hands on my daughter. Then she will be healed. He had that kind of faith. And Jesus accepted that faith. Jesus did not say, Well now, Jairus, sit down here and let me teach you a lesson on faith. My first point is that don't have to physically be in your house in order to heal your daughter. And if you really trust me, I can just say 'Your daughter is healed' and she will be healed. Why didn't Jesus do this? Because He was sensitive to the desperate condition of this man and He fol lowed him. Jesus, who called men to follow Him, followed Jairus. Jairus had a promise. He clung to his promise . . . Jesus is with me, maybe there's a chance. Let's hurry up and get there! Jesus is coming. I have found Him. Now, if I can just get home in time. But the mul titude was in the way, pressing in upon Him. Jesus was calm and patient as He walked through the crowd. Jairus had one thing burning in his mind —I must get Jesus to my daughter. Jairus may have been wrong in his attitude, but Jesus took him where he was and followed him. JESUS WAS SENSITIVE TO A DESPERATE FAITH EXERCISED AT A TIME OF DEATH. THE DETERMINED WOMAN Now the story is interrupted. No tice verse 43. "And a woman who had a hemmorage for twelve years and could not be healed by anyone came up behind him and touched the fringe of his cloak and, immed iately, her hemmorage stopped. And Jesus said, Who is the one who touched me? And while they were all denying it, Peter said, Master, the multitudes are crowding and pressing upon you. But Jesus said, someone did touch me, for I was
aware that power had gone out of me." Here is the second person in our story, the determined woman. No tice the contrast between this wo man and Jairus. Jairus had a daugh ter twelve years old. Being a ruler, he was probably a man of some means. He had some wealth, and perhaps he focused it on his daugh ter, the only child, for twelve hap py years. She was a hopeless case. This woman had a hemmorrhage for twelve years. She could not be healed. Turn to Mark 5 and notice how he talks about it. While Luke says, "She was sick and could not be healed by anyone," Mark talks about it a little differently. He does not have the finesse of Dr. Luke but he tells it like it is from a layman's point of view. Verse 25 says, "And a woman who had a hemorrage for twelve years had endured much at the hand of many physicians and hath spent all she had, and was not helped at all, but rather had grown worse" (NASB). Both writers, how ever, come to the same conclusion, that this woman was a hopeless case. Those of us who have had the flu and perhaps feel a bit washed out, do not feel that we are up to our full strength. Can you imagine the weakened condition this woman was in? For twelve years she had spent everything she had, tried many doctors, and nowwas in pov erty, sick, and hopeless. In Leviticus, there were restric tions with this particular kind of disease. This type of person was considered "unclean." Defiled, or unclean, meant that she was ex cluded from all temple observ ances. The rabbis had laid a tradi-
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