Bible Character - Jairus

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, let's see if fashion comes. Okay, all right, great,
so I'm gonna get started here. Let's see, let's start
with prayer again. Heavenly Father, thank you for your word.
I pray Lord, that you teach us, and that you

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glorify your name in Jesus' name. Thank you that your
word Lord revives us, gives us life, builds us up,
gives our a rightful inheritance among the saints in Jesus' name. Amen, hallelujah.
God is so good. So my last spaces was on Nicodemus,

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who came to Jesus at night and was maybe trying
to fish for some answers, maybe trying to extend an
olive branch, maybe even trying to see if Jesus would
join their group. Instead of being such a I guess
they might have seen him as a renegade or something

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rogue operator, being outside of their kind of confines of
what they liked the people currently in power in where
he was ministering. But regardless of all that, they had
a powerful conversation in which Jesus explained the gospel and

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explained his role and gave Nicodemus the representative that came
at night, an opportunity to hear, an opportunity to ask,
And yeah, that was a good conversation to look over.
Next one I'm going to go into is Jyrus. So

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let's look at Mark chapter five. Now this story is
also in the Gospel of Luke chapter eight, so you
might enjoy looking up in both places. But I'm going
to go to Mark chapter five, starting with verse twenty one.
And when Jesus had recrossed in the boat to the

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other side, a great throng gathered about him, and he
was at the lake shore. Then one of the rulers
of the synagogue came up, Gyrous by name, and seeing him,
he prostrated himself at his feet and begged him earnestly, saying,
my little daughter is at the point of death. Come

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and lay your hands on her so that she may
be healed and live. Okay. So one of the very
very important things to understand about the way that faith
works is right there is his faith. So different people
released their faith in regard to different points Gyrus's faith

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where he was at he wanted to Jesus to come
in person, physically touch her with his hand, and his
outcome his declared outcome was that she would be healed
and live. Okay, So this is very important to understand.
There's a lot too how the Bible defines what the

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Bible refers to as faith. So if you don't know
about that, that would be good to learn more about
and take God at his word. Don't be listening to
people that mama, ma, mama, you know, like Sesame Street
or not Sesame Street, but Muppet's characters are something. Just
tune all that out. Just go to the Word and
find out what the Bible says. Take God at his word.

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And if you find an actual Bible faith teacher, actual
person teaching faith as the Bible defines it, they will
probably be somebody that makes others uncomfortable, that religious people
won't like, and that you will be criticized for listening
to them if you tell people. So those are all
little secondary confirmations to look for in addition to are

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they actually saying what the Bible says? Are they pointing
out to me what they are saying in the Bible
so that I can follow and understand. And is it uncomfortable,
not weird, uncomfortable, convicting, uncomfortable? Okay, So those are just
some little tips. Let's keep going so. Verse twenty three

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has Jyrus's faith declaration per usual, Jesus honored his faith
with no objections. Jesus wasn't is such a servant. The
Lord is so so gracious and accommodating. Verse twenty four.
And Jesus went with him, and a great crowd kept
following him and pressing him from all sides. Verse twenty five.

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And there was a woman who had had a flow
of blood for twelve years, and who had endured much
suffering under many physicians, and had spent all that she
had and was no better, but instead grew worse. She
had heard the reports concerning Jesus, and she came up
behind him in the throng and touched his garment. For

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she kept saying, if I only touch his garments, I
shall be restored to health. That was her faith, right,
that was her faith. Not he touches me, Not he says,
I touch him, not him like his body. But I
touch his garments specifically, as I understand it. She touched

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the fringe on his prayer shawl, which was symbolic, like
spiritually symbolic. But I won't even attempt to get into
that I'm not that knowledgeable. I can tell you this
is her faith. If I only touch his garments, I
shall be restored to health. That's her point of contact,

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and that's her declared outcome. Okay, let's keep going verse
twenty nine. And immediately her flow of blood was dried
up at the source, and she felt in her body
that she was healed of her ailment? Is that beautiful?
And Jesus, recognizing in himself that the power proceeding from
him had gone forth, turned around immediately in the crowd

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and said, who touched my clothes? God? Is so awesome.
He picked up on it that she touched his clothes
and not him. Boy, Jesus was an expert in faith,
even just walking around on the earth as a human
with unlimited holy spirit. He was an expert on Bible faith. Okay,

