WEBVTT 00:00:00.959 --> 00:00:03.439 It's Mark 5, 21 through 43. 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:10.240 And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea. 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:19.519 Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing him he fell at his feet and implored him earnestly, saying, My little daughter is at the point of death. 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:23.839 Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and love and live. 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:28.079 And he went with him, and a great crowd followed him and thronged about him. 00:00:28.239 --> 00:00:38.640 And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse. 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:43.920 She had heard the reports about Jesus, and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:47.759 For she said, If I touch even his garment, I will be made well. 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:53.359 And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. 00:00:53.520 --> 00:01:01.439 And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, Who touched my garments? 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:07.200 And his disciples said to him, You see the crowds pressing around you, and yet you say, Who touched me? 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:09.599 And he looked around to see who had done it. 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:16.560 But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told the whole truth. 00:01:16.719 --> 00:01:20.159 And he said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well. 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:22.719 Go in peace and be healed of your disease. 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:28.079 While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler's house someone who said, Your daughter is dead. 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:30.159 Why trouble the teacher any further? 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:35.760 But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, Do not fear, only believe. 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:40.319 And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John, the brother of James. 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:46.560 They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:50.959 And when he had entered, he said to them, Why are you making a commotion and weeping? 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:53.040 The child is not dead but sleeping. 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:54.480 And they laughed at him. 00:01:54.640 --> 00:02:00.879 But he put them all outside, and took the child's father and mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was. 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:07.439 Taking her by the hand, he said to her, Talita kumi, which means, Little girl, I say to you, arise. 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:15.120 And immediately the little girl got up and began walking, for she was twelve years of age, and they were immediately overcome with amazement. 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:20.080 And he strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat. 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:21.360 This is the word of the Lord. 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:22.479 Please be seated. 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:30.560 Welcome to church. 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:32.080 This morning, my name is James Rathman. 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:34.400 I'm the pastor here at Redemption Church Denver. 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:35.680 Thanks for joining us. 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:38.560 Um who's enjoying the extra hour of sleep? 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:41.599 Who just feels weird? 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:42.960 Okay, good. 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:45.520 Yeah, I just feel like I'm running late today. 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:46.719 Um, but we're not. 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:47.759 We're all on time. 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:54.319 Uh got a couple of announcements to make, and then we'll pray and get into today's texts for the day. 00:02:54.560 --> 00:03:03.840 Uh first of all, uh today, right after service, there is a training for Redemption Kids volunteers. 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:19.439 So if you volunteer in Redemption Kids or if you'd like to volunteer at Redemption Kids, uh just stick around right after the service, head into where the kids meet, the kids' room, and uh there will be this lovely lady there named Megan Rathman. 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:21.840 Um we have the same last name. 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:34.800 Um and she will uh take you through a training, you'll get an opportunity to pray for our kids' ministry together, um, and it should be a uh good time, but also it's pretty short. 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:38.879 Um, so don't uh yeah, don't worry, it's not too long. 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:41.840 Uh because we're gonna be very hungry soon. 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:44.800 That's something that's gonna trickle in for this service. 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:49.599 Uh also coming up, we're doing an um advent kickoff. 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:53.280 We're calling it a Berkeley the Berkeley Carol Sing. 00:03:53.599 --> 00:04:06.080 So basically what's happening is uh the Saturday after Thanksgiving, all of the small businesses, it's small business Saturday, the holiday invented by American Express, when American Express died for us. 00:04:07.039 --> 00:04:10.800 Sorry, I'm mixing, I'm mixing stories in my mind. 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:19.519 But they uh uh the all the small businesses, this is a really important day for them down the strip in uh on Tennyson Street. 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:27.120 And so we are uh partnering with them in a sense, but also the next day is the kickoff of the Advent season. 00:04:27.279 --> 00:04:35.759 And so we wanted to combine those in a way to kind of serve the community, celebrate Advent together, and bring folks from the community into the church. 