WEBVTT 00:00:00.479 --> 00:00:02.080 This is from Mark chapter 5. 00:00:03.359 --> 00:00:11.599 When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:20.559 Then one of the synagogue leaders named Jairus came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:24.640 He pleaded earnestly with him, My little daughter is dying. 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:30.000 Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live. 00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:31.760 So Jesus went with him. 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:34.560 A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:39.280 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:45.359 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all that she had. 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:47.759 Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse. 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:53.920 When she heard about Jesus, she came up from behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak. 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:57.280 Because she thought, if I touch his cloak, I will be healed. 00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:03.679 Immediately her bleeding stopped, and she felt in her body that she was free from her suffering. 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:10.879 At once Jesus realized that the power had gone out from him, he turned around in the crowd and asked, Who touched my clothes? 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:18.640 You see the people crowding against you, his disciples, the disciples answered, and yet you can ask, Who touched me? 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:22.159 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:31.519 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet, and trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:35.680 He said to her, Daughter, your faith has healed you. 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:37.760 Go in peace and be freed from your suffering. 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:44.560 While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Derek, the synagogue leader. 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:54.000 Ignoring what they said, Jesus told him, Don't be afraid, just believe. 00:01:54.799 --> 00:01:59.439 He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James. 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:06.959 When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus is all in a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly. 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:10.960 He went in and said to them, Why all this commotion and wailing? 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:13.439 The child is not dead, but asleep. 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:17.039 But they laughed at him and discord him. 00:02:18.159 --> 00:02:25.280 After he put them all out, he took the child's father and mother, and the disciples who were with him and went in where the child was. 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:32.800 He took her by the hand and said to her, Delete at home, which means, little girl, I say to you, get up. 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:36.479 Immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around. 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:38.240 She was twelve years old. 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:42.560 At this they were completely astonished, with great astonishment. 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:50.400 He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and told him to give her something to eat. 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:52.400 This is the word of the Lord. 00:02:56.319 --> 00:02:57.680 Don't pray with me. 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:05.520 Father, I pray that your name would be glorified. 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:11.280 Lord, I pray that you would give us today our daily bread. 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:30.000 That in this particular space that you would lead us not into temptation or distraction, but that you would deliver us from Satan and the evil one who wants to steal the word of God that you want to implant in our hearts that gives us life. 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:32.560 Would you help us today in Jesus' name? 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:33.520 Amen. 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:48.080 When we moved back from New York, um, Rainey and I, one of the first things that we did was begin giving money to retirement, an organization here in Memphis. 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:52.319 And uh it was really hard for me because I was only 28 and I wasn't looking to retire. 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:55.120 I was actually just looking to actually try and begin a career. 00:03:55.199 --> 00:04:02.639 Uh and to me, giving money to retirement felt like this is only this money is not gonna help me here and now. 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:11.680 It's gonna be something that helps me later, and this practice of giving money to retirement is just gonna be something that's beneficial for me in the future and gonna do nothing for me right now. 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:13.199 And so that was hard for me. 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:21.920 But as we began to do it, I realized that the benefits of doing this thing and giving this money for the future was actually affecting our day-to-day lives. 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:36.560 So, for example, uh giving money to retirement every month caused Rainey and me to have to be more disciplined in all of our money because we had to keep up with it and we had to make sure that we kept doing it, and so we watched our finances more closely, which was actually really good. 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:38.399 If you don't watch them, you'll overspend. 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:42.800 Uh, and I have a serious habit of overspending, and so that was helpful. 