August 19, 2025 • 25 mins
Episode 752:
In this episode, Chris and Jeff delve into a passage from the Bible, specifically Luke 8:40-48, which tells the story of Jesus healing a woman who had been suffering from a bleeding condition for twelve years. This woman, who had been ostracized due to her condition, demonstrates immense faith by believing that merely touching the hem of Jesus' garment would heal her. The hosts discuss the significance of this moment, highlighting the contrast between the powerful synagogue leader Jairus, who seeks Jesus to heal his dying daughter, and the unnamed woman who feels unworthy to approach Jesus directly.
In this episode, Chris and Jeff delve into a passage from the Bible, specifically Luke 8:40-48, which tells the story of Jesus healing a woman who had been suffering from a bleeding condition for twelve years. This woman, who had been ostracized due to her condition, demonstrates immense faith by believing that merely touching the hem of Jesus' garment would heal her. The hosts discuss the significance of this moment, highlighting the contrast between the powerful synagogue leader Jairus, who seeks Jesus to heal his dying daughter, and the unnamed woman who feels unworthy to approach Jesus directly.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a
couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways. Oh, good morning, good morning. We talk the
whole night do good morning, Good morning to you and
you and you.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Man, that was it right there. I was just caught
off guard.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah, well, you know, that's what I like to do, Jeff.
I like to surprise people everybody. And it's been a while,
it's been listen, it's a while. Well, it's it's only Tuesday,
I know. Yeah, and I've been doing it lately on Tuesday.
Did you catch it?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, yeah, Tuesday is my favorite good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Day, good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, who knows, Maybe I'll throw another good Morning before
the end of the week.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Wild So wow, you just Willy Nelly with his his
Jeff I eat wild cherry life savers.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
That's how I roll. Hey, welcome to the Bible Guys.
We are Chris and Jeff and we are going to
start out our segment today with a dad joke compety.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
These are great. I haven't seen these.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I have not looked at these.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Desiree always chooses these for us, Yes, and so we're
gonna love them. It's probably because of our delivery.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
It's all about us.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It's all about well, we didn't choose them.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
That's so funny. Hey, so we're gonna vote who is
the better batch?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Okay, okay, better batch?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah, the better batch.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
So I have five? Do you have five?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I have five?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Okay, you want to start? What part of the body
always loses? Defeat?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Oh? I actually like it.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I like that. I like that, And I didn't defeat
about it too long because you would have found this.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Okay, how about this one? My daughter was doing history
homework and asked if I knew about Galileo. I said
he was a poor boy from a poor family.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Galileo.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Go oh, I'm just a poolivode from four family. Okay, there,
that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yes, yeah, okay. I'm at the airport and there's a
woman who's completely passed out on the baggage carousel. Oh,
she's slowly coming around. Now.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I like that one a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Okay, that's a good one. I'm two for two. I'm
like Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I told the nurse I was bitten by a wolf.
Where she asked, I answered, no, regular.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
What what read it? Again?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I told the nurse I was bitten by a wolf where,
she asked.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
A were wolf? No, just a regular wolf. So where? No,
just a regular.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Oh so it's all in the delivery.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Of that was where he tried again.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Only now I told the nurse I was bitten by
a wolf where? But see it changes. She wouldn't be
asking where, she'd say where. Okay, boo, No, I hate it. Okay,
as you don't, I have crossed over to hate it.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I hate number three. I'm starting a flight company exclusively
for bald people. It's going to be called Receding Airlines.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Okay, you are three for three. I like it.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I like that one. I like airlines.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
And I'm i'm I'm like, I'm like a half Okay,
here we go. A hacker just called and said he
has all my passwords. I jumped up, grabbed a pen
and paper and said, thank goodness, what are they good?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I like that one. That's not sorry, that's me. Okay, okay.
Number four, yep, this is a scientific one. So you
have to track with me on this one. Okay. A
dragon would never explode, but a dino mite.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Oh my goodness, you are banging all that cylinders. Yes,
I love it, I love it. Yep, all right here
we go. Stephen King has a son named Joe. I'm
not joking, but he is.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Joking.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Oh the joke King.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I can't believe you.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
They give it.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I a good one.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Okay, I'm not joking, but he is.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Okay, all right, you like it? You like it?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
That was a good one. Yeah, ok for you're at
least at like one and a half.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Okay, I'm one and a half. You're you're four for four.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Okay, here's the last one. I's see, what do you
call a security guard working out outside Samsung shops?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
What?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Guardians of the Galaxy?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Okay, I love it like, I love it?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Ye, Samsung Galaxy.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yes the phone, Yeah, yes, I love it. I think
it's great. Guardians of the Galaxy.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Galaxy.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
It's it's great.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Except it's a little off. It needed to see what
would you call some security guards working outside Samsung shops
because it's guardians not guardian.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, so little tweaking, but it's words matter.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, it's a little Yeah. That's all right. My last one,
I feel like I'm five for five.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
How does an Englishman invite a dinosaur for lunch?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
T Rex. No, Okay, I get it, I get that one.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I think she I just.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Didn't like it. Do you think so?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Do you think so she's like forget one? Said Jeff.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, well you know what, Actually I don't. I don't.
I don't doubt that.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
No, I don't put that past desiree wow conspiracy now, No.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
No, no, it's actually that's a compliment to her, because no,
it's it's not about you, Jeff. It's about it's about
knowing that that's what we were going to do, is vote.
