|
XIV.
Christian Service
Chapter 155
:
Visiting the Sick
1. FOR what will Christ
finally commend the righteous?
"I was sick, and ye visited Me."
Matt. 25:36.
2. Why, in His earthly
ministry, did Christ heal the sick?
"That it might be fulfilled which was
spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself
took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses."
Matt. 8:17.
3. With what is Christ
touched?
"With the feeling of our
infirmities." Heb. 4:15.
4. What relief did He
bring to Peter's household?
"And when Jesus was come into Peter's
house, He saw his wife's mother laid, and sick
of a fever. And He touched her hand, and the
fever left her: and she arose, and
ministered unto them." Matt. 8:14,15.
5. What example did He
leave us?
"Who went about doing good,
and healing all that were oppressed of the
devil; for God was with Him." Acts 10:38.
"As He is, so are we in this world." 1 John
4:17.
6. What should we not
forget in our ministry for the sick?
"Pray one for another, that ye may
be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a
righteous man availeth much." James 5:16. |
