Jesus said, if Jesus loves, He'll make of you, some of you, plants that stand above. The Holy Spirit prefers no more of you being in clay, just to leave it. Jesus saves, Jesus saves, He so does. And where He go you, someone here, plants us in the garden. The Holy Spirit whispers over us to be in place, just to be saved. Jesus said, we talk of heaven's beauty and that's good. We talk of loving others and we should. But to a dying world the greatest thing that we can say Let's take a look at how pretty Jesus is. Jesus is, He still does. He'll make a new someone new, plant this in that boy. The Holy Spirit whispers no more much to be in play. Just believe it, Jesus is. We have heard the joyful cry, Jesus saves, Jesus saves. Spread His sight in all our hearts, Jesus saves, Jesus saves. Jesus saves, He's the Lord. He'll make all news, some are new. Francis can have wars. The Holy Spirit prefers no more hearts to be enslaved. Just believe it, Jesus saves. The more He's there, it must hurt so much to be His slave. Just to leave Him, just to leave Him, just to leave that Jesus save. Jesus O Jesus, do you know Him today? You can turn Him away, O Jesus. O Jesus, with all my sin, how lost I would be! Without Him, I would be dying. And without Him, I'd be enslaved. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. O Jesus, do you know Him today? You can turn Him away, O Jesus. O Jesus, O Jesus, without Him, our Lord, I would be weak. Amen. I thank the Kingdom of God very much again for those messages and songs. May the Lord richly bless them to all our hearts. We thank them for coming. It's good to hear them ministering God's Word. When you're getting old and your voice is going, aren't you glad there's some young fellas who are taking the time, making the effort, and seeking to serve the Lord and to sing the glorious message of the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour. Jesus Christ. We thank them very much in the Lord's name for those messages and songs. Now if you have your Bible with you tonight, would you turn with me please to the Gospel according to Mark. Mark's Gospel and chapter 5. Mark's Gospel and chapter 5. We're going to read some verses from verse 21. Gospel according to Mark, chapter 5. And we read a couple of verses here from verse 21. The Bible says, And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much people gathered unto him, and he was nigh unto the sea. And behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name. And when he saw him, he fell at his feet, and besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death. I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her that she may be healed and she shall live." And Jesus went with him and much people followed him and thronged him. Then we take up the reading again at verse 35. While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house certain which said, Thy daughter is dead. Why troublest thou the master any further? As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe. And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter and James and John, the brother of James. And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly. And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado and weep? The damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, And entereth in where the damsel was lying. And he took the damsel by the hand and said unto her, Talitha Cumi, which is being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee aright. And straightway the damsel arose and walked. For she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment. And he charged them straightly that no man should know it. and commanded that something should be given her to eat. Amen. May God bless to us a public reading from His own inspired and His infallible Word. Many years ago when we were giving out gospel tracts round about the open air meetings at the City Hall in Belfast on a Sunday night, we used to give out a little gospel tract and it said on the front cover, When you are in trouble, Do you curse or do you pray? And that certainly reveals a lot. What do men and women do when they are in trouble, when their back is against the wall, when they do not know which way to turn? Do they curse or do they pray? We have read the story the man called Jairus, the ruler of the synagogue, a man who came to the Lord Jesus Christ and besought him that he would come with him to his home because his little daughter of twelve years of age was at the point of death. They wanted the Lord Jesus Christ to come with him and heal the little girl. Then in this story, we purposely missed out the verses, but as they were making their way to the home of Jairus, a woman who had an issue of blood for twelve years, had suffered many things of many physicians, but was none bettered, but rather the worse. This was a hold-up. on the way to Jairus' home. And then they come and they tell him, Your daughter is dead. Don't be troubling Jesus the Master any further. But there is a lovely text of Scripture and I want to draw your attention to it and take it as the theme for our