Jairus’ Daughter

A leader of the synagogue named drivers came to Jesus. One day, begging him to come and heal his daughter while he was still speaking again is interrupted for someone came from the ruler of the synagogue's house with bad news for Jarvis Jarvis.

I'm sorry your daughter's death. Drivers don't bother the master anymore is to lay Jesus asking for his help and then imagine is devastated that his daughter died today on Renewing Your Mind, Dr. RC Sproul looks at back-to-back miracles in the gospel of Luke will see an amazing contrast between those who believe in those who don't restructure school when last we looked at the text after Jesus healed Legion we see that the people came out to witness what it happened that when they realized what had taken place they were filled with fear, even as the disciples had been filled with fear when Jesus calmed the storm on the Sea of Galilee, and they implored the bag Jesus to leave and so on. This last narrative we had people saying to Jesus please go in the very next passage we hear the begging of the ruler of the synagogue, saying to Jesus please come. But of course it was on the other side of the Sea of Galilee. When the people after Legion was healed by Jesus to leave, he departed from them and crossed again to the shore by Capernaum and it's on that side that we pick up the narrative in verse 40 that now the multitude on that side of the lake welcomed him know the Army the multitude.

On the other side of the lake wanted him gone. Now the people who were more familiar with them near Capernaum were happy to see him returning for they were waiting for him. And behold, there came a man named Doris who was identified by Luke as a ruler of the synagogue. The synagogue in those days was ruled by elders and those who had that position were given greatest theme and authority in the Jewish community and so this is a man of some status and when he comes to Jesus. He humbles himself completely and falls at the feet of Jesus is a desperate man and Luke tells us the reason for his desperation. Luke tells us that he had one child and only daughter was about 12 years of age and she would die.

It's obvious that this ruler would have someone the best physicians are in and around Capernaum to treat his daughter, but whatever treatments she received were not successful, and his only hope at that point was Jesus. Jesus was the only one who could fill the need that he has will be pause at this point for a little scurrying down a rabbit trail.

Many people I've had say to me that they didn't need Jesus. That's a common sense of people outside the kingdom of God. While there are times of crisis that visit them during the course of their lives were suddenly they may turn to Jesus seeking help, but for the most part, fallen and lost mankind feels no need for Jesus, which is one of most tragic misunderstandings of the human predicament that we find anywhere because there is nothing in this world that every person in it needs more more desperately than they need Jesus. While gyrus at least understood his need and so he came humbly to Jesus and begged him say please come from. So Jesus went but as he went. Obviously, the crowd that had welcomed them on the shore of the sea got wind of what was going on they witness the beseeching of gyrus they heard his lament. They heard him beg Jesus to come and save his daughter as all the whispering goes among the crowd. They all fall in step with Jesus and the mayor. The murmurings type this I have to see and they had already probably been eyewitnesses of other miracles that Jesus had performed but this was something that they had never seen a raising from the dead or the healing should say somebody at least on the point of death, and so the multitudes throng to another narrative of the raising of gyrus's daughter is interrupted.

Just as Jesus is interrupted on his way to gyrus's house. We read this event taking place now a woman, having a flow of blood for 12 years were spent all her livelihood on physicians and could not be healed by any, this woman is given no name, just her condition and her situation. Here's a woman who presumably the same dear the gyrus's daughter was born she came down with a chronic case of hemorrhaging wherein she lost her health. First of all, and Luke tells us that she spent every penny that she had going to doctors trying to find a cure for this chronic hemorrhage and so we see a woman whose loss or else was lost. Her wealth but not only that, since she had this hemorrhaging.

She would've been made ceremonially unclean and therefore would have lost her status and a reputation in the Jewish community. So everything that was important to her health or money. Her status in the community were gone. Not for a month or 12 months, but for 12 years and she was is desperately in her condition as gyrus was in his having a daughter who was dying and we see what this woman did with her needs as gyrus at common fell down before Jesus. Now this woman reasoned in her heart.

