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If you will, turn with me in your Bibles to Mark chapter 7.

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Mark chapter 7.

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And I'm going to be reading from verse 31 to the end of the chapter.

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Now when Jan comes home every day, she goes into the back room,

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gets on the bicycle, and turns on Gilligan's Island.

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Now I have to say I'm not a big Gilligan's Island fan.

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I'm more of a happy days or mash.

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But there was this one episode.

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And in this episode, because of the washing detergent Gilligan was using,

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he lost his hair.

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Now Mary and Ginger, they faint when they see it.

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Mrs. Howe, the professor, could not look at Gilligan.

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Why? Because he had changed, you could say in a certain sense, out of disability.

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But isn't that the way we often treat people who have some sort of disability or illness?

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Don't want to look at them.

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Don't want to touch them.

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Today we're going to look at a story about Jesus Christ, who touched someone who had a great disability.

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And it is in his touch that we find something of the glory of Jesus Christ.

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Let me read that scripture to you this morning.

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Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre.

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And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know it.

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Yet he could not keep his present secret.

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Now that's verse 24.

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So we know that Jesus is off and he is doing his ministry.

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But then let's go to verse 31.

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And then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis.

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And there some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk.

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And they begged Jesus to place his hands on him.

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And after he took him aside away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man's ears.

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Then he spit and touched the man's tongue.

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He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him,

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Apaphatim, which means be open.

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And at this, the man's ears were opened, his tongue was loosened, and he began to speak plainly.

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Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone, but the more he did so, the more they kept talking about it.

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People were overwhelmed with amazement.

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He has done everything well, they said.

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He even makes the death hear and the mute speak.

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Let's pray and ask God to bless the reading of his holy word.

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Our Heavenly Father, please be with us now as we listen.

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And may we see the glory of Jesus Christ in his touch.

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And may we also glory in Jesus for the touch he has had upon us, but also what is going to happen in the future.

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I make this prayer in his name, amen.

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Are you a touchy person?

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I mean, if you go into a room and let's say you see some people, are you the type of person who's got to go over and give people a bare heart?

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How are you doing, buddy?

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Or if you see someone who is down, are you the type of person who goes over, puts your arm around their shoulder, and you try to encourage them with your words?

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Or if you've seen somebody who is suffering bereavement, loss of a family member, are you the type of person who will put your hands on their hands

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to let them know that everything is all right?

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Or if you're a male, perhaps your type of touching is the fist bump or what we used to do, the handshake or the high five.

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Those are all forms of human contact, and as humans, touching is very good for us.

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What we know from orphans who are in orphanages, if those babies don't have human contact, if they are not being cuddled and held, they have developmental problems.

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It is also good for our health if we have human contact, especially in a world that is very lonely and is full of trouble.

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But is there glory in a touch?

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Greatness in a touch?

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Now, we've seen previously, watering to wine, well that's something we can glorify Jesus for.

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We have seen how Jesus called to Lazarus, and Lazarus rose from the dead.

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That is certainly something to glorify Jesus about, and we've seen how Jesus could teach.

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And people glorified him for that.

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What about a touch?

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Jesus touching someone.

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Is there glory in that?

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And I would say to you, yes, there is.

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Look at the crowd's response after he touched this man who was deaf and couldn't speak, they are amazed.

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And they are saying, he does everything well.

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Now, usually in miracles, Jesus can speak or think it, it's done, but there are times when Jesus touches people.

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He gets physically close.

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And here we see it, that he touches a person on their tongue and in their ears.

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So let's see what is so glorious about that touch.

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And what we see here is that he shows us his glorious closeness.

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If you go through the Bible, you will see a lot of times that we are told not to touch things.

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So for example, in the Garden of Eden, God told us people, don't touch the tree.

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Now, he didn't literally say that, he said, don't eat from it.

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But if you're going to eat from the tree, you're going to have to reach up and touch it.

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And we all know what happened after that.

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It led to the fall of Adam and Eve.

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When you get to Exodus 19, where God is on Mount Sinai, he tells the people, don't touch the mountain.

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It's holy.

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When we look at the articles that went into the temple and the tabernacle, the commandment is once again, don't touch.

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Or you will suffer the wrath of God.

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And we also know that there were certain foods, there were certain items that God's people were not to touch.

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If they touched them, they would become unclean.

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So Israel had all these rules, don't touch, don't taste.

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At the day, we sometimes have similar rules.

