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 Father, some of us here are maybe pretty pumped about some answered prayer.

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 Some of us, Father, are really sort of, maybe some of us have given up praying

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 because we don't even think it works.

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 And some of us are crushed with not getting the answer that we had hoped and prayed for from you.

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 And Father, you know the conditions of all of our hearts.

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 And we ask that your Holy Spirit would move in a gentle but deep and powerful way in each one of us,

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 that your word might be brought home to us,

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 that the gospel might be made even more dear and clear to us,

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 and that we might be so gripped by the gospel that we live each day for your glory.

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 And this we ask in the name of Jesus, your Son and our Savior. Amen.

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 Please be seated.

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 So the Bible text today has nothing to do with real life.

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 It's just completely and utterly religious and has nothing to do with any of the questions or experiences.

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 It only deals with why God answers some prayers and doesn't answer other people's prayers.

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 It only deals with sickness and death.

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 It only deals with social isolation and shame.

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 Nothing that any of us ever have to struggle with or experience.

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 So it would be a great help to me.

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 Actually, you'll see that it's the second week of our summer series.

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 It's Real Jesus, Real Miracles.

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 And this is our second week.

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 And we'll be looking at a story in the book of Luke.

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 In fact, interestingly enough, it's actually the story which is painted there.

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 You can sort of see it, Jesus and the young girl.

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 So it would be a great help if you turned in a moment to this famous story.

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 But before we do that, I want to just put up, if you could put up the first point, that would be very helpful.

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 Probably every week that I do one of these miracle stories, I just want to make this very simple point.

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 Is Luke is claiming, this is what Luke is claiming.

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 If you go back and you read the beginning of the gospel, if you go back and you read his other work,

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 if you notice all of the way he phrases time-shifting things, which often is not once upon a time, but it happened next.

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 The claim that Luke is making is that this is a true story about Jesus and it's also a miracle.

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 That it is something that could not happen unless God acted into our world and brought about something that only God could cause.

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 That's what a miracle is here.

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 And so this is Luke's claim.

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 True story about Jesus and a real miracle.

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 And when we start looking, it's going to be at Luke chapter 8, verse 40.

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 Just to sort of catch you up on it.

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 When we read Luke, we're reading an ancient biography of Jesus.

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 It was written by a pagan doctor who was an adult convert.

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 And Luke himself never knew Jesus physically.

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 He wasn't an eyewitness of any of the events in this story.

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 But what we see here is that Luke decided that he would go and do research after he'd become a Christian.

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 Maybe he's also recounting the journey that led him to become a Christian.

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 He interviews eyewitnesses.

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 He looks at official records.

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 And out of that, he frames this ancient biography of Jesus written at a time when many eyewitnesses to the events were still alive and could have commented on it, disagreed with it, rebutted it, whatever.

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 And there's no record of that.

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 And so that's sort of the context.

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 And we're going to start reading in verse 40.

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 And here's how it goes.

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 Now, when Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him.

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 And there came a man named Jairus, who was a ruler of the synagogue.

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 And falling at Jesus' feet, he implored him to come to his house, for he had an only daughter, about 12 years of age, and she was dying.

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 And just sort of in the flow of the book, what Luke has just previously recounted is that Jesus has crossed the Sea of Galilee to the other side of the sea into a pagan land.

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 And he spent some time in this pagan land.

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 And now he's returned to the Jewish side of the Sea of Galilee.

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 In fact, he's returned to Galilee, which is sort of a bit of a mixed area.

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 But he's returned there.

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 And the crowd was waiting for him to return.

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 And when it says, and a synagogue is, and since it's now, we only have synagogues.

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 Synagogues weren't, in a sense, part of God's, there's no Old Testament passages that describe how synagogues are to be functioning.

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 Because in the Old Testament, it was expected that you would go to the temple to do the sacrifices.

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 But during a long period of exile, when they were away from the temple and there was no temple,

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 this habit of having a place, a community center that was also a place of the reading of God's word and of prayer and of instruction and support developed.

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 A little bit like what we would now call a church.

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 And so in Galilee, there is a leader of this particular place.

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 He has a 12-year-old daughter.

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 And in the original language, it's very clear that she's at the point of death.

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 She's at the point of death.

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 And so Jairus is probably unbelievably excited that Jesus has returned.

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 He would have known about how Jesus has already raised.

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 He might have heard about the fact that Jesus earlier has raised a person from the dead.

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 He's heard of Jesus' many miracles.

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 He might have heard of the official who had a son.

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 And Jesus was able to heal him from a distance.

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 And now Jesus is back.

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 He goes to Jesus.

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 This all sense of dignity is put aside, just as it would be for one of us if it was our 12-year-old daughter who was dying.

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 He throws himself at Jesus' feet and says,

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 Jesus, come and heal my daughter.

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 She's at the point of death.

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 And now one of the things, it doesn't talk about in the text, but it's sort of interesting,

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 is that he might have expected Jesus just to do what he had done with the official son.

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 Pick up Jairus and say, okay, Jairus, come stand up here.

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 She's healed.

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 Just you walk back and she's healed.

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 That might be very much what he's expecting.

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 But Jesus doesn't do that.

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 He doesn't do that.

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 And that's an important little detail in the story to notice, as well as all of the ways in the story.

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 You'll notice that Jesus doesn't react to each person.

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 He always acts with love and power and authority.

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 But he never acts the same way.

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 It's not like dealing with a banking machine that always has just pre-programmed responses to what you do.

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 He treats us as an individual.

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 And, you know, in heaven, we'll maybe find out why it is that for the official son, he did that type of miracle.

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 And I think it's in Luke 5.

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 And why here in Luke 8, he treats Jairus in a different way.

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 And just as in heaven, I'll find out why it is that he treated me one way and he treated Don a different way.

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 And he treated Terry a different way.

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 And the meaning of our life and why it was so important to us that God acted in one way rather than another.

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 The Bible doesn't make all that clear as to what his reasons are.

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 It just shows that he treats people in a different way.

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 And in this particular case, he says to Jairus, in a sense, I will go to see your daughter.

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 Well, what happens?

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 Look at the last part of verse 42.

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 The next paragraph, if you're looking up there.

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 Oh, maybe it doesn't have that.

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 Yeah, it does have that.

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 As Jesus went, the people pressed around him.

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 In other words, they were right up touching him.

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 They were like he was like moving through a crowd.

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 And there was a woman who had a discharge of blood for 12 years.

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 And though she had spent all her living on physicians, she could not be healed by anyone.

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 She came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment.

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 And immediately her discharge of blood ceased.

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 Now just sort of pause.

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 Remember, Jesus is going to Jairus' house.

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 His daughter is dying.

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 He's having to walk through a crowd.

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 And in the midst of a crowd, there's this woman that comes up and touches the fringe of his garment.

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 Now, some of you might or might not know this.

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 Probably what most scholars now think that she had a, I don't know if I'm going to pronounce this correctly,

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 a uterine hemorrhage.

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 That's probably what she had.

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 And she had it for 12 years.

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 It meant that there was bleeding from her uterus.

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 And whether it was continual or just intermittent, it would have been leaving her anemic.

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 And the regular, unusual amount of flow of blood, and not just regular in terms of like a once a month if she was younger,

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 but just intermittent but sort of constant flow of blood would have meant that from a Jewish perspective at that time,

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 she was unclean.

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 And we're not going to go into a little bit that much,

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 but every single one of us knows a little bit about what it means to feel unclean.

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 And she was unclean.

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 And in their system of thought, every person she touched, she made ritually unclean,

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 which would have meant that there were sacrifices and all that sort of stuff.

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 So what she had done is she's pushing herself through the crowd,

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 is she's making every single person she touches, she's making them ritually unclean.

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 She herself would have lived a very isolated life because she would have had to be constantly separated from other human beings

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 because of her ritual uncleanness.

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 And in the original language, when it says that she touches the fringe of his garment,

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 it's actually a very technical word.

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 In the Old Testament law, one of the outward signs that you wanted to observe all of the law

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 was that you had certain tassels, a fringe, put on your garment.

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 And what she touches, even though she's ritually unclean,

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 is she touches that which symbolizes that Jesus is a religiously observant Jewish man.

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 So later on, if she hadn't been healed, the crowd would have realized that she'd,

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 that in fact, actually what she did was quite wrong for most of their thinking.

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 She touched, she touched the part that showed that he desired to be ritually clean.

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 And she touched that to make him unclean.

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 She would have done a faux pas.

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 But lo and behold, she, not thinking about that,

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 she just has this belief that Jesus will heal her.

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 And she touches him and she's healed.

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 And we all know that sometimes people can think they're healed when they're not.

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 But in this case, what probably has happened is not only does she feel that the blood stops,

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 but there would have been persistent pain and the pain goes away.

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 The pain in her uterus, all of a sudden the pain stops.

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 She has a sense that the bleeding stopped.

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 And because when Jesus heals, and we see this in all of the ancient biographies,

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 when Jesus heals, he doesn't just sort of barely heal a person, she's healed.

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 Her anemia and her weakness would have been gone.

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 All of a sudden, she would have just felt well.

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 All of us here who aren't anemic, we don't even experience feeling well, in a sense,

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 because it's natural to us.

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 And all of a sudden, for the first time in 12 years, she feels well.

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 She doesn't feel anemic.

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 And the pain is gone.

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 And she has a sense that the bleeding has stopped.

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 It happens in an instant.

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 Now, there's a very surprising thing, though, that happens.

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 In verse 45, we see it.

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 And Jesus said, who was it that touched me?

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 He doesn't know who touched her.

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 He doesn't know who touched him.

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 Like, he literally, this isn't like an object lesson.

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 This isn't like when he says to the disciples in the feeding of the 5,000,

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 and how are we going to feed them.

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 And that's sort of like he's giving them a test question.

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 In this case, he literally doesn't know the answer.

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 He has no idea who it is that touched him.

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 He asked that question.

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 Verse 45 again, and Jesus said, who was it that touched me?

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 And when all denied it, Peter said,

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 Master, I don't know if he puts the word duh,

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 but the crowd surround you and are pressing on you.

