He Sent His Word and Healed Them
It says in God’s Word that God sent His Word and healed people. For many years I didn’t understand what that meant: “God sent His Word and healed people.” Then as I got deeper and deeper in the working of the Bible I began to see that literally God’s Word is healing. When we put on His Word in our minds, when we absorb it, when we begin to live it, we receive the greatest healing I know.
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me years to believe the verse which begins, “And when he had looked round about on them with anger....” Jesus Christ looked round about on those leaders with anger. He was angry. He was, in our terminology, mad. He was not just some wishy-washy push-over, He was God’s man. He stood. Jesus looked on the unbelievers that day in Capernaum, he stood up for what he believed and he was angry. Do you know why? Because of the hardness of their heart. The hardness of people’s hearts to God’s Word doesn’t break our hearts, but it does hurt. Jesus Christ only wanted to share the greatness of God, and His Word, but the people in that synagogue who were responsible for that synagogue and its operation had hardened their hearts. Jesus said to the man “...Stretch forth thine hand....” That is all the Word of God that man had. His hand was withered. He couldn’t do anything with it when Jesus commanded h