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What’s Your Issue? - 8/16/26 - Meadows Baptist Church - Pastor Charlie Branch · Meadows Baptist Church Podcast

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  Welcome to the [music] podcast of
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  Meadows Baptist Church of Walnut Cove,
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  North Carolina.
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  Now, let's join Pastor Charlie [music]
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  Branch
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  with a word from God.
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  >> Amen.
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  I don't know about you, but I'm going
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  there. Amen. And it is home. I tell you,
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  the longer I stay down here, the less it
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  feels like home. And I tell you,
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  this life I I think I believe as Paul
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  wrote, he said, "If in this life only we
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  have hope in Christ, we're of all men
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  most miserable." And I believe that. If
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  all there was to this all there was to
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  life was this life, it would be a sad
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  reality, wouldn't it? But I'm thankful
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  this is not all there is. Amen. And I
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  bless the name of the Lord this morning.
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  If you have a Bible, I'll invite you to
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  turn with me to Mark's Gospel, chapter
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  number five. I invite you to stand in
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  honor and reverence to the reading of
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  God's word, if you can and are able.
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  Mark's Gospel, chapter number five.
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  We'll begin reading in verse number 21.
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  I do want to let you know I did say
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  wrong this morning. Miss Betty Jean was
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  in the hospital due to some heart
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  issues. They did double up her medicine.
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  She's not going to be having a cath this
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  week, but she is waiting to see a heart
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  doctor. And so, if y'all would remember
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  her in prayer this morning, and I pray
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  that God would bless and help her. And I
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  know she's watching right now. We love
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  you, sister. And we appreciate you and
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  very, very much. And I appreciate all of
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  you. And we know when you're not here.
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  Amen. And I thank God for you. Thank God
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  for you being here.
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  And I appreciate each one of you. Mark
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  chapter number five, verse number 21.
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  The Bible says, "And when Jesus was
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  passed over again by ship unto the other
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  side, much people gathered unto him. And
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  he was nigh unto the sea. And behold,
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  there cometh one of the rulers of the
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  synagogue, Jairus
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  by name. And when he saw him, he fell at
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  his feet, and besought him greatly,
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  saying, "My little daughter lieth at the
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  point of death. I pray thee, come and
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  lay thine hands on her, that she may be
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  healed, and she shall live." And Jesus
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  went with him, and much people followed
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  him and thronged him. And a certain
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  woman, which had an issue of blood 12
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  years, and had suffered many things of
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  many physicians, and had spent all that
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  she had, and was nothing better, but
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  rather grew worse, when she had heard of
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  Jesus, came in the press behind, and
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  touched his garment. For she said, "If I
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  may touch but his clothes, I shall be
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  whole." And straightway, the fountain of
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  her blood was dried up, and she felt in
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  her body that she was healed of that
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  plague. Jesus, immediately knowing in
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  himself that virtue had gone out of him,
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  turned him about in the press, and said,
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  "Who touched my clothes?" And his
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  disciples said unto him, "Thou seest the
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  multitude thronging thee, and sayest
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  thou, 'Who touched me?'"
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  And he looked round about to see her
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  that had done this thing. But the woman,
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  fearing and trembling, knowing what was
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  done in her, came and fell down before
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  him, and told him all the truth. And he
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  said unto her, "Daughter, thy faith hath
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  made thee whole. Go in peace, and be
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  whole of thy plague." Father, thank you
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  for the privilege to be in the house of
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  God today. Thank you for the opportunity
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  to gather around the word of God. And
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  Lord, I do not take this opportunity
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  lightly. Lord, I thank you for the word
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  of God that has been shared, the
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  excellent Sunday school lesson this
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  morning. We thank you, God, for that.
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  Lord, I pray you'd help us to be mindful
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  of our words in this day and time. Lord,
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  I ask you, God, as your servant this
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  morning, you would set a watch about my
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  lips. I pray you'd help me to say
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  nothing, God, that would hinder the
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  working of the Holy Ghost of God in this
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  service, but everything, God, that would
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  be pleasing and honoring glorifying to
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  thee because faith cometh by hearing and
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  hearing by the word of God. And you
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  said, "How shall they hear without a
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  preacher?" And Lord, I thank you, God,
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  that you have allowed me the privilege
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  to be the preacher for this service
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  today and the pastor of this great
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  church. I ask you, God, to help us save
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  the center nearest tail, reclaim the
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  backslidden, God, we pray. And Lord, I
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  pray every heart will leave challenged
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  and changed by the word of God today.
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  And Lord, may you get glory and honor
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  for who you are. Lord, we love you.
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  Thank you for loving us. We ask it all
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  in Jesus' name. For his sake we pray.
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  Amen. Thank you for standing. You can be
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  seated this morning. Mark's Gospel,
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  chapter number five. I love this chapter
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  of the word of God and probably some of
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  my favorite scripture to preach from. I
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  have preached out of this chapter uh
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  several times, but I've never preached
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  this particular portion of scripture. I
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  was talking to my wife on yesterday as I
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  was praying about the service today and
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  I told her, I said, "I really believe
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  the reason I have never preached this
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  passage is cuz my father-in-law preaches
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  a message out of this passage." And to
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  be honest with you, I don't think that
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  I've ever heard anybody preach it better
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  than he does. But this is where God has
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  us today. And so, if you're not
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  satisfied when the message is over, go
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  online and look up Dealing With Issues
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  by Brother Todd McKean and you can hear
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  a good message on this text. Amen. But
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  uh we're going to preach today, all
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  right? Hey, y'all right this morning?
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  Amen. Wake up, okay? We're going to
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  preach, all right? You going to help me
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  preach this morning? Amen. I need better
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  than that. You going to help me preach
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  this morning? Amen. Matthew Mark chapter
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  number five. This chapter this morning,
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  when we think about in its entirety, is
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  riddled with hard cases. Now, if you
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  know your Bible this morning, you know
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  that in this chapter there are three
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  different instances that are told in
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  this chapter and Christ is going to
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  handle each one of them. Aren't you
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  thankful that there's not a problem too
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  big for him that he cannot solve? Amen.
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  And he deals with the Gadarene
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  demon-possessed man here in verses 1
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  through verse number 20. What a great
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  life change that the Lord Jesus brings
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  to him in this text. And the fact that
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  he was dealing with that that demon,
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  that legion of demons that was in him.
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  And God delivers him from those demons.
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  And then he will deal after our text
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  this morning with a young girl who is
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  dying in verses 35 through 43 of this
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  chapter. And our text this morning he
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  will deal with a a gal who is diseased
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  in verses 21 through 34. And the miracle
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  is that Christ proves victorious in each
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  case. Amen. I want to say this, there's
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  not a there's not a hard case too hard
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  for him. Amen. And he proves victorious
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  in each case in this text. But I want to
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  say this, when we look at these cases,
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  these instances in this chapter, we find
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  that each of these situations
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  have run beyond the ability of man.
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  You say, "What do you mean, preacher?"
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  Well, let's just look in the text. Verse
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  number three of chapter 5, the Bible
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  says of the demon-possessed man, "But he
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  had his dwelling among the tombs."
