A Balm in Gilead--caring One for Another — Emanuel Esh

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Greetings to each one this morning. In the precious name of Jesus, truly He is precious. To those who have found Him as the answer to all of their needs, can we stand together in prayer? Heavenly Father, we come to You in Jesus Christ's name by that new and living way.

Through Christ Jesus, You have opened up that way for us to enter into Your throne room and there make our petitions known. And there we have been invited to come and to seek and to ask and to knock and to make known those things which we have need of.

Father, this morning You even know our needs better than we do. But we confess that we are needy. We confess we are hungry. We confess that we are thirsting after righteousness and after godliness and holiness.

We confess, Father, that without You we can do nothing. And so, Father, I accept You come and pour Your grace upon us as a congregation. I accept You come and speak through this vessel this morning. I accept that You come and anoint Your Word in Your vessel this morning.

Then, Lord, all shall be vain. It will be empty. It will not have any power nor strength to change anyone's life. But, O Father, we know that if You do come and You speak and You minister, then there will be power to have changed lives.

And there will be grace to look up unto Your face and to love You and to bless You. There will be power to live a godly life in holiness, in the righteousness which is through Christ Jesus. So, Father, would You minister to this congregation this morning?

You know all of our hearts. You see each one individually. You know every need. And, Father, You can tailor the message in such a way that every need could be ministered to. So, Father, we commit this into Your hands with thanksgiving in Jesus Christ's name.

Praising God for Deliverance in Psalm 107

Amen. Some months ago, I had shared a message out of Psalms 107. You can turn there. The message at that time was taken out of verse 39 about being minished and brought low through oppression, affliction and sorrow.

And realizing that God is sovereign, He is able to do those things and He does those things at times. I'd like for us to read out of Psalms 107 here again this morning. I do believe God has brought us out.

He has worked in our lives. And this Psalm 107 is a beautiful picture of how men will, again and again, they fall and again and again they go down. But God, again and again, He lifts them up out of their difficult situations.

And this morning, I'd like to read the positive side of this Psalm, if I may. I'm just going to skip some verses and just read the positive verses here. O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy endureth forever.

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy, and gathered them out of the lands from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. Verse 6. They cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses, and He led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

O that men would praise the Lord for His goodness and for His wonderful works to the children of men. For He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness. Verse 13. Again they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and break their bands in sunder. O that men would praise the Lord for His goodness and for His wonderful works to the children of men. For He hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.

Verse 19. Again they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses. He sent His word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. O that men would praise the Lord for His goodness and for His wonderful works to the children of men.

And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare His works with rejoicing. Verse 28. Again then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and He bringeth them out of their distresses.

He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet, so He bringeth them unto their desired haven. O that men would praise the Lord for His goodness and for His wonderful works to the children of men.

Let them exalt Him also in the congregation of the people, and praise Him in the assembly of the elders. Verse 35. He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into water springs. And there He maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation, and sow the fields and plant vineyards which may yield fruits of increase.

He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly, and suffereth not their cattle to decrease. Verse 41. Yet saith He to pour on high from affliction, and maketh Him families like a flock. The righteous shall see it and rejoice, and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

Whoso is wise and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the Lord. It's good and right to acknowledge our needs. At times acknowledge that God has brought us low. But it's also good and right to acknowledge that He has brought us out again.

The Body of Christ and Mutual Care

Amen. Or that He is bringing us out. Turn with me now to 1 Corinthians chapter 12. I'd like to title the message this morning is A Bomb in Gilead. Subtitle would be Care One for Another. Looking at this, reading in this chapter, beginning at verse 12 through to the end, is about the body, very clearly teaching that we are the body of Christ, and He's lightening the body of Christ to our physical bodies, to help us understand more about how the body of Christ is, how it should be, how it should care one for another, and so forth.

And that is the thought of the message here is caring one for another. A bomb in Gilead. Let's begin reading in verse 12 in 1 Corinthians. For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body being many are one body, so also is Christ.

For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free, and have been all made to drink into one spirit. For the body is not one member, but many, if the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body.

Is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body. Is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

But now hath God set the members, every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased Him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee.

Nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary. And those members of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor.

And our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. For our comely parts have no need, but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacketh. That there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another.

That the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it. Or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondary prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healing, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. Are all apostles, are all prophets, are all teachers, are all workers of miracles, have all the gifts of healing.

The Balm of Gilead and God’s Healing

Do all speak with tongues, do all interpret, but covet earnestly the best gifts, and yet show unto you a more excellent way. In Jeremiah 8, verse 22, it says, Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?

Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? Jeremiah, at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem, cried out those words, Is there no balm in Gilead? The answer evidently is yes, there is balm there.

Is there no physician there? Is there no doctor there? The answer is yes, there was a doctor there. And the question is, why then is the health of the daughter of my people not recovered? We also know that there's a time, according to Ecclesiastes, there's a time to kill, and there's a time to heal.

There's a time to break down, and there's a time to build up. I believe we're in the time to build up. I believe it's time of healing. And I thank God for what He has begun to do. First of all, in my own heart and life, what a joy, just to walk once again with joy.

Praise God. Hosea says, Come, let us return unto the Lord, for He hath torn, and He will heal us. He hath smitten, and He will bind us up. Also, Hosea says, I will heal their backslidings. I will love them freely, for mine anger is turned away from Him.

It is time to heal. Sometimes we need a balm, a balm of Gilead. My prayer is that God would just work in all of our hearts, that God would be able to minister to every heart here today, through His Word.

Like it says in Psalms 107, He sent His Word and healed them. He sent His Word and healed them. We know that life and death is in the power of the tongue. We know that Jesus healed people with His Word.

He is the balm in Gilead. It is Christ. He is the answer to all of our needs. He came, and He said in Luke, He said, The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor.

He hath sent Me to the healed of brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised. That is the purpose that He came for.

And people sought Him out. The multitudes began to seek Him out, just to touch Him. Because there went virtue out of Him. And He healed them all. He healed them all. The multitudes sought Him. Why did they seek Him?

Why did they seek Him? It was because they had a need. It was because they had an infirmity. It was because they were sick. It was because they had a disease of some kind. And they sought Him because they heard about Him.

And they sought Him. And they went after Him. And they desired to touch Him. Why? Because virtue went out from Him. And He healed them all. Now, wouldn't that be wonderful? Wouldn't you have wanted to be there?

All you would have needed to do was just touch Him. Just touch Him. Somehow press through the crowd and just touch Him. And you would be healed. The crowds were too big. Too many people. He took His twelve disciples and gave them power around clean spirits.

And gave them to cast them out and to heal all manner of sickness and disease. And they went out. He told them to heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils, freely you have received, freely give.

I thought of that as the first message was being preached about being a giver instead of a taker. That's right. We should be givers. But you know, if we don't have anything to give, we can't give anything.

But He says, freely you have received, freely give. And if we're going to be a giver, we also need to be a receiver. Just receive that which already has been given and use it for the glory of God. These twelve went forth preaching the kingdom of God and healing the sick.

They went through the towns and through the villages. They ministered life everywhere they went. And that is what we also are called to do. We are called to minister one to another. Especially those that are the household of God.

And the people came to Him. They came to Him with their diseases. They came with their dumbness. They came in deafness. They came when they were blind. They came in their lameness and their pain and their suffering.

Some brought their children. Some probably brought their parents. Some brought their friends. They carried them on beds and brought them to Jesus. And Jesus would touch them and heal them. They would get up and walk.

He says, I am the Lord that healeth thee. I am the one who forgives all thy iniquities and heals all thy diseases. He healeth the broken heart and bindeth up their wounds. This is what the Lord Jesus does.

Unto you that fear His name shall the Son of Righteousness arise with healing in His wings and ye shall go forth. There were specific instances of healing. There was a certain woman which came and she was healed of evil spirits and infirmities.

Emotional Healing and the Hurting Body

Mary Magdalene out of whom seven devils went. I would like to look at some parallels of the body this morning. To help us to understand a little more of what I would like to share here this morning. But we do know that there is a spiritual body and there is a physical body.

In the healing that I am thinking about this morning, I am thinking of the healing for the whole man. Healing for the emotions. Healing for some of the broken hearts. Healing for some of those who have had a lot of pain.

Healing for those who are simply hurting. I am not looking at physical healing this morning as much. That may be a part of it. But what I really would like to look at is emotional healing. I believe almost every one of us has needs in that area.

Oftentimes, when I am in the, during the time of discouragement recently, just meeting the general public. And sometimes when you are down you feel like everyone else is down also. And that is how you see the world sometimes by your own eyes, your own experiences.

But if there would have been someone who would have come along and would have in kindness and in love just simply been able to minister to me and ask me how am I really doing. And if I would have had the confidence that the person really cares, I would have been able to share.