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:55.519 Uh, it made us be more disciplined in paying off the student debts that I had, and so we instead of being in debt for the next 50 years, we got out of debt in five years because we were able to kind of see the money coming in and seeing how we could allocate it in different spaces. 00:04:55.600 --> 00:05:03.519 Uh, it caused us to save more money in our normal budget than we normally would because we saw what our expenses actually were and we were able to save. 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:12.079 Um, we received the wisdom of a financial advisor who did not have a dog in the hunt in our relationship. 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:15.519 She didn't care if if if Rainey was right or Colton was right. 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:19.839 She was just literally dealing with the you know zeros and ones about the numbers and stuff like that. 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:34.480 And so she helped us and kept us from making unwise decisions, and then she gave us uh mostly Rainey, gave Rainey peace when we did have to make a financial decision and made her feel like, hey, even though you're gonna spend a lot of money here, you'll still be able to meet your goals in the future. 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:40.000 And so not only did she give us discipline and keep us in wisdom, but she also helped us receive some peace. 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:54.240 And then it just gave us freedom to talk with her to buy things that we wanted or that we needed, and it made sure that when the years showed up down the way, we had enough money in certain spaces in order to meet our everyday needs and do those types of things. 00:05:54.319 --> 00:06:02.720 And again, I thought that giving money to retirement would only benefit my future, and it actually had an effect on my day-to-day life, and it still does that today. 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:08.160 And I say that because I believe that faith works the exact same way. 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:25.680 Most people, even church people, believe that faith is about getting into heaven, practicing faith, it's about becoming more spiritual, that faith really is something that would help us somewhere down the road, and it's not something that would actually help us if we practice faith. 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:28.240 It's not something that would help us in our day-to-day lives. 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:32.000 People think and have said, I don't need a sermon on having faith in Jesus. 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:34.240 I don't need a sermon on how to have faith in Jesus. 00:06:34.399 --> 00:06:36.399 I need a sermon on how to fix my marriage. 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:37.839 That's the sermon I need. 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:40.560 People say, I need a sermon on how to deal with difficult people. 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:41.120 Preach. 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:41.680 Amen. 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:43.279 We all live with people. 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:47.759 Um I need a sermon on how to handle rebellious children. 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:52.959 I need a sermon on how to become more patient, how to be more kind, how to whatever. 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:56.000 I don't need a sermon on having faith in Jesus. 00:06:56.160 --> 00:06:59.600 I need something that would help me in my current daily experience. 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:02.079 And that's what they think that they actually need. 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:10.879 But the truth is, like if you look at these two people, if you look at Jaris' life and this woman, practicing faith in Jesus didn't help them get into heaven. 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:16.959 Practicing faith in Jesus in this moment helped them in their everyday, day-to-day life. 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:18.560 It helped with a social situation. 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:19.839 This woman was an outcast. 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:21.839 Practicing faith in Jesus fixed that for her. 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:24.399 It helped in a health situation, a day-to-day experience. 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:25.600 We all deal with health issues. 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:27.759 Practicing faith in Jesus helped one that way. 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:30.480 Practicing faith in Jesus helped a family situation. 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:36.639 It humbled a man, a synagogue leader named Jiris, who was filled with pride, and now he's stooping at the feet of Jesus. 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:39.199 So it made a prideful man, a humble man. 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:47.279 And so you see this thing where practicing faith wasn't just this thing that was like, I practiced faith and now I became more spiritual, and that helped me with my spiritual life. 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:47.839 No. 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:56.639 Practicing faith in Jesus has practical applications and practical implications for our life here and now, and it happened for them and it's true for us as well. 00:07:56.959 --> 00:08:01.839 Practicing faith in Jesus isn't something that's going to help you get into heaven one day and make you a more spiritual person. 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:03.120 It's not about that. 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:14.879 It's a way that we are actually led into a space by Jesus where we invite him into the day-to-day things in our lives, where we experience his power, his presence, and his care and help here and now. 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:20.480 And so this idea that, like, I don't need a I don't need a sermon on how to practice faith in Jesus, I need something to help with my marriage. 