When Jesus saw her, He called her over and said, “Woman, you are set free from your disability.”When Jesus saw her, he called her and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.”And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.And when Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
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I got the Reggie who loves Jesus. And then there's the Reggie who's Reggie. And the Reggie Reggie wants to punch this dude in the throat and watch him gag and see him beg God to help heal him on the Sabbath. Why is it that we can point at people when we ain't the one bent over? Why is it we can make fun of people when we don't know what road they traveled in? Hey, be careful who you make fun of doing their praise and worship. You don't know what that lady went through Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday to get here on Sunday to be able to raise her hands and praise her God. Listen to me. You better join us instead of making fun of us because he's coming back. Somebody say amen. But I like this next part. The Lord answered him, you hypocrite. Go boy. Doesn't each of you on the Sabbath untie your ox or donkey from the stall and lead it to get water? …
I want to preach for a little while today using as a subject, get off my back. Get off my back. Would you look at the person beside you and tell them that's what your children wanted to tell you? Yes. Thank you. Get off my back. In 1822, Thomas Gilbert published a collection of stories entitled The Midland Minstrel. In that collection of stories, The Midland Minstrel, is included a tale called The Devil and the Doctor. The Devil and the Doctor. It talks about how some students were really bristled about their overzealous teacher, who always gave them a strenuous amount of homework. And they decided that they were going to teach him a lesson. And one day, while it is that their teacher was going home in the middle of the night, they climbed atop a tree. And just at the moment that he drove past that tree, they dropped a monkey on his back. He began to gallop home feverishly, thinking that the monkey on his back was actually the devil. …
"And, behold, there was a woman which hada spirit ofinfirmity eighteen years, and was bent over, and could in no wise lift herselfup. And when Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said unto her, Woman, you are loosened from your infirmity And He laid His hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God." Luke 13:11-13. [See Sermons #1426, Volume 24—THE LIFTING UP OF THE BOWED DOWN and #2891, Volume 50—A SABBATH MIRACLE— for sermons on the same miracle.] OUR text commences with a "behold"—"behold, there was a woman." And as it was often remarked by the Puritan writers, whenever we see the word, "behold," in Scripture, we are to regard it as a nota bene, as a mark in the margin calling our particular attention to what follows. Where Christ worked wonders, we should have attentive eyes and ears. When Jesus is dispensing blessings, whether to ourselves or to others, we should never be in a state of indifference! I shall use this miracle as a type, as it were, for doubtless the miracles of Christ were so intended. Our Lord was declared to be "a Prophet mighty in deed and word." He was to be a Prophet like unto Moses and He is the only one who was like unto Moses in these two respects. Many Prophets followed Moses who were mighty in "word"—such as Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Isaiah, but then they were not "mighty in deed." Many, on the other hand, were "mighty in deed"— like Elijah and Elisha, but they were not "mighty in word." Our Lord was mighty in both respects and a Prophet in both respects—"a Prophet mighty in deed and word." I take it, therefore, that His miraculous deeds are parts of His prophecies. They are the illustrations of His great life-sermon. The words which fell from His lips are as the text and the letter of the Book, but the miracles are the pictures from which our childlike minds may often learn more than from the words, themselves. We shall so use the picture before us now—may the Holy Spirit give us instruction! …