WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.020 Father, we ask that your Holy Spirit would come, 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:07.540 continue to come with might and power and deep conviction upon us. 00:00:08.339 --> 00:00:12.720 As we continue to think about your, read your word and think about it, 00:00:13.179 --> 00:00:19.900 puzzle over it, as we pray to you, as we sing your praises, 00:00:19.900 --> 00:00:23.440 as we gather around the Lord's table to remember Jesus' death. 00:00:24.100 --> 00:00:26.640 Father, we ask that the Holy Spirit would continue to fall 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:28.980 with might and power and deep conviction. 00:00:29.980 --> 00:00:34.200 And we ask, Father, we give you permission to have for you yourself 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:39.120 to speak into our heart and rule in our heart through your word. 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:43.340 And this we ask in the name of Jesus, your Son and our Savior. Amen. 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:44.840 Please be seated. 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:54.320 So the text that we're going to be looking at today talks about sickness and death. 00:00:54.320 --> 00:01:03.700 And I have to say that some things have developed in my life over the last two days, 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:06.659 two and a half days, that makes this actually far more personal. 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:12.379 And so if I get emotional during the sermon, there's a reason for it. 00:01:12.379 --> 00:01:18.719 And when I tell you this, by the way, I am not equating a dog's life with a human's life. 00:01:19.459 --> 00:01:23.399 But some of you know that we have had this beautiful big German shepherd, 00:01:23.579 --> 00:01:28.579 115, 120-pound gentle giant of a dog, for over seven years. 00:01:28.579 --> 00:01:36.140 Anyway, on Friday it had to be taken to the vet. 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:45.680 And on Saturday we had to say that nothing else would be done 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:48.140 and that we were bringing the dog home to die. 00:01:48.140 --> 00:01:55.620 I didn't think I'd get emotional. 00:01:57.739 --> 00:01:59.960 But I warned you. I wanted to just warn you. 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:05.219 I mean, I'm not making a comment at all that the death of a dog is like the death of a human being. 00:02:05.420 --> 00:02:08.680 But, you know, dogs, especially a big gentle giant, 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:11.719 115, 120-pound gentle German shepherd, 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:15.000 that does become part of the family for seven-plus years. 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:19.680 So, I mean, obviously the vets don't know. 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:22.379 It might be that he will live for a couple of weeks, 00:02:22.419 --> 00:02:25.580 but it's quite possible that by the time we gather again next week, 00:02:25.979 --> 00:02:29.520 we will have dealt with Rocky's remains. 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:39.420 And the text today, obviously not about a dog, 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:43.699 but it is about death and it is about sickness. 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:50.580 And it is a text which has lots of challenges in it, 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:56.159 things which puzzle people and distract us from the fundamental point, 00:02:56.300 --> 00:02:59.860 but it is a profound text to meditate upon, 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:05.360 how Christians are to approach sickness and how they are to approach death. 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:08.580 It's a very profound text, 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:15.040 a text that is well worth meditating upon and contemplating upon for those of you who are in Jesus. 00:03:15.220 --> 00:03:18.980 And if you are here and you're not sure where you are with Jesus and Christianity, 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:20.200 or if you're watching online, 00:03:20.320 --> 00:03:25.520 this gives you a bit of a window into how it is that Christians are invited 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:29.060 to think about such very, very serious matters. 00:03:29.060 --> 00:03:34.939 The fact of the matter is, is that we all know that we will die, 00:03:35.099 --> 00:03:37.699 but really fundamentally we all know other people will die. 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:40.199 We don't really believe that we will die. 00:03:40.539 --> 00:03:42.800 Although for some of you here or those online, 00:03:42.979 --> 00:03:45.520 you might have gotten a very bad prognosis this week, 00:03:45.980 --> 00:03:48.240 where a loved one has had a bad prognosis. 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:50.560 So this is a deeply personal text, 00:03:50.700 --> 00:03:54.260 and let's turn to it and see what it is that was said. 00:03:54.340 --> 00:03:57.200 It's Mark chapter 5, beginning at verse 21. 00:03:58.180 --> 00:04:01.040 And as you've been warned, if I get a bit emotional during the sermon, 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:05.340 it is because it's obvious, obvious, 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:07.020 now that you know that thing about Rocky. 00:04:07.820 --> 00:04:09.439 So Mark chapter 5, verse 21, 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:11.439 and just before we read it, what's just happened? 00:04:12.040 --> 00:04:13.760 We preach through books of the Bible. 00:04:15.040 --> 00:04:17.819 Basically, Mark was written as one book to be read. 00:04:18.379 --> 00:04:20.719 And so we study it that way as a book. 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:24.079 And what we just looked at last week was 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:27.360 Jesus had gone to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:29.939 to the pagan side of the Sea of Galilee. 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:33.740 And he'd come across, or he'd been met by a man 00:04:33.740 --> 00:04:35.920 who was demonized by a legion of demons. 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:39.740 And Jesus delivers the man from the demons. 00:04:40.659 --> 00:04:42.620 And as a result of that, 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:47.139 the people in the region want Jesus to leave. 00:04:47.139 --> 00:04:49.099 And so that's now where the story takes up. 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:49.959 Jesus leaves. 00:04:50.500 --> 00:04:52.500 If people don't want Jesus, he leaves. 00:04:53.060 --> 00:04:56.599 And he leaves, and he goes back to the Jewish side of the lake. 00:04:56.699 --> 00:04:58.399 And that's where this story now takes up. 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:03.839 And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, 00:05:04.739 --> 00:05:08.359 a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea. 00:05:09.159 --> 00:05:11.759 Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, 00:05:12.039 --> 00:05:13.000 Jairus by name. 00:05:13.539 --> 00:05:17.579 And seeing Jesus, he fell at Jesus' feet 00:05:17.579 --> 00:05:20.299 and implored him earnestly, saying, 00:05:20.300 --> 00:05:23.280 My little daughter is at the point of death. 00:05:23.840 --> 00:05:25.860 Come and lay your hands on her 00:05:25.860 --> 00:05:28.420 so that she may be made well and live. 00:05:29.780 --> 00:05:32.120 I have a bit of emotion still in my voice. 00:05:32.660 --> 00:05:34.580 Some of you who have very good imaginations 00:05:34.580 --> 00:05:38.080 can just very well imagine the tears that would have been in his voice 00:05:38.080 --> 00:05:40.740 as he asks for his precious daughter. 00:05:40.740 --> 00:05:44.600 And Jesus went with him. 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:49.180 And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him. 00:05:49.939 --> 00:05:53.400 And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for 12 years 00:05:53.400 --> 00:05:55.759 and who had suffered much under many doctors 00:05:55.759 --> 00:06:00.740 and had spent all that she had 00:06:00.740 --> 00:06:02.620 and was no better, but had grown worse. 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:05.319 Now just sort of pause here for a second. 00:06:06.379 --> 00:06:07.819 Why this story? 00:06:07.819 --> 00:06:11.439 One of the things, if you read the different, 00:06:11.579 --> 00:06:13.540 the four ancient biographies of Jesus, 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:16.219 if you read them, all of them, 00:06:16.719 --> 00:06:17.920 one of the things you'll notice 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:20.199 is that they have all of these little asides. 00:06:20.379 --> 00:06:21.439 Mark does it all the time. 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:23.980 Oh yeah, Jesus spent a whole pile of time 00:06:23.980 --> 00:06:25.740 healing people and casting out demons, 00:06:26.039 --> 00:06:26.939 and then he did this. 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:29.659 Or he spent the day doing this, 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:31.219 healing people, casting out demons, 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:32.740 and then he did this. 00:06:33.259 --> 00:06:35.699 And several of the writers 00:06:35.699 --> 00:06:37.379 mention right in the book 00:06:37.379 --> 00:06:39.839 that if they actually were to record everything that Jesus did, 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:40.939 it would be too many books. 00:06:41.579 --> 00:06:43.800 Because he did lots of miracles. 00:06:44.819 --> 00:06:46.219 So you have to ask yourself a little bit, 00:06:46.300 --> 00:06:47.659 why this story? 00:06:47.860 --> 00:06:49.219 Like why did they tell this story 00:06:49.219 --> 00:06:52.500 rather than the thousands of other stories of healings 00:06:52.500 --> 00:06:54.079 that they could potentially have told? 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:57.819 And I think one of the reasons is 00:06:57.819 --> 00:06:58.519 you have to remember 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:00.219 every time you read the Bible 00:07:00.219 --> 00:07:01.500 is on one level, 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:03.599 the world is very different than today. 00:07:03.859 --> 00:07:04.859 I mean, on the other level, 00:07:04.919 --> 00:07:05.639 it's very same. 00:07:05.719 --> 00:07:08.219 We still wrestle with the death of loved ones. 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:10.180 And all of us will die 00:07:10.180 --> 00:07:12.139 unless Jesus comes first. 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:14.019 Like that's all very deeply personal. 00:07:14.620 --> 00:07:16.579 And people back then were very smart. 00:07:17.259 --> 00:07:18.240 But one of the things 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:19.860 which was different between now and then 00:07:19.860 --> 00:07:22.099 is even though obviously many people read, 00:07:22.100 --> 00:07:24.340 but books were expensive and very rare. 00:07:24.960 --> 00:07:27.300 And so it was fundamentally an oral culture. 00:07:28.260 --> 00:07:29.780 And it was an oral culture 00:07:29.780 --> 00:07:31.500 where people actually remembered things 00:07:31.500 --> 00:07:33.280 because they weren't constantly distracted 00:07:33.280 --> 00:07:37.720 by text messages, 00:07:38.280 --> 00:07:40.420 emails, phone calls, 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:42.140 Twitter, Facebook, 00:07:42.420 --> 00:07:43.580 all of that type of stuff. 00:07:43.579 --> 00:07:47.240 You know, I told my wife the other day 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:51.979 that often I turn off the sound with my phone 00:07:51.979 --> 00:07:52.740 during the day. 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:54.579 I try to remember to leave it up so I can see. 00:07:54.740 --> 00:07:56.219 And that's just because the text messages 00:07:56.219 --> 00:07:57.419 can be really irritating. 00:07:58.060 --> 00:07:59.019 And if you're at all like me, 00:07:59.060 --> 00:08:00.039 there's something compelling 00:08:00.039 --> 00:08:01.819 as if you have to look at the stupid text. 00:08:02.180 --> 00:08:03.379 Well, you don't really, right? 