1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:06,640 What do you do when your way isn't working? 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,240 Maybe some of you you've been trying to navigate things with 3 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,760 your finances, but no matter what you do, there's always more 4 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:16,480 month than there's money. What do you do when your way 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,560 isn't working? No doubt many of you guys are 6 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:24,480 navigating things at work, and maybe you're dealing with some 7 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:28,880 pressure occupationally and you've tried all kinds of 8 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,439 things, but you can't seem to get on the other side of the 9 00:00:32,439 --> 00:00:35,440 problem. What do you do when your way 10 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,400 isn't working? I know that as parents, 11 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:41,760 sometimes you're dealing with stuff with your kids. 12 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:45,120 Maybe it's behavioral issues or obedience issues or school 13 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:48,080 issues and you're trying to figure out like how to what 14 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:51,600 dials do I turn? What levers do I pull? 15 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:55,520 What switches do I flip to try to turn this thing around? 16 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,400 And no matter what you try, your way isn't working. 17 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:03,480 I remember back when the boys were little and you were trying 18 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:07,600 to feed them and they didn't want to be eating what you were 19 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,000 feeding. And they do the. 20 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:15,040 And so I figured today I would just bless all the young parents 21 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:20,280 because I found this video and I was like, I don't know if you 22 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:23,800 should do this, but boy does it look effective. 23 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:27,040 Check this out. These parents found a genius 24 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:29,120 hack to make their baby eat his dinner. 25 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:32,280 As you can see, the mom acts like she wants to feed the dad 26 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,480 in front of their baby, but the dad shakes his head, refusing to 27 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:37,560 eat it. He acts like he doesn't want her 28 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:39,600 to feed him. So when the mom has had enough, 29 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,680 look what she does. She slaps him and the dad then 30 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:46,000 obediently eats the food as the boy watches him in shock. 31 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:49,440 So when the mom feeds him, he eats it like a good boy without 32 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,560 any complaints. Genius. 33 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:57,160 Oh, that's good. That that's quick. 34 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,720 That was effective. I want to welcome all of our 35 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,120 different locations, those of you watching online and those of 36 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:05,840 you who are part of the crossing inside, we're celebrating the 22 37 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:08,560 baptisms. Love you guys. 38 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:13,800 I love that the gospel can go absolutely anywhere and make a 39 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:15,960 difference absolutely everywhere. 40 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:20,080 Well, we are in a sermon series called Unexpected, and we've 41 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:24,080 been looking at how Jesus dealt with the worst of the worst in 42 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:27,000 other people's eyes through the life of Zacchaeus. 43 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:31,000 And then last week we looked at how Jesus dealt with the best of 44 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:35,640 the best in other people's eyes through the life of Nicodemus. 45 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:39,360 Well today we are going to look, in my opinion, at one of the 46 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:44,520 most beautiful stories in Scripture and how anytime Jesus 47 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:47,880 is a part of the equation, you are bound to see something 48 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:51,160 special and unexpected take place. 49 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:58,360 Mark chapter 5 verse 21 when Jesus had again crossed over by 50 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:03,360 boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered 51 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,480 around him while he was by the lake. 52 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:12,880 Then one of the synagogue leaders named Gyrus came and 53 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:18,720 when he saw Jesus he fell at his feet. 54 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,640 This would have caused quite the scene. 55 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:28,320 Gyrus was an official in the very religious establishment 56 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:32,800 that was hostile to the ministry of Jesus. 57 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:37,120 This very group of people would be the ones who would eventually 58 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:43,400 plot to kill Jesus. They were seeking to destroy his 59 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,040 ministry. To those close to Jesus, seeing 60 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:52,560 this prestigious person in front of Jesus on his knees was at the 61 00:03:52,560 --> 00:04:00,120 very least unexpected. This would be not even in range 62 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:04,680 of what it would be like for a long time Cardinals fan to burn 63 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:08,760 all of their memorabilia and become a full blown Cubs fan. 64 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,880 Yeah, which, you know, whatever. I I wasn't, I'm just trying to. 65 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:15,080 OK. I mean, Cardinals are better 66 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,360 most of the time. OK, now the that's at least 67 00:04:18,519 --> 00:04:21,040 let's at least OK, let's let's switch it up. 68 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:24,520 Let's get out of season. This would be a Packers fan 69 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:28,400 becoming a full blown Bears fan. Like if you saw this, you'd be 70 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:33,640 like, what is causing this? What is driving this kind of 71 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,200 behavior? Well, Mark chapter 5 verse 23 72 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:42,520 tells us he pleaded earnestly with him, him as Jesus. 