Let's turn to Mark chapter 5.
We've all had loved ones that we saw in need of God's grace,
that we longed for God to be gracious to. We've all been in
a situation as believers where we longed for God to be gracious
to us. And both of these accounts here in this one The story I'm
going to read here is dealing with that. Let's read the whole
thing. Mark 5 verses 21 through 43. When Jesus was passed over again
by ship unto 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, Jarius by name. And when he saw
him, he fell at his feet, and besought him greatly, saying,
My little daughter lieth at the point of death. I pray thee,
come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed, and she
shall live. And Jesus went with him, and
much people followed him and thronged him. And a certain woman,
which had an issue of blood twelve years, and had suffered many
things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and
was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, when she had heard
of Jesus, came in the press behind and touched his garment. For
she said, if I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.
And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up, and
she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. And
Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone
out of him, turned him about in the press and said, Who touched
my clothes? And his disciples said unto him,
Thou seest a multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touches
me? We're so slow, aren't we? You
think that as much as the Lord had done with His disciples,
and they'd seen Him do, that He wasn't asking His question
for information. He was asking His question to
draw that one that touched Him to Him. He knew who touched Him. And He looked round about to
see her that had done this thing. But the woman, fearing and trembling,
knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him
and told him all the truth. And he said unto her, Daughter,
thy faith hath made thee whole. Go in peace, and be whole of
thy plague. While he yet spake, there came
from the ruler of the synagogue's house certain which said, Thy
daughter is dead. Why troublest thou the master
any further? As soon as Jesus heard the word
that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be
not afraid, only believe. And he suffered no man to follow
him, save Peter and James, and John the brother of James. And
he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth
the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly. And when
he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado and
weep? The damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.
And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all
out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and
them that were with him, Peter, James, and John, and entereth
in where the damsel was lying. And he took the damsel by the
hand, and said unto her, Talithah kumai, which is being interpreted,
damsel, I say unto thee, arise. And straightway the damsel arose
and walked. For she was of the age of twelve
years, and they were astonished with a great astonishment. And
he charged them straightly that no man should know it, and commanded
that something should be given her to eat." Now, the way that
this account is interwoven, with the Lord being on the way to
Gerise's house, and this woman coming up with the issue of blood,
Him going on to Jairus' house. The way that's interwoven together,
it struck me that this story here is conveying one example
of how sinners are made whole by Christ. Now we're going to
look at these two sinners here that the Lord did this work in
as God's work of grace that He performs in one sinner. This
is what He does in one sinner. The two issues that each one
of these had show us every sinner's problem. Geras' daughter died. She was dead. And the woman with
the issue of blood was unclean. She was internally unclean as
a result of sin. Sin being in the nature. And we see two touches in this
text. Two touches. One by the Lord
touching the daughter. And the other by the woman with
the issue of blood touching Christ. So even these two touches appear
to me to be vitally connected. Now, it may be that the touch
of the woman with the issue of blood is given first as the Lord's
on the way to touch Jairus' daughter and give her life. It may be
that that touch of this woman that came with the issue of blood
and touched him first is given to us in that order Because it's
only after that we've been given faith in Christ that we began
to really enter in to the fact that He first touched us. But
in our experience of it, we think we've touched Him first. We think
we've believed on Him first. I've titled this The Healing
Touch. And here's what I want you to get from the message.
It is by Christ touching us that we are made clean. so that we
can touch Christ in faith. It's by Christ touching us, the
touch of faith, the touch of the faithful one, of Christ touching
us, that makes us clean, so that then we can touch Christ in faith. And that's when we realize we've
been made clean. I want to show you first the sickness, then
I want to show you the touch, and then we'll look at the healing
And then we'll look at the communion. The sickness. The sickness. Now, the total depravity of everybody
on this planet is manifest in a way that cannot be hidden.
It's manifest in this way. we get diseases, we get sick,
and we die. That manifests everybody on this
planet is depraved, spiritually depraved. Every bit of sickness,
every bit of death, every bit of disease is the result of the
curse that passed upon all men when Adam sinned in the garden.
