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The Holy Ghost of our Lord Jesus
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And when Jesus had crossed again
in the boat to the other side, a

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great crowd gathered about him, 
and he was beside the sea. 

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Then came one of the rulers of 
the synagogue, Jarius by name, 

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and seeing him, he fell at his 
feet and employed him earnestly,

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saying, My little daughter is at
the point of death, come and lay

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your hand on her, so that she 
may be made well and live. 

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And he went with him, and a 
great crowd followed him and 

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thronged about him. 
And there was a woman who had 

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had a discharge of blood for 12 
years and who had suffered much 

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under many physicians and had 
spent all that she had and was 

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no better, but rather grew 
worse. 

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She had heard the reports about 
Jesus and came up up behind him 

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in the crowd and touched his 
garment. 

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For she said, if I touch even 
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well. 
And immediately the flow of 

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blood dried up, and she felt in 
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her disease. 
And Jesus, perceiving in himself

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that power had gone out from 
him, immediately turned about in

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the crowd and said, Who touched 
my garments? 

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And his disciples say to him, 
You see the crowd pressing 

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around you, and yet you say, Who
touched me? 

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And he looked around to see who 
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But the woman, knowing what had 
happened to her, came in fear 

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and trembling, and fell down 
before him, and told him the 

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whole truth. 
And he said to her, daughter, 

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Your faith has made you well, go
in peace and be healed of your 

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disease and gospel of the Lord. 
Hey church, will you all pray 

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with me please? 
Dear loving God, thank you so 

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much for all these beautiful 
faces, all these individuals 

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that you know and love so 
dearly. 

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I pray that your voice, your 
message for each and every one 

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of them may resound. 
In your name we pray, Amen. 

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Please be seated. 
Hi everybody. 

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OK, so when I walk down the 
street in Seoul, I haven't been 

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there in a long time, but in 
South Korea, when I do get to 

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visit, I often feel like my 
Americanness shows before I even

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open my mouth. 
I just exude it. 

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So even if I were to get a 
haircut in a Korean salon, 

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dressed in my cousin's clothes 
and let her put like Korean 

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style makeup on me or whatever, 
and, you know, look the part on 

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the outside, I would still move 
through space in a way that is 

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noticeably different. 
I make eye contact, as Americans

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do with passers by, and smile 
hello. 

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I take longer strides. 
I I laugh openly without 

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covering my mouth. 
These are small things, but in 

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that context they make me stand 
out quite a bit relative to many

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of the women around me there. 
Even today, I can seem bolder, 

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louder, more physically present.
And that's very American. 

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Here in the States, though, I 
often find that I live on the 

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other end of the that spectrum. 
I tend not to take up a lot of 

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space unless I make a concerted 
effort to, like in a classroom 

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or something. 
When I cross the street, I 

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hustle, like my mother does, to 
make sure that the drivers are 

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not waiting for me. 
And I'm always astonished by the

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pedestrians that feel the sense 
of freedom to just like, take 

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their time, you know, I mean, no
judgement. 

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There's like freedom in that. 
And I just, I can never bring 

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myself to walk slowly. 
I tend to stand on the edges of 

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a room and have like quiet, 
one-on-one conversations with 

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people instead of standing in 
the limelight. 

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And if I want to get a word in 
on like, a loud, boisterous 

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conversation or debate or 
discussion, such as at work or 

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in social situations, I have to,
like, really push myself 

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internally to do that because it
doesn't really come naturally to

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me. 
In many ways, I've been 

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conditioned as an Asian American
woman to take a blessed space. 

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And, you know, there's not 
necessarily anything wrong with 

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being deferential and 
respectful, right? 

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You know, that kind of posture 
towards others. 

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But honestly, I often wish I can
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myself in a room. 
I find that cultural norms and 

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stereotypes can be really tricky
to navigate, right? 

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Especially because we carry so 
many identities with us 

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everywhere we go. 
And how we show up depends a lot

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on a given context. 
You know? 

