Mark chapter 5, beginning in
verse 24. And Jesus went with him, and
much people followed him and fond him. They pressed upon 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 herself, her body, that she was healed of that plague. And
Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue, power, and
merit 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 the multitude thrown in thee, and seest thou who touched
me? And he looked around 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,
your faith has saved you. Go in peace, and behold of thy
plague." Now this is another incident where someone came to
the Lord Jesus out of great affliction and desperation. This woman here,
we're told, had an issue of blood. And that was something in these
days that you didn't talk about. We talk about things now maybe
we shouldn't talk so freely in public about, but they never
talked about this in this day. She would have been ashamed to.
To talk about the problem that she had, the issue of blood,
would have exposed her to shame and contempt. And we're told
here that she had been With this disease for a long time, 12 years,
there was no remission. There was no intervals where
this woman quit bleeding. For 12 long years she had bled,
and I am sure by this time she was physically weak and mentally
exhausted. The doctors that she went to
made things worse. We are told there in verse 26
that she suffered many things of many physicians. Her treatment
was worse than her disease in that sense. And we are told there
also in verse 26 that not only had she lost her health, but
she had lost all of her savings. She had spent all. She had spent
all. And finally when she spent all,
she grew worse and she was none the better. And no doubt a deep
sense of despair overwhelmed this poor woman. And then we're
told that she heard of Jesus and came unto Him, and immediately
she was made whole. Now that's the story, and let's
look at it this morning. First of all, let's consider
this. What was her concern? What made this woman so concerned
about herself that she would go through all the expense of
her life? give up all of her living, and
go to all the trouble to seek all these physicians, and not
do it for a year or two years or five years, but twelve long
years. What was her problem? What was
her concern? Well, she had this issue of blood. She was concerned. I imagine
there's times we know how it is, don't we? If we think we're
sick, We'll put it out of our mind. We'll try to go on and
not remember it. We want to have some ease. So
I'm sure this woman, there was days when she tried to put it
out of her mind and maybe did. But when she come home that night
and she examined herself to her horror, there it was. She couldn't
deny it. And it got worse and worse and
worse. And this is why she took all
the trouble to spend all that she had. She had this disease,
and she became very anxious about it. She would have never went
to the doctor like this. She would have never spent all
of her living, year after year. Here's the cause. She knew she
had a problem, and she tried her best to remedy her situation. Now, do you and I wonder this
morning why a fallen humanity is so religious? Did you ever
wonder why men will go sometimes to the extremes? I mean, why
they'll make promises, why they will reform their life, why they
will make vows While they'll give themselves up to prayer
and so many religious activities, why would a man be religious? And they tell me if you go to
some of the dark jungles of the rainforest, wherever you go in
Africa, you find that men are religious. Why is man religious? What makes man do all of these
religious activities? You know what man knows deep
inside of him. He knows something is wrong,
doesn't he? He doesn't know what his problem
is, but he knows that things aren't right. He looks up in
heaven maybe, and he sees the moon and the stars, and he sees
the sun, and he sees creation all around him. And this tells
him something. He doesn't know much about it,
but it tells him something, that there is a God. And he has this
sense that God is holy and He is almighty. And he has this
sense that between men and God there is something wrong. His
wrath is against me. He is angry with me. He feels
that. And sometimes he gets him a Bible. And though he does not understand
much of it, he may read in Romans chapter 2 that he is heaping
up wrath unto the dead, Ralph, and that scares him. Or he talks
to somebody, and they tell him, boy, you know death is coming
to you, and there's a judgment to come, and you're facing eternity. And what does he do in the light
of this? Well, he starts doing all he knows to do. He starts
all these religious activities. He does all these religious duties. What is he doing? He's trying
everything he can to ease his conscience. And I don't know
how many, I have no way of knowing how many, but there have been
people, and there are people now, that will give everything
they have. There is no limit as to what
they will not do to try to remedy the problem that they feel that
they have in their conscience. Martin Luther, back in the 1500s,
that man had a promising career. He was studying to be a lawyer.
