Okay, let's go back to the Gospel of Mark. Chapter 5. This story is recorded three times in Scripture. It's very good, very vital. Two stories that we read, they're intertwined, you notice. They both go together. It doesn't happen very often in Scripture, but I think you'll see why. This man with the sick and dying daughter, and the woman with the issue of blood. And you know I'm certain that both those persons are present here this morning. The Lord was on His way back from healing someone, a demon possessed fellow. And it's a blessing to think that every move he made, every step he took, everywhere he went, was for the purpose of saving his people. But the stories are intertwined. The story of a man with a dying daughter and a woman with an issue of blood. Now, can the Lord do both at the same time? Can the Lord take care of both of these at the same time? Can he take care of my issue and save my? Son or daughter as well? Yes, he can and he does. He sure does. Well, it says in verse 21, when Jesus passed over again by ship on the other side, much people gathered unto him. Many people. Everywhere the Lord went, there was a throng of people. Verse 24 says they thronged him. They crowded him. It was just a huge crowd. of people, everywhere that Christ went. And this is always the case. And it's so today. Most of the time, huge crowds of people are merely the curious onlookers, miracle seekers. Our Lord He said that several times. To the crowd of people that were looking to Jesus the healer, he turned to them and said, you follow me because you've got your bellies filled or because you want to see some fantastic things happen. And that describes religion today. And our Lord did not commit himself to those large crowds of people. No, no. There were not mass salvations while he walked this planet. But here and there, one or two here and there, In the midst of this throng, though, in the midst of this huge crowd of persons, of people, there were two really needy people. Two really needy people, and both of them got their needs met. Verse 22 tells us about a fellow named Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue, Jairus by name. It says, When he saw the Lord Jesus walking, he says, when he saw him, he fell at his feet. Now here comes this man, needy. He has a great and desperate need. When he saw the Lord Jesus, when he saw him coming, this man came to him and he fell down at his feet. And this is so Frequent in Scripture, that whenever someone really sees who Christ is, when someone really sees the Lord Jesus Christ, the sovereign King of glory, not just a man, not just a healer, but who He is, the King of glory, that's what Psalm 24 says. Who is this? It's the King of glory. And this is the way you approach Jesus Christ of Scripture. This is how everyone approached Him then who had their real needs met. And how everyone must approach Him now. The Lord Jesus. That's His title. That's His office. That's who He is. The King of kings and Lord of lords. You don't come asking favors before you worship Him. This is vital. That leper came down from the mountain and it says, Worshipped Him before he asked Him anything. This is that fear of the Lord. Reverence and respect and worship of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Before you get anything from the Lord, you must worship Him as the Lord. He's deserving of it. Well, he came, he saw Christ. If you see him, it says when he saw him, When he saw Him, if you see the true Christ of Scripture, I mean the true Jesus Christ of Scripture as He is, holy, sovereign Lord, can do with you as He pleases. He doesn't have to do anything. When you see Him as that sovereign Lord and His mercy and grace is His prerogative, He doesn't have to give it to you. You don't deserve it. When you see that and come to Him, you see Him as your only hope. And no one else can help you. You come to Him. You see Him as He is. You will fall at His feet as a beggar like this man. You will. And if you do that, everyone who has come to Him like that, every single person who has fallen at His feet, every needy sinner has come away with their needs met. Yes, sir, every one of them. The Lord never turned away one. He's rich in mercy unto all them that call on Him, in grace and in truth. Well, He came, verse 23. Now, I'm not going to try to imitate the way He said this, but can you imagine how He cried unto the Lord? It says, He besought Him greatly, verse 23. That means He was crying. He was begging. He was pleading. Wasn't he? His daughter is dying. Can you imagine? You've done it. Some of you have done it with sick or dying relatives. Some of you have done it. Now, this is talking about spiritual, though. Spiritually speaking, this whole story is a story of salvation. And all of our children, unless the Lord does something for them, are going to die in their sin. Right? If