00:08:03.419 --> 00:08:04.539 But you feel like you do. 00:08:04.620 --> 00:08:07.360 And it gives you several other irritating dings 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:08.959 to make you think you have to look at it. 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:10.620 Anyway, in their world, 00:08:10.699 --> 00:08:12.500 they wouldn't have had those types of distractions. 00:08:12.500 --> 00:08:13.839 And they were an oral culture. 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:15.199 So often, one of the reasons 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:16.680 they probably chose this story 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:18.860 is not only the putting together, 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:20.620 juxtaposition, which is a big word 00:08:20.620 --> 00:08:21.660 that just means putting together 00:08:21.660 --> 00:08:23.019 of these two very... 00:08:23.019 --> 00:08:23.899 They would have looked at it and said, 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:25.040 you know, you remember that time 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:25.579 when this happened 00:08:25.579 --> 00:08:26.980 and it was immediately followed by this 00:08:26.980 --> 00:08:28.300 and it was really striking. 00:08:29.339 --> 00:08:30.199 And the other thing, 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:31.540 and this would help with memory, 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:33.320 is that the woman has been suffering 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:34.299 for 12 years 00:08:34.299 --> 00:08:35.940 and the girl is 12 years old. 00:08:36.659 --> 00:08:38.039 And, you know, that's one of the things 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:39.320 to help you remember things, right? 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:41.080 The number, that connection of the 12 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:42.159 helps you to remember them 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:42.980 and even helps to see, 00:08:43.059 --> 00:08:44.759 remember that the two things were connected 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:46.379 because sometimes they might have said, 00:08:46.419 --> 00:08:47.559 gosh, he healed so many people. 00:08:47.659 --> 00:08:49.219 Was it that woman he healed? 00:08:49.299 --> 00:08:49.819 No, no, you know, 00:08:49.899 --> 00:08:50.839 they might even have... 00:08:50.839 --> 00:08:52.299 But this one would have really stuck out 00:08:52.299 --> 00:08:53.699 partially just because they happened 00:08:53.699 --> 00:08:54.539 right after each other 00:08:54.539 --> 00:08:55.439 and partly the 12. 00:08:55.799 --> 00:08:56.779 Helps them to remember. 00:08:58.079 --> 00:08:59.659 And the other thing, by the way, 00:08:59.779 --> 00:09:02.860 is that everything in this text, 00:09:03.059 --> 00:09:04.539 even the using of his name, 00:09:04.659 --> 00:09:05.379 is once again, 00:09:05.379 --> 00:09:06.860 part of what Mark is doing 00:09:06.860 --> 00:09:08.399 is to say this actually happened. 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:10.279 This is historical. 00:09:11.319 --> 00:09:13.059 The fact that he gives the name 00:09:13.059 --> 00:09:14.559 of an important person 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:16.159 and the fact that he mentions 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:17.819 that lots of people were around. 00:09:18.899 --> 00:09:20.919 This is all the way that if Paul, 00:09:21.319 --> 00:09:21.919 not Paul, 00:09:22.019 --> 00:09:23.139 Mark is writing this 00:09:23.139 --> 00:09:24.399 and he's writing it at the time 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:26.100 that many of these eye and ear witnesses 00:09:26.100 --> 00:09:27.059 were still alive 00:09:27.059 --> 00:09:29.480 and he's really constantly inviting people 00:09:29.480 --> 00:09:29.779 to say, 00:09:29.860 --> 00:09:31.340 listen, if you have any questions about this, 00:09:31.439 --> 00:09:31.980 get on a boat, 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:33.299 go to this area. 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:35.539 It's going to be in and around Capernaum, 00:09:35.620 --> 00:09:36.679 maybe even Capernaum 00:09:36.679 --> 00:09:38.139 and just look for Jairus. 00:09:38.199 --> 00:09:38.939 He's still around 00:09:38.939 --> 00:09:40.399 and talk to him about it. 00:09:40.500 --> 00:09:41.500 Like it's part of the way 00:09:41.500 --> 00:09:43.039 that Mark is writing it 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:44.279 to help us to remember 00:09:44.279 --> 00:09:46.059 that this actually happened. 00:09:46.579 --> 00:09:48.259 So I'm not going to give an apologetic 00:09:48.259 --> 00:09:50.000 about miracles in this sermon once again 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:51.399 just because of time constraints. 00:09:51.620 --> 00:09:54.240 But in a very, very real sense, 00:09:54.359 --> 00:09:56.099 if this is an historical account 00:09:56.099 --> 00:09:57.319 written at a time 00:09:57.319 --> 00:09:58.599 when many of the eyewitnesses 00:09:58.599 --> 00:09:59.419 were still alive, 00:09:59.740 --> 00:10:00.779 this in and of itself 00:10:00.779 --> 00:10:02.019 is something that should make 00:10:02.019 --> 00:10:03.679 an open-minded person say, 00:10:04.120 --> 00:10:06.579 maybe we don't live 00:10:06.579 --> 00:10:08.179 in a closed universe. 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:11.120 Maybe there is a God 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:11.919 that does exist. 00:10:14.059 --> 00:10:15.639 Maybe there is a personal God. 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:19.079 Because Mark is trying to drive home 00:10:19.079 --> 00:10:19.879 that this is something 00:10:19.879 --> 00:10:21.639 that actually happened. 00:10:22.740 --> 00:10:25.019 So, the next little bit 00:10:25.019 --> 00:10:26.500 has actually caused Christians 00:10:26.500 --> 00:10:27.199 a lot of trouble. 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:30.800 And it's, in fact, 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:31.379 it's sometimes 00:10:31.379 --> 00:10:32.340 I've come across 00:10:32.340 --> 00:10:33.759 Jehovah Witnesses 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:34.900 who occasionally 00:10:34.900 --> 00:10:35.759 have mentioned this 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:36.600 as an example 00:10:36.600 --> 00:10:38.000 of why Jesus isn't God. 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:39.140 It's caused trouble 00:10:39.140 --> 00:10:40.160 to Christians as well. 00:10:40.259 --> 00:10:41.720 It's a very puzzling thing 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:42.280 that happens 00:10:42.280 --> 00:10:43.379 over the next few verses. 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:44.720 And in some ways 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:45.259 what happens 00:10:45.259 --> 00:10:46.300 is these little puzzles 00:10:46.300 --> 00:10:47.300 that deflect us 00:10:47.300 --> 00:10:48.340 from the really big thing 00:10:48.340 --> 00:10:49.420 that's going on in the text. 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:50.740 But we have to look at them. 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:51.940 Well, look what goes on. 00:10:52.060 --> 00:10:53.180 Verse 27, right? 00:10:53.179 --> 00:10:55.919 So, the woman has suffered. 00:10:56.319 --> 00:10:56.979 Verse 27, 00:10:57.120 --> 00:10:58.279 she had heard the reports 00:10:58.279 --> 00:10:59.099 about Jesus 00:10:59.099 --> 00:11:01.099 and came up behind him 00:11:01.099 --> 00:11:01.599 in the crowd 00:11:01.599 --> 00:11:02.659 and touched his garment. 00:11:03.899 --> 00:11:05.059 And in the original language, 00:11:05.599 --> 00:11:06.319 you might see, 00:11:06.439 --> 00:11:07.379 if you ever go to Israel, 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:08.179 you'll see that 00:11:08.179 --> 00:11:10.519 more orthodox, 00:11:10.599 --> 00:11:11.219 devout Jews, 00:11:11.339 --> 00:11:12.579 they'll often have these tassels, 00:11:12.719 --> 00:11:13.319 certain colors 00:11:13.319 --> 00:11:14.000 on their garments. 00:11:14.219 --> 00:11:15.159 And basically, 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:16.039 she just touches 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:17.059 one of the tassels 00:11:17.059 --> 00:11:18.879 of the garment. 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:20.679 For she said, 00:11:20.779 --> 00:11:21.419 verse 28, 00:11:21.419 --> 00:11:23.199 if I touch even his garments, 00:11:23.500 --> 00:11:24.559 I will be made well. 00:11:25.899 --> 00:11:26.819 And immediately, 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:28.319 the flow of blood dried up 00:11:28.319 --> 00:11:29.539 and she felt in her body 00:11:29.539 --> 00:11:30.360 that she was healed 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:31.099 of her disease. 00:11:32.459 --> 00:11:33.259 And Jesus, 00:11:33.479 --> 00:11:34.659 perceiving in himself 00:11:34.659 --> 00:11:36.139 that power 00:11:36.139 --> 00:11:37.659 had gone out from him, 00:11:38.379 --> 00:11:39.379 immediately turned about 00:11:39.379 --> 00:11:40.000 in the crowd 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:40.620 and said, 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:42.559 who touched my garments? 00:11:44.059 --> 00:11:45.159 And his disciples 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:45.899 said to him, 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:48.620 you see the crowd 00:11:48.620 --> 00:11:50.039 pressing around you 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:51.500 and yet you say, 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:52.860 who touched me? 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:54.759 And I tried to bring out 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:55.699 in my way of reading it 00:11:55.699 --> 00:11:56.719 is the original language 00:11:56.719 --> 00:11:57.679 they rebuked Jesus. 00:11:58.299 --> 00:11:59.199 They're putting him down. 00:11:59.399 --> 00:12:00.079 Like he's asking 00:12:00.079 --> 00:12:01.139 a stupid question. 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:02.639 Duh. 00:12:04.519 --> 00:12:05.639 If we were maybe trying 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:06.500 to put it in 00:12:06.500 --> 00:12:08.000 more modern Canadian. 00:12:08.620 --> 00:12:09.019 Duh. 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:10.259 Like all sorts of people 00:12:10.259 --> 00:12:11.019 are touching you. 00:12:11.419 --> 00:12:11.860 So like, 00:12:11.959 --> 00:12:13.159 you look at this 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:13.439 and you go, 00:12:13.839 --> 00:12:14.759 like what's going on? 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:16.620 Like I thought Jesus was God. 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:17.699 How come he didn't know 00:12:17.699 --> 00:12:18.419 who's touched him? 00:12:18.419 --> 00:12:19.360 And come on, 00:12:19.419 --> 00:12:20.039 like what's going on? 00:12:20.099 --> 00:12:23.039 Is he like a walking horseshoe? 00:12:23.179 --> 00:12:25.099 Is he like a walking rabbit's foot? 00:12:25.179 --> 00:12:25.819 A walking, 00:12:25.819 --> 00:12:27.219 you know, 00:12:27.299 --> 00:12:28.059 lucky charm 00:12:28.059 --> 00:12:28.919 and you touch it 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:29.860 and something happens? 00:12:29.959 --> 00:12:30.959 Like this is, 00:12:31.259 --> 00:12:31.799 like what? 00:12:31.899 --> 00:12:32.500 Like what's going on 00:12:32.500 --> 00:12:33.079 in this text? 00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:34.339 It just seems sort of 00:12:34.339 --> 00:12:35.659 not right. 00:12:37.699 --> 00:12:39.319 So this is one of 00:12:39.319 --> 00:12:40.199 many texts. 