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If you will, turn with me in your Bibles to Mark chapter 5, and I'm going to be reading

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from verse 21 through verse 42 of Mark chapter 5, verse 21 through verse 42.

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We're going to be looking at a story which one commentator calls a Markan sandwich, because

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what you have is, is you have the start of one miracle story, then another miracle story

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is inserted, and finally you go back to the first miracle story.

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We have to ask ourselves, why are these stories here in the Bible about Jesus healing people?

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Part of it is, it's to show that He is God.

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He has the power over our bodies and over nature.

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But there's something else we've got to keep in mind, and that is the human dimension to

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all this, and it just shows how weak we are.

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Because everyone in this room has to deal with sickness, and we have to deal with death.

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We think we are strong, we are powerful, but age, disease, and our own genetics at one

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time or another leaves us all weak.

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But Jesus is the answer to that weakness.

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So let's see what happens here in this story about a dead girl and a sick woman.

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When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd

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gathered around him while he was by the lake.

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And one of the synagogue leaders named Jarius came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his

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feet.

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He pleaded earnestly with him, my little daughter is dying, please come and put your hands on

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her so that she will be healed and live.

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So Jesus went with him.

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A large crowd followed and pressed around him.

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And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for 12 years.

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She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors, and it spent all she had,

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yet instead of getting better, she grew worse.

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And when she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak.

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Because she thought, if I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.

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Immediately her bleeding stopped, and she felt in her body that she was freed from her

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suffering.

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And once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him, he turned around in the crowd

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and asked, who touched my clothes?

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You see the people crowding against you as disciples answered, and yet you can ask, who

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touched me?

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But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it, and then the woman knowing what had

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happened to her came and fell at his feet, and trembling with fear told him the whole

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truth.

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He said to her, daughter, your faith is healed you.

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Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.

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And while Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jarius, the synagogue

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leader.

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Your daughter is dead, they said.

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Why bother the teacher anymore?

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And overhearing what they said, Jesus told him, don't be afraid, just believe.

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He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.

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And when they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion with people

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crying and wailing loudly.

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He went in and said to them, why all this commotion and wailing?

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The child is not dead, but asleep.

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But they laughed at him.

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And after he put them all out, he took the child's father and mother and the disciples

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who were with them and went in where the child was, he took her by the hand and said to her,

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Talita, come, which means little girl, I say to you, get up.

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And immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around.

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She was 12 years old.

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And this, they were completely astonished.

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He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this and told them to give her something.

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To eat.

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Let's ask God to bless the reading of his inherent word.

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Our Heavenly Father, help us to see ourselves in this story.

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Help it to be more to us than mere history or just a theological fact.

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And it will help us to love Jesus more.

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I make this prayer in your name.

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Amen.

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I came across this story.

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It belongs in the strange but true department.

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It is about a young boy in 1865 in a small town in Wisconsin.

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His name was Max Hoffman.

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Now back then one of the diseases that people got because of the lack of a sewer system was

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cholera.

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He got cholera.

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Three days later he died and was buried.

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But his mother couldn't sleep at night.

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She kept having dreams of young Max turning over in the grave.

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She would wake up.

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Her husband would try to calm her.

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Seeing it would go away but it did not.

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The dream reoccurred a second time.

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So the father of Max went out, dug up the grave and sure enough as they opened it, Max

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had turned over.

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He wasn't dead but he was alive.

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And later they fed him, he recovered and he went on to live to be 80 years old.

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Now that is not a miracle story like what happened here in Mark's Gospel.

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But it does tell us and this was quite common back then that weak people were often put

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in a casket and buried.

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But thank goodness there was someone who was able to rescue that young boy.

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Well today's story in the Bible, it's about Jesus.

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It's about a miracle.

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But once again it's that human dimension of weakness that attracts me to this passage.

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Because you and I are very, very weak and in the Bible we see Jesus helping people who

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are very, very weak.

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It's almost, he delights in doing that.

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And if you go back to the Old Testament, God was helping the weak.

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You read the Psalms, he looks with favor on the childless, those who are orphans and God

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often helps them and it's true in the New Testament as well with Jesus Christ.

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You are part of the weak.

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I know in my own body I can tell that that weakness is there.

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My knees are not what they should be.

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I know from going to the dentist, he told me one time, well it's your genetics, that's

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why you've got these cavities which have to be filled because it's the way your tooth

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is formed.

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There's nothing you can do about it.

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And if it's not weakness in my own body, take a look around you.

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None of us can fight age.

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We may in our teenage years be very strong, very athletic and you could go on to win the

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Olympics but what happens after a while?

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You become very average and the body slowly decays.

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None of us can escape that.

