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Greg Laurie - Jesus and The Brokenhearted

November 3, 2025 | 27:40

Greg Laurie - Jesus and The Brokenhearted
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Jesus and The Brokenhearted | November 3, 2025
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  • Greg laurie: why doesn't god heal everybody?
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  • Sometimes people will say, "it's because you lack faith.
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  • If you had more faith, you would have been healed, and the reason
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  • You're sick in the first place is a lack of faith."
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  • That's nonsense.
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins ♪♪
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  • Greg: let me ask you, have you ever been in a situation that
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  • Was just so bleak, you never thought it was going to
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  • Get better?
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  • You could compare it to a storm, and the storm clouds gathered,
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  • And the rain began to fall, and then came the thunder and the
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  • Lightning, and it got worse and worse, and you wondered if--is a
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  • Storm ever going to stop, and then suddenly, the sun breaks
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  • Through the clouds and it's a whole new day, and maybe your
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  • Life feels that way right now.
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  • Well, that picture describes what we see before us here in
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  • Mark chapter 5.
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  • We have two very different people in two very
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  • Different sets of circumstances, who you could describe as
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  • Brokenhearted, and the one thing they had in common was they both
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  • Needed jesus.
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  • This is part of our "jesus and you" series that we've been
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  • Doing together, and now we're looking at two characters, one
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  • Is named jairus, who i'll introduce you to in a moment,
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  • And the other is an unnamed woman who had a very intense
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  • Medical condition.
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  • Their story is found in three gospels, matthew, mark, and
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  • Luke, and they could not have been more different.
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  • First we have this poor, helpless, hopeless woman.
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  • Her life grew more miserable day by day with no end in sight.
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  • She lost her health.
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  • She lost her wealth.
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  • In effect, she lost her hope.
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  • She tried everything she could to fix her situation, and it
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  • Just got worse, but she found what she needed from jesus, and
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  • Then we have a man who was quite different.
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  • His name was jairus.
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  • He was a leader in the local synagogue.
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  • He was respected.
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  • He was powerful.
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  • He was influential, but one day his his beloved daughter of 12
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  • Years became very sick, and he grew so despondent because his
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  • Little girl was literally at death's door, but he, too, found
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  • What he needed from jesus, reminding us that every man,
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  • Every woman needs jesus.
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  • We need him at the beginning of life, the middle of life, and
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  • Certainly, we need him at the end of life, and we see how
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  • Jesus came through for both of these people.
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  • So let's read about it now.
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  • Mark chapter 5, starting in verse 21, "jesus got into the
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  • Boat again and went back to the other side of the lake," this
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  • Would be the sea of galilee, "where a large crowd gathered
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  • Around him on the shore.
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  • There a leader of the synagogue, whose name was jairus, arrived.
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  • When he saw jesus, he fell at his feet, pleading fervently
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  • With him, 'my little daughter is dying,' he said.
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  • 'please come and lay your hands on her; heal her so she
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  • Can live.'
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  • Jesus went with him, and all the people followed, crowding
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  • Around him.
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  • A woman in the crowd who had suffered for twelve years with
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  • Constant bleeding.
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  • She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, over the
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  • Years, and had spent everything she had to pay, but it only
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  • Gotten worse, and she heard about jesus, and came up behind
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  • Him through the crowd and touched his robe, and she
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  • Thought to herself, 'if i can touch his robe, i can
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  • Be healed.'
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  • Immediately, the bleeding stopped, and she could feel it
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  • In her body that she had been healed of her
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  • Terrible condition."
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  • We'll stop there.
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  • Twelve years.
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  • Twelve years this woman had this medical condition, some kind
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  • Of hemorrhaging.
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  • She went to the local doctors, which 1st century medical care
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  • Was not very dependable, to say the very least.
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  • She spent all of her money on these doctors, probably quack
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  • Doctors, and now she's in this place where her only hope is
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  • God, and then 12 years is also the time that jairus spent with
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  • His beloved daughter, probably his only child.
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  • No question about it, she was daddy's girl.
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  • His heart was broken.
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  • His daughter was at death's door.
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  • So 12 years is an important amount of time in both of their
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  • Stories, and so now jairus comes to jesus, hoping that he can do
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  • Something for his little daughter.
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  • He says in verse 23, "'please come and lay your hands on her;
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  • Heal her so she can live,'" and jesus got up and followed him.
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  • So here now is jairus, he's got jesus, everything's
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  • Getting better.
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  • He reasons, in faith, "if i can get jesus to my daughter, he'll
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  • Lay his hand on her," and why not?
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  • The reputation of jesus was spreading.
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  • He was trending on every social media platform, and every time
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  • You were flipping through reels, here's jesus healing leper,
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  • Here's jesus restoring sight, here's jesus raising the dead.
