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Well, Happy 1/3,
Mars Hill.

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It will take 106 sermons
to get through Luke,

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and today is number 35.

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We are 1/3
of the way through Luke,

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and today we are
in Luke 8:40-56.

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Jesus heals a woman and a girl.

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As you're turning there,
you're going to see Jesus

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absolutely transform the lives
of an older woman

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and a younger girl,
as he loves

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and serves them both
exceedingly well.

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We'll start with the fact that
Jesus cleanses in Luke 8:40-48,

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and jump right into the story.

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Luke 8:40, "Now when Jesus
returned--" returned from where?

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Casting demons out
of the demon-possessed man.

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Let me just unpack Jesus'
succession of Jack Bauer days.

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Jesus has large
crowds coming to him.

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He's healing,
performing miracles.

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He needs a break,
so he gets in a boat,

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and he's so exhausted
that as they row

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across the Sea of Galilee,

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an enormous storm
comes upon them.

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And he is so tired that though
their life is in danger,

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he's asleep on the boat.

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That's how tired he is.

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They wake him up
and he calms the storm.

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He commands creation
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They row to
the other side of the lake.

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He gets off the boat and here
comes the demon-possessed man,

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naked, crazy.

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The guy who broke shackles,
and lived in the graveyards.

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That's the welcoming committee.

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So this is no day off
or day at the spa for Jesus.

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He cast the demons out of the
man, ministers to those people,

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gets back in the boat,
goes across the lake,

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gets out of the boat,

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and here's an entirely
new crowd of needy people.

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Jesus is unbelievable in his
outpouring of love, affection,

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and service for people, and
there are seasons of ministry

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that feel like this.

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I would say on behalf
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it's been one of those seasons
for the past month or two.

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Grace recently asked,
"Did you have a hard day?"

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"No, I've had a hard life.

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But yes, that would
include a hard day."

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There are just seasons like that
where the needs are so great

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that everywhere you go,
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and everything you see just
reveals greater needs for love,

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and care, and compassion,
and teaching, and prayer,

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and service,
and funds, and help.

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And Jesus is having this
succession of experiences.

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"Now when Jesus returned,
the crowd welcomed him."

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So everybody took the day off of
work, and got out of school,

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and they're all just
waiting on the shore.

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You see it?

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Here comes the disciples,
rowing, "Oh, here they are."

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And Jesus is coming,

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and they're first, second,
third, they're all like the DMV.

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Everybody's got
a number, lined up,

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waiting for their
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their lists of needs, "for
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Verse 41, "And there
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who was a ruler
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So he is a known,
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In the old covenant equivalent,
this would be like a church.

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That's what
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where the people of God gathered
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and worship the God of the Word.

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And he, being one
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was kind of like a pastor.

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So think of him as a pastor or
an elder, like one of the men

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who serves at Mars Hill,
and the place where he ministers

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like one of our campuses.

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"And falling at Jesus' feet,

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he implored him to come
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Grown men tended not to do this.

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You didn't run.

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You didn't throw yourself
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especially if you're a
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But this man is humble,
and he's desperate,

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and he's begging Jesus
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and to come to his home.

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Why?

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"For he had an only daughter,
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and she was dying."

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Jairus' story resonates with
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essentially a pastor as I am,
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who's the same age
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His daughter was
about 12 years of age.

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My daughter Ashley's 12,
she'll be 13 in a few months.

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This is his only child.

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We don't know if they
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or infertility
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My assumption is they would have
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Larger families
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but for whatever reason,

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God graced them with
only one child, a girl.

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And this man loves his daughter
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How do we know?

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Well, he's done everything he
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and she is dying.

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And he leaves her on her
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tending to her, and he runs to
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is in town, throws himself
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is desperately begging Jesus
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and heal his daughter.

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This is a man who will do
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his little girl get better.

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How many of you men are
fathers of daughters?

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It is such a tremendous honor
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of a young woman.

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For those of you men who are
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fathers of daughters, I assure
you of this, it's amazing.

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It's wonderful.

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People say silly
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"Oh, wait till they hit
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wait till they hit junior high."

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We're there,
it's incredible.

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You can, by the grace of God,
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that transition
from girl to woman,

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and you could be there to
love her, and encourage her,

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and bless her, and support her,
and adore her, and protect her,

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and enjoy her,
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Jairus seems to have that
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with his daughter.

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She's about 12 years of age.

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I can still remember
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I was convinced we
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And she came out,
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And I remember being
shocked, like, "This is a girl.

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"I think I know what
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"Girls, not so much.

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I have a lot to learn."

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And then I prayed, "God, thank
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"Help me love her,
and protect her, and enjoy her,

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"and make her years many,
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and make her heart
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Seeing her grow up
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She started talking
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I remember when she was walking,
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terrified she's
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Snuggling with her, reading
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Singing songs with her at night
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when she was little.

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I don't sing well, so I would
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and ridiculous,
and she found it cute.

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And Ashley's more--she's
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a little more private and quiet.

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I asked her to come on stage
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So I'll tell you about
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and I want to respect her.

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But growing up, what I've really
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has never closed to the Lord,
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It's always been open, ever
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I used to read the Bible to her,
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she started reading
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Now, she reads
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and she has her
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and a relationship with God.

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I respect Ashley very much.

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I enjoy her.
I like her.

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I like having her around.

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She's wonderful to have around.

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I know someday she's
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but I'm really dreading that,
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away, 'cause it's gonna take me
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for waking up, and coming
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'cause she's wonderful.

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Ashley has been a gift
of God's grace in my life.

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She has softened me and caused
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and tender, and considerate,
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She has caused the defender,
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into warp speed, and to do all I
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She's a girl who I've gotten
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I can tell when she's sad,
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or needs something.

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I love paying attention to her,
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and serve her.

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We've had a lot
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and some sacred moments, some
sacred moments with my daughter

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that I'll cherish
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And my entire future includes
pictures with Ashley in it,

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with Ashley in it.

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I mean, just yesterday we were
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as a family.

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There were little league
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and so we stayed at
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and then split up to go
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And I was walking into the
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and I was walking into the
hotel with her, and I thought,

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someday I'm gonna walk
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and then I'm gonna officiate
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as her dad and her pastor.

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We've had conversations about
what kind of man she needs

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to save her heart for,
and she understands that.

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And he's going to get
a tremendous gift of a woman,

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and she will be
a tremendous blessing to him.

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Thankfully, I don't think that
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because she's not boy crazy,
and I rejoice in that.

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We've talked about it.

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I think when girls
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and when they don't have
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When a girl doesn't
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she finds boys fascinating.

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And when she does have
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And I rejoice in that.

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Ashley's very creative.

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She loves cooking, and she loves
fashion, and she loves painting,

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and she loves drawing,
and she loves literature.

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She loves to travel.

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She's been to Greece,
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and Australia, and Scotland
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I love showing her the world.

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She loves going to galleries.

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She loves creativity.

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She loves the Food Network.

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I love that.

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I love snuggling with her,
just sitting with her,

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even if we're just
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I don't really like the Food
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and Ashley likes
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so I watch a lot
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And then Ashley
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I came home from
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there was a nice
note and macaroons,

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gluten-free macaroons
as a gift to Poppa Daddy,

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which is what she calls me.

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I love that.

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Enjoy her, adore her.

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Appreciate her.

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She makes me cry all the time.

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I'm not much of a crier,

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but Ashley's got
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If she's sick, I cry.

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If she memorizes a verse
of the Bible, I cry.

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If she tells me she
loves me, I cry.

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I cry all the time.

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It's kind of embarrassing,
and I've told you men before,

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don't be a crier.

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If you have a daughter, that's
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You can cry all you want,
out of love for your daughter.

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It's good for her,

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she knows that you have
affection toward her.

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When I'm snuggling up with her,
or watching the Food Network

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like the other night, we were
snuggling up watching a show,

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and I always ask her, "Hey,
when we're both old,

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"like I'm really old
and you're pretty old,

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we're still gonna
snuggle, right?"

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"Well, yeah."

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"We're still gonna go
on daddy dates, right?"

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"Yeah."

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"We're gonna still go out
for tea and hang out,

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"and you're still gonna visit
with me,

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and be my daughter, right?"

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"Yeah.

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Why do you always ask?"

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"'Cause I'm trying to schedule
these appointments for the next

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"50 years, and I want to make
sure that this is all set up,

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"because for the rest
of my life,

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"I want to hang out with you.

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"I want to be with you.

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I love you.
I enjoy you."

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See, and men, daughters are
gifts from the Lord to be

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encouraged, to be cultivated,
to be protected, to be adored,

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and cherished, and nurtured.

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It is so important to me that
we be a church of masculine,

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strong, godly men who
adore, snuggle, pursue,

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pray for our daughters.

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That's what's on my heart.

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And back to the story--
and I'll say this too,

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every time I see a daddy at
Mars Hill holding his baby girl,

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honestly it's
one of the great delights

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and highlights of my ministry.

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There's another girl who
has a dad who loves Jesus,

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and loves her.

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And he's adoring
her, and kissing her,

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and bringing her up for
when he comes for communion.

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Those kinds of things
mean the world to me.

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Now, back to the story,
Jairus is a pastor,

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and he's got a daughter who's
about the same age as my

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daughter, Ashley, except
for his daughter is sick.

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It's his only child,
and she's on her deathbed.

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Fathers, go there emotionally.

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Your daughter is dying.

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Whatever pictures you have
in your mind of your future

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together, they're
all in jeopardy.

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So he runs to Jesus,
throws himself at Jesus' feet,

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and he begs Jesus.

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"I know there's a lot of people
here who want to meet with you,

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"but Jesus, could you
please come to my home?

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My daughter is near death."

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And Jesus went--"As Jesus
went," rather, verse 42,

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"the people pressed around him."

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The crowds encircle him.

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Everyone has a need, a request.

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This is how ministry is.

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It's constant disruption
and interruption.

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Jesus loves Jairus,
and his daughter,

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and surrounding him are
other people that he loves.

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She has cancer.

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He is sick.

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They are depressed.

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This person has demons.

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These critics want to argue.

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These people just
want to be friends,

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and get a Facebook photo.

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Jesus has all
of these demands,

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and sometimes one of
the hardest things in ministry

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is discerning,
"Okay, I can't serve everyone.

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"I can't love everyone.