And she's like, what if I stacked one stack one?
She happened to choose you, not on purpose, just because
she had to choose somebody.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Whatever. You have to tell yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
All right, well that was wonderful.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Okay, I loved it. I'm gonna I'm going to declare
myself the winner.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I'm going to immediately I share all five of your
jokes with my daughter, who loves them, and I am
going to share none of mine. None, or I might
just do it just to show her how bad mine are. Okay, Yeah, okay,
is great.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, okay, so hey we're gonna go Hey, speaking of
explosive stories, Wow, Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I don't know. I can't. I can't get there, man.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Okay, how do you get there? Well, I know it's
as good as anything, to be honest with you. Speaking
of explosive stories, I was going to say that, but
mine was even worse. Mine was even worse.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I was going to say something like, you're talking about
the lady that's slowly coming around.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I was gonna say. I was going to say, my
jokes were deaf, and your jokes were healing. And speaking
of which, there was a woman who was on her
way to death until she met Jesus, and now she's healed.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
That's so good. Ah. So in Matthew chapter I'm sorry, Luke, Luke,
chapter eight, we're going to be reading verses forty through
forty eight.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, just eight verses here.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, And it says on the other side of the
lake the crowd Jesus is always going to the other
side of lake. Wherever he's at, he's heading to the
other ties, always on the other side of the lake.
The crowds welcomed Jesus because they had been waiting for him.
And then a man named Jerius, a leader of the
local synagogue, came and fell at Jesus' feet, pleading with
him to come home with him. His only daughter, who
was about twelve years old, was dying. As Jesus went
(07:31):
with him, he was surrounded by the crowds. A woman
in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant
bleeding and she could find no cure. Coming up behind Jesus,
she touched the fringe of his robe, and immediately the
bleeding stopped. Who touched me, Jesus asked. Everyone denied it.
Peter said, Master, this whole crowd's pressing up against you.
But Jesus said, someone deliberately touched me, for I felt
healing power go out from me. When the woman realized
(07:53):
that she could not stay hidden, and she began to
tremble and fell to her knees in front of him,
and the whole crowd heard her explain and why she
had touched him, and that she had been immediately healed daughter.
He said to her, your faith has been made you
well go in peace, and while he was still speak Oops,
that's it. I can't I can't read the next one.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Oh that's a cliffhanger, I know.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
But we got to leave it there because we're going
to come back and address it later.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Oh, I see, so's it's going to be the rest
of the story, hopefully, Okay, hopefully Luke chapter eight.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, what Desiree told us was four through forty eight,
so I'm not supposed to be reading forty nine.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Okay, okay, okay, Oh, I'll start giving you bad jokes, right,
but of them. But we but we learned the first
half of a story. This guy named was it Gyros
or is it Jerrus? Ah, whatever you want to say,
because in the Chosen his name's Gyros Gyrius.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Okay, let's say Gyrus.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Okay, but Rus, which, by the way, it's it's one
of my favorite moments. I'm not even kidding. It's one
of my favorite moments in all of the Chosen Gyrus.
It's it's so good.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
But this little girl is sick.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Well, it's it's the way that they developed this character. Right,
So anyway, let's not talk about him, because apparently we can't. Right,
it's all about the woman who touched the robe.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Jesus is on his way to go try to heal
Gyrus's daughter, correct, she's sick, and.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
On the way he gets distracted, Yes, because a woman
and this is the same woman, by the way, who
had a bleeding. This is the woman who had the
blood disease. And so she touched him and all of
a sudden, he says, I felt healing power go out
from me, which which, by the way, You know how
we always have these debates. I don't know about always,
(09:36):
but we've had debates before about Remember I told you
that my professor was talking about the whether Jesus knew
that the woman was in Samaria.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Remember that.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
And it was a big debate in my Bible college
in the class where Professor Pratt said, oh, Jesus just
wanted to cut through Samaria because it was a shorter route,
and he was trying to make a statement about politics.
But it says I must go through Samaria. And so
the other people in the class said, well, no, he
knew that this woman was going to be there from
his Jesus powers, right, And I'm saying this powers, yeah,
(10:11):
I'm saying a tongue in cheek. And then and and
what you said, as you said, I believe that Jesus
relied on the Holy Spirit in the same way that
you and I are capable of relying on the Holy
Spirit today.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, yeah, I believe that he was. There's a doctrinal terminology.
I'm going to get into that, but there's a doctrinal
idea that because of his incarnation, he chose to limit
his deity. Not that he wasn't fully God, It's just
he wasn't God everywhere. Right, So the omnipresence, the omniscience,
(10:45):
the omnipotence, those things he chose to restrict in order
to fully function as a human. So then everything he did,
the only way he could do what he did was
as the model man for every Christian, every christ follower,
that he than the power of the Holy Spirit. So
you can say, greater things you'll do than I did?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Right? Right? Yes, So then how do you explain? So
then how do you explain I felt Jesus powers.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Like healing powers go from me. Yeah, right, because that's
what he says. He says, Uh, I felt the healing
power go out for me.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah, So so number one, the healing comes from Jesus,
right and uh? And so yes, do we have the
ability to pray over somebody through the power of the
Holy Spirit and then for good to do miracles?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
And he'll how many people in the in the Bible
have do miracle.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
No, I'm supporting this statement, Peter, I'm saying I'm saying,
I'm saying that we do too, es right, So I
believe that now you know whether or not a person
has a gift of healing. I'm I'm still on the
you know, fence about whether that he still he still
throws out these gifts. I believe, I believe he does.