Romans 5 tells us, wherefore as by one man sin entered the
world, and death by sin. Sin entered the world by Adam's
one transgression, and death by sin. Death's the wages of
sin. And so death passed upon all
men, for that all have sin. Now I want you to note a connection
here, right off, right away, of the 12 years. See Mark 5.25,
a certain woman which had an issue of blood 12 years. And
then down in Mark 5.24, speaking of Gerias' daughter, it says,
"...straightway the damsel arose and walked, for she was of the
age of twelve years." That means the same year that Gerias' daughter
was conceived was the same year that the woman received this
issue of blood. The woman had the issue of blood
for twelve years. And Jarius's daughter was 12
years old when she died. Now there's a spiritual picture
right there in that. At the time that you and I were
conceived, you and I received this issue of blood. That's what
we received from our father Adam's nature. We received it into our
nature. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity,
and in sin did my mother conceive me. What I got from my father
was his nature, and he got it from his, and all the way back
to Adam, so that we're conceived in the world with this issue
of blood, this issue of blood. Jairus' daughter was at the point
of death when they came to her, and then in just a little bit
they came back to her, and they told him, to him, and they said,
thy daughter is dead. So it is with us. By conception,
we come into this world with this issue of blood, this uncleanness,
this defilement from Father Adam. And it means spiritually, we're
dead and we're defiled. And we're going to live a little
while, and with a little bit of time, we're going to die physically. You get the picture there in
these two? And we're unable to cure ourselves
of this. Absolutely unable. The daughter
could not come to the Lord Jesus. She couldn't do it. And Gerias,
her daddy, had a lot of money. He was a prominent man. He was
a ruler in the synagogue. And he couldn't do anything for
her. He couldn't do a thing for her. Christ had to come to her. Christ had to come to where she
was. So Gerias came and he begged the Lord Jesus. There's been
many who believe the Lord like Gerias did, who've done what
Gerias did for mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers, and
sons, and daughters, and friends, and even enemies. Come to the
Lord and beg Him, verse 23 says, and besought Him greatly, saying,
My little daughter lieth at the point of death. I pray thee,
come, lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed, and she shall
live. That's so, brethren, of every
man spiritually. That's what we need. We need
for Christ to come. and to touch us. We need Him
to come and lay His hand on us in that power of His grace because
we can't come to Him. We can't come to Christ because
we're dead, just like Therese's daughter was dead. We've got
to have Christ come to where we are and lay His hands on us
and give us life and give us this cleansing and make us everywhere
whole. giving us faith and repentance
before we can ever come to Him. Jesus told Nicodemus, except
a man is born again, he can't see the kingdom of God. It means
you've got to be born of the Holy Spirit of God. You've got
to be washed by the water. You've got to have the incorruptible
seed enter in. Now in our dead nature, like
we're sitting there like this woman with the issue of blood,
we have an issue of blood. Now in the Scripture, At your
leisure, you can read this in Leviticus 15 sometime, but I'll
just tell you about it right now. The law describes the corruption
and defilement of this issue of blood as something worse than
leprosy. There's something worse than
it. You know how bad leprosy was and how bad it was regarded.
This was regarded even worse than leprosy. You couldn't even
come near the tabernacle with this. You couldn't touch anybody
with this. Anything you touched, you defiled. It says if you spit on somebody,
if you were talking to somebody and a spit come out of your mouth
and just touched them, they're just as defiled as you are. I
mean everything you come in contact with, you defiled it. Leprosy
was on the surface. It was on the outside. It was
on the flesh. It was a picture of sin. But
leprosy, even like that, this issue is blood within. This is
an inward issue. This is a fountain within. It's
typifying that hidden corruption of the heart, that uncleanness
of our hearts. The sin that's in us by nature.
The sin that our nature is. A man steals because he's a thief. A man lies because he's a liar.
A man murders because he's a murderer. You see, it's what we are in
the heart. that precedes what comes out of that heart. And
this is that issue of blood. That's what it pictures here.
The corruption that's vile, that's depraved, that defiles us, that
defiles everything we touch. And there's no cure for us from
this defilement in any man. Just like Jairus' daughter couldn't
be healed. Verse 26 says, she had suffered
many things of many physicians. Many things of many positions.
