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It's a great joy to be here again.

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Let me read to you from the Word

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of God.

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Let's turn to Mark's Gospel.

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Chapter 5.

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Let's read from verse 21.

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Mark's Gospel.

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Chapter 5.

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Verse 21.

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Hear the Word of God.

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When Jesus had again crossed over by boat

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to the other side of the lake, a

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large crowd gathered around Him while He was

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by the lake.

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Then one of the synagogue rulers named Jairus

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came there.

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Seeing Jesus, he fell at His feet and

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pleaded earnestly with Him.

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My little daughter is dying.

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Please come and put Your hands on her

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so that she will be healed and live.

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So Jesus went with Him.

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A large crowd followed and pressed around Him.

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And a woman was there who had been

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subject to bleeding for twelve years.

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She'd suffered a great deal under the care

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of many doctors and had spent all she

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had, yet instead of getting better, she grew

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worse.

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When she heard about Jesus, she came up

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behind Him in the crowd and touched His

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cloak because she thought, if I just touch

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His clothes, I will be healed.

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Immediately, her bleeding stopped.

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And she felt in her body that she

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was freed from her suffering.

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At once, Jesus realized that power had gone

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out from Him.

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He turned around in the crowd and asked,

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Who touched My clothes?

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You see the people crowding against you, the

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disciples answered, and yet you can ask, Who

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touched Me?

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But Jesus kept looking around to see who'd

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done it.

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Then the woman, knowing what had happened to

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her, came and fell at His feet and

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trembling with fear, told Him the whole truth.

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He said to her, Daughter, your faith has

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healed you.

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Go in peace and be freed from your

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suffering.

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While Jesus was still speaking, some men came

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from the house of Jairus, the synagogue ruler.

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Your daughter's dead, they said.

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Why bother the teacher anymore?

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Ignoring what they said, Jesus told the synagogue

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ruler, Don't be afraid.

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Just believe.

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He didn't let anyone follow Him except Peter,

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James, and John, the brother of James.

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When they came to the home of the

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synagogue ruler, Jesus saw a commotion with people

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crying, wailing loudly.

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He went in and said to them, Why

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all this commotion and wailing?

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The child isn't dead, but asleep.

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But they laughed at Him.

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After He put them all out, He took

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the child's father and mother and the disciples

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who were with Him and went in where

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the child was.

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He took her by the hand and said

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to her, Talitha koumi, which means, little girl,

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I say to you, get up.

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Immediately the girl stood up and walked around.

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She was 12 years old.

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At this, they were completely astonished.

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He gave strict orders not to let anyone

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know about this and told them, give her

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something to eat.

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Let's put this passage then in the context

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where we find it.

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It's in the Bible.

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Okay, so I've not come with you with

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a new message or with something from the

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UK.

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But it's here in the Bible.

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And the Bible was written by ordinary folk

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like us.

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They weren't in some great conspiracy that they

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wanted to spread a lie around the world.

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A terrible lie.

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So, it's in the Bible.

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And then it's in Mark's Gospel.

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And Mark's Gospel, you know, begins the beginning

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of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son

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of God.

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And everything that follows in the next 16

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chapters are His vindication of that claim He's

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made.

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He wants to show us.

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He wants to prove to us that Jesus

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Christ is the Son of God.

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And then the immediate context then is chapter

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4 and verse 35 where the power of

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Jesus is shown in four different ways.

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Firstly, there's His power over creation.

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He's in a storm in the boat and

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the disciples who were fishermen were terrified at

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such a storm.

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And Jesus speaks and the winds and waves

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obey Him.

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And there's a great calm.

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He has power over creation.

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And then it goes on and there He

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meets the worst case of demon possession that

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the world has ever seen or ever will

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see.

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A man from Gadara who could just snap

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chains and tear all his clothes off and

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live amongst the tombs and howl.

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And no one could help him.

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And Jesus just comes to him and delivers

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him.

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He doesn't dance or scream or shout or

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do tricks with candles or anything.

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He just heals the man.

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The man wants to give up everything and

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follow Him.

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You go home and tell your family, He

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says.

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Jesus has power over Satan at His strongest.

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He's nothing compared to the power of Christ.

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And then thirdly, there's His power over disease.

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His sovereignty over disease.

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The woman, twelve years she's tried the best,

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spent all her money, and gone to one

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doctor after another, and they can't stop her

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bleeding.

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And He doesn't do anything.

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She comes and touches Him.

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And immediately, she is healed.

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His power over disease.

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There's no failures in any of Jesus' miracles

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of healing.

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Those in the last stages of very serious

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disease are healed.

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And fourthly, this incident that I've just read

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to you then, His power over death.

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And we're told about it in lovely detail.

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We're told how the boat with Jesus on

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it grates to the shore, and He stands

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in the prow of the boat, and everyone

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hears, do you know Jesus is here?

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Do you know Jesus is here?

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And the women stop their chores, and the

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men stop their work, and the children stop

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their schooling, and everyone comes.

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Jesus has come to this insignificant spot, and

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He starts to teach them.

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And there's a man, one of the leaders

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of the community, and his name is Jairus.

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He's one of the rulers, the top man

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And one day, his 12-year-old daughter

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is sick.

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She doesn't get any better.

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They go to the medicine woman up the

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street, and she comes with some herbs, and

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she can't do anything.

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And the parents call their children in, and

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the street is very quiet, and everyone is

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They all love a 12-year-old pretty

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little girl who's dying.

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And her mother is tearing her hair.

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And she's saying, Jairus, you're a man of

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God.

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You trust in God.

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You do something.

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You help her now.

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Now, Jairus had heard of Jesus.

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Everyone had heard of Jesus.

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The women at their washing.

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The men at the city gates.

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Do you know what He said last night?

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Do you know what He did?

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You know, my uncle's brother.

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Do you know?

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He was dying, and Jesus has healed him.

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And they all talked.

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The country buzzed with this news.

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But Jairus knew that in synagogues, He could

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be a handful.

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He could say things and boy, there'd be

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a riot.

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And so, Jairus wondered, I wonder what will

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happen if He comes to my synagogue.

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But of course, we're back and beyond here.

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He'd never come to our synagogue.

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And so, he didn't worry too much about

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that at all.

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But he wondered what He would do.

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He wondered, you know, was there something in

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it?

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And that day came.

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Never to be forgotten day in their lives.

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And she's ill.

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And he looks at her.

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She's sweating.

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She's unconscious.

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And the man comes running up.

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He says, sir, Jesus is here.

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He's at the shore.

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He's preaching to the people.

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And now Jairus must come off the fence.

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And Jesus is here.

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And it's an ungainly posture of yours to

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be still sitting on a fence.

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And now he doesn't care what the next

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gathering of the synagogue rulers' annual assembly is

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going to say.

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His daughter's sick and Jesus is here.

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His daughter's dying and Jesus is here.

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And nobody can help and Jesus is here.

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And off he goes with as much dignity

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through the empty streets down to the lakeside.

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The crowd parts before Jairus.

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And he falls at Jesus' feet.

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His nose in the sand.

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And he asks Jesus for help.

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There are two different groups, I suppose, that

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came to Jesus.

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There were the cunning haters of all He

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said and all He stood for.

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And they devised questions that whatever answer He

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gave, He'd be in trouble.

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And they went up to Him and they

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talked about a woman who had been married

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seven times to seven brothers.

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They talked about a coin with Caesar's symbol.

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Do we proud Jews give tax to Caesar?

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What do you say?

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What do you say?

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Questions like that.

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And He answered with such sweetness and wisdom

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and shut their mouths up and they went

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away with their tails between their legs.

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Just as they'd come.

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But others came.

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Came with such concern for sick children.

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Sent messages about a brother who was dying

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and they came to Jesus.

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They came longing for help.

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How have you come here this morning?

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Have you come to examine us?

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Just we are ordinary people doing a job,

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having a marriage, courting, praying about the future.

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We trust in this Jesus.

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We come to Him.

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We can't answer all your questions, but we

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know He can answer your questions.

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And so He goes there and He says,

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my little girl is dying.

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But you see, He says more than that.

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Have you noticed what He does?

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He doesn't say, my daughter's at the point

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of death.

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Please help me.

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But there's a course of action that He

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believes Jesus must take.

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Jesus has to take if His daughter's to

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get well.

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Put your hands on her.

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Come.

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Come with me.

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Put your hands on her so that she

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will be healed and lived.

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He'd come to Jesus with certain ideas about

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Him like some of you have come here.

