Stretch out Your Hand

What we want to see this morning is that the ministry of Jesus was the outworking of a bold and powerful righteousness, while the ministry of the Pharisees to men was cowardly and weak. We want to contrast the outworking of this bold ministry of our Lord Jesus with the cowardly and weak ministry of the Pharisees; and we want to learn from it. What was the difference between the ministry of Jesus and the ministry of the Pharisees as regards this man with the withered hand? And how can you and I be more like Jesus, in the ministry that He has given us here in this place? For whatever ministry we have in this place is an extension of the ministry of the Lord Jesus. We can say that the ministry of Jesus was different from that of the Pharisees in these 3 significant ways: 1st- Their watching of men was different. 2nd- Their speaking to issues of good and evil was different. And 3rd- Their religious courage was different. I would like you to consider as we look into this, whether your ministry to people around you is like this, and how you might improve, having seen what the Lord Jesus did here.