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Take your Bibles and turn to *Luke 8*.
We don't realize how crucial it is to have the presence of a father in the house: a Christian father, a praying father, just a father.
The statistics I have in my hand are shocking to me.
The U.S. Department of Health and Census says that 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes.
That's five times the average.
Ninety percent of homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes.
Eighty-five percent of all children who show behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes.
Eighty percent of rapists with anger problems come from fatherless homes.
Do you think the devil isn't working overtime in order to get the father out of the home?
Seventy-one percent of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes.
Seventy-five percent of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes.
Seventy percent of youths in state-operated institutions [prisons] come from fatherless homes.
Clearly, fathers represent a lot more than just a paycheck.
They represent safety, protection, guidance, friendship, and someone to look up to if they love the Lord, if they are doing what they are called to do.
Let's look at *Verse 40*.
Jesus has just returned to Capernaum, which was His headquarters, from the land of the Gadarenes.
A crazy man lived there, and when Christ shows up, He delivers him and sets him free.
These demons entered 2,000 pigs, and these pigs ran down a hill into a lake and drowned.
So Jesus was asked to leave that part of the region.
They sent Him out.
He was unwelcome in the land of the Gadarenes, so He travels back to Capernaum.
"So it was, when Jesus returned, that the multitude welcomed Him, for they were all waiting for Jesus."
Jesus is now at the peak of His popularity in His ministry.
Thousands upon thousands are flocking to Him. Remember when He said, "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men to Me?"
He was talking about the cross, and if we will lift Him up in praise, I believe He will pull people in.
I believe the Lord wants His house full.
The crowds were enormous everywhere Jesus went because of His mighty miracle-working ministry.
The fact that churches are empty today may be due to the fact that not many are getting saved.
How can a church go for months and months and no one get saved?
What are you doing when you go for 52 weeks and no one has gotten saved?
Well, we're having our little club meetings.
We here at Maranatha are out to see lives changed, people touched, set free, delivered.
*Verse 41: *"And behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue."
You can say he was a Pastor, but he was more than a Pastor.
He ran what went on in that synagogue, and everything revolved around this Jewish community in Capernaum.
They didn't miss attending the synagogue when the circus came to town.
You come to church when it's convenient.
It's amazing.
In the Winter, it's too slick, it's too cold.
In the Summer, it's too hot; but in Capernaum, everything revolved around the synagogue.
When the Sabbath Day came around, everything shut down.
Jairus was the one that selected who would preach, who would read the Scriptures.
The Scriptures to them was a scroll, the Old Testament, and it was so sacred to them that the ruler, the leader of the synagogue, made sure nothing happened to the Scriptures.
This man had it made.
He had all there was to have.
He had power.
When he walked into a room, people stood up.
He had preeminence, prosperity.
One Nazarene man told me years ago that he was on the board of a Nazarene church, and he thought his job was to keep the Preacher under his thumb, to keep him humble and poor.
He was confessing this in a public meeting and asking for forgiveness.
This man had prosperity, prestige, prominence, and power.
He had it made.
When you were the ruler of a synagogue, you were something in town.
People looked up to you, but I have found out something in life.
You can have the newest and shiniest car.
You can live in a big house.
I've got people here in the house praying that, between 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. today, somehow some way they will win a $500,000 house.
It's amazing when we can have so much "stuff," but with all the "stuff" we have--retirement, 40lK's, stock and bonds, medical insurance--let me tell you something.
Sometimes when we have all there is to have, we get problems we can't solve.
I and one of our deacons was in the home yesterday of a dying man.
Let me tell you what his environment consists of right now--a bed, sheets, a pillow, and the ceiling.
He is receiving 24~/7 care, but it doesn't matter if that house has 5 bedrooms and 3 baths.
It doesn't matter if he has a 2-car garage or if his car is parked under a car port.
It doesn't matter if his car is new or old.
He has been sent home to die.
Do you ever think about death?
Do you ever think about the fact that one day your life on this planet will be over?
Do you ever think about dying?
Do you think that when you die that's the end of life?
I don't think so.
Here comes a man that has all this prestige and preeminence, and he has a major problem, but thank God.
I wonder where YOU go when you need help?
Where do you go when you've checked with this doctor, had this x-ray or report, driven to Cleveland and Duke?
Where do you go when nothing in life can bring a solution to your problem?
Where do you run to?
A lot of people run to church when they get in a crisis.
Don't ever make fun of a person who runs to church just because they're in a crisis, because sometimes */God has to shake us to wake us!/*
There is a situation going on in the synagogue in Capernaum.
Christ is performing miracles, and they are debating as to who He is.
I think He's the Messiah.
I think He's the Son of God.
Oh you're crazy.
Do you think God is in flesh?
There is a debate going on in the synagogue, and Jairus is the head of the synagogue.
Do you know there is a debate going on in America about Jesus?
He's married to Mary Magdalene.
He has kids!
He has kids, but Mary Magdalene didn't produce them.
He has a bride, but His bride is His Church.
For 2,000 years, there has been a debate about who Jesus is.
There is a debate going on, Jairus is the leader of the synagogue, and the Pharisees are saying, "The whole world is going after Him," and thousands upon thousands go where He goes.
If you're the ruler of your synagogue, and there is a debate in your church, if there is a split in your church.
That's what we start doing in church.
We start lining up groups.
I'm Baptist.
I'm Pentecostal.
I'm Church of God.
I'm Catholic.
You're either saved, or you're not saved.
God doesn't have 15-20 teams.
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