Humble Faith Allows Jesus to Heal the Issues
First B Jackson
2022-07-10

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Alright. Good morning, church. How are you? It is good to see you this morning. Good to see you.

Would you stand with me? We'll we'll sing together. This is a a good word from first Peter because we're we're all coming together. We're carrying things. Some are are heavier than others.

And first Peter five seven tells us, give all your worries and cares to God for he cares about you. I just want you to know that. I want you to hear that. We can give our carry our our worries and cares to him. Why?

Because he cares for us. Amen. Let's say leave it there.

Amen. Y'all can have a seat. Good to be here this morning. Carl did a great job last week. I got to watch it on the couch at my mom and dad's house after church.

It was so nice to be able to do that. That was fun. And appreciate a little time away. Monday nights at first b's happening tomorrow night. Don't go wandering off.

That's alright.

We're on

we're on tomorrow. We'll music music and message. We're in Colossians 2. And the message, really tomorrow is simple. It's for believers.

Continue to follow him. Continue to walk in.

Amen.

And pulled pork sandwiches and 06:00. We're there. Please join us.

Sounds good. Alright. Monday night's first week, 06:00 down the hall, meal music and a message. There is a Fellowship of Christian Athletes Power Camp coming up. That's going to be in Jackson and there are dates up at the top.

July nineteenth and twentieth, twenty twenty two I think is what that says. So FCA Power Camp, if you don't know what it is ask Andrea Largie and she will let you know. If you don't know how to get in touch with her, talk to me and I'll get you in touch with her. So that's FCA, Fellowship Christian Athletes Power Camp this year coming up soon. There's a prayer group that meets every Wednesday morning in the church office at 07:30AM, first door on the left headed down that hall.

It's a good time. Sunday school is on a break, the kids are going to be upstairs with us today. Middle school and high school guys and gals still have their downstairs get together if y'all won't do that. Church camping trip is coming up August fifth, sixth, and seventh. That's church wide camping trip and we have quite a big section of the Coulter Bay Campground setup.

If you have a pull behind camper or if you have an RV or if you have tents or if you just want to sleep under the stars, whatever it is, it's a good time and we'll get together, we'll eat well and we'll sing around a campfire and have fun. So that's coming up quick, 08/05/1967, Coulter, Bake. Brian McCooey, would you stand up? That's Brian McCooey. Brain.

Oh, a. K. A. The brain. Yes.

There he is, brain McCooey. Men's rafting trip, he's also in charge of that. He is such a brain that he's taken on men's ministry, taking it down the river. Men's rafting trip is happening the day before, just like that weekend before?

Third in the afternoon. So yeah, Tolson, I and Demetrius

Tolson, Demetrius and McCooey have kind of gotten together on the dates for this. It's a Wednesday afternoon, I'm saying this for the microphone. Eight-three, see either Brian or Mike B about details. We're looking for, I think still looking for rafts if people have them, right? Is that true?

We have quite a few but we need probably more depending on how many people show up. Wednesday, four to six on the river and then a barbecue after that. That sounds like fun. August 3. And today, we have a baptism.

I am not in my traditional baptism attire because I'm not doing the baptizing, but I will invite up Linda Larue and Brad Yates. And I'll hand off a microphone. The tears don't show up in the baptismal. Good

morning. Good morning. I'm my story is proof that God comes to you anywhere, including the backseat of

the club.

Yep. I've been battling cancer for a year and a half. A cancer diagnosis gives you time to think about life's big questions, but I wasn't actually doing anything to get answers. I was pretty passive about it. And then my husband, Sonny, and I were driving up here a thousand thoughts running through my mind.

But, eventually, it all crystallized into a single prayer. Please, God. Let us make it to Jackson. I didn't wanna stop anywhere else.

I

was gonna make it here. We went straight to the everything would be okay. And I know many of you were praying for me through all of this. I I can't I can't thank you enough. And I have I have a peace about me now and a hope and a prayer, but I also know that everything will be okay.

Amen. Amen.

God, what a what a powerful and beautiful testimony that we just got to just witness.

I thank

you so much for that. Your perfect love casts out fear. And in Psalm 23, you say, even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil. God, this morning, I am thankful for your light, and I am thankful for your love. Jesus' Let's sing that again.