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 Like, there's all sorts of people touching you, basically.

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 But verse 46, but Jesus said,

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 Someone touch me, for I perceive that power has gone out from me.

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 And when the woman saw that she was not hidden,

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 she came trembling and falling down before him,

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 declared in the presence of all the people why she had touched Jesus

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 and how she had been immediately healed.

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 And Jesus doesn't rebuke her.

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 He speaks to her with great affection.

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 He says, daughter.

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 He claims her as part of his family.

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 Daughter, your faith has made you well.

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 And in the original language, your faith has made you well

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 can also equally be translated as your faith has saved you.

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 Go in peace.

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 Now, some of us are a bit troubled by this.

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 And I could well imagine that those who are non-Christians,

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 you know a little bit about what Christianity is,

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 be very puzzled as to how it is that Jesus,

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 like, don't Christians claim that Jesus is God?

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 How is it that he asks a question?

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 How is it that he doesn't know the answer?

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 How can he be God and ask a question?

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 If you could put up the point, Andrew, that would be very helpful.

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 Well, Jesus is fully human.

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 He asked questions.

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 See, one of the things which is so powerful about stories

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 is that stories help us to enter into truths

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 that we can maybe express as a doctrine,

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 like when we said the creed, fully man and fully God.

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 And okay, well, we can say that.

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 But a story helps us to enter into what that means

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 and experience it and know it in a deeper way.

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 It shapes us.

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 And the fact of the matter is, is if Jesus never asked a question,

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 how on earth could you possibly believe that he's human?

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 Like, how could he be human if he never asked a question?

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 It's one of the essential features of being a human being,

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 is to be able to ask questions.

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 It's one of the things, interestingly enough,

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 in totalitarian states and dictators,

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 what they want is they want to stop people asking questions

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 because they want to make you less human.

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 The state wants to crush you.

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 And if they want to crush you, they say,

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 no more questions.

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 You're not allowed to ask questions.

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 Just trust the glorious state, how wise it is.

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 In the Soviet Union, dissidents were sent to be brainwashed

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 or dealt with by psychiatrists

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 because they couldn't understand the glory of the revolution.

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 They'd ask questions.

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 Well, why is it if the revolution is so glorious,

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 why is it that people are starving?

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 Why is it that people are punished?

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 And, well, if you, no questions are not allowed.

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 So we can't look at Jesus and say,

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 well, Jesus was human but never asked a question.

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 You know, he's not here today.

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 Liam.

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 Liam went through a period.

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 He was really, really, you know, he's still cute,

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 but he was very cute.

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 And after service, he'd come and follow me around

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 and ask me questions.

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 Why do you do that?

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 And I'd give him an answer.

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 Why?

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 I'd give him an answer.

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 Why?

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 Give him an answer.

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 Why?

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 And should I just say, because.

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 I don't know.

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 Like, at some point in time,

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 you just can't answer endless whys.

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 All of you have had young kids,

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 many of them at some point in time,

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 they go through a phase,

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 they ask why, why, why.

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 Well, to think that Jesus, as a four-year-old,

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 never asked the question why.

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 Like, how could he be a kid?

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 Like, Jesus didn't emerge out of the womb

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 and immediately speak three or four languages.

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 He would have, like, babbled.

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 He had to learn.

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 And this helps us to feel it and experience it.

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 You see, if you read all of the Gospels together

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 and you read the rest of the New Testament,

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 what you understand is this,

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 that Jesus was fully human.

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 He asked questions.

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 He got tired.

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 He got hungry.

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 He had to sleep.

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 And what it is,

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 is that if Jesus needed to know something

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 that a human being wouldn't normally know,

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 God reveals it to him.

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 Because it's, in a sense,

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 every time you see Jesus knowing something

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 that he couldn't know,

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 it's a way for you in the story

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 to enter into the intimacy that he had

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 with his heavenly father

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 and the trust he had of his heavenly father,

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 that his heavenly father would provide for him,

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 including knowing when he needed to know.

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 So Jesus asks a question.

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 He doesn't know the answer.

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 The woman comes,

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 and he speaks to her with great peace.

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 But, remember,

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 Jesus is now spending time,

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 and who knows how long it took,

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 maybe 10 or 15 minutes with the woman,

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 not just as brief as it was here.

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 Maybe he was asking questions for 10 or 15 minutes

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 before the woman finally was brought to the front.

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 And you can well imagine that Jairus

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 is hopping up and down on both feet

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 because he's so anxious.

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 If he was sitting,

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 his leg was probably going like that

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 because he has a daughter

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 who's on the point of death,

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 and Jesus is spending time with this woman,

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 this woman, not his daughter.

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 I'm sure he'd say,

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 yeah, yeah, I like that woman.

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 But my daughter,

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 my 12-year-old daughter,

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 she's on the point of death.

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 And what happens?

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 Well, terrible news.

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 Look at verse 49.

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 While Jesus was still speaking,

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 while Jesus was still speaking,

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 someone from the ruler's house came and said,

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 your daughter is dead.

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 Do not trouble the teacher anymore.

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 Now, we just need to pause here for a second,

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 camp on it for a second.

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 This describes this room.

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 I'm guessing

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 that if we were to have

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 an open mic for people

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 to share prayer requests,

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 I'm guessing there's a couple of people

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 who could say,

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 I'd really like to share with you

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 how God has dramatically answered a prayer

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 for me this week.

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 I'd be surprised

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 if there's not a couple of you

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 who could get up and share

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 within the last week,

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 within the last month,

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 some dramatic answer to prayer.

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 And at the same time

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 that they're sharing,

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 and maybe after they share,

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 we all clap

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 and they go back to their seat,

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 a few high fives.

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 But at the same time,

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 in this very same room,

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 there are people

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 who are praying their heart out

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 and God is not answering their prayers

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 the way they want.

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 They prayed for the job.

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 They didn't get the job.

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 They prayed for a relationship.

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 They didn't get the relationship.

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 They prayed for a child.

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 They didn't get the child.

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 They prayed for a good answer from the doctor.

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 They didn't get the good answer from the doctor.

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 They prayed for their wayward child.

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 Their wayward child has gotten more wayward.

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 We could go on.

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 Verse 49,

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 the woman's going back to high fives.

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 And in the same crowd,

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 Jairus is crushed.

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 That's every church service

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 that you ever attended

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 in every Christian community.

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 Right here in the text.

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 So what happens?

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 How does the story

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 continue to resolve itself?

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 Well, let's look at verse 50.

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 How does Jesus respond to this?

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 And by the way,

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 just before that,

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 you can well imagine,

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 can't you?

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 And this is,

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 this again is so much

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 for many of us.

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 Can't you just imagine

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 that Jairus is saying,

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 Jesus,

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 if you had just

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 not stopped

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 for that woman,

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 my daughter would be well.

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 My daughter would be well.

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 So the story continues.

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 Verse 50.

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 But Jesus,

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 on hearing this,

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 that the girl is dead,

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 says to the man,

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 do not fear,

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 only believe,

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 she will be well.

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 That word once again,

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 well,

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 can also be translated

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 as saved.

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 And in verse 51,

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 and when he came to the house,

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 he allowed no one

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 to enter with him

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 except Peter and John

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 and James

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 and the father

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 and mother of the child.

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 Peter,

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 John,

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 and James

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 are three of the apostles,

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 three of the disciples.

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 And all were weeping,

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 verse 52,

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 and mourning for her.

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 But he said to the crowd,

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 do not weep,

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 for she is not dead,

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 but is sleeping.

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 And just so you know,

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 it's a very ancient metaphor,

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 but Jesus is using

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 a metaphor for death.

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 He knows she's dead,

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 as the rest of the story

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 will show.

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 He knows she's dead,

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 but he's using,

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 it's a whole other sermon

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 about why there could be

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 for Christians

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 a metaphor of death

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 as sleeping.

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 But that's what he's doing.

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 But the crowd reacts

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 in a different way.

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 Look at verse 53.

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 And they laughed at him,

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 knowing that she was dead.

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 Just sort of pause here

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 for a second.

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 Once again,

00:21:55.079 --> 00:21:56.299
 doesn't this describe life?

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 Like if you think about it,

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 if people who are walking by

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 on the street

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 knew that there were people

00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:04.799
 in here who believe

00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:06.359
 that Jesus is still alive

00:22:06.359 --> 00:22:07.720
 and that they can talk to him

00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:08.919
 and he will answer their prayers,

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 they will laugh at us.

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 They'd laugh.

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 They wouldn't laugh.

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 They're Canadians.

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 They maybe wouldn't laugh

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 if we were right with them.

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 But what they're going on

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 off to their friends

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 to have some brunch

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 or some dim sum

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 or whatever,

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 they'll say,

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 all those stupid people

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 in there praying,

00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:26.559
 what a waste of time.

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 Like that's the real world.

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 Once again,

00:22:29.220 --> 00:22:31.579
 so Jesus is in a room

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 with the five of them.

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 Nobody has any faith.

00:22:35.079 --> 00:22:35.860
 There's a dead girl.

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 Verse 54,

00:22:37.620 --> 00:22:39.200
 but taking her by the hand,

00:22:39.640 --> 00:22:41.039
 he called saying,

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 child, arise.

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 And her spirit returned.

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 She got up at once

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 and he directed

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 that something should be

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 given her to eat.

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 In other words,

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 she's so healthy

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 that she not only

00:22:56.399 --> 00:22:58.460
 becomes alive again

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 and she's so healed

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 that she can get up

00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:02.079
 out of the bed

00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:03.899
 and she's so healed

00:23:03.899 --> 00:23:05.179
 that she's hungry.

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 And he directed

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 that something

00:23:07.539 --> 00:23:08.480
 should be given her to eat

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 and her parents were amazed

00:23:09.599 --> 00:23:10.500
 but he charged them

00:23:10.500 --> 00:23:11.399
 to tell no one

00:23:11.399 --> 00:23:12.699
 what had happened.

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 Now,

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 Jesus recalls her spirit

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 and she's alive.

