (Mk.5:26) Col.4:14, medicine advanced in GreeceHippocrates, doctors took oath:

life of a patient should come first, they would never take advantageof women, or procure abortions,or reveal confidential information

I. Ancient Medicine

II. The Doctor Will See You Now

Lk.4:16-23 Hearers demand proof that He has

improved His own circumstances

Lk.5:27-32

Proverbs:“A physician for others, but himself

teeming with sores” – Euripides.“Physician, heal thine own limp.”

Physical healing:signs prove His divine mission

Mt.4:23-24, heal all Mt.8:7-8…13, from distance Mt.8:16, w. a word Mt.10:8, helpers

General practiceHouse calls

Bedside manner

Physician’s assistants

Spiritual healing:salvation, His primary mission

Mt.13:15, healed (= Mk.4:12) Lk.4:18, brokenhearted 1 Pt.2:24, sin, universal disease

Spiritual healing:Paradoxes

W/o His tears, there is no comfortW/o His death…no life

W/o His blood…no pardonW/o His cross…no crownW/o His shame…no glory

W/o His grief…no joyW/o His stripes…no healing

Spiritual healing:Great Physician can heal all

1. Diagnoses: sins, 24. Mt.22:29 2. Doctors: wounds, 24

3. Delivers: never lost patient who followed His directions, 24

His stripes (1 Pt.2:24)Our obedience (Lk.24; Ac.2)

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III. The Patience Of Jesus With The Patients Of Jesus

II. The Doctor Will See You Now

Mt.12:20 Bruised reed loses strength to stand

upright – uselessuseless Imperfect flax fibers; wicks smoke –

irritatingirritating

He is patient withthe weak

the uselessthe irritating

Examples of His patiencew. His patients

1. Disciples

2. Immoral. Lk.15 3. Enemies. Lk.15

The twelve: Mt.20Peter: Mt.16; 26

I. Ancient Medicine

IV. We Need Patience Of JesusWith The Patients Of Jesus

II. The Doctor Will See You Now

III. The Patience Of Jesus With The Patients Of Jesus

Mt.18:26, forgiveness Not just seven times Not just little things

“I don’t work that way!”

1 Th.5:14, with all“He deserves not the name of patient who is only willing to suffer as much as he thinks proper, and for whom he pleases. The truly patient man asks (nothing) from whom he suffers, (whether) his superior, his equal, or his inferior…But from whom-ever, or how much, or how often wrong is done to him, he accepts it all as from the hand of God, and counts it gain!”– Thomas a Kempis

Follow Jesus – Mt.12:20

2 Th.1:4, in tribulations Steadfast endurance: “masculine

constancy under trial” (1 Th.2:14)

Makes patience a blessing

Most equate patience with sitting, but this patience works. To sit in sorrow or suffer w/o complaining takes strength; but the power to keep working under stress, to do daily tasks w. a great weight on your heart is Christ-like.

2 T.2:24, teaching Philip, Jn.14:8-10

Ja.1:4, perfect work Real patience endures to the end Ga.6:9

2 Pt.1:6, growth to salvation 2 Tim.2:3

“Patience is a virtue,Possess it if you can. Found seldom in a woman,Never in a man.”