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"I want to but I need to decide
how to best utilize

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"my time with so many
legitimate needs,

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"and how to ignore some of
those that are just people

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"who are critics, or just
people who want to hang out,

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and they're not of most urgent,
strategic importance for time."

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Not because you don't love
them, but because people

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are in crisis, and time
is of the essence.

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And I would tell you this
on behalf of your pastors,

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and elders, and deacons,
and community group leaders,

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and redemption group leaders,
there are seasons of ministry

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that absolutely feel
like this.

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Jesus, at this point, is
God become a man.

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He has taken upon himself
humanity, so in this instant,

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he can only be one
place at one time.

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He only has so many
minutes in an hour,

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and so many hours in a day.

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And all of these needs
are collapsing

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and crushing around him.

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And Jairus' daughter
is some ways away,

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and the requests of these crowds
are legitimate,

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and Jesus has this very
difficult moment where

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he has to choose whom he will
serve in that instance.

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Pray for your leaders,
and if you don't feel like

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we got back to you quickly,
or, perhaps, somehow

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you were not tended to,

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accept my sincere apology,
and please don't grow weary

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in letting us know how
we can love better.

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But I would also say, please
also be understanding that

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sometimes it is five crises
to get to your crisis,

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and sometimes we're overwhelmed.

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And Jesus, in this instance,
is surrounded with need,

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and so what will he do?

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Verse 43, "And there was a woman
who had had a discharge

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of blood for," how long?

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"Twelve years."

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This woman had chronic bleeding,
possibly a uterine hemorrhage

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for 12 years.

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As long as the little girl,
Jairus' daughter,

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had been alive, this woman had
been bleeding.

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"And though she had spent
all her living on physicians,

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she could not be
healed by anyone."

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That is the clinical
diagnosis of our author,

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Luke the physician,
the doctor.

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This woman is desperate,
and she's destitute.

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She's desperate in that she has
tried every form of treatment.

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She's gone to the doctor.

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She's undergone
alternative therapy.

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She has prayed.
She has fasted.

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She has gone to
the healing center.

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She has done everything
that medicine

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would make available to her.

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She is also destitute
in addition to desperate.

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She has spent all of her money.

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She is now absolutely
impoverished.

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This is what happens to
those who are suffering,

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who have physical ailment,
even in our own day.

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Some of you are
in that condition,

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some of you know and love
people in that condition.

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They have spent
their life savings.

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They have sold their home.

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They have unloaded
their possessions.

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They have cashed in
their retirement account.

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They have maxed out
their credit cards.

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Their friends, family, and
coworkers have hosted benefits.

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They've thrown all the money
they can pull together toward

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that need, and nothing changes.

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And they're without hope,
and they're without help.

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And they're desperate,
and they're destitute.

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This woman is
in a horrible condition,

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and here she is before Jesus.

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Now, who will Jesus serve?

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Will he serve this woman who has
a very legitimate need,

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or this daughter of Jairus
who, likewise,

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has a very legitimate need?

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And this is the constant weight
and burden of ministry for those

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who tend to God's
people and love them.

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The story tells us, as well,

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she had been in this condition
for 12 years.

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Now, let me say, then,
Leviticus 15, this would have

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made her ceremonially, ritually,
under the old covenant, unclean.

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Here's what this means,
friends:

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no one has touched her
in 12 years.

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No one has hugged her.

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No one has laid a hand
on her to pray for her.

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No one has kissed her
on the top of the head,

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which is what I like to do
when I go to a hospital visit,

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and somebody's
hurting and bedridden.

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No one has held her hand.

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She has not had physical
contact for a dozen years.

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She's very isolated
and lonely in her suffering.

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She can't be in crowds.

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She's not allowed to go to
the temple or to synagogue

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to join God's people in worship.

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The only thing worse
than suffering

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is suffering in isolation.

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There's no one to be
with you, to talk to you,

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to share with you.

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And see, we don't see a lot of
this yet at Mars Hill because

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we have hundreds of weddings
for every funeral.

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Older people are coming to
Mars Hill, and the people here,

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like me, I'm pushing
40, are getting older.

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But there will be a day as our
congregation ages and more older

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people come that the number of
weddings and funerals will start

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to balance, that the list
of people with cancer,

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and debilitating illness,
and untreatable trauma,

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or injury, or sickness,
that that list grows.

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And you need to know
that those people,

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oftentimes, are destitute,
desperate, and lonely.

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Grace and I first saw
this when, in college,

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I was a new Christian.

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And as most college students,
I'm just hanging out

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as a new Christian with
a lot of college-age friends

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and some families
who love the Lord.

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And we were in a fantastic
Bible-teaching church.

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It was my first church,
and I rejoice that God

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brought me to that church.

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And the invitation was given
by an organization in town

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to deliver meals to people
who were shut-ins.

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They were either elderly
and couldn't venture out,

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or were suffering and sick,
or traumatically injured,

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or battling cancer, something
of that nature, to where they

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couldn't come to church
and they couldn't come out

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into the community.

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And so meals had to literally
be delivered to them.

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So they asked, who
could deliver meals

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and sign up to cover
particular days.

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So Gracie and I, we were dating,
and working toward marriage,

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and we had school and
work Monday through Friday,

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and church on Sunday, and
Saturday was open, so we decided

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to volunteer together and to
make that one of our first

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ministry experiences together.

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And with a number
of people on the list, and

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the distance between them, my
assumption was, this will take

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about an hour to go drop off
these meals for everybody,

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and it took something like
5 hours

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because it would take
a long time for people

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to get to the door to open it
or their care workers.

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This is why we love people who
are in hospice and nursing.

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Those people are amazing.

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Sometimes it would
be a care worker

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who would come to the door.

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And once the door was open,
you'd walk in to deliver

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the meal, and the person who was
there would spring to life,

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and they just wanted to talk.

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It was obvious that many of them

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hadn't had visitors
in a long time.

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We got to develop friendships
with some elderly people,

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and some dying people.

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Started hearing about
spouses they had buried,

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children they had raised,
wars they had fought in,

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suffering they had
endured and loneliness.

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Loneliness.

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People whose children hadn't
been to see them in years,

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people who hadn't been out of
the home, apartment in months,

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people who didn't have visitors.

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This woman lives
a life like that.

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She eats all her
meals by herself.

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She worships God by herself.

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She lives by herself.

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Additionally,
Leviticus says

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that she would have
been forbidden,

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because of her condition,
from any marital intimacy.

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What this means is she had
either never married,

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or she was likely divorced.

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She has no husband.

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She has no children.

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She has no money.

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She has no church.

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She has no community group.

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She has no redemption group.

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She has no hope.

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And she hears that
Jesus has come to town.

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"She came up behind
him," verse 44,

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"And touched
the fringe of his garment,

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and immediately her
discharge of blood ceased."

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This is Luke, the doctor,
giving us a medical diagnosis.

489
00:24:04,708 --> 00:24:06,917
She's not supposed
to be near the crowd.

490
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,750
She's not supposed
to touch anyone

491
00:24:08,833 --> 00:24:12,625
because she will make them
ritually unclean,

492
00:24:12,708 --> 00:24:15,250
and somehow she presses
through the crowd.

493
00:24:15,333 --> 00:24:17,125
She gets to Jesus.

494
00:24:17,208 --> 00:24:20,583
She must be on her face
as an act of worship because

495
00:24:20,667 --> 00:24:24,583
she reaches out and touches
the hem of his garment.

496
00:24:24,667 --> 00:24:28,083
And I want you to see that
that is an act of faith.

497
00:24:28,167 --> 00:24:30,583
And for some of you,
this concept of faith,

498
00:24:30,667 --> 00:24:33,417
that we're saved by faith,
that we live by faith,

499
00:24:33,500 --> 00:24:37,750
that we're kept by faith, it may
be a difficult abstract concept,

500
00:24:37,833 --> 00:24:42,583
but I want you to see it here
as reaching out to Jesus.

501
00:24:42,667 --> 00:24:44,750
Friends,
that's what faith is.

502
00:24:44,833 --> 00:24:48,333
She has faith in her heart,
which is a gift of God,

503
00:24:48,417 --> 00:24:53,208
and she reaches out in faith,
trusting, knowing, believing,

504
00:24:53,292 --> 00:24:57,000
"If I could just touch the
tassel on the end of his robe,

505
00:24:57,083 --> 00:24:58,708
I could be healed."

506
00:24:58,792 --> 00:25:02,792
She has great faith,
saving faith in Jesus.

507
00:25:02,875 --> 00:25:05,583
And in that instant,
her soul is healed--

508
00:25:05,667 --> 00:25:09,250
she becomes a worshiper of
Jesus--and her body is healed,

509
00:25:09,333 --> 00:25:11,750
and the power of God is
unleashed in her life

510
00:25:11,833 --> 00:25:12,750
through faith.

511
00:25:12,833 --> 00:25:15,417
You need to know that
this is how it works.

512
00:25:15,500 --> 00:25:18,417
The power of God is unleashed
in our life through faith,

513
00:25:18,500 --> 00:25:23,625
trusting,
believing in Jesus.

514
00:25:23,708 --> 00:25:25,458
This is amazing.

515
00:25:25,542 --> 00:25:28,667
Not everyone who touched
Jesus was healed.

516
00:25:28,750 --> 00:25:31,417
Luke doesn't extrapolate
and give us the exact reasons

517
00:25:31,500 --> 00:25:33,417
that this happens.

518
00:25:33,500 --> 00:25:36,958
But by faith, the power of
God is unleashed in her life.

519
00:25:37,042 --> 00:25:41,708
And let me say this,
and this is beautiful:

520
00:25:41,792 --> 00:25:45,417
She does not make Jesus unclean.

521
00:25:45,500 --> 00:25:48,250
Jesus makes her clean.

522
00:25:48,333 --> 00:25:51,333
She was not to touch anyone
because she was unclean,

523
00:25:51,417 --> 00:25:55,250
and she would make them unclean.

524
00:25:55,333 --> 00:25:59,750
But because Jesus is pure,
Jesus is sinless, Jesus is good,

525
00:25:59,833 --> 00:26:05,208
Jesus is God, when she touches
him, he does not become unclean,

526
00:26:05,292 --> 00:26:06,500
she becomes clean.

527
00:26:06,583 --> 00:26:08,417
And I need you to know this.