In this manner. If I can just touch his garment had only to have him give me an audience. I don't need to have him lay his hands on me, only to have them say anything to me. He doesn't need to talk to me. Besides, I'm on claim and I would be presumptuous of me to ask him to touch me that if I can just get close enough to touch one of a tassels on the edge of his garment. I'm sure that's all take a here's a woman no reason at all. The trust any man that she never met to heal her again.

She spent every penny that she had with professional healers who were stymied by her condition and unable to help her at all and yet she sees Jesus and when she sees Jesus, she said I need to go to more doctors just want to touch the hem of his body and so she came from behind and touched the border of his garment and instantly the flow of blood stopped the hemorrhaging finished and Jesus stopped.

We looked around and he said, who touched me list for woman is now cowering in terror. The last thing she wants to do was to come forward with the I did it, but in the meantime, Jesus was about to touch them and everybody denied it. All the people crowding against Jesus that I didn't do it not maybe Peter the house impetuous Peter from two correcting Jesus when Jesus needed to be corrected. They said master. The multitudes throng and press against you and you say who touched me. You hear the tone in Peter's voice.

Are you out of your mind, what are we going to know who touched you.

There's always people bumping and pushing against you every second and you want to know you're asking us to touch Jesus politely ignored the outburst from Peter and simply said, look, somebody touched me.

I know it because I perceive power going out for me.

Now this statement that Jesus makes in this particular circumstance can tell us something about him that when Jesus used his power to redeem people from whatever condition they were in it cost them something, when he called the storm at cost them something, when he healed the man of the legion of demons. He was drain the power left analyses on his way to deal with the dying daughter of gyrus. He feels the power go out of him again and he understood that that act sets of strengths from his body did not occur willy-nilly.

That only occurred when redeeming power was being used in a saving way. So Peter somebody touched me.

I know that somebody touched me because I felt my thoughts touch but I felt the departure of my power now when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling and falling down before this is a second person that is fallen down before Jesus in this narrative. First gyrus. Another woman, she declared to him in the presence of all the people that she touched him and in the presence of all the people she said why she touched master of had this flow of blood unceasing for 12 years. Nobody can help and I thought if I could just touch the hem of your garment.

I didn't want to interrupt you.

I wanted to cost you anything. I don't want you to have power league. I just wanted to touch them in your garment. That's all. When I did, it's I was healed immediately. Instantly, totally and completely.

I said to her daughter and I wonder how old she was.

She had this condition for 12 years.

She was a child. Obviously she may have been just as old as Jesus and Jesus called her daughter. Don't miss the significance of that we are not by nature sons and daughters of God. God is not the father was all in biblical terms, God is only the father of his only begotten son, and all the rest of his children sons and daughters are adopted. There's no other way to get into the family of God except through adoption and the only way you can be adopted in the family of God is through God's only son. And so this woman whose trembling telling the story, wondering what Jesus ago to do the first thing he does is welcome. Search enter God's family by calling your daughter, be of good cheer stop trembling stopping afraid you know my daughter he's on his way to heal gyrus's daughter and us that he stops to hear what is now his own daughter.

Your face has made you well. Go in peace.

It wasn't her faith.

That was the power to heal her as some mistakenly believe that because of her faith as a consequence for faith because he trusted in Christ. She was healed. And so Jesus said, go in peace. How many times is our Lord say this, the people, is this not his favorite lip me for his people.

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you, not as the world gives, give I unto you. Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, I will give you rest. And that's all he gives.

He gives peace basis of this woman.

Your body is fine your souls.

Even better, so go now in peace while he was still speaking again is interrupted for someone came from the ruler of the synagogue's house with bad news for John gyrus. I'm sorry your daughter's death gyrus don't bother the master anymore is to lay member in John's Gospel when Jesus got to the home of Mary and Martha, and Lazarus. Four days after Lazarus died in the. The women are ringing their hands, as I have all the way you would've been here, Lord. They would've died and now you come four days later, two lights, you know how many millions of people have assumed in their lifetime.

It was too late for them to me. Jesus, or to have Jesus do anything for them than a pagan. All these years on too late for me. This dog that is not to Jesus heard this, he said do not be afraid only believe and she will be made well you didn't hear us. Jesus is too late.

