Amen. Turn to the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5, would you? Mark, Chapter 5, would you stand for the reading of God's Word? What a great crowd on a Monday night. Is this Monday? Is this Monday? What a great crowd on any night. Amen. Everywhere we turn, all kinds of buildings. Casinos are full. The malls are full. Amen. Walmart's full. I'm glad the church house is full tonight. Mark chapter 5. Are you there? Let's go to verse 21. Everybody say 21. And when Jesus passed by over again by a ship on the other side, much people gathered under 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 me, 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. 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 better, but rather grew worse, when she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. For she said, if I may touch but his clothes, I shall behold. And straightway, would you say that word, straightway? Straightway. The fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. 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 round 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, it made thee whole. Go in peace. And, behold, did I pray, while they yet spake, that came from the ruler of the synagogue's house, certain which said, Thy daughter is dead, why troublest thou the master any further? And as soon as Jesus heard the word 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 two more. And them that wept and wailed greatly, and when he was come in, he saith unto them, why make ye this a-doin' weep? The damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn, but when he had put them all out, he had taken the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entering in where the damsel was lying, and he took the damsel by the hand and said unto her, Talitha Kumai, which is being interpreted, damsel, I say unto thee, arise. And straightway, there it is again, The damsel rose and walked, for she was of the age of 12 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. Let the church say amen. Amen. Our Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you. We come tonight bowing before you, pleading that you would add thy blessing to the reading of your word. As your vessel tonight, I'm asking you to cleanse me of sin, empty me of self and fill me with your spirit. I know that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing, which means you don't need me. But I know how badly I need you. So Father God, I pray God that you'd give me what I need. that you would not allow me to lean on my own strength or to my own understanding, but that I might acknowledge you in all my ways so that you can direct my path. Now, Lord, we know that the devil knows that this meeting is going on, and he would do anything he could to distract us, to derail us, to deter us from the task ahead. So we ask that you bind him, put a hedge of protection about this place that in no way he'd hinder the work of the Holy Ghost of God. Now, Father God tonight, would you watch over my sons wherever they are, keep them safe and their eyes on you. And would you tabernacle with us as we're here tonight. Now for what you do, we'll give you the glory. We don't deserve it and we can't handle it. So we'll give it all to you. And we'll ask that you do what only you can do. In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray. Amen, amen. You may be seated. Thank you for standing. I'd love to trouble someone for some water if I may have some. Thank you. The Lord Jesus Christ enters the region of Gadara. Thank you. And when he enters that region, the Bible says, He is met by a crazy man. Now, some of you are looking in the text of Mark 5 and you say, I don't see one place in this text where it says Jesus was met by a crazy man. Well, you conclude what you want to conclude. I'm going to tell you what the man was doing and what he looked like, and you decide whether or not you think he was crazy. He was naked. Somebody say amen if that qualifies as crazy. I mean, it's one thing being in the shower. It's another thing to be running around outside naked. He slept in the cemetery. How we doing? That qualifies being crazy? He got chained up, broke loose. Now are you still offended by my calling him crazy or would you agree with me he's a crazy man? Jesus is walking into Gadara, the country of the Gadarenes, and he's met by a crazy man. I'll tell you why he's doing all this stuff. He was possessed with demons. We don't know how many, but we know when Jesus cast the demons out, it went into a couple thousand swine, so we have to believe that perhaps 2,000 demons were in this man. He calls his name Legion. He's possessed by many demons. He is off the hook. He's out of control. He cannot be confined. He doesn't have any clothes on. He's out of his mind. family can't do anything with him. He is a menace to society. And into the town of a crazy man walks the Lord