I'd like to open this service
with a hymn that we don't sing too often, but it was requested
and it's a good hymn. So let's all stand together and
we'll sing hymn number 217 from your hardback hymnal, 217. Let's
all stand together. ? My God and my justice ? ? My
beauty, my glorious dress ? ? This flaming world's in peace ? ?
Arrayed with joy shall I live from afar ? ? I stand in thy great name ? ?
For who but you my charge shall lay ? ? Holy and strong through
these I am ? ? From sin and fear from God I rise ? ? My precious one ? ? Pitch at
the mercy seat of God ? ? Forever God, your sinners plead for me
? ? Ignore my soulful passion for you alone ? Please be seated. Good morning. If you would, for
our call to worship, turn with me to the book of Isaiah. I see myself in this passage
as well as the glory of God. We're gonna read from chapter
65 of Isaiah. And I'm just gonna read the first
Nine verses here. I'm sought of them that ask not
for me. I'm found of them that sought
me not. I said behold me, behold me,
unto a nation that was not called by my name. I've spread out my
hands all the day unto a rebellious people which walketh in a way
that was not good after their own thoughts. a people that provoketh
me to anger continually to my face, that sacrificeth in gardens
and burneth incense upon altars of brick, which remain among
the graves and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh and broth
of abominable things in their vessels, which say, stand by
thyself, come not near to me, for I am holier than thou. These
are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. Behold,
it's written before me, I will not keep silence, but will recompense,
even recompense into their bosom. Your iniquities and the iniquities
of your fathers together, saith the Lord, which have burned incense
upon the mountains and blaspheme me upon the hills. Therefore
will I measure their former work into their bosom. Thus saith
the Lord, as the new wine is found in the cluster, and one
saith, destroy it not, for a blessing is in it, so will I do for my
servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all. And I will
bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor
of my mountains, and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants
shall dwell there. Let's go to the Lord in prayer. Lord, we come to you and we ask
that you would reveal yourself to us, Lord. We ask that you
would show us yourself, Lord. We know that we're incapable
of seeking thee without you first calling our name. Lord, we ask
that you would count us among your people. Lord, we ask that
you would preserve us and cause us not to come to you with harvest
of labor or to, as you instructed Moses and the Israelites, Lord,
we ask that you'd cause us not to worship at altars of brick,
but of stone, Lord, that we might come to you on the ground of
what was accomplished by your son for your elect. Lord, we
ask that you would be with the McMens as they go through a tough
time. Lord, we ask that you'd be with
your people everywhere as they might need healing spiritually
or physically, Lord. We ask that you'd be with our
pastor as he's away, and we ask that you would be with Hugo as
he comes to speak to us now. It's in his name we pray, amen. Number two from the Spiral Gospel
Hymn book. Let's all stand together again.
Number two. Oh shall we sing In compassion now we stand Fill
our hearts with Thy rich grace Tune our lips to sing Thy praise
In Thine own appointed way Now we sing ? Till our blessing now be so ?
Send a message from thy word ? That may joy and peace afloat
? Let thy spirit now impart Please be seated. Good morning. We're going to
be looking at the Gospel of Mark. Chapter 5. It was a blessing,
this first message that we heard from Jeff. Seems like the Lord
wants us to keep the same theme in this message as well. Let us go to the Lord in prayer
for this is our need of the Lord to be with us. Father God, we
come before you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, thanking
you for your grace. Thank you for your mercy. Thank
you that all is found in the Lord Jesus Christ, thanking you
for him, Father. Thank you for the message this
morning that we heard, Father. May we treasure in our heart,
may we not fear because your love towards us because of what
the Lord Jesus Christ did, and because of your power, Father.
We thank you for your mercy. We also ask again for the messages
that are brought over this weekend in Pennsylvania. We ask for thy
blessing to be in those messages, that your gospel may be preached,
and your name be glorified. in all we do and we hear, Father. In Jesus' name we pray now that
your Holy Spirit be with us, Father, because we need it. I need it in order to speak your
word, to preach your word, and we also need it as we hear, as
we listen. May the Lord Jesus be glorified
and magnified. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Let us go to Mark chapter 5.