528
00:26:08,500 --> 00:26:11,417
And in your heart, I need
you to today, by faith,

529
00:26:11,500 --> 00:26:14,208
believe this, that whoever you
are, and whatever you've done,

530
00:26:14,292 --> 00:26:16,417
or however dirty,
and disgusting,

531
00:26:16,500 --> 00:26:21,042
and defiled your life has been,
you reach out to Jesus in faith,

532
00:26:21,125 --> 00:26:22,917
and you don't make him unclean.

533
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,292
He makes you clean.

534
00:26:25,375 --> 00:26:29,917
And the power of God is
unleashed in your life

535
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,583
to give you new life.

536
00:26:32,667 --> 00:26:36,708
She's a picture of all
who are saved by faith,

537
00:26:36,792 --> 00:26:39,917
reaching out to Jesus,
and receiving new life.

538
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:45,917
"And Jesus said," verse 45,
"'Who was it that touched me?'"

539
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,750
I think this might be
a rhetorical question.

540
00:26:48,833 --> 00:26:50,750
Do you have kids?

541
00:26:50,833 --> 00:26:53,458
Say you walk into the kitchen,
and the lid's off

542
00:26:53,542 --> 00:26:56,083
the cookie jar,
and cookies are all gone,

543
00:26:56,167 --> 00:26:57,708
and one child's clean,

544
00:26:57,792 --> 00:27:01,083
and the other's covered
with fudge and crumbs.

545
00:27:01,167 --> 00:27:03,667
You say, "Okay, who got
into the cookie jar?"

546
00:27:03,750 --> 00:27:06,833
It's not that you don't know, it
that's that you're giving them

547
00:27:06,917 --> 00:27:09,583
an opportunity to repent.

548
00:27:09,667 --> 00:27:12,208
They say, "I don't
know, we have no idea.

549
00:27:12,292 --> 00:27:13,625
"The cookies disappeared.

550
00:27:13,708 --> 00:27:15,083
"It was a cookie rapture.

551
00:27:15,167 --> 00:27:16,083
"They're just gone.

552
00:27:16,167 --> 00:27:19,625
We don't know what
happened to the cookies."

553
00:27:19,708 --> 00:27:23,375
Jesus here is inviting her
to come forward

554
00:27:23,458 --> 00:27:28,208
and publicly confess
what she's done.

555
00:27:28,292 --> 00:27:30,625
"Who was it that touched me?"

556
00:27:30,708 --> 00:27:33,583
Now, what's going to happen
next is Peter's going to speak.

557
00:27:33,667 --> 00:27:41,208
Peter has this fantastic ability
to fill silence with stupidity.

558
00:27:41,292 --> 00:27:43,542
When it's a good
moment to not speak,

559
00:27:43,625 --> 00:27:46,167
that's when Peter
leaps into action.

560
00:27:46,250 --> 00:27:49,250
I love Peter because
there's hope for me

561
00:27:49,333 --> 00:27:51,917
as I look at his life.

562
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,250
There are times that Peter
should just be quiet

563
00:27:55,333 --> 00:27:59,667
and instead,
he will proceed boldly.

564
00:27:59,750 --> 00:28:01,458
That's why we love Peter.

565
00:28:01,542 --> 00:28:04,583
I love that Jesus makes him
the leader of the disciples.

566
00:28:04,667 --> 00:28:05,667
Who's in charge?

567
00:28:05,750 --> 00:28:07,292
That guy who always ruins it.

568
00:28:07,375 --> 00:28:09,333
Awesome, I can definitely
join this team.

569
00:28:09,417 --> 00:28:11,000
There's room for me too.

570
00:28:11,083 --> 00:28:14,417
I've actually made a career
out of this art form.

571
00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:16,958
"When all denied it,
Peter said, 'Master,

572
00:28:17,042 --> 00:28:19,500
the crowds surround you
and are pressing in on you!'"

573
00:28:19,583 --> 00:28:20,750
"Really, Peter?

574
00:28:20,833 --> 00:28:27,333
"Thank you I had no idea that
these were all people around me,

575
00:28:27,417 --> 00:28:30,083
"and that the pushing
was from the people.

576
00:28:30,167 --> 00:28:32,083
"What would we do
without you, Peter,

577
00:28:32,167 --> 00:28:33,667
"and your tremendous insights?

578
00:28:33,750 --> 00:28:37,583
You're so helpful."

579
00:28:37,667 --> 00:28:39,958
You kind of get the idea that
ministry happens

580
00:28:40,042 --> 00:28:44,125
in spite of the disciples,
not because of them.

581
00:28:44,208 --> 00:28:47,583
"Thank you, Peter, you
really made a difference."

582
00:28:47,667 --> 00:28:49,500
"But Jesus said,
'Someone touched me,

583
00:28:49,583 --> 00:28:53,250
for I perceive that power
has gone out from me.'"

584
00:28:53,333 --> 00:28:58,250
The power of God is unleashed
in the life of this woman by her

585
00:28:58,333 --> 00:29:01,875
reaching out in faith to Jesus,
and I would encourage you today,

586
00:29:01,958 --> 00:29:04,917
reach out in faith to Jesus
so the power of God

587
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,208
might be unleashed in your life.

588
00:29:07,292 --> 00:29:11,042
Verse 47, "And when the woman
saw that she was not hidden--"

589
00:29:11,125 --> 00:29:14,042
For whatever reason,
she couldn't hide this.

590
00:29:14,125 --> 00:29:17,708
Perhaps she'd been very
sick, and ill, and frail,

591
00:29:17,792 --> 00:29:20,583
and now she's healed,
and happy, and fine.

592
00:29:20,667 --> 00:29:22,958
And she's excited because her
bleeding has stopped

593
00:29:23,042 --> 00:29:25,208
for the first time in 12 years,

594
00:29:25,292 --> 00:29:27,750
and everybody's looking at her,
saying, "I think it's her.

595
00:29:27,833 --> 00:29:30,417
"She looks a lot better,
and she's dancing, and smiling.

596
00:29:30,500 --> 00:29:33,167
"She's pretty excited today,
and she's not even supposed

597
00:29:33,250 --> 00:29:36,167
to be here, so we think
we know who it is."

598
00:29:36,250 --> 00:29:38,750
And she realizes,
"I've been found out."

599
00:29:38,833 --> 00:29:40,250
What will Jesus do?

600
00:29:40,333 --> 00:29:43,167
"She came trembling,
and falling down before him."

601
00:29:43,250 --> 00:29:45,125
She's scared.

602
00:29:45,208 --> 00:29:47,125
She's wondering,
"Will Jesus reject me?

603
00:29:47,208 --> 00:29:48,667
"Will he publicly shame me?

604
00:29:48,750 --> 00:29:50,917
"Have I made him unclean?

605
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,417
"Will this crowd cast me out?

606
00:29:53,500 --> 00:29:55,208
"I'm not supposed to be here.

607
00:29:55,292 --> 00:29:57,042
"Will I be brought
up on charges

608
00:29:57,125 --> 00:30:01,542
for defiling a whole group
of people?"

609
00:30:01,625 --> 00:30:04,708
"And she declared in
the presence of all the people

610
00:30:04,792 --> 00:30:06,042
"why she had touched him,

611
00:30:06,125 --> 00:30:07,875
"and how she
had been immediately healed.

612
00:30:07,958 --> 00:30:11,042
"And he said to her, 'Daughter,
your faith has made you well;

613
00:30:11,125 --> 00:30:12,208
go in peace.'"

614
00:30:12,292 --> 00:30:15,167
Let me say this, she is
the only person that Jesus

615
00:30:15,250 --> 00:30:17,583
ever calls "daughter."

616
00:30:17,667 --> 00:30:19,500
Powerful words.

617
00:30:19,583 --> 00:30:21,042
She may be older than Jesus.

618
00:30:21,125 --> 00:30:22,958
If she's been
bleeding for 12 years,

619
00:30:23,042 --> 00:30:24,833
and he's in his early 30s,

620
00:30:24,917 --> 00:30:27,292
it is not unlikely that she's,
in fact, older.

621
00:30:27,375 --> 00:30:29,667
What is Jesus doing
speaking to, perhaps,

622
00:30:29,750 --> 00:30:31,625
an older woman
and referring to her

623
00:30:31,708 --> 00:30:35,083
with this affectionate title
of daughter?

624
00:30:35,167 --> 00:30:37,667
Daughter.

625
00:30:37,750 --> 00:30:44,042
Well, it is this, this woman
does not have a Jairus.

626
00:30:44,125 --> 00:30:49,708
She doesn't have a dad to do
what Jairus has just done

627
00:30:49,792 --> 00:30:52,083
for his little girl.

628
00:30:52,167 --> 00:30:54,917
She doesn't have a dad who
says, "Sweetheart, wait here,

629
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,750
"I'm gonna go get Jesus, and I'm
gonna beg him to come and heal

630
00:30:58,833 --> 00:31:03,250
my daughter that I love,
and adore, and cherish."

631
00:31:03,333 --> 00:31:06,333
See, instead, she needs
to take care of herself.

632
00:31:06,417 --> 00:31:08,875
She needs to pay her
own medical bills.

633
00:31:08,958 --> 00:31:13,000
She needs to go on her
own journey toward Jesus.

634
00:31:13,083 --> 00:31:16,958
She needs to risk her own
well-being to meet him.

635
00:31:17,042 --> 00:31:19,208
Some of you ladies
are like this woman.

636
00:31:19,292 --> 00:31:20,917
You're not like
Jairus' daughter.

637
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:22,875
Some of you ladies are blessed.

638
00:31:22,958 --> 00:31:26,208
You have a dad who loves
Jesus, and loves you,

639
00:31:26,292 --> 00:31:29,125
and he's always trying to
get you and Jesus together.

640
00:31:29,208 --> 00:31:31,833
Some of you don't
have a dad like that.

641
00:31:31,917 --> 00:31:34,167
Some of you don't
have a dad at all.

642
00:31:34,250 --> 00:31:36,833
Some of you ladies, you
don't even know your father,

643
00:31:36,917 --> 00:31:39,500
or he doesn't love you,
and he doesn't love Jesus,

644
00:31:39,583 --> 00:31:42,125
and he's not trying to bring
you and Jesus together.

645
00:31:42,208 --> 00:31:45,250
That's this woman's story.

646
00:31:45,333 --> 00:31:48,083
I've met a lot of woman
like that recently.

647
00:31:48,167 --> 00:31:51,250
I mean, I'm kind of cried out.