73 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:49,800 My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands 74 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:55,040 on her so that she will be healed and live. 75 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,400 When things are not right with your kids. 76 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:05,280 Nothing is right. His daughter is dying. 77 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:11,400 And because his daughter is dying, his political allegiances 78 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:17,400 get sidelined, his relational network get sidelined. 79 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:24,040 He, his daughter is dying and he's heard that Jesus can do 80 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,720 something about it. And so he goes and finds Jesus 81 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:32,040 and gets on his knees and says, will you help me? 82 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:37,040 When you want something bad enough, anything is on the 83 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:39,480 table. When your daughter's dying, 84 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:44,680 you're going, what do I have to do to get this thing fixed? 85 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:52,560 Many times, many, many times, the path to a relationship with 86 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:59,960 Jesus crosses the bridge of pain in my years of ministry. 87 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:07,800 Many times people who come to faith in Jesus as adults do so 88 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:12,600 because of an unresolved pain point in their life. 89 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:17,720 Many times a person's first time at church is because there is 90 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:22,520 something not right. There's an unresolved pain that 91 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:26,080 has them seeking and looking for answers. 92 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,080 I have never had this experience in any of our lobbies at any of 93 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,840 our locations. When I'm talking to somebody and 94 00:06:32,840 --> 00:06:35,840 I say, how did you come to the crossing? 95 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:38,160 And I've never gotten this response. 96 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:40,960 Well, Clayton, my kids were listening too well. 97 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:42,600 My marriage had way too much sex. 98 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:46,080 My job was way too fulfilling, my relationships are way too 99 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:48,040 life giving. And we were just bored one 100 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:50,280 Sunday and thought, hey, we should try church. 101 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:55,000 I've never heard that testimony. What I normally hear is 102 00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:03,880 something wasn't right, their way wasn't working, There was 103 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:07,680 something going on in their life that made them go. 104 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:13,800 Something needs to change. That is why as the Crossing, we 105 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:17,560 have thrift stores, counseling centers, marriage retreats, 106 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:21,280 because we want to be in the corner of our region when our 107 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:25,080 region is in crisis. That's why as a church, we talk 108 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:29,200 to you guys about parking far away, about joining us and being 109 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:32,600 a difference maker. Because we want to meet people 110 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,840 in their pain and their confusion and their frustration. 111 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:39,920 Because if somebody is coming to church for the first time 112 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:43,360 because of a pain point, the moment they arrive on our 113 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,800 parking lot, we want to start recognizing that this person 114 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:50,800 might be struggling, might be in something, and what is the very 115 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:55,920 best way that we can love them. Because often times people are 116 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:58,040 coming to faith because of a pain point. 117 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,240 I just finished writing that line when I was writing this 118 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:04,920 sermon and my phone rang. It was Ben Elephants, one of the 119 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:07,040 executive pastors here at the crossing. 120 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:12,120 And he had just finished meeting with a girl who was interviewing 121 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,240 to be a part of one of our summer internships. 122 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:19,000 And he asked her this question. What brought you to church? 123 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:24,080 And here is her answer. She said that she was in a dark 124 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:32,960 season, contemplating suicide, had a plan, and that week a 125 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:40,240 friend invited her to church. She showed up and the very first 126 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:44,440 week that she showed up at our church was the very first week 127 00:08:44,680 --> 00:08:48,880 of weeds in my garden and she went to the steps during the 128 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:53,480 invitation time and just sobbed. Now this young girl has been 129 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:56,400 baptized and wants to be in ministry. 130 00:08:56,560 --> 00:09:04,800 How awesome is our God? People often times are coming to 131 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:11,520 Jesus because of a pain point. Mark chapter 5 verse 24. 132 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:15,920 So Jesus went with him. This is Gyrus. 