Good morning. I see everybody here this morning. I'll be on lesson three. Anybody else need an outline? Everybody get one? You've done 100% this morning, Brother Eddie. You did a good job. Did you do it all by yourself? Okay. Okay. I thought if you did it all by yourself, you're going to have to not let John help no more. We're going to be in Mark chapter five. And this morning we'll read verses 22 through 24 and then 35 through 43. We talk about a lesson on unbelief. And of course these lessons, although Peter may not be the direct subject in the scriptures that we're reading, he was there and learning as a disciple as we go through these lessons. And of course, what he learned, we need to learn also. So Mark chapter 5 verse 22, 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 and then verse thirty five 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, say 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, Tali Takumi, which is being interpreted damsel. We would say little girl for damsel. So he says, I say unto thee, arise. 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. So we'll be covering these verses, and later we'll go back and get those verses that we skipped over. But gaining real faith is a growth process in the Lord. It's hard for us to understand that people would laugh at Jesus. It says, laugh Him to scorn. Especially that they were also astonished at the fulfillment of what Christ did. So, as we go through the lesson, our goals will be that we see, that we know that the Lord sees all our griefs and sorrows. Now, other than our spouses, we don't talk to our friends and loved ones about all our griefs and sorrows, usually. And there's two main reasons we don't do that. One, they just don't know about all our problems. And two, even if they did know, they probably couldn't do anything about it. But the opposite is true of the Lord. He does know everything, all our problems, all our sorrows, and He is the one that can do something about it. We shouldn't go to everybody with all our problems, but we should always go to God with all of our problems. And then number two, realize nothing is too hard for the Lord. And I think we know that, but sometimes we carry it out to the very end. We do everything else that we can do first and then go to the Lord. And I think maybe, I don't know if it's, maybe we don't realize how hard it is, we just think we can take care of it ourselves. But our first place should be going to the Lord, but quite often it's the last place we go to. And then choose to believe that the Lord, what the Lord has said, although it may seem humanly impossible. We need to trust in the Word of God. The three points we'll be talking about is the sad situation, the scornful spectators and the sufficient Savior. Now as we're again going through the education of a disciple, the first two lessons were on the shore of Lake Genesaret and now we turn inland and we're going to the roads of Capernaum and this is where he met the man named Jairus and we see a powerful lesson and unbelief as we go through this story. Now, John Wooden once said, repetition is the key to learning. And indeed, we see this in Peter's life. Time after time, Peter was witness of the same lessons on belief and unbelief. In our last lesson, we watched as he trusts in obedience, that it's foundational to becoming a disciple is to be obedient. But he hadn't yet mastered that concept. Good teachers know, as Jesus knew, that repetition is a foundation of learning. When it comes to trusting the Lord, we're really a step away from unbelief. It seems like sometimes we have to build ourselves up to trust the Lord when things get going bad. You know, if we stop and say, do you trust the Lord? Yes. But we don't always act upon that trust. We more easily see doubt than we see trust. It's easier to doubt than it is to trust. And we say things like, I know the Bible says, but. That's unbelief. When you put a but after what the Bible says, that is unbelief. Three times in the New Testament the Bible tells us these words, the just shall live by faith. Romans 1.17 says, For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, the just shall live by faith. Galatians 3.11, But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident, for the just shall live by faith. And Hebrews 1038, now the just shall live by faith. And we see the word of God repeats itself. Why? Because we don't get it the first time. We don't get it the second time, and many times we don't get it the third time. So as we get into the lesson number one, is the sad situation. And of course, this is a sad situation. We have here a little girl about to die and then reported that she is dead. And of course, that's a sad situation. When sin entered the world, paradise on the earth departed. When paradise departed, death entered. All at the same time. When sin entered, when sin came in, death came in. And death is one of the most heart-wrenching things to deal with. And again, we know God is in control. We know God can help us through it. But we're still human. We're still in the flesh. We're going to have trouble getting through things like that, especially the