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I remember that when I used to go into toy stores, I was always told, don't touch the toys.

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And they would also say, you could smell the toys.

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Don't ask me why they said that.

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But I couldn't touch the toys.

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So I went around smelling toys.

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But really, we have these type of rules today too.

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But generally, they deal with health and hygiene, don't we?

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So for example, if you are in a big city, try not to touch the handles of the escalators which are going up.

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Why?

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Because all those nasty people who have touched it before you, and you don't know what type of diseases they have.

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Or if you go into the restroom, I mean, there are times I won't even touch the handles.

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I'll use my elbows or something else because you don't know what's been going on in here.

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So we've got all that.

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And what do you do?

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You've got to go wash your hands because of what you touch, because there are certain things you do not want to touch.

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And if it's not the germs that you are scared of getting, that's the reason why we don't shake hands anymore,

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be careful of what you eat.

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Don't touch that cake.

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Don't touch that pie.

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Don't touch the refrigerator in the middle of the night because it's not good for your health.

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In the Bible, all sorts of rules and regulations about don't touch, all sorts of rules and regulations in our modern life,

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let's don't touch, let's don't get near certain things.

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But look at what is happening in this passage where Jesus comes to touch someone who has a disorder.

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Let's see what's going to happen here.

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Jesus is taking a long trip, 100 plus miles.

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He left the vicinity of Tyre and he goes up, decided, and then he makes a turn and heads down into the Decapolis.

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He is in Gentile territory.

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And while he is traveling, he runs into a man who is deaf and dumb.

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And the people bring him to Jesus.

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So Jesus will do something.

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And Jesus takes him away from the crowd so he can heal him.

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And I want you to notice the action.

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He touches his finger into the man's ear, spits on his tongue.

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Let me ask you, would you do that?

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No, I don't touch anybody's ears.

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I mean, my wife sometimes says, will you massage my feet? I'm like, I don't know about that.

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There's something. Oh, we don't do that. That's just unclean.

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And I'll tell you here, the spit, it could be considered unclean, but yet you have in the ancient world

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people who believe that spit had medicinal purposes.

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And there are other miracles where Jesus uses spit to heal.

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So on the one hand it could be unclean, but on the other hand, maybe it is medicinal.

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But Jesus does this so much for hygiene today, so much for uncleanliness.

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Jesus touches his person with a handicap.

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And the reason he does it this way, well, here you have a man who can't hear, can't speak.

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It was a very tactile way of showing this man what he was going to do to heal him.

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It was almost like a teaching moment.

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And I want you to realize that in other miracles, Jesus does this as well.

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And what does it show us about Jesus, his grace and his love?

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It may be just a touch, but Jesus is doing this because his heart goes out to a man who has a handicap and is suffering.

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I mean, I don't know if people made fun of people with handicaps back then, but I'm pretty sure they did.

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They probably didn't think much of him, but he was willing to break down those barriers and do something about it.

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Now, one of the first jobs I ever had was at a mental institution where I was the male delivery person.

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And it was at Central State Hospital in Virginia, and it was a very huge campus.

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It really was a campus. It was more like a college. It didn't look like a college, but it was big.

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And they had all these buildings, and we had there the criminally insane.

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I didn't see them because you couldn't get near them.

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But we also had those with severe handicaps and the geriatric unit, which were people who either had handicaps, Alzheimer's, and people didn't want them.

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And it did not smell. And I did not want to go anywhere near any of those people.

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I just went in, dropped off the mail, got out.

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Because what was my reaction to those who were either disfigured, insane, or just didn't look good? Stay away.

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Stay away from all those people.

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It's not good to be near people like that.

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But then again, I want you to think of the glory of Jesus Christ.

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He touches someone who is handicapped in a way that you and I wouldn't.

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It would have the medical profession up in arms because he spit and he touched.

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He draws close to those who are broken.

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That's the glory of our Savior.

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That is the glory of Jesus Christ. He is willing to come and draw near.

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And he not only can touch our bodies, he can touch our souls as well.

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This also makes me think of the future.

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Because there's another incident which is somewhat like this. It is that after Jesus has risen from the grave,

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and you have those who doubted that it was Jesus who died, and what does Jesus have the disciples do?

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Here, Thomas, touch my wounds. Touch my disfigurement.

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And one day when we think about the touch of Christ,

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there's going to be that day when we will see Jesus face to face, see those wounds.

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And I don't know if we'll be able to touch them or not, but it's certainly a possibility.

