Ezekiel 47/Isaiah 61 + How Jesus Heals the World // Jesus Changes Everything - David Park

Driving Question: What does it mean that Jesus is our Healer—and how do we participate in His healing work today?

1. God’s Deep Desire for Healing

From Genesis to Revelation, the story of Scripture is the story of a God who heals what sin has broken. 

Ezekiel 47 gives us a vision of a river flowing from the temple—the river of life—bringing healing wherever it goes. This river represents God’s presence, His heart to restore His world.

But why is there so much to heal? When sin and death entered the world, everything fractured—our relationship with God, with each other, and even with ourselves. The Hebrew word shabar (Isaiah 61) means “to be broken beyond repair.” Only God can heal that kind of brokenness.

Healing is not a side project of Jesus—it is central to His mission. God desired healing so deeply that He sent His Son to bind up the brokenhearted and restore what was lost.

2. How Jesus Heals

Jesus healed in miraculous ways—He made the blind see, the lame walk, and the sick whole. These healings weren’t just ancient stories; they are still available for us today through the Spirit’s power.

But Jesus also healed in quieter, deeper ways—through His loving presence.

He ate with sinners, welcomed the outcasts, called Zacchaeus by name, and restored Peter after his failure. He healed through compassion, through relationship, and through time spent with those others avoided.

Jesus didn’t just save us and leave us broken—He saved us and began healing us.

Even today, many of us still live out of unhealed places. We strive, perform, and carry the broken patterns of generations before us—whether through survival, comparison, or self-protection. But Jesus is still healing those internal wounds. He is forming us into people who are safe for others, breaking cycles of fear and striving so that His peace can flow through us.

3. Our Hope for Healing

Our hope begins and ends in God’s faithfulness. He will go to great lengths to heal you.

Revelation 21 gives us the ultimate promise: a day when there will be no more mourning, no more crying, no more pain, no more death. That is God’s final plan—and we can trust that He will finish what He started.

Right now, we live in the messy middle. Jesus has come and begun the healing process, and God will one day complete it. Healing takes time and often feels painful, but as Paul reminds us in 2 Corinthians 4:16, “our inner self is being renewed day by day.”

And not only is He healing us—He’s inviting us to join Him. We don’t do the healing; Christ does. But His presence and love in us can bring healing to others. Healed people heal people. Every act of grace, listening, and compassion becomes a small river of life flowing through us.

Pray
Lord Jesus, thank You that You did not merely save us but you are also actively healing us. Help us to trust Your process when it feels slow or painful. Make us people whose presence brings healing to others, and help our church become a place where Your river of life flows freely. Heal us, Lord, and make us healers through Your Spirit. Amen.