the Lord allows them to go on and grow up without any interest in Christ and the gospel, they're going to die in their sin, like us, had He not had mercy upon us. And everyone in here who has an unbelieving child, be it daughter or son, has cried out greatly unto the Lord, Lord, if you don't touch and lay hold on my son or my daughter, They're going to die. Isn't that right? That's the pressing need, is it not? We're all going to die of something physically. But oh, God forbid, may God have mercy upon us that we die not in sin and unbelief. That's the pressing need of all of us. That's why this story happened. He said, He said in verse 23, Besought him greatly. My little daughter lies at the point of death. I pray thee, Lord, help her. Would you come and lay hands on her that she may be healed and she'll live? She's not going to live. He's not going to live unless you lay hold on him. I've done it. I can't do anything. I've tried. Would you please do something for him or her? Unless you do, she's a goner. He's a goner. Anybody in here like Jairus? Well, the Lord went with him. Verse 24, Jesus went with him. And much people followed him and thronged him. Now Jairus thought, oh, this is wonderful. Jairus thought the Lord is going to do something. At that point, it looked like the Lord was going to move to his house and do something for his dying daughter. And he was hopeful. He had some hope there. He thought, oh, this is wonderful. The Lord's going to spare my daughter. But he got sidetracked. It seemed that he got sidetracked. And you know, I've seen and talked to some of you about your children. There have been times early on it looked like the Lord was doing something for them, and you had great hope for them, and it seemed to be an interest there. Not just young people, husbands, wives, parents, anybody that showed some interest, and you were hopeful, maybe the Lord's done something, doing something for them. And then time goes by and it looks like maybe he didn't. Is that right? You need gyruses in you. Looks like he got sidetracked. And Jairus probably was distraught. Jairus was probably just by the, you know, the Lord got sidetracked and they pulled him to the side and he got lost in the crowd and Jairus became frantic and distraught. Oh no, he's not coming, he's not going to do anything. My daughter's going to, she's going to die. He's not going to do anything. Now, Jairus, you don't know that. You don't know. But you see, the Lord has more pressing issues to attend to. Are you with me? Who's ever with me, cough back. The Lord has a more pressing issue at hand. Someone else's case is more pressing and vital It's a pressing issue. Now, let me tell you a couple of things about this. Our Lord, it seemed like he was going with Jairus, but he didn't. Now, the Lord doesn't have to. Number one, he doesn't have to have mercy on us or our children. Does he? No. We have no rights, we have no priorities with God. Because we call it doesn't mean he has to. Huh? I know for a fact that my parents have... You know, I have a brother who's in his fifties now. Do you think my parents have been asking the Lord to do something for him? Do you think they'd quit asking? But does the Lord have to? No. It was mercy and grace. He had mercy on me. And my sister. My other brother. Mercy. Just pure mercy. None of us deserved it, right? So we have no rights or priorities with God. And the Lord seemed to bypass Jairus and his daughter. He's got someone else to attend to. He's got to do something for somebody else. Now, could we rejoice in that? Could we rejoice if the Lord had mercy on somebody else's daughter or son as opposed to ours? Could we? There were several. Several in this congregation whom the Lord dealt with long before he dealt with my daughter. Honestly, I rejoiced as much as if it had been her. And you know what? It was her! It's up to him, isn't it? It's all according to his purpose, his will. Could we be happy if the Lord dealt in mercy and grace to someone else besides mine, me, and mine? He went to deal with this poor woman's issue. This woman had been around a long time. She'd suffered a lot longer. It was a more pressing issue, was it not? She was closer to the grave. She really was. This child's going to live a lot longer. Well, look at it. Verse 25. Now it says, a certain woman, a certain woman. Scripture says this so much. A certain man, a certain woman. Now, there are no accidents with the Lord, and no chance meetings here. Nowhere in this book is there a chance meeting. Everything has been purposed by God Almighty. That's because He is God. The Lord is God, and He has purposed the whole thing. No chance meetings here. A certain woman, Scripture says, for whom he did foreknow, he did predestinate. Whom he predestinated, he called. Whom he called, he justified. Whom he justified, he glorified. Whoever