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:40.959 It's one of the things 00:12:40.959 --> 00:12:41.539 in the text 00:12:41.539 --> 00:12:42.959 that it's a very, 00:12:43.099 --> 00:12:44.000 very interesting thing 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:44.799 to meditate upon 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:45.699 and to contemplate 00:12:45.700 --> 00:12:46.840 because it's a really 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:47.780 good window 00:12:47.780 --> 00:12:51.140 into something 00:12:51.140 --> 00:12:51.840 that we could 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:54.220 begin to understand 00:12:54.220 --> 00:12:55.560 but not really understand 00:12:55.560 --> 00:12:56.340 because it's talking 00:12:56.340 --> 00:12:57.140 about how it is 00:12:57.140 --> 00:12:58.120 that Jesus can be 00:12:58.120 --> 00:12:58.660 fully God 00:12:58.660 --> 00:12:59.420 and fully human 00:12:59.420 --> 00:13:00.379 but one person 00:13:00.379 --> 00:13:02.400 and at the same time. 00:13:02.540 --> 00:13:03.060 So like, 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:04.540 here's the first thing. 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:06.520 If Jesus never asked 00:13:06.520 --> 00:13:07.160 a question, 00:13:07.640 --> 00:13:08.840 he wouldn't be human. 00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:12.139 If Jesus never asked 00:13:12.139 --> 00:13:12.740 a question, 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:14.360 he wouldn't be human. 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:16.120 I mean, 00:13:16.139 --> 00:13:16.560 there's a couple 00:13:16.560 --> 00:13:17.399 of babies here. 00:13:18.100 --> 00:13:18.259 I mean, 00:13:18.280 --> 00:13:18.780 you can ask, 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:19.240 you know, 00:13:19.300 --> 00:13:20.460 that family over there. 00:13:21.379 --> 00:13:22.740 If their baby, 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:23.420 as soon as they learn 00:13:23.420 --> 00:13:24.200 the first words, 00:13:24.280 --> 00:13:25.360 just starts lecturing them 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:26.580 on the Einstein's 00:13:26.580 --> 00:13:27.519 theory of relativity 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:30.040 or, 00:13:30.280 --> 00:13:31.180 you know, 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:32.100 if you ask them 00:13:32.100 --> 00:13:32.560 what's the, 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:33.280 you know, 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:35.620 if a number 00:13:35.620 --> 00:13:35.960 with, 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:36.200 you know, 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:37.400 11 digits 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:38.459 is a prime number 00:13:38.459 --> 00:13:38.740 or not 00:13:38.740 --> 00:13:39.600 and they can tell you, 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:39.899 you know, 00:13:39.959 --> 00:13:40.600 like that would just, 00:13:40.799 --> 00:13:41.220 that wouldn't be 00:13:41.220 --> 00:13:41.980 a human baby. 00:13:42.139 --> 00:13:42.559 Like you'd, 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:43.079 I don't know 00:13:43.079 --> 00:13:43.759 what you'd think. 00:13:44.220 --> 00:13:45.059 It's some type of, 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:45.480 I don't know 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:45.939 what you'd think. 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:46.559 It's not human. 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:48.519 So if Jesus never 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:49.159 asked a question, 00:13:49.220 --> 00:13:49.939 he wouldn't be human. 00:13:50.620 --> 00:13:51.539 And it's interesting, 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:52.539 we have a problem 00:13:52.539 --> 00:13:53.279 asking this, 00:13:53.340 --> 00:13:54.179 like how come 00:13:54.179 --> 00:13:55.100 Jesus asked the question? 00:13:55.199 --> 00:13:55.600 Isn't he supposed 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:56.079 to be God? 00:13:56.360 --> 00:13:57.019 But none of the, 00:13:57.019 --> 00:13:57.819 none of the disciples 00:13:57.819 --> 00:13:58.879 ask that question. 00:13:59.340 --> 00:14:00.120 It's not as if they go, 00:14:00.439 --> 00:14:00.759 whoa, 00:14:01.199 --> 00:14:02.600 Jesus just asked a question. 00:14:03.139 --> 00:14:04.120 What's going on? 00:14:04.319 --> 00:14:04.679 No, 00:14:05.079 --> 00:14:05.720 they would have been used 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:06.559 to him asking questions 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:07.100 all the time 00:14:07.100 --> 00:14:07.800 because human beings 00:14:07.800 --> 00:14:08.560 ask questions. 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:10.159 And actually this is 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:10.540 in a very, 00:14:10.659 --> 00:14:11.440 very small way. 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:12.240 One of the things 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:13.019 that we just sort of 00:14:13.019 --> 00:14:13.759 take for granted 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:15.200 in our Western culture, 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:17.240 in our Western culture, 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:18.580 we take it for granted 00:14:18.580 --> 00:14:19.879 that it's a smart thing 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:20.580 and a wise thing 00:14:20.580 --> 00:14:21.580 to ask questions. 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:23.200 But that's actually 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:24.620 partly how we've been formed 00:14:24.620 --> 00:14:25.560 at a very deep level 00:14:25.560 --> 00:14:26.460 by the Christian faith. 00:14:26.540 --> 00:14:27.560 It's not obvious 00:14:27.560 --> 00:14:29.680 in Islamic 00:14:29.680 --> 00:14:31.220 or Eastern cultures 00:14:31.220 --> 00:14:32.139 that it's a virtue 00:14:32.139 --> 00:14:33.180 to ask questions. 00:14:34.060 --> 00:14:34.960 In those questions, 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:35.800 it's a virtue 00:14:35.799 --> 00:14:37.539 to accept, 00:14:38.539 --> 00:14:40.879 to just accept. 00:14:44.759 --> 00:14:45.819 And so Jesus 00:14:45.819 --> 00:14:47.059 is actually grounding 00:14:47.059 --> 00:14:49.500 at a very deep level 00:14:49.500 --> 00:14:50.399 the importance 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:51.259 of questions. 00:14:53.819 --> 00:14:54.919 And he is human. 00:14:55.959 --> 00:14:56.199 Now, 00:14:56.439 --> 00:14:58.219 the second thing is, 00:14:58.220 --> 00:15:01.779 and this is where 00:15:01.779 --> 00:15:02.600 the text is a bit 00:15:02.600 --> 00:15:03.100 of a mirror 00:15:03.100 --> 00:15:03.960 to help us 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:04.820 look at ourselves, 00:15:05.040 --> 00:15:05.920 is that part of the reason 00:15:05.920 --> 00:15:07.139 we have a hard time 00:15:07.139 --> 00:15:07.940 wondering how it is 00:15:07.940 --> 00:15:08.759 that Jesus could ask 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:09.320 a question 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:09.899 if he's supposed 00:15:09.899 --> 00:15:10.639 to be God 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:12.519 is because 00:15:12.519 --> 00:15:13.800 if we were God, 00:15:14.560 --> 00:15:15.480 we would only 00:15:15.480 --> 00:15:16.220 tell people 00:15:16.220 --> 00:15:16.920 what to do. 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:20.279 I mean, 00:15:20.339 --> 00:15:20.779 we already, 00:15:20.899 --> 00:15:21.319 many of us 00:15:21.319 --> 00:15:21.939 already think 00:15:21.939 --> 00:15:22.459 we're gods 00:15:22.459 --> 00:15:23.319 and we're always right, 00:15:23.419 --> 00:15:24.500 but dang it all 00:15:24.500 --> 00:15:25.319 if I'm God, 00:15:25.439 --> 00:15:26.599 not only would I tell you 00:15:26.599 --> 00:15:27.740 all the time, 00:15:28.079 --> 00:15:28.639 you want to know 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:29.240 the right view 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:30.099 on what Trudeau 00:15:30.099 --> 00:15:30.659 should be doing? 00:15:30.659 --> 00:15:31.559 I'm going to tell you. 00:15:31.959 --> 00:15:32.839 You're not interested? 00:15:33.059 --> 00:15:34.059 You should be interested. 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:34.939 I'm God. 00:15:35.079 --> 00:15:35.199 Like, 00:15:35.259 --> 00:15:35.799 that's what I would do 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:36.159 all the time. 00:15:36.219 --> 00:15:37.019 That's what you would do. 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:37.699 Right? 00:15:38.099 --> 00:15:38.979 And so part of this 00:15:38.979 --> 00:15:39.219 is, 00:15:39.319 --> 00:15:40.219 so part of the problem 00:15:40.219 --> 00:15:40.759 is it shows, 00:15:40.860 --> 00:15:41.159 in a sense, 00:15:41.219 --> 00:15:42.360 the humility of God. 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:46.120 we want to be like God 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:46.840 and are proud. 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:49.220 And if we had the power, 00:15:49.320 --> 00:15:50.519 we would be forcing people 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:51.300 to shut up 00:15:51.300 --> 00:15:52.360 and listen to us. 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:55.700 And so what the Bible 00:15:55.700 --> 00:15:56.639 is revealing here 00:15:56.639 --> 00:15:57.639 is that God, 00:15:57.820 --> 00:15:58.580 the Son of God, 00:15:58.720 --> 00:15:59.620 that it's part of 00:15:59.620 --> 00:16:00.440 the big story, 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:01.019 that God, 00:16:01.100 --> 00:16:01.759 the Son of God, 00:16:01.860 --> 00:16:03.100 sets aside His glory, 00:16:03.220 --> 00:16:04.000 His prerogatives, 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:05.759 His appearance as God, 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:06.820 His power as God, 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:07.960 but still maintaining 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:09.120 the fact in nature 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:09.759 that He is God, 00:16:09.820 --> 00:16:10.840 but He willingly sets 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:12.180 that all aside 00:16:12.179 --> 00:16:13.259 to enter into 00:16:13.259 --> 00:16:14.199 our human world 00:16:14.199 --> 00:16:15.859 and to take into Himself 00:16:15.859 --> 00:16:17.019 our human nature. 00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:19.079 And so what that means 00:16:19.079 --> 00:16:19.539 is that, 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:20.659 and you can't figure out 00:16:20.659 --> 00:16:21.859 the psychology of that, 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:23.039 but what's constantly revealed 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:23.859 then in the Scriptures 00:16:23.859 --> 00:16:24.839 is that in a sense, 00:16:24.959 --> 00:16:25.759 unlike us, 00:16:26.319 --> 00:16:27.419 Jesus lived, 00:16:27.539 --> 00:16:29.199 part of His constant temptation 00:16:29.199 --> 00:16:30.979 is would He continue 00:16:30.979 --> 00:16:31.919 to just trust 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:32.579 that the Father 00:16:32.579 --> 00:16:33.519 would reveal to Him 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:34.059 and give Him 00:16:34.059 --> 00:16:34.979 the things He needs 00:16:34.979 --> 00:16:36.199 as He needs them? 00:16:37.719 --> 00:16:37.899 I mean, 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:38.919 that's partly what's going on 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:39.639 with the temptation 00:16:39.639 --> 00:16:40.500 by the devil, 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:42.059 which isn't recorded 00:16:42.059 --> 00:16:42.439 in Mark, 00:16:42.500 --> 00:16:42.979 but it's recorded 00:16:42.979 --> 00:16:43.939 in Matthew and Luke, 00:16:44.139 --> 00:16:45.059 is that would Jesus 00:16:45.059 --> 00:16:46.199 just actually be content 00:16:46.199 --> 00:16:47.239 to trust His Father? 00:16:48.019 --> 00:16:48.979 If His Father wants Him 00:16:48.979 --> 00:16:49.519 to know something, 00:16:49.599 --> 00:16:50.319 He'll know something. 00:16:51.779 --> 00:16:52.599 But does He want to know? 00:16:53.419 --> 00:16:54.419 Does He want to grasp 00:16:54.419 --> 00:16:55.359 back that power? 00:16:56.939 --> 00:16:58.119 And we're all familiar 00:16:58.119 --> 00:16:58.899 with the fact 00:16:58.899 --> 00:16:59.859 of curtailing 00:16:59.859 --> 00:17:00.579 our power 00:17:00.579 --> 00:17:01.359 to be with. 