The Garment
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21 When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. 22 Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. 23 He pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live.” 24 So Jesus went with him. A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” 29 Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. 30 At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” 31 “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ” 32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 33 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”
Responsive Reading: Scriptures on seeking God.
INTRODUCTION
I will never know what it is like to be a woman. I will never know what it feels like to be pregnant or experience a woman’s travails. I don’t have the feminine perspective. I do know what is like when a problem requires focus. I know what it is to be so desperate, I needed God to help me within hours. I had problems when I’ve needed to concentrate on God because I had a short window.
There was a time when a group tried to remove me as pastor. They worked to remove me as pastor and padlock the church against me. They called for a church meeting that night. I had a few hours to find the answer and for God to defend my name and saved our relationship.
Faith requires focus. If you do not focus on a destination, you will never get there.
Jesus left a man healed who was demon possessed near Gadara, only to return to a man whose infant child was at the point of death.
A large crowd gathered around him. The crowd wanted more of his teaching and miracles. That is good, but not enough. If you want a good word, we will try to accommodate; there is more. You should want all Jesus has to offer.
Jesus went with the synagogue ruler whose name was Jairus. His name means, The Lord enlightens. Most synagogue leaders apposed unorthodox teaching and miracles. Jairus was enlightened enough to put all prejudice was put aside. His daughter was dying. The large crowd followed them.
A woman was there who had been subject to bleeding.
Woman: Gune- a grown woman, a wife.
Bleeding, discharge, far beyond normal. She could not be a part of the crowd.
A woman was unclean during her monthly discharge.
We talk about the power of the blood. Her blood worked against her.
She was ceremonially unclean. She could not participate in public worship.
She was ceremonially unclean. She could not participate in public worship.
Leviticus 15:25 (NIV)
25 “ ‘When a woman has a discharge of blood for many days at a time other than her monthly period or has a discharge that continues beyond her period, she will be unclean as long as she has the discharge, just as in the days of her period.
Her bed was considered unclean, her chair was considered unclean. Her clothes were unclean. Whatever she touched was unclean. She had to isolate herself from her community. To have relations with her made the man unclean. She could not be touched, nor hugged,
people had to stay away from her. Since God was holy and dwelt in the Tabernacle, any unholiness could cause death.
If she came near the place of worship, she could be killed.
If she came near the place of worship, she could be killed.
Lev. 15:31 “31 “ ‘You must keep the Israelites separate from things that make them unclean, so they will not die in their uncleanness for defiling my dwelling place, which is among them.’ ””
Someone may be here today asking the question: “Can Jesus find me in the crowd? When others are so spiritual, so holy, so caught up in praise, can he find me?”
To you who are not seen and heard…He can find you.
Her health condition. She suffered this for 12 years.
Her hair fell out. Her lived with constant back pain. Her skin darkened. She suffered nausea. Overall her stomach suffered.The bowels are the seat of emotions. It is where you expressed affection and love.
Phil. 2:1 “Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,”
She tried every method and went to many doctors. I don’t know who they were. She had no help and her condition grew worse. This is not to fault doctors and nurses. They deserve to be honored. There are some illnesses that have not known cure.
She was now bereft of support. She could not stand up straight; she could not worship in public; she could not touch or be touched without contaminating others. JESUS WAS JUST AHEAD. SHE HEARD HE HAD THE POWER OF GOD TO HEAL.
She had only a moment. She had to focus. How could she get to Jesus, since he was passing by, on his way to the synagogue ruler’s house.
Healing does not come to those who accept their sick condition.
You must want to be healed more than anything else. Life does not change until you are desperate. She had a short window. She was in pain. She was unclean. If someone recognized her, they could have her grabbed out of the crowd and stoned for her uncleanness. She no time to explain to Jesus her condition.
She kept telling herself, I will be whole. I will be whole.
She took a risk. She would take her blessing and remain unnoticed. Just a small touch, quick.
She had no right to come into his presence or that of the crowd. She would contaminate others.
She focused on two things: the Garment and The Son of God.
The Garment: our connection to Christ.
The Garment: our connection to Christ.
The Essenes wore a long white garment and headdress. The Essenes were a strict sect of Judaism. They lived by strict purity and separation from worldly things. They wore white cloth from head to toe. He was not an Essene. He was not formally a Rabbi.
He would not have worn the garment of a Rabbi: The Tallith. A shall with twisted corners. to keep themselves holy.
Every Rabbi would have worn this.
Num. 15:38-39 ‘Throughout the generations to come you are to make tassels on the corners of your garments, with a blue cord on each tassel. 39 You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the Lord, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by chasing after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes.”
Jesus wore a common garment, made of pure wool. He bore our griefs and carried our sorrows. The good shepherd… would lay down his life for the sheep. He who knew no sin became sin for us. She focused on the garment. She focused deeper on the Lord.
The Lord: our salvation
The Lord: our salvation
She saw Jesus’ divinity. He who co-created the universe, wrapped himself in a garment of flesh and lived among us. She heard he had power to heal. She knew he was different than all the others. She knew he was Jehovah Rapha, the God who heals.
Jon. 2:7 “7 “When my life was ebbing away, I remembered you, Lord, and my prayer rose to you, to your holy temple.”
She sought after God. The Lord honors those who are seeking God.
Jer. 29:13 “13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”
Set your heart on the God of heaven.
Psalm 91:14–15 (NKJV)
14 “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name. 15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.
1 Chronicles 16:11 (NIV)
11 Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.
Amos 5:6 says, “Seek the Lord and Live.”
Here was God’s son passing by. She touched the garment he wore.
She felt her fountain dry up. She felt twelve years of bleeding, uncleanness, disgrace and pain leave. She was healed of her scourge. AT THAT MOMENT. MAY GOD HEAL SOMEONE RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT! Healed so you know it and feel it in your head, heart and body! MAY YOUR BREAK THROUGH COME RIGHT NOW.
That day when God answered my prayer. I felt something within me. I felt he was with me. He called me to be the pastor and I had to seize the authority. I can hear the woman now.
I do not only want to be healed. I want to know the HEALER- WHO WAS WOUNDED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS AND BRUISED FOR OUR INIQUITIES.
Jesus felt the supernatural power of God going into someone. Someone in this great crowd received of his spirit. Jesus knew the difference between pushing and touching him. He knows the difference between words and prayers. No other hand touched him like this woman!
Jesus did not know who touched him until she spoke up! He asked his disciples… WHO TOUCHED ME? They said, how can we know with all these people. The woman had to speak up!
Speak up if you need something from the Lord! Don’t be silent when you need a miracle today. Tell God.
Jesus said to her, “Daughter, you faith has healed you.”
Instead of rebuking her, he called her daughter. He restored her faith. He returned her to the worshipping community- the family of God.
She went from being Cursed of God, an outcast of society and rejected from worship for 12 years to a daughter of God and Jesus Christ. IMMEDIATELY.
Go in peace.... rest your mind from worrying...
Be clean. Be healed. Be strengthened; Be whole. Be saved. Continue to be. May this never come back to you again.
YOU HAVE A SHORT WINDOW. TODAY MAY BE YOUR DAY. DON’T LET JESUS SLIP AWAY.