1 00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 4 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 5 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:17,640 Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. Well, 6 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: I want to share a scripture today. You may be seated. 7 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. There's a great energy in this room. 8 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:27,479 Speaker 1: I wish you were here. I know Holly thought I 9 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: was crazy because last night, getting ready to preach, I 10 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:35,519 Speaker 1: started playing all the old Elevation worship videos and I 11 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:37,480 Speaker 1: know she must have thought, like, this is kind of weird. 12 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:41,519 Speaker 1: You're in there listening to songs that you wrote. Kind 13 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 1: of weird. But I just I needed to see everything 14 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: like it was. Might start crying. I started crying. I'm 15 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: not a crier, but I don't know. I thought I 16 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: wasn't a crier. But I guess I'm not what I 17 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: thought I was. Let's just call the sermon that can 18 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 1: we call this sermon? I'm not what I thought. I'm 19 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: not what I thought. And if you'll join me in 20 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:20,479 Speaker 1: the Bible and also share this message with someone who 21 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: needs to hear it. I'm gonna be sharing from Mark 22 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 1: chapter five. And if you share this message, the Lord 23 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 1: will bless you with something better than a stimulus check 24 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 1: this week. You will have treasure in heaven. Amen. And 25 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 1: if you share this message, everybody who shares this message 26 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: will receive a blessing. Let's make it super vague like that, right, 27 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: I'm not what I thought. And after you've written that down, 28 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: and now remember you can misinterpret my messages. Do not 29 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 1: look at your husband and say you're not what I thought, 30 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: because that's not the that's not the idea here. But 31 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: I'm not what I thought. Thank you. Jesus. Mart Chapter five, 32 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 1: verse twenty one says when Jesus had again crossed over 33 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: by boat to the other side of the lake, other 34 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: side of the lake. I was just thinking about Brandon 35 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: Lake when I read that A large crowd gathered around 36 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: him while he was by the lake. Come on, Anna, 37 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 1: say I'm by the lake. Then one of the synagogue 38 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 1: leaders named Jyrus Important due Important du came in. When 39 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. He pleaded 40 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:47,359 Speaker 1: earnestly with him. My little daughter is dying. I can't 41 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 1: imagine that. I can't imagine that my little daughter is dying. 42 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 1: Please come and put your hands on her so that 43 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: she will be healed and live. So Jesus with him. 44 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 1: Now I want to pause and just deal with that 45 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: for a moment, because to skip over Gyros does not 46 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: do the text justice. And yet Gyros is not the 47 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: assignment for my preaching today. But I want to point 48 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: out that certain situations will make your position irrelevant. Certain 49 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: situations will make it not matter that they call you 50 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 1: a CEO when there's no peace in your home. There's 51 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 1: no position on your job that can make you feel 52 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: good about your life. And so that issue that was 53 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: happening in his home brought him to a low place, 54 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 1: even though he occupied a high position. Now, remember, a 55 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: synagogue ruler wasn't just somebody who stood and attended. It 56 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: was someone who actually had some influence. And yet he 57 00:03:52,840 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: finds himself at the feet of this rabbi, this radical teacher, healer, 58 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: and he wants to know, will you help me with 59 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: this issue? Now. I don't want to move too emotionally 60 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 1: too fast, but some of us have completely had our 61 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,839 Speaker 1: positions upended over the course of the last several months, 62 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: and we find ourselves in a place we never thought 63 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 1: we'd be. For Gyros, it was at Jesus' feet. And 64 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 1: that position of desperation, of course, is not unfamiliar to 65 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 1: you unless you're under the age of twelve. It just 66 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: so happens that Gyrus's daughter was twelve. But Gyros encountered something, 67 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 1: and you will if you live a little while. That 68 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 1: made his position irrelevant. He did not announce himself by 69 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 1: his title. He demonstrated his desperation by bringing his issue 70 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: to the only one that he thought had the ability 71 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 1: to fix it. And I wonder if God Is brought 72 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 1: you to that place in this season of your life 73 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: where the things you used to try are no longer 74 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:11,239 Speaker 1: relieving the trouble anymore. So he came to Jesus, which 75 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 1: in itself is a miracle. It's a miracle that he 76 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 1: could get to Jesus because Jesus was so popular. Somebody 77 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:20,039 Speaker 1: say in the chat, it's a miracle. I'm here, it's 78 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,280 Speaker 1: a miracle. I'm here. It's a miracle. I'm here. It's 79 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: a miracle. I'm here. It's a miracle. I'm here. It's 80 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 1: a miracle. I'm here. It's a miracle. I'm here. It's 81 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 1: a miracle. I'm here. Oh, that breath was a blessing, 82 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: because it's a miracle. I'm here, it's a miracle. I'm here. 83 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: It's a miracle. Now, this is the miracle that Mark 84 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: is highlighting in the text. But yet there is an 85 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:47,040 Speaker 1: interruption to the miracle that forms my main point for 86 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:50,600 Speaker 1: my sermon today. And the reason I stopped to point 87 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 1: that out is because sometimes the miracles happen in the 88 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 1: middle of the other things that you think are more important. 89 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: You ever noticed this, Sometimes the miracle happens in the middle. 90 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: This is like a sandwich approach to scripture. Because Gyrus 91 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 1: is asking Jesus to come and do something at his house. 92 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:15,719 Speaker 1: On the way, he gets interrupted, and now the thing 93 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: that he gets interrupted by becomes the main point of 94 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:22,599 Speaker 1: what Luke or what Mark writes. Luke wrote it to, 95 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 1: Matthew wrote it to. When Luke wrote it, he wrote 96 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,840 Speaker 1: it differently because he was a doctor, so he gave 97 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 1: it from the perspective of a physician. But Marcus is 98 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: classifying this miracle on the basis of action, and the 99 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: Bible says that a large crowd followed and pressed around 100 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 1: Jesus and verse twenty five. A woman was there. Here 101 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:45,840 Speaker 1: we go, Here we go, Here we go. I want 102 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 1: to talk to you about this woman. You ask, what's 103 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: her name? I would tell you if Mark told me. 104 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 1: I checked Matthew. Maybe Matthew told us. He didn't tell us. 105 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 1: I checked Luke. Luke didn't care to mention her by 106 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: name either. What we do know is that she had 107 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:06,280 Speaker 1: been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She is identified 108 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 1: by her issue. Done this suck to be identified by 109 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 1: your issue? Last week I preached water walking, and I 110 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 1: talked about how the first time I ever preached on 111 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 1: that text, I was preaching at Monks Corny United Methodist Church. 112 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 1: Then I went on as a sixteen year I've been 113 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 1: preaching since I was sixteen, and I didn't know anything 114 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 1: about the Bible. But I was bold. I was boldly. 