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A five part interactive study. Discover Jesus for yourself.

SECTION 2
Jesus: Equal hope for both the rich and needy as the healer.

In the first study, we saw that Jesus was not just an unusual person; he was God's Son. He came into the world in order to meet the deepest needs of all men and women.

In this study, we will look at how Jesus met the needs of two particular people. Everywhere Jesus went, he came across needy people. Often, the people he met had incurable diseases. He was able to change their physical lives by healing them. More importantly, he changed their spiritual lives through forgiveness of their sins.

He healed Simon's mother-in-law, a Roman officer's servant, a man with a paralyzed hand, a crippled woman, a paralyzed man, people suffering from spiritual and mental disorders or skin diseases, blind people, and he even raised the dead. "All who had friends who were sick with various diseases brought them to Jesus; he placed his hands on every one of them and healed them all" (Luke?4:40).

Look at how Jesus interacted with these people.


A. A blind beggar is healed

Read Luke 18:35-43

This was a blind man to whom Jesus gave "recovery of sight" (Luke?4:18). He healed many people of different physical illnesses. But he also healed people from other forms of "sickness."


B. Jesus and Zacchaeus

The Romans gave the job of collecting taxes to the highest bidder. Tax collectors did not get any wages for their work. They collected as much money as they could so there would be plenty left over for themselves after paying the government. Zacchaeus was one of these tax collectors. He was a greedy and unpopular man.

Read Luke 19:1-10


TO THINK ABOUT

Zacchaeus was "captive" to his own greed. Jesus gave him freedom.

Jesus said that he had come "to seek and to save the lost." People changed when they met Jesus. How do you think meeting Jesus would affect your life?

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