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  • Oh wait, here's another one of jesus calming a storm.
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  • If he could do all of those things, surely he could heal the
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  • Daughter of jairus.
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  • So they're on their way to the home of jairus, and a crowd's
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  • Around, and suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, this woman
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  • Appears who touches him.
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  • Now, you wouldn't even have noticed it if jesus didn't stop
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  • And say, "who touched me?"
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  • So this is an interruption, and how easily jairus could have
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  • Resented it.
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  • Could have said, "hey, i don't know who you are," and by the
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  • Way, she was ceremonially unclean.
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  • What does that mean?
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  • Because she bled constantly, that meant that she was declared
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  • Unclean, and she could not interact with other people.
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  • She would have been ostracized.
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  • She would have been isolated.
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  • So here now it's this, in quotes, "unclean woman" cutting
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  • In on him, a ruler of the synagogue.
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  • He's a vip.
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  • He's an important guy, and besides, you know, her medical
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  • Condition could wait.
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  • His daughter was dying.
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  • He really needed jesus, maybe a little bit more than she did,
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  • But she cuts in on jairus, and he does not object.
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  • He does not protest.
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  • Maybe he knew because, well, that's how jesus rolls.
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  • He just helps people.
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  • Don't stop him from helping people.
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  • I mean, he's helping me.
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  • So jairus was being tested, and, you know, tests will come into
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  • The life of a christian.
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  • Remember when you were in school, some of you still are in
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  • School, and there would be the pop quiz from the teacher, the
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  • Unexpected test, and all the nerds would get really excited?
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  • "we're gonna have a test today that i didn't tell
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  • You was coming!"
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  • All the nerds are like...
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  • And i'm like, oh, no, 'cause i never read, i never prepared, i
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  • Never paid attention.
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  • I'm sorry to describe nerds that way.
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  • That was kind of rude.
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  • They're not like that.
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  • I shouldn't mock nerds at all.
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  • The reality is we call them boss now, okay?
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  • They run all the companies, right, and all the goof-offs
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  • Like me say, "yes, sir, yes.
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  • No, ma'am," right?
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  • So anyway, tests will come, you don't always know when
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  • They're coming.
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  • Why does god test us?
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  • To make sure we're learning the material.
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  • In james chapter 1 it says, "dear brothers and sisters, when
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  • Troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity
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  • For great joy.
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  • For know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a
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  • Chance to grow."
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  • So tests are a way to grow spiritually and learn how to
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  • Trust god instead of ourselves.
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  • Often, tests are there to prepare us for something that
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  • Is ahead.
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  • If this was a test on the life of jairus, he passed it with
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  • Flying colors.
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  • He just handled it so well.
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  • He didn't protest.
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  • He waited for jesus to do what jesus wanted to do.
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  • So it's a beautiful illustration of a man who understood that,
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  • And sometimes we grow impatient with god.
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  • God, when are you gonna do this thing i want you to do?
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  • You know, when are you gonna open up this door for me
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  • For ministry?
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  • When are you going to provide me with a husband or a wife?
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  • How long are you gonna let that person get away with that sin?
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  • Hey, lord, how long until you come back and establish your
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  • Kingdom on this earth?
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  • When are you gonna answer my prayer in the way that i prayed
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  • It, and sometimes in our impatience, we take things into
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  • Our own hands and we make a mess of them.
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  • Now, by nature i am impatient.
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  • Like, if i go to pick up a pizza, by the time i'm home,
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  • I've eaten three pieces, and it's not easy to eat a pizza
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  • When you're driving and cutting in on people, and i can tell you
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  • That i burned the roof of my mouth more than one time eating
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  • Extra hot pizza, right?
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  • So we don't like to wait, and we say, "i'll fix this."
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  • Good illustration of a man who was impatient and took things
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  • Constantly into his own hands was jacob, and what a mess he
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  • Made of his life.
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  • He ended up wrestling with an angel and walked away with a
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  • Permanent limp.
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  • So we have to trust in the lord and realize that god may have
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  • Something better in mind.
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  • Take the story of mary, martha, and lazarus.
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  • They were all personal friends of jesus.
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  • They lived in bethany, which was striking distance from
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  • Jerusalem, and our lord often showed up at their house for a
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  • Meal, made by martha, and he enjoyed spending time with them.
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  • So one day lazarus got sick, and they sent word to jesus, "hey,
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  • Jesus, lazarus, whom you love, is sick."
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  • They probably expected he would drop whatever it was he was
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  • Doing and rush back to bethany and lay his hand on lazarus and
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  • Take that sickness away, but we read, instead of doing that, in
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  • John 11:5, "jesus loved mary, martha, and lazarus, and he
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  • Stayed where he was."