And he was going to be a very good lawyer. But he had this
problem. He was tormented in his conscience. He, like this woman, he felt
in himself, I'm bleeding to death. And he thought, what can I do
to get rid of this tormented conscience, this guilt between
me and God? And he gave up that promising
career and went into a monastery. And often in that monastery,
he fasted himself after death. He lay on a cold brick floor
in the wintertime. They said he often went into
confessional and he just wore the priest out. He would confess
four or five hours and then have to change priest. What made him do that? He had
this problem in his conscience. Look at poor Mother Teresa that's
been dead now for some time. She was known all over this world.
She could have had a life of ease. She had influence. She
had influence with kings. But you know what she chose to
do? She chose to take a vow of poverty and live among the lepers
there in the Godhead. And you know one of the reasons
she did that? is because she knew that things wasn't right. Something was wrong. And the
way she had of remedying this was to go there and do that. This is what I'm saying, brothers
and sisters. If you ever wondered why man
is religious by his very nature, here's one of the reasons. He
knows that something's wrong between him and God. And he seeks
out all these doctors trying to heal himself of this disease. That's what this woman did. That's
what she did. But I want you to notice something
here in verse 26. This woman had spent all she
had. She had spent all her living.
But notice here in verse 26. After she had suffered many things
of many positions, and look at this. She spent all she had.
and was none the better." She was none the better. It didn't happen. She was none
the better. Can you imagine the disappointment?
She was still dying, but even worse. Now she was broke. She was none the better. Can you imagine having a friend?
Can you suppose this woman may have had a friend, or she knew
this lady that had the same disease that she had? But her friend
said, if I die, I die. I don't have any money. I'm not
going to do anything. And then after all of these years,
and spending all she had, She was
just as bad or worse than her friend was. After spending everything
she had, she was none the better. All her labor, all the pains
of these treatments that she went through, mortgage of her
house, selling her buggy, Every check she got, every penny
of it, went to her trying to heal herself. But after twelve
long years, she was nothing the better. It didn't help her one
iota. Oh, how do you think a person
may feel that has worked and attempted to heal himself his
soul's diseases, only to find out at last that he is no closer
to being saved than those who lived in that open and profane
life and didn't even care. Wouldn't that be amazing? Oh, to tell somebody that you're
going to be just as bad off as that harlot or the drunk, or
the murderer. Can you imagine the Pharisee
in all of his fasting, all of his paying of tithes, and doing
all of his wonderful works, to be told at last, you are no better
off than that woman who was taken in adultery in the very act. You are no better off than that
publican who was a crook and a defrauder. You know better
than that murdering thief that hangs upon the cross, wouldn't
that be awful? You mean to tell me after all
I've done, all my self-denial, all my Bible reading, all my
church going, all my religious activities, it's not helped me
at all? Not anything. It hasn't taken
one sin away. It hasn't made me one harsh breath
nearer to God than I was when I began to try to heal myself.
Isn't that amazing, brothers and sisters? All her time, all
the pain, all the money wasted, nothing, nothing better. Nothing, nothing, nothing better. That may not sound like much
to me and you, but go tell that to some of these people that
have given their lives to be saved by their religious efforts. And tell them that. Tell them
that who stands before the Lord on the day of judgment and say,
have we not done many wonderful works in your name? And the Lord
Jesus said, it profited you nothing. Oh, the disappointment. The disappointment. Nothing, nothing. Added one harsh
breath. Nothing, nothing. But even more
than this, look back again in verse 26, it even gets worse
than this. In verse 26, he said this, not
only she was nothing better, but look at this, but rather
grew worse. I tell you, if this treatment
should have got her bleeding in remission if it had slowed
the bleeding, if it had helped in any way, but it didn't. All the labor, all the treatments
that you suffered just made it worse, just became worse. Boy, we've seen people do that,
haven't we? I went to visit her in the hospital.
She was a very elderly lady and had cancer. She was dying of
cancer. And I got so upset with the hospital, very munchy. The
day before she died, they give her a treatment, a cancer treatment. And I went in and sat down and
talked with that dear lady, and she was so sick. And the treatment
was helping to kill her. The treatments made her worse. Isn't that amazing? It seems
like a mystery, brothers and sisters, that a man out of some
concern of conscience will reform his life and become very religious
and try to do many things before God to ease his conscience. But
in the latter end, he is worse than he was. Ain't that a mystery? How many young people do you
see involved in a situation like this woman was in? They make
a confession of faith when they're young, they're teenagers, somebody
talks them into something, and they make this confession of
faith, and at first they're tender, You can talk to them, you can
reason with them, but as they get older, they get hardened
in that profession, and they get so hard that you cannot reason
with them. They get worse. I tell you, any
kind of sin is capable of hardening a man's heart. But there's no
sin that will harden a man's heart like the sin of trying
to save himself. The sin of a false religion.
