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W.D. Frazee

Balm of Gilead- Part 2

Now, a week ago, we were studying about the bomb of Gilead, from Jeremiah 22.

Why then is the health of the daughter of my people not recovered?

In other words, if there's a good doctor around with good medicine, why are we sick?

Well, we studied some wonderful promises and wonderful assurances last week, and I'm sure we went home convinced that God is in the saving business, ready to solve any problem.

But tonight I want to go a bit further with this study, And I bring to you a very simple and very obvious fact, and that is that no matter how good a remedy is, the remedy and the patient must be brought in contact.

The remedy and the patient must be brought in contact.

The balm of Gilead must be applied, or else it's all in vain that Jesus has provided it.

No matter how little our problem, friends, we can't solve it without him.

No matter how great our problem, he has the answer.

Tonight I want to bring you this precious truth, and that is that the balm of Gilead is nothing less than Christ himself.

He is the branch that was put into the waters of Merah that healed those streams.

He is the 1 that was with Israel there in the pillar of cloud and fire, and through Moses told his people, I am the Lord that healeth thee.

He is the answer to every question, the solution to every problem, the remedy for every disease of body and mind and soul.

But let us face this fact, my friend, all that is available for us only because He died upon the cross.

As that tree by the waters of Merah must be cut down and cast into the waters, So Christ must be stricken, wounded.

He must be slain that from him might flow the healing stream to take care of our sins, our sicknesses.

Turn please to Zechariah the 13th chapter.

Zechariah the 13th chapter the first verse.

In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins, and sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.

Thank God every problem that sin has made finds its answer in that stream of blessing that flows from the wounded hands and side of Jesus our Lord.

Now I repeat, dear friend, the remedy and the patient must be brought together.

We must come in contact with the cross of Christ, and it is at the cross that we meet our Lord.

Look at the preceding chapter, Zechariah 12, in the tenth verse.

And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplications, and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced.

And they shall mourn for him as 1 mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him as 1 that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

Someone says, well, I don't see very much healing in this.

It looks like it's a rather painful time of sorrow.

You doctors will agree with me when I say that sometimes a patient who is hurting has to be hurt worse in order to be healed.

I know what that is on the receiving end.

1 of the sad things today about this generation, although it's not peculiar to this generation, there is an increasing desire to get rid of symptoms rather than deal with basic causes and basic problems.

An increasing willingness to shoot the watchdog, cut the wires that sound the fire alarm, and go on doing the thing that makes the problem.

And when Jesus calls us to Calvary, that we may be healed, he's calling us to the only place where we can become awakened to the thing that's making our problem and find the remedy for it.

We may look at our other problems, financial problems, home problems, health problems, worry problems, personnel problems, relationship problems.

The basic problem is that little word, that big little word of 3 letters, S-I-N.

You know what's right in the middle of seen?

Now God has a strategy that I want to study with you tonight.

It's involved in getting real help for your problems, whatever your problems are.

God's problem is to divert you from yourself, to divert you from yourself, because you are in the middle of your problem.

If you don't know that, you haven't even understood your problem yet.

And so God's strategy is to divert you from your problem.

1 of the best ways to get diverted from a problem is to look at a bigger problem.

Did you ever have some kind of pain in your body and forget all about it when a harder pain, bigger pain struck you in some other organ?

And Jesus is seeking to call us from our little pain, our petty problems, to behold the great pain, the broken heart at Calvary.

He says, I'm going to pour my spirit upon you and you will look upon the 1 that you have pierced.

And then you will mourn for him as 1 mourns for his only son, and be in bitterness for him as 1 that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

Ah, yes, this is where help comes, in getting our mind diverted from our selfish desire to get what we want, even if it's something good, and get our whole souls filled with the vision of what sin, our sin, has done to Jesus.

It is as if we were following up a stream through pasture and meadow, and then in the hills and up into the mountains.

And finally we come to the source In the great spring that issues from the cliff, what is it?

The only stream of healing that's flowing in the plains of this world flows from Calvary.

And as I look into those eyes of Jesus, as I watch the blood drops fall from his head, his hands, his feet, I say, is this really what it costs to provide healing, to provide solution to my problem?

This is God bringing man back to himself by coming to the cross and taking man's sin, his sickness, his sorrow, taking all his burdens, and the weight of it crushes his soul.

Tell me, friends, if we could see it really, truly, literally, Wouldn't our minds be diverted from our own petty problems?

Wouldn't we begin to get sorry for him instead of just feeling so sorry for ourselves?

The selfish human heart seeks to find somebody that will sympathize.

Somebody says, oh yes, that's what I want, somebody to sympathize with.

Oh, My friends, you need something far more than somebody to sympathize with you.

You need somebody to point you to the 1 that you need to sympathize with.

With your selfishness, your sin, you murdered the Son of God and He's hanging there, bearing the sin of your life.

And oh, if you can only see it as it is, he'll take over you and your problems.

He'll handle them, but he can never do it until the balm of Gilead is applied to the wound of your soul.

He can never do it in a way that will just gratify your selfish desires that you have found in prayer, the answer to what you want.

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