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  • Well, in this time that he stayed where he was instead of
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  • Going to where they were, lazarus died.
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  • So when jesus finally shows up a few days later, not only did he
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  • Not heal his friend, but he missed his funeral, even, and
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  • Martha and even mary were both accusatory of jesus.
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  • "if you would have been here," they said, "my brother would not
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  • Have died."
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  • Jesus said, "your brother will live again."
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  • Martha says, "yes, i know he'll live in the resurrection."
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  • Jesus says, "martha, listen to me.
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  • I am the resurrection and the life, and he that believes in
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  • Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever
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  • Lives and believes in me shall never die," and then he walked
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  • Up to the tomb of lazarus, and he said, "lazarus, come forth,"
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  • And lazarus came back to life again.
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  • See, they wanted a healing, god wanted a resurrection.
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  • Sometimes the reason that god delays is because he wants to do
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  • Something better than what you prayed for.
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  • He wants to do abundantly above and beyond that which you could
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  • Ask or think.
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  • So know this, god's delays are not necessarily his denials.
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  • Just as important as the will of god is the timing of god.
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  • So here is this woman, unclean ceremonially, reasoning if she
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  • Can touch jesus, she will be healed.
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  • Let's read about it.
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  • Mark chapter 5, "jesus realized at once healing power had gone
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  • Out of him.
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  • He turned around to the crowd and said, 'who touched me?'
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  • His disciples said, 'look at this crowd pressing around you.
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  • How can you ask, "who touched me?"'
  • 00:12:12.864 --> 00:12:15.333
  • But he kept looking around to see who had done it.
  • 00:12:15.333 --> 00:12:18.603
  • Then the frightened woman, trembling at the realization of
  • 00:12:18.603 --> 00:12:22.707
  • What happened to her, came and fell to her knees in front of
  • 00:12:22.707 --> 00:12:26.277
  • Him and told him what she had done.
  • 00:12:26.277 --> 00:12:28.513
  • And he said, 'daughter,'" daughter, i love that.
  • 00:12:28.513 --> 00:12:32.517
  • "'your faith has made you well.
  • 00:12:32.517 --> 00:12:34.753
  • Go in peace.
  • 00:12:34.753 --> 00:12:36.121
  • Your suffering is over.'"
  • 00:12:36.121 --> 00:12:38.256
  • Isn't that fantastic? "daughter."
  • 00:12:38.256 --> 00:12:40.592
  • This woman, i'm sure, had a mom and dad, obviously.
  • 00:12:40.592 --> 00:12:44.129
  • I don't know what kind of relationship we--she had with
  • 00:12:44.129 --> 00:12:46.765
  • Them at the time.
  • 00:12:46.765 --> 00:12:48.233
  • They probably wanted nothing to do with her.
  • 00:12:48.233 --> 00:12:49.734
  • "our daughter is unclean."
  • 00:12:49.734 --> 00:12:51.202
  • Jesus says, "daughter, you're better, you're healed, you're
  • 00:12:51.202 --> 00:12:56.074
  • Restored," but imagine this scene.
  • 00:12:56.074 --> 00:12:58.109
  • Here's all these people pushing and pulling, and jesus says,
  • 00:12:58.109 --> 00:13:01.379
  • "who touched me?
  • 00:13:01.379 --> 00:13:02.714
  • I perceive that power has gone out of me," and the crowd kind
  • 00:13:02.714 --> 00:13:05.316
  • Of parts, and there she is, "hi," yeah.
  • 00:13:05.316 --> 00:13:09.554
  • He didn't want to condemn her.
  • 00:13:09.554 --> 00:13:11.089
  • He wanted to commend her.
  • 00:13:11.089 --> 00:13:13.091
  • He wanted to compliment her for her courageous faith, and he
  • 00:13:13.091 --> 00:13:16.728
  • Said, "power has gone out of me."
  • 00:13:16.728 --> 00:13:18.596
  • The word used up for power is the greek word dunamis.
  • 00:13:18.596 --> 00:13:22.066
  • It's also used in acts 1:8, when it says, "you shall receive
  • 00:13:22.066 --> 00:13:25.770
  • Power after the holy spirit has come upon you to be witnesses
  • 00:13:25.770 --> 00:13:29.841
  • Unto me."
  • 00:13:29.841 --> 00:13:31.209
  • The word is sometimes translated dynamic or dynamite.
  • 00:13:31.209 --> 00:13:36.080
  • So jesus is saying explosive power has been released, as this
  • 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:41.152
  • Woman came in faith and prayed for this, and god touched her.
  • 00:13:41.152 --> 00:13:45.690
  • Why doesn't god heal everybody?