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:47.040 And so we're going to be singing carols led by Zach, and we are going to have free gift wrapping available and also like hot cocoa and things for the kids. 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:48.480 So it should be a really fun time. 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:57.839 But to prepare for that, the Saturday, excuse me, the Sunday before Thanksgiving, we're going to need to decorate this place and make it look like a Christmas wonderland. 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:06.399 So that Sunday, which is the 21st of November, plan on sticking around right after the service, and we're just gonna go crazy decorating this place. 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:07.279 Sound good? 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:08.480 Cool. 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:09.360 All right. 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:15.839 Uh also, I just wanted to let you know, we've got uh free books in the foyer. 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:19.519 Uh they read just as good as a book that you bought. 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:30.639 And they uh uh there's two of them right now that there's just like a stack of underneath uh the the window right next to the door that you walk in. 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:33.519 Uh one of them is this book called Gentle and Lowly. 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:35.439 Uh has anyone read this? 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:36.959 Yeah, totally. 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:40.240 Like like 50% of the people in the church, which is incredible. 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:43.120 Dane Ortland just crushed it on this book. 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:48.319 Um the uh uh it's a wonderful picture of Jesus' heart. 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:51.120 And I think it will it's such an encouraging read. 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:56.480 So uh we have a bunch of uh copies to give away, so feel free to just grab a copy on your way out. 00:05:56.720 --> 00:05:59.360 The other is this book called Rediscover Church. 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:09.519 And this came out just like in the last couple of months, and it's basically about how so many folks throughout the pandemic stopped coming to church and then haven't come back. 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:16.480 And this is the here's a church is just kind of something that we like do and that you just kind of do uh often. 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:21.360 Uh but this gives some real reasoning behind like why does church look the way it does? 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:24.879 Uh and I think it could be a wonderfully beneficial book as well. 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:30.879 So both are uh, you know, pretty short, really good reads, uh, and out there for free. 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:33.199 So go ahead and grab one on your way out. 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:34.160 All right. 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:38.000 Let's pray and we'll get into today's text. 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:53.839 Holy Father, we praise you for your loving kindness towards us, for showing us your heart in Christ, for the forgiveness of our sins, and that we come before you cleansed by you. 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:59.279 Lord, I pray that you would open our hearts to hear and receive your word. 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:04.959 Mostly today, Lord, I pray that you would open our eyes to be able to see you, Jesus. 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:18.399 That in these stories we might gain a new picture of who you are, one that's more well developed, more clear, one that relates more completely to the lives that you've placed us in. 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:24.800 Lord, would you give us by your spirit the ability to see you in your word this morning? 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:26.480 Lift this up in Jesus' name. 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:27.360 Amen. 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:33.759 So today's uh service, did you notice it was a particularly long reading? 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:37.199 It's like like 23 verses, which is really long. 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:39.040 Usually it's like 10 max. 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:42.720 But that's because this Sunday uh you get a two-for-one special. 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:50.160 Usually you expect to show up and uh hear a healing, one of Jesus' healings, um, and it's like great, a healing story. 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:58.079 Well, this one, you get a healing story with another healing story shoved right into the middle of it, which is very exciting. 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:04.560 So we're gonna get kind of a uh, yeah, buy one, get one of uh Jesus healing stories today. 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:09.040 And we're finally uh we're closing out Mark chapter five. 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:18.399 Uh so we've after this, we will have moved through the first five chapters of Mark, uh last fall and then this fall. 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:26.639 And we're finally today getting to really look at what it means to have faith in Christ. 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:35.360 Today, faith takes center stage in the healings and in the way that Jesus interacts with the people that he's healing. 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:38.399 Okay, so we're gonna see two stories. 00:08:38.639 --> 00:08:45.440 In both of these stories, uh similarities are drawn together that Mark really draws our attention to. 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:50.879 The first similarities we see two women healed in these stories. 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:58.399 Um both women, uh, one of them uh has been suffering from this condition for 12 years. 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:02.799 The past 12 years, she's uh suffered uh a bleeding condition. 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:06.720 And the other, who is healed, is only 12 years old. 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:15.919 And so the story starts, you know, 12 years ago, where that same year one woman with one you know young girl was she was born a baby. 