Finding Hope and Healing Through Faith in Jesus
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"Well, Happy New Year. It is great to see you all today. I am very excited about this new year and our upcoming time together over the next few months. Today, I want to talk about our need for hope beyond hope. I don't think it would be hard to make a case that we all need hope and how important hope is." [00:00:00]
"But what I mean by hope beyond hope is that there are certain times that we hit things in our life that we hope for, but we've been hoping for so long and have been disappointed for so long, we've kind of ran out of reason to have hope. I don't know if you've ever been excited about finally getting a victory in an area only to find yourself right back to square one." [00:00:31]
"The truth is, God can see through all of us. And the person on your right and left is just as hopeless as you. All right, so just relax. Just relax. All right, because we all need this. We all have been in this place. But I want to read a blog that someone put out there years ago. She identifies herself as scared and alone, and I know this is really small, but I'm sorry about that." [00:01:34]
"Now, you don't have to raise your hand. This is an internal question. Do you feel tired? Or maybe, or maybe... Maybe, as Henry David Thoreau has observed in his book, Walden, he says this, the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. In other words, we just resigned ourselves. So this is the way it is. This is who I am. I cannot change." [00:07:06]
"Now, I want to start by kind of looking at a passage where we see this in the scriptures, in the Bible. By the way, the source material for one of the most successful programs to helping people change that don't have the power to change. And so I want to go to an account, Dr. Luke, who traveled extensively among Christians and wrote down the things about Jesus, put together a historical account of Jesus." [00:07:42]
"When the woman realized that she could not stay hidden, she began to tremble and she fell to her knees in front of him. The whole crowd heard her explain why she had touched him and that she had been touched. And they said, immediately healed. Daughter, he said to her, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Now I want to make a few observations here. First, I want to look at this woman who is in need of hope." [00:09:08]
"Here we have a woman in need of hope. It tells us why right here. It says, there was a woman in the crowd who had said, for 12 years with constant bleeding, and she could find no cure. In this, another historical account that one of the disciples of Jesus, or not disciples, Mark, who followed Peter, who was a disciple of Jesus, what he writes is not only could the doctors find no cure, but the doctors had kind of taken advantage of the situation." [00:09:44]
"Now we learned something else about the woman later, which is easy for us in our 21st century minds to miss, but let me just kind of point this out. It says later, after she was kind of called out by Jesus, when the woman realized that she could not stay hidden, it says she began to tremble and fell to her knees in front of, Jesus. Why is she so scared? What is going on here?" [00:10:39]
"Now, again, to our 21st century minds, this is kind of easy to miss. But she was a Jew, part of the Israelite family. And so she belonged to the religion, if you would, of the Jews. And in that faith, one of the core tenets of the faith, is how precious blood is. How precious blood is. Now, what God's doing is he's going to look ahead to what he's going to do for us by shedding God himself in the flesh, his blood for us." [00:11:13]
"Now, she acted, I would not say it's in full confidence. And she actually acted, she was actually felt, you can just tell by the context that she was stealing something. Okay? Because here's this crowd, she sneaks up behind him. It's just, I just need to teach, touch the hem of his robe. And then she's hoping to just kind of disappear into the crowd. But because of this one, there's all of a sudden hope where there was not hope." [00:15:59]
"And so then we get the result. Hope is fully restored. Hope is fully restored. Now, I think this is important because this woman didn't just need physical healing. When she was healed, she was not healed. In the program, for those of you who may be in the program, we are not familiar. We don't have physical healing. with like NA or NA, I'll talk about the AA part of it." [00:19:30]
"And so Jesus makes a statement, which is powerful. Three parts, daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. That first part, daughter, just think about that, okay? She has been called a lot of things in the last 12 years. And I can guarantee you in the last six, there's not been many terms of endearment. I don't know if her parents, I mean, we don't know much about her." [00:20:49]
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"But what I mean by hope beyond hope is that there are certain times that we hit things in our life that we hope for, but we've been hoping for so long and have been disappointed for so long, we've kind of ran out of reason to have hope. I don't know if you've ever been excited about finally getting a victory in an area only to find yourself right back to square one." [00:00:31]
"The truth is, God can see through all of us. And the person on your right and left is just as hopeless as you. All right, so just relax. Just relax. All right, because we all need this. We all have been in this place. But I want to read a blog that someone put out there years ago. She identifies herself as scared and alone, and I know this is really small, but I'm sorry about that." [00:01:34]
"Now, you don't have to raise your hand. This is an internal question. Do you feel tired? Or maybe, or maybe... Maybe, as Henry David Thoreau has observed in his book, Walden, he says this, the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. In other words, we just resigned ourselves. So this is the way it is. This is who I am. I cannot change." [00:07:06]
"Now, I want to start by kind of looking at a passage where we see this in the scriptures, in the Bible. By the way, the source material for one of the most successful programs to helping people change that don't have the power to change. And so I want to go to an account, Dr. Luke, who traveled extensively among Christians and wrote down the things about Jesus, put together a historical account of Jesus." [00:07:42]
"When the woman realized that she could not stay hidden, she began to tremble and she fell to her knees in front of him. The whole crowd heard her explain why she had touched him and that she had been touched. And they said, immediately healed. Daughter, he said to her, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Now I want to make a few observations here. First, I want to look at this woman who is in need of hope." [00:09:08]
"Here we have a woman in need of hope. It tells us why right here. It says, there was a woman in the crowd who had said, for 12 years with constant bleeding, and she could find no cure. In this, another historical account that one of the disciples of Jesus, or not disciples, Mark, who followed Peter, who was a disciple of Jesus, what he writes is not only could the doctors find no cure, but the doctors had kind of taken advantage of the situation." [00:09:44]
"Now we learned something else about the woman later, which is easy for us in our 21st century minds to miss, but let me just kind of point this out. It says later, after she was kind of called out by Jesus, when the woman realized that she could not stay hidden, it says she began to tremble and fell to her knees in front of, Jesus. Why is she so scared? What is going on here?" [00:10:39]
"Now, again, to our 21st century minds, this is kind of easy to miss. But she was a Jew, part of the Israelite family. And so she belonged to the religion, if you would, of the Jews. And in that faith, one of the core tenets of the faith, is how precious blood is. How precious blood is. Now, what God's doing is he's going to look ahead to what he's going to do for us by shedding God himself in the flesh, his blood for us." [00:11:13]
"Now, she acted, I would not say it's in full confidence. And she actually acted, she was actually felt, you can just tell by the context that she was stealing something. Okay? Because here's this crowd, she sneaks up behind him. It's just, I just need to teach, touch the hem of his robe. And then she's hoping to just kind of disappear into the crowd. But because of this one, there's all of a sudden hope where there was not hope." [00:15:59]
"And so then we get the result. Hope is fully restored. Hope is fully restored. Now, I think this is important because this woman didn't just need physical healing. When she was healed, she was not healed. In the program, for those of you who may be in the program, we are not familiar. We don't have physical healing. with like NA or NA, I'll talk about the AA part of it." [00:19:30]
"And so Jesus makes a statement, which is powerful. Three parts, daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. That first part, daughter, just think about that, okay? She has been called a lot of things in the last 12 years. And I can guarantee you in the last six, there's not been many terms of endearment. I don't know if her parents, I mean, we don't know much about her." [00:20:49]
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