  • 00:13:45.690 --> 00:13:48.359
  • Sometimes people will say, "it's because you lack faith.
  • 00:13:48.359 --> 00:13:51.029
  • If you had more faith, you would have been healed, and the reason
  • 00:13:51.029 --> 00:13:53.898
  • You're sick in the first place is a lack of faith."
  • 00:13:53.898 --> 00:13:56.901
  • That's nonsense because as we look in the bible, we see that
  • 00:13:56.901 --> 00:14:01.005
  • It wasn't always the faith of the person being healed that
  • 00:14:01.005 --> 00:14:04.142
  • Caused that to happen.
  • 00:14:04.142 --> 00:14:05.510
  • Now, in the case of this woman in particular, it does appear
  • 00:14:05.510 --> 00:14:08.479
  • Her faith played a key role in her own healing, but in the case
  • 00:14:08.479 --> 00:14:12.183
  • Of the daughter of jairus, it was really the faith of the
  • 00:14:12.183 --> 00:14:15.420
  • Father, not the faith of the sick person, the daughter.
  • 00:14:15.420 --> 00:14:19.557
  • Then in the case of lazarus, it certainly wasn't the faith of
  • 00:14:19.557 --> 00:14:22.794
  • Mary and martha.
  • 00:14:22.794 --> 00:14:24.162
  • Lazarus had no faith because he was dead.
  • 00:14:24.162 --> 00:14:27.732
  • So, really, it was just god exercising his will.
  • 00:14:27.732 --> 00:14:32.103
  • So the point of the matter is, is god can heal us, even with
  • 00:14:32.103 --> 00:14:36.007
  • Our limited faith.
  • 00:14:36.007 --> 00:14:37.475
  • So what i suggest to you is you pray with as much faith as you
  • 00:14:37.475 --> 00:14:40.712
  • Can muster, and be like that guy in the bible who said, "lord, i
  • 00:14:40.712 --> 00:14:45.116
  • Believe," but then he added this, and i love it, "but help
  • 00:14:45.116 --> 00:14:48.119
  • My unbelief."
  • 00:14:48.119 --> 00:14:49.721
  • "lord, this is as much faith as i have.
  • 00:14:49.721 --> 00:14:51.689
  • It may not be perfect faith, it may not be flawless faith, but
  • 00:14:51.689 --> 00:14:55.493
  • I believe.
  • 00:14:55.493 --> 00:14:56.828
  • Help my unbelief," and god honored that, and look what he
  • 00:14:56.828 --> 00:14:59.731
  • Did now in this incredible story.
  • 00:14:59.731 --> 00:15:01.466
  • So back to jairus.
  • 00:15:01.466 --> 00:15:03.368
  • So he's waiting patiently.
  • 00:15:03.368 --> 00:15:04.702
  • "okay, jesus--okay, that's great, that's great.
  • 00:15:04.702 --> 00:15:06.971
  • Let's go."
  • 00:15:06.971 --> 00:15:08.339
  • So they're headed to his house, and the following scene unfolds.
  • 00:15:08.339 --> 00:15:11.709
  • Mark chapter 5, verse 35, "while he was still speaking to her,
  • 00:15:11.709 --> 00:15:16.180
  • Messengers arrived from the house of jairus, the leader of
  • 00:15:16.180 --> 00:15:19.550
  • The synagogue.
  • 00:15:19.550 --> 00:15:20.952
  • They told him, 'your daughter is dead.
  • 00:15:20.952 --> 00:15:24.923
  • No use in troubling the teacher now.'
  • 00:15:24.923 --> 00:15:27.025
  • But jesus overheard them and said to jairus, 'don't
  • 00:15:27.025 --> 00:15:30.662
  • Be afraid.
  • 00:15:30.662 --> 00:15:31.996
  • Just have faith.'"
  • 00:15:31.996 --> 00:15:33.364
  • How devastating.
  • 00:15:33.364 --> 00:15:34.899
  • Your daughter is dead.
  • 00:15:34.899 --> 00:15:37.435
  • I know what it's like to be on the receiving end of that
  • 00:15:37.435 --> 00:15:39.671
  • Message when i was told, "your son has died."
  • 00:15:39.671 --> 00:15:42.774
  • Now, that was put more delicately to me.
  • 00:15:42.774 --> 00:15:45.476
  • Oh, we--christopher, my son, has gone to be with the lord, but i
  • 00:15:45.476 --> 00:15:48.613
  • Knew what that meant.
  • 00:15:48.613 --> 00:15:49.981
  • My son had died.
  • 00:15:49.981 --> 00:15:51.349
  • There's nothing worse a parent could ever hear than those
  • 00:15:51.349 --> 00:15:54.519
  • Words, and he was devastated, but i love what jesus said to
  • 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:59.157
  • Him, "don't be afraid.