Otherwise, I would not have opened up to a person like that. And then I began to think about all the other people that I meet daily. At work, at the store, all the other people that you meet. What percentage of those people do you think, do you imagine, would have a deep emotional need?

They are hurting emotionally. They are in pain. What percent do you think would be deeply hurting? But so often we say hi, we talk a little bit about the weather or this or that. But do we really care for the souls of men?

And we know that people that are outside of Christ, we know they are hurting deeply, every single one of them. But isn't the body also a needy, hurting? And how quickly we, how easily we hide all those things.

There is plenty of hospitals around. There are plenty of doctors around, doctors offices. There's lots of supply houses with lots of medications and pharmacies and all kinds of things for the physical body.

And there are some who are ministering to the spiritual body. But this whole nation cycles around the needs of the physical body. The medical field is one of the number one things on the agenda. The billboards for the last five years have been lifting up hospital aid and insurances and all those things.

And maybe you have to wonder why is that such a high priority? It's where the people are hurting. It's that which ministers to the people when they are hurting. And that's what really means a lot. One of the first things that a doctor does when you go to him with your problem, he will ask you lots of questions.

He'll look at what he sees. He'll check your heart. He'll ask you where it hurts. He'll ask you what happened. He needs information to be able to try to figure out what's wrong with you. And I'm not a doctor.

I'm not even a medical technician like some here are. So maybe they can correct me afterwards if I make mistakes. But that's okay. They'll ask you how long you've had this sickness or whatever it is. When did it begin?

And what have you taken? What are you doing about it?

And what have you tried? And so forth. They want to know where you're at. They wonder what kind of medication you're on. And maybe you're having side effects. And a lot of side effects of all the things and the medications people take.

But you know there's side effects just for having lots of pain and emotional pain too. There's reactions and there's anger and all those type of things that come out. Many times there are surface problems.

I think of in Ghana or like in Haiti where I've been. And you see people who have skin problems and broken bones. And there's bleeding. There's cuts. There's wounds. And there's swellings. And there's bruises.

There's bumps. There's sprains. And there's strains. And there's all kinds of surface things you can look at. You can check to see how this person is doing physically. Is there fever present? And when did it begin?

How long have you had the fever? And how high does it go? Does it spike? And when did it come? And by all those means, a person who is experiencing those things, he can finally come down to a very good idea of what disease you have or what kind of problem you have.

And then he knows what to do about it. They're trained that way. They check the eyes and the ears, the nose, the mouth, the throat. They'll do blood tests and saliva tests and urine tests. Is it a virus or a bacteria or is it a parasite?

So many questions that could be asked in that way. The overall appearance of the person. If it's an outward problem, you can easily see it many times. If it's inward, sometimes people have inward problems and they can hide.

What is our response to our physical injuries? And I want us to go through this so we can think a little bit what our response should be to the emotional injuries. How should we respond one to another in the body?

And then how can we minister one to another as we walk through some of these things? I had to think of that woman. A woman that had an issue of blood for 12 years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any.

We don't read that Jesus needed to ask all the questions to find out what was wrong with her. She just somehow wiggled her way through the crowd and said, Oh, if I could just touch Him. She came and she pushed her way through the crowd and reached out her hand and she was an unclean woman.

She had an issue of blood and when a woman has an issue of blood, she's unclean and she's not supposed to be touching people. She's not supposed to be getting into people and for sure not teaching this holy man.

And for a woman to touch a priest or a Levite, it would disqualify him for service for a while. But she came to Jesus and it was hidden inside of her. Her problem was deeply hidden inside. But she told herself, if I could but touch Him, I should be made whole.

And she did. She came and she touched His garment. I can just imagine she reached through some people there and reached as far as she could and finally she could touch His robe a little bit. And she drew it back and immediately she knew she was healed.

But she didn't want anyone to know because she was unclean. And Jesus stopped and He looked around. He said, who touched me? And the disciple said, well Master, the whole crowd is pressing around you.

We're throwing you and everybody is bumping against you. Why do you say who touched me? And He said, someone touched me before I felt virtue going out of me. He sent His Word and He healed them. He did.

Recognizing the Consequences of Wounded Spirits

May the Lord minister to our hearts. May the Lord minister to each heart here today, somehow by His Word. Our response to physical injuries. Think with me. When we first are injured, we immediately try to shield the injured member.

You break your finger or your bone or you get a cut or something. All the rest of the body pays attention to that area where the pain is coming from and it does everything in its power to shield itself from more pain and more harm and it protects that injured member very closely.

