Mark 5b (9-24-25)

What's up everybody it's Pastor James and we are still in chapter 5. So we're

gonna finish this up today and talk about these two amazing miracles that Jesus

does that reinforce his authority over the physical world and yet it is

reinforcing his authority over the spiritual world as well which is a

constant communication that you're seeing from the Gospel of Mark. So let's

read Mark chapter 5 verses 21 through 34 in the beginning as Jesus heals in

Mark 5:21–34

response to faith. So Jesus got into the boat again and went back to the other

side of the lake where a large crowd gathered around him on the shore. Then a

leader of the local synagogue whose name was Jairus arrived when he saw Jesus he

fell at his feet pleading fervently with him. My little daughter is dying he said

please come and lay your hands on her heal her so she can live. Jesus went

with him and all the people followed crowding around him. A woman in the crowd

had suffered for 12 years with constant bleeding. She had suffered a great deal

from many doctors and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay

them which she had gotten no better in fact she had gotten worse. She had

heard about Jesus so she came up behind him through the crowd and

touched his robe for she thought to herself if I can just touch his robe I

will be healed. Immediately the bleeding stopped and she could feel in her body

that she had been healed of her terrible condition. Jesus realized at once that

healing power had gone out from him so he turned around to the crowd and asked

who touched my robe. His disciples said to him look at this crowd pressing

around you. How can you ask who touched me? But he kept on looking around to

see who had done it. Then the frightened woman trembling at the

realization of what had happened to her came and fell to her knees in front of

him and told him what she had done and he said to her daughter your fate has

made you well go in peace your suffering is over. Okay so we see here

that Jesus has come back to the other side of the lake and this is the Jewish

side okay and a large crowd had already gathered to see and hear him because

this was typically what was happening. But this time something interesting

happens the leader of a local synagogue comes and humbles himself before Christ

pleading with him. Now a synagogue leader would have been somewhat like a local

lay pastor. They would have been responsible for taking care of the

physical building while also arranging the services with the synagogue on each

Sabbath. For this man to come before Jesus like this would have put his

position in great jeopardy. It would have been a very well respected position

among the people in that area and for him to associate himself with Jesus the

religious leaders of the day would have very much have quickly looked down upon

him and maybe have even tried to have found a replacement for him. So this man

Jairus asked Jesus to come and lay hands on her. Now some people have

different faiths and that's the first thing I want to talk about from this

passage is that you know when you look at what we've been reading about Mark

so far the Roman soldier but Jesus could just say the word and Jairus

believed Jesus must lay hands on his daughter and then there's this woman

who just kind of interrupts this story okay so the story is about Jairus he's

he wants Jesus to come but then this woman just kind of interrupts this whole

procession of going to heal Jairus's daughter so the woman believes that if

she can just touch Jesus and I think it's very interesting to realize that

there's a lot going on in this story there's a lot of things that have

happened in the Gospel of Mark so far there's a lot of different faiths

taking place in this and Jesus never looks down on anyone's faith that they

have he commended the Roman officer for saying no you just speak it and I know

it can be done he didn't look down on Jairus for saying no come touch my

daughter I want you to come touch her he went to touch her and he did not

refuse this woman who believed that if she could just touch Jesus that she

would be healed and so let's just kind of go through all of these things that

are happening at once so the crowd is great and it's pressing on Jesus and

following him to see a little girl being healed this woman was breaking the

law of Moses by being in the crowd and touching other people and even

touching Jesus the fact that she reached out and touched Jesus was against

the law of Moses she was bleeding she would be considered unclean anything or

anyone that she touched would be considered unclean and therefore it was

against the law for her to be out in public touching other people in that

manner she would have probably been divorced from her husband if she had one

because of this condition because he would not have been able to touch her or

be intimate with her without being unclean she also would have been cast out

of her home her synagogue and would have physically suffered as a result of this

and scripture talks about how she had spent everything she had to get better

she wanted to get better she was trying to get better she spent all of her

money to get better but she was literally just getting worse and she suffered a

great deal from this so what's amazing is that when this woman touches Jesus

she immediately feels her body being healed her bleeding stops and she knows

her condition and she knows that her body has been made whole and if you've

ever been sick before so so there's been one time in my life where I've

been sick for a prolonged period of time I spent a week in the hospital and

then I spent about another month and a half recovering from that and it was a

miserable experience I was in my 20s and yet I felt like an 80 or 90 year old

person I wanted to do so many things but literally my body was so weak I

could not do it and in this moment where she has been weak and bleeding and

suffering for so long she feels whole again in a moment and it would have

been this incredible moment but the woman isn't the only one who felt

something because Jesus felt the power leave from his body and enter into her

and there's something powerful that happens when God moves and I think

that's really important for us to understand is that we can feel it

sense it we can see it God wants to work and move in our lives in a

spiritual way God wants to move in our bodies he wants to he wants to consume us

he wants to fill us with his spirit he wants to move himself into us and give

