Healing

[00:00:00] Welcome to the Pursuing Faith podcast, where we explore

[00:00:06] questions of faith, doubt, and life. I am your host, Dominic

[00:00:12] Done. Have you ever noticed that people can have an identical

[00:00:24] experience? They can go through the exact same thing, but have

[00:00:31] totally different responses. For example, think about the last

[00:00:37] time you were on a roller coaster. Let me show you a

[00:00:40] picture here. This classic picture of a roller coaster.

[00:00:43] Okay, I'm curious. Same experience, right? But how many

[00:00:46] of you are the person on the right? This is like the happiest

[00:00:50] day of your life. Okay. How many of you on the roller coaster

[00:00:56] are that person on the left? Okay, it's like your scream

[00:01:00] scared the roller coaster. But isn't it interesting? You have

[00:01:04] the same experience, but two radically different responses.

[00:01:10] And I think the same thing can be true of other experiences in

[00:01:14] life. Flying on airplanes. Some of you are like, I love it.

[00:01:17] It's so peaceful. It's amazing. Others of you, you're just

[00:01:20] barely holding on. Or think of the experience of working at

[00:01:24] home over the last few years. 2020, right? For some people,

[00:01:28] 2020 was their dream year because they didn't have to see

[00:01:32] anyone. For other people, 2020 was like the worst year of their

[00:01:37] life. Or think about food like sweet potatoes. I know some of

[00:01:40] you swear by them. I think they're demonically inspired. Or

[00:01:44] the experience of camping. Some of you love it. Some of you

[00:01:48] despise it. The two minutes of meet and greet. Two different

[00:01:52] responses in the room. Same event, different reactions. In

[00:01:57] many ways, that's what we see here in Acts 5. Luke tells us,

[00:02:02] hey, God was doing something beautiful, something new in the

[00:02:05] early church. People were believing in the Lord, verse 14.

[00:02:08] The church was growing. Verse 15, it says that the sick were

[00:02:12] being healed. And what was the response? So they're all

[00:02:15] witnessing the same event. Well, their response was polarized

[00:02:19] because it says some in verse 13 were afraid. They're terrified.

[00:02:25] And then other people, it says, were full of faith. Some people

[00:02:31] were seeing this event and it was doing something in their

[00:02:34] heart that was causing their hearts to break open and be open

[00:02:39] to the moving of the Spirit and what God was doing at that time

[00:02:43] in the first century. It was Eusebius. Some of you have heard

[00:02:46] his name. Eusebius was an early Roman historian. He wrote

[00:02:51] especially in the second century and he described how the same

[00:02:56] action was creating different reactions. He says,

[00:02:59] many indeed were the miraculous cures which Peter and John

[00:03:03] wrought upon those who were suffering from different

[00:03:06] diseases. And they raised the dead so that many, he writes,

[00:03:11] astonished at the greatness of the miracles, turned to the

[00:03:15] worship of the God of the universe. Now, notice according

[00:03:22] to Eusebius, he says, what caused this polarizing response

[00:03:26] among the people was physical healing. Healing was taking

[00:03:33] place in this passage. So here's the plan for today. I want to

[00:03:37] talk about what is healing, lay a foundation of a theology of

[00:03:42] healing. And here's the reason why, because you may have

[00:03:45] noticed this already, but it's a theme that we see all

[00:03:48] throughout the book of Acts. There are eight different

[00:03:51] stories actually of healing in Acts and every single story of

[00:03:56] healing forces us to grapple with these deep questions. How

[00:04:00] do healings happen? Do they happen today in 2024? Are these

[00:04:06] events descriptive or are they prescriptive? What is the

[00:04:11] purpose of healing? How does God heal? So fasten your seat

[00:04:15] belts. We have a lot of ground to cover with this, but let's

[00:04:18] start with the basics. What is physical healing? When we even

[00:04:22] mention this term or when the book of Acts talks about being

[00:04:26] people being healed, how do we understand that? Three thoughts.

[00:04:29] Number one, healing is a picture of the past. When God

[00:04:35] created the world, He made a world of health, of shalom, of

[00:04:41] physical wholeness. In fact, that's what the word good means.

[00:04:45] When God created the world, He said three words. It is good.

