The passage this message was preached from, in full, with every other passage it reached for.
Matthew 9:18-26Matthew's shorter account of Jairus's daughter and the bleeding woman
18 While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”
19 Jesus got up and followed him, as did his disciples.
20 Behold, a woman who had an issue of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the fringe of his garment;
21 for she said within herself, “If I just touch his garment, I will be made well.”
22 But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, “Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well.” And the woman was made well from that hour.
23 When Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the flute players, and the crowd in noisy disorder,
24 he said to them, “Make room, because the girl isn’t dead, but sleeping.” They were ridiculing him.
25 But when the crowd was put out, he entered in, took her by the hand, and the girl arose.
26 The report of this went out into all that land.
40 When Jesus returned, the multitude welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him.
41 Behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus’ feet, and begged him to come into his house,
42 for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.
43 A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians, and could not be healed by any,
44 came behind him, and touched the fringe of his cloak, and immediately the flow of her blood stopped.
45 Jesus said, “Who touched me?” When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”
46 But Jesus said, “Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power has gone out of me.”
47 When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
48 He said to her, “Daughter, cheer up. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”
49 While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house came, saying to him, “Your daughter is dead. Don’t trouble the Teacher.”
50 But Jesus hearing it, answered him, “Don’t be afraid. Only believe, and she will be healed.”
51 When he came to the house, he didn’t allow anyone to enter in, except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and her mother.
52 All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, “Don’t weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping.”
53 They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.
54 But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, “Child, arise!”
55 Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat.
56 Her parents were amazed, but he commanded them to tell no one what had been done.
Mark's detailed account, treated as Peter's memoirs, where the sermon spends most of its time
21 When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side, a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea.
22 Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet,
23 and begged him much, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live.”
24 He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides.
25 A certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years,
26 and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse,
27 having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd, and touched his clothes.
28 For she said, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well.”
29 Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.
30 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd, and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”
31 His disciples said to him, “You see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”
32 He looked around to see her who had done this thing.
33 But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.
34 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease.”
35 While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler’s house saying, “Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?”
36 But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Don’t be afraid, only believe.”
37 He allowed no one to follow him, except Peter, James, and John the brother of James.
38 He came to the synagogue ruler’s house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing.
39 When he had entered in, he said to them, “Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep.”
40 They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying.
41 Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, “Talitha cumi!” which means, being interpreted, “Girl, I tell you, get up!”
42 Immediately the girl rose up and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement.
43 He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat.
mentioned as what Carl is preaching through on Monday nights, dropping back to chapter two that week
1 For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
3 in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.
4 Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
6 As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
7 rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
8 Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.
9 For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,
10 and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;
11 in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;
15 having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,
17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.
18 Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19 and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.
20 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
21 “Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch”
22 (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?
23 Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
Carl had preached from this chapter the previous week at the main service
1 If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
4 When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
5 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
6 for which things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
7 You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;
8 but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
9 Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
10 and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
11 where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
12 Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
13 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
14 Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
17 Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
18 Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
19 Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
21 Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
22 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
23 And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,
24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
25 But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.
read near the close as application, covering compassion, forgiveness, love, peace of Christ, psalms and hymns, and doing all in the name of the Lord Jesus
12 Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
13 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
14 Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
17 Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
The message in order, in a few minutes of reading.
Pastor Brian opened with the news of Linda Larue's baptism that morning, a woman who had come from Texas with cancer, prayed earnestly to make it to Jackson, and came to faith after ten days in the hospital. That story, he said, ran directly alongside the Scripture he was about to preach. The message worked through two interwoven miracles from Matthew, Mark, and Luke: the healing of a woman with a chronic hemorrhage and the raising of Jairus' daughter.
What was said
Pastor Brian set the context first. Jesus had just calmed the storm on the Sea of Galilee and cast the demons out of the Gadarene man. Those two events showed His power over the natural world and the supernatural world. This week's passage, he said, shows a third kind of power: power over sickness and death. All three accounts in Matthew, Mark, and Luke tell the same story, just with different levels of detail, and he spent most of his time in Mark because Mark is Peter's account told through his own eyes.
Jairus was not a stranger. He was a named official of the synagogue in Capernaum, the very town where Peter and Andrew lived, and Jesus had been ministering there for roughly two years. When Jairus came and fell at Jesus' feet, it was a man of standing arriving with his hat in his hand, pleading for his only daughter who was at the point of death. Pastor Brian paused on the word "only," noting that Luke uses that word just three times, always for an only child. He said that as the father of an only daughter himself, just reading it filled him with something hard to put into words.
On the way to Jairus' house, a woman who had been bleeding for twelve years pressed through the crowd and touched the edge of Jesus' cloak. She had been telling herself that if she could only touch His garment she would be healed. Pastor Brian acknowledged that her theology was closer to superstition than sound doctrine, and then said plainly that Jesus responded anyway. He felt power go out from Him, stopped, and turned to find her. She had wanted to go unnoticed, but instead found herself the center of attention in a crowd, trembling, and then telling Him the whole truth.
That moment, Pastor Brian said, was a chance to testify. Jesus called her "daughter," a term of endearment, and told her that her faith had saved her. He walked through the Greek verb, pointing out that it is the same word used for salvation, rescue, and restoration, and said a more accurate translation would be "your faith has saved you." He noted that her theology was imperfect, then turned that toward the congregation directly: no one's theology is perfectly pure, and Jesus still responds to the reach of faith.
