Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction:

Please open your Bibles to the Gospel of .

As we have been studying Mark’s gospel, we have been given snapshots in the life of Jesus.

Mark is trying to show us the true identity of Jesus Christ.

And today we get another glimpse as Jesus encounters a diseased woman and a dying daughter.

If you live long enough, you will have loved ones either get sick or die.

In fact, maybe you might one day get sick and die.

Disease and death are the topic of today’s message.

As a culture, we try to avoid the topic.

Disease and death are things that should only be discussed in hospices or hospitals, not in everyday life.

But we live in a fallen world, and you already know people who have gotten sick and people you love dearly die.

It is a reality we must all come to grips with.

For the secular mind, we must find a scientific cure to eliminate all disease and death.

But even in finding cures, we are just delaying the inevitable.

But if you know Jesus, disease and death will one day be completely vanquished because He has absolute power over disease and death as we will see in today’s passage.

Main Proposition: Because we live in a fallen world, people we love get sick and die.

And we too one day may get sick and die.

But if we trust in Jesus, we do not have to be afraid because He has the power over disease and death.

Disease and death do not have the final word because Jesus has power over them both.

I. Jesus has power over disease (vv.

25-34)

II.

Jesus has power over death (vv.

21-24; 35-43)

Background:

You remember last time we were in Mark, we were on the eastern shore in the town of Gerasenes.

Jesus heals a demon possessed man and he gets back onto the boat to travel to the western shore back into Jewish terriorty, probably in Capernaum.

Throughout Mark’s gospel, we have seen how Jesus is revealing his true identity in healing the sick and casting out demons.

Mark is giving us snapshots in the life of Jesus.

Jesus is the Lord of forgiveness.

He is the Lord of the Sabbath.

He is the Lord of Nature.

He is the Lord of demons.

He is the Lord of diseases and death.

And in our passage this morning we encounter two woman.

Contrasts

One at the prime of her life.

One at the end of her rope.

Both needed Jesus.

Two women.

Women did not have the rights they have today in the ancient world.

A young 12 year old girl.

An older woman with 12 year old disease.

Both were considered unclean: one with a debiltating disease, and one with an imminent death.

Both needed Jesus to make things right.

So let’s see how Jesus displays his power in the lives of these individuals.

Scripture Reading:

Mark 5:

The Setting (v.

21)

Jesus gets into a boat with the disciples and crosses to the Western shore, probably back in Capernaum in Jewish territory.

Already there is a crowd waiting for Jesus.

Luke tells us:

And in the crowd there is a desperate father waiting for Jesus.

The Desperate Father (vv.

22-23)

Jairus, in the Hebrew Jair, meant “God gives light”.

Jairus was a prominent man.

Mark

In the NT ἀρχισυνάγωγος is sometimes used in the singular to denote the individual who carried overall responsibility for and authority in the local synagogue.

The ruler of the synagogue, accordingly, was not a worship leader or a professionally trained scribe or rabbi but a lay member of a synagogue who was entrusted by the elders of the community with general oversight of the synagogue and orthodoxy of teaching.

His responsibilities included building maintenance and security, procuring of scrolls for Scripture reading, and arranging of Sabbath worship by designating Scripture readers, prayers, and preachers.

He would be a prominent and respected man in the community.

He would have been the board of the chair of elders.

He would have the same status symbol as a local mayor.

And he sees Jesus arriving and the first thing he does is fall downs at Jesus feet and begs Him.

He must have already heard of Jesus.

He may have been one of the synagogue rulers where Jesus cast out a demon.

And now his daughter is sick.

This is one of the worst things a Father can hear if you have children.

My baby girl is at the point of death.

She would have been at the CCU if she was in the hospital.

She is in her final hours and minutes.

Death is knocking at her door and this father is desperate for anything to get his little girl well.

Jesus goes.

And Jesus doesn’t dismiss him.

He doesn’t say I need to attend to other matters.

Or maybe you should call a doctor.

But he grants the request of the father and goes with him.

And he has to get through the crowds to get to Jairus home.

Jesus makes time for the man.

There were so many people that they were pressing on into Jesus.

And Jesus has to navigate through a sea of people to get to Jairus home.

The Crowds (v.

24)

But then Jesus is interrupted by a diseased woman....which leads to our first point....

I. Jesus’ Power over Diseases (vv.

25-34)

In the crowd of people there emerges a diseased and desperate woman.

Mark piles phrases upon phrases to show the pitiful state that this woman was in.

She was a woman.

Woman in the ancient world did not have the rights women enjoy today.

It was a patriarchal society.

She was not even named in the story.

She was a nameless woman and Jesus showed compassion.

Woman.

She was a diseased woman.

Discharge of blood for twelve years.

Commentators do not know the exact type of disease it was, but it may have been some type of constant internal bleeding.

Some type of hemorrhage.

It may have been a disease of the uterus.

And she was in pain for twelve years.

It felt like torture to her.

She probably could not have conceive children and get married because of her disease.

She was cut off from relationships and society.

And she would have been considered unclean according to ceremonial law.