1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,200 Jesus, left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre. 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:07,400 He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it yet. 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:09,500 He could not keep his presence Secret. 4 00:00:10,100 --> 00:00:13,900 In fact, as soon as she heard about him a woman, whose little 5 00:00:13,900 --> 00:00:17,700 daughter was possessed by an imp, your spirit came and fell 6 00:00:17,700 --> 00:00:21,400 at his feet. The woman was a Greek born in 7 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:24,600 Syria and Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the 8 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:29,300 demon out of her daughter. First, let the children eat all 9 00:00:29,300 --> 00:00:32,000 they want. He told her for it is not right 10 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,900 to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs. 11 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:40,200 Lord, she replied even the dogs under the table, eat the 12 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:44,300 children's crumbs. Then he told her for such a 13 00:00:44,300 --> 00:00:49,300 reply, you may go, the demon has left your daughter, she went 14 00:00:49,300 --> 00:00:53,600 home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon gone. 15 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:58,800 Okay. So as we start a quick question, 16 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,100 have you ever gone away somewhere to try and get like a 17 00:01:02,108 --> 00:01:04,700 break or a relax? And just chill out. 18 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,900 And then for whatever reason, that doesn't happen. 19 00:01:08,900 --> 00:01:10,800 So you go away with the intention of like chilling out 20 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:13,000 or you skiver period of school, just about to get a bit of a 21 00:01:13,008 --> 00:01:15,100 relaxed or whatever. Not that one ever happen. 22 00:01:15,300 --> 00:01:17,900 I'm sure. And then you just not been able 23 00:01:17,900 --> 00:01:19,900 to relax in the way that you thought you would. 24 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:24,000 So the most extreme example, I could think of was my mom and 25 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,000 dad for their honeymoon are very valleys honeymoon. 26 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:31,800 They went to West Wales to go to a caravan in pembrokeshire and 27 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:33,500 it was really lovely. The first few days were great, 28 00:01:33,500 --> 00:01:35,700 they got on really well with the family in the Caravan next to 29 00:01:35,700 --> 00:01:39,400 them until two or three days until the honeymoon, when the 30 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:42,000 husband of that family died of a heart attack. 31 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:45,300 And so my mom and dad spent their third or fourth night of 32 00:01:45,300 --> 00:01:48,200 their married life on the sofas, in the front room of their 33 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,500 Caravan with two random children on the floor. 34 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,900 The next them and the wife of this guy in their bed and they 35 00:01:53,900 --> 00:01:55,900 spent the next day or so consoling them, sorting them 36 00:01:55,900 --> 00:01:59,000 out, that's not the honeymoon. You expect is it? 37 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:01,700 That's not what you want. When you go away for a 38 00:02:01,700 --> 00:02:05,300 honeymoon, have you ever gone away somewhere to try and just 39 00:02:05,300 --> 00:02:08,100 relax? Chill out and not happened? 40 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,200 Well, in this section of mark, That's What It Seems like what 41 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,400 happens to Jesus and his disciples, they seem to want to 42 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:17,800 go away to try and Escape something or whatever. 43 00:02:18,100 --> 00:02:20,200 And Mark, writes it to sound like that that there's this 44 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:22,700 Interruption that kind of ruins this planned Escape. 45 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:26,000 But what we're going to see today is that Jesus deliberately 46 00:02:26,100 --> 00:02:29,500 takes his disciples into this situation, to teach them stuff 47 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:33,500 about him about God's heart and God's mission for the world. 48 00:02:33,500 --> 00:02:34,800 We're going to jump straight into it. 49 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,100 I like to have headings to just help me follow my way through 50 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,200 the stories, is going to retell the story. 51 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:41,000 In B. So the first thing we're going 52 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:48,400 to see is An unusual Journey, Plessy, an unusual Journey 53 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:53,100 starts in verse 24. So jesus takes his disciples 54 00:02:53,100 --> 00:02:55,400 away. There are some hints as to why 55 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:56,900 you might have done that. Maybe us running away from the 56 00:02:56,908 --> 00:02:58,400 Pharisees. He's just been fighting with 57 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,100 last week. Maybe that's because he's, he 58 00:03:01,100 --> 00:03:03,200 wants to get away from Herod who sort of a bit grumpy in the 59 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:05,900 background. There were not sure and he takes 60 00:03:05,900 --> 00:03:10,500 them into the region of Tyre. Now that might not mean a lot to 61 00:03:10,500 --> 00:03:13,800 most of us geographically but for Mark's original readers, 62 00:03:14,100 --> 00:03:16,200 that would have been a massive surprise. 63 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,100 The region of Tyre I've got are giving us a map. 64 00:03:19,100 --> 00:03:21,900 So Jesus would have started just north of Galilee there and they 65 00:03:21,908 --> 00:03:24,200 traveled up to the region of Tyre around there. 66 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:27,000 So there's tire and their side and there are some towns that 67 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,500 come up in Jesus is hanging around this area and this area 68 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,000 is an area that was famously anti-israel. 