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The Story of Jairus | Pastor Daniel Batarseh (Gospel of Mark Bible Study Series) · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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It was John Flavel who said about Jesus.
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He is bread to the hungry water to the Thirsty.
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He is a garment to the naked healing to the wounded and
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whatever a soul can desire is found in him.
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Whatever a soul can desire is found in him.
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And my prayer is that, as we continue in this gospel, the
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gospel of Mark, that would become a greater reality to you.
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That would be a discovery that you would know week after week,
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whatever this Soul needs and Longs for is ultimately found in
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this person, Jesus Christ. And so let's do that together.
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Let's go to Mark chapter 5 and meet me there at verse 21.
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Mark 5:21. Thank you for that prayer,
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brother. I want to just pray again.
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And ask God for very similar things that you just asked for
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on behalf of this congregation. Lord, we do come again.
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Your word is before us, and it could be very true that some
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here, love your word with everything in their hearts and
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some who might be very indifferent to the word, but we
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just pray that in your good Mercy, you would overwhelm You
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would overwhelm all apathy, and distraction carelessness Lord
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that you would dominate every heart by your great love. help
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Lord, the delivery of this message and even in the way we
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receive it, Lord through all our weakness.
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We ask that you would make her power perfect.
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You promised that? That would be the case.
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So, we trust in you today in Jesus name, amen.
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For the remainder of this chapter and Mark, Mark chapter
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5, you and I are given a lengthy account of to not one, but two
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incredible Miracles, that Jesus performed before.
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Making his way back to his hometown to minister there.
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As you will see together with me in Mark chapter 6.
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Now it would make sense for us to take these two amazing
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testimonies and deal with them separately, but that is not And
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how the Holy Spirit authored these two miracles to be
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explained and to be shared and to be told the Bible student
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will remember, if you remember, Mark chapter 5 that these two
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testimonies of two different, people who desperately needed a
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touch from Jesus are woven together.
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And so these events actually intersect in real-time, they're
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not blocked out in different occurrences.
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They are actually shared and that is a particular blessing on
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its own because you and I understand something about life,
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do we not? Yes.
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This this is going to be beautifully suspenseful, but it
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also speaks about a familiar picture of the interferences,
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the obstacles, the hindrances the surprises.
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And the turbulence is that you and I I know in real life.
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And so what will make this very special today?
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Is that there is a very realistic Rhythm to this
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testimony. And we can identify with that
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life is layered things happen at the same time.
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And things can sometimes be overwhelming or they can
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accelerate more than we planned or delay more than we would like
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to. And that is precisely one of the
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themes of what we're going to see here.
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This is a very identifiable, human experience with this
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story. Now, as we come to it, we can
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look at it from different Vantage points is, right?
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We can look at it from the, the view of our Lord Jesus, we can
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see it from the view of gyrus, we can even.
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Look at it through the woman who needed a touch from this great
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physician. But instead of just looking at
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one or through one lens, why don't just take advantage of all
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of them? And see what it is that God has
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to say, through these characters in this complex interaction
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between all of them. Because each of them have
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something of Great Value Great Value in our understanding of
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who Christ is, and how we can, and should relate to him and
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sorry with me. The first few verses beginning
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in verse 21, And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the
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other side, a great crowd gathered about him.
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And he was beside the sea then came out.
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One of the rulers of the synagogue gyrus by name and
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seeing him, he fell at his feet and implored him earnestly
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saying, my little daughter is at the point of death come and lay
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your hands on her so that she may be made.
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Well and live. And he went with him and a great
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crowd, followed him and thronged about him.
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The reason why Jesus has we see here in the first verse cross,
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to the other side of Galilee was because he was begged to leave.
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By the inhabitants of the country.
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In the King, James of the gadarenes or got in a Readiness.
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So many ways of saying these different words.
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And even after the Lord performed, such a spectacular
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Act of Mercy. For that, demoniac, that was
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terrorizing their region, the neighboring citizens. when I
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slow to conclude that they wanted nothing to do with Jesus,
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And so, they drove him out. They begged him to leave because
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at the loss of 2000 pigs. They calculated very early on
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that maintaining the presence of Christ in our midst might
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actually be very costly. And he might be the cause of
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much more loss, and we can't afford that, of course.
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And so, without hesitation, they told him to leave.
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And he did, he got in the same boat and he went on his way to
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what we just read now and considering that background in
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preparation for the Miracles at hand, I could not help but think
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that the people that told them to leave who thought that they
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would profit by rejecting Christ, would actually forfeit
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so much for their unbelief. Right.
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When we realize what Jesus is about to do in this area, in
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this region in this neighborhood.
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It makes you wonder what could have happened?
