WEBVTT - I’m Not What I Thought 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:04.600 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:07.080 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:10.440 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:12.520 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:17.640 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. Well, 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:19.919 I want to share a scripture today. You may be seated. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:22.680 I'll tell you what. There's a great energy in this room. 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:27.479 I wish you were here. I know Holly thought I 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:30.440 was crazy because last night, getting ready to preach, I 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:35.519 started playing all the old Elevation worship videos and I 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:37.480 know she must have thought, like, this is kind of weird. 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.519 You're in there listening to songs that you wrote. Kind 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:47.400 of weird. But I just I needed to see everything 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:53.960 like it was. Might start crying. I started crying. I'm 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:57.680 not a crier, but I don't know. I thought I 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:01.000 wasn't a crier. But I guess I'm not what I 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:07.920 thought I was. Let's just call the sermon that can 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:14.280 we call this sermon? I'm not what I thought. I'm 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.280 not what I thought. And if you'll join me in 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:20.479 the Bible and also share this message with someone who 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:22.360 needs to hear it. I'm gonna be sharing from Mark 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:28.399 chapter five. And if you share this message, the Lord 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.160 will bless you with something better than a stimulus check 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:37.319 this week. You will have treasure in heaven. Amen. And 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:40.120 if you share this message, everybody who shares this message 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:46.520 will receive a blessing. Let's make it super vague like that, right, 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:52.360 I'm not what I thought. And after you've written that down, 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:56.560 and now remember you can misinterpret my messages. Do not 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:58.520 look at your husband and say you're not what I thought, 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:02.920 because that's not the that's not the idea here. But 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:08.200 I'm not what I thought. Thank you. Jesus. Mart Chapter five, 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:13.400 verse twenty one says when Jesus had again crossed over 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:17.680 by boat to the other side of the lake, other 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:22.040 side of the lake. I was just thinking about Brandon 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:26.320 Lake when I read that A large crowd gathered around 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.480 him while he was by the lake. Come on, Anna, 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:34.560 say I'm by the lake. Then one of the synagogue 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:40.120 leaders named Jyrus Important due Important du came in. When 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:42.160 he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. He pleaded 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:47.359 earnestly with him. My little daughter is dying. I can't 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:53.080 imagine that. I can't imagine that my little daughter is dying. 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.800 Please come and put your hands on her so that 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.560 she will be healed and live. So Jesus with him. 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.160 Now I want to pause and just deal with that 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.680 for a moment, because to skip over Gyros does not 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:10.760 do the text justice. And yet Gyros is not the 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.760 assignment for my preaching today. But I want to point 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:20.440 out that certain situations will make your position irrelevant. Certain 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:24.760 situations will make it not matter that they call you 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:29.760 a CEO when there's no peace in your home. There's 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:33.520 no position on your job that can make you feel 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:38.240 good about your life. And so that issue that was 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.600 happening in his home brought him to a low place, 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.720 even though he occupied a high position. Now, remember, a 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:48.080 synagogue ruler wasn't just somebody who stood and attended. It 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:52.760 was someone who actually had some influence. And yet he 0:03:52.840 --> 0:04:00.560 finds himself at the feet of this rabbi, this radical teacher, healer, 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:05.800 and he wants to know, will you help me with 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:09.200 this issue? Now. I don't want to move too emotionally 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:13.400 too fast, but some of us have completely had our 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.839 positions upended over the course of the last several months, 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:21.200 and we find ourselves in a place we never thought 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.560 we'd be. For Gyros, it was at Jesus' feet. And 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:30.440 that position of desperation, of course, is not unfamiliar to 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:35.640 you unless you're under