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1. Does God really care about what happens to us?

ILLUS – We live in a world filled with great evil and tragic suffering.

2. Tonight, we will discover the answer to this all-important and relevant question as we study Jesus Christ’s interactions with two people who were suffering due to sickness and death.
3. My prayer is that this study will deeply comfort your hearts and strengthen your faith as we look at Jesus Christ’s compassion for the hurting and His authority over sickness and death.
4. You see, the truth is, Jesus Cares About You.

Luke 7:1-17

Context
1. When we arrive at Luke 7, Jesus Christ’s ministry has exploded onto the scene in Israel and the ripple effects were felt in the surrounding regions.
a. At this time in His ministry, many were in awe of Jesus and followed Him joyfully, hanging on His every word, watching His every action.
b. At the same time, others were growing in their animosity towards Jesus, feeling threatened by His authoritative teaching and His command over demons and disease.
c. Jesus was and still is a polarizing figure.
2. For example, in Luke 5:12-13, we are told that when Jesus was asked by a leper if He was willing to cleanse him, Jesus responded with compassion and touched the leper before He said, “I am willing, be cleansed.”
3. And when a paralytic was let down through the roof of a home where Jesus was teaching, He told the man with crippled legs, “Friend, your sins are forgiven you.” (5:17-26)
a. Immediately the scribes and Pharisees scoffed at His pronouncement and accused Jesus of blasphemy because only God can forgive sins.
b. Jesus responded, “Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins have been forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? But, so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,”—He said to the paralytic—“I say to you, get up, and pick up your stretcher and go home.”
c. Immediately the paralytic was healed and went home glorifying God.
4. In Luke 5:27-39, Jesus called a tax collector named Levi (a.k.a. Matthew) to be His disciple and then dined with him and his sinner friends.
a. Again, the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”
b. Jesus reiterated His mission, the purpose for why He came when He said, “It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”
5. Next, the scribes and Pharisees were filled with rage when Jesus declared that He is the “Lord of the Sabbath” through His teaching and also by healing a man with withered right hand. (6:1-11)
6. Then, after He spent the whole night in prayer with Father God, Jesus chose twelve of His disciples to be His apostles. (6:12-16)
7. Luke 6:17-19 describes how a “great throng of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon” came to “hear Him and to be healed of their diseases” and that “those who were troubled with unclean spirits were being cured. And all the people were trying to touch Him, for power was coming from Him and healing them all.”
8. As the large crowd gathered around Jesus, He taught them the Beatitudes of the kingdom of God and exhorted them to build their lives wisely by building their lives on His Words; to not only call Him “Lord” but to come under His authority and live under His Lordship. (6:20-49)

Transition – As we reflect on chapters five and six in Luke we discover a theme developing which carries us into chapter seven, a theme which, in many ways, is also a call to action. . .

I. Bring All Your Burdens to Jesus

APPL – Why should we bring all our burdens to Jesus?
• Because Jesus cares for us.
• The Apostle Peter was convinced of Jesus’ heart for us and that’s why he wrote. . .

1 Peter 5:7, Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. (NIV)
• This is confirmed by Jesus’ first encounter with a person in need of His healing touch.

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