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  Listen to this, "And no man could bind
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  him, no, not with chains. Because it had
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  been often bound with fetters and
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  chains. And the chains had been plucked
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  asunder by him. And the fetters broken
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  in pieces. Neither could any man tame
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  him." And so the demon-possessed man had
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  went beyond the ability of man to fix
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  him. And then the little girl in the
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  text for she comes first in this
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  chapter. And then we'll end the text in
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  verse number 23. Jairus speaks to Jesus
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  and says in verse 23, "My little
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  daughter lies at the point of death. I
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  pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her
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  that she may be healed and she shall
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  live." And so no doubt in my mind, these
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  parents, this man, Jairus, loved his
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  daughter. He loved her so much that he
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  had done everything in his power that he
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  could to help her. But, there came a
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  time when man's power was not able to
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  help her. And so, the demon-possessed
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  man had run beyond the ability of man to
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  receive help. And this little daughter
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  had run beyond the ability of man to
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  receive help. But, I notice in this text
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  that this woman, this gal here in our
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  verses, has run beyond the ability of
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  man to receive help. And I want to
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  consider four things in this text about
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  this thought, the issue of blood this
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  morning. Now, we notice number one this
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  morning by in the message. I want you to
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  notice her terrible condition that's
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  mentioned in verse number 25. The Bible
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  says, "And a certain woman which had an
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  issue of blood 12 years and had suffered
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  many things of many physicians and had
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  spent all that she had and was nothing
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  better, but rather grew worse." And so,
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  it is labeled in this text that she is
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  in dire straits. Now, I I find it
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  interesting that Jesus is on his journey
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  back to Jairus' house to help him with
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  his daughter. And this interruption
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  comes in the path as they are journeying
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  there to bring healing to this daughter
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  who is about to die. And I'm thankful,
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  amen, that Jesus is always headed
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  somewhere. Now, I want to say this this
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  morning, Jesus has a purpose for the
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  path that he is walking in your life.
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  And you say, "What do you mean?" Well, I
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  don't know what direction you're headed
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  in. I don't know where it feels like
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  you're going. But, I'll say this, if you
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  are walking in the will of God and
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  you're doing what he asked you to do,
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  you just know he's got an end goal in
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  mind.
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  Amen.
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  And so, this interruption here often
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  brings an interac- or brings an
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  interaction here with this woman in the
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  text. Now, notice her terrible condi-
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  condition. You say, "What do you mean
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  her terrible condition?" Well, I would
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  say her terrible condition is expressed
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  by the term that's used in verse number
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  25. That term issue. Notice that. And a
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  certain woman had an issue of blood.
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  Now, that word issue literally means a
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  flowing. So, there is
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  a flowing issue in her life. But then
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  there's not only a flowing issue, but
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  there is a fleshly issue in verse 25. A
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  certain woman which had an issue, notice
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  this, of blood. Of blood. And so, I
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  think the the terrible condition is
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  expressed by this term issue, the
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  flowing, and by the flesh, this flowing
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  of blood here in the text. And I read
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  this, literally speaking, her life is in
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  danger. You say, "What do you mean?"
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  Well, Leviticus 17, verse number 11 says
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  this, that the life of the flesh is in
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  the blood.
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  Do you realize that we we think about
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  history and there was a time in medicine
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  days gone by, been many hundred years,
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  that they would bloodlet people and they
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  would take their blood out of their body
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  trying to heal them. But what they did
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  not realize is they were endangering
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  them further more than they were
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  actually helping them. And we know now
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  by modern medicine that blood
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  transfusions are almost always necessary
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  for cancer patients. And you say, "What
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  do you mean?" I'm saying this text here
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  reveals that she has a problem that is
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  endangering her life. I'm going to say
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  this, it was a fleshly problem. It was a
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  flowing problem. I'm going to say this,
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  it was a fateful problem.
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  You say, "What do you mean?" Notice the
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  text.
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  And a certain woman which had an issue
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  of blood, what does the Bible say? 12
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  years.
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  She's had this for some time.
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  And I'm going to say this, it's a
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  miracle she's even still alive.
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  I'm going to say this to you this
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  morning, you've got a problem if you're
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  here lost this morning.
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  And you know what the reality is in your
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  life? It's a flowing problem.
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  It's a fleshly problem, but it's a
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  fateful problem. You say, "What do you
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  mean?" Well, I'm saying it's a wonder
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  you're not dead this morning.
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  Anybody in the building?
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  You say, "What do you mean?" I'm saying
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  that's for all of us this morning. I'm
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  saying if it hadn't been for salvation
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  by grace that entered into my life, you
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  realize that I could be in jail. Really,
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  I'd probably be in hell this morning if
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  it were not for the grace of God. YOU
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  SAY, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, PREACHER?" WELL,
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  I NOTICE in the text that her problem is
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  expressed in verse number 25, but notice
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  what's said of her in verse number 26.
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  Consider the many physicians. The Bible
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  says that she had suffered many things
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  of many physicians and had spent all
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  that she had and was nothing better, but
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  rather grew worse. And so, there are
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  many physicians according to this text
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  and what we found that they are not able
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  to soothe her pain, but rather they are
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  deepening her suffering. And not only
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  are they deepening her suffering, but
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  they are defrauding her supply. You say,
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  "What do you mean?" Well, the Bible says
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  that she'd spent all that she had.
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  She'd give everything that she'd got to
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  try to get some help. And in 12 years of
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  time, there's no telling how many
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  painful procedures or pricey procedures
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  that she'd went through and how many
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  painful practices she had experienced on
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  her life. I'm saying, friend, these men,
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  these people that were trying to help
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  her really were nothing more than the
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  people that Job described in Job 16 and
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  verse two as miserable comforters.
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  They weren't able to do anything for
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  her.
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  And the truth is this morning, any
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  reformation in your life or mine this
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  morning to try to deal with the sin
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  issue that you and I have outside of
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  Jesus Christ is futile.
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  Amen.
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  You can't You can't You can't You can't
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  reform something that needs to be
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  remade.
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  Amen, friend.
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  You say, "What do you mean?" Well, I'm
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  saying these that the painful practices.
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  You say, "Well, how do you see that in
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  the text?" Well, it says, notice verse
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  26, she had suffered many things. Notice
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  that.
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  The painful practices. She had went
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  through all kinds of try of of of
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  processes and things trying to help her.
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  I I read a little bit on this and and
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  there was a all kinds of different
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  methods. One writer says that there was
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  literally 11 or 12 different methods
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  that Jews would use to try to deal with
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  this problem. But all evidently if she
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  had tried all of those in this text,
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  none of them had proved effective in her
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  life and they had brought her much pain.
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  She had suffered many things. And notice
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  not only the painful practices, but
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  these pricey procedures. She'd spent all
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  that she had. She didn't have nothing
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  left to do. And out of that she still
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  had the progression of her plight in the
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  text, verse number 26. She'd spent all
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  that she had and was nothing better.
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  Notice it again, but rather grew worse.
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  It was only getting worse.
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  You know what, sinner?
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  Your problem this morning's only going
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  to get worse.
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  Until you recognize that there's no hope
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  for you.
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  You say, "What do you mean?" I'm saying
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  when you get to the end of yourself,
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  that's when you can find some help.
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  You say, "Preacher, how does this relate
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  to my sin?" Well, I I I said this
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  already. This problem was a flowing
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  problem. Now, I know some of y'all are
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  uncomfortable this morning, but you'll
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  be all right, okay? Be an adult, all
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  right? Grow up a little bit. Hear the
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  sermon, okay?
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  Everybody with me?
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  All right. So, this is a flowing
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  problem.
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  This is a fleshly problem. This is a
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  fateful problem in our life. You say,
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  "Preacher, WHAT DOES THAT HAVE to do
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  with my sin?" Well, you see what this
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  woman paints a picture for us all this
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  morning is a is an image of the
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  operations of the devil on a soul that's
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  sick with sin.
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  You say, "What do you mean?" Well, this
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  woman's had an issue that for 12 years
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  she's had all kinds of operations and
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  all kinds of aid has been tried to give
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  to her, but she has nothing has been
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  made better, but it is only been made
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  worse. And the truth is in your life and
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  mine, any attempt at reformation, any
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  attempt at turning over a new leaf to
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  deal with the sin problem that we have
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  without redemption, without salvation,
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  without justification AND PROPITIATION,
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  WITHOUT THE SACRIFICE, WITHOUT THE blood
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  of Jesus Christ, IT IS NOT possible for
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  your case to be fixed.
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  Say how is that? Well, it reminds you
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  again, this is true. This image is true.
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  This is the operation of the devil on
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  the soul sick with sin. 1 Peter 5 and
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  verse number 8, the Bible says, "Be
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  sober, be vigilant because your
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  adversary the devil walketh about as a
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  roaring lion." Listen this, "seeking
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  whom he may devour."
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  Devour.
