Let me take this
opportunity today to
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welcome you to Faith
Chapel, where we believe
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that the just shall
live by his or her faith.
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My name is Roy R.
Brown, Retired President
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of the
Southeastern Conference of
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Seventh-day Adventist
and my subject for today
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is, nothing to it. Let us pray.
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Father, we
stretch our hands to thee,
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no other help we
know, in your loving
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kindness grant us
a full disclosure of
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your will to us for this day.
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In Jesus name,
Amen. Jesus was confronted
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by two individuals
with critical needs.
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Jairus, a well
situated, well established,
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well connected,
well respected leader of
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the synagogue, ruler of it.
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He belonged to
the college of elders
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or preachers and he
had a 12-year-old girl
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who was terminally
ill. His daughter was sick
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and Jesus met an
obscure elderly lady
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who had spent all
of her livelihood on
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ineffectual
medical care, a system
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that was broken
without one single result.
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In fact she got
worst, Jairus with status
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gets to Jesus first
and Jesus decided to go
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down to his house in
order to bring relief
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and care to his
daughter. As Jairus was
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going down to his
house, Jesus was going down
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to Jairus' house the
unnamed, unannounced,
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unhealed,
unnoticed, unclean woman lays
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her hands on the
Lord of life and glory
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and her life which
was ebbing away was
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immediately
healed. This is considered
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one of the
wayside miracles of Jesus,
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because of its secret sorrow,
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public description is withheld.
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There are three
gospels in the Bible
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which report
this incident, it's in
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Matthew, Mark and
Luke. In the 9th chapter of
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Matthew, verses
20 to 22 we read,
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the Bible says,
and suddenly a woman
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who had a flow of
blood for 12 years came from
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behind and touched
the hem of His garment
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and suddenly a woman
who had this blood for
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12 years Bible says,
for she said to herself,
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if only I may touch His garment,
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I shall be made well."
But Jesus turned around,
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and said to her "Be
of good cheer, daughter;
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your faith has made you well."
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And the woman was made well from
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that hour
onwards. The Levitical laws
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indicate that
this woman's malady
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subjected her to
grievous penalties,
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it was rather
embarrassing for her
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to discuss her
predicament in public.
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In fact she was a
woman of few words,
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which is a rarity
and a woman of much
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shamefacedness.
Womanly delicacy forbade
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her openly discuss
her situation in public.
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But the Levitical law said that,
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all that she
touched, all she sat up on,
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all who came in
her path became unclean
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simply because of her illness,
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an outcast of society she was,
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end of the law,
shunned by her neighbors
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and friends,
purposely avoided if you please.
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She was living a
haggard life from poverty,
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having spend all that she had,
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in fact she was made
worse not from the drain
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on her physical
body, nor her drain
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on her finances, but
the stigma of uncleanness
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affected her mostly.
This woman was excluded
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from the
consolations of public worship
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and you know how it
is, you go to church
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when you're sick
because you believe
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that Jesus Christ
is a great physician
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and that He has healing for your
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soul spiritually and physically.
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Your go to the
house of worship because
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you are poor and
the Bible indicates
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blessed are the poor in spirit.
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You go to church
because you've been rejected
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because you have a serious need,
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you go to God's house
because you have trails
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and difficulties encompass you,
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go because you have troubles
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and you hope that
within the house of God.
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The words of Isaiah
will be fulfilled in
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your life, where
the Bible simply says
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he is called
wonderful, counselor,
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the mighty God,
the everlasting Father,
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the prince of Peace
and it is hoped that
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when you enter within
the gates of God's house
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that the comfort
and the assurance
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and the help
that you need will be
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forthcoming. This
woman, her preference
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rarely was
obscurity, if it could have been
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so not a single word
came out of her lips,
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except when Jesus confronted her
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and He drew it out
of her only for her
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lasting good.
She belongs to that
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long line of
persons, individuals who
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if courage is
needed to gain salvation
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it will be most
difficult for them.
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She is almost like Nicodemus,
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he came beneath
the star studded skies
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at night to learn
truth and to gain light
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and
understanding from the Christ.
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There was no
pomp and no pageantry,
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it was just Jesus and Nicodemus.
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If you notice the
life of Christ it is really
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an amazing and beautiful life.
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Jairus wanted Jesus to
come down to his house.
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The gentile
Centurion told Jesus please
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don't come to my
house just speak the word
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and my servant would be healed.
