In this part, we saw David run from Saul. We noticed that David attracted the
distressed, those in debt, and the discontented to him when he goes home to the
tribe of Judah. I believe these 3
categories are the people who need grace the most. Distress comes when we are faced with
situations where there is no hope. Grace gives these people hope. Those in debt are imprisoned, often
literally, until it is paid. They are
held back by these burdened. Grace
offers freedom to those who are in bondage.
Discontented person are those you are usually told in leadership to
remove from your team. People who are disenfranchised
from the church are mad at God and are in need of His grace. They are mad at Christians who lived
judgmentally and in condemnation. Love
doesn’t ignore sin, but it does cover them up.
These people became a mighty army (started with 400 and constantly grew)
because they didn’t stay distressed, in debt, and discontented. This army is not used to fight Saul but to fight
the Philistines. He is still serving
Saul.
We looked at Luke 13:10.
Jesus sees a woman crippled, not by God, but just by life. He immediately acts and speaks that she is
set free from her infirmity. He is
setting her free from her prison. He
lays hands after setting her free. Then
she straightens up and praises God.
Jesus healing people involved them believing and receiving healing. He doesn’t say “I have healed you” but
instead “you are set free.” They still
have to believe what he says to receive it. The synagogue rules say the Sabbath
is not the day to be healed. They are
angry both with Jesus and with the woman.
In Mark 5:21-43 we see a synagogue ruler who by
approaching Jesus, with whom other synagogue rulers are angry, is risking his
position, seeing his daughter healed. In
the midst of the story, the woman with the issue of blood is healed by simply
touching the edge of Jesus’ robe (a robe was considered the extension of a
person’s power).
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