Matthew chapter 15 verses 21 through 28 is the parallel attached to Mark 7, 24 to 30. And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre, and sighting, behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, have mercy on me, O Lord, son of David, my daughter severely oppressed by a demon. But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and bade him, saying, send her away, for she is crying out after us. He answered, I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. But she came and knelt before him saying, Lord, help me. And he answered, it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs. And she said, yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the master's table. Then Jesus answered her, oh woman, great is your faith. Be it done for you as you desire. And her daughter was healed instantly. Let us pray for the preaching of the word. Our Father God that's in heaven, Lord, we thank you this morning for your grace and your mercy. Lord, you have been so good to us, Lord, for a little baby baby, Nathaniel, to be born and a healthy mom. Lord, we celebrate this morning of your goodness once again. So we thank you, Lord, for this morning, Lord, for what you have done for us in Christ Jesus. Lord, we come to you, Lord, this special time of the worship. Lord, we ask you, Lord, to allow your word to go forward in power. Allow Lord to meet a high behind the cross at this moment. Let everything I say Lord be for your glory your glory alone Let your people be edified. Let your people be encouraged many of us would have had a rough week Lord and a good week Lord and just You know just at this more point a point right now though we can kind of I At times, Lord, forget that you are working these things out behind the scenes. And Lord, a lot of times, Lord, we are so forgetful, Lord, that you are doing these things behind the scenes. So Lord, at this moment, Lord, let us trust you that, Lord, you are our God that causes us to remember what you have done for us in Christ Jesus. So let your word let us remember, Lord, the things of old. Let your word edify us. Let your word, Lord, go forward, Lord, in a special way that for us, Lord, to give you the glory in all the things that we do, not only today, but for the rest of our lives, Lord, let us trust you forevermore. In Christ's name we pray, amen. We are going to deal with this test today in Mark 7. And if you notice, we started in April in the book of Mark, and we're working our way through this book of Mark. And we have talked about how Jesus has fed the 5,000, about John the Baptist was beheaded. We talked about even the unclean spirit in Mark 1 and 2. This man was healed with the unclean spirit. We have talked about Jesus doing works on the Sabbath, and they were trying to catch him into sin and trying to catch him as a lawbreaker, but we find out that Jesus is not a lawbreaker along the way. But now we come to another test with a woman that is coming to Christ, wanting and asking him to have mercy on her. So if I can name this message today, I would say the grace of Christ heals the broken. And the three points I'm gonna deal with this with is that remember we are hopeless apart from Christ. And the point number two is gonna be remember we don't deserve his grace. And the last point is gonna deal with verses 29 through 30. Remember, even though we were hopeless and don't deserve his grace, Jesus gives his people good news. So look at point one here. Remember, we are hopeless apart from Christ. That's going to be verses 24 through 26. And 24 says again, it's the end. From there, he arose and went away to a region of Tyre and Sidon. Jesus was around the Sea of Galilee area ever since March 6. I haven't seen him before then, March 5 and 4. I think Jesus has been in this region for a while. teaching at Senegal's and Capernaum at the sea. He's still been in this region right here, but now he's actually gonna potentially be going further up. Christ was approached by the scribes and Pharisees earlier in Mark 7 in the Sea of Galilee area. We talked about how the scribes came out and the scribes were these people that were learned men of the actual law. They would know their Bibles. They was able to memorize almost all the Bibles from the beginning of Genesis all the way to the end of the Old Testament book of Malachi. They was able to memorize it all. And these people right here that we're talking about right here are the scribes, but also the Pharisees. They would know also the Bible, but also they would know a lot of traditions along the way. But the Pharisees and scribes, these two groups will always try to plot again together. And there's one more of the group along the way that's not mentioned here. It's called the Sadducees. And they will also be another group that try to cause harm upon Jesus, trying to get him to stumble. So all these groups along the way trying to call Jesus to stumble and trying to call Jesus to sin against the Father. But we know Jesus led a perfect life. that even though they were trying to bring the charge against Jesus, Jesus never broke the law of Moses or the prophets. So these people are starting to get desperate. They even got so desperate, we talked about the last few weeks, they even said, well, Jesus, y'all broke the law of the traditions of the leaders of Israel. You guys remember we talked about the law about washing the cups, washing your hands before you eat. They were trying their best to set Jesus up, but Jesus was able to prevail. So they tried to bring these charges against Jesus and his apostles and say these certain things about Jesus, about these certain traditions. And