We're talking about a spiritual matter here and no man can heal
us of these spiritual issues, this uncleanness. There's only
one great physician. One great physician. Jairus knew
who he was and he came to him and begged him to come. He's
the only one that can heal of this disease called sin and cleanse
us and make us pure and holy. Verse 26 said, she spent all
that she had We can't we can't pay this physician. This is a
physician unlike any other physician that ever walked the planet.
This physician truly came to do what he did because he loved
the people. He proved it by he didn't take a cent from anybody.
You can't give him anything. You can't offer him anything.
It's not for price or reward. We don't have to do an overhaul
of the of the healthcare program with this physician, because
he's not taking anything from us. He will receive you freely. He'll receive you freely. We
can't do anything, and if we try to do something to heal ourselves
spiritually, it not only does not make us better, it makes
us worse. Look at verse 26. She was nothing
bettered, but rather grew worse. You've heard me say this, and
I don't think folks understand this. I've said to you before,
I don't want my children to just get into religion. I'd rather
them stay out of church altogether than to get into false religion.
When you clean up the outside of the cup and you become moral
and you become outwardly a whited sepulcher, there's still that
old dead dead corruption inside. The inside of the cup's still
dirty. Everything's still filthy. But now there's a worse problem.
Now you've cleaned up so well and look so good, you think you
got something. You think you've really cleaned
up and you've really been healed. And that wicked, desperate, depraved
heart makes you convince you are. And Satan would love for
you to stay right there. Stay in religion. Get in it and
get active. The more active, the worse off
you'll be. And the better that is to to
the prince of the air. He wants you to be worse. I don't
want that for you. I don't want that for my children.
I don't want that for anybody. So that's how bad this thing
is. Now let's look at the touch. Let's look at the touch. Now,
we're just like Jairus' daughter. We can't come to him, but he
came to where she was and this is how she was made alive. Verse
41, he took the damsel by the hand And he said unto her, he
touched her and he spoke. He touched her and he spoke.
He doesn't have to teach you or touch you literally. He did
this same thing to Lazarus, but he didn't touch Lazarus. He just
spoke it and Lazarus came forward. But where these two touches are
connected here, because this woman with the issue of blood
touched him, I think that's why he went to Jairus' house and
actually touched Jairus' daughter. Because now we're getting the
whole picture here of how God saves a sinner. He came there
and he touched her and he spoke and said unto her, Talitha Kumai,
which is being interpreted, damsel, I say unto thee, arise. That's
a command. When Christ gives a command,
he gives the power to obey the command. When he says to do something,
he gives this person, he says, do it. He gives them the power
to do it. That's how come, we read that scripture in the back,
that's how come all those people, when they came to build that
tabernacle, to build up, do that service, when Christ commands
something, he gives the power to do it. That's where the wisdom
to do that cunning tapestry and sewing comes about. He gives
you the wisdom. He wants you to make some curtains
for the building, he'll give you some wisdom to do it and
say, do it. And you do it. That's why the preacher and everybody
else don't have to whip and spank and coerce and constrain and
corral and all that. We got a God who's working. He's
got the government on his shoulder. So he said that to her and straightway,
verse 42, the damsel arose and walked. Now why is that important? Why did I skip down to the bottom
and show you that first before going back up talking about the
woman with the issue of blood? Turn over to Leviticus 6. Turn
over to Leviticus chapter 6. God has got to sanctify us, cleanse
us, wash us by the spirit of regeneration. washed by the Spirit
of regeneration, washed in the blood of Christ by the washing
of the water by the Word. That's what we just saw typified
right there in Him coming and touching her and speaking to
her. She's dead. She's just dead.
When He did that to her, she was alive. She came alive. He
spoke and when He did, that's the washing of the Spirit of
regeneration washed in the blood of Christ, washed by the word
of the gospel. Why does that have to be the
case? Because we cannot approach holy God in our impurity and
our uncleanness. We can't come to him and lay
hold of him and touch him until we've been made every wit holy
and pure by what he's done for us. We've got to have that happen
before we can lay hold of him because he's too pure to behold
iniquity. He won't look upon a sinner. He won't behold us in our defiled
corruption. God's law requires that everybody
that has the issue of blood, uncleanness, had to be separated
from God, completely separated from God, separated from everybody
outside of the camp until they had been purified and washed.