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:24.319 If you began practicing faith in Jesus, your marriage would receive the benefit of that. 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:29.759 If you began practicing faith in Jesus, you would learn how to actually respond to your children who are rebellious. 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:32.879 You don't need sermons that are self-help sermons. 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:46.240 You need to learn how to put into practice this faith thing that exists with Jesus because when you do, when you give him more of your life, he then takes it and uses it and works in it in all these different spaces. 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:51.519 And so we're gonna look at once again this passage, looking at it from a different perspective. 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:55.039 We're gonna look at this idea of what it looks like to actually practice faith. 00:08:55.279 --> 00:09:00.000 Last week we looked at this exact same story, but we focused on the woman. 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:03.120 And we noticed three things about this woman's faith. 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:13.759 The first thing that we noticed was what faith actually is, and it was, go to the next slide here, what faith actually is, is it's not simply believing something, but it's actually putting that belief into action. 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:14.720 What is faith? 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:17.600 It is not simply believing something, it is putting that faith into action. 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:22.240 Believing that Jesus could heal her did nothing until she took that belief and put it into her life. 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:29.440 The second thing we saw last week was that the type of faith that Jesus works powerfully through, that Jesus works through any faith we got. 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:32.879 You got any faith in him, he will work powerfully through that faith. 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:38.000 And we saw that in her faith was riddled with issues, riddled with superstition and all these different things. 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:41.440 And yet Jesus worked powerfully through any faith that leads us to him. 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:44.639 And then the third thing that we saw was that the outcome of faith. 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:52.320 The outcome of faith is that faith in Jesus will always, without fail, it will always make a difference, and it will always do more than we think. 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:53.840 And we saw that in her life. 00:09:54.080 --> 00:10:05.360 And so, what I want to do today is I want to look at the things that we found last week and then apply them to Jairus' life and see if they're also true, universally true in his life and the expression of it. 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:10.879 And then I want to give you three very practical applications of like, here's what we should do based on these things. 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:11.279 Okay? 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:16.720 So I want to look at how we see these things in Jairus' life and then what it should do in our lives. 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:23.840 So the first thing we saw about faith last week was that faith is not simply belief, but belief put into action. 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:26.960 Again, you saw this in the woman's life, you see it in Jairus' life. 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:32.080 Starting in verse uh 22, it says Jairus came when he saw Jesus and he fell at his feet. 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:34.799 And he pleaded earnestly with him, My little daughter is dying. 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:38.480 Please come and put your hands on her so that she may be healed and live. 00:10:38.559 --> 00:10:40.399 So you see his belief right there. 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:44.320 I believe that if you will come and put your hands on her, she will be healed. 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:47.519 There's the belief, but that's doing nothing for his daughter at this moment. 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:49.440 It's not, she's still not healed. 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:50.960 She's still very, very sick. 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:58.799 And then it says, So Jesus went with him, believing that Jesus could heal his daughter, didn't change his experience, it didn't change his daughter's experience. 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:06.240 It wasn't until they actually took that belief, shoved it into his life, into his legs, and they began walking to the house where Jairus was. 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:12.480 And then you see as they're going along that other people are like, hey, she's no longer sick, she's actually dead. 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:13.679 And they try and get him to stop. 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:15.840 Like, don't bother the teacher anymore. 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:17.519 But then notice what Jesus does. 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:20.960 Jesus, he says, ignoring what they said, which I actually really love. 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:22.960 If Jesus ignores something, you can too. 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:29.039 But ignoring what they say, what he says to him, he's like, Don't be afraid. 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:31.120 Don't be afraid, just believe. 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:41.039 And that word believe, go to the next slide here, that word believe is the verb form of, it's pistuo, that's the verb form of pistis, which is faith. 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:45.919 And so what Jesus is saying, he's like, don't be afraid, just keep putting your belief into action. 