God loves, he will in time meet them in salvation and deal with their issue. A certain woman with an issue of blood for twelve years. She had a, now physically speaking, what her problem was, was she had a severe monthly cycles is what it was. And she was bleeding for 12 years uncontrollably. And she, it left her anemic, weak, and sickly. Literally her life's blood was flowing out of her. Literally. She slowly died. Because she has this issue. It's in her blood. You see, it's on the inside. It's a blood disorder. And she's dying from it. And unless the Lord does something, she's going to die because of that. Now, that's all of us. That's all of us. The issue is within us. The issue is not without us. And the issue is not physical. The issue is a blood disorder, all right. It's sin that's in us that courses through our veins and our person. We can't stop the flow of it, sin. We can't stop thinking it. We can't stop doing it. We can't stop being tempted by it. We can't stop it. Unless the Lord does something for us, we're going to die because of it and in it. It's going to kill us, and then God's going to judge us for it. The issue with all of us in here is not our marriage, is not our job, is not the bad circumstances. Those are not the issues. The issues are within us. The issue is within us. Here it is. It's unbelief. This is the sin of all, the great sin of all. Unbelief. It's a God not thanked. It's a life lived without giving God a thought. It's a life lived without God being sought after, seeking Him, without God being worshipped. It says, The God in whose hands thy breath is, thou hast not glorified. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God, giving Him the glory. It's a God not glorified, it's an unsought God. And people have issues, they have a lot of issues, and basically all the problem comes from that issue. You know that? All our troubles stem from that. He said, seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. It doesn't mean you won't be without trouble, but the blessings of God are upon his people. God blesses those who bless him. Our Lord said this several times, there is no peace for the wicked, none. God's not going to allow them to have peace, people that don't acknowledge him. They'll go a lifetime without giving him a thought. They're not going to have peace in this world. They're not going to have a peaceful marriage, not going to have peace in the home and in the job and in the world. They're going to be full of turmoil and anxiety and trouble and this and that and the other. God's not going to allow them to have peace. A person they can think of, like this woman, trying to get some, and they can't find it. If the Lord doesn't do something, of course, we'll not find it. Verse 26 now, it says, This woman had an issue of blood twelve years, a long time, and had suffered many things of many physicians, many so-called physicians. Now, these fellows back then, physicians, boy. Well, they were just quacks, is what they were. They were just guessing, weren't they? You used the term position very loosely, didn't you, back then? They tried anything. Tried anything. She went to many positions, and it says she suffered many things. She suffered at their hands. They didn't help her one bit. She suffered from them. Many positions. Jeremiah 8 says, the Lord says, the people, the daughter of Jerusalem, they have healed the daughter of my people slightly. They haven't really cried, peace, peace, when there is no peace. What it is, like religion today, is a drug, it's an opiate, that no one's dealing with the issue. And they're drugging people with feelings, and this and that and the other, where everybody's feeling real good and have glossed over, the morphine of religion has killed the pain and all that. And they got to keep coming back for a shot, a fix of this happiness and this peace that they had promised. Suffered many things. She spent a lifetime, spent herself searching for a cure and went to everybody she could find and nobody could help her. But it says she was not better, she was worse. She was worse. I'll never forget when I first heard Brother Jack Shanks preach from this. It sounds clever, but it's so true. It's so true. He said this woman, like so many people, go looking for peace in religion, and they'll go to somebody like Mr. easy-believism. Oh, preach your easy-believism. If you just believe, just believe, just believe, all your troubles will be over. Well, I believe the truth. I believe, I mean, I believe that you believe Jesus died and buried. Yeah, I believe that. Then you're saved. Oh, okay. Good. Not saved. This is somebody who God has one of his own, they won't find any peace there. Now, this is one of the Lord's own here. And she went looking wherever she could, and a fellow like that came to her. You just believe the facts? You believe that? Yeah. Then