[00:04:50] That means whole or healthy, shalom, peace. What is healing

[00:04:55] then? It is a return to what God first envisioned. The author

[00:05:00] Dallas Willard, he said, God's desire is to bring His creation

[00:05:04] into the fullness of life He originally intended. And healing

[00:05:08] is a profound manifestation of that desire or that divine

[00:05:13] intent. Healing then is a return of things to the original

[00:05:19] created purpose. Number two, healing is power in the present.

[00:05:26] Healing is not just some random act of compassion, although it

[00:05:30] is that, but it's more than that. It is evidence of God's

[00:05:34] power and God's presence on the earth. Here's a verse to jot

[00:05:39] down in Luke 10, verse nine. Jesus sends out His disciples.

[00:05:43] He said, this is what I want you to do. Heal the sick and tell

[00:05:47] them the kingdom of God has come near you. The kingdom of God, by

[00:05:52] the way, whenever you see that phrase in the Bible, it's

[00:05:55] speaking of His rule and His reign. So go out, preach the

[00:06:00] gospel. And Jesus says, I want you to heal the sick. When

[00:06:07] healing happens, it is a signpost that God's kingdom, His

[00:06:13] rule and His reign is breaking into earth. I mentioned this a

[00:06:17] few months ago, how Elisa and I, we used to live in Oxford, moved

[00:06:22] there in 2010. And our daughter at the time, she's seven years

[00:06:25] old. She loved Chronicles of Narnia. She went through this

[00:06:29] phase where every single day she's listening to the Chronicles

[00:06:33] of Narnia on audio book. And I'd come home from the university

[00:06:37] and I'd hear this story being read in this English accent. And

[00:06:42] she's mimicking these things or acting these things out. And you

[00:06:44] remember how in the line, the witch in the wardrobe, when the

[00:06:47] kids, they first show up, how it was cold and bleak and dark. It

[00:06:54] was always winter, but never Christmas. But then as the kids

[00:07:00] are there just for a short time, something begins to happen. The

[00:07:04] snow begins to melt. The rivers start to thaw out. Icicles

[00:07:09] start to fall from the tree. The power of the white witch begins

[00:07:14] to wane. And then the kids, they hear excited whispers about a

[00:07:19] lion. His name is Aslan. Aslan, they say, is on the move. And

[00:07:26] it's the sense of anticipation that something great was about

[00:07:31] to happen, that signs of a changing kingdom were underway.

[00:07:37] In many ways, that's how I see healing. When a healing takes

[00:07:42] place, it is a sign that God's kingdom is at work. When a

[00:07:46] healing takes place, it is a sign God is on the move. That

[00:07:52] signs of his spirit are everywhere. God's kingdom is

[00:07:57] breaking into earth. The power of the enemy is being broken.

[00:08:02] So healing is power in the present. And number three,

[00:08:08] healing is promised in the future. Here's the good news. A

[00:08:12] day is coming when we will all be healed. A day is coming when

[00:08:17] no more migraines or cancer or heart attacks or anxiety or

[00:08:23] depression. Our physical bodies, the Bible teaches us, will be

[00:08:29] resurrected. 1 Corinthians chapter 15. Now, in the next

[00:08:33] book, in 2 Corinthians, Paul actually uses the analogy of a

[00:08:36] tent. He says, my physical body, the older I get, kind of feels

[00:08:41] like an old tent. I think that's an apt illustration,

[00:08:45] because as tents get older, what happens to them? They get a

[00:08:49] little saggy, wrinkles everywhere. They start to leak,

[00:08:52] right? One author, he said, a man will ripen until he's 25,

[00:09:02] and then he begins to rot, which makes me thankful I'm still 24.

[00:09:06] So this is the analogy. He says, our physical bodies are like

[00:09:10] this tent that's getting old and wrinkled, which is interesting

[00:09:14] because in John chapter 14, Jesus said, he's comforting his

[00:09:17] disciples. He said, I'm the way, the truth, and the life. But he

[00:09:20] began that passage by saying, in my father's house are many

[00:09:25] mansions. And I don't think he's just talking about some

[00:09:29] Beverly Hills thing, some impressive structure. I think

[00:09:33] Jesus here is actually talking about our physical bodies,

[00:09:37] because if right now our body is like a tent, a day is coming

[00:09:42] when our resurrected body in comparison will be a mansion.

