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DELIVERANCE NOW!

LUKE 8:40-56

UKE 8:40-56

UKE 8:40-56

The Gospel of Luke demonstrates two kinds of needs: developmental needs and deliverance needs.

The chapter begins with Jesus telling stories, like the story about the man who went out to sow, illustrating that the kingdom of God is that which we must personally and willingly receive.

This story was taught to the multitudes not because there was a crisis, but rather because they were in the normality of life.

Just living a normal life requires that we take the Word of God into our hearts and that we grow accordingly.

But there are moments when life is not on a normal track, when we are in extreme danger.

So the rest of describes moments of great danger, moments when deliverance is needed.

The disciples in the storm on the Lake of Galilee needed the deliverance of the One who had power over nature.

The Gadarene demoniac who had the legion in him needed the power of Him who had the lordship over Satan and hell and the demonic hosts.

The woman who pressed through the crowd needed the lordship of Jesus over the illness in her life.

And Jairus' daughter needed the lordship of Jesus over death itself.

When we open our hearts to the gospel, we find that Jesus did miracles in four basic areas or realms over which He had authority: over nature, over demons, over illness, and over death.

gives us four great stories which show Jesus' power and authority in moments when deliverance was needed.

The great majority of us are in need of a message that is developmental in nature or a

message the will develop someone or something in your life.

You're not here today under any sense of impending personal crisis.

Nor are you going through a crisis right at the moment.

It is an everyday kind of experience for you.

Yet, there are others in this room this morning who are going through a time of great personal danger, a moment when life is really tossing wildly on you just like the disciples' boat on the Lake of Galilee.

Maybe it is related to something physical.

Maybe it is related to a problem or a need or an adversity of some kind that you have faced.

But you find yourself here today in crisis.

I feel especially burdened today for those of you who may be going through a time in your life where the Lord is asking you to deal with a wrongful relationship that you have entered, or where the Lord is asking you to put off immorality in your life or where maybe someone is here this morning who is having a great struggle getting off the bottle and becoming clear of both alcohol and drugs.

Others are going through a struggle of realizing that bitterness has encased your heart and you're becoming very brittle and bitter in your spirit, or maybe your heart is becoming hard.

And the Lord has a word for you today who need a special act of deliverance from Him as well as a special word for all of us in the everyday, developmental needs that we have.

I want to especially address this Scripture from the standpoint of the woman who presses through the crowd.

She so beautifully shows us what faith is all about.

And what it means to grow in faith on a developmental basis as well as what it means to have faith intersect our lives when we are in need of deliverance.

I would like to illustrate and point out four things relating to her faith.

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The mentality of her faith.

I. First, I would point you to the mentality of her faith.

" What was she thinking?

Somehow in our life, if change is to take place, it must begin in the area of our thinking, in the area of our mentality.

Freedom in faith begins with what we think.

"If I but get to Jesus," she had to have been thinking it first, because thought is the forerunner, it proceeds the speaking

"If I but get to Jesus," she had to have been thinking it first, because thought is the precursor, it proceeds the speaking.

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We find in the Gospels that Jesus worked greatly in climates of belief.

But He was unable to do great works, even in His hometown of Nazareth, because of the unbelief.

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This woman like many of us have a lot of unbelief to overcome in her own life.

A lot of adversity to overcome.

(Am not here to force you to do something against your will, but somewhere you are going to have to get up and move).

There was the longevity of her condition, which mitigated her believing that any change could take place.

She had been ill for twelve years.

And anyone who has been ill for that long knows that it is not easy to begin to believe that things could be different.

She also had the opinion of many doctors, which went against her and suggested to her that she was frozen and locked in time.

The experts were saying, "You'll never get well."

In fact, Mark's Gospel, recording her need, says, "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" ().

Maybe you feel like, "I've seen all the doctors and spent all I had and I'm getting worse—not better."

Luke simply omits the fact that she had spent all her money on doctors, because he's a doctor himself.

He simply says, "No one was able to help her," which was the truth.

There was not only the length of her condition and the opinion of doctors, but there was the crushing crowd around Jesus which made it very difficult for her to press through.

She didn't change her thinking and say, "There are so many people, I can't get in anyway.

I just won't even try."

She even had to overcome her religious tradition, which bound her.

She was in a religious tradition which said that a bleeding condition renders you unclean, ceremonially impure and therefore unable to go to the temple.

And anything you touch and anyone you touch, becomes defiled.

I can see this woman, as she starts out, realizing that anything she touched and anyone she touched—theologically speaking—couldn't go to the temple because they'd be impure.

They'd have to go through bathing in order to be ritually clean again.

And yet, ignoring all that, she's pressing through the crowds.

She had to overcome the negativity of her religious tradition.

She had to even break through knowing that there was a more pressing need than hers that was driving Jesus.

Jesus was on His way to Jairus' home and the little girl was at the point of death.

This woman was not at the point of death.

The fact that the girl was at the point of death is illustrated by the fact that, when Jesus stops and helps the woman, by the time He was done helping her, the girl in Jairus' home has died.

There are many times we feel the Lord's busy elsewhere or "I'm not worthy."

We have to get past that kind of mentality, that we're not worthy.

We have to get past the mentality that the Lord doesn't really want to have anything to do with us and instead begin thinking, "If this daughter Jaurus can get to Jesus, things will be different for me as well."

She was thinking.

"For she said within herself"

When she got up that morning and found Jesus was coming to her town, she started to say, "If I could get there...

I know He's going to be busy...

I know there will be people around Him... but if I can touch even His cloak, I'll be well."

She made her way out of the house and said it again.

As she pushed aside the crowd, she said it again within herself, "If I can get there."

The imperfect tense describes action that was happening for a period of time.

It was repetitive action.

It's interesting the verb tense used here of this woman is not that "she said"—aorist tense, meaning she only said it once—but it's the imperfect tense instead.

Positive confession people have seized here on a valid point, when they say, "What you say is what you get."

The only problem with positive confession people is that, somehow, in using the principle, they abuse it by leaving out the sovereignty of God.

You can say something all you want and, if God chooses not to do it, you can say it 'till you're blue in the face and spitting quarters out your ears, and God is still not going to do it.

But there is a valid principle of faith in that, "What you say is what you get," and that language creates reality.

If you don't believe that language creates reality, I'd like you to have the experience of talking to a forty-year-old person who is an overachiever and successful, who is still hearing the words from their childhood from parents, "You'll never amount to anything.

You're clumsy.

You're no good."

We carry those kinds of realities, created by words all our life, and struggle with them.

Words create reality, and self-talk is so important.

When He told the disciples to go to the uttermost part of the world—was making a faith statement.

I don't think He did it hesitantly or apologetically or sort of mumbled it.

But when He said, "You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth," He knew that there were over 33,000 persons in the world at that point for every single believer in Palestine, and 2.8 million persons in the world for every believer in the world.

Yet He knew they were going to do it.

And His statement ultimately created the reality.

We need to take authority in our language and be careful in what we say.

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The Language Of Faith is the action of faith.