1 00:00:00,650 --> 00:00:05,700 Hello everybody, welcome to the Sunday Sit Down podcast. 2 00:00:06,330 --> 00:00:10,440 You will notice that neither of us are Grant and or Justin. 3 00:00:10,810 --> 00:00:14,500 I hadn't noticed. Yeah, shocking, I know. 4 00:00:14,550 --> 00:00:18,680 So if you don't know who we are, my name is Abby. 5 00:00:18,690 --> 00:00:21,140 I am the food cupboard coordinator for the summer here 6 00:00:21,150 --> 00:00:22,000 at court. Right? 7 00:00:22,070 --> 00:00:23,580 And. I'm Annabelle. 8 00:00:23,590 --> 00:00:26,380 I'm the digital communications coordinator this summer. 9 00:00:26,490 --> 00:00:30,300 And Annabelle also was the one who brought us the word on 10 00:00:30,310 --> 00:00:33,230 Sunday morning. So that was really cool. 11 00:00:33,500 --> 00:00:37,630 And Annabelle and I are super excited to be, yeah, some Gen. 12 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:40,020 Z women taking over. The pod podcast. 13 00:00:40,030 --> 00:00:41,420 Just like Gen. Z does. 14 00:00:42,970 --> 00:00:47,750 Takes over podcast. Yeah, basically, yeah. 15 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:50,970 So we're really excited to kind of talk a little bit about the 16 00:00:50,980 --> 00:00:54,260 passage that Annabelle preached on on Sunday and some of the 17 00:00:54,270 --> 00:01:00,780 things that are difficult to fit into a 2530 minute sermon. 18 00:01:00,850 --> 00:01:06,950 Yeah, yeah, we're super excited. So before we kind of get yapping 19 00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:10,940 away, I am going to read us this week's passage, which was from 20 00:01:10,990 --> 00:01:16,840 Luke 8 verse 4256. It says Now when Jesus returned, 21 00:01:16,850 --> 00:01:19,460 a crowd welcomed him for they were all expecting him. 22 00:01:19,710 --> 00:01:22,480 Then a man named Cyrus, a synagogue leader, came and fell 23 00:01:22,490 --> 00:01:25,440 at Jesus feet, pleading with him to come to his house because his 24 00:01:25,450 --> 00:01:28,510 only daughter, a girl of about 12, was dying. 25 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:32,510 As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him and a 26 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:35,470 woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for 12 27 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:37,410 years, but no one could heal her. 28 00:01:37,500 --> 00:01:40,210 She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, 29 00:01:40,220 --> 00:01:41,990 and immediately the bleeding stopped. 30 00:01:42,300 --> 00:01:44,160 Who touched me? Jesus asked. 31 00:01:44,380 --> 00:01:47,640 When they all denied it, Peter said, Master, the people are 32 00:01:47,650 --> 00:01:49,590 crowding and pressing against you. 33 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:51,830 But Jesus said, Someone touched me. 34 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:54,190 I know that power has gone out from me. 35 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:57,450 Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came 36 00:01:57,460 --> 00:02:00,570 trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the 37 00:02:00,580 --> 00:02:02,410 people. She told why she had touched him 38 00:02:02,420 --> 00:02:04,330 and how she had been instantly healed. 39 00:02:04,780 --> 00:02:08,070 Then he said to her daughter, Your faith has healed you, go in 40 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:10,530 peace. While Jesus was still speaking, 41 00:02:10,539 --> 00:02:13,450 someone came from the House of Cyrus, the synagogue leader. 42 00:02:13,540 --> 00:02:15,750 Your daughter is dead. He said, don't bother the 43 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:18,390 teacher anymore. Hearing this, Jesus said to 44 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,720 Cyrus, don't be afraid, just believe and she will be healed. 45 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,030 When he arrived at the House of Gyrus, he did not let anyone go 46 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,070 in with him except Peter, John and James, and the child's 47 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:30,730 father and mother. Meanwhile, all the people were 48 00:02:30,740 --> 00:02:34,300 wailing and mourning for her. Stop wailing, Jesus said, She is 49 00:02:34,310 --> 00:02:37,380 not dead, but asleep. They laughed at him, knowing 50 00:02:37,390 --> 00:02:40,260 that she was dead. But he took her by the hand and 51 00:02:40,270 --> 00:02:43,550 said, My child, get up. Her spirit returned, and at once 52 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,150 she stood up. Then Jesus told them to give her 53 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:48,990 something to eat. Her parents were astonished, but 54 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,670 he ordered them not to tell anyone what had happened. 55 00:02:54,550 --> 00:02:57,910 It's a pretty hefty passage. A lot happens. 56 00:02:57,980 --> 00:03:00,310 So much happened. And why we have a podcast. 57 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:02,770 We can go deeper than we do on Sundays. 58 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:05,370 So where do you want to? Where do you want to start us 59 00:03:05,380 --> 00:03:07,210 off? Where are you itching to say? 60 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:11,580 I think, I think a main thing that we should right out of the 61 00:03:11,590 --> 00:03:15,070 gate talk about is that these stories about healing, like 62 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:19,540 they're about healing and they're powerful stories, but 63 00:03:19,550 --> 00:03:23,060 it's also hard. It's hard to hear about stories 64 00:03:23,070 --> 00:03:25,390 about healing sometimes, especially when you're going 65 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:29,410 through seasons of life when you're not being healed or 66 00:03:29,420 --> 00:03:31,810 you're needing healing or physical. 67 00:03:31,850 --> 00:03:33,690 We're talking about like physical healing. 68 00:03:33,980 --> 00:03:38,230 And so I think we should start there of like there's a quiet 69 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:43,730 grief in not yet in the waiting in the. 70 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:47,700 And there are a lot of people in our church community who are in 71 00:03:47,710 --> 00:03:53,100 that season of waiting for healing and not knowing if or 72 00:03:53,110 --> 00:03:56,010 when it will come. And that's a really difficult 73 00:03:56,020 --> 00:04:00,790 place to be in, especially when you're hearing about healing. 74 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:03,610 Yeah, that that does come to pass, being being preached 75 00:04:03,620 --> 00:04:04,540 about. Yeah. 76 00:04:04,550 --> 00:04:07,550 And I think that's why, like, well, I was writing my sermon. 