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You have a certain background and traditions and

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ideas.

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You've come here and you've brought those with

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you this morning.

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And Jairus' ideas of Jesus were rather unworthy.

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And only when he has to abandon them

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and then just see and listen to the

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claims and the life of Jesus that things

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then fall into place in his life.

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And we're like Jesus.

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We tell Jesus what precise ways, what we

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are expecting from this service today, from this

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preacher today, from the friendships that we've made

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and the worship here.

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And we know that Jesus didn't need to

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go to the house of Jairus.

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There was once a Centurion, a Roman Italian

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officer in the army.

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He had a batman, a servant, and they

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were the closest two men you'd ever meet.

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He cooked for him and repaired his armor

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and looked after him when he was sick

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and discussed strategy the night before the battle

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and bound up his wounds and discussed the

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victory afterwards.

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And they were inseparable.

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One day he said, boss, I'm just not

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well.

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I'm sorry, I can't help you.

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I'm so sick.

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And he watched him grow more and more

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ill.

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He sent for the legionnaire's doctor to come

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and look at him.

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He could do nothing.

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So he went and told Jesus.

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He was the wise man.

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And Jesus said, oh, I'll come straight away.

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Oh, he said, no need for you to

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come.

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You just determine it.

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You just will it.

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And My servant will live.

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Jesus marveled at his faith.

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He just nodded.

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The man went back home and there was

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his servant.

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Sorry, boss, about that, he said.

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I'm feeling much better.

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It was at that time that he was

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talking to Jesus that the healing took place.

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He didn't need to go.

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He didn't need to touch Him.

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We say, it only takes a flush of

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the will that can and the dead erased.

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But what are we told?

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Verse 24, so Jesus went with him.

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That's grace, isn't it?

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Let me just tell you now, Jairus.

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I don't need to come, you know.

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I can heal him from here.

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You must have a bigger view of me.

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There's no little lesson for a man worried

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to death about his daughter from our compassionate

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Lord.

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You know, there can be an awful lot

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of muddling or praying.

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We're so glad when you come to our

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prayer meetings.

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So glad when you pray for the first

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time.

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I don't care at all when you're muddled

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in your praying and muddle up the Father

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and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

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We're just so delighted that you're there.

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We'll back you and support you.

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Pray for you all your life.

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There can be an awful lot of confusion

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in our praying, and God hears us.

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Okay, children, there's a little girl and Mommy's

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going out to the supermarket.

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And so she goes into the garden.

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Daddy says, where are you going?

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I'm going to pick some flowers for Mommy.

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Mommy, she says.

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So she goes out and she brings them

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in.

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And Daddy says, can I see them?

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And Daddy picks up the flowers and there's

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poison ivy there.

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And weeds and dead stalks.

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Here you are, he says.

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And the door opens and Mommy comes in.

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She runs up to Mommy.

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She gives Mommy her flowers.

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Oh, you're a good little girl, she says.

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And she gives her a kiss and she

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puts them in a bowl of water.

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When we pray to God, none of us

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has ever prayed a sinless prayer.

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But we pray to God in the name

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of Jesus Christ.

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We have a mediator.

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We have an advocate with God.

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We pray all these things in Jesus' name.

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And Jesus descends our prayers.

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And He offers to God a prayer that's

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a fragrant offering in God's sight.

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That's wonderfully acceptable.

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And God hears and answers our prayers because

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we go through Jesus.

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Do you go?

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How do you go?

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How do you pray?

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Do you pray in Jesus' name?

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Do you plead the merits of Jesus?

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What He's done for you?

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His righteousness?

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His blood?

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Your only hope is Jesus?

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Do you tell God these things?

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So, Jesus went with him.

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So, I suppose Jairus is as polite as

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he can be and the disciples and the

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crowd are all following Jesus behind.

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He's hurrying them along on the bend.

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And walking towards Him come two men.

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Men He knows.

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These men who work for Him and they

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look so sober.

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And He's saying in His heart, oh, please,

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God, no, don't let it be.

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No, Lord, no.

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No, not that.

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And they come to Him.

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And the terrible news, they say, your daughter's

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dead.

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Oh, I hope they didn't say it like

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that.

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I hope they just hung around Him and

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hugged Him and wept and said, not good

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news, boss.

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I hope they said that and whispered awfully

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sorry.

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It doesn't read like that, though, does it?

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It's so blunt.

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Isn't it awful?

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Your daughter's dead, and then they say, so

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you needn't bother to hurry home with Jesus?

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What killing, unkind words.

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No bedside manner there.

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Jairus has just heard Jesus say to the

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woman, daughter, your faith has healed you.

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Go in peace.

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Isn't he a man of faith?

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Doesn't he run the synagogue?

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Doesn't he know the Old Testament Scriptures?

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And this has happened to him now.

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He's served God all his life and this

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news, this awful barb, don't bother pinning your

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hopes on Jesus.

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She's dead.

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Okay?

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That's it.

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No use bringing him a step further.

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He's as helpless before the grave as anybody.

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No one can do anything now.

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They assume that for some things, religion's okay,

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you know, for taking weddings and for singing

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some songs together and meeting your friends on

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a Sunday and hearing some inspiring words.

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That's fine.

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It's fine for you.

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We're glad you enjoy it.

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People think like that.

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But when it comes to death, men are

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helpless.

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That's the assumption that people have, isn't it?

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In San Antonio.

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You know, a little Jesus.

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Maybe you thought like that, that no one

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can cope with the grave.

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But Jesus just dismisses them.

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He says, don't be afraid.

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Don't be afraid.

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Fear not.

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Don't be afraid.

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Don't be afraid.

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Just believe.

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He says, go on believing.

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Believing the Word is in the present tense.

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What does it mean?

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You came to Me when there was a

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time in your life when you were longing

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for something more than you lived by until

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then, that I could inject into your life

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at a certain time of your life something

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that was missing, something that you needed.

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It comes to us, doesn't it, when we

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are no longer in control, when we're out

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of our comfort zone, and we need heaven's

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power.

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We need supernatural.

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We need God.

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You came to Me.

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You've come to Jesus this day, this morning.

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Don't stop.

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Don't come just for the reason you've come,

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but keep coming.

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Come into Him.

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Come in and in and in and in.

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Come now to God.

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You are God.

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Come to Him for help at every area

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of your life.

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Not just this providence that's brought you to

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us this morning.

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Don't let your fears win.

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Don't listen when they say, but then, death

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always has the last word.

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She's dead.

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Jesus is helpless.

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Don't let those fears stop you from coming

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and coming and reading and listening and having

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a mind.

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Don't leave your mind behind.

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You think now.

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Please, use your mind to think about what

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I'm saying to you.

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It's from the Bible.

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It's from Mark's Gospel.

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It's this extraordinary man of such power over

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creation, over demons, over disease, over death.

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Don't you need someone?

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Have you got a secret?

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You're going to avoid death.

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So, Jesus brushes them aside, doesn't He?

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These Jeremiads.

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He brushes them aside.

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And He keeps walking.

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What does it tell us about Jesus?

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Jesus Himself still believes.

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He's the author and finisher of our faith

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and He believes.

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He goes on.

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He hears the men and He goes on.

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He enters into the situation.

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He doesn't shake Jairus by the hand and

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say, sorry, old man, I'm so, so sorry.

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Come to me a little earlier next time

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and we'll see what we can do.

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Now, I've got a crowd.

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I'm a preacher.

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They're all waiting for me by the lakes.

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But anyway, God bless you.

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He goes on.

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He comes with Him.

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He comes with us in the darkest days

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when our heart is breaking, when all disappointment

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seems to crush us, and He's there.

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He's there with us.

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And He keeps going.

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He, our Savior, is with us.

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Don't be afraid.

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Keep trusting, He says.

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Campbell Morgan was the minister in Westminster Chapel

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with Dr. Lloyd-Jones when he started.

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He's got a book called The Great Physician.

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And he's got a sermon on this passage.

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And he says, I can hardly speak about

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this passage without being personal.

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I remember a time 40 years ago when

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my own first lassie, she lay at the

556
00:27:04,530 --> 00:27:05,450
point of death.

557
00:27:05,610 --> 00:27:08,050
I called for Jesus then and He came.

558
00:27:08,770 --> 00:27:11,490
He surely said to our troubled hearts, don't

559
00:27:11,490 --> 00:27:13,190
be afraid, only believe.

560
00:27:13,850 --> 00:27:16,850
He didn't say, she shall be made whole.