We're going to see this passage. It's a familiar passage. The
Lord Jesus Christ does a couple of miracles here. In verse 21
of Mark chapter 5, we find the beginning of this passage that
we're going to be looking at. In verse 21 it says, was passed over again by ship
into the other side. Much people gathered unto him,
and he was nigh unto the sea. And behold, there cometh one
of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name. And when he saw
him, he fell at his feet. He besought him greatly, saying,
my little daughter, Laiaph, at the point of death. I pray thee,
come and lay thy hands on her, that she might be healed and
she might live. And Jesus went with him and much
people followed him and thrown him. In verse 21, we see that
Jesus was, he came over by ship over to the other side of the
sea. If you look earlier, he had done
a miracle He had removed some demons and put them in some pigs,
and they owned the pigs, asked them to leave, for Jesus to leave.
So he's coming over, crossing the sea. And the sea reminds
me, in the scripture, it tends to be a sign of separation. The sea separates different continents
here, and the earth And this also in Genesis talks about the
water on top that separates heaven and earth. And sea tends to be
something of a separation, but the Lord Jesus Christ has crossed
over the sea. He's in this side of the sea.
Being him, the person that we come to in order to fix this
vast, space, this vast separation that we have with God from birth. And he's coming over and everybody's
waiting for him, right? Another text, another gospel
says that they were waiting for him. And there, in verse 22,
we see that it says, behold, there cometh one of the rulers
of the synagogue. Behold, because this is a strange
thing, one of the rulers of the synagogue is one of the leaders,
is kind of like an elder kind of person. Not necessarily that
he preached, but that he brought order to the services in the
synagogue. He was in charge. He had administrative duties
in the synagogue. And he came over to Christ. And
this reminds me of Nicodemus when he came at night, right?
He was a great teacher of the Jews. Jairus comes in the daylight.
He's in desperation. He's in a big, large need that
he has. He's very needy here. Jairus,
the name of Jairus has a meaning. Jairus means enlightening or
enlightened by God. That's what the name Jairus means.
And so anyone that comes to Christ with his need as Jairus comes,
He must be enlightened by God first. He must be enlightened
to recognize Christ. He must be enlightened to realize
that Christ is the answer for his need. He was in much need,
he was. And that's why it says, behold
is a word, this is a surprise, this is, listen to this, this
is not something common for a ruler or the synagogue to come to Christ.
He was enlightening. He was Jairus, was his name.
He was enlightening. And we saw him. He fell at his
feet. The first hour, we learned a
lot about falling on his feet, didn't we? Jeff brought us to
attention, all those who have fell at Jesus' feet in the past
in scripture. And this is where God has brought
Jairus, God has brought the circumstances in Jairus' life to bring him
on Jesus' feet. That is where God brings every
elect on one time. And time and time again, he brings
us to his feet because we need him and we need to beg him as
Jairus says, right, as Jairus does here. He fell at his feet. He besought, in verse 23, he
said, he besought him greatly. This means he was begging him.
He was asking. He was begging the Lord Jesus
Christ saying, my little daughter live at the point of death. This
was not a cold. This was not something light,
light affliction. This, she was dying. She was
dying. She was seriously, critically
ill. And Jairus loved his daughter. He had spent 12 years with her. And he loved her very much. But
she was at the point of death, meaning that there was no other
cure. Surely he tried other means.
But now this is his last resort. This is the only resort that
he has. She's at the point of death.
And I ask myself whether Jairus situation is not our situation
as well, right? We may not have a loved one at
the point of death, or maybe we do. But we have loved ones,
we have children that are at the point of death because they
will die someday. And they may not know Jesus yet. they may not be saved at this
point. So I suggest that we are in Jarrah's feet situation as
well. We also have loved ones like
this. And sometimes that does bring
us as Jesus' feet as we ask for our loved ones, we ask for our
children to know Christ. And that situation is even more
serious than somebody dying, that somebody may die without
Christ, that someone that we love might die without Christ.
This is the desperate situation that anyone is without Christ. He says, I pray thee, he's begging
him, he's begging Jesus to come lay hands on her. that she might
be healed and that she might live. There is, remember that
his name meant he's enlightened. So the Lord had already given
him an understanding. The Lord has already given him
faith enough for him to do this, to come to Christ as his only
hope for his daughter. He has faith that he could heal
her. He may even have faith that he
could resurrect her as well if we consider The other gospels,
this is a passage that's in all the synoptic gospels is Matthew,
Mark, and Luke. And there we learn that he also
believed that the Lord Jesus Christ could resurrect her. And
so he had the faith that God has given him. He was utilizing
that faith. He was depositing in the right
object, which was Christ. Christ had worked his circumstances. to bring him and to beg him.