77 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:12,850 I was trying to get that message across of like, this is hard and 78 00:04:12,900 --> 00:04:19,529 we don't have all the answers, but specifically, um, the you're 79 00:04:19,540 --> 00:04:24,730 not less faithful if you're still sick like that. 80 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:29,050 Yeah, yeah. Like Jesus saying daughter, your 81 00:04:29,060 --> 00:04:32,870 faith has healed you does not automatically mean the inverse 82 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:35,890 of that. Like your lack of faith is 83 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:42,140 hindering your healing, or you know you're somehow failing, or 84 00:04:42,150 --> 00:04:45,650 God is waiting for you to just try harder to have more faith 85 00:04:45,660 --> 00:04:49,250 before he allows for your healing or the healing of a 86 00:04:49,260 --> 00:04:53,160 loved 1. Like, I don't think that's at 87 00:04:53,170 --> 00:05:01,890 all what Jesus is saying and that our bodies that are stuck 88 00:05:01,900 --> 00:05:06,390 in this world of brokenness are not representative of our 89 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:10,070 faithfulness. And that does not mean that 90 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:18,760 faith is not important, but I think it it does mean that we 91 00:05:18,770 --> 00:05:25,750 can still acknowledge who God is and God's goodness and be 92 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:30,670 faithful to God in the ways that we we can and are able even when 93 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:31,920 we are sick. Yeah. 94 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:36,670 And it's not a measure of it. And that also isn't a hindrance 95 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:39,820 for us. Yeah, it's, yeah. 96 00:05:39,830 --> 00:05:44,820 It's important to remember that because it's easy to, when 97 00:05:44,830 --> 00:05:47,850 you're looking at these stories and Jesus literally says, like, 98 00:05:47,860 --> 00:05:52,660 your faith has healed you. That was surprising. 99 00:05:52,730 --> 00:05:55,020 Wow. It's 12:30, everybody. 100 00:05:55,290 --> 00:05:58,930 Awesome. Like it's easy to forget and 101 00:05:58,940 --> 00:06:00,800 think, oh, maybe I don't have enough faith. 102 00:06:00,870 --> 00:06:05,150 Yeah, but yeah. Or I'm not, you know, I'm not 103 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:08,160 trying hard enough to approach Jesus and that's the reason that 104 00:06:08,170 --> 00:06:13,430 I haven't been healed. In a similar sense, though, I 105 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:18,450 think it's also crucial to acknowledge that when we say 106 00:06:18,460 --> 00:06:22,350 these are healing passages, we're not only referring to the 107 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:28,130 physical healing that's taking place, these stories in this 108 00:06:28,140 --> 00:06:32,730 particular passage, our stories of physical healing, but that's 109 00:06:32,740 --> 00:06:36,410 actually not even the only type of healing that's taking place. 110 00:06:36,500 --> 00:06:40,800 And Jesus really, really goes out of his way to. 111 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:45,010 Showcase that. To showcase that and to provide 112 00:06:45,020 --> 00:06:48,050 healing for the woman who bled for 12 years. 113 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:52,230 And then this girl and her her parents opportunities for 114 00:06:52,300 --> 00:06:57,770 emotional and spiritual healing that come in conjunction with 115 00:06:57,840 --> 00:07:01,160 their physical healing. And so it, you know, there's no 116 00:07:01,170 --> 00:07:03,710 sectioning off of healing in Jesus's world. 117 00:07:03,750 --> 00:07:06,540 Yeah, it's like Jesus isn't deliberately trying to be like, 118 00:07:06,550 --> 00:07:09,580 no, no, no, don't stop, Don't stop at the physical healing. 119 00:07:09,790 --> 00:07:14,820 Like that is only one thing. That is an amazing thing. 120 00:07:14,890 --> 00:07:19,480 But that is not who I am. Only like, I'm not only here to 121 00:07:19,490 --> 00:07:21,470 physically heal you. Yeah. 122 00:07:21,550 --> 00:07:24,350 Yeah. And he does that by like, he he 123 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:27,880 stops like he's healed the woman, but he still stops to 124 00:07:27,890 --> 00:07:30,990 talk to her, not to heal her physically anymore. 125 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,080 Like that's done. She's she's happy. 126 00:07:33,150 --> 00:07:38,140 She is a happy clam of joy that she is physically healed 127 00:07:38,150 --> 00:07:40,440 instantaneously is. What it is and that she felt it, 128 00:07:40,450 --> 00:07:43,900 she knew when she tells, when she does eventually have to 129 00:07:43,910 --> 00:07:48,480 speak, she says like I touched him and she was instantly, I was 130 00:07:48,490 --> 00:07:52,710 instantly healed. So I can't even imagine just 131 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:57,070 like all of the sudden knowing that I am healed. 132 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:03,050 Of pain like it's over. It's just done that, yeah, that 133 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:07,330 level of healing. But Jesus could have just kept 134 00:08:07,340 --> 00:08:08,790 walking, yeah? He was. 135 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:10,850 He was. Like he was already a man on a 136 00:08:10,860 --> 00:08:13,350 mission wanted. Like, she just wanted the 137 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:15,370 physical healing. She was like, OK, if I just 138 00:08:15,380 --> 00:08:17,690 touch him, she wasn't going up there being like, OK, I got to 139 00:08:17,700 --> 00:08:20,370 talk to him and. He's I want him to acknowledge 140 00:08:20,380 --> 00:08:22,970 me in front of these crowds that there's so many of them. 141 00:08:22,980 --> 00:08:25,990 They're crushing Jesus like I love attention. 142 00:08:26,060 --> 00:08:28,890 Yeah, no, she got up there and she was like, I just need to 143 00:08:28,900 --> 00:08:30,410 touch his cloak. Not even him. 144 00:08:30,460 --> 00:08:33,990 So like she in her mind, she's we would think that. 145 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,860 She's gotten what she came for. But Jesus knows there's more. 146 00:08:37,870 --> 00:08:43,919 Jesus knows that there's more and Jesus was already like Gyrus 147 00:08:43,929 --> 00:08:46,540 had already come to him and said my daughter is dying, please 148 00:08:46,550 --> 00:08:51,550 come to my house. So Jesus is on his way to what 149 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:55,350 we would probably easily consider a much more urgent 150 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:57,810 need. Like there is a child who is 151 00:08:57,820 --> 00:09:02,590 dying and there is a man of a significant amount of authority 152 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:08,610 coming to Jesus and saying I, I need you to heal my kid. 153 00:09:09,770 --> 00:09:16,200 That's an insane amount of desperation, and Jesus still 154 00:09:16,210 --> 00:09:21,750 takes the time to turn around and say something just happened. 