April 19, 2025 • 26 mins
Jesus Christ is risen from the dead and we celebrate that today with Dr. Mark Jobe on Moody Presents!
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He is risen! Christ is risen indeed! Here's Mark Jobe.
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Sometimes we have to shift and realize that our circumstances
right now aren't the end of the story. We have
to look in faith towards the future and say, God,
I trust your timing. I know that you're in control.
It seems like this is a pause, but I'm going
to look beyond that, father, because I'm looking at Jesus,
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not at my circumstances.
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Welcome to Moody Presents with doctor Mark Jobe, president of
the Moody Bible Institute and senior pastor of New Life
Community Church in Chicago. I'm John Yeager, celebrating with you
the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus today
on Moody Presents. And, you know, as we reflect on
this time, Doctor Jobe wants us to go with him
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on a journey to a very interesting account based in
Luke chapter eight. You know, we find that Jesus raised
three people from the dead while he was here on earth.
And we're going to concentrate on a compelling story of
a girl that Jesus resurrects to show that he has
power over death. All of this by way of a
setting up of the fact that Jesus himself will rise
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from the dead. That's Easter, right? The story of Jairus
is a powerful story of Jesus and His resurrection. When
it's all said and done. Let me ask, are you stuck?
Are you surrounded by an inner circle that is just,
quite frankly, not very encouraging to you in the things
of God? Are you praying about it? Today we're about
to learn of a man who was desperate for help.
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Like very few have been desperate. Jairus, a guy whose
daughter was was on the ropes health wise, ready to die,
and he had nowhere else to go. And of course,
there was the woman who was bleeding for so many years.
These two stories have a way of pointing us to
a much greater truth as we're about to learn. On
this Easter edition of Moody Presents, let's turn things over
to our teacher now, doctor Mark Jobe. On this Easter
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edition of Moody Presents Jairus.
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It's interesting because his name means he enlightens and he
comes to Jesus an outlier. He loses all decorum, and
in desperation, he falls at the feet of Jesus because
he's in the middle of a mega crisis. His one
and only 12 year old daughter is dying. He pleads
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with Jesus not as someone that is eloquent. And this
is not a formal introduction. This is the kind of
pleading with Jesus. Have you ever prayed when you're in
a desperate situation? You don't care who's around you, who's
watching how you sound. You don't start with our God
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of heavenly lights above the universe. You're just snot running
down your face, and you're weeping and calling upon God
because you're in desperation. That's the kind of prayer that
Jairus has as he falls at the feet of Jesus.
He's in desperation. And so Jesus agrees to follow him
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to the house of his one and only daughter that's dying.
He starts to move. I'm sure Jairus is kind of
pushing him ahead, saying, Jesus, hurry! This is desperate. And
the Bible tells us that on the way in verse 42,
as Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him.
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There's a big crowd. They're pushing. They're trying to touch Jesus.
Some are gathering around him because they say he's going
to be the king that liberates us from the Roman oppression.
Some hear that he can touch the eyes of the
blind and they open. Others have heard that he has
the power to cast out demons. And the oppressed are
set free. There's rumors about this Jesus and the power
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that he has, and the miraculous power that lies within him.
And so he's mobbed by this crowd, all trying to
get a peek at Jesus. And it tells us in
verse 43, and a woman was there who had been
subject to bleeding for 12 years, but no one could
heal her. So we have a story within a story.
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This is a story about a man desperate over his
12 year old daughter, and it's interrupted by another story
of a woman who's also desperate. The story unfolds. She
touches Jesus. You know how it goes. The hem of
his garment, powers released into her. She stops. She knows
she's been healed. Jesus stops, says, who touched me? There
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all around him saying, Jesus, what do you mean? Who
touched you? No, someone touched me in a different kind
of way. The woman comes forth. He gets in a
conversation with this woman. She starts to tell him the story.