Let me just share something that's absolutely wonderful about God's word and why we share it just right as it says from week to week. It says that all scripture is God breathed, breathed by God, and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, training in in righteousness so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. God, may you continue to thoroughly equip us. We are a work in progress, and we know it. But for every good work that you would have for us, using your word, God, would you use your word in a powerful, powerful way today.

That you it would work its way deep into our lives, into our hearts, that the soil of our heart be ready to receive what you have for us. Before Can I have a seat here for a moment? It's the worship through giving part of the service. I'll invite the ushers to come on forward. We're gonna sing my God, my king, from Psalm one zero seven says, praise the Lord for his great love.

God, we praise you for your great love and for the wonderful things that you've done. God, thank you for a transformed and changed life, buried with Christ, raised to new life in him, that we are a new creation in you. For you satisfy the thirsty, you fill the hungry with good things. Ray, would you pray

as well? Lord, I pray that you would. Lord, I feel like I've already been to church after after the before even the second song this morning. I feel like I've I've gotten what you had for me here this morning. May we be full to overflowing, Lord, with your love, your mercy, your grace, your forgiveness.

May we walk in a manner worthy of the call into which we've been called. God, pray that you do your will and your way among us right here while we're all together. But as we go out from this place, Lord, I pray that as we go out, we carry your word, that it would be overflowing out of our hearts, through our mouths with those that we come into contact with. I also pray, Lord, that you'd take these offerings and that you would do with them just as you see fit, Lord. Whatever you want to do to see the gospel advance.

Your ways are not our ways always, Lord. Show us what they are and give us the strength to walk in them. In Jesus' name, I'm just overwhelmed with gratitude and thanksgiving today. God, use us. We ask you.

Amen. It's not happening. I don't think there is children's church this morning but I'm still seeing an exodus. When I said that church, I'd already had church this morning. Seems like several others have already had it too.

Is my microphone not working? What's going on? Oh, It's catching my heartbeat. Are the slides going to come up? Let's see.

Hey, look at there. Humble faith allows Jesus to heal the issues. I don't usually name sermons. Usually, just say, this is Matthew nine, Mark five, and Luke eight. But this one, I was kind of overcome with it.

And I know that every single Sunday I put humility and pride out there that that's God resists the proud and he gives grace to the humble. But this one struck me this week probably or this week and last week. I've had a couple weeks to build up on it. Humble faith allows Jesus to heal the issues. Let's see.

Three weeks ago, we did Jesus displays power over the natural realm. Remember he's crossing the Sea Of Galilee. He's going from Capernaum up here over to Gerassah or Gadara over here near the Decapolis or part of the Decapolis. And he displays power over the natural when a storm blows up and he calms it, calmed down, and it did. And they were amazed actually, filled with fear, trembled.

And then we got to the other side. The next week, we saw him display his power over the supernatural. Remember the guy who was among the tombs? We call him I call him the Gadarene demoniac and legion. But for there were many demons in this guy and Jesus cast them out, ran a whole herd of pigs into the Sea Of Galilee.

That was two weeks ago. Carl covered. Wait a second. It's going there. Oh boy.

Ride them cowboy. There's no telling where this thing is going to go today. The clicker. So I'll get to that at the end. It is right.

It's right. It's right. It's not you. It's me. Humble faith allows Jesus to heal the issue.

So this is what we're looking at today. Matthew again this week. All three of these sermons, Matthew has been the shortest and that's not always the case. Mark has been the longest, and that's hardly ever the case. Luke is kind of between the two.

We'll cover them. Matthew, Luke, and then Mark. I'll try not to preach through every bit of every one of them. While he was saying these things to them, behold a synagogue official, and I mentioned this almost every time we see italics. That when you see italics up there, it's not in the Greek text, the synagogue part of that.

Now it's in both Mark and Luke, so it's fine to say that. And the word for official can be synagogue official, but I just thought I'd throw it in there. While he was saying these things to him, behold a synagogue official came and bowed down before him, that's Jesus, and said, my daughter has just died. But come and lay your hand on her and she'll become alive again. Now Jesus got up from the table and began to accompany him along with the disciples.

And behold, a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhage for twelve years came up behind him and touched the border of his cloak for she was saying to herself, if only I touch his cloak, I'll get well. But Jesus turning 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, so that was on the way.

He was interrupted. In the midst of going to do a miracle, he's interrupted. And this Matthew tells us, he's the only one who mentions flute players, so I highlighted that. That to me seems odd for a funeral, but flautist, it's not. But it's not.