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We wonder, like, do we feel a 
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How do people see us, if at all?
How will we be received in a 

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space? 
The fear that no one will notice

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us is real and frankly pretty 
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I'm sure many of you in this 
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Interestingly, sometimes the 
deeper fear is actually that 

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someone will notice us and that 
what they see will be the very 

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thing that we work really hard 
to hide. 

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The part that we might be 
ashamed of, the part that maybe 

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cost us a lot in the past, or 
that we believe or were made to 

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believe makes us unworthy of 
love and belonging. 

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We learn to disappear not only 
because the world has ignored 

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us, but because being truly seen
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Sometimes I wonder how many of 
us carry something like that 

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today, something we'd rather 
hide than bring into the light 

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even before God. 
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this one today, where Jesus 
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an otherwise unnoticed woman in 
a large crowd and particularly 

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moved, I wonder if any of you 
feel similarly. 

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I don't think you need to be a 
woman to relate, right? 

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Like the shepherd leaving the 
flock in search of that one lost

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sheep, Jesus cares for us as 
individuals, even when we feel 

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and are alone. 
But before diving into the 

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woman's section, let's situate 
ourselves in today's passage 

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from the top. 
Last week, Father Samuel walked 

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us through the powerful way that
Jesus restores a demon possessed

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man on the Gentile Eastern Shore
in the region of the Decapolis 

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and network of Greco Roman 
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From pig farming, right, all 
those thousands of pigs to Pagan

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practices, this area is beyond 
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the time would consider clean. 
And Jesus went there. 

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He fully healed a man who had 
been cast off. 

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Jesus reconnected him to the 
community and then sent him out 

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as one of the first commissioned
witnesses to Jesus work beyond 

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the Galilee. 
That's really cool. 

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So when Jesus in verse 21 cross 
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side, he's back on the western 
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Now here Gyrus holds clout as a 
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And despite the great crowd 
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us, quote, then came one of the 
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by name. 
You can imagine the people 

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making room for this high 
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Man make way, make way. 
Tyrus is coming. 

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We're given his name. 
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likely know it too. 
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astonishing, right, for the 
crowd to witness this prominent 

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man prostrating himself 
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imploring him earnestly, it 
says, to come to his home and 

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heal his precious daughter, his 
daughter Ling, his little 

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daughter, as it says, who is on 
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She's like literally about to 
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Gyrus's love for his daughter is
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throws caution to the wind and 
prioritizes the possibility of 

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Jesus healing his precious girl 
right. 

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Who cares about social pretenses
and norms his position when it's

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his little girl's life at stake?
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needs to rest his hands on his 
girl and she'll be made well and

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be able to live a full life. 
For those of us who read the 

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rest of the story, we know how 
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miraculous his visit's going to 
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If you haven't, I encourage you 
to check it out and come next 

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week to find out more. 
But for now, we walk on with 

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them Now. 
Before we reach Jairus's house, 

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we encounter an unexpected story
of restoration and Jesus is 

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unrestricted love for people by 
sandwiching jars. 

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The story with the story of this
unnamed bleeding woman, Mark 

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invites us to read them 
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That's intentional. 
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forth to engage both the Jewish 
and Gentile sides of the sea, he

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also crosses back and forth 
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caring for anyone in need 
without discrimination. 

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And in fact, just because Gyrus 
holds clout doesn't mean he gets

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to come first, right? 
Jesus pauses for this unnamed 

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woman. 
And Gyrus, you can imagine, he's

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like, we got to go, like right 
now, right? 

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He's filled with this desperate 
urgency, but you know what? 

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He has to wait. 
We read in verse 25 that there 

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was a woman who had had a 
discharge of blood for 12 years 

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and who had suffered much under 
many physicians and has spent 

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all that she had and she was no 
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Bleeding for 12 years is already
awful, but imagine have you 

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spent everything you had on 
treatment at the treatment and 

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none of it helped, in fact it 
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We don't know the details of her
suffering under all these 

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physicians, but we know there 
were many of them and she 

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suffered much. 
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medical treatments of the time, 
we can imagine she must have 

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gone through some real hardship.
And what's more, we know from 

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Jewish law and Leviticus 15 that
abnormally long menstruation and

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women deem them impure and 
untouchable. 