death of a child. We never know what somebody else is going through, especially when they're dealing with the death of a child. And it doesn't even matter. You say, well, I've been through the death of a child. I know exactly what they're going through. No, you don't. You know part. You may know more than a lot of people know, but you don't know everything that they're going through. You don't know how it's affecting them. So Jairus had called the best available doctors, no doubt, done everything that he could, but nothing worked. And barring a miracle, he had seemingly already accepted that his child was going to die. So A is the father's plea. You know it appeared Jairus was a ruler of the synagogue and in the economy of that time in the Jewish nation he would have been one of the upper class even if he was On the lower end of the ruler, he would still be in what would be considered the upper class of the Jewish citizens. So it looked like he had everything somebody could want in that day. But at that moment, he had one desperate thought. If he could just get to Jesus, his dying daughter would be healed. Anyway, it was consuming him. And when we get to the point that a problem is consuming us, then we can truly go to God and ask Him for help. When we think we've got part of it handled, we're not really going to turn it over to Him. So he cast himself at the feet of Jesus, and the Bible says, Jairus, besought Him greatly. A couple of places that word is used or another form of the word beseeched is Psalms 118, 25. Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord, O Lord, I beseech thee. And Psalms 116, 4. Then called I upon the name of the Lord, O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. So he was vexed with this problem. And of course he was, because it was the death of his daughter. So he besought him greatly. It was an impassioned plea for help. And the Lord was the only one that could help him. Now when somebody asks you to do something, it's generally how they say it that determines your response. If they say, if you get a chance, If you get around to it, no rush. You've already put it on the back burner, right? I mean, you're not going to do it right then unless you just, you're just, it's an absolute opportune time. You sort of put it back and you put other things first. But when they come to you in great distress as Jairus came to Christ, you try to do it immediately with a true sense of urgency. You try to get it done right then if you can do it. So that's the way we need to come to God in prayer if we really want Him to do it. And I know you've probably seen stories and heard stories and a little child goes to the Lord in prayer and says, Lord, I know you're awful busy, but Lord, if you could do this. That's not the way you go to God in prayer. That's a child. We're not supposed to pray like a child. We're supposed to realize that God is concerned with what you have, and He's not busy as what we consider busy. He's doing a lot, but He's not busy. His time is not full. He has time for you. When we pray, how do we ask the Lord? Are we fervent like Jairus was? James 5, 16, 18, the effectual, 16 through 18. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. So if we go to 1 Kings, I've got something out of order here. I might have not put one on. Oh, I think I missed one. I'll read it to you. 1 Kings 16.33 says, And Ahab made a grove, and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him. They say, well, why did the Lord Cause it not to rain for three and a half years. Because the meanest man on earth was in power. Now, I didn't say he was the worst. The Bible said he was the worst. And God said that's enough. So he sends Elijah down in 1 Kings 17 and 1. And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord of God Israel liveth, before whom I stand, I'm making sure I've got the right thing, yeah. Before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. And then chapter 18, 41, And Elijah said to Ahab, get thee up, eat and drink, for there is a sound of the abundance of rain. Now, between these verses, Elijah had come back and he told the people how long halt ye between two opinions. And he had the prophets of Baal build the altar. They asked their God to send down fire. Of course he didn't. Then he built an altar, laid it down, and God sent down fire and lit it up. And then they slew the prophets of Baal. And now he is telling Ahab in verse 41, Get thee up, eat and drink, for there is a sound of abundance of rain. And the next verse says, So Ahab went up to eat and drink, and Elijah went up to the top of Mount Carmel, And he cast himself down upon the earth and put his face between his knees. The fervent prayer of a righteous man. And the Bible goes on to say that he asked his helper, he said, look and see if you see any rain coming. No, no, no, no, no, no. There is a small cloud about the size of your hand. And so he sends Ahab, then he says, you better get down, it's going to rain. And so Ahab gets on his chariot, and he goes down to Jezreel. And Elijah runs past the horses, and he's waiting on Ahab when he gets down to the gate. We need to trust God like Elijah did. He was just a man, but he trusted God. When we pray, be earnest, be fervent, and God will take notice. 