155 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:25,110 Yeah, I know that power has gone out for me. 156 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:30,990 And he sets time aside to acknowledge this woman, not 157 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:37,900 outing her for the risks she took, which were significant. 158 00:09:37,910 --> 00:09:39,780 Like you touched me, now I'm unclean. 159 00:09:39,790 --> 00:09:41,620 Like what's? Yeah, she he wasn't. 160 00:09:41,630 --> 00:09:46,130 For for her to be, you know, pushing through the crowds, 161 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:52,290 touching Jesus, like because she was bleeding under the Levitical 162 00:09:52,300 --> 00:09:56,770 law, she was like ritually unclean and anybody that she 163 00:09:56,780 --> 00:10:00,110 touched was also unclean. So this didn't just have to do 164 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:04,990 with her purity, but every single person she interacted 165 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,710 with. And if anyone found her out, the 166 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:10,640 consequences for that we're huge. 167 00:10:10,650 --> 00:10:15,560 On top of the fact that because of her uncleanliness, she was 168 00:10:15,570 --> 00:10:18,760 already outcast from society. She couldn't interact with 169 00:10:18,770 --> 00:10:20,480 people. She couldn't worship in the 170 00:10:20,490 --> 00:10:22,190 temple the way that everybody else could. 171 00:10:22,230 --> 00:10:27,940 So she's already so cut off and she's taking a risk of making 172 00:10:27,950 --> 00:10:31,540 that only worse. And instead Jesus turns to her 173 00:10:31,550 --> 00:10:34,450 and says you are healed. He publicly acknowledges that 174 00:10:34,460 --> 00:10:37,130 she is no longer unclean. He calls her daughter. 175 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:46,060 He calls her daughter and names her as worthy and whole, and 176 00:10:46,070 --> 00:10:48,980 there's something so beautiful about that because he doesn't 177 00:10:48,990 --> 00:10:53,040 just restore her physical body but also her social status. 178 00:10:53,330 --> 00:10:59,660 I can imagine emotionally like 12 years of doctors and nobody 179 00:10:59,670 --> 00:11:03,830 being able to provide you answers is exhausting and to 180 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:07,110 have that all relieved in a moment. 181 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:11,090 And not only like not having answers and like be having this 182 00:11:11,140 --> 00:11:15,580 painful like thing you're going through for 12 years, but like, 183 00:11:15,770 --> 00:11:19,040 she has a family. You would have to assume like 184 00:11:19,050 --> 00:11:22,960 she has a family, she has friends, she had them and then 185 00:11:22,970 --> 00:11:24,840 she doesn't have them for 12 years. 186 00:11:25,070 --> 00:11:28,960 Like, that in itself is emotionally painful, being cut 187 00:11:28,970 --> 00:11:33,650 off from everyone, you know? So, yeah, yeah. 188 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:39,430 And now she gets to go back and say, you know, not just the 189 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:42,970 priest has told me or some synagogue leader has told me 190 00:11:43,220 --> 00:11:49,520 that I am healed, but like this man Jesus, who is supposedly 191 00:11:49,790 --> 00:11:52,900 very powerful. Like, you know, word is getting 192 00:11:52,910 --> 00:11:55,820 around if there are these crowds chasing him. 193 00:11:55,870 --> 00:12:00,280 Like he is the one who has told me that my life is now changed 194 00:12:00,460 --> 00:12:03,950 from now on. And that carries like weight, 195 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:06,900 like the reputation that Jesus would have had would have meant 196 00:12:06,910 --> 00:12:10,150 that her testimony was incredible. 197 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:19,160 It just this story is insane. Yeah, and insane also in the way 198 00:12:20,500 --> 00:12:24,510 that, like, again, he stops. I think that is the like a 199 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:28,290 pinnacle point of like, whoa, because like you said, he was on 200 00:12:28,300 --> 00:12:32,030 his way to a little girl. But not even that. 201 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:35,630 Like he was following Gyrus like a synagogue leader, a guy. 202 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:38,610 He was a man. Who had following another man. 203 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:42,110 But he had a lot of power in this time. 204 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:47,270 And arguably one would say that maybe his testimony or Gyrus 205 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:49,330 speaking goodly, goodly, that's not a word. 206 00:12:49,340 --> 00:12:53,130 Well of Jesus would have carried more weight. 207 00:12:53,140 --> 00:12:56,170 It would have been like, oh, this cool guy, but no, he stops 208 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:59,630 and now it's a woman. Like and an unclean woman. 209 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:04,100 Unclean woman and he's like, in this time, like most people 210 00:13:04,110 --> 00:13:06,820 would want to be in the good books of the synagogue leader. 211 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:13,220 And you know the purity laws, it's a lot of work to go from 212 00:13:13,230 --> 00:13:19,030 being unclean to clean. Like in the Levitical laws about 213 00:13:19,110 --> 00:13:22,380 bleeding. Once the bleeding has stopped, 214 00:13:22,390 --> 00:13:26,530 you have to wait 7 more days and then you offer a sacrifice. 215 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:29,580 It's not easy. 1 dove or two doves. 216 00:13:29,590 --> 00:13:32,880 Don't remember off the top of my head, but there's a lot of work 217 00:13:32,890 --> 00:13:38,570 into this spiritual ritual changing. 218 00:13:38,660 --> 00:13:40,780 It's not like I'm just gonna have a shower and we're done. 219 00:13:40,790 --> 00:13:43,570 Here. And Jesus did that for her. 220 00:13:43,580 --> 00:13:48,510 Yeah, in a moment. Also at cost to himself. 221 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:53,090 But we already know Jesus. Jesus doesn't care about those 222 00:13:53,100 --> 00:13:55,070 tanks, no. Or maybe not that he doesn't 223 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:58,190 care, but that he has his priorities straight. 224 00:13:58,380 --> 00:14:00,790 Everything for him is ordered properly. 225 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:09,900 And yeah, I do love in this passage that it does feel very 226 00:14:09,910 --> 00:14:13,440 jarring that Jesus just stops what he's doing to acknowledge 227 00:14:13,450 --> 00:14:15,960 this woman in a very vulnerable position. 