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:05.860 like if you have 00:17:05.860 --> 00:17:06.660 young children, 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:08.620 the Sunday school teachers 00:17:08.620 --> 00:17:09.140 out there, 00:17:09.500 --> 00:17:09.819 I mean, 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:11.420 if you're visiting 00:17:11.420 --> 00:17:11.880 your nephew 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:12.420 and your niece 00:17:12.420 --> 00:17:13.640 and you play 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:14.420 or you maybe even 00:17:14.420 --> 00:17:15.420 wrestle a little bit 00:17:15.420 --> 00:17:16.920 with your two-year-old, 00:17:17.860 --> 00:17:18.880 one of my children, 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:21.079 no, 00:17:21.099 --> 00:17:21.880 I won't tell you the story. 00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:22.920 I try not to tell stories 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:24.039 that might embarrass my children 00:17:24.039 --> 00:17:24.500 and then you'll all 00:17:24.500 --> 00:17:25.200 wonder which one. 00:17:25.539 --> 00:17:25.960 But, you know, 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:27.299 if we were playing 00:17:27.299 --> 00:17:27.819 with your nephew 00:17:27.819 --> 00:17:28.220 and niece, 00:17:28.259 --> 00:17:29.180 a little two-year-old, 00:17:29.620 --> 00:17:31.620 well, you don't beat them 00:17:31.620 --> 00:17:32.819 because you're way stronger 00:17:32.819 --> 00:17:33.279 than them. 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:34.340 You curtail your power. 00:17:34.420 --> 00:17:34.940 To beat them 00:17:34.940 --> 00:17:36.740 is called child abuse, right? 00:17:37.340 --> 00:17:38.559 The right type of thing 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:39.680 is you let them 00:17:39.680 --> 00:17:41.380 wrestle you to the ground 00:17:41.380 --> 00:17:42.279 or her wrestle you 00:17:42.279 --> 00:17:42.920 to the ground 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:43.900 and tackle you 00:17:43.900 --> 00:17:44.600 and all of that type. 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:45.660 You're just having fun, right? 00:17:45.819 --> 00:17:46.660 So we all understand 00:17:46.660 --> 00:17:47.039 what it means 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:47.840 to curtail the power 00:17:47.840 --> 00:17:48.400 and that's what you're 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:49.500 getting on here with Jesus. 00:17:49.620 --> 00:17:50.600 For this particular reason, 00:17:50.660 --> 00:17:51.880 the Father didn't want Him 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:52.200 to know. 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:53.740 So now you see something 00:17:53.740 --> 00:17:54.579 that He did all the time. 00:17:54.640 --> 00:17:55.299 He asked a question 00:17:55.299 --> 00:17:56.019 because He's human. 00:17:56.220 --> 00:17:56.700 He doesn't know. 00:17:57.299 --> 00:17:58.139 And He wants to find out 00:17:58.139 --> 00:17:59.139 for a variety of reasons. 00:17:59.619 --> 00:18:00.599 And then the other thing, 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:01.980 this weird, weird thing 00:18:01.980 --> 00:18:02.819 is that why is it 00:18:02.819 --> 00:18:03.339 that Jesus, 00:18:03.859 --> 00:18:04.839 why is it that 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:05.879 Jesus, 00:18:06.059 --> 00:18:07.339 she just touched Him 00:18:07.339 --> 00:18:09.559 and now the text 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:10.259 is very clear. 00:18:10.379 --> 00:18:11.159 It sounds as if 00:18:11.159 --> 00:18:11.799 if you read it 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:12.779 not very closely, 00:18:12.859 --> 00:18:13.379 it sounds as if 00:18:13.379 --> 00:18:14.319 somehow her faith 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:14.919 is if faith 00:18:14.919 --> 00:18:15.980 is some type of 00:18:15.980 --> 00:18:16.960 internal power 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:17.819 that you unleash 00:18:17.819 --> 00:18:18.720 and if you unleash 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:19.799 this internal power 00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:21.159 then you're healing, 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:22.399 you get healed 00:18:22.399 --> 00:18:23.500 and you can do this 00:18:23.500 --> 00:18:23.919 and you can do, 00:18:23.919 --> 00:18:24.440 no, no, no, no. 00:18:24.440 --> 00:18:25.820 The text is very clear 00:18:25.820 --> 00:18:26.400 that the power 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:27.380 comes from Jesus. 00:18:27.600 --> 00:18:29.519 The woman purely receives. 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:31.360 She doesn't add anything to it. 00:18:31.660 --> 00:18:32.519 All she's done 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:33.340 is put herself 00:18:33.340 --> 00:18:33.820 in a place 00:18:33.820 --> 00:18:34.860 where she can receive 00:18:34.860 --> 00:18:36.500 and it all comes 00:18:36.500 --> 00:18:37.180 from Jesus. 00:18:37.700 --> 00:18:38.720 But what this also 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:39.299 is showing 00:18:39.299 --> 00:18:39.940 is it's showing 00:18:39.940 --> 00:18:40.779 who Jesus is 00:18:40.779 --> 00:18:41.640 in His very nature. 00:18:41.779 --> 00:18:42.100 It's showing 00:18:42.100 --> 00:18:42.900 who God is 00:18:42.900 --> 00:18:43.840 in His very nature. 00:18:45.840 --> 00:18:46.940 Give you an example. 00:18:46.940 --> 00:18:49.740 Imagine that 00:18:49.740 --> 00:18:51.519 maybe one of you folks 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:52.259 we become 00:18:52.259 --> 00:18:53.420 very, very good friends 00:18:53.420 --> 00:18:55.080 and I happen to discover 00:18:55.080 --> 00:18:55.940 as we become friends 00:18:55.940 --> 00:18:56.500 that you're very, 00:18:56.580 --> 00:18:57.380 very, very generous 00:18:57.380 --> 00:18:58.840 but you're especially 00:18:58.840 --> 00:18:59.759 generous towards 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:00.460 your friends. 00:19:00.700 --> 00:19:02.240 Just very open-handed. 00:19:02.420 --> 00:19:03.279 Not clutching at all. 00:19:03.340 --> 00:19:04.680 Just very, very open-handed. 00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:06.900 And maybe it's something 00:19:06.900 --> 00:19:07.519 like I'm going to go 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:07.960 to an area 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:08.820 and there's no parking 00:19:08.820 --> 00:19:10.340 and I know that you live 00:19:10.340 --> 00:19:11.180 in a certain house 00:19:11.180 --> 00:19:12.920 and I'm with 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:14.400 one of you other folks 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:15.420 and I just pull 00:19:15.420 --> 00:19:16.060 into the driveway 00:19:16.060 --> 00:19:16.640 and park. 00:19:18.380 --> 00:19:19.280 And the person 00:19:19.280 --> 00:19:20.259 beside me would go, 00:19:20.420 --> 00:19:21.019 you can't park 00:19:21.019 --> 00:19:21.980 in somebody's driveway. 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:23.600 And I go 00:19:23.600 --> 00:19:24.500 and I knock on the door 00:19:24.500 --> 00:19:25.160 to see if they're there 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:25.880 and they're not there 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:26.900 and the person beside me 00:19:26.900 --> 00:19:27.080 would say, 00:19:27.140 --> 00:19:27.820 no, you just can't go 00:19:27.820 --> 00:19:28.759 park in their driveway. 00:19:29.100 --> 00:19:29.759 Like, what? 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:30.980 But I'd say, 00:19:31.019 --> 00:19:31.640 no, no, no, no, no. 00:19:31.700 --> 00:19:32.660 I know what they're like 00:19:32.660 --> 00:19:33.700 and they're really, 00:19:33.860 --> 00:19:34.300 really generous 00:19:34.300 --> 00:19:35.340 and they're very generous 00:19:35.340 --> 00:19:35.940 towards me 00:19:35.940 --> 00:19:36.720 and I know that I can 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:37.580 park in their driveway 00:19:37.580 --> 00:19:38.660 even if they're not home. 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:40.259 There'll be no problem. 00:19:40.320 --> 00:19:40.780 Just trust me. 00:19:40.820 --> 00:19:41.360 There's no problem. 00:19:42.019 --> 00:19:42.580 Because you know 00:19:42.580 --> 00:19:43.300 what they're like. 00:19:43.299 --> 00:19:44.759 And that's what 00:19:44.759 --> 00:19:45.359 you're seeing here 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:45.899 about Jesus. 00:19:46.059 --> 00:19:46.859 That's what he's like. 00:19:47.139 --> 00:19:47.740 He heals. 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:49.899 That's his nature. 00:19:50.359 --> 00:19:51.099 And this, by the way, 00:19:51.119 --> 00:19:52.559 is very, very mind-blowing 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:53.579 because just you have 00:19:53.579 --> 00:19:54.319 to keep remembering 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:55.079 that if you study 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:56.299 the gods and goddesses 00:19:56.299 --> 00:19:56.940 of the day, 00:19:57.619 --> 00:19:58.619 the gods and the gods 00:19:58.619 --> 00:19:59.299 of the gods 00:19:59.299 --> 00:19:59.980 and goddesses 00:19:59.980 --> 00:20:00.440 of the day, 00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:01.259 they lied, 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:01.980 they cheated, 00:20:02.159 --> 00:20:02.799 they raped, 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:04.279 they hurt. 00:20:05.759 --> 00:20:06.839 They were completely, 00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:08.460 they were thin-skinned 00:20:08.460 --> 00:20:10.419 and you never knew 00:20:10.419 --> 00:20:11.279 if you did something 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:12.180 to offend them 00:20:12.180 --> 00:20:13.200 and if you offended them 00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:13.759 they would make 00:20:13.759 --> 00:20:14.779 your life miserable. 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:15.759 And that's what 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:16.819 the gods and goddesses 00:20:16.819 --> 00:20:17.100 are like. 00:20:17.180 --> 00:20:18.080 And what you're seeing here 00:20:18.080 --> 00:20:19.880 is the real God 00:20:19.880 --> 00:20:20.799 and this real God 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:22.140 is radically different 00:20:22.140 --> 00:20:23.340 than the other gods. 00:20:24.700 --> 00:20:26.400 And it's still even true today 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:27.900 where one of the major religions 00:20:27.900 --> 00:20:28.360 of the world, 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:28.940 fundamentally, 00:20:29.160 --> 00:20:30.340 that major religion 00:20:30.340 --> 00:20:31.360 is a religion 00:20:31.360 --> 00:20:32.100 of a warrior, 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:32.860 triumph, 00:20:33.180 --> 00:20:34.279 militaristic God. 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:36.220 And the other fundamental option 00:20:36.220 --> 00:20:37.160 is a God 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:38.140 that at the end of the day 00:20:38.140 --> 00:20:39.120 says there's no difference 00:20:39.120 --> 00:20:40.319 between sickness and health 00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:41.799 because you're just going to die 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:42.579 and get reborn 00:20:42.579 --> 00:20:43.599 and you're just going to die 00:20:43.599 --> 00:20:44.339 and get reborn. 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:45.519 And in the face 00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:46.439 of such alternatives 00:20:46.439 --> 00:20:48.000 you have this radical picture 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:48.579 of a God 00:20:48.579 --> 00:20:50.139 whose fundamental nature 00:20:50.139 --> 00:20:51.419 is to give you health. 00:20:54.240 --> 00:20:56.200 To come into contact with him 00:20:56.200 --> 00:20:57.419 is to come into contact 00:20:57.419 --> 00:20:58.279 with health. 00:20:58.439 --> 00:20:59.859 To come into contact with him 00:20:59.859 --> 00:21:01.000 is to come into contact 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:01.659 with life. 00:21:01.939 --> 00:21:03.559 To poke this God 00:21:03.559 --> 00:21:06.000 is to poke health. 