69 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:39,300 These had a history of being the enemies of God's people. 70 00:03:40,100 --> 00:03:43,600 So Old Testament prophets like Ezekiel and Zakaria, they 71 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:46,400 criticize and slag off the wealth of Tyre and sidon and the 72 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:48,600 terror that they're always bringing upon Israel. 73 00:03:49,300 --> 00:03:52,600 And the Jewish historian, Josephus said that the people of 74 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:56,400 Tyre were notoriously, our bitterest enemies. 75 00:03:57,500 --> 00:03:59,800 This is a weird place for Jesus to go to. 76 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:05,800 And on top of that tire was incredibly Pagan that means that 77 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,000 they didn't worship. Just the one God like Israel 78 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,900 did. But instead, they worship and 79 00:04:09,900 --> 00:04:14,200 sacrifice to a whole host of different idols and false gods. 80 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:18,300 It was probably the most taken place a Jewish person would ever 81 00:04:18,300 --> 00:04:22,400 come across So, for example, this is where the famous Old 82 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,400 Testament. Queen Jezebel came from, so 83 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,700 Jezebel in the Old Testament, she came from this region and 84 00:04:28,700 --> 00:04:32,200 she was the queen that really big tup Baal Worship in Israel 85 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:34,800 and caused Israel to run away from God a lot. 86 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:38,700 In the section before this. If you remember last week Jesus, 87 00:04:38,700 --> 00:04:40,900 we've been talking to the Pharisees about being clean or 88 00:04:40,900 --> 00:04:44,700 unclean while this area was about as unclean a place as it 89 00:04:44,707 --> 00:04:47,400 was possible for a Jewish person to go. 90 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:52,000 And yet, that is where jesus takes his disciples. 91 00:04:53,100 --> 00:04:56,800 Jews would not have gone there. If they could help it, but this 92 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,300 is where Jesus took them sometimes. 93 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:01,600 Jesus will lead his people places. 94 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:05,300 They would never imagine God, wanting them to go so that God 95 00:05:05,300 --> 00:05:07,800 can show the lengths. His grace is willing to go to 96 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:11,900 Maybe there's someone here this morning who's feeling God lead 97 00:05:11,900 --> 00:05:15,000 them in a direction to a place that they would never expect God 98 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,600 to want them to go. Sometimes God loves to take us 99 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:22,800 on unusual, Journeys to display parts of his character in 100 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,900 unusual places. So anyway, they're gone unusual 101 00:05:26,900 --> 00:05:29,900 journey and the end up in a house verse 24. 102 00:05:29,900 --> 00:05:32,600 And they don't want anybody else to know that they're there, but 103 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:37,900 it isn't long before they get an unwelcome visitor in verses 25 104 00:05:37,900 --> 00:05:42,200 and 26, an unwelcome visitor and however, know where this woman 105 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:46,300 appears and she falls on her knees at Jesus's feet. 106 00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:49,500 Now to check, his been paying attention the last few weeks. 107 00:05:49,500 --> 00:05:52,700 Can anybody remember who the last person in Mark's gospel was 108 00:05:52,700 --> 00:05:58,400 who fell at Jesus feet? I know. 109 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:02,200 One dares risk, it. Do they It wasn't it was just 110 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:04,100 before the bleeding woman but well done. 111 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:07,700 She touches his hem, we assumed that it was gyrus. 112 00:06:08,300 --> 00:06:12,100 Remember, gyrus back in chapter 5, he does the same thing and if 113 00:06:12,100 --> 00:06:15,000 you remember gyrus, he's a synagogue leader. 114 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:20,100 He was an important Jewish, man. Well, this person couldn't have 115 00:06:20,100 --> 00:06:24,900 been any more different to gyrus Of all of the people who come to 116 00:06:24,900 --> 00:06:28,300 Jesus in Mark's gospel. This woman has got the most 117 00:06:28,300 --> 00:06:32,800 going against her the way Mark describes her in verse 26 is 118 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,600 kind of like a crescendo where he builds worse and worse things 119 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:39,800 on top of each other. So firstly, she's a woman in 120 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,300 this culture. Women were considered less 121 00:06:42,300 --> 00:06:45,800 important than men and the idea of a woman coming up to an 122 00:06:45,808 --> 00:06:48,400 important teacher and demanding their attention. 123 00:06:48,700 --> 00:06:53,500 Well, that was just unheard of Secondly, she's a Greek Gentile, 124 00:06:54,300 --> 00:06:58,600 so she's not one of God's chosen, special people third and 125 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,800 perhaps even worse. She was a from Syria and 126 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,600 Phoenicia. She is one of these pagan 127 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:08,800 people, even Levi, the tax collector hanging around with 128 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:10,800 Jesus, would have raised his eyebrows at this woman. 129 00:07:11,900 --> 00:07:16,200 Culturally, she is the most unwelcome visitor that they 130 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,600 could have had. In the disciples eyes, she is 131 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:22,000 got everything going against her. 132 00:07:25,100 --> 00:07:28,600 But she's got a desperate. Need her little daughter has 133 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:33,400 been possessed by an evil spirit and somehow she knows that the 134 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:36,300 only one who can help her is Jesus. 135 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:41,300 So as unwelcome as she knows, she might be, she comes to 136 00:07:41,300 --> 00:07:45,100 Jesus, she falls at his feet, and she begs him to drive the 137 00:07:45,100 --> 00:07:49,900 demon out of her daughter. What good news for her daughter? 