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  He wants to destroy you. You say,
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  "Preacher, I still don't get what that
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  has to do with my sin." Well, let me
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  give you this, all right? Sin truly is a
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  flowing issue out of the heart of man.
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  Sin's a fleshly issue. Wouldn't you
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  agree with that?
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  Sin's a faithless issue. You realize
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  sin's got a 100% death rate?
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  Bible says death passed upon all men
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  because all have sinned.
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  You say, "Preacher, what do you mean sin
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  is a flowing issue?" Turn with me to
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  Mark chapter 7. Put it in your margin.
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  Mark chapter 7,
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  verse number 21. Listen to this.
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  Jesus said in verse number 20, the
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  Pharisees were accusing his disciples of
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  eating with unwashed hands.
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  Listen to what he says. Verse 19,
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  "Because it entereth not into the heart,
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  but into the belly, and goeth out into
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  the draught, purging all meats." And he
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  said, "That which cometh out of the man,
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  that defileth the man."
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  "For from within, out of the heart of
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  men," notice that, "proceed evil
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  thoughts, adulteries, fornications,
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  murders, thefts, covetousness,
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  wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an
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  evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.
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  All these evil things come from within
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  and defile
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  the man.
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  You say, "Preacher, what is that?" It's
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  a flowing issue.
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  Out of the abundance of the heart, the
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  mouth speaketh. The life is lived out of
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  the operation of the heart. It is the
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  heart that gives our mind the choices to
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  choose.
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  And so, what we see in this text is is
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  an expression that sin will truly take
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  you farther than you want to go.
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  >> [snorts]
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  >> Sin will truly keep you longer than you
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  want to stay.
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  And in the case of this woman, what do
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  we see? Sin will really cost you more
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  than you ever thought you'd have to pay.
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  You say, "What do you mean?" I'm saying,
• 17:53
  friend, she in this text you say,
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  "PREACHER, IS IT HER SIN?" NO, I'm
• 17:57
  saying THE IMAGERY OF HER ILLNESS IS THE
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  THE FACT OF OUR SIN.
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  THAT IT IS A FLOWING DISEASE. OUT OF THE
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  HEART PROCEEDETH EVIL. It is a FLESHLY
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  DISEASE. OUR FLESH IS UTTERLY DEPRAVED
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  AND WICKED BEFORE GOD.
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  And it is a fateful sin. You a fateful
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  illness. I'll say this, you think about
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  Satan's operation in the heart of a soul
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  sick with sin, I think about Judas.
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  Probably paints to us the best picture
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  of this image here in the text. You see
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  the Judas by the operation of Satan,
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  according to Luke chapter number 22 and
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  verse number three, Satan entered into
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  the heart of Judas, the Bible says. He
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  entered into his heart and out of
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  Satan's operation within Judas, the
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  betrayal that flowed out of Judas' lips.
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  And after this, the outflow brought him
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  physical destruction. Remember what
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  happened? Satan used him just long
• 18:48
  enough to betray Jesus. And when Satan
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  left him, you know what the Bible says?
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  Judas repented himself. You know what he
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  had? He was full of remorse. And that
• 18:56
  remorse caused him to commit suicide and
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  bring him to his death. You realize what
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  I'm trying to say to you this morning is
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  this, this woman was about to die.
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  Some of you here this morning, if you're
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  lost, you're already dead.
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  That's right. And you know what? If you
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  live your life dead in your sins
• 19:13
  spiritually, you ultimately die your
• 19:15
  physical death to never live again.
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  You say, "Preacher, but there'll be life
• 19:20
  in hell." No, friend, it'll be death
• 19:21
  what it'll be.
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  It'll be the continual fact of death,
• 19:25
  but you're never able to completely die.
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  You see, this condition has defiled this
• 19:30
  woman. It has defrauded this woman. It
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  has detached her from society, and
• 19:36
  ultimately it would destroy her.
• 19:39
  That's what your sin will do this
• 19:40
  morning.
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  It'll destroy you.
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  IT WILL DEFILE YOU. IT WILL DEFRAUD YOU.
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  IT WILL DETACH YOU, AND ULTIMATELY WILL
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  DESTROY YOU BECAUSE SIN, WHEN IT'S
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  FINISHED, BRINGETH FORTH DEATH.
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  SO, we see her terrible condition
• 19:57
  this morning. I'm talking about the
• 19:58
  issue of blood.
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  There's no co-it's no coincidence this
• 20:02
  morning that the Bible says without the
• 20:04
  shedding of blood there's no remission.
• 20:06
  Bible says if any man be in Christ, he's
• 20:08
  a new creature. You see, we've got to
• 20:09
  have his blood his blood put on our
• 20:11
  soul.
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  So, we can be saved.
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  Amen.
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  I see this second of all this morning.
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  I'm moving, all right? Stay with me. I
• 20:19
  see her terrible condition. Number two,
• 20:21
  I see her trusting commitment in verse
• 20:23
  27 and 28. The Bible says when she had
• 20:25
  heard of Jesus, came in the press behind
• 20:28
  and touched his garment. For she said,
• 20:31
  "If I may touch but his clothes, I shall
• 20:33
  be whole." You see, this woman had heard
• 20:36
  of the Messiah. She'd heard of his
• 20:38
  miracles. She'd heard of the kind of man
• 20:40
  that he was. And when we think about
• 20:42
  this place in scripture by Mark chapter
• 20:44
  number five, according to the harmonies
• 20:46
  of the Gospels, this is about the 14th
• 20:48
  miracle that Jesus has completed in his
• 20:51
  ministry, about halfway through. 14
• 20:54
  different recorded miracles that we know
• 20:56
  of in the word of God. And so, there's
• 20:59
  so many more, I'm sure, that she's heard
• 21:00
  of at this point in time. But I want to
• 21:02
  say this, it's what she heard that
• 21:04
  touched her heart to come to him. You
• 21:06
  say, "How is that?" Well, notice the
• 21:07
  verse 27, when she had heard of Jesus.
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  You know what that means?
• 21:12
  That literally means that when she had
• 21:14
  heard of the things pertaining to who
• 21:15
  Jesus is.
• 21:18
  You know what? There's
• 21:20
  the reality in my life and yours and
• 21:22
  many of us know who Jesus is.
• 21:25
  We've heard about him. We live in the
• 21:26
  Bible Belt. We've heard about him since
• 21:28
  he was little boy,
• 21:29
  little girl.
• 21:31
  But the truth is many of you don't know
• 21:33
  what Jesus does.
• 21:37
  You say, "Preacher, I know Jesus heals
• 21:38
  the blind. I know Jesus saves sinners. I
• 21:40
  know all of that."
• 21:41
  Well, the the thing is
• 21:43
  you've heard that,
• 21:45
  but you've never allowed it to affect
• 21:46
  you.
• 21:48
  You see this woman, the Bible says when
• 21:50
  she heard, notice it in the text. When
• 21:52
  she had heard of Jesus, what's that next
• 21:54
  word? came.
• 21:57
  She came. You see, it is what she heard
• 22:00
  that touched her heart.
• 22:02
  And the Bible as the Bible says, "Mine
• 22:04
  eye affected my heart." And her ear had
• 22:06
  affected her heart. And so out of this
• 22:08
  she knew that he was able, but she also
• 22:10
  knew he was willing. You say, "How do
• 22:12
  you know that, preacher?" Well, notice
• 22:13
  it again. She said, "If I may but touch
• 22:16
  his clothes, I shall be whole."
• 22:19
  You know what? She knew that
• 22:22
  he had what she needed.
• 22:24
  But she knew it wasn't just the fact
• 22:26
  that he had what she needed. She also
• 22:28
  knew that when she got there, he had
• 22:30
  what she needed, but he would give her
• 22:32
  what she needed.
• 22:33
  I'm convinced this morning as more than
• 22:35
  I've ever been that Jesus, he has
• 22:38
  exactly what I need.
• 22:40
  But I'm also convinced this morning that
• 22:42
  he'll give me
• 22:44
  what I need.
