Perspective vs Perception (Faith In Transit)

Perspective tells me how you saw it, perception tells me how you see it. Much of our perspective is made up of lived experiences that shape our expectation and attitude to the world or the environment around us. Perception requires understanding within the moment that then impacts the possibilities of the future. This woman intercepted Jesus, against the better judgement of her perspective because perception had given her a revelation of who he was, and that information was greater than what she’d already known and lived. This was simply, faith in transit.

Notes:

St Luke 8:40-49

Perspective (Def) - 
A particular attitude towards or way of regarding something; a point of view.
Perception (Def) - 
The ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.
The way in which something is regarded, understood, or interpreted.

“Perspective tells me how you saw it. Perception tells me how you see it.”

“You can only fight what you know with what you know.” Luke 8:40:42 - Now when Jesus returned, a crowd welcomed him, for they were all expecting him. Then a man named Jairus, a synagogue leader, came and fell at Jesus’ feet, pleading with him to come to his house because his only daughter, a girl of about twelve, was dying.

“This was faith in transit.” Luke 8:42-45 - As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped.“Who touched me?” Jesus asked.

“Faith beyond hope doesn’t just do, it becomes. The woman said to herself if I can touch the thing that’s touching him I’ll be ok. She just wanted to get in the room, and she got a seat at the table.” Luke 8:45-48 “When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the people are crowding and pressing against you.” But Jesus said, “Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me.”Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed.

“Her faith in him gave her the ability to perceive the revelation of him.” Luke 8:48-49 - “Then he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.”