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This unnamed
woman will touch Christ
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in the hope that
she will be blessed
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all three, Jairus,
the gentile Centurion
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and this unnamed
woman, all three like
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all of us in
different ways are seeking for
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God's help and the fact is that
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God will respond, it
was such an interesting
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account that
Jesus was going down to
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Jairus' house
and the cup of grace
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that He was
carrying simply spilled
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and the woman
sponged up every ounces
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of it to her
eternal good. This is what
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we call a wayside
miracle, this lady is
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really symbolic
of those whom Christ
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and the Christian
way of life the whole
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Revelation of God
in Christ is applicable
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only in direst
extremity, only as a
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last resort. I'm
talking about a religion that,
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that's prompted
by, by cul-de-sac,
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experience a dead end
road to be born again,
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to be reconciled to
God, to have all of our sins
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forgiven, to have
Jesus Christ at foremost
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in the life. To do
God's will and to keep all
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of His commandments,
they must be first sick
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and dying, and then
hear the cry from them,
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they cry out Jesus
Lord have mercy on me.
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Lord, I'll do
what You want me to do.
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I'll be what You want me to be,
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I will go where
You want me to go,
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they seem to
forget the formula that
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Jesus Christ has
given us. He says in the
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book of
Matthew, the chapter is 6
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and the verse is 33, He says,
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"But seek first
the kingdom of God
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and His righteousness,
and all these things
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shall be added on to
you." The Bible in the
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book tells us that
the woman had spent
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all of her
living. Mark's Gospel says
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that this woman was
first getting rid of all
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of her expenses in
an attempt to get well
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before she saw Jesus
and you and I ought to
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remember that
Jesus ought to be a
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first choice and
not a last resort,
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we opt to spend all of our money
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and our time on
pleasure on wealth
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and fame and
cars and real estate
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and when we have
taken care of all of the
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educational responsibilities
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and the comforts
and the ease of life.
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Then after we have
acquired and we have
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done the gamete of
those then we like the women
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discover that we are
not better but worse.
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Then when we
have failed to accept
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Jesus Christ at the given time,
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if we did not elect
to chose God first then
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when we ready to
die, when we have no more
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an attempt to get
all that God has to offer
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then we give to
Him the tattered,
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battered, scant remains of time
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when we could
have given Him first
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if we had followed
his formula all that
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we have and are and
life would have been
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one endless stream of blessing,
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no wonder the
songwriter says give now
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thy use to God, God
will take us whenever
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we get to Him,
whenever we elect to choose
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Him as our frame of reference,
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as our savior, as
our Lord and our coming
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King. But in an
event that we do not
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but turn over our
lives to Him God knows
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that He will take us
and make us what we ought
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to be by His grace.
This man and his wife
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were at the account of fear
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and she wanted to
ride the merry-go-round
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and he didn't. And
after a few moments of
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deliberation, he
said to her, honey,
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if you want to
ride, you can go ahead,
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I will wait for
you. So, she went on the
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merry-go-round
and she had her ride,
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finally the merry-go-round came
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for a stop. He
was waiting for her,
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just where she had
got on and then she walked
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over to him and
he said to her honey,
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may I say
something to you, he said
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you paid your money, you got off
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where you got on and
you haven't been anywhere.
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And so it is in life,
sometimes we have given,
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we have spent all that we have
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and instead of
getting better you got worse.
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This woman really
depicts in a broad sense
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or diseased on healed world.
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Look at the list of her helpers.
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Really they were
here hurters, HURTERS.
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If we may calling
the word, OBG ones,
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doctors of internal medicine,
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laboratory tests,
operations, experiments,
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notorious drugs,
medications beyond
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or ideal for fulfillment.
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Egyptian
doctors, Syrian doctors,
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Greek practitioners,
all tired, these men
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had the science of medicine down
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but instead of
helping her she became worse.
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She just paid,
and paid, and paid
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if she already
knew the prodigal son,
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that the prodigal
did not earned his rule
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it was given to him
and so it is with us
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what we get from the Lord is not
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what for we do not
earn it, it's a gift
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from God. Twelve
years expenditure
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is a lot of money,
the scriptures do not
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indicate her
source of livelihood,
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well they are
individuals in our world
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now who can't
afford their medications
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for a week or a month,
this woman could do for
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12 years. In fact
there are some people
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who must opt may be
to eat cat or dogs food
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in order to get the medications
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to sustain life. But this woman
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having spend all,
paid all, she was not
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bettered, she was
still poor, still destitute,
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still diseased,
still disappointed,
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still weak, still miserable,
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and still excluded
from the consolations of
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public worship.
But she wanted out
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you see of her
situation. She was
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downright desperate. She spared
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neither living nor
labor and all world is like
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this woman, we
have tired everything
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world wars, we
have tried all the isms,
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capitalism,
materialism, militarism,
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we have tried
communism, imperialism,
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democracy, we're
still going to pieces,
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still diseased, all of treaties,
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and all of the peace talks,
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and all of the
summits and all of the
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United Nations
resolutions, still have
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not helped us. When
are we going to learn,
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we ought to learn in the book of
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Acts the chapter is
4, and the verse is 12,
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here is what the
Bible tells us is the best
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solution to all
of the situations
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that comes our
way. It is so simple
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we ought to just get
it at the first chance,
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it says "Nor is there
salvation in any other,
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for there is no
other name under heaven
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given among men by
which we must be saved.