133 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:21,200 A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 134 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:25,120 That's Jesus. And the woman was there who had 135 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,080 been subject to bleeding for 12 years. 136 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:34,640 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors 137 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:43,240 and had spent all she had. Yet instead of getting better, 138 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:51,200 she grew worse. So Jesus is on His way to 139 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,320 Gyrus's daughter to take care of her. 140 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:55,920 The crowd is bumped all over him. 141 00:09:55,920 --> 00:10:00,440 He's moving slowly through the crowd and this woman shows up. 142 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:04,440 There is so much to unpack about this woman because of this 143 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,080 disease. If you were to read in the Old 144 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:10,000 Testament, specifically in Leviticus, you would find out 145 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,640 that the word that they would use to describe this woman is 146 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:16,040 unclean. When you have a disease or when 147 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:21,080 you are dead, you are unclean. And when you are unclean, if you 148 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:25,040 touch other people, they become unclean. 149 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:28,840 It also means that you can't be around other people and you 150 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:32,720 can't go to the temple and worship God because you are 151 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,640 unclean. How long has she been an 152 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:37,680 untouchable? For? 153 00:10:37,680 --> 00:10:43,120 12 years. She can't worship like everybody 154 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:45,720 else. She can't be with her family 155 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:50,400 like everybody else. So she is isolated from friends, 156 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:57,000 from family, from worship. Not only that, she has been 157 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,920 spending all she has to get better. 158 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:03,680 And every time she collects enough money to go to the doctor 159 00:11:03,680 --> 00:11:06,960 to get better, she gives the money to the doctor. 160 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:11,000 The doctor treats her and her situation never improves. 161 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:17,600 It just keeps getting worse and worse. 162 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:29,080 She's isolated, she's alone, she's broke, she's sick. 163 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:33,720 And for 12 years, no family dinner. 164 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:43,640 For 12 years, no hug. For 12 years, no kiss, 12 years 165 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:49,480 no touch. She has no one and she has 166 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:58,720 nothing. Verse 27 When she heard about 167 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:05,920 Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak 168 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:08,440 or robe if you want to think of it that way. 169 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:13,960 Because she thought, if I just touch his clothes, I will be 170 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:18,600 healed. Immediately her bleeding stopped 171 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:23,120 and she felt in her body that she was freed from her 172 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:27,440 suffering. At once Jesus realized that 173 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:31,520 power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd 174 00:12:31,560 --> 00:12:33,600 and asked, Who touched my clothes? 175 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:38,440 You see the people crowding around you or against you? 176 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:42,600 His disciples answered. And yet you ask, who touched me? 177 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:48,240 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 178 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:55,200 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell 179 00:12:55,200 --> 00:13:02,720 at his feet, and trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 180 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:10,680 He said to her daughter, Your faith has healed you. 181 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:18,120 Go in peace and be freed from your suffering in faith. 182 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:25,480 This woman who had nothing, this woman who had no one reached out 183 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:31,200 and believed in faith that if she just touched the edge of his 184 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:38,240 robe, she would be healed. Then Jesus is walking while this 185 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:41,160 is happening, going to Gyrus's daughter, and all of a sudden he 186 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:47,840 just feels like, he just feels power go out and he turns to 187 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:49,760 everybody and he goes, Who touched me? 188 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:56,200 And his disciples are going Everybody, everybody, everybody 189 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,120 has touched you. You are in the middle of a 190 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:00,960 crowd. If you go through the different 191 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:05,120 accounts of the Gospels, they use words like crowded, pressed. 192 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:10,520 It seems like Jesus is in a mosh pit, moving in the direction of 193 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:13,160 Gyrus's daughter. And he goes, who touched me? 194 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:16,000 And they're like, everybody has touched you. 195 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,720 But one of the touches was different than all the others 196 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:30,480 because someone reached out and touched Jesus in faith. 197 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:37,480 There's such a good devotion in there for absolutely every 198 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:42,680 single one of us. You can show up at the exact 199 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:47,240 same campus as somebody else at the exact same service as 200 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:53,040 somebody else, sing the exact same songs as somebody else, 201 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:58,600 listen to the exact same sermon as somebody else, go to the 202 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:04,520 exact same steps as somebody else, and have a radically 203 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:09,240 different experience with Jesus. Why? 204 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:13,640 Because faith is the currency of heaven. 