Jesus revealed to them that early in the March 7th, 14 to 15, he said to them, you have a fine way of rejecting the commandments of God in order to establish your own tradition. They was able to establish their own traditions over trusting the laws of God. And it goes on also in Mark talks about in verse 15, 14. And he called the people to him again and said to them, hear me all of you, understand, there is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him. But the things that come out of a person are what defiles him. And he said, what come out of a person is what defiles him, for from within, out of the heart of man, this is verse 20 now, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person. So it's not about washing your hands before you eat that defiles a person. It's a person's heart. but defiles a person. And we know the heart is wicked in Jeremiah 17. He said, the heart is desperately wicked. Who can understand it? The heart is wicked because we have sinned against the Holy God. Original sin, the poverty that came into this world when Adam and Eve have disobeyed God. And by them disobeying God, the whole world is corrupt to the core. Not only the whole world, we are corrupt as well. So we are in need of a savior here. So Jesus' point is that it's not about washing your hands with food. It's about your heart. Where's your heart? Because whatever's in your heart is going to come out. It's going to show. Your motives, your intention, and everything else is going to show because your heart is far from God. So we talked about these things the last few weeks, but now Jesus leaves this place after talking to the scribes and the Pharisees, now he leaves and go up to a place called Tyre and Sidon. Tyre is an area, a Mediterranean seaport, city of Phoenicia, modern day is Lebanon, about 40 miles northwest of Capernaum. So this area right here was a Gentile place. So why would Jesus go up to a place that really knew him? He was in this area of Israel that knew him. Why would he actually leave this place to go to a place that was really known? Let's read more in verse 24 in our text. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know yet he could not be hidden by Jesus going into tire and not wanting anyone to know. that he was there, he displayed his humbleness. So Jesus could have went up and showed that, hey, I am Jesus. Look at me. I'm in Tyre. Y'all heard about me. I've been healing people all this time. That's not what he did. He went to Tyre and Sidon. He didn't want to be known at this time. He wanted to go there in humility. Remind me of God and Tim Duncan. Tim Duncan is one of the, let's say, the greatest Power Fours that ever played a game. Tim Duncan has awards from the Rookie of the Year in 97 to 98. 97, 98, Sports News Rookie of the Year again, or I should say Rookie of the Year. 1999 Finalist for the Most Valuable Player. And let's go along, 2003 Finals, Most Valuable Player. 2002, 2003, Sporting News MVP. I mean, just all the list of a guy named Tim Duncan, the list goes on and on. He was also an All-Rookie in 97 and 98. 1999 and 2000 was an All-MVP. Three-time Finals MVP, two-times MVP. I mean, the list goes on and on with this guy. Five-time NBA champion. And this guy has all this notoriety, and so he is known for his great performance on the NBA court. But another thing he's known for, too, is his humbleness. One writer said, he is humble, loyal, selflessness, and above all, he is an undeniably terrific leader. He said, Duncan goes flagrantly against everything we know as a modern day superstar to be. He does not have the endorsements that Stephon Curry has, nor does he have the global marketing appeal of LeBron James. Duncan is not an outspoken, demonstrative leader like Brian or Kevin Garnett, but both were in their prime. But he was a guy with humility, it's outspoken. A veteran NBA coach named Brian Scott said this about Tim Duncan, he's not throwing behind the back passes, he's not doing tomahawk jams, he's not doing anything that very flashy. He's just a very unassuming guy who goes about his job, and the next thing you know, he got 23 points and 20 rebounds. Coach Joel Carr said this about Tim Duncan, he's a quiet assassin who is skilled in all aspects of the game. And this guy, Tim Duncan, is a person that would play, and he had a humbleness. And for a guy like myself, if I had all that going on, I'd be happy to be in front of magazines and showing everybody, hey, I'm the champion. I am this. I have won this. But Tim Duncan, though, we find out is, though, a guy with humility. In a very similar way, Christ also is very humble when he goes to Tyre. We know he's created the world. with his father in the spirit. So Jesus is greater than all the accomplishments of Tim Duncan. Jesus' accomplishments are so much greater. He has created the entire heavens and the earth with his father. His first miracle, turn the water into wine. Also, we talked about a while back, he walked on water. He also healed a demonic man. Jesus that sheet is never-ending Over and over we can see that Jesus is the one that all the power and the glory and honor Belongs to But we see right here in this time of time sighting he goes there Not in pride or he doesn't go there and to To make everybody look at him He goes there in humility in a place of Gentiles. He goes there in that region. Matthew Henry says that this is about Christ in time. Yet not to be fond of popular applause, he arose from hence and went into the border of the Tyre and Sidon, where he was little known, and there he entered, not into a synagogue or a place of concourse, but into a private house, and he would