138 00:07:49,900 --> 00:07:53,500 A father mom like this. This daughter had no hope on her 139 00:07:53,500 --> 00:07:56,500 own, but with a mum, she had hope j.c. 140 00:07:56,500 --> 00:07:59,600 Ryle a bishop for Liverpool. In the 1800's said it like this 141 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,800 hopeless and desperate. As her case that appeared, she 142 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:07,800 had a Praying Mother and where there is a Praying Mother, there 143 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:13,700 is always hope But they sort of seems fairly familiar for us to 144 00:08:13,700 --> 00:08:16,600 Mark, right? So far, people come to Jesus 145 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:19,700 asking for help and Jesus helps them us, just what happens 146 00:08:19,900 --> 00:08:22,600 again, and again and again with us healing whether it's demons, 147 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,100 whatever it is. Jesus helps people, which makes 148 00:08:26,100 --> 00:08:28,900 what happened next? Come fairly out of the blue 149 00:08:29,100 --> 00:08:33,700 because next, we see Jesus give an unexpected response and this 150 00:08:33,700 --> 00:08:35,400 is where we're going to spend a fair bit of time. 151 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,500 I've hurried to get to this point because I'm going to spend 152 00:08:37,500 --> 00:08:39,500 a fair bit of time in these verses because they're worth 153 00:08:39,500 --> 00:08:42,600 explaining because they can look a little bit baffling to start 154 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:45,500 with. Have a look at verse 27. 155 00:08:46,500 --> 00:08:49,400 First, let the children eat all they want. 156 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:53,100 He told her for his not right, to take the children's bread and 157 00:08:53,100 --> 00:08:56,500 toss it to the docks. Street. 158 00:08:56,500 --> 00:08:59,600 Again, first that the children eat all they want front is not 159 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:03,400 right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs. 160 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:08,900 What is happening here? What's going on? 161 00:09:09,500 --> 00:09:11,700 This is doesn't seem like the Jesus. 162 00:09:11,700 --> 00:09:15,000 I know. Is this a bit of misogyny 163 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,800 kicking in? Where's the Jesus? 164 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,400 I know and love gun. If Peter had been live tweeting 165 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:22,900 this interaction. Can you imagine the Uproar? 166 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:29,200 This looks awful. And it truth, it doesn't seem to 167 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:31,100 get better as we explain what's going on. 168 00:09:31,300 --> 00:09:34,200 Because This Woman's come to Jesus, she's asked for help, and 169 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:37,300 he seems to say to her. Who do you think you are? 170 00:09:38,300 --> 00:09:41,700 I came to minister to, to feed the children of Israel. 171 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:44,700 I can't give you what's rightfully theirs. 172 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:48,300 And he uses only a little Parable, a picture story, a 173 00:09:48,308 --> 00:09:51,100 little Parable to explain what he means. 174 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:55,200 So to put it in, modern terms. Imagine I asked ether what her 175 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:59,100 favorite food was now. She'd say salad, first of all, 176 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:01,200 which is a lie, but a weird thing she's got into doing at 177 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,800 the moment, after you push through that, she'd eventually 178 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,500 admit it was probably pizza and chips and meatballs something 179 00:10:07,500 --> 00:10:08,800 like that. Maybe not altogether. 180 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:12,400 So now imagine I tell her, I'm going to make you that meal. 181 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:16,000 I'm going to make that meal and I can let a smell it as Sizzling 182 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,300 stuff away. And then I call it to the table 183 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:21,200 and I serve the food up in front of a give, thanks. 184 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:22,900 And I let her smell it and see it. 185 00:10:22,900 --> 00:10:24,800 And then I take out from front of her and throw it into Remy's 186 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:28,200 food, bowl a dog. That would be incredibly cruel, 187 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:31,300 wouldn't it be horrible thing for me to do? 188 00:10:33,100 --> 00:10:36,600 But that's what Jesus seems to say him helping this woman will 189 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:39,800 be doing. He seems to say I came to give 190 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:43,100 food to the nation of Israel and they haven't finished eating. 191 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,900 So he seems to say wouldn't be right to serve you some food. 192 00:10:49,500 --> 00:10:53,600 And he calls her a dog. You notice that if I were to 193 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:57,000 describe any of you here as a bit of a dog, that wouldn't be. 194 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:01,400 Okay, you should tell me off. Well, it was the same in Jesus's 195 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:03,300 day as well. Almost every Old Testament. 196 00:11:03,300 --> 00:11:07,900 Passage that describe dogs shows how much Jews hate dogs or at 197 00:11:07,908 --> 00:11:11,000 least it did then they were unclean animals because they are 198 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,700 rubbish and dead things and it was how Jewish people often 199 00:11:14,700 --> 00:11:18,900 referred to non-jewish people Gentile dogs. 200 00:11:19,700 --> 00:11:22,600 It was the right metaphor in their heads, but people who are 201 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:28,000 regarded as ignorant Godless unclean Pagan Idol worshippers. 202 00:11:30,100 --> 00:11:32,200 So, it's not what Jesus is doing here. 203 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:38,400 Is this how Jesus means it? Is he being mean to this woman. 204 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:41,500 Is he calling all of those things unclean? 