The plague of sin that makes us unclean, this plague, when
we're unclean, we're cursed and we're barred from the Holy Lord
God. We can't come into his presence.
We cannot come into his presence at all. How then could the woman
with the issue of blood, how could she, when the law said,
the law stated, she was not to come near anybody. Not at all. She couldn't come near anybody. And yet she comes into this huge
press of people, this huge crowd of people. She has to squeeze
through that crowd and underneath people and all through there
to get through there. And she's touching people the whole time.
She's breaking the law of God the whole time she's coming to
Christ. How then, and that law forbid
her to even touch Him. How could she do all that and
Christ receive her like He did? How could that be? Because she was already washed. She was already, she'd already
been touched. She'd already been made clean.
by what the triune God, through the blood of Christ Jesus, had
done for her. You see what's happening to her
as she's coming to Him? She don't know what's taking
place in her. She just knows she sees Him and knows, if I
can get to Him, He'll heal me. He can heal me. I know He can
heal me. But you know what God had done?
He's already touched her and He's already drawing her to the
end of the law. That's where He's bringing her.
To Christ. That's what the law was given
for, to show you He's the end all of it. He's everything it
had to say. Now look here in Leviticus 6.
This is why I tell you that she couldn't come to Him and even
touch Him until this work had been done. This is why I'm telling
you, believer, you can't touch Christ. You can't believe on
Christ and even be received of Christ until you've already been
made holy. That's right, until you've already been purified.
This is how much this works out of our hands. Let me show you
this. I just want to show you two instances of this in Leviticus
6.18. This is dealing with the priests.
The priests. And they're in the holy place
and they got the holy sacrifices and all the holy offerings and
stuff. Verse 18. Look there in the middle
part of that verse. It says, This is a statute for
ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the Lord made
by fire." Everything that was offered there and those offerings
were pictures of Christ, different aspects of pictures of Christ
and how He purges us of our sin. It says, concerning these offerings,
everyone that touches them shall be holy. You see that? Everyone that touches these things
Picture Christ. They shall be holy. Look down
at verse 27. Look down at verse 27. Whatsoever shall touch the flesh
thereof shall be holy. Do you see that? Whatsoever shall
touch the flesh thereof shall be holy. It's not telling us
that men would be made holy by touching it. That's not what
it's saying. That's not what it's saying.
It's saying they must be holy to touch it. They gotta be holy
to touch it. They gotta be holy before they
can be there. See, when those priests were there, they'd already
been sanctified. They'd already been cleansed.
They'd already been made holy. And he's saying, and that's the
only ones that can touch any of these things that picture
my dear son. They got to be holy to touch
them. They got to be pure, spotless, pure white, spotless to touch
these things. Only those who've been made holy
by God's work of grace will lay hold of Christ. That's the only
ones that will lay hold of it. That's the only ones that can.
That's the only ones that are permitted to. How then am I made holy? I thought I had to do something
to make me holy. Those that are made holy are sanctified by election. God the Father sanctified us,
separated us when he put us in Christ. before the world began,
separated us from all other of the whole mass of humanity when
He put us in Christ. Though sanctified in redemption,
Christ came and by the blood of God the Son, He healed all
the diseases of the soul by taking the sins that were ours into
His own body and burying them on that tree and making satisfaction
for them. I want you to turn to Isaiah
53. I said to you, how could she come there and touch him
when in the midst of everything she's doing, she's breaking everything
the law said. If she's just doing, if this
is just a dead letter law observance, everything she was doing, she
was breaking it. That tells us that law's got to be teaching
us something else. It's got to be teaching us that
there's somebody else that has got to fulfill it. There's somebody
else that's got to fulfill it. Christ Jesus, when he sent that
virtue out of Him into her and she touched Him. He's taking
the sin that causes the sickness and the disease. He's going to
go to the cross and be made sin for her so that she can be made
completely whole. So that His righteousness, His
virtue can go into her and make her clean and make her whole.