But what we forget about is Jairus. You see? He's
waiting for the miracle. He's asked Jesus to come. And
now Jesus seems distracted. Preoccupied. Occupied, interrupted on pause. I
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think that Jairus thought that this was a interruption, but
what it really was is a divine coordination. There's some
things about this story that are interesting. She's been sick
12 years. How old is the young girl? 12. So
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the the year that she was born, that this father
was celebrating. I still remember the birth of my daughter
and how it changed my life and how the heart
of a father was birthed within me the first time
I ever held her. A indelible moment for me, etched
in my heart graved into my memory when I first
held my daughter. I can imagine Jairus holding his 12
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year old daughter. The year that she was born. There's
another woman that has for the first time a disease
she starts to hemorrhage. For one person, it's a year
of celebration. For another person, it's a year of defeat,
the beginning of a tragic story. It's also interesting, by
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the way, if you follow this story that Jesus interaction
both with the woman, with the issue of blood and
with the young girl, both of them would make Jesus
ceremonially unclean. The woman that touches Jesus, the hem of
his garment. She had an issue of blood. The Bible
says in the Old Testament that if someone touches you
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that has hemorrhaging like that, they would be made unclean,
ceremonially unclean, at least until the evening, and you had
to wash all your clothes. Later on, Jesus would touch
the body of a little girl that would make him
unclean for seven days. It's interesting. 12 years, both unclean
divine coordination. But for this man that's waiting. Jairus. For him,
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it's an. It's a pause. It's a interruption. I don't
know about you, but have you ever been seeking God? Desperately.
And it seems like there's an interruption. It's even worse
when it seems like it's interruption interrupted by someone else
that gets what you wanted. That ever happened to you.
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There's a lot of ways that other people can seem
to get the answer to the prayer that we wanted.
You start to notice a guy. A kind of guy
I'd be interested in. You think? So? You think that
there sparks happening there? You're praying. Jesus, lead me to
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the right guy. Let my eyes be open. Let his
eyes be open. Especially to notice me. And then when
you think the sparks are going and something's happening there
and it's really going, you even confide in your friend, hey,
I think there's something going on between us. And then
suddenly she swoops in and like, where'd she come from?
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The devil brought a girl into his life, and now
she's the enemy. It's like, hold on a second. I
thought that was. Wait, what happened here? This was supposed
to be. Hey, this is what Jairus is going through.
It's supposed to be his daughter. And yet Jesus is
now focused on the woman with the issue of blood.
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And I just want you to know that sometimes we
have to shift and realize that our circumstances right now
aren't the end of the story. We have to look
in faith towards the future and say, God, I trust
your timing. I know that you're in control. It seems
like this is a pause, an interruption. But I'm going
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to look beyond that, father, because I'm looking at Jesus,
not at my circumstances. And I think Jairus had to
shift a little bit. Instead of getting angry, he had
to think, okay, Jesus knows what he's doing. There is
a future. Let me not get obsessed with this distraction.
And let me remember that Jesus is in control of
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all things. Verse 48. Then the Bible says that Jesus
continued on. Then it says, Then Jesus. Said to her daughter,
your faith has healed you. Go in peace. And while
Jesus was still speaking someone from the house of Jairus,
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the synagogue leader said, your daughter is dead. Don't bother
the teacher anymore. Hearing this, Jesus said to Jairus, don't
be afraid. Just believe and she will be healed. Here's
what I want you to notice. He's hearing at the
same time, daughter, your faith has healed you, and at
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the same time he's hearing the person that came from
his household said, your daughter is dead. Has that ever
happened to you? Where you hear the voice of faith
and the voice of fear at the same time? Jesus
is saying, daughter, you're healed. And then at the same time,
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while he's still speaking, the other voice says, your daughter's dead.
I don't know about you, but some of you, let's
be honest, we hear those voices of faith and those
voices of doubt at the same time. The voice of doubt.
The voice of discouragement can invade you. And you have
to decide who will I give the mic to? You're
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never going to be able to silence that voice, but
you have to listen. You have to shift and choose
what frequency you're going to tune in to. Jairus, who's
hearing these? Both of these voices. And Jesus says he
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just heard this gut wrenching truth. Your daughter is dead.
Give up. Forget about it. Imagine the stun effect of
my baby girl is dead. And yet, in the middle
of that moment, Jesus says, Jairus, people around remember there's
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all kinds of people. There's noise. Jesus says, Jairus, don't
be afraid. Just believe and she will be healed. I
believe that we can't always silence the voice, but we
can choose what frequency we tune into, who we give
the mic to, what we listen to. You know, it's
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interesting that Jesus, I call it selective neglect. Choosing what
channel you listen to. Jesus said two things. Don't be afraid. Why?
Don't be afraid because you know fear makes you give up.
And fear misleads your energy. We have a generation right
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now that has been gripped with more anxiety and fear
than any generation in our lifetime. It's huge. And chances are,
if you're here and you're under the age of 30,
that you've struggled with some form of anxiety or fear.