115 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 1: I was a confident idiot. I was a confident idiot. 116 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 1: And I would teach these kids on Wednesday night and 117 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 1: feed them and then teach them. And one week I 118 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: was teaching about how God can do anything, and I 119 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 1: was teaching about the woman in this text. But I 120 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: didn't understand the background. And I was sixteen years old, 121 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 1: and I got there teaching, I was trying to make 122 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: it come alive, make it interesting. I was trying to 123 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 1: make it vid And I said, this woman had been 124 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: subject to bleeding twelve years and she comes up to 125 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: Jesus and she's bleeding all over the place. Because you know, 126 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: I'm sixteen, I'm stupid, and I'm like, she's bleeding all 127 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 1: over the place. And a thirteen year old boy that 128 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 1: was there, he raises his hand and I call on him, 129 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 1: and he says, she wasn't bleeding on the outside, Stephen, 130 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: she was bleeding on the inside. She was hammers saying 131 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 1: it was a uterine infection. I'm like, how do you 132 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: even know about a uterus at thirteen? It was an 133 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: internal issue, Stephen. You couldn't see where she was bleeding. 134 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 1: You couldn't see where she was bleeding. Nobody sees where 135 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 1: you're bleeding. That's a lonely feeling. Nobody sees what dominic 136 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: and depresses you. They see what you show them, and 137 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:10,960 Speaker 1: your feet is clean. They don't see where you're bleeding. 138 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:17,599 Speaker 1: It wasn't internal hemorrhy. Stephen read the Bible and no 139 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: man's voice hadn't even dropped, and he was dropping truth 140 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 1: like a theologian You couldn't see where she was bleeding, 141 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: couldn't see where she was hurting, couldn't see where she 142 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 1: was hemorrhaging. And that's a tough place to be because 143 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:39,559 Speaker 1: if you walk up bleeding from your nose, I got 144 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 1: tissues for that. If you walk up with blood on 145 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 1: your face, it's gonna cause me to stop in my tracks. 146 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 1: She was bleeding in a place no one could see. 147 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 1: I feel like I need to stop and ask you 148 00:09:54,800 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 1: to think about where are you bleeding that no one sees? Where? 149 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 1: Where are you hurting that no one has really heard about. 150 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 1: And even though you generalize those places by saying, just 151 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 1: pray for me, I need a financial breakthrough. Really, the 152 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: issue is that you need a financial breakthrough. It's that 153 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: you don't even feel like a man anymore because you've 154 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 1: lost your ability to provide. And if you can't even 155 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 1: provide for your family, what good are you. You are bleeding, 156 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 1: not financially, you're bleeding on the inside. I'm bleeding and 157 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 1: no one sees it. And even ready for this, even 158 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 1: Jesus didn't see the woman. He sees all things, not 159 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 1: this time he didn't. The Bible says, y'all believe the Bible? 160 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:47,320 Speaker 1: Can I read? Can I read the Bible? Or you 161 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: want me to get a doctor, sue, So the places 162 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 1: you'll go, all right? Well, Jesus did not see this woman, 163 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 1: but he felt her presence. And that's that's going to 164 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 1: be important in how I unpacked this, because it said 165 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,440 Speaker 1: that a large crowd followed and pass pressed around him, 166 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 1: and a woman was there with the subject bleeding for 167 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 1: twelve years. She had suffered a great deal under the 168 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: care of many doctors, and had spent all she had. 169 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 1: Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse. Instead of 170 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: getting better, she grew worse. Isn't it crazy how some 171 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: of the ways you try to feel better make you 172 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 1: that much worse in the end. Have you ever done 173 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 1: something to feel better but you found out it actually 174 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 1: made it worse. Had you ever ate something to feel 175 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:42,959 Speaker 1: better and you felt better for five minutes? Ah, but 176 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 1: about three am the devil sent you run into the 177 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:51,679 Speaker 1: toilet talking about it felt good. It fixed it for 178 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:55,079 Speaker 1: a minute. Now you've been doing some things that fixed 179 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 1: it for a minute. The Bible doesn't say she never 180 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:02,719 Speaker 1: felt better. The Bible says she didn't get better. And 181 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 1: I wonder if in this time of our life, this 182 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: time of trouble and transition and trauma and secret bleeding, 183 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 1: if some of us are running to places where we 184 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,959 Speaker 1: are spending our energy and giving our attention to things 185 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:19,959 Speaker 1: that promise to make it better but end up making 186 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:28,599 Speaker 1: it worse. My grandfather didn't have the Internet. He was 187 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 1: at such a disadvantage. He couldn't just google an answer. 188 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: He had to actually talk to somebody. I have it 189 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 1: so much better than him, so much better off, man. 190 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 1: I want my kids to have it better than I 191 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:52,080 Speaker 1: had it. Sometimes what we think is better is based 192 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 1: on a point of reference that has no grounding in reality. 193 00:12:57,880 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: So if you think about this and again, we can 194 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:03,440 Speaker 1: take vote okay, church, vote church, vote em around the world. 195 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 1: Everyone who thinks that being able to constantly share an 196 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 1: access every opinion that has ever existed in humankind in 197 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 1: an instant has made our ability to connect with one 198 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 1: another that much better, say I. And yet y'all ain't 199 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: saying nothing in the chat. Yeah, you didn't say nothing 200 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 1: in the chat. Just because we have more ways to 201 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 1: connect doesn't mean we're better at doing it. And yet 202 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 1: here's here's here's the flip. The only reason I'm able 203 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 1: to preach this is because of the technology that I'm 204 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:46,199 Speaker 1: preaching against. When when Luke gets ready to share it, 205 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,320 Speaker 1: he doesn't say it quite like Mark says it. Mark 206 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 1: says she spent all she had, but every doctor that 207 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 1: she went to made it worse. Luke is a physician, 208 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: so he says, nobody could fix this woman. Nobody could 209 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:04,200 Speaker 1: fix her. Mark seems to imply that there were some 210 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 1: people taking advantage of her. Mark seems to imply that 211 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:10,080 Speaker 1: the motives of everyone that she went to weren't so 212 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 1: pure and so clean and so clear. Mark seems to 213 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:17,360 Speaker 1: imply that the founders of Facebook and the proprietors of 214 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 1: Instagram are not primarily interested in your inspiration, or that 215 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 1: the news is not primarily interested in informing us. So 216 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 1: now I want to ask you a question. With the 217 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 1: news on all week long, are you smarter or dumber 218 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 1: on Friday? It's just a question. Answer it how you 219 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 1: want to answer it. And I just wonder, is it 220 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 1: making it better? The place you go to to feel better. 