1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,040 One of the pastors here, we are going to be reading today from 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:07,080 Matthew Chapter 9, verses 18 through 26. 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:11,080 So if you would stand with me one more time, we're going to 4 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:13,600 read the Word of God. And at the end you, you will say 5 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:16,400 this is the word of the Lord, Amen. 6 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:22,600 While he was saying these things to them, behold, A ruler came in 7 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:26,400 and knelt before him, saying, My daughter has just died, but come 8 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:28,520 and lay your hand on her, and she will live. 9 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:32,240 And Jesus rose and followed him with his disciples. 10 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:35,360 And behold, a woman who had suffered from a discharge of 11 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:38,600 blood for 12 years came up behind him and touched the 12 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:42,480 fringe of his garment. For she said to herself, If I 13 00:00:42,480 --> 00:00:45,040 only touch his garment, I will be made well. 14 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,640 Jesus turned seeing her. He said, Take heart, daughter, 15 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:51,400 your face has made you well. And instantly the woman was made 16 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:53,520 well. And when Jesus came to the 17 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:56,880 ruler's house and saw the flute players in the crowd making a 18 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:59,760 commotion, he said, go away, for the girl is not dead, but 19 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:01,960 sleeping. And they laughed at him. 20 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:04,920 But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took her 21 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:08,120 by the hand, and the girl arose. And the report of this went 22 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:12,440 through all that district. This is the word of the Lord, 23 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:15,040 Amen. You guys can have a seat. 24 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:22,600 We are continuing in our Book of Matthew series where we call it 25 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:27,400 our King and his Kingdom. Because as we see in this 26 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:31,200 scripture, not just in the gospels but in all of the 27 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,320 scripture that God is the King of the universe. 28 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:41,000 Jesus is that God made flesh who came down to bring about his 29 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,640 Kingdom on earth and his will to be done. 30 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:46,920 We prayed that prayer. He prayed that prayer and he 31 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:51,320 taught us that in, in the sermon on the mound in Matthew chapter 32 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:55,360 6. And he is king. 33 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:57,920 That means that he has authority. 34 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:02,600 He is sovereign over all. And, and that means even over 35 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:08,080 sickness and death in, in, in chapters 8 and 9, we've been 36 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:12,560 seeing Jesus doing all these different miracles, casting out 37 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,560 demons, healing people. Today we're going to see that he 38 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:17,640 even raised the little girl from the dead. 39 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:22,680 And we're, so we're focusing on kind of his authority over his 40 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:27,760 creation and created beings and, and his authority to bring about 41 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:33,960 his goodness and his mercy and his grace in our lives. 42 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:38,720 Now you're going to laugh at this title, but today's title is 43 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:45,760 this dual desperate daughters delivered from disease and 44 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:49,000 death. Often times preachers try to 45 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:53,240 use, you know, kind of the same letter throughout all their 46 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:56,080 points to to make it memorable. And I couldn't do that in my 47 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:58,600 points, but it really worked with this title. 48 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:07,240 There are two women in this story that God delivers and 49 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:10,160 heals. It's it's amazing. 50 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:14,200 And it's interesting because these two stories have nothing 51 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:15,440 to do with each other, by the way. 52 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,080 These two women don't actually know each other. 53 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:21,960 And we have this, this narrative, this story, this is 54 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:25,440 real history about when Jesus was walking on the earth 2000 55 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:30,840 years ago, how things happened in a moment of time where 56 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:34,080 someone confronts him. Gyruss is his name, his daughter 57 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:35,720 is sick and he says come heal her. 58 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:40,080 And so he's going to to to heal the daughter. 59 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:44,880 And on the way, another woman confronts him and she gets 60 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:49,000 healed as well. That's called an intercalation, 61 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,880 by the way, when a story like that where you have two 62 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:57,680 different stories kind of joining, but they actually don't 63 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,440 have anything to do with, they don't have anything to do with 64 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:04,240 each other, but yet are making the same point. 65 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:08,960 That's one more proof that God the Holy Spirit was working and 66 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:12,240 he wrote this down and that these aren't coincidences, but 67 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:15,800 there's something supernatural happening when Jesus was walking 68 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,920 the earth and when God caused these words to be written down 69 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:24,000 in this way. So let's get into this. 70 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,120 I have 5 points I want to look at in these two women's lives 71 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:33,400 and how there's these similarities to both of their 72 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:39,800 stories in this narrative. And the first one I see is this 73 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:44,080 desperation. There's both a story of 74 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:48,360 desperation in the Father and in the woman. 75 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:50,760 Let's look at the first verse again. 76 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:55,040 It says while he was saying these things to them, behold, A 77 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:58,400 ruler came in and knelt before him, saying, my daughter has 78 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:05,480 died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live you. 79 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:10,480 You don't quite necessarily see it, but you can just imagine as 80 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,760 if when you're reading something, you have to put 81 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:18,200 yourself in the place of the, the person that we're reading 82 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:20,240 about, right? You've got to kind of get in, 83 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:23,320 get in your imagination what it would have been like. 84 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:30,240 Now, this guy, he was a, this specific gospel doesn't tell us 85 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:34,880 his name, but in Mark's gospel and Luke's gospel, it tells us 86 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:40,440 he was a, a ruler of the synagogue, a Jewish place of 87 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:42,640 worship. His name was Jairus. 