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verse thirty one. And the disciples kept saying to him,
you see the crowd pressing hard around you from all sides,
and you ask who touched me? Still he kept looking
around to see who had done it. But the woman,
knowing what had been done for her, though alarmed, frightened
and trembling, fell down before him and told him the

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whole truth and he said to her daughter, your faith
has restored you to health. Go in peace and be
continually healed and freed from your disease. While he was
still speaking, there came some from the ruler's house. Actually,
let me take a quick a break or detorts to

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mention this whole long thing from like, let's see verse
like twenty five through thirty four. This whole long thing
is with someone who had already received their miracle. Right,
imagine what that's like for Jyrous. He's his faith declaration

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baked in a delay because Jesus has to go to
his daughter. This woman's faith is for instant on contact.
She just had to make that connection touch his garments,
and so she got her. So now she's already received
her miracle, and Jesus is waiting around demanding to speak

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with her and find out all like Luke Ate, maybe
I'll actually go there because Luke Ate might give a
little bit more detail as far as like Jesus took
a minute to do this and hear her story, let
me go down real fast. They couldn't get to him

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because of the crowd. And yes, okay, oh yeah, and
a woman who had suffered from a flow of blood
for twelve years, and had spent all her living upon
physicians and could not be healed by anyone. Came up
behind him and touched the fringe of his garment. That's

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the thing, that symbolic thing that I talked about. And
immediately her flow of blood ceased. And Jesus said, who
is it who touched me? When all were denying it?
You know how long it took to get through all
those people denying it. Then then when that's when the
disciples spoke up and verse forty six. But Jesus said,

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someone did touch me, for I perceived that healing power
has gone forth from me. So time is just going
on and on here. Then when the woman saw that
she had not escaped, notice she came up, trembling and
falling down before him. She declared in the presence of
all the people, for what reason she had touched him,

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and how she had been instantly cured. So now it's
testimony time. Then she tells her story, And so now
more time is going by. And by the way, Gyrus
I believe, as leader of the synagogue, had the authority
to order her to be stoned to death right then
and there for leaving her house in violation of the law,

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when she was in a state that they described as unclean.
As I understand it, she was in violation of the
law in such a degree, in such a manner as
to be punishable by law. And Jyris was one of
the people that had the authority to order her execution
right then and there. So yes, let's go on. Obviously

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by ordering her stoning would not have been a good
way for him to go ahead to receive his own miracle.
And anyway, I won't go too far down there, but
that is something to think about because all of us
experience those feelings of impatience verse thirty five. Yeah, while

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he was still speaking, there came some from the ruler's house,
that's his house, Jarus's house, who said to him, your
daughter has died, Why bother and distress the teacher any further? Again,
that scorn for Jesus in his role as messiah. Oh
that teacher. Okay, So look at how those who were

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invited to his house did him. They couched their pressure
to doubt as self blame for him, like maybe you
chose the wrong course here, and they couched it as
a question like a double edged dagger stab him through.
That was like spiritually vicious and socially displayed. Perhaps I

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could say utmost respect all around. Outwardly it looked like
all this respect to all the parties, phrasing it as
a question, calling Jesus a teacher, Why bother him? You
must be distressing him, all this disguise of respect, when
actually it was a dagger, disrespect for Jesus, disrespect and

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such a meanness towards Gyrus. Of all the ways to
try and get him to doubt, to turn it into
something where to couch it like frame it as self
blame and then disguise it as a question like little
sprinkles on top, or like parsley or something on a dish.
It was just well parsley I liked, But you know

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what I mean, that seems quite mean. So Jesus is
no slouch. He is completely qualified to be the Messiah.
He had one directive, one command for Gyrus, and he
did everything else. So this is what happened Verse thirty six.
Overhearing but ignoring what they said, Jesus said to the

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room of the synagogue, do not be seized with alarm,
struck with fear. Only keep on believing verse thirty seven.
He pared down the presence for the little girl's room
to support that was going to be helpful, so verse

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thirty seven, and he permitted no one to accompany him
except Peter, James and John, the brother of James. Jesus
knew who he wanted to bring to help with what
was going on the larger spiritual picture. And I don't
mean that he needed their presence in order to do
the miracle. That's not what I'm not trying to suggest that.