561
00:27:18,130 --> 00:27:19,730
She wasn't made whole.

562
00:27:20,650 --> 00:27:25,010
On the earthly plane, she passed away to

563
00:27:25,010 --> 00:27:26,230
the life beyond.

564
00:27:27,550 --> 00:27:30,110
He did say to her, Talitha Kumi, little

565
00:27:30,110 --> 00:27:31,630
lamb, arise.

566
00:27:32,290 --> 00:27:36,290
But in her case, He didn't mean stay

567
00:27:36,290 --> 00:27:37,410
on the earth level.

568
00:27:37,770 --> 00:27:39,810
He meant He needed her.

569
00:27:40,250 --> 00:27:41,810
He took her to Himself.

570
00:27:43,030 --> 00:27:45,630
He has been with her all these years

571
00:27:45,630 --> 00:27:47,310
as we mentioned time.

572
00:27:47,310 --> 00:27:50,150
And I've missed her every day.

573
00:27:50,790 --> 00:27:56,910
His word, don't be afraid, just believe, has

574
00:27:56,910 --> 00:28:00,910
been the strength of all my passing years.

575
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:05,880
Jesus says to us, you think I can

576
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:06,780
help you sometimes.

577
00:28:08,740 --> 00:28:10,580
Sometimes you go along to a church.

578
00:28:10,780 --> 00:28:12,860
You go along to a service sometimes because

579
00:28:12,860 --> 00:28:17,020
you're under some pressure and you think I

580
00:28:17,020 --> 00:28:17,620
can help.

581
00:28:17,620 --> 00:28:23,040
But then, something big comes.

582
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:25,980
Something scary.

583
00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:30,080
Something soul-destroying comes.

584
00:28:32,220 --> 00:28:32,760
Keep coming.

585
00:28:33,540 --> 00:28:34,500
You keep coming.

586
00:28:35,220 --> 00:28:37,120
Keep coming to Jesus.

587
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:38,600
Don't be afraid.

588
00:28:39,820 --> 00:28:40,920
Just believe.

589
00:28:43,180 --> 00:28:49,680
If I'm adequate to heal when you're sick,

590
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,320
if I can heal the sick, I can

591
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:55,920
raise the dead.

592
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,380
So we go on and we see how

593
00:29:01,380 --> 00:29:06,650
Jesus veils His glory.

594
00:29:07,190 --> 00:29:08,530
They come to the house.

595
00:29:09,050 --> 00:29:09,850
There it is.

596
00:29:10,230 --> 00:29:12,170
And you can tell the house because of

597
00:29:12,170 --> 00:29:15,250
the noise that's coming from it.

598
00:29:17,070 --> 00:29:18,290
He doesn't let anyone come.

599
00:29:18,290 --> 00:29:23,550
He says to you stately fellows, Peter, James,

600
00:29:23,590 --> 00:29:25,450
and John, you come with Me now.

601
00:29:26,250 --> 00:29:27,910
A restricted audience.

602
00:29:28,470 --> 00:29:29,530
When did this happen?

603
00:29:30,750 --> 00:29:31,430
Before?

604
00:29:32,970 --> 00:29:35,210
Two occasions it happened before.

605
00:29:36,050 --> 00:29:38,590
It happens on the Mount of Transfiguration.

606
00:29:39,730 --> 00:29:42,610
He takes these same three guys with Him

607
00:29:43,450 --> 00:29:45,790
when Elijah and Moses are there.

608
00:29:45,790 --> 00:29:48,310
The Father says, this is My beloved Son.

609
00:29:49,490 --> 00:29:50,770
And what's the other occasion?

610
00:29:51,210 --> 00:29:51,930
Gethsemane.

611
00:29:52,870 --> 00:29:55,570
He takes them, doesn't He?

612
00:29:56,770 --> 00:29:58,210
And they hear Him pray.

613
00:29:59,230 --> 00:30:06,600
So, transfiguration, intercession, resurrection.

614
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:09,360
What is Mark doing?

615
00:30:09,460 --> 00:30:13,720
Mark is saying, this is very important.

616
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:16,700
This is up there with the transfiguration.

617
00:30:16,700 --> 00:30:18,440
This is up there with Gethsemane.

618
00:30:22,380 --> 00:30:24,080
Who are you dealing with?

619
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:27,740
Who is this Jesus?

620
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,280
You know, everything He does is very important.

621
00:30:34,260 --> 00:30:37,860
But there are other occasions where He prefaces

622
00:30:37,860 --> 00:30:41,240
what He has to say with, verily, verily,

623
00:30:41,340 --> 00:30:45,000
I say unto you, surely, amen, amen, I'm

624
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,620
saying something that's really prick up your ears.

625
00:30:49,460 --> 00:30:51,360
And listen to this.

626
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,620
So He takes the three with Him because

627
00:30:55,620 --> 00:30:58,740
of the Deuteronomic requirement.

628
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,740
Chapter 19, verse 15, a matter must be

629
00:31:01,740 --> 00:31:04,340
established by the testimony of two or three

630
00:31:04,340 --> 00:31:04,800
witnesses.

631
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,480
This guy, John Mark, a young man, leaves

632
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:13,240
his cloak when he flees in the garden

633
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,360
when they come with swords and staves and

634
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:17,040
torches to arrest Jesus.

635
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:20,140
And he's there and he sees Him alive.

636
00:31:20,540 --> 00:31:22,320
He's there with the 500 on the hill.

637
00:31:24,350 --> 00:31:26,360
And he writes then one day.

638
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,400
He writes this Gospel and Peter's there.

639
00:31:30,900 --> 00:31:32,300
Now, so what happened?

640
00:31:33,260 --> 00:31:36,700
So you arrived at the house of Jairus

641
00:31:36,700 --> 00:31:37,120
there.

642
00:31:41,150 --> 00:31:45,570
You see, these aren't cunningly devised fables that

643
00:31:45,570 --> 00:31:46,250
we're following.

644
00:31:46,250 --> 00:31:53,850
These were men who were eyewitnesses of the

645
00:31:53,850 --> 00:31:57,710
majesty of Jesus Christ, of His power, of

646
00:31:57,710 --> 00:31:58,330
His glory.

647
00:31:58,910 --> 00:32:00,290
They saw it.

648
00:32:02,330 --> 00:32:05,430
And the crowd are mad.

649
00:32:07,630 --> 00:32:08,750
These are the whalers.

650
00:32:10,150 --> 00:32:12,410
The Talmud said even the poor man must

651
00:32:12,410 --> 00:32:14,290
have one whaler and the flautist.

652
00:32:16,010 --> 00:32:20,710
And the biggest group in that world was

653
00:32:20,710 --> 00:32:22,550
the Jerusalem women.

654
00:32:23,150 --> 00:32:23,870
That's what they were called.

655
00:32:25,290 --> 00:32:26,690
And then they acted.

656
00:32:26,930 --> 00:32:28,290
There was one old woman.

657
00:32:28,290 --> 00:32:29,430
She was the head of them.

658
00:32:29,730 --> 00:32:31,830
Take your apron off and line up the

659
00:32:31,830 --> 00:32:32,090
women.

660
00:32:32,510 --> 00:32:34,690
The boys come down the street.

661
00:32:34,930 --> 00:32:37,070
Some mother's sons carrying crosses.

662
00:32:37,070 --> 00:32:39,510
They're going to be killed, tortured to death.

663
00:32:40,570 --> 00:32:41,970
And they start to wail.

664
00:32:41,970 --> 00:32:43,790
And they wail and wail.

665
00:32:43,950 --> 00:32:44,590
They ululate.

666
00:32:48,970 --> 00:32:51,330
And when Jesus comes, He silences them.

667
00:32:51,510 --> 00:32:52,530
He doesn't want their pity.

668
00:32:53,490 --> 00:32:56,270
You've got a lot to be concerned about,

669
00:32:56,330 --> 00:32:56,830
He says.

670
00:32:57,330 --> 00:32:59,170
There'll be a day when you'll be weeping

671
00:32:59,170 --> 00:33:01,270
for yourselves and for your children.

672
00:33:01,850 --> 00:33:03,030
Wish you had none.

673
00:33:03,990 --> 00:33:07,890
There'll be the terrible destruction of Jerusalem that

674
00:33:07,890 --> 00:33:10,110
no city has ever been destroyed like this

675
00:33:10,110 --> 00:33:10,390
city.

676
00:33:11,130 --> 00:33:12,430
I don't want your pity.