221 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: Isn't making it better? That's a question. Before long, you 222 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: start to identify yourself with the information that you receive, 223 00:14:55,560 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 1: and in this woman's case, she was getting work to 224 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 1: the point that her issue had consumed her so totally 225 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 1: that she was only known by her issue. And I 226 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 1: love when the text lines up real pretty like this. 227 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: How many of y'all really love the Bible? Not just 228 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 1: the verse of the day, But you'd like to see 229 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 1: that little hidden stuff, those little hospital corner tucks that 230 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 1: the Bible does. All right, look at this. There's one 231 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 1: man who is identified by his significance Gyrus, and one 232 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 1: woman who is identified by her issue. There's one man 233 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 1: who has a position, but he also has a dying daughter, 234 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: so now his position is upended by what he's dealing with, 235 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:51,160 Speaker 1: just like the woman. Now all of a sudden, the 236 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 1: woman who is identified by her issue. That's why she's 237 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 1: called in the King James, the woman with the issue 238 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:02,080 Speaker 1: of blood. Would you every kid in my house has 239 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 1: a nickname. How would you like for your nickname to 240 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: be the woman with the issue of blood? How about it? Lucius? 241 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 1: That's what I call Abbey. I call her Lucius. It's 242 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: a long story how it got there, it's been through about. 243 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: It's a whole morphology of how my kids go by 244 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:21,400 Speaker 1: their names. He was Graham, and then he was g 245 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: and then he was g T. And then he was Gt. McSwain, 246 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 1: and then he was swaying, and then he was shwig 247 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: and then he was shwigglish, and then he was leish. 248 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 1: How would you like for your name to be issues? 249 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: Her name was Abby, then it was Foffe, then it 250 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 1: was foth, then it was foof, then it was fIF 251 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 1: then it was leash, then it was lush, and now 252 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 1: she's lush. There was a time when she was called 253 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 1: There was a time when this woman had a name. 254 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 1: But twelve years is a long time, and over time 255 00:16:55,280 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 1: she lost her name, asked, she was consumed by her issue. 256 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: Now you start thinking things like you know, I'm an addict. 257 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: Now you start thinking things like I'm just a grumpy person. 258 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 1: Now you start saying things like it's just in my genetics. 259 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 1: But your genetics haven't met Jesus yet. Your genetics need 260 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:29,920 Speaker 1: to meet Jesus with the woman's genetics that Jesus, WHOA, 261 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 1: I got a new nature. I'm gonna come back to that. 262 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 1: So depression is something I deal with. I'm not depressed. 263 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 1: I deal with depression. You understand what I'm saying. Now, 264 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: Just like that is true, it is also true of 265 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 1: your achievements. Just like people will identify you with your issues, 266 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 1: they will identify you with your position and achievement. Like 267 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: the man who told me on the Rattle YouTube comments. 268 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:07,960 Speaker 1: I know I'm not supposed to look in those comments. 269 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 1: I know I tell y'all not to do it. But 270 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 1: do as I say, not as I do. I'm a hypocrite. 271 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 1: The man said he saw me up there. I was 272 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 1: singing on Rattle Brandon having the time of my life. 273 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:22,879 Speaker 1: It was like metallic of creeping death in reverse James 274 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:27,200 Speaker 1: Hedfield saying die die. I mean you shall live live 275 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:30,879 Speaker 1: best moment of my life. Man said, stay in your lane, Steve. 276 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 1: Let the worship leaders lead worship. You preach the word 277 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 1: first of all, Worship worship, y'all better understand where I'm 278 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:49,159 Speaker 1: coming from. Worship for me is not what happens before 279 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:54,960 Speaker 1: the sermon. Worship is how I make it through the 280 00:18:55,160 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 1: worst moments of my life. And secondly, I'm not what 281 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:05,000 Speaker 1: you thought I was bro Big Da before twenty three 282 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: in the YouTube comments. I'm not defined. I'm not defined. 283 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 1: You didn't make my lane. You didn't make my lane. 284 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:26,679 Speaker 1: So it's weird that we just call her the woman 285 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 1: right and we define her by her issue, and we 286 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:34,639 Speaker 1: do it to ourselves all the time. Yeah, you know, 287 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 1: I mean, are you can even define yourself by how 288 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 1: you feel in this moment? Right? And that's dangerous. Let 289 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:44,040 Speaker 1: me teach you for a moment. Do you define yourself 290 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 1: by your emotions? Do you define yourself by your status? 291 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,359 Speaker 1: Do you define yourself by your lowest point? Do you 292 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 1: define yourself by your highest achievement? All of that is dangerous, okay, 293 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:01,160 Speaker 1: because the moment you start believing that you are what 294 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: you do or you are what you went through, it 295 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,360 Speaker 1: creates something inside. The woman was bleeding on the inside. 296 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:13,359 Speaker 1: She was bleeding on the inside. She was bleeding on 297 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 1: the inside. There is a bleeding on the inside that 298 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 1: happens when your sense of self worth flows from what 299 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 1: you do and what you go through. Somebody say, I'm 300 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:28,439 Speaker 1: not what I thought. And in the text, and some 301 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 1: of you may be very familiar with this text, the 302 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 1: Lord put me on a clear direction since quarantine to 303 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 1: only preach scriptures that I preached before. And I don't 304 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:39,360 Speaker 1: know when that's going to end, because there's a whole 305 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 1: lot of good stuff I hadn't preached in fourteen and 306 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 1: a half years. But until further notice, I'm trying to 307 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:50,200 Speaker 1: go deeper in what I thought I knew. So every 308 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: time it's causing me to stop and see what am 309 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: I not seeing? This woman who was not seen by 310 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,639 Speaker 1: any people, even including Jesus, who she needed a miracle 311 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 1: from what That's what she did. She self activated. And 312 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:05,679 Speaker 1: that's what you did when you went on this stream. 313 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:09,359 Speaker 1: By the way, today, you self activated. You didn't wait 314 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 1: for God to encourage you. You said, I'm getting under 315 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 1: the spout. This is old school, where the glory comes 316 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: out as the deer pants for the streams of water. 