It was sort of a requirement at this time in the practice of funeral services. In the church that you come from, have certain ways of doing things and flute players, at least two and one wailing woman was required for every funeral before it happened. From the time the person died until the funeral, there would be a professional mourner and a couple of flautists. When Jesus came into the officials' house, he saw the flute players and and the crowd in noisy disorder. And he said, leave, for the girl has not died but is asleep.

And they began laughing at him, but when the crowd had been sent out, he entered, took her by the hand, and the girl got up. And this news spread throughout the land. That's all Matthew has to say about this. Now if you were to ask three different people to tell a story about something that happened, you know you get three different versions. Right?

Matthew is one of the disciples, and he was around Jesus at this time, probably in the boat when they got off the boat and this came to pass. But he doesn't tell us a whole lot of details. If if I were to ask y'all what happened to the Titanic, some of you all would say, oh, they built this glorious ship and they filled it with all kinds of wonderful things and then somebody said, God couldn't even sink this ship. And then out in the middle, sure enough, hit an iceberg and began to go down and slowly and on the deck of the Titanic they prayed, nearer my God to thee as they sank into the freezing ocean. Some of you'd say, yeah, the boat sunk.

Right? So Matthew is saying the boat sunk, okay? He's got a shorter version of it. Here's Luke. Luke, the doctor, remember, he's a Gentile physician.

Now traveling running buddy of Paul, he has done a very thorough investigation. He's a historian. We got a couple of doctors in the house who also happen to be historians. And as Jesus was returning, the people welcomed him for they had all been waiting for him. Now the last thing Jesus did around this area since it says he came back in both Matthew and Luke, he came back.

So he went to Gadara or Gerassah and he came back across and presumably came to the same place because all the people were there waiting for him. The people welcomed him for they had all been waiting for him. Think about the last place that he just was. He performed an exorcism, miraculous, the guy begged to go with him and he said, stay here and tell all of your family and friends, the good people of this area, tell them all what God has done for you. And they began to beg him to depart from their region.

What a contrast. When he left one shore, they were saying, get out of here. We are afraid of you. We don't want whatever it is that you have that can make such dramatic change. Go.

Leave us, please. But when he came back, the people welcomed him for they'd all been waiting for him. The last thing that he had done is the parables of the kingdom. So he teaches the parables of the kingdom there in Sowers Cove and then goes across storm, demoniac, and back. And a man named Jairus, so Luke gives us his name, came.

He was an official of the synagogue. There's no italics there. It is no doubt about it. He is an official of the synagogue. It doesn't say that he was a priest.

It doesn't say that. So it seems that he was an official, meaning somebody who sets things up, makes sure that it's scheduled properly, and maybe the flutists show up for the funeral. I don't know. He's he's that guy. He is an official of the synagogue.

And he fell at Jesus' feet. This is not the same word for worship at Jesus' feet, but he fell at Jesus' feet in a posture of asking. And he fell at Jesus' feet, and he began urging him to come to his own house for he had an only daughter. Luke only mentions only three times and it's always about a beloved only child. The Nain, he's already healed one child, only child.

It was her only son, right? For he had an only daughter, about 12 years old. He's being a little more detailed, isn't he? And she was dying. She was at the point of death literally.

But as he went, he got up and as he went, the crowds were pressing against him. And the woman who had suffered a chronic flow of blood for twelve years, they add chronic there too, but I think twelve years is enough to call something chronic, don't you think? A woman who had suffered a flow of blood for twelve years, It's not specific about what it is. It appears from the way that it's told that it was probably something gynecological, something that was an issue of blood. That's what it's called.

And Luke, the physician says, And she could not be healed by anyone. Isn't that just a terrible, sad situation? She came up behind him. Now she's ceremonially unclean. If she's bleeding, she's ceremonially unclean.

And to be near anyone, especially a throng of people, she was trying to not be noticed. She came up behind him and she touched just the fringe of his cloak, the outer edge, the tassel of his cloak. And immediately her bleeding stopped. And Jesus said, who is the one who touched me? And while they were all denying it, everybody's pressing in around him and they're all now denying it.

Peter said, master, the people are crowding and pressing in on you. It's like this everywhere we go. But Jesus said, someone did touch me though. It's a different kind of touch. He recognized it.