the age of twelve. It just 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:40.520 so happens that Gyrus's daughter was twelve. But Gyros encountered something, 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.479 and you will if you live a little while. That 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:49.520 made his position irrelevant. He did not announce himself by 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:54.440 his title. He demonstrated his desperation by bringing his issue 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.440 to the only one that he thought had the ability 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.320 to fix it. And I wonder if God Is brought 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.680 you to that place in this season of your life 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:06.480 where the things you used to try are no longer 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:11.239 relieving the trouble anymore. So he came to Jesus, which 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.719 in itself is a miracle. It's a miracle that he 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:18.040 could get to Jesus because Jesus was so popular. Somebody 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.039 say in the chat, it's a miracle. I'm here, it's 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.280 a miracle. I'm here. It's a miracle. I'm here. It's 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.520 a miracle. I'm here. It's a miracle. I'm here. It's 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.360 a miracle. I'm here. It's a miracle. I'm here. It's 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:32.400 a miracle. I'm here. Oh, that breath was a blessing, 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.320 because it's a miracle. I'm here, it's a miracle. I'm here. 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:40.320 It's a miracle. Now, this is the miracle that Mark 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.400 is highlighting in the text. But yet there is an 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:47.040 interruption to the miracle that forms my main point for 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:50.600 my sermon today. And the reason I stopped to point 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.840 that out is because sometimes the miracles happen in the 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.680 middle of the other things that you think are more important. 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:02.680 You ever noticed this, Sometimes the miracle happens in the middle. 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:06.960 This is like a sandwich approach to scripture. Because Gyrus 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:11.200 is asking Jesus to come and do something at his house. 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:15.719 On the way, he gets interrupted, and now the thing 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:19.760 that he gets interrupted by becomes the main point of 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.599 what Luke or what Mark writes. Luke wrote it to, 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.039 Matthew wrote it to. When Luke wrote it, he wrote 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.840 it differently because he was a doctor, so he gave 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.320 it from the perspective of a physician. But Marcus is 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.960 classifying this miracle on the basis of action, and the 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.440 Bible says that a large crowd followed and pressed around 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:43.800 Jesus and verse twenty five. A woman was there. Here 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:45.840 we go, Here we go, Here we go. I want 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.960 to talk to you about this woman. You ask, what's 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.960 her name? I would tell you if Mark told me. 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.800 I checked Matthew. Maybe Matthew told us. He didn't tell us. 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.200 I checked Luke. Luke didn't care to mention her by 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.640 name either. What we do know is that she had 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:06.280 been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She is identified 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:12.040 by her issue. Done this suck to be identified by 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:16.760 your issue? Last week I preached water walking, and I 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.240 talked about how the first time I ever preached on 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:23.000 that text, I was preaching at Monks Corny United Methodist Church. 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.000 Then I went on as a sixteen year I've been 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:28.120 preaching since I was sixteen, and I didn't know anything 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:34.240 about the Bible. But I was bold. I was boldly. 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:39.360 I was a confident idiot. I was a confident idiot. 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:43.520 And I would teach these kids on Wednesday night and 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:45.600 feed them and then teach them. And one week I 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.000 was teaching about how God can do anything, and I 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.160 was teaching about the woman in this text. But I 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.440 didn't understand the background. And I was sixteen years old, 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:54.840 and I got there teaching, I was trying to make 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:56.480 it come alive, make it interesting. I was trying to 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.800 make it vid And I said, this woman had been 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.000 subject to bleeding twelve years and she comes up to 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:05.960 Jesus and she's bleeding all over the place. Because you know, 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.720 I'm sixteen, I'm stupid, and I'm like, she's bleeding all 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.720 over the place. And a thirteen year old boy that 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:16.360 was there, he raises his hand and I call on him, 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:20.120 and he says, she wasn't bleeding on the outside, Stephen, 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.800 she was bleeding on the inside. She was hammers saying 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.040 it was a uterine infection. I'm like, how do you 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:32.480 even know about a uterus at thirteen? It was an 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:37.520 internal issue, Stephen. You couldn't see where she was bleeding. 