677
00:33:12,670 --> 00:33:13,830
You think of yourself.

678
00:33:19,750 --> 00:33:21,910
And so Jesus goes into the din.

679
00:33:22,590 --> 00:33:23,530
And there they are.

680
00:33:23,590 --> 00:33:24,930
They are all the local people.

681
00:33:25,030 --> 00:33:29,410
They're all coming for their shackles afterwards rewarded

682
00:33:29,410 --> 00:33:32,560
for wailing.

683
00:33:34,510 --> 00:33:35,950
And He silences them.

684
00:33:37,790 --> 00:33:39,290
He says, the child isn't dead.

685
00:33:40,230 --> 00:33:40,990
She's asleep.

686
00:33:42,510 --> 00:33:47,230
And these broken-hearted people immediately start laughing.

687
00:33:47,230 --> 00:33:54,090
The laughter of scorn and the tears of

688
00:33:54,090 --> 00:33:57,900
greed side by side.

689
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:01,920
She sleeps.

690
00:34:02,180 --> 00:34:04,600
Well, you know they had seen sleeping children

691
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:06,320
all their lives.

692
00:34:06,420 --> 00:34:08,780
They'd been sleeping children and they knew the

693
00:34:08,780 --> 00:34:10,840
difference between a sleeping child and a dead

694
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:11,280
child.

695
00:34:11,500 --> 00:34:13,739
They knew, what's this guy?

696
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,460
Let him stick to his teaching.

697
00:34:18,020 --> 00:34:19,880
It can be inspiring, but he doesn't know

698
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,300
anything about dead children.

699
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:28,580
And He threw them out.

700
00:34:30,380 --> 00:34:30,980
Out!

701
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,739
There'll be a day when there'll be a

702
00:34:37,739 --> 00:34:39,380
great separation, won't there?

703
00:34:41,420 --> 00:34:44,040
Like a shepherd separates sheep from goats.

704
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:45,739
He'll separate.

705
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:48,360
He'll discriminate.

706
00:34:48,659 --> 00:34:49,320
He'll distinguish.

707
00:34:50,699 --> 00:34:52,659
He'll say, I never knew you.

708
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:53,300
Out!

709
00:34:56,460 --> 00:34:58,140
We don't want any one of you.

710
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,580
Any one of you to be separated from

711
00:35:02,580 --> 00:35:03,440
Jesus Christ.

712
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,440
We believe that's why God in His grace

713
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,080
has brought you to be with us today.

714
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:12,840
We'll do you good.

715
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:14,760
Jesus will do you good.

716
00:35:17,790 --> 00:35:19,710
Now there are just seven people in the

717
00:35:19,710 --> 00:35:20,370
room, aren't there?

718
00:35:20,490 --> 00:35:21,270
You're the seven.

719
00:35:21,450 --> 00:35:22,310
Three disciples.

720
00:35:23,790 --> 00:35:27,450
Mr. and Mrs. Jairus, the little girl, and

721
00:35:27,450 --> 00:35:27,930
Jesus.

722
00:35:27,930 --> 00:35:29,110
Just the seven of them.

723
00:35:30,510 --> 00:35:33,770
And then we are told in verse 43

724
00:35:34,390 --> 00:35:35,850
these extraordinary words.

725
00:35:36,290 --> 00:35:41,450
He gave strict orders that no one should

726
00:35:41,450 --> 00:35:44,010
know about this.

727
00:35:44,670 --> 00:35:46,810
How can you keep such an event?

728
00:35:47,590 --> 00:35:49,010
It's laughable, isn't it?

729
00:35:50,270 --> 00:35:53,470
That evening she was out playing with her

730
00:35:53,470 --> 00:35:55,570
friends.

731
00:35:55,570 --> 00:35:58,390
And the street knew she was dead.

732
00:35:59,740 --> 00:36:02,630
And the servants had seen her and they

733
00:36:02,630 --> 00:36:05,230
were mourning, and the wailing had gone on.

734
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:13,120
And Jesus says, don't let anyone know.

735
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:16,520
What's He talking about here?

736
00:36:17,890 --> 00:36:22,300
Well, what Jesus wants to do by that

737
00:36:22,300 --> 00:36:27,040
command is tell them not to tell anyone

738
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,520
about what happened in that girl's bedroom.

739
00:36:31,570 --> 00:36:31,860
Alright?

740
00:36:32,980 --> 00:36:35,300
If reporters come next week and they say,

741
00:36:35,420 --> 00:36:37,980
oh, hello, now I've got my notepad here

742
00:36:37,980 --> 00:36:38,320
now.

743
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,200
Something exciting has happened, Mrs. Jairus, in your

744
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:43,060
life, hasn't it?

745
00:36:44,470 --> 00:36:45,460
Just what happened?

746
00:36:46,220 --> 00:36:49,740
She said, oh, sorry, we're not allowed to

747
00:36:49,740 --> 00:36:50,160
tell you.

748
00:36:51,980 --> 00:36:55,100
Oh, and He wants to bribe her just

749
00:36:55,100 --> 00:36:55,800
a little bit.

750
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:57,520
You know how reporters are.

751
00:37:00,450 --> 00:37:03,910
And when she goes to the Jewish Ladies

752
00:37:03,910 --> 00:37:07,830
Weaving Guild on a Wednesday afternoon, and the

753
00:37:07,830 --> 00:37:09,810
women come around and they say, oh, something

754
00:37:09,810 --> 00:37:11,090
happened in your house then?

755
00:37:12,150 --> 00:37:14,870
She says, yeah, it did, and we are

756
00:37:14,870 --> 00:37:15,710
thankful to God.

757
00:37:16,310 --> 00:37:17,370
And that's all she'll say.

758
00:37:18,090 --> 00:37:19,590
That's all she'll say.

759
00:37:20,690 --> 00:37:22,390
And there are a couple of reasons for

760
00:37:22,390 --> 00:37:22,650
that.

761
00:37:22,810 --> 00:37:24,570
The first is it's dangerous.

762
00:37:24,570 --> 00:37:27,490
At this early stage, this is Mark 5,

763
00:37:28,530 --> 00:37:32,630
and Jesus is beginning His Galilee campaign.

764
00:37:32,870 --> 00:37:34,370
He's bringing the Gospel there.

765
00:37:34,530 --> 00:37:38,970
He's got 12 yokels, young men, and they

766
00:37:38,970 --> 00:37:41,010
don't know what the Kingdom of God is.

767
00:37:41,090 --> 00:37:42,650
They don't know who He is.

768
00:37:43,370 --> 00:37:45,770
When He tells them He's got to suffer

769
00:37:45,770 --> 00:37:47,950
and die and rise again, it doesn't make

770
00:37:47,950 --> 00:37:48,630
sense to them.

771
00:37:48,630 --> 00:37:53,230
And He can't be hunted like a partridge

772
00:37:53,230 --> 00:37:59,310
in the wilderness by the Sanhedrin and their

773
00:37:59,310 --> 00:38:03,410
private army, and by Herod and his pilot

774
00:38:03,410 --> 00:38:04,170
and the soldiers.

775
00:38:05,300 --> 00:38:07,450
He can't go to the Dead Sea and

776
00:38:07,450 --> 00:38:08,750
hide in a cave there.

777
00:38:10,270 --> 00:38:14,430
He goes to weddings, and He preaches in

778
00:38:14,430 --> 00:38:15,770
the open air, and He sits at a

779
00:38:15,770 --> 00:38:17,210
well and He talks to people.

780
00:38:18,010 --> 00:38:19,330
He wants that freedom.

781
00:38:21,190 --> 00:38:27,890
So He doesn't want a big disturbance about

782
00:38:27,890 --> 00:38:28,850
His power.

783
00:38:31,130 --> 00:38:33,250
And the other reason, of course, is that

784
00:38:33,250 --> 00:38:37,690
He throws these people out and then they've

785
00:38:37,690 --> 00:38:42,650
got to be silent because they've ridiculed Him.

786
00:38:47,650 --> 00:38:48,410
Be careful.

787
00:38:50,450 --> 00:38:52,870
Be very, very careful.

788
00:38:55,120 --> 00:39:01,610
He veils His glory from those who feel

789
00:39:01,610 --> 00:39:05,410
superior to Him and mock Him and disdain

790
00:39:05,410 --> 00:39:05,690
Him.

791
00:39:06,530 --> 00:39:07,470
All be careful.

792
00:39:10,220 --> 00:39:13,140
But what to those who find are this?

