We delve into the extraordinary narratives of miraculous healings performed by Jesus, including the story of Jairus’s daughter and the woman with the issue of blood. Highlighted is the significant role of faith, which transcended ordinary belief systems and sparked miraculous outcomes. The episode brings to light compelling reflections on how Jesus empowered his twelve disciples, granting them the authority to heal and express his novel teachings, reshaping spiritual discourses of the time.
The CEM Network is pleased to present Ronald L. Dart and Born to Win.
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Jesus must have given a lot of people whiplash. For one thing, he didn’t seem to be a very religious person. Oh, I don’t mean to say he was not a law-abiding person. I don’t mean to say he was profane or irreligious. It’s just that he wasn’t religious in the, what shall we say, accepted sense. For one thing, he consorted with the wrong kind of people, and he was under near constant criticism from the more religious people of the time. For example, on one occasion, a man named Levi—I think it’s the man we know as Matthew—made him a great feast in his own house. Now, there’s a problem. Levi had been a publican, and the circle of friends that he had included a lot of publicans and other types of ordinary, non-religious people. Anyway, Levi made a big feast for Jesus at his own house. The record is in Luke 5 and verse 29. Well, a whole lot of others came in, and they were there, and they were dining together. But the scribes and the Pharisees murmured against Jesus’ disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with publicans and with sinners? You are hanging out with the wrong kind of people. And Jesus answered and said, Well, they that are whole don’t need a physician, but they that are sick— I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. It’s almost like saying, look, I know you people are all very righteous and all that, but you people are not my business. I didn’t come for you. I came to reach out to, well, people are having trouble with their life. And from this comes a very simple truth. If you expect to reach sinners, you’ve got to go where they are. Eating and drinking are two of the fundamentals of fellowship. And you can’t consider yourself too good to fellowship with sinners if you expect to have any influence on them, if you expect them to take you seriously. You know how sinners react to religious people who won’t give them the time of day? Well, they say you’re holier than thou. They say that you consider yourself above them. And they think if that’s religion, I don’t want to have any part with it. Well, if you can’t understand why they feel the way they feel, well, then maybe you could just take a look at Jesus because he understood how they felt. And he sat down and he ate with them. Jews at that time, if they were very religious Jews, were very particular about who they would eat and drink with. Now, I don’t mean to say by this that to meet sinners you go hang out in bars. Sinners are everywhere. They’re in the bank, the office, wherever it may be. Sinners are everywhere except in church. Church is not much of a place for evangelism unless you can get the sinners to go there, and most sinners really aren’t attracted to church. It was not just a matter of who Jesus consorted with that bothered people. He didn’t do religious things. What do I mean religious things? Well, they said to Jesus, why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees do the same thing? But your disciples, well, they eat and drink. Well, don’t we all? Well, what they were talking about was the frequent custom of fasting, not only of fasting, but even of appearing to fast. I mean, you made it clear to people that you’re fasting today because that makes people know that you are religious. And the prayers we’re talking about here are public prayers of the sort that one might make standing on a street corner somewhere or up against a wall or what have you, where you make all your prayers in public. Well, Jesus said… I’m sorry, I don’t understand you folks see that as religious, but he said, can you make the children of the bride chamber fast while the bridegroom is with them? Oh, the days will come when I won’t be here. The bridegroom will be taken away, and they will fast in those days. You don’t fast in a time of celebration. Fasting is a sign of mourning, and the time would come when Jesus’ disciples would mourn. But the point would be, Jesus is making is, that there is a time to fast and a time not to fast. Fasting is not merely a religious exercise. It’s not doing something religious, which for some people in that time, it was. It was a religious thing to do. And Jesus said, no, no, you do these things when the time is appropriate and the time is not appropriate right now. But the bottom line of all this is that Jesus came along and brought something entirely new. The Pharisees had a religious system their fathers had built in response to God’s revelation. In other words, God gave his law, he gave his revelation, he spoke to the prophets. Well, the Pharisees and their forefathers had put together a religious system that was a response to that revelation. Try to get this clear. Judaism, as you see it in the world today, is not the revelation of God. It is a response to the revelation of God. And it is basically a cultural response. It deserves to be respected for that. But Judaism of Jesus’ day was full of customs and practices of essentially human invention. It had been around a long time and had become a habit as much as it was a religion. Now along comes Jesus, and he’s bringing something entirely new. And this is the hard thing to get your mind around. He went on to speak a parable to them. Now remember, a parable is a kind of allegory. It isn’t necessarily an illustration to make meaning clear. One person will understand one thing out of it, another another sometimes with an allegory. But here’s what he said. No man puts a piece of a new garment upon an old. If otherwise, then both the new makes a rent and the piece that was taken out of the new doesn’t agree with the old. That’s easy to understand. You got an old jacket. You don’t put a patch on it with a brand new piece of material. It will look funny. You go rummage around to try to find something that makes a closer match, right? And no man puts new wine in old bottles, else the new wine will burst the bottles and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. You