1 Thessalonians 5, 17, pray without ceasing. Pray until you get an answer. And you may have some prayers that are repetitious that the problem keeps going. That you still need prayer with. You may have prayers in your life that you have to always pray for. Because it's just something that continues in your life. Not that you're doing wrong or somebody else is doing wrong. But it's just something that constantly needs prayer. And we should pray without ceasing. So how did Jairus get to the point of fervent prayer? Well, we see the love that he had for his daughter, no doubt. He had tried everything that he could to save her. I mean, if you had a sick child or a sick grandchild, and you couldn't get to a doctor right then, whatever you could do, you would do it. If you knew they were near death. And even if you didn't know they were near death, you're probably going to do everything you could to take care of them, to help them. So how did he come to trust in Jesus? Well, if we look back in the scriptures, he was from Capernaum and he was a ruler of the synagogue that the Bible has already told us or the Bible tells us that Jesus had already preached there. So he was a ruler in the synagogue and Jesus had already preached in that synagogue. Because that's where Jesus was from, too. Sometime after Jesus taught in the synagogue, he became a believer. Evidently, he had not professed that before because he probably still wouldn't be a ruler of the synagogue. Now, I don't know if that's the case, but generally when they did, they got kicked out of the synagogue. But he was willing to lose his position in order to save his daughter. And we would do that. If your child or grandchild was going to die, if you didn't go do something, And your boss, you had a job, and they said, well, listen, if you don't show up, you're fired. But their life depended on you. You'd just be fired. And that's the point that Jairus had come to. It didn't matter that he might lose his position in the synagogue. He had to save his daughter. When we truly see our need for Jesus to help us, we are ready to pray fervently. You know children know how to pray better than we do? This is a common prayer. I want a puppy. I want a puppy. I want a puppy. I want a puppy. I want a puppy. I want a puppy. Right? They're praying to you. They're praying, you know, they're asking you. And maybe they're praying to the Lord too. But they're persistent. They're fervent. They know who's going to get them a puppy. And so they're asking, and asking, and asking. And that's the way we're to pray to God. Bart, I don't know if Debbie lets you have puppies. Might would. I don't know. You can ask her. Recorded through scripture, we see fervent prayers of repetition. Hannah earnestly prayed and wept. for a child until God granted her request. Every year, she prayed for a child. David fasted and prayed all night, asking the Lord to spare his child. The widow and the unjust judge, the widow received her request simply because of her persistence. And Christ showed us the ultimate example of fervent prayer in the garden. And so all those prayers weren't answered. No, but if you want one, How do you got to pray for it? And then next is B, the daughter's plight. In Jerry's heart there was hope because he knew that Jesus was coming. Now Jesus had just been across Lake Genesaret and healed the maniac and come back across And that's about the center of Lake Gennesaret and Capernaum is at the top. So, Jairus is at the top of the lake, basically, Capernaum. He's walking toward Jesus. Jesus is in the middle, walking up. And so, Jairus is going to get Jesus. Jairus believes his daughter could be healed. But then, in the middle of all this, This doesn't happen this often in the Bible, but you really have two great stories of faith intertwined together, but they have no connection together except Jesus. So in the middle of all this, we get Mark 5, 24 through 34. Now, Jairus has met Jesus, he's asked Him to heal him, Jesus says, okay, we're going. But then in verse 24 it says, And Jesus went with him, and much people followed him and thronged him. And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse. And when she had heard of Jesus, came and depressed behind and touched his garment. For she said, If I may but touch his clothes, I shall be whole. And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press and said, Who touched my clothes? And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest a multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? And he looked around about to see her that had done this thing. But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him and told him all the truth. And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole. Go in peace and be whole of thy plague. You see, we even see here that his disciples are still learning. They're still not understanding everything. Verse 31 it said, and his disciples said unto him, Thou seest a multitude thronging thee, and sayest, Thou who touch me. Nobody's going to know that Jesus. Well, Jesus knew. He knew