CARING FOR OTHERS 3: PHYSICIANS

(Message by Tanny Keng)

1. Caring for Others

a) At the core or heart of Christianity is the fact that we should be caring people.  If we truly believe the Word of God we know that apart from God, we are all headed toward eternal damnation.  Having a heart that cares shows that we are seeking to be like Jesus.  

b) Jesus compassion for others was easy to see in the pages of the Gospels.  Jesus was going from place to place, from town to town, and was not only meeting the spiritual needs of people but He clearly was compassionate for their physical needs.  He often healed the sick, gave comfort to the poor and provided for the physical nourishment and needs of thousands as was evident in some of His miracles.  

2. Physicians 

Genesis 50:2 
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to  embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

Job 13:4  
As for you,  you whitewash with lies;  worthless physicians are you all.

Matthew 9:12 
But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.

Mark 5:24-29 
And he went with him.  And a great crowd followed him and  thronged about him. And there was a woman  who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. 

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