00:21:08.819 --> 00:21:10.299 Just constant, 00:21:10.539 --> 00:21:11.299 self-giving, 00:21:11.539 --> 00:21:12.159 generous, 00:21:12.659 --> 00:21:13.539 open-handed. 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:17.079 Like there's that song 00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:18.039 The Reckless Love of God. 00:21:18.099 --> 00:21:19.559 Just reckless health. 00:21:21.319 --> 00:21:22.619 That's who he is 00:21:22.619 --> 00:21:23.659 and that's what's being revealed 00:21:23.659 --> 00:21:24.619 here in this story. 00:21:25.960 --> 00:21:28.119 And her tiniest, 00:21:28.279 --> 00:21:28.779 tiniest, 00:21:28.940 --> 00:21:30.480 tiniest sliver of faith 00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:31.500 and maybe it's mixed 00:21:31.500 --> 00:21:32.559 with some superstition, 00:21:32.619 --> 00:21:33.240 who knows what, 00:21:33.559 --> 00:21:34.539 she can't pass 00:21:34.539 --> 00:21:35.519 a theology test, 00:21:35.619 --> 00:21:36.259 she can't, 00:21:36.359 --> 00:21:37.519 she's never taken, 00:21:37.879 --> 00:21:38.099 you know, 00:21:38.179 --> 00:21:39.119 theology one 00:21:39.119 --> 00:21:40.179 and the nature of God. 00:21:40.519 --> 00:21:41.740 She just knows 00:21:41.740 --> 00:21:43.379 that if she can just touch him, 00:21:43.539 --> 00:21:44.740 she suspects, 00:21:44.879 --> 00:21:45.720 she's heard the stories 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:46.579 and she believes it 00:21:46.579 --> 00:21:47.220 and she trusts 00:21:47.220 --> 00:21:49.059 that he's this type of person 00:21:49.059 --> 00:21:50.200 and he can do it 00:21:50.200 --> 00:21:50.859 and she does it 00:21:50.859 --> 00:21:52.359 and he does all the rest 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:53.779 even if he's not conscious of it. 00:21:56.200 --> 00:21:56.639 Now, 00:21:56.799 --> 00:21:57.679 the next bit, 00:21:58.639 --> 00:21:58.899 you see, 00:21:58.960 --> 00:21:59.619 here's one of the things 00:21:59.619 --> 00:22:00.539 about the Bible 00:22:00.539 --> 00:22:01.399 that we don't often 00:22:01.399 --> 00:22:02.339 take it for granted. 00:22:02.339 --> 00:22:03.859 we just look at 00:22:03.859 --> 00:22:04.819 and we take it for granted 00:22:04.819 --> 00:22:05.539 that he's going to act 00:22:05.539 --> 00:22:06.019 a certain way. 00:22:06.139 --> 00:22:07.059 Partially that's because 00:22:07.059 --> 00:22:08.220 the stories like this 00:22:08.220 --> 00:22:08.659 have formed 00:22:08.659 --> 00:22:09.839 how our culture thinks 00:22:09.839 --> 00:22:11.000 even if we reject it 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:11.599 but it's formed 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:12.220 how we think. 00:22:12.899 --> 00:22:13.679 But the fact of the matter 00:22:13.679 --> 00:22:15.139 is that every single one of us, 00:22:15.179 --> 00:22:16.240 some of us more than others, 00:22:16.399 --> 00:22:17.679 we are used to put downs. 00:22:18.419 --> 00:22:20.279 We are used to being denigrated. 00:22:20.839 --> 00:22:22.519 We are used to being dismissed. 00:22:22.519 --> 00:22:25.460 It's interesting 00:22:25.460 --> 00:22:26.220 if you watch 00:22:26.220 --> 00:22:26.900 Raising, 00:22:26.940 --> 00:22:27.359 I think it's called 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:28.099 Raising Dion. 00:22:28.319 --> 00:22:29.299 It's this thing on Netflix 00:22:29.299 --> 00:22:30.420 about an eight-year-old 00:22:30.420 --> 00:22:31.700 who develops superpowers. 00:22:31.859 --> 00:22:32.559 It's sort of a funny 00:22:32.559 --> 00:22:33.279 type of thing. 00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:34.779 But one of the main characters 00:22:34.779 --> 00:22:35.940 is a very interesting thing 00:22:35.940 --> 00:22:36.420 on Netflix 00:22:36.420 --> 00:22:37.900 because one of the main characters 00:22:37.900 --> 00:22:39.259 is a severely handicapped 00:22:39.259 --> 00:22:39.779 young woman, 00:22:40.279 --> 00:22:40.759 young girl. 00:22:41.240 --> 00:22:41.579 It's very, 00:22:41.660 --> 00:22:42.279 very unusual 00:22:42.279 --> 00:22:43.559 to have a very severely 00:22:43.559 --> 00:22:44.819 handicapped young girl 00:22:44.819 --> 00:22:46.379 as one of the stars 00:22:46.379 --> 00:22:47.960 of a thing. 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:49.119 And one of the things 00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:50.099 which is very interesting 00:22:50.099 --> 00:22:50.599 about her 00:22:50.599 --> 00:22:51.659 when they're trying to describe 00:22:51.659 --> 00:22:52.740 what her superpower is, 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:53.859 she says she's invisible. 00:22:56.059 --> 00:22:57.219 Well, why is she invisible? 00:22:57.379 --> 00:22:58.399 Because handicapped people 00:22:58.399 --> 00:22:58.879 are invisible. 00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:01.119 And many of us 00:23:01.119 --> 00:23:02.039 are familiar with 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:02.539 what it's like 00:23:02.539 --> 00:23:03.199 to be invisible. 00:23:04.959 --> 00:23:06.099 And so if you just think 00:23:06.099 --> 00:23:06.919 about that for a second, 00:23:07.019 --> 00:23:07.740 you'll understand 00:23:07.740 --> 00:23:08.480 the drama 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:09.319 that's going on here 00:23:09.319 --> 00:23:09.959 in the text. 00:23:10.500 --> 00:23:11.919 Look again what happens. 00:23:12.019 --> 00:23:14.319 Look at verse 32. 00:23:15.919 --> 00:23:16.919 He looked around 00:23:16.919 --> 00:23:17.939 to see who had done it, 00:23:18.039 --> 00:23:18.559 but the woman, 00:23:18.679 --> 00:23:19.939 knowing what had happened to her, 00:23:19.940 --> 00:23:21.220 she'd been hiding, 00:23:21.360 --> 00:23:21.519 right? 00:23:22.120 --> 00:23:23.420 Came in fear and trembling 00:23:23.420 --> 00:23:24.640 and fell down before him 00:23:24.640 --> 00:23:25.799 and told him the whole truth. 00:23:26.740 --> 00:23:27.960 Well, why is she so worried? 00:23:28.360 --> 00:23:29.700 She's an invisible woman. 00:23:32.480 --> 00:23:33.860 The last 12 years 00:23:33.860 --> 00:23:34.640 of her life 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:36.360 have been 12 years 00:23:36.360 --> 00:23:37.440 where she's constantly 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:38.140 denigrated, 00:23:38.320 --> 00:23:38.960 put down, 00:23:39.840 --> 00:23:40.900 kicked to the sideline. 00:23:43.120 --> 00:23:44.259 That's the real world 00:23:44.259 --> 00:23:44.779 for her. 00:23:46.120 --> 00:23:47.039 And if you're here 00:23:47.039 --> 00:23:48.100 and that's your real world, 00:23:48.220 --> 00:23:49.220 this story's for you. 00:23:49.940 --> 00:23:54.279 So he tells him 00:23:54.279 --> 00:23:54.820 the old truth. 00:23:54.900 --> 00:23:55.380 She's hiding 00:23:55.380 --> 00:23:56.299 and hiding and hiding. 00:23:56.460 --> 00:23:57.100 She's terrified 00:23:57.100 --> 00:23:58.380 that when she comes forward, 00:23:58.420 --> 00:23:58.900 he's going to say, 00:23:59.320 --> 00:23:59.720 well, I didn't mean 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:00.380 to heal you. 00:24:02.259 --> 00:24:03.380 I'm going to take it back. 00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:06.500 You know, 00:24:06.720 --> 00:24:07.759 really, you? 00:24:08.519 --> 00:24:09.400 I thought it would have been 00:24:09.400 --> 00:24:10.539 somebody better looking, 00:24:11.080 --> 00:24:12.440 hipper, cooler, younger, 00:24:12.440 --> 00:24:15.019 has a big Instagram following, 00:24:15.019 --> 00:24:15.920 like, I don't know, 00:24:16.799 --> 00:24:17.460 influencer. 00:24:18.559 --> 00:24:19.420 What does he say, 00:24:19.500 --> 00:24:20.100 verse 34? 00:24:20.660 --> 00:24:21.740 This is why Jesus 00:24:21.740 --> 00:24:22.720 is so radical 00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:24.860 and so powerful. 00:24:25.019 --> 00:24:26.000 Look at verse 34. 00:24:26.180 --> 00:24:27.299 And he said to her daughter, 00:24:27.779 --> 00:24:28.660 daughter, 00:24:28.880 --> 00:24:29.320 that means, 00:24:29.539 --> 00:24:30.380 that's affection. 00:24:31.100 --> 00:24:31.980 That's affection. 00:24:33.080 --> 00:24:33.519 Daughter, 00:24:34.059 --> 00:24:35.600 not invisible woman, 00:24:36.100 --> 00:24:37.680 not person I don't care, 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:39.440 not a loser in our culture, 00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:40.240 but daughter. 00:24:41.059 --> 00:24:42.480 Your faith has made you well. 00:24:42.620 --> 00:24:43.440 And that can also be 00:24:43.440 --> 00:24:44.259 equally translated 00:24:44.259 --> 00:24:45.600 as your faith has saved you. 00:24:47.500 --> 00:24:48.380 Go in peace 00:24:48.380 --> 00:24:48.880 and be healed 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:49.559 of your disease. 00:24:52.620 --> 00:24:53.880 Now, this next part, 00:24:54.380 --> 00:24:55.160 my guess is, 00:24:55.240 --> 00:24:56.000 I don't know if this room 00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:57.400 would be 50-50 on this, 00:24:57.480 --> 00:24:58.620 but there's definitely divide. 00:24:59.039 --> 00:25:00.240 And we all know who we are. 00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:02.880 I would be the type, 00:25:03.340 --> 00:25:04.720 and I'm not boasting about this, 00:25:04.759 --> 00:25:05.299 this is something 00:25:05.299 --> 00:25:06.160 you need to pray 00:25:06.160 --> 00:25:07.740 that I get over. 00:25:07.740 --> 00:25:09.700 I would be the type, 00:25:10.220 --> 00:25:12.339 if it was my daughter, 00:25:12.940 --> 00:25:13.720 I'd be saying, 00:25:14.460 --> 00:25:15.460 Jesus, 00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:17.539 like, don't stop. 00:25:17.680 --> 00:25:18.900 Like, my daughter's sick. 00:25:19.039 --> 00:25:20.120 Like, don't stop. 00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:21.819 Like, I'd be the guy 00:25:21.819 --> 00:25:23.720 wanting to grab him, 00:25:24.140 --> 00:25:24.579 you know, 00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:25.599 by his tassels, 00:25:25.620 --> 00:25:26.539 not to be healed, 00:25:26.660 --> 00:25:27.079 but to say, 00:25:27.120 --> 00:25:27.559 listen, you know, 00:25:27.660 --> 00:25:28.200 that woman, 00:25:28.319 --> 00:25:29.480 she just don't care about that. 00:25:29.819 --> 00:25:30.700 You don't need to know that. 00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:31.519 You don't need to know who touched. 00:25:31.759 --> 00:25:32.720 I'd be pulling him. 00:25:33.500 --> 00:25:34.980 That's the type of person I am. 00:25:35.759 --> 00:25:36.819 Some of you type 00:25:36.819 --> 00:25:37.279 might be saying, 00:25:37.279 --> 00:25:37.519 really? 00:25:37.619 --> 00:25:38.399 There's people like that 00:25:38.399 --> 00:25:38.799 in the world? 00:25:38.899 --> 00:25:40.539 Like, that's like my annoying dad 00:25:40.539 --> 00:25:41.759 or my annoying mom 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:42.399 or sister. 00:25:42.940 --> 00:25:43.559 Because some of you 00:25:43.559 --> 00:25:44.220 would just be very, 00:25:44.319 --> 00:25:44.859 very content, 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:45.559 just trusting. 00:25:45.660 --> 00:25:46.440 I'm just telling you, 00:25:46.980 --> 00:25:47.680 for those of you 00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:48.299 who are very, very, 00:25:48.420 --> 00:25:49.099 and maybe that's what 00:25:49.099 --> 00:25:49.879 Jairus is like, 00:25:49.940 --> 00:25:50.599 that he was just very, 00:25:50.680 --> 00:25:51.180 very calm. 00:25:51.339 --> 00:25:51.500 But for, 00:25:51.579 --> 00:25:52.779 so there's two sort of 00:25:52.779 --> 00:25:53.700 emotional ways 00:25:53.700 --> 00:25:54.399 of understanding 00:25:54.399 --> 00:25:55.279 what's just happened. 00:25:55.279 --> 00:25:56.160 But for those of you 00:25:56.160 --> 00:25:57.420 who are more like me, 00:25:58.619 --> 00:26:00.619 who wants to move them along, 00:26:00.839 --> 00:26:01.920 get with the program, 00:26:02.099 --> 00:26:02.379 Jesus. 00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:03.579 That's what I'm thinking. 00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:04.480 Don't stop. 00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:05.500 You need to go 00:26:05.500 --> 00:26:06.799 and you need to get 00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:08.420 to my place, right? 