SUNDAY July 17, 2022
The Work of Jesus Christ
The former account I [Luke] made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen....
Acts 1:1-2
Luke gave Theophilus an accurate account of all Jesus began both to do and teach. His discourse led right up to the time when He ascended, the giving of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, and the commandments to His Apostles who would continue the work, empowered by God’s Spirit.
Jesus’ work is recorded in Scripture. Before He began His earthly ministry, He was led by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness where He fasted for forty days before facing the temptations of the devil (Matthew 4:1-11). Jesus used the Word of God to overcome Satan. In the Gospel of Luke, we find that the devil left Him, but only for a season (Luke 4:13).
Even though Jesus’ ministry remained mostly around the Decapolis––the ten cities surrounding the Sea of Galilee––but people came from every direction to see Him:
And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. Then His fame went throughout all Syria ... Great multitudes followed Him—from Galilee, and from Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan (Matthew 4:23, 25).
What did Jesus do? He preached, taught and healed. Preaching was for the nonbeliever, whereas teaching was for the believer. There are some ministries that place more emphasis on healing than the Word of God. People like emotionalism. They go home excited, but remain empty; they have nothing to sustain them during the week.
Did you know the greatest healing to receive is salvation? It is the best miracle of all in the Bible. Have you experienced the miracle of salvation?
The greatest of all miracles is the salvation of a soul.
~C. H. Spurgeon~
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