Transcript

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Hello everybody and welcome to Rima Reloaded with me Sean Wins. It's an honor and a privilege to have you all here. Let's get the formalities out of the way. Please like, subscribe, and share. We are on Instagram, we are on Facebook, we are on TikTok, we are on yeah, YouTube. We're on YouTube. So guys, please, um, if you are enjoying what we're doing and you like it, then come, come, join in, get involved. Also, we are attaching the notes for the Bible studies in the description. So um it's more than you just coming here and listening to me waffle on. I know for those of you that are kind of locked in, I can waffle a little bit, but I get excited, I love what I'm doing. Um, but it gives you the basis to go have the reference points, but to carry on your own study as well, which is massively important to me. That the basis of what this Bible study does is it provides a platform and a base for you to develop your personal relationship with Jesus Christ. 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Um, the first thing I want to do is give you a couple of definitions. Now, the definition we have for perspective is this it is the art of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional service, surface, even, so as to give the right impression of their height, width, and depth and position in relation to each other. Okay, um, the second part of the definition is a particular attitude towards a way of regarding something or a point of view. Okay, that's the definition we're gonna lean into more. I'll say it one more time. Um, a particular attitude towards or a way of regarding something or a point of view. Perception now, okay. The definition of perception is the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses. We know what our five senses are. We can see, we can touch, we can feel, we can taste, we can smell. Okay. Um, the second definition for perception is the way in which something is regarded, understood, or interpreted. And obviously, you know that your boy's come up with his own definition. I want to put it this way: perspective tells me how you saw it, past tense. Perception tells me how you see it, present, present tense. One more time, let me say that for you. Perspective tells me how you saw it, so your perspective is built on past experiences that have shaped your attitude or your idea of a thing, which is past tense, that then shapes your present, and perception is your idea of understanding something within the moment, the revelation of what the thing actually is in the moment, that then obviously shapes your present moment, but then what it does is it propels the possibility of your future interactions. Perception does that, okay? So, um, if you would turn with me to the book of Luke, chapter 8, um, and we are going to start at verse 40. But before we do, I want to give you a little basis of what's happening. You know, you hear me say this often, I want to put the text in context. So Jesus has just come back from the Gatherens, okay? Um, now he was preaching a sermon in I believe Galilee. Please check that for yourselves in chapter seven. I ain't here to give you all of that, I ain't here feeding you. You're going to go and look for that yourself. Um, he was preaching a sermon in Galilee in chapter seven, and then he says to his disciples, like, Look, we're gonna go to the other side. Jesus had an appointment, okay? And as he they are rowing and taking their boat across the river, a storm comes down, it's crazy. And imagine that at the point where the disciples are freaking out, they're like, Jesus. What was Jesus doing? Napping. He's like, I'm tired, bro. I need a minute, I need to sleep. Okay, so Jesus is taking himself a well-deserved nap because he just finished preaching, okay, and we understand at this point Jesus is the guy, he can't pull up nowhere without everybody wanting to be where he is. So I can completely understand why our personal Lord and Savior was just like, lads, you've got this. You're fishermen, so you should be called on water anyway. Because before you even knew I was about, you man were on boats, right? So this particular weathering system happens. Jesus is chilling, sleeping, they're freaking out, the storm's going crazy. They like, Jesus, wake up! And he's just like, Firstly, why are you shaking me? Get off. Secondly, he gets up, and he's God manifesting flesh, but he had come to show us the way, okay. And when I say the way, he was obviously going to be the ultimate sacrifice, but more than that, he was here because he was fully God, but fully man, and he was here to complete what Adam couldn't in the beginning, because we understand that Adam fell and plunged humanity into sin through his choice. So Jesus came in counter distinction as the second Adam to show us what God intended could be done, which is why his life was perfect, and he could then become the sacrifice that atoned for the spiritual separation that we were experiencing because God is holy and he cannot live in conjunction with or be married to sin. Okay, so here Jesus is gets up, gets his disciples out of the way, speaks to the storm, calms the storm, and then says to his disciples, Where is your faith? Now, this was a massively important moment. Why? Because that statement was going to set the premise of what we're gonna talk about in chapter eight. So let me finish the story. So he gets across to the Gatherenes, and there's a guy who is possessed with so many demons that they can't even name them all, they just call him Legion, okay? And the people of that location, they had bound this guy. And when I say bound him, tied him up right like in our modern day, it would have been duct tape, chains, strait jacket, everything. And when they would tie this guy up because of what had possessed him, he would break out of that stuff, so they kind of found a way to kind of live with him. I think I don't want to get lost on this point, but I want to lean into it. How many of us try and fight the thing that is either scaring us that we know isn't working in our life, that it's problematic, and when we feel like we are losing because us in our own personal power can't overcome it, instead of overcoming, we find coping mechanisms. So the people of the city