The sin of self-righteousness and legality. It has this hardened
effect. I remember a man that Clarence
and Steve worked with, Dick Webster. You remember Dick Webster. He's
a Jehovah Witness, and he came to my house. And I met him there
at the door, and I didn't know him. He introduced himself, and
I said, you can come in on one condition. The subject will be
about the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. And he came in
and we went through the Scriptures and reasoned out of the Scriptures.
He came back again. And he came back again. And we reasoned out of the Scriptures.
And I had such hope for him. But the last time he come, he
brought this old man. And he sat down and we began
to talk. And I saw his jaws tighten. And I knew he was getting mad. And he was old, and he was hard,
and he was deceived. And when they left that time,
neither one of them ever came back. Through this life of works religion,
through this life of trying to earn their way into God's presence
and justify themselves, they got worse And they got worse
and they got worse until finally you could not reason with them.
Oh, brothers and sisters, listen to me. A self-righteous decision,
a self-righteous attitude, a legal attitude will deceive you. And as you grow older and older,
it will get you to the point where the Lord Himself will not
reach you. You look at those Pharisees the
Lord talked to. How many did He reach? You don't
find any of them, do you? How many Nicodemuses do you find
that come and humble themselves at the feet of Christ and heard
His Word? I'm telling you, Nicodemus is
the only Pharisee we read about, and the Apostle Paul. And look
at the grace it took to save them. Religion will make you
worse and worse and worse. Wouldn't it be awful to live
a life of religion and self-denial only to stand beside a drunk
someday or a murderer or a rapist and have the Lord say to you,
you're worse than he is? You say, Bruce, that's not possible.
What did the Lord say about the Pharisees and Sodom and Gomorrah? They said, oh boy, Sodom and
Gomorrah was an awful place. Boy, it was. God destroyed it,
didn't He? But you know what the Lord said to those scribes
and Pharisees? It will be more tolerable in the day of judgment
for the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah than for you. They're going to
receive eternal damnation, but you're going to receive worse
than that, whatever that could be. Worse. Worse. Oh, and fourthly is this, and
Luke gives us this point in Luke chapter 8 and verse 43. This
is Luke's account. After all that I've given you
here, here's what Luke says. She spent all her living upon
physicians, and listen to this, neither could be healed of any. That's the whole problem. That's
the whole problem. They would not heal her. Because
they could not heal her. One of these doctors, no doubt,
tried his best. Well, you know he did. He tried
to heal her. And he finally told her, Lady, I'm sorry. I can't
heal you. I can recommend this other doctor
to you. And she went over there to this doctor. And all he did
was took her money. He knew he couldn't heal her.
He just took her money. He sent her to another doctor.
Many physicians. He sent her to a specialist.
And this specialist knew he couldn't heal her, but he just could not
endear to tell her. He couldn't endear to see the
disappointment on her face. So he just kept giving her these
useless treatments. Then you've got some that just
wanted her money. That's all they wanted was her money. But
the Scripture says here she could not be healed. Oh, they put a band-aid. They
put some extra cloth on her bleeding, and they say, we think we've
got it. Just pay them up front and go on about your way. Oh
my goodness, you think I'm healed? Yeah, until she examined herself.
And there it was. Still hemorrhaging. Why? She could not be healed. What
am I saying? Brothers and sisters, I'm saying
this. Look at every aspect of our society. Look at the political
aspect. Look at our social life. Look at our judicial system.
Look at our religious system. And it's hemorrhaging, ain't
it? It's bleeding. And someone applies a little
bandage on these aspects of our life, and they say it's fixed. I think we fixed it. The schools
are this, but I think we fixed it this time. Boy, look at our political system.
But if we can get this guy in, it's fixed. And underneath this
Band-Aid, the hemorrhaging continues. The bleeding, the stink, the
shame, sucking the life out of every aspect of our society. And the bandage comes off, and
there it is. There's the shame of all of it.