648
00:31:51,333 --> 00:31:55,250
I've cried a lot today
praying for different women,

649
00:31:55,333 --> 00:31:58,250
but I've had women come up
to me, teenage girls say,

650
00:31:58,333 --> 00:32:00,458
"Pastor Mark, could
you pray for my dad?"

651
00:32:00,542 --> 00:32:02,625
"Sure, what would
you like me to pray?"

652
00:32:02,708 --> 00:32:04,542
"Pray that he will talk to me."

653
00:32:04,625 --> 00:32:07,083
"Okay, do you not live with
him, your parents divorced?"

654
00:32:07,167 --> 00:32:08,917
"No, I live with him.

655
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,750
"He just looks at
porn all the time,

656
00:32:11,833 --> 00:32:16,708
and he doesn't even talk to me."

657
00:32:16,792 --> 00:32:24,375
See men, if you're not
right in your thinking,

658
00:32:24,458 --> 00:32:27,083
then your daughter's gonna think
there's something wrong with her

659
00:32:27,167 --> 00:32:28,917
because you've rejected her.

660
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,792
You're not there for her,
loving her, serving her,

661
00:32:31,875 --> 00:32:34,167
protecting her,
encouraging her.

662
00:32:34,250 --> 00:32:37,250
Sometimes then the worst men
come in and fill that void.

663
00:32:37,333 --> 00:32:40,875
I recently prayed for a young
woman who's actually being

664
00:32:40,958 --> 00:32:43,958
seduced by a man who's
quite a bit older than her,

665
00:32:44,042 --> 00:32:45,875
and he's grooming her.

666
00:32:45,958 --> 00:32:48,917
He's married.

667
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,750
She wants a father
figure in her life.

668
00:32:52,833 --> 00:32:56,583
She's willing to exchange
herself for a man who pretends

669
00:32:56,667 --> 00:33:02,000
to be a father,
but really is a predator.

670
00:33:02,083 --> 00:33:06,750
I've prayed recently for
a couple of women who

671
00:33:06,833 --> 00:33:10,417
lost their virginity
to their father.

672
00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:13,000
I mean, fathers,
you need to know, men,

673
00:33:13,083 --> 00:33:19,208
we are powerful for good or evil
in the lives of our daughters.

674
00:33:19,292 --> 00:33:22,542
Powerful for good or evil in
the lives of our daughters.

675
00:33:22,625 --> 00:33:25,667
That we actually share--and this
hit me the first time

676
00:33:25,750 --> 00:33:29,250
I held Ashley, my oldest--
she's gonna call me "Father,"

677
00:33:29,333 --> 00:33:31,833
and she's gonna call God
"Father."

678
00:33:31,917 --> 00:33:34,458
And I've been entrusted with
this sacred responsibility,

679
00:33:34,542 --> 00:33:38,750
and this sacred name, title,
and I know I'm not sinless,

680
00:33:38,833 --> 00:33:40,417
and perfect like
our heavenly Father,

681
00:33:40,500 --> 00:33:44,292
but I want her to see an echo of
his love in the affection

682
00:33:44,375 --> 00:33:46,917
of her Poppa Daddy.

683
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,417
I want her to be safest with me,
most loved, cherished,

684
00:33:50,500 --> 00:33:52,875
adored, pursued by me.

685
00:33:52,958 --> 00:33:56,292
I want her to know that she
is beautiful, and treasured,

686
00:33:56,375 --> 00:33:58,208
and valuable to me.

687
00:33:58,292 --> 00:34:01,708
And see, some of you ladies,
you've never had that.

688
00:34:01,792 --> 00:34:03,542
You don't know who
your father is,

689
00:34:03,625 --> 00:34:06,417
or you're ashamed of who
your father is.

690
00:34:06,500 --> 00:34:09,083
The question is, well,
what hope is there for you?

691
00:34:09,167 --> 00:34:12,417
And Jesus would say to you,
as he says to this woman,

692
00:34:12,500 --> 00:34:13,958
"Daughter."

693
00:34:14,042 --> 00:34:18,000
That Jesus takes that
fatherly place in your life.

694
00:34:18,083 --> 00:34:21,250
He becomes that man who gives
you identity, and affection,

695
00:34:21,333 --> 00:34:23,583
and security, and protection.

696
00:34:23,667 --> 00:34:27,750
He becomes that man who you
go to in time of need,

697
00:34:27,833 --> 00:34:33,042
and he lovingly, affectionately
cares for you.

698
00:34:33,125 --> 00:34:35,375
Some of you ladies
identify with this woman.

699
00:34:35,458 --> 00:34:38,000
Your life has had
a lot of suffering,

700
00:34:38,083 --> 00:34:41,583
and my encouragement
would be to, like her,

701
00:34:41,667 --> 00:34:44,917
reach out to Jesus in faith,
have the power of God unleashed

702
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:49,625
in your life, and have
Jesus call you "daughter,"

703
00:34:49,708 --> 00:34:53,417
to be like a father to
you, that desperate,

704
00:34:53,500 --> 00:34:59,583
needy father figure
in your life.

705
00:34:59,667 --> 00:35:01,792
It's amazing that
Jesus would do this,

706
00:35:01,875 --> 00:35:06,667
and he does this in
the midst of a crowd,

707
00:35:06,750 --> 00:35:11,125
to honor this woman with
dignity and affection,

708
00:35:11,208 --> 00:35:17,917
to restore her to the
congregation of God's people.

709
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,958
This is a life-changing
day for this woman.

710
00:35:22,042 --> 00:35:25,708
There's a total healing
that is happening here.

711
00:35:25,792 --> 00:35:28,250
And everything changes for her.

712
00:35:28,333 --> 00:35:33,708
At this moment, the people
can hug her to celebrate.

713
00:35:33,792 --> 00:35:35,667
Can you imagine
what that felt like,

714
00:35:35,750 --> 00:35:38,292
not being embraced for 12 years?

715
00:35:38,375 --> 00:35:42,125
People can lay a hand
on her and pray for her.

716
00:35:42,208 --> 00:35:43,667
She could hold a baby.

717
00:35:43,750 --> 00:35:47,250
She's not held
a baby in 12 years.

718
00:35:47,333 --> 00:35:49,375
She could lay hands
on other people,

719
00:35:49,458 --> 00:35:51,833
and pray for them
as they're in need.

720
00:35:51,917 --> 00:35:55,417
She can attend the
congregation of God's people,

721
00:35:55,500 --> 00:35:57,708
and worship as one of them.

722
00:35:57,792 --> 00:36:00,917
If she wants,
she can get married.

723
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,000
If she's physically able,
she can have children

724
00:36:04,083 --> 00:36:05,750
and become a mother.

725
00:36:05,833 --> 00:36:10,917
Her whole life is radically,
instantly changed by power

726
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:14,417
that is unleashed in her life
through faith in Jesus.

727
00:36:14,500 --> 00:36:15,792
That's why she's a portrait

728
00:36:15,875 --> 00:36:19,750
and a picture of salvation
for us all.

729
00:36:19,833 --> 00:36:23,125
Does your heart
go out to this woman?

730
00:36:23,208 --> 00:36:27,542
What is happening here
is that she was unclean,

731
00:36:27,625 --> 00:36:30,583
and now she's been made clean.

732
00:36:30,667 --> 00:36:32,708
That's what's happening.

733
00:36:32,792 --> 00:36:37,333
And it'll take me a moment,
but let me explain to you,

734
00:36:37,417 --> 00:36:40,167
the biblical doctrine
of expiation.

735
00:36:40,250 --> 00:36:43,167
I've got a whole chapter in
"Death By Love," chapter 7,

736
00:36:43,250 --> 00:36:45,542
I think it is, is
designated to this title.

737
00:36:45,625 --> 00:36:49,333
And here's the big idea: that
there are roughly a dozen words

738
00:36:49,417 --> 00:36:53,583
in the Bible that speak of us
in terms of, as sinners, being

739
00:36:53,667 --> 00:36:56,917
defiled, unclean, filthy.

740
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,750
Isaiah actually uses
the illustration that our

741
00:36:59,833 --> 00:37:02,917
religious righteousness,
our works apart from faith,

742
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:08,250
our efforts to please God
are like a bleeding woman.

743
00:37:08,333 --> 00:37:13,917
It's a disgusting
condition called religion.

744
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:19,333
And so the Bible uses this
continual analogy and metaphor

745
00:37:19,417 --> 00:37:24,083
that sin is like uncleanness.

746
00:37:24,167 --> 00:37:31,542
And this woman is unclean
because sin is in the world.

747
00:37:31,625 --> 00:37:33,583
The Bible doesn't
connect cause and effect:

748
00:37:33,667 --> 00:37:37,000
she committed this sin
so she has this condition.

749
00:37:37,083 --> 00:37:39,583
But when God was
finished with the world,

750
00:37:39,667 --> 00:37:42,875
he said it was all very good,
and there was nothing but life.

751
00:37:42,958 --> 00:37:44,750
And because of human
sin, and rebellion,

752
00:37:44,833 --> 00:37:48,000
there is now suffering,
and sickness, and death,

753
00:37:48,083 --> 00:37:51,625
and those things would
not exist except for sin.

754
00:37:51,708 --> 00:37:54,458
And so sin is in the world,
and it has infected

755
00:37:54,542 --> 00:37:56,667
and affected everyone
and everything,

756
00:37:56,750 --> 00:38:00,125
including this woman's body,
and her health,

757
00:38:00,208 --> 00:38:04,875
and her spiritual condition
before God.

758
00:38:04,958 --> 00:38:10,167
And so for us, sin is like
this woman in that we have

759
00:38:10,250 --> 00:38:12,792
this debilitating condition.

760
00:38:12,875 --> 00:38:16,250
We live with this
condition of sin every day.

761
00:38:16,333 --> 00:38:19,917
It makes us unclean in the eyes
of a holy and righteous God.

762
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,583
It makes us cast out from
the worshiping congregation

763
00:38:23,667 --> 00:38:25,000
of his people.

764
00:38:25,083 --> 00:38:29,000
And it ultimately leads
to suffering and death.

765
00:38:29,083 --> 00:38:32,083
And that there is no hope.