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:53.080 You couldn't see where she was bleeding. Nobody sees where 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:59.920 you're bleeding. That's a lonely feeling. Nobody sees what dominic 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:05.400 and depresses you. They see what you show them, and 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:10.960 your feet is clean. They don't see where you're bleeding. 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:17.599 It wasn't internal hemorrhy. Stephen read the Bible and no 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.800 man's voice hadn't even dropped, and he was dropping truth 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:25.280 like a theologian You couldn't see where she was bleeding, 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:29.480 couldn't see where she was hurting, couldn't see where she 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:36.000 was hemorrhaging. And that's a tough place to be because 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:39.559 if you walk up bleeding from your nose, I got 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:44.160 tissues for that. If you walk up with blood on 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:47.200 your face, it's gonna cause me to stop in my tracks. 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:52.400 She was bleeding in a place no one could see. 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:54.720 I feel like I need to stop and ask you 0:09:54.800 --> 0:10:00.760 to think about where are you bleeding that no one sees? Where? 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:05.240 Where are you hurting that no one has really heard about. 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.840 And even though you generalize those places by saying, just 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.960 pray for me, I need a financial breakthrough. Really, the 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:14.920 issue is that you need a financial breakthrough. It's that 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:16.760 you don't even feel like a man anymore because you've 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:18.240 lost your ability to provide. And if you can't even 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.840 provide for your family, what good are you. You are bleeding, 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:30.880 not financially, you're bleeding on the inside. I'm bleeding and 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:35.160 no one sees it. And even ready for this, even 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:41.000 Jesus didn't see the woman. He sees all things, not 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.680 this time he didn't. The Bible says, y'all believe the Bible? 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.320 Can I read? Can I read the Bible? Or you 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.400 want me to get a doctor, sue, So the places 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:53.480 you'll go, all right? Well, Jesus did not see this woman, 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:57.160 but he felt her presence. And that's that's going to 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.360 be important in how I unpacked this, because it said 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.440 that a large crowd followed and pass pressed around him, 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:05.760 and a woman was there with the subject bleeding for 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:11.040 twelve years. She had suffered a great deal under the 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:14.840 care of many doctors, and had spent all she had. 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.920 Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse. Instead of 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:23.520 getting better, she grew worse. Isn't it crazy how some 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.280 of the ways you try to feel better make you 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:29.880 that much worse in the end. Have you ever done 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:33.520 something to feel better but you found out it actually 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:37.720 made it worse. Had you ever ate something to feel 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:42.959 better and you felt better for five minutes? Ah, but 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:47.040 about three am the devil sent you run into the 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:51.679 toilet talking about it felt good. It fixed it for 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:55.079 a minute. Now you've been doing some things that fixed 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.800 it for a minute. The Bible doesn't say she never 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:02.719 felt better. The Bible says she didn't get better. And 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.640 I wonder if in this time of our life, this 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:10.480 time of trouble and transition and trauma and secret bleeding, 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.400 if some of us are running to places where we 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.959 are spending our energy and giving our attention to things 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.959 that promise to make it better but end up making 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:28.599 it worse. My grandfather didn't have the Internet. He was 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:32.760 at such a disadvantage. He couldn't just google an answer. 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:37.720 He had to actually talk to somebody. I have it 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:41.040 so much better than him, so much better off, man. 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.080 I want my kids to have it better than I 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:52.080 had it. Sometimes what we think is better is based 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:56.280 on a point of reference that has no grounding in reality. 