Describe the importance of the healing miracles of Jesus for Christian life today?

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Describe the importance of the healing miracles of Jesus for Christian life today?

People become sick, they get old and die. Christians believe that this originated from the ‘fall’ in the garden of Eden. However, Jesus came to take sin and sickness away as well as death. Jesus did this with his resurrection but it still needs to be completed in the future. Christians believe that those who believe in this will share in this future Kingdom.

The power that Jesus had to heal sickness and forgive sin was a way of showing what this new Kingdom would be like.

Jesus performed many healing miracles and many of them are recorded in Luke. He healed the paralysed man (Luke 5:18-25) and the blind beggar (Luke 18:35-43) as well as the woman with the haemorrhage (Luke 8: 43-48) and Peter’s mother-in-law (Luke 4: 38-39). It didn’t matter whether they were male or female, rich or poor, Jew or gentile, Jesus healed them all.

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Jesus applied to himself the prophecy of Isaiah in Luke 4 18-19 ‘The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has chosen me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind; to set free the oppressed…’

In Luke 9:1,6 it shows that Jesus didn’t just keep the power to heal to himself but also gave his disciples the power to heal and ‘authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases’. They went throughout the villages ‘healing people everywhere’. Jesus’ healing power ...

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