766
00:38:32,167 --> 00:38:34,667
It doesn't matter what we do,
who we see,

767
00:38:34,750 --> 00:38:36,250
or how much we spend,

768
00:38:36,333 --> 00:38:39,958
unless we reach out to Jesus,
that debilitating condition

769
00:38:40,042 --> 00:38:43,792
of unclean sin that leads
to death is ever present,

770
00:38:43,875 --> 00:38:48,167
and there's no help or hope
for us apart from Jesus.

771
00:38:48,250 --> 00:38:50,917
And it means that we
are guilty of sin,

772
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,750
and we're unclean as well.

773
00:38:54,833 --> 00:38:57,417
And people who are
sinners, they feel defiled,

774
00:38:57,500 --> 00:39:01,417
unclean through sin that is
committed against us

775
00:39:01,500 --> 00:39:05,083
when we are made victims,
and for sin that we commit

776
00:39:05,167 --> 00:39:09,958
as we sin against others.

777
00:39:10,042 --> 00:39:12,250


778
00:39:12,333 --> 00:39:14,708
Some of you feel this way.

779
00:39:14,792 --> 00:39:20,917
You just feel damaged, dirty,
degraded, and disgusting,

780
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:25,458
to use the language
of the Bible, unclean.

781
00:39:25,542 --> 00:39:27,292
Unclean.

782
00:39:27,375 --> 00:39:31,583
Nearly every abuse victim that
I've ever spoken to says

783
00:39:31,667 --> 00:39:35,375
that after their abuse, they
went and took a, what?

784
00:39:35,458 --> 00:39:39,375
A shower, because
they feel unclean.

785
00:39:39,458 --> 00:39:41,417
And that water might
cleanse the body,

786
00:39:41,500 --> 00:39:43,417
but it doesn't cleanse the soul.

787
00:39:43,500 --> 00:39:45,750
It doesn't go deep enough.

788
00:39:45,833 --> 00:39:48,125
If you've been around
Mars Hill for a while,

789
00:39:48,208 --> 00:39:51,917
you know that I like to explain
the most important day in

790
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,083
the Jewish calendar, a day that
would have been celebrated by

791
00:39:55,167 --> 00:39:58,667
this woman as a foreshadowing
of the coming of Jesus,

792
00:39:58,750 --> 00:40:01,375
that was Yom Kippur.

793
00:40:01,458 --> 00:40:04,250
The Day of Atonement,
the High Holy Day, the Day,

794
00:40:04,333 --> 00:40:07,375
the day when our
debilitating, deadly,

795
00:40:07,458 --> 00:40:10,917
disgusting condition of sin
was dealt with by a holy

796
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,583
and righteous God through
the work of a mediator,

797
00:40:13,667 --> 00:40:15,667
a high priest who
was foreshadowing,

798
00:40:15,750 --> 00:40:18,417
symbolizing the coming of
Jesus, our great high priest.

799
00:40:18,500 --> 00:40:21,250
And on that day, the people
would gather for worship,

800
00:40:21,333 --> 00:40:24,917
and this woman could not
attend those services.

801
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,000
It's amazing, she
couldn't go to Yom Kippur,

802
00:40:28,083 --> 00:40:32,458
but Yom Kippur comes to her,
in the person and work of Jesus.

803
00:40:32,542 --> 00:40:36,333
And on that day, two goats
would be chosen, without spot,

804
00:40:36,417 --> 00:40:40,875
blemish, or defect, symbolizing
the coming of Jesus without sin.

805
00:40:40,958 --> 00:40:43,542
And the priest is the
intercessor, and the mediator,

806
00:40:43,625 --> 00:40:46,750
and the advocate of the people
would name their sin over

807
00:40:46,833 --> 00:40:50,417
the sacrificial goat, and then
that goat would be treated

808
00:40:50,500 --> 00:40:53,417
as a substitute,
and its blood would be shed,

809
00:40:53,500 --> 00:40:56,583
and it would suffer and die
in their place for their sins,

810
00:40:56,667 --> 00:40:59,458
showing what Jesus would
ultimately do on the cross.

811
00:40:59,542 --> 00:41:02,042
And the second goat was not
the substitutionary goat.

812
00:41:02,125 --> 00:41:03,917
It was the scapegoat,

813
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,083
nomenclature we still use
in our culture.

814
00:41:06,167 --> 00:41:09,000
And again, likewise, similarly,
the sins of the people would be

815
00:41:09,083 --> 00:41:12,042
confessed over the animal, and
instead of being sacrificed,

816
00:41:12,125 --> 00:41:13,542
it would be sent away.

817
00:41:13,625 --> 00:41:15,917
And history records that
people would chase the animal,

818
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,500
showing that they want to
be forgiven and cleansed.

819
00:41:18,583 --> 00:41:22,750
They want their sin atoned
for and taken away, forever.

820
00:41:22,833 --> 00:41:24,917
They want to be made clean.

821
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,542
And this High Holy Day would
include ceremonial washings,

822
00:41:28,625 --> 00:41:30,417
and bathings,
and wearing of white,

823
00:41:30,500 --> 00:41:32,958
and cleaning out of your home,
all showing the need

824
00:41:33,042 --> 00:41:34,875
for expiation, for cleansing.

825
00:41:34,958 --> 00:41:38,000
We need to be forgiven
and made clean.

826
00:41:38,083 --> 00:41:42,583
And Jesus, this man is
going to be her Yom Kippur.

827
00:41:42,667 --> 00:41:45,250
He is going to be her
great high priest,

828
00:41:45,333 --> 00:41:47,083
and his death on the cross

829
00:41:47,167 --> 00:41:49,417
is going to be her
day of atonement.

830
00:41:49,500 --> 00:41:51,917
And so he forgives
her, and cleanses her,

831
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,375
and he ultimately is
going to the cross,

832
00:41:54,458 --> 00:41:57,042
and perhaps my favorite
verse in all of Scripture,

833
00:41:57,125 --> 00:42:00,500
2 Corinthians 5:21 explains what
transpired in that moment in

834
00:42:00,583 --> 00:42:04,333
this way, "God made him who knew
no sin to become sin so that

835
00:42:04,417 --> 00:42:06,667
in him, we might become
the righteousness of God."

836
00:42:06,750 --> 00:42:10,167
You've heard me say it a lot
if you've been at Mars Hill

837
00:42:10,250 --> 00:42:11,500
for any length of time.

838
00:42:11,583 --> 00:42:13,333
Luther calls it
the great exchange.

839
00:42:13,417 --> 00:42:15,875
All of my uncleanness
and filth goes to Jesus.

840
00:42:15,958 --> 00:42:19,042
I want you to see yourself
reaching out to Jesus with all

841
00:42:19,125 --> 00:42:21,917
the sin committed against you,
and all the sin that you've

842
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:24,917
committed, and all your filth,
and all of your defilement,

843
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,250
and all of your disobedience,
and all of your uncleanness,

844
00:42:28,333 --> 00:42:31,833
all of your idolatry, and I want
you to see yourself touching

845
00:42:31,917 --> 00:42:35,917
Jesus, fearful that you're
going to make him unclean.

846
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,417
And the most amazing
thing happens.

847
00:42:38,500 --> 00:42:42,333
He's not made unclean,
you're made clean.

848
00:42:42,417 --> 00:42:45,542
You're forgiven and cleansed.

849
00:42:45,625 --> 00:42:48,625
And his righteousness is
imputed, granted, reckoned,

850
00:42:48,708 --> 00:42:53,958
given to you, and you're
made clean; that he forgives

851
00:42:54,042 --> 00:42:58,917
and cleanses, just
like he did this woman.

852
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:02,583
That's why 1 John says,
"If we confess our sins,

853
00:43:02,667 --> 00:43:05,500
"he's faithful and just to
forgive us our sins

854
00:43:05,583 --> 00:43:09,500
and cleanse us of all
of our unrighteousness."

855
00:43:09,583 --> 00:43:12,042
He's our sacrificial goat.

856
00:43:12,125 --> 00:43:14,292
He is the one who forgives sin.

857
00:43:14,375 --> 00:43:15,875
He's our scapegoat.

858
00:43:15,958 --> 00:43:18,667
He's the one who cleanses
us from unrighteousness,

859
00:43:18,750 --> 00:43:22,583
and makes us clean in his sight.

860
00:43:22,667 --> 00:43:24,750
And this is this
woman's Yom Kippur.

861
00:43:24,833 --> 00:43:27,292
This is her high holy day.

862
00:43:27,375 --> 00:43:30,583
This is her day,
by faith she is saved,

863
00:43:30,667 --> 00:43:32,125
physically and spiritually.

864
00:43:32,208 --> 00:43:34,625
She's forgiven and made clean.

865
00:43:34,708 --> 00:43:36,125
And what does Jesus say?

866
00:43:36,208 --> 00:43:38,125
"'Daughter, your faith
has made you well:

867
00:43:38,208 --> 00:43:40,500
go in peace.'"

868
00:43:40,583 --> 00:43:42,917
"Go live a new life.

869
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:47,250
Go live to God's
glory and your joy."

870
00:43:47,333 --> 00:43:54,833
I am desperate for you to
receive new life through Jesus,

871
00:43:54,917 --> 00:44:00,625
new life through Jesus,
to leave here going in peace

872
00:44:00,708 --> 00:44:04,417
and being called a child of God.

873
00:44:04,500 --> 00:44:08,250
That's her story,
that Jesus cleanses.

874
00:44:08,333 --> 00:44:11,292
The second half of the
story is that Jesus raises.

875
00:44:11,375 --> 00:44:15,333
Back to the initial point,
what about the little girl?

876
00:44:15,417 --> 00:44:19,000
The 12-year-old whose daddy
loved her with all of his heart.

877
00:44:19,083 --> 00:44:24,125
She was on her deathbed
being tended to by her mother.

878
00:44:24,208 --> 00:44:28,417
Jesus has been interrupted from
going to her because of this

879
00:44:28,500 --> 00:44:34,208
need of this woman.

880
00:44:34,292 --> 00:44:36,792
This is Alexie, my
6-year-old daughter's

881
00:44:36,875 --> 00:44:38,417
favorite Bible story.

882
00:44:38,500 --> 00:44:41,917
I have read it a lot,
and now she can read,

883
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,583
and she's read it to me a lot.

884
00:44:44,667 --> 00:44:48,583
And it's a great honor on behalf
of Alexie to share it with you.