88 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:49,320 And this man comes desperate for his daughter, his daughters just 89 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:53,880 died. And, and he's, he's been hearing 90 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:57,160 about the commotion and, and the things going on, the power of 91 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:01,640 Jesus for him. He wouldn't have really been a 92 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:05,480 follower of Jesus because he was very high up with the religious 93 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:09,960 leaders in Judaism. But what we see here is 94 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:16,120 desperation causes him to leave his faith that he grew up with, 95 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:22,040 his faith that he was holding on to in order to go to God 96 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:26,920 himself, who we believe to be the true faith, the only one who 97 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:31,200 actually has the power to raise anybody from the dead anyway. 98 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:35,440 Like you see this man's faith come from desperation. 99 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:44,440 Now that's often how God works, by the way, we are so prideful 100 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:49,560 that we won't actually come to him until we know we need him. 101 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:53,760 God uses that he used that in my own life, right? 102 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:58,000 I, I struggled with addiction for many years of my life in my 103 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:04,320 teenage and my early 20s and, and I grew up Christian and I 104 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:09,240 had a heart for the Lord. But when I was off on my, you 105 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:14,800 know, prodigal sin moment in that lifestyle, I wasn't really 106 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,960 thinking about God, nor did I care about him that much. 107 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:24,920 He was in the back of my mind, but when I became desperate, 108 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:27,840 when I started to realize I my life was spinning out of 109 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:30,200 control. I didn't have control over what 110 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,560 I was doing and even the choices I was making anymore because my 111 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:39,520 sin was so heavy. I finally got to a place of many 112 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:45,160 would call it rock bottom, where the only place I had to do was 113 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,480 look up. I dug myself such a hole that 114 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:54,680 all I could do was look up. I was desperate for Jesus, and I 115 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,160 mean you. We can Fast forward and say we 116 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:59,160 can. We know that He delivered me. 117 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:03,600 Otherwise I wouldn't be standing here today preaching this word 118 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,120 to you. And I know there's a similar 119 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:09,720 story in your own life. If you haven't gotten there yet, 120 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:14,080 I pray you do get there. But I pray it doesn't have to be 121 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:18,280 that serious or that deep. Maybe you can put down the 122 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:23,000 shovel right now and look up instead of digging that hole in 123 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,640 your sin. But sometimes it's not sin. 124 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:29,960 It's it's despair over life circumstances like this guy. 125 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:34,480 Maybe someone's sick, maybe you've had someone pass away. 126 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:38,480 Maybe there's some medical complications or, or, or 127 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:42,840 something that's going on with financial issues in your life or 128 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:44,840 your job. And and you've gotten to this 129 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:48,560 point of desperation and this guy is a model of what we should 130 00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:53,120 do. This guy was very high up in his 131 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:57,640 in his faith and religion. People look to him for answers, 132 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:01,760 but this guy dropped his pride and was even willing to say, 133 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:04,840 maybe I don't know everything. Maybe what I've always believed 134 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:09,480 my entire life is nothing compared to the truth about who 135 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:17,560 Jesus is. Now let's look at the the the 136 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:22,800 other woman in this scenario in this story in verse 20. 137 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,640 And behold, a woman who had suffered from a discharge of 138 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:29,600 blood for 12 years came up from behind him and touched the 139 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,040 fringe of his garment. For she said to herself, if I 140 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:37,400 only touch his garment, I will be made. 141 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:44,760 Well, this, this is something that's, I mean, traumatic for 142 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:50,560 this woman for 12 years. It says that she has had a 143 00:09:50,560 --> 00:09:54,960 discharge of blood. This would have been really a 144 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:57,920 really difficult medical complication for her to deal 145 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:00,600 with. So much so back in that day that 146 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:04,800 she probably didn't have much of A social status, probably 147 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:08,160 couldn't go out and and do the things that a lot of other 148 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:12,440 people in her life were doing. This also meant that she 149 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:19,440 probably couldn't have children. This meant that she probably was 150 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:25,400 outcasted from her, her, her faith community, because in the 151 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:32,720 Old Testament, there was there were these laws and rules about, 152 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:35,920 about people who suffered from this type of thing, especially 153 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:39,040 when blood was involved, that there were certain rituals that 154 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:41,320 had to take place in order for her to be restored. 155 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:46,560 And so this woman would have been basically alone and, and 156 00:10:46,560 --> 00:10:50,520 helpless. And actually, Luke 843 in his 157 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:54,880 version of the story, adds that there it's said that she had 158 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:59,040 spent all her living on physicians and she could not be 159 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:04,200 healed by anyone. She had tried everything she 160 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:09,880 could to get out of her situation and nothing was 161 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:13,800 working. Again, I think that's kind of 162 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:19,280 like us, if we're honest, right? When we are desperate, we don't 163 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:21,680 always run to Jesus first, right? 164 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:23,880 We start looking at everything else. 165 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:27,400 ChatGPT, right? How many times do you have a 166 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:29,920 question or you're struggling with an issue or medical issue 167 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:33,920 and you're like, I'm going to ask Google what he thinks? 168 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:37,960 And we don't we don't even call it it anymore because it has 169 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:40,360 either a male or a woman voice. It's all, it's become like a 170 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:44,200 human friend to us, right? Almost like a higher power. 171 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:50,960 You should be, you know, you should be cautious about how 172 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:53,280 much you use it and what you think about it. 173 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:57,520 I'm not saying I'm against, you know, AI and the Internet, but 174 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,640 how you use it and what it will start to become possibly an idol 175 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:02,920 in your life. Maybe. 