have no man to know it, because it was foretold concerning him, he shall not strive nor cry, neither shall his voice be heard in the streets. not but that he was willing to preach and heal here as well as any other places. So we see Matthew Henry right here kind of points right here that Jesus goes here not for applause, he doesn't go to the synagogue, he doesn't go to these main places, he goes to a Gentile place and a Gentile house. There could be several reasons why Jesus is being humble and not demanding his attention from everyone. I would say one of those reasons is that he was gonna draw men to himself through his silence. So one of the reasons Jesus could have went there was that he was gonna show that he doesn't have to actually go there and have a billboard and say, hey everybody, I'm Jesus, come to me. I think he can go there to Tyre and Sidon and draw men to him without saying a word. We know that. Remember Psalm 65. Blessed is the one you choose to my God and bring near to dwell in your courts. God chooses. God draws people to himself. John 6, 37, 39, all that the Father gives to me will come to me. Whoever comes to me, I will never cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. John 6.44, no one comes to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day. Another picture of Jesus choosing in the same chapter in John 6. And it said, this is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father. Romans 11.5.6, so too at the present time there's a remnant chosen by grace. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of words. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace. Now we see this humble Christ as solace and approached by this woman. And another picture too of this, when we read earlier, I think in chapter two, Mark, We talked about the disciples, how they was out there casting their net into the sea. It might have been chapter one or chapter two, and they were casting their net into the sea. And they wasn't seeking after God. They were seeking to catch fish. And when they were trying to catch fish, they were trying to provide for their families and provide for a meal for that day. But come to find out that Jesus went and sought after them. So this is not anything new. how Jesus can draw people to himself. And it says in verse 25 in our text, but immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet. It's amazing though, Jesus goes in silent, but we see that the woman still approached him, and they hear that the Messiah is around. And some of you might ask, you know, is that how can Jesus' name get spread around the Gentiles? Well, possibility because of trade. A lot of time people come down from Lebanon and all the different places, they would go down to the area of Sea of Galilee, or some of them even go down to Jerusalem or to the port of Tel Aviv area, and they would buy spices and different things for their homes. And so happily, not knowing how, it got spreaded. Or, you remember when Jesus sent out the apostles? He sent them out to the different places, Somehow, this place in this region of Tyre heard the word of Christ. The gospels went forward, and for this woman to hear about Christ, she knew that he was the only way, he was the only one that can do a work that she needed at this time. Now the woman was a Gentile Syrophoenician by birth, and she bade him to cast out the demon out of daughter. And we see by observation in 25 to 26, we learn several things about this woman, this person, who approached Christ. We find out she's a woman. And this time, women are kind of uncommon for women to approach men, especially a great teacher like this, in public. Another thing we learn about this woman is she has a daughter with unclean spirit. This young girl has an unclean spirit. Not sure if it was foaming at the mouth or nor is it that she's not in the right man. I think Matthew even says she was grievously vexed. That means she was very demonized. Now also we see that it's possibly that she was just hostile towards the law of God, not knowing if all these things are playing a role in this young girl's life. But we see the mom come to Jesus to let him know that her daughter had an unclean spirit. The third thing we learn about this woman and these things is that she's a Gentile. And a Gentile was not allowed to come close to actually Jews. Gentiles were seen as dolls before the Jews. Then another thing we learned about is that she's a Syrophoenician by birth. Martin knew more about the surroundings of the area of Israel than Matthew. He knew about this area of Tyre. Matthew account doesn't go into detail this woman's background, but just call her Canaanite. Mark called her a Serial Phoenician, which is a Greek from the region of Tyre and Sidon. So you ask the question then is that, is this woman a Serial Phoenician or is she a Canaanite? I would say both. One person quoted, so the parallel test of Mark, Matthew 15, 22 causes woman at Canaanite, using an ancient name by which these people were known. The name Syro-Phoenician combines the area of Phoenicia, which included Tyre and Sidon, and a larger province of Syria. So we see right here, though, is that Matthew uses this word, Canaanite. And at this time, Canaanites and Jebusites, all those things were done away with at this time. But to a Jewish audience, if you wasn't a Jew in that area, if you weren't a Jew in the area of Jerusalem, in the area of Israel, they would consider all these groups to be Canaanites, Jebusites, the Hittites, they would still call them these certain names. But Mark, which is John Mark, we heard about Mark and Acts, how he went out to Barnabas and went