00:26:09.140 --> 00:26:10.539 And so now he's going 00:26:10.539 --> 00:26:11.079 to move on. 00:26:11.160 --> 00:26:11.839 But while Jesus 00:26:11.839 --> 00:26:12.880 is still speaking, 00:26:13.380 --> 00:26:14.440 we don't get told 00:26:14.440 --> 00:26:15.279 all the other things 00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:16.019 that Jesus says, 00:26:16.099 --> 00:26:17.380 but he speaks for a while 00:26:17.380 --> 00:26:18.140 about this woman. 00:26:19.059 --> 00:26:19.759 Verse 35, 00:26:20.099 --> 00:26:21.220 while he was still speaking, 00:26:21.319 --> 00:26:22.480 there came from the ruler's house 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:23.360 some who said, 00:26:23.980 --> 00:26:25.079 and in the original language, 00:26:25.200 --> 00:26:26.000 the implication is 00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:26.640 they sort of take 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:28.000 the Jairus aside 00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:28.740 and they sort of whisper 00:26:28.740 --> 00:26:29.440 into his ear, 00:26:30.779 --> 00:26:32.319 your daughter is dead. 00:26:35.900 --> 00:26:37.500 And it'd probably be tears, 00:26:37.819 --> 00:26:38.559 like me telling you 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:39.099 about Rocky. 00:26:40.359 --> 00:26:41.500 Your daughter's dead. 00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:44.380 Why trouble a teacher 00:26:44.380 --> 00:26:44.900 any further? 00:26:49.279 --> 00:26:50.960 But Jesus overhears. 00:26:52.500 --> 00:26:53.539 He overhears. 00:26:53.539 --> 00:26:55.299 But overhearing 00:26:55.299 --> 00:26:57.159 what they said, 00:26:59.220 --> 00:27:00.259 Jesus said to the ruler 00:27:00.259 --> 00:27:00.920 of the synagogue, 00:27:01.119 --> 00:27:01.659 do not fear, 00:27:01.720 --> 00:27:02.379 only believe. 00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:04.839 Now one of the things 00:27:04.839 --> 00:27:05.839 which is very interesting 00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:06.899 in the story here 00:27:06.899 --> 00:27:08.039 is that we don't wait 00:27:08.039 --> 00:27:08.720 to actually see 00:27:08.720 --> 00:27:09.980 whether the Jairus 00:27:09.980 --> 00:27:11.119 has actually any faith. 00:27:11.539 --> 00:27:12.480 Because believe and faith 00:27:12.480 --> 00:27:13.299 are sort of the same way 00:27:13.299 --> 00:27:13.779 of translating 00:27:13.779 --> 00:27:14.819 the same basic word. 00:27:18.740 --> 00:27:19.039 I mean, 00:27:19.079 --> 00:27:19.700 I'll be honest, 00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:20.639 if I was Jairus, 00:27:20.759 --> 00:27:21.059 I'd say, 00:27:21.119 --> 00:27:21.539 yeah, yeah, yeah, 00:27:21.539 --> 00:27:23.159 Jesus, I have faith, 00:27:23.259 --> 00:27:24.279 but I don't have any faith. 00:27:24.639 --> 00:27:25.799 I have no faith. 00:27:27.980 --> 00:27:28.819 And here you actually 00:27:28.819 --> 00:27:29.240 get a very, 00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:30.440 very powerful window 00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:31.319 into what it is. 00:27:31.559 --> 00:27:31.879 Remember, 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:32.859 faith is connecting. 00:27:33.619 --> 00:27:34.299 That's ultimately 00:27:34.299 --> 00:27:34.819 what it is. 00:27:34.839 --> 00:27:35.940 It's a power to connect. 00:27:37.500 --> 00:27:38.379 And so he actually 00:27:38.379 --> 00:27:39.119 probably has 00:27:39.119 --> 00:27:40.119 absolutely zero, 00:27:42.279 --> 00:27:43.220 all he's done, 00:27:43.319 --> 00:27:44.480 he stays connected 00:27:44.480 --> 00:27:45.039 to Jesus. 00:27:45.180 --> 00:27:46.139 That's the bottom line 00:27:46.139 --> 00:27:46.680 about faith. 00:27:46.740 --> 00:27:47.579 He stays connected 00:27:47.579 --> 00:27:48.159 to Jesus. 00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:49.980 He stays connected 00:27:49.980 --> 00:27:50.579 to Jesus. 00:27:51.539 --> 00:27:55.539 verse 37. 00:27:55.920 --> 00:27:56.379 See that, 00:27:56.680 --> 00:27:57.839 and Jesus allows 00:27:57.839 --> 00:27:59.159 no one to follow him. 00:27:59.399 --> 00:28:00.559 The crowd is put away 00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:01.720 except Peter and James 00:28:01.720 --> 00:28:02.159 and John, 00:28:02.220 --> 00:28:03.139 the brother of James. 00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:04.700 And they came 00:28:04.700 --> 00:28:05.339 to the house 00:28:05.339 --> 00:28:05.859 of the ruler 00:28:05.859 --> 00:28:06.480 of the synagogue. 00:28:07.099 --> 00:28:07.779 So there's now 00:28:07.779 --> 00:28:08.539 just Jairus, 00:28:08.680 --> 00:28:08.920 Peter, 00:28:09.079 --> 00:28:09.339 James, 00:28:09.440 --> 00:28:09.879 and John. 00:28:10.399 --> 00:28:11.440 They came to the house 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:11.859 of the ruler 00:28:11.859 --> 00:28:12.399 of the synagogue 00:28:12.399 --> 00:28:13.759 and Jesus saw a commotion, 00:28:13.899 --> 00:28:14.519 people weeping 00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:15.440 and wailing loudly. 00:28:15.740 --> 00:28:16.619 And by the way, 00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:18.000 this isn't a bad sign, 00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:19.139 that's just how they grieve. 00:28:19.639 --> 00:28:20.599 People from that time, 00:28:20.599 --> 00:28:21.279 if they came to one 00:28:21.279 --> 00:28:22.019 of our funerals, 00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:22.419 they'd go, 00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:23.799 did they even like 00:28:23.799 --> 00:28:24.419 that person? 00:28:24.599 --> 00:28:24.759 Like, 00:28:24.799 --> 00:28:25.719 they're all just quiet. 00:28:27.899 --> 00:28:28.219 Right? 00:28:28.339 --> 00:28:28.500 Like, 00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:29.459 we'd look at a funeral 00:28:29.459 --> 00:28:30.740 and we'd be saying, 00:28:30.779 --> 00:28:31.859 are they all mentally ill? 00:28:32.119 --> 00:28:32.299 Like, 00:28:32.339 --> 00:28:33.319 what's the problem with that? 00:28:33.339 --> 00:28:34.019 But they'd be looking 00:28:34.019 --> 00:28:34.619 at us and saying, 00:28:34.679 --> 00:28:35.199 did they even like 00:28:35.199 --> 00:28:35.480 the person? 00:28:35.480 --> 00:28:36.359 Just the way they grieve, 00:28:36.419 --> 00:28:36.799 that's all. 00:28:37.159 --> 00:28:37.759 So they're weeping 00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:38.859 and wailing loudly. 00:28:38.859 --> 00:28:39.579 Verse 39, 00:28:39.719 --> 00:28:40.799 And when Jesus had entered, 00:28:40.879 --> 00:28:41.479 he said to them, 00:28:41.899 --> 00:28:42.559 Why are you making 00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:43.579 a commotion and weeping? 00:28:43.639 --> 00:28:44.619 The child is not dead, 00:28:44.719 --> 00:28:45.339 but sleeping. 00:28:46.719 --> 00:28:47.099 Now, 00:28:47.139 --> 00:28:47.979 just sort of pause here. 00:28:48.059 --> 00:28:48.699 This has caused 00:28:48.699 --> 00:28:49.839 lots of debate 00:28:49.839 --> 00:28:50.899 in commentaries 00:28:50.899 --> 00:28:51.719 in other circles. 00:28:52.699 --> 00:28:54.599 And just to emphasize 00:28:54.599 --> 00:28:55.719 that if you could go back 00:28:55.719 --> 00:28:56.519 in a time machine 00:28:56.519 --> 00:28:57.859 and you had a doctor 00:28:57.859 --> 00:28:58.599 with you, 00:28:59.259 --> 00:29:00.579 and you could go back 00:29:00.579 --> 00:29:01.219 in a time machine 00:29:01.219 --> 00:29:02.079 and also get the ability 00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:03.199 to understand Aramaic 00:29:03.199 --> 00:29:04.539 or Hebrew or Greek 00:29:04.539 --> 00:29:05.439 or whatever they're speaking, 00:29:05.799 --> 00:29:06.939 the doctor would pronounce 00:29:06.940 --> 00:29:07.640 the girl dead. 00:29:08.779 --> 00:29:09.920 So Jesus isn't saying, 00:29:10.019 --> 00:29:10.460 no, no, no, no, 00:29:10.460 --> 00:29:11.380 she's just in a coma. 00:29:11.500 --> 00:29:12.440 He's not saying that. 00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:14.039 What he's doing 00:29:14.039 --> 00:29:14.799 is he's speaking 00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:15.880 to the disciples, 00:29:16.259 --> 00:29:17.740 he's speaking down the years, 00:29:17.860 --> 00:29:19.180 he's speaking to you and me, 00:29:19.240 --> 00:29:19.940 and he's giving us 00:29:19.940 --> 00:29:21.000 one of the images. 00:29:21.740 --> 00:29:23.039 This whole story 00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:23.720 is giving us 00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:24.580 one of the images, 00:29:24.700 --> 00:29:25.460 not all of them, 00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:26.360 but one of the images 00:29:26.360 --> 00:29:27.480 for us to understand 00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:28.640 our own death in Jesus. 00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:32.220 And one of the fundamental ways, 00:29:32.220 --> 00:29:33.400 one of the fundamental ways 00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:34.920 to understand your death in Jesus 00:29:34.920 --> 00:29:36.180 if you are in Christ 00:29:36.180 --> 00:29:41.759 is that when it comes time 00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:42.580 for me to death, 00:29:42.779 --> 00:29:44.680 to die in Christ, 00:29:45.100 --> 00:29:47.299 I am falling asleep in Christ. 00:29:50.360 --> 00:29:51.720 And I can look forward 00:29:51.720 --> 00:29:52.340 to the day 00:29:52.340 --> 00:29:54.420 when just as Jesus 00:29:54.420 --> 00:29:55.240 is about to do 00:29:55.240 --> 00:29:56.000 to the young girl, 00:29:56.940 --> 00:29:58.140 he's going to say to me, 00:29:59.039 --> 00:30:01.600 he's going to say to me, 00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:03.500 wake up. 00:30:03.500 --> 00:30:03.560 Wake up. 00:30:06.180 --> 00:30:08.019 And arise. 00:30:09.840 --> 00:30:11.440 That is the Christian hope. 00:30:15.360 --> 00:30:16.980 That in the far side of death, 00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:17.539 one day, 00:30:18.060 --> 00:30:21.000 I am asleep in Christ, 00:30:21.660 --> 00:30:22.840 and he will appear, 00:30:23.700 --> 00:30:24.700 and he will say, 00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:25.420 George, 00:30:26.420 --> 00:30:27.820 wake up. 00:30:28.860 --> 00:30:29.759 Arise and walk. 00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:32.480 And in that new heaven 00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:33.519 and in that new earth 00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:34.740 with a resurrected body, 00:30:35.160 --> 00:30:36.859 I will arise, 00:30:37.859 --> 00:30:38.980 and I will walk 00:30:38.980 --> 00:30:40.200 in that new heaven 00:30:40.200 --> 00:30:40.960 and that new earth, 00:30:41.180 --> 00:30:42.059 and I will eat 00:30:42.059 --> 00:30:43.039 in that new heaven 00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:43.940 and that new earth, 00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:46.000 because I will be at home 00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:47.259 in that new heaven 00:30:47.259 --> 00:30:48.279 and that new earth, 00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:50.720 not because of anything in me, 00:30:50.799 --> 00:30:51.779 but because of Christ. 00:30:51.779 --> 00:30:51.980 Christ. 00:30:52.980 --> 00:30:55.359 And that is your destiny 00:30:55.359 --> 00:30:56.480 in Christ. 00:30:56.980 --> 00:30:57.799 In Christ, 00:30:58.500 --> 00:30:59.899 love is stronger 00:30:59.899 --> 00:31:00.799 than death. 00:31:01.940 --> 00:31:03.079 In Christ, 00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:05.180 death does not have 00:31:05.180 --> 00:31:06.160 the final word. 00:31:06.819 --> 00:31:07.619 In Christ, 00:31:08.279 --> 00:31:10.180 life has the final word. 00:31:11.059 --> 00:31:12.740 Christ has the final word. 00:31:13.819 --> 00:31:15.200 And that final word 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:16.619 is the first word 00:31:16.619 --> 00:31:17.359 of the new beginning, 00:31:17.359 --> 00:31:19.079 because I will walk 00:31:19.079 --> 00:31:19.939 in that new world 00:31:19.939 --> 00:31:21.740 and eat and dwell 00:31:21.740 --> 00:31:22.419 and be at home 00:31:22.419 --> 00:31:23.219 in that new world 00:31:23.219 --> 00:31:24.519 with my Savior. 00:31:29.479 --> 00:31:30.959 So he doesn't say sleeping 00:31:30.959 --> 00:31:31.719 because he thinks 00:31:31.719 --> 00:31:32.339 she's asleep. 