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And if you are not dealing with the weaknesses of your own body, which believe me will happen

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to all of us, there is being victimized by people who are out to destroy you and you

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may not be able to do much about it because they have more power.

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You're weak.

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I'm weak.

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We are all weak in this world but what we see here is Jesus helping two very weak, vulnerable

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people.

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Here's what we've got to keep in our minds about Jesus.

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He is coming to this world to help the weak.

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The part of the problem we have is we don't want to admit that we're weak.

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When I was in high school, I remember the first time we had to write a real term paper.

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It was from Mr. Bailey.

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And Mr. Bailey was a very strict teacher and I went to him because I knew that I didn't

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know what I was doing.

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I had to admit I had an academic weakness.

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So I went to the teacher and he helped me out.

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I learned more about English from that man than anyone else but I had to admit I was

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weak.

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And so today for all of us, we have to admit that we're weak as well.

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And if you look at this passage, you've got some people who are willing to admit that.

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First of all, we have Jerryus.

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Who is this person?

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Well, we're told that he works in a synagogue.

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He's a synagogue ruler and the synagogues were developed during the exile as a place

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where God's people could meet, study the Word and worship God.

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They would study the Torah, study the Bible and they would meet on Mondays and Thursdays,

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Sabbaths and feast days.

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And the one here is probably the synagogue in Capernaum.

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It might have possibly been built by a Roman centurion who liked God's people and gave

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them money to build it.

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It tells us here that he's a synagogue ruler, in other words, he's like an elder in our

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church in a deacon.

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He's in charge of the administrative management of the synagogue.

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He's the head of the board of elders.

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And his job was to look out for the synagogue.

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He was to take care of the building.

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He was to oversee public worship.

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He was to choose the public readers.

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And how is he weak?

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He's got a daughter who's sick and at the point of death.

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And there's nothing he can do about it.

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And I want you to notice here what he has to do.

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He has to go to Jesus.

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And he's got to forget his prejudice, perhaps, about who Jesus is because there are people

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who didn't like Jesus.

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He's got to forget his dignity.

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As he goes and he bows down to Jesus, gets on his knees.

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He's got to forget his pride.

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He's going to be indebted to someone, to heal his daughter.

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And he's got to forget his friends who may look a scant at going to Jesus Christ.

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But what does this tell us about our relationship to Christ?

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It tells us we have to come to Christ in terms of weakness, not in strength for our salvation,

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for our vocation, for all.

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Now I know that there are some people who when they join the church, they probably think,

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you know, God must really want me on his team for all I can do.

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You know, you come as a weak person who has a lot of needs.

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And part of the reason that we are given these stories in the Bible is to point that out.

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Because from the get-go, in the Garden of Eden, human beings were still dependent on

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God.

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Throughout the Bible, Israel was dependent on God.

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The real problem we have is when we think that we don't need God, that we're not weak,

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we can pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.

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That is the American way, isn't it?

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But we can't.

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You have to have God.

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One time when Sarah, our daughter, was very, very young, we were in, I think it was the

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Shonies.

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She got very, very sick.

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She had gastroenteritis.

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Now, in previous generations, that would kill you.

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Jan and I did not know what to do.

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We couldn't take care of it ourselves.

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We had to admit we needed a doctor.

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So what did we do?

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We rushed her to the hospital.

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But too often, when it comes to the Christian life, we're more like the Gene Hackman character

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in the Poseidon adventure, who is a radical, renegade, methodist priest.

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And in the early scenes of that movie, what does he say?

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God helps those who help themselves.

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And if you look at that movie, that's exactly what that movie is about.

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But that's not true, is it?

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Our understanding that we are weak, we are children of dust, has to be in our hearts

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because you will never understand Jesus nor the kingdom of God tell you get that into

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your heads.

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And here is the point to ponder.

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How am I weak?

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But keep in mind, Jesus has compassion on the weak.

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He delights to help them.

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And here, you not only have a girl who's about to die, you've got this sick woman.

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She's weak as well.

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She's another character in this story.

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And she has been subject to bleeding for years, some sort of hemorrhage she's having.

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And the text points out here pretty clearly, the doctors aren't helping matters.

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And if some of you have been to doctors, I'm all for the medical profession.

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Let's be honest, sometimes those treatments, they don't seem to help, do they?

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And here, you've got to understand something.

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People back at that time, while they may have turned to doctors, they didn't think very

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highly of them.

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In fact, in the Mishnah, there is this section about vocations you would want your son to

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have.

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And this person goes through.

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Now, if you're a donkey driver, they're the worst.

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If you are a camel driver, well, they're all right.

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If you are a sailor, they are the most saintly of all occupations.

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But if you want to be a physician, the best of them are going to get henna.