885
00:44:48,667 --> 00:44:52,083
Luke 8:49, "While he was still
speaking," that is Jesus,

886
00:44:52,167 --> 00:44:54,583
"Someone from the ruler's
house came and said--"

887
00:44:54,667 --> 00:45:01,708
hear these words, Mars Hill,
"'Your daughter is dead;

888
00:45:01,792 --> 00:45:06,750
do not trouble
the Teacher any more.'"

889
00:45:06,833 --> 00:45:09,042
Whoever brought this news
has no tact

890
00:45:09,125 --> 00:45:12,167
or pastoral affection at all.

891
00:45:12,250 --> 00:45:17,000
The man, Jairus, is waiting
as Jesus heals, and loves,

892
00:45:17,083 --> 00:45:20,042
and serves this woman who's
been suffering as long as his

893
00:45:20,125 --> 00:45:22,208
daughter's been alive.

894
00:45:22,292 --> 00:45:26,542
And he's hoping and praying,
"If I can just get Jesus to my

895
00:45:26,625 --> 00:45:29,250
little girl, she may live."

896
00:45:29,333 --> 00:45:33,208
And someone comes, "Jairus,
you can stop bothering Jesus,

897
00:45:33,292 --> 00:45:37,167
she's dead."

898
00:45:37,250 --> 00:45:40,208


899
00:45:40,292 --> 00:45:46,208
You daddies need to feel that.

900
00:45:46,292 --> 00:45:49,417
We need to feel that, dads.

901
00:45:49,500 --> 00:45:54,542
I can't think of anything
worse than preaching

902
00:45:54,625 --> 00:45:57,875
my child's funeral.

903
00:45:57,958 --> 00:46:02,625
I can't think of
anything worse than that.

904
00:46:02,708 --> 00:46:06,083
I'm blessed with five children
on earth and one that was

905
00:46:06,167 --> 00:46:10,042
miscarried and is with
Jesus, I believe, in heaven.

906
00:46:10,125 --> 00:46:14,292
Imagine having one child.

907
00:46:14,375 --> 00:46:16,583
Infant mortality
rates were high.

908
00:46:16,667 --> 00:46:19,417
Children often died, sometimes
they didn't name the child

909
00:46:19,500 --> 00:46:22,750
until after the first week
because death was so common.

910
00:46:22,833 --> 00:46:25,250
Your daughter's a young woman.

911
00:46:25,333 --> 00:46:26,583
She's 12.

912
00:46:26,667 --> 00:46:28,500
In a few years
she can marry.

913
00:46:28,583 --> 00:46:31,417
That means you're almost there
to being grandparents

914
00:46:31,500 --> 00:46:33,417
in that culture.

915
00:46:33,500 --> 00:46:36,417
Take a deep breath, "Oh, our
child is healthy and alive,

916
00:46:36,500 --> 00:46:37,417
"praise God.

917
00:46:37,500 --> 00:46:38,500
"It's a beautiful girl.

918
00:46:38,583 --> 00:46:40,333
"We adore her.

919
00:46:40,417 --> 00:46:41,333
"She's sick.

920
00:46:41,417 --> 00:46:42,375
"She's not getting better.

921
00:46:42,458 --> 00:46:43,583
"She's getting worse.

922
00:46:43,667 --> 00:46:46,167
"She's on her deathbed.

923
00:46:46,250 --> 00:46:51,667
Please go get Jesus, I'll stay
here with her," mother says.

924
00:46:51,750 --> 00:46:57,917
What kills me in this story is
that the man was not there

925
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:03,333
to see his daughter die.

926
00:47:03,417 --> 00:47:07,000
See, as a daddy, you want to
be there in the last moments,

927
00:47:07,083 --> 00:47:11,917
if this should ever happen, you
want to be there kissing your

928
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,417
daughter on the forehead,
and holding her,

929
00:47:14,500 --> 00:47:20,167
and just bawling your eyes
out, telling her you love her,

930
00:47:20,250 --> 00:47:25,167
and you're thankful for all
the years God's given ya,

931
00:47:25,250 --> 00:47:28,167
and that she was
a joy, and a delight,

932
00:47:28,250 --> 00:47:32,000
and to say your good-byes.

933
00:47:32,083 --> 00:47:33,583
And he wasn't there.

934
00:47:33,667 --> 00:47:35,417
Not 'cause he didn't love her,

935
00:47:35,500 --> 00:47:37,583
but because he was trying to
save her.

936
00:47:37,667 --> 00:47:41,208
Not only that, his wife--I can
only imagine Grace being there

937
00:47:41,292 --> 00:47:50,500
without me, just praying,
and crying, and hoping,

938
00:47:50,583 --> 00:47:55,750
and watching Ashley
breathe her last breath.

939
00:47:55,833 --> 00:47:59,458
And me not being there
to be the strong one,

940
00:47:59,542 --> 00:48:04,458
and the head of the household,
and to love, and lead well.

941
00:48:04,542 --> 00:48:06,417
This man is destroyed.

942
00:48:06,500 --> 00:48:11,667
His life is in shambles.

943
00:48:11,750 --> 00:48:18,000
And his daughter's dead.

944
00:48:18,083 --> 00:48:21,208


945
00:48:21,292 --> 00:48:29,583
Yesterday was--I told
you I cry with Ashley.

946
00:48:29,667 --> 00:48:32,583
Yesterday, Ashley and I were at
Calvin's baseball game

947
00:48:32,667 --> 00:48:36,292
hanging out all day,
and I asked her, I said,

948
00:48:36,375 --> 00:48:39,667
"Ashley, could you help me with
this sermon, sweetie pie?"

949
00:48:39,750 --> 00:48:47,542
She said, "Yeah," so we talked
about this text of Scripture.

950
00:48:47,625 --> 00:48:51,792
I said, "What do you
think about this story?"

951
00:48:51,875 --> 00:48:56,000
She said, "Well, you
would be traumatized."

952
00:48:56,083 --> 00:48:57,250
That's true.

953
00:48:57,333 --> 00:49:00,417
"You would be angry that
people got in your way."

954
00:49:00,500 --> 00:49:03,917
That's true too.

955
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:06,667
"And you would not stop crying."

956
00:49:06,750 --> 00:49:08,625
That's true.

957
00:49:08,708 --> 00:49:12,417
I'd be traumatized at
the loss of my daughter,

958
00:49:12,500 --> 00:49:17,917
whom I adore and is a real
gift to me from the Lord.

959
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:23,917
I'd be angry that others
had gotten in her way,

960
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:26,708
and prevented Jesus from
getting to her swiftly.

961
00:49:26,792 --> 00:49:30,917
And I would not stop crying
for the rest of my life.

962
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:34,250
I don't even understand
how a parent, in general,

963
00:49:34,333 --> 00:49:37,750
or a father with his daughter in
particular--and let me say this,

964
00:49:37,833 --> 00:49:40,208
it's a sin for any parent
to have favorites

965
00:49:40,292 --> 00:49:41,625
with their children.

966
00:49:41,708 --> 00:49:45,083
You are to love and serve
all of your children equally.

967
00:49:45,167 --> 00:49:46,708
So when I talk about Ashley,

968
00:49:46,792 --> 00:49:48,542
it's because she relates
to the story.

969
00:49:48,625 --> 00:49:51,208
But let me say this, there is
a particular affection

970
00:49:51,292 --> 00:49:54,000
that a firstborn daughter
has for her daddy.

971
00:49:54,083 --> 00:49:55,833
There's something
sacred, special

972
00:49:55,917 --> 00:49:58,417
I can't even explain.

973
00:49:58,500 --> 00:50:01,667
You have to be a horrible human
being for your oldest daughter

974
00:50:01,750 --> 00:50:03,292
not to love you, men.

975
00:50:03,375 --> 00:50:06,875
You have to work at it because
even men who are bad men

976
00:50:06,958 --> 00:50:11,750
still have daughters
who love them.

977
00:50:11,833 --> 00:50:14,750
And this girl, I am
assuming and inferring,

978
00:50:14,833 --> 00:50:18,167
adored her dad because
he sure loved her,

979
00:50:18,250 --> 00:50:23,417
and he would do anything
for her, and now she's dead.

980
00:50:23,500 --> 00:50:27,750
Verse 50, what will Jesus do?

981
00:50:27,833 --> 00:50:29,958
Can you see how
hard ministry is?

982
00:50:30,042 --> 00:50:32,292
These are the decisions
Jesus has to make:

983
00:50:32,375 --> 00:50:34,500
the woman who's been bleeding
for 12 years,

984
00:50:34,583 --> 00:50:36,167
or the dying 12-year-old?

985
00:50:36,250 --> 00:50:38,667
Okay, pray for your elders that
we'd have discernment

986
00:50:38,750 --> 00:50:41,708
and Holy Spirit supernatural
capacity emotionally

987
00:50:41,792 --> 00:50:45,208
and physically because this is
what ministry's like.

988
00:50:45,292 --> 00:50:48,167
And if you are not tended
to, and served, and loved,

989
00:50:48,250 --> 00:50:51,417
don't--please don't give
the enemy ground and assume,

990
00:50:51,500 --> 00:50:54,083
"Mars Hill doesn't care,
and they didn't love me."

991
00:50:54,167 --> 00:50:58,708
Please, forgive us, and
understand that sometimes we're

992
00:50:58,792 --> 00:51:01,792
trying to get through all the
emergencies to get to yours,

993
00:51:01,875 --> 00:51:04,042
and we're doing the best we can.

994
00:51:04,125 --> 00:51:08,083
And we do love you, and this
church means the world to us.

995
00:51:08,167 --> 00:51:11,958
"But Jesus," verse 50, "on
hearing this answered him,

996
00:51:12,042 --> 00:51:13,708
'Do not fear, only believe.'"

997
00:51:13,792 --> 00:51:17,583
Both of these stories that Luke
weaves together are about

998
00:51:17,667 --> 00:51:20,125
faith versus fear.

999
00:51:20,208 --> 00:51:24,042
When suffering, crisis,
trauma, tragedy occur,

1000
00:51:24,125 --> 00:51:27,333
it is possible
to respond in fear.

1001
00:51:27,417 --> 00:51:28,417
"Nothing will change.

1002
00:51:28,500 --> 00:51:29,542
"Don't go to Jesus.

1003
00:51:29,625 --> 00:51:30,875
"Don't try.
Don't care.

1004
00:51:30,958 --> 00:51:31,917
"Don't help.

1005
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:33,583
Give up.
Give in."

1006
00:51:33,667 --> 00:51:35,083
That's fear.

