WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.839 You all know this probably, they know these passages really well, these stories about 00:00:10.839 --> 00:00:18.359 Jesus' healing. It's interesting, the older I get and probably the longer in the tooth 00:00:18.359 --> 00:00:25.359 spiritually as well at one level, the more I realise how little I know and how much I'm 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:32.159 still learning about God's Word. These are really well known stories, but I really pray 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:39.600 that tonight as we spend a few minutes together looking at them that you'll see something 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:44.960 fresh, that you'll see something fresh. I hope that over the course of studying I've 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:50.960 seen a few things that are fresh to me, always amazed at the new things that you learn from 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:57.079 God's unsearchable truths. But I'm only really going to scratch the surface for a few minutes. 00:00:57.079 --> 00:01:01.280 I hope that you'll go back and think about it and then you'll also be able to think about 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:07.599 things for city group as well. What I really want to deal with is the individuality of 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:15.680 the way Jesus deals with people, how perfectly He deals with individual people. And I want 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:25.120 you to think about that for yourselves, how you individually deal with other people and 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:33.480 how you share the good news with them as people, because nothing matters more for you and for 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:39.360 me. Nothing matters more than how we do that in our lives. And of course Jesus is our great 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:46.920 example, more than that of course. But Mark is just setting the scene about the character 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:55.879 of Jesus in these early chapters and he's really beginning to unfold the authority and 00:01:55.879 --> 00:02:03.920 the majesty and the character and the power of Jesus. We've had the calming of the waves. 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:08.759 We've had a variety of miraculous healings, legion. And now we come to this chapter where 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:14.679 there's two more healings and they're really speaking about who Jesus is and why He's 00:02:14.679 --> 00:02:20.879 come and the end game of actually why Jesus has come, which affects us all, the whole 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:28.759 reality of His power, sovereignty and healing in our lives. But it's also, while it's doing 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:38.239 that at kind of macro level, it's also unbelievably personal and very real in ordinary people's 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:45.120 lives. So you've got the famous stories, haven't you? You've got Jairus who comes, he's a well-to-do 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:52.600 synagogue ruler and would have been well-known public figure whose daughter is dying and 00:02:52.600 --> 00:02:58.400 he's desperate. And he comes to Jesus and he flings himself down at Jesus' feet in 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:05.120 front of everyone and just pleads for Jesus to come and heal his daughter. Jesus agrees. 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:08.960 And on the way there, there's big crowds following Jesus by this time. They've heard 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:12.599 about all the things that have gone on and they're all coming together and pressing on 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:18.039 Him. And as they do so, there's this woman in the crowd, very anonymous woman who comes 00:03:18.039 --> 00:03:23.319 and says, all I need to do, I've heard about this Jesus. If I just touch the hem of His 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:30.120 garment, I'm sure I'll be healed of this disease of bleeding that I'd left are unclean for, 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:37.719 said them only unclean for 12 years, probably unable to work, probably poverty stricken, 00:03:37.719 --> 00:03:42.759 we're told that he should spend all our money trying to be healed. She was desperate for 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:48.120 Jesus to do his healing work. And of course, she touches him or the hem of his garment and 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:54.599 he's healed. She's healed. And it doesn't stay there, of course, as we'll see as we 00:03:54.599 --> 00:04:02.519 move on. But she's healed. Jesus moves on. If someone comes from Jairus's house, they 00:04:02.519 --> 00:04:08.680 don't bother the master anymore because your daughter has died, devastating words. Jesus 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:15.680 ignores them and says, look, don't be afraid, just believe. And then he goes into the house 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:20.800 with Peter, James and John and the parents and takes her by the hand and restores her 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:28.079 life. And that's the story, brilliant story, isn't it? Tremendous insight into the character 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:34.240 and into the majesty of Jesus. I just want to make a few points for you to take away 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:41.519 and mull over and think about and discuss together. The first is to remember that these 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:50.000 events were 12 years in the making. I think there's a lot of significance in that. The 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:56.639 events were 12 years in the making. This grown woman, I don't know what to call her, mature 00:04:56.639 --> 00:05:02.959 woman, a lady. We're not giving her names. So this grown up woman, I've always envisaged 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:06.480 her being an old woman, but I don't know why. There's no reason for her being an old woman 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:14.279 at all. But she's this grown woman and she's had 12 years of suffering and pain and misery 00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:22.599 and very probably unanswered prayers, at least from her viewpoint. Doubtless she would have 00:05:22.599 --> 00:05:30.759 been lonely. She would have been, as I said, ceremonially unclean, isolated. Maybe 12 and 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:39.559 maybe more years of broken dreams that take her to this point, 12 years in the making. 