Now that's what he did for her before she ever came. He's touched
her already. But I want you to see here that
by this redemption, how fully, completely, in every little jot
and tittle, Christ fulfilled the law. Every bit. Now verse
4 tells us, Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.
And that is what he did. He took those and he carried
those. You can find this over in You
can find this over in Matthew 8, when He came and He healed
somebody, and it said, so that the Scripture will be fulfilled,
that He bore our griefs and carried our sorrows. It's a picture of
him taking the sin that causes all the disease and all the corruption
within himself and being willingly made sin. And it says, we did
esteem him stricken and smitten of God and afflicted, but he
was wounded for our transgressions. Don't get the transgressions
and the wounding mixed up. You see, iniquity does mean wounding
and iniquity does mean transgressions. It means punishment, and it does
mean sin. And iniquity was laid on him.
First, the transgressions were laid on him, and all that sin
that caused the disease was laid on him, and then the wounding
was laid on him. So that truly, in both senses
of the word, iniquity was laid on him. He was made sin, and
he bore the punishment for that sin. That's the only way God's
just. He's got to be made guilty for
Christ to pour out for God to pour out justice on him and do
it in a righteous manner. Now that's what was taking place
there on the cross. He was wounded for our transgression.
He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon him and with his stripes were healed. Now that law required,
for leprosy, it was an unclean law. It was one of those unclean
laws that showed us sin. And it required you, if you were
unclean, It requires you to pronounce to people, I'm unclean. So that
you don't touch them and they don't come around you and get
close to you and get unclean. And that's what this woman, she
hadn't done anything of that nature. She just came right through
the mist and touched him. But that law had to be fulfilled.
She broke that law. That law had to be fulfilled.
And Christ fulfilled that law. Christ fulfilled that law. I
mean to the marking of the I and the crossing of the T. Let me
show you that. Look back up at verse 3. He's despised and rejected of
men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and we hid as it
were our faces from him. He was despised and we esteemed
him not. Now look at that little phrase
right there that says, and we hid as it were our faces from
him. You see that? I want you to,
if you have King James translation, you look at the alternate translation
in the margin, and it is this. He hid, as it were, his face
from us. The law required, when one was
made unclean, the law required, he had to pronounce himself unclean. He had to hide his face from
the people. That's what he had to do. And
when Christ was made sin on that cross, He hid His face from us,
fulfilling that law, actively fulfilling that law. perfectly
you see how fully he had to fulfill everything that was written how
fully he is the fulfillment of all that was written and you'll
say to me well you'll say what I said turn to Matthew 27 I said
I looked at that and I thought I know that's so and I know that's
what Christ did I know he fulfilled that law And that's just one
of those little intricate details showing us just how precisely
he filled that law. And I looked and looked and looked
in the New Testament for Christ at some point where he hid his
face from the people. Like that law of leprosy required.
I looked for some place where he did that and fulfilled that
law. And I couldn't find it anywhere.
Can you think of a place where he hid his face like that? I found it. Matthew 27, verse
45. From the sixth hour, there was
darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. He put out the
light and he hid his face from us. You see how fully Christ
Jesus the Lord fulfilled the law? He's sitting there justifying
that poor woman of all her sins. And even actively fulfilling
that law while He's doing it. You see how fully Christ is the
end of the law for sin? That's how she could come to
Him freely. And the other way I said it to
you was sanctified by God the Father in election, sanctified
by Christ the Son through his blood, through his fulfillment
of the law, and it's by the spirit of regeneration, by the grace
of God the Holy Spirit. That's what we saw in him going
to Jairus' daughter and putting his hand on her. He made her
alive. That's a sinner that's been washed,
that's been made clean. She don't know it yet. She don't
know it yet. She just knows she's been made
alive. She just knows now she can do something she couldn't
do before. She stood up, she arose, she walked. And that believer
laying hold of Christ by faith, it's a manifestation that God
has already made him alive. Holy. God the Father, God the
Son, and God the Spirit has already done the work to separate him
and sanctify him before he ever touches him. That's how it manifests
it's been done. He comes to him in faith. Now
let's go back to Mark. Back to Mark. Now when he's touched
us and washed us in his blood by the spirit of regeneration,
straightway, we arise and we walk just like to rise his daughter
did. And we do what the woman with the issue blood did. You
see, we didn't see him touch her. We didn't see him touch
her. We didn't see him touch the woman with issue of blood.