know, wine’s still got a lot of fermenting to do when it’s still new. And the bottles he’s talking about are wineskins, which would split. Old wineskins would be rather brittle. But you put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved. And he says, now, no man, also having drunk old wine, straightway desires new, for he says the old is better. And part of that has to do with the fact that old wine is better. Part of it also has to do with what’s familiar, what’s familiar to your palate, what you enjoy, what you have habitually had. And something new, well, it just doesn’t taste right. Yeah, Jesus was comparing the Judaism of the day to an old garment or old wineskins. What he was teaching was new wine and new cloth. And he recognized that no one wanted to leave what he was used to. I mean, after all, you’re accustomed to this. You’ve been doing it all your life. Why do I want to change? Old wine is better than new. Until the old wine goes sour. and until the new wine has aged. And old shoes are more comfortable than new ones, until they come apart, and until the new ones have gotten broken in and become more comfortable. What Jesus brought was new. Actually, in many ways, it was a restoration of something so old that it was totally new to those who heard it. Stay with me.
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Now, one would have to assume that a ruler of the synagogue was a religious man. One of these, his name was Jairus, came to Jesus. And when he saw him, he fell at his feet and begged him, saying, Please, my little daughter lies at the point of death. I pray you, come and lay your hands on her that she may be healed and she shall live. And Jesus followed him, and a lot of people followed him, thronged him. Now, what’s interesting to me about this is that you would have to assume that this is a religious man. It is a man who, who knows, might have even been a few weeks before critical of Jesus and might have not understood what Jesus was saying at all and might have been involved in all the religious arguments that were being advanced. But when his little daughter was dying… All of a sudden, no religious debate, no discussion over fasting and praying, no religious customs were going to make any difference for his daughter. But there was a man, one man, who carried life with him everywhere he went, and he laid aside whatever pride he had and went and fell at Jesus’ feet. Well, Jesus said, I’ll come with you, and he did. And as they went on their way, there was such a crowd. They were buffeting him almost as he walked along and bumping him. And a certain woman who had had an issue of blood for 12 years and had suffered many things of many physicians and had spent every dime that she had and was not better but just got worse. Well, she heard about Jesus, and she came in the press behind, and she said to herself, If I can just touch his clothes, I’ll be made whole. And she reached out and touched his garment, and immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. Now, that’s marvelous that she should have seen this, should have known it, and should have pressed up to Jesus. And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned around in the press and said, Who touched my clothes? Now, this is really fascinating. And the disciples were amazed. They said, Are you kidding? Do you see this multitude around, and you say, Who touched me? Jesus didn’t know that this woman was going to touch him. Jesus did not consciously heal this woman. Normally, you think of Jesus making a decision. Here’s a person in front of him. He has compassion. He reaches out and touches the person. He says, be healed. He says something, waves his hand, does something religious for the person to be healed. But not this time. This woman touched him, and he turned around and says, what happened? Who touched me? What the woman did was to come into contact with the power of life. And yet, I have little doubt that there were all kinds of sick people who brushed against Jesus that day, who just did so because of the crowd and had no special thought of healing and weren’t. Her faith interacted, intersected that power, and the result was profound. Well, Jesus looked around to see her that had done this thing. And the woman was afraid and trembling, and knowing what happened, came and fell down before him and told him all the truth. And he said, Daughter? Your faith has made you whole. Go in peace and be whole of your plague. He was very happy to confirm what had happened. But it’s amazing to me to realize this, that it is not merely a matter of going to God and God evaluating and putting your particular problem in the balances and deciding that he will heal you. In this case, the woman herself decided that she would be healed. All she had to do was somehow make contact. But while Jesus was interacting with this woman, there came from the ruler of the synagogue’s house a servant that said, Your daughter’s died. No point in troubling the master any further. Well, Jesus heard what was spoken, and obviously the man’s heart turned to stone inside of him, the father of the daughter. And Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, Don’t be afraid. Just believe. He didn’t allow any man to follow him except Peter and James and John, the brother of James. And he came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and he saw the tumult and all those that wept and wailed greatly. There was an incredible screaming and wailing about the death of this girl. And when he came in, he said, What are you making all this noise about? What are you crying for? The damsel isn’t dead. She just sleeps. And they laughed him to scorn. Now, all of a sudden, from weeping and mourning and wailing, they’re laughing in Jesus’ face about his comment that he made. But he put them all out. He said, get out of here. Got everybody out of the room. And he took the father and the mother of the damsel and those that were with him, and he entered in where the little girl was lying, and he took her by the hand, and he said, Talethi kumi, which is being interpreted damsel, arise. He used the Aramaic expression. Apparently, I’d rather gather the entire conversation took place in Aramaic. For some reason, Mark, on this occasion, decides to tell us specifically what Jesus said in Aramaic and then to translate it for us. Well, immediately, the little girl got up and walked. She was 12. And they were astonished, with great astonishment, as I can imagine they would