793
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,600
No tongue, no pen can show the love

794
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,400
of Jesus what it is.

795
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,200
None but His loved ones know.

796
00:39:25,370 --> 00:39:27,850
When He rises from the dead, He doesn't

797
00:39:27,850 --> 00:39:30,310
go to the Sanhedrin saying, ha, ha, ha,

798
00:39:30,310 --> 00:39:31,070
ha, ha.

799
00:39:32,110 --> 00:39:36,720
He doesn't go to Pilate.

800
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:38,200
He doesn't go to Herod.

801
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:40,880
There are 500.

802
00:39:41,580 --> 00:39:42,240
He's loved them.

803
00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:43,480
He's saved them.

804
00:39:44,900 --> 00:39:45,800
There are 12.

805
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:46,400
There are three.

806
00:39:46,940 --> 00:39:49,120
There's a half-brother that He needs to

807
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:49,600
speak to.

808
00:39:50,660 --> 00:39:51,500
There's Peter.

809
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,660
He needs to rehabilitate him and use him.

810
00:39:54,660 --> 00:39:57,140
And He goes to those.

811
00:39:57,660 --> 00:40:02,040
They're all imperfect, but all of them have

812
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:08,260
some faith, some hope, some trust in Him.

813
00:40:13,230 --> 00:40:16,030
And then He displays His victory finally.

814
00:40:16,710 --> 00:40:19,510
He goes in and He goes right up

815
00:40:19,510 --> 00:40:21,210
to the little girl and He holds her

816
00:40:21,210 --> 00:40:21,990
cold hand.

817
00:40:23,030 --> 00:40:27,160
And He says, Talitha Kumi, little girl, I

818
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:27,880
say, get up.

819
00:40:32,220 --> 00:40:35,040
Mark quotes actual Aramaic words.

820
00:40:36,300 --> 00:40:39,600
Hebrew had died about 200 years before this

821
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:41,020
as a living language.

822
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:46,080
In the marvelous recovery of the language over

823
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:49,660
the last century, it's just an extraordinary event.

824
00:40:49,940 --> 00:40:53,940
They learned the old language, but it had

825
00:40:53,940 --> 00:40:54,300
gone.

826
00:40:54,540 --> 00:40:56,160
People spoke Aramaic now.

827
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:01,040
It was the kitchen language in the carpenter's

828
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:01,540
shop.

829
00:41:05,260 --> 00:41:08,280
And it's pretty sure that Jesus spoke Greek.

830
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,240
Peter has excellent Greek.

831
00:41:14,580 --> 00:41:17,480
But the normal language would be Aramaic.

832
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:19,940
And you come across it.

833
00:41:20,020 --> 00:41:22,920
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani, my God, my God,

834
00:41:22,980 --> 00:41:24,300
why have You forsaken me?

835
00:41:24,300 --> 00:41:26,280
That's in Aramaic.

836
00:41:27,100 --> 00:41:28,020
And ephapha.

837
00:41:28,100 --> 00:41:30,340
Remember when He heals a man who is

838
00:41:30,340 --> 00:41:30,780
deaf?

839
00:41:31,820 --> 00:41:34,020
And He says, be opened.

840
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:36,920
And the man can hear the birds sing

841
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:38,940
and the voice of Jesus.

842
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:41,200
And a word like Abba.

843
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:43,360
Abba is Aramaic for Father.

844
00:41:44,820 --> 00:41:48,880
And so it's paid such an unforgettable impression

845
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:50,180
on Peter what he saw.

846
00:41:50,460 --> 00:41:51,440
He's there looking.

847
00:41:51,980 --> 00:41:53,860
The dead girl and Jesus going.

848
00:41:54,960 --> 00:42:01,140
When he went preaching all across Turkey, we

849
00:42:01,140 --> 00:42:05,320
call it today, Cappadocia, Asia, Bithynia, those places

850
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,160
where he wrote the letter and he preaches

851
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:08,560
to them and they want to know.

852
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:10,100
Tell us about Jesus.

853
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:11,240
Tell us what was He like?

854
00:42:11,860 --> 00:42:13,360
Didn't He heal a little girl?

855
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:14,900
Well, yes, yes.

856
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:15,900
Oh, I was there.

857
00:42:17,940 --> 00:42:20,240
We went into the room, just the three

858
00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:20,640
of us.

859
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:23,960
He led in and the parents were there.

860
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:26,820
He took her by the hand and He

861
00:42:26,820 --> 00:42:30,460
said to her, Talitha koumi.

862
00:42:30,540 --> 00:42:31,740
He said, that's our language.

863
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,780
It means little girl, get up.

864
00:42:36,140 --> 00:42:37,220
My mother said it to me.

865
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:39,420
Every mother said it to their children.

866
00:42:44,370 --> 00:42:45,250
Siesta time.

867
00:42:45,450 --> 00:42:47,570
It's hot in the Middle East.

868
00:42:48,570 --> 00:42:50,170
And you don't want your child out in

869
00:42:50,170 --> 00:42:51,610
the heat, but you don't want them to

870
00:42:51,610 --> 00:42:53,250
sleep too long or they won't sleep at

871
00:42:53,250 --> 00:42:53,550
night.

872
00:42:53,550 --> 00:42:55,290
So you put them down for an hour

873
00:42:55,290 --> 00:42:57,390
in the midday, and then you go and

874
00:42:57,390 --> 00:43:01,350
you say, Talitha koumi, Talitha koumi, come on

875
00:43:01,350 --> 00:43:02,490
little girl, come on.

876
00:43:02,630 --> 00:43:04,610
Wake up sleepy eyes, come on.

877
00:43:08,220 --> 00:43:09,760
It's not like abacadabra.

878
00:43:09,900 --> 00:43:10,880
You understand that?

879
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,160
It's not a magic word like that.

880
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:15,560
It's an ordinary word.

881
00:43:16,700 --> 00:43:24,060
Ordinary words are given new meaning when Jesus

882
00:43:24,060 --> 00:43:25,640
comes into your home.

883
00:43:27,270 --> 00:43:29,370
How you speak to your wife.

884
00:43:30,070 --> 00:43:31,850
How you speak to your husband.

885
00:43:32,770 --> 00:43:34,290
How you speak to the children.

886
00:43:36,230 --> 00:43:37,750
It's all changed.

887
00:43:38,770 --> 00:43:41,110
Jesus changes everything.

888
00:43:42,990 --> 00:43:43,910
Talitha koumi.

889
00:43:44,850 --> 00:43:47,650
Little girl, arise, He says.

890
00:43:51,850 --> 00:43:52,670
And she got up.

891
00:43:56,920 --> 00:44:00,120
Who are these four men in my room?

892
00:44:01,380 --> 00:44:03,360
Mom, what are you doing?

893
00:44:03,990 --> 00:44:05,000
She's looking around.

894
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:08,860
Give her something to eat now, He says.

895
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:20,280
Jesus has authority over death.

896
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:24,940
Death is subject to the influence of Jesus

897
00:44:24,940 --> 00:44:25,460
Christ.

898
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:26,940
That's the main truth.

899
00:44:27,540 --> 00:44:29,200
This miracle is a sign.

900
00:44:30,660 --> 00:44:33,660
It signifies what He's going to do.

901
00:44:35,810 --> 00:44:39,000
He's going to raise the dead.

902
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,980
That's what this miracle is all about.

903
00:44:43,980 --> 00:44:45,980
Signposts are important, aren't they?

904
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:48,020
When you see the signposts, you don't say,

905
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:48,900
oh, we've arrived.

906
00:44:49,260 --> 00:44:51,960
You go the direction and you go the

907
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:55,500
mileage that says on the signpost.

908
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:59,900
You say, okay, why don't we see this

909
00:44:59,900 --> 00:45:03,040
sort of thing now in San Antonio?

910
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:07,220
Why don't we see two or three times

911
00:45:07,220 --> 00:45:11,020
a year a death certificate being torn up

912
00:45:12,580 --> 00:45:15,840
and the explanation given that they've been raised

913
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:16,540
from the dead?

914
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:17,560
Why don't we see it?

915
00:45:18,620 --> 00:45:21,620
Well, for the same reason that you don't

916
00:45:21,620 --> 00:45:24,160
see it very often when Jesus was on

917
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:25,020
this earth.

918
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:30,460
The Gospels tell us in Luke 7 of

919
00:45:30,460 --> 00:45:32,980
a widow's son who died, her only son,

920
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:33,840
in Nain.

921
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:38,280
And how Jesus raised the boy from the

922
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:38,560
dead.