176 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:06,280 But what else do we do? We run to doctors. 177 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,920 We run to, to and fro everywhere. 178 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:13,880 The new the next new supplement, the next new medication, the 179 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:18,960 next new diet. We want to solve a problem, 180 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:21,400 right? And we are desperate and many of 181 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:29,760 us are are are very have ingenuity or ability to to 182 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:34,760 figure things out. But man, if you're a Christian 183 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:39,240 here today, shouldn't we be going to Jesus first, Not last 184 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:42,440 you ever heard those people say like, oh, we've tried 185 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:46,080 everything. Now all we can do now is pray 186 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:50,400 right after I've exhausted all the human options, then I'll go 187 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:53,400 to God. But the very definition of a 188 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:55,920 Christian is someone who follows God. 189 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:59,560 God is is is is is who they trust. 190 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:01,640 They submit their whole lives to him. 191 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:05,400 They believe there's not, it's life isn't just natural, but 192 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:09,200 it's there's this supernatural, there's the spiritual element to 193 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:13,760 to our lives. Wouldn't we go to the one who 194 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:17,480 has all the power and all authority first? 195 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:24,560 That's what we see in these two stories. 196 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:28,960 There's a desperation to go outside of the norm, go outside 197 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:37,320 of the cultural, the natural, the the internal pride of our, 198 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:42,320 our education or our background or our experience and go to 199 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:47,840 someone who can truly help us and that's Jesus Christ alone. 200 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:51,400 So that's the first similarity that I see. 201 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:54,880 And I already alluded to the next similarity then is 202 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:59,920 uncleanness. Let's go back to these verses 203 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:03,360 again. Verse 18. 204 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,840 While he was saying these things to them, behold, A ruler came in 205 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:10,240 and knelt before him, saying, My daughter had just died, but come 206 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:14,120 and lay your hand on her, and she will live. 207 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:17,080 And then Fast forward to verse 25. 208 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,800 But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took her 209 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:27,200 by the hand, and the girl arose. Now in the Old Testament as I 210 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:29,920 was talking about, there are these certain laws and one of 211 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:35,080 them was when when someone passed away, when someone died 212 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:39,880 that automatically made that person like you weren't supposed 213 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:43,680 to touch a dead body. Actually Numbers 1911 it says 214 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:48,320 whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean 7 215 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:53,320 days. This was God's holiness standard 216 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:59,480 in the Old Testament so that people would be sanctified for 217 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:01,680 worship and coming into the temple. 218 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:06,440 There were cleansing rituals and a dead body made it so someone 219 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:09,160 was unclean 7 days. So they had to wait from going 220 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:12,840 to do certain ordinances and and sacrifices. 221 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:17,240 There were some special laws. If you were, you were the 222 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:21,720 closest of kin, you could go, you know, bury them and take 223 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,360 care of that. But you weren't supposed to 224 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:29,600 touch a dead body. And here Jesus is being asked to 225 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:33,160 go touch a dead body. So there's this uncleanness. 226 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:40,840 And then in the next story, again, we have a woman who had 227 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:44,600 suffered from a discharge of blood for 12 years, came up 228 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,040 behind him and touched the fringe of his garment. 229 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:52,400 The same thing with this very circumstance that I alluded to. 230 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:56,240 That person would also be unclean for seven days. 231 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:03,560 And both of these people are going outside of their religious 232 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:09,880 beliefs in order to be touched by Jesus. 233 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:12,520 A healing touch in hand by Jesus. 234 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:18,160 They had to believe that he had the power not only to heal them 235 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:24,000 and save them, but to not be tainted with their uncleanness. 236 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:26,960 And that's really kind of the point I'm trying to make here 237 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:30,680 is, is kind of like earlier, we saw Jesus healed A leper and 238 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:33,760 lepers were banished outside of the camp because people were 239 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:37,520 afraid of contracting the disease of leprosy. 240 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:42,600 Nobody ever touched them. And there were laws about that 241 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:45,640 as well. But what we see here is the 242 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:54,480 compassion of Jesus on humanity. This is is symbolic. 243 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:57,760 It's a real story. But what we need to glean from 244 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:04,800 it is that Jesus is willing to come to the outcasts of society, 245 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:08,440 the unclean, the sick, the unholy, the ones that are 246 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:12,520 unworthy to come to worship. How many times have we heard 247 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:16,280 people say, I won't darken the door of a church? 248 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:18,839 If I went in there, the whole thing would burn down or I'd be 249 00:17:18,839 --> 00:17:21,880 struck by lightning because I'm so evil. 250 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:24,280 I'm such a Sinner. I've never had a relationship 251 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:28,240 with God. Well, I'm sorry to let you know, 252 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:33,360 but all of us are on equal ground when it comes to the 253 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:35,000 Lord. We're all sinners. 254 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:39,520 We're all unclean like this dead body or like this woman. 