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:45.399 And the little girl also was 12 years old. And her life had presumably been very, very 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:49.600 different. We don't know much about her. We don't know anything about the illness. We 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:53.280 don't know whether it was sudden or whether it had been with her for a long time. But 00:05:53.280 --> 00:06:00.000 she was surrounded by love and care and by a secure family and by a father and a mother, 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:06.639 although we're not told much about the mother, but they were there at her bedside and the 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:16.519 father had completed for her health. 12 years in the making for her also. And yet in the 00:06:16.519 --> 00:06:26.000 urgency of this moment, Jesus was able to stop and before going to the daughter's house 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:34.319 take time to focus on the woman, the mature woman, the grown woman who was in great need. 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:40.920 And I think within that, there's a great message for us that God's timing was absolutely 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:48.219 right for both of them. 12 years in the making. Now, I believe entirely in the historicity 00:06:48.219 --> 00:06:55.199 of this account that she was 12 years old and the woman had suffered 12 years. But I 00:06:55.199 --> 00:07:03.680 also think that there is symbolism within that also because 12 is a significant number 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:09.199 of biblical, it's a number of God's perfection of completeness. It's often used in connection 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:14.800 with God's sovereign power and authority. And that links in with what Mark is unfolding 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:21.720 here about the character and nature of Jesus. And it's just saying that for both of these 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:29.439 people, the time was absolutely right. God's timing was perfect. Seemed a long time to 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:41.480 be praying that woman 12 years, seemingly heavens as brass. And you know, there's no telling 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:47.079 what the 12 years of that young daughter of gyros was like, how beautiful and happy and 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:55.920 joyful it had been. And yet at this point, she dies. And we're always faced with lots 00:07:55.920 --> 00:08:01.800 of questions about God's timing, God's sovereignty, God's involvement, particularly in suffering 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:10.759 and death and disease and illness. And yet we're reminded God's timing as we pray is 00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:21.200 always perfect. And so in applying that, I want you to always be aware of the importance 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:29.399 of keeping praying, not just for ourselves, but keeping praying also for unbelievers and 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:38.000 for God's timing to answer our prayers on their behalf. And pray also for discernment 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:44.200 as to his answers and what his answers will look like. Because very often his answers to 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:56.360 our prayers, the displays of his power will be in direct reality to our own weakness and 00:08:56.360 --> 00:09:08.000 need. And remember that his perfect timing for us will always bring perfect healing, 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:16.600 ultimately. And that is a very important message to remember that our salvation and our sanctification 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:23.960 will always lead to perfect healing eternally for us. Because these miracles are pointing 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:31.360 to that God's timing within this sphere of life is always right. Keep praying. Don't 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:37.800 ever give up. Don't ever give up praying for the impossible as well as for the seemingly 00:09:37.800 --> 00:09:43.560 unanswered requests that we have. So that's the first point I want to make, that these 00:09:43.560 --> 00:09:50.360 events were 12 years in the making. The second is that we don't know in our lives in whom 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:57.639 God is working. Okay? So here's two different people. We've got the woman in the crowd who's 00:09:57.639 --> 00:10:04.199 completely anonymous really within the crowd. Nobody really noticed her. Nobody seemed to 00:10:04.199 --> 00:10:10.600 care about her. She had no one to bring her to the Lord. She had to come on her own and 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:19.199 plead on her own behalf. There was no one really who was able to represent her before 00:10:19.199 --> 00:10:26.759 the Lord. And nobody seemed to think that Jesus would be interested in really anyone 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:37.840 specifically in that crowd as he turned round. Jairus was a synagogue ruler, very public 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:45.799 figure, belonging to a group of people who weren't known for their sympathies with Jesus 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:51.639 and who wouldn't necessarily have wanted to associate themselves with a rebel teacher. 