Jesus Christ. Now listen, he can't be chained down. He's sleeping in the cemeteries. He probably can't carry on what most people would call a sane conversation. But upon first sight, Jesus Christ. I want you to notice what this fellow did. He ran and worshiped Him and made this statement, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the Most High God? This is not the message, but it amazes me that a crazy man naked sleeping in the cemeteries that can't be chained down still knew that Jesus was the Son of God. Now, We run in these cities and towns that we live in, in these religious establishments, and these are people that are theologians. They've been to school. They've got degrees. They're supposedly smarter than all of us put together, and they can't figure out who Jesus was. But a naked man sleeping in the cemeteries, as off the hook as he was, he knew when that man came in town, that ain't no ordinary man. That's the Son of God. And the next time you saw him after Jesus healed him, he was sitting, he was clothed, and in his right mind. Say amen if Jesus changes lives. He fell down at the feet of Jesus. Upon leaving this crazy man, Jesus continues on, and is met by another individual. This individual has his clothes on. He sleeps at the house. And he doesn't have to be chained down because he's got a pretty logical mind. He's a ruler of the synagogue. Jairus is his name. He's a man of prestige. He's a man of prominence. He's probably a man of possession. But he's a man with a problem. At the house he has a daughter that's 12 years old. She's lying in a bed ready to die. And none of his perks will save his daughter. So he comes to the one place where his daughter's destiny can be changed. And although entirely different from the crazy man that was naked sleeping in the cemetery, amazing, two different individuals with two different problems came to the same place to get their problems solved. feet of Jesus. Jesus, my little daughter, lies at the point of death. Please come to my house and heal her that she may live. I love this phrase in Mark chapter 5 where it says, And Jesus went with him. Did you hear that? Let me say it again. And Jesus went with him. Wasn't that mighty kind of Jesus? Jesus went with him. Aren't you glad that when you have a problem Jesus doesn't just send you to get your problem fixed? Jesus goes with you. Somebody help me now. How many of you tonight have witnessed him go with you through your problem, with you through your sickness, with you through your storm, with you through your trial, with you through your difficulty, with you through your crisis, with you through your turmoil? Aren't you glad you don't have a dead God? Aren't you glad you don't have a statue God? Aren't you glad that you don't have a God that used to be? Aren't you glad that you don't have a God that's confined? Aren't you glad that you don't have a God whose power is limited? Aren't you glad that you have a God who has all power, but he's willing to go with you? headed to Jairus' house to see Jairus' daughter, Jesus, and Jairus on the move. And now Jesus is met by a third individual. She's not a naked man sleeping in the cemeteries, and she's not a ruler of the synagogue with a 12-year-old daughter. She's got a 12-year-old problem. She's been hemorrhaging on the inside of her body, and it won't stop. And she needs this problem solved. She's different than the demoniac and she's different than Jairus. She's got an issue of blood. And listen to me, although different than the other two individuals, we've got three separate individuals with three separate problems, but they all came to the same place. Somebody hear me now. They came to the feet of Jesus. She didn't show up that day alone though. There were crowds around him. And everybody was looking for something. And here comes this woman. And the Bible says she comes to Jesus with an issue of blood. This, as I mentioned, was a hemorrhaging problem that was not unfamiliar to that time, nor was it unfamiliar to Scripture. You hear of it spoken of in the Old Testament. This was something that happened and this was something that she couldn't fix on her own. She had an issue of blood and the only place that that issue could be solved was at the feet of Jesus. Now hear me now tonight. We're seated in a building in King, North Carolina. We're in a country called the United States of America, which is the greatest country on earth. Aren't you glad that what we're doing tonight is not illegal? Aren't you glad that there are no soldiers, there's no militia, there are no government officials that are gathering out this building and threatening us to disband, otherwise we'd be arrested. Aren't you glad we're in a place on a Monday night we can carry our Bibles without any shame? Aren't you glad we can sit here and sing about a God who's always been faithful to us? Aren't you glad we can come celebrate the blood of Jesus