228 00:14:16,180 --> 00:14:21,160 But it's it's been a good reminder for me to remember that 229 00:14:22,660 --> 00:14:26,450 all of Scripture, like the Old Testament, also tells stories of 230 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:31,790 God going out of the way to acknowledge women in their most 231 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:38,010 vulnerable situations and affirm their dignity and their worth 232 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:44,190 and their value in the Kingdom. One of my favorite kind of fun 233 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:49,050 facts about the Bible is that in Genesis, the very first person 234 00:14:49,060 --> 00:14:53,250 to name God. So in the Old Testament, you'll 235 00:14:53,260 --> 00:15:00,390 see a lot of like Jyra or Yahweh is a name for God or Jehovah, 236 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:03,380 and they all have slightly different meanings. 237 00:15:03,390 --> 00:15:07,630 And the very first one that is ascribed to God was from a 238 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:10,010 woman. Her name was Hagar, and she was 239 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:13,550 fleeing from abuse in the desert. 240 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:16,270 She had a very, very small baby with her. 241 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:18,870 She had gotten pregnant and been cast out. 242 00:15:19,090 --> 00:15:24,350 And God meets her in the wilderness and provides for her 243 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:29,140 and her son and vows to protect her done for the rest of his 244 00:15:29,150 --> 00:15:34,680 life. And she names God El ROI, which 245 00:15:34,730 --> 00:15:38,580 means the God who sees me. She says I have seen the one who 246 00:15:38,590 --> 00:15:40,960 sees me. And this idea of. 247 00:15:40,970 --> 00:15:42,620 We see it again in this passage. God's. 248 00:15:42,630 --> 00:15:48,970 Stopping and seeing this woman. When he doesn't have to. 249 00:15:49,020 --> 00:15:52,180 No, it's nice that he did though. 250 00:15:52,510 --> 00:15:57,770 Like in our humanness, like it's like she's healed. 251 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:01,730 Like move doesn't move on like. There's a girl, there's there's 252 00:16:01,740 --> 00:16:04,570 we got places. To be, to be like in our daily 253 00:16:04,580 --> 00:16:07,490 life, we do this. We're like, OK, great, moving 254 00:16:07,500 --> 00:16:09,590 on. I have like 10 other things I 255 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:13,090 need to do right now, but Jesus like is like no no, no, no. 256 00:16:13,620 --> 00:16:15,740 In fact, like the physical healing might not even be the 257 00:16:15,750 --> 00:16:19,700 most important part. Like, yeah, you know, like, 258 00:16:19,710 --> 00:16:23,690 that's great. It is amazing but. 259 00:16:23,860 --> 00:16:30,930 To be acknowledged by God in that way is really, really 260 00:16:30,940 --> 00:16:32,930 powerful. And I think it's also a good 261 00:16:32,980 --> 00:16:37,870 reminder for when we don't experience physical healing, 262 00:16:38,020 --> 00:16:41,190 when we go through years and years of doctors and treatments 263 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:48,100 and pain and things that don't work, that God can still heal us 264 00:16:48,110 --> 00:16:51,940 in other ways and be sufficient for us in other ways. 265 00:16:52,370 --> 00:16:55,700 Like I think about the people in my life who I have watched 266 00:16:56,430 --> 00:17:03,810 suffer with sickness, but who are so calm and still and steady 267 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,970 in their faith. Because even when God didn't 268 00:17:07,980 --> 00:17:13,440 heal them physically, he met them in their hardest emotions 269 00:17:13,450 --> 00:17:16,310 and in the times in their faith where they felt like they didn't 270 00:17:16,319 --> 00:17:19,500 have faith. And He healed and restored those 271 00:17:19,510 --> 00:17:27,630 areas of their lives in a way that allowed them to continue to 272 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:32,410 seek the presence of God even without physical healing. 273 00:17:33,070 --> 00:17:37,620 Because we live with the knowledge that one day in 274 00:17:37,630 --> 00:17:41,240 heaven, like our whole selves will be healed and we will get 275 00:17:41,250 --> 00:17:45,400 to experience the total, complete wholeness. 276 00:17:45,470 --> 00:17:48,480 I guess all those words kind of mean the same thing, but really 277 00:17:48,490 --> 00:17:52,220 hammer at home. Like the crucifixion, like I 278 00:17:52,230 --> 00:17:55,960 said this, it was an amazing foreshadowing, this story of 279 00:17:55,970 --> 00:17:59,440 like what Jesus ultimately is here to do, which is die on the 280 00:17:59,450 --> 00:18:06,370 cross for us and to take all of our brokenness and restore us in 281 00:18:06,380 --> 00:18:13,050 salvation, which again means like wholeness of body, mind and 282 00:18:13,060 --> 00:18:15,710 spirit. And I think that wholeness is 283 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:19,370 really shown in these passages of like, he's not just seeing 284 00:18:19,380 --> 00:18:22,090 your physical needs, but he's like, no, there's. 285 00:18:22,100 --> 00:18:26,890 More and long term like it's not just what we need for this 286 00:18:26,900 --> 00:18:32,330 moment, but what is going to set us up for a life of fullness 287 00:18:32,380 --> 00:18:35,960 moving forward. And I guess the point we're kind 288 00:18:35,970 --> 00:18:38,410 of really trying to a roundabout. 289 00:18:38,420 --> 00:18:40,790 Way. Trying to drive home is that 290 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:44,150 these are they're throughout the book of Luke, throughout the 291 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:49,000 Gospels, throughout the Bible, there are stories of healing. 292 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:54,150 But I think what Luke is really trying to showcase is not 293 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:56,910 necessarily the healing is the main point, but that these are 294 00:18:56,920 --> 00:19:02,330 all moments where Jesus revealed himself to people and his 295 00:19:02,340 --> 00:19:07,410 character and his nature to people who needed it, people who 296 00:19:07,420 --> 00:19:11,770 were observing it. And as much as he acknowledged 297 00:19:11,780 --> 00:19:17,690 the woman for her own sake, he also did that to showcase his 298 00:19:19,390 --> 00:19:25,220 power and authority over sickness and over our bodies 299 00:19:25,230 --> 00:19:28,620 that came to him, from God to the crowds. 