It's still there. And you know what the trouble
is, brothers and sisters, with our society? It don't even know
what the illness is. It don't know what the cause
is. It sees the blood, but it never
reaches the point where the blood is coming from. That's out of
sight, you see. We can wash the blood from the
legs, but we can't get into where the problem is. The problem is
eternal. It's internal. It's within. And you know two things about
this? Only God can tell us the cause of our problems. And society
just ain't willing to listen to God yet. And only God knows
the remedy. Ain't that so? Keep putting your
band-aids on, you politicians, your judges, your superintendents,
and all other aspects of our society. But, boy, underneath
is the problem. And you can't get to the fountainhead,
can you, of our problem. And that brings us now to this.
Look here in chapter 5 and look in verse 27. Look at this. Boy,
things are ready to change now. It's going to be different now.
And when she heard of Jesus, she came in the press behind
and touched His garment, for she said, If I may but touch
His clothes, I shall be made whole." When she heard of Jesus. When she heard. Why didn't she come to Him before?
She never heard of Him. You can't come to Him if you've
never heard of Him. That's so empty. You know what,
brothers and sisters, the remedy for our problem isn't even known. We're born and we grow and we
don't even realize the remedy for our problem. We have to be
told. That's what I'm doing this morning.
I've come here to preach Jesus Christ to you and I'm telling
you our problem is a heart problem. We were born with it, and it's
killing us. And the only one that can do
us any good, we've never heard of Him before. We have to hear
Jesus Christ our Savior, the healer of poor sinners. This
is why, when I get up here every morning, I ask you to take your
Bible and be still. If you're talking, not only are
you not listening, but the person you're talking to is not listening.
If you're getting up and running in and out, you can't be listening
to me. And those who are watching you come in and out can't be
listening. That's why we say, listen. If you're ever saved,
you must hear. Hear and your soul shall live. And if you never hear, you'll
die in your sins. All who call upon the name of
the Lord shall be saved. But how shall they call on Him
in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in
Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear? Except somebody preach to them. When she heard of Jesus. Oh, may this be the day, dear
soul. You've been bleeding, haven't you? Your sin's been raining
on you. May this be the day that you
hear of Jesus, the Savior. I wonder what she had heard.
It doesn't say what she had heard. It doesn't say who she heard
from. But I tell you, there's a good hint here. There's a good
hint here that what she heard was the truth about who Jesus
Christ really was. You say, Bruce, how do you know
that? Because she said this. She knew something about Him
that brought this faith, this confidence to her heart. After
she had suffered all these other things of all these other physicians,
she said, Boy, if I can just touch Him, I know I'll be made
whole. Somebody had told her about the
glory and the power and merit of this thing. I don't know what
she heard. I can speculate. We can speculate. I love to speculate. My speculation is not inspired,
I tell you that. But I love to speculate. You
know what somebody may have told her? There was a leper healed
just before this in chapter 1. Remember that? That man is full
of leprosy and the Lord put His hands on him and said, I'll make
you clean. He was made whole. Reckon somebody
told her about that? And she thought to herself, now
if He did that to that man, He can heal me. Maybe the fellow
that had the palsy, that couldn't walk, and his four friends took
him up on the top of the building, took the roof up, and laid him
right down in the presence of the Lord where he was preaching.