While Jesus was still speaking to her, word came from Jairus' house that his daughter had died and there was no point troubling the teacher any further. Pastor Brian described that as some of the most horrifying news a parent could receive, arriving at the worst possible moment. Jesus, overhearing it, looked at Jairus and said simply: do not be afraid, only believe. He did not explain further. He just said don't be afraid and believe, and then kept walking.
At the house, professional mourners were already present with flute players, exactly what custom required. When Jesus said the child was only sleeping, they laughed at Him. He put them all outside, took the parents and Peter, James, and John into the room, took the girl by the hand, and said "Talitha kum," which Mark translates as "little girl, get up." She got up immediately. Pastor Brian contrasted the laughing, scorning crowd with Jairus and the hemorrhaging woman, both of whom had come to Jesus in humility. He kept returning to that contrast: the proud mourners were certain of themselves and missed what happened in that room, while the humble ones received what they needed.
Pastor Brian closed by reading from Colossians, the same passage Carl had preached the week before, and asked the congregation to let it settle over them as people who have reached out in faith to Jesus. He connected the woman's public testimony to Linda Larue's baptism that morning, and to the prayer he had offered: that God would give His people both the words and the walk that would have others asking what had happened to them.
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The pastor described the woman with the hemorrhage as having imperfect theology, almost superstitious, yet Jesus responded to her faith anyway. What does that tell us about what God is actually looking for when we reach out to Him?
When the messengers arrived to tell Jairus his daughter had died, Jesus told him simply, 'Don't be afraid, just believe.' Have you ever been in a situation where fear and faith were pulling you in opposite directions? How did you respond?
There it is right there. Good morning, everybody. How are you? I'm I'm just arriving. It's good to see you.
Glad you all are here. We if you would, stand with me. We're gonna sing, he keeps me singing. He keeps me singing. There's within my heart a melody.
Glad y'all are here this morning. My heart is completely full. We had a baptism this morning. After the announcements. We sang one song and did the announcements and the baptism I had I had already had church.
It was so, so, so precious and so, he does. Keep us singing. Let's sing it together like we mean it. Amen. So, what if they didn't know the last verse?
It's alright. It's a good one. That's the one that has remained to be unseen yet. It's the soon he's coming back. Yep.
We've got another song. This is I'm just shut it off. Super hot today. Not temperature wise. The mics are super hot.
Make me a blessing. Hymn number six seven. I love this song. Amen. Y'all could have a seat.
I have a few announcements. A few new ones. First of all is a is a standby. Monday night at first B is happening. On Monday nights at first B, down the hall.
Carl is preaching through Colossians right now. He had a chance last week to preach right here from Colossians three. He's dropping back to Colossians two. This week, Monday night, 6PM, meal, music, and a message right down the hall. It's a good time.
Barbecue pork sandwiches I hear. He's trying to transition me back from the Southeast. I was very thankful and heart was full last week to get to sit on my mom and dad's couch with my mama and watch first week. It was good. I was I was there at church and then I was here at church kind of.
FCA is the fellowship of Christian athletes. There's a power camp. They call em twenty twenty two coming up July nineteenth and twentieth of this year and Andrea Largie is involved with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and helping to put this on. So, if you want to know anything about this, talk to her or you can talk to me and I can get you in touch with her. There is a prayer group that meets on Wednesday mornings in the church office at seven: 3zero am.
They just gather and pray. First, office down the hall on the left, first door on the left is where they usually gather. You are welcome to come and pray. They pray through request. I love that.
They just pray through request. It's not, sit and listen to everything that we might ought to pray for and then trying to remember all that stuff. They just start praying and it's really really a good time. Sunday school in the 09:00 is taking a break during the month of July. We have a church camping trip.
How many of y'all have been on this in the past? You've been to the, it's so much fun. It's a good time. And they have already reserved quite a few spots, the group camping spots at Coulter Bay. And so the fifth, sixth and seventh at Coulter Bay, you can contact Brain McCooey.
Brain McCooey, the Brain as we call him around here. Brian McCooey actually is the one who helps put this together every year. And if you would like to help out, take a grill or whatever and cook or it would be fun. Fifth, sixth, and seventh at Coulter Bay. That's usually it's a Friday, Saturday, Sunday event and it's a lot of fun.
We usually, I usually go up in the evenings. I don't like sleeping outside myself. I just have a preference not to. That's why we build houses. Anyway, when you go there, can sit around a campfire and play guitar is what I usually like to do.
But it's a come as you are sort of thing. It's not expensive and we've already reserved it and plan on coming up and hanging out with us. Also, just before that on August 3, you could see either Mike Demetrius or Brian McCooey about this. Men's rafting trip, that is a Wednesday afternoonevening like from four to six on the river and then barbecue and afterwards cooking out. So that's the plan.
Men's rafting trip, eight three in the afternoon. And this morning we had a baptism. And I am not going to be able to do it justice. If you all are able to, get online and watch just the up through the announcements of this morning's service, you're going to hear basically the same message in just a few minutes. But if you just want to listen to Linda Larue was baptized here this morning by her son Brad Yates.