out to go to these Gentile places. We also talked about Mark Gator's account from Peter. Mark is taking consideration as he write his gospel of a Gentile audience. So the Gentile audience, they wouldn't know anything about no Canaanites. The Gentile audience wouldn't know anything about the Jebusites, the Hittites. These things are gone. These things were like 3,000 years before them, 4,000 years ago. A long time ago, these things existed. So Mark, he uses Syriophoenician to be able to give his Greek name. The name how the Greek people would know that would be in that church. But Matthew, writing to a Hebrew and Jewish audience, We'd have to use the name Canaanite. So we see more gospel is that he's writing that so many people can know that Jesus is the true son of God, that the Jew and the Gentile may know that. And we can sum up this Gentile woman by saying this right after we learn all these things about this woman, that she is in need of God's mercy. And that is exactly what this woman asks. Have mercy on me, oh Lord, son of David. My daughter's severely oppressed with a demon. And that's the Matthew account. So see, she's a woman, she's a Gentile, her daughter's possessed, and right now she know she's out a part of, she have a part of from the Jewish nation, and that right now she doesn't deserve God's grace. or is mercy. And mercy is treating an offender or lawbreaker better than he deserves or she deserves. This woman, which was a Gentile, knew about David and Jesus from Matthew's account. She also, she knew about the brokenness all around her. but she still approached this Christ. And I say we have a lot of similarities, a lot of things in common to this lady. We were dead in our sins. We were alienated from the promises of God. We were hopeless. She was hopeless. We were broken. She was broken. We are needing God's mercy, she's in need of God's mercy. We should be a people who see ourselves in this woman. We should be daily saying the same things this lady said here. Have mercy on me, oh Lord, son of David. So to sum up the first point, We learned that the humble Jesus was approached by a sinner, and that we all were once hopeless as a sinner and needed his mercy. But we heard the name of Jesus, and we knew that he can rescue us. Brings us to our second point. Remember, we don't deserve his grace, verse 27, 28. And he said to her, Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs. Jesus now responds to this woman who was at his feet. But before then, Matthew lets us know that the disciples were urging Jesus to push her away because of the Jewish customs. These disciples still didn't get it. They didn't deserve God's grace, but he approached them, and he called them to follow him. Even Peter, he was out there casting his net with the servants and the brother Andrew. And Peter made his profession in Luke 5, 4-8. For them, the disciples want to push this lady away. They have forgotten what God has done for them. It said in Luke 5, 4-8, when Jesus told him to put out into the deep and let down your net for a catch, when Andrew and Simon was out fishing and they wasn't catching anything, Jesus told them what to do. And Simon answered, Master, we towed all night and took nothing, but at your word I will let down the nets. And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish and their nets were breaking. They sent them to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both other boats, so they began to sink. But when Psalm and Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus and listened to what he said on his knees. Depart from me, for I'm a sinful man, O Lord. Peter said, depart from me for I'm a sinner, oh Lord. Sinful man. And these disciples are urging Jesus to push away this woman. They have forgotten what God has done for them. How we at times forgotten what Christ has done for us. Are we so quick to talk about others that are struggling in sin when we know that we would be still struggling if Jesus didn't come rescue us? Do we remember apart from Christ, we would still be in our sins? Let us not be like the disciples in this moment. Let us not be arrogant and prideful. Let's not push people away. Not only that, how do we speak to each other? How do we treat each other around us? In this moment, how did the Cybertreater, this young lady, it proved that they have forgotten what God has done for them. And these disciples have walked with Jesus. They have seen Him change water into wine. They have seen Him walk on water. They have seen Him calm the storm. They have seen Him feed 5,000. They have seen Him do all these wonderful works. How could they forget in this moment what God has done for them? And how did Jesus respond to this woman after the disciple says this? Verse 24, he answered, I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. But she came and knelt before him, saying, Lord, help me. And he answered, it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs. So Jesus, you are coming for the house, the house of Israel, the lost sheep of the house of Israel. What are you doing up here in the Gentile area then? Why are you up here then, Jesus? If you came for the lost sheep of Israel, what are you doing in the Gentile area? We're gonna find out Jesus is in this area. for a special reason. He uses this moment right here to test this woman. He uses strong language towards her to test her faith. Rather than, someone quoted, said, rather than conveying personal hostility towards non-Jewish people, Jesus' choice of words likely reflect a common Jewish sentiment, which he uses to evoke a response from her about Jewish and non-Jewish relations. So this