And so we pray that God may bring our circumstances also that we
might be in that place. And that's a good place to be
at the Lord Jesus Christ's feet is where we really belong if
we recognize our need of him. So the Lord Jesus Christ in verse
24 says that he says he went with him. And much people followed. There was a lot of people following
him. And they thrown him. And Luke uses a Greek word for
thrown. And it's a word kind of like how the weeds thrown, they tighten
around the plant. So it was a very tight situation. I myself, I was born in New York. And sometimes as I ride the subways
in New York, I can put a picture of how this was. I don't know
if anyone of you been in New York or in a big city where there's
a train on rush hour, what they call rush hour, and you get in
that train and you're standing, but you're not standing on your
two feet, you're standing, you're leaning on everybody else. because
they're so tight, very, very pressured. So this was the situation
here. They were all around him. They
were very tight. In verse 25, it says, and a certain
woman, which had an issue of love for 12 years. Again, we
learned the first hour regarding a certain man or a certain woman. It's a specific, it's always,
the elect are a certain people. Each one of you, if you are,
have been predestined, if you've been chosen, if you've been called,
you are a certain person, a certain woman, a certain man. And this
certain woman had an issue of blood for 12 years. She had a
problem with her blood. And that's also our problem at
birth. We inherit the blood of our parents. and our parents eventually got
their blood from Adam and Eve. And it's a very, very, the worst
disease that blood could have is none of the sickness, not
cancer, not any disease that could bring us to death. It is
sin, sin. That is our problem as we're
born. We're born with a blood problem,
very serious blood problem. Here we find that it's been 12
years since he had that problem. 12 seems to be very significant
in the scriptures. I remind you that Jacob had 12
sons. They became the 12 tribes of
Israel. Moses sent 12 spies into Canaan,
right? Only two of them came back with
a good report. Jesus was 12 years old when he
left. He was left at a temple, right?
He was at his father's house. Jesus chose 12 disciples which
became his 12 apostles, right? There were 12 baskets left over
after the feeding of the 5,000. And Jesus said he could call
12 legions to save them. And he said this, I believe,
in the Garden of Gethsemane, meaning he was in control. And
12 seems to mean completeness, means control. In the future, the tree of life
is going to yield 12 crops. In the New Jerusalem, there's
going to be 12 gates, 12 pearls, 12 foundations, and 144 cubits,
which is 12 by 12. So 12 seems to be a significant
number here. And going back to our text, verse
26, and had suffered many things of many physicians, has spent
all that she had and nothing bettered, but she grew worse. She didn't get better. She got
worse. Meaning she has spent everything she had in physicians.
She had gone to physicians to help the problem. The problem
was deeper than that. The problem was in her blood,
and the doctors could not help her. No one, no one really other
than the Lord Jesus can help our blood problem. No one can.
We, as human beings, as sinful human beings, we will seek everything
else except Christ, won't we? Unless Christ calls us and saves
us, we will seek every single thing, every single problem-solving idea that the
world offers, right? Whether it be psychology, whether
it be religion, whether it be self-help, we seek everything
else. And this is normal. Without being
saved, without being called, we are going to go to the wrong
places for solutions. And she has suffered many physicians. She spent all she had. She did
everything she could within her power to get rid of this problem,
to be healed, She spent all she had and she didn't get better,
she got worse. And as time goes, we do get worse
with our Christ. If we don't come to Christ, the
problem becomes worse and worse. Archibald wasn't bad enough,
but she got worse. She didn't get any better. In
verse, the next verse, it says the following. It says that when
she heard of Jesus, which is the process of every believer,
right? There was a time where we heard Jesus. With the Lord
Jesus Christ enlightening, like he did to Jairus, enlightening
us by hearing the preaching of Jesus. This is important. She
heard of Jesus, came in, and pressed behind and touched his
garment. So she heard that Jesus was coming.
God had given her also an amount of faith that she knew, she believed
that by touching Christ, she will be healed. All she needed
was to touch him, just to be close to him and to touch him.