923
00:45:38,660 --> 00:45:41,080
And then in John 11, you have the

924
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:43,780
raising of Lazarus, Mary and Martha's brother.

925
00:45:44,140 --> 00:45:46,420
And Jesus raises him from the dead.

926
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:48,760
And here in Mark 5.

927
00:45:49,220 --> 00:45:49,960
Just these three.

928
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:51,260
There may have been others, but we are

929
00:45:51,260 --> 00:45:52,640
not told there were others.

930
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:53,780
Only three.

931
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:56,680
In other words, He didn't bring many back

932
00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:57,240
from the dead.

933
00:45:59,130 --> 00:45:59,890
Why not?

934
00:45:59,970 --> 00:46:02,290
Well, because it wasn't the time.

935
00:46:03,030 --> 00:46:07,470
The time for that is resurrection day at

936
00:46:07,470 --> 00:46:09,570
the second coming of Christ.

937
00:46:09,990 --> 00:46:15,500
What we have here are samples of that

938
00:46:15,500 --> 00:46:16,120
resurrection.

939
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:19,440
Many people who died when Jesus had His

940
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:22,700
life 30 years, had His ministry three years,

941
00:46:23,100 --> 00:46:24,120
they remained dead.

942
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:26,900
He didn't empty the cemeteries.

943
00:46:27,720 --> 00:46:30,540
He didn't put funeral directors out of business.

944
00:46:30,700 --> 00:46:32,060
Grave diggers made a living.

945
00:46:32,060 --> 00:46:35,120
All those years that Jesus was on earth.

946
00:46:35,180 --> 00:46:36,220
Just these few.

947
00:46:39,050 --> 00:46:40,560
Why did Jesus raise them?

948
00:46:40,720 --> 00:46:42,200
Why did Jesus restore them?

949
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:48,820
Well, to show us what is ultimate reality.

950
00:46:50,270 --> 00:46:50,580
Alright?

951
00:46:50,820 --> 00:46:51,840
That's a lovely phrase.

952
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:55,740
What is ultimate reality?

953
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:57,460
Is it the corpse?

954
00:46:58,140 --> 00:46:59,040
Is it the coffin?

955
00:46:59,820 --> 00:47:00,980
Is it the grave?

956
00:47:01,820 --> 00:47:03,000
Is that what it's all about?

957
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,400
Ultimate reality is that we die and rot.

958
00:47:08,660 --> 00:47:11,460
Or is ultimate reality Jesus Christ?

959
00:47:14,420 --> 00:47:16,460
That's the challenge that you all have to

960
00:47:16,460 --> 00:47:17,100
face up to.

961
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:19,540
What is ultimate reality?

962
00:47:20,900 --> 00:47:23,160
That He has power over the grave.

963
00:47:23,240 --> 00:47:25,000
He can open the jaws of death and

964
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:29,120
He can bring out from the grave those

965
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:29,640
who have died.

966
00:47:32,690 --> 00:47:33,650
It was a sign.

967
00:47:33,750 --> 00:47:34,890
It was a foretaste.

968
00:47:34,890 --> 00:47:39,510
It was a preliminary sketch of what's yet

969
00:47:39,510 --> 00:47:39,970
to come.

970
00:47:40,110 --> 00:47:40,910
That's what it was.

971
00:47:41,290 --> 00:47:45,170
Let me pick up that word foretaste.

972
00:47:46,550 --> 00:47:49,250
We lived in a little house when I

973
00:47:49,250 --> 00:47:51,130
was a boy in the 1940's.

974
00:47:53,530 --> 00:47:55,570
I would be up first, I suppose, the

975
00:47:55,570 --> 00:47:57,270
children and the father and mother.

976
00:47:57,450 --> 00:47:59,590
My father was up and my mother.

977
00:48:00,530 --> 00:48:02,830
My father would rake out the ashes from

978
00:48:02,830 --> 00:48:04,970
the fire that kept that one room warm

979
00:48:04,970 --> 00:48:05,510
in the winter.

980
00:48:06,330 --> 00:48:07,750
He'd get the ashes out.

981
00:48:07,790 --> 00:48:11,530
He'd put the unburnt coal on one side.

982
00:48:12,450 --> 00:48:16,450
Then he'd put paper and he'd put sticks

983
00:48:16,450 --> 00:48:17,350
and he'd put coal.

984
00:48:18,230 --> 00:48:20,710
He'd put the coke on top of that.

985
00:48:21,350 --> 00:48:23,730
Then he'd light it with a match.

986
00:48:24,570 --> 00:48:27,950
Then he'd make a metal blower that he'd

987
00:48:27,950 --> 00:48:30,850
put over and he'd put paper around it

988
00:48:30,850 --> 00:48:32,810
to seal it so the draught would be

989
00:48:32,810 --> 00:48:33,250
underneath.

990
00:48:34,690 --> 00:48:37,770
And then the paper lit the sticks and

991
00:48:37,770 --> 00:48:39,030
the sticks would light the coal.

992
00:48:40,030 --> 00:48:42,090
I'd watch all this every day.

993
00:48:42,270 --> 00:48:43,670
He'd go over then to the sink.

994
00:48:44,010 --> 00:48:47,090
My mother would be at the oven there

995
00:48:47,090 --> 00:48:48,710
and she would be cooking eggs and bacon.

996
00:48:49,090 --> 00:48:49,970
That's all we had.

997
00:48:50,110 --> 00:48:52,390
We had cereal, eggs and bacon we had.

998
00:48:53,330 --> 00:48:55,830
And my father would wash and then he'd

999
00:48:55,830 --> 00:48:58,250
shave at the sink there.

1000
00:49:00,340 --> 00:49:01,900
And then that room would warm up.

1001
00:49:01,900 --> 00:49:03,580
And Mum and I, before I went to

1002
00:49:03,580 --> 00:49:05,160
school, I'd be in that room with my

1003
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:05,360
mother.

1004
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:08,300
In the afternoon, we'd listen to the radio

1005
00:49:08,300 --> 00:49:08,780
together.

1006
00:49:08,900 --> 00:49:10,180
Then she'd make cake.

1007
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,380
She'd put in the butter and the flour

1008
00:49:13,380 --> 00:49:16,240
and the sugar and the ingredients and she'd

1009
00:49:16,240 --> 00:49:17,080
mix them all up.

1010
00:49:17,380 --> 00:49:19,700
She'd have two tins and she'd put them

1011
00:49:19,700 --> 00:49:21,580
in the two tins with some greaseproof paper

1012
00:49:21,580 --> 00:49:23,300
and she'd put them in the oven for

1013
00:49:23,300 --> 00:49:24,420
40 minutes or so.

1014
00:49:24,540 --> 00:49:26,980
And then she'd give me the bowl and

1015
00:49:26,980 --> 00:49:27,420
the spoon.

1016
00:49:37,740 --> 00:49:38,880
I can taste it still.

1017
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:44,650
And then in 45 minutes, she'd open the

1018
00:49:44,650 --> 00:49:46,490
oven and she'd bring out the cake and

1019
00:49:46,490 --> 00:49:49,130
she'd unclip it and take away the paper.

1020
00:49:49,550 --> 00:49:53,090
And then she'd put jam across the two.

1021
00:49:53,610 --> 00:49:55,490
She'd put the kettle on and she'd make

1022
00:49:55,490 --> 00:49:58,150
two cups of tea, very milky for me

1023
00:49:58,150 --> 00:50:00,050
and a cup of tea for her.

1024
00:50:00,070 --> 00:50:01,370
And then she'd cut the cake.

1025
00:50:03,620 --> 00:50:07,540
She'd give me a piece of warm, warm

1026
00:50:07,540 --> 00:50:09,300
Mum's cake.

1027
00:50:13,110 --> 00:50:19,600
I'd had the foretaste, but now I had

1028
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:20,060
the cake.

1029
00:50:23,740 --> 00:50:27,480
Jairus' daughter, the widow of Nain's son, Lazarus

1030
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:27,940
raising.

1031
00:50:28,220 --> 00:50:29,660
They had the foretastes.

1032
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:33,260
What's going to happen when He comes in

1033
00:50:33,260 --> 00:50:35,620
the clouds of heaven at the end of

1034
00:50:35,620 --> 00:50:39,280
the world when the trumpet shall sound and

1035
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:40,840
the dead in Christ be raised?

1036
00:50:42,220 --> 00:50:43,980
And as He was raised from the dead,

1037
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:48,200
that's how the miracles of Jesus function.