is how the Jewish people would normally treat the Gentile people. They would speak to them in a harsh way. And Jesus, He speak to her in His way to show these distinctions to provoke her to a response. That's not anything new. You guys remember when Jesus went into the wilderness? When He was tempted in the wilderness by Satan? And Satan said, I can give you all these things in the world. And Jesus was tempted, and the Father allowed Him to be tempted. But Jesus had to prove that He is the true Son of God, and He prevailed when He was tempted. But in the Old Testament, Moses and the Exodus, they were tempted and they failed. When Jesus was tempted, he prevailed. So now, will this lady prevail? Or will she give up and turn her back and go back to her own community? So Jesus passed the test. with his young lady pass the test. So now the question is, how would this woman respond after Jesus say he is only sent to the lost sheep of Israel in his ministry? But you know, Israel was the first to be revealed that God was going to save the world through the seed of Israel. But later, the disciples were going to take the gospel to the Gentiles, and we see this happening in the book of Acts. But something's so unique about this woman. This woman also did something so profound in her response in Matthew. It said, then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. And that's verse 25 in Matthew. So then she came and worshiped him. Worship is only belonging to the Lord. And so right now for her to use the word worship and Martha write down the word worship, Martha's letting us know that God is the only one that can be worshiped and that Jesus Christ right now is seen as worshiped by this woman. And by being worshiped by this woman, she said, Lord, help me. I'm pretty sure she probably have tried different physicians, different people around the area to try to heal her daughter. But now she used the word worship and help me. And she's pleading and begging. They even used the word begging in the text. I think this woman right here probably has exhausted, did everything she can do to try to find somebody, and no one was able to heal her daughter. And she come to this point right here, she come in confidence. It says she worshiped him. She came in confidence knowing that he would be the one to restore her daughter to good health. This woman also responded to Mark's words, but she answered him, yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumb. The woman didn't lose faith, but pushed even harder, displaying her need for Christ to heal her daughter. At this time, dogs are considered not worthy to be with Christ, when they say dogs eat Gentiles. But she's not asking to sit at the table with the Jew, but just eat the crumbs of children from the table. Not the crumb from the adults, and crumb from the children, and you know, children play with food. She was just talking about any little tidbit. It didn't even matter. She was just referring to that, showing that, Lord, if I have this much of you, I know my daughter will be healed. Regardless of crime, these children's crimes are the worst because they play around with their food at times. But this woman didn't care. She just wanted Christ to smile upon her, even though she is not deserving. This woman represented the problem of the Gentile world. He called the Jews the lost sheep of the house of Israel, in spite of the conduct of the Pharisees. It says right here in one text, even the dogs referring to, she took no offense at the implication of being a Gentile dog. The rather she with quick wit, took Christ's very word for little dogs, and definitely turned it to her own advantage. For the little dogs eat other crumbs, little morsels, that fall from the table of their masters, the children. So we see this picture right here is that she used Jesus' word and turned it back to Jesus and say, okay, even little dogs eat crumbs. Even these crumbs, even dogs eat these. So Lord, have mercy on me. She's persistent. She's persistent, because she knows Christ has something, something that the world cannot offer her. She knows Christ has something that the world can't do for her. What about us? Are we persistent like this? Are we persistent? Or are we quick to give in? When people say things in a wrong way, when people do things to us, are we quick in those moments to give in? Are we persistent to trust Christ that He's going to provide our needs? We don't have to respond when somebody treat us wrong. Somebody at work treat us a certain way. A lot of times we feel like we have to respond, we gotta defend ourselves. Are we persistent in trusting God in that moment? A lot of times we're not. It doesn't take anything for us at times to just snap and say things we shouldn't say and do things we shouldn't do. But we learn from this woman right here. that God's grace is amazing. She's not asking for a Mercedes or money in the world or whatever all the things that she just asked to be loved by the Christ. So I asked us a few questions here. The reason why we might not be as persistent as this young lady Because we don't see God's grace as amazing daily. We don't beg for it daily. We don't appreciate it daily. As we appreciate what Christ has done for us daily, that persistence comes. A trust in the Lord and petitioning to the Lord daily in prayer. Letting them know, Lord, you're gonna trust them in a bad time and a good time. Our whole lives are motivated in prayer and dependence on God. So the reason why we don't be persistent, because at times we don't appreciate his grace. And I'm guilty of that, first and foremost. I'm guilty of his amazing grace that I need