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What other blessings? Those people who vehement Lee
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told him to back away and turn around, will miss out on, will
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miss out on. We often talk about this, don't
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we? The cost of following Jesus, the
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cost of following there is a cost to follow Jesus.
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There's a greater cost of not following him.
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Greater costs, not just in the next life.
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In this life, in this life, I do not envy the man who walks about
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as a shell, no matter what he adorns himself with.
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He is the only one that can fill you and change you and renew you
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and give you that piece that you are searching for.
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And here's Jesus now, On a new scene surrounded by fresh group
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of people. They are eager hungry longing,
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they've heard the reports and now they want to experience it
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for themselves and all for a sudden this very familiar sight
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of Jesus being surrounded by men and women and children is
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suddenly interrupted by the presence of a man named gyrus.
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And the spotlight falls on him, not just in our text.
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But even then, because clearly for this crowd and the commotion
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to settle implies that this man is special, there's something
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about him. he has a certain reputation, Shirley He was known
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Shirley. And what it requires for us to
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do at this point is to pause and meditate on the descriptions
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that are connected to this gyrus, in order to appreciate in
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a greater way. What is about to take place?
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And so I want you to consider with me briefly as we come to
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the word of God. Again to look at three important
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aspects about gyrus this man that will help us understand the
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greatness of this story. The first thing we have to look
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at is gyrus has reputation. As I mentioned before, we even
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told his name. What you and I have been
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informed about was what he did. He was a ruler of the synagogue
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and if you've been with us long enough, you should hopefully
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know that. That is significant in itself.
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We've already been convinced that the religious leadership of
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Jesus day have had a consensus. That this man is to be
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condemned. It was public, it was open.
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And so vicious was their hostility towards Jesus.
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That while our precious master was traveling about and healing
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and teaching, they were in the dark plotting, his destruction.
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And whenever they had a chance to openly resist him, it was not
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a secret to understand that the religious Elite hated Jesus.
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And here, now we're told about a ruler of the synagogue.
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And though gyrus is not explicitly, a Pharisee, we're
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not told that there is no doubt that he is connected to the
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other leaders. And there is no doubt that he
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was fully aware of their antagonism of their hatred,
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maybe even of their plot. Gyrus was familiar with who this
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Jesus was and the nature of his work, made him accountable to
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those others who were enemies of Jesus.
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And you can just imagine them how this is so exceptional.
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Even so early on, in this story because it's obvious that gyrus
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was not influenced by that at all, at all.
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He could care less he comes here publicly and now only these he
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address Jesus. Not only does he put himself at
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risk With his peers and his companions.
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And his partners, he falls on his face and he begs Jesus.
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He begs Jesus. You're going to come before
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Public, Enemy Number One, and expose yourself with, so much to
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lose just for that very Act. Makes me think about Nicodemus
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in comparison who was a Pharisee who was in the same camp as
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gyrus though maybe in a higher position of course but what did
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he do when he wanted to meet with Jesus?
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He waited till there was no light.
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He waited till people went to bed and he made his way to this
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controversial Rabbi to have some kind of a conversation.
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This was not gyrus. Gyrus comes on the other hand,
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unaffected by the potential risk of what this very move would
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cause and his life. And it makes me wonder what
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happened to this man gyrus for him to be, so open with his
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association with Jesus. Which brings us to the second
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Point, not just gyrus his reputation, but gyrus is Crisis.
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We saw that we not in verse 23, he implored him earnestly saying
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my little daughter is at the point of death.
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Come lay your hands on her. That she might be wait made well
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and live. Okay, it makes sense.
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Now it makes sense. Your little baby is dying.
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You little girl. Her life is Vanishing right
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before your eyes. Pay attention to what I'm about
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to say and lean in as much as possible.
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Despite maybe the little chirping that you hear around
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Devastation is often the wrecking ball, that obliterates
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ones, hesitation or carelessness and coming to Christ.
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Devastation is often the wrecking ball, that brings Down
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the Walls of hesitation and carelessness of one coming to
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Christ. It is not a mystery, how God
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becomes very attractive when someone becomes severely
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afflicted. There is no mention of gyrus
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before this moment, there is no inclination that he ever
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interacted with Jesus inquired of Jesus.
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As if anything even more evidence that he stayed away
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from Jesus concerning his occupation.
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And yet here, we realize that there is a motivation alas.
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His his daughter now is on the brink of death and he hears of a
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man who's able to heal all kinds of illnesses.
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And now he has this strong strong motivation.
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A reason to come and so strong. Was it that he comes to the
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Lord? And every potential fear of
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losing fellowship with the elite or his well-respected job is
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gone. And we see even here in his
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plea, the tenderness the Brokenness, the desperation of
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this request. He didn't just say my daughter,
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my little daughter. My little daughter, she's young
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suffering at any point of life is traumatic, but there's
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something especially heart-wrenching when we see a
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little child fighting for their life.