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There is only name that
will grant us salvation,
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no medicine on
earth can keep the heart
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throbbing if
Jesus says that's it.
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No surgery can
remove the load of sin
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and guilt from the
conscious but Jesus can.
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No hand of
preacher or philosopher
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or prophet can
cleanse the stains of sin
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from our lives. No
voice can say a word that will
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astonish the wounds
of a bleeding heart,
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but Jesus can. The
thirst can only go worse
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because the water
sought are from broken
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empty systems.
Only Jesus can help us.
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We like the woman
have tried and tried
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and tried, we
have forgotten that
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life is not healed
by financial resources,
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life is not healed
by the accomplishment
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or the achievements.
This woman had however
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a great
determination, she had great
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hopefulness, she had great ideas
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that she would get
help, her misdirected
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qualities are
needful for us because
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if only she had
got the opportunity
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to hold on to that
which was right and true
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and helpful at the out set.
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Life would have
been one glorious attempt
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for this woman
to know what kind of
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characteristics
she had. Mark tells us
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that she heard about Jesus,
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and this is so
marvelous, this is so
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beautiful
somebody somewhere did a
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beautiful deed for
Jesus, when she had
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heard about
Jesus the woman said,
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if I could only have
the opportunity to touch him
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I will be healed,
I will be blessed,
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I will be restored
because this individual
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who told her about
Christ had given her
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something to hold on
to. She heard about Jesus
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the Bible said,
just hearing about Him
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she hadn't seen Him.
She was not in contact,
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she heard about
Him. How sweet the name
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of Jesus sounds
in a believer's ears,
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it heals the sorrow
and gets rid of all of his
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wounds. Dear
name the rock on which
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I build my
shield and hiding place.
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The songwriter says
all hail the power of
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Jesus name. Let
angels prostrate fall.
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He is savior, He is
our Lord, He is our master.
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He is the great physician that
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this woman
sought, He is the door,
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He is the good
shepherd, He is the way
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the truth, the life,
in fact we need to say
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like Thomas did,
he cried out my Lord
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and my God.
However to hear about Jesus
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is not enough,
we must first come
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and the songwriter
says I came to Jesus
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as I was, weary
and worn and sad,
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I found in Him a resting place
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and He has made me
glad. Isaiah 55 and verse 6
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tells us exactly
how we ought to deal
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with our lives in
relationship to this
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marvelous savior
that we serve Isaiah 55
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and verse 6, it
says, seek the Lord
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while He may be
found, Call upon Him
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while He is near.
This woman really sought
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the Lord while
he could be found,
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she said if only I
may touch His clothes,
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she says I shall be
made well, this unclean,
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unhealed woman
would venture into the
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very presence
of the Lord of life
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and glory with
one objective in mind.
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If I can only but touch Him,
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Jesus never ever bid
us come if we are clean.
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Jesus never gave us
the idea that there are
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some acceptable,
approved ceremonies
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that we must first
go through before we can
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approach Him. He
does not design a ritual
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for us to come He
simply says come unto me
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all ye that labor
and are heavy laden them
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and I will give
you rest. This woman
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sought the Lord, she
said if I will only go
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and if I can only
touch His garment,
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I know I am going to
get well, and she did.
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You see my
brothers and my sisters,
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my friends, it is important
00:22:33.93\00:22:36.56
that this woman get
well because after 12 years
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and she could
no longer buy that,
00:22:43.21\00:22:45.99
those medications
and costly injections
00:22:46.00\00:22:50.50
that had raised her
hopes only to dash them,
00:22:50.51\00:22:53.25
this woman came to
what would be called
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her bitterest grief.
She said I don't have
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anymore money and
look at what I'm going
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through, I can't
buy my medication
00:23:02.06\00:23:04.32
but she heard about
Jesus, that was the best
00:23:04.33\00:23:07.52
thing that could
have happened to her
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because its no longer
her medication it is no,
00:23:09.99\00:23:13.32
not I but Christ
and so it is with us.
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When we come to the
end of our purse strings,
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financially or educationally
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or whatever
purse strings we have
00:23:22.29\00:23:24.82
and they are depleted
then we learn to depend
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upon Jesus, we
learn to trust him.
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Because as long as
there is food on the table.
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As long as on
one in the hospital,
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as long as we can
buy the gas for whatever
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they cost, three
dollars or four dollars
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whatever, as long
as the mortgage is paid
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and we have some
crunches around us,
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then we feel that
everything is alright.
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But God says you
got to learn to study
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its not I but
Christ, this was the
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simplest thing she could do.
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No prescription to
fill, no pills to take.
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This was the easiest
thing that she could do,
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just touch the
hem of his garment.