had found a coping mechanism with this guy, and it was so freaky, and I've got to be honest, it what this guy was up to was freaky, he lived in the cemetery. So you've got this dude possessed, right? You can't chain him, you can't bind him, and the only place he feels peace is around dead people. So I didn't understand that this is what Jesus was coming to do, but Jesus was seeding clues of who he was and what his mission was about, and more than that, what Pentecost would signify in these little moments. So Jesus pulls up to the Gatherens, and what is possessing this man understands exactly who he is. Before Jesus can say a word to this man, these spirits cry out and they say, and they're like, We know who you are. It's like when a bad man meets a bad man and you've only ever seen the bad man, and then you see him get a little bit like and you're like, Oh, this is new. So these spirits cry out and they're like, Jesus, have you come to torment us before our time? And this is what I love about Jesus. When you know who you are, you never have to pretend to be anything else. I'm gonna say that one more time. When you know who you are, you never have to pretend to be anything else. These spirits cried out and they said, Have you come to torment us before our time? And then he asks, Who are you? And they tell him that they're legion, and they say, Please don't cast us out. Let us go into the swine. And this gives you an understanding that not only was Jesus Lord over this world, because how did we see it? He spoke to his disciples, right, and said to them, Where is your faith? What was he in reference to environmental weathering and surroundings? So he was saying to his disciples, Oh, I'm God of everything you can see in this world. And then here we have these demons that have overcome this man to the point they have a whole city shook. And if you're not um familiar with the word shook, it's basically a colloquial term that young people use, which basically means they were scared, they were scared, right? And these spirits immediately, immediately they come off all their badness, and they're like, um we please don't cast us out. And Jesus is like, first of all, shut up, you know who I am, and he says, right, you can go into that swine. What does that show us that he's not only God in our world, but he's God in their world, and he's God in every world. Where do we also get this clue? Satan, Matthew chapter 4. He says to Jesus, I'll give you all the kingdom. Jesus is like, I don't need nothing from you, sucker. So he sits here in perfect power and authority, and this is something else that we have to also notice about power and authority. Power and authority never has to announce itself. Power does not announce itself, it just is. Look at yourself and say, I just am by purpose and design of the king. Come on, say it. I just am by purpose and design of the king. So Jesus casts out these spirits and this man returns to his senses. I all also need you to understand this man, because of his condition, was naked. Right? So as he comes to himself, they obviously protect his modesty, and he says to Jesus, he says, Lord, please let me come with you. This is important because what Jesus says to this man is a charge for all of us that are believers. He says, No, no, no, no, no. He says, Stay here, go back to your people and tell them of all the good things that God has done. Let everybody that saw you in your worst now see you at your your peaceful best. Why? Because Jesus wanted to leave a witness. Your salvation is about you being a witness. Which now takes us to chapter 8, okay, and where we're actually going to start our Bible study. So Jesus has gone to the gatherings, he's now come back, and we're going to be in chap into verse 40 of chapter 8, and it says, Now, when Jesus returned, a crowd welcomed him, for they were all expecting him. Then a man named Jairus, a synagogue leader, came and fell at Jesus' feet, pleading with him to come to his house because his only daughter, a girl of about 12, was dying. Okay, now this is very important to understand. In our last Bible study, you remember that I said to you within the Jewish community, and especially the religious community, they had some leaders. Okay, so you had the Sanhedrin and you had the Pharisees and the Sadducees. Now, Jairus was a part of these structures of power within the religious Jewish structure, but it also lets us know they were hearing about Jesus. This would not have been a cool thing for Jairus to do. Jesus was being uh accused of being a false prophet, a false teacher, a blasphemer. Okay, and now I need you to understand that the Pharisees and the Sadducees and those that ran the temple, they took power onto themselves that if you and this was also in um parallel to the Levitical law, okay? These are the laws and the boundaries and the standards that were set within the Jewish community and people according to what God had spoken to Moses. So what they were accusing Jesus of was an offence punishable by death. So Jairus even taking the risk to come and talk to Jesus, that's that's a big situation. I don't think many of you would risk your job to potentially go get a solution. Unless the solution you needed meant more than your job. Gyrus' daughter meant more to him than his job. But Gyrus was also a man of means, which means that he could have gone to other physicians, which meant that he felt his problem was so massive that it had gone past the the facilitating of what I call natural medical hands, and more than that, imagine hearing this is the best way to shape how dryers came to this decision. Imagine being with friends, and your friends are telling you about a situation that they are trying to paint in a negative light, but the information you're hearing, you don't feel it to be negative because you're like, but this doesn't amount to negativity, this amounts to transformation, this amounts to something we've never seen before, this amounts to us bridging a spiritual gap that we didn't think we were going to be able to, and he gets to the place where his need is so great that he forgets what is naturally acceptable amongst the societal structure he's in. Right? He he forgets what his friends are gonna say, he stops caring about how he's gonna look because as far