Someone did touch me, for I was aware that the power had left me. Jesus always walked in the spirit, always walked in the power of God. Now, he had emptied himself of some of his divine attributes. He certainly had. He'd emptied himself and was found just like we are.

So he was walking out a natural world, but he had a sense that the power of God had gone out from him to heal. He was aware of it, that power had left him. Now when the woman saw that she had not escaped notice like she wanted, she had not escaped notice. She came trembling and she fell down before him. Jairus had just fallen down before his feet, right?

She recognized what had happened and trembling she came, fell down before him and she admitted in the presence of all the people. It was a a public declaration. The reason why she had touched him and how she had been immediately healed. That was my problem, but that's no longer my problem. And he said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well.

Go in peace. We're going go forward in Luke. I'll slow down when I get to Mark. Now while he was still speaking, he was still in the midst of this little moment. Someone came from the house of the synagogue official.

Somebody comes from Jairus' house and says, your daughter's died. Don't trouble the teacher anymore. Oh, heartbreaking news. Your daughter has died. Do not trouble the teacher anymore.

The finality of that statement and the hopelessness conveyed with no sense in bothering him anymore. He could have done something, maybe, but there's nothing that can be done. Now she's gone. But when Jesus heard this, he responded to Jairus. He responded to him and said, Do not be afraid any longer.

Only believe and she'll be made well. I like this. Don't be afraid. Just believe. Don't be afraid.

Just believe. Whatever the difficult circumstance and that is the most difficult as a guy with an only daughter. Losing a child is the worst. Don't be afraid. Just believe.

God will get you through this. Don't be afraid. Just believe. Don't be afraid any longer. That the continuous action of the verb is what that's any longer is conveying.

But when he came to the house, he did not allow anyone to enter in with him except Peter, John, and James. Now Luke was not there. He was not in the room, but he is an interviewing historian and he has interviewed some of these guys at least. Peter and John, probably, maybe, James, hard to say. Peter, John and James and the girl's father and the girl's mother.

I would imagine he probably sought them out too. When came to her house, didn't allow anyone to enter except Peter, John and James and the girl's father and mother. Now they were all weeping and mourning for her. But he said, stop weeping for she has not died. She's just asleep.

She's asleep. And by the way, the Bible uses sleep as a metaphor analogous to death all the time. Old Testament, New Testament. It's all the time. Some people say, well, Jesus just lied to them.

She was walking around a few minutes later, right? Sleep is a condition for sure where we're unconscious for a while, but then wake back up. Now, what he said and to whom is interesting. He said it to the ones who are weeping in mourning for stop weeping for she's not died, but is asleep. You're crying over something that you believe is absolutely final and nothing can be done about it.

And they began laughing at him, knowing that she had died. They immediately start mocking him and laughing. They went from mourning to laughing pretty quick. Maybe that's what professional mourners can do. I'm sure there were family that were just as upset and it was real, but some of these people at least began laughing at him knowing that she had died.

We know our business, we know what goes on. 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 her to eat. Her parents were amazed, but he instructed them to tell no one what had happened. Isn't it funny that Matthew says the news of this spread throughout the land? And her parents were amazed, but he told them, don't tell anybody what had happened.

So here we come to Mark. When Jesus had crossed again over in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him and he stayed by the seashore. So they were waiting for him when he got back. I'm pretty sure it was the same place he had just left. Maybe Sowers Cove itself where he was teaching on parables of the kingdom and giving hope to anyone who would listen.

Also, he was healing there. He's mainly teaching the day that he had left. And his miracles tend to always authenticate the message. So he comes back. There we go.

There's a map this time. Somebody said last time, if you're going put a map up there, please make the words where we can see them. I simplified it. That's the Sea Of Galilee. It's about 21 kilometers that way and about 12 kilometers that way.

So what 11 miles, 12 miles this way and seven or eight that way ish. The Decapolis is down there. That's where it says word spread throughout the Decapolis because of what he had done for that man who had been formerly possessed by demons. But Capernaum was his place where he lived much of the time during his ministry. Nazareth is his hometown, but Capernaum is where he lived for much of his ministry.

Peter and Andrew were both from Capernaum, probably other disciples too, and that's where they returned to, we believe. Although it's not stated explicitly in the text. The fact that it says he came back is why we're guessing that. One of the synagogue officials named Jairus, which think about this, if Jesus had been there probably a couple years hanging out in Capernaum, probably knew Jairus. Jairus had probably been around.