1007
00:51:35,167 --> 00:51:37,875
Or faith,
"I gotta get to Jesus.

1008
00:51:37,958 --> 00:51:40,250
"I have to get to Jesus,

1009
00:51:40,333 --> 00:51:42,667
and I believe he
will make the difference."

1010
00:51:42,750 --> 00:51:45,750
And it is in both stories,
'cause Jesus told the woman

1011
00:51:45,833 --> 00:51:47,667
who had been bleeding
for 12 years,

1012
00:51:47,750 --> 00:51:50,417
"Daughter, your faith has made
you well, go in peace."

1013
00:51:50,500 --> 00:51:53,417
She chose
faith over fear.

1014
00:51:53,500 --> 00:51:58,250
Here, Jesus is inviting Jairus
to have faith in him

1015
00:51:58,333 --> 00:52:01,417
over fear in circumstance.

1016
00:52:01,500 --> 00:52:04,875
"'Do not fear; only believe,
and she will be well.'

1017
00:52:04,958 --> 00:52:08,375
"And when he came to the house,
he allowed no one to enter

1018
00:52:08,458 --> 00:52:10,417
"with him, except Peter
and John and James,

1019
00:52:10,500 --> 00:52:12,792
and the father
and mother of the child."

1020
00:52:12,875 --> 00:52:15,333
He clears the room where
the little girl is dead,

1021
00:52:15,417 --> 00:52:18,917
probably laying in bed, and he
brings three of his disciples--

1022
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:20,583
there is a chain of command:

1023
00:52:20,667 --> 00:52:22,750
these are his leaders--
with him.

1024
00:52:22,833 --> 00:52:23,750
To what?

1025
00:52:23,833 --> 00:52:27,125
To learn, because ministry
is often caught, not taught.

1026
00:52:27,208 --> 00:52:29,792
And ministry is about being
invited into the sacred moments

1027
00:52:29,875 --> 00:52:33,167
of people's lives where they're
repenting, or they're growing,

1028
00:52:33,250 --> 00:52:36,208
or they're changing, or they're
dying, or they're suffering.

1029
00:52:36,292 --> 00:52:38,750
These are sacred moments
where people open their heart

1030
00:52:38,833 --> 00:52:41,125
and their life to their pastor.

1031
00:52:41,208 --> 00:52:43,667
Very sacred moments.

1032
00:52:43,750 --> 00:52:46,000
And Jesus is bringing
the disciples with him

1033
00:52:46,083 --> 00:52:47,875
so that they can observe.

1034
00:52:47,958 --> 00:52:49,875
This is part of their training.

1035
00:52:49,958 --> 00:52:51,792
This is what happens
in community groups.

1036
00:52:51,875 --> 00:52:53,792
We go into people's
homes and lives.

1037
00:52:53,875 --> 00:52:55,792
This is what happens
in redemption group.

1038
00:52:55,875 --> 00:52:57,625
We do life
and community together.

1039
00:52:57,708 --> 00:53:00,500
If you want to learn
how to care for people,

1040
00:53:00,583 --> 00:53:03,750
then those are the vehicles
by which you'll be observing

1041
00:53:03,833 --> 00:53:07,000
before doing, learning
like Jesus taught,

1042
00:53:07,083 --> 00:53:09,667
how to care for hurting
and suffering people.

1043
00:53:09,750 --> 00:53:12,333
And he clears the room,
and then in walks Jesus

1044
00:53:12,417 --> 00:53:14,417
with his three disciples
that he's training,

1045
00:53:14,500 --> 00:53:16,833
the father, Jairus,
and the mother.

1046
00:53:16,917 --> 00:53:22,292
Ladies, can you emotionally
feel where this woman is at?

1047
00:53:22,375 --> 00:53:26,042
Can you see her leaning
over her dead daughter?

1048
00:53:26,125 --> 00:53:30,458
I mean I can't even--and
thinking of Grace and Ashley,

1049
00:53:30,542 --> 00:53:35,583
I just can't even--can't
even go there.

1050
00:53:35,667 --> 00:53:38,250


1051
00:53:38,333 --> 00:53:43,250
That the mother has
been there with her daughter,

1052
00:53:43,333 --> 00:53:45,875
and she's seen her die.

1053
00:53:45,958 --> 00:53:49,417
She's holding her
daughter's lifeless body,

1054
00:53:49,500 --> 00:53:54,625
and she is weeping,
sobbing, heaving bitterly.

1055
00:53:54,708 --> 00:53:59,208
And in walks Jesus,
three men she does not know,

1056
00:53:59,292 --> 00:54:03,917
and her husband who's a pastor.

1057
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:06,583
"And all were weeping."

1058
00:54:06,667 --> 00:54:10,250
You can hear it outside of the
room and the home and outside,

1059
00:54:10,333 --> 00:54:13,458
family, friends,
coworkers, neighbors,

1060
00:54:13,542 --> 00:54:15,167
members of the congregation.

1061
00:54:15,250 --> 00:54:19,500
There's 10-, 11-, 12-, 13-,
14-year-old girls that are her

1062
00:54:19,583 --> 00:54:24,083
friends, and they're emotional,
and they're distraught,

1063
00:54:24,167 --> 00:54:27,083
and they're hugging each
other, and everyone is weeping,

1064
00:54:27,167 --> 00:54:29,667
"and mourning for her

1065
00:54:29,750 --> 00:54:34,208
but he said, 'Do not weep, for
she is not dead but sleeping.'"

1066
00:54:34,292 --> 00:54:35,833
Sleep is a euphemism.

1067
00:54:35,917 --> 00:54:39,042
It's a metaphor that the Bible
uses to speak of those

1068
00:54:39,125 --> 00:54:41,458
who die in faith as believers.

1069
00:54:41,542 --> 00:54:44,875
See, death, ultimately, is
not just physical death,

1070
00:54:44,958 --> 00:54:47,708
but it's spiritual death,
which is separation from God.

1071
00:54:47,792 --> 00:54:49,292
Some of you are
physically alive,

1072
00:54:49,375 --> 00:54:52,667
but spiritually dead,
living apart from Jesus.

1073
00:54:52,750 --> 00:54:56,792
You're dead in your trespasses
and sins, the Bible would say.

1074
00:54:56,875 --> 00:55:00,583
And that because of your sins,
you will die, and upon death,

1075
00:55:00,667 --> 00:55:03,750
you will experience
eternal death in hell.

1076
00:55:03,833 --> 00:55:05,958
That's the worst death of all.

1077
00:55:06,042 --> 00:55:08,042
That's the ultimate death.

1078
00:55:08,125 --> 00:55:11,250
Those who have faith in
Jesus, and belong to Jesus,

1079
00:55:11,333 --> 00:55:14,250
and are believers in Jesus,
when they die physically,

1080
00:55:14,333 --> 00:55:17,708
they do not experience ultimate
death because their soul

1081
00:55:17,792 --> 00:55:19,250
goes to be with Jesus.

1082
00:55:19,333 --> 00:55:21,917
We have a physical body
and an immaterial soul,

1083
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:24,167
and upon the death
of the physical body,

1084
00:55:24,250 --> 00:55:26,875
the immaterial soul
goes to be with God.

1085
00:55:26,958 --> 00:55:30,542
That's why Paul says, "To be
absent from the body

1086
00:55:30,625 --> 00:55:32,833
is to be present with the Lord."

1087
00:55:32,917 --> 00:55:34,917
That's why Paul would say
elsewhere that

1088
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:37,583
"to live is Christ
and to die is," what?

1089
00:55:37,667 --> 00:55:39,083
"Gain."

1090
00:55:39,167 --> 00:55:41,750
And so the Bible uses
the language of sleep when

1091
00:55:41,833 --> 00:55:44,417
the believer dies, that
the body goes into the ground,

1092
00:55:44,500 --> 00:55:47,583
and the soul goes to be with
the Lord until the day

1093
00:55:47,667 --> 00:55:50,250
that the Lord Jesus returns,
and he commands the soul

1094
00:55:50,333 --> 00:55:53,417
to reenter and occupy the body,
that the soul and the body

1095
00:55:53,500 --> 00:55:55,500
are rejoined in a glorified
resurrected body

1096
00:55:55,583 --> 00:55:58,583
patterned after
the resurrection body of Jesus.

1097
00:55:58,667 --> 00:56:02,000
What this means is for God,
the raising of a dead person

1098
00:56:02,083 --> 00:56:04,292
is no more difficult
than the parent

1099
00:56:04,375 --> 00:56:08,667
who raises a child from a nap.

1100
00:56:08,750 --> 00:56:13,417
Gideon is 4,
and occasionally he still naps.

1101
00:56:13,500 --> 00:56:15,333
Walk in, rub his back.

1102
00:56:15,417 --> 00:56:16,958
"Good guy, Gid."

1103
00:56:17,042 --> 00:56:18,292
That's what we call him.

1104
00:56:18,375 --> 00:56:20,125
"It's time to get up, buddy."

1105
00:56:20,208 --> 00:56:22,583
One eye open,
"Okay, Dad."

1106
00:56:22,667 --> 00:56:26,958
For God to resurrect a believer
is no more difficult than

1107
00:56:27,042 --> 00:56:29,875
for a parent to awaken
a child from a nap.

1108
00:56:29,958 --> 00:56:33,292
It's just asleep.

1109
00:56:33,375 --> 00:56:35,042
And what do they do?

1110
00:56:35,125 --> 00:56:41,375
Verse 53, "They all laughed at
him, knowing that she was dead."

1111
00:56:41,458 --> 00:56:43,708
People still laugh at Jesus.

1112
00:56:43,792 --> 00:56:45,375
"You think we have a soul?

1113
00:56:45,458 --> 00:56:48,250
"You think after we die
we go to be with God?

1114
00:56:48,333 --> 00:56:51,083
"You think that one day our
soul will reenter our body?

1115
00:56:51,167 --> 00:56:52,917
"You think that Jesus
will defeat Satan,

1116
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:55,542
"sin, and death,
and lift the curse?

1117
00:56:55,625 --> 00:56:57,750
"That we'll live forever
in a new kingdom?

1118
00:56:57,833 --> 00:56:58,917
What a joke."

1119
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:02,292
People still laugh
in Jesus' face.

1120
00:57:02,375 --> 00:57:05,917
Verse 54, "But taking
her by the," what?

1121
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:07,792
"Hand."