[00:09:47] That is our future. We will be restored. Our bodies put back

[00:09:53] together. So what is healing? It is a picture of the past,

[00:09:58] God's original design. It's power in the present, and it's

[00:10:03] signs that the lion is on the move. It is promised in the

[00:10:09] future, a day is coming when all things will be restored. But

[00:10:14] it brings us face to face. This definition of healing kind of

[00:10:18] brings us face to face with what I see as the elephant in

[00:10:21] the room. And that is, what about healing now? This is a

[00:10:26] question I get asked a ton as a pastor. How does healing happen?

[00:10:32] Does God always heal? What are the steps I'll often hear

[00:10:36] towards healing? And this to me is a deeply challenging

[00:10:42] question, because in the Bible there is no cut and dry formula

[00:10:48] to follow. There's no like clear cut way. Here's how you can be

[00:10:53] healed. Here's the steps you need to take, because what you

[00:10:57] find is the moment you try and formulize healing, then God

[00:11:02] does something surprising and out of the box. Or God might

[00:11:06] just say, no, that's not my will right now. And we've seen

[00:11:09] this in Acts, that sometimes healings happen, sometimes they

[00:11:14] don't. But here's the deal. When they do happen, they're always

[00:11:18] different. Very few happen the same way. For example, Acts

[00:11:22] chapter three, how did this healing happen? Peter sees a guy

[00:11:27] who can't walk, grabs him by the hand and pulls him up. And

[00:11:31] he's like, in the name of Jesus, rise up and walk. In Acts

[00:11:35] chapter nine, how does healing happen? Through the, bless you,

[00:11:39] through the spoken word. He speaks the word, be healed. And

[00:11:44] the guy is healed. Acts 19, it's a great chapter. We'll be

[00:11:47] there in about 34 years. Acts 19, can't wait for it.

[00:11:51] Handkerchiefs, it's weird. Handkerchiefs and aprons are

[00:11:54] used to heal people. Acts 20, I love this one. Paul was

[00:12:00] preaching a message and someone in the message fell asleep. So

[00:12:05] I can identify with Paul right off the bat, but let it be a

[00:12:09] warning to you because what happened to the guy who fell

[00:12:11] asleep? He fell out of a window to his death below. And the

[00:12:17] guy's name by the way was Eudicus. Why was he called

[00:12:20] Eudicus? Because Eudicus too, if you'd fallen out of a window.

[00:12:24] So he dies, right? Paul's like, well, like that kind of wraps

[00:12:29] up my message. You know, it's not every day someone dies

[00:12:31] during it. He goes outside and he basically just gives the guy

[00:12:35] a hug. It says he wraps his arms around him and the guy was

[00:12:39] healed. And here in Acts chapter five, a guy is healed by seeing

[00:12:44] Peter's shadow. And then he knew there were six more weeks of

[00:12:48] winter. So we have all these different types of healings that

[00:12:51] happen in the Bible. And here's the point that they all happen

[00:12:56] in unexpected times and unexpected ways with unexpected

[00:12:59] people. And the moment we try and formulize it, that we're

[00:13:04] getting off base. You know, the moment someone says, Hey, just

[00:13:06] send me money and I'll give you an apron of healing. Already we

[00:13:10] know that something's off there because whenever God works,

[00:13:13] it's always in a surprising way. The same thing is true by the

[00:13:17] way, in Jesus ministry. Sometimes he would speak a word.

[00:13:21] Other times it was a touch or a prayer. In one story, he rubbed

[00:13:26] mud. Remember this one? He rubbed mud in a guy's face and he

[00:13:29] wasn't even from Calistoga. Rubbed mud in his face and he's

[00:13:33] like, what do you see? And he's like, I see things that look

[00:13:36] like trees and he put more mud in and it's a crazy story. The

[00:13:40] early church, how did they do healings? Well, according to

[00:13:43] James chapter five, they would anoint one another with oil. Oil

[00:13:48] in the Bible is a symbol of the spirit's power. Interesting in

[00:13:52] the ancient world, oil was used for medicinal purposes. They

[00:13:57] believed that oil had healing properties. Now it's interesting

[00:14:01] how culture comes full circle because essential oils, let's

[00:14:05] think about that industry. It's still the rage right now. And if

[00:14:08] you don't believe me, ask your friend who's trying to sell you

[00:14:10] some, right? This is, we still see, oh, there's something to

[00:14:13] oils, right? Point is there is no hard and fast rule or formula

[00:14:20] to healing. It's a mystery. Healing defies explanation, but

[00:14:26] I think there's a caveat. I do see one common denominator in

[00:14:31] the Bible, certainly in the book of Acts, healing is a byproduct

[00:14:35] of prayer. Every healing that happens in the book of Acts

[00:14:39] takes place after God's people gathered together to seek him.