00:10:51.639 --> 00:11:01.080 But both of them had very deep heart-rending need for divine help. Who would have known? 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:06.799 Who would have made that choice between an anonymous woman in the crowd and this respected 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:12.919 religious family man? I wonder if we would have chosen them as the ones in whom God was 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:19.879 working because that's a lesson I think we should learn. That we don't make the judgments 00:11:19.879 --> 00:11:26.919 about the ones in whom God is working in our sphere among the people that we associate 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:32.159 with. It's easy for us to judge, isn't it? And pass by someone and think, they're so 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:37.240 anonymous there's no way, you know, there's no way God will be working in that person's 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:46.919 life. Who is it that's in our crowd that we don't notice? That we have presumed God will 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:53.639 not be working in their lives? We presume we won't be interested. Who maybe seems to 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:59.000 have it together? Who might be even religious? Who might be part of the church even? And 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:05.639 I think it's important to remember that we don't make the judgments about that. And 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:10.279 I would love us to pray and I would love myself to be praying much more for a change in my 00:12:10.279 --> 00:12:17.000 prayer so that I'm asking the Lord, will you please give me the discernment to know and 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:24.600 lead me to the people in whom you're already working? However unexpected that might be, 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:30.759 maybe the people at your work who castigate your faith most, who swear most and who are 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:36.319 most kind of outwardly rebellious against it, or others that maybe are high flying and 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:40.400 doing very well and have got that family and everything seems to be together and they 00:12:40.400 --> 00:12:47.080 seem wanting nothing, lacking nothing. Don't presume that they don't need or don't crave 00:12:47.080 --> 00:12:52.840 after pleading for God to intervene in their lives. You might be the person that God will 00:12:52.840 --> 00:13:00.320 use to bring them to Jesus. Pray that we will somehow get underneath the surface of people's 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:07.240 lives to see their need and to see that they may be the people in whom Jesus is working. 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:14.280 This is the second thing. Third thing is about faith because this is also very much a story 00:13:14.280 --> 00:13:19.520 about faith and how faith changes everything in people's lives. And it should be something 00:13:19.520 --> 00:13:23.760 that changes in our own lives as well. And I don't want us to lose sight of that. There's 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:30.399 one or two things here that reveal the difference faith makes in our lives. First of all, what 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:35.600 it does, I think, is it, and I'm thinking of this in relation to sharing our faith with 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:43.360 others as well as remembering who we are as Christians. It brings people into His family. 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:50.679 That's what coming to faith is. It is beautiful here in verse 34. We have Jesus' response 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:59.839 to the woman when she says who she is. He says, daughter, your faith has made you well. 00:13:59.839 --> 00:14:06.199 Go in peace and be healed of your disease. How powerful would that word have been to 00:14:06.199 --> 00:14:12.399 that woman? Remember her? She was kind of anonymous. She was afraid. She wanted just quietly to 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:16.439 touch his garments and walk away again. Nobody would know anything about it. And she would 00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:21.760 just happily go and live in quiet submission because she was worthy of Jesus. She wouldn't 00:14:21.760 --> 00:14:26.640 have been worthy to be in his company or to speak to him or ask him for anything. Just 00:14:26.640 --> 00:14:34.640 touch the hem of his garment. The isolation, loneliness. And yet he says to her the very 00:14:34.640 --> 00:14:43.780 word she needed to hear, daughter, your daughter of the King, immediate belonging and identity 00:14:43.779 --> 00:14:51.199 and peace and a future. Tremendous that that's how Jesus, he kind of acts like the father 00:14:51.199 --> 00:14:59.079 here, God the Father. And he says, daughter, words of great healing and great comfort to 00:14:59.079 --> 00:15:06.879 her. She needed to know that belonging. And then he goes to Jairus and he goes and goes 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:14.600 into the room with Jairus and his wife and the close disciples and Jesus and having pushed 00:15:14.600 --> 00:15:20.519 everyone else out who was laughing at him. And when he speaks to her, this little girl 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:28.200 of 12 years old who was dead, he says, Talitha kumai. Now I'm no linguist, but I know people 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:36.440 