• 22:45
  Cuz he's the Messiah, but I want to say
• 22:47
  this, he's a man, amen. The Bible says
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  he was he's tempted in all points such
• 22:51
  like as we are yet without sin. He's
• 22:53
  able to succor them that are tempted. He
• 22:55
  can identify with us.
• 22:57
  Y'all rejoice in that.
• 22:59
  He has what you need, but he is willing
• 23:01
  to give you
• 23:03
  what you need. You see
• 23:04
  You say preacher, what's the emphasis
• 23:06
  here? Well, you notice the condition's
• 23:07
  not on him. Notice it again, verse
• 23:09
  number 28. For she said, "If I may touch
• 23:11
  but his clothes."
• 23:13
  She said, "If I can just get to where he
• 23:14
  is."
• 23:16
  I'm not There's no if with him.
• 23:18
  Some of you you got a if with Jesus. You
• 23:20
  need to throw that out the window.
• 23:22
  The if's with you.
• 23:24
  Amen. Notice it again. You see it's his
• 23:26
  It's his clothing that she reached for.
• 23:28
  We know that there's no power in that
• 23:30
  clothing, but it was the act of faith
• 23:32
  that she expressed that connected her to
• 23:35
  him. She knew that his power was enough.
• 23:37
  And if she could just get to where he
• 23:38
  was, this may in the verse, VERSE 28,
• 23:41
  "IF I may touch but his clothes." This
• 23:43
  may shows the condition was on her. HE
• 23:46
  WOULD DO his part if she could get past
• 23:48
  the people to bring her problem to him.
• 23:50
  The reason some of you ain't never had
• 23:52
  any help in your whole life is cuz you
• 23:53
  can't get her past the press.
• 23:56
  Notice it in the verse.
• 23:59
  Verse number 27, she came in the press
• 24:01
  behind. That press, that great crowd.
• 24:04
  She didn't allow the people to stop her
• 24:05
  from getting Jesus.
• 24:07
  I thought about this. You notice here in
• 24:09
  her commitment to him, you know that she
• 24:12
  reaches out for him.
• 24:13
  And Jesus, evidently according in verse
• 24:16
  number 30, Jesus immediately knowing in
• 24:18
  himself that virtue had gone out of him.
• 24:20
  So, I don't believe that Jesus felt the
• 24:23
  physical touch. I mean, he knew that he
• 24:24
  touched her. He's God. Amen. But he What
• 24:26
  he felt was is that virtue, that power
• 24:29
  that exited him
• 24:30
  to work in her life.
• 24:32
  And I thought about this. You You think
• 24:34
  about this situation that she's in. Any
• 24:36
  other man would have turned away in
• 24:38
  disgust.
• 24:40
  Because his hand would have been
• 24:41
  defiled.
• 24:43
  You think about this. Leviticus chapter
• 24:44
  15 and verse number 19 says the man the
• 24:47
  woman that with this issue that touches
• 24:49
  a man, he'll be unclean to the evening.
• 24:51
  But you know what? Jesus was not
• 24:53
  affected by that.
• 24:55
  Amen. Because sin had no power over the
• 24:58
  savior.
• 24:59
  Amen, friend. You see this woman reached
• 25:02
  Jesus and as she did, he reached her in
• 25:04
  that very same moment. You say, "What
• 25:07
  are you saying, preacher?" Well, the
• 25:08
  image is like this. Their hands never
• 25:10
  touched, but I want to say this in the
• 25:11
  spiritual realm, her faith was reaching
• 25:14
  out for his power, amen? And in that
• 25:16
  very same moment, his presence reached
• 25:18
  her soul, amen? And it's like two hands
• 25:21
  come together, they connected and you
• 25:23
  know what happens? Look at the text. We
• 25:25
  see there, here in the text, her
• 25:26
  trusting commitment, but notice her
• 25:28
  timely cure in verse 29. And straightway
• 25:32
  Oh, yes, friend. Straightway, the
• 25:34
  fountain of her blood was dried up. I
• 25:37
  see in her timely cure, there's an
• 25:38
  immediate reality. Notice this.
• 25:40
  Straightway
• 25:42
  the fountain of her blood was dried up.
• 25:45
  You see, she was changed in a moment.
• 25:47
  You know that's what salvation does.
• 25:49
  In a moment. When you place your faith
• 25:51
  in him, you know what? In that very
• 25:53
  second
• 25:54
  changed.
• 25:56
  Different. A new creature in Christ
• 25:59
  Jesus. You say, "What is that?" That's
• 26:01
  new life. There's a new reality. You
• 26:03
  say, "What is that?" Well, where once
• 26:05
  you was dead in your trespasses and
• 26:07
  sins, you are now alive UNTO GOD AND
• 26:09
  SALVATION HAS REACHED you and CHANGED
• 26:12
  YOU. WHEN SHE TOUCHED HIM AND
• 26:14
  STRAIGHTWAY, immediately her reality was
• 26:17
  changed.
• 26:19
  Some of you, your reality's never been
• 26:20
  changed. You still got that flowing
• 26:22
  issue. You still got that fleshly issue
• 26:25
  in your life. You say, "Preacher, why do
• 26:28
  I need that?" Well, I notice in the
• 26:29
  verse, there's an immediate reality, but
• 26:31
  I'll say this, there was instant relief.
• 26:34
  Notice verse 29. Straightway, the
• 26:36
  fountain of her blood was dried up and
• 26:38
  she felt. Notice that.
• 26:40
  She felt.
• 26:42
  She felt something that for 12 years she
• 26:44
  wasn't able to feel.
• 26:47
  You say, "What is that, preacher?"
• 26:48
  Clean.
• 26:51
  If that don't help you, I ain't got else
• 26:53
  I can tell you this morning. I'm telling
• 26:55
  you friend this morning, there is
• 26:57
  nothing greater in this life on this
• 26:59
  side of eternity than being clean and
• 27:01
  right with God. There's a relief that
• 27:03
  comes over her because what she never
• 27:05
  was able to stop, what nobody else was
• 27:08
  ever able to fix, what nobody could help
• 27:10
  her with, immediately in a moment, one
• 27:12
  touch, one act of faith in the Lord
• 27:14
  Jesus Christ, and she had a change of
• 27:17
  reality, AND OUT OF THAT REALITY, THERE
• 27:19
  WAS INSTANT RELIEF. OH, does anybody
• 27:21
  remember the night that SHE BOWED ON
• 27:23
  THAT ALTAR AND ASKED JESUS CHRIST TO
• 27:25
  SAVE YOUR SOUL AND FORGIVE YOUR SINS?
• 27:28
  YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED? THAT REALITY
• 27:30
  CHANGED. AND WHEN THAT REALITY CHANGED,
• 27:32
  OH, DON'T YOU THANK GOD THAT THE BURDEN
• 27:34
  OF SIN WAS LIFTED? RELIEF CAME TO YOUR
• 27:37
  SOUL. HEY FRIEND, I DON'T ALWAYS FEEL
• 27:39
  SAVED, BUT I WANT TO TELL YOU THIS, IF I
• 27:42
  QUIT THINKING ABOUT THE FEELINGS AND
• 27:44
  JUST START THINKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT
• 27:45
  I AM SAVED, AMEN, YOU KNOW WHAT I FIND?
• 27:48
  THE FEELINGS START TO COME BACK. AMEN.
• 27:50
  I'M SAYING FRIEND, I'M SAVED, NOT
• 27:52
  BECAUSE OF ANYTHING THAT I'VE DONE, BUT
• 27:54
  JUST BECAUSE THE REALITY THAT HE'S
• 27:57
  BROUGHT INTO ME. I AM A NEW CREATURE,
• 27:59
  AND THANK GOD FOR THE RELIEF, AND IT IS
• 28:02
  INSTANT, AMEN.