205 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:45,600 Ignorant, Etc. While I think looking at it in 206 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,500 context and Mark and given that you had this big argument last 207 00:11:48,500 --> 00:11:51,400 week with the Pharisees about clean and unclean things. 208 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,300 He can't exactly teach against their view of that but agree 209 00:11:55,300 --> 00:11:57,600 with them on their idea of clean and unclean people. 210 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:00,300 That wouldn't make sense. It doesn't tie in with what 211 00:12:00,300 --> 00:12:03,900 Jesus is doing. It's also the English 212 00:12:03,900 --> 00:12:05,300 translation. Apparently, I'm not a Greek 213 00:12:05,300 --> 00:12:06,800 person. It doesn't help us here because 214 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:08,800 the word that Jesus uses for dog. 215 00:12:09,300 --> 00:12:12,600 Isn't the same word, but they would have used to mean dirty 216 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:17,000 Street dogs. In the insulting way, instead, 217 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,000 this is a word for a little dog that they would have had as 218 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:21,100 pets. So we're just beginning to get 219 00:12:21,100 --> 00:12:23,600 pets like this under their tables in these days. 220 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:28,200 And if you like Jesus uses the word doggie rather than Street 221 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:32,200 dog. The little doggie, not wild 222 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:37,000 Street mangy Mutt and I feel completely different about a 223 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,300 house pet than I do to wild dogs. 224 00:12:40,900 --> 00:12:45,600 The fact that she even uses that word back about herself shows 225 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:47,600 that she doesn't take this as a rude insult. 226 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:51,300 This isn't Jesus being mean and cruel here, she uses that same 227 00:12:51,300 --> 00:12:54,500 word to hear, you're right? She's doesn't think that he's 228 00:12:54,500 --> 00:12:59,200 being mean, instead, what Jesus is doing here, is he's teaching 229 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:04,100 his disciples and us about God's mission in the whole world. 230 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:07,400 You see all through the Old Testament. 231 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:11,200 God has revealed himself exclusively, almost to the 232 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:13,800 Jewish people to the nation of Israel. 233 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:18,900 They were his special people, his chosen possession. 234 00:13:19,300 --> 00:13:21,900 That Psalm that Joel started with says that in the final few 235 00:13:21,900 --> 00:13:25,500 verses about Israel being where God has shown himself, only 236 00:13:25,500 --> 00:13:29,000 Israel had the temple and the sacrifices and if anybody wanted 237 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,300 to come to God, well they had to come through them alone. 238 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,600 They would have to be adopted into the nation of Israel. 239 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:39,700 And so, what Jesus is talking about is whether the Messiah, 240 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,000 she's just a word. Meaning God's promised King was 241 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,300 is going to be sent to the children, the nation of Israel 242 00:13:46,900 --> 00:13:49,800 or to the doggies, everyone else. 243 00:13:51,900 --> 00:13:53,000 And what were meant to do is we read. 244 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,300 This is where men to imagine the disciples response. 245 00:13:56,300 --> 00:13:57,800 Listen to them listening to this and go. 246 00:13:57,800 --> 00:13:59,700 Well, of course, they're going to think that we know the answer 247 00:13:59,700 --> 00:14:02,100 to this. The Messiah sent to Israel. 248 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:04,800 We're better than these guys. Send this woman away. 249 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:07,400 She doesn't deserve your time Jesus. 250 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:13,300 And so Jesus speaks to this woman from the perspective of 251 00:14:13,300 --> 00:14:17,700 the disciples. Jesus speaks to her using the 252 00:14:17,700 --> 00:14:21,700 disciples thoughts from their perspective he says what they're 253 00:14:21,700 --> 00:14:24,900 really thinking. He holds his words up as a 254 00:14:24,900 --> 00:14:28,900 mirror to them to show them just how wrong they are. 255 00:14:31,300 --> 00:14:33,300 But he also leaves a little glimpse of Hope, doesn't he? 256 00:14:34,300 --> 00:14:36,800 And this woman hears it that word. 257 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:41,800 First first, let the little children eat all they want. 258 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:47,100 Oh well, if there's a first but then there's a second and yes, 259 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:49,800 God's mission to the world has always been going to come, as 260 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:53,600 always going to begin with a nation of Israel, but somehow 261 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:56,100 she understands God's ultimate Mission. 262 00:14:56,300 --> 00:14:59,700 Better than God's people did. She knows that the nation of 263 00:14:59,700 --> 00:15:03,500 Israel were always meant to be a light to the whole world. 264 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:06,600 God told Abraham that back in Genesis. 265 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:10,600 He said through I will bless those who bless you speaking to 266 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:14,600 Abraham and whoever curses you. I will curse and all peoples on 267 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,400 Earth will be blessed through you. 268 00:15:19,100 --> 00:15:20,500 And then several hundred years later. 269 00:15:20,500 --> 00:15:23,400 God says, speaking about this promised messiah in the prophet, 270 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:27,100 Isaiah it's too small a thing for you to be my servant and to 271 00:15:27,108 --> 00:15:29,700 restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel. 272 00:15:29,700 --> 00:15:34,700 I've kept I will also make you a light to the Gentiles the my 273 00:15:34,700 --> 00:15:37,600 salvation May reach to the ends of the Earth. 