THE GREAT PHYSICIAN

And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Matthew 9:10-13

The secrets of men are in their stories. Jesus was simply introducing Himself here: "I am the Great Physician, I have come to save the lost". If you have been lost in sickness, the Great Physician has come to heal you.

He is the Great Physician which Jeremiah prophesied about in Jeremiah 8:22 saying:

Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then, is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Jesus is the fulfillment of prophecy. Physicians don't go to healthy people, they go to sick ones. So if you're sick in your body, this is your hour of liberty. The Great Physician is here for you.

Matthew 8:17 says concerning Him: Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.

Many have accepted Jesus as Saviour, but very few have accepted Him as their healer. He is not only the Saviour of your soul, but also the Saviour of your body.

Your health is an important part of God's redemptive plan for you, that's why it's included in the package, as we see in Psalm 103:1-3:

Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:Who forgiveth all thine iniquities: who healeth all thy diseases;

Jesus already took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses. Not that He's coming to take, No! "He Himself TOOK..."

And so 1 Peter 2:24 says: "By whose stripes YE WERE HEALED". So it's a matter of past tense, something that has been concluded. Friends, any area where the devil seems to be mocking you, I want you to understand that Jesus has come to restore your dignity.

Jesus is the Great Physician. Until you accept Him as your healer, you don't enjoy divine health. You can't miss your health if you take His prescription. You can't suffer bodily afflictions if you recognize Him as the Physician. Jesus never referred any case. He was never stranded handling any situation. He was absolutely and perfectly in charge when it came to getting the health of people restored. He is the ultimate, there is no where else to go after Him.

For: All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness: and the darkness comprehended it not.
John 1:3-5

I want to introduce you to this Great Physician.

The Great Physician In Figures

In the Old Testament, we see Jesus accomplish His healing ministry in various forms.

The Manna

He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
Psalm 105:37

All through the 40 years that the children of Israel spent in the wilderness, they were never reported sick! "...Not one feeble person among their tribes", the Bible records! What was it?

Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things, so that thy youth is renewed like the eagles.
Psalm 103:5

So, the secret was in the nature of food that God gave them to eat in the wilderness! Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold,

I will rain bread from heaven for you...
Exodus 16:4

And (he) rained down manna upon them to eat ...Man did eat angels' food: he sent them (food) to the full. So they did eat, and were well filled... Psalm 78:24-25,29

...And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
Exodus 16:15

The Living Bread

Now, talking in John 6:32-33, Jesus makes us to understand what that manna from heaven was:

...Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
John 6:32-33

And in John 6:48-51, He unveiled the mystery behind the manna:

I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

So there is a major secret behind the flesh of Jesus, the Living Bread. It is the impartation of divine health. It is the impartation of His nature, which is immune to sickness and disease. They ate only "the bread" in the wilderness, and none among their tribe was feeble. Now we have in the New Covenant the "Living Bread", plus the "Living Blood" (John 6:54), how much more then should we enjoy perfect divine health! No man-made drug can compare with His combination! While Jesus was still with His disciples, they remained perfectly healthy, none of them was ever reported sick. Now, imagine Jesus alive in you!

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
Matthew 26:26

The flesh of Jesus, the Living Bread, and His blood, adds up to the greatest drug man has ever known. No syrup, no capsule, no injection can be compared to it in anyway.

And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, Acts 2:46

The mystery behind the kind of health which the New Testament Church enjoyed could be attributed to the fact that they took communion daily. They never had any form of healing services in their churches. The Living Bread was enough for them.

For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
John 6:55

Nothing is superior to it! It is the best thing that will ever enter the mouth of any mortal man. It is very nutritious, the greatest medicine ever! It is capable of curing any form of disease.

He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father. So he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
John 6:56-57

Jesus becomes the force behind the life that operates in the one that lives by Him. He is the engine that will now work in such a person to make him productive and resourceful.

