In the sermon 'Supreme Over Disease and Death' by Jason Dohm, the speaker explores Luke 8:40-56, focusing on Jesus's authority over disease and death. Jesus's supremacy is highlighted through his miraculous healings: calming a storm, casting out demons, healing a woman with a 12-year affliction, and resurrecting Jairus's daughter. The sermon contrasts the welcoming Galileans with the rejecting Gadarenes, underscoring different responses to Jesus's power. Through the healing of the woman with the persistent bleeding, Dohm emphasizes faith's role in receiving Jesus's power. Jairus's daughter's resurrection demonstrates Jesus's ability to overcome death and fulfill God's promises. The sermon concludes with a call for spiritual thirst and reliance on Jesus, who holds the keys to life and death.

The title of the message this morning is, A Supreme Over Disease and Death. Jesus Christ is supreme over disease and death. We're completing, at least for now, the Supreme Over Tour. And it will be revived from time to time as we work through Luke, but for now it's closing out today. Jesus proved to be supreme over nature.

He told the wind and the waves, get still, and immediately, just like Gary said, they got still. That was two weeks ago. Last week he proved himself supreme over the spiritual realm. There was a legion of demons indwelling a man, and when Jesus tells them to go, they don't resist. They just try to negotiate better terms.

That's how it works. Today Jesus proves himself to be supreme over disease. A woman who has had this terrible affliction for 12 years will be instantaneously healed. Then a little girl whose dad will be instantaneously raised to life. The point is, He is Lord!

He is Lord. Jesus is proving himself to be the God-man that God promised to send to save sinners. So what's all this about? Well, there are individual people with desperate needs. That is true, and I'm sure they were so thankful that he came and met them in their desperate need.

But this is about something greater even than that. And it's that he's proving himself to be the fulfillment of all God's promises to send the God-man. It's a little bit veiled in the Old Testament, but God did promise to send a God-man, as incomprehensible as that is. Just the Savior that we need, and Jesus is proving, I'm that Savior even before he goes to the cross, he's proving that he is the fulfillment of those promises. Oh God, we're coming to the text today and we want our hearts to be so open to hear from you.

Please speak through your Word today. Encourage us, build up your people today, refresh our hearts. Pray in Jesus' name, Amen. All right, we're subdividing. Who's surprised?

No one, yes. Luke 8, hopefully your Bibles are still open to Luke 8. I'll reread verses 40 through 42, and we'll stop there and talk about that. Luke 8 starting in verse 40, So it was when Jesus returned that the multitude welcomed Him, for they were all waiting for Him. And behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue, and he fell down at Jesus's feet and begged him to come to his house for he had an only daughter about 12 years of age and she was dying.

But as he went the multitudes thronged him. I know that's an abrupt place to stop but didn't know else how to divide it. In these verses Jesus is welcomed. Why is that a big deal? That's a big deal because the last thing we encountered in last week's text was the people of the country of the Gatorians begging Jesus to leave.

Jesus, please leave. It says that they asked him in ours, but in either cross-reference in Matthew or Mark, they begged him to leave. They began pleading with him to leave. They were more comfortable with the demon-possessed man, this man who had terrorized the region, they were more comfortable with him than with Jesus who had what proved to be the very disruptive power to set him free. Some people just don't want to be disrupted.

They would rather be left with all the terrorizing things of this world than to have to deal with the disruptive power of one who can set people free. He does turn your life upside down. That part is true. This welcome stands in very stark contrast to what he just encountered on the other side of the Sea of Galilee. The multitude is hoping for and waiting for his return.

So the people can't wait until Jesus is back and they welcome him. Here's what Matthew Henry says, Christ was driven away by the Gadarenes. They were weary of him and willing to be rid of him. But when he had crossed the water and returned to the Galileans, they gladly received him, wished and waited for his return, and welcomed him with all their hearts when he did return. If some will not accept the favors Christ offers them, others will.

If the Gadarenes will not be gathered, yet there are many among whom Christ shall be glorious." You have this sad episode of people who could have received so much for Jesus begging, pleading earnestly with them to leave, but the Galileans will have those favors and they actually received those favors from Jesus in our text. Now we encounter a specific person who has been desperately waiting for Jesus to return. Jairus, a ruler of the synagogues. Synagogues were these local places of worship. Every significant town would have a synagogue, a place where you would come to gather for teaching of the Old Testament.

Of course they weren't calling it the Old Testament, it was the only testament at that time. You would come for teaching of the scriptures and to worship God. And these synagogues were governed by a group of local elders. So they didn't have to be priests. Normally they weren't priests or Levites.

They were just local respected elders in the town who governed that local place of worship, and Jairus was one of these. Jairus is desperate. How do we know that he is desperate? Because he falls down at Jesus' feet. An authority in the local place of worship is falling down at Jesus' feet.

