Teaching, Preaching, and Healing

“And he went around through all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.” (Matthew 4:23 NKJV)

The Lord’s ministry is three fold – teaching, proclaiming, and healing (including driving out demons). Teaching is for mind (more precisely mental faculty), proclaiming for spirit, and healing for body. Humans are three folds – mind, spirit, and body. Knowledge comes first of all by hearing into our minds to understand who God is and what truth is. First and foremost of all, we learn that God is love unconditionally through which joy and peace blossoms in our hearts.

That’s not all. Until human spirit is filled there is no fulfillment or satisfaction in life. The human spirit cannot be filled by anything other than the Holy Spirit of God and Jesus Christ the Lord. Jesus proclaimed the good news of the kingdom. Jesus is the good news of the kingdom. The kingdom is the inner world, not a far away and remote space in heaven. The kingdom of heaven is where God rules and reigns. It is where we feel of stress and pressure and struggle, laugh and glad, sorrow and hurt. That’s the kingdom of heaven. The good news of the kingdom can quench thirst and hunger in spirit because Christ Jesus is stronger than the prince of the dark world, the devil.

“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28-30 NKJV)

“On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, ‘If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.” (John 7:37-39 NKJV)

Then, physical healing comes consequently. Remember that Jesus first proclaimed to the paralytic, “Your sins are forgiven,” and commanded him, “Arise and take up your bed and walk.” (Mark 2:1-12) Remember physical healing never comes first but last. It is the evidence of health in mind and spirit, but not always. All is not an exception from the deterioration of body.

“Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.” (2 Corinthians 4:16-17 NKJV)