I think he does too. But uh, you know, I'm
(12:01):
a skeptic at nature by nature, right, So, but I
believe one hundred percent that a person has the ability
today to pray over somebody and for God to use
them to heal somebody one hundred percent. But that still
doesn't explain Jesus's comment about he felt healing powers go
out from him, Because if Jesus was more like us
(12:22):
in that moment, one hundred percent man relying on the
Holy Spirit, do we feel healing power coming out of us?
The answer is no, How do you know? Come on,
how do you know? Well, first of all, I've prayed
where somebody's been healed. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't feel
any healing POWERA economy.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Well, maybe you didn't have a lot of excess power yet.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
But by the way, did I did I my son
maybe like Jesus had so much.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Probably like my son.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Who listens every day Stephen on his way to work,
he actually tells me, he goes Chris or Dad, you
need to go into hospitals and pray over people more,
because uh, I did this recently in the last like
five years, where I've gone into a hospital and I've
prayed over somebody and laid my hands on them, and
then coincidentally they were heading in one direction, and then
(13:14):
almost miraculously, the next day, the doctors come in and say,
I don't understand why, but you've taken a turn. And
I'm not kidding like like and I'm not and I'm
not saying it's me and I'm not saying you know
that that I have these you know, the gift of healing.
I am just saying that is what happened, right, And
And in one case, one guy was dying and they
had him on hospice and then all of a sudden
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he's back and he attends Heritage Church by the way,
and and and then one guy. Anyway, it doesn't matter.
The point is is that I feel like that's happened
to me, I feel like I have you know, God
has used me in that way, and and I'm like, wow,
that's pretty incredible. But but the idea that Jesus was
exactly like you and exactly like me, and we can
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you know, operating exactly like him. Statements like this say,
wait a minute, he had an indifferent.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
No doubt with the amount of time that he would
spend with his father, right that he would be deeply
in tuned with the spiritual. And I think we wade
into the spiritual and back out of the spiritual often,
so maybe we're not as in tune with these things
as Jesus was. But yeah, don't I don't think that
this negates the concept.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, I think I think I'm on the I think
I'm on just on the other side of where you are.
Whereas like, it feels good to me to say and
believe that Jesus was in some ways. What you're saying
is Jesus limited himself to be exactly like us. He
(14:44):
wasn't exactly like us, but you're saying in terms of
like his abilities, right, Like that feels good because that
then puts us on the same level as him. And
you're saying if he says, well, the only way he
can say you will do greater things than I am
that then I is because of that. Whereas like I'm
just thinking, like, does it though, does he have to
(15:07):
be exactly like us in order for him to make
that statement, because he could. He could be making that
statement by saying, through the power of the Holy Spirit,
you can do greater things.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Than calling you a heretic. But you walk a really
fine line when you minimize his humanity. Sure, right, I'm
not minimizing his deity, for sure, I know that. Right,
So I'm not minimizing his deity, but we can't minimize
his humanity. He was fully God and fully man, and
(15:41):
so in that case, then if he was fully man.
So here's what I find. I do find this to
be true, Chris, And I'm not saying this is true
about you. I do find a significant number of Christians
who go, well, he did it because he was God.
Also tell me that since they're not Jesus, they also
can't be people of peace. And they also well, you know,
I just have a temper. I'm not Jesus, and they
(16:03):
start excusing so many of their behaviors. Yeah, but that
sounds just misapplications. Well, it happens a lot though, where
people just kind of go, I don't have as important
of a mission. I don't have it, whereas I think
Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost,
and that is our mission, and it's everybody is important,
our part as his. The difference is we're not dying
on the cross and resurrecting right.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yes, that that part of it.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
So we are not because it's not we're not sinless,
but all the rest of what Jesus did, I think
that we're expected to do that. We're supposed to be
like him all the time, not some of the time.
And we shouldn't let ourselves off the hook when we
when we you know, mess up, or when we when
we fall short. We shouldn't let ourselves off the hook
because we're not God. And I think that that's why
(16:47):
Jesus functioned one hundred percent as a man in the
power of the Holy Spirit, rather than leveraging Hisah, his God,
you know, God had his deity for it.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
So my response to that would be that just sounds
like a big misapplication that people use as an excuse.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Right, what happens all the time yeah, of course it does.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Of course it does. But then if you go down
that route, then it almost sounds like what we want
to do is we want to conform our theological opinion
so that we don't have excuses. So it's like, so
there's a big difference between a theological statement because I
often wonder and so I love it. I'm okay, I'm
okay with the mystery of God. Right, So that's the
(17:24):
true definition of a postmodern Christian who says, hey, we
embrace the mystery of God. So I'm not I certainly
don't think that that theory undermines his deity, and I
certainly don't think that the other way undermindes his humanity
at all. Even what I just said, it doesn't undermine
his humanity. Well, I guess what I'm saying is, I
don't think anybody knows. That's my statement. I don't think
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anybody knows how much he limited himself. And I don't
think anybody understands like what he knew and didn't know.
