07/27/20 ONE BIBLICAL COMMAND WE MUST BREAK — Mark 7:35-36 (CSB) says, “Immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was loosened, and he began to speak clearly. 36 He ordered them to tell no one, but the more he ordered them, the more they proclaimed it.”

Several times during His three-plus years of public ministry Jesus healed someone miraculously and, ironically it seems, ordered the healed person NOT to follow Him and NOT to tell anyone what He had done. My purpose here is NOT to try to explain why Jesus gave such orders; based on a few other incidents I think we can make a pretty good guess. Instead, NOTE this—several times the healed person entirely ignored and disobeyed Jesus’ direct command! The Bible is clear—Jesus IS God! And, to disobey ANY of God’s commands is definitely a SIN! Or so it seems.

Anyhow, I don’t think God (the Father, the Son or the Spirit) thought that guy had sinned. It was only natural and expected that he would want to share his miraculous healing with anyone and everyone! And those of us who call ourselves Christians, committed followers of Jesus Christ, MUST do the same thing: Tell anyone and everyone around us the BEST news of all—that JESUS SAVES!