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That is exactly what we see here.
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A man desperate for a baby who hasn't even seen the dawn of
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adulthood yet. And so he pleads my little girl,
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my little baby, My little daughter.
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Now, Luke emphasizes a different aspect of this account and verse
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42 of chapter 8, he informs us that she was his only daughter.
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Mark tells us through his own lips, gyrus, his own lips, my
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little daughter, when Luke narrates the story, he says she
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was his only daughter. All that adds another aspect to
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it. There's a not.
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This is all gyrus had. This is all gyrus had this
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precious little girl. No one else.
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Think about the dreams and the aspirations he had for her.
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Think about the prayers as a devout man, that he prayed to
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God on her behalf. Think about the memories that he
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had with her. No son.
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No other kids. Just this one little daughter.
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So near and dear to his heart. And now, within a few moments,
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all of that can disappear, all of that can just just be gone.
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And so he has no issue pushing through this crowd.
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He does not care of the presence of Pharisees are Sadducees are
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herodians, and he comes to this Jesus, and he falls on his
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knees. And he says, would you come
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please my, my little daughter? Needs divine intervention.
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Suffering can do that. Suffering has a way of bending,
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your will suffering, has a way of prioritizing your life and
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bringing you to the one who can only bring Solutions and
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salvations unlike any other. This man comes, and he needs The
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Miracle Worker to step in, which brings us to the third aspect of
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gyrus that we must consider. Not just his reputation, not
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just his crisis, but his faith, his faith.
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It's so obvious and clear, is a not and Matthews emphasis of the
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same story because we find it in Luke, we find it in Matthew
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Matthews, emphasis shows us just how great this faith is.
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And I would encourage you to turn that to see it with your
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own eyes and Matthew 9. We read here.
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In verse 18, Matthew 9 verse 18. It's a much more condensed
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version of the story. But it sheds a specific light
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that helps us know that the faith of this man while he was
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saying these things to them. Behold a ruler came in and now
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it's before him saying my daughter has just died. but come
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and lay your hand on her and she will live Don't think that
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there's a contradiction here. I'm sure it looks like it at
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face value is just that Matthew is interested here to focus on
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the fact that the daughter did in fact die, Mark tells us later
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on in his own story. So she did die, there's no
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contradiction. But instead of looking at the
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stretched out appeal and interaction, he just wants to
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get straight to the point. The hopelessness of the
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situation, the no turning back aspect of it.
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She died. My daughter has just died.
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And so, if you look at Matthews account, then you understand
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that gyrus did not just believe Jesus to heal his daughter, but
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to raise her from the dead. You can actually bring her back
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to life. And if you're there in Matthew,
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it's even a greater blessing. To see that as he makes this
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appeal, it is placed in the part of Matthew's text.
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That should compare to something else that happened.
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Something else that happened in Matthew chapter 8 with a very
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similar situation, another great demonstration of trust and who
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Jesus was and what he can do. Do you remember of that man?
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Who came to Jesus on behalf of his servant?
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And he asked the my servant is suffering terribly.
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And he asks, if the Lord could heal him and the Lord assured
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him, I will come with you and this Centurion stops him.
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Before he takes another step, and he says there in Matthew 8
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verse 7, Jesus said to him, I will come and heal him and verse
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8 of Matthew 8, but the Centurion replied Lord, I am not
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worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word and
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my servant will be healed. This Centurion had such a
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revelation of the authority of Jesus Christ that he firmly
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believed that the Lord did not even need to come into close
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proximity. All he had to do was sent forth
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his word and the word would suffice.
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Gyrus had faith. Not that kind of faith.
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Not to this extent. And we don't want to condemn
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gyrus. but it's worth looking at the contrast to see what is this
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mean for us, gyrus Was a ruler in the synagogue, he was
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constantly in the presence of God's people like you are here
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week after week under and supervising and organizing the
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readings of the Scrolls and God's word.
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Being proclaimed declared study, rehearse, memorize song.
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He had some kind of understanding, I'm sure.
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Of God in his own life. And yet, with all of that
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exposure, with all of that experience, he lacked the
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quality of faith of someone who was a complete Foreigner to
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these things. This, the Centurion is a Roman.
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He's a gentile, he is totally disconnected from gyrus his
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background and yet, he exercised greater faith in the person of
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Jesus Christ. Why am I bringing this up to you
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to encourage you to encourage you in this way that you and I
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don't need a superb. Herb education or occupation or
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reputation or position? Does it matter?
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To touch the Heart of Jesus Christ.