205 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:16,640 A lot of times we like to put ourselves when we're reading the 206 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:21,440 Bible as the hero in the story. Like somehow at the end of all 207 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:23,640 of this, you'll go home and be like, you know what I am? 208 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:26,160 I'm the woman in faith. You reached out and touched me 209 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:28,600 and I was healed. And we like to see ourselves as 210 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:31,080 that person. Do you know who I would be in 211 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:34,400 the story? The dude who bumped into Jesus 212 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:41,520 15 times and got nothing. That would be me. 213 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:46,160 I'd be the guy walking, right? Hey, hey, Jesus bumping into 214 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:46,960 him. Hey, you see me? 215 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:47,800 Boom. Bumping here. 216 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:51,880 You see me boom, I could have got hit 15 times by Jesus and 217 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:54,640 not a single thing change in my life. 218 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:04,600 Because proximity is not a substitute for faith and faith 219 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:10,720 is the currency of heaven. Lots of people bumped into Jesus 220 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:14,880 that day, but only one woman got healed and it was the one who 221 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:20,840 reached out in faith. We exercise our faith when we 222 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:25,800 live a life of obedience. Too many of us, we treat Jesus 223 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:30,080 like we treat or we treat Jesus or the church kind of like we 224 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:32,040 treat the gym. And I'm just going to kind of 225 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:33,800 talk in different categories and you guys know that I'm 226 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:39,600 speculating here. So some of you, you have the 227 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:43,440 membership, but no activity. You pay the fat tax, as we call 228 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:45,840 it, on staff. We just yeah, we got multiple 229 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:47,040 memberships. Never been there. 230 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:48,960 They look great. But that's just not us. 231 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:55,920 We're we're members. OK, How's that working for you? 232 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:00,200 Right. Then there's other people who 233 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,920 you, they go, they go to the gym so that they can do other 234 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:07,839 things, right. Because I worked out, I can now 235 00:17:09,079 --> 00:17:13,760 eat what I want, do what I want, drink what I want. 236 00:17:13,839 --> 00:17:15,680 I got a friend who works out all the time. 237 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:18,960 And I said for as much as you work out, nothing changes. 238 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,960 You know, I'm saving myself an hour. 239 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:28,720 OK, Because we look the same. All right, so you're you're OK. 240 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:32,440 So you're going all right, I'm going to go to church so that I 241 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:36,120 can do what I'm going to do or feel better about what I've 242 00:17:36,120 --> 00:17:39,840 done. But the people who experience 243 00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:43,360 the greatest results in the gym are people who build their life 244 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:46,720 around becoming healthy. It's not just about going to the 245 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:48,320 gym. It's about what they eat and 246 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:50,480 making sure they get enough sleep and making sure they get, 247 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:52,840 I mean, at this point, I'm really, really speculating. 248 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:56,200 I'm sure there's a lot of other things that you do if that's 249 00:17:56,200 --> 00:18:00,680 your thing. Because I don't just, you know, 250 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:04,480 electrolytes and that's it. That's as far as I get. 251 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:06,400 You're like, we, we know Clayton, just move on. 252 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:11,240 Now when it comes to church, sometimes we show up for church 253 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:13,360 and we're like, I'm going to go to church so I feel better about 254 00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:17,760 what I've done or I don't feel as bad about what I'm going to 255 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:21,520 do. Or you can just treat your 256 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:25,640 relationship with Jesus transactionally, but never 257 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:30,240 actually move into an area where you believe that God's way is 258 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:34,040 the best way. And it's when you start living a 259 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:38,480 life of faith and obedience that you experience the greatest 260 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:43,480 results. For too many of us, we like to 261 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:46,040 separate. I believe, but I don't behave. 262 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:52,320 And that's not faith. Faith is not just knowing that 263 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:55,800 God's way is the best faith, but walking in his best way. 264 00:18:56,320 --> 00:19:01,680 Watch what happens. Mark 5 While Jesus was still 265 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:05,160 speaking, some people came from the House of Gyrus, the 266 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:11,000 synagogue leader. Your daughter is dead, they 267 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,720 said. Why bother the teacher anymore? 