have been. But he charged them strictly that no man should know it and said, get this little girl something to eat. One of the first things that crossed his mind was, she needs something to eat. She’s probably hungry. Jesus left that area and went into his own country, and his disciples, of course, went with him. And when the Sabbath day was come, he began to teach in a synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, where does he get these things? And what wisdom is this which is given to him that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands? Now, what’s funny about this is, They knew the works. They’d heard about them at least. I don’t know if they believed them, but they had certainly heard. You know the word of all the healings went way ahead of him. It may well be that the father of the little girl he had just brought back to life and her mother didn’t say anything, and it may well be that others didn’t, but they knew that girl was dead, and the next thing you know, they know that that girl’s not dead, and so the word has to spread. And all kinds of people have been being healed up and down the landscape, so they knew. They knew. Now, having heard all these things, they said, well, now, where does he get these things? What wisdom is this given to him that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands? Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joseph and Judas and Simon? And aren’t his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him. Jesus was a local boy. I mean, he had brothers. Mary had sons after Jesus, hate to disillusion anyone, and daughters. So he had brothers and sisters present in the town. And these people stumbled. They could not believe that someone who had grown up in their town could be the Messiah, could be the Son of God, could have miraculous power. And they just couldn’t listen. And Jesus said, A prophet is not without honor, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house. And he could do there no mighty work. Now that’s another fascinating thing. Because normally you think of God as being all-powerful. God does what he wants to do, right? He does it when he wants to do it. And yet, the way this is worded to us here, in Luke 6 and verse 5, He was not able to do this because of the unbelief. He says, except that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk and healed them. And he marveled at it because of their unbelief. I do too. I do too. One only must suspect that they just couldn’t believe their ears. They could not believe that he’d actually done these things. But it does seem that familiarity breeds contempt. And we’ve seen this guy. We know this guy. And we can’t possibly be the son of God. Now, we’re beginning to get an idea of what Jesus was teaching by piecing together his words from various incidents in the gospel accounts. And he went around all the villages teaching them. And the record continues in Matthew 10, verse 1. He calls the 12 disciples together. We’ve come to a new stage in his ministry. He calls together the 12 disciples, and he gave them power against unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. Up until this point, they have followed him around. They have watched him do it. I have little doubt that they have been stirred to the very core of their being by what Jesus had done. Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, that we know as Peter, Andrew, his brother, James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, and Matthew, the publican, James, the son of Alphaeus, and Levaeus, whose surname is Thaddeus, Simon, the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. Now, the presence of Judas here is of no small interest, because here was a man who was ultimately to betray Christ, and he will tell us later that he knew from the beginning who he was. And to this man, whose heart must have had to flaw, who must have been wrong somewhere down inside, who must have been broken, to this man also, with all the rest, was given power against unclean spirits to cast them out, the power to heal sickness and all kinds of diseases. And yet Judas was given the same authority with all the rest. Now these twelve Jesus sent forth and commanded them, saying, Don’t go into the way of the Gentiles and into any city of the Samaritans. Don’t go, but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Now there’s something we need to understand. This is not the final commission he will give to these men. These are not their final working conditions. They’re going out this time, as it were, with training wheels. And so consequently they are not to go everywhere that they are ultimately to go. Only to the house of Israel, only to Judea, only to Galilee. And as you go, he said, preach saying the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give. Don’t provide yourself any gold or silver nor brass in your purses. In other words, you start off down this road without any money. Don’t even take any script. No, uh-uh, no paper that entitles you to a loan somewhere. Don’t take two coats. Don’t take extra shoes. Don’t take any more staves, for the workman is worthy of his meat. Well, now that’s a challenge. Now, you should also keep in mind, though, that itinerant preachers were not unknown in this world at this time. And it was also not the least uncommon for them to be taken into someone’s house. I mean, you didn’t necessarily go down to the Hampton Inn, the Motel 6, or the Holiday Inn and check in when you got to a new town, even if you weren’t doing Jesus’ work. Oftentimes, you were taken in by a family. Now, his point is, you’re going out there without any money, You’re going to go completely in faith, and you’re going to be supported by the people to whom you preach and teach. It is as simple as that. If you’re going to do the job, you’re worthy of your keep. Into whatever city or town you enter, inquire in it who is worthy, and you go there and you stay until you leave the town. When you come into a house, salute it. If the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it. If it be not worthy, then let your peace return to you, and whoever shall not receive you nor hear your words, when you leave that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. I say unto you, It will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city. Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, or be wise as serpent, be harmless as dove. I’ll be back in a moment with more of Jesus’ instruction to these men.