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The megaphone of fear is big. Now, there's a lot
of reasons why sociologists are saying that it's access to
bad news all the time. It's the the we're we're
not disconnected. The isolation from the pandemic, whatever the reasons,
there's a huge amount of people that are struggling with anxiety,
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social anxiety, fear over the future. Fear can take on
a lot of different forms. It masquerades in a lot
of different ways, but ultimately it has the same effect.
It causes us to focus on what could go wrong.
It takes our head underwater. We lose track of the
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promises of God, the goodness of God, the faithfulness of God.
Fear is not rational. It's irrational, but it has a
powerful effect on us. You cannot be full of fear
and at the same time full of joy. You cannot
be full of fear and at the same time at
rest and at peace. And Jesus says to Jairus, Jairus,
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don't be afraid. And then he also says, just believe.
Those go hand in hand. Which leads me to the
third and final shift. It tells us in verse 51,
when he arrived at the house of Jairus, This is Jesus.
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He did not let anybody go in with him except Peter,
John and James, and the child's father and mother. Meanwhile,
all the people were wailing and mourning for her. Stopped wailing.
And Jesus said, she's not dead, but asleep. And then
they laughed at him, knowing that she was dead. You know,
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it's interesting to me that Jesus goes into the room.
There's a bunch of wailers and mourners around, and Jesus
goes into the room and he kicks them all out.
It doesn't tell us here, but in Mark it uses
the word forcefully. In other words, he doesn't politely say,
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could you please vacate the room? Give the family a
little quiet time with the daughter, he says. Out, out!
Everybody out of here! Forcefully. There's authority. There's a a strength.
There's a determination, an urgency about it. And I ask myself, why, man,
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if I was about to see a resurrection, I would
gather people. I would say, come, hey, get everybody. But
you know what? Jesus kicks everybody out. Can I tell
you something? I believe that Jesus ushered everybody out. Because
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sometimes you need to shift your circle and surround yourself
with faith builders, not faith drainers. Notice who he invites
in Peter, James and John. You know what this was? Jesus.
Swat team. Do you remember when the Mount of Transfiguration happened?
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Who did Jesus take to the Mount? Peter, James and John.
They were hardcore. They were? Oh, yeah. They weren't perfect.
You know the stories. But this was his inner faith circle.
These were people that he was building, and these were radical,
committed followers of his. Do you remember when the Garden
of Gethsemane, where Jesus was wrestling emotionally with tears and struggling?
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Who did he bring to pray with him in that
moment of Gethsemane? Peter, James and John. Can I tell
you something? Look up. Look up at me. This is really,
really important. Some of you need to change your inner circle.
Some of you need to get some new people around
your inner circle. You need to gather some people that
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are going to believe God with you. Some of you
surround yourself with cynics. You surround yourself with people that
drain your faith. Don't add to your faith. And then
you wonder why you're struggling. Listen, I think we all
need an inner circle of people that you know that
when you go to them, they're not going to laugh.
They're not going to just passively say something. But you
know that you can share your heart, that they're going
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to stop right there and say, can I pray with
you that they're going to walk with you? They're going
to they're going to go with you to the battle.
They're going to pray. They're going to do whatever they
can to help you follow Jesus in a more radical way.
We need an inner circle like that. And if you
don't have an inner circle like that, you need to
start finding one, because there's people around that want to
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live for God. Jesus has the father, the mother, Peter,
James and John. They're in the room. I can just
imagine that the parents are beside the body of their
12 year old daughter, that you can't be in that
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room without weeping. Jairus has seen his little girl, his
12 year old girl, for the first time. I can't
imagine that he wouldn't have broken down and wept at
the sight of her lifeless body. The mother is there.
It's silent. The mourners are out. The crowd is away.
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The Bible says that. Meanwhile all the people were wailing
and mourning for her. They stopped wailing. Jesus says she's
not dead. She's asleep. They laughed. He put them out.
And then the Bible says that Jesus goes up to
the little girl. He takes her by the hand, by
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the way, touching the corpse. In that culture would make
him ceremonially unclean. I love the fact that Jesus is
not afraid to touch that which makes people ceremonially unclean.
I love the fact that when Jesus touches it, it
doesn't make him unclean. He actually reverses the curse and
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it makes them clean because that's the way Jesus is
even today. He's not afraid of your sin. My sin.
He's not afraid of sinners around. He's not afraid of society.
