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Lord God, as we know that nothing has been able to separate us from you, that your death,

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your life cannot change, cannot bridge.

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Lord God, nothing can stop what you did on Calvary from bringing us salvation and hope.

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Lord God, our life is new because of you.

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We thank you that nothing else can take that away.

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In Christ Jesus.

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Amen.

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Howdy.

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Well, now, you all know me for a little bit now.

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And I try to make sure that from time to time, I make sure you realize just how quirky and

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odd I really am.

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So I know, just in case you weren't sure.

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But with it is that some years back, we talked a little bit about how oftentimes people can

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be a little bit different, divergent neurologically and different minds to think in different

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ways.

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And one of the things that has come up quite often is the idea of what is obsessive compulsive

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disorder.

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Now, you may have heard of this OCD in the past.

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I am here to tell you it is a just an absolute pain in the butt.

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It is terrible and annoying and frustrating.

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You may see somebody standing at a light switch, flicking it on and off 72 times.

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And you may be wondering why in the world do you need to do that 72 times?

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But for the person standing there, in their mind is there constantly saying, did I do

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it right?

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And if I do it eight more times, do I know that now it will be done especially correctly?

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Or otherwise, if I don't know for sure if I did it perfectly, then will there be some

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electrical short in the walls and the entire building will burn down?

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Or if you were to have a person that you see washing their hands for three, four, five

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minutes at a time, and this isn't even the time of COVID, all right?

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And you're wondering why it is that they are washing to the palm, to the wrist, sometimes

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even to the elbow, is that then there might be this thought on the person's mind of, if

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I did not wash completely, thoroughly, and get every single spot on every single place,

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then there will be some disease from the other side of the world that I will somehow contract

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and die.

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And if you've ever read Reader's Digest, you know where those come from.

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With it is that you might see a person constantly trying to line things up, or if they do something

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with the right hand, they have to do it with the left, making sure things are in patterns

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of four, and you wonder what is going on.

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This is what it is to struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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Because what happens is that thoughts of anxiety and fear will be in a person's mind so much

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that then they have to compulsively do things to try to relieve the anxiety.

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And while it doesn't make any sense, even to the person doing it, it is somehow what

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they must do to try to find some sort of relief.

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Welcome to my teenage years.

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Not a very enjoyable experience at all.

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And even more than that is trying to do so while even having friendships and trying

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to live a life and try to do things outside of your little habits and rituals.

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The thing is that not everybody has that extreme of behavior, but the idea of being

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afraid and trying to find things that make us feel less anxious, that is something that

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many of us do.

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Especially when we're asking questions of whether or not something is or is not clean.

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How many times, how many ways, we are just making sure that whatever we are doing somehow

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does not make us unclean.

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And this idea, this struggle, is where we actually find ourselves when we're looking

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at the Gospel of Mark today.

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You see, in our Gospel reading, we actually have two specific individuals that are going

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to help us to understand the idea of what it was to struggle with being unclean.

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See, the idea of what it is to be unclean is something that people didn't necessarily

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understand as well back in the days of Jesus.

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But they did know what it was to carry disease, and they knew what it was to wash their hands.

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But many of the practices that are in Scripture were just ways of trying to make sure that

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you got everything clean.

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See, they didn't have washing machines and dryers back then.

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There were no dish machines that could get things incredibly hot and sterilize the dishes.

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There weren't little hand wipes that you could carry with you everywhere, or little bottles

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of antibacterial gel, just in case.

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They didn't have all those things.

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So when we look through and we read parts of Scripture, is we see chapter after chapter

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just trying to make sure that they have practices just to make sure that their hands are clean.

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And all of these specifics can oftentimes become what would obsess the people.

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You see, in the Levitical Law, the laws that are in the book of Leviticus, is that they

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would specify things for people, especially when you might have a discharge.

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People were sometimes kind of gross.

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There are things that come from us whether we like it or not.

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Whether we are thinking about guys or whether we are thinking about women, there are different

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things in the world that are gross.

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And frankly, that in the Scriptures, it goes into it and tries to spell things out.

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That for young men, what it's like when they're going through puberty and struggling with

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things that they were not expecting or planning.

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Or for women, when they go through their time of the month and guys like to just be snide

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and make comments of, oh, well, it's that time of the month.

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And it's like, you should probably be slapped.

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With it, though, is that in a time and a day and age, when it wasn't that easy to just

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take care of it, clean things, be done, how do you make sure that we not only stay clean,

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but take care of the issue at hand?

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And all of these rules would even say things like, if a person is in their impurity, their

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uncleanness, do not even touch them.