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I'm saying that Jesus had both Jyrus's miracle in mind
and the larger spiritual picture of his assignment as the Messiah.
He was keeping track of everything, including doing all this
heavy lifting for Gyrous, because Jesus handled all the mess

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that Gyrus's desire to fit in socially had made. So
listen to this verse thirty eight. When they arrived at
the house of the ruler of the synagogue, he looked
at the tumult and people weeping and wailing loudly. So
get this, these aren't people that actually wanted his daughter
to be healed, and well, these are people that had

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been waiting until she died so that they could come
and get paid at the house to pitch a big fit,
a big noisy fit. This was weeping, wailing instruments, the
whole works. They created a big tumult and hubbub. And
obviously that people sort of people that like attention would

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be the type of people prone to take this job.
And it was supposedly to like show honor for the
person who deceased and show how upset everyone was that
this person had departed. And of course you see how
it's disguised. You see how this stuff is disguised. So anyway,

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basically Jesus obviously had to clear all them out of there,
this circus for like narcissism, a circus of narcissism. This
has to be cleared out for the miracle working power
of God to be raising from the dead. So yeah,
so Jesus handled the faith confession for the new circumstance. Remember,

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I said Jesus, he just gave Jyrus one command, one directive,
only believe, do not fear, only believe. That was the
one thing he was supposed to do, and Jesus handled
everything else. So now Jesus is clearing out the mess
of socially fitting in all those arrangements. Whether it's Jirius

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or his wife actually booked these people. Jiris had to
know about it, and his money would have been paying
for that, and they would have been at the house.
Right there's all these people at the house. People knew that.
He went at the very last minute, very last second,
very last he went to turn to Jesus. After all

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of this social stuff to fit in with the crowd,
after all of this conformity to societal norms, Jarris finally
broke free when it came down to life or death
for his daughter, and he went to Jesus. And you know,
Jesus is so merciful, he's so kind, he's so so kind.

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So Jesus he did all the heavy lifting. He cleared
out the mess, he got the team, got the core
group together. He handled the faith confession for the new circumstance.
Because now she's not ill. Remember Gyrus's faith confession is
let's go back. Gyrus's faith confession is come lay your

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hands on her so that she may be healed and
live well. Now she doesn't just need healing, now she
needs resurrection. So we need a new faith confession to
deal with the new circumstance, and Jesus handles that. His
faith confession is verse thirty nine. And when he had
gone in, he said to them, why do you make
an uproar and weep? But the little girl is not dead,

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but is sleeping. He's calling those things which be not
as though they are. If you don't know about that,
you can look at I think it's Romans four seventeen.
If I'm not mistaken, let me get it for you. Actually,
because that's an important verse, let me get it for you,

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Romans for seventeen. Yes, as it is written, I've made
you the father of many nations and the sight of
God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead,
and speaks of nonexistent things that he has foretold and
promised as if they already existed. That's Romans four seventeen. Okay,

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so let's go to verse forty. And they laughed and
jeered at him, but he put them all out, and
taking the child's father and mother and those who were
with him, he went in where the little girl was lying.
See literally, that's all Gyros had to do. Do not fear,
only believe, Okay, Verse forty one. Jesus fulfilled the faith

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command of Jyros plus released his own faith for his declaration.
Gripping her by the hand, he said to her talitha kumi,
which translated it, little girl, I say to you, arise.
And instantly the girl got up and started walking around,

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for she was twelve years old. And they were utterly
astonished and overcome with amazement verse forty three. Jesus helped
them to move on and to maintain their miracle. Because seriously,
when Jesus said, Jyrus, this is all you have to do.
Do not fear, only believe, Jesus meant that he handled

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everything else they when So let's look at verse forty three.
And he strictly commanded and warned them that no one
should know this. And he told them to give her
something to eat. Yep, right there, that's how to maintain
their miracle. Don't invite people to mouth off their doubt

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on belief, religion, pride, blah blah blah, crep and give
her something to eat. So this is Gyrus and how
he received his miracle for his little girl. Praise God.
So I hope you enjoyed this little compare and contrast

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guys again soon God bless you. Thank you for listening.