HEART THAT RESTORES (5 OF 10)
Scripture: Mark 8:22-30
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Heart That Restores (5 of 10)
Series: The Heart of Jesus
Stephen Whitney
Mark 8:22-30
Helen Keller was born blind on June 27, 1880 in a little town in northern Alabama. She wrote in her autobiography, ''Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog; when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? Light! give me light! was the wordless cry of my soul . . .''
Blindness really leaves a person helpless. It is mentioned 60 times in the Bible in both the Old and New Testaments. Next to leprosy it must have been one of the most difficult diseases to have because you could see and therefore were not able to support yourself and reduced to begging. Other people have to lead you, take care of you and provide for you.
Some of the major causes of blindness are: glaucoma in which excess pressure in the eye damages the tissue, infection that scar the tissue or malnutrition which causes the eye not to develop.
Blindness really leaves a person helpless. It is no wonder that in the Gospels that blind men begged Jesus to them or other people begged Jesus to heal them. Jesus offered a blind person real hope of a changed life now that they were able to see.
PARTIALLY HEALED :22-24 Request :22 Bethsaida - Gk. house of fish. It was on the west side of the Sea of Galilee and was the hometown of Philip, one of Jesus' disciples. It was also a place where Jesus had performed several miracles.
Begged (KJB besought) - Gk. to call on or request help. Mark 5:22-23 One of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus . . . implored Jesus earnestly, saying, ''My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her.''
Touch - Gk. put his hands on. They believed that Jesus with just the touch of his hand a person could heal them. The reason they begged Jesus was they knew that only he could heal the blind man, no one else could. He healed Peter's mother-in-law (1:31) and Jairus's daughter (5:2 ...
Series: The Heart of Jesus
Stephen Whitney
Mark 8:22-30
Helen Keller was born blind on June 27, 1880 in a little town in northern Alabama. She wrote in her autobiography, ''Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog; when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? Light! give me light! was the wordless cry of my soul . . .''
Blindness really leaves a person helpless. It is mentioned 60 times in the Bible in both the Old and New Testaments. Next to leprosy it must have been one of the most difficult diseases to have because you could see and therefore were not able to support yourself and reduced to begging. Other people have to lead you, take care of you and provide for you.
Some of the major causes of blindness are: glaucoma in which excess pressure in the eye damages the tissue, infection that scar the tissue or malnutrition which causes the eye not to develop.
Blindness really leaves a person helpless. It is no wonder that in the Gospels that blind men begged Jesus to them or other people begged Jesus to heal them. Jesus offered a blind person real hope of a changed life now that they were able to see.
PARTIALLY HEALED :22-24 Request :22 Bethsaida - Gk. house of fish. It was on the west side of the Sea of Galilee and was the hometown of Philip, one of Jesus' disciples. It was also a place where Jesus had performed several miracles.
Begged (KJB besought) - Gk. to call on or request help. Mark 5:22-23 One of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus . . . implored Jesus earnestly, saying, ''My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her.''
Touch - Gk. put his hands on. They believed that Jesus with just the touch of his hand a person could heal them. The reason they begged Jesus was they knew that only he could heal the blind man, no one else could. He healed Peter's mother-in-law (1:31) and Jairus's daughter (5:2 ...
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