But did you notice when he touched Jurassic daughter? Did you notice
how he made the multitude stay back? And he took Peter, James
and john with him. And then when he got to the house
and all that that hullabaloo was going on, he put them out
and said, y'all get out of here and took her father and her mother
and Peter, James and John went in there and touched him. You
see this work of regeneration that Christ does in the heart.
It's a secret work. It's a very secret work. And
when I see those there with him seeing it, the few that were,
I'm reminded of when it says that He does these things that
the angels, it might be manifest to them by the church, that they
might look, because they want to look into these things. They
want to see Christ do these things. And He manifests these exhibitions
of His grace before them, just like He did Peter, James, and
John, and that mother and father. And two, when he does it, eventually
we see that he's done it, and it thrills us, and it edifies
us, and it strengthens us, and we're in astonishment just like
they were about it. But what I'm getting at is that
work's a secret work. Nobody saw it. Nobody saw it
happen. That's why I'm saying we didn't
see him touch the woman with the issue of blood. That's the
only way she could have come to him, Scott. That's the only
reason she came to Him, is that He already touched her. He already
done His work. She heard. You see, when He's done this,
look what the first thing it says about her, verse 27. She
heard of Jesus. That incorruptible seed comes
in through the Word, through the Gospel. And some of you sitting
here, you've been hearing with the natural ear, hearing with
the natural ear. Nothing's happened. Nothing's
happened. There was a bunch in that crowd, a bunch walking along
there, and they saw Him with the natural eye, heard Him with
the natural ear. Nothing happened. But this woman hurt him by that
incorruptible seed coming in and washing her and making her
alive. And now all she knows is, when
she heard of him, she knows, I got a corruption, I got a sin,
I got a problem that nobody can cure. But I've heard about what
he's done. I've heard about the miracles
he's brought. I've heard about the grace he's shown. I've heard
about what he's done. And she believed he could do
it. She believed he could cure her. And verse 27 says, And she
came in the press behind, and she touched his garment. For
she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.
She believed that he could make her whole. She believed he was
the only one that could make her whole. She said, and if I
could just touch His clothes, I'll be whole. Is there anybody
here that knows that? Anybody here that He's made to
have that desire in your heart, where He's spoken and the commandments
come and sin's revived and you've been able to see your sin and
see what you are and know what you are and see the corruption
of your own heart and your own nature so that you know, I've
got to come to Christ. I've got to touch Him. I've got
to just reach out and touch Him. By faith, I've got to touch Him.
Well, touch Him. Reach out and touch Him while
He's passing by. Touch Him. If you believe on
Him, thou shalt be saved. That's what she did. That's what
we're seeing there. Now, let's look at the virtue.
Verse 29, And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried
up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.
And Jesus immediately, knowing in Himself that virtue had gone
out of Him. As far as our experiencing this
healing, as far as our experiencing the healing, it comes to us only
after we've touched Him in faith. Only after we've come to Him
in faith and with this faith said, I believe Him. I believe
He can heal me. Only then do we experience the
healing. It's already happened. The cleansing
has already happened, else we wouldn't have come. But it's
only then that we do come. And when we come, verse 29 says,
straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up and she felt
her body was healed of that plague. That virtue that went out of
him, he knew it. He knew it immediately. He did
it on purpose. That virtue that went out of
him into her, that's Christ's power. That's Christ's grace
whereby He makes us to know, He makes us to be assured all
our sins are forgiven. He makes us to know we've been
washed and we're clean and we're accepted in the beloved. She
says, verse 29, she felt in her body she was healed of that plague. You know what 1 Kings 8.38 calls
this sin? It calls it the plague of the
heart. The plague of the heart. This issue of blood is a picture
of that heart sin. That guiltiness and that curse
that you're under. She knew whenever Christ, when
you come to Him by faith, He sends forth the power of His
grace and He makes us to know in the heart He's given us the
forgiveness of sin. We know it. Spiritual joy, peace,
comfort, acceptance with God in the beloved. You know it.