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 Now,

00:23:20.119 --> 00:23:20.960
 some of you might say,

00:23:21.559 --> 00:23:22.539
 this is just a couple

00:23:22.539 --> 00:23:23.379
 of coincidences.

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 You know,

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 they're not very sophisticated

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 back then.

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 They don't know about science

00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:28.240
 and, you know,

00:23:28.280 --> 00:23:29.780
 maybe just Jesus startled her

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 and, whoa,

00:23:30.680 --> 00:23:31.760
 she's not actually dead

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 and she wakes up

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 and, you know,

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 maybe it's just one

00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:35.060
 of those things

00:23:35.060 --> 00:23:35.920
 where, you know,

00:23:36.080 --> 00:23:37.480
 she was about to get well

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 all by herself

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 and it's just a bit

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 of a coincidence.

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 And, well,

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 I mean,

00:23:42.340 --> 00:23:43.580
 we can't entirely answer that

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 except to say this.

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 The other day,

00:23:45.800 --> 00:23:47.260
 I was in a coffee shop

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 and I overheard a young guy

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 explain to an older guy

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 what he did for a living.

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 He was an engineer

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 and he was an engineer

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 who designs

00:23:54.299 --> 00:23:56.539
 computer systems

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 and to protect

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 against cyber attacks.

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 And he gave,

00:24:03.700 --> 00:24:04.960
 I know there's some

00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:05.819
 computer engineers here.

00:24:05.919 --> 00:24:06.480
 I'm just going to give

00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:07.180
 a couple of things

00:24:07.180 --> 00:24:08.039
 that I overheard him say

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 because the rest of it

00:24:08.680 --> 00:24:09.639
 I'd get so wrong

00:24:09.639 --> 00:24:10.980
 that the engineers

00:24:10.980 --> 00:24:12.000
 and the computer people

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 around us

00:24:12.460 --> 00:24:13.599
 would be going like this.

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 But just a couple of things.

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 He gave the analogy.

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 He said,

00:24:16.579 --> 00:24:17.960
 so we have algorithms

00:24:17.960 --> 00:24:19.380
 that can track

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 when something anomalous

00:24:20.579 --> 00:24:21.240
 happens.

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 And so,

00:24:22.740 --> 00:24:23.600
 like something might be

00:24:23.600 --> 00:24:24.420
 that all of a sudden

00:24:24.420 --> 00:24:26.000
 a person accesses

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 their banking record

00:24:26.940 --> 00:24:27.579
 at three o'clock

00:24:27.579 --> 00:24:28.019
 in the morning

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 and there's an algorithm.

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 They know that's

00:24:29.420 --> 00:24:30.360
 an anomalous thing

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 that that person,

00:24:31.720 --> 00:24:32.460
 George Sinclair,

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 never accesses his bank

00:24:34.079 --> 00:24:34.680
 at three o'clock

00:24:34.680 --> 00:24:35.120
 in the morning

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 but nothing necessarily

00:24:36.079 --> 00:24:36.720
 happens

00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:37.880
 just because of

00:24:37.880 --> 00:24:38.900
 one anomalous event.

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 But what we're working on

00:24:40.980 --> 00:24:42.360
 is when there's

00:24:42.360 --> 00:24:43.400
 a cyber attack,

00:24:43.400 --> 00:24:44.580
 we're working on

00:24:44.580 --> 00:24:45.500
 recognizing

00:24:45.500 --> 00:24:46.900
 when there's

00:24:46.900 --> 00:24:47.820
 a certain type

00:24:47.820 --> 00:24:48.540
 of pattern

00:24:48.540 --> 00:24:50.720
 of anomalous events

00:24:50.720 --> 00:24:52.420
 within a certain

00:24:52.420 --> 00:24:53.180
 time period

00:24:53.180 --> 00:24:54.000
 that indicates

00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:54.880
 that there's an attack

00:24:54.880 --> 00:24:55.519
 and then having

00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:56.780
 a way of responding to it.

00:24:56.860 --> 00:24:57.940
 And that's the algorithm

00:24:57.940 --> 00:24:58.880
 that we're working on.

00:24:59.340 --> 00:25:00.280
 And that's a little bit

00:25:00.280 --> 00:25:01.100
 of the question here.

00:25:01.420 --> 00:25:01.940
 You could say,

00:25:02.019 --> 00:25:02.400
 well, okay,

00:25:02.480 --> 00:25:02.920
 so Jesus,

00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:03.759
 there's this true

00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:05.040
 biography

00:25:05.040 --> 00:25:05.880
 which is written

00:25:05.880 --> 00:25:06.580
 about Jesus

00:25:06.580 --> 00:25:10.420
 and it's an ancient

00:25:10.420 --> 00:25:11.080
 biography

00:25:11.080 --> 00:25:12.560
 and it records this

00:25:12.560 --> 00:25:13.380
 and it records this

00:25:13.380 --> 00:25:14.220
 and it records this

00:25:14.220 --> 00:25:14.880
 and yes,

00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:15.340
 it might be

00:25:15.340 --> 00:25:16.260
 a little bit of anomaly

00:25:16.260 --> 00:25:17.300
 that just at the moment

00:25:17.300 --> 00:25:18.020
 that she touches

00:25:18.020 --> 00:25:19.920
 his Jesus

00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:20.600
 that whoa,

00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:21.320
 all of a sudden

00:25:21.320 --> 00:25:21.920
 she's better.

00:25:22.040 --> 00:25:22.300
 It's just

00:25:22.300 --> 00:25:24.220
 odd coincidence

00:25:24.220 --> 00:25:26.740
 but another odd coincidence

00:25:26.740 --> 00:25:27.320
 about this

00:25:27.320 --> 00:25:27.920
 and if you go back

00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:28.440
 and you read the rest

00:25:28.440 --> 00:25:29.600
 of the book of Luke

00:25:29.600 --> 00:25:30.600
 and it's an odd coincidence

00:25:30.600 --> 00:25:31.680
 that this just happened

00:25:31.680 --> 00:25:32.380
 and this just happened

00:25:32.380 --> 00:25:34.120
 but at some point in time

00:25:34.120 --> 00:25:35.260
 you have to wonder

00:25:35.260 --> 00:25:36.200
 if it's an attack,

00:25:36.320 --> 00:25:37.200
 if it's a cyber attack,

00:25:37.300 --> 00:25:38.040
 if it's an invasion.

00:25:41.460 --> 00:25:42.340
 That the only way

00:25:42.340 --> 00:25:43.080
 to understand

00:25:43.079 --> 00:25:44.019
 what's going on

00:25:44.019 --> 00:25:45.220
 is that there's

00:25:45.220 --> 00:25:46.179
 something systematic.

00:25:48.159 --> 00:25:49.240
 So if you could put up

00:25:49.240 --> 00:25:49.859
 the next point,

00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:50.079
 Andrew,

00:25:50.119 --> 00:25:50.519
 that would be

00:25:50.519 --> 00:25:51.599
 very, very helpful.

00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:53.039
 So here's what's happening

00:25:53.039 --> 00:25:53.599
 in the course

00:25:53.599 --> 00:25:54.339
 of this story.

00:25:55.039 --> 00:25:56.119
 What Jesus does,

00:25:56.460 --> 00:25:58.019
 only life himself

00:25:58.019 --> 00:25:59.939
 can do what Jesus does.

00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:02.359
 Only life himself

00:26:02.359 --> 00:26:03.519
 can do what Jesus does.

00:26:03.639 --> 00:26:06.139
 Only health himself

00:26:06.139 --> 00:26:08.039
 can do what Jesus does

00:26:08.039 --> 00:26:08.679
 in this story.

00:26:08.680 --> 00:26:11.180
 Remember,

00:26:12.259 --> 00:26:13.340
 one of the things

00:26:13.340 --> 00:26:16.660
 which is so powerful

00:26:16.660 --> 00:26:17.600
 about stories

00:26:17.600 --> 00:26:19.220
 is that the stories

00:26:19.220 --> 00:26:20.600
 help us to understand.

00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:21.320
 We can take it

00:26:21.320 --> 00:26:22.320
 very abstractly

00:26:22.320 --> 00:26:24.140
 that God creates

00:26:24.140 --> 00:26:25.120
 all things

00:26:25.120 --> 00:26:26.900
 or that Jesus is God

00:26:26.900 --> 00:26:28.340
 and comes and enters in.

00:26:28.880 --> 00:26:29.640
 And those are just

00:26:29.640 --> 00:26:30.340
 some doctrines

00:26:30.340 --> 00:26:31.120
 and for some of us

00:26:31.120 --> 00:26:32.460
 we love statements

00:26:32.460 --> 00:26:33.600
 like that of logic

00:26:33.600 --> 00:26:36.240
 and of great verbal precision

00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:37.779
 and abstract

00:26:37.779 --> 00:26:38.620
 and we love it.

00:26:38.940 --> 00:26:39.539
 But you know what?

00:26:39.599 --> 00:26:40.380
 For many of us,

00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:41.920
 how we come to understand

00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:42.980
 these is we come

00:26:42.980 --> 00:26:43.880
 to understand them

00:26:43.880 --> 00:26:44.960
 by reading stories.

00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:46.539
 And it's not just enough

00:26:46.539 --> 00:26:47.079
 to understand

00:26:47.079 --> 00:26:47.940
 that God is God

00:26:47.940 --> 00:26:49.859
 but that what the Bible

00:26:49.859 --> 00:26:50.740
 says is this.

00:26:51.059 --> 00:26:52.500
 In all Eastern religions,

00:26:52.579 --> 00:26:53.940
 in all Eastern religions,

00:26:54.079 --> 00:26:54.859
 the fact that you

00:26:54.859 --> 00:26:55.500
 and I exist

00:26:55.500 --> 00:26:56.180
 is a result

00:26:56.180 --> 00:26:58.460
 of a primeval tragedy.

00:26:59.039 --> 00:27:00.420
 All things were one.

00:27:01.980 --> 00:27:02.759
 It was just like

00:27:02.759 --> 00:27:03.599
 there was an ocean

00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:04.720
 and all of a sudden

00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:06.019
 difference started to happen.

00:27:06.019 --> 00:27:07.119
 And it's a tragedy.