It's hard to say, but he knew enough to come to him. One of the synagogue officials named Jairus comes and upon seeing him falls at his feet. Anytime you see an asterisk in the new American standard, it's a historical present. It's stated in the present about something that happened. It draws us into the action.

It says, one of the synagogue officials named Jairus comes to him and upon seeing him, he falls at his feet and pleads with him earnestly saying, my little daughter, this is even more beloved, a little term of endearment, my little daughter, my little girl is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her so that she will get well and live. He believes that if Jesus touches her, lays hands on her, he's heard about the miracles before, and he says, just please come. Now, there was a Roman centurion we heard about a few weeks ago who just said, just give the word and they'll be made well, you know. But he was asking Jesus and he went off with him.

He got up and went off with him and a large crowd was following him and they were pressing in on him. And a woman who had had a hermit. All three of these interrupt the story exactly the same place, right? They're telling the same story and it matters. For some reason, these are always carried together.

In all three gospels and almost any time there's a sermon about them, we don't skip over the hemorrhage because it's a different miracle. They're tied together somehow. A woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, think about that. This little girl that Jairus is asking him to heal who's at the point of death, and there's a woman who has been bleeding since that girl was born. And she had endured much at the hands of many physicians.

Mark says, Luke doesn't say this. Luke says, nobody could heal that woman. She had endured much at the hands of many physicians. They were doing everything they could but it was outside of something that they could do. She'd spent all that she had, and she was not helped at all, but instead, she had become even worse.

What a sad statement that is. And after hearing about Jesus, she came up in the crowd behind him, and she touched his cloak. We don't have whether she was an observant Jew in there. We feel like it was because of the way that she approached him, but I believe that she was. But after she heard about Jesus, she knew probably the Torah.

She knew the way things go and how we're supposed to pray, and she knew when she was unclean. And if her disease was unrelenting for twelve years, she hadn't been able to be in fellowship for twelve years. You all thought COVID was bad. This is bad. Now it might have relented at times what the commentaries Tanya and I were reading this together yesterday.

And it said, well, there are three possible options for this woman's disease and it wasn't like what it was, but how it was. Either it was relenting and came back over and over from time to time for twelve years or it was continuous. And both Tanya and I said at the same time reading this commentary, who cares? It was a disease that was twelve years chronic, twelve years. That's longer than I've been here.

It's a long time. After hearing about Jesus, she came up in the crowd behind him and she touched his cloak. For she had been saying to herself, if I just touch his garments, I will get well. Now, question for you, is that biblical? No, it's not.

We don't have a superstitious religion. Primitive religion often has a power in objects or power in incantations. You say the right thing the right way and you get what you want. Or you you hold this thing and say the right thing the right way and you get what you want. This is superstitious, perhaps primitive.

It's it's not really biblical. But the fact that she was saying this to herself was an exercise in itself of faith. Are you with me? Is it still sketchy? Her theology was not great, okay?

Certainly wasn't New Testament theology as developed as we all are here today, right? Is that biblical? I just say no. It's not. And it sounds like superstition.

But Jesus recognized it. There was a humility about her. She did not want to be seen. She didn't want to be noticed, but she still had the faith that all she had to do was get there and touch just the remnant, just the cloak, and she'd be fine. But immediately, the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt it in her body that she was healed of her disease.

After twelve years, she feels whole. Oh. And immediately, Jesus, perceiving in himself that power from him had gone out. And that even trips us up a little bit, doesn't it? Jesus is all all knowing.

Jesus is the son of God. Jesus, certainly, he would know this. Well, I think there's some method here. I think he's doing something. He recognizes when God's spirit is doing something.

And all the people that just wanted to be near him probably reaching out to touch him. I every time I can't help it, but every time that I I hear this, I think of somebody walking through a crowd like Elvis or the Beatles or somebody like that and people are just reaching out for him, reaching out for him, oh, I want to just touch him. A thronging mass, we don't see very often in our day. Jesus, perceiving in himself that power from him had gone out, turned around in the crowd and said, who touched my garments? You can't even feel it when somebody touches your garment, can you?

If somebody just touches the hem of your robe, no, but he could. And his disciples said to him, you see this crowd pressing in on you and you say, who touched me? That's ridiculous. And he looked around to see the woman who had done this. Amen.