Amen? In physical injury, we're not afraid to let it be known that I got hurt. In fact, we sometimes like to talk about it. When we get hurt, we stop everything else, our work, our job, or whatever it may be and we pay attention to that member of the body that has been injured.

We're not afraid to call for help if we need help. If I get a physical injury, I'll call for help. All I need to do is lift up my voice and say, Help! If there's people around, they'll come running and they'll be very quick and diligent to help me in every way they can to try to minimize the pain, the suffering.

The whole emergency personnel is geared that way. I think of the... I guess there must be thousands and hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of small towns throughout the United States and most of those small towns have a fire company and an ambulance.

A lot of them do. Millions and billions of dollars spent annually for emergency personnel because they want to assist, they want to help people that are hurting. They love it. They give themselves to it.

It's their life. They're waiting for the next opportunity to find someone who's in need. When we're hurting a lot, when we get injured, we submit our body to the discretion of others. We let them... We give ourselves to them.

They're supposed to be able to discern what's wrong. They're supposed to know what to do to take care of me. And they try to eliminate my pain. They'll take me to the doctor, the hospital, wherever I need to go.

We submit our bodies to them. We let them help us. We accept the fact that we need help. We accept the fact that we are injured. And we're not afraid to get professional help. Just thought about the times before anesthesia.

We're so spoiled these days. We can go to the hospital. We can have our bones set and we can have operations with anesthesia. They just put us out and we can wake up out of the anesthesia and they put our body together just to take some time to heal.

But there was a day not too long ago when there was no anesthesia. And if you were injured, you suffered greatly because there was no anesthesia to lessen the pain. I don't know of any anesthesia for the emotional pain or the spiritual body except Christ Himself.

He's able to do all things. Our response to our physical injuries, usually while we're mending or after we get home from the hospital or when we're in the hospital we have lots of visitors. We get lots of attention.

There's cards. There's gifts. There's visitors. There's well-wishers. There's sunshine boxes. And I remember as a little boy one of my school friends hurt his leg or broke his leg or something and we all had this as a school children we all had this sunshine box you know, how we all brought a little gift along for this little boy.

Boy, he got lots of attention. I kind of looked at him and thought hmm, must be nice. Lots of attention when someone gets physically hurt. We minister to them. We give gifts, cards, well-wishing. We bless them.

We go visit them. All those things, amen? What do we do when there is a when there is someone hurting emotionally? How do we respond? How does the body respond to that? Sometimes it's so painful you wish there wouldn't be that pain.

But then if that wish would come true you'd have paralysis. You'd be numb. What's our response to the emotional injuries? How do you respond when someone says something and it hurts? Do you call for help?

Do you let it be known? What is your response? First of all, you pretend it didn't hurt. You just kind of go on. You try to hide the injury. You try to conceal the pain. You don't want to tell anyone.

And you don't call for help. Anybody hurting this morning? Is that true? You keep right on going as if nothing happened. But then you kind of draw away. You draw back. You crawl into a hole somewhere or into a shell and you crawl and you lick your wounds and you nurse your hurts.

All alone. In self-pity. You tend not to share with others. Sometimes you even refuse help. It's too painful, you see. And there's no anesthesia. And we allow the injury to be untreated. We block out others.

We begin to refuse to get involved. All the while deep inside we wish someone would notice. Usually there's no cards. No gifts. No sunshine box. Not even visitors. No well-wishers. And no one who understands.

These things happen in the body. What happens afterward? What are the results of an emotional injury? It says in the Bible, it says the spirit of a man will sustain his infirmities but a wounded spirit who can bear.

Uniformity, I would understand, would be a physical thing. Maybe that's what it means. But a man who's strong in spirit he can sustain physical pain. But a wounded spirit, who can bear? No one. No one.

I've seen some of these results in my own life in the last several months. The results of a wounded spirit. The results of emotional injuries. Lashing out at those close to me. Harsh words. Sharp words.

Painful words. Frustration. Grudges. Unforgiveness. Strained relationships. A critical attitude. Yes, these are results of emotional pain. I'm hurting, you see. And my reactions. And especially against those who are closest to me.

My wife. My children. My close friends. I'm trying to escape the pain, you see. I'm trying to do something with my deep hurt. I become judgmental. Demanding of my loved ones. Legalistic. Little or no grace.

High expectations of them. Making mountains out of molehills. Little things become mountains and so forth. Shifting the blame. Refusing to take responsibility for my actions. The circumstances of today, they trigger memories of the past.

And something comes up. And something happens. And all of a sudden, there it is. And all of a sudden, there's angry words. And all of a sudden, there's hurtful words. And you go through the day and something happens.

