Sermon: Happy Mother-in-law’s Day | Mark 1:29-39 | Jesus Heals Many

After Jesus healed Peter’s mother-in-law and many other people he said, “Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that is why I came out.” Notice what Jesus does not say, that I came to heal and cast out demons. He says only that I may preach. The miracles and exorcisms get all the attention. Those are the stories we like, and that’s what we want still today.

 

Healing from our problems and providing for all of our daily needs. We pray for those things all the time, right? And it’s not wrong to pray for those things. Those are good prayers. He wants us, like those people in Capernaum that day, to come to Him with our sicknesses and demons. But He came to do something even greater than heal us of our sickness and diseases. He came to preach the Word, forgive our sins, conquer death and give us eternal life.

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