He looked around and though she wanted to remain unnoticed, he wanted to see her. And he wanted her to see him. And the woman fearing and trembling aware of what had happened to her came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth. Ah, let's go back to Luke for just a second. Now when that woman saw that she had not escaped notice like she wanted, She came trembling and she fell down before him.

Boy, what a crowd. That's all around. Public speaking. People say that's their biggest fear. Most people, that's the biggest fear.

In fact, death is below public speaking. Really. So at a funeral, people would rather be in the box than behind the pulpit. And all of a sudden, everyone's gaze, not just Jesus, but everyone's gaze is on her. If they recognized her, they would know.

Oh, she came trembling and fell down before him. And she admitted in the presence of all the people. She had already been saved. She had already been healed. She'd already been rescued.

But now she's able to confess that with her mouth. What a public proclamation of what God has done inside. Right? She admitted in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him and how she had been immediately healed. She glorified God.

Amen. Amen. May we turn every blessing that God gives back to him in praise and thanksgiving and adoration. But the woman fearing and trembling, aware of what had happened to her, came and fell down before him, told the whole truth. And he said to her daughter, oh, what a term.

You're my child. My sweet little girl. Think about this in the midst of the story of Jairus' daughter. Daughter, your faith has made you well. Now, read that and it just means, okay, the issue of blood dried up, but the word there, the word right there is, for all you grammar nerds, present, active, indicative, third person.

Oh, it's perfect, active, indicative, third person singular, which means something happened in the recent past that has effect all the way into eternity future, okay? And it's So to. So to, some of you all know about So to healing, you've heard that movement going on the past ten or twelve years. But So to is having to do with deliverance out of danger and into safety. It's used principally of God rescuing believers from the penalty and power of sin and into his own provision or safety.

It has to do with rescue restoration and salvation. It's a wholeness. You were made whole. So so. Your faith has saved you.

That's what he says to her. Daughter, your faith has saved you. Now go in peace and be cured of your disease. All that ails you, everything. Walk in wholeness.

And while you're still speaking, so in the midst of this glorious, example, people came from the house of the synagogue officials saying, your daughter's dead. What terrible news. Why bother the teacher further? There's nothing that can be done. But Jesus, overhearing what was being spoken, said to the synagogue official, Don't listen to them.

Don't listen to them. Don't be afraid. Just believe. Don't be afraid. Just believe.

Don't be afraid. Just believe. I think he says that to us a lot. I'm not sure we listen a lot. There is either going to be a reaction to anything that happens to us.

It's going to be either fear or faith. It can't be both. Now you can step into something that is a fearful situation believing, don't be afraid. Just believe. He allowed no one to accompany him except Peter, James, and John, the brother James.

That was another funny one, John, the brother James. Not John the beloved like he calls himself. Little whippersnapper. Remember that Mark is Peter's story, right? Peter's story is told by Mark, memoirs of Peter.

And he allowed no one to accompany him except Peter, James and John. John the brother of James. And they came to the house of the synagogue official, he saw a commotion. This translator translates at hubbub. He saw hubbub.

He comes to the house of the synagogue officially sees a commotion, and the people are loudly weeping, loudly wailing. He's a synagogue official. That lady was virtually unknown and trying to remain that way, and Jairus couldn't help but be known and noticed. We did a funeral we didn't do a funeral here the other day. Just we had a place for someone to gather when there was a celebration of life this week.

And we get calls all the time because we are synagogue officials for people wanting to do things. Probably everybody around knew Jairus and his daughter. They came to the house of this synagogue official, and Jesus saw this commotion, and people were loudly weeping and wailing. After entering, Why are you making such a hubbub? Why are you crying?

The child has not died but is asleep. And they began laughing at him. But putting them outside, he took along the child's father and mother and his own companions. So it's Jesus, mom and dad, Peter, James and John, that's six people with little girl at seven, took along the child's father and mother and his own companions and entered the room where the child was in bed, where she was lying. That laughing is something.

The way they turn and say, we know what we are doing. We know there is nothing that can be done about this. It's knowing better. It is the definition of pride, honestly. I think I know better than you.

And taking the child by the hand, he said to her, Talithakum, which translated means little girl. Another little term of endearment, little girl. I say to you, get up. Rise up. And immediately, the girl got up and began to walk for she was 12 years old.