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Well, you know, oddly enough, they did get to preach the kingdom of heaven is at hand, but the biggest part of their ministry seems to have been repairing people’s lives, healing the sick and cleansing lepers, raising the dead, casting out demons. What a marvelous commission to be given. He gave them a lot of instructions on this occasion, but there’s something you need to know about this. These are not the same instructions that he would give them later. There are a lot of very valuable principles in this. Unfortunately, sometimes preachers, when they’re preaching, they’ll drop in the middle of one of Jesus’ speeches like this, and they will not really explain fully to you the circumstances under which it is given. It doesn’t necessarily mean that what he said to these men applies directly to you and me in every case, because circumstances will vary, and I’ll try to show you what I mean. He said to them, for example, “‘Beware of men, for they will deliver you up to the councils, they will scourge you in their synagogues, and you shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.’ Now, I’ve heard that cited in a sermon as though that’s going to happen to a little old lady from Peoria or just ordinary Christians who are minding their own business. But the truth is that’s not who this was said to. It was said to the 12 who had been given an enormous amount of power, who were going out to have a rather serious effect on a lot of people’s lives, and they would meet with opposition on their way. I don’t think somebody who’s minding his own business and doing his job and keeping the Ten Commandments is going to get in a whole lot of trouble about being beaten in synagogues. It’s the preachers, the teachers, who are going to cause the trouble, especially those teachers that can’t be really criticized for much because they don’t have anything. He said, When they deliver you up, don’t take any thought about what you shall speak. It will be given to you in that same hour what you shall speak. For it’s not you that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaks in you. Now, to whatever extent you or I someday might find ourselves in jail for the sake of the truth, in jail for sake of the gospel, persecuted because we are Christians, then I suppose that would apply to us. Now, don’t worry about what we’re going to speak. But in its initial form, this was spoken not to the great multitudes in front of Jesus, but to those whom he was commissioning to go out and preach. He said, And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child. And children shall rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death. And you will be hated of all men for my name’s sake. But he that will endure to the end shall be saved. And I suppose that This will be true down through history at various times, but it was originally spoken to the twelve as they were being sent out on a journey to preach the gospel. And the result of it was, it would divide households. That one person in a household would hear and would believe and would obey, and another would not, and people would even turn against their own family. But he said, When they persecute you in this city, flee to another. Verily I say unto you, You shall not have gone over the cities of Israel till the Son of Man be come. Now that’s an odd statement. Because we will have here just shortly these men returning from this particular journey. They went out. They did their job. They came back. But this seems to be prophetic in nature. It seems to be saying to all those disciples who will be out there preaching the gospel in the years to come, you shall not have finished actually going over all the cities of Israel until the Son of Man has come. And the coming of the Son of Man usually is a reference to the second coming of Jesus Christ. But he continued to these men, saying, The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. It’s enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, and they basically called Jesus that, how much more shall they call him of his household? Don’t be afraid of them, therefore. If they’re doing this to you, they did the same thing to me. And realize, there’s nothing that they’re going to be able to cover up. All those things that are done and are hidden will be made known. What I tell you in the darkness, you speak it in the light. And what you hear in the ear, you preach it on the housetops. Don’t be afraid of that bunch of losers. You were born to win.
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