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See what often impresses. Men doesn't move God.
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And sometimes we feel like we can't come to the place of
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moving the heart of our God, because we lack what men says,
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you need to be a true. Spiritual intimate servant of
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Jesus Christ. This Centurion had nothing of
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the sort, no Letters by his name, no backing nothing other
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than the faith to believe that this Jesus, that he's heard
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about, can do all things. And that move the heart of
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Christ. Do not remember where he prays.
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is Faith and he says, there isn't anything like this that
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I've seen in Israel So, stop striving for the things of the
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flesh. Stop thinking that you will be
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at a distance with this crisis in comparison to so and so
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because of superficial things know, the Lord is willing to
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open his arms up to those who have simple Faith.
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Simple trust though, they lack maybe so much else but what a
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gracious God we serve what a gracious God.
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Even though Jerry's, his faith was not a strong as the
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centurions. He was willing to say, let's go.
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I'm coming with you. He went with him.
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That's what we read. That, once the request was made
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Christ, went with him as did the crowd.
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And I look at that. I think Lord thank you.
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Whether my faith is weak or it is strong.
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You are willing to work with me. You're willing to walk with me
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along the way. You are such a patient teacher,
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such a loving Shepherd. And the natural sequence of
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these events, supposes that we are now going to be transported.
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In the next verse into gyrus is home and Jesus going to do this,
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right? Not so, because everything now
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will be suddenly interrupted by someone else and we read back in
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Mark chapter 5 verse 25. And there was a woman.
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Who had a discharge of blood for 12 years and who had suffered
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much under many Physicians and had spent all that she had and
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was no better but rather grew worse.
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She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in
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the crowd and touched His Garment.
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For she said, if I touch even his garments, I will be made.
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Well, this woman unnamed we're told suffered she suffered for
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12 years. Twelve years.
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Jesus is on his way. To heal a little girl.
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And in verse 42 of our chapter, we are told that she was 12
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years old. Jesus was on his way to hear 12
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year old girl. and his plan was briefly, interrupted by a woman,
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who is suffering for 12 years, interesting similarity, And when
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you connect those things together, you realize that these
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two stories have something to make of a powerful Point, think
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about it. The number 12 here of both of
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these individuals are not going to do strange interpretations
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with numbers. It's their history.
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Their biography. It's their situation.
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Whether you're young or old, Whether you've been suffering
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for a short time for a long time.
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Whether you are a seasoned sinner.
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Or a fresh mind being awakened to a new world of Temptation.
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Christ, is your only hope. Christ is your savior still.
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He is a refuge to children and he is a shield to the weathered
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soul. For 12 years, we don't know how
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long or when this little girl suffered, but we know that
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during those 12 years of her life, there was a woman who is
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being beat up by a disease. And here's a little girl, 12
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years old quickly deteriorating and this woman who is only
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growing worse and worse and worse.
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And here's the point. Christ can come to you at the
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budding of life. Or he can rescue after you have
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over the years experimented with one failed solution.
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After the other, he is the same savior.
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He is an available savior. And the biography of all kinds
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of suffering and sin are not limited to his power.
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What was it that she suffered with?
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What was it? That was eating her up.
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What was it that drained her in so many ways?
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We were told it was a discharge of blood, some kind of
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hemorrhaging that was deemed incurable.
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And 12 years of going from one physician to the next one, dr1
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opinion after the other, and they was all zeros.
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Nothing. No hint of Hope, no clarity.
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You can imagine how emotionally exhausting this is.
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You can imagine that she was obviously uncomfortable with
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this. Because when she and ends up
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getting her healing from the Lord, she can feel that she was
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healed. She could feel it.
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It was measurable by her feeling, so she is afflicted.
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And, and just you can imagine how drain she was again, where
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do I go now and more than our emotions.
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Her bank account was brought to nothing as well.
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All the money that she invested all her savings, all her future
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to make matters worse. According to the law, there was
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so much more that was taken from her because of her condition.
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Leviticus 15:25 were given instructions in the old Covenant
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of what someone was to do if they had any kind of discharge
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of blood. And let me read this verse to
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you to give you an idea of the way she had to live for 12
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years. We're told in Leviticus 1525 and
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if a woman has a discharge of blood for many days not at the
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time of her menstrual impurity. So apart from her menstrual
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impurity or she has a discharge beyond the time of her impurity
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all the days of her discharge she shall continue and
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uncleanness As in the days of her impurity, she shall be
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unclean. Okay.
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So you have suffering for over a decade discomfort Psychological
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pain, emotional distress, and more than that.
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Because of her state of uncleanness she can't go worship
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God in the temple. She can't go to the synagogue
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and sit and be with other believers.
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And be encouraged. More than that.