00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:08.500
 And now there's difference.

00:27:08.599 --> 00:27:09.339
 And now there's you

00:27:09.339 --> 00:27:10.279
 and now there's me.

00:27:10.639 --> 00:27:11.819
 And all of life

00:27:11.819 --> 00:27:12.940
 is at the end of the day

00:27:12.940 --> 00:27:14.299
 ultimately a tragedy

00:27:14.299 --> 00:27:15.680
 which ends

00:27:15.680 --> 00:27:17.680
 by the reincarnation

00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:18.619
 coming to an end

00:27:18.619 --> 00:27:20.259
 and then comes oblivion.

00:27:20.359 --> 00:27:21.319
 The drop of water

00:27:21.319 --> 00:27:22.619
 merges with the ocean.

00:27:24.099 --> 00:27:26.680
 And in what is basically

00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:28.059
 the atheistic worldview

00:27:28.059 --> 00:27:29.779
 which is on one level

00:27:29.779 --> 00:27:31.079
 the basic worldview

00:27:31.079 --> 00:27:32.799
 of most of the modern West.

00:27:32.980 --> 00:27:33.799
 It's on one level

00:27:33.799 --> 00:27:34.900
 taught in schools

00:27:34.900 --> 00:27:36.120
 that everything

00:27:36.120 --> 00:27:37.140
 that came to be

00:27:37.140 --> 00:27:37.920
 is just a result.

00:27:38.040 --> 00:27:39.320
 There's always just been matter

00:27:39.320 --> 00:27:39.900
 and there's always

00:27:39.900 --> 00:27:40.780
 just been energy

00:27:40.780 --> 00:27:42.340
 and matter and energy

00:27:42.340 --> 00:27:43.400
 start to interact

00:27:43.400 --> 00:27:44.759
 in scientific ways

00:27:44.759 --> 00:27:45.480
 in such a way

00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:46.040
 that eventually

00:27:46.040 --> 00:27:47.120
 life was produced.

00:27:47.560 --> 00:27:48.620
 But life came out

00:27:48.620 --> 00:27:49.340
 of nothing

00:27:49.340 --> 00:27:50.920
 other than processes.

00:27:51.180 --> 00:27:52.820
 Life has no inherent meaning

00:27:52.820 --> 00:27:54.140
 and at the end of it

00:27:54.140 --> 00:27:55.200
 you will just die.

00:27:55.600 --> 00:27:56.780
 And the Christian story

00:27:56.780 --> 00:27:58.100
 is very different.

00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:00.100
 The Christian story is

00:28:00.100 --> 00:28:01.500
 that from all eternity

00:28:01.500 --> 00:28:02.940
 the Father loved the Son

00:28:02.940 --> 00:28:04.580
 and the Son loved the Father

00:28:04.580 --> 00:28:06.259
 and the Holy Spirit

00:28:06.259 --> 00:28:07.259
 is on one level

00:28:07.259 --> 00:28:08.620
 both another person

00:28:08.620 --> 00:28:09.500
 but He's also

00:28:09.500 --> 00:28:10.980
 the actual love

00:28:10.980 --> 00:28:12.480
 which eternally flows

00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:13.140
 from the Father

00:28:13.140 --> 00:28:13.880
 to the Son

00:28:13.880 --> 00:28:16.019
 and from all eternity

00:28:16.019 --> 00:28:17.100
 there was a life.

00:28:17.299 --> 00:28:18.299
 God the Father

00:28:18.299 --> 00:28:18.900
 and the Son

00:28:18.900 --> 00:28:19.620
 and the Holy Spirit

00:28:19.620 --> 00:28:20.380
 three persons

00:28:20.380 --> 00:28:21.039
 one God

00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:22.480
 He is alive

00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:24.039
 and out of life

00:28:24.039 --> 00:28:25.279
 and out of love

00:28:25.279 --> 00:28:26.360
 God creates.

00:28:28.320 --> 00:28:29.320
 And the tragedy

00:28:29.320 --> 00:28:30.400
 of sickness and death

00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:31.400
 and our fallen creation

00:28:31.400 --> 00:28:32.200
 comes out of our

00:28:32.200 --> 00:28:33.440
 prideful rebellion

00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:34.320
 against God.

00:28:34.860 --> 00:28:35.540
 But life

00:28:35.540 --> 00:28:36.200
 is what

00:28:36.200 --> 00:28:38.240
 life comes out of.

00:28:39.480 --> 00:28:40.400
 And so what the Bible

00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:41.500
 here is picturing

00:28:41.500 --> 00:28:42.500
 is that life

00:28:42.500 --> 00:28:44.300
 well

00:28:44.300 --> 00:28:44.980
 could you put up

00:28:44.980 --> 00:28:45.900
 the next point Andrew?

00:28:46.660 --> 00:28:48.120
 What we see in this miracle

00:28:48.120 --> 00:28:49.800
 is that life

00:28:49.800 --> 00:28:51.500
 is invading

00:28:51.500 --> 00:28:52.440
 now we would say

00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:53.180
 it in the past tense

00:28:53.180 --> 00:28:53.580
 life

00:28:53.580 --> 00:28:54.620
 has invaded

00:28:54.620 --> 00:28:56.259
 His dying creation

00:28:56.259 --> 00:28:57.860
 to put things right

00:28:57.859 --> 00:28:58.979
 and deliver

00:28:58.979 --> 00:29:00.939
 His fallen image bearers.

00:29:01.059 --> 00:29:02.179
 Life has invaded

00:29:02.179 --> 00:29:03.639
 His dying creation

00:29:03.639 --> 00:29:05.139
 to begin to put things right

00:29:05.139 --> 00:29:06.219
 and deliver

00:29:06.219 --> 00:29:07.719
 His fallen image bearers.

00:29:10.359 --> 00:29:11.679
 There used to be a man

00:29:11.679 --> 00:29:12.579
 who came to the church

00:29:12.579 --> 00:29:13.279
 for a few years

00:29:13.279 --> 00:29:14.859
 he was a great old guy

00:29:14.859 --> 00:29:16.359
 his name was Jacques

00:29:16.359 --> 00:29:18.979
 and he was from France

00:29:18.979 --> 00:29:21.919
 and he

00:29:21.919 --> 00:29:24.639
 I believe he's passed away now

00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:26.440
 and he grew up

00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:28.740
 in a small little area

00:29:28.740 --> 00:29:29.400
 in France

00:29:29.400 --> 00:29:31.300
 very close to the coast

00:29:31.300 --> 00:29:33.660
 and one night

00:29:33.660 --> 00:29:34.360
 during the

00:29:34.360 --> 00:29:35.640
 Second World War

00:29:35.640 --> 00:29:37.900
 him and his family

00:29:37.900 --> 00:29:39.180
 heard gunfire

00:29:39.180 --> 00:29:41.460
 very close to the house

00:29:41.460 --> 00:29:42.780
 just in the lower field

00:29:42.780 --> 00:29:43.520
 not the field

00:29:43.520 --> 00:29:44.360
 right by his house

00:29:44.360 --> 00:29:45.440
 but just the lower field

00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:47.100
 they heard gunfire

00:29:47.100 --> 00:29:48.320
 and screaming

00:29:48.320 --> 00:29:49.759
 and they stayed

00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:50.520
 inside the house

00:29:50.520 --> 00:29:51.700
 they were under

00:29:51.700 --> 00:29:52.740
 Nazi occupation

00:29:52.740 --> 00:29:54.460
 and they just stayed

00:29:54.460 --> 00:29:54.940
 in the house

00:29:54.940 --> 00:29:56.240
 but the next morning

00:29:56.240 --> 00:29:57.039
 when it was light

00:29:57.039 --> 00:29:57.980
 he went out

00:29:57.980 --> 00:29:59.539
 and he found

00:29:59.539 --> 00:30:00.620
 the body

00:30:00.620 --> 00:30:02.160
 of an American

00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:02.620
 GI

00:30:02.620 --> 00:30:04.620
 in his lower field.

00:30:06.120 --> 00:30:07.460
 He found the dead body

00:30:07.460 --> 00:30:08.819
 of an American soldier

00:30:08.819 --> 00:30:11.279
 in Nazi

00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:12.339
 occupied Europe

00:30:12.339 --> 00:30:14.799
 and he didn't realize that

00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:15.859
 but later on in the day

00:30:15.859 --> 00:30:16.519
 in the next day

00:30:16.519 --> 00:30:17.120
 he discovered

00:30:17.120 --> 00:30:18.740
 that that was

00:30:18.740 --> 00:30:19.579
 a paratrooper

00:30:19.579 --> 00:30:21.319
 who had come in

00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:22.059
 the night before

00:30:22.059 --> 00:30:22.620
 D-Day

00:30:22.619 --> 00:30:24.819
 and that at the same time

00:30:24.819 --> 00:30:25.679
 that he was discovering

00:30:25.679 --> 00:30:26.500
 the dead body

00:30:26.500 --> 00:30:28.219
 the Allied forces

00:30:28.219 --> 00:30:29.519
 had landed

00:30:29.519 --> 00:30:31.599
 very close to where he lived.

00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:35.079
 There was an anomaly

00:30:35.079 --> 00:30:39.519
 of a dead American GI

00:30:39.519 --> 00:30:42.000
 in his lower field

00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:45.479
 but it wasn't just an anomaly

00:30:45.479 --> 00:30:47.639
 it was an indication

00:30:47.639 --> 00:30:48.859
 that the invasion

00:30:48.859 --> 00:30:50.079
 had begun

00:30:50.079 --> 00:30:52.099
 and that's what

00:30:52.099 --> 00:30:53.099
 every miracle is

00:30:53.099 --> 00:30:53.779
 in the gospel

00:30:53.779 --> 00:30:55.559
 it is evidence

00:30:55.559 --> 00:30:57.079
 that the invasion

00:30:57.079 --> 00:30:58.759
 had begun.