as he's concerned, this Nazarene who is doing these transformational acts, who is bringing about a revolution through peace and love, he might be the answer to the problem I can't fix. Is Jesus the answer to the problem you can't fix? In fact, scratch that he is the answer to every problem you are struggling to fix. Because he wants to live in you by you. He wants you to be exactly what he always wanted. You to be like this. He is the answer to every problem that you don't feel like you can fix. But what does relationship do? Relationship calls us to not only sacrifice our will, but to surrender. Sacrifice is is the giving, right? It's you giving something that costs you something. Surrender is you continuously laying down, okay? Not like on the floor, but laying down your will and what you think. Just wanted to kind of clear that a little bit. So, um, as we get to verse 42, so it says, Because his only daughter, a girl about 12, was dying. As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him. Okay, so that gives us an idea of just how busy it was, what's going on, how it feels. Now, completely adjacent to this story, verse 40 43 says, And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for 12 years, okay, but no one could heal her. Now, on the basis of what this woman's issue was, she would have not been able to interact with the Jewish community as normal. Okay, so this would have meant that in terms of her clothing, she would have had to wear almost like, well not almost, she would have had to wear a bell on her garment that when she was gonna be around um larger groups of people, she'd have to ring this bell so that they would know that she was unclean. Okay, it would have been the same for lepers, it would have been the same for people that fell within sicknesses that the Levitical law, which set their standards for living, contravened. Okay, so for her to even be in this position, she could she could actually die. Because if the right people accuse her at the wrong time, they would gather people like that, take them to the edge of the city or outside the city, and she would be stoned, okay? Um, verse 44. She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. This is what faith in transit looks like. Jesus was not trying to heal this woman. Jesus was on his way to Jairus' house to go and heal his daughter. Jesus was trying to manage the stampede that was happening around in me. Yet this woman who liked Jairus, her perspective had been I'm not wanted, I'm not needed, I'm not cared for. My situation has meant that I have no right to healing. No right to empathy, no right to love. My situation has isolated me. It's broken me down. It's made me feel less than. But her perspective was attacked in that moment by her perception. Her perception was, but I've heard about this rabbi. I've heard about this Nazarene who I heard he turned water into wine. I heard that he took five loaves and two fishes and fed thousands of people. I heard that he preached this message and he said, Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. I I heard that in this message he said that if I ask, it will be given to me, and if I seek, it will be found, and if I knock the door, it shall be open. I heard in this message that he said, consider the lilies of the field, they toil and they don't spare. And if they do that and God arrays them, and today they are, and tomorrow they they vanish. And if God loves them, how much more does he love me? So her perception of who Jesus was attacked her perspective of self-doubt because her perspective had everything to do with her, who she was, where she was, how she was seen, and her perception was based on who this man was. And she did, she she said to herself, I don't even need to talk to him. I don't even need to touch him. Imagine believing to a place where you're like, I don't even need a thing, just let me get inside the environment. Just let me get within the atmosphere of where he is, just let me touch the thing that's touching him. Her faith got her to the place where she said, if only I can touch the thing that's touching. Him I'll be okay. Imagine having a sickness for twelve years. She had tried everything. It's perspective perspective. I told her we've been here. We've done this. It's failed. But yet her perception. You see, your perspective is built out of your your soul, your self-consciousness, your mind, your will, and your emotions. Your perception is built from your spirit. It is the knowing, it is the seeing beyond what is there to see. And her perception, her spirit got hold of her mind. And she said, You can't do it. He can. You see, that's what faith does. Faith transacts you from where you are to where you need to be. What it says is faith tells you to get in the car, I'll drive. You just sit in the past and seat, don't say nothing, put on your belt, I will get us there. The Bible says in Hebrews chapter 11, now faith is the substance of things hoped for. You cannot hope for what you do not believe in. You cannot hope for what you do not believe in. He that cometh to God must first believe that he is. So if you believe that he is, then you'll believe that he'll be a rewarder of those that do what? Diligently. That means earnestly, intentionally, seek him. So verse 44, she came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately the bleeding stopped. Who touched me? Firstly, Jesus. Chill? Like we're calm. Like Lord. This is a mad question. We are in a big group of people. Jesus asked. Who touched me? When they all denied it, my boy Peter. He goes, Master. The people are crowding around us. And they are pressing against you. And you're here going, who touched you? I can imagine Peter had a little stink in his because he's like, First, I'm not getting paid for this. I'm here because I want to be here, right? And I'm trying to crowd, I'm trying to crowd control, and Jesus, just between you and me, we kind of told you that maybe we don't want to go and get involved with the people. Yeah, because for wherever you need to go, they're gonna stop you. Because everywhere you go, it's a bit of a mess up, innit, Jesus, right? Let's have it right, Lord. When we go somewhere, we can't just hang out gonna the days, go to the days when it was just you and us. Now we got everybody, and you