Lord of Hope
Notes
Transcript
What do Christians mean by hope?
And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea.
Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing him, he fell at his feet
Jairus - a powerful man - fell at the feet of a peasant.
and implored him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.”
And he went with him. And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him.
“My little daughter is at the point of death”
Hope is not naive.
And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years,
and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse.
The woman is sick, unclean, and poor.
This powerless woman had been failed by the powerful.
She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment.
For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.”
The difference between dispair and hope is action.
And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.
Matthew 14:35–36 (ESV)
And when the men of that place recognized him, they sent around to all that region and brought to him all who were sick
and implored him that they might only touch the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched it were made well.
And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power came out from him and healed them all.
Jesus is not a ritualist or magician. Jesus is walking power. Jesus is Lord.
And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?”
And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’ ”
The people with Jesus do not know why he stops.
And he looked around to see who had done it.
But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.
The woman falls at his feet just as Jairus had.
And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”
The Lord commands healing and “healed living.”
While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler’s house some who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?”
But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.”
This is the choice we call “hope.”
And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John the brother of James.
They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.
And when he had entered, he said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.”
“It ain’t nothing till I call it.” - Bill Klem
Hope is being believing reality is whatever the Lord says it is.
And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was.
Taking her by the hand he said to her, “Talitha cumi,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.”
And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement.
Hope is seeing Jesus as Lord over all.