And the Lord looked upon him and said, Man, your sins be forgiven
you. Take up your bed and walk. And he jumped up and took his
bed and went off glorifying the Lord. And she probably heard
that and said, Boy, if he can do that to that man. If he can
forgive sin. He can heal me. I'll tell you
just a chapter before this. You remember when the Lord was
coming across the sea of Galilee, and He was sleeping on a pillow,
and the waves were coming into the ship, and the wind was howling,
and thunder shaking their chest, and they woke up and said, Lord,
we're perishing. And He just stood up and said,
And the winds obeyed Him. And He came over here to the
land just before this woman met Him in the land of Gadara. There
was this maniac that had a legion of devils and he just spoke to
them. And one of them obeyed Him. There was something that
was told her about the power of Jesus Christ that so worked
faith in her heart that she said, if I can just touch His clothes. Ain't that faith? Man, that's
faith, ain't it? I know if I can just touch His
clothes, I will be made whole." Brothers and sisters, what's
wrong with a poor sinner coming to Christ this way? I'm guilty sometimes of talking
about struggles and striving to get to Christ. But what's
wrong with just putting all that aside and coming to Christ? Most of our struggles and most
of our striving to get to Christ is just unbelief anyway, ain't
it? Oh, my sin, Bruce. You just don't know how much
sin. I don't want to know it. Oh, I've waited so long. I'm
getting older now, Bruce, and I've waited so long. I just don't
know now. Shit, 12 years. Oh, I don't know, Bruce. I don't
know if I'm one of His elect or not. I don't know. I don't
know this and I don't know that, but why don't I just forget all
that and reach out and touch the Lord?" She could have presented
a lot of these arguments, could she not? But what should she
do? Now, she said, He's able. What's
wrong with coming to Christ like that? What's wrong with just
forgetting about everything else and saying, He can save me. I'm
going to Him. He can save me. I'm going to
believe in Him. and be done with it. Charles
Spurgeon asked, if you ever read Pilgrim Progress, you'll know
why this is so good. Charles Spurgeon asked an old
lady in his church, said, do you like Brother Bunyan's Pilgrim
Progress? Well, if you remember Pilgrim
Progress, the way it starts out, the pilgrim had a burden on his
back, and page after page after page, He went through the slog
of Despond, went to Mount Sinai, then went over here and went
over there, and he just page after page. I was reading that
to my little grandson one time, and he started crying. I said,
what's wrong, buddy? And he said, this is the saddest
book I've ever seen in my life. So you know what I did? I just
turned right on over there, bypassed every bit of that, and went to
where he looked at that man, hanging on a tree, and this bourbon
fellow. Why worry about all this stuff?
Are you dying? Are you a poor sinner in need
of a Savior? Then throw everything else behind
you and come to Him. Reach out and touch the Lord
as He goes by. You'll find He's not too busy
to hear your heart's cry. And He's passing by this moment
your need to supply. So just reach out and touch the
Lord. That's what she did. And bud,
I'm telling you immediately, something happened that all those
doctors couldn't have faked. Immediately, she was made whole. And you know there's something
else wonderful about this? She knew it. She knew it. Somebody said, well, you can
be saved to not know it. Well, maybe you can. But I tell
you, I'm glad to know it, aren't you? I'm glad to know it. She knew it, didn't she? Yeah,
she knew it. Oh, He's not only able to save
you, He's able to make you know it. And the Lord made a statement
here in verse 30. This was amazing. It amazed His
disciples. He said here in verse 30 that
He knew virtue had gone out of Him, and He turned in the press,
and He said, Who touched Me? And His disciples said, Lord,
who touched You? Well, this one man's been hanging
on your arm for the last half a mile. This guy's had a hold
of your shirt. You've been dragging him. Everybody's
been touching you. Lord, what do you mean you touch
me? No, somebody really touched me. Somebody really touched me. The boys started looking around.
Somebody touched me. Who touched me? Who touched me? There may be somebody here this
morning. And we've been talking about worship. We've worshipped
the Lord. We've sung about Him. We've prayed
to Him. We've read about Him. I've been
preaching about Him. And we'll leave here this morning
and go back and eat our meal. And we'll thank the Lord for
being in our presence. And then we'll go home this afternoon.
But you may be here this morning and you say, well, I've got a
problem you guys don't have. You guys have been touching Him.
You'll just go on and forget about it. I've got a plague in
my heart. I really need to touch it. Well, go ahead then. If that's
what you need, go ahead. Don't move a muscle. Just do
it. If you don't do it this morning,
then when? You don't have to go home and pray about it. Just
do it. And look here at what was said
in verse 37, when finally He looked around and she came trembling,
knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before Him.
And look at this, told Him, in verse 33, told Him all the truth. She told Him all the truth. You know, when the Lord saves
us, and after the Lord saves us, we'll tell Him a lot more
about ourselves than we did before He saved us. She told Him all the truth. I
wonder if she started naming some doctors' names. You reckon? I just wonder, all the truth?
I just wonder if she started giving some addresses. Old Dr. Sage Self, over there on 202
South Elm Street. Lord, that's where I went to
for a long time. And he sent me over there to
Old Dr. New Better and Dr. New Different. And he sent me
over there to Dr. Pope. And he sent me over there
to Dr. Baptist. I wonder if she started naming
some names. All the truth. All the truth. I bet she got graphic. I bet she got graphic. All the
truth, what would she have told him? I'm sure she told him about
her bleeding. That was the whole issue, wasn't
it? Before, it was such a shame to talk about her bleeding, where
she was bleeding from. But now she begins to get graphic.