And it was so beautiful. She spoke of how they left Texas. She has been suffering from cancer for quite some time. And they left Texas to come up here and spend the summer with her extended family. And she knew coming up that she was already, planning on doing chemo when she got here.
But she got so sick in the car, just miles from home. But she had made up her mind she was coming. And she began to pray earnestly that God would, that God would help her make it to Jackson. That's that was her prayer to begin with. And after she got here, became overwhelmed with the love of God.
Overwhelmed with the reality of who He is. And she came to know Jesus after ten days of the sickest she's ever been in the hospital. And she was here this morning standing up with her son and was baptized for the first time. It's just a beautiful beautiful thing. So praise God for that.
As you'll see in a minute, it goes right along with the message that we're going to be hearing from God's word. I'm so thankful for Linda Larue, her husband Sonny, and then Brad and Natalie too. And I think that that's the last of my little announcements. Do y'all have anything that I've forgotten? Is there anything?
No. Alright. Good. Would you stand? And we will sing, you are my all in all.
You're my strength when I'm weak. You're the treasure that I seek. You're my all in all. You. How about the longer I serve him?
This is so true. The longer I serve him, the sweeter he Y'all can have a seat. I've got an operatory prayer. And actually, I I say it every time we sing that song, which is not very often. But Freeman Kuhn was the head of the deacons in the church that I grew up in.
He's a sweet, sweet, gentle carpenter. And he wore overalls all week and he wore a Sunday suit on I mean a Sunday jacket on top on Sundays. And sweet, sweet man. And whenever we had senior Sunday or something like that, my Uncle Tommy would ask him to sing that song. Such a beautiful thing that it's so true and it keeps on being true.
The other thing is that the pastor would often call on him. And last week when I was sitting out in church, the pastor, the same pastor called on me and asked me to pray the operatory prayer. When he'd called mister Freeman, he didn't have a mic like I do and he'd look down and say, And I elbowed daddy. I said, I can't hear what he's saying. He said, he ain't talking to you.
Would you pray with me? Lord, we're thankful that our heart does overflow, Lord. May it overflow out of our mouth. Would you give us the words to articulate exactly what it is that you have done in our lives. I pray, Lord, that we would be experiencing you in the closeness of the moment, Lord, that we would be able to articulate it.
I remember one dear brother here who when he got saved, he cried all the time, and the only thing he could really say out loud was, Jesus, man, when people would ask him, what what what's different about you? And he would just say, Jesus, Jesus, man. Now he can articulate it much better. Lord, would you give us the words, and would you give us the walk that would have people investigating? What has happened here?
What has Jesus done to this life to to fill them with such peace and such comfort and such love to be carriers of such grace and mercy. In Jesus' name, I pray a blessing on everyone in this room under the sound of my voice, Lord, but also everyone and every family here represented. Would you use us, Lord, to do your will and your way in this community and to the very uttermost parts? I pray that you take these offerings, and do whatever you want to with them. Through this church, amen.
On now? Can you hear me now? Yeah. I don't usually name sermons. This one I I try to do it as I'm going.
I just try to do it for my own benefit. But humble faith allows Jesus to heal the issues, whatever the issues are. Right? Humble faith allows Jesus to heal the issues. I think that's shown in both of the miracles that we'll see today in the story.
As we go through our Harmony of the Gospel study, we're up to a place where Jesus has just done a couple of significant things. He just finished teaching in Capernaum, near Capernaum, just south probably of Capernaum. He had just finished teaching the parables of the kingdom. And then because there was such a great crowd around, Jesus said, let's go over to the other side on the boat. And so they get on boats actually, and they go across to the other side of the sea.
And in the midst of the Sea Of Galilee, there is a storm, and Jesus shows his power over the natural by calming the storm. So we saw that three weeks ago. Two weeks ago, we saw Jesus when he had arrived at the other side of the lake. He met there amongst the tombs, it says. A man who had been filled with so many demons that the demons answered that their name was legion because there were many.
6,000 is a legion of soldiers. So that's a lot. Jesus cast them out into a herd of pigs which ran down the hill and drowned themselves in the lake. So but Jesus displayed his power over the supernatural. He gave an illustration of what demons do, they destroy.
And he set that man free. Among the tombs is where that man in a place of death, and we saw Jesus display his power over the supernatural right there. This week is kind of the third in a series of stories. So there's miracle one calming the sea. The disciples were the ones that saw that.
Miracle two, casting out the demons. The Gadarene demoniac, of course, he saw or understood that, but so did the disciples. And then at the end of that story, the man says, please, please, please let me go with you. And Jesus said, nope. You stay here and tell everybody what God has done for.
Friends and family, tell them all what God has done for you. So that's the immediate context before this. And then today, we'll see a miracle interrupted and another miracle intervening. Okay. So here it is, Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
Now if I were to ask three of you all to tell a story about anything, they would be slightly different, would they not? Reminds me of an old joke. Teacher says, gets two papers in, and it's book report, and they're exactly the same, down to the punctuation. Everything is exactly the same. One of them is a good student, one of them is not a good student.