She felt that that's all she needed. And this has to be God-given
faith because she had gone to all these doctors, spent all
her money trying to solve her problem. So she knew that her
problem was was probably incurable, wasn't it? The doctors probably
said, we can do nothing for you. But she knew that if she touched
Jesus, her problem will be gone. And here she says, she heard
how Jesus came in and pressed behind and touched his garment. In verse 28, it says, for she
said, this is her saying to herself, if I may touch by his clothes,
I shall be whole. This is God-given faith like
Jairus had it. In verse 29, we see that straightaway
the fountain of her blood was dried up and she felt in her
body that she was healed of her affliction or her plague. Immediately,
immediately it happened. She was healed immediately. It
did not take a little while and did not take any time at all,
she was healed immediately. In verse 30, it says, Jesus immediately,
knowing himself that virtue, which means power, which power
had gone out of him and turned him in about, meaning he turned
around and pressed, and said, who touched my clothes? Who we
find Christ asking, noticing that there was power, that left
them, just as it takes power for us to be saved. It takes
only God-given power, only power from God that it takes to save
us, to regenerate us. And he knew it had gone out of
him. Here we find a little bit of the humanity of Christ, where
it's possible here that he may not know. The Lord Jesus Christ,
the scripture says that he voluntarily emptied himself. He gave up some
of his attributes. We know the Lord Jesus Christ
did not know when God was, the day God was gonna return. And
we also see the Lord Jesus Christ in his youth growing in wisdom
and knowledge. So he did empty himself. He gave
up voluntarily some of those attributes that Jesus had before. He was born in Philippians 2,
and this was necessary because the second man, the second Adam
had to be human like us. It says, let this in mind be
with you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being born in the
form of God, taught not Robert to be equal to God, but made
himself or no reputation, and took upon him the form of
a servant that was made in the likeness of man. And being found
in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient into
death and even death of the cross. The son of God, the great I am
became man. And this is to be our representative,
to be the second Adam. And he came and he was asking
who touched my clothes. And the disciples said unto him,
Thou seest the multitude throning thee, and thou seest who touched
me?" Meaning the disciples did not understand his question.
The disciples thought that he was acting, that it was a normal
touch like everybody else was probably touching Jesus. But
this touch was different. This touch was with faith. This
touch power went out of him. And the disciples thought it
was unreasonable for him to ask who touched him when he was surrounded
and thrown by so many people. He looked around, verse 32, to
see her that had done this thing. But the woman, fearing, verse
33, fearing and trembling, knowing what she had done, in her she
came and fell down before him and told him all truth. Oh, here
we find her in the same place that Jairus was, at his feet. We find that she fell before
him and told him the whole truth. She confessed everything. This
reminds me of regeneration with God's children, right? When God
calls the believer, he comes before Christ and says the whole
truth. It doesn't mean that we confess
every sin that we have because it's impossible. We don't know
of most of our sins. We just know some of them. But
we do know the whole truth. We do agree with the Lord against
ourselves. That is what repentance is about.
agreeing with God about ourselves, agreeing that we are totally
depraved, agreeing that sin has reached all areas of our life
and that there's no good thing in us. There's no righteousness
within us. And she confessed the whole truth,
reminds me also how the woman at the well, when she went back
to Samaria, to the town, saying, isn't this the Christ he told
everything about me? He knew everything about me.
And also we hear that saying that talks about honest people
don't go to hell, right? We ever heard of that? Well,
that's because honest people will really be sinful people,
wouldn't they? They will admit, they will know
and they will rarely admit the whole truth about themselves.
We find her here at the feet of Jesus and telling him the
whole truth, nothing but the truth. So here we find her at
the feet of Jesus, where every one of us needs to be. at the
feet of Jesus and telling him the whole truth, everything that's
within our knowledge about our sin. We confess to him and we
agree with him. And this is what repentance is
all about. Verse 34, the first words out
of Jesus' mouth are very, very comforting, are they not? He
tells us, daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole. Go in peace. and the whole of their plague
or their affliction. He calls the daughter. Do you
know of anywhere else in scripture where the Lord Jesus Christ calls
somebody daughter? We do not. This is special. By Him saying daughter, we know
that she has been saved by His grace. She is one of the elect. She's been called. She's been
given this. illness for 12 years for this
very moment, for her to come to Christ, for her to be at his
feet, and for her to say the whole truth. All her happening
has been predestined and brought to this place, this important,
awesome, very, very important place. In verse 35, we find that Well, let's continue on something
about verse 34, I wanted to say. It says, thy faith has made thee
whole, go in peace. Faith seems to be very, very
special. It seems here like faith has
a power, but we gotta remember, of course, this is God-given
faith, faith that God has given her. In Acts 14, let's go to
Acts 14 here. I have three scriptures regarding
faith and how faith works. And this is not faith, just plain
faith, blind faith, or faith in anything. This is faith on
Jesus Christ. This is very specific faith. Verse eight says, and there sat
a certain man at Lystra, an impotent at his feet, being crippled for
his mother's womb, who never had walked. The same hurt Paul,
He heard Paul speak, who steadfastly beholding him and perceiving
that he had faith to be healed. This is a Paul perceiving. He
said in a loud voice, stand up right on his feet. And he leaped
and he walked. So faith seems to be very important. Faith is necessary for these
physical healings. Faith is necessary for these
miracles. They're not sufficient though.