tonight? Aren't you glad you can bring your children, husbands and wives can sit together in the house of God and get help, and get direction, and get guidance, and get clarity. Aren't you glad that in these last days, as bad as the world has got, we got a country where we can sit here and hear about Almighty God. I come to tell you, whether I'm in King, North Carolina, whether where I pastor in Northern Virginia, just three miles south of the Pentagon, or some of these churches that I go preach in, where it seems like I'm at the end of the world and 10 miles past there. I'm here to tell you it really doesn't matter where I am. Every single person in every single place has issues. And tonight, Jubilee is going to be what God wants it to be. And don't you want it to be that? I'm here to tell you on this night, on this Monday night, I've come to challenge you. I've come to encourage you. I've come to motivate you. I've come to inspire you. I've come to push you. I've come to charge you to take whatever issue you have tonight and bring it to the feet of Jesus. Listen to me tonight, I pastor people that have marital issues. I'm pastoring people that have physical issues. I'm talking to people tonight that have financial issues, emotional issues, relational issues. I'm talking to people that have bad habits. I'm talking to people that struggle with addictions. I'm talking to people with a runaway thought life. I'm talking to people with a dirty mouth. I'm talking to people with a moral issue. I'm talking to people with a modesty issue. I'm talking to people with a hate issue. I'm talking to people with a bitterness issue. with a pride issue. I'm talking to people with a jealousy issue. Some of you are saying, ooh, he didn't hit mine yet. I don't have to. The Holy Ghost is all up in your business right now. You think I'm going to spend all my time trying to point out your issue? I don't even have to preach on it. Listen, Pastor, I do a marriage retreat on husbands loving their wives, and people come up and say, thank you so much for that message on bitterness. I never mentioned bitterness, but the Holy Ghost did. I ain't going to waste no time pointing out your issue. You already know what it is. My job tonight is not to point it out. My job tonight is to tell you what to do with it. Come on now. Somebody's got to bring your issue to Jesus. Now listen, listen. You can't keep tucking it away. You can't keep trying to fix it on your own. You can't keep trying to act like it's not happening. You know how revival's gonna come in your life tonight? You've gotta come to this old-fashioned altar and say, if my issue's ever gonna be resolved, if this issue's ever gonna be fixed, if my life is ever gonna be what it needs, if I'm ever gonna live in the center of God's will, I've gotta bring my issue to Jesus. And by the way, aren't you glad he knows what to do with it? Tonight, she took her issue to Jesus. Let's see what happens with her and see what happens with us when we bring our issue to the feet of Jesus. Notice, first of all, she brought her issue to Jesus because she was conscious of his activity. She was conscious of his activity. Look at verse number 27 quickly. When she had what? Come on, talk to me. I tell the people across Old Baptist Church, don't take the pastor's word for nothing. Amen. He ain't right because he's a pastor. He's right because he's preaching the word of God. Look at verse 27, when she had what? When she had what? When she had what? She didn't have a computer. She didn't have television. She didn't have the internet. She didn't have a radio. But somehow she heard of Jesus. Now the Bible doesn't tell us what she heard, but if you read your Bible, you know what Jesus was doing. Maybe she heard he went to a wedding, and he ran out of wine, and he turned water into wine. Maybe she heard a man had a withered hand, and he restored it. Maybe she heard a deaf man got his hearing back, and a mute man got his talking back, and a blind man started seeing, and a lame man started walking. Maybe she heard a leper got cleansed, and a debtor got forgiven. Maybe she heard a little boy's lunch fed 5,000 men beside him. I don't know what she heard, but she heard enough about him to leave the house. and show up where he was that night. And I don't know what you heard lately. I hope you didn't come for Kenny Baldwin, Calvary Baptist Church, or the Morrison sisters and daddy. I hope you came tonight for Jesus tonight. Amen. Because I'm here to tell you as much as going on in the news about this person and that person and this thing and that thing. A lot of crime, a lot of killing, a lot of hatred, a lot of division, a lot of people are polarized, a lot of people on this side and that side, a lot of political unrest. But let's not think about that tonight. I'd like to remind you Jesus is in town. Amen. I said, Jesus is in town. I'd sit up in service at IWU. Teenagers, I'd