So the teacher calls in the not a good student and says, how do you explain this? He just says, same book. That doesn't pass mustard, does it? Can't be just the same book, gives exactly the same paper. Any of you all, if you were reporting it, if I ask you to tell a story Titanic, what happened, some of y'all would tell me about the building of the ship and how magnificent it was and what was on board and how many people were on board and how many lifeboats were on board and the guy that said, not even God can sink this ship.
And then in the middle of the Atlantic, North Atlantic, they hit an iceberg and it starts to sink and then the band plays nearer my God to thee as they all. Right, that's some of you all. The other one is like, well the boat sunk. Okay, Matthew is going to tell us the boat sunk. Okay, he's just telling us the short version of this.
And then Luke gets a little longer and then Mark gets a little longer. I'm going to try not to preach through everything, Mark, I mean, Matthew and Luke say, I'll bring out some things. But Mark is where I'm going to spend most of my time today. So Matthew, Matthew starts off like this. While he was saying these things to them, this is Jesus speaking to the crowds and behold, a synagogue official.
I highlighted that because if you see in the New American Standard and a few other versions of the Bible, anything in italics, it's not for emphasis, it's to say this word's not represented in the Greek text in Matthew. Now Mark and Luke both tell us that he is a synagogue official, official and the word official can be official of multiple things. But Matthew, in the New American Standard, they're trying to clarify that he's not just an official, he's a synagogue official. He came and he bowed down before him and said, my daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her and she'll become alive again. It shows he came and bowed down before him, humility, and saying, I trust you.
Jesus got up from the table and began to accompany him along with his disciples. So, and behold, woman who had been suffering from hemorrhage for twelve years came up behind him, touched the border of his cloak, for she was saying to herself, if only I touch his cloak, I'll get well. She was saying this to herself. She said, if only I touch his cloak, I'll get well. But Jesus turned into her and seeing her said, daughter, take courage.
Your faith has made you well. And at once, the woman was made well. Now when Jesus came into the official's house and he saw the flute players, I highlight that because nobody else mentions the flute players. I thought it interesting because we have Ingrid with us, that flute players were an integral part of any service. In fact, you had to have at least two.
It was even the poorest of the poor families, it was a requirement that you had at least two flautists and one woman whaler. That's the way it was at the time. That was the expectation of a of a wake at the time. So when Jesus came into the officials house, he saw the flute players. Well, we know what that means.
She's passed. That's a norm for a wake. And the crowd was in noisy disorder. And he said, leave to the flute players and the noisy ravelers, for the girl has not died but is asleep. And they began laughing at him.
Now I mentioned the flute players and the professional mourner because that is something that people did at the time and we don't have a real frame of reference for that. But he's saying, go from here, get out of here, and I've got work to do. The girl has not died, but she is asleep. And they began laughing at him. We know our business.
We understand what's going on. We see the difference in life and death. But when the crowd had been sent out, he entered and he took her by the hand, and the girl got up. Now Jairus wanted Jesus to touch her so that she would be made well, and she was. And then this news spread throughout the land.
That's all Matthew tells us about that story. That's it. Boat sunk. It's a short version, but it's a version of it. Luke Luke expands.
Luke is a physician, a Gentile physician. Now Matthew also was a Gentile tax collector before called to the gospel ministry of Jesus. So Luke's story is a little longer. You see, kinda splits the difference between Mark and Matthew. Luke starts in 840 with this, and as Jesus was returning, returning from, let me see where so he's was in Capernaum.
He went to Gadara or Gerassah, and then back to he's returning, and it says the people welcomed him for they had all been waiting for him. The last thing he did on those shores was from probably Sowers Cove presenting the parables of the kingdom, and that filled them with hope, and they were looking forward to it. And when he left on the boat, they were just hoping he'd come back, and he did. He was returning. That's why we say this is in Capernaum.
The people welcomed him. Think about what the last people had done when he cast out the demons. It said they were filled with fear. Those who saw it and declared to them what had happened to him, who was possessed by the demons, and about the pigs, they began to beg him to depart from their region. They didn't understand him and they saw his power and they were afraid and didn't want to have anything to do with it.
So they begged him to leave and isn't it a contrast for them to be waiting on the shore for him to arrive? And a man named Jairus. Okay. Matthew didn't tell us his name, just that he was an official. And a man named Jairus came, and he was an official of the synagogue.
It's explicit in Luke. So to say that he's an official of the synagogue, he probably was not a Levite, and he probably was not a priest, or that he would have said priest, but he was somebody who would have set things up scheduled and probably. We get a whole lot of calls around here for things that are other than Sunday morning, Monday night kinda things. We have all kinds of people calling to try to schedule events, whether it be funerals, memorials, celebrations of life. We had one for a car enthusiast this week.
He lined up three of his old car they lined up three of his old cars out here, and they just met here. We didn't have a single song or a single prayer. It was a little bit odd, but the officials of this congregation said, yeah. Come on. We'd love to set it up for you.
And they sat together. They rode around the block in the old cars. The official of the synagogue, he might not have been so much a minister, but he definitely would have been well known, right, in this area. Think about this. Jesus ministered there for probably about two years at this time.
Peter and Andrew both lived in this town. It's their hometown. And this guy is an official in the synagogue of their hometown. So it wasn't like Jairus was an unknown guy. It wasn't like Jesus was an unknown guy either.
We kinda forget that sometimes, I think. He fell at Jesus' feet. So that's not the same word that we usually use for bowing down in worship. It's bowing down to request. It's like arriving with your hat in your hand.