And again, that triggers a memory. And words are said. And all of a sudden, the conscience is troubled. There's loss of spiritual desires. Anxiety, care, overload. Burden is too heavy. Physically, you become dull and listless.

Tired. Sleeplessness. Restless. Sicknesses. Numerous problems and so forth. And there's a verse in Deuteronomy 28. That I thought fit so well. In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were evening.

In the evening you shall say, Would God it were morning. And what's happening is, You go to bed and you want to sleep, but you can't sleep. You rest. You're restless. You turn. You toss. And you wish it would be morning.

Finally, morning comes and you get up out of bed. And you drag yourself around. And oh, you just wish it would be evening. So, you go to bed and rest again. That's what really happens at times. Overwhelming temptations and going your own way.

Reactions. You lose out spiritually. Children affected by the iniquities of the parents. The parents' discouragement. Children magnify the parents' problems. The results of emotional pain. Wounded spirit.

All those things. The multitude. When they knew that Jesus came, they went after Him. They followed Him. And He received them and spake unto them of the Kingdom of God. And He healed them that had need of healing.

And many of them were made whole. They were made whole. He longed to be made whole. There's the New Testament word for healing. Or to heal is the word theraputu. Therapu. I believe it comes from... That's probably where our word therapy comes from.

Christ Bears Our Griefs and Brings Wholeness

Therapy. Ministering. Healing. Let's turn to Isaiah 53. Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of dry ground.

He hath no form nor commonness and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men. But he's a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid as it were our faces from him.

He was despised and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions.

He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed. This is the Son of God who took upon himself all of our sorrows, our griefs, our burdens and our sins upon his own body and knelt unto the cross and there he suffered and died and he paid the price for the sin of mankind.

But he also paid the price for man's healing, for man's wholeness. He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed.

I don't understand all those things. I don't understand how all those things work. But I had to think of this. Whenever you have a puncture in your body, like you step into a nail, a rusty nail or something like that.

I remember my mom and my dad, they always made it very clear and plain. They said, if it doesn't bleed, it's going to become infected. And if you step into a nail, a puncture, and it just punctures your hand or your foot, then oftentimes there's no bleeding.

And if there's no bleeding, there's no healing basically. But what's the first thing that happens when you have a cut or something in your body? Or even a bruise or something. If you just bruise your body, there's sweating and sometimes it gets black and blue.

What that really is, that's blood coming to that place there to assist the healing. And when you cut your body, your arm or your leg or your hand or your finger, whatever it is, when you cut yourself, there is blood coming immediately.

It is that blood that ministers healing to that part of the body. Amen? Because the blood has life in it. And that blood carries what is needed for healing there. And when you cut yourself, the blood rushes to that cut immediately.

It begins to close that gap as soon as it comes. The blood thickens and what's that word? Coagulates or something like that. And it begins to stop the bleeding. You see, the blood is very important for healing.

Amen? There's four words that are found in the New Testament here. Four different Greek words that is translated into the word wound. To wound someone, there's four words. The first one is, I can't even pronounce it.

I have to let Jeff pronounce it. Kephelehu, which simply means to strike on the head. That's one word, to wound. It means wound in the head. Another word that is translated wound is plege, which is the word plague.

Or that means also to wound, but more of a plague type thing. Then there's another word, 5135 is traumatizo, which also means to inflict a wound. And that's the word, probably where we get our word traumatized.

And sometimes when people are really seriously hurt, they are traumatized. So that's what that word would mean. There's one more word, it means spazo. And that word means to butcher or to slaughter or to maim violently.

There's four different words for the word wound. We have the word wound in the Greek New Testament. So what do we have to do with the body? What does it have to do with the body? How does the local body minister one to another?

How do I respond when someone else is hurting? Do I recognize it? Don't I even see it?

And don't I even care? But what is most likely, what happens so often when someone is hurting deeply, someone will come up to them and talk to them, and I've done these things, and you end up saying things that hurt them more than what they were when I started.

The wound is there. Now, who in his right mind would take the wound on your friend? Would you go up to your brother or your sister who just had a deep wound somewhere and you want to try to help them and you want to try to bandage them up, you want to eliminate their pain but by the time you're done, the cut is bigger than it was when you started and they have more pain than when you started.

Would you go back to that person again? Would you go back to that doctor again? But that happens so much. And maybe you're sitting here this morning and you're saying it's not safe here. You're afraid to open up because your experience has proven that that's what happens.