Because when I when I really truly, because I think
about this a lot, and I thought, by.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
The way, yeah, I've thought about it comes up every
time we come across these life.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I thought about it a lot because of doctor Pratt, Yeah, honestly,
And when he brought that debate up, and I'm there
in the front row, and I made myself sit in
the front row because he was super boring. But yes,
and so I did it on purpose, and so I
was forced to really pay attention. And I felt like
I was engaged because he was so smart. He was
just so dry, but I loved him, and I and
(18:23):
I remember this debate and I'm thinking to myself, Wow,
doctor Pratt really believes that. And and listening to all
of these pastors kids, you know, spout out of everything,
and I thought to myself, I wonder how it is.
And so every time I read the Gospels, which has
been my entire Christian life, I've thought about this, and
I've thought about all the evidence, and I'm piecing it together,
and I just think that there's evidence that he had
(18:48):
more Jesus powers than we do walking around.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Sure, So in Hebrews, the Bible says that Jesus was
tempted in every way like we are, and yet he
sinned not. So I don't know that there's anything more
human than temptation, right, So I think that the phrase
in every way really highlights the humanity side of what
he's about. And then it's not hard logically if you
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just kind of follow it. Logically, he's not everywhere. He
has to tap into the power of the Father. He
has to be filled with the spirit right in order
to do the things he does, which means he limited
himself to even come and live in one body in
one time and place. He's a creator from outside of
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time and space, limit all those things. He chose to
limit himself, not some completely into a human body, uh,
and then lived as a as a sinless man. And
that's why we're without excuse, completely and totally without and
Romans tells us where without Hebrews tells us in every
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way even as we are. And so this is why
his sacrifice was one hundred percent sufficient for humanity. It's
not because he had his Jesus powers to forgive our sins,
but because he was one hundred percent man who lived
a sinless life, didn't owe the death, and paid it
anyways with his blood, and so that would be it.
Now the other side is he was absolutely one hundred
(20:20):
percent God. And there's that tension that we lived between
the two.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, I think I can still believe that he has
one hundred percent of humanity and still believe that he
had more.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
But anyways, he does recognize this. I love the fact
that Jesus was on mission. This man comes and says, hey,
would you come and hear my daughter? She's about to die.
She just goes, yeah, sure, crowds are crazy. Well, we've
already addressed why the crowds are crazy. Remember Jesus sent
seventy people ahead of him, the seventy disciples, to go
into every village he's about ready to go to. The
crowds were huge because Jesus built the crowds to be big, right,
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That's what happened.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
And you know, incredible intentionality on purpose.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Because a big crowd doesn't make a church, but man,
you can make a church out of the crowd, right.
And so he's getting exposured as many people as possible.
But now the crowds are so big, he's having trouble
navigating these little narrow streets getting to Cyrus's house. And
then this woman touches him. The reality is Peter's right, Jesus,
(21:16):
what are you talking about? Everybody's touching you right, right?
Did you think that there was ever another time that
maybe somebody reached out touched Jesus and got healed. Bible
doesn't say it didn't happen. It's just this moment Jesus
decided to pause, and this woman was worth his time
and worth it. So her having this perpetual bleeding made
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her perpetually unclean for all these years. And when you
are ceremonially unclean, you're technically not allowed to have physical
contact with anybody of any kind.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Let alone a rabbi.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Right, and so the isolation, the shame, the lack of
human contact. So her sneaking into a crowd, she shouldn't have.
Then in that crowd, technically she made everybody else unclean
that she touched.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Now, is this the fall in the same category as
the gentiles. If a gentile touched you, you'd have to
make yourself ritually clean seven days.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah, it depends on what this issue of blood was.
But there were multiple cleansing processes for being exposed to
somebody who has you know, being exposed to blood.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yeah? Yeah, So it's a health thing. That's why God
gave those rules. But you know, it was a very
deep part of their religion. So because it's technically she's
making others unclean going into this crowd, she shouldn't have
been there, right, So the humility probably the shame she
was carrying. And then she knew what she was doing,
and I think that's why Jesus turned around. She sneaks out.
She touches just the hem of his garment because she's
(22:44):
tried everything. There's you know, the Bible says she'd gone
to all these doctors, she'd done all these other things.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Well, another gospel version tells us what she's thinking. Yeah,
another gospel says, record, if I can just tell you,
if I can just touch the hem of his garment,
I'll be healed. And by the way, Jesus doesn't announce that.
He doesn't say, hey, even the hem of my garment
has Jesus powers, right, right, he doesn't say that, right,
But she says she has so much faith and her
faith is great. Right. So I've honestly, we've talked about
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this before, but it's not necessarily the quantity of her faith.
But when Jesus said little faith, he's meaning little quantity
quality of faith, right, right, right, you have little quality
of faith and so her faith is great.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
And so I love the fact that he pauses this
rescue mission for this little girl, because this woman is
so important, this woman who probably felt like she didn't
even deserve to be there. It's why she snuck up
on it. Jyrus was a leader of the synagogue. He's
accustomed to power. He's accustomed to influence. He's accustomed to
snapping his fingers and people coming and doing what he
needed to do. He's accustomed to when other powerful people
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in town, he greets them and says, hey, powerful man,
this is what I need you to do for me
right now, right So, now he's got a problem, and
you do this. I do this. Sometimes you think I've
got a problem, who do I call? Well, we know
so many people. We us know somebody to solve our
problem for us. This is what he's Okay. My daughter said, Hey,
that Jesus guy, is he in town. Let's go get him, right,
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this is what he deserves to go see Jesus. And
Jesus responds and starts head enough to go heal him.
This woman would have been exactly the opposite. She's not
even allowed in the synagogues. She's not allowed in these crowds.