• 28:04
  That burden OF SIN HAS BEEN LIFTED,
• 28:06
  AMEN, AND OUR SIN HAS BEEN CAST AS FAR
• 28:08
  AS THE EAST IS FROM THE WEST. IT IS NO
• 28:11
  MORE. THIS WOMAN GOT RELIEF THAT NOBODY
• 28:14
  ELSE COULD GIVE HER. I DON'T KNOW WHERE
• 28:16
  YOU'RE AT THIS MORNING, BUT LET ME SAY
• 28:18
  THIS, THIS LIFE IS TOO SHORT AND
• 28:20
  ETERNITY'S TOO LONG TO BEAR THE BURDEN
• 28:23
  OF sin alone.
• 28:25
  You can have relief this morning.
• 28:28
  You say, "What is it this morning?"
• 28:30
  Well, I want to say this, her immediate
• 28:31
  reality brought instant relief, but it
• 28:33
  was because of an individual remedy.
• 28:36
  Oh friend,
• 28:38
  notice it in the text,
• 28:39
  she felt in her body, notice this,
• 28:42
  that she was healed
• 28:44
  of that plague.
• 28:45
  She was healed.
• 28:47
  You see, there was and is only one
• 28:49
  remedy.
• 28:51
  This refutes the idea that there's many
• 28:53
  ways to heaven.
• 28:56
  Nobody's ever got any help outside of
• 28:57
  Jesus.
• 28:59
  Nobody's ever found any hope outside of
• 29:01
  Jesus. Nobody's ever found any hope
• 29:04
  friend Hallelujah. I'm saying nobody's
• 29:06
  ever found a shoulder that they can lean
• 29:08
  on continually. Nobody's ever found any
• 29:10
  peace. Nobody's ever found ANY ANY
• 29:13
  PROSPERITY OUTSIDE OF anybody or
• 29:16
  anything other than Jesus Christ AND HIS
• 29:18
  WORD. I'M SAYING JEREMIAH ASKED IT THIS
• 29:21
  WAY IN JEREMIAH 8 AND VERSE 22. HE SAID
• 29:23
  IS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD? IS THERE NO
• 29:26
  PHYSICIAN THERE? YOU KNOW WHAT HE WAS
• 29:28
  SAYING? HE SAID THERE IS A BALM IN
• 29:29
  GILEAD. THERE IS A PHYSICIAN. THIS
• 29:32
  WOMAN, SHE MET THE BALM. SHE MET THE
• 29:34
  GREAT PHYSICIAN. AND IN THAT MOMENT ALL
• 29:37
  THE OTHER PHYSICIANS, ALL THE OTHER
• 29:39
  PROCEDURES, AND EVERYTHING THAT WAS IN
• 29:41
  HER PAST, IT FADED AWAY. IT WAS LEFT TO
• 29:44
  THE SIDE. WHY? BECAUSE SHE MET ONE WHO
• 29:47
  DID FOR HER IN A MOMENT WHAT NOBODY ELSE
• 29:50
  COULD DO IN HER WHOLE LIFE.
• 29:52
  I'M SAYING I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG YOU'VE
• 29:54
  LIVED BOUND TO SIN. I DON'T KNOW HOW
• 29:56
  LONG YOU'VE BEEN BURDENED, BUT I CAN
• 29:58
  TELL YOU THIS FOR A FACT THIS MORNING.
• 30:00
  IF YOU COME TO HIM, THANK GOD THERE IS A
• 30:03
  REMEDY FOR SIN. AMEN. AND HE WILL
• 30:06
  ADMINISTER IT TO YOUR SOUL. AMEN.
• 30:09
  OH YES FRIEND. I'm saying you don't get
• 30:11
  excited about it. Bless God I'll get
• 30:13
  excited about it. I'M SAYING FRIEND I'M
• 30:15
  SAVED. PRAISE GOD. I'LL NEVER SEE THE
• 30:17
  CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED. OH
• 30:19
  HALLELUJAH THIS MORNING. THANK GOD. GOD
• 30:22
  HAS MADE A DIFFERENCE AND THE REMEDY HAS
• 30:25
  COME to me. Amen.
• 30:27
  Oh yes friend. You see this woman made
• 30:30
  him that day. And the great physician
• 30:33
  he stepped in.
• 30:35
  He stepped in. I'm going to tell you
• 30:36
  this.
• 30:37
  He's able.
• 30:41
  Her timely cure.
• 30:43
  I'm thankful just like that old song
• 30:45
  says, when he's 4 days late, he's still
• 30:47
  right on time.
• 30:49
  Notice this and I'm done.
• 30:51
  We see her
• 30:52
  timely cure, but notice her testimony of
• 30:54
  Christ.
• 30:55
  Bible tells us that verse number 30
• 30:59
  Jesus immediately knowing in himself
• 31:01
  that virtue had gone out of him.
• 31:04
  Turned him about in the press and said,
• 31:05
  "Who touched my clothes?" You see
• 31:08
  Christ's awareness is seen in verse 30.
• 31:11
  Immediately knowing in himself. Now,
• 31:13
  it does not say that Jesus knew in his
• 31:17
  physical body that somebody had touched
• 31:20
  him. He felt a physical touch, but this
• 31:22
  was not a matter of physical for him.
• 31:26
  This was a spiritual thing. I want to
• 31:28
  say this, all right? There's a great
• 31:30
  argument in this day and time about
• 31:33
  whether Christ could sin or not.
• 31:35
  I'm going to say this to you this
• 31:37
  morning. It was impossible for Jesus to
• 31:41
  sin.
• 31:42
  If you need a theological discourse on
• 31:44
  that, you see me after the service and
• 31:46
  I'll
• 31:47
  play you some preachers that can tell
• 31:49
  you about it. Amen.
• 31:50
  But I want to tell you this this
• 31:51
  morning. When we look at this matter in
• 31:54
  this woman's life, what he did for her
• 31:56
  was a spiritual work.
• 31:59
  You say, "How is that?" Well,
• 32:01
  Bible talks about and I I don't want to
• 32:03
  get too deep into this, but the Bible
• 32:04
  talks about even those those who are
• 32:06
  saved. Talking about partaking of
• 32:08
  communion. We dealt with this several
• 32:10
  probably last year, I guess it was. We
• 32:12
  need to have communion again sometime.
• 32:13
  Amen. Whenever your preacher decides
• 32:15
  it's good. Amen. But
• 32:17
  but I dealt with this subject talking
• 32:19
  about those that take communion when
• 32:20
  they're not right with God. It says Paul
• 32:22
  literally said to the Corinthian church,
• 32:23
  he said, "Because that he said because
• 32:25
  of that there'll be many weak and sickly
• 32:27
  among you and some sleep." Death comes
• 32:30
  to them because of them taking of that
• 32:32
  unworthily. You say, "What does all that
• 32:34
  mean, preacher?" Well, it means simply
• 32:35
  this. Many times your sickness that's
• 32:38
  physical is a spiritual problem.
• 32:40
  >> Right.
• 32:42
  >> You say, "How is that?" Well, at the
• 32:44
  very least, the sickness came to you
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  because of the death that's in your
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  body.
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  Bible says that death passed upon all
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  men cuz all that all have sinned. And
• 32:52
  so, cancer and sickness and all of that
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  comes as a spiritual issue.
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  Spiritual death, you are dead. Amen. And
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  that death in your life, your body is
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  physically going to die. And so, that
• 33:04
  produces what that produces is is a
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  sickness that's in you. And that
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  sickness, the decay of our body, we all
• 33:10
  will one day die. But I think about this
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  in this text. You see Christ's
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  awareness, he was aware completely of
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  the spiritual nature of this matter.
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  Notice it again, verse 30. Jesus
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  immediately knowing in himself, notice
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  that word that virtue. That word virtue
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  literally means power.
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  Virtue had gone out of him.
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  Turned him about in the press and said,
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  "Who touched my clothes?" Now, notice
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  the question he asked. He doesn't ask a
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  spiritual question.
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  He asked a physical question, doesn't
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  he?
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  Why does he do that? Because he knows
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  they don't understand that.
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  This is something you need to get a hold
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  of this morning.
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  With your physical illness, the troubles
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  that you have in your flesh, there are
• 33:51
  spiritual matters behind that that
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  you'll never understand on this side.