317 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get on a stream today that is going 318 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:28,199 Speaker 1: to hydrate my hope. And this woman got in the 319 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 1: flow of a miracle because she needed it. She needed it. 320 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 1: I need it, I need I need God. I need 321 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 1: I need God at the level not only of my 322 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 1: conceptual abstraction, but at the level of my feeling, my thought. Now, 323 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 1: this is what happened to her. She had suffered a 324 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:50,120 Speaker 1: great deal under the care of many doctors and had 325 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 1: spent all she had. Yet instead of getting better, she 326 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 1: grew worse. And when she heard about Jesus, when she 327 00:21:56,040 --> 00:22:00,360 Speaker 1: what when she so that's the first thing she did. 328 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:04,399 Speaker 1: She heard. She heard, but I want you to notice 329 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 1: she didn't get healed off of what she heard. This 330 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:13,920 Speaker 1: word can only do so much by hearing. Faith comes 331 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 1: by hearing hearing the word of God. But faith without 332 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,879 Speaker 1: works is dead. So James would say, do not merely 333 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:22,159 Speaker 1: listen to the word and deceive yourselves. Instead, do what 334 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:25,360 Speaker 1: you said. Let me tell you something. It's not gonna 335 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:30,159 Speaker 1: get better because you took good notes. You can go 336 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 1: to every Bible study and get worse and think you 337 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: satisfied your intellectual quest for God. But this woman did 338 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 1: not get healed because she heard. That was the first 339 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,879 Speaker 1: step she heard. And I think it's important that we 340 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,199 Speaker 1: put ourselves in the path of God's word. Don't you 341 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,879 Speaker 1: to put yourself in the path of the promises of God. 342 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 1: To put yourself in the path of words of truth 343 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: and words of life, and words of grace and words 344 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:01,440 Speaker 1: of possibility. I think that that is so important. Yet 345 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:06,840 Speaker 1: she didn't get healed when she heard. She heard about Jesus. 346 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 1: She heard about Jesus. And then after she heard about Jesus, 347 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,120 Speaker 1: come on study with me. This is about to get 348 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 1: so good. This is about to get so good. You're 349 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 1: gonna call your grandma who thinks the preacher shouldn't wear 350 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: jeans with holes in him and say, watch him this week. 351 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 1: He's got a word for you this week. I don't 352 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:29,920 Speaker 1: care what he's wearing this week. This is a good word. 353 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,360 Speaker 1: When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him 354 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 1: in the crowd and touched this cloak. So what we 355 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:41,320 Speaker 1: have so far? She heard, she came, She touched. She heard, 356 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:46,679 Speaker 1: she came, She touched, and maybe instead of waiting for 357 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,679 Speaker 1: a touch from God, you just gotta make up your mind. 358 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:56,240 Speaker 1: I'm gonna touch God myself. I'm gonna praise God myself. 359 00:23:56,720 --> 00:24:00,640 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be grateful. Gratitude is a strategy. I need 360 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,719 Speaker 1: to feel God. So I'm gonna get grateful for a 361 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:11,440 Speaker 1: minute because I need to feel him. She heard, she came, 362 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:14,159 Speaker 1: she touched because she thought, if I just touch his clothes, 363 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 1: you see verse twenty eight. If I just touch his clothes, 364 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 1: I will be here. If I just touch his clothes, 365 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 1: I will be here. And immediately twenty nine her bleeding stopped, 366 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,399 Speaker 1: and she felt in her body that she was freed 367 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:33,639 Speaker 1: from her suffering. So many questions I have about this text. 368 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:39,920 Speaker 1: How did Jesus not Sere. You know, how did Jesus 369 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 1: not Sere? Who did she think she was to sneak 370 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 1: up on the Savior of the world when he was 371 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,440 Speaker 1: on his way to the deathbed of a dying little girl. 372 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,199 Speaker 1: Another question, why didn't Jyrus him grab this lady by 373 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 1: the throat and throw her out of the way. I 374 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 1: would have done it if it would have been you, 375 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:59,120 Speaker 1: I'd throw any of y'all out of the way. I'll 376 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,359 Speaker 1: put you in a figure four leg locks so Jesus 377 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:03,320 Speaker 1: could get to my house and heal my daughter. I'll 378 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 1: put you in the what's it called the scorpion? Remember sting. 379 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 1: I'll be making up all kinds of moves. Get out 380 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:13,640 Speaker 1: of my way. I got a daughter that needs a touch. 381 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 1: But one question I wanted to ask you, and maybe 382 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:23,960 Speaker 1: I'll ask Chris because it's like one of my best 383 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 1: friends in the world. He won't mind me putting on 384 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 1: spot what stopped the woman's bleeding? And I know Christ 385 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:40,679 Speaker 1: is like Jesus. I think it's Jesus for them. I 386 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,119 Speaker 1: think this is a trick question. It is. It's a 387 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:47,360 Speaker 1: trick question, all right, Brandon, You're down there at sea 388 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,879 Speaker 1: coast for a real, real preacher preaching the word. So 389 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:55,720 Speaker 1: what would josh Sarat say that the bleeding stopped? Because 390 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 1: for years when I taught this text, I thought that 391 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:09,159 Speaker 1: when she touched Jesus, that that action, which signified faith, 392 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 1: caused the flow of the bleeding to stop. But the 393 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,160 Speaker 1: Bible says immediately, Mark's favorite word to use to transition 394 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:21,720 Speaker 1: his gospel. Immediately, and in the interconnectedness of all things, 395 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 1: the moment that Jesus stopped because the woman touched his garment, 396 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 1: the edge of his garment, I might point out, Gyrus's 397 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 1: daughter lost her life. So the gaining of life for 398 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 1: the woman cost Gyrus's daughter her life. Jesus went on 399 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 1: to resurrect the little girl, but Gyros didn't know that. 400 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:51,160 Speaker 1: You ever notice how everything's connected. You don't see those 401 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 1: connections in real time. Only in retrospect do you see 402 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 1: the connection, the connection between the breaking that you experienced 403 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,360 Speaker 1: and the blessing that God had in mind, the connection 404 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:04,919 Speaker 1: between the loneliness that you felt and the intimacy that 405 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:09,200 Speaker 1: was developed in that loneliness. You don't usually see those 406 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:14,200 Speaker 1: connections until later. And when she made a connection, everybody said, 407 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:15,959 Speaker 1: make a connection, make it, could make make it, make 408 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,120 Speaker 1: make a connection, Make connection, make connection, like a phone 409 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 1: hooking up to a WiFi. That's how I imagined it. 410 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:27,160 Speaker 1: She accessed his power when she touched his cloak. Why 411 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:31,200 Speaker 1: did her bleeding stop? And I guess you could say 412 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,520 Speaker 1: it was when she made a connection with Jesus. But 413 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:40,479 Speaker 1: there's another connection that I never made. I always thought 414 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 1: that her healing started when she touched his cloak. But 415 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,080 Speaker 1: I read verse twenty eight, put it on the screen, 416 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:51,879 Speaker 1: and I found out that the bleeding stopped because she 417 00:27:54,359 --> 00:28:08,000 Speaker 1: thought she heard she came. She thought she touched, and 418 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:12,680 Speaker 1: it stopped. God said to tell you can stop it 419 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: with a thought. You can stop it with a thought, 420 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:24,359 Speaker 1: all caps. I can stop it with a thought. I 421 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:28,879 Speaker 1: can stop it with a thought. It's not stronger than me. 422 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 1: I can stop it with a thought. Man, I am 423 00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 1: not my issue. See, you've been going through what you've 424 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 1: been going through so long. You think the issue is you. 425 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 1: But you can stop it with a thought. I mean 426 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:52,160 Speaker 1: right now, I mean right now. The darkness that has 427 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 1: overwhelmed you helped me, Holy Spirit. They don't believe me. 428 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 1: You can stop it with a thought. Now, she did 429 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 1: not get healed because she just thought she got healed. 430 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 1: When she touched, But she only touched because she thought. 431 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:14,320 Speaker 1: It starts with a thought. When I think of the 432 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:20,320 Speaker 1: goodness of Jesus, when I think about the Lord, how 433 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 1: he saved me. We used to sing this holly, how 434 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 1: he raised me, how he filled me, how he healed me, 435 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 1: how he reached down and rescued me. You can stop 436 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 1: it with a thought. You can stuff it with a thought. 