  • 00:15:59.157 --> 00:16:01.960
  • Just have faith."
  • 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:03.962
  • You know, we all choose what voice we're gonna listen to, and
  • 00:16:03.962 --> 00:16:08.299
  • The voice of the person who told him this news, or he could
  • 00:16:08.299 --> 00:16:12.570
  • Listen to the voice of jesus.
  • 00:16:12.570 --> 00:16:14.038
  • "yeah, they told me my daughter's dead, but jesus said,
  • 00:16:14.038 --> 00:16:16.741
  • Don't be afraid.
  • 00:16:16.741 --> 00:16:18.076
  • I'm gonna listen to the voice of jesus," and we have the same
  • 00:16:18.076 --> 00:16:21.012
  • Choice every day.
  • 00:16:21.012 --> 00:16:23.281
  • We have the voice of the culture.
  • 00:16:23.281 --> 00:16:25.249
  • We have the voice of satan, who says, "you're worthless.
  • 00:16:25.249 --> 00:16:29.320
  • You're a failure.
  • 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:30.855
  • You'll never amount to anything.
  • 00:16:30.855 --> 00:16:32.724
  • You're cursed," or we can listen to the voice of god, who says,
  • 00:16:32.724 --> 00:16:36.327
  • "i love you.
  • 00:16:36.327 --> 00:16:37.662
  • I have a plan for you.
  • 00:16:37.662 --> 00:16:39.130
  • I'll use you."
  • 00:16:39.130 --> 00:16:41.165
  • Now, i bet that jairus was beating himself up over this.
  • 00:16:41.165 --> 00:16:45.069
  • "it's my fault.
  • 00:16:45.069 --> 00:16:46.404
  • I should have pressed jesus to come sooner.
  • 00:16:46.404 --> 00:16:49.240
  • I should have done more," and often that happens, especially
  • 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:52.744
  • When a child dies, the parent will assume a responsibility
  • 00:16:52.744 --> 00:16:58.082
  • That maybe is not really theirs to assume in those
  • 00:16:58.082 --> 00:17:00.718
  • Particular circumstances.
  • 00:17:00.718 --> 00:17:02.387
  • It depends, i suppose, but ultimately we have to realize
  • 00:17:02.387 --> 00:17:06.224
  • That life and death are in the hands of god, not us.
  • 00:17:06.224 --> 00:17:09.827
  • He alone decides when we will be born and when we will die, but
  • 00:17:09.827 --> 00:17:15.400
  • He just humbled himself and came to jesus, and understand, that
  • 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:19.170
  • Jesus was not high in the cultural ladder.
  • 00:17:19.170 --> 00:17:21.839
  • He wasn't a rabbi.
  • 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:23.975
  • He was a carpenter's son from nazareth, and nazareth was not a
  • 00:17:23.975 --> 00:17:28.112
  • City that other people respected, but yet, jairus
  • 00:17:28.112 --> 00:17:32.283
  • Realized he was more than a carpenter's son.
  • 00:17:32.283 --> 00:17:35.586
  • Jairus realized this is god walking among us in human form.
  • 00:17:35.586 --> 00:17:39.991
  • So he, a leader of a synagogue, humbled himself and asked christ
  • 00:17:39.991 --> 00:17:44.262
  • For his help, and he got it, and that's what everyone needs
  • 00:17:44.262 --> 00:17:47.231
  • To do.
  • 00:17:47.231 --> 00:17:48.566
  • The bible says, "humble yourself in the sight of the lord," and
  • 00:17:48.566 --> 00:17:51.536
  • Some people don't wanna do that, but he was willing to, and god
  • 00:17:51.536 --> 00:17:55.506
  • Will make himself known to any person who comes to him in
  • 00:17:55.506 --> 00:17:59.911
  • Humility, no matter what they've done.
  • 00:17:59.911 --> 00:18:02.914
  • Even judas iscariot, after he betrayed jesus for 30 pieces
  • 00:18:02.914 --> 00:18:07.051
  • Of silver and was leading the cohort of roman soldiers
  • 00:18:07.051 --> 00:18:11.622
  • And temple guard to arrest christ there in the garden of
  • 00:18:11.622 --> 00:18:15.359
  • Gethsemane, seeing them approach, jesus sees judas, he
  • 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:19.297
  • Knows judas has betrayed him, and yet he says to him,
  • 00:18:19.297 --> 00:18:23.668
  • "friend, why have you come?"
  • 00:18:23.668 --> 00:18:26.104
  • What? friend?
  • 00:18:26.104 --> 00:18:28.439
  • Judas was far from a friend.
  • 00:18:28.439 --> 00:18:31.309
  • I would've said, "fiend, why have you come?"