274 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:43,700 She knows that the mercies of God were always meant to be for 275 00:15:43,700 --> 00:15:45,700 more than just the nation of Israel. 276 00:15:46,500 --> 00:15:49,600 Oh, she accepts his rails privilege, they had a history of 277 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:51,000 privilege and they got the Messiah in them. 278 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:55,200 First of all, it's just that she understands the purples purpose 279 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:58,500 of Israel's Messiah, far better than Israel does. 280 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:02,900 They're privileged sadly had turned into elitism. 281 00:16:03,500 --> 00:16:05,200 Perhaps a bit of racism, thinking they were better than 282 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:09,100 everybody else. They hadn't understood that all 283 00:16:09,100 --> 00:16:11,800 the nations on Earth were meant to be blessed through them. 284 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:16,300 The priority of Israel in Jesus's mission doesn't mean 285 00:16:16,300 --> 00:16:18,600 that the Gentiles are completely excluded. 286 00:16:20,500 --> 00:16:25,700 And Jesus gives her that hope that first let the children eat 287 00:16:25,700 --> 00:16:28,100 all they want. It shows a priority of mission, 288 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:30,400 but it doesn't mean no one else can eat. 289 00:16:32,100 --> 00:16:35,500 These doggies, remember our house pets, they belong to the 290 00:16:35,508 --> 00:16:40,300 household and they will be fed. And who's going to feed them? 291 00:16:41,700 --> 00:16:43,200 Or the father of the house, who in this? 292 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:48,400 Parable is clearly Jesus. And so this woman takes Jesus 293 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:52,300 words and she uses them back to him at a great thing to do in 294 00:16:52,300 --> 00:16:54,200 Prayer. By the way, when you don't know 295 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:56,200 what to pray, when you're baffled by what God is doing, 296 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:58,000 take what he said until it back to him. 297 00:16:58,700 --> 00:17:01,600 Great thing to do. But Jesus opens the door, a 298 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,400 crack with that word first. And she runs straight in verse 299 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:08,099 28, Lord, she replied even the dogs under the table, eat the 300 00:17:08,099 --> 00:17:11,700 children's crumbs. She says, yes, Lord, by all 301 00:17:11,700 --> 00:17:16,599 means Feed the Children, all they want, I'll take crumbs. 302 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,200 I don't need all the food. I just want Crumbs from you. 303 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:24,200 She gets it and she knows that Jesus has got more than enough 304 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:27,500 food to feed Israel and feed her too. 305 00:17:28,900 --> 00:17:31,500 When well trained dogs. Eat Crumbs from the table? 306 00:17:31,900 --> 00:17:33,900 They're not stealing their children's food. 307 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,000 They simply what's left over and falls off. 308 00:17:37,100 --> 00:17:39,300 If you want, an example of this, kind of a meal at our house, 309 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:42,700 Remy will largely leave you alone during the meal, probably, 310 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:47,100 but when you leave and if you've drop crumbs, he's on it, he'll 311 00:17:47,100 --> 00:17:50,100 be there and we'll Feast depending on how messy you are. 312 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,300 See, Jesus, this woman, understands that Jesus's mission 313 00:17:55,300 --> 00:17:58,700 was first, and foremost to Israel into the Jews. 314 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:01,300 But that doesn't mean exclusively the Jews. 315 00:18:01,900 --> 00:18:03,500 And she's got the face to see that. 316 00:18:03,500 --> 00:18:08,000 Even she and undeserving dog will get a blessing from Jesus 317 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:12,700 if she's simply comes to him. She sees the even and 318 00:18:12,700 --> 00:18:17,100 undeserving dog will get blessing from Jesus by simply 319 00:18:17,100 --> 00:18:22,000 coming to him. Which is incredible, isn't it? 320 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:27,400 For this woman to understand Israel's priority, and also its 321 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:30,500 Mission all along along with the nature of God and his love, for 322 00:18:30,500 --> 00:18:33,300 the Whole World in His desire, to bless it through his promise 323 00:18:33,300 --> 00:18:37,800 King. she's got nothing going for and she understands all this 324 00:18:38,900 --> 00:18:42,700 And so she comes and with no other Hope, just gives it All to 325 00:18:42,700 --> 00:18:46,300 Jesus and falls on an easel is feet and demonstrates. 326 00:18:46,300 --> 00:18:50,900 Her faith. But Jesus knew this woman's 327 00:18:50,900 --> 00:18:54,000 heart. This doesn't come as a surprise 328 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,000 to Jesus. This is why he talks to her like 329 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:58,400 this. He isn't dissing her. 330 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:01,700 He isn't being cruel. This isn't a random change of 331 00:19:01,700 --> 00:19:05,300 character in a grumpy tired. Jesus easy to read it that way, 332 00:19:05,300 --> 00:19:06,800 but we don't get to hear how he said it. 333 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,400 We don't get to see the smile on his face as he says this. 334 00:19:10,900 --> 00:19:12,800 Nor do we get the disciples response. 335 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:17,600 But Jesus has this conversation with this woman for them. 336 00:19:18,900 --> 00:19:23,200 He's teaching them and us something about their hearts and 337 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:26,200 the unexpected places in the unexpected length and depths the 338 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,900 kingdom of God, is going to go. While she may have been an 339 00:19:29,900 --> 00:19:33,700 unwelcome guest to the disciples but not to Jesus. 