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See, that's the thing about this, is that in the Scriptures, it's trying to make sure

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that everybody stays clean.

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But when you take it out of context, it can basically be taking a person going through

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something normal that everybody goes through and starts making them sound like some sort

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of a strange freak, some sort of a weirdo that you want to stay away from.

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And that's one of the difficult parts about this, is that while the laws that are given

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in Scripture are good, what we oftentimes do with them and the way that we obsess can oftentimes

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be not so good, can be harmful, in fact.

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See, we're not supposed to spend the time asking whether or not this person is good

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or evil.

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And spending so much time asking about whether or not you accidentally touched somebody on

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the shoulder, or whether or not you shook their hand, or whether or not you were anywhere

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close to them.

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That wasn't the goal.

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That wasn't the point.

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The point was merely saying, if you are the people of God, then you will look for ways

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to care for your bodies, to do what is right, and to live your lives as showing that God

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is expecting us to be pure in his sight.

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But that's not always what we end up doing with people around us.

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See oftentimes whenever somebody feels that they are unclean, that they are impure in the

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eyes of people around them, it's very easy for them to feel unwanted, unloved, and

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loved, and rejected by the world around them.

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See that's the struggle that we end up seeing in the woman that is there, in the crowd,

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reaching to grab Jesus' garments.

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See the thing is, is that Jesus is heading off to go help someone who would be considered

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clean at the time.

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Jesus is on his way to help a little girl, whose father is somebody who's a leader in

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the synagogue.

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This is somebody who would be considered the right kind of person to go help out.

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Someone that, oh you can let them know, oh I'm going to go help Jairus and his family,

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and everybody would be happy to hear about it.

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But on the way, all of these people are just trying to get close to Jesus.

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All these people who know that they are in need.

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All these people who just want to be able, maybe just to touch him or hear him.

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And then out of nowhere, Jesus says, who touched my garments?

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I'm sorry, but if there were ever a time when Jesus were to sound a little OCD, this would

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be the moment.

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You've got all these people pushing up against you, and this one person that somehow stands

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out in your mind, somebody touched me, somebody touched me, I know somebody touched me.

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There's like dozens of people I know, but somebody touched me, okay Jesus, could you

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just calm down a little bit.

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Look, it could have been anybody.

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Well, I know that somebody touched me.

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The thing is, is that this woman who is there, is somebody that for 12 years has struggled

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with being marked as unclean.

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Every day that there had been something, some reason why her body wasn't working the way

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that it's supposed to.

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Something, some reason that has nothing to do with her, and her choices, the what it

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is that she's doing, but she can't seem to stop it.

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It won't seem to change.

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And that every single day, she is now unclean.

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Not only does she have to go down and find a place to wash her clothing over and over

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and over, but that time and time again, she has to take a step back from anything that

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might lead her to worship, or the temple, certain parties get together.

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How many times that she has to say, I'm sorry, I can't go, spend time with you, I'm unclean

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today.

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How many times that she's waiting until evening and saying, will tomorrow be different?

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Do I need to wait another seven days and another seven days?

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And now at this moment is after 12 years of this, times where if you're unclean and nobody

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thinks that they can touch you, how many times she's been waiting just for somebody to hug

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her, to spend time around her, just to welcome her into their home.

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How many years of feeling alone, because there is something that she cannot shake to obsess

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and to have to deal with each and every day.

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And there's Jesus.

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Now she has reached out and touched him, and he can tell that the power has gone out from

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him.

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Did everybody else feel the power?

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No.

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And Jesus is standing there and his power somehow kind of leaked out.

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And it's like, oh, you touched me.

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All right, you get a little Jesus power.

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Oh, you shook my hand.

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You get a little Jesus power.

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You get a little Jesus power.

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Everybody gets a little Jesus power.

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He's not the Oprah of the Middle East.

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We end up seeing is that Jesus is not there somehow leaking it out.

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Is that instead, he knows specifically who needed it and whose heart was open in saying,

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I need you.

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Because that power went exactly where it needed to go.

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So was he angry?

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Was he upset that this unclean person touched him?

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Is that what this is about?

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I need to know, because now you and me, we got to go be unclean for the next seven days.

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In the Greek, there are two words that are used for healing in this passage.

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One is, Iaomai.

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Yeah, try to say that five times fast.

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With it, Iaomai, yes, it really is pronounced that way, is meaning healing in a sense that

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you can see.

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The obvious thing, like your body is healed.

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It's meant to be kind of a general term for what you can see, touch and all.

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But sozo is different.

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It is healing from the sense of salvation.

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It is a deeper word.

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It's like going the difference between I like or prefer you to, I love you.