you say, oh, okay. That doesn't give any peace. She'd go to a fellow named Mr. B.A. Churchmember. Or Dr. Joyner Church. If you'll just join our church, it'll be all right. Get you active. Get you active. Join the women's breakfast club. Join this, join that. Singles club, doubles club, triples club. Join all these clubs and get active and all. You'll feel wonderful. If it's one of God's own, that's not enough. It's not enough. It won't bring inner peace. They've got this sin bugging her. This issue in the blood. All that outward activity can't do anything about the inward issue. They go to a fellow named U.B. Baptize. Oh, Dr. U.B. Baptize, if you'll just do that. And he's from the, what's their names? They call themselves Church of Christ and all that. That's it. That's the whole key. Baptism over intergenerational. If we just get you in that pool, everything will be all right. She got in the pool. It lasted a little while. Everybody told her, but it didn't last very long. Got this issue. Go to a fellow named, if you quit that, oh doctor, if you quit that, if you just quit that, there must be some sin in your life. So if you just quit that, stop this, stop that. So she did. And it lasted a little while. But it didn't give her a cure. And on and on you could go with that, couldn't you? All in all, many, no better, just worse. A lot of people get religion and they become self-righteous. They make a profession. They do everything the preacher told them to do. They tell them they're saved. And they go a lifetime trusting that little baptism they did back then, that little decision they made. And they're worse. It's worse. It's been better. They've never done that. Because that's hard to get that out of people's heads and minds. But that doesn't save you. Self-righteousness. It's hard to deal with. It's not too hard for the Lord, definitely. It's not too hard for the Lord. My sister, now, is a good example of this. My sister grew up under the truth, under the gospel, in a church like this. And she never went astray like I did. Like the prodigal son, she stayed at home and she would tell you this. She believed the truth and she thought that she was a pretty good person. She never got in all the meanness that I did. Well, at least nobody found out about it. She thought she was alright. And it was hard for a man to convince her that she's a sinner. Needs the same mercy and grace that her forlorn brother does. But the Lord convinced her. She came as the same needy sinner that this prodigal did. Feeling worse. Feeling worse. Ah, boy. You know, there's nobody more miserable than someone that's religious and lost. Nobody more miserable. My dad, I think, said most people have just enough religion to make them miserable and everybody else around them miserable. Because they can't even have fun. They can't even enjoy themselves. It's sinful. They're not better, they're worse. Like this woman. Well, all she had was nothing better, but rather grew worse. In verse 27, when she heard of Jesus. When she heard of the Lord Jesus Christ, she heard from somebody, there is help for the helpless. There is hope for the helpless. There is a cure for the incurable. But there's only one. And he was coming through. She heard. That day he was coming through. She heard. The commotion of, who is it? They said Jesus of Nazareth's coming through. Who? Jesus of Nazareth. The Christ, the Messiah, the Healer, the Lord? Yes, He's coming. Today was the day of her salvation. She's not going to put this off. She's needy. Poor and needy. She heard of Him. Somebody told her about Him to begin with. She wouldn't have come She wouldn't have called on him whom she had not heard, would she? That's what Romans 10, that we didn't get to, says. She wouldn't have called on him whom she didn't believe could heal her, and she wouldn't have believed in him whom she had not heard, and she wouldn't have heard if somebody hadn't told her who he was. Somebody would tell her about it. Faith cometh by hearing. Hearing by the word of God. This is the word, which is by the gospel. preached unto you. Now, she'd been told by all these other fellas what she needed to do. Everybody she went to, every quack she went to told her, well, this is your whole problem. You need to... Everyone she went to gave her some different cure, but it was basically the same thing. Here's what you need to do. You need to do this. You need to try this. You need to try that. You need to quit this. You need to quit that. You need to go over here, go over there, visit the Holy Land. You need to go there, get on your knees, just do all this. Do, do, do, do, do. And you'll be healed. Everybody told her to do something. But somebody, by the grace of God, said, you just need to call on the Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ. You just need to look to Christ, the healer of those