0:12:57.880 --> 0:12:59.760 So if you think about this and again, we can 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:03.440 take vote okay, church, vote church, vote em around the world. 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:08.240 Everyone who thinks that being able to constantly share an 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:13.560 access every opinion that has ever existed in humankind in 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:17.360 an instant has made our ability to connect with one 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:24.160 another that much better, say I. And yet y'all ain't 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.920 saying nothing in the chat. Yeah, you didn't say nothing 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.320 in the chat. Just because we have more ways to 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.840 connect doesn't mean we're better at doing it. And yet 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.640 here's here's here's the flip. The only reason I'm able 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.480 to preach this is because of the technology that I'm 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:46.199 preaching against. When when Luke gets ready to share it, 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.320 he doesn't say it quite like Mark says it. Mark 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:53.280 says she spent all she had, but every doctor that 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.520 she went to made it worse. Luke is a physician, 0:13:56.600 --> 0:14:00.640 so he says, nobody could fix this woman. Nobody could 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:04.200 fix her. Mark seems to imply that there were some 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:08.000 people taking advantage of her. Mark seems to imply that 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.080 the motives of everyone that she went to weren't so 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.480 pure and so clean and so clear. Mark seems to 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:17.360 imply that the founders of Facebook and the proprietors of 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:23.480 Instagram are not primarily interested in your inspiration, or that 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:28.200 the news is not primarily interested in informing us. So 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.560 now I want to ask you a question. With the 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:34.160 news on all week long, are you smarter or dumber 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:39.040 on Friday? It's just a question. Answer it how you 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.760 want to answer it. And I just wonder, is it 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:45.640 making it better? The place you go to to feel better. 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.640 Isn't making it better? That's a question. Before long, you 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:54.640 start to identify yourself with the information that you receive, 0:14:55.560 --> 0:15:01.800 and in this woman's case, she was getting work to 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:04.240 the point that her issue had consumed her so totally 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.240 that she was only known by her issue. And I 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.440 love when the text lines up real pretty like this. 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.800 How many of y'all really love the Bible? Not just 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:13.360 the verse of the day, But you'd like to see 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.840 that little hidden stuff, those little hospital corner tucks that 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:20.880 the Bible does. All right, look at this. There's one 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:28.760 man who is identified by his significance Gyrus, and one 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:36.360 woman who is identified by her issue. There's one man 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:39.600 who has a position, but he also has a dying daughter, 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:46.240 so now his position is upended by what he's dealing with, 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:51.160 just like the woman. Now all of a sudden, the 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.880 woman who is identified by her issue. That's why she's 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.560 called in the King James, the woman with the issue 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:02.080 of blood. Would you every kid in my house has 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:05.640 a nickname. How would you like for your nickname to 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:10.280 be the woman with the issue of blood? How about it? Lucius? 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.200 That's what I call Abbey. I call her Lucius. It's 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:16.400 a long story how it got there, it's been through about. 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:18.880 It's a whole morphology of how my kids go by 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.400 their names. He was Graham, and then he was g 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.360 and then he was g T. And then he was Gt. McSwain, 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.600 and then he was swaying, and then he was shwig 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:28.800 and then he was shwigglish, and then he was leish. 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.200 How would you like for your name to be issues? 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.840 Her name was Abby, then it was Foffe, then it 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.560 was foth, then it was foof, then it was fIF 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.400 then it was leash, then it was lush, and now 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.360 she's lush. There was a time when she was called 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:48.200 There was a time when this woman had a name. 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:55.160 But twelve years is a long time, and over time 0:16:55.280 --> 0:17:00.160 she lost her name, asked, she was consumed by her issue. 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:04.000 Now you start thinking things like you know, I'm an addict. 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:08.080 Now you start thinking things like I'm just a grumpy person. 