pay. I wouldn't be on TikTok during the service tonight. I wouldn't be updating my Instagram on service tonight. I'd be listening because extra, extra read all about it. The one who put the stars in space and the moon in place and the sun hanging on nothing that it never falls down. The one who took from the dust of the ground. breathing the man's nostrils, the breath of life, the omnipotent, all-powerful, omniscient, all-knowing, omnipresent, everyone at the same time, the immutable, unchangeable, the eternal one who was, who is, who is to come, the rock of my salvation, my only firm foundation, a faithful friend who will not change, the cornerstone who remains the same. I didn't say dead Bahamut, I didn't say the fat Buddha, I didn't say his mama Mary, I didn't say a pope, I didn't say a priest, and I didn't say a cow that used to be your grandma. Jesus is in town. I'll tell you why she showed up. Because the only one who could do something was in her town. Listen to me. He's in King, North Carolina. And there's a chance at revival because Jesus is here. She was conscious of His activity. Number two, she had completed all other alternatives. Look at verse 26 if you would. She had completed all other alternatives and had suffered. Listen, had suffered. She had allowed. She had been through. She had experienced many things as a physician. Had spent all that she had. Was nothing better, but rather grew worse. Listen, she had been to the medical doctors. She had tried all of the medicine. She had spent all of her money, but she was still malignant and getting work. You want to know why she brought her issue to Jesus? Because nothing else worked. Can I get a witness tonight? Come on now. You ain't all been saved for your whole life. Come on now. You know what it was to try other stuff that didn't work. Amen. And even as saved people, we're still trying stuff. We're going to other people. We're trying other things. We're leaning to our own understanding. We expect men to fix stuff that only God can do. I'll tell you why somebody needs to come to the altar with that addiction. Somebody needs to bring that marriage to the altar, bring that prodigal to the altar, bring that rebellion to the altar, bring that guilt to the altar, bring that pride to the altar, because nothing else you've ever tried worked. McDonald's puts out a nasty sandwich. People pay for it and try. And McDonald's ain't cheap no more. Michael Jordan put out ugly shoes and people spend buku money and buy it. Jesus comes to town for free and people gotta pray about it. She was conscious of his activity. She had completed all other alternatives. Number three, she was committed to accessing him. She was committed to accessing him. Look at verse 27. When she had heard of Jesus, she came into what? She came in depressed behind. You know what that means? She pushed her way through. Amen. Somebody got to get serious tonight. Listen, you going to go through another service and take your issue back home? Didn't you? Did you come to church yesterday? You still got your issue? How many more revivals you going to keep that issue? I mean, nobody can pluck us out of Jesus' hand. It shouldn't be that Jesus can't pluck your issue out of your hand. She was committed. Listen, she was committed. She came in the press. You know what that means? She pushed her way through. I wonder, Pastor, how many times she got stepped on. I wonder how many times she got laughed at. I wonder how many times she got looked down upon. I wonder how many times she got criticized. Most theologians believe she probably didn't walk that day to Jesus. She probably crawled that way. Listen to me. She was committed to accessing Him despite her pain. Initial blood was very uncomfortable. It was unbearable. She was in excruciating pain. And yet she crawled and stopped perhaps and crawled and stopped perhaps and crawled and stopped. She was pushing her way throughout her pain. Maybe somebody getting right with God is going to have to experience some pain. You might have to go through some tough situations to come to the altar. It might cost you something. It might hurt you in a little way. It might put you through some embarrassment. But But let me tell you something, that embarrassment is worth it to get rid of that issue. Despite her pain, despite the perception, the Old Testament says to have an issue of blood was an embarrassment. You had to be put away from the rest of the people for at least seven days with the issue of blood. I wonder how many people looked down on her with this sickness that wasn't exactly a badge of honor. Maybe somebody's coming to the altar tonight, but you're worried about what people will think, what your friends will say, what the rest of the church will say. Who'll be looking when you walk up to the altar? They think you're a great Christian. They look up to you. You don't want people to know you have problems. Listen