*EXCELLENT LIFE KEYS* 🔑🗝️
Thu/05th/May/2022
*Francis Reign* (Ap & Coach)
_"Raising excellent agents of change and transformation, well equipped with Truth and Wisdom."_
*UNDERSTANDING THE ACTS AND WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST (92)*
_... and touched the hem of His garment, for she said to herself, "If I only touch His garment, I will be made well."_ (Matt 9:21). Numbers 15:38-39 says, "Speak to the children of Israel: Tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners... that you may look upon it and remember and do all My commandments, and be holy for your God." The garment of the time was a long rectangular cloth that draped down over the body. It had four corners at the bottom. Over time this style changed and instead of the corners, it became rounded, and the Israelites developed something called the "Tallit," which also served as the prayer shawl.
In 1Samuel 24:4, when David spared Saul's life, the act of cutting the hem of Saul's robe was of great significance. David had just robbed Saul of his status symbol, the hem of his robe that identified him as King. The hem of the garment at this point was also a decorative feature which made a statement about the status and importance of the wearer. The Pharisees made it big to magnify their importance, and Jesus rebuked them for that. (Matt 23:5)
The woman with the issue of blood, knowing that Jesus the Messiah was passing, took every opportunity to make her way close enough, to touch just the hem of Jesus' garment. Now, what was it about the garment of the Lord that she had such faith, that if Jesus was the Messiah that she would receive healing? What did she know that gave her such assurance? According to the prophecy in Malachi 4:2, it says, _"But you who fear My name The Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings..."_ The word "wings" used here is the same as the word "borders" seen in Numbers 15:38. So the woman knew that if Jesus is the Messiah, then surely if I can just get close enough to touch the hem, I can surely receive healing. She was embracing the promise that the Messiah had healing in His wings (hem of His garment). She looked at Jesus and believed that He was who He claimed to be - Messiah. Touching His garment was the same as touching Him. She looked to Him by faith and when her faith touched His grace she was healed.
*EXCELLENCE KEY* 🗝️
_The ultimate price was paid on the cross for our sins by Jesus Christ, so that we are no longer a slave to sin._
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*Excellence is within you. Bring it out >>*
#1465 ELK.
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