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:49.120 What he's saying is like, don't be afraid, let's keep going. 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:53.600 Now, like you we you had a belief about me, you started to put it into action. 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:56.720 Now you're receiving some obstacles in the way. 00:11:56.960 --> 00:11:58.000 Let's not stop. 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:01.120 Don't just take the belief and then go like, okay, well, we're done now. 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:03.039 Keep putting this belief into action. 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:04.159 Keep moving forward. 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:05.919 Let's keep going to your house. 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:08.080 Let's keep putting this belief into action. 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:22.559 And Jesus is trying to get him to avoid what I think many Christians fall into, is this right here hearing something, believing something, and not acting, which leads to a dead faith or it leads to not experiencing what's true of faith, what's possible in faith. 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:28.000 And Jesus is actually encouraging him, don't be afraid, don't let fear drive away action. 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:30.480 Just keep moving forward with me. 00:12:30.639 --> 00:12:33.759 Keep putting your faith into action, keep putting your belief into action. 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:37.840 And then they go and they do it, and then his daughter obviously comes back from the dead. 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:39.360 And Jesus does this thing. 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:44.720 And what's so interesting about this to me is that imagine if he would have just stopped. 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:48.799 He had this belief that Jesus could heal his daughter by placing his hand. 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:51.200 But what if he would have been like, no, I'm gonna stop doing that? 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:52.399 He would have missed out. 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:58.879 If he would have stopped putting his belief into action, he would not have experienced what Jesus could do for his daughter. 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:03.360 Because belief doesn't do anything for you if you don't actually have action with it. 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:04.720 It has to have both. 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:09.440 It can't just be, I believe Jesus can, but if you do nothing with that, that will do nothing for you. 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:10.799 That's the first thing that we see. 00:13:10.879 --> 00:13:18.960 The second thing that we saw last week that we also see in this man's life is that Jesus does powerful things through any faith in him. 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:21.679 Any faith in Jesus at all is enough. 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:25.519 Any faith at all, again, you see it here in Jairus' faith. 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:29.519 Of the two people, you got Jairus and you got this woman. 00:13:29.759 --> 00:13:32.399 Of the two, the man has the weaker faith. 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:38.320 And if you're married, maybe you know that in your real lived life experience that you, woman, have more faith than he does. 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:40.879 But that's true in this, that was supposed to be a joke, okay. 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:43.279 Um late laughter. 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:45.360 Um it's true in this story. 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:47.440 The man has the weaker faith of the two. 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:51.600 This woman believes, she has faith that, like, all I gotta do is touch his clothes. 00:13:51.679 --> 00:13:53.840 He's so powerful, all I gotta do is touch his clothes. 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:59.200 The man's like, no, he's gotta come to the house, lay his hands on a thing, and do this whole thing. 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:01.919 The woman has more faith in the power of Jesus. 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:09.840 And then if you remember in Matthew 8, uh there's a Roman centurion that he's got greater faith in all of them, the Roman guy. 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:13.679 He he says, uh, you don't even need to come to my house. 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:15.919 You don't need to lay your hands on anybody, anything like that. 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:17.200 Just say the word. 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:21.039 Just speak the word out into the world, and my servant will be healed. 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:23.039 And Jesus says, I've never seen faith like this. 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:24.559 What an incredible faith. 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:27.840 So he's got very strong faith, and Jairus has a very weak faith. 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:31.440 And yet, Jesus goes with him and does an amazing thing. 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:31.919 Dr. 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:34.960 Carson, one of my seminary professors, said this. 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:46.000 He said, The synagogue ruler felt Jesus, Jesus' touch had special power, but his faith was not as great as that of the centurion, who believed that Jesus could heal by his word. 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:51.519 Still, Jesus did not refuse this man, but responded to faith, small or great. 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:58.960 Jesus still did a mighty, powerful thing through Jairus' faith, even though Jairus' faith was super, super weak. 