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This was the
freest thing she could do,
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its so free not a
cent. Because God's gifts
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are all free as
the air we breath.
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No money for
grace, no money for love,
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no money for his compassion.
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This was also the
quietest thing that
00:24:20.58\00:24:23.16
she could do only a
touch. It was the most
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effectual thing,
number five that she could do,
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look at the crowd around her,
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look at her
personal responsibility,
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no one went for her.
No one to touch for her,
00:24:34.22\00:24:37.30
no one to introduce
him to her she was going
00:24:37.31\00:24:40.64
for herself, pushed and tossed
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and shoved by
the maddening crowd,
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here this woman
of faith in her hand.
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She says my faith
demands that I must
00:24:47.43\00:24:51.28
have a personal,
intimate relationship
00:24:51.29\00:24:55.23
with the Lord Jesus
Christ and so she came
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and all of a
sudden her moment arrived
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and her moment
arrived the Bible tells us
00:25:00.76\00:25:03.69
that she reached
out and touched the hem
00:25:03.70\00:25:06.51
of God's garment
and the Bible says
00:25:06.52\00:25:08.93
that her bleeding
was immediately stanched.
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Arrested, stopped,
the live-giving forces
00:25:12.85\00:25:17.06
were now cruising
through all of her body,
00:25:17.07\00:25:19.63
in fact the Bible says
in the book of Mark that
00:25:19.64\00:25:22.58
her blood stopped immediately.
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Jesus turns around and He asks,
00:25:26.52\00:25:29.21
who touched Me for I feel that
00:25:29.22\00:25:32.57
virtue has gone
out of Me, that's what
00:25:32.58\00:25:35.74
the woman said,
she said if I may but
00:25:35.75\00:25:37.60
touched Him. Jesus in
saying who touched Me,
00:25:37.61\00:25:41.40
simply wanted to
reward her faith because
00:25:41.41\00:25:45.12
He says virtue has
gone out and He says
00:25:45.13\00:25:47.43
I do not want this
woman to leave feeling
00:25:47.44\00:25:50.58
that she stole
something or unconscious of that
00:25:50.59\00:25:55.18
which occur to her
was a gift from God.
00:25:55.19\00:25:58.18
So, He said
woman who touched Me,
00:25:58.19\00:26:01.88
He asked the
crowd. The healing virtue
00:26:01.89\00:26:04.96
was an answer to her
faith so God called her
00:26:04.97\00:26:08.08
and when she went
up, the Bible says
00:26:08.09\00:26:10.06
that she spoke
to God. She told Him
00:26:10.07\00:26:12.94
I touched you she
told Him everything
00:26:12.95\00:26:14.94
because Jesus wanted
her not only to believe
00:26:14.95\00:26:18.46
with her heart, He
also wanted her to confess
00:26:18.47\00:26:21.05
with her lips,
then Jesus turned to her
00:26:21.06\00:26:24.06
and He said to her
daughter your faith
00:26:24.07\00:26:27.42
has made you well. Go in peace
00:26:27.43\00:26:30.97
and be healed
of your affliction,
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saving faith, the
word of God in Jesus Christ
00:26:35.35\00:26:40.76
gave her a tremendous assurance,
00:26:40.77\00:26:43.11
more than that God
called her daughter,
00:26:43.12\00:26:47.11
He was on His way
to Jarius' daughter
00:26:47.12\00:26:50.36
and so He turn to
her and he says lady
00:26:50.37\00:26:52.76
you are also my
daughter, ancestry
00:26:52.77\00:26:55.56
of the Jews,
ancestor of Abraham.
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God has billions of people here
00:26:59.88\00:27:03.18
on the earth but
He wanted her to know
00:27:03.19\00:27:05.28
that chronically
ill old ladies mean
00:27:05.29\00:27:08.65
just as much to him
as bright privileged
00:27:08.66\00:27:11.87
young daughters.
So, He said daughter,
00:27:11.88\00:27:14.78
be of good
courage, your faith has made
00:27:14.79\00:27:17.61
you whole, with the large crowd,
00:27:17.62\00:27:19.92
but this simple
touch of faith do not leave
00:27:19.93\00:27:24.82
God's presence
ever, unless you touch him
00:27:24.83\00:27:29.30
by the hand of
faith, then raise up
00:27:29.31\00:27:31.93
and sing, he touched Me
because it's reciprocal,
00:27:31.94\00:27:35.48
it's a divine human relationship
00:27:35.49\00:27:38.16
and then you can
say to God only a touch
00:27:38.17\00:27:40.82
of your hands dear
Lord, only a word of love
00:27:40.83\00:27:44.11
and God will make
you all that you can be
00:27:44.12\00:27:46.99
and he wants you to
be, there is nothing to it,
00:27:47.00\00:27:50.66
its simple faith in
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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