If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 8.  The Lord Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount is recorded from chapter 5 to chapter 7, giving us the words of life and the way of life.  Chapters 8 and 9 of Matthew, miracles, mighty attesting signs of the Lord Jesus Christ, are performed so that the word of life is set side by side with the powerful deeds of Christ, thus attesting to the fact that He is indeed the very Son of God, the Messiah, the Christ, sent from God for the sins of the world If you will scan the beginning of chapter 8,you will remember in our study of verses 1 through 17 we saw three scenes of healing.  First, in verses 1 through 4, we saw Jesus’ healing of the leper.  Then, in verses 5 through 13, we saw Jesus heal the centurion’s…