who are and who say that that is just a very fatherly, parental way of gently waking up 00:15:36.440 --> 00:15:45.560 a child, darling, get up or honey, get up, babe, get up. Just colloquial way of just 00:15:45.560 --> 00:15:52.320 gently waking up a child just as any parent would. And here for this little girl, not 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:59.600 wanting to make her afraid, not wanting to make a drama, he just reminds her as if he's 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:08.320 a parent, waking her up in the morning and giving her something to eat. So there's great 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:14.399 language here of faith bringing and reminding those involved here that faith brings us into 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:25.040 a family. There's great fatherly glimpses here, the authority of his love. And that 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:31.519 when we as Christians, and when we're sharing our faith, we're inviting people into a family. 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:37.360 We're inviting people to belong. We're inviting people to become sons and daughters of the 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:43.679 king, however we explain that, however we find that significant for people today. And 00:16:43.679 --> 00:16:49.919 I think that's hugely important in sharing our faith. It's not a bang, bang, bang of moral 00:16:49.919 --> 00:16:56.240 imperatives. We're inviting people to know their father, their creator, their Lord, their 00:16:56.240 --> 00:17:01.639 judge, their Savior, their Redeemer. So it brings us into his family. And that's one 00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:07.159 of the elements of faith. Also, it can't be kept secret. Faith in this chapter is very 00:17:07.159 --> 00:17:14.319 clear that our faith and anyone's faith can't be kept secret. This woman, as we said, she 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:19.839 believed in Jesus. She so believed in him, she just thought she was unworthy to meet 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:24.519 him face to face, just touched his garment. Now, just before you say anything about that, 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:30.839 don't think that's magic. It's not like Jesus' garments had special powers. And if 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:35.240 you just touched him, you'd be healed. It wasn't like that. Because, you know, the 00:17:35.240 --> 00:17:38.319 disciples say, there's a whole lot of people pressing about you in the window, people all 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:43.679 getting healed, in some kind of magic way. It wasn't that it wasn't to do with this garment 00:17:43.679 --> 00:17:49.639 or some kind of magic potions of idea. It was just this faith that she had in his character 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:54.920 that she knew he was so important and so glorious and so great. She only needed to touch him 00:17:54.920 --> 00:18:00.960 and she was unworthy. And she just, again, because of her unworthiness, just wanted to 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:09.960 slip away. And yet when he turned around and said, who touched my garment? She was afraid, 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:17.000 but confessed. And of course, Jesus says these great, great words, daughter, because he wasn't 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:22.559 giving her a rebuke. He wasn't saying, oh, come on, who touched my clothes here? He wasn't 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:28.559 giving her a row. He was wanting her to confess because she now had dignity in front of all 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:34.799 of that crowd. And he wanted to say that she belonged and in the confession and in the 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:44.559 publicity of her public coming to faith in this Christ, he wanted to declare that dignity 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:56.279 in front of others and expose her unworthy unworthiness. She wasn't unworthy and he called 00:18:56.279 --> 00:19:02.279 her daughter. And you know, the same is true of Jairus, isn't he? He's already counted 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:09.480 the cost because he's fallen on his knees in public pleading for help. But he too was 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:17.279 afraid when he heard that bad news. But Jesus says to him, don't be afraid, just believe 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:26.360 and keep following me in this way. And so both of them are brought into the public and their 00:19:26.360 --> 00:19:32.480 faith is a confessional faith and their fears have to be overcome. Now, every one of us is 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:37.880 like that, isn't it, aren't we? Well, I certainly am. There's fear in my confession. There's 00:19:37.880 --> 00:19:46.880 fear of being known as a believer. And yet faith can't be kept secret. We are called 00:19:46.880 --> 00:19:55.560 to confess and believe and declare the praises of Him who we believe in. And that applies 00:19:55.560 --> 00:20:05.000 to you all in your own workplaces and in your own lives. You can't be a secret Christian. 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:11.039 Jesus calls us publicly to declare His name and to belong to Him and to say we are His 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:16.160 children. And that's a challenge that you maybe go out with as you leave this evening. 00:20:16.160 --> 00:20:21.359 And that's the challenge you need to bring to others in the Christian church in St. Columba's. 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:25.759 Maybe who you know are Christians, but I've never professed or confessed that or who are 00:20:25.759 --> 00:20:32.680 content to be secret Christians. God says, no, that you're my son, you're my daughter. 