437 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:41,680 Speaker 1: The gates of hell will not prevail one thought about God. 438 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 1: My thoughts are not your thoughts. God could stuff it 439 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 1: with a thought. I found out thoughts are optional. Yeah, 440 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,760 Speaker 1: thoughts are optional. I might have a thought, but I 441 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: don't have to let the thought. Have me be three 442 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:03,760 Speaker 1: on that point. Give him twelve seconds to praise God. 443 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,160 Speaker 1: I don't have to think like this, live like this, 444 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,440 Speaker 1: bleed like this. I don't have to die like this. 445 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:16,000 Speaker 1: That was kind of weak. Let's try it again. Think 446 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 1: of all the ways he made, think of all the 447 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 1: things he did. I've been thinking about the wrong things. 448 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 1: I'm one thought away from joy, one thought away from la. Yeah, 449 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,160 Speaker 1: thoughts are optional. Can I tell you how I know 450 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:47,040 Speaker 1: if you did everything you thought? You have a prison 451 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:54,040 Speaker 1: ministry from the inside of the prison. My God, Tim 452 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,240 Speaker 1: is so unsanctified. He'd be in prison if he did 453 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 1: everything he thought about. Since I've been preaching, it's kind 454 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 1: of like a split scream to me. Okay, it's like 455 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 1: probably what the other people thought when the woman was 456 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:12,760 Speaker 1: coming up right, and what she thought almost called the 457 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:17,360 Speaker 1: message hold that dog, hold that God. I almost called 458 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,440 Speaker 1: the message hold that dot. Let's at least put that 459 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,720 Speaker 1: in the chat. I mean, even if you're watching this 460 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:26,600 Speaker 1: after three and a half years, hold that gow, hold 461 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,960 Speaker 1: that dog. Hold that dog. I mean, she said, if 462 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,040 Speaker 1: I touch him, it don't matter what anybody else thinks. 463 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,880 Speaker 1: Once you get over the fact that other people's opinions, 464 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:47,760 Speaker 1: they are not limits. They are merely suggestions. Contrary to 465 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,719 Speaker 1: what your mom told you don't have to eat everything 466 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:53,400 Speaker 1: on your plate, okay, you don't have to believe everything 467 00:31:53,440 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 1: in your brain, So the thought is optional. And I 468 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 1: imagine that the woman thought put it back up because 469 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:08,600 Speaker 1: she thought. That's what got me started on wanting to 470 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 1: preach about this woman is because just like her bleeding 471 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:19,280 Speaker 1: started on the inside, so did her healing. Now, if 472 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:20,920 Speaker 1: y'all gonna sit over there on my side, you got 473 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 1: to get in on the sermon. Y'all can't sit there 474 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:30,160 Speaker 1: like it's a spectator event because she thought, Wow, but 475 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,640 Speaker 1: you can't see thoughts. So how does Luke know or 476 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:36,000 Speaker 1: Mark know or Matthew know what she thought by what 477 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:42,240 Speaker 1: she did. I'll make a suggestion and y'all can click 478 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 1: over to Andy Stanley sermon or something if you think 479 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:52,320 Speaker 1: I'm preaching heresy here? But what if? What if she 480 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:58,360 Speaker 1: had a thousand other thoughts and yet the only one 481 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:03,920 Speaker 1: that she acted, it's the only one that mattered. See, 482 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,960 Speaker 1: I can have a thousand thoughts. I can have a 483 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:13,800 Speaker 1: thousand thoughts, but the one that I hold determines where 484 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:19,400 Speaker 1: I go. I bet she also thought, can we talk 485 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:23,120 Speaker 1: about what the woman also thought? You've been sick twelve years. 486 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 1: You've been to every doctor, You've been kicked out of 487 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:29,320 Speaker 1: every insurance policy. Nobody wants to hire you. You got 488 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:31,760 Speaker 1: pre existing conditions, so nobody wants to be with you. 489 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,680 Speaker 1: Twelve years. That's long enough to completely give up hope. 490 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,120 Speaker 1: That's long enough. Where she would have thought, also thought, 491 00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,160 Speaker 1: how many agree? She would have also thought, put it 492 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:44,760 Speaker 1: on the split screen. Here's the screen of what she did. 493 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 1: Here's what she also thought. What's the point I tried 494 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:53,200 Speaker 1: this before. Some of y'all can't even hear a sermon 495 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:55,600 Speaker 1: real good because you guys inspired last Sunday and you 496 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:57,280 Speaker 1: feel like you had an even worse week, so you 497 00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:00,520 Speaker 1: don't want to hear it anymore. Yeah, cool man, and whatever, 498 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:03,400 Speaker 1: I bet a part of her. I bet I bet 499 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,120 Speaker 1: she had the thought, whatever she heard about Jesus he's 500 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:10,319 Speaker 1: a healer. I bet she thought, whatever, I've seen this 501 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 1: show before. What does he want? He just wants my 502 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:19,160 Speaker 1: money too? You know, you goin to think things, you 503 00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:23,399 Speaker 1: ever think things, even good things, even good things can 504 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,880 Speaker 1: be wrong things. I was talking one of my friends 505 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:29,400 Speaker 1: this week who studied the creative process, and I was like, 506 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,200 Speaker 1: give me a piece of advice on the creative process, 507 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 1: because I'm constantly trying to create. I feel like sometimes 508 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,920 Speaker 1: like I'm just bleeding hemorrhaging the next sermon, you know. 509 00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:44,759 Speaker 1: And my friend said, hey, make sure you rest while 510 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:49,000 Speaker 1: you're working and let your spirit work on your sermon too. 511 00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:54,279 Speaker 1: I was like, cool, I don't know really how to 512 00:34:54,360 --> 00:35:00,320 Speaker 1: rest because I identify myself by what I do, and 513 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:04,439 Speaker 1: I I tend to associate my worth with my work. Yeah, 514 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,120 Speaker 1: somebody say, I'm not what I thought I was. I 515 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,600 Speaker 1: always thought I was only as good as my trophy. 516 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,239 Speaker 1: I was only as good as my achievement. I was 517 00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:16,680 Speaker 1: only as good. And so here's what I said back 518 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:18,959 Speaker 1: to my friend. I said, that's really cool. I said, 519 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,319 Speaker 1: I love that advice to rest and just let my 520 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,480 Speaker 1: spirit work on my sermon, let my subconscious work on 521 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:25,959 Speaker 1: my material. I said, that's a great creative tip. I said, 522 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:30,319 Speaker 1: it's kind of like when a computer renders. My friend said, yeah, 523 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,040 Speaker 1: I kind of like that. But you're not a computer. 524 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:42,319 Speaker 1: I'm not what I thought. My friend was trying to 525 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:46,520 Speaker 1: get me to see. You got the right idea, but 526 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:53,399 Speaker 1: you got the wrong identity. You're not an object. You're 527 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:57,720 Speaker 1: not a machine. I know every parent sometimes just feels 528 00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,600 Speaker 1: like a bending machine, and then an uber, and then 529 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:04,560 Speaker 1: a referee, and then and then what else? You feel like? Parents? Parents, parents? 