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  All right? I got time to deal with all
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  this. Jesus asked a physical question.
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  Why does he do that? Notice first number
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  31 and verse 32. And he looked around
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  about to see her that had done this
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  thing. This is still physical. Now, I'm
• 34:10
  going to say this, Christ's awareness is
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  seen in verse 30. He's aware of the
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  spiritual. And he poses this question,
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  all right? And it's a question on the
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  front. This is a question that they
• 34:19
  hear, but in Jesus, what is this? This
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  is more of an announcement. He knows
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  exactly who touched him. He knows
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  exactly what's just happened. So, you
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  know what he's doing? He's asking a
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  question so this woman can answer him,
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  but all he's doing is announcing to the
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  world
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  she's been helped.
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  I'm going somewhere, stay with me. He
• 34:39
  was giving her a chance to respond in
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  faith again
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  for her growth.
• 34:44
  You see out of his awareness, he makes
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  this announcement, then he reveals his
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  affection. Notice it again. He looked
• 34:50
  round about to see her. Now again, some
• 34:53
  writers say Jesus looked around like he
• 34:55
  was trying to find her.
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  Jesus is God.
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  He knew exactly where she was at.
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  He didn't look trying to find her. He
• 35:04
  looked around He looked around so he
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  could look at her.
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  What love. Could you imagine that?
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  Look notice it again. He looked around
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  Notice this. Just notice the wording. He
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  looked round about to see her.
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  He looked at her intentionally. You know
• 35:20
  what that was? It was a look of love.
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  It was a look of affection.
• 35:25
  You know what Jesus said Jesus in his
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  heart, he was pleased. You know why
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  that? Because she believed in him.
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  And you know what? He got to bless her
• 35:32
  because she believed in him. And you
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  know what? He looked at her with love.
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  Notice it again in the text. Verse 33,
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  but the woman fearing and trembling,
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  knowing what was done to her, came and
• 35:41
  fell down before him and told him all
• 35:44
  the truth. You see, he looked around, he
• 35:46
  laid his eyes on her in compassion. We
• 35:49
  think about that little children song,
• 35:51
  the Father up above is looking down in
• 35:53
  love. And I thought about it in this
• 35:55
  text. God from heaven was looking down
• 35:57
  there to see this woman, but Jesus on
• 35:59
  the earth was looking at this woman
• 36:01
  before her. And she laid her eyes on him
• 36:04
  in the text. Her faith Oh, friend, are
• 36:06
  you with me this morning? I'm saying her
• 36:08
  faith, her belief in him HAD BECOME
• 36:10
  SIGHT IN HER. AMEN. SHE SAW THE MESSIAH.
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  OH, HALLELUJAH THIS MORNING. SHE CAME TO
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  HIM AND ALL YOU SAY IT SAYS she's
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  fearing and trembling. YOU KNOW WHAT
• 36:20
  THAT WORD that phrase fearing and
• 36:21
  trembling means? It means reverential
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  awe.
• 36:25
  She was amazed. Yeah, she probably was
• 36:28
  weeping. Yeah, HER BODILY FRAME PROBABLY
• 36:30
  LOOKED LIKE SHE was afraid, but oh, in
• 36:32
  her heart, she knew something had been
• 36:34
  done FOR HER THAT NOBODY ELSE COULD HAVE
• 36:37
  EVER DONE. AND IN HER HEART, she beheld
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  him. And when she came TO HIM, SHE
• 36:41
  DIDN'T ONLY BEHOLD HIM, BUT LISTEN TO
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  WHAT SHE SAID. KNOWING WHAT was done in
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  her, she came and fell down before him.
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  Notice this, and told him all the truth.
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  She came to him in awe. She was aware of
• 36:54
  what he had been what had been done in
• 36:56
  her and for her. She announces the story
• 36:58
  of her sickness before him and the
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  salvation he has brought into her life.
• 37:03
  Notice that she told him all the truth.
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  You know, we think about that. You know,
• 37:08
  we tell our kids, "Tell me the truth.
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  Tell me the truth. Tell me the truth."
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  That's not what this is.
• 37:14
  You see, Jesus knew the truth.
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  Doesn't Jesus always know?
• 37:20
  God knows what you're going through. He
• 37:21
  knows He knows all of that, okay? Why
• 37:24
  does she do this in this text? It's an
• 37:26
  act of worship.
• 37:28
  She told him all
• 37:30
  the truth. She may not have known what
• 37:32
  she was doing, but Jesus did.
• 37:34
  You say, "How is that?" Well, I want to
• 37:35
  say this, all right? Don't miss what I'm
• 37:37
  fixing to say. When the truth has been
• 37:39
  put in your heart,
• 37:41
  and the truth is before your eyes, the
• 37:43
  truth is what will come out of your
• 37:46
  mouth.
• 37:47
  You say, "What do you mean?" Well, she's
• 37:48
  been changed, right?
• 37:51
  The word of God, the power of God has
• 37:53
  worked within her.
• 37:54
  You know what happens? Jesus is standing
• 37:56
  before her. So, the truth is now in her.
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  The truth is now before her. She's
• 38:02
  looking at him, and you know what she
• 38:03
  does? She has to respond in worship.
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  Lord, thank you.
• 38:09
  Lord, I praise you. You know the reason
• 38:11
  why we don't glorify Him? It's one of
• 38:13
  two things. Either He's not before us or
• 38:15
  His truth's not in us.
• 38:19
  You listening?
• 38:20
  Some of you have never praised Him in
• 38:21
  your life, it's because you've never
• 38:23
  been saved.
• 38:25
  His truth is not in you.
• 38:26
  All right?
• 38:27
  Some of you don't praise him anymore
• 38:29
  because his truth is not before you.
• 38:32
  He put it in you. He done a work for
• 38:34
  you.
• 38:36
  You with me? He done a work before you,
• 38:38
  but somewhere along the way
• 38:40
  you're not looking at him anymore.
• 38:42
  But you know what? Jesus
• 38:45
  He done a work in her.
• 38:47
  And he said, "Who touched my clothes?"
• 38:49
  Not because he didn't know, but he just
• 38:51
  wanted her to give her a chance to see
• 38:52
  him. He didn't need to see her. Oh, but
• 38:55
  friend, she needed to see him. Amen. I'm
• 38:57
  saying, friend, when she turned around
• 38:59
  and looked at him, amen, that love in
• 39:01
  his heart for her began to overflow IN
• 39:03
  HER SOUL. YOU SAY, "PREACHER, WHY DO YOU
• 39:05
  SHOUT? WHY DO YOU TESTIFY? WHY DO YOU
• 39:08
  SCREAM AND HOLLER?" I DO THAT BECAUSE OF
• 39:10
  LOVE OF GOD IN MY SOUL. HE'S PUTTING IT
• 39:12
  IN ME AND IT'S BEFORE MY EYES. I'M
• 39:15
  SAYING THIS CONGREGATION THIS MORNING,
• 39:17
  IT'S THE MERCY OF GOD THAT YOU AND I ARE
• 39:19
  HERE THIS MORNING. IT'S THE GRACE OF GOD
• 39:21
  THAT WE GET TO BE TOGETHER. I'M SAYING,
• 39:24
  FRIEND, IF IT WERE NOT FOR HIS LOVE,
• 39:26
  WE'D ALL BE IN HELL THIS MORNING. OH,
• 39:28
  BUT BLESSED BE HIS NAME. HE ALLOWS US
• 39:31
  THE PRIVILEGE TO SEE HIM WHO'S
• 39:33
  INVISIBLE. AND WHEN WE SEE HIM, IT JUST
• 39:36
  MAKES US WANT TO LIFT HIM UP. IT JUST
• 39:38
  MAKES US WANT TO PRAISE HIM AND GLORIFY
• 39:41
  HIM BECAUSE OF WHAT HE'S DONE ON THE
• 39:44
  INSIDE. AMEN.
• 39:47
  When the truth has been put in your
• 39:48
  heart and the truth is before your eyes,
• 39:50
  ultimately the truth in worship is what
• 39:53
  will come out of your mouth.