00:31:32.439 --> 00:31:33.159 He says sleeping 00:31:33.159 --> 00:31:34.099 so that you and I 00:31:34.099 --> 00:31:35.119 can have a powerful 00:31:35.119 --> 00:31:36.319 and wonderful image, 00:31:36.479 --> 00:31:37.000 one image, 00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:37.539 of what it means 00:31:37.539 --> 00:31:38.359 to die in Christ. 00:31:41.639 --> 00:31:42.459 Verse 40, 00:31:42.519 --> 00:31:43.399 and they laughed at him, 00:31:43.619 --> 00:31:44.339 made fun of him. 00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:46.240 He put them all outside 00:31:46.240 --> 00:31:47.539 and took the child's 00:31:47.539 --> 00:31:48.259 father and mother 00:31:48.259 --> 00:31:49.440 and those who were with him 00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:50.980 and went in where the child was 00:31:50.980 --> 00:31:52.599 and taking her by the hand. 00:31:53.519 --> 00:31:54.480 He said to her, 00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:56.000 Talitha Kumi, 00:31:56.200 --> 00:31:57.099 which is Aramaic, 00:31:57.779 --> 00:31:59.259 a language which doesn't exist 00:31:59.259 --> 00:32:00.480 fundamentally anymore, 00:32:01.019 --> 00:32:01.660 which means, 00:32:01.759 --> 00:32:02.200 little girl, 00:32:02.660 --> 00:32:03.319 I say to you, 00:32:03.380 --> 00:32:03.759 arise. 00:32:05.579 --> 00:32:06.140 And immediately, 00:32:06.259 --> 00:32:06.920 the girl got up 00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:07.759 and began walking, 00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:09.400 for she was 12 years of age 00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:10.279 and they were immediately 00:32:10.279 --> 00:32:11.779 overcome with amazement 00:32:11.779 --> 00:32:13.220 and he strictly charged them 00:32:13.220 --> 00:32:14.480 that no one should know this 00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:15.940 and told them to give her 00:32:15.940 --> 00:32:17.340 something to eat. 00:32:23.660 --> 00:32:25.019 Just sort of in closing 00:32:25.019 --> 00:32:25.820 about this, 00:32:26.700 --> 00:32:27.960 just a couple of things. 00:32:28.559 --> 00:32:29.360 I'm going to talk about this 00:32:29.360 --> 00:32:30.640 a little bit more next week 00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:32.220 because the next text 00:32:32.220 --> 00:32:33.759 which immediately comes after this 00:32:33.759 --> 00:32:34.759 is a case where Jesus 00:32:34.759 --> 00:32:35.799 goes to his hometown 00:32:35.799 --> 00:32:38.620 and they look down their nose at him 00:32:38.620 --> 00:32:39.720 and they have no faith 00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:41.100 and he heals very few people. 00:32:41.220 --> 00:32:42.160 So I'm going to talk about this 00:32:42.160 --> 00:32:43.400 a little bit more next week, 00:32:43.539 --> 00:32:44.000 God willing. 00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:46.099 But one of the things 00:32:46.099 --> 00:32:47.180 just to say about this 00:32:47.180 --> 00:32:48.619 as I'm sort of wrapping it up 00:32:48.619 --> 00:32:51.220 is that this gives us Christians, 00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:52.400 so first of all, 00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:53.759 this is why Christians 00:32:53.759 --> 00:32:55.500 invented hospitals 00:32:55.500 --> 00:32:59.460 because we're about healing. 00:32:59.819 --> 00:33:00.480 We should be. 00:33:01.660 --> 00:33:03.220 Now I know we have all sorts of, 00:33:03.440 --> 00:33:03.619 you know, 00:33:03.700 --> 00:33:05.980 and we're about healing 00:33:05.980 --> 00:33:08.299 and we should be praying 00:33:08.299 --> 00:33:09.980 that people come up 00:33:09.980 --> 00:33:10.819 with better medicines 00:33:10.819 --> 00:33:12.319 and we should pray for the sick 00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:13.480 and we should pray in faith. 00:33:14.039 --> 00:33:15.140 And if you pray in faith 00:33:15.140 --> 00:33:15.740 as a Christian, 00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:17.140 there's three basic outcomes. 00:33:17.339 --> 00:33:18.599 The first outcome is this, 00:33:19.140 --> 00:33:20.059 that God, 00:33:20.180 --> 00:33:21.259 that Christ might heal 00:33:21.259 --> 00:33:22.680 the person you're praying for 00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:24.420 miraculously and instantaneously 00:33:24.420 --> 00:33:26.120 and probably many of us 00:33:26.120 --> 00:33:27.019 have stories of that 00:33:27.019 --> 00:33:27.779 actually happening. 00:33:28.759 --> 00:33:29.799 The second thing is 00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:31.220 sometimes he heals slowly, 00:33:32.039 --> 00:33:33.980 a combination maybe of providence 00:33:33.980 --> 00:33:35.279 and of things like medicine. 00:33:36.339 --> 00:33:37.720 And the third thing is, 00:33:38.120 --> 00:33:39.360 and this is the most important, 00:33:39.940 --> 00:33:40.640 is that in Christ 00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:41.660 he will heal finally 00:33:41.660 --> 00:33:42.819 in the resurrection. 00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:46.940 The loved one that you have 00:33:46.940 --> 00:33:48.319 whose body is racked 00:33:48.319 --> 00:33:50.360 with Parkinson's or cancer 00:33:50.360 --> 00:33:51.480 and seems to be 00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:53.099 but a shadow or a husk 00:33:53.099 --> 00:33:57.660 or a grotesque-looking being 00:33:57.660 --> 00:33:59.380 far from what you had known 00:33:59.380 --> 00:33:59.980 and loved 00:33:59.980 --> 00:34:01.680 in Christ 00:34:01.680 --> 00:34:03.360 will walk. 00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:09.579 The healing is final 00:34:09.579 --> 00:34:11.260 and eternal. 00:34:14.420 --> 00:34:15.900 The second thing is 00:34:15.900 --> 00:34:17.940 that I think all human beings 00:34:17.940 --> 00:34:18.740 have an intuition. 00:34:21.300 --> 00:34:22.940 I mean, it's very, very funny. 00:34:23.139 --> 00:34:24.820 I'm not recommending you watch this, 00:34:24.820 --> 00:34:27.019 but if you watch Ricky Gervais' 00:34:27.300 --> 00:34:29.160 Three Seasons of Afterlife, 00:34:30.080 --> 00:34:32.660 which sometimes is very wise, 00:34:33.380 --> 00:34:34.700 sometimes is very funny, 00:34:35.360 --> 00:34:37.900 sometimes is just grossly disgusting, 00:34:38.900 --> 00:34:40.519 sometimes is filled with hatred 00:34:40.519 --> 00:34:41.460 of human beings. 00:34:42.380 --> 00:34:43.480 But Ricky Gervais, 00:34:43.600 --> 00:34:44.320 who's been an atheist 00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:45.480 almost his entire life, 00:34:45.539 --> 00:34:46.640 is a very public atheist. 00:34:46.860 --> 00:34:48.000 You can really see him 00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:49.059 wrestling with the fact 00:34:49.059 --> 00:34:49.780 because the whole thing 00:34:49.780 --> 00:34:50.480 is about a man 00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:51.620 who loves his wife 00:34:51.620 --> 00:34:52.620 who dies of cancer 00:34:52.619 --> 00:34:54.339 and considers suicide. 00:34:56.019 --> 00:34:57.119 And you see there, 00:34:57.259 --> 00:34:58.279 he has no categories 00:34:58.279 --> 00:34:59.059 to deal with it, 00:34:59.099 --> 00:35:01.199 but there's this fundamental intuition 00:35:01.199 --> 00:35:03.019 that love should be stronger 00:35:03.019 --> 00:35:03.759 than death 00:35:03.759 --> 00:35:04.900 and that death 00:35:04.900 --> 00:35:06.460 can't really be the end. 00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:08.059 And one of the things 00:35:08.059 --> 00:35:09.159 that we see in this story 00:35:09.159 --> 00:35:10.519 is that that intuition 00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:13.699 actually became fact 00:35:13.699 --> 00:35:15.639 and walked about in history. 00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:19.759 health, 00:35:20.279 --> 00:35:20.900 life, 00:35:21.779 --> 00:35:22.920 walked among us 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:24.119 and his name is Jesus. 00:35:26.500 --> 00:35:27.759 And the second thing 00:35:27.759 --> 00:35:29.239 that you can see in this story, 00:35:29.359 --> 00:35:30.000 and this shows you 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:31.279 the importance of the cross, 00:35:31.779 --> 00:35:32.619 one of the images 00:35:32.619 --> 00:35:33.359 that you'll see it 00:35:33.359 --> 00:35:33.960 towards the end 00:35:33.960 --> 00:35:35.099 of the Gospel of Mark 00:35:35.099 --> 00:35:36.319 is just before Jesus 00:35:36.319 --> 00:35:37.299 goes to the cross 00:35:37.299 --> 00:35:38.579 and I've talked about this before 00:35:38.579 --> 00:35:39.559 and I love this image 00:35:39.559 --> 00:35:40.799 and hopefully some of you 00:35:40.799 --> 00:35:41.879 love this image as well, 00:35:42.379 --> 00:35:43.699 is that Jesus is wrestling 00:35:43.699 --> 00:35:44.279 with the fact 00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:45.260 that when he's dying 00:35:45.260 --> 00:35:46.400 upon the cross 00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:47.820 that what he's actually doing 00:35:47.820 --> 00:35:49.040 is he's taking the cup 00:35:49.040 --> 00:35:49.880 from the Father. 00:35:50.500 --> 00:35:51.280 And the cup 00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:53.120 is this Old Testament image. 00:35:53.900 --> 00:35:54.760 And as I've shared 00:35:54.760 --> 00:35:55.320 with you before, 00:35:55.400 --> 00:35:56.220 what you can picture 00:35:56.220 --> 00:35:57.220 is that in a sense 00:35:57.220 --> 00:35:58.300 everything about me 00:35:58.300 --> 00:35:59.040 that's shameful, 00:35:59.580 --> 00:36:00.519 everything about me 00:36:00.519 --> 00:36:01.280 that's bad, 00:36:01.540 --> 00:36:02.480 everything about me 00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:03.460 that is wrong. 00:36:03.800 --> 00:36:05.000 And if you could just imagine 00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:05.960 an evil wizard 00:36:05.960 --> 00:36:06.720 or something like that, 00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:07.800 but in this case it's God 00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:08.840 who somehow or another 00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:10.380 could take all of that evil, 00:36:10.560 --> 00:36:11.540 all of that shame 00:36:11.540 --> 00:36:12.840 and it would become 00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:13.880 this foul, 00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:15.680 foul, 00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:17.440 disgusting looking liquid 00:36:17.440 --> 00:36:19.160 that drips out 00:36:19.160 --> 00:36:20.820 and all comes into a cup 00:36:20.820 --> 00:36:21.940 and at the end of it 00:36:21.940 --> 00:36:22.720 it's almost as if 00:36:22.720 --> 00:36:24.320 God would ring me 00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:24.900 to make sure 00:36:24.900 --> 00:36:26.380 that every single bit 00:36:26.380 --> 00:36:26.980 in me 00:36:26.980 --> 00:36:29.380 that is proud 00:36:29.380 --> 00:36:31.200 and lustful 00:36:31.200 --> 00:36:32.180 and envious 00:36:32.180 --> 00:36:33.080 and greedy 00:36:33.080 --> 00:36:34.100 and hateful 00:36:34.100 --> 00:36:35.360 and prejudiced 00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:36.760 and everything 00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:38.680 in me 00:36:38.680 --> 00:36:39.300 from the moment 00:36:39.300 --> 00:36:40.140 of my conception 00:36:40.140 --> 00:36:40.560 to the moment 00:36:40.560 --> 00:36:41.019 of my death, 00:36:41.180 --> 00:36:42.960 it's wrung out of me 00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:43.639 and it becomes 00:36:43.639 --> 00:36:44.420 like a cup 00:36:44.420 --> 00:36:46.699 and what you're 00:36:46.699 --> 00:36:47.380 to understand 00:36:47.380 --> 00:36:48.240 when Jesus dies 00:36:48.240 --> 00:36:49.039 upon the cross 00:36:49.039 --> 00:36:49.860 is in his death 00:36:49.860 --> 00:36:50.559 upon the cross 00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:51.119 what you see 00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:51.699 is Jesus 00:36:51.699 --> 00:36:53.699 drinking your cup. 00:36:53.699 --> 00:36:59.319 because he's man 00:36:59.319 --> 00:37:00.079 he can drink it 00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:01.119 for human beings 00:37:01.119 --> 00:37:02.299 and because he is God 00:37:02.299 --> 00:37:03.059 he can drink it 00:37:03.059 --> 