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:11.840 Even though there was a lot of doubts, there was a little bit of fear, don't have that much belief that you can do as much as other people do, Jesus still responded with strength because the strength of our faith isn't what matters. 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:13.120 It's not the point. 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:23.360 Whatever faith leads you to, or I'll say it like this uh what we experience is not based based on the strength of our faith. 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:28.720 So what you experience from God is not based on how much you can believe it or how much faith you have in it. 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:32.639 What we experience is based on who our faith leads us to. 00:15:32.879 --> 00:15:38.799 And so if your faith leads you to someone like Jesus who is very, very strong, you will experience what Jesus can do. 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:42.320 If you trust in yourself, you will experience what you can do in your own strength. 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:45.519 If you trust in your money, you will experience what your money can do for you. 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:48.480 But if you trust in Jesus, you will experience what Jesus can do for you. 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:54.000 I was gonna make a joke about if you trust in the University of Texas, you'll lose to Georgia every single time. 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:55.039 Twice this year. 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:55.840 No big deal. 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:58.399 But Tommy's not in here, so it's not as funny. 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:01.840 It's just something extra that I added in last night. 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:11.840 Um But the point is, wherever your faith leads you, you experience from that what the person has in them. 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:18.960 And so Jesus has immeasurable power, something that cannot be contained, and something that nobody can understand. 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:26.720 And so when any faith, small or great, teeny tiny faith, leads you to someone who is very, very strong, you will experience something very, very strong. 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:29.679 Not because your faith is strong, but because they are strong. 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:32.480 Our faith, the strength of it isn't the point. 00:16:32.559 --> 00:16:33.600 It's who it leads us to. 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:39.759 And so Jesus is able in every story to respond with strength, regardless of if you have tons of doubts. 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:45.919 I don't know if this is gonna work, I don't know if this is gonna change anything, I don't know if this prayer is gonna move mountains, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:46.879 It's like it's fine. 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:52.080 But you can move forward with weak faith, knowing that even weak faith can be responded to with strength because he's strong. 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:54.080 It doesn't matter if you're strong or not. 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:56.399 So that's the second thing that we see. 00:16:56.639 --> 00:16:59.039 Jesus does powerful things through any faith in him. 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:08.400 And then the third that we saw last week, that again we see in Jairus' life, is that faith in Jesus always makes a difference and does more than we think it will do. 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:09.599 Always. 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:10.880 Makes a difference. 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:15.039 It's never misplaced, it always makes a difference, always does more than we think it will do. 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:17.200 And again, you see this in Jairus' life. 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:23.359 Jairus believed that Jesus could heal his sick daughter. 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:24.640 Then she dies. 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:36.640 And so they go on this journey with Jesus to the house, and this faith that he had in Jesus makes a huge difference, and it does more than he thought it would do. 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:44.160 It doesn't just bring a sick girl health, it brings a dead girl back from the dead, and it brings someone back to life who is actually dead. 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:51.440 His faith, and you see it in this story, you see it in the woman's story, it does a huge thing and it makes a huge difference, but it also does more. 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:53.519 What will faith in Jesus do? 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:56.559 I promise you it will do more for you than you can possibly imagine. 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:59.759 And you see that in her story and you see it in his story. 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:02.240 This is what Jesus does with faith. 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:05.200 It always makes a difference, always does more than we think it will do. 00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:12.319 And so I realized to move relatively quickly through that, but I'm really harping on three points that we talked about last week. 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:13.519 I didn't want to hit them again. 00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:16.960 And if you missed last week, you can listen to the sermon on the podcast. 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:24.000 But my encouragement to you is just to consider, based on those three things, faith is not simply belief. 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:26.160 Faith is putting your belief into action. 