00:31:00.199 --> 00:31:01.240
 In this case

00:31:01.240 --> 00:31:02.199
 last week

00:31:02.199 --> 00:31:02.579
 I talked about

00:31:02.579 --> 00:31:03.879
 how the creator himself

00:31:03.879 --> 00:31:04.659
 had entered

00:31:04.659 --> 00:31:06.519
 invaded his dying

00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:07.699
 or fallen creation

00:31:07.699 --> 00:31:08.939
 here in a sense

00:31:08.939 --> 00:31:09.419
 to understand

00:31:09.419 --> 00:31:09.960
 that God

00:31:09.960 --> 00:31:10.639
 is life

00:31:10.639 --> 00:31:11.819
 life has invaded

00:31:11.819 --> 00:31:13.319
 his dying creation

00:31:13.319 --> 00:31:14.139
 to begin to put

00:31:14.139 --> 00:31:14.819
 things right

00:31:14.819 --> 00:31:15.799
 and deliver

00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:17.279
 his fallen

00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:18.639
 image bearers.

00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:19.580
 this is not just

00:31:19.580 --> 00:31:20.560
 an anomaly

00:31:20.560 --> 00:31:21.820
 it is an anomaly

00:31:21.820 --> 00:31:22.860
 that indicates

00:31:22.860 --> 00:31:24.280
 the invasion

00:31:24.280 --> 00:31:25.600
 has begun

00:31:25.600 --> 00:31:27.000
 and we know

00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:27.600
 that it will come

00:31:27.600 --> 00:31:28.160
 to an end.

00:31:28.940 --> 00:31:29.440
 But some of you

00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:29.820
 might say

00:31:29.820 --> 00:31:30.400
 well George

00:31:30.400 --> 00:31:30.860
 I don't have

00:31:30.860 --> 00:31:32.600
 faith to believe

00:31:32.600 --> 00:31:33.500
 something like this

00:31:33.500 --> 00:31:34.480
 I'm too skeptical

00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:35.440
 I'm too broken

00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:37.500
 you know

00:31:37.500 --> 00:31:38.500
 it's just

00:31:38.500 --> 00:31:40.299
 too hard

00:31:40.299 --> 00:31:41.640
 it's just

00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:42.140
 too hard

00:31:42.140 --> 00:31:42.600
 to believe

00:31:42.600 --> 00:31:42.920
 something

00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:43.480
 I just can't

00:31:43.480 --> 00:31:44.120
 possibly have

00:31:44.120 --> 00:31:44.799
 faith or belief

00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:45.240
 in it.

00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:46.559
 Well the story

00:31:46.559 --> 00:31:47.320
 actually has

00:31:47.320 --> 00:31:47.759
 some things

00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:48.140
 to say

00:31:48.140 --> 00:31:48.720
 about that

00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:50.420
 whole response

00:31:50.420 --> 00:31:51.200
 of not having

00:31:51.200 --> 00:31:52.140
 you know

00:31:52.140 --> 00:31:52.559
 faith

00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:53.360
 or enough

00:31:53.360 --> 00:31:53.799
 belief.

00:31:54.880 --> 00:31:55.559
 See part of the

00:31:55.559 --> 00:31:56.080
 problem is

00:31:56.080 --> 00:31:56.600
 that we say

00:31:56.600 --> 00:31:57.299
 we don't have

00:31:57.299 --> 00:31:58.039
 enough belief

00:31:58.039 --> 00:31:59.600
 we don't have

00:31:59.600 --> 00:32:00.240
 enough faith.

00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:05.000
 you know

00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:05.799
 in our culture

00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:06.599
 or just

00:32:06.599 --> 00:32:07.759
 we do know

00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:08.259
 that actually

00:32:08.259 --> 00:32:09.059
 belief and faith

00:32:09.059 --> 00:32:10.059
 is very very

00:32:10.059 --> 00:32:10.519
 important

00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:11.240
 just in general

00:32:11.240 --> 00:32:11.980
 it's very important.

00:32:14.359 --> 00:32:15.500
 You can't have

00:32:15.500 --> 00:32:16.740
 human relationships

00:32:16.740 --> 00:32:19.079
 and you can't

00:32:19.079 --> 00:32:19.599
 have love

00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:20.220
 relationships

00:32:20.220 --> 00:32:20.640
 if you don't

00:32:20.640 --> 00:32:21.019
 have some

00:32:21.019 --> 00:32:21.920
 degree of trust.