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:12.280 Now you start saying things like it's just in my genetics. 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:22.080 But your genetics haven't met Jesus yet. Your genetics need 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:29.920 to meet Jesus with the woman's genetics that Jesus, WHOA, 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:37.240 I got a new nature. I'm gonna come back to that. 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:46.000 So depression is something I deal with. I'm not depressed. 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.800 I deal with depression. You understand what I'm saying. Now, 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.040 Just like that is true, it is also true of 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:58.480 your achievements. Just like people will identify you with your issues, 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:02.800 they will identify you with your position and achievement. Like 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:06.080 the man who told me on the Rattle YouTube comments. 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:07.960 I know I'm not supposed to look in those comments. 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:10.000 I know I tell y'all not to do it. But 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:14.560 do as I say, not as I do. I'm a hypocrite. 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:16.840 The man said he saw me up there. I was 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.560 singing on Rattle Brandon having the time of my life. 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.879 It was like metallic of creeping death in reverse James 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:27.200 Hedfield saying die die. I mean you shall live live 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.879 best moment of my life. Man said, stay in your lane, Steve. 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.320 Let the worship leaders lead worship. You preach the word 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:45.680 first of all, Worship worship, y'all better understand where I'm 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:49.159 coming from. Worship for me is not what happens before 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:54.960 the sermon. Worship is how I make it through the 0:18:55.160 --> 0:19:00.560 worst moments of my life. And secondly, I'm not what 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:05.000 you thought I was bro Big Da before twenty three 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:14.280 in the YouTube comments. I'm not defined. I'm not defined. 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:20.760 You didn't make my lane. You didn't make my lane. 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:26.679 So it's weird that we just call her the woman 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:30.600 right and we define her by her issue, and we 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:34.639 do it to ourselves all the time. Yeah, you know, 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:36.840 I mean, are you can even define yourself by how 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:42.080 you feel in this moment? Right? And that's dangerous. Let 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:44.040 me teach you for a moment. Do you define yourself 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:49.080 by your emotions? Do you define yourself by your status? 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:53.359 Do you define yourself by your lowest point? Do you 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:58.000 define yourself by your highest achievement? All of that is dangerous, okay, 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:01.160 because the moment you start believing that you are what 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:07.560 you do or you are what you went through, it 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:10.360 creates something inside. The woman was bleeding on the inside. 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:13.359 She was bleeding on the inside. She was bleeding on 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:15.480 the inside. There is a bleeding on the inside that 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.840 happens when your sense of self worth flows from what 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:24.920 you do and what you go through. Somebody say, I'm 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:28.439 not what I thought. And in the text, and some 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:31.040 of you may be very familiar with this text, the 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:34.240 Lord put me on a clear direction since quarantine to 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:37.800 only preach scriptures that I preached before. And I don't 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:39.360 know when that's going to end, because there's a whole 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:41.240 lot of good stuff I hadn't preached in fourteen and 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:44.520 a half years. But until further notice, I'm trying to 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:50.200 go deeper in what I thought I knew. So every 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:53.320 time it's causing me to stop and see what am 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:56.840 I not seeing? This woman who was not seen by 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:59.639 any people, even including Jesus, who she needed a miracle 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:03.280 from what That's what she did. She self activated. And 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:05.679 that's what you did when you went on this stream. 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:09.359 By the way, today, you self activated. You didn't wait 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:11.840 for God to encourage you. You said, I'm getting under 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:15.840 the spout. This is old school, where the glory comes 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:20.600 out as the deer pants for the streams of water. 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:23.840 I'm gonna get on a stream today that is going 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:28.199 to hydrate my hope. And this woman got in the 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:32.960 flow of a miracle because she needed it. She needed it. 