2009-09-20T19:13:49-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/doctor/ http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%209:12&version=NIV 2009-09-20T19:13:49-05:00 Jesus compares himself to a doctor sent to heal the sick. It would make no sense, he points out, if the doctor spent all of his time tending to people who were already healthy--hence Jesus' frequent visits with the "spiritually unclean" corners of society. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%205:30-32&version=NIV 2009-09-15T09:49:26-05:00 The Pharisees approached Jesus and asked him why he and his disciples ate with sinners and tax collectors. Jesus replied that it is not the healthy that need a doctor, but the sick. Jesus came to call the sinners to repentance, not the righteous. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%209:11-13&version=NIV 2009-07-23T11:39:04-05:00 Why would a doctor spend time seeing patients who are healthy? Just as a doctor's job is to tend to the most sick and unhealthy people, so Jesus' ministry was focused on the most spiritually damaged people. That didn't sit well with religious leaders who thought that serving the downtrodden was beneath them. http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=691 2008-01-07T16:31:46-05:00 What strange methods God sometimes employs in teaching His Children much needed lessons! This has recently been the writer's experience. I have been approached by a "university" to accept from them a degree of "D. D." Asking for time to be given so that I might prayerfully seek from God...