She's ashamed, probably of this, this this physical issue she has.
She probably you know, people who perpetually believe that there's
going to be a smell all these things, right, everything
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that would go along with the embarrassment of her situation.
And she pushes into the crowd. And while Jesus was
giving respect to Gyrous, he decides to pause Gyrous' miracle
to turn around and give respect and an acknowledgment of
this woman. And I love it. I love Jesus heart
in this moment that she's every bit is important as
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this important guy.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
That's great and I love it. So that's awesome. That's
another great learning right there. All right, well, that's our time,
so hopefully we will see you tomorrow. I'll the Bible
gas h
You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a
couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways. Oh, good morning, good morning. We talk the
whole night do good morning, Good morning to you and
you and you.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Man, that was it right there. I was just caught
off guard.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah, well, you know, that's what I like to do, Jeff.
I like to surprise people everybody. And it's been a while,
it's been listen, it's a while. Well, it's it's only Tuesday,
I know. Yeah, and I've been doing it lately on Tuesday.
Did you catch it?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, yeah, Tuesday is my favorite good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Day, good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, who knows, Maybe I'll throw another good Morning before
the end of the week.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Wild So wow, you just Willy Nelly with his his
Jeff I eat wild cherry life savers.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
That's how I roll. Hey, welcome to the Bible Guys.
We are Chris and Jeff and we are going to
start out our segment today with a dad joke compety.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
These are great. I haven't seen these.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I have not looked at these.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Desiree always chooses these for us, Yes, and so we're
gonna love them. It's probably because of our delivery.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
It's all about us.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It's all about well, we didn't choose them.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
That's so funny. Hey, so we're gonna vote who is
the better batch?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Okay, okay, better batch?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah, the better batch.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
So I have five? Do you have five?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I have five?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Okay, you want to start? What part of the body
always loses? Defeat?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Oh? I actually like it.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I like that. I like that, And I didn't defeat
about it too long because you would have found this.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Okay, how about this one? My daughter was doing history
homework and asked if I knew about Galileo. I said
he was a poor boy from a poor family.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Galileo.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Go oh, I'm just a poolivode from four family. Okay, there,
that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yes, yeah, okay. I'm at the airport and there's a
woman who's completely passed out on the baggage carousel. Oh,
she's slowly coming around. Now.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I like that one a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Okay, that's a good one. I'm two for two. I'm
like Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I told the nurse I was bitten by a wolf.
Where she asked, I answered, no, regular.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
What what read it? Again?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I told the nurse I was bitten by a wolf where,
she asked.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
A were wolf? No, just a regular wolf. So where? No,
just a regular.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Oh so it's all in the delivery.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Of that was where he tried again.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Only now I told the nurse I was bitten by
a wolf where? But see it changes. She wouldn't be
asking where, she'd say where. Okay, boo, No, I hate it. Okay,
as you don't, I have crossed over to hate it.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I hate number three. I'm starting a flight company exclusively
for bald people. It's going to be called Receding Airlines.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Okay, you are three for three. I like it.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I like that one. I like airlines.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
And I'm i'm I'm like, I'm like a half Okay,
here we go. A hacker just called and said he
has all my passwords. I jumped up, grabbed a pen
and paper and said, thank goodness, what are they good?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I like that one. That's not sorry, that's me. Okay, okay.
Number four, yep, this is a scientific one. So you
have to track with me on this one. Okay. A
dragon would never explode, but a dino mite.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Oh my goodness, you are banging all that cylinders. Yes,
I love it, I love it. Yep, all right here
we go. Stephen King has a son named Joe. I'm
not joking, but he is.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Joking.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Oh the joke King.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I can't believe you.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
They give it.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I a good one.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Okay, I'm not joking, but he is.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Okay, all right, you like it? You like it?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
That was a good one. Yeah, ok for you're at
least at like one and a half.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Okay, I'm one and a half. You're you're four for four.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Okay, here's the last one. I's see, what do you
call a security guard working out outside Samsung shops?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
What?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Guardians of the Galaxy?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Okay, I love it like, I love it?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Ye, Samsung Galaxy.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yes the phone, Yeah, yes, I love it. I think
it's great. Guardians of the Galaxy.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Galaxy.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
It's it's great.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Except it's a little off. It needed to see what
would you call some security guards working outside Samsung shops
because it's guardians not guardian.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, so little tweaking, but it's words matter.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, it's a little Yeah. That's all right. My last one,
I feel like I'm five for five.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
How does an Englishman invite a dinosaur for lunch?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
T Rex. No, Okay, I get it, I get that one.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I think she I just.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Didn't like it. Do you think so?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Do you think so she's like forget one? Said Jeff.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, well you know what, Actually I don't. I don't.
I don't doubt that.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
No, I don't put that past desiree wow conspiracy now, No.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
No, no, it's actually that's a compliment to her, because no,
it's it's not about you, Jeff. It's about it's about
knowing that that's what we were going to do, is vote.
And she's like, what if I stacked one stack one?