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:18.480 I don't know how to use the word woman. 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:19.519 Nobody does. 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:27.600 She was born a woman, and then she was uh grew, and then she uh 12 years later is at death's door. 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:31.840 And then the other, uh we don't know what age she is, but she'd been suffering. 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:37.200 From the day that that young lady was born, she'd been suffering for the past 12 years. 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:41.679 Both of them are referred to as daughters. 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:52.399 And in both of them, we see really unique ways in which Jesus heals by touching. 00:09:55.360 --> 00:10:01.360 Paul sandwiches sandwiches these two instances together of these two healings. 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:14.639 And what I want us to see in Jesus, and we get to see it especially well in this story, is that Jesus offers no generic healings. 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:28.000 Jesus always heals in a way that is perfectly attuned, tailor-made, bespoke to the person that he is healing. 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:36.320 And we see that so clearly when these stories are placed right back to back, right next to each other. 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:52.720 This this text is one of the reasons that I wanted to preach through Mark is because I I want us as a church to see Jesus in action and then see, look how personally he heals. 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:59.200 Look how completely he interacts with the whole story of the person who he's healing. 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:04.080 And then maybe we would consider as a church, what if he did that for me? 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:09.440 What if the God I was going to wasn't treating me generically? 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:19.840 But what if instead he was able to look at me, know the depths of my story, and heal even the things that I don't know need to be healed? 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:23.679 We get to see that happen today with these two instances. 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:32.720 So, first we'll see uh Jairus's desperation, then we'll see the woman healed, and then we'll see the young girl healed. 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:35.519 Mark 5, 22 through 24. 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:38.720 I'll actually read a little more than is on the screen. 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:40.720 Starting in 21. 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:48.399 And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea. 00:11:48.879 --> 00:12:00.960 Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing him he fell at his feet and implored him earnestly, saying, My little my little daughter is at the point of death. 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:05.440 Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live. 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:07.279 And he went with him. 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:11.279 They finally cross back over the sea. 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:15.440 If you've been with us for the past couple of weeks, it's been a lot of traveling back and forth across this lake. 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:20.159 So they travel one way and uh it's a terrible storm, and they almost die. 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:27.840 They get to the other side, and they're confronted by a demon-possessed man uh who runs and falls at Jesus' feet. 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:30.960 So the disciples then get back in the boat to go back to the other side. 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:33.360 By this point, they must be so tired. 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:38.720 And they get back to the other side, uh, to their hometown, and what happens? 00:12:38.879 --> 00:12:45.840 Jesus steps out of the boat again, and here's another man who's running up to Jesus and falling down at his feet. 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:49.120 The disciples have got to be looking at each other like, who are we traveling with? 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:51.279 What is going on with this guy? 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:55.279 We can't go anywhere where somebody isn't just running up and falling down on his feet. 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:59.840 In this case, the man's name is Jairus, and he holds some position in the community. 00:12:59.919 --> 00:13:02.320 He is a ruler of the synagogue. 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:08.000 It's a voluntary position that you would hold for a season, but it gave you some real pull in the community. 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:12.399 It means that he was an established person, likely part of an established family. 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:18.240 And as a ruler of the synagogue, he sees Jesus, runs up to him, and falls at his feet. 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:26.399 And you can hear Mark is so spare with his details, and so when he brings them to the forefront, we really should pay attention to them. 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:29.360 It says, and he implored him earnestly. 00:13:29.519 --> 00:13:40.000 You know, there's a lot of times when Jesus meets a ruler of a synagogue or a ruling Pharisee or a scribe, we don't get much earnestness in those interactions. 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:41.679 Usually there's a duplicity. 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:54.080 But here, Jairus implores Jesus earnestly, from the depths of his heart, and then listen to the phrase, my little daughter, you hear how sweet it is, is at the point of death. 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:57.919 You know, it's a colloquialism, like she's at death's door. 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:00.639 We don't have any time to spare. 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:09.200 I'm running up to you, falling at your feet, because my daughter is about to die, and there's nothing else I can think to do. 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:16.879 And so he asks Jesus, come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live. 