want to turn around and ask the me who touch, but Jesus not talking on this natural level. He said, and I can imagine Jesus just looking like firstly, you better watch your mouth, boy. I don't know who you're talking to, and you're not hearing me, Peter. You ain't hearing me. Someone touched me. Let me qualify that since you want to tell me about what's happening naturally, me being in the crowd. He said, Peter, somebody touched me, and I know they did, because power. In the King, the old King James version, it says, virtue has gone out from me. Now, I also want to point out to you that if Jesus is God manifesting flesh, then he is omnipotent, that means all powerful, omniscient, all-knowing, omnipresent everywhere. Jesus doesn't know who touched him. So, what is this about? Your faith should give you a courage to claim the thing that you did based on the hope that came through belief. Jesus wanted to see, will this woman stand on the foundations of her belief that has triggered faith in a way that she even surprise God? Imagine if there was something that surprises God. When he's like, Who did this? Let me show you why. Verse 47. Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet. I've got to stop right there. This woman realized she could die for what she did, but she didn't care. She would have happily lived in the eternity of those few minutes of healing, knowing that her faith had taken her to the solution. Is your faith driving you to the solution? The Bible said she was trembling. Why was she trembling? Because she knew the consequences of what she'd done. But the master asked her, who touched me? She came trembling, fell at his feet in the presence of all the people. She told why she had touched him. God, twelve years. She would have said, Rabbi, twelve years. I've suffered with this illness. I've lost friends. I've lost family. I don't even know who I am. Some days I wish I wasn't here. But I am. I've adapted and adjusted to the position I now hold in society. I know I'm less than less. I heard about you. I heard there was a rabbi that was preaching and teaching the kingdom of heaven. And was saying that the kingdom of heaven is here. I heard that there was a rabbi that was at a wedding. And he didn't want to, but he did a miracle. And I just thought to myself, even if it killed me, You see, my experience as rabbi had taught me that my sp my perspective was screaming at me that don't waste your time. Don't disturb the rabbi. There are people more important than you. But perception told me if I can just touch the hem of your garment, if I can just touch the thing that's touching you, if I can just get in the environment, if I can just get in the presence, if I can just get in the atmosphere, maybe. Maybe my maybe can turn into a definitely. Verse forty-eight. Hearing what she had to say, he said to her, Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace. Faith is what turns the perspective of your lived experience into the purpose of your predestined calling. Faith is the alchemy that turns the perspective of your experience, what you've lived, what you have learned. That's what transacts it into the purpose of your predestined destiny. It is what changes that perspective, that thing that you know into perception, that thing that you now believe. Why? Because you stood on the foundation of what you believed in God. Did your part. You see, if the woman doesn't move, you see, most of us are expecting God to bring it to us. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Perception requires your participation. Perspective doesn't. Perspective just requires you to sit on the sidelines and watch. Oh, okay. So that's what's going on. Yeah, I thought that's what's gonna happen. Perception says, get in the game, move, go get it, go be where it's coming. If she doesn't get to where he is, did he have the power to heal her without seeing her? 100. But she realized that she had to go against what her story had been telling her. Her story said you don't belong in the crowd. Her story said you don't belong with the people. Her perspective told her you should be away from everybody. Her perspective said that you do not have a right to ask anything of this man because you're unclean. Her perspective told her that if you want to save your life, do not go to where he is. But her faith convicted her and said that if you want this, you have to get where he is. Her faith convinced her you don't even need to touch him, you just have to get something that's near him. Her faith said to her, if you can just make your way through this crowd of people, your healing. It's there. So I ask you, will you today exchange your perspective? Which is your lived experience, for spiritual perception. Which is his which is his predestined purpose and design for your life. Pray with me. Lord, thank you for this moment. Thank you for everybody that's watching. Everybody's going to come into contact with this Bible study. Lord, our perspective has been built based on our experiences and the things we've gone through. But our perception is completely aligned with our ability to see through the lens of faith and belief. That substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Because we serve you, because we have you, we do not have to be bound by our past experiences. What we've believed historically. Because what we now do is we don't take what we say about us, but we take what your word says about us. And your word says that you loved us so much that you sent your only son into the world, that any of us that believe on you will be saved and have eternal life. Your word tells us that anybody that chooses to come to you must first believe that you are. We believe that you are. And that you do more than reward those that seek you. We get to have a relationship with you, King of the Universe. So today, God, I'm I'm asking you to help that person that is trying to release themselves and free themselves of their perspective so that they may lean into your perception and understand what it is that you'd have us to know. Because God, the truth is only you know what you haven't told us yet. And we trust you and we love you. As we say thank you, in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Guys, see you next time. Have a great rest of your day.