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:38.400 He can work through any faith, great or small, and that having faith in him and placing, taking your belief and putting it into action, it will make a difference in your life and it will do far more than you think it will. 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:43.039 Based on those three things, I want to give you three applications, which will be the majority of this message. 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:45.039 Based on those three things. 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:46.960 So, here's what you should do. 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:49.920 One, you should put your belief into action. 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:51.759 Put your beliefs into action. 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:58.960 What should we do based on the fact that faith does a lot, but belief in him doesn't do much at all other than just give you maybe good feelings? 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:01.039 You should put your belief into action. 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:05.200 In both of these people's lives, what makes a difference is not what they believe. 00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:09.920 It's as soon as they begin doing the thing that they believe and putting that into their lives. 00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:18.720 And so for you, what are you claiming to believe about Jesus that you actually need to start putting into your practice and putting into your life? 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:20.480 And I want to give you a couple. 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:29.839 But if you claim to believe the Bible, which, you know, some of you are, I don't, I know everybody's in a different space with Jesus and the Bible and all the rest of it, and all this, which is fine. 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:30.960 The church is meant for that. 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:32.319 So glad you're here. 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:36.640 But if you claim to believe the Bible, I would just encourage you with these things. 00:19:36.799 --> 00:19:40.720 What would it look like if you started practicing some of what the Bible says? 00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:48.720 What would it look like if you um put into practice first removing the log in your own eye before trying to remove the speck from another person? 00:19:48.960 --> 00:20:00.240 What would it look like if you believe the Bible, to actually seek to honor your spouse above yourself, to consider their needs higher and more important and more valuable than yours? 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:06.640 What would it look like for you to do nothing out of selfish ambition, but instead consider other people better than yourself? 00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:14.400 What would it look like if you set aside a sum of money in keeping with your income, as Paul tells us to do, for the church and for the needs of the community? 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:16.559 What would it look like for you to do that? 00:20:16.880 --> 00:20:22.799 What would it look like for you to love your enemy and pray for those who do bad things to you, as Jesus tells us to do? 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:27.279 What would it look like for you to be devoted to prayer, as Paul says? 00:20:28.079 --> 00:20:34.480 What would it look like for you to seek first God's kingdom instead of seeking first what you think you need, as Jesus tells us to do? 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:37.119 Then all the things that we need will be added to us. 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:44.559 What would it look like for you to begin using your gifts to build up the church, your spiritual gifts, your monetary gifts, your time gifts, whatever? 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:47.039 What would it look like to do those things? 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:50.640 What would it look like for you to confess your sins one to another? 00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:54.319 What would it look like for you to start instead of being be anxious for nothing? 00:20:54.400 --> 00:20:56.559 What would it look like for you to be anxious for nothing? 00:20:56.799 --> 00:21:01.680 But by everything, with prayer and petition and thanksgiving to make your request known to God? 00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:11.279 What would it look like for you to, what is it, what it what would it look like practically for you to begin going, I'm gonna be anxious for nothing, but I'm gonna pray, petition the heart of God, and I'm gonna thank him in all circumstances. 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:13.279 He says, Well, here's what it'll look like. 00:21:13.359 --> 00:21:18.400 What it will do is it will ultimately lead to you having the peace of God guard your heart in Christ Jesus. 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:20.559 It's a lot better than anxiety. 00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:28.240 What would it look like for you to let your yes be yes, no be no, and just do the things you said you would do? 00:21:28.400 --> 00:21:29.599 What would that look like? 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:35.680 And the thing is, is like, these are just beliefs, they all exist in the scriptures, and you could just roll through, right? 00:21:35.759 --> 00:21:39.039 Like you could just roll through the Bible of all these different promises and all these different things. 00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:43.680 What would it look like to earnestly seek God, to practice fasting and prayer? 00:21:43.759 --> 00:21:46.319 What would it look like for you to take the things that you believe about the script? 00:21:46.559 --> 00:21:47.599 I believe all the Bible. 00:21:47.839 --> 00:21:49.599 God wrote it, he said it, I believe it. 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:53.599 I don't know how the whole thing goes, but like that's fine that you believe it. 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:54.559 Do it. 00:21:54.799 --> 00:21:56.160 Like, do it. 00:21:56.319 --> 00:21:59.279 Like it's so great that you believe it, but you're doing nothing with it. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:01.599 Says, that's dead. 00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:02.799 It's not alive. 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:09.279 And so you won't experience life from it, other than just getting around and high-fiving other people in the church that are like, I believe it too. 00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:10.240 We're going to do anything with it. 00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:12.400 Nah, that's for somebody else. 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:15.599 Like, that's for somebody who will experience life from it. 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:20.720 And so there's these things that we believe and we claim to believe them, and then we'll argue, we'll debate over them. 00:22:20.799 --> 00:22:23.440 And it's like, but it doesn't do anything for us. 00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:33.519 And it's like, but if you would do it, if you would take these things that Jesus calls seed, then you plant it into your soul and let it sprout life into you, you would experience so much more from it. 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:35.359 You wouldn't have a dead faith that does nothing. 00:22:35.440 --> 00:22:41.839 You'd have a living faith that is visible and available for other people to see, and then you're experiencing the fruit and joy from it. 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:43.200 It will affect your job. 00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:44.400 It will affect your marriage. 00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:45.759 It will affect your singleness. 00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:47.039 It will affect your sin life. 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:48.400 It will affect your finances. 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:49.680 It will affect everything. 00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:55.839 Because as you take what Jesus says, put it into your life, you're giving him more rule and reign over your life. 00:22:55.920 --> 00:23:06.960 And where he rules and reigns is a space where peace exists, where joy is filled up, where hope exists, where perseverance and all the things that he has for you, those things are experienced. 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:10.799 So we need to put our beliefs into action. 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:14.079 If you don't, you just won't experience anything from it. 00:23:14.160 --> 00:23:20.960 And you might be able to call yourself a Christian, but I'm just telling you, you won't experience the goodness of actually walking with Jesus and doing those things. 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:22.480 Put your beliefs into action. 00:23:22.559 --> 00:23:24.160 What do you claim to believe? 00:23:24.880 --> 00:23:28.160 Take those things and don't just believe them but put them into your into your life. 00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:29.519 All right, that's the first one. 00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:33.200 Second thing we should do, don't be a mocker. 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:35.119 Don't be a mocker. 00:23:35.599 --> 00:23:39.920 Don't mock Jesus or faith or faith in Jesus. 00:23:40.559 --> 00:23:44.319 And I don't, I'm not saying this because like don't hurt Jesus' feelings. 00:23:44.480 --> 00:23:45.200 It's not that. 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:47.279 Mockers miss out on things. 00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:49.119 Like they just miss it all. 00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:52.960 And you see this actually in this text, in verse 38 through 42. 00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:57.279 When they, being Jesus and the disciples and Jairus, they came to the house. 00:23:57.519 --> 00:24:00.640 Jesus saw the commotion with the people crying and wailing loudly. 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:03.039 He went in and said to them, Why all this commotion and wailing? 00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:04.640 The child's not dead but asleep. 00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:07.680 But they laughed at him to scorn him. 00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:09.200 They mocked him. 00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:11.359 And Jesus doesn't condemn them. 00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:12.640 He doesn't yell at them. 00:24:13.279 --> 00:24:14.880 He's not saying, like, you're all gonna burn. 00:24:15.039 --> 00:24:15.839 He doesn't do any of that. 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:17.759 What he does is like, you're gonna miss it. 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:20.480 I'm about to do something amazing that no one's ever seen before. 00:24:20.640 --> 00:24:21.759 You're gonna miss it all. 00:24:21.920 --> 00:24:23.119 You're gonna miss the beauty. 00:24:23.279 --> 00:24:24.319 You're gonna miss the wonder. 00:24:24.400 --> 00:24:30.559 You're gonna miss the awe and the joy, the things that you've been longing for a Messiah to come and do, you're gonna miss every bit of it. 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:32.960 So he puts them out of the room and they miss it. 00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:37.759 Then he takes only a handful of people in there and it says that they're astonished with great astonishment. 00:24:37.839 --> 00:24:39.839 I don't even know what that means, but it sounds good. 00:24:40.079 --> 00:24:42.160 I want to be astonished with great astonishment. 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:45.039 And if that's available, mockers miss that. 00:24:46.319 --> 00:24:49.920 Something amazing happens, and the mockers just miss it. 00:24:50.319 --> 00:24:52.480 And the reason is this is the life of a mocker. 00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:53.119 It goes like this. 00:24:53.680 --> 00:24:55.519 I made a cool chart, you're gonna love it. 00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:58.799 Here's the life of a mocker, the cycle of a mocker. 