THE WAY OUT
Verse to Memorise: Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. Matthew 10:8
Bible Reading: Matthew 10:5-8,
5 These twelve Jesus sent
forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and
into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
Bible in one year: Leviticus 10-11, 1st Corinthians 7:17-40
MESSAGE:-
Our Lord Jesus
Christ has many names and titles. The purpose of these names is to enlighten
the eyes of our understanding to the reality of His person. One of such names
is The Way. In John 14:6, the Lord Jesus
revealed this truth about Himself to us:
“Jesus
saith unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me.”
What does the
Lord mean when He says He is the Way? If you need to get to a location and you
are at a loss on how to get there, the wise thing to do is to ask people at
your current location the way out of where you are in order to get to where you
wish to go. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Way out of the unpleasant situation
you are in presently. He is also the Way into the new location of your choice.
The Bible reveals Jesus as the Way out of sickness (1st
Peter 2:24).
In Acts 9:32-35, Peter visited some believers
living in Lydda and met Aeneas who had been bedridden for eight years. He
simply introduced him to Jesus Christ, and Aeneas followed the Name of Jesus
out of sickness into divine healing and health.
The Name of
Jesus is also the Way out of death (Acts 9:40-41).
Our Bible reading shows that the sick, the lepers and the dead can follow the
pathway of Jesus out of their circumstances. Anyone who has an appointment with
death can be delivered by the following the Name of Jesus, because Jesus is the
way out of any situation having to do with death. Some 276 sailors, soldiers
and prisoners were lost at sea for fourteen days and faced sure death in the
hands of a violent hurricane called Euroclydon (Act
27:12-44). For fourteen days, their souls were overwhelmed with the fear
of death and they could not eat anything. They all would have died but for the
presence of Paul who bore the Name of Jesus amongst them. The Lord sent His
angel of Paul to show them the way of escape from the clutches of death. The
Lord showed them that their salvation depended on them remaining in their
sinking ship which was at the mercy of the winds (Acts
27:31)! The pathway that goes through Jesus led them through the valley
of the shadow of death, and not one soul among them was lost (Act 27:44). Do you have an early appointment with
death that agents of darkness have fixed for you? In the Name of Jesus Christ
of Nazareth, that appointment with death is cancelled! Has sickness drawn you
so close to death? In the Name of Jesus, you shall not die but live! You shall
recover in Jesus’ Name.
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