Gospel message tonight. See, many years ago a dear saint of God was at the point of death. His only son, who was very, very rebellious and had left home, left the father and mother's house and gone into this world and spent, like the prodigal, his living, his days in riotous living. But he had come home because he heard that his father was so seriously ill. His father was a believer. He loved the Lord Jesus. The mother was a believer. They had prayed long and hard for their son. And in an attempt to witness again to that son, that wayward son, the mother, she would say to the father as he lay on the bed, which was to be his deathbed, to say, Are you sure you're safe? What are you depending on for eternity? Is it well with your soul? And when she asked him those questions, He witnessed to her and to His wayward son. And He would say, when she says, What are you depending on for eternity? He would say, The precious blood of Christ. Are you sure your sins are all forgiven? They would say, Yes, through the precious blood of Christ. And those are wonderful words. And they were wonderful words for that dear man of God to die with. that he was depending upon, he was trusting in, his faith was centered in the precious blood of Christ. As I thought of those five words, the precious blood of Christ, wonderful words to die with, I thought of five words in verse 24 of Mark chapter 5. And they are the opening words. And they are the words that tell us what happened when Jairus came and he spoke to the Lord Jesus. The Bible says, And Jesus went with him. Friend, here are five words to live with. Five words to die with. Five words that will take us through the valley of the shadow of death. Five words that will take us into God's eternity. And Jesus went with him. I was reading to a dear saint of God, Psalm 23. A dear woman. We've been with her every day. She's at the very end of life's journey. And reading her that passage again, that, yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me, and thy rod and thy staff may comfort me." And so that day when Jairus came to Jesus and he tells Jesus, he states his case to the Lord Jesus Christ about this little girl, twelve years of age, who was at the point of death, the Bible says, Jesus went with him. And I want you to notice very simply tonight that Jesus went with him in his wandering. You see, it says there in verse 22, Behold, there cometh one of the rulers of his synagogue, Jairus by name. When he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet and besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter, lieth at the point of death. I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed and she shall live." Now, he came to the Lord Jesus Christ, and that is always the right thing to do. The old hymn writer Joseph Scriven from Van Bridge, he wrote that beautiful hymn, What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer. And here's a man who comes to the Lord Jesus Christ. And you'll notice that he comes to Christ, the right person. He makes his request and he does so reverently. For the Bible says he fell at the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jairus was a ruler in the synagogue. There was a great controversy surrounding the Lord Jesus Christ. Is he God's son? Is he a blasphemer? Can he really heal the sick? Is he who he says he is? But this man came to Jesus and he fell reverently at Jesus' feet. And the Bible says in verse 23, he besought him greatly. We can say he came reverently. He came passionately. And he says, and he beseeches Christ, he prays to Christ prayerfully, I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her that she may be healed and she shall live. You'll notice he believed. He believed that Jesus Christ had the power to heal his daughter, but he's wondering Will the Lord Jesus Christ come with me? Will he come to my house? Will he heal my little daughter? Dear friend, that's the way many people are in Northern Ireland. They've heard the gospel. They know about the Lord Jesus Christ. They know of a truth that he has saved others. They know friends and family and neighbors. Perhaps they know people from this congregation saved by the grace of God, but they're wondering, Could Jesus Christ save me? Sometimes people say to their preacher, You know, preacher, if you knew all the sins that I have committed, you wouldn't get much hope for me. But our brethren, we're singing tonight, Jesus heals. He really does. He still does. He's able and mighty in time. God, He's willing to save. And sometimes people in this life and in this world, they wonder, Why am I here? And what is the purpose of it all? And did God create the heavens and the earth? Did God make man? Is there a heaven? Is there a hell? What's it all about? And they're wondering. But dear friend, I can tell you tonight, on the authority of God's Word, that the Lord Jesus Christ can go with you. Jesus went with him in his wandering. You see, for twelve years that little child was a ray of sunshine in the home of Jairus and his dear wife. And now trouble has come and sickness has come. And that little