340 00:19:35,100 --> 00:19:39,100 And this all ends with an unlikely result in verses 29 and 341 00:19:39,100 --> 00:19:42,300 30. Verse 29 then he told her for 342 00:19:42,300 --> 00:19:45,900 such a reply, you may go, the demon has left your daughter, 343 00:19:45,900 --> 00:19:49,800 she went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the 344 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:53,500 demon gone. Sobbing seen this woman's faith 345 00:19:53,500 --> 00:19:56,700 in him, even with everything going against her Jesus, grants 346 00:19:56,700 --> 00:20:00,200 her request. If I incredibly, it's only in 347 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,000 Gentile areas where Jesus heals people without having to go to 348 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:07,000 them in Jewish places, he has to go to the trial, to he, like, 349 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,900 viruses daughter for example, here, don't even need to see her 350 00:20:10,500 --> 00:20:13,600 in trust him, but he grants her request, she gives everything 351 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:17,300 over to Jesus and his mercy and he isn't disappointed. 352 00:20:18,100 --> 00:20:20,200 She goes home and a daughter is healed. 353 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:24,400 The demons left. Her But that's not the unlikely 354 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:26,600 result. I've sort of lied when I said 355 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:29,500 it's about verse 29 and 30 because it was always Jesus's 356 00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:32,400 mission for the Gentiles to come to know him and his power and 357 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:34,800 it's not unlikely to see Jesus. Healing people who ask for 358 00:20:34,808 --> 00:20:37,800 healing this was God's plan all along. 359 00:20:38,100 --> 00:20:40,500 Jesus wasn't trying to push this woman away with all this. 360 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:43,800 He was wanting to demonstrate to the disciples that real Faith 361 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:45,400 doesn't have to come from, within Israel. 362 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:51,000 Know, the unlikely result here is that this unclean woman this 363 00:20:51,300 --> 00:20:55,900 greek-speaking Gentile. I'll this syrophoenician Pagan 364 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,500 she is the first person in Mark's gospel to do two 365 00:20:59,500 --> 00:21:04,000 incredible things firstly. She's the first person in Mark's 366 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:07,000 gospel to understand one of Jesus Parables. 367 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:10,300 The first person no one's got it so far. 368 00:21:10,700 --> 00:21:14,900 No one understood this at all and secondly, she's the first 369 00:21:14,900 --> 00:21:20,300 person in Mark to understand who Jesus is She's the first person 370 00:21:20,300 --> 00:21:22,900 to understand his Parables and she's the first person to 371 00:21:22,900 --> 00:21:25,500 understand, who he really is, look what she calls him in verse 372 00:21:25,500 --> 00:21:27,900 28. Lord. 373 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,300 It's not till chapter 8, that Pete is going to call him that. 374 00:21:32,500 --> 00:21:33,800 And he's been with him all the time. 375 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:38,100 She gets it. She knows who he is as a gentile 376 00:21:38,100 --> 00:21:43,300 woman, she's a true Israelite. She sees who Jesus is and who he 377 00:21:43,300 --> 00:21:45,700 came to save before? Anyone else in the gospel? 378 00:21:45,900 --> 00:21:49,700 She understands a parable and she understands who Jesus is. 379 00:21:51,100 --> 00:21:53,900 This parable of the children and the dogs has revealed truths 380 00:21:53,900 --> 00:21:56,400 about God's kingdom to her in a way that nobody else has 381 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,900 understood it yet. She enters into that. 382 00:21:58,900 --> 00:22:00,100 Parable doesn't. She know. 383 00:22:00,100 --> 00:22:02,500 She understands it because she accepts it, she enters into the 384 00:22:02,500 --> 00:22:05,600 parable and then speaks from within the parable to Jesus. 385 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:07,900 She accepts what Jesus says about her. 386 00:22:07,900 --> 00:22:12,200 And then claims Jesus for who he says he is. so quote, Martin 387 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:16,400 Luther she took Christ his own words and he then treated and 388 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:21,600 not as a dog, but as a child of Israel, This is a big deal in 389 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:23,900 The Book of Mark. This is a be a big deal to 390 00:22:23,900 --> 00:22:28,900 Mark's original readers. This changes everything for a 391 00:22:28,908 --> 00:22:31,800 Jewish readers head. So far, Jesus has done all of 392 00:22:31,808 --> 00:22:35,400 his teaching to Jewish people only, but this Pagan woman is 393 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:38,800 the first person who really hears and understands and who 394 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:41,500 wholeheartedly accept the uniqueness of God's revelation 395 00:22:41,500 --> 00:22:43,700 to Israel. But also trust. 396 00:22:43,700 --> 00:22:47,500 It's super abundance to spill over and include her and people 397 00:22:47,500 --> 00:22:50,400 like her. And if we were one of the 398 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:53,700 original readers of Mark's gospel, it would remind us that 399 00:22:53,700 --> 00:22:56,300 this salvation is offered to the whole world. 400 00:22:56,300 --> 00:22:59,800 Both the Jews and to estrange Gentiles like this woman, but 401 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:04,100 all only through Jesus who fulfills God's mission for 402 00:23:04,100 --> 00:23:07,600 Israel by being a light, to the whole world Jew. 403 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:13,300 Gentile, Greek Pagan, whoever To be the first person to call 404 00:23:13,300 --> 00:23:18,200 Jesus Lord and to understand the parable of Jesus, that is an 405 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:23,300 unlikely result. So, seen an unusual Journey, an 406 00:23:23,300 --> 00:23:27,100 unwelcome visitor and unexpected response and an unlikely result. 407 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:33,400 So, what? What does that all mean for us? 408 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:35,900 Well, we're going to end by seeing three things. 409 00:23:36,100 --> 00:23:39,100 A warning, an example and an encouragement. 