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Week 23.
The Good News Of Pentecostal Power
Happy Pentecost Sunday!
50 Days after passover is the festival of Pentecost.
Pentecost was a feast of harvest.
When they would celebrate the gathering of the fruit of the seed that had been planted.
For the 120 disciples in the Upper Room 10 Days after the Ascension of Jesus, the Day of Pentecost meant the outpouring of the Holy Spirit for a harvest of Souls.
Jesus was the seed planted in the ground John 12:24-25
That seed that was placed in the ground rose up out of the ground and is bearing fruit.
Souls are the fruit of the seed.
And Pentecost is about the harvest.
Pentecost is about the sowing of seed in the hearts of men and women, sons and daughters, young and old, every race and creed, tribe and tongue.
That Pentecost Sunday was about Power.
Power to be witness.
Power to sow seed.
Power to gather a great harvest of souls.
Pentecostal Power.
As a good Pentecostal one of the very firs verses I memorized was Acts 1:8
That word Power in Greek is DUNAMAI, related to DYNAMIS and DYNAMAI.
Think Dynamite.
Power.
Explosive power.
Power that causes something to happen.
Power that moves things.
Power that shakes things.
Power that awakens things.
Power that transforms things.
Power.
Wonder working power.
That is one of the functions of Holy Spirit - to empower the people of God as both the Church and the individual.
It’s this power we see at work in our passage this morning in Luke chapter 8.
Sick, Tired, & Broke
Luke 8:40–55 (CSB)
When Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed him, for they were all expecting him.
Just then, a man named Jairus came.
He was a leader of the synagogue.
He fell down at Jesus’s feet and pleaded with him to come to his house, because he had an only daughter about twelve years old, and she was dying.
While he was going, the crowds were nearly crushing him.
A woman suffering from bleeding for twelve years, who had spent all she had on doctors and yet could not be healed by any, approached from behind and touched the end of his robe.
Instantly her bleeding stopped.
“Who touched me?” Jesus asked.
When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the crowds are hemming you in and pressing against you.”
“Someone did touch me,” said Jesus.
“I know that power has gone out from me.”
When the woman saw that she was discovered, she came trembling and fell down before him.
In the presence of all the people, she declared the reason she had touched him and how she was instantly healed.
“Daughter,” he said to her, “your faith has saved you.
Go in peace.”
While he was still speaking, someone came from the synagogue leader’s house and said, “Your daughter is dead.
Don’t bother the teacher anymore.”
When Jesus heard it, he answered him, “Don’t be afraid.
Only believe, and she will be saved.”
After he came to the house, he let no one enter with him except Peter, John, James, and the child’s father and mother.
Everyone was crying and mourning for her.
But he said, “Stop crying, because she is not dead but asleep.”
They laughed at him, because they knew she was dead.
So he took her by the hand and called out, “Child, get up!” Her spirit returned, and she got up at once.
Then he gave orders that she be given something to eat.
Here’s the scene.
A Crowd Welcoming Jesus.
A Request from the Leader of the Synaguoge to heal His daughter.
The Crowd grows and presses in on Jesus.
But in this crowd is a woman who had been hemorrhaging for 12 years.
It’s likely that this bleeding would have made her unclean.
She was exhausted, weak.
She was tired of doctor visits.
She couldn't afford any more doctor visits.
She needed healing.
Jesus was her last hope.
But Jesus was her only hope.
When Jesus becomes your last hope Jesus becomes your only hope.
Some of you this morning are like this woman.
You are sick, tired, and broke.
And you’re sick and tired of being sick and tired and broke.
This is hope for you like there was hope for this woman.
This woman was willing to go low to be healed.
She was willing to reach down to touch the hem of Jesus garment.
Jesus has healing in the wings of His garment.
This women pressed thru the crowds.
I imagine it took all the strength and faith and determination that she has just to fight her way thru the crowd to get to Jesus.
Hear me, do what you must do to get to Jesus.
You may have to crawl.
You may have to fight thru the crowd.
It may take all the strength you have but don’t give up until you have reached out and touched Jesus.
Don’t give up.
Don’t give in.
Don’t let your weakness and exhaustion keep you from pressing in.
Just touch the hem of His garment.
When she touch the hem of His garment something happened.
Power Went Out
“Who touched me?” Jesus asked.
When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the crowds are hemming you in and pressing against you.”
“Someone did touch me,” said Jesus.
“I know that power has gone out from me.”
When the woman saw that she was discovered, she came trembling and fell down before him.
In the presence of all the people, she declared the reason she had touched him and how she was instantly healed.
“Daughter,” he said to her, “your faith has saved you.
Go in peace.”
Jesus says he felt power go out of him.
He asked who touched me?
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