He's not afraid to step in to places that are dirty,
unclean people that are antagonistic. The presence of Jesus reverses
that curse. He's not in a holy huddle. He's not
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trying to keep himself. He he steps in. He touches this.
He takes the girl by the hand and listen. He says,
my child, get up. Literally what he says is, Talitha koum,
Talitha koum. Talitha means little girl. Koum means get up.
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Why does he say it in Aramaic. He's speaking in
Greek and he suddenly switches to Aramaic. You know why?
It's the language of her heart in that region of Galilee.
That's what they spoke. That's what the family spoke. I'm
sure as he talked to Jairus, he realized that's what
he speaks. Let me speak the language of her heart.
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He says to them, the Bible says in verse 55,
her spirit returned, and at once she stood up. Then
Jesus told him, give her something to eat. Hey, she's
12 years old. She's always hungry. Her parents were astonished. Literally,
it means they were floored. But he ordered them not
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to tell anybody what had just happened. In that moment,
the Son of God. Emmanuel, God with us, who has
all power and authority. There was no jumping around. There
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was no bringing the crowd in on stage. And let's
give a big show. This was a quiet. The platform
is clear because the Son of Man is here. Jesus
with all authority and power. With resurrection power. He doesn't
have to shout and scream. I believe he probably gently
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whispers to this girl as he holds her hand and says,
rise up, little girl, and immediately the power of God
is released in her. The same power that would raise
Jesus from the dead is released into her, and she
is raised to life again. There are some of you
here that are in the middle of a crisis. It
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may be a crisis, a difficulty that you're not sure
how God's going to handle, what God's going to do.
There's some of you here that are hearing voices. The
voices of quit. Give up. You're never going to change.
You'll always be like that. You're not like everybody else.
You'll never overcome this. You'll never break this. And you're
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hearing the voice of just. You might as well just
quit and give up. But I just want to challenge you.
I want to challenge you to to to like. Like
Jesus said, he looked at him and he said, Jairus,
you need to shift. You need to shift. Get out
of fear. Get out of fear. Don't fear. Just believe.
And if you're in the middle of a difficult time
right now, if you're in the middle of a crisis
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right now, if you're listening to the voice of doubt,
listen to the voice of lies. The enemy has two
weapons that he uses against us fear and deception. If
he can start to get you to fear your future,
if you can start to get you to buy into
the lies that have been spoken into you. Some of
you as you were growing up, they've been embedded into
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your soul, deposited into your spirit. There lies that at
difficult times the same lies pop up and they pop
up with volume and with grit and with they stick
to you. Some of those lies are the lies that
you've been battling since your teenage years, and there has
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to be a shift. And God is saying, don't be afraid.
I want you to believe. Some of you need to
change your inner circle. Some of you need to start
getting whatever truth combats the lie you've been living with,
and you need to soak in it, repeat it, sing it,
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say it, read it, put it on the screen of
your phone so that you are just hearing the truth
of the Word of God embedded into your soul that
combats that lie. I want you to know that there's
power in the touch of Jesus and power in His Word.
Resurrection power, life changing power. If you identify a voice
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that you know, this is not the voice of God.
This is the voice of my own insecurity, the voice
of my own past. The voice of my own lies.
I want you to identify it. I want you to
speak it out and say, this is not of you, God.
And even though it's hard to grasp it, I just
want you to say the truth over that. Lord, I
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know this is what you say over me. And so
today I'm giving the mic to your word and not
to my lie.
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Pastor Mark Jobe teaching today on Moody Presents. And my
question for you as you listen is, are you distracted?
Are you distracted? Do you do you maybe need to
surrender your life to Jesus Christ, who has risen from
the dead, the one we celebrate today? But you have
never made him in charge of your life? The Bible
word is Savior. You can do that. And it begins
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with you just humbling yourself in a simple prayer that
goes like this. And as I pray, maybe you'd like
to pray with me. Dear God, I believe that Jesus
died on that cross for me, for my wrongdoing, my sin.
Would you please forgive me? And would you help me
turn away from this, this awful lifestyle of poor choices?
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I'm John Geiger. Wishing you a wonderful, Christ centered Easter weekend.
See you next time on Moody Presents a production of
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He is risen! Christ is risen indeed! Here's Mark Jobe.
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Sometimes we have to shift and realize that our circumstances
right now aren't the end of the story. We have
to look in faith towards the future and say, God,
I trust your timing. I know that you're in control.