Do you start over after resurrection? Nobody gets that. She's 12 years old. She was dead. And I think that it's clear from Luke.

It's clear from Mark. It's clear. But there's enough in there that people still question, was she really did she just swoon? Was it a coma? Does it matter?

I think it does. He's showing power over sickness and death here. Immediately, the girl got up and began to walk. She was 12 years old. Immediately, they were completely astonished, astonished.

The word the word we get our ecstasy from, it's a very good thing, but it's outside of yourself, your mind is blown. And he gave them strict orders that no one was to know about this. Now, why would he do that? That always trips us up. Why would he do that?

I mean, it was just time and place. Over here, he'd been in a Gentile territory. He needed the word to go out from somebody who had had the experience themselves and go ahead and tell what you know. Please tell it what God has done for you. And immediately, he says he goes out and he tells everybody what Jesus had done for him.

Perhaps it was plausible deniability. He said she was asleep. He said she was asleep to people who laughed, mocked, and scorned immediately because they knew better. So I I see it this way. So every sermon has to have that moment about pride and humility.

Right? Everyone. Jairus comes to him and falls down before him and says, I'm I'm at the end of my rope. I don't have anything else. I've heard I know you or I've heard about you.

If you just come and lay your hands on her, I know that she'll be made well. It turns out that's what happened. Right? So in humility, Jairus, even though Jesus was interrupted and it became for humans a more difficult task, Jesus was still able to take her hand and tell her to get up and she did. We already knew she could we already knew he could do this.

And Luke, we already knew this because he'd done it in a funeral procession for a boy who was the only son of this woman. The sick woman came. She was humble before him. She was so humble, she didn't even want to be noticed. But she also in humility when he said, who touched me, admitted it, down on her knees, told the whole truth to the whole crowd, made a confession of what God had done for her.

She was made well and he told her to go as a daughter. And then these professional, I put that in there, but that's what it looks like from the text, whalers were proud. They knew their business. Now think about this though. If they knew their business and then that little girl comes walking out of that room, either they're going to in humility go, well, he did know better than we did.

Maybe she was just asleep. But even that is miraculous because she was sick unto death, we know that. And they could either write it off as, well, she just it was a coma and she woke up from the coma. And seeing they would not see. And hearing they would not understand.

Or they'd say, He was right and in humility accept what he had done as miraculous and authenticating his message. Told him to have something given to her to eat. I like that too. He cared about her physical needs too. I mean, needs brought her back from death.

But then said, give her something to eat. That underlines the miracle. It underlines it. So a few weeks ago, it was Jesus displaying his power over the natural realm, commanding the wind and the waves. And then over the supernatural, the demons trembled and begged, and he sent them out.

And then, Carl, I wanted to put this in here. I enjoyed last week's sermon so much. Colossians three is one of my favorite places in the whole Bible because it just brings it down. And may I read this? It's not exactly the benediction, but it is a benediction.

It's for every single one of you who has trusted in Christ. Not just, you know, the professional ministers, but the ministering professionals and the kids among us. As those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, y'all be putting on a heart of compassion, of kindness, of humility, of gentleness, and of patience, and be bearing with one another, and be forgiving each other. Whoever has a complaint against anyone, just as the Lord forgave you, that's what you need to do also. And in addition to all these things, put on love, which is in itself the perfect bond of unity, and let the peace of Christ.

That's what he extended to that woman because she reached out for him. Her theology was not perfect. Neither is yours. Okay. Neither is mine.

Keep reaching out for him. Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you. With all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, I'll invite the band back up. Hymns and spiritual songs, sing singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Whatever you do in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to him, to God the father.

This week, we saw Jesus display his power over sickness and death. Would you stand with us as the band gathers back up? We're going to sing one last song, and it's sort of a benediction in and of itself. It's based on the ironic, not the ironic. It's not an ironic blessing.

It's the ironic blessing like Aaron. Sorry. I say that my accent throws people in the way. Why would that be ironic? It could be ironic, which means peaceable and peaceful, but it is Aaron's blessing.

Would you sing it with us, and then we'll be dismissed. His face towards you and give you peace. I know we were supposed to do communion today, but we're gonna push that till next week. Alright? May God bless you and keep you.

Make his face to shine upon you. In Jesus' name, would you be reflecting that glory onto all around us this week? Amen. How about eight? Does that work?