00:32:21.920 --> 00:32:26.539
 I've met

00:32:26.539 --> 00:32:26.980
 people

00:32:26.980 --> 00:32:28.519
 who've been

00:32:28.519 --> 00:32:29.460
 so beat up

00:32:29.460 --> 00:32:30.220
 by life

00:32:30.220 --> 00:32:32.740
 just so

00:32:32.740 --> 00:32:33.840
 betrayed

00:32:33.840 --> 00:32:35.279
 and beat up

00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:36.039
 by life

00:32:36.039 --> 00:32:38.039
 their parents

00:32:38.039 --> 00:32:39.400
 in many cases

00:32:39.400 --> 00:32:40.460
 literally beat

00:32:40.460 --> 00:32:40.880
 them up

00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:41.360
 and abused

00:32:41.360 --> 00:32:41.660
 them

00:32:41.660 --> 00:32:43.820
 and in some

00:32:43.820 --> 00:32:44.759
 tragic cases

00:32:44.759 --> 00:32:45.500
 they were just

00:32:45.500 --> 00:32:45.980
 beat up

00:32:45.980 --> 00:32:46.720
 by the judicial

00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:47.360
 system

00:32:47.360 --> 00:32:47.860
 by the

00:32:47.860 --> 00:32:49.100
 foster system

00:32:49.100 --> 00:32:50.779
 by their

00:32:50.779 --> 00:32:51.400
 siblings

00:32:51.400 --> 00:32:51.960
 and they

00:32:51.960 --> 00:32:52.280
 are just

00:32:52.280 --> 00:32:53.100
 so beat

00:32:53.100 --> 00:32:53.519
 up

00:32:53.519 --> 00:32:54.680
 by life

00:32:54.680 --> 00:32:55.120
 that they

00:32:55.120 --> 00:32:55.580
 can no

00:32:55.580 --> 00:32:56.000
 longer

00:32:56.000 --> 00:32:56.780
 trust

00:32:56.780 --> 00:32:57.759
 anybody

00:32:57.759 --> 00:32:58.440
 at all

00:32:58.440 --> 00:32:59.580
 virtually

00:32:59.580 --> 00:33:00.019
 trust

00:33:00.019 --> 00:33:00.480
 nobody

00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:00.960
 at all

00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:03.040
 and they

00:33:03.040 --> 00:33:03.920
 live very

00:33:03.920 --> 00:33:04.540
 very very

00:33:04.540 --> 00:33:05.780
 very isolated

00:33:05.780 --> 00:33:06.540
 lives

00:33:06.540 --> 00:33:07.820
 and miserable

00:33:07.820 --> 00:33:08.420
 lives

00:33:08.420 --> 00:33:10.360
 because the

00:33:10.360 --> 00:33:10.720
 fact of the

00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:11.019
 matter is

00:33:11.019 --> 00:33:11.340
 you can't

00:33:11.340 --> 00:33:11.620
 have a

00:33:11.620 --> 00:33:11.940
 friend

00:33:11.940 --> 00:33:12.540
 you can't

00:33:12.540 --> 00:33:12.820
 have a

00:33:12.820 --> 00:33:13.200
 wife

00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:13.780
 or a

00:33:13.780 --> 00:33:14.180
 husband

00:33:14.180 --> 00:33:15.800
 you can't

00:33:15.800 --> 00:33:16.380
 actually even

00:33:16.380 --> 00:33:16.800
 go to the

00:33:16.800 --> 00:33:17.160
 police

00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:17.500
 or go to

00:33:17.500 --> 00:33:18.380
 a contractor

00:33:18.380 --> 00:33:19.440
 you can't

00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:19.900
 go to a

00:33:19.900 --> 00:33:20.320
 bank

00:33:20.319 --> 00:33:21.119
 if you

00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:21.379
 don't have

00:33:21.379 --> 00:33:21.899
 some degree

00:33:21.899 --> 00:33:22.319
 of trust

00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:22.740
 so on one

00:33:22.740 --> 00:33:23.259
 level in our

00:33:23.259 --> 00:33:24.000
 culture we

00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:24.819
 understand the

00:33:24.819 --> 00:33:25.859
 real importance

00:33:25.859 --> 00:33:26.359
 of love

00:33:26.359 --> 00:33:27.299
 but the problem

00:33:27.299 --> 00:33:28.039
 in our culture

00:33:28.039 --> 00:33:29.759
 is that we

00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:30.439
 want to create

00:33:30.439 --> 00:33:31.159
 make it look

00:33:31.159 --> 00:33:31.779
 as if somehow

00:33:31.779 --> 00:33:32.200
 or another

00:33:32.200 --> 00:33:32.599
 that

00:33:32.599 --> 00:33:34.500
 well you know

00:33:34.500 --> 00:33:35.159
 how many movies

00:33:35.159 --> 00:33:35.740
 talk about how

00:33:35.740 --> 00:33:36.240
 you just have to

00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:36.839
 have trust

00:33:36.839 --> 00:33:37.460
 you just have to

00:33:37.460 --> 00:33:37.879
 believe

00:33:37.879 --> 00:33:39.059
 you just have to

00:33:39.059 --> 00:33:39.659
 you just

00:33:39.659 --> 00:33:40.319
 it's as if

00:33:40.319 --> 00:33:41.299
 almost trust

00:33:41.299 --> 00:33:41.939
 or belief

00:33:41.939 --> 00:33:42.619
 is a type of

00:33:42.619 --> 00:33:43.559
 a power

00:33:43.559 --> 00:33:44.839
 that you

00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:45.500
 have

00:33:45.500 --> 00:33:46.480
 and if

00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:46.819
 you have

00:33:46.819 --> 00:33:47.220
 this type

00:33:47.220 --> 00:33:47.859
 of power

00:33:47.859 --> 00:33:48.200
 if you

00:33:48.200 --> 00:33:48.779
 just believe

00:33:48.779 --> 00:33:49.200
 in people

00:33:49.200 --> 00:33:49.400
 if you

00:33:49.400 --> 00:33:49.920
 just believe

00:33:49.920 --> 00:33:50.440
 that Santa

00:33:50.440 --> 00:33:50.680
 is going

00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:50.940
 to come

00:33:50.940 --> 00:33:51.140
 if you

00:33:51.140 --> 00:33:51.759
 just believe

00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:52.200
 that things

00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:52.440
 are going

00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:52.619
 to be

00:33:52.619 --> 00:33:52.880
 right

00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:53.640
 then things

00:33:53.640 --> 00:33:53.920
 are all

00:33:53.920 --> 00:33:54.119
 going to

00:33:54.119 --> 00:33:54.500
 be right

00:33:54.500 --> 00:33:56.279
 but if

00:33:56.279 --> 00:33:56.759
 you can't

00:33:56.759 --> 00:33:57.200
 go sort of

00:33:57.200 --> 00:33:57.660
 all the way

00:33:57.660 --> 00:33:58.099
 to the other

00:33:58.099 --> 00:33:58.759
 extreme

00:33:58.759 --> 00:33:59.619
 because on

00:33:59.619 --> 00:34:00.259
 one hand

00:34:00.259 --> 00:34:00.559
 we can

00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:00.960
 understand

00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:01.440
 that there's

00:34:01.440 --> 00:34:01.900
 things that

00:34:01.900 --> 00:34:02.420
 happen that

00:34:02.420 --> 00:34:03.819
 take away

00:34:03.819 --> 00:34:04.599
 any ability

00:34:04.599 --> 00:34:05.079
 to love

00:34:05.079 --> 00:34:05.539
 or any ability

00:34:05.539 --> 00:34:06.200
 to trust

00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:08.760
 but we're also

00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:09.340
 aware of the

00:34:09.340 --> 00:34:09.820
 fact that in

00:34:09.820 --> 00:34:10.400
 our culture

00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:11.079
 there's lots

00:34:11.079 --> 00:34:11.760
 of things

00:34:11.760 --> 00:34:12.380
 and people

00:34:12.380 --> 00:34:12.960
 and movements

00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:13.420
 that just

00:34:13.420 --> 00:34:13.719
 aren't

00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:14.219
 trustworthy

00:34:14.219 --> 00:34:19.679
 like the

00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:20.399
 abused

00:34:20.399 --> 00:34:20.859
 woman

00:34:20.859 --> 00:34:24.779
 that just

00:34:24.779 --> 00:34:26.779
 keeps trusting

00:34:26.779 --> 00:34:27.559
 her husband

00:34:27.559 --> 00:34:28.980
 and she

00:34:28.980 --> 00:34:29.719
 goes back

00:34:29.719 --> 00:34:30.279
 and he just

00:34:30.279 --> 00:34:30.959
 continues to

00:34:30.959 --> 00:34:31.500
 abuse her

00:34:31.500 --> 00:34:31.779
 and she

00:34:31.779 --> 00:34:32.199
 goes to the

00:34:32.199 --> 00:34:32.599
 hospital

00:34:32.599 --> 00:34:33.019
 she goes

00:34:33.019 --> 00:34:33.279
 to the

00:34:33.279 --> 00:34:33.619
 shelter

00:34:33.619 --> 00:34:34.739
 and then

00:34:34.739 --> 00:34:35.119
 she goes

00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:35.599
 back

00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:36.799
 and he

00:34:36.799 --> 00:34:37.219
 beats her

00:34:37.219 --> 00:34:37.480
 up

00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:38.159
 and she

00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:38.579
 just keeps

00:34:38.579 --> 00:34:39.359
 trusting him

00:34:39.359 --> 00:34:42.799
 what the

00:34:42.799 --> 00:34:43.659
 Bible says

00:34:43.659 --> 00:34:44.579
 is the

00:34:44.579 --> 00:34:45.559
 Bible talks

00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:45.960
 about

00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:46.639
 importance

00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:47.139
 of faith

00:34:47.139 --> 00:34:47.759
 obviously

00:34:47.759 --> 00:34:48.539
 but it

00:34:48.539 --> 00:34:49.239
 always puts

00:34:49.239 --> 00:34:49.639
 it at a

00:34:49.639 --> 00:34:50.440
 second level

00:34:50.440 --> 00:34:51.719
 if you could

00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:52.059
 put up the

00:34:52.059 --> 00:34:52.559
 next point

00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:52.819
 Andrew

00:34:52.819 --> 00:34:53.099
 that would

00:34:53.099 --> 00:34:53.440
 be very

00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:53.839
 helpful

00:34:53.839 --> 00:34:55.559
 who or

00:34:55.559 --> 00:34:56.000
 what you

00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:56.539
 place your

00:34:56.539 --> 00:34:57.019
 faith in

00:34:57.019 --> 00:34:57.739
 matters far

00:34:57.739 --> 00:34:59.059
 more than

00:34:59.059 --> 00:34:59.619
 the power

00:34:59.619 --> 00:35:00.420
 or purity

00:35:00.420 --> 00:35:00.839
 of your

00:35:00.839 --> 00:35:01.199
 faith

00:35:01.199 --> 00:35:02.539
 who or

00:35:02.539 --> 00:35:03.359
 what you

00:35:03.359 --> 00:35:03.960
 place your

00:35:03.960 --> 00:35:04.559
 faith in

00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:05.319
 matters far

00:35:05.319 --> 00:35:07.079
 more than

00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:07.699
 the power

00:35:07.699 --> 00:35:08.599
 or purity

00:35:08.599 --> 00:35:10.019
 of your

00:35:10.019 --> 00:35:10.419
 faith

00:35:10.419 --> 00:35:12.939
 and

00:35:12.939 --> 00:35:18.039
 and that's

00:35:18.039 --> 00:35:18.319
 what the

00:35:18.319 --> 00:35:18.799
 Bible is

00:35:18.799 --> 00:35:19.239
 showing us

00:35:19.239 --> 00:35:19.799
 right here

00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:22.019
 the Bible

00:35:22.019 --> 00:35:22.560
 is trying to

00:35:22.560 --> 00:35:23.280
 portray to

00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:23.700
 us

00:35:23.700 --> 00:35:24.680
 how

00:35:24.680 --> 00:35:26.920
 spectacularly

00:35:26.920 --> 00:35:28.180
 trustworthy

00:35:28.180 --> 00:35:30.140
 Jesus is

00:35:30.140 --> 00:35:32.019
 in a way

00:35:32.019 --> 00:35:32.400
 that will

00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:32.860
 start to

00:35:32.860 --> 00:35:33.260
 elicit

00:35:33.260 --> 00:35:34.140
 our faith

00:35:34.140 --> 00:35:35.860
 the Bible

00:35:35.860 --> 00:35:36.500
 doesn't come

00:35:36.500 --> 00:35:36.960
 to us and

00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:37.340
 say just

00:35:37.340 --> 00:35:37.740
 believe

00:35:37.740 --> 00:35:38.260
 just have

00:35:38.260 --> 00:35:38.620
 faith

00:35:38.620 --> 00:35:39.300
 do these

00:35:39.300 --> 00:35:40.019
 exercises

00:35:40.019 --> 00:35:40.420