255 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:44,200 We come ceremonially unclean to God. 256 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:48,480 If you think about God, God is we, we say it all the time, 257 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:49,680 holy. What does that mean? 258 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:57,360 It means set apart, sanctified. He is completely other than us, 259 00:17:57,360 --> 00:18:02,480 set apart from us. He has no sin, completely pure, 260 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:10,280 completely perfect. And so anything below him is 261 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:14,000 unworthy. Anything, any person that 262 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:18,640 doesn't measure up to that standard is unfit to come to 263 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:24,400 him. And we as human beings, the 264 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,960 Bible says, is our unclean. The prophet Isaiah in the Old 265 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:31,080 Testament said it this way. We've all become like one who is 266 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,800 unclean. All our righteous deeds are like 267 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:37,960 a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf and our 268 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,800 iniquities like the wind, take us away. 269 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:48,480 Interestingly, without getting too weird here, but this story 270 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:53,360 of the woman who's had the discharge of blood for for 12 271 00:18:53,360 --> 00:19:01,280 years, back in the olden days, they, you know, they had to have 272 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:07,840 garments and and rags that were, you know, cycled to be cleaned. 273 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:12,160 And this is what Isaiah is talking about when it says a 274 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:15,600 polluted garment. Literally what he's talking 275 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:21,480 about is that same menstrual rag that this woman would have had 276 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:25,640 to keep recycling over and over again and cleaning over and over 277 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:32,600 again. We all are polluted. 278 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:36,920 We all are unclean. Why? 279 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:40,840 Because of our sin. Now let me give you a little bit 280 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:44,360 of a theological lesson about Christianity. 281 00:19:44,360 --> 00:19:52,160 It it begins with men and women were created in a good perfect 282 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,400 relationship with God. They had their free will to make 283 00:19:55,400 --> 00:20:00,160 decisions and choices and and when they chose in the beginning 284 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:06,640 to go against God and break His law and commandment in Genesis 285 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:11,320 chapter 3 from then on. The curse of sin was imputed to 286 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:14,840 all human beings. We all have been in inherited 287 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:19,200 because by the way Adam and Eve were the only ones like 288 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:24,680 supernaturally created by God. Every human being after Adam and 289 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:29,760 Eve was made by procreation. So we've inherited their fallen 290 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:34,400 DNA. Often times people question why 291 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:38,600 did God make a bunch of sinners? No, God made two people and they 292 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:43,720 were in in good standing with God and they chose to go their 293 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:46,080 own way. They chose to follow false 294 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:53,120 teaching from Satan and to to to follow pleasure to follow what 295 00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:58,560 they saw was a better life than what God had offered, which 296 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:02,520 plunged them into sin. God said you will surely die, 297 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:07,480 but not only us, but every human being after now we've inherited 298 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:12,000 that same thing. The spiritual fall of humanity 299 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:17,720 is where all of us are and things are broken and things 300 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:23,120 don't work right and we don't last long and disease comes in 301 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:26,240 and not only that but evil in our hearts. 302 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:30,320 From a very young age. The Bible says I was conceived 303 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,960 in iniquity. David says that in one of the 304 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,400 Psalms. That means that at conception we 305 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:40,960 inherit the the sin nature that all humans are plagued with. 306 00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:45,920 And now you don't have to go too far to see it, right? 307 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:50,760 If you have kids, you know, like at, at the very youngest of 308 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:55,240 ages, you don't have to teach them to be disobedient, do you? 309 00:21:55,400 --> 00:22:00,120 You don't have to teach them to be mean. 310 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:02,680 You don't have to teach them to be selfish. 311 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,880 They do it naturally. They do it naturally. 312 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:13,640 And one of my, my favorite theologians that passed away 313 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:16,120 last year, he said, Bodhi Baakum. 314 00:22:16,120 --> 00:22:20,640 He said it's the grace of God that that children are grown or 315 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:26,200 they start off very small because they're evil enough that 316 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,600 if they were full size, they'd probably try to kill us. 317 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:35,320 Isn't that right? I mean, I have a toddler at home 318 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,760 and he hits US from time to time, you know, and if if he was 319 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:44,200 bigger, it would hurt. I know that sounds kind of 320 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,280 harsh. I'm being, I'm being truthful, 321 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:49,440 but I'm trying to make a point here. 322 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,800 The point is, is that all human beings are following. 323 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:55,640 We don't start in some neutral state. 324 00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:04,480 We are unclean. Therefore this what this also 325 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,680 means then is not only are we born in this state, but we 326 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:09,560 continue to contribute to our sin. 327 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:14,520 And if you are honest, you like sin, you and I like sin. 328 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,320 I'm not just speaking down to you. 329 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,880 If you're honest, we we like our pleasure, we like our sin. 330 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,640 We like the thing that God said don't do and we don't like doing 331 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:30,240 the thing that God said to do. And we just need to own the fact 332 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,040 that. And then when we think somehow 333 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,840 when we do a good thing, like help old lady across the street 334 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:43,960 or, you know, give a donation to the, the, the nearest school or, 335 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:48,200 or whatever it is, we think somehow that earns us some kind 336 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,000 of points in some good box somewhere. 337 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:58,760 But that that does not compare. And it's actually does, it's not 338 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,680 even real because every time we do a good deed, it comes from 339 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:05,440 some selfish tainted motive. Anyway, even the purest motive 340 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:10,360 that we try to do, it's still tainted. 341 00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:14,920 And that's the point here. That's what we need to see in 342 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:23,880 these, these two women. Thirdly, what I see is 343 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,840 symbolism, and we've already talked a little bit about kind 344 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:31,400 of spiritual symbolism, but there's there's something I want 345 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:35,440 to zero in on here that maybe you wouldn't have caught in 346 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:40,120 Mark's version of it. It says the girl was 12 years of 347 00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:42,200 age. It said immediately the girl got 348 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,440 up, began walking for she was 12 years of age. 349 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:47,800 And they were immediately overcome with amazement. 