She happened to choose you, not on purpose, just because
she had to choose somebody.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Whatever. You have to tell yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
All right, well that was wonderful.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Okay, I loved it. I'm gonna I'm going to declare
myself the winner.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I'm going to immediately I share all five of your
jokes with my daughter, who loves them, and I am
going to share none of mine. None, or I might
just do it just to show her how bad mine are. Okay, Yeah, okay,
is great.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, okay, so hey we're gonna go Hey, speaking of
explosive stories, Wow, Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I don't know. I can't. I can't get there, man.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Okay, how do you get there? Well, I know it's
as good as anything, to be honest with you. Speaking
of explosive stories, I was going to say that, but
mine was even worse. Mine was even worse.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I was going to say something like, you're talking about
the lady that's slowly coming around.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I was gonna say. I was going to say, my
jokes were deaf, and your jokes were healing. And speaking
of which, there was a woman who was on her
way to death until she met Jesus, and now she's healed.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
That's so good. Ah. So in Matthew chapter I'm sorry, Luke, Luke,
chapter eight, we're going to be reading verses forty through
forty eight.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, just eight verses here.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, And it says on the other side of the
lake the crowd Jesus is always going to the other
side of lake. Wherever he's at, he's heading to the
other ties, always on the other side of the lake.
The crowds welcomed Jesus because they had been waiting for him.
And then a man named Jerius, a leader of the
local synagogue, came and fell at Jesus' feet, pleading with
him to come home with him. His only daughter, who
was about twelve years old, was dying. As Jesus went
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with him, he was surrounded by the crowds. A woman
in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant
bleeding and she could find no cure. Coming up behind Jesus,
she touched the fringe of his robe, and immediately the
bleeding stopped. Who touched me, Jesus asked. Everyone denied it.
Peter said, Master, this whole crowd's pressing up against you.
But Jesus said, someone deliberately touched me, for I felt
healing power go out from me. When the woman realized
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that she could not stay hidden, and she began to
tremble and fell to her knees in front of him,
and the whole crowd heard her explain and why she
had touched him, and that she had been immediately healed daughter.
He said to her, your faith has been made you
well go in peace, and while he was still speak Oops,
that's it. I can't I can't read the next one.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Oh that's a cliffhanger, I know.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
But we got to leave it there because we're going
to come back and address it later.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Oh, I see, so's it's going to be the rest
of the story, hopefully, Okay, hopefully Luke chapter eight.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, what Desiree told us was four through forty eight,
so I'm not supposed to be reading forty nine.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Okay, okay, okay, Oh, I'll start giving you bad jokes, right,
but of them. But we but we learned the first
half of a story. This guy named was it Gyros
or is it Jerrus? Ah, whatever you want to say,
because in the Chosen his name's Gyros Gyrius.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Okay, let's say Gyrus.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Okay, but Rus, which, by the way, it's it's one
of my favorite moments. I'm not even kidding. It's one
of my favorite moments in all of the Chosen Gyrus.
It's it's so good.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
But this little girl is sick.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Well, it's it's the way that they developed this character. Right,
So anyway, let's not talk about him, because apparently we can't. Right,
it's all about the woman who touched the robe.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Jesus is on his way to go try to heal
Gyrus's daughter, correct, she's sick, and.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
On the way he gets distracted, Yes, because a woman
and this is the same woman, by the way, who
had a bleeding. This is the woman who had the
blood disease. And so she touched him and all of
a sudden, he says, I felt healing power go out
from me, which which, by the way, You know how
we always have these debates. I don't know about always,
(09:36):
but we've had debates before about Remember I told you
that my professor was talking about the whether Jesus knew
that the woman was in Samaria.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Remember that.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
And it was a big debate in my Bible college
in the class where Professor Pratt said, oh, Jesus just
wanted to cut through Samaria because it was a shorter route,
and he was trying to make a statement about politics.
But it says I must go through Samaria. And so
the other people in the class said, well, no, he
knew that this woman was going to be there from
his Jesus powers, right, And I'm saying this powers, yeah,
(10:11):
I'm saying a tongue in cheek. And then and and
what you said, as you said, I believe that Jesus
relied on the Holy Spirit in the same way that
you and I are capable of relying on the Holy
Spirit today.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, yeah, I believe that he was. There's a doctrinal terminology.
I'm going to get into that, but there's a doctrinal
idea that because of his incarnation, he chose to limit
his deity. Not that he wasn't fully God, It's just
he wasn't God everywhere. Right, So the omnipresence, the omniscience,
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the omnipotence, those things he chose to restrict in order
to fully function as a human. So then everything he did,
the only way he could do what he did was
as the model man for every Christian, every christ follower,
that he than the power of the Holy Spirit. So
you can say, greater things you'll do than I did?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Right? Right? Yes, So then how do you explain? So
then how do you explain I felt Jesus powers.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Like healing powers go from me. Yeah, right, because that's
what he says. He says, Uh, I felt the healing
power go out for me.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah, So so number one, the healing comes from Jesus,
right and uh? And so yes, do we have the
ability to pray over somebody through the power of the
Holy Spirit and then for good to do miracles?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
And he'll how many people in the in the Bible
have do miracle.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
No, I'm supporting this statement, Peter, I'm saying I'm saying,
I'm saying that we do too, es right, So I
believe that now you know whether or not a person
has a gift of healing. I'm I'm still on the
you know, fence about whether that he still he still
throws out these gifts. I believe, I believe he does.
I think he does too. But uh, you know, I'm
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a skeptic at nature by nature, right, So, but I
believe one hundred percent that a person has the ability
today to pray over somebody and for God to use
them to heal somebody one hundred percent. But that still
doesn't explain Jesus's comment about he felt healing powers go
out from him, Because if Jesus was more like us
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in that moment, one hundred percent man relying on the
Holy Spirit, do we feel healing power coming out of us?