[00:14:44] Craig Keener, he's a New Testament theologian. He writes

[00:14:47] this, Luke consistently portrays prayer as the immediate prelude

[00:14:52] to divine intervention in the book of Acts. The apostles

[00:14:55] engagement in prayer sets the stage for miraculous healings,

[00:14:59] illustrating that these acts of divine power are not merely

[00:15:04] random occurrences, but are intrinsically linked to the faith

[00:15:08] and petitions of the early Christian community. Prayer is a

[00:15:15] common denominator. I had a chance to chat with someone here

[00:15:20] a few weeks ago, and they were telling me a story of healing

[00:15:24] in their life. And just tears in their eyes as they're describing

[00:15:29] what God had done with her mom. This is several years ago. Her

[00:15:34] mom had been really sick. She had this very rare illness that

[00:15:39] was causing her immune system to be suppressed, and it was taking

[00:15:43] a toll on her mental health, and it was actually bringing her

[00:15:46] close to a point of death. She had been to all these doctors,

[00:15:50] could not find any solution. She then goes to a church locally

[00:15:54] in the city, and they had an opportunity for prayer. And this

[00:15:59] lady, she brought her mom forward. She's like, we have

[00:16:01] nothing to lose. Why don't we just get prayer? Receives prayer,

[00:16:05] and something happened in that moment where the mom, she's like,

[00:16:09] I'm actually feeling better. The next day, they made an

[00:16:14] appointment. Next day, she goes back to the doctor. And keep

[00:16:16] in mind, this is a doctor she had seen for years. Goes back to

[00:16:19] the doctor, and the doctor's like, we can't find a trace of

[00:16:21] this disease in your body at all. To this day, this woman is

[00:16:26] healed. There are times when through prayer that God shows up

[00:16:31] in a supernatural and sudden way. Prayer is the pathway to

[00:16:36] healing, but this raises another question. What about

[00:16:40] those times when we pray and nothing happens? I think we've

[00:16:47] all experienced that. We ask God for a miracle. We ask him to

[00:16:52] intervene because there's a disease or some physical ailment.

[00:16:57] We pray and we pray and we pray, and it doesn't go away. What

[00:17:02] do we do with that? Well, fortunately, Paul actually

[00:17:06] engages with this question too, and it comes from his own life.

[00:17:10] In 2 Corinthians 12, this is worth writing down. 2 Corinthians

[00:17:13] 12 verse 7, Paul says this. I was given a thorn in my flesh,

[00:17:21] a messenger of Satan to torment me, and three times I pleaded

[00:17:28] with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, my

[00:17:33] grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in

[00:17:40] weakness. Now this is fascinating. Paul sharing from

[00:17:43] his own life a moment of vulnerability. He's like, I've

[00:17:46] got a thorn in my flesh, this messenger from Satan that's

[00:17:50] buffeting me. And it's raised the question over the years,

[00:17:52] what is the thorn in the flesh? And depending on who you read,

[00:17:56] you get different answers. There are some people, some

[00:17:59] commentaries I've read, they're like the thorn in the flesh

[00:18:01] literally was Satan. It was the enemy who was attacking him.

[00:18:06] He's describing here spiritual warfare. Other people say, no,

[00:18:11] the thorn in the flesh was persecution. At this point in

[00:18:15] his ministry, he's being attacked and opposed by people

[00:18:19] who are persecuting him, tracking him down, imprisoning

[00:18:22] him and trying to kill him. I read one commentary. I couldn't

[00:18:25] believe he actually wrote this, but he did. He said, no, I think

[00:18:28] the thorn in his flesh was Paul's mother-in-law. He

[00:18:32] actually wrote that. I couldn't believe it. So there's all these

[00:18:36] different views that people have. Paul says, look, I

[00:18:39] experienced this sickness. Most scholars think actually it was a

[00:18:44] sickness or an ailment with his eyes. He had a hard time

[00:18:48] seeing. And he says, I had this thorn in the flesh, but what

[00:18:53] happened through this struggle, even though God didn't take it

[00:18:58] away, in my weakness, I've experienced God's strength.