• 39:58
  I'm going to give you this and I'm done
• 39:59
  this morning.
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  Talking about the issue of blood.
• 40:03
  There's a lot more
• 40:05
  to all this that we could talk about. A
• 40:06
  lot of verses, a lot of things. Like I
• 40:08
  said, you want to hear a good message,
• 40:10
  go online and listen to that. What I'm
• 40:11
  going to tell you this, all right?
• 40:14
  You see this woman, she needed help that
• 40:15
  was only attainable by faith. Let me say
• 40:18
  this.
• 40:20
  You're not going to find help any other
• 40:21
  help any other way.
• 40:24
  You're not going to find help because
• 40:25
  Bible says without faith it's
• 40:26
  impossible.
• 40:28
  The only thing in your life that you
• 40:30
  cannot live without is faith.
• 40:33
  You say how is that? Well, faith is the
• 40:35
  key that unlocks your relationship with
• 40:37
  Jesus.
• 40:38
  But you know what? When you get saved,
• 40:40
  when that door is unlocked, you know
• 40:42
  what? Faith is what keeps you in that
• 40:43
  relationship with him.
• 40:45
  Faith is what keeps your fellowship. And
• 40:47
  so faith, she she needed help that's
• 40:49
  only attainable by faith. But I want to
• 40:51
  say this, it was only attainable by
• 40:53
  faith, it was only available in Christ.
• 40:56
  You can place your faith in anything.
• 40:59
  I'm going to tell you this, until you
• 41:00
  place it in Christ, the power is only
• 41:03
  going to be available to you in him and
• 41:05
  him alone. That's it.
• 41:08
  The life that we are called to live is
• 41:10
  only possible by faith. And the life
• 41:12
  that we are called to live is only
• 41:14
  empowered by Christ.
• 41:16
  You see this woman testified of her
• 41:18
  faith coming to him. I got to show you
• 41:20
  this, all right?
• 41:22
  Open your Bibles back up, okay?
• 41:25
  Mark chapter 5.
• 41:27
  I got to show you this, all right? Lord
• 41:28
  showed me this studying.
• 41:31
  I closed my Bible too early, too. It's
• 41:33
  all right.
• 41:35
  Notice verse 28.
• 41:37
  This was what the first thing This is
• 41:38
  what made me study this message, this
• 41:40
  truth right here by itself, verse 28.
• 41:43
  What's the first three words of verse
• 41:44
  28?
• 41:46
  For she said. You know what that is?
• 41:50
  That's a record.
• 41:51
  Say, "What do you mean?" John Mark in
• 41:53
  this text recorded this. John Mark
• 41:56
  recorded this. For she said. Now, what
• 41:58
  is that part of? Well, it's a part of
• 41:59
  verse number 33 when it says she fell
• 42:02
  down before him and told him all the
• 42:03
  truth.
• 42:05
  What was the statement of her faith? For
• 42:07
  she said, "If I may touch but his
• 42:09
  clothes, I shall be whole."
• 42:11
  You know what this means?
• 42:13
  When this woman in the end it says she's
• 42:15
  telling him all the truth.
• 42:17
  Mark standing by listening.
• 42:19
  And she's standing there telling Jesus.
• 42:21
  She said, "Jesus, I know if I just touch
• 42:23
  your clothes. I don't even have to touch
• 42:25
  you. But I knew if I just touched your
• 42:27
  clothes, I'd be whole."
• 42:29
  That's the record. Mark records that.
• 42:32
  You know what? Your faith is being
• 42:34
  recorded.
• 42:35
  You say, "What do you mean?" Well, Mark
• 42:37
  wouldn't have recorded that if she
• 42:38
  hadn't said it.
• 42:40
  God has a record of your faith in
• 42:42
  heaven, but let me say this, there's
• 42:43
  people keeping a record of your faith in
• 42:45
  this life.
• 42:47
  Are you listening to me?
• 42:49
  I hope you're listening to me. Mark
• 42:51
  wouldn't have known that if she hadn't
• 42:52
  said it.
• 42:54
  Some of you God's done stuff for you and
• 42:56
  you don't say nothing about it.
• 42:59
  Some of you God's done stuff for you and
• 43:00
  you used to talk about it. You don't
• 43:02
  talk about it no more.
• 43:03
  You say, "What do you mean?" I'm saying
• 43:05
  you're saved by the grace of God.
• 43:06
  There's nothing else to talk about other
• 43:08
  than that.
• 43:09
  Man, we won't talk about getting
• 43:10
  delivered from this sickness and
• 43:12
  delivered from that disease and cancer
• 43:13
  was healed and all that's fine and good,
• 43:15
  but friend, sin was far greater a
• 43:17
  sickness than any of that ever was.
• 43:19
  Are you listening to me? Amen. I'M
• 43:21
  SAYING SHE TESTIFIED AND THE RECORD WAS
• 43:23
  KEPT, AMEN, and she said, "If I may but
• 43:26
  touch HIS CLOTHES, I SHALL BE WHOLE."
• 43:29
  OH, FRIEND, I'M THANKFUL FOR THE RECORD.
• 43:31
  THERE'S SOME PEOPLE IN MY LIFE THAT KNOW
• 43:34
  I'VE TESTIFIED TO THEM THAT GOD HAS
• 43:36
  SAVED ME, THAT GOD HAS CALLED ME, THAT
• 43:39
  GOD HAS BLESSED ME, AND THERE'S A
• 43:41
  RECORD. THANK GOD HE'S KEEPING A RECORD,
• 43:43
  BUT THANK GOD THERE'S PEOPLE AROUND ME,
• 43:45
  AND I HOPE YOU PEOPLE THIS MORNING WILL
• 43:47
  KEEP A RECORD FOR THIS PREACHER. I CAN
• 43:49
  PROMISE YOU I WOULDN'T HAVE NOTHING. I
• 43:52
  WOULDN'T BE NOTHING. I'D BE A NOBODY
• 43:54
  GOING NOWHERE IF IT WASN'T FOR GOD IN MY
• 43:56
  LIFE. I'M SAYING THANK GOD FOR THE
• 43:59
  RECORD OF THE TESTIMONY of somebody
• 44:01
  who's been changed.
• 44:03
  She testified of her faith coming to
• 44:05
  him. This is part of that truth, and we
• 44:07
  should speak of our faith in him. It's
• 44:09
  recorded of us just as it was recorded
• 44:11
  of her. And I want to say this, and I'm
• 44:13
  done this morning.
• 44:15
  The press that was around her
• 44:17
  did not stop her.
• 44:18
  >> Right.
• 44:20
  >> Those people that she was surrounded by,
• 44:22
  listen to me, you young uns.
• 44:24
  The people that surround you,
• 44:26
  you cannot let them stop you.
• 44:28
  >> Right.
• 44:29
  >> You say, "What do you mean?" I'm saying
• 44:30
  you cannot let them stop you from
• 44:32
  getting to Jesus.
• 44:35
  The press around her did not stop her,
• 44:36
  and when she was healed, they all heard
• 44:38
  it.
• 44:40
  You know what? Sometimes the
• 44:43
  hardest times it is to get to Jesus are
• 44:45
  the times he gets the most glory.
• 44:48
  You know what? When she came before him
• 44:49
  and told him
• 44:51
  all the truth, the Bible says,
• 44:53
  you know what happened?
• 44:54
  All that press,
• 44:56
  all those disciples, all those people,
• 44:59
  they heard her testify what God had just
• 45:01
  done in her.
• 45:04
  I'm going to say this.
• 45:06
  We must not allow the world to stop us
• 45:09
  >> Right.
• 45:09
  >> from getting what we need from Christ.
• 45:12
  Because they also have to see the
• 45:14
  difference made in us
• 45:16
  when we do get what we need from him.
• 45:19
  I want to say this to you this morning.
• 45:21
  I don't know what you need, but you
• 45:22
  cannot afford to let somebody keep you
• 45:24
  from getting it.