 take

00:35:40.420 --> 00:35:41.019
 meditation

00:35:41.019 --> 00:35:41.780
 take drugs

00:35:41.780 --> 00:35:42.560
 take therapy

00:35:42.560 --> 00:35:43.019
 so that you

00:35:43.019 --> 00:35:43.480
 will build

00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:44.120
 your faith

00:35:44.120 --> 00:35:45.560
 what the Bible

00:35:45.560 --> 00:35:46.400
 says is

00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:47.440
 that who

00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:48.120
 or what

00:35:48.119 --> 00:35:48.599
 you put

00:35:48.599 --> 00:35:49.139
 your faith

00:35:49.139 --> 00:35:49.699
 and trust

00:35:49.699 --> 00:35:50.059
 in

00:35:50.059 --> 00:35:51.079
 matters

00:35:51.079 --> 00:35:51.880
 vastly

00:35:51.880 --> 00:35:52.480
 more

00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:54.279
 than the

00:35:54.279 --> 00:35:54.659
 amount of

00:35:54.659 --> 00:35:55.039
 faith that

00:35:55.039 --> 00:35:55.380
 you have

00:35:55.380 --> 00:35:55.799
 I might

00:35:55.799 --> 00:35:56.299
 have next

00:35:56.299 --> 00:35:56.719
 to no

00:35:56.719 --> 00:35:57.079
 faith

00:35:57.079 --> 00:35:57.859
 whatsoever

00:35:57.859 --> 00:35:59.420
 that if I

00:35:59.420 --> 00:35:59.819
 get on a

00:35:59.819 --> 00:36:00.139
 plane

00:36:00.139 --> 00:36:00.619
 that I will

00:36:00.619 --> 00:36:01.460
 arrive safely

00:36:01.460 --> 00:36:01.920
 at the other

00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:02.380
 end of my

00:36:02.380 --> 00:36:02.960
 destination

00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:03.500
 but it doesn't

00:36:03.500 --> 00:36:04.000
 matter how

00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:04.559
 strong my

00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:05.179
 faith is

00:36:05.179 --> 00:36:06.219
 what matters

00:36:06.219 --> 00:36:06.659
 is that the

00:36:06.659 --> 00:36:07.880
 plane is

00:36:07.880 --> 00:36:08.400
 trustworthy

00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:11.239
 it's always

00:36:11.239 --> 00:36:12.039
 the object

00:36:12.039 --> 00:36:12.739
 which matters

00:36:12.739 --> 00:36:13.139
 more

00:36:13.139 --> 00:36:14.420
 and that's

00:36:14.420 --> 00:36:14.880
 why what the

00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:15.400
 Bible does

00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:15.859
 here in this

00:36:15.859 --> 00:36:16.960
 particular story

00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:18.599
 is that it's

00:36:18.599 --> 00:36:19.260
 trying to

00:36:19.260 --> 00:36:19.780
 portray

00:36:19.780 --> 00:36:21.420
 who Jesus

00:36:21.420 --> 00:36:22.220
 is and

00:36:22.220 --> 00:36:23.179
 why he is

00:36:23.179 --> 00:36:24.159
 so completely

00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:24.740
 and utterly

00:36:24.740 --> 00:36:25.300
 trustworthy

00:36:25.300 --> 00:36:26.880
 but some of

00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:27.280
 you might say

00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:27.780
 George okay

00:36:27.780 --> 00:36:28.079
 you're

00:36:28.079 --> 00:36:29.760
 that's very

00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:30.579
 interesting but

00:36:30.579 --> 00:36:31.820
 what about this

00:36:31.820 --> 00:36:32.420
 part that you

00:36:32.420 --> 00:36:33.220
 described of the

00:36:33.220 --> 00:36:34.059
 unanswered prayer

00:36:34.059 --> 00:36:34.639
 are you just

00:36:34.639 --> 00:36:35.820
 saying that

00:36:35.820 --> 00:36:36.260
 really

00:36:36.260 --> 00:36:38.460
 I mean

00:36:38.460 --> 00:36:39.300
 Jairus

00:36:39.300 --> 00:36:40.699
 he didn't have

00:36:40.699 --> 00:36:41.179
 any faith

00:36:41.179 --> 00:36:41.679
 he didn't have

00:36:41.679 --> 00:36:42.179
 any faith

00:36:42.179 --> 00:36:43.579
 and Jairus

00:36:43.579 --> 00:36:45.480
 has his

00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:46.139
 daughter raised

00:36:46.139 --> 00:36:46.559
 from the dead

00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:47.019
 but that's

00:36:47.019 --> 00:36:47.420
 not my

00:36:47.420 --> 00:36:48.199
 experience

00:36:48.199 --> 00:36:48.960
 of prayer

00:36:48.960 --> 00:36:50.659
 like I

00:36:50.659 --> 00:36:51.159
 just seem

00:36:51.159 --> 00:36:52.039
 George to

00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:52.380
 be going

00:36:52.380 --> 00:36:52.920
 through such

00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:53.420
 a long

00:36:53.420 --> 00:36:54.099
 period of

00:36:54.099 --> 00:36:54.880
 time where

00:36:54.880 --> 00:36:56.420
 my prayers

00:36:56.420 --> 00:36:57.239
 aren't being

00:36:57.239 --> 00:36:57.920
 answered in

00:36:57.920 --> 00:36:58.340
 the way that

00:36:58.340 --> 00:36:58.840
 I hope

00:36:58.840 --> 00:37:04.340
 and this

00:37:04.340 --> 00:37:04.960
 story doesn't

00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:05.539
 solve that

00:37:05.539 --> 00:37:06.619
 it solves it

00:37:06.619 --> 00:37:07.199
 in one very

00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:07.880
 important level

00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:08.799
 another level

00:37:08.799 --> 00:37:09.639
 it doesn't

00:37:09.639 --> 00:37:10.819
 what it does

00:37:10.819 --> 00:37:11.840
 is it doesn't

00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:13.019
 tell me why

00:37:13.019 --> 00:37:13.500
 it is that

00:37:13.500 --> 00:37:14.120
 sometimes when

00:37:14.120 --> 00:37:14.579
 I pray

00:37:14.579 --> 00:37:16.579
 what I pray

00:37:16.579 --> 00:37:17.420
 for happens

00:37:17.420 --> 00:37:18.740
 and sometimes

00:37:18.740 --> 00:37:19.440
 when I pray

00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:20.019
 God just

00:37:20.019 --> 00:37:20.559
 says no

00:37:20.559 --> 00:37:22.100
 and sometimes

00:37:22.100 --> 00:37:22.860
 when I pray

00:37:22.860 --> 00:37:25.340
 he takes a

00:37:25.340 --> 00:37:26.000
 long time to

00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:26.960
 answer so long

00:37:26.960 --> 00:37:27.680
 that sometimes

00:37:27.680 --> 00:37:28.480
 I don't even

00:37:28.480 --> 00:37:29.180
 remember that I

00:37:29.180 --> 00:37:29.960
 originally prayed

00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:30.460
 for it

00:37:30.460 --> 00:37:32.660
 and sometimes

00:37:32.660 --> 00:37:33.440
 when I pray

00:37:33.440 --> 00:37:34.380
 he answers a

00:37:34.380 --> 00:37:35.400
 prayer but in

00:37:35.400 --> 00:37:36.160
 a very very

00:37:36.160 --> 00:37:36.880
 different way

00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:37.200
 than I'd

00:37:37.200 --> 00:37:38.059
 expected and

00:37:38.059 --> 00:37:38.680
 it's only later

00:37:38.680 --> 00:37:39.100
 on that I

00:37:39.100 --> 00:37:39.660
 realize that he

00:37:39.660 --> 00:37:40.059
 answered in

00:37:40.059 --> 00:37:40.400
 different ways

00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:41.579
 and this

00:37:41.579 --> 00:37:42.599
 text doesn't

00:37:42.599 --> 00:37:43.420
 explain to

00:37:43.420 --> 00:37:44.119
 me why it

00:37:44.119 --> 00:37:44.920
 is that those

00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:46.280
 particular things

00:37:46.280 --> 00:37:46.920
 happen in my

00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:49.680
 life but what

00:37:49.680 --> 00:37:50.320
 it does is it

00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:50.920
 helps me to

00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:51.860
 press into the

00:37:51.860 --> 00:37:52.539
 fact that Jesus

00:37:52.539 --> 00:37:53.079
 is very

00:37:53.079 --> 00:37:53.619
 trustworthy

00:37:53.619 --> 00:37:58.340
 you see if

00:37:58.340 --> 00:37:59.220
 the story just

00:37:59.220 --> 00:38:00.099
 ended here

00:38:00.099 --> 00:38:02.059
 and the Bible

00:38:02.059 --> 00:38:02.639
 just ended

00:38:02.639 --> 00:38:06.019
 here I'd be a

00:38:06.019 --> 00:38:06.340
 little bit

00:38:06.340 --> 00:38:07.119
 confused about

00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:07.820
 the object of

00:38:07.820 --> 00:38:08.280
 faith and the

00:38:08.280 --> 00:38:09.000
 power of my

00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:09.720
 faith and why

00:38:09.719 --> 00:38:10.259
 God does

00:38:10.259 --> 00:38:10.899
 things and why

00:38:10.899 --> 00:38:11.279
 he doesn't

00:38:11.279 --> 00:38:11.899
 do things

00:38:11.899 --> 00:38:13.500
 but this

00:38:13.500 --> 00:38:15.699
 story is

00:38:15.699 --> 00:38:16.199
 part of a

00:38:16.199 --> 00:38:17.099
 longer story

00:38:17.099 --> 00:38:18.139
 and in this

00:38:18.139 --> 00:38:19.119
 longer story

00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:20.179
 it's moving up

00:38:20.179 --> 00:38:21.199
 to a culminating

00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:23.359
 point and the

00:38:23.359 --> 00:38:24.579
 culminating point

00:38:24.579 --> 00:38:26.500
 is Jesus dying

00:38:26.500 --> 00:38:27.480
 upon the cross

00:38:27.480 --> 00:38:29.299
 and the way we

00:38:29.299 --> 00:38:30.139
 are to understand

00:38:30.139 --> 00:38:30.939
 the story is

00:38:30.939 --> 00:38:31.419
 that when we

00:38:31.419 --> 00:38:32.039
 come to that

00:38:32.039 --> 00:38:32.619
 point in the

00:38:32.619 --> 00:38:33.819
 story and in

00:38:33.819 --> 00:38:34.480
 the very next

00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:35.619
 chapter Jesus is

00:38:35.619 --> 00:38:36.759
 going to in fact

00:38:36.759 --> 00:38:37.819
 begin to explain

00:38:37.819 --> 00:38:38.559
 to his disciples

00:38:38.559 --> 00:38:39.440
 that the entire

00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:40.159
 reason that he

00:38:40.159 --> 00:38:41.239
 came was to

00:38:41.239 --> 00:38:42.579
 die the entire

00:38:42.579 --> 00:38:44.299
 reason he came

00:38:44.299 --> 00:38:46.340
 was to die to

00:38:46.340 --> 00:38:47.519
 die for others

00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:49.159
 and so it comes

00:38:49.159 --> 00:38:49.599
 that when he

00:38:49.599 --> 00:38:50.679
 finally dies with

00:38:50.679 --> 00:38:51.619
 it's valid for us

00:38:51.619 --> 00:38:52.539
 to ask ourselves

00:38:52.539 --> 00:38:55.820
 how is it that a

00:38:55.820 --> 00:38:56.820
 man who could

00:38:56.820 --> 00:38:58.079
 raise dead people

00:38:58.079 --> 00:38:59.219
 to life would

00:38:59.219 --> 00:39:00.579
 ever allow himself

00:39:00.579 --> 00:39:01.880
 to die upon the

00:39:01.880 --> 00:39:03.719
 cross how is it

00:39:03.719 --> 00:39:04.959
 that a man who

00:39:04.959 --> 00:39:06.259
 was just touched

00:39:06.259 --> 00:39:07.839
 by a woman and

00:39:07.839 --> 00:39:08.579
 she's instantly

00:39:08.579 --> 00:39:10.319
 healed how is it

00:39:10.319 --> 00:39:11.599
 that such a person

00:39:11.599 --> 00:39:12.919
 could ever die on

00:39:12.919 --> 00:39:14.399
 the cross and what

00:39:14.399 --> 00:39:15.119
 on earth could it

00:39:15.119 --> 00:39:16.279
 possibly mean like

00:39:16.279 --> 00:39:17.199
 how could that even

00:39:17.199 --> 00:39:18.719
 physically happen if

00:39:18.719 --> 00:39:19.839
 he can make a dead

00:39:19.839 --> 00:39:21.119
 person come alive how

00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:21.839
 is it that even

00:39:21.839 --> 00:39:23.000
 physically he could

00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:24.439
 die if he can just