to me. Having problems is not an isolated thing. Everybody gots problems. Listen to me. You better come regardless of what people think about you. Ma'am, come if your husband doesn't come. Sir, come if your wife doesn't come. Kids, come if your parents don't come. Parents, come if your kids don't come. Come if your pastor is looking. Come if nobody else. Don't wait for the rest of the crowd to go to the altar. You get to Jesus because you need Jesus. Regardless of the pain, despite the perception, despite the prior attempts, this could have been an easy time for her to say, I'm sick of trying. Nothing else works. I'm done. I give up. I meet people all the time. They're done with church because they've been hurt before. They're done with friendships because they've been taken advantage of before. They're done with giving because some people didn't take what they were giving and use it the right way. Let me tell you something. You may have been hurt. You may have been disappointed. You may have gone through something you didn't expect, but I'm here to tell you Jesus never fails. She was conscious of his activity. She had completed all other alternatives. She was committed to accessing him, number four. She was confident in his ability. In the text, please. Verse 28, for she said, if I may touch but his what? Clothes, I what? I what? I what? I what? She didn't say I might be. I hope to be. I think I can be. What's to lose? No, that's not what she said. She said, I shall be. I tell you what, she brought her issue to Jesus. She was confident that He could do something about it. Come on now. Did anybody come to church believing He can? Did anybody come to church tonight believing He can? He can save your marriage. He can bring your prodigal back home. He can heal your body. He can restore your prayer life. He can give you joy unspeakable of glory. He can get you back into serving God. He can bring you back into the fold. He can clean your life. He can turn you around. And by the way, if you walked in the building tonight headed to devil's hell, he can pick you up and turn you around and place your feet on solid ground. He can reach down into the muck and mire of debauchery and depravity and save your soul. You say, how can he do it? Because after he was beaten, bruised, belittled and brutalized, put in a borrowed tomb, Up from the grave he arose. And if he could get up out the grave, there's nothing for you that he cannot do. She was confident. If I get to the right place, if I meet the right person, if I go through the right process, I will get the right... I wish somebody would come to the altar tonight believing he can fix my issue, he can solve my problem, he can heal my heart, he can answer my prayer, he can change me. I meet people all the time. The reason why they're not good Christians is because they've given up. They've thrown in the towel. They've lost hope. And the world does a good job at sucking the hope out of us and painting the most dismal, bleak, dreary pictures. I'm here to tell you I serve a God of hope. I serve a God of possibilities. I serve a God that there is nothing to hard for, and somebody's got to get up out your seat, forget what everybody's thinking tonight, and say, I'm going to meet Jesus, not because I think so, hope so, or maybe so, but I know so. She was confident in His ability. How about this? She was cured of her affliction. The Bible says in verse 29, in a straight way, the fountain of her blood was dried up and she felt in her body. She was healed of that plague. Amen, amen. I'm telling you what, down in the South, they say she got sure enough healed, amen. Don't you love it, don't you love it, don't you love it when you look in your Bible and you see Jesus do what a lot of perpetrators today are trying to do? Trying to reenact Jesus. You can't reenact Jesus. Come on, straight away the fountain of my blood was dried up, and she was healed in that, of that place. I'm telling you, she was healed instantaneously. She was healed infallibly. It wasn't coming back. She was healed inexplicably. You couldn't explain it. She was healed indubitably. There was no doubt about it. She was healed in really, not just on the outside. She was healed. Come on now. I'm glad he's in the healing business. Amen. I didn't come here tonight to give you motivational speaking. And by the way, I was telling somebody the other day, this world will tell you anything you believe in, you can do. Just say it and believe in yourself and you put your mind to it. You can do anything. That's a lie. That's a lie. I mean, you let the world set you up and have you embarrassed. Anything you believe in, you can do. All right, go ahead with your bad self. Climb up on top of this building and believe in yourself that you can fly. Jump off the building, flap your wing, and sing the song. I believe I can fly. And I'm going to stand right down there in the front of the