530 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,640 Speaker 1: What you feel like? Sometimes I feel like, if I'm 531 00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:10,400 Speaker 1: not driving them somewhere cleaning something up, I'm a housekeeper, 532 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:16,560 Speaker 1: I'm a short order shelf. But I'm not. That's not 533 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:25,520 Speaker 1: all I am. That's not all I am. Stanie Lane 534 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:31,480 Speaker 1: Steve be a preacher. That's not all I am. That's 535 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,400 Speaker 1: not all I am. Do you feel God on that 536 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,120 Speaker 1: that's not all I am. Now, that might be all 537 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,200 Speaker 1: I've experienced up to this point, but that's not all 538 00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:44,239 Speaker 1: I am. My genetics just haven't met Jesus yet. That's 539 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,160 Speaker 1: not all. I'm not just the woman with the issue 540 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,400 Speaker 1: of blood. That's not all I am. I'm not just 541 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:54,800 Speaker 1: Gyros a synagogue leader. I'm also a dad. I need ministry, 542 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,960 Speaker 1: I need a touch, I need refreshing, I need a flow, 543 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:03,480 Speaker 1: I need a prayer answer. Yeah, that's that's not all 544 00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:06,680 Speaker 1: I am. I'm not what I thought I was. I'm 545 00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:11,040 Speaker 1: so much more than I thought I was. How many 546 00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,279 Speaker 1: times have I limited what I could receive because of 547 00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:20,200 Speaker 1: what I thought I was because she thought she touched, 548 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:27,719 Speaker 1: and because she touched, the healing stopped. But you know 549 00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:31,839 Speaker 1: what's really crazy. Instead of getting back on the road 550 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:36,240 Speaker 1: to get to Gyrus's daughter, the one who was more important, 551 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,160 Speaker 1: Jesus stopped in verse thirty, and here we see in 552 00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:48,680 Speaker 1: the scripture the first instance of contact tracing. The Bible 553 00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:52,680 Speaker 1: says Jesus stopped, so her bleeding stopped. Jesus stopped. You 554 00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:57,719 Speaker 1: got thirty and he realized power, power, power, power. There's 555 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,400 Speaker 1: power in a thought, there's power in a thought's power 556 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:06,560 Speaker 1: and thought she thought she touched. Jesus said, I felt that. Now, 557 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:13,280 Speaker 1: remember she heard she came, she thought she touched. She felt. 558 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:23,040 Speaker 1: Feelings follow thoughts, and Jesus stops and goes, WHOA, I 559 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:27,480 Speaker 1: felt something, and the woman's like, I did too. And 560 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:30,520 Speaker 1: it started with a thought. Feelings start with thoughts. And 561 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:32,600 Speaker 1: so next time you wonder when you're in a bad 562 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:34,800 Speaker 1: mood or something like that, like, oh my god, what 563 00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:39,440 Speaker 1: it was like the weather just changed on the inside. 564 00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:48,040 Speaker 1: What happened? Do some contact tracing with your thoughts and 565 00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,319 Speaker 1: some of y'all. This is gonna mean you're not gonna 566 00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,960 Speaker 1: be texting everybody back this week because I did some 567 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,920 Speaker 1: contact tracing and I found out every time I text 568 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:05,520 Speaker 1: you is trouble for me. My Lord, look in the Bible, 569 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:09,680 Speaker 1: so up to date in the BBISO twenty twenty. Look 570 00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,640 Speaker 1: at the Bible. The Bible said Jesus stop, and he said, 571 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:16,560 Speaker 1: turn around across said who touch my clothes? Who touched me? 572 00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,160 Speaker 1: Now the disciples are annoyed, not just because they don't 573 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:23,960 Speaker 1: want to go back through and do the paperwork to 574 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,200 Speaker 1: find out who had COVID and who was exposed and 575 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,200 Speaker 1: six feet distance none of that. But watch what the 576 00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:31,480 Speaker 1: disciples said verse thirty one. It doesn't say it's Peter, 577 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:33,720 Speaker 1: but I bet it was. You see the people crowding 578 00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:38,440 Speaker 1: against you as disciples answered, And yet you can ask 579 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:45,359 Speaker 1: who touched me? Your feelings come so fast, don't they. 580 00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,279 Speaker 1: It's hard to even know where its started. It's like 581 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:53,000 Speaker 1: you want, you want us to trace it all the 582 00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:58,719 Speaker 1: way back. Jesus, we don't have time to stop and 583 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:06,239 Speaker 1: talk about your Cyrus's daughter is dying. So we can 584 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:08,600 Speaker 1: stop and break it all down if you want to. 585 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:10,680 Speaker 1: But it's a lot of people, and it's a lot 586 00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,160 Speaker 1: of stuff. I was telling Eric the other day, I said, 587 00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,000 Speaker 1: I try to figure out why I'm in a bad mood. 588 00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:16,680 Speaker 1: But if I tried to trace everything that made me 589 00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,279 Speaker 1: in a bad mood back, I'd never go anywhere. I'd 590 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,360 Speaker 1: never get out bed. Some days, sunny weather makes me 591 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,759 Speaker 1: depressed because I think I should be outside and enjoin it. 592 00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,279 Speaker 1: Some day's rainy weather makes me depressed because it's raining. 593 00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,080 Speaker 1: I can't trace anything back. It just comes so fast. 594 00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,000 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, who touched me? It's like 595 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:33,560 Speaker 1: a lot of people are touching, a lot of things 596 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:35,680 Speaker 1: are happening, the world's really crazy right now. I can't 597 00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:37,840 Speaker 1: He said, no, no no, no, no, no. Who touched me? 598 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:42,040 Speaker 1: And he kept looking around verse thirty two to see 599 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:44,719 Speaker 1: who had done it? So I know we don't live 600 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:46,719 Speaker 1: by our feelings. Sometimes we need to focus on our 601 00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:50,719 Speaker 1: feeling and see what led to it. You're following me, 602 00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,759 Speaker 1: you're following me, So Jesus, like who touched me? Who 603 00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,440 Speaker 1: touched me? Who touched me? Who touched me? Who touched me? 604 00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:57,920 Speaker 1: He touched me, he touched me? Who touched me? Who 605 00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,919 Speaker 1: touched me? Who touched me? Who touched me? He didn't 606 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,400 Speaker 1: see her because she came up from behind. And the 607 00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:06,799 Speaker 1: woman verse thirty three, who is only used to being 608 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:10,520 Speaker 1: a nuisance or an inconvenience? How many of you give 609 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,640 Speaker 1: me the camera write that one? How many of you 610 00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,239 Speaker 1: have ever felt like you were a nuisance because that's 611 00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:22,279 Speaker 1: the way other people treated you, or that's what you 612 00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,960 Speaker 1: thought they thought. How stupid is it to be trapped 613 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:30,440 Speaker 1: in what you thought they thought? This is called thought tracy, 614 00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,759 Speaker 1: not contacted, this thought tracing. Well, I think they thought 615 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:37,720 Speaker 1: they did that because they thought they thought the woman 616 00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:41,120 Speaker 1: thought she was in trouble. And the reason I know 617 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:44,200 Speaker 1: she thought she was in trouble when Jesus stopped on 618 00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:47,880 Speaker 1: the way to Jyrus's house. Help me do this, Lord 619 00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:50,839 Speaker 1: is because when she came up verse thirty three, the 620 00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:56,600 Speaker 1: Bible says descriptively, she came back and fell at his 621 00:41:56,719 --> 00:42:03,560 Speaker 1: feet and trembling with fear. She thought she was in trouble, 622 00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:10,759 Speaker 1: but she wanted to tell the truth. She heard, she came, 623 00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:18,040 Speaker 1: she thought, she touched, she felt, she told it was me. 624 00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:25,120 Speaker 1: It was me. I don't mean this in any kind 625 00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:30,480 Speaker 1: of stereotypical way, but the fact that she was a 626 00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:34,680 Speaker 1: woman makes me think she didn't give Jesus the plot summary, 627 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,280 Speaker 1: because my wife doesn't give me plot summaries or cliffs notes. 628 00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:45,840 Speaker 1: She told him the whole truth. She told him the 629 00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:49,120 Speaker 1: whole truth, what it had been like to bleed on 630 00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:53,600 Speaker 1: the inside, what it had been like to once have resources, 631 00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:59,080 Speaker 1: and as you spend all your resources, your issue continues 632 00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:05,760 Speaker 1: to deteriorate your reality. And she told him that, you know, trembling. 