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:37.200 I need it, I need I need God. I need 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:39.840 I need God at the level not only of my 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:44.600 conceptual abstraction, but at the level of my feeling, my thought. Now, 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:47.040 this is what happened to her. She had suffered a 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:50.120 great deal under the care of many doctors and had 0:21:50.160 --> 0:21:53.000 spent all she had. Yet instead of getting better, she 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:56.000 grew worse. And when she heard about Jesus, when she 0:21:56.040 --> 0:22:00.360 what when she so that's the first thing she did. 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:04.399 She heard. She heard, but I want you to notice 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:10.080 she didn't get healed off of what she heard. This 0:22:10.160 --> 0:22:13.920 word can only do so much by hearing. Faith comes 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:16.800 by hearing hearing the word of God. But faith without 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:19.879 works is dead. So James would say, do not merely 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:22.159 listen to the word and deceive yourselves. Instead, do what 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:25.360 you said. Let me tell you something. It's not gonna 0:22:25.400 --> 0:22:30.159 get better because you took good notes. You can go 0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:34.879 to every Bible study and get worse and think you 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:40.600 satisfied your intellectual quest for God. But this woman did 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:42.960 not get healed because she heard. That was the first 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:45.879 step she heard. And I think it's important that we 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:48.199 put ourselves in the path of God's word. Don't you 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:51.879 to put yourself in the path of the promises of God. 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:55.760 To put yourself in the path of words of truth 0:22:55.840 --> 0:22:58.520 and words of life, and words of grace and words 0:22:58.560 --> 0:23:01.440 of possibility. I think that that is so important. Yet 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:06.840 she didn't get healed when she heard. She heard about Jesus. 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:15.480 She heard about Jesus. And then after she heard about Jesus, 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:17.120 come on study with me. This is about to get 0:23:17.160 --> 0:23:19.760 so good. This is about to get so good. You're 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:23.320 gonna call your grandma who thinks the preacher shouldn't wear 0:23:23.560 --> 0:23:26.040 jeans with holes in him and say, watch him this week. 0:23:26.040 --> 0:23:27.800 He's got a word for you this week. I don't 0:23:27.840 --> 0:23:29.920 care what he's wearing this week. This is a good word. 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:33.360 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:35.760 in the crowd and touched this cloak. So what we 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:41.320 have so far? She heard, she came, She touched. She heard, 0:23:41.720 --> 0:23:46.679 she came, She touched, and maybe instead of waiting for 0:23:46.800 --> 0:23:50.679 a touch from God, you just gotta make up your mind. 0:23:51.200 --> 0:23:56.240 I'm gonna touch God myself. I'm gonna praise God myself. 0:23:56.720 --> 0:24:00.640 I'm gonna be grateful. Gratitude is a strategy. I need 0:24:00.640 --> 0:24:03.719 to feel God. So I'm gonna get grateful for a 0:24:03.760 --> 0:24:11.440 minute because I need to feel him. She heard, she came, 0:24:11.560 --> 0:24:14.159 she touched because she thought, if I just touch his clothes, 0:24:14.160 --> 0:24:17.240 you see verse twenty eight. If I just touch his clothes, 0:24:17.520 --> 0:24:19.680 I will be here. If I just touch his clothes, 0:24:20.080 --> 0:24:25.520 I will be here. And immediately twenty nine her bleeding stopped, 0:24:26.720 --> 0:24:29.399 and she felt in her body that she was freed 0:24:29.440 --> 0:24:33.639 from her suffering. So many questions I have about this text. 0:24:35.080 --> 0:24:39.920 How did Jesus not Sere. You know, how did Jesus 0:24:40.000 --> 0:24:42.840 not Sere? Who did she think she was to sneak 0:24:42.920 --> 0:24:44.359 up on the Savior of the world when he was 0:24:44.400 --> 0:24:47.440 on his way to the deathbed of a dying little girl. 0:24:48.920 --> 0:24:52.199 Another question, why didn't Jyrus him grab this lady by 0:24:52.240 --> 0:24:53.720 the throat and throw her out of the way. I 0:24:53.720 --> 0:24:55.080 would have done it if it would have been you, 0:24:56.560 --> 0:24:59.120 I'd throw any of y'all out of the way. I'll 0:24:59.119 --> 0:25:01.359 put you in a figure four leg locks so Jesus 0:25:01.359 --> 0:25:03.320 could get to my house and heal my daughter. I'll 0:25:03.359 --> 0:25:06.720 put you in the what's it called the scorpion? Remember sting. 0:25:07.240 --> 0:25:09.600 I'll be making up all kinds of moves. Get out 0:25:09.640 --> 0:25:13.640 of my way. I got a daughter that needs a touch. 0:25:17.760 --> 0:25:21.480 But one question I wanted to ask you, and maybe 0:25:21.480 --> 0:25:23.960 I'll ask Chris because it's like one of my best 0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:25.280 friends in the world. He won't mind me putting on 0:25:25.359 --> 0:25:32.600 spot what stopped the woman's bleeding? And I know Christ 0:25:32.720 --> 0:25:40.679 is like Jesus. I think it's Jesus for them. I 0:25:40.720 --> 0:25:43.119 think this is a trick question. It is. It's a 0:25:43.160 --> 0:25:47.360 trick question, all right, Brandon, You're down there at sea 0:25:47.400 --> 0:25:49.879 coast for a real, real preacher preaching the word. So 0:25:51.240 --> 0:25:55.720 what would josh Sarat say that the bleeding stopped? Because 0:26:01.040 --> 0:26:02.840 for years when I taught this text, I thought that 0:26:02.880 --> 0:26:09.159 when she touched Jesus, that that action, which signified faith, 0:26:10.119 --> 0:26:13.080 caused the flow of the bleeding to stop. But the 0:26:13.080 --> 0:26:16.160 Bible says immediately, Mark's favorite word to use to transition 0:26:16.240 --> 0:26:21.720 his gospel. Immediately, and in the interconnectedness of all things, 0:26:22.560 --> 0:26:27.560 the moment that Jesus stopped because the woman touched his garment, 0:26:27.640 --> 0:26:31.080 the edge of his garment, I might point out, Gyrus's 0:26:31.160 --> 0:26:35.520 daughter lost her life. So the gaining of life for 0:26:35.800 --> 0:26:41.960 the woman cost Gyrus's daughter her life. Jesus went on 0:26:42.040 --> 0:26:44.720 to resurrect the little girl, but Gyros didn't know that. 0:26:46.359 --> 0:26:51.160 You ever notice how everything's connected. You don't see those 0:26:51.160 --> 0:26:54.320