It's perceived in you as real as when you're cured of a bodily
disease. When's the last time you had the flu and got up after
having the flu and realized, I'm well? The fever broke. It's over. It's over. She knew it. And that virtue
that went out of Him, you look out there and you see the sun
shining and you see those rays coming out of that, coming out
of that sun. Has it ever diminished the light
of the sun at all? They come out and they warm you
and they enter you and they fill you, but has the rays of that
sun ever diminished that sun at all? This virtue going out
of Christ didn't diminish Him one iota. That's what John said,
he said, of his fullness have we all received grace for grace. See, out of his fullness, she
received grace. When he came and touched her,
we see that in Jairus' daughter, he made her alive, he washed
her. And he gave her that grace, you know why? For grace. For
grace to do what? For grace to come to him. and
touch him by faith and say, Lord, I believe you. You see, you've
got to have grace worked in you before you'll come to him and
ask him for grace. He gives grace for grace. Grace
for grace. All right, let's go now and I
want to show you just a couple of more things here. A couple
of more things. I said to you that work's a secret
work. That's rock. You notice when she came, it
was a secret work at first too. She came and she touched him.
And nobody else knew about it. You see, this thing's intimate
between God and his child. He makes you whole, and he draws
you to him. And when this happens, at first,
nobody knows it but you. It's happened. Nobody knows it
but you. You and him. He knows what he's
done, and you know what he's done. And you believe him, and
you're about to bubble over about it. But he's going to draw you
to him and make it public. make you say it publicly. He
said, who touched me? His disciples, just like us,
why in the world do you say who touched you? Look at all these
people around you. How are we supposed to be able
to pick out who touched you? But he knew who touched him. Look
what he did after he said that. Verse 32, he looked around about
to see her that had done this thing. All that bunch of people
sitting there, he turns right around and he looks at this woman.
How'd he know? He did the whole work. He did
everything being done. But he draws that faith, that
secret faith, that secret word, he draws it out to a public confession.
She comes to him then. But even when she comes, even
when he draws it out in a public confession, next week, Cheryl
and Alyssa and Carol You're going to be baptized. You're going
to make a public confession of your faith before everybody.
But even when you're doing that, even then, I want you to see
this, even then, when everybody's sitting there around her seeing
what she's saying, hearing what she's saying, seeing what she's
doing, even then, verse 33, the woman fearing and trembling. She believes God now. The woman
fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her. She knows
who did it. She came and she fell down, not
before Peter, not before James, not before John, not before any
of those people standing around there. She's doing it publicly.
They all see her doing it. But she fell down before him
and told him all the truth, told him all the truth. She confessed
to him everything, everything. Now look at this union, look
at this oneness through this touch. When we've been made alive
like this daughter was and we've been drawn there and we lay hold
of Christ by faith, we got this rejoicing in our hearts. We know
what he's done in us. Just like she came there and
she sat down and she started telling him all the truth. Do
you reckon, I'm just going to ask you this, do you reckon she
came, you that know the Lord and know how He operates, know
how He gives you this fear and trembling, do you think she came
to the Lord and started telling the Lord about everything she
did? Do you think that's what she did? Do you think she started
coming through there and saying, well Lord, I've discovered I had this
issue of blood and what I did was I work my way and clog and
everything and get through you and touched you because I knew
by my touch I'd be made whole. No, that's not what she came
through there saying. She came through there telling
him the truth. She came through there saying, Lord, I was sick.
I couldn't be healed. But I heard about you. I heard
you could heal me. And I just knew all of a sudden
I had to have you. I had to come to you. I had no
other option. And so I came. And I just Lord,
I don't even know why, but I just believe you. I trust you, and
I know that I've been healed. I know this is done in my heart.
I know what's done. You know what she's doing? She's
doing whatever a sinner does that's been healed. She's doing
what Paul did in Galatians 2.20. He said, I'm crucified with Christ.
