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Do Not Fear, Only Believe
GSR across the street.
Anybody ever get on the Ultimate Rush swing?
I’m not afraid to admit, that scares me just thinking about it!
I know I wouldn’t die, but I might as well.
Fear is powerful.
Fear transforms actions, perceptions, reality.
But today, we see that Jesus overcomes fear of something even worse that riding the Ultimate Rush Swing.
Pray
Jairus, The Interceder.
Synagogue leader.
Stature, reverence, honored.
Was he a fan of Jesus?
Did he oppose?
His daughter became deathly ill.
Whatever his opinion of Jesus or of others thoughts, he loved his daughter more.
And knew Jesus was the only hope to save her.
He gave up his position of privilege, to seek relief.
For one he love, destined to die
From one who had the power to give life.
Does this sound familiar??
Jairus is an image of Jesus.
He intercedes for one who had no standing and no access to God.
But we’ll get back to his daughter.
The Woman Who Suffered The Law.
The interaction with Jairus is interrupted.
And Jesus takes His time.
We can see clearly the plight of the woman.
She suffered for TWELVE YEARS!
Constant bleeding.
Constant illness, weakness, shame.
She suffered.
And she sought Jesus.
That’s point one and that might be what you need today.
He is healing and hope.
He is comfort in distress.
And let me tell you.
You can’t reach out to Him in faith and He not know!
There were a thousand who mingled indifferently - the apostles reminded Him of that.
If you seek Him sincerely, He knows.
Your comfort might not have arrived yet, but it’s not because Jesus is indifferent.
She suffered from more than just the physical malady.
She suffered from separation from belonging.
She was unclean and unable to participate in ceremony or society because of how the Law caused division between clean and unclean.
The Law the God gave to Moses was a manual on how to live set apart from the world and to God.
It allowed access to God through obedience to the Law.
But none could follow it.
This woman represents the Jew’s access to God.
They, and she, had the right and the means, but lacked the ability to pursue it.
As she exhausted every earthly means to remove her shame, the Jewish people exhausted every effort to be good enough.
But it wasn’t good enough for either.
And it’s not good enough for me or you!
No matter how hard you try, you can’t live well enough to meet God’s standard of holiness.
This event gives not only us, but the Jewish people the path to salvation.
Disregard the Law that points to God
Disregard the concern for the judgement and perceptions of the world
Just run to Jesus!
The Messiah is here, reach out and touch Him.
In caring for the woman (who represents God’s chosen people), Jairus’ daughter dies.
Jesus Enters Our Hopelessness.
While Jesus was comforting the woman, messengers came to bring the worst news for Jairus.
His daughter was dead.
Unlike the woman, there wasn’t more opportunity to seek hope and help for the girl.
But Jesus told Jairus to have hope in hopelessness.
“Do not fear, only believe”.
Believe: in Jesus, in God’s ability to bring hope and life, in God’s desire that you should thrive in your faith.
Jesus sets belief against fear.
‘Do not fear’ 34 times in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation.
Fear is the natural reaction to our realizing our actual natural condition: dead in sin.
What is there to believe in if we see the inevitable and terrible end - eternal judgement from a righteous God for our wicked sin?
The hope is that Jesus enters the house.
Jesus stepped into Jairus’ house when hope had left.
Jesus stepped into the world when hope had left.
Jesus stepped into your life when hope had left.
It is not out of our struggling He saved us.
It is not our of our pain.
He didn’t come in the nick of time.
He came when, like Lazarus, we were dead and stinking!
But Jesus has the comfort.
That the professional mourners couldn’t bring
That all the money and all the doctors couldn’t provide.
That all our efforts can’t afford.
Hope: In Word and Indeed!
We were dead in our sins when Jesus stretched out His hand to heal.
From the moment He “became flesh and dwelt among us” until He hung on the cross and proclaimed “IT IS FINISHED!”
Jesus not only spoke the words of life, but lived then in the flesh, in His actions, in His deeds.
It’s not a theoretical salvation.
It’s not a “hope of heaven only” proposition.
Jesus brings new hope now!
Receiving that hope might not be easy.
We must shake off the habits of death.
We must choose to walk following Jesus and not in the paths that brought us death.
But if we seek God in His Word, and be willing to follow Him despite the cost, that hope WILL be real.
Hope to heal old hurt and pain.
Hope to mend relationships.
Hope to break habits of self-harm and self-destruction.
Hope for joy, and peace.
And that hope is present, powerful, and calling.
Will you cling to death and it’s baggage?
Or will you hear the call of Jesus: Little child, come forth!
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