300 00:19:29,110 --> 00:19:33,680 And his care, like in the next part, he just raises a girl from 301 00:19:33,890 --> 00:19:36,540 death. Like that in itself is wood. 302 00:19:36,550 --> 00:19:38,900 She was sleeping. She was she was dead. 303 00:19:38,950 --> 00:19:42,060 But no. But he does this and like the 304 00:19:42,070 --> 00:19:45,660 parents are standing there and. Astonished. 305 00:19:45,670 --> 00:19:49,050 Like they don't say anything, but if my child was all of a 306 00:19:49,060 --> 00:19:52,300 sudden raised, like you're going from reef to like holy, like 307 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:55,850 amazingness. And Jesus isn't like, yeah, 308 00:19:55,860 --> 00:19:58,750 applaud me or like, look at me guys. 309 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:00,130 He's like, oh. She needs. 310 00:20:00,140 --> 00:20:03,830 She probably is hungry. She's been sleeping so long she 311 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:07,570 needs something and that just shows like again, who he is 312 00:20:07,580 --> 00:20:11,760 like. He cares and he also Jewish like 313 00:20:11,770 --> 00:20:15,010 grieving rituals were very, very communal. 314 00:20:15,180 --> 00:20:18,650 And so by the time Jesus gets to the house, there are people they 315 00:20:18,660 --> 00:20:20,130 are wailing. They are. 316 00:20:20,220 --> 00:20:23,180 They are. Weeping their mourning and it's 317 00:20:23,190 --> 00:20:26,820 this very communal mourning process and Jesus kicks them all 318 00:20:26,830 --> 00:20:30,710 out of the house and so. He script again. 319 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:36,950 Allows this family this intimate moment without he reveals 320 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:41,950 himself, but not to the crowds. This time he protects the, you 321 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:46,540 know, emotions of this family and of this child, brings her 322 00:20:46,550 --> 00:20:50,040 back to life and then doesn't just let everybody in and be 323 00:20:50,050 --> 00:20:52,600 like, I told you guys, she was sleeping. 324 00:20:52,670 --> 00:20:57,680 He says, yeah, this daughter of mine probably needs a snack. 325 00:20:57,810 --> 00:21:00,460 And he so he does. He cares for our full selves. 326 00:21:00,470 --> 00:21:04,520 He cares for our physical needs and also deeply for our 327 00:21:04,530 --> 00:21:08,220 emotional and spiritual ones and seeks to protect that. 328 00:21:09,150 --> 00:21:12,540 And that I just. I think that's so beautiful. 329 00:21:12,590 --> 00:21:16,650 Yeah, but. Yeah. 330 00:21:16,660 --> 00:21:23,200 I think, yeah, one of the major, like, questions while I was 331 00:21:23,210 --> 00:21:25,200 going through this passage, while we were going through this 332 00:21:25,210 --> 00:21:32,080 passage is like, what if healing begins with being seen and not 333 00:21:32,090 --> 00:21:34,840 just fixed? Like, that's Ouch. 334 00:21:34,890 --> 00:21:37,280 Yeah. But like a different way of 335 00:21:37,290 --> 00:21:41,830 thinking about it is like, I don't know, is that enough? 336 00:21:42,120 --> 00:21:45,530 Like really, when you're in the midst of it, like hearing like, 337 00:21:45,540 --> 00:21:50,910 oh, God sees you, it's hard and you're like, OK, great, but you 338 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:55,310 know, I broke my arm or. Like yeah, I did do that. 339 00:21:55,360 --> 00:22:00,010 Yeah, but like, but really like wrestling with that question is 340 00:22:00,140 --> 00:22:02,940 like, what if healing begins with being seen? 341 00:22:03,660 --> 00:22:06,470 Yeah. And I wonder, I mean, we'll 342 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:12,780 never know, but I wonder if that was maybe the experience of the 343 00:22:12,790 --> 00:22:16,530 parents of this girl of I don't know. 344 00:22:16,540 --> 00:22:21,400 I know for me, when I am grieving, it's made as an 345 00:22:21,410 --> 00:22:26,730 introvert so much harder by the constant slew of people cycling 346 00:22:26,740 --> 00:22:31,690 through and the IT feels very, very overwhelming for me. 347 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:37,170 And so I can just imagine the relief of this man with all of 348 00:22:37,180 --> 00:22:42,450 this authority walking into my house and saying everybody out, 349 00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:45,780 yeah, I would just that would yeah. 350 00:22:45,790 --> 00:22:49,090 Sometimes I wish Jesus would come and do that for me still, 351 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:54,450 like you, you know, Jesus is an advocate in that way. 352 00:22:54,560 --> 00:23:01,210 And I, yeah, I can just imagine how healing that would be in 353 00:23:01,220 --> 00:23:05,660 that moment, to know that Jesus hadn't raised their daughter 354 00:23:05,670 --> 00:23:08,940 from the dead yet, but they had someone on their team who was 355 00:23:08,950 --> 00:23:14,100 looking out for them and caring for them in ways that they 356 00:23:14,500 --> 00:23:19,190 couldn't articulate, even though it went entirely against the 357 00:23:19,260 --> 00:23:23,270 practices of that community. Not that those practices are, 358 00:23:23,340 --> 00:23:25,510 are wrong. I think there's something really 359 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,790 beautiful about grieving communally. 360 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:30,300 And I think that that's something. 361 00:23:30,360 --> 00:23:34,090 Something we do here at like 1 things, things happen. 362 00:23:34,100 --> 00:23:36,340 Like people show up with casseroles like. 363 00:23:36,350 --> 00:23:38,290 They're we are a great casserole. 364 00:23:38,300 --> 00:23:41,430 Church. But I think in general, it's 365 00:23:42,470 --> 00:23:45,520 becoming less and less practiced. 366 00:23:45,570 --> 00:23:49,600 I think we kind of wall off our grief because we have to show up 367 00:23:49,610 --> 00:23:55,200 for life in other ways. And grief makes us uncomfortable 368 00:23:55,270 --> 00:23:58,600 in a way that seeing mourners and people wailing outside of 369 00:23:58,610 --> 00:24:02,310 someone's house wouldn't have made people uncomfortable. 370 00:24:02,970 --> 00:24:08,130 If I saw that, I would be concerned on many levels. 371 00:24:08,190 --> 00:24:10,560 Yeah. But I think there is something 372 00:24:10,570 --> 00:24:16,570 important about inviting other people into the suffering we are 373 00:24:16,580 --> 00:24:21,330 experiencing with us. And I wish I had the wisdom of 374 00:24:21,340 --> 00:24:25,770 Jesus to know when things should happen in front of crowds or 375 00:24:25,780 --> 00:24:27,610 when things should happen behind closed doors. 376 00:24:27,620 --> 00:24:31,200 I think I don't always do a good job of that as an introvert who 377 00:24:31,210 --> 00:24:34,270 would just love to always be behind. 