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Murphy’s Law - If something can go wrong it will
Rental Car
Rental Car
Booking a car on a flight to LA
I booked the cheapest car with a company that nobody has ever hear of
Didn’t read fine print
Limited miles (100 miles a day, 400 total)
40 cents a mile
We’ll be fine…I’ll just keep track of the miles we drive
End of the 1st day we were at 150 miles
End of the 2nd day we were at 300 miles
Starting to get anxious
Calculating coffee runs etc..
Friends asking for rides
Friends are going to Hollywood to walk the streets
These are friends we don’t see too often, and it took flying to LA to see them
I’m calculating the miles
Took us 20 minutes to decide if we were going or not just because I was so worried about our limited miles
Finally, I told Pastor Pavel....who cares
Friends that we had there were asking for rides to different places, and instead of being happy to help, I was getting impatient thinking “you’re using up our miles!”
I’m so stressed out about going over our limit, that I can’t even enjoy the miles we have.
Every mile brought me closer to my limit
Spiritual Truth
How many Christians live like they serve a limited God?
We say with our mouths we believe:
Ph. 4:13 I can do all things through Christ
All things are possible with God
God has no limitations
God works everything for the Good/He’s sovereign
He is Almighty and All-powerful
But how many times do we live in doubt and fear, as if our all powerful, almighty God has limits?
When we live as if God is limited:
We tend to forget the testimonies of what God has done in our lives
It can be hard to be thankful for what God is currently doing in our lives
It can be hard to be thankful for what God is currently doing in our lives
We don’t live in the peace of believing that God knows what he is doing
We live as if our out-of-control situation has caught God by surprise
We live in doubt, fear, and have a lack of peace and joy in our lives, because we put limits where there shouldn’t be any.
Ask yourself this morning…am I limiting God?
Have I made my problems bigger than God?
Are my hard situations, failures, shortcomings, circumstances too big for Him?
So with that question in mind, I want to take you to a passage in Mark 5
We are going to read about Jarius
He comes face to face with this question himself
But Jesus speaks something so simple but incredibly powerful to him
I believe God wants to speak this into our hearts this morning
Jarius
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Jarius comes to Jesus, falls on his knees and begs Jesus
He comes to Jesus, falls on his knees and begs Jesus
This is a big thing because he was the ruler of the synagogue
was a very religious man that was responsible for organizing and presiding over the affairs of the synagogue.
That included organizing worship and teaching himself
Many of these rulers were Pharisees
Now here’s why that is important:
Who opposed Jesus the most in his earthly ministry?....it was the Pharisees, the religious folk
They challenged everything that Jesus did
Miracles by demon possession
Heal the lame on the Sabbath
Conspired together to bear false witness about him and to unjustly crucify him
Everyone knew that the Pharisees were in opposition to Jesus
Now imagine Jarius falling on his knees before Jesus and begging him to heal his daughter
Jarius would have had put aside his:
Pride
Concern about what people would think
Concern about comments from other Pharisees
It tells us this…Jarius had faith and truly believed that Jesus could bring healing
But even with this faith I believe Jarius still had Jesus in a box!
This represents faith that we have in our life, but is God still in a box?
So Jesus goes with him, but :
Narrative Interrupted
Let’s continue in (Woman)
Jesus is suddenly interrupted by this woman
and all the focus and attention goes to her.
Even when we read this story we kind of forget about Jarius for a moment
What was he feeling?
The Bible doesn’t say what Jarius felt, but I can imagine that he was:
Anxious
His healing is time sensitive
Indignant or frustrated
Here is this woman that is ceremoniously unclean.
She is not supposed to be near anyone
Anyone she touches also becomes ceremoniously unclean
Thinking, “she’s not even supposed to be here”
In other words: She’s not even supposed to be here
You ever seen someone receive answered prayer and think, “I’ve been praying for that same much longer than they have!”
You’re happy for them, but at the same time it hurts you
Or you see God moving in an incredible way in someone’s life, and you wonder, “man God, where are you in mine?”
She has interrupted my time sensitive miracle
Almost as if God doesn’t have enough power to go around.
When God has limits we tend to be critical towards other people
But then the Bible picks up where it left off with Jarius
This is where He comes face to face with this question “Have I put limits on God?”
Death
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Jarius gets the dreaded news that his daughter has died
Anyone who has ever lost a loved one, you can imagine the variety of feelings that Jarius must have felt in that moment.
He was so close to getting his healing, but now it was too late
The Bible doesn’t record Jarius response, but rather it highlights Jesus’ words
Read vs. 36
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