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

Okay, well, I guess we're trying to stay on time, so I'm glad for those of you who are here.

We usually have people coming in as we go.

I'm sorry I didn't have that ready this time.

I'll try to finish it at the end for you guys so you can all have this.

I just don't have the link quite ready yet for this session, but of course I have the material.

We're just going to get it all ready here.

I don't know why it's struggling to come up.

So now we're going to talk about, we're going to start getting into the specifics of the healing ministry of Jesus.

In terms of his actual healing efforts, and it's just really pretty remarkable what Jesus did.

These are some great stories, So I thought that you'd find this interesting.

So as soon as I get back, sorry about this.

Okay, so here's a list of the stories that Jesus did.

We don't have time to go through all 4, but we're going to go through 3 of them.

So, we're going to look at a couple examples of Jesus tending to those who were defiled, right?

This idea of defilement is still strong in our society today.

Those people who feel like they're like everyone's turned their back on them.

And then the next session after that, we're going to look at the distressed.

We're going to go through some of the stories, and you can see I highlighted the ones we're going to go through.

And then we're going to look at the dead, and look at a couple things like that with that 1.

So we're going to look at the story of the leper, the story of a paralyzed man, and of the blind.

We don't have time to go through all 4 of them.

Alright, We'll just start with the leper.

Okay, so let's go ahead and start on this part here.

Okay, so, you know, all 3 synoptic Gospels tell us about Jesus healing a leper, right?

You know, when you think about skin, I mean, 1 of the most beautiful things is skin, right?

Not only does it have beauty that you see with it, but if you didn't have that, I don't know if you've ever seen someone's face with the skin off.

My mom used to work with a surgeon who did those kind of procedures.

We're so used to seeing emotion in a person's face.

And the other thing about skin as you study skin is that it's so amazing.

On the 1 hand it's porous, you can rub creams on your skin and it goes right on into your body and you can cut on it and take things off if you need to.

It's both able to retain heat and remove it.

And so for you to have your skin messed up, it's a big deal.

Anyone ever had a skin issue that kind of bothered them a little bit?

You know, for most of us nowadays, when we get a skin issue, we don't fear, oh no, this might be leprosy.

But just think about the context back then.

Here you have a situation where people know very little about their health, we went over that.

They know very little about the causes of disease and here now they have some kind of lesion forming on some part of their skin.

And with the issue of leprosy such a big deal in that society, you can imagine the fear and trembling that begins into someone's mind as they stare at this lesion on their skin, this rash or whatever they would describe it as.

Because leprosy was the most dreaded disease by far.

It was considered incurable, contagious, and repulsive to everyone.

It became a symbol of the outcast, that marred skin.

And to the Jews it was a sign of God's judgment, right?

And so, we'll look at it, but The people were shunned.

The law of God itself recommended that, or stated that's what needed to happen.

Any abnormal skin lesion, which people would shudder at.

And they had an obligatory requirement that they had to go to the priest to get it checked out.

And so the priest had this enormous decision-making process, right?

I mean, it would be horrible to have these people coming in and showing you their rash or whatever, and you had to decide, is this leprosy or not?

It could turn a whole family into a mess.

And so, to have leprosy meant to be instantly cancelled from culture.

We've been hearing a lot about this in the news and different kinds of things.

Lepers were instantly cancelled by culture, right?

And you can see in the end note there, the footnote, You know, we had a major issue in my family where we lost my father-in-law because of a skin problem.

And so this particularly, you know, strikes me.

In fact Ellen White says that as 1 already dead, he was shut out from the habitations of men, right?

You couldn't go anywhere anyone else went.

If only the defiled ones were always the ones perpetrating the original crime.

Sometimes the defiled ones were simply bystanders, contracting the disease by mere association, perhaps ignorantly.

Sometimes they ignored the risk because of the desire to care and help a friend, right?

When I was a physician in COVID, when COVID was just starting, and you got these impressions that this thing was deadly.

I mean, it seemed like it was over the top, but the early journalists were comparing it to the Black Plague.

It was ludicrous, really, but they were doing this.

And so you have these patients coming into the hospital.

I was on the ward in the COVID unit and you would gulp when you stepped inside the room because you didn't understand perfectly well exactly how that thing was contracted.

You sense that it was likely due to respiratory type things and we'd have masks on and everything.

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Lessons from the Great Physician

Cleansing the Defiled

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