633 00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:08,839 Speaker 1: She told him, I know I wasn't supposed to stop you. 634 00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:14,799 Speaker 1: I know I caused a big commotion. I know you 635 00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:18,240 Speaker 1: were on your way to heal that important man's daughter, 636 00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:26,160 Speaker 1: and Jesus stopped and said who did it? Who did it? 637 00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:28,719 Speaker 1: It seems petty that he would stop healing somebody to 638 00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:34,680 Speaker 1: come fuss at somebody. He said, who did it? I 639 00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:39,560 Speaker 1: wonder why he did it, because when I read his 640 00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:42,919 Speaker 1: response after she told him the whole truth, it says 641 00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:44,839 Speaker 1: in verse thirty four, can you give me verse thirty four, 642 00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:46,919 Speaker 1: that he said to her daughter, your faith is healed. 643 00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:48,600 Speaker 1: You go in peace and be freed from your suffering. 644 00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,360 Speaker 1: But she was already freed from her suffering. Give me 645 00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:58,480 Speaker 1: verse twenty nine. When she touched him, Immediately her bleeding 646 00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:00,400 Speaker 1: stopped and she fell in her body. That she was 647 00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:02,960 Speaker 1: free from her suffering. She was already free. What do 648 00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:09,719 Speaker 1: you call her back? Not to reprimand her. Maybe he 649 00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:11,520 Speaker 1: called her back to give her a little bit more money, 650 00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:14,040 Speaker 1: or a little bit more details, or maybe to give 651 00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:18,080 Speaker 1: her a little extra help. So I read that over 652 00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:22,279 Speaker 1: and over again, somebody say, I'm not what I thought. 653 00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,480 Speaker 1: You remember how she snuck up and said, if I 654 00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:30,640 Speaker 1: just touched the hem of his garment, the dirty part, 655 00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,520 Speaker 1: the part that has been dragging through the street with 656 00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:38,200 Speaker 1: with feces and urine, and and and the mud off 657 00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:40,920 Speaker 1: of the shoes, of the feet of the other important 658 00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,080 Speaker 1: people as they moved through the street to do things 659 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:44,920 Speaker 1: that she no longer had the resource to do. And 660 00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:49,600 Speaker 1: that's all that's all she thought she was if I 661 00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:51,640 Speaker 1: touch it and then I'll sneak away, And she snuck 662 00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:53,840 Speaker 1: away like a thief. They couldn't find her. She snuck 663 00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:56,759 Speaker 1: away like she stole something. He said, who did it? 664 00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:03,360 Speaker 1: Bring her back? And then he told her what she 665 00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:08,359 Speaker 1: already knew. Why did he call her back? Why did 666 00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:11,480 Speaker 1: he call her back and let Gyrus's daughter die just 667 00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:15,560 Speaker 1: to tell her what she already knew? And then I 668 00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:20,319 Speaker 1: realized something. Put verse thirty four on the screen. It's 669 00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:30,600 Speaker 1: not what he told her, it's what he called her. 670 00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:34,400 Speaker 1: He didn't call her a woman with the issue of blood. 671 00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:43,120 Speaker 1: We call her that. He didn't. Wow. There are many 672 00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:45,640 Speaker 1: times in scripture that Jesus touches people in their heels. 673 00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:49,799 Speaker 1: There are very few where someone touches him. And there's 674 00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:56,160 Speaker 1: only one time in scripture that Jesus calls somebody put 675 00:45:56,160 --> 00:46:03,880 Speaker 1: it back up, daughter. This is the only time Jesus 676 00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:13,439 Speaker 1: uses that term. Why did he stop on the way 677 00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:20,399 Speaker 1: to heal Gyrus's daughter because there was another daughter who 678 00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:26,719 Speaker 1: forgot that she was a daughter. So I'm not going 679 00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:30,759 Speaker 1: to let you sneak away like a beggar. If I 680 00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:33,720 Speaker 1: let you sneak away right now, the bleeding may stop, 681 00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:40,400 Speaker 1: but you will live the rest of your life believing 682 00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:45,879 Speaker 1: something about yourself that isn't true. What would you do 683 00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:50,560 Speaker 1: if you knew it was true that you were a 684 00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:57,000 Speaker 1: daughter of God? What would you do? What would it 685 00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:01,839 Speaker 1: be like if you knew that almighty, omnipotent, all powerful 686 00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:07,320 Speaker 1: God had committed his resources to you, like weak little 687 00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:12,240 Speaker 1: Stephen Ferdick has committed his resources to Abby. What would 688 00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:15,879 Speaker 1: you do? What could knock you off your balance? What 689 00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:19,840 Speaker 1: could the opinions of others do to you? If you 690 00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:25,319 Speaker 1: knew that I am not what I did, and I 691 00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:29,000 Speaker 1: am not what I went through, and I am not 692 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:34,160 Speaker 1: what I thought I was, and I am not what 693 00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:38,680 Speaker 1: I suffered, and I am not what I lost. Jesus said, 694 00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:43,800 Speaker 1: call her back. I know Jyrus has a daughter, but 695 00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:49,080 Speaker 1: she's a daughter too. I know nobody else, Caesar, but 696 00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:55,600 Speaker 1: that's my daughter. Just minister, lj Just minister. I need 697 00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:59,080 Speaker 1: you to receive this word. You don't have to touch 698 00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:02,400 Speaker 1: the dirty part, the limited part. Come on, I'm not 699 00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:06,359 Speaker 1: what I thought I am not my temptation. I am 700 00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:10,200 Speaker 1: not my perversion. I am not my discouragement. I am 701 00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:13,640 Speaker 1: not my last mistake. I am not my pattern. I 702 00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,840 Speaker 1: am not my flesh. I have been crucified with Christ, 703 00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:19,839 Speaker 1: and if I can touch him, I can have what 704 00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:26,720 Speaker 1: he has because I am like he is. I'm a daughter, 705 00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:36,800 Speaker 1: I'm a son. He called her back so she would know, 706 00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:43,520 Speaker 1: You're not leaving like a thief. You're not leaving like 707 00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:51,360 Speaker 1: a beggar. You're leaving like a daughter. Don't you crawl 708 00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:57,200 Speaker 1: out of here waiting to get caught. She thought she 709 00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:02,560 Speaker 1: was in trouble, but Jesus brought her back to tell 710 00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:11,880 Speaker 1: her the truth. She's bleeding on the inside and she 711 00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:15,800 Speaker 1: did something on the outside. God didn't just want to 712 00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:23,080 Speaker 1: fix what was happening in her body. She heard about 713 00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:29,200 Speaker 1: Jesus and that freed her from her suffering. But when 714 00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:36,759 Speaker 1: she heard from Jesus, not about Jesus, it freed her 715 00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:42,400 Speaker 1: from her shame. Lift your hands in the air right now. 716 00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:48,000 Speaker 1: I break the power of shame off of your mind. 717 00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:51,320 Speaker 1: I break the power of shame off of your past. 718 00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:55,000 Speaker 1: I break the power of shame off of your body. 719 00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:57,760 Speaker 1: You're going to feel it in your body. Right now, 720 00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:02,000 Speaker 1: that healing is flowing to you, identity is flowing to you. 721 00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:10,840 Speaker 1: God said, I stopped everything for the forgotten daughter. I 722 00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:15,400 Speaker 1: got a daughter. I got a daughter. I know what 723 00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:18,200 Speaker 1: you would do for your daughter. My two boys they 724 00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:21,240 Speaker 1: criticize my parenting all the time. They say you treat 725 00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:24,920 Speaker 1: Abby different. They say you do stuff for her that 726 00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:28,279 Speaker 1: you won't do for us. Huh. They say she doesn't 727 00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:30,839 Speaker 1: get in trouble for stuff. You used to punish us 728 00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:33,440 Speaker 1: for stuff that she doesn't get in trouble for. And 729 00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:35,520 Speaker 1: one day she heard them going on and on about this. 730 00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:42,040 Speaker 1: She said, guys, it's different. I'm the daughter. I mean, 731 00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:43,799 Speaker 1: even if you're a male. I'm not trying to make 732 00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:47,080 Speaker 1: this about gender, but just say it's different when you're 733 00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:51,360 Speaker 1: a daughter. It's different when you know that you belong. 