00:37:03.899 for every person 00:37:03.899 --> 00:37:06.019 it's as if 00:37:06.019 --> 00:37:07.039 he looks around the room 00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:07.899 and he sees you 00:37:07.899 --> 00:37:11.379 he took the sip 00:37:11.379 --> 00:37:12.859 he sees you 00:37:12.859 --> 00:37:16.460 he drank the cup 00:37:16.460 --> 00:37:17.719 he sees you 00:37:17.719 --> 00:37:21.119 he drank the cup 00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:22.679 and when you see 00:37:22.679 --> 00:37:23.299 Jesus dying 00:37:23.299 --> 00:37:23.939 upon the cross 00:37:23.939 --> 00:37:24.559 you see him 00:37:24.559 --> 00:37:25.539 drinking that cup 00:37:25.539 --> 00:37:27.519 and you see 00:37:27.519 --> 00:37:28.099 this is a very 00:37:28.099 --> 00:37:29.139 very wonderful thing 00:37:29.139 --> 00:37:30.299 because in this new heaven 00:37:30.299 --> 00:37:31.219 and in this new earth 00:37:31.219 --> 00:37:31.980 and this salvation 00:37:31.980 --> 00:37:33.119 that you get in Christ 00:37:33.119 --> 00:37:34.759 is that young girl 00:37:34.759 --> 00:37:35.459 she died 00:37:35.459 --> 00:37:35.939 but she 00:37:35.939 --> 00:37:36.779 she enters 00:37:36.779 --> 00:37:37.659 the realm of death 00:37:37.659 --> 00:37:38.679 but at the 00:37:38.679 --> 00:37:40.000 Jesus calls her back 00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:41.059 from the realm of the dead 00:37:41.059 --> 00:37:42.219 to this side of the grave 00:37:42.219 --> 00:37:43.339 but she will one day die 00:37:43.339 --> 00:37:43.799 Jesus 00:37:43.799 --> 00:37:45.259 drinks your cup 00:37:45.259 --> 00:37:45.759 and mine 00:37:45.759 --> 00:37:46.219 and the cup 00:37:46.219 --> 00:37:47.259 of every human being 00:37:47.260 --> 00:37:49.500 that he enters 00:37:49.500 --> 00:37:50.200 into all there is 00:37:50.200 --> 00:37:51.440 to taste of death 00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:53.260 and at the end of the day 00:37:53.260 --> 00:37:54.240 on the third day 00:37:54.240 --> 00:37:55.740 he rises on the far side 00:37:55.740 --> 00:37:56.240 of death 00:37:56.240 --> 00:37:58.320 having drunk your cup 00:37:58.320 --> 00:38:00.480 and that means 00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:01.280 that in his death 00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:02.000 and resurrection 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:03.940 every single bit 00:38:03.940 --> 00:38:05.240 of evil and shame 00:38:05.240 --> 00:38:06.960 that you have ever done 00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:07.820 or ever will do 00:38:07.820 --> 00:38:10.380 he is drunk for you 00:38:10.380 --> 00:38:13.520 and when you put 00:38:13.520 --> 00:38:14.480 your faith and trust 00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:15.040 in him 00:38:15.040 --> 00:38:15.620 you are putting 00:38:15.620 --> 00:38:16.520 your faith and trust 00:38:16.520 --> 00:38:17.020 in the one 00:38:17.019 --> 00:38:17.800 who is on that far 00:38:17.800 --> 00:38:18.519 side of death 00:38:18.519 --> 00:38:19.019 and has drunk 00:38:19.019 --> 00:38:19.599 your cup 00:38:19.599 --> 00:38:20.699 and it means 00:38:20.699 --> 00:38:21.300 there is nothing 00:38:21.300 --> 00:38:22.139 that is ever going 00:38:22.139 --> 00:38:22.639 to come up 00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:23.739 that will so shock him 00:38:23.739 --> 00:38:25.099 and make him repulsive 00:38:25.099 --> 00:38:25.900 and dismiss you 00:38:25.900 --> 00:38:26.719 that he will turn away 00:38:26.719 --> 00:38:27.179 from you 00:38:27.179 --> 00:38:28.960 the health 00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:29.480 and the life 00:38:29.480 --> 00:38:29.980 that you have 00:38:29.980 --> 00:38:30.539 in Christ 00:38:30.539 --> 00:38:31.840 is eternal 00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:35.740 you don't have to worry 00:38:35.739 --> 00:38:36.239 that something 00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:36.859 that something will come out 00:38:36.859 --> 00:38:37.500 that will make him 00:38:37.500 --> 00:38:38.419 change his mind 00:38:38.419 --> 00:38:40.079 it isn't as if 00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:41.000 you know in those movies 00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:41.679 where you think 00:38:41.679 --> 00:38:42.879 you've killed the bad guy 00:38:42.879 --> 00:38:44.219 and then you see 00:38:44.219 --> 00:38:45.000 the little finger 00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:46.119 twitch a tiny bit 00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:47.000 and you realize 00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:47.559 the monster 00:38:47.559 --> 00:38:48.519 hasn't been killed 00:38:48.519 --> 00:38:51.319 when you receive 00:38:51.319 --> 00:38:52.399 the health from Christ 00:38:52.399 --> 00:38:53.559 when you die in Christ 00:38:53.559 --> 00:38:54.559 in a sensory in him 00:38:54.559 --> 00:38:55.339 there's no twitch 00:38:55.339 --> 00:38:56.239 of your old man 00:38:56.239 --> 00:38:58.599 it's all consumed 00:38:58.599 --> 00:39:00.459 all dealt with 00:39:00.460 --> 00:39:01.039 in the cross 00:39:01.039 --> 00:39:03.099 and you share 00:39:03.099 --> 00:39:04.059 in his resurrection 00:39:04.059 --> 00:39:06.780 brothers and sisters 00:39:06.780 --> 00:39:07.699 that's my hope 00:39:07.699 --> 00:39:10.019 that is a Christian hope 00:39:10.019 --> 00:39:13.360 I am by nature 00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:14.119 a marsh wiggle 00:39:14.119 --> 00:39:16.500 if I had a patron saint 00:39:16.500 --> 00:39:17.260 whose name would be 00:39:17.260 --> 00:39:17.880 Puddle Glum 00:39:17.880 --> 00:39:21.760 I am not a natural optimist 00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:24.119 but that is the Christian hope 00:39:24.119 --> 00:39:25.820 that is my hope 00:39:25.820 --> 00:39:27.139 and my prayer is 00:39:27.139 --> 00:39:27.699 that that will be 00:39:27.699 --> 00:39:28.220 more and more 00:39:28.220 --> 00:39:28.840 your hope 00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:30.440 please stand 00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:33.360 if you're here 00:39:33.360 --> 00:39:34.639 if you're watching 00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:37.099 I just want to say to you 00:39:37.099 --> 00:39:38.400 the story about 00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:39.179 what Jesus did 00:39:39.179 --> 00:39:39.740 to that woman 00:39:39.740 --> 00:39:40.480 there is nobody 00:39:40.480 --> 00:39:41.320 so bad 00:39:41.320 --> 00:39:42.940 or so dismissed 00:39:42.940 --> 00:39:43.760 or so invisible 00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:45.260 that Jesus doesn't see you 00:39:45.260 --> 00:39:45.920 and he didn't die 00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:46.619 for you as well 00:39:46.619 --> 00:39:47.639 nobody 00:39:47.639 --> 00:39:49.960 and all you have to do 00:39:49.960 --> 00:39:50.440 is just say 00:39:50.440 --> 00:39:50.820 Jesus 00:39:50.820 --> 00:39:51.880 be my savior 00:39:51.880 --> 00:39:52.519 and my lord 00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:54.039 be my health 00:39:54.039 --> 00:39:54.780 and my healing 00:39:54.780 --> 00:39:56.119 and thank you 00:39:56.119 --> 00:39:56.659 that you will never 00:39:56.659 --> 00:39:57.300 let me go 00:39:57.300 --> 00:39:59.360 and he will hear 00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:00.360 your call 00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:01.140 and your prayer 00:40:01.140 --> 00:40:02.539 and he will make 00:40:02.539 --> 00:40:03.079 you his 00:40:03.079 --> 00:40:04.840 let's bow our heads 00:40:04.840 --> 00:40:05.280 in prayer 00:40:05.280 --> 00:40:08.500 father thank you 00:40:08.500 --> 00:40:09.160 so much 00:40:09.160 --> 00:40:10.740 that Jesus 00:40:10.740 --> 00:40:11.920 loved us so much 00:40:11.920 --> 00:40:13.780 thank you father 00:40:13.780 --> 00:40:15.079 that he in humility 00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:15.840 and in love 00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:17.099 was willing to set aside 00:40:17.099 --> 00:40:18.019 his prerogatives 00:40:18.019 --> 00:40:18.900 and his glory 00:40:18.900 --> 00:40:19.640 and his power 00:40:19.640 --> 00:40:20.260 as God 00:40:20.260 --> 00:40:21.340 to come amongst us 00:40:21.340 --> 00:40:22.440 to be Emmanuel 00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:23.760 to be God with us 00:40:23.760 --> 00:40:24.820 to be with us 00:40:24.820 --> 00:40:25.480 in our mess 00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:26.860 only without sin 00:40:26.860 --> 00:40:27.980 thank you 00:40:27.980 --> 00:40:28.200 thank you that he 00:40:28.200 --> 00:40:29.360 knows us so perfectly 00:40:29.360 --> 00:40:30.780 and loves us so perfectly 00:40:30.780 --> 00:40:31.820 and so deeply 00:40:31.820 --> 00:40:33.400 and thank you father 00:40:33.400 --> 00:40:34.240 that you don't weigh 00:40:34.240 --> 00:40:34.980 our merits 00:40:34.980 --> 00:40:35.980 that you know 00:40:35.980 --> 00:40:36.820 every single one 00:40:36.820 --> 00:40:37.519 of our offenses 00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:38.920 and that when we put 00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:39.820 our faith and trust 00:40:39.820 --> 00:40:40.380 in Jesus 00:40:40.380 --> 00:40:41.280 that every one 00:40:41.280 --> 00:40:42.039 of those offenses 00:40:42.039 --> 00:40:42.760 is gone 00:40:42.760 --> 00:40:45.099 and that you clothe us 00:40:45.099 --> 00:40:45.480 father 00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:46.140 in Jesus' 00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:47.240 perfect life 00:40:47.240 --> 00:40:48.180 that you clothe us 00:40:48.180 --> 00:40:49.160 in his health 00:40:49.160 --> 00:40:50.579 in his life 00:40:50.579 --> 00:40:51.980 in his light 00:40:51.980 --> 00:40:53.300 in his goodness 00:40:53.300 --> 00:40:54.900 in his mercy 00:40:54.900 --> 00:40:56.600 in his justice 00:40:56.600 --> 00:40:58.860 that that's how 00:40:58.860 --> 00:40:59.920 you clothe us 00:40:59.920 --> 00:41:02.560 and it's all father 00:41:02.560 --> 00:41:04.019 an act of grace 00:41:04.019 --> 00:41:05.539 which is so remarkable 00:41:05.539 --> 00:41:06.720 and so deep 00:41:06.720 --> 00:41:07.640 and so wide 00:41:07.640 --> 00:41:08.480 and so thick 00:41:08.480 --> 00:41:09.280 that we desperately 00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:10.320 need to come together 00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:11.080 once a week 00:41:11.080 --> 00:41:12.960 to be reminded of it 00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:14.100 because it so easily 00:41:14.100 --> 00:41:15.220 flits from our mind 00:41:15.220 --> 00:41:16.120 it is so big 00:41:16.120 --> 00:41:17.420 and yet so real 00:41:17.420 --> 00:41:18.160 and we thank you 00:41:18.160 --> 00:41:18.940 that you offer it 00:41:18.940 --> 00:41:20.340 to people like us 00:41:20.340 --> 00:41:21.480 and father 00:41:21.480 --> 00:41:22.180 we ask that you 00:41:22.180 --> 00:41:22.900 fan into flame 00:41:22.900 --> 00:41:23.320 with us 00:41:23.320 --> 00:41:24.099 an ever deeper 00:41:24.099 --> 00:41:25.619 hope in Jesus 00:41:25.619 --> 00:41:26.579 as our hope 00:41:26.579 --> 00:41:27.180 of glory 00:41:27.180 --> 00:41:28.220 our hope 00:41:28.220 --> 00:41:28.880 of life 00:41:28.880 --> 00:41:29.840 our hope 00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:30.440 of health 00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:32.320 that he is our hope 00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:33.480 and help us 00:41:33.480 --> 00:41:34.180 to bear witness 00:41:34.180 --> 00:41:34.720 to that 00:41:34.720 --> 00:41:35.740 in a culture 00:41:35.740 --> 00:41:36.559 which has closed 00:41:36.559 --> 00:41:37.119 its ears 00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:38.420 but you still 00:41:38.420 --> 00:41:39.320 have those father 00:41:39.320 --> 00:41:39.880 who want 00:41:39.880 --> 00:41:40.740 that you know 00:41:40.740 --> 00:41:41.680 you are calling 00:41:41.680 --> 00:41:42.180 to yourself 00:41:42.180 --> 00:41:43.019 and help us father 00:41:43.019 --> 00:41:43.660 to bear witness 00:41:43.660 --> 00:41:44.240 to Jesus 00:41:44.240 --> 00:41:45.720 and we ask this 00:41:45.720 --> 00:41:46.639 in the name of Jesus 00:41:46.639 --> 00:41:47.200 your son 00:41:47.200 --> 00:41:47.820 and our savior 00:41:47.820 --> 00:41:48.820 amen