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If she was married, that would make things difficult with her
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own husband, why? Because even the very bed, she
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would lay on was unclean and the seat that she would sit on would
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be in pure. And so now, her day-to-day
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interactions Her conversations her activities are severely
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hindered because of this law. And so she's almost like a leper
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ostracize and pushed away, people wanting to avoid her,
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because if they come into contact with her, they are
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impure and they have to go through that ritual and they're
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not willing to have such kind of obstacles.
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They already have enough issues of their own.
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This is the kind of woman that we're dealing with.
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And though the number 12 might be similar her background.
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Could have been any more different than gyrus is gyrus,
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could go to the synagogue, he could go to the temple, he could
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be with the people of God, he could sit under the word of God.
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Here's this woman just stuck in some dark corner day after day
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night after night. Trying to gather together coins
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to figure out, if she can make another appointment, maybe with
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another doctor, who can give her some kind of some kind of light
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for a future. Which tells me something else
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about Jesus, though. She and gyrus is situation and
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background and history, and day-to-day living was so far.
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Apart from being similar Christ, can restore variety of
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Brokenness A variety of Brokenness is not only an expert
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with one or two sins. He doesn't just save those who
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grew up in the church but went away but he has a little bit
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more difficulty, saving those who did not grow up in the
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church. Know he's able to sympathize and
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he's able to save with again a great roster of degeneracy in
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despair. You know what?
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Second Corinthians 5:17 says, you know, very well.
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Therefore if and I love this part, therefore if anyone is in
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Christ, He is a new creation. New Creation.
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I understand, I love. Praise God, for the power of the
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Gospel, but you know what? Blesses me, the King James says,
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if any man, if any any man? If anyone, any man at any time,
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anywhere? Any, who any, when If any man be
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in Christ, Christ can transform him.
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And here's a woman who is far apart from gyrus in so many
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ways, but she fits in the category of anyone, anyone.
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You know, this is an important point because you have some
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people who are so dysfunctional, so broken, so battered, so beat
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up so scarred that they can sit in a place like this here
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message like this. And be like, that's nice for the
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guy in the suit. Or the kid that grew up with a
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mom and dad that brought him to Awana.
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I don't think this works for me and I'm here to tell you, it
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works for you. I'm here to tell you that he can
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deliver you. and what I'm asking you to do with the authority of
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Jesus Christ and his word Is what this woman did believe
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believe she heard the reports of what Christ has done and this is
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what she came to the conclusion. If he can do it for them
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including gyrus, he can do it for me, he can do it for me.
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I want to make sure that he does it for me.
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I'm not leaving here empty-handed, I'm not leaving
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here the same way that I came in, that kind of desperation is
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lacking in our appeal when it comes to the gospel.
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I can't put a desire in you, I can only present the object of
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what your desires should be and it's up to you how you flee to
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him. This woman.
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Cease this Jesus. And there's somebody else.
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Now, in the crowd who is about to make her way towards the Lord
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like gyrus did. And what we are about to read is
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that Christ is going to do in One Moment.
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One Moment, what Physicians going to do over 12 years in one
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second and one grasp of His Garment, that healing virtue
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will come and dry up and heal and restore what?
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So many remedies so many reports, so many investigations,
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so many studies could not even come close to and though that is
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true for sickness because we believe Jesus can heal
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everything, he still a Healer It is especially true when it comes
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to your soul, my friend, the sickness of the Soul because of
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sin. One moment, it can all change
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and in the words of j.c., Ryle concerning the story.
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He says, what we see here is an emblem of the relief that the
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gospel confers on the soul. In other words, in the same way
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that there was immediate restoration and healing and
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wholeness in that touch for her body, so much more for your
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spirit so much more for that part that is going to be
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immortal so much more for that thing.
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That affects everything else, that is more important than
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anybody being healed. Temporarily.
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And that's the point. Christ, unlike these Physicians,
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can do what nobody else can do because he created you and he
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died for you. And here's the warning, with all
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of that encouragement that's being showered on us this
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afternoon. Here's the warning in the same
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way that this woman was running from one solution to the next
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one. Possible remedy to the next, but
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could not find it. And we're told was only getting
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worse, so will it be with you, the longer you delay coming to
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Jesus Christ? Why are you even waiting
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anymore? What are you waiting for, huh?
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What do you like, what is it that you're looking forward to
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so much that you think Jesus is going to interrupt, you have
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some pigs that you're worried to lose.
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What is it? When will you stop chasing vein
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Idols? Vein philosophies.