00:39:24.439 --> 00:39:25.399
 touch somebody in

00:39:25.399 --> 00:39:26.559
 their life how is it

00:39:26.559 --> 00:39:27.879
 that he could how is

00:39:27.879 --> 00:39:28.959
 he could die what

00:39:28.959 --> 00:39:30.699
 does it mean to have

00:39:30.699 --> 00:39:31.639
 health die on the

00:39:31.639 --> 00:39:32.659
 cross what does it

00:39:32.659 --> 00:39:34.799
 mean to have life

00:39:34.799 --> 00:39:36.259
 die on the cross

00:39:36.259 --> 00:39:39.359
 and the answer to

00:39:39.359 --> 00:39:40.239
 the gospel is that

00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:41.019
 the only thing that

00:39:41.019 --> 00:39:42.900
 it can explain that

00:39:42.900 --> 00:39:44.119
 life would enter to

00:39:44.119 --> 00:39:46.279
 die for the dead

00:39:46.279 --> 00:39:47.619
 is love

00:39:47.619 --> 00:39:50.319
 is love

00:39:50.319 --> 00:39:53.879
 no amount of human

00:39:53.879 --> 00:39:55.960
 power can kill life

00:39:55.960 --> 00:39:57.859
 no amount of human

00:39:57.859 --> 00:39:58.900
 power could kill

00:39:58.900 --> 00:39:59.799
 Jesus if he just

00:39:59.799 --> 00:40:00.759
 wanted to continue to

00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:02.460
 heal no amount of

00:40:02.460 --> 00:40:04.860
 human power he

00:40:04.860 --> 00:40:07.340
 chose to die for

00:40:07.340 --> 00:40:08.940
 you for me if you

00:40:08.940 --> 00:40:09.420
 could put up the

00:40:09.420 --> 00:40:11.640
 point Andrew what we

00:40:11.640 --> 00:40:12.740
 see in the story is

00:40:12.740 --> 00:40:14.020
 that Jesus dies a

00:40:14.020 --> 00:40:17.180
 slave's death he's

00:40:17.180 --> 00:40:18.240
 bleeding it means he's

00:40:18.240 --> 00:40:20.060
 unclean he dies on a

00:40:20.060 --> 00:40:21.200
 cross which means he's

00:40:21.200 --> 00:40:22.840
 cursed he's dying on a

00:40:22.840 --> 00:40:23.840
 cross which means he

00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:25.060
 has the status of a

00:40:25.060 --> 00:40:26.560
 slave and he dies

00:40:26.560 --> 00:40:28.060
 condemned and Jesus

00:40:28.060 --> 00:40:29.700
 died a slave's death

00:40:29.699 --> 00:40:31.759
 unclean cursed and

00:40:31.759 --> 00:40:34.960
 condemned so that you

00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:36.919
 might become his

00:40:36.919 --> 00:40:40.119
 child clean blessed

00:40:40.119 --> 00:40:42.259
 righteous and eternally

00:40:42.259 --> 00:40:42.899
 alive

00:40:42.899 --> 00:40:45.179
 and this we receive by

00:40:45.179 --> 00:40:47.599
 faith Jesus died a

00:40:47.599 --> 00:40:49.379
 slave's death unclean

00:40:49.379 --> 00:40:51.139
 cursed and condemned so

00:40:51.139 --> 00:40:53.259
 that you might become his

00:40:53.259 --> 00:40:55.960
 child clean blessed

00:40:55.960 --> 00:40:57.760
 righteous and eternally

00:40:57.760 --> 00:41:00.740
 alive I don't make

00:41:00.740 --> 00:41:02.059
 myself alive in Christ

00:41:02.059 --> 00:41:03.179
 he makes me alive I

00:41:03.179 --> 00:41:04.280
 don't make myself clean

00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:05.440
 he makes me clean I

00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:06.599
 don't make myself blessed

00:41:06.599 --> 00:41:08.820
 he blesses me I don't

00:41:08.820 --> 00:41:10.260
 remove the curse he

00:41:10.260 --> 00:41:14.780
 removes the curse I

00:41:14.780 --> 00:41:16.740
 don't by having a

00:41:16.740 --> 00:41:18.500
 powerful faith have a

00:41:18.500 --> 00:41:20.179
 life that will survive

00:41:20.179 --> 00:41:23.260
 death he calls me when I

00:41:23.260 --> 00:41:24.579
 am dead like he called

00:41:24.579 --> 00:41:28.799
 Jairus his daughter he

00:41:28.799 --> 00:41:30.739
 takes my hand when I am

00:41:30.739 --> 00:41:34.079
 dead he calls my name

00:41:34.079 --> 00:41:37.179
 when I am dead and his

00:41:37.179 --> 00:41:40.739
 call and his touch seen

00:41:40.739 --> 00:41:42.139
 completely and utterly

00:41:42.139 --> 00:41:44.639
 pictured upon the cross is

00:41:44.639 --> 00:41:47.340
 what makes me clean makes me

00:41:47.340 --> 00:41:50.840
 blessed makes me alive makes

00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:52.860
 me righteous makes me as

00:41:52.860 --> 00:41:57.140
 child and so I do not

00:41:57.140 --> 00:41:59.240
 know why it is that God

00:41:59.240 --> 00:42:00.780
 answers my prayers and

00:42:00.780 --> 00:42:01.640
 does not answer my

00:42:01.640 --> 00:42:02.740
 prayers the way that he

00:42:02.740 --> 00:42:06.280
 does but what I know is

00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:09.099
 that he's for me he's for

00:42:09.099 --> 00:42:11.079
 me at the deepest possible

00:42:11.740 --> 00:42:14.180
 level that will go into

00:42:14.180 --> 00:42:16.519
 eternity he is for me at

00:42:16.519 --> 00:42:19.059
 the deepest possible cost to

00:42:19.059 --> 00:42:21.720
 himself and so I can live

00:42:21.719 --> 00:42:23.579
 God of gratitude please

00:42:23.579 --> 00:42:24.019
 stand

00:42:24.019 --> 00:42:32.039
 let's bow our heads in

00:42:32.039 --> 00:42:32.379
 prayer

00:42:32.379 --> 00:42:43.500
 Jesus if some of us are

00:42:43.500 --> 00:42:45.059
 willing to be honest with

00:42:45.059 --> 00:42:46.219
 each other right now we

00:42:46.219 --> 00:42:49.399
 stop praying because we

00:42:49.400 --> 00:42:51.340
 think it's not worthwhile

00:42:51.340 --> 00:42:54.420
 cynicism has poisoned our

00:42:54.420 --> 00:42:56.460
 soul and if we're honest

00:42:56.460 --> 00:42:57.559
 father some of us don't

00:42:57.559 --> 00:42:58.680
 believe we're being cynical

00:42:58.680 --> 00:43:01.599
 we're just being more aware

00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:03.840
 we're more realistic but

00:43:03.840 --> 00:43:04.740
 father we don't want to

00:43:04.740 --> 00:43:08.740
 confess that a cynicism and

00:43:08.740 --> 00:43:10.539
 a lack of faith has started

00:43:10.539 --> 00:43:13.820
 to permeate who we are and

00:43:13.820 --> 00:43:16.019
 robbed us of prayer and father

00:43:16.019 --> 00:43:17.720
 some of us are struggling with

00:43:17.719 --> 00:43:19.219
 prayers that aren't going the

00:43:19.219 --> 00:43:20.239
 way we want and we don't

00:43:20.239 --> 00:43:22.619
 know why some of us father

00:43:22.619 --> 00:43:24.519
 have had fantastic prayers and

00:43:24.519 --> 00:43:27.500
 father we thank you that we

00:43:27.500 --> 00:43:29.459
 thank you that Jesus is for us

00:43:29.459 --> 00:43:30.559
 at the deepest level

00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:37.179
 that because he is our savior

00:43:37.179 --> 00:43:39.519
 and our lord you want us to

00:43:39.519 --> 00:43:40.919
 pour out our heart to you in

00:43:40.919 --> 00:43:42.619
 prayer to pray for big things

00:43:42.619 --> 00:43:45.819
 and for small things that you

00:43:45.819 --> 00:43:47.219
 delight in our prayers that you

00:43:47.219 --> 00:43:49.599
 hear them and we know father

00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:51.119
 we know lord Jesus that you

00:43:51.119 --> 00:43:53.039
 answer them that you approach

00:43:53.039 --> 00:43:54.319
 them out of the deepest

00:43:54.319 --> 00:43:56.319
 possible love for us a love

00:43:56.319 --> 00:43:58.920
 that was deeply costly for us a

00:43:58.920 --> 00:44:01.759
 love that saves us so father we

00:44:01.759 --> 00:44:04.219
 ask that you would both increase

00:44:04.219 --> 00:44:06.900
 our honesty in prayer and our

00:44:06.900 --> 00:44:10.099
 boldness in prayer and increase

00:44:10.099 --> 00:44:11.839
 within us father more and most

00:44:11.839 --> 00:44:13.339
 importantly of all to be gripped

00:44:13.339 --> 00:44:15.179
 by the gospel in such a powerful

00:44:15.179 --> 00:44:17.759
 way that we will understand what it

00:44:17.759 --> 00:44:19.659
 is that Jesus has done for us who

00:44:19.659 --> 00:44:21.799
 he is that we pray for and his

00:44:21.799 --> 00:44:23.920
 great love for us and all these

00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:25.460
 things we ask in the name of Jesus

00:44:25.460 --> 00:44:27.619
 your son and our savior amen

00:44:27.619 --> 00:44:31.599
 your heart in prayer for us a

00:44:35.639 --> 00:44:41.980
 builds for us and our weer

00:44:41.980 --> 00:44:42.859
 and our minds of Jesus

00:44:42.859 --> 00:44:44.619
 God radiant and above me

00:44:44.619 --> 00:44:46.599
 and our honor Joker thank you

00:44:46.599 --> 00:44:48.420
 and that's his firm person

00:44:48.420 --> 00:44:49.599
 for us to pray and share

00:44:49.599 --> 00:44:51.000
 for us with our God

00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:51.619
 who have loved and��� races

00:44:51.619 --> 00:44:53.359
 and his myth the aurait

00:44:53.359 --> 00:44:54.279
 and the onr FAE