He fell at Jesus' feet and he began to urge him to come to his house, For he had an only daughter. Oh, man. The only there is just piercing. Now, in Luke, by this time, we've already seen him heal. Actually, not heal.
Revive, resurrect, the widow of Nain's son. She had an only son. Actually, Luke only uses the word only three times and it's always for an only child. He had an only daughter and she was about 12 years old, and she was dying. Boy, I have an only daughter.
And just reading this, I'm already filled with sort of a a pathos. It's difficult. He had an only daughter, about 12 years old, and she was dying. But as he went as he went, he got up, it says. Matthew got up and went.
And as he got up and as he went, the crowds were pressing against him. It's hard to get through when the crowd's all around you all the time, and he's trying to get to her, but the crowds are pressing against him. And a woman who had suffered a chronic flow of blood. They supply the word chronic there, but I think twelve years is enough to call a condition chronic, don't you? She had a flow of blood for twelve years.
Now it does not say specifically what it was, but it appears to be some sort of a gynecological issue, menstrual issue, but it's hard to say exactly. She was bleeding. Now in the commentaries, Tanya and I were reading this together yesterday, and it says, well, it could have been this or it could have been that. The point is she had something wrong with her that had been wrong with her that caused her great pain. And in addition to the pain, it caused her to be ceremonially unclean for twelve years.
And she could not be healed by anyone. Now Luke is a doctor, and he just says it was beyond us. It was beyond anybody in my profession. No one could heal this woman. She came up behind him so as not to be noticed, and touched the fringe of his cloak.
And immediately, her bleeding stopped. And Jesus said, who is the one? Now remember Matthew told us, she kept telling herself, if only I could touch the hem of his garment. Right? Jesus said, who is the one who touched me?
And while they were all denying it, everybody around was denying it. And Peter said, master, the people are crowding in on you. It's like this everywhere we go. Surely, you're used to this by now. There are lots of people touching you.
Why is it that you say this? But Jesus said, someone did touch me for I was aware that power had left me. I was aware of the fact that power had left me. Somebody brought just a phone with a picture on it. They had been to Israel.
She said, I loved Israel. Loved everything that we saw, but this painting hit me harder than anything else there. It was just a vignette of a lady touching the hem of his garment with a powerful light coming out of it. Someone did touch me, and it's a different way of saying that someone touched him. It's just not a physical thing.
It is someone reached out to me and power was transferred there. Now, we know that Jesus walked in the power of the spirit all the time, and that the Holy Spirit in those days would occasionally alight upon someone, but it wasn't the same way that it is now, where it would just remain with the believer. This woman had a feeling that if she would do that, and she kept telling herself that, Jesus always responds to the call of faith, and he recognized that in this woman. She reached out in faith, and I was aware that the power had left me. Now when the woman saw that she had not escaped notice, like she wanted to, she came trembling and she fell down before him, and she admitted in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she had been immediately healed.
I'll come back to that in a minute. And he said to her, daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Now remember though, this is a story about Jairus. We we got interrupted.
That woman was just healed, but what's happening next? It says, while he was still speaking, in the midst of that moment, he's still speaking. Someone comes from the house. Anytime you see an asterisk in the new American Standard, that's a historical present. The verb is in the present tense, but it's just to get you into the story.
It's something that happened. But we do it when we're telling stories too, if we wanna just really tell a story. So while he was still speaking, somebody comes to him from the house of synagogue officials saying, your daughter's died. Do not trouble the teacher anymore. But when Jesus heard this, he responded to Jairus.
When he heard that from the person that was delivering the message, he it's like he just completely disregarded what had been said and looked at Jairus and said, don't be afraid. Don't go on being afraid or don't be afraid any longer from the tense of the verb. Do not be afraid, only believe and shall be made well. Now if you break it down, this is actually a pretty good words to live by. Don't be afraid.
Just believe. Now it's not flippant because we face fearful situations all the time. But if we respond in fear rather than in faith, it does not go well for us. Don't be afraid, just believe. And he said that to Jairus, don't be afraid, just believe and shall be made well.
And when he came to the house of Jairus, he did not allow anyone to enter with him except Peter, John, and James. Matthew didn't give us that information, but Luke does. Mark also does. When he came to the house, he did not allow anyone to enter with him except Peter, John, and James, and the girl's father and mother, plus Jesus, plus the little girl, seven people in the room. Now, they were all weeping and mourning for her, But he said, stop weeping for she has not died but is asleep.
Now as asleep is used as a metaphor for death all the time in scripture. Old Testament, New Testament, it's normal to use that. So Jesus is using it as a metaphorical, but he's using it so that hearing they may hear and seeing they may not understand. Okay? We'll get back to that in Mark also.
And they began laughing at him. That's an interesting thing to do. These are mourners and they're mourning and it sounds like they're wailing loudly. One of the translation says, there is quite a hubbub and they're wailing in mourning and then Jesus says, she's just asleep. Calm down.
And they start laughing at him. Knowing she had died. We know our business. I'm a professional mourner for crying out loud. Who ought to know better than I?
They're playing the flutes. You know what the music means? She's dead. He, however, took her by the hand and spoke forcefully saying, child arise. And her spirit returned and she got up immediately and he ordered that something be given to her to eat.