building. While you're singing that, I'm going to sing, I believe you can die. Listen, because, listen, listen, listen. I don't care how much you believe you can fly. You can't fly. It ain't going to get done because you believe you can do it. It's going to get done because you believe in a God that can do it. Look at me, look at me tonight. These marriages, I'm talking about Christian folk. You've got to be seeing it just like I am. They're under attack. Every week I'm hearing about another marriage that was established in Jesus' name, where two believers looked at each other and said, till death do us part. Now here's my problem. How are they both living and breaking up? I mean, till death do us part is not very ambiguous. I don't know, maybe I'm just a little confused. Maybe this Dallas cowboy brain can't perhaps process this. Till death do us part means we gonna get married till we die. We'll stay married till we die. Now if both of them jokers alive, they should still be married. And the devil is ripping marriages apart. But I'm here to tell you, God is bigger than the devil's attempts. I'm telling you, he can cure affliction. Listen, he's already told you what your issue is. He's already told you, listen, you're trying to spin it and you're trying to shake it off and you're trying to suppress it and you're trying to deny it. And listen, I'm not against therapy. I'm not against counseling. I'm not against going to places where you can get help, but I'm against all of it if it takes God out of the equation. She was cured of her affliction. Watch this now. Let me end with this. she confessed him before all. Look at verse 30, it's always intriguing. And Jesus, knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press and said, who touched my cloak? I mean, I would. I'm telling you, I'd pay any amount of money to let some kind of time warp take me back to Earth when Jesus was alive. And I'd have liked to have been there. Just put me up in a tree somewhere. And let me look down at this. All these people around Jesus, and he's looking around like this. Who touched me? You know the disciples, they were always on the wrong page one day. Remember John chapter four, he said, my meat is to do the will of him that sent me in to finish his work. And they're looking for a ham sandwich. That's not the kind of meat I'm talking about. Who touched me? Listen to the disciples' response. Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, who touched me? In other words, saying, Lord, who touched you? All these people around you, who didn't touch you? You know what Jesus said? But this was a different kind of touch. Somebody touched me and took something from me Now the only way to touch Jesus and take something from him is to touch him with faith a whole lot of people bumped into him You bump into G. You come to church. Listen, you come to a good church. There's a Bible free church You can't help but bump into Jesus Amen, all these songs about the blood and the cross you gonna bump into Jesus But if you won't leave here different you got to touch him on purpose Touch her face Who touched me Who touched me? Can I tell you something about Jesus? He never asked a question because he didn't know the answer. Adam, Adam, where art thou? Adam, where art thou? Can you see the scene in heaven? There's a huddle. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. God the Father says, okay, I'm calling the play. We done made this dude, but we done made him in a garden too big. Now he done sinned and we can't find him. Jesus, you go that way. Holy Ghost, you go that way, and I'll go that way. And the God here went looking for an hour and came back to the huddle. All three of them said at the same time, we can't find him. You think they didn't know where Adam was? You think God was asking, come on, Adam, I made you too smart, man. No, the question wasn't for God, the question was for Adam. He wasn't asking Adam where he was to find out where Adam was. He was asking Adam where he was to let Adam know, you can sow up them leaves and put them all over your body and go hide in this garden, but you can't hide from God. Simon Peter. Lovest thou me? Like a guy asking a pretty girl out on a date. Do you think Jesus was saying, oh no, I need him to say yes because I need somebody to preach at Pentecost. Are you kidding me? I got two books at the end of the New Testament. Who's gonna write them if he says no? Listen, listen, he knew whether or not Peter loved him. The question wasn't for Jesus, it was for Peter. Look here, buddy, you better have more than just some butterflies in your heart for me. They're gonna crucify you upside down. You better love me. The question wasn't for Jesus, it was for Peter. Now watch this. Who touched me? He knew who touched him. Jesus didn't even have to ask the question. He could have looked at the whole crowd of people and pointed her out and said, may the woman who