Apr. 20, 2025

Series: Transformed   4-20-25

Holding on to hope

(Mark 5:22-34)

He is Risen!

Mark 16:1–2 ¹ When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body. ² Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb.

Mark 16:6–7 ⁶ “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. ⁷ But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.’ ”

A Hopeless Woman:

Mark 5:22-26 ²² Then one of the synagogue rulers, named Jairus, came there. Seeing Jesus, he fell at his feet ²³ and pleaded earnestly with him, "My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live." ²⁴ So Jesus went with him. A large crowd followed and pressed around him (Lk.8:42 “the crowds almost crushed him”). ²⁵ And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. ²⁶ She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 

Leviticus 15:25-31 …she will be unclean as long as she has the bleeding… 

²⁶ Any bed she lies on…will be unclean… and anything she sits on will be unclean… ²⁷ Whoever touches her will be unclean… ³¹ You must keep the Israelites separate from things that make them unclean.

Life Principle #1:

Jesus can succeed where other _______________ have failed!

A Hopeful Woman:

Mark 5:27-28 ²⁷ When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, ²⁸ because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” 

Matthew 9:20 “the edge of his cloak” (Edge = Fringe, Corner, Tassel)

Malachi 4:2 (NKJV) “The sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings.” (Edge, Fringe, Tassel)

Matthew 14:35-36 People brought all their sick to (Jesus) and begged him to let the sick just touch the edge (fringe-corner-tassel) of his cloak, and all who touched him were healed. 

Life Principle #2:

If Jesus _______ who He said He was, then He can ______ what He said He could do!

My Definition of FAITH:

“____________ like God’s telling the truth”

The Hope of resurrection:

Romans 4:17 (LB) Abraham believed in God who gives life to the dead and who creates something out of nothing.

2 Corinthians 1:8–9 ⁸ We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. ⁹ Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.

Life Principle #3:

If God can give life to a dead body, then He give life to a dead  ______________________!

Luke 18:27 What is impossible with men is possible with God.”

Mark 5:29 ²⁹ Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. 

A cruel confrontation?

Mark 5:30-33 ³⁰ At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?" ³¹ "You see the people crowding against you," his disciples answered, "and yet you can ask, 'Who touched me?'" ³² But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. ³³ Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, (Lk.8:47 “seeing that she could not go unnoticed”) came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth.

Life Principle #4:

Better to get hurt by the truth, then comforted with a _________!

A public commendation!

Mark 5:34 ³⁴ He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering."

Life Principle #5:

Before you can _________ HOLD, you may need to _______ GO!

Galatians 5:1 ¹ It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

Luke 11:9–13 ⁹ Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. ¹⁰ For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. ¹¹ “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? ¹² Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? ¹³ If you then… know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!