Nevertheless, I live. Yet not I. I didn't do this,
but Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now live
in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me
and gave Himself for me. It's that faithful one that came
to me and He touched me. He drew me. He made me alive. He cleansed me. He purified me. He made me whole. She's sitting
there praising Him and telling Him all the truth about this.
Now here's union. Here's communion. Here's oneness
with God that Christ gives us. And while she's sitting there
spilling out all this about everything He had done for her and everything
that all the praise and the glory and the honor that He deserved
for everything He'd done for her, she turns around, He turns
around, and He said unto her, verse 34, Thy faith hath made thee whole. Go in peace and be whole of thy
plague. He bragged on her. She come glorying in him. And
he turned around and said, Oh, daughter, I love you. You believe me. You believe me. Your faith, that faith that's
in you, that faith by which you trusted me. That's what makes
you whole, daughter. You see the union? The believer's
bragging on him and Christ is bragging on them. And he did
everything. He did everything. That's this
union we have now. Daughter, don't you love that?
We're born in this world as children of Adam, our father, corrupt. But when we're born again of
this incorruptible seed, he makes us washed and clean and whole. And we're made children of the
everlasting father, the last Adam. And we'll always be his
children. He turned around to her, said,
daughter, daughter, daughter. Now look at verse 35. I want
to say this to you who are sitting here and you've got loved ones
that you love dearly, that you think sometimes, well, it might
be just a hopeless case. His chosen, His redeemed children,
they're His sons and daughters, and they're going to be born
of Him. While they're in this dead, unclean state, it looks
like it is a hopeless case. Look at verse 35. While he yet
spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house certain
which said, Thy daughter is dead. Why troublest thou the master
any further? Just forget it. She's dead. She's
gone. Don't trouble him anymore. As
soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he said to the
ruler of the synagogue, to Geras, to this little girl's father,
he turned around to her and he said, Be not afraid. Only believe. Don't be afraid. Trust me. Just
trust me. Art. Don't be afraid. Trust it. It's not hopeless. It's true. It's not hopeless. Only believe. With God, all things are possible. May end up being a thief hanging
on a cross. But if he's his, he'll get him. He'll get her. They laughed at him. He said,
she's not dead, she's just sleeping. You see, all of his elect They're
dead spiritually. They're dead as a hammer so they
can't do anything. But because they're His elect,
because they've been redeemed by His blood, it can truthfully
be said of them, right now they're just sleeping. They're going
to be made alive. And once we've been made alive,
when we die physically because of this old body of death, it
can truly be said, He's just sleeping. He's with the Lord
right now in spirit. And it won't be long and He's
going to be with him in body, soul, and spirit, brand new,
perfectly whole. Isn't that so? Well, I want to
show you one more thing. Once He's given us this life,
He don't ever forsake us. He keeps feeding us. I think
this is one reason He carried Peter, James, and John with Him.
These are the preachers. In verse 43, as soon as He healed
that girl, He commanded that something should be given her
to eat. And that's what he does. He turned
around to Peter and John. He said, you feed her. Remember
what he said when he came to Peter? Peter, you love me? Feed
my sheep. See this girl, Peter? I made
her whole. You feed her. You keep feeding
her. You keep giving her this gospel.
You keep telling her about me. Keep feeding her. Keep feeding
her. Well, remember at the beginning of the message, We saw that that
same year that to rise his daughter was born. That was the same year
that this woman received that issue of blood. Well, the daughter
was raised from the dead on the same day that the woman with
the issue of blood was healed. This communion We have communion
with God in Christ. We've given Him all the glory,
and He rejoices in us because we believe Him. Daughter, your
face made me whole. But He gives us another communion,
too. Can't you just picture Jairus, his daughter, walking along out
there on that sea, on the shore, on a sunny day, and this woman
with an issue of blood walking along with cider out there on
the shore on a sunny day, and them walking along. And walking along together, Gerasi's
daughter says, tell me again about how he healed you of all
your diseases. And that woman with the issue
of blood turns around and says, tell me how he made you alive. They got a lot to talk about,
don't they? A lot to rejoice in, a lot to be thankful for. Amen.