girl lies at the point of death. And there is great uncertainty in the life of Jairus and his wife and in their home. But, thank God, he came to Jesus and Jesus went with him. Many years ago, when I was minister in Bond Ridge Free Presbyterian Church, a friend of mine had a shop in Bond Ridge. And he used to joke with me. He had a bad back. I used to tell him he was lifting his wages. That's why he had a bad back. But he used to say he loved speedboats. And often times he would go back and forth from Newcastle over to the Isle of Man in a speedboat. And he said it was a constant thumping over the waves. Well, I never had a speedboat, so I don't have that problem. And he was doing well. As far as this world is concerned, as far as business is concerned, he is a believer. He loves the Lord Jesus Christ. But you know, his little girl took sick. And I remember speaking to him one day, and we were assuring him that our people were praying for him and praying for his wife and praying especially for his little daughter. And he said to me, you know, I have many things of this world's goods, but he says, spread everything I have that's important to me is lying in the Royal Victoria Hospital at this time. Now, thank God, God answered prayer. That wee girl is now married and has a family of her own. You see, Jesus went with him. And maybe tonight you're wondering, could the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanse my sin? Then find God, the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and cleanse you from every sin. Now I want you to notice in verse 25, the little passage that we didn't read, it says, A certain woman which had an issue of blood twelve years, and suffered many things of many physicians, and spent all that she had, was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse. When she heard that Jesus came in the press behind, she came in the press behind and touched his garment, for she said, If I may, Touched with his clothes I shall be whole." And we often sing about that poor woman. She only touched the hem of his garment as to his side she stole amidst the crowd that gathered around him. And straightway she was whole. Oh, touch the hem of his garment and thou too shalt be free. His saving power this very hour can bring you life today. And that is true. But Jairus is going with the Lord Jesus Christ. And there's a great throng of people, a great multitude of company, and he's trying to get through the crowd and trying to get through them all so that sooner rather than later he will have Jesus in his home beside his little girl that the Lord Jesus might touch her and heal her. Jesus went with him in his wandering. You'll notice Jesus went with him in his waiting. In the circumstances that arose, the Lord Jesus Christ stops. This woman has touched the hem of His garment. Virtue has gone out of Him. Power has gone out of Him. And He says, Who touched me? The disciples say, Master, the people throng round about you. And you ask, Who touched you? Jesus says, I perceive that somebody has touched me where virtue has gone out of me. Somebody touched me in faith. See, it's possible to be in a Gospel meeting. And the Lord Jesus Christ is passing this way. But, dear friend, if you don't know Christ as your Savior, you need to say tonight, Lord Jesus, while on others Thou art calling, do not pass me by. Let me reach out and touch the Lord as He goes by. This woman touched the Lord Jesus. And, of course, that held things up And Jairus was waiting and wondering what will be the next step. Some years ago, my wife took ill one morning. I was able to get her down to the doctors. And then when the doctor, when he had seen her, he immediately sent for the ambulance. And the ambulance took her at full speed up to the hospital. I was following behind in the car. And it was very frustrating when you're trying to get to the hospital and there's a traffic jam and it's early in the morning and the commuters are going to their work. Very frustrating. And here's Jairus. And all he wants is for Jesus to come to his house. And now this incident happens. But the Lord Jesus Christ was with Jairus. when he waited, this little girl was just twelve years of age. A little ray of sunshine in her. This poor woman had suffered for twelve years an issue of blood. She touched the Lord Jesus and immediately she was made whole. Now when the Lord Jesus says to her in verse 34, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole. Go in peace. Behold of thy great Notice what it said in verse 35. While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house certain which said, Thy daughter is dead. Why troublest thou the master any further? That's the last news Jairus wanted to hear. Thy daughter is dead. Why troublest thou the master any further? And I want you to notice that the Bible says, And Jesus went with him. He went with him in his wondering. And he went with him in his waiting. And he went with him in his worrying. What an awful message. Is the message wrong? Is it true? Has my daughter died? If only I could have brought Jesus to the house before