A friend asked me the other day what my favourite chapter of the Bible was. We were talking about our favourite memory verses and it flowed from there.
I found this quite hard as I love the Bible so much and I have so many favourites. In the end I had to choose Matthew 8 & 9 as a tie. Matthew 8 comes right after the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus had taught some amazing truths and the people were amazed by His teaching and authority.
Jesus comes down the mountain has a number of amazing interactions with people. He heals a number of people, drives out demons, calms a storm, raises a dead girl and finishes with a call to pray for workers to enter the harvest field.
I just love the way Jesus interacts with people as He moves around in these chapters. He meets people where they are at and at their point of need. He listens, responds and then He moves powerfully. Nothing is too great for Him to handle.
A few years ago I did a sermon of these two chapters. It was titled, “Bring your problem to Jesus”. It looked at each of Jesus’ interactions and the results of them. At the end we prayed for people who issues they wanted to bring to Jesus.
If you are interested you can find the notes of the sermon here.
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