1122
00:57:07,875 --> 00:57:09,708
I love this.

1123
00:57:09,792 --> 00:57:12,750
Luke is such a master
storyteller by the power

1124
00:57:12,833 --> 00:57:14,125
of the Holy Spirit.

1125
00:57:14,208 --> 00:57:17,250
Friends, did Jesus need to
go to her house to heal her,

1126
00:57:17,333 --> 00:57:18,250
yes or no?

1127
00:57:18,333 --> 00:57:19,208
No.

1128
00:57:19,292 --> 00:57:21,875
Previously in Luke's Gospel,
we've seen that a man came

1129
00:57:21,958 --> 00:57:24,375
to Jesus, said, "I need
you to heal someone.

1130
00:57:24,458 --> 00:57:26,375
"No need to come to my house.

1131
00:57:26,458 --> 00:57:29,042
You can do it from
a distance," and he does.

1132
00:57:29,125 --> 00:57:31,208
Jesus doesn't need
to go to the house.

1133
00:57:31,292 --> 00:57:33,875
Does Jesus need to
touch the girl, yes or no?

1134
00:57:33,958 --> 00:57:34,875
No.

1135
00:57:34,958 --> 00:57:37,208
So why is he there?
Because he loves her.

1136
00:57:37,292 --> 00:57:39,958
Why does he touch her?
Because he loves her.

1137
00:57:40,042 --> 00:57:42,250
And he says to her,
"Child arise."

1138
00:57:42,333 --> 00:57:44,417
He calls the older
woman, "Daughter."

1139
00:57:44,500 --> 00:57:49,042
He calls
the younger woman, "Child."

1140
00:57:49,125 --> 00:57:52,833
And she opens her eyes, and
who's the first person she sees?

1141
00:57:52,917 --> 00:57:54,875
Jesus.

1142
00:57:54,958 --> 00:57:57,583
What's the first
voice she hears?

1143
00:57:57,667 --> 00:57:58,792
Jesus'.

1144
00:57:58,875 --> 00:58:01,208
What's the first
touch she feels?

1145
00:58:01,292 --> 00:58:02,417
Jesus'.

1146
00:58:02,500 --> 00:58:04,917
This is a picture of
the resurrection of the dead

1147
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:08,875
for all of the children
of God, that when we die,

1148
00:58:08,958 --> 00:58:12,583
and because of sin we all will,
for those who belong to Jesus

1149
00:58:12,667 --> 00:58:16,167
and are the children of God,
on the other side of death,

1150
00:58:16,250 --> 00:58:18,083
you will see the face of Jesus,

1151
00:58:18,167 --> 00:58:20,083
you will feel the touch
of Jesus--

1152
00:58:20,167 --> 00:58:22,458
Revelation assures us that he
will wipe every tear

1153
00:58:22,542 --> 00:58:27,042
from our eye--and you will hear
the voice of Jesus.

1154
00:58:27,125 --> 00:58:31,417
Jesus will be there to meet
you on the other side of death.

1155
00:58:31,500 --> 00:58:35,750
Jesus will be there to meet you
at the day of resurrection

1156
00:58:35,833 --> 00:58:38,292
as he was there
for this young girl.

1157
00:58:38,375 --> 00:58:43,417
Can you imagine what this
meant to Jairus as a dad?

1158
00:58:43,500 --> 00:58:50,417
I get very emotional thinking
of Jesus holding Ashley's hand.

1159
00:58:50,500 --> 00:58:54,125
To this point in her life, I'm
the only man who's ever held her

1160
00:58:54,208 --> 00:58:58,292
hand, and to see
Jesus take her hand,

1161
00:58:58,375 --> 00:59:04,042
"Child arise,"
and she returns to life.

1162
00:59:04,125 --> 00:59:08,083
And Jesus smiles at her,
and she sees Jesus' face,

1163
00:59:08,167 --> 00:59:12,375
and she feels Jesus' touch,
and she hears Jesus' voice.

1164
00:59:12,458 --> 00:59:15,250
Majestic, perfect.

1165
00:59:15,333 --> 00:59:16,750
What love.

1166
00:59:16,833 --> 00:59:21,500
Mars Hill, this is our Jesus.

1167
00:59:21,583 --> 00:59:25,000
I want you men all to be
tender with women in general,

1168
00:59:25,083 --> 00:59:29,833
and your daughters
in particular, like this, Amen?

1169
00:59:29,917 --> 00:59:33,208
"And her spirit returned,
and she got up at once.

1170
00:59:33,292 --> 00:59:36,708
And he directed that something
be given her to eat."

1171
00:59:36,792 --> 00:59:38,792
He's considerate.

1172
00:59:38,875 --> 00:59:41,958
She's hungry,
she's been ill.

1173
00:59:42,042 --> 00:59:44,500
This is also a foreshadowing
that on the other side

1174
00:59:44,583 --> 00:59:47,500
of resurrection, which this
young woman has enjoyed,

1175
00:59:47,583 --> 00:59:50,292
there will be a feast
for the children of God.

1176
00:59:50,375 --> 00:59:52,958
Revelation 19 calls it
the wedding supper of the lamb,

1177
00:59:53,042 --> 00:59:55,625
that we will go through
death as this woman did,

1178
00:59:55,708 --> 00:59:59,292
and if our faith is in Jesus,
and we are the children of God,

1179
00:59:59,375 --> 01:00:01,792
then one day our body
and soul will reunite.

1180
01:00:01,875 --> 01:00:04,750
We will resurrect from
death; sin, and suffering,

1181
01:00:04,833 --> 01:00:07,292
and sickness will be no more.

1182
01:00:07,375 --> 01:00:09,375
We'll be forgiven and cleansed.

1183
01:00:09,458 --> 01:00:11,542
We will see Jesus' face.

1184
01:00:11,625 --> 01:00:13,417
We will hear Jesus' voice.

1185
01:00:13,500 --> 01:00:15,208
We will feel Jesus' touch,

1186
01:00:15,292 --> 01:00:18,667
and we'll sit down
to feast with him.

1187
01:00:18,750 --> 01:00:23,250
This is a portrait
of our eternity.

1188
01:00:23,333 --> 01:00:27,083
"And her parents were amazed,
but he charged them

1189
01:00:27,167 --> 01:00:28,958
to tell no one
what had happened."

1190
01:00:29,042 --> 01:00:30,583
We do not know why.

1191
01:00:30,667 --> 01:00:32,500
This would be an interesting
discussion point

1192
01:00:32,583 --> 01:00:33,958
for your community group.

1193
01:00:34,042 --> 01:00:35,750
It may be that
Jesus' primary ministry

1194
01:00:35,833 --> 01:00:37,083
is preaching and teaching.

1195
01:00:37,167 --> 01:00:39,917
His secondary ministry is
the casting out of demons,

1196
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:42,167
and the healing of
those who are sick.

1197
01:00:42,250 --> 01:00:44,333
But he does not want his
secondary ministry

1198
01:00:44,417 --> 01:00:46,042
to overtake his
primary ministry.

1199
01:00:46,125 --> 01:00:52,542
He wants to still be
able to preach and teach.

1200
01:00:52,625 --> 01:00:54,458
Sin results in
suffering and death,

1201
01:00:54,542 --> 01:00:57,292
we see that in both stories

1202
01:00:57,375 --> 01:00:59,708
of the older woman
and the young girl.

1203
01:00:59,792 --> 01:01:02,750
Some of you would hear this
story and you would identify

1204
01:01:02,833 --> 01:01:03,833
with the older woman.

1205
01:01:03,917 --> 01:01:05,500
You would say, "My lot has been

1206
01:01:05,583 --> 01:01:07,250
many years of
painful suffering."

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My encouragement to you today
would be to reach out

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to Jesus in faith,
so that the power of God

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might be unleashed in your life.

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And some of you, in fact,
can and will be healed

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in this life by Jesus.

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It is true physically for some.

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It is true for all who
trust in him spiritually.

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Some of you would identify with
the parents and you would say,

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"It is not I who have suffered,
but I know and love someone

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"who has, and it's been very
difficult to watch them suffer

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or perhaps even die, as
they lost their daughter."

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And I would say that Jairus'
example is a good one,

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run to Jesus,
cast yourself upon him,

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and invite him into your
home, and into your life,

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and into your family to
minister to you, and he will.

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And we all, one day, will be in
the place of this young girl.

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We will all die.

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All have sinned and fallen
short of the glory of God,

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therefore all die.

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And one day death will come for
us all, and you and I will die.

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And if our faith is
in Jesus, we will die in him,

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and we will rise like him,
forever to be with him.

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And our Jesus is the one
who bled like the woman.

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Our God came and bled
and suffered like the woman,

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and our Jesus suffered
and died like the girl,

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and he rose that in him,
we might rise to be together

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forever with him, Amen?

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Father God, I pray for us as
a church that when we read

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the Scripture, that you would
send us the Holy Spirit,

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first to compel us
to read the Scripture,

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but then also to give us the
mind of Christ that we might

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understand what is being said,
and then to give us the heart

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of Christ that we might
weep with those who weep,

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and mourn with those who mourn,

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and rejoice with those
who rejoice.

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Lord Jesus, we rejoice that
the woman who bled for 12 years

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by faith was healed.

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01:03:09,917 --> 01:03:11,958
Pray for healing for
those who are suffering,

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and we believe that
you can and do heal.

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God, as well, we pray for
the young girl who died and her

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family that, Lord God, you would
comfort those who are living

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and lost those that they love,
and that you would enable us

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to trust, by faith, in
the resurrection of the dead

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that she experienced,
that we will as well.

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God, I thank you that you call
the first woman, "Daughter,"

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and the second woman,
"Child."

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01:03:40,292 --> 01:03:42,750
And God, I pray for us
all in general,

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but the women in particular.

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For those who
don't have fathers,

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I pray that Jesus would be the
father figure in their life.

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And for those who do have
fathers like Jairus who love

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and serve them, that they would
love and honor their fathers,

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and that Lord God, they would
know that through Jesus,

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you as well call them
children, children of God.

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God, please enlarge our hearts,
and I pray a particular prayer

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today, Lord God, for my
daughters, Ashley and Alexie,

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and I pray for all the daughters
that have been

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and will be born in this church.

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And I pray for us fathers that
we would love them like Jairus.

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And for those girls
who don't have dads,

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that we would serve them like
Jesus, in whose name we pray,

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Amen.

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