350 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:55,360 And the girl who had the discharge of blood was 12 years. 351 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,120 There's 2 numbers here and they're both 12. 352 00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:03,880 And I know we can't go too far down the rabbit hole of what 353 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,320 some would call biblical numerology. 354 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:12,320 You know, you can get really superstitious with numbers, and 355 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,280 maybe we do that outside of the Bible, right? 356 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,880 There was a time in my life where I was really weird about 357 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:23,040 the number 7 and I was like, I got to get gas at pump #7 or, or 358 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:26,200 whenever I stopped the microwave or it input a number on the 359 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:27,920 microwave, it would have the number 7. 360 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,440 And anybody do weird stuff like that or is that just me? 361 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:37,400 Oh, couple people raise their hands and I just say that to 362 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:41,160 make fun of myself but and to say that there's weird stuff out 363 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:42,480 there. But that's not what I'm talking 364 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:46,480 about. I am talking about there are 365 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,280 numbers in the Bible that you need to pay attention to because 366 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,400 they are symbolic. Not all numbers, but a lot of 367 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,960 them. 12 is one of those numbers. 368 00:25:55,960 --> 00:26:00,960 If you know, there's the 12 tribes of Israel, why 12? 369 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:05,440 Why not 11 or 13 or or something like that? 370 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,360 And then after that there's the 12 disciples. 371 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:13,640 Why the 12 disciples? And then in the Book of 372 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:18,600 Revelation it has that #144,000. Where do we get that number? 373 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:24,800 Well, it comes from the 12 tribes of Israel Times. 374 00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:29,840 What 10,000 * 10,000? Is that the math? 375 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:36,680 I don't know. It's 12,000 * 1012. 376 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:40,040 Yes, 12,000 * 12. Sorry, Casey, that's I'm not a 377 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:43,600 math guy. We got a lot of engineers in the 378 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:47,480 crowd, but I'm trying to make a point That 12, you see it over 379 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,320 and over again and it's it is kind of like the number 7. 380 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:56,880 Now there are some numbers, there's the number 37 and 4012 381 00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,560 and then 1000. Those 5 numbers, you see them 382 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:03,360 all throughout the Bible and they're symbolic of something. 383 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:07,920 12 is a kind of represents the Kingdom of God. 384 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,160 If you think about the 12 tribes of Israel, the 12 disciples, 385 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,640 you're going to see them again in in the Book of Revelation as 386 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:18,720 well. It's it's symbolic of the 387 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,600 Kingdom of God. I started out saying that God is 388 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:25,280 the king and he's come. Jesus has come to bring his his 389 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,360 Kingdom. And this is what it looks like 390 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:38,000 when his Kingdom comes, mercy and grace, healing of disease, 391 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,920 things that were wrong being set right. 392 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:47,480 That's what God wants us to know, that Jesus has started the 393 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:52,960 coming of Jesus 2000 years ago, has started what God's will is 394 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,680 for the earth, and not just generally for the earth, but for 395 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:01,400 humanity, and not just for general humanity, but for God's 396 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:05,440 people, the people who come to faith in him and believe in him. 397 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:09,520 We are the spiritual Kingdom of God, and therefore we can look 398 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:15,680 forward to things like this. They may not happen in this 399 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:20,280 life, but in the life to come we know that there will be no more 400 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:24,880 mourning, no more crying, no more sickness, no more disease, 401 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:28,640 and no more death. That is the Kingdom of God 402 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,920 ultimately fulfilled. And when Jesus is walking on the 403 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,080 earth, he's bringing a little bit of the Kingdom with him 404 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:38,400 wherever he goes. And now we as the church, since 405 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:43,320 Jesus ascended, he sent the Holy Spirit into his church, and all 406 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:48,400 of us now are walking the earth. We are trying to expand the 407 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:53,240 Kingdom of God because we want all of us to be in the full 408 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:57,800 culmination of the Kingdom one day, and that's by faith in 409 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:04,920 Jesus and following him. Now there's something 410 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:09,280 interesting about this also, this woman who comes up and 411 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:17,560 touches the fringe of Jesus's garment, all men in the Jewish 412 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:22,520 tradition would have worn kind of a a robe that had tassels on 413 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:28,520 it like corners. And those represented also a lot 414 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:34,840 of things have symbolism. In Numbers 1537, back in the Old 415 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:38,280 Testament when God was speaking to Moses, he said, speak to the 416 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,960 people of Israel, tell them to make tassels on the corner of 417 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,640 their garments throughout their generation and to put a cord of 418 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:46,560 blue on the tassel of each corner. 419 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:51,240 And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the 420 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:55,600 commandments of the Lord to do them, not to follow after your 421 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,640 own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore 422 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:05,600 after. Those tassels were a reminder 423 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:09,640 that God had said what His will was. 424 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:13,920 God had come down and came to save these people. 425 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,200 In fact, in that very context of the Book of Numbers, God had 426 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:22,960 just got done saving the Israelites out of slavery in 427 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:28,240 Egypt. And by the way, slavery in Egypt 428 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:34,480 is a symbolism of what it is that sin is to us. 429 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:40,960 Sin is slavery. We are enslaved to sin, but God 430 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:48,000 reaches down, walks among us, and then communicates, leaves us 431 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,440 with His Word so that we can know how do we find Him and how 432 00:30:52,440 --> 00:31:00,800 do we follow him. And this woman represents her 433 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:05,000 faith by coming and grabbing on to one of those tassels, the 434 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:11,160 fringe of his garment symbolizing her faith in God. 435 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,960 And she'd probably heard about the things that Jesus had been 436 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,800 doing in her day, in her time in her area. 437 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:19,880 And all the other people have been delivered. 