with issues of blood. You used to come to Him. Come to Him. Somebody told her she just needed Christ. And this is what I'm telling you, all you ladies out there with issues. Jesus Christ is all you need. This one preacher won't tell you to do anything except trust Christ. Trust Christ. Look to Him. Rest in Him. Look to Him. Christ is all the religion you need. When you see that, if you ever see that, see your sin issue and see Christ as the only hope, you'll come to Him. Verse 27 and 28. Well, she heard of Him and she came in the press behind. Verse 28, she said to herself, she said this within herself, self-confession, if I may but touch His clothes, I may touch, but his clothes I shall behold." And so she came in the press. It didn't matter how many people were there. She's a weak, sickly, poor-looking woman, frail. She's probably embarrassed about her appearance. Gaunt-looking death. Embarrassed to be there, but she had to. Feeling unworthy perhaps, maybe she was thinking, I know she was thinking, the great master doesn't need me, and he doesn't have to do anything for me, but I sure need him. She probably thought in her mind, I know she did, I've thought this, the Lord doesn't need me. Oh, you reckon he'd do something for me, huh? I'm not worthy to be seen and heard. She came behind, you see that? I'm not worthy to be up front like that publican in the temple who wasn't like, not like the Pharisee who stood up front and bagged on himself and loved to be heard for his much speaking, but the publican stood back in the back afar off and just all he could do was beat on his chest and all he could pray was God be merciful to be the sinner. The man up front wasn't heard. The man back was. He came to Christ, but he stayed in the back. She came behind in the press. This is a pressing issue. You know that? This is a pressing issue. It's not just a sermon I'm preaching this morning. This is a pressing issue for someone. For all of us, we've all got this issue, and if we've not yet come to Christ, It's a pressing issue. Paul said, I press for the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. He said, I'm not alive yet. There's not one person in here in glory yet. It's a pressing issue today. Is that not right? To whom coming? Brother Kelly, we don't come Once, and then that's it. Now, we keep coming, because we're sinners daily. We come with this issue daily. Lord, have mercy on me. If you don't save me, I'll be buried. This issue is killing me. It's a pressing issue. Our Lord said from the time of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of God suffereth violence, and the violence, the press. take it by force. So she came in the press, and it says she reached out. She was crawling, a big crowd of people. She's down on the ground, crawling through this crowd of people, and she reached out. Now, how does she know whose feet's whose? She knows. The Lord directed her to the right feet. He had the most beautiful feet there. You get it? Romans 10 says, "...how beautiful are the feet of them that publish the gospel." The gospel personified. The mercy of God was in a pair of feet walking this earth. He said, "...behold, my hands and my feet." She knew. She came crawling up and found those blessed feet, which would soon be nailed to the cross for her sins. Found those blessed feet. And that robe that he wore, that seamless robe, he wore a seamless robe. It wasn't a stitch in it. It'd been knitted, hand-knitted, mended by somebody. Hand-knitted, it wasn't a seam anywhere. It wasn't sewn together, pieced together. You ever thought about that? A perfect, spotless, seamless robe. That's why they didn't rip it and divide it between themselves. Somebody knitted that robe for him out of lamb's wool, and he wore it. What is that? She said, if I can just touch his robe, if I can just get a touch of that robe, that seamless robe, I'll be healed. The hem of his garment, the hem, the bottom portion, you know what that garment is, don't you? That robe. It says the king's daughter, Psalm 45, is it John? The king's daughter is all glorious in her apparel. She's wearing something wrought of gold. The king himself spun it. The king himself knitted it and made it with his own hand. It's that robe of righteousness which Christ alone wears and which will cover our issue. That's a little sermon within a sermon. And all who see their need of Christ and his righteousness, they get it. Just touch the hem. It's big enough to cover us all, people. Just touch the hem. Well, it says that she reached out, but we used to sing, well, we do, we still sing that chorus, don't we? Reach out and touch the Lord as he's passing by. You'll find he's not too busy to hear your heart's cry. He's passing by this moment, your needs. your needs to supply. So reach out and touch the Lord while he passes by. I just sung that for the first time