00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:11.519 They hear something, they don't believe it, uh, they mock it, then they don't try it or consider it, then they experience nothing from it, nothing good from it, and then they say, This doesn't work, which then reaffirms their unbelief of it. 00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:16.240 And it's like, well, the reason that's true is because you're not actually trying it at all. 00:25:16.319 --> 00:25:17.759 You're not even considering it. 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:20.960 And so you just become a self-fulfilling prophet. 00:25:21.119 --> 00:25:23.119 This does nothing, so I will do nothing with it. 00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:24.240 See, it did nothing. 00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:26.720 And it's like, right, but you didn't do anything with it. 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:29.279 And so you just run this cycle over and over and over again. 00:25:29.440 --> 00:25:31.440 This does nothing, and so it does nothing. 00:25:31.519 --> 00:25:34.319 You experience nothing and then go, see, this did nothing. 00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:40.079 It's like you'll just miss all these different things consistently. 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:41.599 So don't be a mocker. 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:44.079 Mockers miss the wonder that's available. 00:25:44.319 --> 00:25:49.759 Instead of being a mocker, I'm not telling you to be like a full-on hardcore if you're struggling to believe some of this stuff. 00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:52.079 Instead of being a mocker, be curious. 00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:55.519 Not telling you to just you don't believe it, we'll just start. 00:25:55.680 --> 00:25:56.720 Like I'm not saying that. 00:25:56.960 --> 00:25:58.240 Just be curious. 00:25:58.480 --> 00:26:01.920 Like all these people had to do was be curious about what Jesus said. 00:26:02.079 --> 00:26:07.039 They could have even asked questions like, hey man, I know what sleep looks like, and I know what death looks like. 00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:07.839 She did. 00:26:08.319 --> 00:26:10.559 Like, I think she's really dead. 00:26:10.799 --> 00:26:18.240 I just, I have some questions about how you sleep, maybe, because I think death looks different than sleep. 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:19.599 Like they could have just been curious. 00:26:19.680 --> 00:26:23.359 They could have just asked questions, and Jesus is always willing to answer questions. 00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:26.559 He's always willing to walk with people through their doubts and their unbelief. 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:32.799 The man that was like, I'm struggling to believe that if you can do anything, he's like, if I can do anything, and he's like, oh no, no, yeah, you're right. 00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:33.759 I know you can do something. 00:26:33.839 --> 00:26:34.799 Will you help me with my unbelief? 00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:37.680 And Jesus is like, Absolutely, I will help you with your unbelief. 00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:45.039 Instead of mocking him to scorn him and calling him an idiot, which again, he doesn't condemn these people for because he doesn't care what you think about him. 00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:46.480 It's not gonna hurt his feelings. 00:26:46.559 --> 00:26:48.720 He's not like, ah, I need to go cry with my disciples. 00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:49.759 He doesn't do that. 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:52.160 He's just going, like, you're just gonna miss it. 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:57.759 But if you were curious, I think he'd invite you in and actually pique your curiosity consistently. 00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:01.039 And so instead of being a mocker, be curious. 00:27:01.359 --> 00:27:09.119 When people say things about Jesus, or you read something in the scriptures, or someone preaches something crazy or whatever, and you're you're like, I don't know. 00:27:09.279 --> 00:27:10.400 I don't know if that's real. 00:27:10.559 --> 00:27:12.240 Don't be a mocker of that thing. 00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:14.640 Be curious over those things. 00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:20.319 Tons of people over history have talked about things that you and I had never heard of before. 00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:24.799 Edison with the light bulb, Wright Brothers in Flight, Steve Jobs and an iPhone. 00:27:24.960 --> 00:27:29.599 Everybody called them idiots, and stupid not everybody, but mockers called them idiots. 00:27:29.680 --> 00:27:34.319 And now we look at those people post-history, we look back at them and go, y'all were the idiots. 00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:36.960 Look, we're sitting in a room that's lit with light bulbs. 00:27:37.119 --> 00:27:41.039 We have iPhones, most of us, if you're like a you know true Christian, you have an iPhone. 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:44.240 Those those Android folks. 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:46.799 It's a different kind of experience. 00:27:47.039 --> 00:27:47.759 It's okay. 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:49.839 We'll disciple you along. 00:27:52.400 --> 00:28:00.960 But y'all know, now we respect the people who had the vision to see what couldn't be seen, that had faith to believe something that they couldn't. 00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:04.880 We we respect those people now, and we mock the ones who are the unbelievers. 00:28:05.039 --> 00:28:08.400 And so to me, all I'm saying is like, give Jesus the same benefit of the doubt. 00:28:08.640 --> 00:28:12.160 Don't mock Jesus, don't mock things, don't mock his power to heal. 00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:16.079 Don't mock that prayer works, even though it looks like this, and it's like, what could that possibly do? 00:28:16.240 --> 00:28:18.240