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Her condition, through no fault 
of her own, rendered her unable 

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to bear children and isolated 
from others, relegating her to 

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an extremely lonely and painful 
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And unlike Gyrus's daughter, she
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advocate for her, right? 
And unlike Gyrus himself, she 

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doesn't have social capital to 
part the crowd, right? 

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Or even being named. 
Talk about feeling and being 

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invisible. 
It certainly puts Mike's own 

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experiences of feeling unseen 
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At the same time, the starkness 
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boundless compassion all the 
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In verse 27, we see that she is 
compelled to reach out to Jesus 

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for healing in response to 
having heard the reports about 

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Jesus. 
Now, this is notable placement 

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because just in the previous 
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when Jesus tells his disciples 
the parables of the sower, he 

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says to them, quote, he who has 
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And if we remember that story, 
Jesus's own disciples, literally

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right after hearing Jesus 
explain the parable to them, the

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storm happens, they freak out, 
and Jesus is asleep, right? 

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So, you know, it's a good 
reminder to all of us that 

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understanding who Jesus is and 
holding a sincere belief in his 

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promises is less about intellect
and schooling, right? 

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It's more about one's posture 
and openness to faith. 

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While admittedly it's can be 
helpful and interesting to study

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scripture, learn about its 
historical context, maybe read 

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some theology, you know, none of
that's really necessary to have 

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a meaningful life with Christ. 
Because Jesus. 

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Jesus is accessible to everyone.
She understands this. 

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She also likely knows that this 
crowd is definitely not going to

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part for her, right? 
She's probably become so used to

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living on the margins, so used 
to taking up as little space as 

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possible, that she wouldn't dare
disrupt Jesus journey, let alone

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demand his attention the way 
Jairus did. 

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Right? 
She doesn't even strive to touch

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Jesus body or ask him to lay his
hands on her. 

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No, she reaches for his clothes 
from behind him. 

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But because her faith and his 
healing power is so secure and 

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so solid, she knows that even 
that's going to be enough. 

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And her faith gives her that 
boldness to initiate contact. 

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So as it says, she comes up 
behind Jesus in the crowd and 

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touches his garment. 
For she said, if I touch even 

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his garment, I will be made 
well. 

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And immediately the flow of 
blood dried up, and she felt in 

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her body that she was healed of 
her disease. 

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This healing is immediate. 
It's whole and it's physically 

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real. 
It's not some like metaphorical 

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healing. 
Mark gives us a bodily detail. 

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The flow of blood dries up and 
she feels in her body that she's

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been healed. 
The suffering that marked her 

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life for 12 years is stopped at 
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And Jesus power reaches even the
most entrenched places of pain 

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and suffering. 
So it's never too late for Jesus

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to heal someone. 
And I ask you to hold that close

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today. 
The embodied nature of this 

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healing continues in Jesus. 
It says in verse 30, who 

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perceives in himself that power 
had gone out from him. 

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Now this is a moment where I'm 
like, whoa, there's some mystery

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going on in here. 
At the very least, it appears 

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that reaching out to Christ in 
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which is the word that Mark uses
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intertwined stories of healing. 
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Soso can mean not just to heal, 
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restore, to make well, to make 
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It's related to the root word 
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inviting us to imagine. 
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medical treatment, as though 
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physical problem. 
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that too. 
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picture. 
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and salvation all held together.
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microcosms, as you can 
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salvation that will come through
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I mean, come on, that's so cool.
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right? 
Pointing ahead to the real 

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salvation later. 
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placeholders. 
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In each encounter, Jesus's 
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into the present. 
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only promised for someday, it 
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real communities. 
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it remains true in our time 
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So as we continue unpacking this
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all today, right to consider 
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you. 
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Jairus's house. 
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literally on the verge of death.
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And I'm sure Jairus was like, 
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But Jesus stops. 
He turns around in the crowd and

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asks who touched his garments. 
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crowd pressing in on him from 
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like, what? 
Like really Jesus? 