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It's the idea of taking something that you can kind of sort of see and fulfilling it

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more deeply.

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And that's what Jesus needs to know.

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Who is it that touched me?

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Because I need to see you and I need you to know.

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Your faith has healed you, not just what you've been dreading and dealing with for 12 years,

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but your heart, your soul, your life, sozo.

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Your soul is saved.

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Because that's the thing about this, is that instead of just fearing the unclean, is asking

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the point of how can Jesus strengthen her faith.

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And we may take this for granted so many times.

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Okay, yes, we know that, you know, yeah, you want to be careful about, you know, when you're

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around sick people, okay, yeah.

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Make sure you go and wash your hands.

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You know, do you really want to hug the person who's coughing?

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Do you really want to be that close to them?

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You don't know what they may have.

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But isn't it also times where someone feels so lonely in their life that they're looking

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to get affection in any way that they can?

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And we know what kind of a lifestyle they live and we're not sure we really want to be

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associated with that person?

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Or the times whenever we know, hey, I think this person doesn't have a roof over their

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head.

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And automatically you start to kind of like back away.

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Because immediately you're pretty sure that they're dangerous or that there's probably

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something on them that you don't want to get on you.

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Or even the times whenever we say, I don't know how you got into the community here.

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I don't know if you did it the right way.

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So therefore I don't know if you're somebody that I want to be close to.

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The times whenever we in our lives figure out who is unclean in our minds.

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But the difference from going to clean to unclean can happen like that.

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And that's what we end up finding for the second person.

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Because there's Jesus took the time, didn't rush off to go help out the clean people.

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He stayed there to help the unclean.

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And finding out that the daughter has now died.

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And now the clean is unclean.

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Now you may be thinking to yourself, okay well if she's dead then she probably has bigger

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issues than whether or not she's clean.

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But putting these two together is meant to be something that we realize because of how

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Jesus responds.

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Jesus can heal from a distance.

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He could have just said the words and called forth and she could have been healed.

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But what does he do?

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He goes to her and he grabs her hand.

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Jesus is not afraid of the unclean.

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He's not afraid that somehow they're going to get on him and harm him in some way.

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But rather is he was willing to get there into the thick of it and to bring healing.

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And that's also where we are meant to find ourselves as well.

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Is that we're meant to be there with the people who need healing the most.

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That kid in high school trying to deal with all of the intrusive thoughts and trying not

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to completely obsess about whether or not he was clean or unclean, what happened to

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him?

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Well he had a friend named Andy.

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And you see Andy was the complete opposite.

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Had no interest in obsessing about anything or everything.

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And you see whenever I went to go hang out with Andy is I would begin to try to do my

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little rituals.

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I would check the light switch, try to take care of it time and time again.

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And he would be like, hey we've got stuff to do.

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Let's get in the car.

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We need to go.

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And if I wanted to go hang out with my friend I didn't have time for all of this.

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Or I'm washing and it's been maybe about a minute and he's like, dude we got it.

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We got stuff to do.

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Come on let's go.

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And what I realized was not only that he wasn't focused on whether I was clean enough or not.

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All he was focused on was that he cared about me.

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But more than that is that he brought me into his life.

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See that's the thing is that in so many ways when I was able to pause and realize that

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my thoughts were the only problem is that I was finally able to start letting things

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go.

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I still have my issues.

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I think we all do.

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But that doesn't stop us from being able to know that we're welcomed and that we matter.

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And that at that moment is to know that while yeah we struggle with things, the things that

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take our mind whether it's things that we've done that people can see or the things that

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are in our minds and in our hearts that we hope and pray nobody ever knows.

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We know the things that sometimes we focus on too much.

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And yet what has God done is that he has come to us to bring us healing, to bring us cleanliness

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because of what he did on the cross for us.

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Is that this is not a Jesus who is now afraid to be with us.

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So why are we so afraid to go to the ends of the earth and to see and be with the people

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who need us?

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Because that's the thing about this is that the only way for them to truly find the healing,

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the sense of peace is to know the Savior that we know.

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See we don't need to avoid the issues.

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We don't need to pretend that they're not important because God still meets us exactly

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where we are and brings us healing not as much to focus on the outside but the place

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where it actually matters.

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And more than that is that we then get to bring that to the rest of the world.

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So maybe we pause for a moment and we think about who are the ones in our life, the ones

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that we try to avoid.

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And we realize that even when we were those people, God met us and brought us healing

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and salvation.

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So may we be willing to meet them and bring them hope and love because that peace that

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surpasses all understanding is the only thing that will clean and purify others and to change

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us to be like Him.

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Thanks be to God.