410 00:23:40,100 --> 00:23:42,400 The firstly, it's really important that we don't miss the 411 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:47,300 warning here. The Pharisees, despite knowing 412 00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:51,300 their Old Testament by heart. Don't get who Jesus is. 413 00:23:53,300 --> 00:23:55,600 Despite all of their knowledge of the Old Testament and God's 414 00:23:55,600 --> 00:24:03,400 law, they still don't get it. The disciples, who spent shed 415 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,700 loads of times of Jesus. Don't get it. 416 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,300 They don't get who Jesus, is, they spend more time with him 417 00:24:11,300 --> 00:24:14,400 than anyone else. They've done more on his behalf 418 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,200 than anyone else. They don't get it. 419 00:24:18,700 --> 00:24:21,100 They still seem to think that where they were born, their 420 00:24:21,100 --> 00:24:23,900 family history, their academic knowledge, and their good 421 00:24:23,900 --> 00:24:27,200 behavior was what made them right before God. 422 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:31,900 And as a result Jesus is regularly amazed at their lack 423 00:24:31,900 --> 00:24:34,000 of understanding. He said it a couple of weeks ago 424 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:35,700 in the passage we looked at and you going to say in a couple of 425 00:24:35,708 --> 00:24:40,100 weeks time Despite all of the privilege of exposure to the 426 00:24:40,100 --> 00:24:44,200 truth about Jesus, they just don't get it. 427 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,700 So the warning here is that it is possible for all of us here 428 00:24:49,700 --> 00:24:52,300 to think we get it, because we know so much. 429 00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:57,000 And yet, we don't really understand it all to be so close 430 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,400 to the teaching of Jesus, to know, our bibles inside out, to 431 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:04,300 be able, to explain the Trinity perfectly and to not really get 432 00:25:04,300 --> 00:25:09,400 what Jesus is Mission is If you think you either have or should 433 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,600 have Jesus forgiveness or attention or blessing on your 434 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:15,800 life because of how good you are or what, you know, or your 435 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,100 family or how long you've known it, then it is possible. 436 00:25:19,100 --> 00:25:21,500 You haven't understood Jesus at all. 437 00:25:22,300 --> 00:25:24,600 It is possible that your stood. There were the Pharisees and the 438 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,400 disciples. In this passage missing the 439 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,000 point and looking down on others. 440 00:25:30,100 --> 00:25:34,800 Jesus said it's not the healthy who need a doctor but the sick I 441 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:38,000 haven't come to call the righteous but sinners. 442 00:25:40,100 --> 00:25:41,800 What would Jesus say to us this morning? 443 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,700 What do you say? Do you still not understand? 444 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:47,900 What would he say? Come on. 445 00:25:47,900 --> 00:25:55,000 Eat some crumbs with me. If that is lost, if we heed that 446 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,000 warning, we're aware of that. We also need to member, we need 447 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,500 to follow the example that we get here today because this 448 00:26:00,500 --> 00:26:04,400 woman is a brilliant example of what real true saving faith in 449 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,700 Jesus. Looks like she knows she 450 00:26:07,700 --> 00:26:12,100 deserved nothing from him. She is as unclean as she can be. 451 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:16,200 She is as far from God, as she can be to paraphrase Paul. 452 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,900 She is not of the people of Israel or any tribe. 453 00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:22,200 She's a gentile of Gentiles in regard to the law. 454 00:26:22,300 --> 00:26:26,500 Or completely unclean as for righteousness, based on the law, 455 00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:30,200 completely, unrighteous lost, and hopeless. 456 00:26:30,900 --> 00:26:34,800 She knows she deserves nothing from Jesus. 457 00:26:36,300 --> 00:26:39,700 And yet, she knows, Jesus, doesn't ask for anything except 458 00:26:39,700 --> 00:26:43,700 to come to him. She knows that her helplessness 459 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,300 is her only needed qualification to come. 460 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,900 Her need of Mercy, is all that, she has, and she falls on her 461 00:26:50,900 --> 00:26:53,100 knees in front of Jesus and begs him. 462 00:26:53,100 --> 00:26:57,200 For Mercy, her sins, everything that disqualifies her from 463 00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:58,900 eating the bread that he has to give. 464 00:26:59,300 --> 00:27:06,600 They are many, but his Mercy, his more And it may be that 465 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,800 that's where someone here needs to get to this morning. 466 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,000 If that's where everyone here needs to at least have got to 467 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,600 Once if we want to get the forgiveness and mercy. 468 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:18,300 Jesus gifts. To quote, the old hymn, nothing 469 00:27:18,300 --> 00:27:21,900 in my hand. I bring simply to your cross. 470 00:27:22,100 --> 00:27:27,000 I cling See if you come to Jesus and say, Lord, please save me 471 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,500 because I'm trying my best, I try and be nice. 472 00:27:29,500 --> 00:27:32,500 And I'm reading the Bible, you've missed the point. 473 00:27:33,900 --> 00:27:35,900 Trying to bargain with God won't work. 474 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,300 That's not how we get the Salvation he offers, but 475 00:27:39,300 --> 00:27:42,900 clinging to his character, his Mercy, his undeserved grace to 476 00:27:42,900 --> 00:27:46,000 people who don't deserve it. That'll work. 477 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:52,500 Lord have mercy on me a sinner, maybe the greatest Prayer in the 478 00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:57,500 Bible. But maybe that's where you're 479 00:27:57,500 --> 00:28:02,700 feeling this morning. Worse than unclean completely 480 00:28:02,700 --> 00:28:05,300 hideous. And with no chance of God ever 481 00:28:05,300 --> 00:28:09,100 loving you. Maybe haven't got the energy to 482 00:28:09,100 --> 00:28:13,100 get up to fall on your knees before God with a faintness, 483 00:28:13,100 --> 00:28:15,500 hope that he might show you at something other than the rough 484 00:28:15,500 --> 00:28:18,500 you deserve. Well, I want to encourage you to 485 00:28:18,500 --> 00:28:21,800 follow This Woman's encouragement to come to Jesus 486 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:25,400 and cry out to him, to have mercy on you because God answers 487 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,800 that prayer with an immediate. Yes, straight away. 488 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,400 There's no, pause is no hesitation. 