It seems like this is a pause, but I'm going
to look beyond that, father, because I'm looking at Jesus,
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not at my circumstances.
S1 (00:28):
Welcome to Moody Presents with doctor Mark Jobe, president of
the Moody Bible Institute and senior pastor of New Life
Community Church in Chicago. I'm John Yeager, celebrating with you
the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus today
on Moody Presents. And, you know, as we reflect on
this time, Doctor Jobe wants us to go with him
(00:49):
on a journey to a very interesting account based in
Luke chapter eight. You know, we find that Jesus raised
three people from the dead while he was here on earth.
And we're going to concentrate on a compelling story of
a girl that Jesus resurrects to show that he has
power over death. All of this by way of a
setting up of the fact that Jesus himself will rise
(01:11):
from the dead. That's Easter, right? The story of Jairus
is a powerful story of Jesus and His resurrection. When
it's all said and done. Let me ask, are you stuck?
Are you surrounded by an inner circle that is just,
quite frankly, not very encouraging to you in the things
of God? Are you praying about it? Today we're about
to learn of a man who was desperate for help.
(01:31):
Like very few have been desperate. Jairus, a guy whose
daughter was was on the ropes health wise, ready to die,
and he had nowhere else to go. And of course,
there was the woman who was bleeding for so many years.
These two stories have a way of pointing us to
a much greater truth as we're about to learn. On
this Easter edition of Moody Presents, let's turn things over
to our teacher now, doctor Mark Jobe. On this Easter
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edition of Moody Presents Jairus.
S2 (01:58):
It's interesting because his name means he enlightens and he
comes to Jesus an outlier. He loses all decorum, and
in desperation, he falls at the feet of Jesus because
he's in the middle of a mega crisis. His one
and only 12 year old daughter is dying. He pleads
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with Jesus not as someone that is eloquent. And this
is not a formal introduction. This is the kind of
pleading with Jesus. Have you ever prayed when you're in
a desperate situation? You don't care who's around you, who's
watching how you sound. You don't start with our God
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of heavenly lights above the universe. You're just snot running
down your face, and you're weeping and calling upon God
because you're in desperation. That's the kind of prayer that
Jairus has as he falls at the feet of Jesus.
He's in desperation. And so Jesus agrees to follow him
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to the house of his one and only daughter that's dying.
He starts to move. I'm sure Jairus is kind of
pushing him ahead, saying, Jesus, hurry! This is desperate. And
the Bible tells us that on the way in verse 42,
as Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him.
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There's a big crowd. They're pushing. They're trying to touch Jesus.
Some are gathering around him because they say he's going
to be the king that liberates us from the Roman oppression.
Some hear that he can touch the eyes of the
blind and they open. Others have heard that he has
the power to cast out demons. And the oppressed are
set free. There's rumors about this Jesus and the power
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that he has, and the miraculous power that lies within him.
And so he's mobbed by this crowd, all trying to
get a peek at Jesus. And it tells us in
verse 43, and a woman was there who had been
subject to bleeding for 12 years, but no one could
heal her. So we have a story within a story.
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This is a story about a man desperate over his
12 year old daughter, and it's interrupted by another story
of a woman who's also desperate. The story unfolds. She
touches Jesus. You know how it goes. The hem of
his garment, powers released into her. She stops. She knows
she's been healed. Jesus stops, says, who touched me? There
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all around him saying, Jesus, what do you mean? Who
touched you? No, someone touched me in a different kind
of way. The woman comes forth. He gets in a
conversation with this woman. She starts to tell him the story.
But what we forget about is Jairus. You see? He's
waiting for the miracle. He's asked Jesus to come. And
now Jesus seems distracted. Preoccupied. Occupied, interrupted on pause. I
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think that Jairus thought that this was a interruption, but
what it really was is a divine coordination. There's some
things about this story that are interesting. She's been sick
12 years. How old is the young girl? 12. So
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the the year that she was born, that this father
was celebrating. I still remember the birth of my daughter
and how it changed my life and how the heart
of a father was birthed within me the first time
I ever held her. A indelible moment for me, etched
in my heart graved into my memory when I first
held my daughter. I can imagine Jairus holding his 12
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year old daughter. The year that she was born. There's
another woman that has for the first time a disease
she starts to hemorrhage. For one person, it's a year
of celebration. For another person, it's a year of defeat,
the beginning of a tragic story. It's also interesting, by
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the way, if you follow this story that Jesus interaction
both with the woman, with the issue of blood and
with the young girl, both of them would make Jesus
ceremonially unclean. The woman that touches Jesus, the hem of
his garment. She had an issue of blood. The Bible
says in the Old Testament that if someone touches you
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that has hemorrhaging like that, they would be made unclean,
ceremonially unclean, at least until the evening, and you had
to wash all your clothes. Later on, Jesus would touch
the body of a little girl that would make him
unclean for seven days. It's interesting. 12 years, both unclean
divine coordination. But for this man that's waiting. Jairus. For him,
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it's an. It's a pause. It's a interruption. I don't
know about you, but have you ever been seeking God? Desperately.
