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Mark 5b
Mark 4 :36-5:20The King who offends
Sandwich technique
Jairus requests help for daughter
Jesus raises Jairus daughter from dead
Woman with menstrual bleed
Jairus- Mark 5:21-24
• And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea. 22 Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing him, he fell at his feet 23 and implored him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.” 24 And he went with him
ObservationsText
First Religious Leader significance?
Extreme humility
Faith in Jesus ability
Jesus responds to faith even in religious leader
Life threatening emergency
The bleeding woman
• And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him. 25 And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, 26 and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse.
Huge crowded situation
Menstrual bleedChronic 12 yearsUnclean cannot touch rabbi
Incurable, IntractableSuffered much even from the treatments
Deteriorating conditionProbably desparate
Text Observations
• 27 She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. 28 For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.” 29 And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.
Text Observations
Second hand information
Imperfect faith in JesusAlmost superstitious
Total cure
Why did jesus ask who touched me?
• 30 And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?” 31 And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me? ’
Was this involuntary healing stolen from Jesus?
Cannot be involuntary or magicalJesus was touched by many butOnly she got the cure
Why did Jesus ask who touched him?
Why did jesus ask who touched me?
• 32 And he looked around to see who had done it. 33 But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.
She was forced to confess
•34 And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease
Jesus did not want her to go away and believe falsely in this superstitious faith but a long term transformationHe wanted her to know thatHe knew she was healed and He deliberately healed him and even though it was based on an imperfect superstitious faith from a stolen touch
Faith on its own cannot save youRelationship
ANATOMY OF FAITH
Faith in Jesus Touch Jesus will
The cause of healingThe instrument of healing
How sure are you that the branch will save you?
Tylenol
• While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler's house some who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?” 36 But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.” 37 And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John the brother of James. 38 They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.
Delay has resulted in death!!
Jesus challenges his faith
• 39 And when he had entered, he said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.” 40 And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child's father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was.
Professional mourners on site already mourning she is dead
Jesus down plays the death but she did die
•But taking her by the hand he called, saying, “Child, arise.” 55 And her spirit returned, and she got up at once
•(Luke 8:54-55 ESV)
• 41 Taking her by the hand he said to her, “Talitha cumi,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.” 42 And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement. 43 And he strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat
• (Mark 5:35-43 ESV)
Honey get up! Just like the gentle touch of a parentNo incantations or rolling up sleeves
In Jesus hands death is like a sleep..instead of humans most implacable foe
Lessons
He will get from you far more than what you have planned to give and he will give to you far more than you have bargained
for
The woman
• She wanted to touch and run
• He wanted to give her a life transforming encounter……go public
• He didn’t want her just to come to him for her needs but her greatest need
• Jairus faith was extended..to faith beyond death
• Jairus came for a cure for fever Jesus gave him ressurection
Jesus always delays for our sakes
• Delays by stopping to speak to the woman with the hemorrhage
• Wrong priorities ? Chronic vs acute illness
• The delay transforms the woman from quasi superstitious faith to life transformation
• The delay enables a greater miracle for Jairus
• We have the arrogance to believe that we know all the facts and blame God for delays
• We have to have the self centered knocked out of our hearts
• God has all the facts we don’t
The healings reveal to us how the kingdom works
Jairus requests help for daughter
Jesus raises Jairus daughter from dead
Woman with menstrual bleedUnclean, Woman, no status, No name.Comes from behind, has to push,determined despite odds, superstitious
Person of status, has faith, desperate
jESUS GIVES FULL ATTENTION TO
Bottom feederWomanUnclean
RulerManSynagogue ruler
OutsiderQuasi –superstitious faithMessed up
InsiderHas strong faithHas it all together
GRACE-kINGDOM VALUES
• The way up is to come down
• The way to get power is to give up power
• To be happy you need to serve others to make them happy
• But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 so that no human being might boast in the presence of God
• (1 Corinthians 1:27-29 ESV)
Jesus POWER OVER DEATH
•Storms
•Army of demons
•Illness
•Death
Minimal effort No rolling up sleeves
Unbelief-Mark 6
• He went away from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. 2 And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands? 3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him
• (Mark 6:1-6 ESV)
Small insignificant town
Recognised his wisdom in teaching and miraclesSaw what everyone else saw
The word is “scandalised”
Jesus is too ordinary
Unbelief-blocks miracles
• 4 And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.” 5 And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. 6 And he marveled because of their unbelief.
• And he went about among the villages teaching
• (Mark 6:1-6 ESV)
Why are people offended by jesus?
Naaman’s story
• 1 Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper. 2 Now the Syrians on one of their raids had carried off a little girl from the land of Israel, and she worked in the service of Naaman's wife. 3 She said to her mistress, “Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.” 4 So Naaman went in and told his lord, “Thus and so spoke the girl from the land of Israel.” 5 And the king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.”
• So he went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing. 6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, “When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you Naaman my servant, that you may cure him of his leprosy.” (2 Kings 5:5-12 ESV)
• 7 And when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me.”
• 8 But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, that he may know that there is a prophet in Israel.” 9 So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stood at the door of Elisha's house. 10 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean.” 11 But Naaman was angry and went away, saying, “Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call upon the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper. 12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean
• (2 Kings 5:5-12 ESV)
HUMAN PRIDE
• The ordinariness of Jesus
• People have different expectations of what God should be like and do..this is called the trajectory of salvation
The salvation trajectory
Powerful, impressiveGloryRecognise human achievementRecognise status
Noble birthGreat pedigreeIn palaceStraight from heavenTake us up to heavenNot come down to be ordinary
Jesus salvation trajectory
The salvation trajectory
Wise and not so powerful No gloryDoes not recognise human achievementDoes no recognise statusGets crucified
Humble birthNo pedigreeBirth out of wedlockIn mangerNeighbor
Offended by jesus
Herodians and Pharisees- didn’t conform to their rules
Nazarenes – too ordinary
• The graciousness levels him …everyone is on the same level..grace offended his pride
• Traditional society offended because everyone on same level
• And blessed is the one who is not offended by me
• (Matthew 11:6 ESV)
• If you let that offend you I cant do miracles in your life
Everyone has their own ideas on god
I like his teaching on love
I like his kindness
I don’t like his exclusiveness
He offends me
Everyone has their own ideas on god
I have the right to decide on what God is like?
Seeing your doctor
• Patients want their doctors to agree with their plans
• And be accountable for the results
Do you want a real god or and idol?
• A real God has His own characteristics
• A real God is not going to fit into all our mould
• A real God is not predictable
• A real God will have some bits you recognise and some things which is going to blow your mind
The mission of the twelve
• And he called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. 8 He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts— 9 but to wear sandals and not put on two tunics. 10 And he said to them, “Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you depart from there. 11 And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.” 12 So they went out and proclaimed that people should repent. 13 And they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them
• (Mark 6:7-13 ESV)
Extending His ministryPractical application of his teaching
Learn dependancy on GodDepend on hospitality
They ministered in word and deed..repent and heal
Simplicity and Integrity
Neither of these two
All disciples will be rejected and offend people as jesus was
•Inclusive in ministry …love and care for all
•Exclusive in their message- Only believe in Jesus
•His agenda not yours
Response of rejection
•11. And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.”
•Move on
Outside vs inside
Jairus requests help for daughter
Jesus raises Jairus daughter from dead
Woman with menstrual bleed Nazareth unbelief