now, all would have been well. But this Christ stopped me. But you notice Jesus said to the man, Be not afraid, only believe. As soon as Jesus heard the word, verse 36, that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe. Now I want you to notice something from that verse. Jairus had only the word of Jesus Christ to rely on. And I say that reverently because you could get no greater Word than the Word of the Lord Jesus Christ. But he hears the message. Thy daughter is dead. Don't be troubling the Master. For Jesus says, Be not afraid, only believe. And friend, in the midst of worrying, the Lord Jesus Christ speaks to Jairus a word of peace. He says, Be not afraid, only believe. Someone once said that fear, f-e-a-r, stands for false evidence that appears real. And fear and faith They pull in opposite directions. But all he had was the Word of the Lord Jesus. All you have, all I have tonight, is the Word of the Lord Jesus Christ, the inspired, the infallible, the inerrant Word of the living God. What are you trusting in for eternity? Some idea of man? Some notion of a cult leader? As we mentioned last night, people looking at their horoscope, having their palms read, going to crystal ball gazers and all the rest of it. No, thank God we have the Word of God, the only rule of faith. And I have practiced. Jairus was in despair. And he is thinking about that little home and an empty bed where his little child was, and an empty chair at the table, and the laughter and the joy that that wee girl had brought to that home. Jairus is tempted to go into despair with an empty house and an empty heart. But Jesus says, Be not afraid. Only Believe. Christ speaks a word of peace. Now I want you to notice, when Jesus comes to the house, there is a word of perception in verse 39. For when he was come, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado and weep? The damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. Remember, Jesus said to his disciples about Lazarus, he sleepeth. And then Jesus said to them plainly, he is dead. But he said, I am going that I might awaken him out of his sleep. And now Jesus Christ, the Son of God, He is the one who can raise the dead to life. And he says, Jairus, don't be afraid, only believe. And the damsel is not dead, she is sleepless. And then he spoke a word of power in verse 41. He took the damsel by the hand and he sat on her talitha cumae, which is being interpreted, damsel I send to the horizon. Straightway the damsel arose and walked for she was of the age of twelve years. And thank God tonight that no matter what causes you to be trembling or to be worrying or to be fearful, The Lord Jesus Christ in the Gospel says, Be not afraid, only believe. We have a great God. Brethren, we are singing, How great thou art! Our God is upon the throne. Our God rules in the kingdoms of men. All the nations of this whole world, the Bible says, are like a drop of the bucket as far as God is concerned. They are like the fine dust of the balance. and of God who spun the stars in space, and God who created it all, and God who oversees this whole world. My God, He is concerned about you. Say, how do you know? Because He died for you on the old rugged cross. He has come to seek and to save that which was lost. He loved you so much. God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Jesus went with him. And Jesus went with him. In his wondering. In his waiting. In his worrying. You notice, in his weeping. Because verse 38 says that when they came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue and seeth the true mult, and them that wept and wailed greatly." See, in the East there were professional mourners. And as soon as the news went out that this little girl died, the mourners would come and they would weep and wail. They would create what the Lord Jesus says was an ado. And they wept. But the Lord Jesus was with Jairus even in that time of weeping. The Bible says that when Jesus said, The little girl is not dead, but sleepeth. Verse 40, it says, And they laughed him to scorn. And isn't it interesting that As far as this world is concerned, the opinions of men and women in this world are very, very fickle. One moment they're weeping and wailing, and the next moment they're laughing Christ to scorn. It always reminds me of that time when the Apostle Paul escaped the shipwreck And he landed on the island, and the people there, they looked upon him, and Paul, being a practical sort of a person, he began to gather up sticks for the light of fire, and a viper out of the sticks bit him. And the people said, he must be a murderer, and he has escaped the shipwreck, but vengeance suffers him not to live. And so he's been bitten by this snake, by this venomous viper. And they expected him to fall down dead, but he didn't. What do they say? One minute they thought he was a murderer. The next minute, he is a God. He is a God. And friend, public opinion is so fickle And that's why we tell men and women that the Bible says there is one way of salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ. It's not Muhammad or Buddha or Confucius or anyone else. It's Jesus Christ. There is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. Now, it doesn't matter what the world says. It doesn't matter what religion says. It matters what God says in His Word. Because the Bible says these people who wept, who wheeled outside that little home of Jairus, the Bible says Jesus put them all out. And he took with him the mother and the father of the damsel, in verse 40. And he took with him James and John and Peter. Isn't that just a picture of what's going to happen some of these days? Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Creator, the Sustainer, the Savior, but yet the One who is the Judge of all the earth. There are those whom the Lord Jesus Christ will say, Come ye, blessed of my Father, enter into eternal life. And there are those to whom he will say, Depart from me, ye cursed. I never knew you." Some were put out and some were taken in. And it all depends on our relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ. So, brethren, we are singing, Without Him I to do nothing. Without Him, I'd be enslaved. Friend, do you know Him today? Do you know Christ as your own and personal Saviour? I'm not asking you to attend church. Which denomination do you belong to? I'm not asking you, are you a good citizen? Are you one who keeps the Sabbath? I'm not asking you, are you baptized or confirmed or catechized or have you sat at the Lord's table? I'm asking you, do you know Christ personally as your own and personal Savior? The world might laugh him to scorn. And increasingly in this age in which we live, there are more programs on our television. There are more articles that appear in the press. where the more men and women can blaspheme the spotless, sinless, holy Lamb of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the more popular it seems to be. Dear friend, don't you go with the crowd. Don't you go with the multitude on the broad road that leads to a lost Christless eternity. You say, my old companions, fare thee well. I will not go with you to hell, for I mean with Jesus Christ to dwell. I don't want to be put out. I want to be taken in to the Father's house of many mansions, to that inheritance that is incorruptible, undefiled, that is, be it not a way, reserved in heaven for those who are kept by the power of God through faith. You know, Jesus went with him also in his welcoming. The Lord Jesus took the little girl by the hand. He saith, Talithai, cumai, which is being interpreted, damsel, I say unto thee. And the word the Lord Jesus Christ used for damsel is little lamb. O little lamb, I say unto thee, arise. Get away! The little girl rose up. She is living! And the Bible says she is walking. And Jesus says that something should be given her to eat. She is eating. My, what a change! They could have sung those words if they had not been written. What a wonderful change in her life was wrought since Jesus came into her heart. What a wonderful thing. What a change! the Lord Jesus Christ makes. That's a change religion can't make. That's a change philosophy can't make. That's a change a good living cannot make. That's a change only Jesus Christ can make. Where there was death, now there's life. Where there was darkness, now, thank God, there's light. Where there was lifelessness, now there's power. The little girl is restored to her parents. Jesus went with them, we could say, in His worshipping. Our Jairus would have fell down again as he fell at Jesus' feet and asked Him to come and heal his little girl. Worship and praise and thanksgiving! Then can I ask you tonight, as we bring our meeting to a close, who do you live for? Do you live for the Lord Jesus Christ? Or do you live for the world and what it can give? Who are you serving tonight? Are you serving the Lord Jesus? Are you serving the world? Are you a slave to sin? Are you serving Satan? Where will you spend eternity? Will you be taken in to heaven? Will you be cast out to that place where God is forgotten to be gracious? What will you live with? What will you die with? Can you say, Thank God, I am depending on the precious blood of Jesus? Can you say, Thank God, Preacher, there was a night in my experience when I got saved and Jesus went with me? That the Lord Jesus has kept me. That the Lord Jesus has been with me since that day. And He will be with me. Till one day He rolls, the rivers roll, there are waters at our feet. Then He'll bear us safely over where the loved ones and the Savior we shall meet. Can you say tonight, and Jesus went with? Friend, if you get saved tonight, we can say about you as you leave this meeting, and Jesus went with him. We can say about you, dear sister, and Jesus went with her. What an awful thing for man or woman to hear the gospel and still to leave without Christ. Therefore, without hope for time and for eternity. May God help you to come and seek the Lord while you may be found. The Rev. Saul will bring a meeting to a close. Thank you very much indeed, Mr. Greenfield, again for that message tonight. We do trust that the Lord will bless the word. We do thank you for listening.