in my life, I think. That's a great hymn, isn't it? Simple child's verse. Oh, it's a great—isn't that a great hymn? That illustrates what this is all about. He's not too busy, because she reached out. One person in this whole crowd who really had a need, a pressing issue, a need, came to him for mercy and grace and reached out, and look at this, straightway, verse 29, the fountain of her blood was dried up. Immediately. Dried up. Sin's gone. One look, one touch, John. One word of faith. Help. Sin's gone. There's sins and iniquities I'll remember no more. Look unto me, all ye that look unto me, be ye saved. One just a look. Immediately. Sin's gone. The fountain of her blood dried up. And she felt, look at this, verse 29, listen, stay with me, please stay with me, this is important. She felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. She felt in her body. Now, she reached out first. She touched him first. And then she fell. Do you get it? Salvation is not in a feeling. Don't wait for a feeling. Don't wait for a feeling. I wish the Lord would do that for someone. Rests. A woman came up to a preacher we all know and torn up and distraught and hearing message after message after message of feeling our own sinfulness and believing what he said and just to never find any. And he said, here's your problem, honey. Rest. Just look to Christ now and rest. Now that he's shown you what you are and your need is, believe him. Rest in him. Trust him. Look to him. Rest! Come unto me, all ye that labor and heavy laden, come from the heart, come with a desire, come, but don't move a muscle, but come, and I'll give you rest. Look unto me and be ye saved." All the ends of the earth. So she reached out first, and then she felt. Then she felt it. You get the picture here? So now, don't wait on a feeling. Don't wait until you feel good about yourself. Let me ask one of you old folks. And Henry, I always pick on you. I'm not going to pick on you anymore. Barbara is 70 years old now. Barbara, do you feel better about yourself now than you did 20 or 30 years ago when you first started hearing the gospel? Do you feel better about yourself? Feel worse! You know more now, you've got more light now, and knowledge increases, and sorrow increases. The more light you get, the more darkness you encounter. The more you read of God's Word, the more you see of yourself like a mirror. You don't feel better about yourself. What if you waited until you felt better about yourself? You'd never come. This is not for good people. This woman didn't come because she was a good person. She came because she had an issue. A dying issue. Don't wait on a feeling. Don't wait until you feel good about yourself. Well, don't wait until you know enough. Well, I don't know enough. I wait until I know more. The preacher told me I need to know more, being a theologian. No. That old fellow said, I'm just a poor sinner and nothing at all, but Jesus Christ is my all in all. That's all you need to know. Yes sir, that's all you needed. Don't wait until you've repented enough. There was a preacher down in, well, up north somewhere who was always making people feel bad all the time, feel bad all the time, but you hadn't repented enough, you hadn't repented enough, repented enough. That's all he ever preached, was repentant. He never told anybody to look to Christ and you'd find rest. We've never repented enough. Till the day we die, we'll never have repented enough. We've got a lot to repent of. Don't wait till you believe strong enough. People are waiting for this. Well, if I can just believe a little stronger, one day, one day will come. I believe, I believe. I've got to hurry. The next day, it's gone. I don't believe like I did yesterday. Don't wait till then. You'll never believe enough. It's not in our feelings. It's in Christ, just looking to Christ. She reached out and touched him, and then she felt. She came to Christ, and then she felt. Then she felt it within herself. I believe the Lord has done something for me. It says that Jesus immediately, knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, this woman was saved. Now, here is the thing. This woman was saved not because she came, not because she reached out, not because she touched him. Ultimately, she's saved because virtue went out of the Lord Jesus Christ to her. She was saved by virtue of the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Every sinner is saved not because of their faith. That is the result of God's purpose and will for them to come. They're saved by virtue of the blood of Jesus Christ, by virtue of the righteousness of Jesus Christ. That's why they're saved. Virtue went out of him into her. Power, that's what that meant. The working of his mighty power dried up that blood. It wasn't her touch. It was his virtue. Ah boy, and he says he turned him about in the press, and