This is a story of deliverance from leprosy and is a picture of salvation. It is also a story of how God uses many people to get one person healed.
College Notes of David Reagan as taught in Scripture Baptist College. These notes cover the doctrine of the Bible.
Mark 8:22-26 gives the only Biblical record of the healing of the blind man of Bethsaida. It is also the only miracle in the life of Christ that is not immediate, for it takes two attempts in order to bring the man perfect sight. What can be the meaning of this?
People today have no concept of loyalty. We are wishy-washy. Today you love something and tomorrow you will hate it. We make decisions quicker than you can blink and then forsake them just as fast. The bad thing is that this has rolled over into our relationship with God.
In order to go to heaven, we need more than a ticket; we must be righteous. How do we get that righteousness?