Authoritative teaching and miraculous
healing while proclaiming the good news of the kingdom accompanied Jesus
wherever He went. He was no ordinary man.
January’s
Awakening, Day 4
I tell the Hindus that their lives
will be imperfect if they do not also study reverently the teaching of Jesus.
—Gandhi
[Jesus is] our divinest symbol. Higher
has the human thought not yet reached. A symbol of quite perennial, infinite
character; whose significance will ever demand to be anew inquired into, and
anew made manifest.
—Thomas Carlyle
Jesus
went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues,
proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and
sickness. Matthew 9:35 NIV
The
people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority,
not as the teachers of the law. Mark 1:22 NIV
Jesus taught as one with authority
because He was the Authority. The Living Word was teaching the Written Word,
which had already been conceived in His mind before the Word had been penned
and even before the beginning of time. As Jesus proclaimed that the kingdom was
at hand He provided tangible proof by casting out demons, healing the sick,
giving sight to the blind, mobility for the lame, feeding the thousands,
calming the sea, raising the dead, forgiving sins, and brought eternal hope for
the broken. Signs, wonders, and miracles were the norm that accompanied His
teaching. No, not an ordinary teacher; no, not an ordinary man. Crucified,
three days dead, and resurrected to life, seen, touched and experienced by
many, and then ascended into heaven, witnessed by many—positive proof that He
was who He claimed to be. One with the Father, God had come.
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