Now her parents were amazed, but he instructed them to tell no one what had happened. This is interesting because Matthew says news of it spread throughout the land, and yet her parents and the disciples were given instructions at that time not to tell anyone what had happened. All right. So let's move on to Mark. We all know the story now, right?
We know the basic outline of what's going on. But we're going to go to Mark now. Now remember, Mark is Peter's memoirs. Peter it's by tradition. We don't have Mark didn't say it in the forward to his gospel or anything, but we believe that Mark is telling Peter's story.
And so Mark starts off this way. Now when Jesus had crossed over again in the boat to the other side from Gadara, Gessara. I think I have a map this time. The last time I tried to use a map of the Sea Of Galilee, had several people say, those words are so small, nobody can read them. I simplified the map.
Capernaum is up there. That's Jesus' base of operations. Yes. He's from Nazareth, but Capernaum is where Peter and Andrew were from. That's where he did a lot of healings.
That was a favorable location for Jesus. And Jairus was a synagogue official most likely in Capernaum. Garasa or Gadara is on the other side of the lake. Actually Gadara, if I were to point it out, is probably all the way down here, but all of this is the Decapolis. So Garrison territory, most people feel like it was right around there.
It's hard to say specifically, but it's on the other side of the lake. And Mark very specifically says, after they had returned in a boat to the other side, the large crowd was gathered around him. He stayed by the seashore. They're waiting for him. Since he did the parables of the kingdom.
He'd only been gone a short period of time. And one of the synagogue officials named Jairus comes and upon seeing him falls at his feet and pleads with him earnestly saying, my little daughter. Oh, just the detail of my little daughter. It's a term of endearment. It's my precious little one is at the point of death.
Please, please, please come. Lay your hands on her, so that she will get well, so that she will live, so that she'll be able to go on. And it was a in that guy's mind, he had known that Jesus had healed. Now if you look at how Jesus heals in the New Testament, he doesn't do it the same way twice. Sometimes it's from a distance.
Sometimes it's instantaneous. Sometimes it gives him something to do. Sometimes he doesn't. But in Jairus' mind, if Jesus were to lay hands on her, she would get better. And so that's what he asked for.
And he went off with him. He got up and went, is what the verb means, and went off with him, and a large crowd was following him and pressing in on him. In in our day, it's hard to imagine that for anybody, but rock stars, you know, you think about a a person trying to move through a crowd and everybody's trying to to get close to them. A woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, an issue of blood for twelve years. Now, some people say maybe it was a relenting problem that from time to time would flare up over twelve years, and some people said she bled all the time for twelve years.
Who cares? She's suffering horribly. The ceremonially unclean part. If she was an observant Jew, she had not been able to be around anybody in fellowship for twelve years. Wow.
The 12 year old little girl, that little girl's whole life, this woman had been suffering. And as they're on their way to help the little girl, there's an interruption. And this is it. This woman who had a hemorrhage for twelve years and had endured much at the hands of many physicians. Isn't this interesting the difference between Luke and Mark here?
Luke says nobody could help that woman. Mark says she had suffered much at the hands of many physicians. And it's been all that she had, and she was not helped at all. Instead, she had gotten even worse. And after hearing about Jesus, now it does not say whether or not she was an observant Jew.
She could have been otherwise, but we get the feeling that she was. Although, her theology was kind of popular. It was almost superstition and not really exactly the Jewish line. After hearing about Jesus, she came up in the crowd behind him. She wanted to be unnoticed, and she touched his cloak.
For she had been saying to herself, just like Matthew says, if I just touch his garments, I'll get well. So is that biblical? I just kind of cheated and gave you the answer to this. Is it biblical? The short answer is no.
No. I mean, is now because it's in the Bible now. But Jesus' hem of his garment was it was just a garment. Right? And typically, if someone touches your clothes, just the hem of your outer cloak, would you feel that?
Probably not. Especially with a crowd pressing in upon you. Her theology sounds a lot like primitive religion or superstition. It does not sound like it's really sound good theology. It sounds more superstitious.
But it says, immediately, the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease completely. And immediately, Jesus perceiving in himself that power from him had gone out. And we know Jesus walked in the power of the spirit at all times. And a lot of times in the text, it'll say, and the spirit or the power of God was present to heal. At times when he's healing, we see that quite often in the Bible.
But this, he's just walking through a crowd. His spirit's always there. The power of God is always there. But there's something about this woman the way she reached out. She reached out in faith.
Even if the her theology was a little skewed. Immediately, Jesus, perceiving in himself that power from him had gone out, turned around in the crowd and said, who touched my garments? Who who touched my garments? And his disciples said to him, come on. You see the crowd pressing in on you say, who touched me?
Really, Jesus? Like everybody here. Everybody's clamoring to do that. And he looked around to see the woman who had done this. He wanted to see her and he wanted her to see him.
Now, something had happened and Jesus is about to say what it was but he's also given her a chance to say what happened. This baptism this morning, there is an inward thing that had come to pass in Linda Larue's life in the recent past, and she wanted a chance to say in front of the whole congregation that this had come to pass. Jesus turned to look to see the woman who had done who had done this, and the woman fearing and trembling, aware of what had happened to her, came, and she fell down before him, and she told him the whole truth. Isn't that good? She had a chance to testify.
