“And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy.” Luke 14:2
Jesus healed the man with dropsy on the Sabbath, a deed which violated mosaic law. The self-righteous Pharisees had a legal problem with this.
The symbolic meaning of the passage is in the dropsy. Dropsy was a swelling of the body due to edema or excess build up of body fluids. This is a type of fallen man swelled up in pride, arrogance, independence, self-indulgence, self-gratification, self-confidence, self-controller methods, and self-esteem. This typifies man’s main problem, the inflated self or ego. I (“ego”) needs to be crucified with Christ. This is only cure of self. Gal 2:20.
Our death, burial and resurrection with Christ thru the Spirit is the only cure for the bloated self.
Jesus healed the man on the Sabbath. The Sabbath was to be the day after Jesus’ death, the day of His burial. Mosaic Law increases and inflates the ego self. Law cannot heal. Law kills. Only our burial with Christ can heal dropsy of self. Rom 6:3:-7.
So Jesus touched the man, healed him, and sent him away. Jesus said to the Pharisees and teachers of the law, “If your child or ox FALLS (signifies death with Christ) into a WELL (signifies burial with Christ) on the Sabbath Day, will you not PULL HIM OUT QUICKLY (signifies the quickening, healing, resurrecting, renewing power of Christ)? And they could not answer Him.
Jesus, who is “the resurrection and the life,” will raise up all who will participate with Him in humbly bowing down in identification with Him in His death and burial (John 11:25). When their is an obedient servant who dies down deep, Christ will then raise him upward, but never before. All pride and puff will then be vanquished.
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