You may be able to give sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf from fixed people with legs that won't work. But now it's too late. She's the head. Jesus said everything is going to be made well and so only came in the house he permitted no one to go in except Peter James and John in the father and mother.

The girl all wept and mourned for her but he said do not weep. Stop your crying. She's not dead, but sleeping what we make of this.

The Jesus just cure a young girl that it would come comatose is a simply went and woke her up as Jesus teaching us here. The heretical doctrine of psycho paronychia that when we die we don't really die, we just fall into a slumber where we go into what is called soul sleep and remain in the condition of suspended animation until the final judgment than when we are awake and on the last day and it seems as though no time has passed, we weren't really dad.

We were just asleep.

No, this is a common way of Jewish speaking that speaks euphemistically amount Jesus is saying she's not dead in the sense of dead once and for all gone forever, but I just need to wake her up. Now notice this, that when he said this, they ridiculed him knowing that she was dead. Now what's the antecedent of the day was it the ridiculed Jesus when he said this Peter, James and John, the mother and the father now once it ridiculed him or that crowd that was pressing around outside wailing and playing the music. Who were they they were the professional mourners that gathered one buzzards as soon as the deaths occurred.

These professional mourners were paid to pay left flute until Whalen to scream at funerals and they were paid. They do this and so were not person who had a death in the family was somebody of means. As soon as the news came they would flock to have the funeral immediately so you have these professional mourners out there, and Jesus says I be quiet, stop the screaming silence. The flutes know flutes and said she sleeping and they ridiculed him they weren't morning now they were mocking and they were mocking Jesus and they marked why because they knew she was dead, you saw the movie Princess bride Billy Crystal's the miracle worker and dread pirate Robert was sick on the desk. They was 99% dead.

Nobody could fix them.

So his friends took him to see the miracle worker Billy Crystal is a said he could do anything Billy Crystal looked at dread pirate Robert.

He said he's not bad.

He's mostly dead.

He said that I can't fix mostly dead. I can fix that effects them well. These people say that the little girl wasn't mostly dead. She was always dead. This was not a resuscitation. This was a resurrection, but he put them all outside took her by the hand and called there it is again the divine effectual call the means by which the world, the universe came into being was by divine imperative divine fiat God called the universe and they let there be lights in there was light. Lazarus came out of that term because Jesus called them out of the tune. If you are in Christ this morning.

If you are a Christian is because God the Holy Spirit called you out of darkness into light and he just didn't invite you that call was not simply the outer call preaching.

It was the inner call of God the Holy Ghost the omnipotent God who brought you alive from spiritual death. What we call geology. The effectual call of God how to Jesus calm the sea be called the weights in the wind.

And they stopped so now he call this an earth.

12-year-old daughter saying little girl arise. This is a foretaste of the last judgment when all who are in Christ will hear the same effectual call the dead in Christ will rise at the sound of his voice when he says my little one little boy little girl get and we will rise on that and then her spirit returned again.

Luke understood that she was not comatose because when you're comatose, your soul doesn't leave the body if you're in soul sleep result is only the body but this little girl was dead because her soul had gone a Jesus call it back, so come back here and reunited her soul with her body and she arose immediately and he commanded that she should be given something to eat. Think this little girl where she so so sick she's gonna be hungry so let's get about the daily business of taking care of our kids.

We parents please fix her something to eat. She's fine.

Her parents were astonished, but he charged them to tell no one what happened that them telling what he had that moment will come, we will charge them and all who receive the grace of Christ to tell everybody in the life incredible indeed and you can only imagine the ripple effect of this miracle. Everyone knew that this girl was sick and had died and there she was playing and running around as if nothing had happened. Those people had to have known they had been in the presence of the son of God, thanks for joining us today for the Lord's. The addition of Renewing Your Mind as we continue Dr. RC Sproul series from Luke Dr. Strohl dove deeply into the details of this gospel account and you'll be able to amplify your study each week. When you request our resource offer today.

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