There's a difference in necessary and sufficient. They're not sufficient
because the faith without God's will to heal will not get you
healed, right? So faith is necessary. It's not sufficient by itself.
God has to do the miracle himself. Luke 7.50 also, we find this,
we find the following. It says, he said to the woman,
thy faith has saved you, go in peace. Again, a reference to
the faith. And again, my emphasis is this
is God-given faith. This faith comes from God, it's
placed on every believer, and every believer puts it and deposits
it on the Lord Jesus Christ. The faith must be directed to
two things. They must be directed to the
person of the Lord Jesus Christ and to his work, what he has
done. You have to place your faith
on the person, who he is, And what did he accomplish at the
cross for you? In Matthew 13, we find the following. Matthew 13, verse 58, we find,
and this is talking about Nazareth. He was rejected at Nazareth,
right? And before he says this, he says, a prophet is not without
honor, save on his own country, on his own house. And he did
not do, did not, do many mighty works because of their own belief. So we notice there that belief
is necessary for these miracles. Not sufficient, but it is necessary. And so we find that faith is
necessary, but not sufficient for physical healing. However,
for salvation, It seems that the scriptures say that the faith
is sufficient. God-given, saving faith is sufficient. And what I mean by that is for
you, from my point of view, what we need to do is to believe,
to place our faith on the Lord Jesus Christ. And he says it
is sufficient, meaning it doesn't need any work, meaning it doesn't
need any effort on your part. But it means that you have to
trust. You need to put your faith in
Jesus Christ. And this is God-given faith. God does give you the faith,
so that's what we need to do with it. Place it on the Lord
Jesus Christ. In verse 35, going back to our
text, verse 35, it says, while he yet spake, there came from
the ruler of the synagogue's house, Cern, which the men, this
is men, probably that either his friends or they work with
Jairus, they came to Jairus to give him some bad news in their
point of view, of course. They came to say that, don't
bother the master, right? He said, they heard the word,
thy daughter is dead. They came to tell Jairus that
don't bother Jesus anymore. Don't bother. Thy daughter is
dead. Why does trouble thy master any further? Don't bother anymore.
There's no more hope. Your daughter is dead. So there's
no hope. That's what they're telling Jairus. However, Jairus, like we said,
he was enlightened by God. And look what Jesus tells him
immediately, immediately. As soon as Jesus heard the word
that was spoken, Jesus, in his mercy, in his grace, he says
to the ruler of the synagogue, be not afraid. Be not afraid. Only believe. Okay, be not afraid. It seems to be God's message
to us this morning. As we heard the first hour, as
this is the title, of this message is be not afraid. The opposite
of afraid, how is it that you're not afraid? How is it that you're
gonna be stopped being afraid? How is it that you're gonna avoid
being fearful? The next statement tells us how. Only believe. Believe in who? Believe in the one who's talking.
Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. Believe in the Lord of glory.
Believe in the sovereign one. Believe in the one who has everything
under control. Everything under control. Everything
that happens is under his control. So he's telling him not to be
afraid. It's natural to be afraid, right? It's human to be afraid. It's fleshly to be afraid. Nevertheless,
it's sinful to be afraid for the believer. It is because it's
a lack of faith. He tells him only That's your
cure. That's your answer. You need
to believe. You need to have faith in Christ.
You need to believe in his promises. Romans 828 is a good passage
that we could believe whenever we're afraid, right? Romans 828,
a lot of us may even know it by heart. It says, and we know.