there was a difference in her touch. Not that she was the only one that touched him, but there was a difference in her touch. There was a desperate woman They're plagued by an issue of blood that touched the Lord for healing. As I said, many people, no doubt, had to touch Him because of so many people there. Everyone that touched Him had a need that Jesus could have taken care of. Everyone here has got a need that Jesus could take care of. Everyone that day that was in that crowd had a need, but one of them trusted Jesus to take care of it. He only stopped for one person, and that is the only person out of the throng that he healed. There's other people that were sick. There's other people that had problems. But she's the one that trusted. Like the dying girl, she had found the doctors helpless. In verse 28, where she said, If I may but touch his clothes, I shall be whole. That is a single-minded, fervent request. She didn't say, He might be able to help me. There's just something about him. I think he's a good doctor. I've heard he's a good doctor. I'm going to try him out. If I touch him, I'll be healed. And Jesus, in his compassion, saw her faith and healed her. But now that delay, as we read the next thing about Jairus' case, it seems that that The healing of her was fatal for his daughter. Immediately after he tells the woman to go in peace, a messenger came from the house saying, Thy daughter is dead. Why trouble us the master any further? It seemed like it was too late. She had already died. But when nothing else could help, Jairus still had faith that Jesus could prevail. He said, come and lay thy hand on her. So what he'd already asked, come and lay thy hand on her, he urged, and she shall live. Jesus wasn't the last resort any longer. He was the only resort. There was nothing anybody else could do, no hope for anybody else to do anything. Now, Jairus didn't know about the delay. The woman with the issue of blood didn't realize she was delaying Jesus. But Jesus knew all about did a delay. He didn't wonder, he said, well, I don't have enough time to get down there or not. She come, he healed her, and if he had a watch, he could have looked and said, yep, right on time. Somebody's about to come and tell me she's dead. He already knew all that. He wasn't surprised by the two situations intertwining together. He already knew it. So Jesus encouraged Jairus at this point and says, be not afraid, only believe. Do we take our cares to the Lord like Jairus did? I know we do sometimes, but sometimes how long do we wait before we actually go to the Lord with the problem? 1 Peter 5 and 7, casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you. When you pay attention to that word, you may have heard me say it before, pay attention to that word, casting your care. All right? This is not casting. That's casting. You give it to him. You let him control it. You let him have it. You may be in the middle of a hopeless situation. If not, you've been through one that seems like it was hopeless. Or you may be, in the future, go through one that seems hopeless. And you may try everything else. But only until we've given our burdens to the Lord can we rest knowing that we've done all we can. So I've tried everything. Well, have you just given it over to the Lord? Then you've done everything that you can do. And then number two, we'll get started here just a little bit in number two. Let me go back just a little bit before we go there. Now to the crowd, of course the situation looked hopeless. Perhaps even Peter and the rest of the disciples were beginning to doubt. And we'll give you some scripture on that a little later on in the lesson. But while they knew the Lord would work miracles, the girl had already died. But to Jesus, this was an opportunity to demonstrate to the spectators that his power could break even death's grip. And that's one thing we need to realize as Christians, many times in our lives, what we go through is a demonstration to the lost. You see, it doesn't matter if we're saved, whatever we go through, and this is given one of the worst situations that anybody can be in, is the death of a child. But Jerris' situation was not as bad as the situation of those in the crowd that were lost. You may know somebody that nobody's sick, everything goes right for them, they're doing good in life, they've got at least two houses, whatever kind of car they want, go on vacation wherever they want to go, They spend thousands of dollars and don't even realize it's gone. But if you're saved and you're lost, whatever you're going through is not as bad as what they're going to go through. So some of the things that we go through are simply for a demonstration for people to see Jesus in us and to see Jesus work out things for us so that they may have faith in Jesus. So we'll pick up on number two next week. Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for this opportunity, Lord, to come to church to worship you, Lord. We thank you, Lord, for answering prayers. Lord, help us, Lord, to have more faith to come to you in prayer quicker. And Lord, just turn it over to you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.