268 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:21,760 Overhearing what they said, Jesus told him, Don't be afraid. 269 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:28,080 Just believe. Faith is the currency of heaven. 270 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:32,480 He went into the house and said to them, Why all this commotion 271 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:36,680 and wailing? This child is not dead, but 272 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:40,520 asleep. He took the child's father and 273 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:43,080 mother and disciples who are with him, and went into the room 274 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:47,720 where the child was. He took her by the hand and said 275 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:52,240 to her to Litha Coombe, Which means, little girl, I say to 276 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,760 you, Get up. And immediately the girl stood 277 00:19:55,760 --> 00:20:01,400 up and began to walk around. She was 12 years old. 278 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:05,720 Get back into the story for a second and imagine that you are 279 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:08,560 Gyrus. You are desperately trying to 280 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:11,560 get Jesus to your daughter. The crowd is pressing around. 281 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:14,280 It's taking too long. All of a sudden Jesus stops 282 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:18,880 because somebody has interrupted you getting the Jesus ambulance 283 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:22,400 to your daughter who's dying. Jesus turns and starts 284 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:25,520 interacting with this girl. While he's interacting with this 285 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:29,840 woman, people come up to gyrus and say hey man, don't bother 286 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:34,640 Jesus anymore. Your daughter who was dying is 287 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:39,200 now dead. Can you imagine what you would 288 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:46,840 be feeling if you were him? Jesus turns to him and says, 289 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:52,560 hey, don't be afraid, just believe. 290 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,920 This woman just reached out in faith and she was healed. 291 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:58,640 You know what you're going to need right now. 292 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:00,680 Don't be afraid. Have faith. 293 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:04,760 You trusted me to heal her when she was sick. 294 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:10,840 Will you trust me to raise her when she's dead? 295 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:12,960 Crossing family? Pay attention. 296 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:20,120 If you can trust Jesus anywhere, you can trust Him everywhere. 297 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:25,440 If you can trust Him with your salvation, you can trust Him 298 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:33,760 with absolutely everything else. Absolutely everything else think 299 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:34,840 about. Think about this. 300 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:39,600 Your biggest issue is a sin salvation issue. 301 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:45,600 It is the biggest, most pressing issue over your life and what 302 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:51,240 you are in faith believing that when it matters the absolute 303 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:56,240 most, that when you stand before a holy and righteous God with 304 00:21:56,240 --> 00:22:00,320 the hope of eternal life in heaven with Him, you are in 305 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:05,400 faith believing that Jesus is going to handle that on your 306 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:14,490 behalf. So can you trust Him with your 307 00:22:14,490 --> 00:22:18,410 marriage? Can you trust Him with your 308 00:22:18,410 --> 00:22:22,170 parenting? Can you trust Him with your 309 00:22:22,170 --> 00:22:27,280 addiction? What area can't you trust him 310 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:30,000 with? If you have trusted him with the 311 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:36,040 biggest issue, if you can trust Jesus anywhere, you can trust 312 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:41,120 him everywhere. He goes up to this family and he 313 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:44,560 says don't worry about this. She's not dead, she's asleep 314 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:46,680 now. Jesus knows she's dead. 315 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:50,040 But with Jesus, death is very temporary. 316 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:54,640 Like Jesus, you know, he shows up for the at the wedding in, in 317 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,920 John, I think what is it, John, John 34 And he turns the water 318 00:22:57,920 --> 00:22:59,240 into wine. Like Jesus goes to weddings. 319 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:01,560 He's very pastoral. He also goes to funerals. 320 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:04,240 The problem is if Jesus shows up at your funeral, it's not a 321 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:07,320 funeral for very long because the people just keep getting up. 322 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:09,920 He's like, I guess since I'm here, get get, get up. 323 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:13,920 Let's let's do this. Now here's what else is just 324 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:19,800 super cool about Jesus. OK, The Bible says that he 325 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:25,720 touched the dead girl. Now, if those of you are Bible 326 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,760 people, you know, Jesus could have done all kinds of things 327 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:32,040 there. He could have just told gyrus, 328 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:34,960 hey, just go back home, your daughter's alive because he's 329 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:38,320 done that. He could have stood outside the 330 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:42,760 house and said, little girl, get up because that's what he did 331 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,720 with Lazarus. Lazarus come forth. 