Human Death & Suffering
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
In our text for today, Mark 5:21-43, we find a rapid sequence of events that would have thrown any one of us off balance or even found us traumatized by such.
Yet Jesus, our supreme Savior, did not become overwhelmed with the situations nor found himself flustered, but rather with supreme confidence he took each situation in stride.
Jesus having just healed the man with “Legion” inside him, he now goes back across the Sea of Galilee.
Here he is confronted with two rapid events dealing with “Human Death & Suffering.”
Jesus And Death
Jesus And Death
The Ruler Of The Synagogue.
The Ruler Of The Synagogue.
21 And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea. 22 Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing him, he fell at his feet 23 and implored him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.”
Jairus was one of the rulers of the synagogue in Capernaum.
By this time, Jesus was no longer welcome at the synagogues typically.
Jesus was rejected by the leading scholars and teachers in Israel.
He was considered a rabble-rouser who went from town to town causing trouble.
He was, in the eyes of the religious leaders at the time, teaching against the Law of Moses and doing things on the Sabbath that weren’t right, again in their eyes.
So, think of what it took for Jairus to come to Jesus.
He had to overcome his own pride.
He had to wrestle away his prejudice and even shame and embarrassment before he could go to Jesus.
Jairus as “ruler of a synagogue” had to take the chance of losing his high position to see Jesus.
Thankfully, for Jairus’ daughter’s sake, he swallowed his pride and went to Jesus.
There is not much a parent won’t do to try and help their child.
A parents bound and love is great for a child.
We also find that in Jairus’ case, Jesus required him to put his trust in him.
35 While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler’s house some who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?” 36 But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.”
50 But Jesus on hearing this answered him, “Do not fear; only believe, and she will be well.”
Now here is the thing, this faith, though as possibly little as it was, coupled with his dying daughter, propelled him to seek help from Jesus.
Jesus, in his compassion for even those that typically doubted him, took pity and we read of how…
Jesus Raises The Dead.
Jesus Raises The Dead.
38 They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. 39 And when he had entered, he said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.” 40 And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was. 41 Taking her by the hand he said to her, “Talitha cumi,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.” 42 And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement.
Though Jairus and Jesus are told the 12 year old girl is dead and not to come, Jesus still goes and finds himself at Jairus’ home.
The people are mourning but Jesus consuls them by telling them she isn’t dead just sleeping.
Jesus isn’t lying but using the symbolism that is often used to discuss the soul that is still alive though the body is dead.
2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
Jesus, demonstrated to Jairus and us now, that he is Lord of even death.
That Jesus had overcome death buy victoriously defeating it.
54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” 55 “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Summary
Summary
Thankfully for all humanity our Lord and Savior had defeated death and given us the keys, through him, to defeat it as well.
We don’t have to worry about dying or what comes next, as we fight the good fight, we will defeat death and receive the crown of life.
Now while Jesus was traveling to Jairus’ home there is an incident wherein Jesus helps a woman suffering.
Jesus And Suffering
Jesus And Suffering
The Unclean Woman.
The Unclean Woman.
25 And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, 26 and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse.
27 She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. 28 For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.” 29 And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.
As I just said, while Jesus was headed to Jairus’ home there was a woman that came up to Jesus hoping just to touch his garment to be healed of her hemorrhage.
This poor woman not only had a continual flow of blood but this made her unclean under the Law of Moses and thus an outcast of sorts.
She not only suffered physically but no doubt emotionally as well.
Not only that but she was now poor because she had spent everything she had on doctors with no cure.
Even Luke, the physician states…
43 And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and though she had spent all her living on physicians, she could not be healed by anyone.
Now, Jesus could have just kept walking and ignored what took place but he didn’t.
He stopped, knowing the pain and suffering this woman had been through.
30 And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?” 31 And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’ ” 32 And he looked around to see who had done it. 33 But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth. 34 And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”
When this woman, scared and trembling, came to Jesus I want you to look at how he comforts her.
He calls her something he is never recorded calling any other person, “daughter.”
This woman, who had physically suffered, personally been ostracized, and financially bankrupted needed Jesus’ kind words and comfort.
Yes, she had been healed physically but emotionally this was what she needed.
Summary
Summary
As Christians we are going to suffer physical and emotional challenges but we have a Savior who cares for us.
Conclusion
Conclusion
This section ends with Jesus telling Jairus’ family…
43 And he strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat.
Jesus didn’t allow the crowds that followed him nor the mourners who laughed to see the miracle of this little girl being raise from the dead.
Jesus didn’t raise Jairus’ daughter or heal the woman for recognition, no he did it because he loves his creation and has compassion for us in our suffering and even death.
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.