And it seems like there's an interruption. It's even worse
when it seems like it's interruption interrupted by someone else
that gets what you wanted. That ever happened to you.
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There's a lot of ways that other people can seem
to get the answer to the prayer that we wanted.
You start to notice a guy. A kind of guy
I'd be interested in. You think? So? You think that
there sparks happening there? You're praying. Jesus, lead me to
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the right guy. Let my eyes be open. Let his
eyes be open. Especially to notice me. And then when
you think the sparks are going and something's happening there
and it's really going, you even confide in your friend, hey,
I think there's something going on between us. And then
suddenly she swoops in and like, where'd she come from?
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The devil brought a girl into his life, and now
she's the enemy. It's like, hold on a second. I
thought that was. Wait, what happened here? This was supposed
to be. Hey, this is what Jairus is going through.
It's supposed to be his daughter. And yet Jesus is
now focused on the woman with the issue of blood.
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And I just want you to know that sometimes we
have to shift and realize that our circumstances right now
aren't the end of the story. We have to look
in faith towards the future and say, God, I trust
your timing. I know that you're in control. It seems
like this is a pause, an interruption. But I'm going
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to look beyond that, father, because I'm looking at Jesus,
not at my circumstances. And I think Jairus had to
shift a little bit. Instead of getting angry, he had
to think, okay, Jesus knows what he's doing. There is
a future. Let me not get obsessed with this distraction.
And let me remember that Jesus is in control of
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all things. Verse 48. Then the Bible says that Jesus
continued on. Then it says, Then Jesus. Said to her daughter,
your faith has healed you. Go in peace. And while
Jesus was still speaking someone from the house of Jairus,
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the synagogue leader said, your daughter is dead. Don't bother
the teacher anymore. Hearing this, Jesus said to Jairus, don't
be afraid. Just believe and she will be healed. Here's
what I want you to notice. He's hearing at the
same time, daughter, your faith has healed you, and at
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the same time he's hearing the person that came from
his household said, your daughter is dead. Has that ever
happened to you? Where you hear the voice of faith
and the voice of fear at the same time? Jesus
is saying, daughter, you're healed. And then at the same time,
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while he's still speaking, the other voice says, your daughter's dead.
I don't know about you, but some of you, let's
be honest, we hear those voices of faith and those
voices of doubt at the same time. The voice of doubt.
The voice of discouragement can invade you. And you have
to decide who will I give the mic to? You're
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never going to be able to silence that voice, but
you have to listen. You have to shift and choose
what frequency you're going to tune in to. Jairus, who's
hearing these? Both of these voices. And Jesus says he
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just heard this gut wrenching truth. Your daughter is dead.
Give up. Forget about it. Imagine the stun effect of
my baby girl is dead. And yet, in the middle
of that moment, Jesus says, Jairus, people around remember there's
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all kinds of people. There's noise. Jesus says, Jairus, don't
be afraid. Just believe and she will be healed. I
believe that we can't always silence the voice, but we
can choose what frequency we tune into, who we give
the mic to, what we listen to. You know, it's
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interesting that Jesus, I call it selective neglect. Choosing what
channel you listen to. Jesus said two things. Don't be afraid. Why?
Don't be afraid because you know fear makes you give up.
And fear misleads your energy. We have a generation right
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now that has been gripped with more anxiety and fear
than any generation in our lifetime. It's huge. And chances are,
if you're here and you're under the age of 30,
that you've struggled with some form of anxiety or fear.
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The megaphone of fear is big. Now, there's a lot
of reasons why sociologists are saying that it's access to
bad news all the time. It's the the we're we're
not disconnected. The isolation from the pandemic, whatever the reasons,
there's a huge amount of people that are struggling with anxiety,
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social anxiety, fear over the future. Fear can take on
a lot of different forms. It masquerades in a lot
of different ways, but ultimately it has the same effect.