• 45:26
  You say, "Preacher, what's that title
• 45:28
  mean?" Well, I want to say this. We have
• 45:29
  all got issues, all right?
• 45:31
  Now,
• 45:32
  I made this an issue of your sin. If
• 45:34
  you're lost, you today you need to be
• 45:35
  saved, all right?
• 45:37
  But what's the issue of blood in your
• 45:39
  life?
• 45:40
  What's the flowing issue? What's that
• 45:42
  fleshly issue? What's that faithful
• 45:44
  issue, that faithful problem you can't
• 45:46
  seem to get victory over?
• 45:48
  I want to say this.
• 45:50
  Jesus
• 45:51
  is passing by.
• 45:55
  You say, "Preacher, he's on his way.
• 45:56
  THERE'S PEOPLE GOT BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN
• 45:58
  ME." WELL, I WANT to say this. Jairus,
• 46:00
  he didn't stop Jesus, and there ain't
• 46:02
  nobody going to stop Jesus from helping
• 46:04
  you.
• 46:05
  >> You know what? The only person that can
• 46:06
  stop Jesus from helping you is you.
• 46:12
  If you don't get help, it's cuz you
• 46:13
  choose not to.
• 46:16
  I want to ask you this question today.
• 46:18
  What's your issue?
• 46:22
  As we stand, every head's bowed and
• 46:23
  every eye's closed.
• 46:27
  What's your issue?
• 46:32
  You might be like this woman, your
• 46:34
  condition is terrible.
• 46:39
  I don't know how bad it is.
• 46:41
  You might be like her, and only you and
• 46:43
  God know.
• 46:48
  Her condition caused her embarrassment
• 46:50
  daily.
• 46:52
  She felt as though she couldn't go
• 46:53
  anywhere.
• 46:55
  There was no hope for her.
• 46:58
  She'd spent all that she had.
• 47:01
  She'd tried everything people had said
• 47:03
  to try.
• 47:06
  Let me ask you, why don't you try Jesus?
• 47:11
  You say, "Preacher,
• 47:16
  >> [music]
• 47:16
  >> preacher, I know that I've still got a
• 47:17
  sin issue.
• 47:20
  Preacher, I need to be saved.
• 47:23
  Would you pray for me?"
• 47:25
  Anybody here today say, "Preacher, I I'm
• 47:27
  being honest, I need to be saved.
• 47:28
  [music] You pray for me." Just slip your
• 47:29
  hand up, we'll pray for you this
• 47:31
  morning.
• 47:33
  Be honest with you and God. Preacher,
• 47:36
  would you pray for me? I need to be
• 47:37
  saved.
• 47:37
  >> [music]
• 47:38
  >> Slip your hand up. Just be honest. Slip
• 47:40
  your hand up and hold it.
• 47:42
  Hold it high.
• 47:46
  Let me ask you this. You say, "Preacher,
• 47:47
  I'm saved, but
• 47:50
  but I got an issue.
• 47:52
  Matter of fact, preacher, I got a lot of
• 47:53
  issues."
• 47:55
  God sees [music] that.
• 48:00
  You see
• 48:04
  Jesus wants to deal with those things in
• 48:06
  your life
• 48:09
  that nobody else knows about.
• 48:13
  Because it's those things that really
• 48:14
  keep [music] you from fellowship with
• 48:16
  him.
• 48:18
  It's those things that you don't want
• 48:19
  anybody else to know about.
• 48:23
  It's those issues that defile you.
• 48:27
  They take your joy away. They defraud
• 48:30
  you.
• 48:33
  That issue's ultimately going to destroy
• 48:34
  you. You say, "Preacher, I'm saved, but
• 48:36
  I I want to tell you this, if you allow
• 48:37
  that to continue to eat at you, it'll
• 48:39
  take your life.
• 48:41
  It'll take your life.
• 48:43
  You may be here this morning, you've got
• 48:45
  and you've got a physical, you've got a
• 48:46
  health problem this morning.
• 48:48
  You feel like you've done all that you
• 48:50
  can
• 48:51
  to find help. [music]
• 48:53
  I want to say this this morning, Meadows
• 48:55
  Baptist Church and this pastor is not a
• 48:57
  prosperity gospel preacher.
• 49:00
  I don't believe that if you
• 49:02
  stay right with God that you're going to
• 49:03
  have perfect health and you're going to
• 49:05
  have
• 49:05
  >> [music]
• 49:05
  >> plenty of wealth and
• 49:07
  all of that. I don't believe that for a
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  minute.
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  I'll tell you what I do believe.
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  I do believe we can trust an unknown
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  future
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  >> [music]
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  >> to a known savior.
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  And your life can be placed in his hands
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  this morning.
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  And maybe he's waiting on you to do
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  that.
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  Maybe that sickness that you've got,
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  maybe maybe you are hanging on to
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  everything [music] you can keep your
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  hands on. I I don't know what you need
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  this morning.
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  But maybe he's just waiting for you.
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  He's passing by.
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  Won't you just reach out and touch him?
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  You say, "Preacher, what is that?"
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  That's faith.
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  Trusting him.
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  You say, "Preacher, doctor said there's
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  hope.
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  The great physician's passing by.
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  And we believe he's able.
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  But do you believe he's able?
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  Father, I pray in Jesus' name.
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  Lord, would you help us this morning?
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  God, to embrace the truth.
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  Lord, that many times the
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  matters of our life, Lord, we we think
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  about physical health, and Lord, I I
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  know this morning that people [music]
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  that go through health crisis, Lord, I
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  know that that's not
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  that's not necessarily because of some
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  some sin that they've committed.
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  But Lord, that
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  suffering that they're experiencing,
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  Lord, can do one or two things for them.
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  Because it is [music] spiritual.
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  It can either drive them away from you
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  into a realm, Lord, of
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  controlled by the spirit world.
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  Lord, to try to answer the problems with
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  pills and injections, and Lord, we know
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  I'm not I'm not against all of that.
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  Lord, I believe that
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  there [snorts] is help for that.
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  But Lord, many times I think we turn too
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  soon
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  to the answers of the world, and when we
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  should just turn to you.
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  And Lord, I pray, God, that you would
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  help people here today
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  Lord, to to place their trust in you
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  first and foremost.
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  God, do not let their problem not let
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  their issue take them away, but God, to
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  allow you to control their gaze.
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  Lord, I pray, Father, for that one here
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  today that's got a spiritual issue,
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  Lord, and it's flowing out of their
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  life, and
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  >> [music]
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  >> Lord, if they're not careful, Lord,
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  those around them are going to begin to
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  see. Lord, I pray they deal with that on
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  this altar. Lord, if they haven't
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  already, I pray they'd come now
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  and get that right with you.
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  And Lord, I pray for that in here today
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  that's lost. God, no doubt in the crowd
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  this size somebody here today is not
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  saved.
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  Lord, their issues going to take them to
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  hell if they don't get saved.
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  Lord, I pray you'd help them see there's
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  no amount of sin.
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  Lord, there's no amount of seasonal
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  pleasure. Lord, you told us sin has
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  pleasure, but just for season. There's
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  no amount of seasonal pleasure that's
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  worth going to hell over.
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  But I pray you'd deal with their heart
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  today.
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  And Lord, would you help us all, Father,
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  Lord, to keep the issues out of our
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  life. Keep them in your hands
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  by faith. Lord, we love you.
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  Thank you for this time. We ask it all
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  in Jesus' name.
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  Amen.
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  >> Thank you for joining our [music]
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  service today.
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  We'd love it if you join us in person
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  the next time you are [music] able at
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  Meadows Baptist Church.
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  Our physical address is 2988
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  Stuart [music] Road in Walnut Cove,
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  North Carolina.
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  Our service times are Sunday school at
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  10:00 a.m., Sunday morning worship
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  [music] at 11:00 a.m., Sunday evening
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  worship at 6:00 p.m., and Wednesday
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  evening Bible study at 7:00 p.m. [music]
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  For more information, visit us at
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  meadowsbc.com.
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  Thanks again for tuning in.