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Vain pleasures. Silly solutions, that attempt to
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bring you into a place of wholeness and completion and
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sense of purpose and love. When will you just give up save
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your time, save your resources, save your energy and fall at the
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foot of the cross. And in one moment what you've
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been chasing around, like a chicken with its head cut off,
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what you've been spending what you've been trying to escape
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from what you've been trying to run to a runaway, whatever the
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case may be right here. Is your answer.
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So stop sticking your head in empty cisterns and trying to
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draw some kind of value from it. When the Fountain of Life is
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gushing forth, exactly what you need and it's right there before
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you That's what this woman shows us to some extent, I'm sure.
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And look what she says in verse 28.
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For she said, if I, if I touch even his garments, I'll be made.
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Well, now, this is quick thinking, this is a strategy on
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the spot. Remember, Jesus is making his
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way to gyrus is home, and there is a crowd that's pressing
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against him. And this woman is there, I don't
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know if she's in the third row, the fifth rotten.
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Oh, she's pushed all the way in the back, but she singled out
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where Jesus was, and this is what she came to in her and her
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thinking. If I just just going to grab
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him. But you got a link that with
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what we, what we learn here in verse 27.
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She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him.
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So I don't think I'm going to touch him, but I'm going to have
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to come behind him. Why not before him?
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Why not face them? Like gyrus did well?
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Because of what she has. It's too risky.
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She can't touch anyone. She can't be in close proximity
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to anyone. And she stands before Jesus and
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explains her situation then that might just turn him off and push
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him away and they just move on. And so I'm just going to make
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this a drive-thru experience. I'm just going to go by grab him
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and then just whisk away into the crowd and he won't even know
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about it, how cute he won't know about it.
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This is her plan and guess what? It worked.
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It worked verse 29 and immediately the flow of blood
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dried up and she felt in her body that she was healed of her
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disease. This is a unique story for many
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reasons, and one of those reasons is how Jesus responds
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and his reaction here. Stands out from many other
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miracles. because we read here in verse 30 and Jesus,
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perceiving and himself, That power had gone out from him.
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That's an interesting commentary.
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Don't confuse those words with the notion that Jesus can be
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depleted of Supernatural ability, like a battery with
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lose power. The more you use it, None of us
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in here, I'm sure. Whatever.
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Think that though, we exert the power of the Sun, that that
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great ball of light and heat is ever exhausted of its strength.
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Christ. Here is infinite in his power
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and his might and His glory and his strength.
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Yes he is human and there are other limitations there but when
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it comes to the virtue that heals he is Limitless.
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What we're being told here, is that Jesus was now made aware.
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Not that he was unaware of what was going to happen, but he's
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going to express that he was now aware of what this lady did.
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And he's not going to let her get away with it.
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And so, he knew power had gone out from him and he does
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something right after immediately turned about in the
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crowd and said, who touched my garments?
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Did Jesus not know? Oh he knew then why ask the
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question? It's not issued from ignorance.
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Jesus is asking a question. Because he's implementing
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something that we've seen God do from beginning to end in this
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book. Are you not familiar with God's
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implementation of rhetorical questions?
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Even from the beginning asking Adam where he was, God knew
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exactly where Adam was. And Jesus, who is God knows
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exactly who touched his garments because the question is not to
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receive Clarity, it's to encourage confession.
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Who touched my garments? Who touched my garlands?
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And now we see. That this woman.
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Has been identified to Jesus, at least, and he's not doing this
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to embarrass her. He's not doing this to try to
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shame her or scorn, her Nothing of the sort.
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It's actually a very, very beautiful picture of the heart
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of Christ for us. Think about it.
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Jesus is not interested, this is so profound to me.
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He's not interested in dispensing, his power to
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individuals without them coming to him personally, the very
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design of his power that it would draw you to himself.
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You know I've met some people throughout my walk with the Lord
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that have no problem coming to Jesus with a problem or to
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hoping that he will fix it and only making their way back to
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their lives. And going about as though
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nothing had happened and like this woman they just want to
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touch Jesus from behind. They don't want to see him
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face-to-face. They don't want that Fellowship.
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They don't want that intimacy. They don't want that
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relationship. They just want something from
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him. Let me touch him.
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Let me grab it. My kid is in trouble.
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My finances are in trouble. My body is in trouble.
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I heard about this Jesus. Let me just take what he has to
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offer and move about my life. That's not what God wants
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though. I've seen it with my own eyes.
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You're saying, how does this miracle really?
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I've seen it with my own eyes Let me just touch His Garment
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and go about my way but Christ wants your heart.
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You want something from Christ. You know what Christ wants you
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You do you want Christ? That's the whole difference.
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I'm telling you, what Christ wants?
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He wants you. You want something from him, or
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do you want him? That's the gospel coming to God,
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not escaping this, or inheriting that God.
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Jesus pauses on his quest to Jerry's his home.