  • 00:18:31.309 --> 00:18:34.412
  • Then i would've punched him.
  • 00:18:34.412 --> 00:18:37.415
  • "friend, why have you come?
  • 00:18:37.415 --> 00:18:38.783
  • Judas probably missed it, but jesus was giving him
  • 00:18:38.783 --> 00:18:41.486
  • One last opportunity to repent.
  • 00:18:41.486 --> 00:18:44.655
  • We can come to the lord, and if we come
  • 00:18:44.655 --> 00:18:46.457
  • In humility and honesty, he will receive us,
  • 00:18:46.457 --> 00:18:50.194
  • And that's exactly what jairus was doing, and that's exactly
  • 00:18:50.194 --> 00:18:53.931
  • What we need to do, but i love the words of jesus.
  • 00:18:53.931 --> 00:18:57.001
  • He says, "don't be afraid, keep on believing."
  • 00:18:57.001 --> 00:19:01.072
  • Now christ arrives at the home of jairus.
  • 00:19:01.072 --> 00:19:04.642
  • It's filled with people mourning.
  • 00:19:04.642 --> 00:19:07.178
  • Understand, these were not just people showing their sorrow for
  • 00:19:07.178 --> 00:19:13.951
  • This young girl, these are professional mourners.
  • 00:19:13.951 --> 00:19:17.889
  • You literally, depending on how much money you could--made,
  • 00:19:17.889 --> 00:19:21.025
  • Could hire people to come into your home and mourn.
  • 00:19:21.025 --> 00:19:23.961
  • They would play their musical instruments and sing their sad
  • 00:19:23.961 --> 00:19:28.299
  • Songs, and the whole house is filled with all of these people
  • 00:19:28.299 --> 00:19:32.203
  • Weeping and wailing, and jesus walks in, and we read about it
  • 00:19:32.203 --> 00:19:36.374
  • In mark chapter 5, verse 38.
  • 00:19:36.374 --> 00:19:38.209
  • "he came to the home of the synagogue leader.
  • 00:19:38.209 --> 00:19:40.578
  • He saw much commotion and weeping and wailing.
  • 00:19:40.578 --> 00:19:43.147
  • He went inside and asked, 'why all this commotion and weeping?
  • 00:19:43.147 --> 00:19:46.384
  • The child isn't dead; she's only sleeping,'" and they went
  • 00:19:46.384 --> 00:19:50.521
  • Immediately from weeping to laughing, and
  • 00:19:50.521 --> 00:19:52.523
  • Specifically, mockery.
  • 00:19:52.523 --> 00:19:54.458
  • "who does this guy think he is, coming in here and saying
  • 00:19:54.458 --> 00:19:57.862
  • She's sleeping?
  • 00:19:57.862 --> 00:19:59.197
  • Clearly she's dead."
  • 00:19:59.197 --> 00:20:00.565
  • He says, "get out of here.
  • 00:20:00.565 --> 00:20:01.899
  • You're all a buzz kill."
  • 00:20:01.899 --> 00:20:03.501
  • He didn't say that, but it's implied.
  • 00:20:03.501 --> 00:20:06.204
  • He said, "i'm not gonna work in this environment of unbelief.
  • 00:20:06.204 --> 00:20:10.041
  • I want these people gone," and they all left, and then he went
  • 00:20:10.041 --> 00:20:14.212
  • To the bed of this little girl, who indeed was dead, and he knew
  • 00:20:14.212 --> 00:20:17.648
  • That, by the way.
  • 00:20:17.648 --> 00:20:19.050
  • He was using the word sleeping as a picture, because when a
  • 00:20:19.050 --> 00:20:22.386
  • Christian dies, the bible describes it as falling asleep.
  • 00:20:22.386 --> 00:20:27.525
  • Even when stephen died the violent death of a martyr, we
  • 00:20:27.525 --> 00:20:32.763
  • Read that he fell asleep.
  • 00:20:32.763 --> 00:20:34.665
  • Not literally, but it's a picture because falling asleep
  • 00:20:34.665 --> 00:20:38.269
  • Is not a bad thing, right?
  • 00:20:38.269 --> 00:20:40.438
  • Now, when you're a child, it's the worst thing.
  • 00:20:40.438 --> 00:20:43.074
  • Go to bed, ugh.
  • 00:20:43.074 --> 00:20:45.042
  • Take a nap, no.
  • 00:20:45.042 --> 00:20:47.144
  • When you're older, it's like, take a nap, yes.
  • 00:20:47.144 --> 00:20:51.816
  • Happy hour for an old person, it's a nap.
  • 00:20:51.816 --> 00:20:54.518
  • That's it, happy hour, right?
  • 00:20:54.518 --> 00:20:57.655
  • So these are the jokes, people.