daily. Let's bring it to our last point. Even though we are hopeless and don't deserve his grace, but Jesus gives his people good news. Verse 29 and 30. And he said to her, for this statement, you may go your way. The demon has left your daughter. Jesus would finally respond to this woman who was hopeless and brokenhearted with gracious words. Matthew says in verse 28 and chapter 15, and Jesus said to her, oh woman, great is your faith. Be it done for you as you desire. And her heart and her daughter was healed instantly. So old woman, great is your faith. So we find out that right now, this woman was blessed by Jesus because of her faith. And this faith was total faith, total belief in God alone. And we just sung a song, in Christ alone my hope is found. She found her hope and nothing else but Christ at this moment. So we've seen the Lausanne Christ alone because he is the only one that can rescue us in a time like this. And this woman was in total need and she trusted Christ. And he is the one that was faithful and just to forgive her of all her sins and righteousness. He is the one that she trusts. She put her faith in. Physicians in her day couldn't do it, but Jesus could do it. Your faith and your belief in Jesus has brought about a blessing, a restoration in our lives. And not only in our lives, for this lady's life. What happened here, her faith allowed God to give her those desires. Her desire, mostly her desire right here, and I even say before then, for her to say, Son of David, Lord, have mercy. God was already doing it after grace before Jesus even came there. For her to say these things about God, she already was dependent on Christ before she met him in person. So her faith was there. So greater than healing her daughter, her own soul was healed. And she'd get eternity forevermore. and says her daughter was healed instantly. The amazing love of God to heal so quickly was a gift that God has given to someone who has put their total trust in him. The Lord blesses his children even after saving them. We testified this morning with a newborn baby. Not only God has given our dear sister a baby, he has given our dear sister a salvation, but on top of that, God also gives blessings on top of that. And I'm able to see the blessing every day when I come home to my wife and my kids. To be able to spend time doing catechism, doing Bible study at home. I just enjoy every moment. Lord, I don't deserve this. But God still gives us blessings as just like he gave this lady a blessing for a daughter to be healed. Not only does this woman get a new heart in Christ, she get a new daughter. And she went home and found the child lying in the bed and the demon gone. One thing I noticed in that text right there in verse 30, since she went home, she didn't stay there nagging at the Christ or asking Christ and begging him for more. She trusted what he said he done, he done it. And she left at that moment and confident, whatever God said he was going to do, he's going to do it. And she left there and God was faithful to his word. It should be encouraging to us as God is faithful to her. he's also faithful to us. If he's faithful to us, remember, when our spouse is not feeling well, that he's our provider. When our kids are not feeling well, he's our provider. The question though is, where is our faith in those moments? Jesus is faithful, but what about us? Do we trust in those moments that He can heal, that He can provide, that He can encourage? If we do, the Lord has visited us. He has smiled upon us. And not only that, people around us in our community, at our jobs, at our places can see how we respond to adversity. It gives us a reason to share what the hope that is in us, how we respond to these situations. But when we respond to these situations in our flesh, respond to these things not of grace, respond to these things with people that are not of faith, the world see that in us. But when we respond to these things how this woman responded, the world ask questions. Why did you do that, Elena? Why did you do that, Josh? And through that, many can come to know Jesus, because how you live and how you live your life. Let us pray. Our Father God is in heaven, Lord, we thank you for your grace and your mercy. Over and over again, Lord, you have been so good to us. Even when we wasn't good to you, Lord, you was good to us. Lord, you saved us, Lord. You have taken care of us, Lord. Even in our time, Lord, of brokenness and hurt, you have been faithful. Lord, let us learn from you. Let us be humble, Lord, as you was humble. Let us, Lord, live out the life of the gospel truth, Lord, in a humble way. But let us also learn from this young lady, Lord. What does it mean to have faith in the midst of adversity? When trying and testing times come, Lord, let us find ourselves not complaining. Let us learn from this lady. She didn't complain. She just trusted the Christ. Let us trust the Christ and not complain in those moments. Let us find our faith is built on Christ and Christ alone. Let us not give in. to the time of testing, Lord, and sin against you. Let us be like Job, Lord, let us hold fast to you. Let us be like David in Psalm 39, when trials came his way, when he wanted to say something with his mouth, but you held him close. And through trying and testing of David, David prevailed and trusted you. Sometime he might have failed, When we see in Psalm 39, he actually trusted you. But let us trust you in those moments. Let us not give in, Lord, to our flesh. Let us not give in to temptations. Let us trust you in those moments. And let your will be done, Lord, here on earth. In Christ's name we pray. Amen.