The answer is no, How do you know? Come on,
how do you know? Well, first of all, I've prayed
where somebody's been healed. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't feel
any healing POWERA economy.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Well, maybe you didn't have a lot of excess power yet.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
But by the way, did I did I my son
maybe like Jesus had so much.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Probably like my son.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Who listens every day Stephen on his way to work,
he actually tells me, he goes Chris or Dad, you
need to go into hospitals and pray over people more,
because uh, I did this recently in the last like
five years, where I've gone into a hospital and I've
prayed over somebody and laid my hands on them, and
then coincidentally they were heading in one direction, and then
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almost miraculously, the next day, the doctors come in and say,
I don't understand why, but you've taken a turn. And
I'm not kidding like like and I'm not and I'm
not saying it's me and I'm not saying you know
that that I have these you know, the gift of healing.
I am just saying that is what happened, right, And
And in one case, one guy was dying and they
had him on hospice and then all of a sudden
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he's back and he attends Heritage Church by the way,
and and and then one guy. Anyway, it doesn't matter.
The point is is that I feel like that's happened
to me, I feel like I have you know, God
has used me in that way, and and I'm like, wow,
that's pretty incredible. But but the idea that Jesus was
exactly like you and exactly like me, and we can
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you know, operating exactly like him. Statements like this say,
wait a minute, he had an indifferent.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
No doubt with the amount of time that he would
spend with his father, right that he would be deeply
in tuned with the spiritual. And I think we wade
into the spiritual and back out of the spiritual often,
so maybe we're not as in tune with these things
as Jesus was. But yeah, don't I don't think that
this negates the concept.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, I think I think I'm on the I think
I'm on just on the other side of where you are.
Whereas like, it feels good to me to say and
believe that Jesus was in some ways. What you're saying
is Jesus limited himself to be exactly like us. He
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wasn't exactly like us, but you're saying in terms of
like his abilities, right, Like that feels good because that
then puts us on the same level as him. And
you're saying if he says, well, the only way he
can say you will do greater things than I am
that then I is because of that. Whereas like I'm
just thinking, like, does it though, does he have to
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be exactly like us in order for him to make
that statement, because he could. He could be making that
statement by saying, through the power of the Holy Spirit,
you can do greater things.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Than calling you a heretic. But you walk a really
fine line when you minimize his humanity. Sure, right, I'm
not minimizing his deity, for sure, I know that. Right,
So I'm not minimizing his deity, but we can't minimize
his humanity. He was fully God and fully man, and
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so in that case, then if he was fully man.
So here's what I find. I do find this to
be true, Chris, And I'm not saying this is true
about you. I do find a significant number of Christians
who go, well, he did it because he was God.
Also tell me that since they're not Jesus, they also
can't be people of peace. And they also well, you know,
I just have a temper. I'm not Jesus, and they
(16:03):
start excusing so many of their behaviors. Yeah, but that
sounds just misapplications. Well, it happens a lot though, where
people just kind of go, I don't have as important
of a mission. I don't have it, whereas I think
Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost,
and that is our mission, and it's everybody is important,
our part as his. The difference is we're not dying
on the cross and resurrecting right.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yes, that that part of it.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
So we are not because it's not we're not sinless,
but all the rest of what Jesus did, I think
that we're expected to do that. We're supposed to be
like him all the time, not some of the time.
And we shouldn't let ourselves off the hook when we
when we you know, mess up, or when we when
we fall short. We shouldn't let ourselves off the hook
because we're not God. And I think that that's why
(16:47):
Jesus functioned one hundred percent as a man in the
power of the Holy Spirit, rather than leveraging Hisah, his God,
you know, God had his deity for it.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
So my response to that would be that just sounds
like a big misapplication that people use as an excuse.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Right, what happens all the time yeah, of course it does.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Of course it does. But then if you go down
that route, then it almost sounds like what we want
to do is we want to conform our theological opinion
so that we don't have excuses. So it's like, so
there's a big difference between a theological statement because I
often wonder and so I love it. I'm okay, I'm
okay with the mystery of God. Right, So that's the
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true definition of a postmodern Christian who says, hey, we
embrace the mystery of God. So I'm not I certainly
don't think that that theory undermines his deity, and I
certainly don't think that the other way undermindes his humanity
at all. Even what I just said, it doesn't undermine
his humanity. Well, I guess what I'm saying is, I
don't think anybody knows. That's my statement. I don't think
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anybody knows how much he limited himself. And I don't
think anybody understands like what he knew and didn't know.
Because when I when I really truly, because I think
about this a lot, and I thought, by.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
The way, yeah, I've thought about it comes up every
time we come across these life.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I thought about it a lot because of doctor Pratt, Yeah, honestly,
And when he brought that debate up, and I'm there
in the front row, and I made myself sit in
the front row because he was super boring. But yes,
and so I did it on purpose, and so I
was forced to really pay attention. And I felt like
I was engaged because he was so smart. He was
just so dry, but I loved him, and I and
(18:23):
I remember this debate and I'm thinking to myself, Wow,
doctor Pratt really believes that. And and listening to all
of these pastors kids, you know, spout out of everything,
and I thought to myself, I wonder how it is.