  • 00:20:57.655 --> 00:20:59.357
  • Are they just not that good?
  • 00:20:59.357 --> 00:21:01.692
  • Anyway, she's only sleeping, but of course she had passed over to
  • 00:21:01.692 --> 00:21:07.298
  • The other side, and jesus says, "little lamb, arise!"
  • 00:21:07.298 --> 00:21:12.970
  • That's a literal translation of what he said.
  • 00:21:12.970 --> 00:21:14.805
  • I love that, "little lamb."
  • 00:21:14.805 --> 00:21:16.173
  • It's so tender.
  • 00:21:16.173 --> 00:21:18.509
  • Only jesus can speak to the other side and be heard, like he
  • 00:21:18.509 --> 00:21:22.880
  • Did at the tomb of lazarus.
  • 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:24.382
  • He said, "lazarus, come forth."
  • 00:21:24.382 --> 00:21:26.183
  • It's a good thing he said, "lazarus, come forth," because
  • 00:21:26.183 --> 00:21:29.520
  • If he had simply said, come forth, everybody in every grave
  • 00:21:29.520 --> 00:21:33.691
  • Would emerge at once.
  • 00:21:33.691 --> 00:21:36.327
  • "lazarus, i'm talking to you, buddy.
  • 00:21:36.327 --> 00:21:37.962
  • Come here, come back."
  • 00:21:37.962 --> 00:21:39.697
  • Same thing for this little girl, "little lamb, arise," and she
  • 00:21:39.697 --> 00:21:44.869
  • Came back to life again.
  • 00:21:44.869 --> 00:21:47.638
  • You know, what i love about this story is she comes back to life,
  • 00:21:47.638 --> 00:21:51.475
  • And then jesus says, "give her something to eat."
  • 00:21:51.475 --> 00:21:54.045
  • That's so practical.
  • 00:21:54.045 --> 00:21:55.413
  • "she's probably hungry, get her a sandwich, quickly."
  • 00:21:55.413 --> 00:21:59.050
  • So here's the thing that we need to realize, that when we lose a
  • 00:21:59.050 --> 00:22:03.387
  • Loved one, most of us are not gonna see them raised from
  • 00:22:03.387 --> 00:22:06.324
  • The dead, but we know we will see them again.
  • 00:22:06.324 --> 00:22:10.027
  • We know that when one of our loved ones dies in faith, that
  • 00:22:10.027 --> 00:22:13.664
  • They are indeed alive in another place, and we will once again be
  • 00:22:13.664 --> 00:22:19.337
  • With them in the future.
  • 00:22:19.337 --> 00:22:21.205
  • They're not just a part of our past, they're also a part of
  • 00:22:21.205 --> 00:22:24.241
  • Our future.
  • 00:22:24.241 --> 00:22:25.676
  • When i did my interview with jordan peterson, i mentioned, i
  • 00:22:25.676 --> 00:22:28.612
  • Know that--i mentioned the story of my son christopher and how he
  • 00:22:28.612 --> 00:22:32.983
  • Had died and how i knew that i would see him again.
  • 00:22:32.983 --> 00:22:37.054
  • And jordan asked me, why do you believe that?
  • 00:22:37.054 --> 00:22:39.990
  • I said, well it's faith, it's faith in god's word.
  • 00:22:39.990 --> 00:22:43.961
  • And he asked me, well what is faith?
  • 00:22:43.961 --> 00:22:45.529
  • And i said, the bible says: "faith is the substance of
  • 00:22:45.529 --> 00:22:48.733
  • Things hoped for, it's the evidence of things not seen."
  • 00:22:48.733 --> 00:22:53.537
  • And because god has kept his promises to me in the past,
  • 00:22:53.537 --> 00:22:57.908
  • I know he'll keep his promises to me in the future.
  • 00:22:57.908 --> 00:23:02.380
  • As an example, god told me he would forgive me of my sin if i
  • 00:23:02.380 --> 00:23:05.483
  • Would ask him to and he's done that.
  • 00:23:05.483 --> 00:23:07.718
  • He told me also that he would give me a peace that passes
  • 00:23:07.718 --> 00:23:11.389
  • Human understanding, he's done that as well.
  • 00:23:11.389 --> 00:23:14.625
  • He also promised me that he would give me meaning and
  • 00:23:14.625 --> 00:23:17.361
  • Purpose in life and he would guide my steps and he has done
  • 00:23:17.361 --> 00:23:20.364
  • All of that.
  • 00:23:20.364 --> 00:23:21.699
  • God's made many promises to me and i put those promises to the
  • 00:23:21.699 --> 00:23:25.269
  • Test and i've seen how god came through for me.
  • 00:23:25.269 --> 00:23:28.639
  • And jordan asked me, well how did god come through for you?