378 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:39,250 Just keep me out of it, Jesus. But it's something to be said 379 00:24:39,380 --> 00:24:44,720 that like, yes, communal, like grief coming alongside people, 380 00:24:44,730 --> 00:24:48,840 amazing. But in this story, like Jesus 381 00:24:50,510 --> 00:24:54,100 shoots everyone out like goodbye, you know, and it's just 382 00:24:54,110 --> 00:24:58,060 him, his three closest disciples and the parents, which is crazy 383 00:24:58,070 --> 00:25:01,770 in the time. But also like what he does later 384 00:25:01,780 --> 00:25:03,970 is even crazy now, like he just heals this girl. 385 00:25:03,980 --> 00:25:11,070 But him, like his presence, like being there, it sort of goes 386 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,290 hand in hand. It's like had his presence is is 387 00:25:14,300 --> 00:25:18,090 it enough in the midst of this, like before the daughter is 388 00:25:18,100 --> 00:25:21,430 healed before your situation changes or before like when 389 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:25,750 you're in that waiting, that pain like he Jesus is there? 390 00:25:25,820 --> 00:25:28,270 Yeah, it's not wrong to ask for healing. 391 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:33,010 Yeah, yeah. But I think I feel challenged 392 00:25:33,020 --> 00:25:38,490 that I should first be asking for God's presence and saying 393 00:25:38,500 --> 00:25:45,760 that OK before I decide what I want or need the outcome to be. 394 00:25:46,150 --> 00:25:51,940 And I almost always like I we, we desire healing because that's 395 00:25:51,950 --> 00:25:54,420 how God, like God, made us to be whole. 396 00:25:54,430 --> 00:25:57,220 And we live in a world where that's not the reality because 397 00:25:57,230 --> 00:26:01,000 of sin. But desiring healing is not the 398 00:26:01,010 --> 00:26:02,780 problem. But I think sometimes we do that 399 00:26:02,790 --> 00:26:06,520 without also desiring the God who brings that healing. 400 00:26:06,970 --> 00:26:12,440 We're just running to him, like in fear, in pain, in all 401 00:26:12,450 --> 00:26:16,510 inspiration, like, yeah, just going to Jesus, who is already 402 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:20,410 there, like he's not. Not the parent. 403 00:26:20,420 --> 00:26:22,850 Yeah, he's not not present, but sometimes it's really easy to 404 00:26:22,860 --> 00:26:25,530 forget or not feel him or like be like, where? 405 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:29,930 Where are you? God, you know, but having that. 406 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,640 A posture. The first instinct to be to not 407 00:26:33,650 --> 00:26:36,670 wall yourself off. Or not the first instinct, but 408 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:41,810 like a conscious decision of like, you know, kind of self 409 00:26:41,820 --> 00:26:46,170 correcting and the like. I want to go frantic. 410 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:52,070 I feel this desperation. I am, you know, ready to break 411 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:56,950 rules to get the healing that I I desire. 412 00:26:57,100 --> 00:27:03,250 And pausing, Yeah. And saying OK, I need to Orient 413 00:27:03,260 --> 00:27:07,170 myself. I need to figure out where God 414 00:27:07,180 --> 00:27:12,220 is in this and if I can't find him easily then I need to to ask 415 00:27:12,230 --> 00:27:14,300 for him. Yeah, finding that stillness. 416 00:27:14,310 --> 00:27:21,700 To show up and just slow, slowing ourselves down and also 417 00:27:21,710 --> 00:27:26,540 acknowledging that that also doesn't fix anything. 418 00:27:26,610 --> 00:27:30,570 Yeah. And that feeling afraid when you 419 00:27:30,580 --> 00:27:37,290 know our bodies are failing or our world is crumbling is not 420 00:27:37,950 --> 00:27:42,250 wrong. Yeah, like the fact that, you 421 00:27:42,260 --> 00:27:47,710 know, Gyrus came to Jesus afraid because his daughter was dying, 422 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:52,170 and that is scary. And then Gyrus is told that his 423 00:27:52,180 --> 00:27:58,430 daughter is dead. And Gyrus has to trust the word 424 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:02,150 of the people who who said that. And Jesus says, well, I'm like, 425 00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:05,690 we're still going like she's she's not dead. 426 00:28:05,980 --> 00:28:07,990 Believe like she's going to be healed. 427 00:28:08,750 --> 00:28:13,070 I can't imagine that makes the fear God well away, no. 428 00:28:13,370 --> 00:28:20,960 Or the grief, like yeah. But nowhere. 429 00:28:22,230 --> 00:28:24,380 I mean, OK, Jesus does say don't be afraid. 430 00:28:24,450 --> 00:28:32,050 Yeah, but I think there is like Jesus was afraid, Hmm, before he 431 00:28:32,060 --> 00:28:34,370 went to the cross. Yeah. 432 00:28:34,420 --> 00:28:37,330 Sweating blood. As you do. 433 00:28:37,390 --> 00:28:38,850 As one no. No. 434 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:46,000 No is a like physiological response to intense fear. 435 00:28:47,130 --> 00:28:49,970 And Jesus still went to the cross, Yeah. 436 00:28:50,010 --> 00:28:53,600 So this woman, she's trembling. She's shaking. 437 00:28:53,610 --> 00:28:56,300 Defied. There's a crowd, like a lot of 438 00:28:56,310 --> 00:28:58,420 people. And if people find out what 439 00:28:58,430 --> 00:29:03,020 she's just done, her life is worse than it already has been. 440 00:29:03,030 --> 00:29:04,770 And it's been awful for 12 years. 441 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:11,200 And so I think that I think you actually said it really well on 442 00:29:11,210 --> 00:29:15,910 Sunday that Jesus wasn't asking for more faith. 443 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:23,290 He was asking for Gyrus to depend on God in ways that he 444 00:29:23,300 --> 00:29:26,750 hadn't before. And I think that that's a really 445 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:36,570 helpful distinction for me in my times of fear is the if my fear 446 00:29:36,580 --> 00:29:39,890 is preventing me from depending on God or preventing me from 447 00:29:39,900 --> 00:29:43,930 stepping out in faith, then I need to not be afraid. 448 00:29:45,500 --> 00:29:50,240 But there is a way to acknowledge the limitations of 449 00:29:50,250 --> 00:29:53,130 our bodies and how they express emotions, one of which being 450 00:29:53,180 --> 00:30:02,400 fear, and still walk in faith, still learn to depend on Jesus 451 00:30:02,410 --> 00:30:08,740 even when it doesn't make any sense, and to continue to show 452 00:30:08,750 --> 00:30:14,550 up in expectation and hope that God will. 453 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:20,210 God will move, but. But it's hard like, and I said 454 00:30:20,220 --> 00:30:25,620 this Sunday like it is not this kind of like, OK, just pray, you 455 00:30:25,630 --> 00:30:32,300 know, pray more or just, you know, ask God for XY and Z. 456 00:30:32,310 --> 00:30:35,220 It's like, no, you, you're going to be scared. 457 00:30:35,530 --> 00:30:37,230 Like you said, you're going to be scared. 