438 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,160 And again, she wasn't supposed to do that, but by faith, she 439 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:30,080 came and grabbed the fringe of his garment. 440 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:35,160 Another pastor friend of mine recently pointed out something 441 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,480 that was pretty rich and deep to me. 442 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:43,680 And he says in Malachi chapter 4, verse 2, this is the last 443 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:48,320 book of the Old Testament. It says, But for you who fear my 444 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:52,920 name, the Sun of Righteousness shall rise with healing in its 445 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,000 wings. You shall go out leaping like 446 00:31:55,000 --> 00:32:02,080 calves from the stall. And the original word in Hebrew 447 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:11,920 for wing, there is skirt, edge or hem, the the same thing in 448 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:17,400 the Greek word for the fringe. It's the same word but in Greek 449 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,080 and in Hebrew, because in Old Testament was written in Hebrew, 450 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:25,800 New Testament in Greek, this verse was prophetic. 451 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:31,480 We're looking forward to Jesus, the Son of righteousness. 452 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:35,000 Some translations make the sun uppercase. 453 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:38,720 That's his name, one of his name's Son of righteousness 454 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:43,600 rising with healing in his wings. 455 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:49,000 And you can imagine for a moment, in a small way, this was 456 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:53,240 being fulfilled in this woman as the Sun of Righteousness had 457 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:58,480 come upon the people in Israel. And this woman grabs for the hem 458 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:03,360 of his garment. There's so much symbolism there. 459 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:08,120 It's a beautiful thing. And we know that Jesus is coming 460 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:15,720 has has prophetic fulfillment. When Jesus in Luke 4 went to one 461 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,520 of the synagogue's, it says he opened the scroll and found the 462 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:21,840 place where it was written. The Spirit of the Lord is upon 463 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:25,720 me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. 464 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:30,440 He sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives into recovering 465 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:34,000 of the sight of the blind, and to set at liberty all those who 466 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:37,720 are oppressed and to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. 467 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,880 That was written in the Old Testament of Isaiah. 468 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:46,400 And Jesus was trying to get everybody to understand this is 469 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:50,840 talking about me and you're missing it. 470 00:33:52,640 --> 00:34:01,200 But there's a select few people who aren't missing it, which 471 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,800 leads me to the next point. Adoption. 472 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,320 It's often not a word talked about, but adoption, there's a 473 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,679 there's a doctrine of adoption talked about in the Bible. 474 00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:18,719 What when you become a son or daughter of God by faith, you 475 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:22,120 are adopted into the Kingdom of God. 476 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,679 And here's an interesting point I want to make out of about 477 00:34:28,679 --> 00:34:30,719 these two women is that they're both daughters. 478 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:36,920 Now, if you think about that, it's not that profound because 479 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:42,440 all women born had to be a daughter, right? 480 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,840 So I guess all women are daughters, you know, so that's 481 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,480 not that profound of a a statement. 482 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,840 But again, when you look at the scripture, they're both called 483 00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:58,200 daughter by well, one Jesus calls daughter and there's 484 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:03,680 meaning to that. So let's look again at these two 485 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:12,280 similarities of these two girls or a girl and a woman being 486 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,920 daughters that ultimately adopted by God, becoming 487 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:18,640 children of God. In Mark's version of the story, 488 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,480 it tells us a little bit more about what happened when Jesus 489 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:26,200 raised her from the dead. It said when he had entered, he 490 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,440 said to them, why are you making commotion and weeping? 491 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,280 The child is not dead but sleeping. 492 00:35:31,240 --> 00:35:35,240 And they laughed at him, but he put them all outside and took 493 00:35:35,240 --> 00:35:38,600 the child's father and mother and those who were with him, and 494 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:41,720 went in where the child was, taking her by the hand. 495 00:35:41,720 --> 00:35:47,320 He said to her Talitha kumai or kum, which means little girl. 496 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:54,000 I say to you, arise now we know that the scripture says that 497 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:58,040 Jairus said my daughter. So it is said in there that she 498 00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:03,120 is someone's daughter. But when Jesus says now these 499 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:08,720 words to Lethakum are written in Aramaic. 500 00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:12,400 Now just a little bit more education for you. 501 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:16,640 Most of the Old Testament, Hebrew, New Testament Greek, but 502 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:21,080 there are little portions and comments and quote written in 503 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,880 Aramaic, which was the modern language of the day. 504 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:27,360 OK, Those are the only three languages in the Bible. 505 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:35,040 OK, but mostly Hebrew, Greek. But in Aramaic, Talitha means 506 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:41,040 little lamb, which was also a pet name for children. 507 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:50,120 But for Jesus to call her little lamb and him grabbing her by the 508 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:55,880 hand and raising her from the dead meant that this girl was 509 00:36:55,880 --> 00:37:04,160 now Jesus's little lamb. It was now she was a daughter. 510 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:10,240 There are all these kind of analogies or illustrations like 511 00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:14,440 the church is called the flock of God and we are sheep, right? 512 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:18,040 Or we're the children of God and he's our father. 513 00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:24,960 And Jesus is the great shepherd, and the Bible says that he knows 514 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,400 his sheep, and they know him, and they follow him, and they 515 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:33,840 hear his voice. And this she heard Jesus's voice 516 00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:38,640 from the dead. From the dead he called little 517 00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,600 lamb, and she rose from the dead. 518 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,400 That is a beautiful thing. That is how it works for you and 519 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:51,880 I, by the way, when your name is called, when Jesus comes to you 520 00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:55,120 and reveals himself to you, he raises you from the dead. 521 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:59,360 And what happened today in the baptism was a picture of what 522 00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:04,280 happened as we read in Romans 6. It says that just like Christ 523 00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:09,760 was buried and raised, we too are buried and raised with Him. 524 00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,920 Our identity goes from whatever we thought it was, whatever 525 00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:17,000 identity we made-up or assumed in our life, from our old 526 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,560 nature, our sinful nature. And when we follow Christ, we 527 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:24,040 are buried and die to that nature. 