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Who touched my garments? The disciples didn't understand.
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There's a lot of things that the disciples didn't understand, but
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let me read if you don't believe that.
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This is what Jesus about, let me read to you, what he prayed for
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you. Let me read what he prayed for
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you and John 17:20 for you. Don't even have to turn there
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unless you want to highlight it. But I want you to give every
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faculty of your being over to what I'm about to say, and
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really chew on it and understand what Jesus is asking the father
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for in John 17, 24. Father, I desire that they also
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whom you have, given me may be with me where I am.
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To see my glory that you have given me because you loved me
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before the foundation of the world.
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Father, I'm asking that those that you have given me.
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Oh, I want them to be with me. Where I am. where I am but then
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he speaks about that, they may see my glory, so he's obviously
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referring to the Future where he will be There's something of the
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present to, right. And that's a mysterious thing
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that we don't have time to unpack.
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Where I am. I want them to see my glory.
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I wanted to be near me. Father, that's my request.
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That's how I'm ending. This High Priestly prayer.
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And there is not one request of the father of a deny, the son.
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You know what that means. It means that if you have been
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given, if you are his then you will be with him to see his
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glory forever and ever. I can't wait for that day.
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He wants us. He prayed to the father and the
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Holy Spirit recorded it. So that when you ever doubt, the
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reality of his love, you would realize the sun.
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Pray to the father for me to be with him.
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And the father will never deny the son.
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Therefore, I will not be denied and I will be his forever and
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ever and ever and ever, who touched my garments?
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And the intensity of his desire for her to approach and to
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confess what had taken place is seen back at verse 32 of Mark
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chapter 5. And he looked around to see who
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had done it. Remember gyrus his daughter
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needs a touch. And yet this woman though,
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everyone is pressing against the Lord, trying to get a piece of
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him, here's a woman who grabs ahold of them walks away.
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Jesus stops in his tracks. Ask the question and more than
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that. He does not move forward.
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He looks intensely for her. So here's this woman, you can
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imagine her heart sinking to her gut her face being flushed.
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Remember, she can't touch anyone.
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And not only this. Now Jesus is making a public
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scene here. So yeah, she didn't just touch
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Jesus, teach she touched a lot of people.
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And if they find out what happened, there going to be a
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lot of upset people with this woman.
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So he looks for so, you know what, that tells me, everything
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is at a standstill. Everything is at a standstill.
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Now, people are looking at Jesus.
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Who's the center of attention? He's leading the pack.
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And now they are looking where he's looking, because clearly
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something must have been so important enough for him to stop
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and say something that happened. Well what happened?
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Let's see. But Christ pause, here's more
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than that, you know what it is. It's Jesus here.
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Also preparing the masses. To hear the testimony of this
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woman who would share what the Lord had done for her.
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You see what the Lord is asking here.
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When he says, who touched my garments and when he looks for
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her is more than just her coming to him and him reassuring her of
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something about who she is. That is completely relational
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know. The Lord also wants her in an
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indirect way to publicly confess the mercy and she experienced
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Jesus. He's not interested.
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And secret disciples. Lord is worthy of honor and
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Glory. and when he does something in your life, He is
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worth you being unashamed to tell about it.
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Who touched my garments? This type of said, Lord,
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everyone is here. Touching you.
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What do you mean? Who touched?
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You know someone touched me. Isn't it amazing that we can be
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in a group like this? But there's something about
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faith that touches the heart of God.
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The presence of people around the name of Christ, the word of
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Christ songs about Christ does not automatically mean that his
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heart is touched in the same way.
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As the one who has a heart that realizes I need him.
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I Look to You, Lord. I come to you.
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Someone touched me. We everybody's touching know
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someone touched me. He looks.
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Do you see it? Christ is not interested in our
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testimonies to remain private must be willing to confess what
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he has done. Salvation, may occur in secret,
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but the story about it, shouldn't What is this woman
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going to do? She comes trembling, she comes
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afraid. Some would say because she's
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worried about sharing what had happened to her and what she had
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as a condition or maybe it was because she realized that this
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is not just a prophet. This is not just some special
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messenger of God that comes after a few Generations.
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How did he know I touched him? It shows, she comes. so fearful
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And Jesus assures us that she's been made well.
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But you know, I couldn't help but think with all of this that
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has happened as wonderful as it was for this woman.
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You remember who we started with right gyrus Gyrus, this was
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about gyrus. This is what gyrus is little
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daughter and she's dying and every minute counts so now let's
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put our ourselves in the sandals of gyrus.
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Lord, my little daughter is dying.
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I need you to come. I need you to heal her.
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I know you can do it. Please, I will come.