[00:19:03] There are times, not always, there are times when we pray for

[00:19:08] healing and nothing happens because God sometimes wants to do

[00:19:12] something deep inside of us. Healing, I'm learning, is not

[00:19:17] just about the body. It's about the whole person. Healing is

[00:19:24] about the integration of the fragmented parts of your life

[00:19:29] so that we, and this is what God is interested in, so that we

[00:19:32] can become whole and full of grace or as Romans chapter eight

[00:19:38] says, formed into the image of Jesus. The Lebanese poet,

[00:19:44] Cahil Gibran, he said, out of suffering have emerged the

[00:19:48] strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared

[00:19:54] with scars. The most profound healing in our life isn't just

[00:20:02] what God does with our physical body. It's what God does with

[00:20:07] the entirety of who you are. For example, the Bible talks

[00:20:12] about number one, emotional healing. It says in Psalm 147,

[00:20:17] he heals the brokenhearted and he binds up their wounds. The

[00:20:24] Bible talks about spiritual healing. First Peter chapter two,

[00:20:29] he bore our sin on the cross. Why? So that we might die to sin

[00:20:34] and live for righteousness for by his wounds you have been

[00:20:42] healed. The Bible describes mental healing in Psalm chapter

[00:20:47] six, verse two, it says, have mercy on me for I am faint. Heal

[00:20:52] my soul for I am in deep anguish. The Bible also speaks

[00:20:59] of relational healing. James chapter five, verse 16, he's

[00:21:04] addressing conflict and division between brothers and sisters

[00:21:07] and he says, confess your sin to one another. Pray for one

[00:21:12] another that you may be healed. Healing then isn't just about

[00:21:18] the restoration of our physical body. It's about the

[00:21:21] restoration of our soul. And if I could take a step further, I

[00:21:27] think healing is about the restoration of this world.

[00:21:34] Healing isn't just what God does for you. It's what God does

[00:21:42] through you. I think back to the words of the apostle Paul. He

[00:21:46] said, I prayed, Lord, would you take away this sickness, this

[00:21:51] thorn in the flesh? And God said, no, my grace is enough

[00:21:55] for you. And just a few verses later, Paul says, and God is

[00:22:00] actually using me now, my brokenness, my weariness to

[00:22:05] bring about signs, wonders, and miracles. In chapter one,

[00:22:10] verses five and six, this is worth writing down. He said,

[00:22:13] for justice we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ. So

[00:22:18] also our comfort abounds through Christ. If we are distressed, it

[00:22:24] is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted,

[00:22:28] it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient

[00:22:33] endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. Paul says there are