528 00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:29,480 We no longer cling to that or hold on to that sin, but Jesus 529 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:33,520 causes us to raise to new life. He resurrects us all. 530 00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:37,520 Every believer has already had one resurrection. 531 00:38:37,720 --> 00:38:39,360 Have you ever heard of that before? 532 00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:43,240 You have been spiritually raised from the dead. 533 00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:48,320 The first resurrection, your spirit and your soul was dead. 534 00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:53,440 The Bible says we're all dead in our transgressions and sins in 535 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,600 the garden. When he said you shall surely 536 00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,640 die when you take of that fruit, He wasn't just talking about 537 00:38:59,240 --> 00:39:01,880 physical death but spiritual death. 538 00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:06,080 We no no longer have a connection to God through the 539 00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,720 spirit anymore, but humans are spiritually dead. 540 00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:17,400 But God raises us from the dead when he calls us by the Spirit 541 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:25,800 and we become adopted again. Let's see what he says about the 542 00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:28,160 the woman. It says he turned and seeing her 543 00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:34,440 he said take heart daughter, your faith has made you well and 544 00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:37,040 instantly the woman was made well. 545 00:39:38,240 --> 00:39:41,600 Jesus. Here's the thing, why would 546 00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:43,800 Jesus call her daughter? And this is where we all get 547 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:47,960 confused about the Trinity. And #1 He can call her daughter 548 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,040 because he's God. And so that proves that he's 549 00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,880 God, but he is not God the Father, he's God the Son. 550 00:39:54,880 --> 00:40:00,000 But here's what I'll tell you. In Isaiah, it says that it's a 551 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,600 famous Christmas verse. He shall be called wonderful 552 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:07,480 counselor. Mighty God, everlasting Father, 553 00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:09,840 Prince of Peace. And you've always wondered like, 554 00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,320 why is he called everlasting Father in that verse? 555 00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:17,480 Well, that word means Father of eternity If you flip the words 556 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:21,360 in the original language, He is the creator of eternity. 557 00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:25,720 The New Testament tells us that there was not a thing made that 558 00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:29,520 wasn't made through Jesus Christ the Son. 559 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:35,560 He is the father of time. He is the creator of all things. 560 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:40,920 Jesus is the creator. So in that aspect, being God, 561 00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:48,000 being creator, he can come and he can say daughter, another 562 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,280 adoption, right? You're now in the family. 563 00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:59,320 He says the same thing, Jesus in another story about a woman who 564 00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,880 we've been bound 18 years by Satan and he calls her a 565 00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:06,000 daughter of Abraham, again, trying to help them. 566 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:09,000 And they did not like that because Abraham was the father 567 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:15,120 of their faith and they thought they were the sons of Abraham. 568 00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:21,320 But Jesus says no, anyone who has faith is in the family, not 569 00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:27,000 just people who were born with this lineage, but all people who 570 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:31,680 come to faith. In fact, John talking about 571 00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:36,760 Jesus in the 1st chapter says, but to all who did receive him, 572 00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:40,640 who believed in his name, he gave the right to become 573 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:46,400 children of God. Nobody is born a child of God. 574 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:50,120 I've already tried to teach you that earlier on that we're all 575 00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:54,120 born in iniquity and sin. We're all on level ground. 576 00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,720 I'm glad you're at church today because if there was a perfect 577 00:41:57,720 --> 00:42:03,600 person at church, we wouldn't fit in with that person. 578 00:42:03,720 --> 00:42:06,800 You know, I think I said this a couple weeks ago, no perfect 579 00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:10,320 people are allowed here because they don't exist. 580 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:16,640 We're all sinners and we've come by the grace of God through 581 00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:20,880 faith. The Bible says to be adopted by 582 00:42:21,720 --> 00:42:23,760 God. And here's the the kicker to 583 00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:26,360 this verse though. And we talk about, well, who's 584 00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:29,000 responsible and who? Who did what first? 585 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,520 Did God call me or did I come to this conclusion? 586 00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:37,440 And it says who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the 587 00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:40,480 flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 588 00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:49,160 By the will of God, we have been adopted from eternity past. 589 00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:54,440 The Bible even says in in Ephesians 1/5 in love, He 590 00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,720 predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus 591 00:42:57,720 --> 00:42:59,720 Christ, according to the purpose of his will. 592 00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:07,240 There's so much to this idea of adoption, but these two ladies 593 00:43:08,720 --> 00:43:16,000 were adopted by God. Have you been adopted by God? 594 00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,080 You say, preacher, how can I know? 595 00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:22,560 How can I know that God wants me and has chosen me? 596 00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:28,040 Well, I don't think there's any coincidences, first of all. 597 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:32,880 So secondly, you're here and you're hearing the word of God. 598 00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:38,880 God is calling you whether you like it or not, whether you got 599 00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:44,040 drug here or not, God is calling you because this message is for 600 00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:47,600 you and you specifically. Every ear that hears. 601 00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:53,920 He's calling on you to believe in the Son of God, the one who 602 00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:58,240 has all authority and power and brings the Kingdom of grace and 603 00:43:58,240 --> 00:44:03,040 mercy. And yes, you do have a choice to 604 00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:07,680 come in faith like the Father came for his daughter. 605 00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,200 Sometimes it takes somebody else's faith to get us here, 606 00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:15,720 right? Or the desperation of the woman. 