2021 PENTECOST SUNDAY

 *23/05/2021*


*2021 HOLY GHOST SERVICE*

*(PENTECOST SUNDAY)*


THEME:

*THE GOSPEL WITHOUT HEALINGS AND MIRACLES*


"Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?"

*Acts 26:8*


Miracles and healings raise a question; some people say the days of miracles are gone.

Others say, even though, God heals, some conditions are too bad for God to heal.

Check through the Gospels, you would see impossibilities turn to possibilities by our *Lord Jesus Christ*

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. Hebrews 13:8.

The word of God is real, true and alive.

Miracles and healings are living testimonies to the authenticity of the Bible.


*The  ministry of Jesus Christ* had three cardinal areas, that of preaching, teaching and *healing*. The three areas are exclusive to the life of Jesus; one cannot be substituted for the other. The three complement one another.

What is preached and taught should be demonstrated and seen by all to be true and real.

Among the numerous miracles performed by *Jesus* include:


1. The man with leprosy

Matthew 8:1-4

2. The Centurion servant healed.

Matthew 8:5-13

3. Jesus heals many.

Matthew 8:14-17

4. The healing of two demon-possessed men 

Matthew 8:28-34

5. Jesus heals a paralytic.

Matthew 9:1-8

6. A dead girl and sick woman.

Matthew 9:18-25

7. Jesus heals the blind and mute.

Matthew 9:27-34

8. Jesus heals the sick in Gennesaret.

Matthew 14:34-36

9. The Canaanite woman's daughter healed.

Matthew 15:21-28

10. Jesus cures many people.

Matthew 15:29-31

11. Jesus cures a boy with a demon.

Matthew 17:14-21

12. Jesus heals two blind men.

Matthew 20:29-34


*Healing ministry of Elisha*

1. The Shunammite's son restored to life.

2 Kings 4:32-37

2. Naaman healed of leprosy.

2 Kings 5:9-14

3. Death of Elisha.

2 Kings 13:20-21


*Healing ministry of the Apostles*

1. Peter heals the crippled beggar.

Acts 3:1-10

2. The Apostles heal many.

Acts 5:12-16

3. The healing of Aeneas.

Acts 9:32-35

4. Eutychus raised from the dead at Troas.

Acts 20:7-12


*"The gospel without healing and miracles is incomplete"*

Pastor J.D. Ifesanya


*This sermon is dedicated to Christ Jesus and the life and times of Late Archbishop Benson Andrew Idahosa*


*First published 2008*

*Copyright 2021*

*The Ecumenican Church Nigeria*

Instagram: *@ecumenicanchurch*

WhatsApp: *+2348052366039*

Email: *johnifesanya@gmail.com*

*www.johnifesanya.blogspot.com*

*#TEC#*

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