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“But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him,
and he healed them
all
.” This is one of the most powerful instances that we’ll read, especially
when you really get the idea of how many people He’s talking about. These are not all church-
going folks. These are not all synagogue-visiting folks. This is an open-air meeting. People can
just walk up from anywhere, from doing anything, and you’re going to tell me that from among
20, 30, 40,000 people, you can’t find anyone that it’s not God’s will to heal? Or that there’s
nobody who isn’t quite ready for this big blessing? Not a one? He healed them. “He healed them
all
.” Glory to God. He healed them all. “Yeah, but it might not be God’s will to heal
you
.” No,
He healed them all.
We’ve read scripture after scripture that says, “He healed them
every
one. He healed them
all
.
He healed them
every
one. He healed them
all
.” (Matthew 4:24;12:15; Luke 4:40)
Show me some scriptures that say it’s
not
always His will. You might say, “Brother Keith, why
do you keep saying that?” Because, friend, millions of Christians don’t believe it is His will for
them to be healed, or they’re not sure. They hope it is, but they wonder how they are going to
know.
You find the will of God in the Word of God, and no matter what you see or don’t see, we are
people of faith. The will of God is revealed in the Word of God. Jesus is the Word of God, and in
everything He said, and in everything He did, you are hearing the will of God, and you are
seeing the will of God. What did we just see? Jesus healing them all is the will of God.
Matthew 14:14 says, “And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved,” to
prove His deity? No. He was “moved with compassion toward them....” He is still moved with
compassion today when people hurt. And as a result, what did He do? “He healed their sick.”
Now,
their
refers back to what? It refers to the people in the great multitude.
Continue in verses 34 through 36. “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.” I mean, they cleaned out the
hospitals. They went and got all the people who were sick or diseased throughout that whole
community and took them out there. “And besought him that they might only touch the hem of
his garment: and
as many as touched
were made perfectly whole.”
Now look at Luke’s account of the same thing. He says it like this in Luke 6:17-19. “And a great
multitude of people out of all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon,
which came to hear him, and to be healed of their 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,” or power, “out of him, and healed them
all
.” How many? He said a great multitude.
Everyone that had any sick, in the whole country, brought them. How many of them got healed?
All of them. Not
most
of them, not
part
of them, not
some
of them, not
a few
of them, but
all
of
them got healed. We are looking at the unchanging will of God for all people, including you, for
all time, including right now. He has never changed, and He never will. This is the will of God.