We don't guess. We don't think. We know that
all things work together for good for them that love God,
to them who are called according to his purpose. So if we were
to believe this, we are to be not fearful. This will get rid
of our fear. And he was telling this to a
man who had just heard that his daughter died. Can you imagine
that? Can you imagine hearing those
news that one of your children has died? One of the other passages
with this, I think it's Luke or Matthew, says that that was
his only daughter. This was not one of 10, not one
of 12, his only daughter. And can you imagine you being
in a situation worse than this, being told that your child just
passed away? This is terrible news. This is circumstances that most
of us would not go through. Yet we go through a lot lesser
circumstances and we fear, don't we? We fear many times. We fear our circumstances. We
fear the future, as Jeff mentioned. Sometimes we hear the news or
we're listening to what might happen to the United States,
what might happen with a war, what's going to take place in
the future here in the US. Things don't look good for circumstances. They really don't look good from
man's point of view. But it doesn't matter what the
circumstances are, because the Lord Jesus Christ is telling
us not to be afraid, only to believe, to believe in him, to
believe in his love for us, to believe in his control, that
he's controlling everything. that he's under control, that
he knows what he's doing, basically. It's what it is. And everything
that happens is all right. We only need to believe. And
that's our cure for this fear that we may have. And it is natural,
and we will go through fearful times. But you will find no better
cure than to believe, to believe Christ. believe that he's on
his throne, that nothing happens without him. And here, verse
37, he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, James, John,
and brother James. Here, he's electing among the
elect, right? He's choosing who is gonna be
witness of this miracle. He's no longer doing these miracles
for He's no longer doing these miracles for a ministry for people
to believe in him. He's here, he's minding needs
of his believers. He's minding the need of Jairus
and his daughter. And he's concerned, he wants
to also do this to help Peter, James, and John further believe
in Christ, right? who he's going to do this in
front of. So this is not a public. He's not doing this like these
preachers do today with the miracles they supposedly do on camera,
on TV, in front of millions of people. This is not Jesus. Jesus' miracle here is in private. And he cometh to the house of
the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the Talmud, and them wept
He sees a lot of confusion. He sees a lot of noise. He sees
a lot of things going on based on what had just happened. She
had died. She wasn't sick. She wasn't in
critical condition anymore. She died. And these people had
no hope whatsoever. They were crying. They were mourning
with no hope. They didn't realize who was coming. And he came. And verse 39, he says, when he
came in, he said to them, why you do this? And we, the damsel is not dead,
but she's sleeping. The damsel is young girl. That's
what damsel means. She's telling that she's not
dead, she's sleeping. This is how the scriptures talk
about the death of every believer. We sleep because it's only a
temporary thing and we're gonna wake up again. We're going to
be resurrected. Of course, we're going to be
resurrected much better than she was. She was resurrected,
came back for life, but with her own body, still in her sins,
meaning that she will still have the fleshly body. We will be
resurrected with a new body, like the glorified body that
the Lord Jesus Christ was resurrected with. So the scriptures always
refer to death of the believer as sleeping. And here it says,
and they laughed him to scorn. This is unbelief. This reminds
me of everyone around us that laughs of our faith, laughs what
we believe and they scorn. But when he had put them all
out, he got rid of them. He didn't try to evangelize them. He didn't try to keep them inside
so they could see this miracle. He says, get out, get out. You
have not been elected, get out. You don't believe, get out. He
only selected three of his apostles, mind you, not the 12, just the
three special ones, the same ones that saw his transfiguration
as well. And also the parents of the girl. But when he put them all out,
he take the father and the mother of the damsel and them that were
with him, meaning the three apostles or the three disciples, he entered
into the damsel where she was lying. She went in the room.
He took the damsel, the girl, by the hand and said unto him,
Talitha kumi, which interpreted is young girl, I say to thee
arise, okay? He did it in such a tender fashion,
right? He didn't want to scare her.
He just took her hand. He was not looking to startle
her. He resurrected her. He gave her life as he can only
do. He resurrected her. He gave her
life back. He spoke, I believe that's Aramaic
for damsel Arise. Arise reminds me of his calling,
right? He's saving calling of every
believer, a calling that is effectual. So you didn't have a choice here. He didn't say you want to live,
you want to die. He just says arise, as he calls
every believer when he gives them life, like he called Jairus
earlier, enlightening him and gave him faith. He, the Lord
Jesus Christ, is the giver of life. In 1 Corinthians 15, we
see this. And we also heard it in the first
message. If you remember, Jeff talked
about Jesus being the giver of life. He went to two different
passages. This is also another passage.