himself to us and that is a very powerful thing Jesus demands to know who

touches him as he turns around and begins to look and try to find out who

touched me I felt power go from me who touched me but his disciples thinks he's

crazy because they can't comprehend what just happened because the whole

crowd is pressing around him and touching him but Jesus knows something

significant has happened and he is looking for the woman and the woman

finally comes before Jesus and falls on her knees explaining what she had done

and I want us to see from this passage day that faith is different for all

people and the important part for us to understand is that Jesus is willing to

speak Jesus is willing to lay hands and he is willing to let you and I reach out

and make the move and touch him in order to see our faith fleshed out and be

answered by God faith is not a cookie-cutter thing so if you're if

you're listening to this today I think it's really important to understand

that you should not try to exactly copy someone else that maybe you look

up to or you admire or someone who's been a godly example in your life yes

there are ways that we can follow after people and learn from them but we should

never try or make the effort to be exactly like them our goal should be to

have the faith that God created us to have because what we see in Scripture is

that Jesus honored the faith of everyone who was willing to come and

bow down before him whether they said speak or whether they said touch or

whether they said pray for my children or whether they reached out themselves

and touched him Jesus was willing to honor that faith and he's willing to

honor our faith today never forget the father who said Jesus I do believe but

helped my unbelief because Jesus wants to help us grow let's read verses 35

through 43 and finish up this this this healing passage while he was still

speaking to her messengers arrived from the home of

Jairus the leader of the local synagogue they told him your daughter is dead

there's no use in troubling the teacher now but Jesus overheard them and said

to Jairus don't be afraid just have faith then Jesus stopped the crowd and

wouldn't let anyone go with him except Peter James and John the brother of

James when they came to the home of the synagogue leader Jesus saw how much

commotion and weeping and welling he went inside and asked why all this

commotion and weeping the child isn't dead she's only asleep the crowd laughed

at him but he made them all leave and he took the girl's father and mother and

his three disciples into the room where the girl was lying holding her hand he

said to her Alitha comb which means little girl get up and the girl who was

12 years old immediately stood up and walked around they were overwhelmed and

totally amazed and Jesus gave them strict orders not to tell anyone what

had happened and then he told them to give her something to eat so we see that

Jairus's worst nightmare has happened his daughter is dead but Jesus encourages

him to just have faith even when it seems that all hope is gone there is

always hope when Jesus is in it through Christ all things are possible and

that's something that I think as believers we should all cling to every

day of our lives nothing is impossible when it comes to Jesus at this moment

Jesus refuses the crowd to go any further and takes along his inner three

disciples and when he arrives at the home there's all this weeping and

welling and Jesus asked what's what's all this about he makes this statement

that she's only sleeping and notice that the crowd laughed at him now this is

not the same crowd following him this was the crowd of people had come to mourn

this girl's passing Jairus was the only one of these people who went to seek out

Jesus and believed in him the rest of the crowd stayed there stayed with the

girl and then began to weep and mourn over her as she passed and these

people laughed at Jesus but when Jesus raised the little girl up it says that

they were overwhelmed and amazed they could not believe their eyes they had to

eat their crow and sometimes crow isn't that hard to swallow once again as we

see Jesus working and moving in these passages we see this this thing this

referred to as the messianic secret this this attitude of Jesus to constantly

communicate to people don't tell others what you have seen don't tell others

what happened keep this to yourselves when Jesus sent the garrison possessed

man a way to tell everyone what he had done he commands the Israelite people

to keep it quiet and that's kind of interesting you know it's like when we

when we talked about the garrison man who was possessed he told him to go tell

others what God had done for him but with a lot of the Israelite people he

says now keep this quiet don't tell anyone what happened he made sure the

little girl was fed he knows that even if we have been healed spiritually and

physically that we still need physical nourishment so Jesus definitely gives

attention to our physical needs which I think is an amazing thing that God's

very much aware of our physical needs and Jesus makes sure to meet all of our

needs both spiritual and physical if we simply trust in him and I think as you

look at this story it's really important to see that everyone else may

have laughed at Jesus but Jairus believed in him and it doesn't matter

if anyone else believes as long as you believe you are the one who has to

give an account to the Lord as to whether or not you believe that Jesus

could work and move and make a difference in your life it only takes one person's

faith to see the dead raised back to life and I think that's really important

to remind ourselves of today as we walk with the Lord that if we one person

simply believe it only takes one to see the dead brought back to life the

question is whether or not we simply believe let's pray together father in

heaven thank you so much for this day everything you bless us with thank you

for your love and mercy and God I pray that you'd speak into our hearts today

helping remind us of your love and faithfulness and how it only takes a

little bit of faith Lord from one person to see a miracle done to see

the dead brought back to life and Lord I pray today that you would help

us to have faith and believe that you will work and move in a mighty way

Jesus we love you we thank you and we ask all this in your precious and holy

name amen all right guys thanks for tuning in for another week and we love

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