So this is clearly a desperate man. If he was a proud man, we don't know it from this text. His desperation has brought him to fall down at Jesus' feet, and he is begging Jesus. He's pleading with Jesus. He's humbling himself before Jesus.

Why is Jairus desperate? Well, he only has one child. It's a daughter and she's been in her home. She's been a beloved daughter for 12 years and she's dying. Mark 523, so Mark 5 and Matthew 9 have the parallel accounts.

So there are three histories of this. I'll draw just occasionally from the other two. Mark 5.23 says that Jairus begged Jesus earnestly saying, My little daughter lies at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her that she may be healed and she will live. So we actually hear what Jairus is expressing in his desperation to Jesus that his little daughter, this just drips with affection, my little daughter lies at the point of death, she's just about to die, but you come lay your hands on her that she may be healed and she'll live.

Many miracles, many healing miracles, have already been performed by Jesus in this area. We know that. So they're in the Galilean territory on the west side of the Sea of Galilee, and we already know, we've already seen it in Luke, but there are many more actually in Matthew, Mark, and John, too, where healing miracles have happened in this area by Jesus. And Jairus has at least heard of them, and maybe more, maybe he was there for some of them, we don't know, the text doesn't indicate that, but he's at least heard that Jesus can heal the sick. And he has faith to believe that Jesus could heal his daughter.

So he believes, Jesus, if you come, you can heal her. He does believe that Jesus can do that. So Jesus agrees to go, but the multitudes are moving with Jesus and Jairus. So they're on the way to Jairus' house, but the multitude is not about to be left behind. They are glad to see Jesus.

They welcome to Jesus, and they're going with Jesus and Jairus. So there is this press of people around them who are making their way towards Jairus' home, undoubtedly slowing them down, but this press of people are around Jesus and Jairus making their way towards Jairus' house. Next section, picking up in verse 43, reading through 48. Now a woman having a flow of blood for 12 years, who had spent all her livelihood on physicians and could not be healed by any, came from behind and touched the border of his garment. And immediately her flow of blood stopped.

And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, Master, the multitudes throng and press you and you say, who touched me? But Jesus said, somebody touched me for I perceived power going out from me. Now when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling and falling down before him, she declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason she had touched him and how she was healed immediately. And he said to her, daughter be of good cheer.

Your faith has made you well. Go in peace. These verses we have Jesus and a desperate woman on the way to Jairus' house in the throng of people is a particular woman and she has had a flow of blood for 12 years. It's really the only thing we know about her, is this condition that she's had for well over a decade, it's been 12 years, and she's had this persistent internal bleeding, not severe enough to kill her, but something that would make her feel awful and drain her energy every single day. So for 12 years, every single day, she's felt awful and she's been drained of energy.

You'd be so anemic, meaning iron poor, it makes you just feel awful and have no energy when you're bleeding persistently. I turn to Leviticus 15. This isn't even alluded to in the text, but this tells us something about the life that this woman has been living in Leviticus 15, because it talks about in Israel what it means when women are bleeding and the impact of that on the religious life and life within the community of the Israelites. So Luke doesn't even mention this. It's awful enough to know that She's had this persistent bleeding, enough to be alive, but feeling awful every day, having all her energy drained away every day.

But this, too, Leviticus 15, what we're going to read in Leviticus 15 is part of her life too. Leviticus 15, I'll be reading verses 25 through 27. This is a whole chapter about discharges. Men can have certain discharges. Women have certain discharges.

And even beyond, this section is talking about beyond the normal but that can sometimes happen and what the impact that is. Leviticus 15 verses 25 through 27. If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, other than at the time of her customary impurity, or if it runs beyond her usual time of impurity, all the days of her unclean discharge shall be as the days of her customary impurity. She shall be unclean. Every bed on which she lies, all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her impurity, and whatever she sits on shall be unclean as the uncleanness of her impurity.

Whoever touches those things shall be unclean. He shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening." So if you read the whole chapter, that means you're not going to the temple to worship because this is ceremonial uncleanness. Of course, if you're bleeding, there is a physical uncleanness to that, but this is about ceremonial uncleanness, meaning that it's a picture that God is pure and that those approach Him must be pure. So it's a physical picture of a spiritual reality that God is holy and the people who approach Him must be holy. It's just a physical picture of that.

But it meant for this woman, when we read, all the days of your impurity. This is 12 years and days unbroken, where she's not welcome to worship as the people are worshiping. They're going to the synagogue. She cannot go to the synagogue. They're going to the temple for the great feast three times a year and it's a time of rejoicing and it's a time of worship and she's not part of that.

Discharges limit your interactions with other people Because if they touch on the things that you sat on, they're ceremonially unclean too, and they have to go through certain things to restore their cleanness. So they limit your interactions with people. No one wants to touch where you sleep. No one wants to touch where you sleep. No one wants to touch where you sit.