Lord, I'd bleed him. I'd bleed him from here. Here's
what's going on with me, and I was walking down the street,
and I noticed some people looking at me, and I'm looking down,
and some blood was running down my legs off of the hem of my
garment. Oh, my goodness, woman. This
ain't shit to be talked about in public. Stop that. You're
getting too graphic. She told him all the truth. She
got graphic about it. Some of you, I've talked to some
of you, bless your hearts. You tell me things about yourself.
You tell me the way you feel about yourself sometimes. I tell
you, make a sailor blush. And these fellas, if you could
talk to some of these religious fellas about what you think about
yourself and how you identify yourself as abominable and wretched,
they'd say, oh my goodness. What's the matter with you? You
ought to go to the house and stay inside. You shouldn't be
out in public. She told him all the truth. And she said, Lord,
none of those doctors could help me. All of them are fake. You're the only one that could
heal my diseases. You see people, and they hang
on to those old professions. They've made one that's two years
old. And they won't let go of them. Oh, I saved in the Billy
Graham crusade. I was saved when I walked up
front in the Billy Graham crusade and I decided for Jesus. You'll
hang on to that. And you won't condemn that old
doctor until the life of Christ and the love of Christ enters
into your heart. And then you'll come and tell
him the whole truth. Those guys didn't help me, Lord. Only you, only you. She came and told him all the
truth. And I'll end with this, in verse
34. And he's saying unto her, Daughter,
thy faith has made thee whole. Go in peace and behold of thy
plague. Thy faith has made thee whole.
How could that be said? Another place he said, your faith
has saved How can faith save a person?
If the Bible says it does, it must do it. But how is that said
that faith can save you and faith can make you whole? A lot of
people are talking about faith today, aren't they? We hear movie
stars talking about faith. Everybody's talking about faith.
Talking about how strong their faith is. Boy, if it wasn't for
my faith, I'd have never made it. But you know what you seldom
hear the Hollywood types talk about? The object of the faith. The object of the faith. Look
at it this way. There is a sense in which faith
cannot be said to save anybody. Virtue didn't come out of this
woman's faith. Did it? What did virtue come
out of? Somebody tell me. Christ. Virtue came out of Him. If virtue
had been in her faith, she never would have had to touch him. Faith did not come down from
heaven, brothers and sisters. Faith did not live a sinless
life. Faith did not hang on a cross.
Faith did not put away sin. Faith did not die. Faith was
not buried. Faith didn't raise again. Faith
is not in heaven on the right hand of God making intercessions
for us. But Christ did all of those things.
So when the Lord Jesus said, Your faith has made you whole,
it must have been the object of your faith has made you whole.
That must be one of the meanings of it. The object of your faith
has made you whole. God demands a perfect righteousness. Does He not? It must be perfect
to be accepted. But God nowhere demands a perfect
faith. He doesn't expect a perfect faith.
If He does, then He's going to be disappointed. But I tell you
this about an imperfect faith. An imperfect faith can lay hold
and touch a perfect Savior. and obtain a perfect righteousness. It's not the perfection of our
faith. It's the perfection of the object of our faith. Lord,
help my unbelief. I believe. Help my unbelief.
Can such a weak and imperfect faith save a man? If it's an
object that's perfect, it can. Your faith may be weak, and it
probably is. Boy, when it lays hold of a strong
Savior, it'll make you whole, and it'll be well with your soul.
Thy faith has made you whole. It's the object of faith. Don't
look any longer to your faith. Look to the Lord Jesus Christ,
the object of faith. In Numbers 21, those people had
been bitten by serpents. Moses put a serpent upon a pole,
a brazen serpent, and this is what he said. It shall come to
pass that everyone is bitten when he looks." Is that all he
said? When he looks upon it. And it came to pass when anyone
was bitten, when he looked upon the serpent he lived. There's only one hand that can
reach out and touch the Savior. And you know what it is? It's
the hand of faith. Therefore, faith can be said
to save you. There's only one ear that can hear His voice.
My sheep hear my voice. That's the ear of faith. Only
one eye can see Him, and that's the eye of faith. Thy faith in
Me has made you whole. God bless this Word. Let's pray.