332 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,800 But no, no, no, in this story Jesus does something way, way 333 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,480 different. He goes into the room, takes the 334 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:57,840 father, takes the mother, takes his disciples, and he touches 335 00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:03,920 the girl. This girl, this dead girl would 336 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:09,120 have been unclean. Do you know who was? 337 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:13,480 Probably the guy who didn't let the woman go in to the temple 338 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:17,240 because she was unclean? The woman with the issue of 339 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:24,280 blood gyrus. Unclean people don't get to come 340 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:25,680 in. He was just following the Old 341 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:27,360 Testament law. He's doing his job. 342 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:32,480 But Jesus is touched by an unclean woman with the flow of 343 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,560 blood, and he intentionally touches a dead girl, both 344 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:37,840 unclean. But what happens when Jesus 345 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:43,320 touches unclean things? Their uncleanness isn't 346 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:46,840 transferred to him. His cleanness is transferred to 347 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,920 them. When people interact with Jesus, 348 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:53,560 unclean things become clean, which is why the Bible screams 349 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:58,960 by his stripes you and I have been healed when we come into 350 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:01,520 contact with the blood of Jesus Christ. 351 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:06,040 You and I are made right, made clean before God. 352 00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:08,440 Now watch this story. You can go home and check this 353 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,240 out is recorded in Mark 5, which is what I've been walking you 354 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,880 through. It's in Luke chapter 8, but it 355 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,880 also shows up in Matthew Chapter 9. 356 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,160 Now if you were to, if I'd have done the whole sermon in Matthew 357 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,840 Chapter 9, what I would say right now is now I want you to 358 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:29,080 Fast forward all the way to Matthew 14, five chapters. 359 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,840 And we find these words in verse 34 and 35. 360 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:40,760 When they had crossed over, they landed at Ganeseret, and when 361 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:48,000 the men of that place recognized Jesus, they sent word to all the 362 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:53,640 surrounding country people, brought all their sick to him, 363 00:25:54,560 --> 00:26:01,040 and begged Him to let the sick just touch the edge of his 364 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:06,200 cloak, and all who touched it were healed. 365 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:12,760 Now the woman was healed in Capernaum and Matthew in Matthew 366 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:16,800 Chapter 9, Jesus in Capernaum in Matthew chapter 14-5, chapters 367 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,680 later, they're in Ganeseret. There's about four miles 368 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,160 difference. So we're talking 5 chapters and 369 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,440 four miles. And I have a question. 370 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:29,080 Why do you think all those people were begging to be able 371 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,560 to just touch the edge of his cloak? 372 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:39,560 Where did they get this idea what made all the men, when they 373 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:43,440 saw Jesus, start going round up the sick? 374 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,760 Hey, if you got somebody that's got a bum leg, get him over 375 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:50,920 here. You know somebody who's got a 376 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,040 shriveled hand, bring him this way. 377 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,360 You know somebody who's got to work better bring him over. 378 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,480 Whatever you got, you bet Jesus is here. 379 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,440 And all the people showed up and they just said, can we just 380 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:07,000 touch the edge of your cloak? Where did they get this? 381 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:12,600 And all the people who reached out in faith and touched the 382 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:18,720 edge of his cloak were healed. Where did these people get this 383 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:27,360 idea from? One woman, 5 chapters earlier 384 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:33,400 and four miles away, while everybody else was bumping into 385 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:39,040 Jesus, she reached out in faith and she was healed, crossing 386 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:40,200 family. Hear me. 387 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:50,520 Your faith inspires others. When you Share your story of 388 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:56,480 faith, it helps other people to write their story of faith. 389 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,800 This woman was not the only person who was healed because of 390 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:05,800 her reaching out in faith. It inspired countless others 5 391 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:10,520 chapters later to do the exact same thing. 392 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:12,760 I was talking last week. There's others of you probably 393 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,280 have the same story. I was talking to a guy who's got 394 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,680 some names written on his card that he keeps in his wallet. 395 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,440 Where did he get that idea? He got that from Craig Hill 396 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,720 Bing, who prayed over a card for 20 years. 397 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,160 And you might have your own card, your own list of names 398 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,320 that you are praying for. Why? 399 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:36,320 Because somebody else's story of faith inspired you to believe. 