It causes us to focus on what could go wrong.
It takes our head underwater. We lose track of the
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promises of God, the goodness of God, the faithfulness of God.
Fear is not rational. It's irrational, but it has a
powerful effect on us. You cannot be full of fear
and at the same time full of joy. You cannot
be full of fear and at the same time at
rest and at peace. And Jesus says to Jairus, Jairus,
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don't be afraid. And then he also says, just believe.
Those go hand in hand. Which leads me to the
third and final shift. It tells us in verse 51,
when he arrived at the house of Jairus, This is Jesus.
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He did not let anybody go in with him except Peter,
John and James, and the child's father and mother. Meanwhile,
all the people were wailing and mourning for her. Stopped wailing.
And Jesus said, she's not dead, but asleep. And then
they laughed at him, knowing that she was dead. You know,
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it's interesting to me that Jesus goes into the room.
There's a bunch of wailers and mourners around, and Jesus
goes into the room and he kicks them all out.
It doesn't tell us here, but in Mark it uses
the word forcefully. In other words, he doesn't politely say,
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could you please vacate the room? Give the family a
little quiet time with the daughter, he says. Out, out!
Everybody out of here! Forcefully. There's authority. There's a a strength.
There's a determination, an urgency about it. And I ask myself, why, man,
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if I was about to see a resurrection, I would
gather people. I would say, come, hey, get everybody. But
you know what? Jesus kicks everybody out. Can I tell
you something? I believe that Jesus ushered everybody out. Because
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sometimes you need to shift your circle and surround yourself
with faith builders, not faith drainers. Notice who he invites
in Peter, James and John. You know what this was? Jesus.
Swat team. Do you remember when the Mount of Transfiguration happened?
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Who did Jesus take to the Mount? Peter, James and John.
They were hardcore. They were? Oh, yeah. They weren't perfect.
You know the stories. But this was his inner faith circle.
These were people that he was building, and these were radical,
committed followers of his. Do you remember when the Garden
of Gethsemane, where Jesus was wrestling emotionally with tears and struggling?
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Who did he bring to pray with him in that
moment of Gethsemane? Peter, James and John. Can I tell
you something? Look up. Look up at me. This is really,
really important. Some of you need to change your inner circle.
Some of you need to get some new people around
your inner circle. You need to gather some people that
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are going to believe God with you. Some of you
surround yourself with cynics. You surround yourself with people that
drain your faith. Don't add to your faith. And then
you wonder why you're struggling. Listen, I think we all
need an inner circle of people that you know that
when you go to them, they're not going to laugh.
They're not going to just passively say something. But you
know that you can share your heart, that they're going
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to stop right there and say, can I pray with
you that they're going to walk with you? They're going
to they're going to go with you to the battle.
They're going to pray. They're going to do whatever they
can to help you follow Jesus in a more radical way.
We need an inner circle like that. And if you
don't have an inner circle like that, you need to
start finding one, because there's people around that want to
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live for God. Jesus has the father, the mother, Peter,
James and John. They're in the room. I can just
imagine that the parents are beside the body of their
12 year old daughter, that you can't be in that
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room without weeping. Jairus has seen his little girl, his
12 year old girl, for the first time. I can't
imagine that he wouldn't have broken down and wept at
the sight of her lifeless body. The mother is there.
It's silent. The mourners are out. The crowd is away.
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The Bible says that. Meanwhile all the people were wailing
and mourning for her. They stopped wailing. Jesus says she's
not dead. She's asleep. They laughed. He put them out.
And then the Bible says that Jesus goes up to
the little girl. He takes her by the hand, by
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the way, touching the corpse. In that culture would make
him ceremonially unclean. I love the fact that Jesus is
not afraid to touch that which makes people ceremonially unclean.
I love the fact that when Jesus touches it, it
doesn't make him unclean. He actually reverses the curse and
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it makes them clean because that's the way Jesus is
even today. He's not afraid of your sin. My sin.
He's not afraid of sinners around. He's not afraid of society.
He's not afraid to step in to places that are dirty,
unclean people that are antagonistic. The presence of Jesus reverses
that curse. He's not in a holy huddle. He's not
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trying to keep himself. He he steps in. He touches this.
He takes the girl by the hand and listen. He says,
my child, get up. Literally what he says is, Talitha koum,
Talitha koum. Talitha means little girl. Koum means get up.