607 00:44:15,720 --> 00:44:22,040 If I could just touch Jesus. Quit trying all the other things 608 00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:25,960 out there that you've been trying to get yourself healed 609 00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:30,160 and out of this situation that you are in, in life living in 610 00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:35,080 shame and guilt or not knowing whether you stand in right 611 00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:39,960 standing with God. You can know you can be a child 612 00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:44,320 of God if you believe in his name. 613 00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:50,080 If you believe in Jesus Christ, you know you are adopted by God, 614 00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:52,000 which takes me to the last point. 615 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:54,880 It's by faith. They both have faith. 616 00:44:54,880 --> 00:45:01,440 There's faith in this story. As I said, the Father, the 617 00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,200 Father's faith. Now here's what I said. 618 00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:06,520 You cannot believe for any other person. 619 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:11,800 My faith isn't going to save my child ultimately, but it might 620 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,560 initiate it. It might start it. 621 00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:19,120 So do you have a family member, friend, neighbor, someone? 622 00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:23,720 It does. God does use your faith to bring 623 00:45:23,720 --> 00:45:25,720 about the faith in another person. 624 00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:30,960 That's how it works. He wants to use us. 625 00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,680 God doesn't need to use us. He's all powerful. 626 00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:39,160 We see His authority, but for some reason He wants to use us 627 00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:41,320 in this plan of building the Kingdom. 628 00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:46,160 He put His spirit into us so that we could be that spark of 629 00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:51,440 faith in other people. Jairus faith ultimately led to 630 00:45:51,440 --> 00:46:00,720 his daughter being saved, adopted, delivered and the same 631 00:46:00,720 --> 00:46:02,480 thing is true then for the woman. 632 00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,560 If I only touch His garment, I will be made well. 633 00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:13,600 He said take heart daughter, your faith has made you well, 634 00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:19,520 made well. Now did he just heal her or did 635 00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:21,680 he save her? We need to understand when Jesus 636 00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:26,600 heals someone, it's it's symbolic of salvation. 637 00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:30,840 But even if we look at this Greek word, it says the Greek 638 00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:36,160 word is sozo, which is often translated to save. 639 00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:40,400 Other translations would say, and you're this woman was saved 640 00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,640 by her faith. In fact, it's the root word 641 00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:46,800 where we get, you know, the study of salvation. 642 00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:51,320 So teriology, so sozo to be healed, to be made well, to be 643 00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,160 saved, It's all it's all synonymous. 644 00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:59,520 We're sick, we're unclean, we're unwell, we're diseased, we're 645 00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:04,760 spiritually dead. But God through Jesus Christ 646 00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:13,240 comes to save us by faith. And Hebrews 11/6 says without 647 00:47:13,240 --> 00:47:15,480 faith it is impossible to please him. 648 00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:20,800 For whoever would draw near to God must believe that He exists 649 00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:24,240 and rewards those who seek Him. There are those who are already 650 00:47:24,240 --> 00:47:29,680 seeking Him, and they are being rewarded by the blessings of 651 00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:38,600 just knowing who Jesus is. But anything you do, as the 652 00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:42,000 prophet Isaiah said, you will not please God with if you think 653 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,200 you can do more good than you do bad. 654 00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:47,240 And one day God's going to pull out the scales. 655 00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:51,680 And every one of us, if we live like that, will be found wanting 656 00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:59,440 on the scale of bad. The only good that we can come 657 00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:05,080 to God with is our faith in the one who and only one who was 658 00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:09,640 good, Jesus Christ. The one who came to this earth, 659 00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:15,560 ultimately died in our place, the death that we deserved. 660 00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:20,600 He died on the cross as the ultimate fulfillment of all the 661 00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:27,040 sacrifices, to be a sacrifice for us, so that if we look to 662 00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:30,760 Him and believe on Him, we can be saved. 663 00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:34,640 And Ephesians says this, it's by grace. 664 00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,960 You've been saved through faith. This is not of your own doing. 665 00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:40,480 You did nothing to get to that point. 666 00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,440 And you will do nothing when you stand before God. 667 00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:46,920 You won't have any words to say, But I did this, but I did that. 668 00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:53,480 No, this is purely a gift. My question to you, would you be 669 00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:58,720 like these two women today in this story? 670 00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:04,800 Be desperate enough to know your need because you're unclean to 671 00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:09,160 recognize what God's Word does actually say about His Kingdom. 672 00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:16,280 Would you long to be adopted by Him as He does that work? 673 00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:19,040 Because we know how adoption works. 674 00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:24,760 The child really had no choice in being adopted, but it was 675 00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:27,000 really the parents who do the work. 676 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:30,760 And that's, that's our God. He's not waiting for you to do 677 00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:35,280 something to make him want to choose you. 678 00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:43,880 He wants you. And if you can right now believe 679 00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:48,720 in Him, you can repent and agree that you're a Sinner by faith. 680 00:49:48,720 --> 00:49:50,640 Then I implore you to do that today. 681 00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:54,920 I implore you to do that today. And for the rest of us, let us 682 00:49:54,920 --> 00:50:00,960 just rejoice in that. These two women represent the 683 00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:02,960 grace of God to us. Let's pray. 684 00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:13,600 Father, I thank you for your grace, your kindness to us. 685 00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,520 I thank you for your word. It's so rich. 686 00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:20,880 It's like a a full meal. We come here starving, 687 00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:25,160 spiritually starving. All week long we've been gorging 688 00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:32,360 on every other piece of spiritual, mental, and emotional 689 00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:37,880 junk food that's out there. And we have lacked coming to the 690 00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:40,080 dinner table. We've lacked coming to the 691 00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:45,080 fountain. But you're a gracious God. 692 00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:47,120 You forgive us. You love us. 693 00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:49,040 Thank you for bringing us here today. 694 00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:53,920 Help all of us here. Follow your will and not ours 695 00:50:53,920 --> 00:51:00,000 anymore, and receive the grace and love that you display to us 696 00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:03,720 in your Word. Thank you, Jesus. 697 00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:04,280 Amen.