Medicine From the Master
Pastor Dharius Daniels | GOATED Series Pt. 10
Text: Matthew 9:9
Salvation is more than a one way ticket to Heaven, it includes a benefit package on Earth. Many of us have benefit packages that we don’t fully use.
Salvation is one word, used to describe many things.
When I get salvation, I get justification- a declaration of innocence, a divine acquittal. He washes my whiter than snow.
Salvation is regeneration- a supernatural rebirth of our spirit. God brings dead people back to life.
Salvation is redemption- to be bought back. To recognize that what has you doesn’t own you.
Salvation is sanctification- the lifelong process of being transformed into the image of Jesus.
I get saved in a moment, but I spend a lifetime being shaped.-A Word.
We under-utilize salvation when we fail to realize that it’s not only to make us right, but to make us well.
The text teaches us:
-If you want to be used, you must be willing to be interrupted.
“Follow Me..” Jesus said to him.
What you’re willing to leave, determines where you are able to go.
Matthew’s response- Matthew got up and followed Him.
What can we learn from Matthew?
-He didn’t just leave the tax booth, he left everything that came with it. He left what he was familiar with.
-Matthew was willing to get up and go on a simple ‘follow me.’ He didn’t need the details, he trusted and he followed.
-Matthew followed Him first and because he followed Him, He eventually followed Matthew to his house.
Vs.12-He positions Himself as a doctor, He frames salvation as healing, He connects righteousness to wellness. Healing is in sanctification. When He forms us into Christ, He has to form us OUT of of crisis.-A Word
Salvation doesn’t just break you free from sin, it heals what sin broke in you.-A Word!
Just like when we ignore a manufacturer’s instruction we bring injury to the creation, when we don’t obey God’s commands, we are bringing injury to the way He created us to operate.
When we break God’s law, God’s law breaks us.
How does it break us? In the area of our soul.
Soul-mind, will, emotions, your imaginations
Soul Wounds- injuries to our innermost being that occur as a result of negligent acts of omission and harmful acts of commission done to us or by us
Examples:
-Making investment [in time, emotions, etc.] before I did discernment
-Negligence in setting boundaries
Soul wounds show up in personality traits, patterns of behavior, cycles that we can’t escape.
3 Ways to Do Anything:
-Culture’s Way
-Religions’s Way
-Kingdom’s Way
Culture’s Way-acknowledges pain but pursues earthly solutions that numb rather than spiritual solutions that heal. It focuses on symptoms, not the source, offering relief without restoration. It settles for distractions instead of pursuing deliverance. It creates new problems by trying to solve old problems the wrong way. Workaholism, rebound relationships, illicit acts of intimacy, substance abuse, nights out on the town, and achievement become attempts to self-medicate pain that only the Great Physician has the prescription for.- A W O R D!
Church’s Way- unconsciously conflates modifying behavior with mending the soul. It often emphasizes legalism, making people believe that outward righteousness can override inward brokenness. As a result, many suffer in silencee, feeling the weight of guilt and shame, as if their wounds are proof of weak faith rather than an opportunity for God’s healing power. Those struggling are told to “just pray about it” or have more faith, offering spiritual bypassing instead of Biblical soul care. It is a reflection of what God corrected through Jeremiah. [Jeremiah 6:14]
He only consumes the sacrifice you put on the alter. He can’t bless who you pretend to be. He can’t heal what you pretend isn’t broken.- A Word to you Miss “I’m Gone Just Be Strong”
Kingdom’s Way- confronts pain with truth, not avoidance. It doesn’t treat symptoms-it heals the source. This way doesn’t always remove the pain, but it gives it purpose. It turns mourning into dancing, ashes into beauty, and despair into praise. What was meant for evil, is turned for good. It feels the pain but forgives the perpetrator. It fully embraces Jesus as one who not only deals with my badness, but also heals my brokenness.
Vs.13-“Woe to you, you hypocrites”
Hypocrite-wearing a mask, pretending to be something you’re not
Words to Remember:
Your wounds may shape your past, but they don’t dictate your future. The patterns you establish today, determine your tomorrow. Salvation isn’t just about healing your sins, but about healing your soul. Jesus came to not only make us right, but to make us whole. Amen✨