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Why does he say it in Aramaic. He's speaking in
Greek and he suddenly switches to Aramaic. You know why?
It's the language of her heart in that region of Galilee.
That's what they spoke. That's what the family spoke. I'm
sure as he talked to Jairus, he realized that's what
he speaks. Let me speak the language of her heart.
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He says to them, the Bible says in verse 55,
her spirit returned, and at once she stood up. Then
Jesus told him, give her something to eat. Hey, she's
12 years old. She's always hungry. Her parents were astonished. Literally,
it means they were floored. But he ordered them not
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to tell anybody what had just happened. In that moment,
the Son of God. Emmanuel, God with us, who has
all power and authority. There was no jumping around. There
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was no bringing the crowd in on stage. And let's
give a big show. This was a quiet. The platform
is clear because the Son of Man is here. Jesus
with all authority and power. With resurrection power. He doesn't
have to shout and scream. I believe he probably gently
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whispers to this girl as he holds her hand and says,
rise up, little girl, and immediately the power of God
is released in her. The same power that would raise
Jesus from the dead is released into her, and she
is raised to life again. There are some of you
here that are in the middle of a crisis. It
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may be a crisis, a difficulty that you're not sure
how God's going to handle, what God's going to do.
There's some of you here that are hearing voices. The
voices of quit. Give up. You're never going to change.
You'll always be like that. You're not like everybody else.
You'll never overcome this. You'll never break this. And you're
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hearing the voice of just. You might as well just
quit and give up. But I just want to challenge you.
I want to challenge you to to to like. Like
Jesus said, he looked at him and he said, Jairus,
you need to shift. You need to shift. Get out
of fear. Get out of fear. Don't fear. Just believe.
And if you're in the middle of a difficult time
right now, if you're in the middle of a crisis
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right now, if you're listening to the voice of doubt,
listen to the voice of lies. The enemy has two
weapons that he uses against us fear and deception. If
he can start to get you to fear your future,
if you can start to get you to buy into
the lies that have been spoken into you. Some of
you as you were growing up, they've been embedded into
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your soul, deposited into your spirit. There lies that at
difficult times the same lies pop up and they pop
up with volume and with grit and with they stick
to you. Some of those lies are the lies that
you've been battling since your teenage years, and there has
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to be a shift. And God is saying, don't be afraid.
I want you to believe. Some of you need to
change your inner circle. Some of you need to start
getting whatever truth combats the lie you've been living with,
and you need to soak in it, repeat it, sing it,
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say it, read it, put it on the screen of
your phone so that you are just hearing the truth
of the Word of God embedded into your soul that
combats that lie. I want you to know that there's
power in the touch of Jesus and power in His Word.
Resurrection power, life changing power. If you identify a voice
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that you know, this is not the voice of God.
This is the voice of my own insecurity, the voice
of my own past. The voice of my own lies.
I want you to identify it. I want you to
speak it out and say, this is not of you, God.
And even though it's hard to grasp it, I just
want you to say the truth over that. Lord, I
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know this is what you say over me. And so
today I'm giving the mic to your word and not
to my lie.
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Pastor Mark Jobe teaching today on Moody Presents. And my
question for you as you listen is, are you distracted?
Are you distracted? Do you do you maybe need to
surrender your life to Jesus Christ, who has risen from
the dead, the one we celebrate today? But you have
never made him in charge of your life? The Bible
word is Savior. You can do that. And it begins
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with you just humbling yourself in a simple prayer that
goes like this. And as I pray, maybe you'd like
to pray with me. Dear God, I believe that Jesus
died on that cross for me, for my wrongdoing, my sin.
Would you please forgive me? And would you help me
turn away from this, this awful lifestyle of poor choices?
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I want you to be in charge, Jesus. From this
day forward. In Jesus name, Amen. A friend is happy
to talk with you and answer your questions about knowing
Jesus and more as you call 888. Need him. No cost,
no obligation. 888 need him. Hey, we'd love to hear
from you if you've made this decision to make Jesus
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in charge of you. You can email us anytime at
Moody Presents at Moody. Moody presents at Moody. On behalf
of our teacher, doctor Mark Jobe, our producer, Chris Siegert,
I'm John Geiger. Wishing you a wonderful, Christ centered Easter weekend.
See you next time on Moody Presents a production of
Moody Radio, a ministry of Moody Bible Institute.
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