458 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:41,580 You could be scared, you could be desperate and you can go and 459 00:30:41,590 --> 00:30:44,300 it's going to be hard. Like these two people did stuff 460 00:30:44,310 --> 00:30:46,370 that was really uncomfortable. Like I don't. 461 00:30:46,380 --> 00:30:49,440 Think this woman was probably wanting to tell everyone what 462 00:30:49,450 --> 00:30:51,480 has been going on for 12 years in this crowd. 463 00:30:51,570 --> 00:30:54,040 I wouldn't. I'd be like, can we go to 464 00:30:54,050 --> 00:30:55,140 private room? Jesus. 465 00:30:55,150 --> 00:31:00,500 Like Jesus, you stop. And like Gyrus, he's a synagogue 466 00:31:00,510 --> 00:31:03,420 leader. Like he doesn't want to. 467 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:07,020 Who's admitting? Who's admitting his child is 468 00:31:07,030 --> 00:31:08,230 dying? Yeah, and he can't do. 469 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:09,660 Anything and he can't do anything. 470 00:31:09,710 --> 00:31:12,840 And elsewhere in the Gospels, can't remember off the top of my 471 00:31:12,850 --> 00:31:15,460 head, there's this situation where there's this man who is 472 00:31:15,470 --> 00:31:20,200 blind and the disciples are like, so was it his sin or his 473 00:31:20,210 --> 00:31:22,020 parents sin that made him this way? 474 00:31:22,090 --> 00:31:24,960 Jesus. Uno reversed them and said 475 00:31:25,010 --> 00:31:27,180 neither. Yeah, you need to fix your 476 00:31:27,190 --> 00:31:29,460 attitudes. Yeah. 477 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,320 But there there was that kind of understanding at the time of, 478 00:31:33,330 --> 00:31:40,390 like when people are sick or people it's their fault or their 479 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:41,510 parents fault. Yeah. 480 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:47,390 Like, it comes from this idea of like generational, like how sin 481 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,020 carries itself through generations and. 482 00:31:50,030 --> 00:31:53,070 Would have been scary. For Cyrus, because he's this man 483 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,590 of spiritual authority who's in a situation that could 484 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,510 potentially showcase to people that he's done something awful, 485 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:02,670 or his parents have done something awful or his child has 486 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:06,090 done something awful, even though that's not the case and 487 00:32:06,180 --> 00:32:12,160 not what's happening. It's just, it's just hard. 488 00:32:12,230 --> 00:32:16,380 Yeah. And like we, we all have 489 00:32:16,390 --> 00:32:18,500 situations that it's just. Hard. 490 00:32:18,550 --> 00:32:23,360 And I think it's also, I love this passage and it also 491 00:32:23,370 --> 00:32:31,930 frustrates me to no end because there are so many people who 492 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,930 never ever get the physical healing. 493 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:39,830 And I think for me that's there's sometimes a bitterness 494 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:44,780 that comes with that of the where are the people in 495 00:32:44,790 --> 00:32:48,170 Scripture who don't get healed? You know, where are the people 496 00:32:48,180 --> 00:32:53,600 who go to Jesus and you know, metaphorically, like reach for 497 00:32:53,610 --> 00:32:57,410 the end of his cloak in faith and nothing happens. 498 00:32:58,370 --> 00:33:06,550 And I think they're, you know, like there is just no answer for 499 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,440 that. Yeah, and that doesn't change 500 00:33:09,490 --> 00:33:16,410 who God is. But it sucks and it's not fair. 501 00:33:17,370 --> 00:33:23,060 And at the same time, I think there's still so much to learn 502 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:29,720 about what Jesus desires for us, meaning that he he doesn't 503 00:33:29,730 --> 00:33:35,460 desire us to not be healed, and he doesn't desire for us to 504 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:44,820 suffer, and he doesn't want us to be outcast or cut off or in 505 00:33:44,830 --> 00:33:50,530 pain. And I don't have answers for 506 00:33:50,540 --> 00:33:52,440 anything else. Yeah. 507 00:33:52,510 --> 00:33:57,780 And like, yeah, it's hard. It's something we wrestle with. 508 00:33:57,900 --> 00:34:02,980 It's something like going into this week, we encourage you to 509 00:34:02,990 --> 00:34:05,340 wrestle with like those questions that you don't have 510 00:34:05,350 --> 00:34:11,610 answers with for. But it's one of those, yeah, why 511 00:34:11,620 --> 00:34:16,050 not now? Why like we one day we will be 512 00:34:16,060 --> 00:34:20,929 restored in like eternity, like with Jesus, but why not now? 513 00:34:21,139 --> 00:34:26,110 And that's hard. But I think there's something to 514 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:31,960 be said for physical healing isn't the whole point. 515 00:34:32,010 --> 00:34:36,020 And that is hard and that. Is and it's so easy to focus on 516 00:34:36,489 --> 00:34:38,760 like, yeah, you know. When you're going through it, 517 00:34:38,770 --> 00:34:41,159 you're like, OK, cool. It's not the whole like, that's 518 00:34:41,170 --> 00:34:43,920 not the reason Jesus came down. He came down to like. 519 00:34:44,429 --> 00:34:47,840 Reveal himself and talk about himself and be the Messiah and 520 00:34:47,850 --> 00:34:51,320 yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm hurting, and that's OK 521 00:34:51,330 --> 00:34:55,100 too. Like it is OK to be frustrated 522 00:34:55,110 --> 00:34:58,780 about it. But we encourage you and for us 523 00:34:58,790 --> 00:35:02,520 too, like wrestle with God, with that, like talk to him. 524 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:04,390 He can take it. Yeah. 525 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:09,500 That's not that, you know, I think like I talked about this 526 00:35:09,510 --> 00:35:11,820 the last time I was on the podcast about toddler temper 527 00:35:11,830 --> 00:35:15,920 tantrums. But like, I really like over and 528 00:35:15,930 --> 00:35:19,570 over and over again, and especially with passages like 529 00:35:19,580 --> 00:35:24,980 this, feel like instead of, you know, kneeling down in front of 530 00:35:24,990 --> 00:35:29,400 Jesus, trembling of like, Oh my goodness, you've healed me. 531 00:35:29,460 --> 00:35:33,080 I'm like throwing myself at Jesus feet kicking and screaming 532 00:35:33,090 --> 00:35:35,200 and being like, what are you doing? 