Collegedale Camp Meeting 2023: Expanding His Kingdom

Georgia-Cumberland Conference

Lessons from the Great Physician

Greg Steinke

The Greatest Physician of All Time

His Supporting Medical Staff

Cleansing the Defiled

Healing the Sick and Distressed

Raising the Dead

Lifestyle Medical Ministry Today

Alright, so for those of you just coming in, that link right there at the top, if you type that into your phone or your iPad or whatever you want to type it into on your browser, you have my document, okay?

And I'm really excited about this session, about our whole 6 series.

I've really made some huge discoveries in my own journey that I hope to share with you today.

And it has everything to do with the power of Jesus to help us with our healing.

And I see this happening over and over as we minister to different people, God's ability to work in people, and we need to understand this as his believers.

So for the first session, we're going to introduce who the greatest physician of all time is.

And then, next session, we're going to talk about his supporting medical staff and the gifts and the amazing things that Jesus gave them through the power that he bestowed through the Spirit.

And then the third session and the fourth session and the fifth session, we're going to be doing some case studies in the Gospels to glean some very important spiritual truths for healing.

You know, the spirit is so important when it comes to improving our health.

And it's something that I think we need to emphasize more.

And then on our sixth session on Sabbath, we're gonna look at lifestyle medical ministry today.

You know, I'm involved in a clinic and we're very much about this.

And we want to encourage all of us to be about this.

And so we want to give you some principles to hone your own skills.

So the number of miraculous healings that are depicted in the gospel stories of Jesus Christ is unparalleled in history, right?

Jesus was no doubt the greatest physician of all time.

He took the hardest cases, the cases every other physician had given up on.

Hundreds, if not thousands, waited on him daily.

If the patient placed their confidence fully in him, he would heal them.

I can just use my, I don't know, use this here.

It says here that Christ was the greatest medical missionary of all time that ever lived.

You know, and many of us have experienced miracles in our lives.

Who's been to experience a miracle perhaps in your life?

You know, but the miracles today are maybe of a slightly different character many times than before, right?

You know, there are miracles of the nature that we're going to study that still occur, but much of the time it occurs slightly differently.

This story I entitled, The Orange Construction Barrel That Saved My Life.

So I was just finishing my classes in college.

And I was having to have that dealt with by an oral surgeon.

And so I was going to downtown Vancouver, I'm from the Vancouver, British Columbia area, on a regular basis to have checkups and so on.

And I was coming back right during spring break on the freeway, traveling about 70 miles an hour in my mom's Mercury Sable.

Next thing I know, bam, I'm hitting a large orange construction barrel.

I come to, I start to get my wits about me, I turn to my, I look to my right and there's a lady going off an exit that is not looking where she's going, she's looking at me with the look of horror on her face.

And as I look forward, I see the freeways turning to the left, and there's a whole wall of concrete right in front of me that I'm about to run straight into.

I put my hands back on the wheel, somehow I'd lost my possession of the wheel, and screeched the car back onto the freeway.

And I look in my rear view mirror, there's no signs of construction, there's no sign that there was any reason why an orange construction barrel should be there.

What would have happened if I had run into that concrete beam as a college student.

You know, you have these kind of moments when you realize, wow, only providence could have done that.

He must think that there's a reason for my life.

And so with Jesus' ministry, as you see at the last there, and you're welcome to read through this in total at your leisure time.

Jesus' ministry when he was on earth was different.

And so we have 4 questions I'm hoping to cover.

I'm not sure we'll have time to get through them, but you have the document.

During his earthly ministry up to number 1, why did God give Jesus power to heal diseases?

Number 2, what was the primary reason why people sought out Jesus during his earthly ministry?

Number 3, in addition to physically healing us and bearing our sicknesses, what example was Jesus the great physician for us during his ministry that is essential for our healing.

So what example was he that is essential for our healing?

And number 4, is the lesson of unifying spiritual health and physical health important today?

All right, And so we'll look at this now.

Why did God give Jesus power to heal diseases?

Number 1, to attest that Jesus was from God.

Number 2, Second point, to fulfill Scripture.

Third point, to demonstrate his power to forgive sins.

Fourth point, to demonstrate God's attitude toward us.

So if you look at Acts 2.22, I don't know if you brought your Bibles today, but Acts 2.22 says, Jesus of Nazareth, so this is Peter's speech, Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through him in your midst as you yourselves know." Okay, so you can see there that what was the purpose?

To attest means to provide or serve as clear evidence of.

So the miracles provided or served a clear evidence of God's working through Jesus, okay?

Jesus says the same thing himself in John 5.

I mean, if you've ever, if you ever want to take time in Scripture, read John 5.

Try to understand what's happening there.

It is really, really important to the whole story of Jesus.

And so in John 5 it says, the very works that I do bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me.

Well, he said it because he had just performed a miracle, and that miracle was healing the man at the Pool of Bethesda.

And so I want to look briefly at that story.

So if you turn to John 5, you can see that in that story, let's just read it really quickly.

After this there was a feast of the Jews.

Now there went up to Jerusalem, I'm sorry, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having 5 porches.

Series

Lessons from the Great Physician

The Greatest Physician of All Time

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Parent Series

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Attachments

Chad Kreuzer Weekend

03 Religious Aggression and the Health Message

43m

Encounters With Jesus

Jesus’ Encounters at the Cross

41m

Go Show Yourselves to the Priests

51m

AMEN 2013: Plenary Sessions

The Patient Experience 2b

1h

Today’s Pain Relievers, Sinful Habits, and Addictions

1h

Health Evangelism

01 Lighting the World

1h 6m

The Time of Destiny

52m

The Way of Love

The Way of Love- Part 5

37m

Eric Walsh: Rumbles in the Mind

Mind Makeover: Faith and Addiction Recovery

59m

Finally It’s Over

1h 25m

Dealing with the Coronavirus from a NEWSTART Perspective

1h 2m

Right Arm of the Gospel

51m

Sound Doctrine