he said, Who touched my clothes? You know, the Lord demands of every sinner that comes to Him that they make a public confession of Him. That's not how you first come. You come privately, you come behind Him, you come lowly, meek and lowly, but then He demands, if He's done something for you, you've got to turn before Him and everybody. Who touched me? Who have I done something for? Would somebody tell me who I've done something for? Well, you know, the crowd, the disciples were even confused, weren't they? Wait, Lord, they said in verse 31, Lord, look at the multitude throwing you. Everybody's touching you. No, sir, they're not. They're crowding around me, they're hollering, and everybody's doing this and that and the other, and all this commotion going on, but somebody touched me. Really touched me. Stopped it. He'll find he's not too busy. He didn't stop for that maddening crowd, but he stopped still. Says when old Blind Bartimaeus cried out, he stood still. Somebody touched me. Who is it? Tell me. Verse 32, he looked round about to see her. He knew who it was. That's why she touched him. The foundation of God standeth sure, because the Lord knoweth them that are his. A certain by the sovereign, certain mercy of grace and grace of God. I've got to holler this, people. You will let me do it. By the sovereign mercy and grace and predestined purpose and will of God, this certain woman, after twelve long years, Christ came by and he said, Here I come. He called her privately to her heart, and she said, If I can get to her. And she came, and he looked at her. Who touched me? Nobody said anything, and he looked at her. He knew who touched her. That's why she did it. He looked at her. He turned about to see her. That's salvation. Barbara's salvation is for the Lord to turn. He bypassed his name and looks at you. He looks at you. And the woman, fearing and trembling. Now, she's legal. Oh, she's going to jump and shout and swing on a chandelier, and she's going to praise Jesus. Oh, no, she's still humble, broken. The fear of the Lord is still within her, fear and trembling. So she came up, verse 33, knowing what was done in her, came and did what? Fell down, like old Jairus. Fell down and told him everything. Confessed it all. Over in Luke's Gospel, chapter 8, it says, Before everyone. Confessed? I've got to read it to you. It says, She came trembling, falling down before him, declared unto him before all the people why she was there. Before all the people declared it. He that beluded, and is baptized. shall be saved. Baptism is that public confession here in Trimble. And you come to him, you come to Christ, you don't come to a man, don't come to me and confess your sins. No, sir. You come to Christ and confess your sins. He's the great high priest. He's the only one that can put them away and do anything about them. You confess all to him. Come to him. Oh, boy. And look at this, I love this, oh I love this, verse 34, He said unto her, Daughter, daughter. Now, every girl in here has got a daddy whom you love. That's a special relationship, isn't it? Isn't it, Hannah? You love your daddy? Oh, he loves you. Every time he calls me, he says, you take care of my baby now. Marvin, she's twenty-something, twenty-eight, something like that. Married. Married. Marvin, she had a baby. Oh, no, she's my baby. And there's another one. Babies, he says now. my daughter." Daughter? This is the God of our Father. This is the Lord himself saying to another daughter of Abraham. Daughter? What an endearing term, huh? Daughter? Daughter? You know what? Every Mary Magdalene, every Ruth, every Rahab is a daughter of the King. You know, they're prodigal daughters. They're prodigal daughters, aren't they, Teresa? Just like prodigal sons. Who's saying, you reckon dad will have, the father will have mercy upon them? Yeah, he has on daughters, too. He says, Go in peace, daughter, go in peace. Thy faith that made thee whole, the object of her faith. That's what faith is. Faith is not a thing. It's trust in a person. She came to the right person. Thy faith hath made thee whole. The one you're looking to hath made you whole. Go in peace and be whole of thy blood. Did she get sick again? Did she ever get sick again? Sure she did. She's human. He took care of that issue, that pressing issue, that dying issue. And this pressing issue with us is sin, and that's what the Lord takes care of. That's what he puts away. We're going to die of something. We'll have issues. But that issue is taken care of. We'll not die from that. We'll not die from that. Well, go in peace. And we have peace through believing. Well, no, wait a minute, that's not her member, that's somebody else. Verse 35, while he was speaking, he just spoke peace to this woman. While he spoke, the most horrible thing that this man feared happened. Jairus. While he yet spoke, somebody