Now, I'll say right here. In studies of what people fear, people fear public speaking more than they fear death. And so for all the attention that had been pointed towards Jesus, all of a sudden by his gaze to turn towards her, she was all of a sudden on a stage she had not planned for. For twelve years, she's been in relative obscurity. I don't even know how she survived.
And she's not been able to fellowship. And then all of a sudden, all eyes on her. People are more afraid of public speaking than death. Fearing trembling is the proper response right there. In a funeral, people would rather be the person in the box than the person doing the eulogy.
The whole truth. Here's what Luke has to say. Luke says, now when the woman saw that she had not escaped notice, that was what she wanted, was to escape notice. All I got to do is just sneak in there and just touch that garment. He won't even know.
Nobody else will be the wiser, and I know that I'll be made well. She came trembling, she fell down before him, and she admitted in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him. Can you imagine? I've been ceremonially unclean. I haven't been able to be around.
It was wrong for me even to be here from that religious aspect. But I just kept telling myself that if I could just get close, and how she had been immediately healed. She had the chance to testify and glorify God for something he had just done, just then. That's amazing. The whole truth.
Nothing but the truth. And he said to her daughter, oh, a term of endearment again. My little child, dear, dear daughter. Now, this is in the midst of a story about a man who has an only daughter. Daughter, my dear one, your faith has made you well.
Now, every translation pretty much says healed right there, but I I wanna go to that. Is the perfect active indicative third person singular if you're a grammar nerd. It signifies something that has happened at one point and has continuing results into eternity future. Okay? So this happened and it made all the difference in the world.
And it is of the verb so so. So so is salvation, rescue, restoration. It has to do with deliverance out of danger and into safety. It's used principally of God rescuing believers from the penalty and the power of sin or disease, and into his provisions of safety and wholeness. It has to do with rescue, restoration, or salvation.
So a very good translation, and I don't know why they don't translate it like this, it's your faith has saved you. That's what happened. When she reached out in faith to Jesus, Jesus always responds to the call of faith. In this case, it was a silent call of faith. Daughter, your faith has saved you.
Now you go in peace. Go in peace and enjoy being cured of your disease. You know what it's like to live in difficulty. Now enjoy what it's like. He doesn't tell her not to tell anyone.
It's in the middle of a whole crowd of people that would have known what's going on. Go in peace, cured of your disease. Now while he was still speaking, so here we pick up the story again. Every one of the gospels, the synoptics, tell the story, all tell it exactly the same. It was right in the midst of when he was up and going that he gets word.
He's still speaking. People come from the house and of the synagogue officials saying, your daughter has died. It's over. No sense in bothering the teacher any further. Just come on back home.
He's she's dead. What terrible, horrific news. There's nothing worse than losing a child. Your daughter has died. Why bother the teacher any further?
But Jesus, overhearing what was being said, said to the synagogue official, listen, I know what they just said, but you don't be afraid. Just believe. Don't be afraid. Just believe. And this one, it doesn't go on to say, and she will be made well.
He just says, don't be afraid. Just believe. And if I had to you know, I try to come up with an application point every time. This is a good one. This is a good one because we we face fearful situations all the time.
Don't be afraid, just believe. And he allowed no one to accompany him except for Peter James. John, the brother of James. It's funny to me too. Tanya and I, when we were reading this again yesterday, she she said, it's funny that John all the way through his gospel calls himself John the beloved.
John the beloved. John the beloved. And Mark is telling Peter's story, and Peter says, John, the brother of James. Peter's probably the oldest disciple. John's probably the youngest.
It just it just struck her as funny. I think it's funny too. He allowed no one to accompany him except for Peter, James, and John. Those three are gonna be with him at the transfiguration. In Luke, we'll see that before the end of the chapter.
He allowed no one to accompany him but Peter, James, and John. So three of them and the mom and the dad, they came to the house of the synagogue official. He sees a commotion and the people loudly weeping and wailing. There was quite a hubbub. And after entering, he said to them, why are you making a commotion and weeping?
The child has not died but asleep. Now, I had somebody that said, was Jesus lying to them? I think he's using it in a metaphorical sense. He's saying she is going to be revived, just like waking somebody up. I'm gonna go wake her up.
And we sleep in the Lord, and it's all throughout both testaments that sleep is used. I think that he's well within his range of meaning to say she's asleep. But I think he is saying it because of the way that they respond to him. Now we've seen Jairus come and fall down before him with a hat in his hand urging him to come to his house and he does. It says he rises up and goes with him.
We see the lady who didn't even want to stop him, just reach out and he stops and gives her an endearing blessing. Because of that humility, God resists the proud but he gives grace to the humble. And you could see the same thing in pride as someone sees it in humility and those events can be damning for you and enlightening for them. After entering, he says to them, why are you making commotion in a week? The child has not died but is asleep.
And they began laughing at him. That's the response. They began laughing at him. But putting them all outside, he took the child's father and mother and his own companions and entered the room. He enters the room.
He takes along the child's father and mother and his own companions. He enters the room where the child was in bed and and taking the child by the hand, he said to her, Talithakum. Talithakum, which translated means little girl, and then another term of endearment. Little girl, sweetie, precious, I say to you, get up. Immediately the girl got up and she began to walk.