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Clearly they didn't really like,
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He's like, there's like, so many
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talking about? 
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right? 
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this woman, he calls her out of 
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This is so loving. 
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her need invisible. 
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She touched only the fabric of 
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garments? 
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quieting into like low murmurs 
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around, right? 
Looking for this person along 

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with Jesus. 
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an opening for the woman to be 
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I mean, the crowd wouldn't have 
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By stopping to ask the question 
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had done it, Jesus causes the 
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and look too. 
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what happened right? 
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faith and Jesus power healed her
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But Jesus here is intentional 
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testify to this herself. 
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woman, knowing what had happened
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trembling and fell down before 
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truth. 
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not mean she's afraid per SE 
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like rebuke her. 
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often belongs to moments of awe 
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She knows something powerful and
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So she comes forward trembling 
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And before anyone can question 
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quiet her, Jesus responds in the
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He calls her daughter. 
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powerful. 
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woman, but she is a woman who 
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untouchable for 12 years. 
She has no advocate, she has no 

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money, she has no status, and 
yet Jesus grants her dignity and

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belonging by naming her 
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And on top of that, He honors 
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He says your faith has made you 
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Go in peace and be healed of 
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Notice how tender and dignifying
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Jesus doesn't treat her as an 
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reduce her to her condition. 
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primarily about himself, Guys. 
He honors her faith, her 

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courage, her decision to take a 
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been told to stay hidden and out
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The mysterious detail of Jesus's
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at her touch emphasizes the 
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She reached out in faith, and in
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Sozo, healing, restoration, 
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agency, our free will, plays in 
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God grants us the ability to 
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many of us feel helpless all the
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So what informs our choices, 
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For those of us who profess 
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of the Gospel, how does that 
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How does it embolden us to reach
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How does it help us act even 
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have learned to disappear? 
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faithful act inspires us to 
reach out to Christ even when we

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may have been conditioned 
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That's valuable, but check this 
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It's Jesus's response to her 
action that inspires even more 

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right Rather than allowing her 
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on bringing her out into the 
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freely herself. 
To declare in her voice the 

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whole truth of her testimony. 
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daughter and honors her active 
faith as what it was has set her

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free. 
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for us. 
So what are the parts of your 

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life or world where you need 
Jesus? 

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Hiding our struggles doesn't 
resolve them, right? 

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We know that. 
So let's act in faith instead, 

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right? 
It could look like confessing an

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unhealthy pattern or sin that 
has been dominating us. 

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Maybe asking a friend to hold us
accountable to an important step

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we've been avoiding or putting 
off. 

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Reaching out to someone that 
we've hurt rather than letting 

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that unspoken continue to 
fester. 

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Or bringing painful memories to 
the Lord, Praying for healing 

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and freedom rather than 
continuing to suppress them. 

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Maybe letting your community 
know of a need that may feel 

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shameful to admit, but would be 
a genuine blessing for them to 

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help carry for us to carry with 
you. 

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So let us not hide. 
Let's move from just like 

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surviving to agency. 
What's the thing you'd rather 

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keep hidden? 
What condition in your body, 

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your relationships, your inner 
life have you quietly stopped 

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hoping about? 
Maybe. 

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Is there a prayer you've been 
afraid to pray because naming 

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the need out loud makes it feel 
too real or makes you feel too 

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vulnerable? 
Do you have a testimony to 

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share? 
It might take us a little longer

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to experience a full provision 
of Jesus. 

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And it took this woman, you 
know, although I mean, frankly, 

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she did wait 12 years to get to 
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To be fair. 
But her story reminds us that 

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the reaching is worth it because
Jesus sees us and calls us in 

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Hallelujah for that. 
Amen.