1038
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:49,500
They give hope to us.

1039
00:50:49,860 --> 00:50:51,960
When we say goodbye to our loved ones

1040
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:58,310
in the grave, we know we're going to

1041
00:50:58,310 --> 00:50:58,910
see them again.

1042
00:51:01,990 --> 00:51:03,450
That's how it functioned.

1043
00:51:03,470 --> 00:51:04,810
It functioned for James.

1044
00:51:04,930 --> 00:51:06,770
He's always the first because he's the oldest,

1045
00:51:06,930 --> 00:51:07,490
I presume.

1046
00:51:07,850 --> 00:51:08,690
James and John.

1047
00:51:09,130 --> 00:51:10,910
But he doesn't live long, does he?

1048
00:51:11,630 --> 00:51:14,550
Within a year or so, Herod has arrested

1049
00:51:14,550 --> 00:51:16,910
him and one day he's in prison and

1050
00:51:16,910 --> 00:51:20,050
three soldiers come into the cell.

1051
00:51:21,790 --> 00:51:24,950
One has a short-bladed sword and they

1052
00:51:24,950 --> 00:51:26,690
get him by an arm each.

1053
00:51:27,690 --> 00:51:31,490
And they do the swoop up, quite merciless

1054
00:51:31,490 --> 00:51:36,030
and merciful through the solar plexus into the

1055
00:51:36,030 --> 00:51:36,390
heart.

1056
00:51:36,930 --> 00:51:41,390
And as he realizes, ah, he's got memories.

1057
00:51:42,510 --> 00:51:43,910
Lazarus comes forth.

1058
00:51:44,710 --> 00:51:45,430
Talith Hakumi.

1059
00:51:47,530 --> 00:51:49,450
Jesus and the widow of Nain son and

1060
00:51:49,450 --> 00:51:49,810
Him.

1061
00:51:51,190 --> 00:51:53,790
Forty days He's there with them talking.

1062
00:51:55,110 --> 00:51:56,190
This isn't the end.

1063
00:51:57,030 --> 00:51:59,570
Because I live, you shall live also.

1064
00:52:00,650 --> 00:52:03,050
The great hope that the Christian has.

1065
00:52:04,070 --> 00:52:07,310
Why should you believe in Jesus Christ today?

1066
00:52:08,590 --> 00:52:11,290
Well, one of the reasons is because of

1067
00:52:11,290 --> 00:52:11,990
the resurrection.

1068
00:52:12,310 --> 00:52:13,670
Perhaps that's the most important.

1069
00:52:14,630 --> 00:52:20,140
That shows to us that His authority and

1070
00:52:20,140 --> 00:52:22,720
His power, because the resurrection didn't take place

1071
00:52:22,720 --> 00:52:29,190
in the realm of theology or dogma or

1072
00:52:29,190 --> 00:52:29,770
traditions.

1073
00:52:30,450 --> 00:52:34,790
It took place in history where stones and

1074
00:52:34,790 --> 00:52:39,630
a boulder are rolled away and He comes

1075
00:52:39,630 --> 00:52:44,390
transformed, alive.

1076
00:52:44,810 --> 00:52:46,130
Not a ghost now.

1077
00:52:46,130 --> 00:52:47,450
He eats.

1078
00:52:47,890 --> 00:52:48,450
They cook.

1079
00:52:48,690 --> 00:52:49,730
He cooks for them.

1080
00:52:49,810 --> 00:52:50,650
They cook for Him.

1081
00:52:50,750 --> 00:52:52,950
They eat and drink together.

1082
00:52:54,470 --> 00:52:55,990
A ghost doesn't do that.

1083
00:52:58,950 --> 00:52:59,810
This is His promise.

1084
00:53:00,570 --> 00:53:04,850
This wonderful verse, John 6.40, For My

1085
00:53:04,850 --> 00:53:09,030
Father's will is that everyone who looks to

1086
00:53:09,030 --> 00:53:14,190
the Son and believes on Him shall have

1087
00:53:14,190 --> 00:53:18,230
eternal life, and I will raise Him up

1088
00:53:18,230 --> 00:53:19,350
at the last day.

1089
00:53:19,530 --> 00:53:20,190
There it is.

1090
00:53:20,750 --> 00:53:21,950
That's what we're talking about.

1091
00:53:22,850 --> 00:53:28,090
That's what this whole incident is pointing towards.

1092
00:53:28,310 --> 00:53:29,430
That's the promise.

1093
00:53:31,010 --> 00:53:33,590
And you can say it's too good to

1094
00:53:33,590 --> 00:53:34,130
be true.

1095
00:53:34,950 --> 00:53:39,430
And you can say whoever heard of anyone

1096
00:53:39,430 --> 00:53:41,650
being raised from the dead, well, you just

1097
00:53:41,650 --> 00:53:43,010
heard about it, didn't you?

1098
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:47,860
It's here in the Gospels.

1099
00:53:48,660 --> 00:53:49,300
It's here.

1100
00:53:50,420 --> 00:53:53,840
You say they're prejudiced.

1101
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:56,040
And you are not?

1102
00:53:59,250 --> 00:54:01,430
You're just transparent and open?

1103
00:54:01,890 --> 00:54:03,890
Well then, look at this evidence if you

1104
00:54:03,890 --> 00:54:06,470
are transparent and open.

1105
00:54:07,030 --> 00:54:08,410
Do I believe the record?

1106
00:54:08,550 --> 00:54:08,810
Why?

1107
00:54:09,430 --> 00:54:11,810
I can't but believe it.

1108
00:54:13,510 --> 00:54:15,670
I'm just responding to truth.

1109
00:54:16,470 --> 00:54:19,730
The only reason you should become Christians, every

1110
00:54:19,730 --> 00:54:22,530
one of you this morning, is because it's

1111
00:54:22,530 --> 00:54:22,930
true.

1112
00:54:23,490 --> 00:54:25,910
He said, Talitha Kumi and she rose from

1113
00:54:25,910 --> 00:54:26,370
the dead.

1114
00:54:26,890 --> 00:54:28,670
He said, on the third day I will

1115
00:54:28,670 --> 00:54:29,350
rise again.

1116
00:54:29,830 --> 00:54:31,930
And they went down into the garden and

1117
00:54:31,930 --> 00:54:33,210
the stone was rolled away.

1118
00:54:33,910 --> 00:54:35,950
And there were clothes there, but He wasn't

1119
00:54:35,950 --> 00:54:36,190
there.

1120
00:54:36,290 --> 00:54:37,710
No one wanted that body.

1121
00:54:37,890 --> 00:54:38,830
And then He appeared.

1122
00:54:40,290 --> 00:54:42,310
And He transformed those men.

1123
00:54:42,310 --> 00:54:48,190
And the people I most like and love

1124
00:54:48,190 --> 00:54:52,390
to be with are people He's transformed still

1125
00:54:52,390 --> 00:54:53,490
today.

1126
00:54:54,390 --> 00:54:58,050
He says, Revelation 1, 17 and 18, don't

1127
00:54:58,050 --> 00:55:00,070
be afraid, I am the first and the

1128
00:55:00,070 --> 00:55:00,470
last.

1129
00:55:00,570 --> 00:55:01,390
I am the living One.

1130
00:55:01,950 --> 00:55:04,450
I was dead and behold, I am alive

1131
00:55:04,450 --> 00:55:05,110
forevermore.

1132
00:55:05,230 --> 00:55:07,730
And I have the keys of death and

1133
00:55:07,730 --> 00:55:07,990
hell.

1134
00:55:09,370 --> 00:55:11,330
I love the writing of an American.

1135
00:55:11,330 --> 00:55:12,230
She's not a Christian.

1136
00:55:12,390 --> 00:55:13,670
Her name is Joan Didion.

1137
00:55:14,250 --> 00:55:15,810
She writes so well.

1138
00:55:16,810 --> 00:55:18,730
And she writes about her early years when

1139
00:55:18,730 --> 00:55:20,970
she was a student in California in the

1140
00:55:20,970 --> 00:55:21,930
1960's.

1141
00:55:22,630 --> 00:55:27,970
They were the years of flower power and

1142
00:55:27,970 --> 00:55:30,750
the Beatles and All You Need is Love

1143
00:55:30,750 --> 00:55:33,930
and the big concerts and everyone was going

1144
00:55:33,930 --> 00:55:38,270
to California, going to San Francisco with flowers

1145
00:55:38,270 --> 00:55:39,810
in their hair.