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:23.759 So Jairus has the uh Jesus, excuse me, Jairus lays out this plan for Jesus. 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:25.679 Come with me, come to the house. 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:28.559 I know that if you just lay your hands on her, she'll live. 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:30.399 So come with me, do that. 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:32.720 And Jesus went with them. 00:14:32.879 --> 00:14:35.279 So they begin walking. 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:36.320 All right. 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:38.799 Healing story part two. 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:45.039 Mark five, twenty-four through twenty-six, and a great crowd followed him. 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:46.639 So they're walking with gyrus. 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:50.960 This huge crowd develops around Jesus and thronged about him. 00:14:51.120 --> 00:15:05.360 And there was a woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and who had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse. 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:11.440 So Jesus is walking and is surrounded by this great crowd. 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:19.519 When uh for some reason I keep bringing up, I did last Sunday and I am this Sunday, uh, like theme parks for my childhood. 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:23.919 So I grew up in Florida, and so there's a lot of theme park memories. 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:46.320 Um and when when you're in like junior high or early high school, uh a Floridian or a Flow Rida, as we prefer to be called, one of the pranks that you can do at a uh uh at like Disney World is get all your friends to yell, there's Michael, it's Michael Jackson, there's Michael Jackson. 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:48.399 This was before he had died. 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:57.200 Because and then pe the just like a crowd of people would run and and gather around, and then you'd be like, there's he's not here. 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:12.080 But you can we picture like those throngs of of people like thronged around a celebrity, you know, when they're walking and and there's bodyguards or something that are just trying to shuffle them through and they're getting pushed and pulled in all these different directions. 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:15.600 Well, that's the type of crowd that is surrounding Jesus. 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:24.559 He comes back to the Hebrew side of the lake and he's thronged about like this, just pressed in on by this huge crowd. 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:27.039 And in the midst of it, there's a woman. 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:29.679 Now, let's look at her situation. 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:33.840 She had a discharge of blood for 12 years. 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:41.279 Now, if we just zero in on that, there's first of all, there's just the the physical pain that she would have been in. 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:46.399 There's there's the condition itself, 12 years of suffering. 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:58.399 And that's coupled with because of this particular type of ailment in the Jewish culture that she was a part of, it's also meant that she was ceremonially unclean. 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:06.480 So she was unable to participate in the temple, unable to participate in the normal goings-on of the synagogue. 00:17:06.799 --> 00:17:13.119 She was ostracized from the community, and if you touched her, you became unclean. 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:18.799 So it's not just physical discomfort, there's this social discomfort as well. 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:22.160 She begins to live as an outcast. 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:30.880 And then you look at her path towards healing, and says she had suffered much under many physicians. 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:38.400 All of the hands that she went to to help her had only ended up hurting her. 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:42.720 And she spent all the money that she had. 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:45.599 And what did she get for this? 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:50.079 Not getting any better, but only growing worse. 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:56.079 This woman is we've already heard of a daughter who is at death's door. 00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:58.319 She has no options. 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:00.640 No options in the community. 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:09.200 Even her being a part of this crowd is her pressing against who she knows herself to be with this condition. 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:12.559 She's helpless. 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:23.119 So we see her, it's as if she says, Why not bet it all on Jesus? 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:33.599 Mark 5, 27 through 29, it says, She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:39.359 For she said, If I touch even his garment, I will be made well. 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:46.960 And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:52.079 Now I I just want us to see the details here in these stories. 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:54.400 She comes up from behind. 00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:58.960 She'd heard the reports about Jesus, and so she comes up from behind him. 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:01.039 You know, she she's hidden in the crowd. 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:03.759 Remember how Jairus approached Jesus? 00:19:05.119 --> 00:19:10.079 He runs up, falls before him at Jesus' feet, and says, Come to my house. 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:14.640 Do you see how different this woman approaches Jesus? 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:19.119 Comes up from behind just on a rumor of a report. 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:24.160 And she touches just his garment. 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:32.799 For she said, Mark gives us her reasoning, if I touch even his garments, I will be made well. 