  • 00:23:28.639 --> 00:23:31.776
  • And i said, well, i've seen what's happened to other people
  • 00:23:31.776 --> 00:23:35.546
  • Who've lost children.
  • 00:23:35.546 --> 00:23:37.081
  • Their marriages unravel.
  • 00:23:37.081 --> 00:23:40.251
  • Some have turned to drugs or alcohol.
  • 00:23:40.251 --> 00:23:42.052
  • Some have just become bitter, angry people and that didn't
  • 00:23:42.052 --> 00:23:45.322
  • Happen to me and my wife.
  • 00:23:45.322 --> 00:23:47.625
  • And i said, it's not because i'm a virtuous person.
  • 00:23:47.625 --> 00:23:50.494
  • It's simply because i believe the promises of god and
  • 00:23:50.494 --> 00:23:54.098
  • I have found them to be true and that's the truth.
  • 00:23:54.098 --> 00:23:57.802
  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:23:57.802 --> 00:24:02.940
  • So jesus raises this little girl back to life again.
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  • It reminds me of another story.
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  • A woman who was caught in the act of adultery, and she was
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  • Thrown before the feet of jesus, and one of the accusers says,
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  • "the law says she should be stoned to death.
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  • What do you say?"
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  • Jesus said, "let him that is without sin among you cast the
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  • First stone," and then he kneeled down and wrote on the
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  • Sand, and he stood up and said it again, and the bible says
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  • They left, from the oldest to the youngest.
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  • Wow, what did he write in the sand?
  • 00:24:36.774 --> 00:24:39.210
  • Well, the greatest minds in the church have grappled with this
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  • For centuries, and i'm gonna settle it right now.
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  • No, i don't know what he wrote.
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  • Maybe he wrote their names, with the commandment they were
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  • Breaking at that moment, looked up at him.
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  • I don't know.
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  • Whatever he wrote, it cleared the room.
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  • Now here's this woman, alone, and he says, "woman, where are
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  • Your accusers?"
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  • She said, "i have none."
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  • He says, "neither do i condemn you.
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  • Go, and sin no more," but it's interesting, the word that he
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  • Used there.
  • 00:25:08.739 --> 00:25:10.107
  • He said, "woman, where are your accusers?"
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  • That could be translated lady or ma'am.
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  • I'm sure this girl had been called a lot of things in her
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  • Life, but i doubt anyone ever called her ma'am or lady.
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  • It was a term of respect.
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  • But jesus didn't just see her for what she was, he saw her for
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  • What she could become.
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  • Greg: hi, i'm greg laurie.
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  • Years ago, i was in the ocean with my son and
  • 00:25:34.565 --> 00:25:37.167
  • We got caught in a rip tide.
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  • Problem is, we were only a few feet from the shore.
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  • The lifeguard comes to rescue me.
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  • I say, "i think i'm okay," and i finally got my feet
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  • On firm ground.
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  • But the problem was i was too proud to say i needed help.
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  • That's like us, drowning in sin, drowning in addiction,
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  • Needing the help of god.
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  • Here's what the bible says.
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  • "whoever will call upon the name of the lord will be saved."
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  • Whatever you're facing right now, jesus is ready to come
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  • And help you, to save you.
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  • You can just pray, "lord jesus, save me, forgive me of my sin.
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  • I need a relationship with you.
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  • I need hope of my life."
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  • Pray that prayer.
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  • He'll hear it and he'll answer it.
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  • I want to send you a bible
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  • At no charge to help you
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  • Get started in a relationship
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  • With jesus christ.
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  • Greg: greg laurie here.
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  • You know, there is a very special group of people
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  • I want to introduce you to.
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  • They are a group of people who are passionate about the gospel
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  • Of jesus christ being proclaimed in this nation and beyond.
  • 00:26:40.931 --> 00:26:45.069
  • In fact, these people made this tv program
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  • That you're watching possible.
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  • They also make possible our radio program, our harvest
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  • Crusades, our evangelistic movies like "jesus revolution,"
  • 00:26:53.677 --> 00:26:57.715
  • And so much more.
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  • Without them, harvest ministries could not even exist,
  • 00:26:59.149 --> 00:27:02.720
  • So who are these amazing people?
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  • We call them harvest partners.
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  • They are people who have chosen to give monthly to harvest to
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  • Keep the gospel moving forward.
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  • Jesus said, "the harvest is plentiful,
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  • But the laborers are few.
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  • Therefore, pray the lord of the harvest to send out
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  • Laborers into his harvest."
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  • Will you become a harvest partner and help us fulfill the
  • 00:27:22.406 --> 00:27:26.276
  • Great commission in our lifetime?
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  • Let's do this together.
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