This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
John 6:58

This kind of bread guarantees life to every eater. It will arrest whatsoever thing is plaguing your mortal body, it is very poisonous to any sickness! No disease nor ailment can escape it! Friends, God has not changed. The manna the children of Israel took in the wilderness was responsible for the health they enjoyed.

Jesus is saying to us today, that what they took cannot be compared to the real manna, Himself! Jesus is the real bread. That is why He kept on saying, "This is my flesh, this is my blood ..." The principal purpose of the communion is to inject divine health into us. They ate manna in the wilderness and for forty years they remained alive, active, well and healthy! Now we have the true bread from heaven Jesus, the Great Physician! Everyone that comes to Jesus has eternal access to whatsoever this bread has to offer.

This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
John 6:50

There is something in this bread that is able to destroy whatsoever is out to kill you. Whenever you eat the flesh of Jesus and drink His blood, you compel the flow of life, and destroy every form of disease and sickness in your body.

The Brazen Serpent

In Numbers 21, we see another major secret of divine health. The children of Israel once again murmured and complained, speaking against God and Moses. God got so angry with them that He put fiery serpents among them, that bit them until many of them began to die. Then they cried out to Moses ,to pray unto the Lord to take away the fiery serpents from them.

In response to Moses' prayer for the people, God instructed Moses thus:

...Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

In John chapter 3, we come to see that the brazen serpent was Jesus (the Great Physician) in a figure!

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
John 3:14-17

Jesus was that brazen serpent! His presence in their midst, was enough to neutralize the snake's poison!

The Great Physician In Person

The Great Physician finally appeared in person! In John 10:10, He declared:

...I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

If He manifested so evidently in figures in the Old Testament, how much more should we expect Him to manifest in person now. For three and a half years, Jesus demonstrated the reality of His ministry as the Great Physician.

Acts 10:38 sums it up this way:

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

Let's look at some records of His healing ministry in person.

And He Healed Them All...!

And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of diseases; And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed.And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
Luke 6:17-19

When the sick came to Jesus, He healed them all! He's the same yesterday, today and forever. He has not changed, He will not change. If He healed them all yesterday, He will heal them all today, He will still heal them all tomorrow.

When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:
Matthew 8:16

Are you among the all? Today is your day!

As Many As Touched Him...

And when they were gone over, they came into the land of Gennesaret.And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
Matthew 14:34-36

What was responsible for this? There is virtue flowing from the anointed of God

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
Acts 10:38

That unction flowed to the clothes He wore, and as many as touched Him received their healing. There was a woman, who first tapped into this mystery of impartation of virtue:

And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
Matthew 9:20-22

"She said in her heart ..." What are you saying in your heart? Her heart was open! She was set for her healing. She was ready! Whatever you're saying in your heart right now, you will see today, in Jesus name!

The Power Of The Lord Was Present...

And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.
Luke 5:17

God's Word carries the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of God is the power of God. Through the Word He was speaking, the power of God was being communicated, God's power was being released, and it was taking care of the people's sicknesses and diseases.

Psalm 107:20 had told us that:

He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

The Spirit in that Word quickens their bodies for healing and quickens them for all manner of deliverances. When you receive the Word, the quickening Spirit of God enters you, and whatever is dying in your body is quickened back to life. Many people mistake the contents of the Bible for stories. They are not stories, they are Spirit. That's what Jesus said in John 6:63:

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

He said in Proverbs 4:20-22:

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

God's Word is health to all your flesh. That explains why the people were healed by just hearing the Words spoken by Jesus, Who is the Word Himself (John 1:1).

Luke 5:15 says:

But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.

Jesus never sympathized with any man, He healed them. Even as you're reading this, I see His power enter your body, and I see Him setting you free! Every bondage in your life is coming to an end now!

The Deaf Hear! The Dumb Speak!

And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him. And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain. And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it; And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
Mark 7:32-37

The four gospels are full of various accounts of the ministry of Jesus as the Great Physician, fulfilling His claim that He came: ...that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. John 10:10

You will not suffer anymore!