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:48.400 And so she does, and immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease, you know, almost sneaks up and just grabs the the fringe of Jesus' cloak and is healed. 00:19:49.039 --> 00:20:00.960 Now if any of you uh grew up or still do, perhaps, playing two-hand touch football, you know that there is an argument here. 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:05.039 If you touch my shirt, you're not touching me. 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:07.759 You know, it's not a real touch. 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:10.640 To get a real touch, you've got to touch me. 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:22.720 So what she's saying is, and what she's trusting about Jesus is that his power, his authority extends even beyond his physicality. 00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:28.000 Even beyond just his own body. 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:36.400 Instead, there's something about this man, there's something about Jesus' power and authority that that goes that goes beyond. 00:20:36.720 --> 00:20:40.400 And you can see it because it's the it's the fringe of the garment. 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:45.039 And what is she but the fringe of society? 00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:50.160 And yet Jesus' power could stretch even here. 00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:52.400 This is her faith. 00:20:53.519 --> 00:21:03.440 From the rumors about Jesus, there's a there's a healer going around teaching the kingdom of God that sounds like what we've been promised. 00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:09.440 I bet if I touch even just the fringe of his garment, it could heal someone like me. 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:20.079 And notice she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. 00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:24.319 Now look at the next sentence. 00:21:25.039 --> 00:21:37.519 And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, Who touched my garments? 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:41.039 I'll pause there, get back to 31. 00:21:41.440 --> 00:21:44.960 Do you notice I just want to draw our attention to this one beautiful moment. 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:54.000 In the midst of a crowd, in a throng of people, this woman knows in her body I've been healed. 00:21:54.640 --> 00:21:59.759 And in the midst of the same crowd, in this throng of people, there's this moment where Jesus knows in his body. 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:02.640 Body, I've healed someone. 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:07.039 Do you see that there's I just thought that was a beautiful moment of intimacy. 00:22:08.720 --> 00:22:16.160 Where in the crowd, for this little moment, only they knew what had happened. 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:22.000 But Jesus sees that there is more healing to be done. 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:26.319 And so he says, Who touched my garments? 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:28.799 Notice he says, garments. 00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:31.200 Who touched my garments? 00:22:32.079 --> 00:22:41.200 He's saying, he's making it clear, somebody with the intention of just touching my garments touched my garments. 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:43.599 Do you see how he's singling her out? 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:50.960 And then the disciples said to him, You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, Who touched me? 00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:53.279 He didn't say who touched me. 00:22:54.240 --> 00:22:56.799 He said, Who touched my garments? 00:22:58.079 --> 00:22:58.960 Do you see? 00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:03.279 He's singling this woman out of the crowd. 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:06.960 He's establishing this connection with her. 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:14.319 You can see the irony works at so many levels. 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:26.799 Because the disciples just look around and see this crowd pressing in, but Jesus sees the particular in the midst of the crowd. 00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:37.599 So there's a sentence that I left out of the screen, but there's a it said, and Jesus just looked around. 00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:41.920 So Jesus stops the crowd and he says, Who touched my garments? 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:44.079 The disciples are like, What are you talking about? 00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:45.839 And Jesus ignores them. 00:23:46.319 --> 00:23:51.039 And then he takes a moment and he just looks around. 00:23:51.599 --> 00:24:10.880 Now, if you've ever taught a Bible study or anything, or take or taught a class, or have to, you know, lead groups in your uh workplace, then you know that you, if you're talking, if you have introverts in the group, then you've got to just look around sometimes to hear the best things come out of the group. 00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:15.359 And part of your job as a leader is you've got to play defense against the extroverts. 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:20.480 And then sometimes you just have to look around. 00:24:20.799 --> 00:24:24.880 And Jesus does that, and you can feel the pressure mount. 00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:43.599 And then the the woman, in verse 33 to 34, but the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him, just like Jairus, and told him the whole truth. 00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:48.400 Which means that she said things, she didn't leave anything out. 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:50.400 It's been 12 years. 00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:57.200 And I I touched your garment because I thought, even if I just touch your garment, I'll be healed. 00:24:57.920 --> 00:25:01.680 You know, lays it, lays it all onto Jesus. 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:12.720 And he said to her, turns to the woman in the midst of the crowd, he said to her, daughter, your faith has made you well. 00:25:13.119 --> 00:25:16.880 Go in peace and be healed of your disease. 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:22.559 This sentence is why Jesus stops the crowd. 00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:24.400 It's why he pauses. 