Kingdom Come: From Slump to the Savior

It's over if Jesus was only a teacher. But what Mark is doing is he's pointing out to us that Jesus is not just a teacher. And friends, I know maybe some of you here today, you're not sure about this Jesus thing and you've heard he's a good teacher. But let me tell you, he can't just be a a good teacher and perform these miracles and go to the cross. He's either God's son who is the way, the truth and the and the life and the only way to the father is through him or he's nothing. He's not anything in between. He's either the son of God or he was just a man. And Mark is telling us he's the son of God. [00:50:11] (39 seconds)  #JesusIsMoreThanATeacher

So everybody's gonna avoid her like the plague and stay away from her. She doesn't have a church family, She doesn't have people she can rely on. She doesn't have friends who are gonna be with her. In fact, if she showed up at our church and we lived in that day and time, we'd say, stop. Don't come anywhere closer. You gotta go away because we don't wanna be unclean too. So not only was she suffering physically, but she was isolated, she was lonely, she was an outcast in society. Talk about a twelve year slump. That is pretty miserable. [00:40:29] (31 seconds)  #NoMoreOutcasts

Might we take a lesson from this woman and might we believe that Jesus is who he says he was, believe that he has the power to heal us. Whatever that healing is, it could be emotionally, it could be physically, I mean, it could be relationally. I mean, list goes on for forever. Jesus has that kind of power and here's this woman, she had faith even though she'd been isolated and disconnected for twelve years. [00:41:56] (27 seconds)  #FaithForHealing

It says, and it is impossible to please God without faith. Impossible. So can good works please him? Not unless there's faith involved. Can giving a lot of money to church, can can that please him? Not if there's no faith. Can doing good deeds like serving at the huddle resource center, can can that save us? No. There's gotta be faith. [00:53:18] (26 seconds)  #FaithOverWorks

Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and look at this, and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him. Ain't that a really incredible verse? I mean, that really just puts it all on the line for us that that this whole deal is about believing in Jesus. It is about having the faith to say yes to him [00:53:44] (27 seconds)  #SeekAndBelieve

We wanna control everything in our life because we're control freaks and we we like to know what's gonna happen but we need to take it to the one who's in control. And church family, listen here. We need to we need to have our faith not in the healing of our minds or our bodies or whatever, but our faith needs to be in the one who heals. Because it's not about the healing, it's about the one who heals. That's where our faith is. [00:55:46] (28 seconds)  #FaithInTheHealer

And how many times do we think, man, I gotta get my life together before I can go to church or I gotta get my life together before I start praying again or some of you are probably watching online thinking, well, I've gotta get it get it together before I go to church or before I try to do this Jesus thing. No. That's the exact opposite of what happens. Jesus is actually the one who cleans us up. We have no ability in and of ourselves to make ourselves clean. He is the one who did does it all for us. That's why he came. That's why he died on the cross. That's why his blood was shed so that we could receive that forgiveness of our sins so that we could be made whole so that we could be made clean. [00:44:05] (39 seconds)  #ComeAsYouAre

And if we continue to think that way, it's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get cynical. It's easy to get bitter. We have to understand that Jesus cares. Listen, he stopped this whole parade for this one woman. He spent time with her. He focused on her. He made eye contact with her. Jesus cares about you. [00:47:35] (24 seconds)  #JesusSeesYou