00:20:32.680 --> 00:20:36.640 It's like being ashamed of your own family. If you have a family that you love and care 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:44.000 for, you don't want to know I'm a lament. It's a nightmare. But this is with the eternal 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:51.519 kind of kings. The great glorious God. Can't be kept secret. And also we see clearly that 00:20:51.519 --> 00:20:59.560 faith, nearly finished, faith leads to worship versus 22 and also versus 33, where we have 00:20:59.559 --> 00:21:07.039 the same kind of words both times where she is the one who, or Jairus is the one who fell 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:15.240 at his Jesus feet and implored him earnestly. And then she before Jesus says the woman knowing 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:20.240 what had happened to her fell, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him. It's 00:21:20.240 --> 00:21:28.480 the same kind of picture both times that faith that they had led to worship. And it's just 00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:33.279 a reminder to us, isn't it? When we're speaking to people, we're not inviting them to a club 00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:41.559 or a philosophy or a morality. We're inviting them to worship, to come and in an active 00:21:41.559 --> 00:21:46.759 worship to their king, their God and their savior, and that in order to do that, they 00:21:46.759 --> 00:21:58.200 need to come to him in faith to believe that he exists and that he died for them. And he 00:21:58.200 --> 00:22:05.480 will often use our weakness and our suffering to bring us to a point of worship. And our 00:22:05.480 --> 00:22:15.559 own family just now, Katrina's, my nephew's little boy is in Glasgow having contracted 00:22:15.559 --> 00:22:22.720 E. Coli and he had a stroke, he's only two. Now our great prayer for that family is that 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:29.839 through the suffering and through the hardship that there's people all over the country praying 00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:39.960 for Callum. And we want that suffering to bring them to worship, to bring glory to God. 00:22:39.960 --> 00:22:45.600 Through that suffering that they will see healing and that they will see God's fatherly 00:22:45.600 --> 00:22:49.400 touch and that they will come to faith. And this isn't that awful, none of us look for 00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:55.280 that, none of us want that. But God will use that, that struggle and that battle that we 00:22:55.280 --> 00:23:02.759 face to enable us to fall on our knees and say, Lord Jesus, please help me. Please heal 00:23:02.759 --> 00:23:11.960 me. Please redeem me. And it leads to worship. And it leads to public worship. I think public 00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:18.200 worship is really important for Christians. It's been such a hard 18 months, isn't it, 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:25.200 with evidence going on, but we mustn't lose sight of the importance of gathering in public 00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:31.799 worship, confessing His name. And the last thing, so faith has these elements and many 00:23:31.799 --> 00:23:38.319 more of course. But I think faith pleads on behalf of others. We see that particularly 00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:46.279 with Jairus, don't we? The grown woman came on her own accord. But Jairus, it's about 00:23:46.279 --> 00:23:51.720 the faith of Jairus, not about the faith of the little girl in this account. But he was 00:23:51.720 --> 00:23:58.319 pleading on behalf of his daughter. And faith does that, doesn't it? That's what we're 00:23:58.319 --> 00:24:06.480 believing, that's why we pray for the loss because God uses us to plead for other people. 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:11.839 What a duty we have to do that. For all of you here as parents, what a duty for your 00:24:11.839 --> 00:24:18.919 children, covenant children, pleading on their behalf like Jairus did for his daughter. Pleading, 00:24:18.919 --> 00:24:28.919 what a great privilege. But children here pleading for your parents, or individuals here praying 00:24:28.919 --> 00:24:33.599 for your brothers or sisters or for your colleagues or for people whose names will never be brought 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:39.759 before a throne of God if you don't bring them. Again, that faith pleads on behalf of 00:24:39.759 --> 00:24:49.000 other people because we know what we have and we know what they don't have. And pray 00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:56.039 that we will be able to introduce people to Jesus in the way Jesus introduced himself 00:24:56.039 --> 00:25:08.160 to them. You know, as the God of the universe, God the Son, it's an amazing concept. The 00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:15.880 God of the universe as Jesus dealing with one sick anonymous woman and one 12 year old 00:25:15.880 --> 00:25:24.160 girl whose family was in crisis. That's how personal it gets with God. That individuality, 00:25:24.160 --> 00:25:29.680 that care, that insight, that discernment, that willingness to notice, that willingness 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:37.240 to stop, to be taken outside of your routine to understand. Now we're not Jesus, I know 00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:44.279 that, but we're His people. And likewise we're called to fall in His, to fall in our knees, 00:25:44.279 --> 00:25:49.920 to worship Him and strive to be more like Him. In the way we understand ourselves and 00:25:49.920 --> 00:25:56.640 His dealings with us, but also in the way we understand our dealing with other people 00:25:56.640 --> 00:26:06.480 as Christians, the individuality and the concern and the non-making of judgments about who 00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:14.200 we think God is lightly or unlikely to work in. And that may be a challenge for us, particularly 00:26:14.200 --> 00:26:40.160 in our lives.