touched me levitate in the air. And you know what she would have done? Oh, she would have gone right out. Question wasn't for him, it was for her. Let me break it down to you in 2025 Ebonics. Who touched me? You know what he was saying? Girl, I'm too good to you to leave up out of here without saying thank you. You know what the Bible says? The woman fearing and trembling. came and told him all the truth. Boy, I'd have liked to have been there. I mean, there's crowds of people all gathered around, and he's flanked with these 12 disciples who don't have a clue what's going on, and all of a sudden he announces with this big crowd of people, who touched me, who touched me, who touched me? And emerging out of the mass of people, here comes a woman, I don't know what she said, but the scripture said she told him all the truth. Could I just conjecture just a little while at what perhaps she might have said? I think she came fearing, and you know what that means? with fear and respect. She was in awe of him, fearing and trembling just in the presence. She knew that whoever had just done something for her, that he was more than just a mere human being. So she came with fearing and trembling and reverence and awe. and an intimidation that was holy and that was healthy. And I can imagine she steps out of the madness with 12 disciples, clueless as they've always been, looking at her and a crowd of people looking for a miracle like everybody was. And here comes this woman, yes sir, Twelve years ago, I woke up in the morning and felt something in my body that I hadn't felt before. I went to my primary doctor and asked him to check me out. He gave me a prescription. I tried it and it didn't work. I went to another doctor. He tried something else on me. It didn't work. Tried an experimental medicine and it didn't work. I spent all my money. I went broke after I tried everything. As a matter of fact, I was getting worse. But somebody told somebody to told somebody to told somebody that that man that's been changing lives was in town, and I crawled a little while, stopped for a break, and crawled a little while, and stopped for a break. I got stepped on and laughed and ridiculed and looked down on, but they said that man was in town. A few moments ago, I got in shouting distance of him, but I still couldn't get there. So I pushed my way, and I pushed my way, and I pushed my way, and I pushed my way. I didn't get close enough to give him five. I didn't get close enough to dap you up. I didn't get close enough to get anointed with oil and slapped upside the head. I just touched the bottom of your clothes. And for the first time in 12 years, I felt good again. I crawled my way here, but I'm walking and jumping now. Jesus, thank you for changing my life. And about this time, here come Jairus' servants. Sir, don't trouble Jesus anymore. Your daughter's dead now. And Jesus looks at Jairus and says to him, be not afraid. Only believe. You know what I have to think? Faith was helped by that woman's testimony. Now you know who's sitting in this building tonight? A bunch of us with a bunch of issues. You know who's out there? A bunch of people with a bunch of issues. And they're doubting whether or not their issues can be solved. What would happen? If every Christian left Calvary Baptist Church tonight testifying of how Jesus took your issue and got rid of it, and somebody doubting could look at you and say, if he did it for you, he can do it for me too. I don't know what you got. I don't have time to be thinking about your issue. I got my own. But I know one thing. Jesus is in town. And in just a moment, we're going to have what we call an invitation. Somebody say, why do we call an invitation? Because we're inviting you. That's the difference between a college lecture and a church service. Amen. A lecture is for information. A message from the Lord is a call to action. So take it home. I don't know what your habit is at church. I don't know what you do at your church. I don't know what you normally do. I don't know what you got to do when you leave up out here. But I can tell you, nothing you do when you leave here is more important than bringing your issue to Jesus. It blows my mind how many Christians I meet that have been carrying the same issue for years. Like, well, God knows that's just how I am. Yeah, but he saves you to be how he is. Now, as good as he is at taking care of you issue, he can't do anything with it till you give it to him. In a moment, I'm calling you to action. If you're here tonight, you never accepted Christ as your savior. Why don't you bring your life to Jesus tonight? Lay it at His feet. He'll take your sin and give you His righteousness. We've all been there and done that. Amen. And got the Holy Spirit inside of us to prove it. I don't know what your issue is tonight, but like Jairus, like the demoniac, and especially like this woman, bring your issue to Jesus.