00:25:24.720 --> 00:25:30.880 It's why he knows it shows that he knows the healing of the ailment was not enough. 00:25:31.599 --> 00:25:34.799 She didn't just need to be physically healed. 00:25:35.519 --> 00:25:37.279 Because what did this disease entail? 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:39.839 It was a disease that ostracized you. 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:44.640 And so she needed to be brought in to the community. 00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:46.799 She sneaks up from behind. 00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:50.960 She needs to stand at Jesus' feet in front of him. 00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:54.720 And he needs to call her daughter. 00:25:56.000 --> 00:26:01.119 You know, these stories are together, so free reign, compare all you want. 00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:03.039 Okay, so we're gonna do that. 00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:05.519 Gyrus, what's the what did we just see? 00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:10.880 Gyrus runs up and he says, My little daughter, she needs your help. 00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:12.079 So what does that mean? 00:26:12.319 --> 00:26:16.960 Gyrus's daughter has a father who's advocating for her. 00:26:17.279 --> 00:26:19.759 This woman doesn't. 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:24.079 She needs to be called daughter. 00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:32.880 She needs to, she needs to be seen in public, to be brought in. 00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:37.519 And then she's not just seen in public, she's exalted. 00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:44.559 Where Jesus says before the whole crowd, your faith has made you well. 00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:47.359 He blesses her faith. 00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:49.920 Look at what her faith was. 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:56.880 It was it was hidden even, it was small, it was like a mustard seed. 00:26:57.759 --> 00:27:02.640 And yet she reaches out and it and it's shown gloriously to the crowd. 00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:05.359 Look at this woman's faith. 00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:08.720 And he says, Go in peace. 00:27:10.640 --> 00:27:13.359 Be healed of your disease. 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:19.200 She is brought in, completely seen by Jesus. 00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:21.039 Do you see how he heals? 00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:24.400 So consider this woman. 00:27:24.640 --> 00:27:40.720 She's she sneaks up from behind in the crowd, and Jesus stops the crowd, so that she gets seen by the group that would have ostracized her. 00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:47.440 Now remember, this crowd wasn't just walking with no direction. 00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:51.519 They had an intention of where they were headed. 00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:56.079 Because Gyrus's daughter is at death's door. 00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:06.319 So you can feel they're walking, and then and and then when they stop, and Jesus is like, hey, who touched me? 00:28:06.559 --> 00:28:09.119 Think of what Jairus is thinking in that moment. 00:28:09.440 --> 00:28:10.240 Who touched you? 00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:12.160 He's at least thinking what the disciples were thinking. 00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:13.279 What is this guy talking about? 00:28:13.359 --> 00:28:14.319 Who touched him? 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:15.839 Who cares? 00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:18.640 We'll figure it out after we figure out my daughter's situation. 00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:25.039 Did he not hear that she's at she's about to die, that we've got no time to spare? 00:28:25.279 --> 00:28:29.599 And yet here's the crowd just stopped, and Jesus is just looking around. 00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:30.480 Who was it? 00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:31.680 Touched my garment. 00:28:31.920 --> 00:28:33.759 Felt some power leave me. 00:28:39.119 --> 00:28:50.559 And then in that moment where Jairus is, first of all, uh consider how that blesses the woman, but then consider how that frustrates Jairus. 00:28:51.599 --> 00:28:56.160 His anxiety must have been mounting as both of those things happened. 00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:02.720 And then the worst possible news comes to Jairus in that moment. 00:29:04.559 --> 00:29:12.319 Verse 35, while he was still speaking, so Jesus, you know, and the woman are talking. 00:29:12.559 --> 00:29:14.480 Uh no kidding, 12 years. 00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:16.319 Man, that's wild. 00:29:16.400 --> 00:29:18.319 I'm so glad, you know, this healing happened. 00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:20.640 What were the rumors that you heard about the garment? 00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:22.319 Yeah, I can kind of see that. 00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:25.440 I guess, yeah, like a more powerful Elijah or Elisha. 00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:27.119 That's that's not a bad way to think of me. 00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:29.279 We can up that Annie a little bit. 00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:37.839 While he's still speaking, there came from the ruler's house some who said, Your daughter is dead. 00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:40.400 Why trouble the teacher any further? 00:29:41.359 --> 00:29:43.519 Jairus' heart sinks. 00:29:44.319 --> 00:29:45.920 It was so close. 00:29:47.599 --> 00:29:50.960 So close to getting there in time. 00:29:51.200 --> 00:30:04.880 Perhaps if he hadn't have stopped and talked to this woman, perhaps if I had run a bit earlier and had seen him just a bit sooner before he got off the boat, then we wouldn't have even crossed paths with this woman. 00:30:05.119 --> 00:30:06.960 We would have been able to head straight home. 00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:08.319 I had the plan. 00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:11.039 I found the guy who could execute it. 00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:16.880 I I had the position in society to get through to him and to lay this plan out. 00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:18.960 I was so close. 