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Because wounds disfigurement does not keep us from the touch of our Savior.

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In fact, because we are His creation, created in His image, He draws near to the disfigured

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because they're still in the image of God.

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And not only do we see here that here's the glory of Jesus Christ in His touch,

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but He also shows us His glorious power.

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He heals the man.

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Now look at verse 34. There is a lot of grace here with His glory.

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In verse 34, it's somewhat unusual because it says in verse 34,

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He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to Him,

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apathrata, which means be open.

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In other versions, it may say something a little different with a groan.

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And in other passages in Scripture, that word groan is used.

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For example, in Romans 8, 23, not only so, but we ourselves,

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we have the first fruits of the Spirit groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship,

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the redemption of our bodies.

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Why is Jesus groaning?

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In this passage, the word is used again by Paul in 2 Corinthians chapter 5.

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Meanwhile, we groan longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling.

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In those two passages by Paul, we are groaning because of all of our physical bodies

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are having to go through in this world, death, decay, disfigurement.

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And I'm sure back then there were a lot more people who were disfigured.

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Why is Jesus groaning?

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Because in His grace, He sees what the curse has done to His creation.

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He is willing to do something about it.

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That's why He's groaning.

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And whether He sees retardation, cancer, Alzheimer's, cerebral palsy, or Down syndrome,

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I think it has the same reaction with Jesus.

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This is not what we were intended to be.

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It's only this way because of sin and the fall and the curse.

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And Jesus here doesn't just touch.

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The power flows and Jesus acts.

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And that man is cured.

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Jesus touches.

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He speaks.

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He looks to heaven.

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And what's the result?

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That man can now hear.

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He can now speak.

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And notice what it says, speak clearly.

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And we often, I think, wonder, what is he saying?

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Can you imagine what that man would be saying?

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I can speak.

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What's happened?

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I've been cured.

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And he can hear.

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Can you think about what you would say if you were in the same position?

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And it's not only this man is talking, the rest of the passage says,

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everybody else is talking.

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He can't get him to shut up because he's done this miraculous healing through his touch.

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And notice what they say.

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He has done everything well, or he has done everything good.

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Reminds us of Genesis chapter one, when God spoke and creation was declared good.

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Because Jesus creates, but he recreates through healing.

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That is the glorious power of Jesus Christ.

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Now let's think for a moment about the implications of this.

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You may know people who have disabilities.

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They have some real problems and I can think, for example, David, he's had some terrible problems.

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But one day, here's what Jesus Christ is going to do.

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That miraculous, glorious power will be used to transform David into something that is very glorious,

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which we would probably not even recognize.

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We would go from pity today to almost worship in the new heavens and the new earth.

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We may think of Rodney, remember Rodney with all of his problems.

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One day, Jesus Christ will touch his body.

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And once again, there's going to be an awesome change.

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We may know people who have Alzheimer's, who can't think, who are constantly forgetting.

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But in the new heavens, in the new earth, when Jesus comes again for his people who have Alzheimer's,

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let me tell you what's going to happen.

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They're going to have the recall and IQ of an Einstein.

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Because Jesus Christ is going to recreate us in his fullness.

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And what we've got to understand is that as God's people are great hope,

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comes not because everything will be taken care of in this world, but one day,

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that touch is going to make us all 100% whole.

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Don't worry about what can happen to you or your kids so much.

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Don't know what's going to happen.

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But what we do know is, is the glory of Jesus is that he can restore.

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Our circles, we pull back from getting too close and touching people.

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And I know I'm that way.

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I'm not exactly a touchy person.

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And part of it goes back to a time when we were in Virginia,

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and I went up and I hugged a woman.

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And she groaned and she groaned because she had back problems and I sort of learned a lesson.

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But when Jesus Christ touches you, those pains all evaporate.

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Because that's the type of savior we have.

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One who is willing to show us his glory by taking away our disfigurement,

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whether it is spiritual or physical.

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That is the glory of Jesus, the glory of his touch.

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Let's pray.

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Our Heavenly Father, we ask now that you will show us the glory of Jesus,

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who by his touch is able to heal, by his words the power of God is demonstrated.

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May we look forward to that time when all of our infirmities will be done away with.

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The curse will be no more.

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Our minds will be made right as well as our bodies and our souls will desire you and your kingdom above all else.

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Holy Spirit, speak to us of these eternal truths that we find in your Word. Amen.