She was 12 years old. I wonder about that. When you're resurrected, did you get to start over? Apparently not. She's 12 years old.
She was just asleep. But she wasn't asleep. Do you get that from the story? She was dead. There's no doubt in any humanity in any human's mind.
The guys that went in with him, Peter's story told through Mark, she was resurrected at the age of 12 years old, and immediately they were completely ecstasy is the word there. They were completely astonished in a positive way to the point that it was blowing their minds, He gave them strict orders that no one was to know about this. There were only seven people that saw it happen. Seven of them knew exactly what had happened in the room. What had happened outside the room was that Jesus said she was asleep and he was going to wake her up.
And they laughed and scorned because they knew that we were carrying her out on a funeral pyre. We're not going to see her again. Now why do you think he gave those strict orders? I I've already kind of mentioned it. Perhaps it was just time and place.
Now over in the Gentile territory down here in Gadara, Gerasa, or Decapolis, there is a ministry to the Gentiles, and they understand what it's like to be possessed, oppressed, whatever, at least for some people. But they don't have all of the Old Testament. They don't have all of the testimony that the Jews did have. They don't have that. And he told that guy to just go tell everybody.
Tell everybody that you will all about what God has done for you. And he did. Perhaps the time in Capernaum and the fact that it was a synagogue ruler that was it was his daughter. Might that have put him in a weird political position among the Jews to say Jesus did this. He's the Messiah.
Maybe. I'm not sure about that, but consider it. Think about it. Jairus seeing his last and only hope and it being real could have had a huge effect right there. Perhaps it was time and place.
It's hard to say. It doesn't say in the text exactly why. Perhaps it was plausible deniability. He just said she was asleep. I told you she was asleep.
When he leaves, she's awake now. But those people who were so certain of themselves would see her and they either would say, Well, he didn't do anything, she was asleep. Go on unbelieving. Or they might have had the opportunity to humble themselves and said, I was wrong. I was wrong.
I was wrong. He does know. He does have the power and put their faith in him. It's going to be either pride or humility. Everyone from the very beginning of time will either be justly condemned or mercifully forgiven, And it really does matter whether you're humble before God or proud before him.
I think that that's maybe I see it in every sermon. I think it's I think it's present in almost every sermon. But Jairus is humble, and the sick woman was humble. And those professional whalers were proud and they laughed and scorned him and his word. And I think they missed out on a blessing because of it.
So he told them to have something given to her to eat. That's cool too. He's like, this young one's hungry. Feed her. That kind of underlines the miracle when somebody's been revived and resuscitated that you might just be so shocked and astonished that you just forget.
People have to eat. So sometimes when people come see me and they're distraught, I'll say, when's the last time you slept? Three days ago. When's the last time you ate before that? Yeah.
We need to get you some food. We need to get you some sleep. Give her something to eat. So Jesus displaying his power over the natural, and then Jesus displaying his power over the supernatural. That's great.
This week, it's over sickness and death. But I wanna go back, if I may. We've got two minutes here for a blessing. We were gonna do communion this morning. We pushed it to next week because of the baptism.
But I want to go back to something Carl said last week. And would you let this just kind of wash over you? This is for every believer. It's not just for professional ministers, and it's not just for ministering professionals. It's it's for every one of us who has put our faith in Jesus.
Every one of us who has reached out in faith to Jesus. He responds to reaching out in faith. This is practical. It's where the rubber hits the road. I want to say something.
That lady's faith not be or her theology not being pure and perfect, yours isn't either. Okay? You can still reach out in faith beyond that, and he recognizes that. And that gives me great comfort. Mine is not pure and right and perfect.
We see in part. We prophesy in part. If there's something that God is laying on your heart that you should do, reach out to him in faith and do it. So as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, Be putting on a heart of compassion, of kindness, of humility, of gentleness, and patience. Can you imagine being Jairus on the way to the house?
You finally got Jesus and he's on the way to the house and he stops to heal somebody else. Oh, be patient. Bearing with one another and forgiving each other. Whoever has a complaint against anyone, just as the Lord forgave you must also you be doing. In addition to all these things, be putting on love, which is in itself the perfect bond of unity.
And let the peace of Christ, when he said, daughter, your faith has saved you. Go in peace. Let the peace of Christ to which you were indeed called into one body. Let that rule in your hearts and be thankful and let the word of Christ richly dwell within you with all wisdom and teaching and admonishing one another with Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. That reminds me, you all can come on forward Judy and Scott.
We're gonna close with one more song. I need thee every hour, I think is it. So admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever it is that you do, and that really means whatever it is that you do, it's not just ministers, it's every one of us. Whatever it is that you do in word or indeed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Giving thanks through him to God the Father. He is powerful over the natural, the supernatural sickness, death, timing. He's got it figured out. And I think to humbly bow the knee to him is what we need to do to access it. Humble faith allows Jesus to heal the issues.
In Jesus' name. Amen. Would you stand with us and we'll sing, I need thee every hour. Amen. And now, may the Lord bless and keep you and make his face to shine upon you and give you peace.
May I add to that that you would be carriers of that peace? That you'd be given opportunity to share it, to confess it publicly. In Jesus name, amen.