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Yes. And the Lord makes way in the
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crowd comes. And I wonder if Joe was a little
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nervous because when you have a crowd like that there's traffic
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and things get slower traffic on top of that.
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Now, this woman comes and obviously does something and
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Jesus stops. We're going to look at gyrus
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more next week. Time doesn't serve as well in
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terms of exploring everything here, but if I was gyrus Who
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touched my garments? My daughter is dying.
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More than that and he's looking everybody stop.
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You see what Jesus said to this woman?
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I wonder if it did something to gyrus.
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Verse 34. and he said to her daughter, Your faith has made
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you. Well, go in peace and be healed
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of your disease. Gyrus is experiencing some delay
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Jesus. Do you not see the urgency of
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the matter? How is it that you're stopping?
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This is not the time to stop. It's time to go.
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We got to go in another gear. Let's go Lord.
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And how true is it? That the Masters Pace in?
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The dealings of our lives are often not in complete agreement
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with our wishes. But I wonder if verse 34 did
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something to gyrus, he said to her daughter.
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Oh, now we have two daughters in the story.
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It all started with my little daughter and this scene is
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ending with Jesus addressing this mature woman, stranger
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unnamed. And with such sympathy and with
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a delicate voice, I'm sure he says daughter.
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Not daughter of Abraham, not daughter of Jerusalem.
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You'd be hard-pressed to find Jesus addressing anybody
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directly as daughter in the Gospels.
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Daughter. your faith has made you, well, And I wonder if that
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statement translated to the crowd and maybe even gyrus, it's
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obvious that this Jesus loves this woman as a father, does his
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daughter? He does.
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In fact, the gospel adopts us. Causes sons and daughters.
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And here's gyrus was he nervous? I don't know.
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Was he anxious? I don't know.
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Was he critical like the disciples were for a moment in
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verse 31 doesn't say anything. But what kind of hush did it
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bring to his soul? I wonder when he heard Jesus as
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a man who wanted his little daughter to be healed addressing
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this woman who has been healed daughter.
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The great love of Jesus compassion of Jesus.
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I have a real daughter by Blood, who needs to be touched?
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Who is this woman any relation? No relatives, no upbringing, No
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Stranger, but my love for her, my affection for her, my
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compassion for her, my desire for her daughter. your faith has
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made you, well, You see what Jesus wants from you.
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He doesn't just want to heal you.
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He doesn't want to just get you out of debt.
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Didn't want to just make you sleep better at night.
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Daughter. See if she would have just went
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on, she would have got healing. But after she came before Christ
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and says what we're told here, that she came before, Jesus and
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verse 33 and told him the whole truth.
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When you come and complete honesty and transparency, and
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humility with your sin with your condition.
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With what you've done with what you have and done here is the
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assurance that Christ brings to you the same for this woman
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daughter. Now, we have relationship now, I
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see you in a. So now I am affirming to you
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that you are mine. You're mine.
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And it'll be next week where we see Jesus from this place going
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to gyrus his little daughter and we will learn so much more about
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the same scene as as we honor the text in the way delivers
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itself. This complicated overlapping
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Crossroads moment. Let's pray.
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Thank you. Jesus name above all names.
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King above all Kings. Lord of all Lords.
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Lord, we are overwhelmed by Your Word. because it is eternal and
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it is the very Breath of God and we have felt the life-giving
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source that it is this afternoon, as we sat under it,
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Much was said. And Lord every word of it was
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honey to our lips, more precious than gold more valuable than
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silver. And Lord, we ask that in this
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moment, we would be able to worship you in light of the
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great love that you exemplified in this.
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And this report of Holy scripture, we pray for the
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person. That like this woman though,
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perhaps not for the same disease for a greater disease, the
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disease of sin. Is running around from one
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website to the next from one job to the other.
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From one country to the other country, from some group of
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friends, from one boyfriend to the other girlfriend, whatever
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it is. For that person in this place.
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May their icy after hearing the report of Jesus where their
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source of Salvation is. And for the believer who has
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experienced you, but is ashamed for whatever reason to make it
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public to be bold to get baptized.
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May they see that you are worthy.
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Of recognition. And Lord as we are prepared,
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even for next week, when we will look at the delay of gyrus is
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request. Maybe understand that your
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delays have great purpose. And that you are still for us
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even though we may not see things.
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Play out before us the way we desire.
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Again Lord, we are overwhelmed by your goodness.
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In love with you. Madly in love with you and if
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our hearts have become dry, Lord, let the fire of the word
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consume. All the dross, all the ice that
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has been collected on our affections for you and let it
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melt, let it all melt here, as we sing in light of your
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awesome. Truth.
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In Jesus name, we pray Amen, and amen.
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Hallelujah. Indeed.
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Let's stand in worship.