Our country is in the grip of hysteria and panic over the coronavirus. The public health officials have flip flopped repeatedly on their demands upon the public.
We are publicly shamed about wearing masks, when the science doesn't support it. We are told we must "love our neighbors" and comply with silly and unnecessary regulations.
A recent Facebook meme asserted that "Jesus would have practiced social distancing."
Meanwhile, the government has outlawed visiting our poor, elderly, dying relatives in the nursing homes, and those who are imprisoned. Gospel outreach to prisons and nursing homes has been banned. Many churches have been shut down by the government.
President Trump reluctantly went along with all this; Biden has promised to double down and make it worse.
This ought to recall to mind the stark difference of our Lord Jesus! When unclean persons approached Him, and begged healing, Jesus touched them and made them whole. He touched all sorts of sick, diseased, demon possessed people, and healed them.
Not only so, but He welcomed the touch of the unclean woman with the issue of blood when she trusted in Jesus' mighty power to heal her.
But not only physical uncleanness -- Jesus associated with sinners and ate with them! The self-righteous Pharisees objected over and over again, but Jesus insisted on keeping at it!
Jesus did so to show mercy and compassion on sinners, and to call them to repentance. He preached the Gospel to the lost, no matter how much the selfish rulers tried to stop Him.
Better still, Jesus received sinners because He wanted actually to save them, bring them into fellowship with God, and rejoice over their salvation!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...