[00:22:40] times when physical healing doesn't happen because in that

[00:22:47] moment, God is doing something deeper. What's that? He is

[00:22:50] placing us in solidarity with the wounded of the world. As

[00:22:55] Mother Teresa said, he's breaking our hearts open in

[00:22:58] such a way that the whole world falls in. He's giving us

[00:23:04] compassion for others that we wouldn't necessarily have if

[00:23:09] everything in our life was perfect. Henry Nowen, he said

[00:23:14] this, nobody escapes being wounded. We are all wounded

[00:23:20] people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or

[00:23:24] spiritually. The main question is not how can we hide our

[00:23:29] wounds so we don't have to be embarrassed, but how can we put

[00:23:32] our woundedness in the service of others? When our wounds cease

[00:23:38] to be a source of shame and become a source of healing, we

[00:23:45] have become wounded healers. Paul was a wounded healer. I

[00:23:57] prayed three times, take this away and God you didn't, but I've

[00:24:00] learned your grace is enough. Peter was a wounded healer

[00:24:07] because just a few weeks before this story in Acts 5, he's

[00:24:11] healing people. His shadow falls on people. They're

[00:24:13] resurrected. Just a few chapters before, Peter was in a

[00:24:18] place of deep wounds and scars. He was at the enemy's fire. He

[00:24:23] denied that he knew Jesus, but Jesus rescued him and forgave

[00:24:28] him and healed him and called him back to ministry. It's

[00:24:32] interesting that he's using Peter of all people and his

[00:24:36] shadow, fascinating metaphorically, his shadow of

[00:24:40] all things to be a source of healing because brothers and

[00:24:44] sisters, your past, your wounds, your shadows can be a

[00:24:52] source of healing to the world. Your weakness is where God

[00:24:58] reveals his greatest strength. I look at Jesus and the times

[00:25:03] where he did the most meaningful ministry and miracles. It came

[00:25:08] out of a place of weakness. In John chapter four, Jesus is

[00:25:12] hot and tired from a journey and yet he took time to minister

[00:25:16] to the woman at the well and a revival takes place in all of

[00:25:20] Samaria. In John chapter six, he pulls an all-nighter in prayer.

[00:25:24] He's exhausted, but the very next day he gets up and he

[00:25:28] walks on water. In John chapter 11, he wept at the tomb of

[00:25:33] Lazarus and then he raised him from the dead. In John chapter

[00:25:38] 19, he's on the cross dying, suffering, thirsty. I thirst,

[00:25:44] he cried, but then he begins to talk to a minister to a thief

[00:25:49] and he says today you will be with me in paradise. In John

[00:25:54] chapter 21, Jesus turns to Thomas who had his own wounds

[00:25:59] around faith, who was struggling to believe and Jesus

[00:26:03] said to him, touch my wounds. The times that Jesus did the

[00:26:13] most meaningful miracles came from a place of his deepest

[00:26:18] wounds. His greatest ministry came from his greatest scars

[00:26:23] and the same thing is true of us. The same thing is true of

[00:26:27] you and me. Your story of pain can become someone else's

[00:26:36] source of hope. Over the last eight months since being here,

[00:26:42] this has actually been something I have loved about you guys and

[00:26:47] this church and this community because this is a community of

[00:26:52] people that would say touch my wounds. This is a community of

[00:26:56] people I've come to know and hearing your stories and just

[00:27:00] listening to the soul of this church that there are people who

[00:27:04] have gone through things and yet their woundedness and pain

[00:27:08] and heartache has actually become a source of healing. I

[00:27:11] mean, I look at the way you guys responded to the fires a few

[00:27:15] years ago. I've heard so many stories now about what you guys

[00:27:19] did and how this church responded and when many churches

[00:27:22] were closing their doors, this church opened their doors and

[00:27:26] literally gave hundreds of thousands of dollars back into

[00:27:30] the community to serve the community, to love the

[00:27:32] community, to help people through this time of crisis. The

[00:27:37] people that I've been privileged to get to know. I

[00:27:40] think of Pastor Scott and his own journey and the things he's

[00:27:44] faced physically and yet God has used his healing to now be a

[00:27:49] source of healing into the community about what physical

[00:27:53] wholeness looks like or Mason who literally lost everything

[00:27:58] in the fire. His whole house burned down. All his memory is

[00:28:02] gone and yet God is using his life now to raise the next

[00:28:07] generation and to serve our kids with Emmaus. Those of you

[00:28:12] involved in Celebrate Recovery, which if you never heard of that

[00:28:15] by the way, it's a ministry to help people who are battling

[00:28:18] addictions and many of you who are involved in that ministry,

[00:28:22] that's been part of your story. You've gone through times of

[00:28:25] addictions. You've gone down those dark paths, but now God is

[00:28:29] leading you to bring others to the freedom that you found in

[00:28:33] Christ. Touch my wounds. That I think in so many ways is the

[00:28:39] heartbeat of this community. This is a church of wounded

[00:28:44] healers and it's beautiful to see. Absolutely beautiful. So

[00:28:50] does God heal? Do healings happen now? Yes. And sometimes

[00:28:58] it's a shadow. Sometimes it's a word. Sometimes it's a hug.

[00:29:05] Other times it might be mud, but most of the time healing is

[00:29:11] gonna happen through you. You are the body of Christ to a

[00:29:19] world in desperate need of healing. Teresa of Avila, she

[00:29:25] said, Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on

[00:29:33] earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks

[00:29:37] compassion in this world. Yours are the feet with which he

[00:29:41] walks to do good. Yours are the hands with which he blesses all

[00:29:45] the world. Yours are the hands. Yours are the feet. Yours are

[00:29:50] the eyes. You are his body. Christ has no body now on earth

[00:30:02] but yours.