1146
00:55:39,810 --> 00:55:42,690
You know that.

1147
00:55:42,950 --> 00:55:46,890
And she was working as a desk clerk

1148
00:55:47,650 --> 00:55:49,330
in an apartment block.

1149
00:55:49,690 --> 00:55:51,410
And she was giving out the keys and

1150
00:55:51,410 --> 00:55:53,250
giving out the bills and taking the money

1151
00:55:53,250 --> 00:55:56,730
and getting the keys back and all around

1152
00:55:56,730 --> 00:55:57,910
All We Need is Love.

1153
00:55:58,490 --> 00:55:59,830
What is this?

1154
00:55:59,850 --> 00:56:01,150
What is this all about?

1155
00:56:01,650 --> 00:56:03,150
What is it all about?

1156
00:56:05,010 --> 00:56:09,030
She said, I had the keys, but I

1157
00:56:09,030 --> 00:56:09,870
didn't have the key.

1158
00:56:11,820 --> 00:56:14,200
And there are people just like that, aren't

1159
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:14,380
there?

1160
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:17,620
Today, they've got the key of the boat

1161
00:56:17,620 --> 00:56:20,980
on the gulf and the condo in Florida.

1162
00:56:22,620 --> 00:56:25,580
They have their safe deposit key and their

1163
00:56:25,580 --> 00:56:27,760
fine car and their fine house keys.

1164
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:28,680
They have the keys.

1165
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:31,780
They don't have a key.

1166
00:56:33,180 --> 00:56:34,320
Why are we here?

1167
00:56:35,300 --> 00:56:36,780
What is this all about?

1168
00:56:37,260 --> 00:56:39,080
What is man's chief end?

1169
00:56:39,780 --> 00:56:41,660
What am I to do with my life?

1170
00:56:41,660 --> 00:56:43,160
What am I to live for?

1171
00:56:43,900 --> 00:56:46,200
What am I to do with Jesus who

1172
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:47,320
is called the Christ?

1173
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:57,000
We have this wonderful example here then.

1174
00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:00,600
You have the pessimism and despair of those

1175
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:03,140
who just reject Jesus.

1176
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:05,340
Don't bother the teacher anymore.

1177
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:09,660
Your parents say, don't go to church.

1178
00:57:09,740 --> 00:57:11,620
Don't bother the preacher anymore.

1179
00:57:12,260 --> 00:57:14,420
We don't mind you being religious, but we

1180
00:57:14,420 --> 00:57:15,820
don't want you to be fanatical.

1181
00:57:15,820 --> 00:57:19,320
You know, we don't want fanatics.

1182
00:57:20,180 --> 00:57:21,880
We don't want fanatics.

1183
00:57:22,060 --> 00:57:23,880
We want followers of Jesus.

1184
00:57:24,420 --> 00:57:29,180
We want people to discover truth and reality.

1185
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:32,540
That's what we're in the business of.

1186
00:57:32,900 --> 00:57:36,160
You have here such a kind and a

1187
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:37,020
mighty Savior.

1188
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:40,840
I can't understand how you can come here

1189
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:46,700
and listen to the Lord Jesus Christ and

1190
00:57:46,700 --> 00:57:50,400
to His life and to His achievements and

1191
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:55,460
to the impact He makes on people and

1192
00:57:55,460 --> 00:58:00,180
transforming grace and what it does, and you

1193
00:58:00,180 --> 00:58:08,770
go away as unbelieving, as doubting, as questioning,

1194
00:58:09,710 --> 00:58:10,830
as when you came.

1195
00:58:10,830 --> 00:58:16,020
I can't understand how you can do that.

1196
00:58:17,740 --> 00:58:22,880
That this Jesus, His influence is over us,

1197
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:25,020
but His presence is with us.

1198
00:58:25,980 --> 00:58:28,700
And by His Word, He's speaking to us

1199
00:58:28,700 --> 00:58:29,340
today.

1200
00:58:30,420 --> 00:58:32,560
The only explanation I can give you is

1201
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:32,820
this.

1202
00:58:33,260 --> 00:58:37,420
Men love darkness rather than light.

1203
00:58:38,060 --> 00:58:39,320
That's the reason.

1204
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:42,620
Andrew Bonner once talked to a Christian lady

1205
00:58:42,620 --> 00:58:44,560
and she said there was a time in

1206
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:46,080
her life when she was very afraid of

1207
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:46,440
death.

1208
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:50,000
But then one day she was reading the

1209
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:51,680
Bible and Revelation 1.

1210
00:58:52,900 --> 00:58:55,840
She's saying, I've got the keys of death

1211
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:56,420
and Hades.

1212
00:58:59,880 --> 00:59:02,820
She says if Jesus has got the keys

1213
00:59:02,820 --> 00:59:07,840
of death, the first face I'll see will

1214
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:09,860
be His face and the first voice I

1215
00:59:09,860 --> 00:59:11,040
hear will be His voice.

1216
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:17,280
Now, Jairus' daughter, she didn't respond like that,

1217
00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:17,660
did she?

1218
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:23,180
She grew up and then she married and

1219
00:59:23,180 --> 00:59:24,760
she had children I suppose.

1220
00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:26,260
It must have been like that.

1221
00:59:26,780 --> 00:59:27,980
And then Jairus died.

1222
00:59:28,340 --> 00:59:30,260
Men die first so often.

1223
00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:32,580
And then her mother died.

1224
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:34,880
And then she came to the stage where

1225
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:39,130
she was on her deathbed and her family

1226
00:59:39,130 --> 00:59:39,970
were around her.

1227
00:59:40,330 --> 00:59:43,350
And she told her family, you know, I

1228
00:59:43,350 --> 00:59:46,390
lost my fear of death when I was

1229
00:59:46,390 --> 00:59:47,690
12 years old.

1230
00:59:48,550 --> 00:59:50,270
And I know what's going to happen.

1231
00:59:51,050 --> 00:59:57,010
When I die, the first voice I hear

1232
00:59:57,010 --> 00:59:58,830
will be Jesus.

1233
00:59:59,750 --> 01:00:01,750
And He will say to me, Talitha kubi.

1234
01:00:03,090 --> 01:00:05,970
And the first face I see will be

1235
01:00:05,970 --> 01:00:06,970
His dear face.

1236
01:00:11,280 --> 01:00:17,380
That's what we want for you, for all

1237
01:00:17,380 --> 01:00:19,140
of you, young and old.

1238
01:00:19,380 --> 01:00:20,280
That's what we want.

1239
01:00:22,250 --> 01:00:24,690
Our Heavenly Father, do bless Your Word to

1240
01:00:24,690 --> 01:00:25,210
us now.

1241
01:00:25,350 --> 01:00:25,970
Thank You.

1242
01:00:26,370 --> 01:00:29,010
We sing our hallelujahs to the One.

1243
01:00:30,330 --> 01:00:33,190
Jesus Christ is risen today.

1244
01:00:33,370 --> 01:00:34,010
Hallelujah.

1245
01:00:34,750 --> 01:00:35,750
Thank You, Lord.

1246
01:00:35,970 --> 01:00:37,670
Thank You that You are alive.

1247
01:00:37,670 --> 01:00:40,550
Thank You for Your grace that's helped us

1248
01:00:40,550 --> 01:00:43,370
in our earthly pilgrimage until this very moment.

1249
01:00:44,110 --> 01:00:46,210
Thank You we're not in hell today.

1250
01:00:46,730 --> 01:00:49,270
Thank You that we hear the Gospel today

1251
01:00:49,270 --> 01:00:53,130
and can believe in Jesus Christ today.

1252
01:00:53,510 --> 01:00:54,050
Thank You.

1253
01:00:54,450 --> 01:00:57,170
Thank You for He's bigger than death.

1254
01:00:58,830 --> 01:01:01,810
And we pray that all who are here

1255
01:01:01,810 --> 01:01:05,430
who as yet have not acknowledged Him as

1256
01:01:05,430 --> 01:01:09,230
their God and Savior, will do so.

1257
01:01:11,170 --> 01:01:12,590
Will do so now.

1258
01:01:13,010 --> 01:01:16,870
Will start having dealings as Thou has done

1259
01:01:16,870 --> 01:01:20,690
dealings with us in this morning hour of

1260
01:01:20,690 --> 01:01:23,510
worship for which we give thanks in Jesus'

1261
01:01:23,730 --> 01:01:23,970
name.

1262
01:01:24,670 --> 01:01:25,310
Amen.