And so every time I read the Gospels, which has
been my entire Christian life, I've thought about this, and
I've thought about all the evidence, and I'm piecing it together,
and I just think that there's evidence that he had
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more Jesus powers than we do walking around.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Sure, So in Hebrews, the Bible says that Jesus was
tempted in every way like we are, and yet he
sinned not. So I don't know that there's anything more
human than temptation, right, So I think that the phrase
in every way really highlights the humanity side of what
he's about. And then it's not hard logically if you
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just kind of follow it. Logically, he's not everywhere. He
has to tap into the power of the Father. He
has to be filled with the spirit right in order
to do the things he does, which means he limited
himself to even come and live in one body in
one time and place. He's a creator from outside of
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time and space, limit all those things. He chose to
limit himself, not some completely into a human body, uh,
and then lived as a as a sinless man. And
that's why we're without excuse, completely and totally without and
Romans tells us where without Hebrews tells us in every
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way even as we are. And so this is why
his sacrifice was one hundred percent sufficient for humanity. It's
not because he had his Jesus powers to forgive our sins,
but because he was one hundred percent man who lived
a sinless life, didn't owe the death, and paid it
anyways with his blood, and so that would be it.
Now the other side is he was absolutely one hundred
(20:20):
percent God. And there's that tension that we lived between
the two.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, I think I can still believe that he has
one hundred percent of humanity and still believe that he
had more.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
But anyways, he does recognize this. I love the fact
that Jesus was on mission. This man comes and says, hey,
would you come and hear my daughter? She's about to die.
She just goes, yeah, sure, crowds are crazy. Well, we've
already addressed why the crowds are crazy. Remember Jesus sent
seventy people ahead of him, the seventy disciples, to go
into every village he's about ready to go to. The
crowds were huge because Jesus built the crowds to be big, right,
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That's what happened.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
And you know, incredible intentionality on purpose.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Because a big crowd doesn't make a church, but man,
you can make a church out of the crowd, right.
And so he's getting exposured as many people as possible.
But now the crowds are so big, he's having trouble
navigating these little narrow streets getting to Cyrus's house. And
then this woman touches him. The reality is Peter's right, Jesus,
(21:16):
what are you talking about? Everybody's touching you right, right?
Did you think that there was ever another time that
maybe somebody reached out touched Jesus and got healed. Bible
doesn't say it didn't happen. It's just this moment Jesus
decided to pause, and this woman was worth his time
and worth it. So her having this perpetual bleeding made
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her perpetually unclean for all these years. And when you
are ceremonially unclean, you're technically not allowed to have physical
contact with anybody of any kind.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Let alone a rabbi.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Right, and so the isolation, the shame, the lack of
human contact. So her sneaking into a crowd, she shouldn't have.
Then in that crowd, technically she made everybody else unclean
that she touched.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Now, is this the fall in the same category as
the gentiles. If a gentile touched you, you'd have to
make yourself ritually clean seven days.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah, it depends on what this issue of blood was.
But there were multiple cleansing processes for being exposed to
somebody who has you know, being exposed to blood.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yeah? Yeah, So it's a health thing. That's why God
gave those rules. But you know, it was a very
deep part of their religion. So because it's technically she's
making others unclean going into this crowd, she shouldn't have
been there, right, So the humility probably the shame she
was carrying. And then she knew what she was doing,
and I think that's why Jesus turned around. She sneaks out.
She touches just the hem of his garment because she's
(22:44):
tried everything. There's you know, the Bible says she'd gone
to all these doctors, she'd done all these other things.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Well, another gospel version tells us what she's thinking. Yeah,
another gospel says, record, if I can just tell you,
if I can just touch the hem of his garment,
I'll be healed. And by the way, Jesus doesn't announce that.
He doesn't say, hey, even the hem of my garment
has Jesus powers, right, right, he doesn't say that, right,
But she says she has so much faith and her
faith is great. Right. So I've honestly, we've talked about
(23:12):
this before, but it's not necessarily the quantity of her faith.
But when Jesus said little faith, he's meaning little quantity
quality of faith, right, right, right, you have little quality
of faith and so her faith is great.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
And so I love the fact that he pauses this
rescue mission for this little girl, because this woman is
so important, this woman who probably felt like she didn't
even deserve to be there. It's why she snuck up
on it. Jyrus was a leader of the synagogue. He's
accustomed to power. He's accustomed to influence. He's accustomed to
snapping his fingers and people coming and doing what he
needed to do. He's accustomed to when other powerful people
(23:46):
in town, he greets them and says, hey, powerful man,
this is what I need you to do for me
right now, right So, now he's got a problem, and
you do this. I do this. Sometimes you think I've
got a problem, who do I call? Well, we know
so many people. We us know somebody to solve our
problem for us. This is what he's Okay. My daughter said, Hey,
that Jesus guy, is he in town. Let's go get him, right,
(24:06):
this is what he deserves to go see Jesus. And
Jesus responds and starts head enough to go heal him.
This woman would have been exactly the opposite. She's not
even allowed in the synagogues. She's not allowed in these crowds.
She's ashamed, probably of this, this this physical issue she has.
She probably you know, people who perpetually believe that there's
going to be a smell all these things, right, everything
(24:29):
that would go along with the embarrassment of her situation.
And she pushes into the crowd. And while Jesus was
giving respect to Gyrous, he decides to pause Gyrous' miracle
to turn around and give respect and an acknowledgment of
this woman. And I love it. I love Jesus heart
in this moment that she's every bit is important as
(24:50):
this important guy.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
That's great and I love it. So that's awesome. That's
another great learning right there. All right, well, that's our time,
so hopefully we will see you tomorrow. I'll the Bible
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