And 1 Corinthians 15, 45 says the following. It says, as so
it is written, the first Adam was made a living soul. Adam
was made a life-giving spirit at the second, the last Adam.
The Lord Jesus Christ is a life-giving spirit. He gives life. And that's
the life that we're really in desperate need of because we're
not born with it. We need eternal life. We need
spiritual life. And at the feet of Jesus is where
we find it. At the feet of Jesus, putting
our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and asking for his mercy, is
where we find this life. This is the most necessary life. This life-giving spirit, this
spirit of God, this new man, this life, this spiritual life
is more necessary than our physical life, isn't it? It's a lot more
important, a lot more necessary. Verse 42, we find again the number
12, and straight away the damsel rose and walked And she was the
age of 12 years. Again, we find that number. And she was, meaning that she
was old enough to walk around, okay? At the age of 12, she was
close to being the age of marriage. She could marry at 12. Back in
that, in the Jewish culture at 12 years old, you almost considered
practically an adult and you could do this. That's why Jesus
was able to stay behind in a temple at 12 already. He was considered
kind of like an adult already. He's no longer a child. So she
woke up. The Lord Jesus Christ gave her
life. And they were astonished, with
great astonishment. This will probably mean their
parents and the three disciples, the three apostles, were astonished. And the Lord Jesus Christ, of
course, here is concerned for her physical life as well. He
charged them not to let anybody know and to
give her food, all right? Not to let anybody know. Of course,
the word spread in any way. However, this miracle was for
Jairus' sake, for his wife's sake, for the daughter's sake.
and for the three disciples that saw it, and for God's glory,
of course, and for us to see the gospel in it, for us to see
Christ being a living spirit. But what I would like you to
keep in mind is what he told Jairus, that no matter what the
circumstances are, because I really couldn't come up Well, I could
come up with certain things that we may be afraid of, like facing
God the Father without Christ. That's a good reason to be afraid. But the remedy of that fear is
to believe, right? The fear of not being saved,
right? Of our security in Christ. And
the remedy is, believe, believe in what Christ did on the cross,
that his work was effectual. And once we believe all the ramifications
of his work, there is no other fear that could grab us, really. Because if, you know, we could
lose a child, that's possibility, right? Jesus Christ was telling
him, to only believe because your child is going to be saved.
But it's possible that we may lose a child and that God might
not save that child. But in light of who God is, in
light of who Christ is, in light of that he's in charge, in light
that he loves us, and in light that he's sovereign, there's
no need to be afraid either, no matter what happens. No matter
what takes place after what Christ did on the cross, there's no
fear that is justifiable other than not being in Christ, other
than not believing. And this is what I believe that
God wants us to keep in mind, that next time we fear, we remember
that Lord Jesus Christ is telling us to believe, to trust, to trust
him. Father God, we come before you.
We thank you, Father, for your word. We thank you for the Lord
Jesus Christ. We thank you for the faith that
you give to your believers, to your elect. And we thank you
because we have someone who we can believe in. We have someone
who loves us. We have someone who's in the
throne reigning where may you increase our faith in the Lord
Jesus Christ. In his name we pray, amen. Let's close with hymn number
12 in your spiral hymn book. No music for this, we'll sing
acapella. Number 12. Upon my great and sovereign God,
I cast my soul and rest. My Father's hand controls the
world. and what he does is best. So be still, my heart, and doubt
no more. Believe and find sweet rest. God's wisdom, love, and truth,
and power combine to make thee blessed. In raging storms and
fiery trials, He keeps me from all harms. He walks with me and holds me
in his everlasting arms. So be still, my heart, and doubt
no more. Believe and find sweet rest. God's wisdom, love, and truth,
and power combine to make thee blessed. My God with skill infallible
and great designs of grace, with power and love that never fail,
shall order all my ways. So be still, my heart, and doubt
no more. Believe and find sweet rest. God's wisdom, love, and truth,
and power combine to make thee blessed. My life's most minute
circumstance is ordered by my God, who promised that in all
things He will ever do me good. So be still, my heart, and doubt
no more. Believe and find sweet rest. God's wisdom, love, and truth,
and power combine to make thee blessed.