533 00:35:35,210 --> 00:35:39,700 Yeah, as if I have, you know, any ounce of authority to go to 534 00:35:39,710 --> 00:35:41,300 Jesus like that. But. 535 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:44,070 Which is probably what Cyrus was thinking like Cyrus was probably 536 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:46,480 like, what are you? Doing Can you pick up the pace 537 00:35:46,490 --> 00:35:48,540 like let's. Go my daughter is dying or my 538 00:35:48,550 --> 00:35:51,860 daughter's dead and like feeling where are you? 539 00:35:51,870 --> 00:35:55,340 Where were you and how? How can you move now? 540 00:35:55,670 --> 00:36:01,040 Like, yeah, Jesus's lack of urgency, sometimes shocking, 541 00:36:01,110 --> 00:36:08,540 makes me go pitter patter, Yeah. But being able to like, talk to 542 00:36:08,580 --> 00:36:10,490 God about that, talk to Jesus about it like. 543 00:36:11,490 --> 00:36:15,900 And you know, the Jesus that we learn of in this passage is 544 00:36:17,750 --> 00:36:23,200 still good and worth knowing. And even if it feels like that, 545 00:36:23,210 --> 00:36:28,290 Jesus feels like that, Jesus isn't present with me. 546 00:36:30,260 --> 00:36:33,670 Jesus is whole in ways that we will never be. 547 00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:39,600 And that can be such a comfort that whether or not I've 548 00:36:39,610 --> 00:36:45,290 experienced or think I've experienced the parts of Jesus 549 00:36:45,300 --> 00:36:50,120 seen here like they are there. And I can rest in the fact that 550 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:57,660 Jesus is consistent and he is perfect and whole in his care 551 00:36:57,670 --> 00:37:03,380 and compassion and critique and timing in ways that I will just 552 00:37:03,390 --> 00:37:06,480 never be. And that's an opportunity for us 553 00:37:06,490 --> 00:37:12,250 to be still and say I'm not God, but you are. 554 00:37:13,170 --> 00:37:23,380 And so I can just let the urgency pass or attempt. 555 00:37:23,470 --> 00:37:26,400 Yeah, again, hard, hard. Stealing yourself, It's all 556 00:37:26,410 --> 00:37:30,160 hard, bottom line. Yeah, if you're taking anything 557 00:37:30,170 --> 00:37:32,360 from this podcast, like these are hard things, these are 558 00:37:32,370 --> 00:37:33,610 uncomfortable things we see in the. 559 00:37:33,620 --> 00:37:35,300 Passage. They're not very clear. 560 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,880 They are not clear. We do not have all the answers 561 00:37:38,500 --> 00:37:40,510 and that. Is I'm just a girl? 562 00:37:41,020 --> 00:37:43,690 Yes, the most gensy thing I've ever said. 563 00:37:43,750 --> 00:37:48,140 You can look that up later, but it is OK. 564 00:37:48,390 --> 00:37:52,000 And sometimes that that is the point to like wrestle with these 565 00:37:52,010 --> 00:37:56,440 things. And to just really, I think 566 00:37:56,500 --> 00:37:59,210 Annabelle and I, as we were chatting, really wanted to 567 00:38:01,580 --> 00:38:04,830 wrestle with the like. Is just being seen by God 568 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,300 enough? Hmm, and. 569 00:38:07,310 --> 00:38:10,580 Can you be still? What does that change? 570 00:38:10,690 --> 00:38:14,300 Because it's probably, definitely not gonna change the 571 00:38:14,310 --> 00:38:19,530 circumstances, but. Knowing that God has. 572 00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:21,800 Can that be enough to change? Yeah. 573 00:38:22,660 --> 00:38:27,310 Your outlook or your perspective or just your ability to be at 574 00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:30,530 peace no matter what the circumstances are? 575 00:38:31,740 --> 00:38:33,450 Yeah. Yeah. 576 00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:38,750 And one day we will be whole. And that's really exciting to 577 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:44,030 look forward to, to bodies that don't break when you fall down 578 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:50,280 mountains and you know there will be no more sickness and 579 00:38:50,290 --> 00:38:54,020 death. And that all has that all has a 580 00:38:54,030 --> 00:38:55,220 time limit. Yeah. 581 00:38:56,270 --> 00:39:01,440 But in the waiting, in the now, in the questions and the the 582 00:39:01,710 --> 00:39:04,100 like the not. Hard the hard. 583 00:39:04,110 --> 00:39:10,340 Hard in the hard seasons or like just general? 584 00:39:10,590 --> 00:39:13,460 This is not a season like it's been going on for 12 years like. 585 00:39:13,470 --> 00:39:16,340 This is my whole life, the whole calendar. 586 00:39:16,410 --> 00:39:25,870 Like have being seen by God, being seen by Jesus and knowing 587 00:39:25,940 --> 00:39:29,700 like he wants and is restoring you in peace. 588 00:39:30,390 --> 00:39:33,340 Like cat, can we grab hold of that piece? 589 00:39:33,350 --> 00:39:39,090 Like can we sit still in God's presence and be like, OK, I got 590 00:39:39,100 --> 00:39:41,560 nothing left. Like, I don't, I don't know, I 591 00:39:41,570 --> 00:39:44,310 don't understand, but I'm giving it to you. 592 00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:50,350 Yeah, and be expectant like Gyrus and this woman who was 593 00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:51,890 bleeding were at the end of themselves. 594 00:39:51,900 --> 00:39:57,800 They had no options left, and that ultimately brought them 595 00:39:58,150 --> 00:40:00,880 healing. But also brought them to Jesus. 596 00:40:00,950 --> 00:40:03,400 Yeah, that's also. That's that's pretty cool. 597 00:40:03,470 --> 00:40:05,150 Yeah. Like they? 598 00:40:05,510 --> 00:40:07,900 Yeah. They're, they're like, sometimes 599 00:40:07,910 --> 00:40:17,820 I'm kind of jealous I didn't live 2025 years ago because I 600 00:40:17,830 --> 00:40:19,300 mean, I also live in North America. 601 00:40:19,310 --> 00:40:23,500 So that pretty good impacts my ability to just run into Jesus 602 00:40:23,510 --> 00:40:27,240 on my my journeying, all the journeying I do. 603 00:40:27,510 --> 00:40:31,590 But yeah, but in they're desperation, it brought them to 604 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,830 God, it brought them to Jesus, and that's pretty cool. 605 00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:41,140 And I yeah, think that that is true and can be true for us too. 606 00:40:43,010 --> 00:40:45,720 Yeah, we will. I think we'll end it there. 607 00:40:45,780 --> 00:40:49,620 We'll, we'll wrap it up. We'll wrap it up, but in this 608 00:40:49,630 --> 00:40:53,530 coming week, in the weeks to follow, when you're finding 609 00:40:53,540 --> 00:40:58,320 yourself in these seasons of hard in these seasons of. 610 00:40:58,370 --> 00:41:01,160 Where are you God? What is going on? 611 00:41:01,170 --> 00:41:04,000 I need healing and I don't know what's happening. 612 00:41:04,970 --> 00:41:07,740 Wrestle with that question like what if healing begins with 613 00:41:07,750 --> 00:41:12,730 being seen? And what does wholeness look 614 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:17,660 like for you? And then just, yeah, being still 615 00:41:17,890 --> 00:41:22,830 in your desperation and yeah, um. 616 00:41:23,370 --> 00:41:26,160 Yeah, if you have any questions, you can. 617 00:41:26,210 --> 00:41:30,040 Send them to the e-mail that is somewhere. 618 00:41:30,050 --> 00:41:32,780 It will be attached. Somewhere, maybe in the 619 00:41:32,790 --> 00:41:36,020 description? 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