400 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:40,120 If God can do it in them, he can probably do it in me. 401 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,880 The weird thing about American Christians is whatever we get 402 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:48,680 delivered from, we want to hide. Why? 403 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:55,000 OK, I'll be careful here. Some of you have had God do a 404 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:59,680 mighty work in your life and you don't want anybody to actually 405 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:01,920 know what you've actually been saved from. 406 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:08,720 You keep it to yourself because you don't want anybody to know 407 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:14,400 how bad you've actually been. And granted, you were healed and 408 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,680 you were delivered and you were redeemed and you were made 409 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:21,840 right, But because you will not be honest about what God has 410 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,880 done in your life, other people are having a hard time trusting 411 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,760 that God could do the exact same thing in their life that He did 412 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:29,040 in your life. Why? 413 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:33,400 Because they never knew. They just see the finished 414 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,880 product and they think that they could never be like you in 415 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,520 Christ. Why? 416 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:50,960 Can you imagine being the dad of a daughter ingenessarat and 417 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,480 desperately wanting your daughter to be changed and 418 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,760 healed and made right? And you never heard the story 419 00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:05,360 about the woman with the flow of blood, but because you heard of 420 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,160 what Jesus did with her, you believe that the same thing 421 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,480 could happen in you. And so when the men started 422 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:16,880 shouting Jesus is here, you picked up your little girl and 423 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:21,000 you went running to the edge of Jesus cloak and she reached out 424 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,800 and touched it in faith and she was healed. 425 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,800 What kind of person would you be if you said now little girl, 426 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:27,800 don't tell anybody what happened. 427 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,640 I don't want anybody to know that you're there was ever 428 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:35,800 anything wrong with you or would the right and natural response 429 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:41,560 be to go hey guys, this Jesus guy, he changes everything, 430 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:46,360 absolutely everything. Listen to me crossing family. 431 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:53,200 There is not an area of your life that Jesus cannot 432 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,720 repurpose. There is not an area of your 433 00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:03,160 life that Jesus cannot redeem. There is not an issue that you 434 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,760 face that is larger than King Jesus. 435 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,120 There might be some of you right now you are wrestling through 436 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:11,640 and struggling through your marriage. 437 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,880 I need you to know that the God of the universe is bigger than 438 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:16,200 that. You can trust God with your 439 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:20,960 marriage. Faith is the currency of heaven. 440 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:27,560 Faith is how you and I change our lives with Jesus and change 441 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,960 the world around us. And the Bible talks about faith. 442 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:35,680 It kind of highlights 2 things. Our faith is not in ourselves. 443 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:41,160 Our faith is in Jesus, who can do things that nobody else can 444 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,800 do in ways that nobody else can do it. 445 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:47,280 And then when the Bible talks about faith, it says you don't 446 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:51,320 need much. You don't need a lot of it. 447 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:57,320 It says if faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to 448 00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:01,000 that mountain move. Now raise your hand if you've 449 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,160 ever moved a mountain. Yeah, me neither. 450 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:08,760 So that means I've got less faith than a mustard seed. 451 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,960 Way less. But I'll be honest with you, I 452 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,600 don't necessarily need a mountain moved. 453 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:19,640 I don't know if I'd be good at rearranging geography, but I 454 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:24,520 know there are issues that I face, but if I face them with 455 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:29,120 faith in Jesus, it could change absolutely everything. 456 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:33,600 Just a little bit of genuine faith placed in the right 457 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,960 direction and the right direction is not you. 458 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:40,080 The right direction of Jesus could change anything. 459 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:43,680 There are some of you who you have held back things in your 460 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:49,520 life for years, for decades, because you do not believe in 461 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:55,120 faith that God could deliver you, heal you, change things for 462 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:59,040 you. Honest question, in light of 463 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:03,560 this woman's story, in light of this dead girl's story, in light 464 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:09,000 of Gyrus's journey, what do you in faith need to turn over to 465 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,480 Jesus? Today we're moving to a time of 466 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:18,280 decision. To those of you here and those 467 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,400 of you watching online who do not yet have an intimate 468 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,040 personal relationship with Jesus Christ, I just want to kind of 469 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:29,280 clarify things for you. We lay hold of our salvation 470 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:33,440 through faith in what Jesus has done. 471 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,040 That's the Bible. It clearly says it is a grace 472 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:41,400 that God has given to us that we lay hold of through faith. 