SNT 0601 The Touch of the Master’s Hand
The Touch of the Master’s Hand Four accounts in the Gospels about people who reached out to touch or be touched by Jesus Christ and the healing that resulted. [February 18, 1973] SNT – 601 Heb 4:12-16 Heb 4:16; Mar 1:40-42; 3:10; Luk 7:36-39 Luk 7:39-48; 8:41-46 Luk 8:46-48; Col 2:10 ___________________________ The Touch of the Master’s Hand Victor Paul Wierwille Sunday Night Teaching – 0601 I have been wanting to share with our people on a Sunday night some truths regarding the reaching out and just touching the greatness of the Word that God has made available, and how efficacious this Word really becomes to us in life. The word “touch” is a very significant word used in the Word of God on a number of different occasions and in a number of different ways. But when I think of touching and reaching out for Christ and the answers to life, it’s an outreach. To touch is an outreach for aid. It’s an outreach for joy. It’s an outreach for peace. It’s an outreach to get the answers – to find out exactly where it is and how I can receive it. I think of it also as a touch like a child reaching out for its mother. And you’ve seen it; you hold out your hand, the little child reaches out for it. Or you have the little child in your arms, and the child reaches out for whatever you’ve got in your other hand or something; sometimes for your glasses, and hair, and neckties, and a few other little things. So tonight, we’re just going to spend a little time working the Word on the word “touched”; and in Hebrews, I want to begin. In Chapter 4, and in verse 12: Hebrews 4:12a: For the word of God [and the word “word” is the word “ logos ,” meaning revealed Word of God] is quick [meaning living], and powerful [the word “powerful” is the word “energetic”], and sharper than [or above. It’s sharper above] any twoedged sword, . . . The Word of God is sharper. Well, if the Word of God is sharper, it’s got to be sharp – even better than Wilkinson Sword, or Gillette, or anything else. Sharper
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requirement was that he should have offered him some water to wash his feet and his hands. He said, “When I entered in the house . . . ” Luke: 7:44b-48: . . . thou gavest me no water for my [what?] feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. 45 [When I came into your house, Simon the Pharisee] Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet. 46 My head with oil thou didst not anoint: [You should have, but you didn’t] but this woman [didn’t anoint my head, she stooped down so low she] . . . anointed my [what?] {feet with ointment}. 47 Wherefore I say unto [you], Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little. 48 And he said unto her, Thy sins are [what?] forgiven. Boy, what a record. What a record. The Pharisee invited the Lord Je