00:30:20.400 --> 00:30:22.799 And yet, she's dead. 00:30:23.519 --> 00:30:26.079 Don't trouble the teacher any further. 00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:29.119 Everybody, we can stop walking. 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:32.400 We can stop walking to my home. 00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:36.240 Jesus is still talking. 00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:38.640 Mark 5, 36. 00:30:39.279 --> 00:30:47.359 But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, do not fear, only believe. 00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:51.519 This word overhearing is too cool. 00:30:51.759 --> 00:30:56.079 It it's uh it also means ignoring. 00:30:57.920 --> 00:31:03.680 So ignoring what they said, Jesus hears them come in. 00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:07.759 Look, there's a uh she's she's dead. 00:31:08.079 --> 00:31:10.960 They tell Jairus she's dead, don't trouble the teacher any further. 00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:14.640 Jesus, there's this swirl of bad news around Jesus. 00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:19.359 And Jesus just he doesn't even address the people who come and bring the news. 00:31:19.519 --> 00:31:22.240 He's not like, hey man, come on, I got my own thing going here. 00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:25.680 You're getting in the way of I'm gonna do a double healing. 00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:29.599 He doesn't address them at all. 00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:38.000 He just it's it's like saying to overhear this word is like you hear it and you know it's not for you. 00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:40.400 So you just don't even engage with it. 00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:43.039 This is the type of focus that Jesus has. 00:31:43.359 --> 00:31:48.400 He doesn't address the news, he just addresses Gyrus. 00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:53.839 And he turns to Jairus and he says, do not fear, only believe. 00:31:57.039 --> 00:32:00.640 You're gonna fall in love with Jesus by the end of the story if you haven't already. 00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:05.279 Do not fear, only believe. 00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:08.160 Doesn't listen to the crowd at all. 00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:23.200 Jesus, we've seen him in these past stories since he left the parables and has just been traveling around. 00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:35.680 We've seen him constantly cutting through the storm and zeroing right in on the mission that God had called him to, the person who he's dealing with. 00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:42.240 There's this the storm at sea, and then he cuts through that and he's like, What do you not have any faith? 00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:52.480 And then the the storm of the of the demon-possessed man coming at him, and he cuts through that and casts out the demon. 00:32:52.880 --> 00:33:00.160 And then the storm of the crowd swirling around him, he just cuts through it and sees the woman. 00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:06.720 And here the storm of this bad news swirling around Gyrus, Jesus just cuts through. 00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:09.759 Don't fear, only believe. 00:33:10.079 --> 00:33:12.480 Do not fear, only believe. 00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:29.200 What Jesus has done here for Jairus is he's given him both the tools and the occasion to rest his faith completely on Jesus. 00:33:29.599 --> 00:33:30.960 Nowhere else. 00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:33.200 He's given the tools. 00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:34.079 Why? 00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:37.440 Because you know who Jairus has seen? 00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:39.440 Who he's just seen? 00:33:39.680 --> 00:33:41.279 The woman. 00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:47.119 What does a faith, what is the faith that Jesus is requiring of me look like? 00:33:47.359 --> 00:33:51.839 Well, it looks like this woman who we've just seen. 00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:53.440 What did she have? 00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:56.240 She had nothing to bring. 00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:58.640 She had no status to offer Jesus. 00:33:58.799 --> 00:33:59.920 She had no capability. 00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:01.920 She herself was an outcast. 00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:07.440 All she could offer to Jesus was, if you touch me, I make you unclean. 00:34:08.079 --> 00:34:17.440 But she had faith that said, Perhaps if I touch even just the fringe of his cloak, he will make me clean. 00:34:18.239 --> 00:34:27.599 So Jairus has given it this tool of encouragement to see and understand what type of faith was required of him. 00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:34.880 And then Jesus provides the occasion for him to walk in that faith. 00:34:35.039 --> 00:34:40.400 And we mean literally walk in that faith. 00:34:42.320 --> 00:34:44.480 Trouble the teacher no longer. 00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:50.559 I guess let's keep walking together back to the house. 00:34:51.119 --> 00:35:01.280 And that whole time, step after step, he realizes I have no plan for Jesus here. 00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:06.559 I have nothing to bring him into or to offer him. 00:35:13.840 --> 00:35:18.159 Is that Jesus is able to reach into death and pull out my daughter. 00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:29.199 So they enter, they go to Jairus' house. 00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:32.800 There's a huge crowd around already. 00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:34.960 It had likely taken a while to get there. 00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:41.519 And it was typical for mourners to be hired and brought in when someone died. 00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:54.800 And so the house would have been surrounded by uh hired mourners and family members and people just coming to this realization that uh this little girl, 12-year-old, had passed away. 00:35:55.760 --> 00:35:59.920 And Jesus enters, you know, what is Jesus entering? 00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:05.039 He's entering another crowd with a swirl of bad news. 00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:07.519