489 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,100 Yes. He is gracious and 490 00:28:33,100 --> 00:28:36,800 compassionate. He is slow to anger and quick to 491 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,100 love. His loves. 492 00:28:38,100 --> 00:28:41,000 Got a hair trigger. Nothing pleases him more than to 493 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,500 give mercy and Grace and forgiveness to people who don't 494 00:28:44,500 --> 00:28:48,100 deserve it. And this woman demonstrates that 495 00:28:48,100 --> 00:28:52,200 so come to Jesus like her. Follow her example, Fall on Your 496 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:56,400 Knees, except how undeserving, you are of his forgiveness and 497 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:01,200 then receive it. Jesus promises it, and Jesus 498 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,300 demonstrates that again and again. 499 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,400 And then like this woman, we can take Jesus at his word. 500 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,400 He tells his woman that she can leave the demon has left her 501 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,800 daughter. Now if that was me knowing what 502 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,100 I'm like I'd be going what really are? 503 00:29:19,100 --> 00:29:20,300 You sure? Just just to make sure you do 504 00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:22,200 against it's not the missed out. No shouldn't do that. 505 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,500 She just goes she takes Jesus at his word. 506 00:29:24,500 --> 00:29:26,000 Trust him to do what he said you'll do. 507 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,800 If you've done what this woman did, you can trust Jesus to do 508 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,200 what he says he'll do. You don't need to doubt his 509 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,000 forgiveness. He says he'll he'll do it. 510 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:41,500 He's done it. Which leaves us with the 511 00:29:41,500 --> 00:29:44,400 encouragement and the encouragement comes to all of us 512 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,400 through what Jesus teaches his disciples about his mission. 513 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:52,500 As you said this woman, jewishly is as undeserving as they come. 514 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,100 And yet Jesus is grace, and mercy comes to her. 515 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,300 His grace and mercy Knows No Limits. 516 00:30:01,300 --> 00:30:04,500 There are no depths that the gospel won't reach and the 517 00:30:04,508 --> 00:30:07,900 encouragement for all of us is that Jesus's mission hasn't 518 00:30:07,900 --> 00:30:11,400 changed. It just lives on now through us. 519 00:30:12,700 --> 00:30:16,900 I sometimes that can feel Bleak and daunting, but God loves to 520 00:30:16,900 --> 00:30:19,100 do. Unexpected things in unusual 521 00:30:19,100 --> 00:30:23,300 places to undeserving people. So we can all be encouraged 522 00:30:23,300 --> 00:30:26,100 that. The gospel hasn't changed and 523 00:30:26,100 --> 00:30:31,400 will not fail. So, keep praying for that person 524 00:30:32,300 --> 00:30:37,300 for that family member that child that colleague. 525 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,100 Keep looking for opportunities, to invite people to come to 526 00:30:41,100 --> 00:30:43,500 Jesus themselves. Keep trusting. 527 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,200 Jesus Keep confidence in Jesus's mission. 528 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:50,000 Yes, we might often feel weak. And yes. 529 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:54,400 The situation often looks bleak. There's not a poem there, but 530 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:58,200 Jesus is still able to save completely those who come to 531 00:30:58,200 --> 00:30:59,500 God. Him. 532 00:31:00,500 --> 00:31:03,300 His Mercy hasn't changed. He never changes. 533 00:31:03,300 --> 00:31:06,100 This is Jesus the same yesterday today, and forever. 534 00:31:06,500 --> 00:31:09,300 He's Grace hasn't changed. His forgiveness, hasn't changed. 535 00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:12,000 It isn't finished. And his love and his compassion 536 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:15,400 and his care for lost causes hasn't stopped. 537 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,100 So be encouraged to keep praying. 538 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:24,300 Keep loving to keep going to unexpected, places to keep 539 00:31:24,300 --> 00:31:29,500 sharing the gospel to keep displaying Jesus, because there 540 00:31:29,500 --> 00:31:32,400 is more life in a crumb of Jesus bread. 541 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,300 Then there isn't anything this world has to offer. 542 00:31:36,300 --> 00:31:38,900 So keep scattering crumbs hungry. 543 00:31:38,900 --> 00:31:43,400 People will eat, keep trusting Jesus to do what he came to do. 544 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,100 So Jesus went on an unusual Journey with his disciples to a 545 00:31:49,100 --> 00:31:51,100 place. No one would have gone to their 546 00:31:51,100 --> 00:31:53,300 an unwelcome visitor that everyone else would have just 547 00:31:53,300 --> 00:31:55,600 sent away. But and Jesus appeared to give 548 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,700 an unexpected response as he drew out her faith and his 549 00:31:58,700 --> 00:32:02,200 disciples lack of it and it ended in an unlikely result. 550 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,600 This woman becoming the first person to understand a parable 551 00:32:05,900 --> 00:32:10,600 and to call Jesus Lord You need to listen to the warning of that 552 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,500 need to see her. Brilliant example of saving 553 00:32:12,500 --> 00:32:14,700 faith. And remember all of us that we 554 00:32:14,700 --> 00:32:17,400 can be encouraged. That Jesus is still doing things 555 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,100 like this today.