came and said, your daughter is dead, don't trouble the master any further. And Jairus said, I knew it. I knew it if he didn't come right then. I waited too long. The Lord waited too long. No hope now. She's dead. As long as the Lord lives, there's hope. Would you listen to me, Jairus or Jairusina? As long as there's breath in this body and the gospel is being preached and the Lord's mercy is near every morning, there's hope. And here's what the Lord told her. Be not afraid, He said under the rule of the synagogue, verse 36, only believe. Now, God's word is his power, is it not? Those of you who have felt this power, the word, the gospel, you know it's his power. I went for years without any effect upon me. That's all I know to do is tell you my story. That prodigal, what made me come to myself? Like the prodigal, it says he was in the hog pen. And if left there, he'd have died. But it says he came to himself and thought about the Father, and came to the Father, and the Father put the robe on him, and the ring, and the fatted calf, and all of that. What made him come to himself, Deborah? Huh? After all that time, why did he just all of a sudden come to himself? He'd heard that message as a boy! The Word of God is called a seed. Nobody knows when God plants that seed. Huh? I distinctly remember things coming up within me that I'd heard as a boy, troubling me, grieving me myself. As long as there's breath in a body, there's hope. There's hope, belief, the gospel's the power of God. Perhaps that gospel's sown in the prodigal. There were many just like me from the church we came from, many. Perhaps that gospel seed was sown early on. He'll come to himself. There's hope. There ain't Jairus' in here. There's a bunch of them. He said, So he suffered no man to follow him. This is good. He suffered nobody to follow him, save Peter, James, and John, the brother of Janah. He's going to do something. These three men are going to be a witness of it. Parents also. He's going to do something for this girl, and he included these three men with him. The Lord acknowledges his true preachers, and the Lord will acknowledge them before his people. The Lord will make it known who his true preachers are. Yes, he will. And they are men that he has called with the gospel. That's how you know them. And he takes them with him to witness this, be a part of this. And verse 38, they came as a great tumult, weeping He came in, verse 39, why are you weeping? What make you this ado and weep? The damsel's not dead, but sleeping. There it is again, Nancy. God's people, no child of His that believes ever dies. He said that. None of them. They sleep. Sleep. He never said they were dead. And they laughed Him to scorn. They didn't understand. He put them all out. You see, He puts out everybody. his disciples, those whom he's raising from the dead, cast them aside. And them that were with him and entered in where the damsel was lying, he took the damsel by the hand and he laid a hold on her after what seemed like he wasn't going to do anything, finally. It seemed like a long time to him, Ron, the gyrus. He thought, Lord, I thought she'd never do anything. It may have been just hours, it may have been days, but he thought not going to do anything. Sorrow, weeping, endures for a night, all night long. Huh? That sun arises, joy comes in the morning. And it says, He took her by the hand and said, Talitha kuma, which is being interpreted, damns will I say unto thee arise. And that's, you know, he's the only one that can and must speak And straightway, immediately, the damsel arose and walked. So do all those whom God saves by his grace, they walk by faith. They walk with him. And she was of twelve years of age, and they were astonished with great astonishment. Whatever the Lord does, it's astonishing. It's amazing when the Lord does it. And he charged them, look at this, he charged them. Who? His disciples. The parents, he charged them that no man should know it, and commanded them, he said, now, she's alive. Now, he said, here's what I want you to do. This young girl's alive. What are you to do for her? He didn't say where they gave you. He didn't say, find a little bonnet around her head. Bind her down. Tie her up. Like that coat. Brother Kelly, Lucy. Here's what she did. Give her something to eat. Feed her. She's alive now. She'll respond. Just feed her. Watch her grow. Watch her live. Let the binder down. She's bound to me from now on. The only thing that will bind her to me is when she sees I raised her from the dead. And those disciples saw it, and they realized it's the only thing that works, isn't it? Word of the Lord, power of the Lord. We'll do what He said. Feed them. Feed them. Woman with an issue, and I gyrus in here this morning. Number 252. Number 252 in the Green Hymnal. In the Green Hymnal. Not the first and the last verse. 2.52.