Recreate Church, Pastor Michael Shockley—Service, Sunday, January 29, 2023

Seeking Jesus. 

Today, Pastor Michael is turning over the reigns to Billy Huneycutt and the message today is about seeking Jesus.  

Today we are concentrating on “seeking” and “Jesus”.  

And we find Billy covering Jesus where a huge crowd is converging on Him, with Jairus, a synagogue leader, pleading earnestly with him, to put His hands on his daughter so that she will live and be healed.  

This is important because synagogue leaders didn’t trust Jesus and here is a leader of a synagogue and he lies prostrate to Jesus, crying out for help for his daughter.  He sought after Jesus wholeheartedly and his need was great.

And a woman was there, who was subject to bleeding for 12 years.  It was against the law for her to be in public.  Crazy rules in those days, huh?  Immediately her bleeding was stopped and she was freed from her suffering.  She felt in her body that she was free from her suffering. 

Mark 5:21-26 (CSB Study Bible Notes) The intertwined miracles involving Jairus’s daughter and the bleeding woman occur in all three Synoptic Gospels (cp. Mt 9:18-26; Lk 8:40-56). Both miracles involved uncleanness.

5:21 The other side refers to the western side of the Sea of Galilee. Mark has already recorded key ministry events by the sea (1:16-20; 2:13-15; 4:1-34). Mark’s description of Jesus’s return is virtually identical to that given in 4:1 before he crossed the lake. 5:22-23 Synagogue leaders such as Jairus were respected laymen responsible for synagogue oversight and activities. Fell at his feet and begged him earnestly shows Jairus’s desperate concern for his little daughter. Luke recorded that she was his only daughter (Lk 8:42). The ruler’s request lay your hands on her shows awareness of Jesus’s method in other healings (1:31,41; 6:5; 7:32; 8:23,25). Jairus’s word for get well also means “be saved.” The same word was used of the woman in v. 28 and in Jesus’s proclamation in v. 34. 5:24-26 The implication is that the woman suffering from bleeding, making her unclean according to OT law (Lv 15:19-33). That this had gone on for twelve years (cp. v. 42) and she had been treated by many doctors but not helped at all indicates an illness that was beyond the help of current medicine. Furthermore, she was financially depleted—she had spent everything she had.

Verses can be found today in Matthew 6: 33 and Mark 5: 21.

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