734 00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:58,040 Speaker 1: I'm not sneaking in to get a healing. I will 735 00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:10,640 Speaker 1: be made. She thought, she touched, she felt, she told, 736 00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:17,440 Speaker 1: and then she knew. You might have come crawling, but 737 00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:25,040 Speaker 1: you're walking away. So whatever time zone this message finds 738 00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:31,160 Speaker 1: you in, or whatever season of life, you could be gyrous, 739 00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:35,319 Speaker 1: or you could be this daughter. How cool is it 740 00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:39,240 Speaker 1: that the one that nobody saw coming is the only 741 00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:43,520 Speaker 1: one he ever called daughter. And I don't know, maybe 742 00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:47,520 Speaker 1: you don't feel forgotten, but in case you do, the 743 00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:51,760 Speaker 1: one who the disciples didn't even think was worth tracking down, 744 00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:59,959 Speaker 1: it's the only one he called daughter. Gyros had a daughter, 745 00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:08,360 Speaker 1: but she was a daughter or too. You belong to him. 746 00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,560 Speaker 1: And when you go troubleshooting your soul, make sure you 747 00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:12,439 Speaker 1: don't go to the wrong doctors. That'll make it worse 748 00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:17,719 Speaker 1: instead of better. Don't do it. I'm really bad at troubleshooting, 749 00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:20,520 Speaker 1: but I know if it gets bad enough, I got 750 00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:24,399 Speaker 1: to take this back to Apple. Some things can only 751 00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:29,440 Speaker 1: be diagnosed by the manufacturer. You hear me. Sometimes I 752 00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:32,480 Speaker 1: need to take it to the genius bar Well. Some 753 00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:35,440 Speaker 1: things I need to take to Jesus, Some things I 754 00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:40,040 Speaker 1: need to take to him. I'm not what I thought. 755 00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:47,400 Speaker 1: I'm not what I thought you mean, I'm not the 756 00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:50,200 Speaker 1: woman with the issue of blood. When we get to heaven, 757 00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:54,440 Speaker 1: we'll all have nicknames, and it won't be the woman 758 00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:58,680 Speaker 1: with the issue of blood. This woman, I can imagine, 759 00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:02,200 Speaker 1: because she's bold. We'll be standing there at the front 760 00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:05,239 Speaker 1: of the line in case you feel unworthy, in case 761 00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:08,000 Speaker 1: you feel like you can't come in. She's gonna be like, Hey, 762 00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:12,440 Speaker 1: you might remember me from March chapter five. Oh yeah, 763 00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:15,120 Speaker 1: woman with the issue of La nah nah nah, the 764 00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:20,839 Speaker 1: only one he ever called daughter. Now, come on, if 765 00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:24,600 Speaker 1: you got bold faith, if you got grace, faith, not 766 00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:30,080 Speaker 1: work spaid, not what I did. I'm not what they said. 767 00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:38,400 Speaker 1: I'm not what I'm calling through. Lord, bless your sons 768 00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:41,360 Speaker 1: and daughters today. Call them by name. I don't know 769 00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:45,120 Speaker 1: their name. You do, God. I thank you for j 770 00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:48,640 Speaker 1: I thank you for I. Thank you for Charrell. I 771 00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:51,919 Speaker 1: thank you for for Betty and for Sharing. I thank 772 00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:54,719 Speaker 1: you for Ebony. God, I thank you for Peter and 773 00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:57,640 Speaker 1: for Grason, for Cammy and for Kelly. You're calling them 774 00:53:57,640 --> 00:53:59,560 Speaker 1: by name. These are your daughters. These are your daughters. 775 00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:03,640 Speaker 1: And Mary and Tamla and the cold. Oh, they're going 776 00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:07,080 Speaker 1: so fast. Look at all those daughters and sons. And 777 00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:10,800 Speaker 1: they're not leaving this sermon today bleeding on the inside. 778 00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:14,840 Speaker 1: They're not leaving the sermon today, just bleeding on the inside. 779 00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:18,440 Speaker 1: Give them a thought to hold on to. I'm accepted, 780 00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:22,440 Speaker 1: I'm loved. Get that thought and hold on for dear life, 781 00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:30,480 Speaker 1: and you will be healed in Jesus' name. Come on 782 00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:32,319 Speaker 1: and take just a second and say I'm not what 783 00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:35,080 Speaker 1: I thought. I'm not what I thought. Right there in 784 00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:38,160 Speaker 1: the chat, I'm not what I thought. Maybe you need 785 00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:41,560 Speaker 1: to send a message to somebody who underestimated you. I'm 786 00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:44,560 Speaker 1: not what you thought. You told me. I never amount 787 00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:49,120 Speaker 1: to anything, but I touched somebody who knows something you 788 00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:55,239 Speaker 1: don't know. I'm getting this fixed on the inside. I 789 00:54:55,440 --> 00:55:01,600 Speaker 1: have a child of God. We bless your name. Thank 790 00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:05,719 Speaker 1: you for your grace. Our teams are here right now 791 00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:08,480 Speaker 1: to minister to you. If you have a prayer request, 792 00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:10,799 Speaker 1: put it in the chat. In fact, right now, one 793 00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:12,840 Speaker 1: of our team members is going to lead you in 794 00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:17,040 Speaker 1: a prayer to receive Jesus Christ as your savior and 795 00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:19,920 Speaker 1: being made whole again. Right now, we're praying with you. 796 00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:25,360 Speaker 1: We're praying with you right now. Well, I want to 797 00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:28,240 Speaker 1: pray with you personally right now, which you buy your head. Lord, 798 00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:31,400 Speaker 1: I thank you so much for your sons and daughters, 799 00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:34,680 Speaker 1: your daughters and sons, you brought this word to today, 800 00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:38,319 Speaker 1: and we may not touch physically right now, but we 801 00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:41,600 Speaker 1: joined together in the spirit in this moment. You say 802 00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:43,279 Speaker 1: in your word that whoever calls on the name of 803 00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:46,160 Speaker 1: the Lord will be saved. Right now if you feel 804 00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:48,400 Speaker 1: God drawing you to give your life to Jesus Christ, 805 00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:50,319 Speaker 1: I want you to pray this after me. It's not 806 00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:54,319 Speaker 1: a magic prayer. The woman wasn't healed by her superstition. 807 00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:56,640 Speaker 1: She was healed by her faith. And it's by grace 808 00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:58,920 Speaker 1: through faith that we are saying. If you want to 809 00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:01,560 Speaker 1: invite Jesus Christ to be the Lord and savior of 810 00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:03,680 Speaker 1: your life right now, I want you to pray this 811 00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:06,359 Speaker 1: after me out loud if you can't, but in your 812 00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:10,000 Speaker 1: heart he hears you. Pray this. Heavenly Father, I am 813 00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:13,840 Speaker 1: a sinner in need of a savior, and I believe 814 00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:18,040 Speaker 1: that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the 815 00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:22,520 Speaker 1: savior of the world. And today I make Jesus the 816 00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:25,960 Speaker 1: Lord of my life. I believe he died that I 817 00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:29,880 Speaker 1: would be forgiven and rose again to give me life. 818 00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:35,480 Speaker 1: Now receive this new life. This is my new beginning. 819 00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:42,360 Speaker 1: I am a child of God. Man. What an awesome 820 00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:46,200 Speaker 1: privilege to pray with you today and to minister to 821 00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:48,640 Speaker 1: you God's word. What God says you are, not what 822 00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:51,879 Speaker 1: people say you are, not what you thought you were, 823 00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:54,400 Speaker 1: not even what you have been up until this point. 824 00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:58,200 Speaker 1: What God knows you to be. I'm telling you I 825 00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:01,560 Speaker 1: still feel the revelation coming right now, even as I 826 00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:04,640 Speaker 1: give you this little outro. But I'm going to close 827 00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:08,479 Speaker 1: for now. We love being your extended church family, whether 828 00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:10,319 Speaker 1: you're a part of our church or whether God just 829 00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:13,440 Speaker 1: used this ministry in your life today. Thank you forgiving, 830 00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:17,240 Speaker 1: for praying, for sowing into good ground all over the world. 831 00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:20,320 Speaker 1: It's bearing fruit because of you, and I'm so thankful 832 00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:29,840 Speaker 1: for you. I'll see you next time. God bless you.