A Healing That We All Need
Jerry Watts
Mark 5:25-34
Consider this statement: Everywhere Jesus went, there were some who were glad to see Him go and some glad to see Him come. If you examine the previous passage, you discover that Jesus had just healed the Gadarene demoniac which made some glad and others mad. Mark 5:17 says, ''And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.'' KJV, ESV ''the people began to plead with Jesus to leave their region.'' People were well and Pigs were killed or animals were dead, and the humans were okay, but people asked Jesus to leave. It seems to me to be like this in our culture today. Many get teary eyes over dead animals and are not bothered over dead people (babies). - But that is another message for another time. Point is, Jesus came to heal people. Yes, He can heal the physical, the emotional, the heart, and the soul.
As we pick up in verse 25, we are in the middle of two stories. A synagogue ruler Jarius who has a daughter who had brought him 12 years of happiness and an anonymous lady who had a disease which brought her 12 years of misery. Today, we know about Jarius and still know little about her.
Consider this: These two stories give us a complete view of the power, love, compassion, and the heart of Jesus. He will come to help the powerful and the powerless, the well-known and the unknown, as well as the man and the woman.
Jesus has the ability to touch, heal, and even bring life to you, no matter who you are, where you have been or what you have done. Like this or not (It's taught many times in scripture), what He can do or will do for you is determined by your belief. With Jarius, it started out to be a healing and wound up being a resurrection. There is so much in this text.
Let's focus on our unknown lady. What we do know and find in our text, is that she had a disease, was destitute, and obviously desperate. She had spent ''all she had'' on doctors who could do her no good. We look to thi ...
Jerry Watts
Mark 5:25-34
Consider this statement: Everywhere Jesus went, there were some who were glad to see Him go and some glad to see Him come. If you examine the previous passage, you discover that Jesus had just healed the Gadarene demoniac which made some glad and others mad. Mark 5:17 says, ''And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.'' KJV, ESV ''the people began to plead with Jesus to leave their region.'' People were well and Pigs were killed or animals were dead, and the humans were okay, but people asked Jesus to leave. It seems to me to be like this in our culture today. Many get teary eyes over dead animals and are not bothered over dead people (babies). - But that is another message for another time. Point is, Jesus came to heal people. Yes, He can heal the physical, the emotional, the heart, and the soul.
As we pick up in verse 25, we are in the middle of two stories. A synagogue ruler Jarius who has a daughter who had brought him 12 years of happiness and an anonymous lady who had a disease which brought her 12 years of misery. Today, we know about Jarius and still know little about her.
Consider this: These two stories give us a complete view of the power, love, compassion, and the heart of Jesus. He will come to help the powerful and the powerless, the well-known and the unknown, as well as the man and the woman.
Jesus has the ability to touch, heal, and even bring life to you, no matter who you are, where you have been or what you have done. Like this or not (It's taught many times in scripture), what He can do or will do for you is determined by your belief. With Jarius, it started out to be a healing and wound up being a resurrection. There is so much in this text.
Let's focus on our unknown lady. What we do know and find in our text, is that she had a disease, was destitute, and obviously desperate. She had spent ''all she had'' on doctors who could do her no good. We look to thi ...
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