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Intro:

Christianity is is an experience based on miracles.

The living Christ performs miracles in the heart of everyone who will trust Him.

We need to reexamine the great miracles that He performed during His life that we might experience similar miracles today.

Are you ready for it?

The healing of the woman with the issue of blood is a miracle within a miracle.

All three Synoptic Gospels record it.

Matt.

9:20-22

Mark 5:25-34

Luke 8:41-48

Our text this evening is Mark 5:25-34

Jarius, a ruler of the synagogue, came and fell down at Jesus’ feet and asked that He come and heal his 12 year old daughter who was dying.

As Jesus went with Jarius, the people crowded him.

It was then that the woman with the issue of blood touched him and was healed!

But Jesus raised her from the dead and made her well.

Consider the woman with the issue of blood, the woman who had hemorrhaged for 12 years (Luke 8:43).

She had spent all her money on doctors, and they had not been able to cure her (Luke 8:43).

She was healed by showing faith in Christ (Luke 8:44-48).

Scripture says that she was healed immediately (Matt.

9:22; Mark 5:29).

The woman with the issue of blood had an incurable condition.

She suffered with it for 12 years and because of this it made her ritually unclean according to Lev. 15:25-27.

This made it so she was not able to have social relationships which meant she was alone.

She also spent all her money seeking treatment for this illness.

She spent all that she had and suffered greatly due to the many different treatments and was not helped in anyway, nothing helped and only made her worse.

So she was sick, suffering, poor and alone!

This evening let’s look at the reality of this miracle and see what truths God has for us.

The woman who touched Jesus had heard of Him, and this inspired her to act (v.

27)

This woman, had heard of all the miracles of Jesus and what a difference he had made to many.

Hearing of Him inspired hope!

She felt sure that Jesus could heal her if only she could get near him and touch him!

She was going to touch him and then slip away free from pain and unnoticed.

This woman was desperate for answers and she felt that Jesus could give them.

This lady heard about Jesus’ power which aroused faith!

Due to the fact that this woman was considered unclean it was a risk for her to reach out in this crowd because she risked making others unclean and then in turn they would have to go through ceremonial cleansing to be whole again.

But her faith was strong and did not care about the risk.

She came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak (outer garment).

She touched his clothing not even him physically, can you imagine the power Jesus possesses?

She kept telling herself if she could just touch his clothes she would be healed.

She took the risk despite her uncleanness and she was healed immediately!

The woman who touched Jesus had an imperfect faith but the main thing is she had faith (v.

30-31)

This point in our text requires us to thank the Lord for the genuineness of faith even though it appears imperfect.

Jesus asked, “Who touched me?” v. 30

Jesus immediately realized that healing took place because power left him.

The touching of his garment by the woman was not a magical effect it was the power of God demonstrated and supernatural power that left our Savior to transform this woman of faith.

The disciples thought Jesus was talking about the curious crowd who crushed him.

But the word that Jesus used means grasped.

The question was who grasped me?

Jesus knew that power had gone out from him as the woman likely grasped the kraspendon, a tassel bound with blue and attached at the hem of His garment (Num.

15:37-39).

The disciples thought He was crazy to asked this because there was such a crowd present.

They forgot I think who they were in company with, the Son of God and all the power He possessed.

Perhaps the woman though there was healing in the garment but healing was in Christ Himself The woman was healed because God graciously determined to heal her through the power that is active in Jesus.

The woman who touched Jesus found that He had time for her.

v. 32

In Lev.

15:19-27 we find careful instructions as to how people suffer from any for of the woman’s sickness were to be treated.

She was to be segregated from the company of worshipers for as long as the illness continued.

She was excommunicated from the temple and the synagogue.

By the law of the rabbis, she was divorced from her husband.

She was shut out from family life.

Cast aside by society, reduced to poverty, had an incurable disease and was dying.

To say that she was alone and things looked bleak sounds like a huge understatement!

The woman who touched Jesus was hopeless and felt that if only she could touch the tassel on Jesus’ garment she could be healed.

She found that she was not only healed but that to her utter astonishment, Jesus actually had time for her.

To a person in her situation for all those years this was an additional healing and as important to her as the fact that she was not longer sick.

Jesus actually had time for her.

Jesus is never too busy to have time for you!

Jesus was looking around penetrating the crowd, to find the woman who touched him.

He kept looking around to see who had done it to assure her that she was permanently healed.

The woman who touched Jesus found in him what people could not supply v. 33

She approached him trembling with fear and admitted what happened.

She approached trembling in fear because of awe and reverence for how He transformed her life with one touch!

Also because she was shunned and deemed unclean for so long, what would be the consequence for her breaking the rules in this way?

This woman had seen doctors and had was told she was unable to be cured.

The Great Physician, however, had what she needed - a miracle.

The Lord Jesus Christ has what we need and He is able to supply all our needs.

The thing we need to realize that our God is supernatural, His ways are not our ways nor are His thoughts our thoughts.

Don’t even try to explain it you cannot.

He knit us together and created us and He is therefore able to heal us in ways we cannot explain.

We just need to receive His blessing and give Him our praise and thanks for it.

He has time for us.

The creator of the World has time for us.

He desires our worship and praise.

He supplies all our needs.

He is a God who cares and understands us.

He has time for you.

The woman who touched Jesus found that she had to tell the truth and confess Christ publicly (v.

34)

The woman who touched Jesus and was healed thought she could carry away the blessing without Jesus even knowing she had touched Him.

But Jesus asked “Who touched my clothes?” (Mark 5:30).

The question was designed for the woman to come forward and give public acknowledgement of the blessing she had received.

Jesus knew the difference between those who were curious and those who were in real need.

The woman needed more than a cure; she needed to become a confessor.

This she did as she came forward, she fell down before him and told him the truth.

Jesus said to her

Jesus said her faith healed her and to Go in peace and be free from suffering.

Daughter was used in the text showing that there is a close, personal relationship between them.

Another word that was used is “healed” in the Greek it means saved.

So she received physical healing and spiritual salvation!

You see more than one need taken care of!

She found healing, courage, peace and adoption into the family of God.