473 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:46,520 Now if you were to go back into the Mark, chapter 5, actually in 474 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:52,880 all of them, when Jesus turns to the woman, he says a woman, your 475 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:56,000 faith has healed you. But if you were to go to the 476 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,800 original language, the word that they use there is actually 477 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:01,640 sodzo. Turn to your neighbor and say 478 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:06,520 sodzo. That word actually means saved 479 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:12,480 in the original text, not your NIV or your ESV or your NLT or 480 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:16,239 your kids version, whatever you're reading, the word in the 481 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:20,639 Greek is saved. He turns to the woman with the 482 00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:25,040 flow of blood and says your faith has saved you. 483 00:34:27,639 --> 00:34:32,199 And at the very end of Mark's gospel, Mark chapter 16, this is 484 00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:39,719 what Jesus says. Whoever believes and is baptized 485 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:48,960 will be so D so will be saved, will be healed. 486 00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:53,400 And so if you were here today and you've never started an 487 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:59,720 intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ, you can be 488 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,800 healed. You can be saved. 489 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:08,800 Your biggest problem can be removed. 490 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:15,720 Your biggest issue can be made right to those who believe faith 491 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:20,600 and our baptized obedience will experience salvation. 492 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,360 So just a few moments when the people around you stand and sing 493 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:25,960 and some of them come to the steps to pray. 494 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,680 If you're here today and you need to be saved, you need to 495 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,720 begin an intimate, personal relationship with Jesus Christ. 496 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,760 You need to be baptized. Don't put it off. 497 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:43,360 You can walk right over there underneath that screen next to 498 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,280 the baptistry and begin a relationship that changes 499 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,800 everything. To those of you who do have an 500 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,640 intimate, personal relationship with Jesus Christ, I just want 501 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:55,320 to reiterate this to you. If you can trust Jesus anywhere, 502 00:35:55,320 --> 00:36:02,360 you can trust Him everywhere. So is there a sin, a struggle, a 503 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:08,200 relationship, a trial that you've been handling on your own 504 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:17,640 for way too long and today in faith that you need to turn it 505 00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:26,520 over to Him? It is normal human behavior to 506 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:32,560 hold something back. It's just normal human behavior. 507 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:37,240 We don't want to be overexposed. We don't want to be too 508 00:36:37,240 --> 00:36:40,840 vulnerable. We don't want to be too honest. 509 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:47,440 And so when it comes to Jesus, we do the same thing. 510 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:53,480 We go, yeah, I want to be saved. And Jesus, I would love it if 511 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,120 you did that. But then we we section off all 512 00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:59,840 these other pieces of our lives and we keep it from him. 513 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,880 An honest question, how is that working? 514 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:07,760 It's a struggle that I have. And you know, what I do is I 515 00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,440 just do the math. Everything I've turned over to 516 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,600 him is better. Everything I've kept stinks. 517 00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:19,080 And Satan still has the ability to keep me from turning stuff 518 00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:22,000 over. So maybe today crossing family 519 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:28,240 in faith just like that woman. What could we reach out in faith 520 00:37:28,240 --> 00:37:31,240 to Jesus today and say, Jesus, I don't want this to be a part of 521 00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:34,320 me any longer. I don't want this to be who I am 522 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,840 any longer. I'm inviting you in to make a 523 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,760 difference that only you can make. 524 00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:41,360 Let's find out what happens when we turn it over to him. 525 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:45,800 Would you stand with me? Heavenly Father, I thank you for 526 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,200 this church. I thank you for the work that 527 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:52,640 you're doing in our lives. God, I thank you for how patient 528 00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:58,160 you are with us. God, we've been so stubborn, but 529 00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:01,840 you've been so good. And I just ask that you would 530 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,760 watch over each and every single one of us, that you would guide 531 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:12,160 us and direct us and change us. Use this moment right here to 532 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:15,520 reshape who we are in you. In your name I pray. 533 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:16,280 Amen.