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In other words, they're going to hell.

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That's how people felt about it back then, with going to the doctors.

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Notice she had gone to the doctors.

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She'd spent a lot of money, no help.

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But then she comes to Jesus.

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And remember, because of this flow of blood, she is socially weak.

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She is defiled in terms of Old Testament law, so people are not going to want to deal with

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her.

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She's unclean, according to the law.

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And her problem is she's an outcast.

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Probably no one wants to marry this woman.

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But I want you to notice the compassion here.

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And this story gets a little tricky, because there's a big crowd, and she thinks that if

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she touches the clothes of Jesus, she'll be healed, and she's right.

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And then Jesus turns around and says, who touched me and his disciples are saying, what

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are you talking about?

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The reason Jesus is asking this is because he wants to get also at that woman's heart.

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And that's what he's after.

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And he says to her, woman, your faith has healed you because you came to me in your weakness.

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That is what he's after.

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And here we see Jesus's compassion on this woman for the spiritually lost, for those

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who are sick, those who are hurting, he cares.

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And how do you know you are in that category, that you trust Jesus that much?

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Think of it this way.

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How compassionate are you with those who are sick and hurting?

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Or do you say, suck it up.

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You need to be stronger.

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Or are we willing to say, how can I help?

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You've got to get in our minds the mindset of Christ.

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Jesus could have said, stay away from me.

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You're going to pollute me.

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Stay away from me.

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You're unclean.

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Jesus could have upheld the Old Testament law at this point, but he allows himself to

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be touched so he could cleanse and purify and restore that which is weak because he's

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Christ the compassionate.

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Our weakness, it's great, but the compassion of God is so much greater.

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And he heals the weakness of the sick.

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Look what that compassion leads to.

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A person just touched him and they're healed.

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In fact, in Luke 6, and this must have been true of Jesus, it's in the Bible, it says

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in the people, all tried to touch him because power was coming from him and healing them

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all.

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Jesus came in this world to reverse the curse, to take away our weakness and to make us whole

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again.

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And that's what he's doing with this woman here.

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See, humans, we weren't designed to be sick and weak.

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We weren't designed to have hemorrhages, cancer, glaucoma, dementia.

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When Jesus comes to heal all that, in one day he will restore us from all those weaknesses.

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And not only that, he gives life to the dead, which is the ultimate weakness we all have.

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All of us are going to be so crippled at one point in our life that we won't be able to

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get out of a bed.

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But Jesus cares.

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Jesus cares enough to go and to touch and to revive a small girl, maybe 12 years old.

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That's the compassion of our Lord.

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He doesn't leave her out.

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He heals the young, he heals the old.

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He heals those who are of the upper class, such as Jarius, but also a woman probably.

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Nobody wanted to touch.

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That's what the Savior does.

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He overcomes disease, he overcomes death.

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Here's the point to ponder, you've got a king who cares, who cares for you in your situation.

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And we must not think that Jesus is out there somewhere, he doesn't know, he's not concerned.

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He will act in time to heal.

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And I think now, you know, we've done so many futiles lately, haven't we?

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And now there may be another one coming up.

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And I remember talking to Mary on her weakness.

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And the only thing I could tell her after I read some scripture was, at the time of our

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greatest need, God's grace will be with you.

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And how could I say that?

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Because I believe Jesus is compassionate in helping those in their weakness.

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All of us who believe in Him, who trust in Him.

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Peter Marshall was a very famous Presbyterian minister, and he one time told the story of

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a little boy who had an incurable disease.

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And the little boy liked to read.

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And he liked to read King Arthur.

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And one time he was reading about King Arthur and the last battle that he went through.

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And he asked his mother, mother, what is death like?

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And the mother was grieved.

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So she said to that little boy, do you remember when you used to come into the house after

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playing all day and how tired you were?

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That you just crawled into bed with us because you were so tired and weak from playing all

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day.

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And then in the morning you woke up in your own bed.

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And it was because your father and his strength carried you from our bed to your own bed where

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you're meant to be.

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And that is the story of Jesus Christ.

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Because one day that weakness is going to get to all of us.

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But when we are weak, He is strong.

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And that is the Savior we have at Warrington Presbyterian Church.

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So let's pray.

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Our Heavenly Father, there's so many messages today about how we should be strong and how

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we need to be overcomers.

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But the truth of the matter is, unless you intervene in our lives, we are lost and we

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are weak and we will perish.

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But help us to see, Lord, you're with us every moment.

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And when we're at our weakest, you will be there just as you were for Israel in the Old

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Testament, just as you were for Jerius as a daughter and a sick woman who needed your

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healing touch.

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Hear our prayer this morning.

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Amen.