And they keep you from being able to go into the temple or into the synagogue for 12 years. So this is the life that she's been living. So in addition to the physical implications of this, that she feels awful every day, And her energy is drained every day. She has these social things that are part of it, and prescribed by the law of God in Israel as a discouragement. What has she done about it?

She spent all her money, all her money, went to the doctors. One doctor after another doctor after another doctor and none of them has been able to heal her. It's 2026, and that happens today. Listen to Mark 5 verses 25 and 26. Mark 5, 25 and 26.

Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for 12 years and had suffered many things from the physicians. Just going to the doctors was suffering for her. So you can imagine the bleeding that's happening and what it's like to be examined, what it's like to be treated for this bleeding. She was suffering at the hands of these physicians. Here's the rest of Mark 5, Mark 526.

She had spent all that she had and was no better but rather grew worse. So all the money's...the bank account is emptying and she's only getting worse. It's not buying her anything. It might be possible that she would have been better off just to do nothing. We don't know for sure.

But All that she was doing, all that she was spending wasn't helping at all. Thank God for doctors, but sometimes they can't help you. None of them. How many times has she heard the words, he's the real expert? The leading voice in this particular field.

She went from the general practitioner to the specialist, but then there's someone who's identified as like, this is the guy in this for this particular problem. But it only emptied her bank account. You can literally bankrupt herself. This woman has literally bankrupted herself because she wanted to feel better. She wanted back into normal life.

She wanted back into the community as a normal member who could go and worship with people just when they went to worship. But this woman has heard of Jesus and the miracle healings and she's begun to hope that maybe she can be healed. And she has sought him out and now he's this close. He's this close. She's in this multitude that is pressing around Jesus, and she's this close.

And she's behind him so he won't see, And so she reaches out and touches the edge of his garment. Mark 5 verse 28 says, For she said, If only I may touch his clothes, I shall be made well." So Mark actually gives us this inner dialogue that's happening in her thoughts. So we get her inner dialogue. She's saying within herself, if only I can get close enough to touch his clothes, I'll be healed. So she believes he can do it.

Let me remind you of what we saw in Luke 6 verse 19. Mike Bennett preached this text. Luke 6 verse 19, and the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all. So back in Luke 6, a couple of chapters ago, people were reaching out to touch Jesus and power went out from him and healed all of them. So if you came to Jesus, if you touched them, you were healed.

You think she hadn't heard that? You think that doesn't inform this text? This sounds strange to us, but clearly it happened before. I just proved it to you from Luke chapter 6. And after, listen to Mark 6 verse 56.

So this account that we're studying today is in Mark chapter 5. After that in Mark, in Mark chapter 6 verse 56, we read this, wherever he entered into villages, cities, or the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch the hem of his garment and as many as touched him were healed. So that has happened before this woman comes and touches him of his garment from behind, and it happens after. In fact, as he goes through cities and villages and towns, they lay people out in the marketplaces in order to touch Him, and if anybody touches Him, they are healed. This is a mark of the Messiah.

When the Messiah comes, the lame will leap and the blind will receive sight, the deaf will hear, and those with diseases will be healed, the dead will be raised. This is how you'll know the Savior is here. God is giving so much proof. These texts are making me happy to be in Jesus. These texts are making me so confident that Jesus is the one that God promised, because He's such a perfect fulfillment of the things that God said.

This is how you'll know when he's here. So that is this woman's plan. I'll come up from behind him and if I can I'll touch him. And that's what she does. Here's what the text says, immediately her flow of blood stopped.

Mark 529, immediately the fountain of her blood dried up. It's been a fountain flowing for 12 years. Immediately it dried up. And she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction. So if you'd felt that way for 12 years, bleeding, bleeding, bleeding.

You're bleeding your strength away every day. You're feeling awful because it's bleeding your strength away every day. When it stops, you know it stopped. She felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction. She could tell right away.

I'm healed. She doesn't need to be told by a doctor. No doctor visit required. She's done with doctor visits for however long. She hasn't felt well for 12 years.

I'm shocked at how much of my sanctification goes out the window if I miss a meal or have a bad night's sleep. She hasn't felt well for 12 years and now she feels great for the first time in 12 years. You couldn't tell her that she's not healed. Jesus knows what has happened. At least that power has gone out from him.

Maybe he knew much more than that from the text we know. At least he knows power has gone out from him. The Incarnation is a mystery. I shall not explain it. Out relates to this text.

He says, who touched me? And that seems like such a strange question to Peter and to all the rest, but Peter is actually the one who voices the question, how can you say that? People are pressing around you, a hundred people touched you, Jesus? But Jesus knows what he's talking about, even if Peter doesn't. And so he bears down and says, somebody touched me for I perceived power going out from me." And then he stopped speaking.

And I'm betting there's a hush. Everybody's looking around. It seems like nothing else is going to happen until someone says, I touched you, and this woman knows I'm not hidden. The woman realizes that she's not actually hidden, so she comes trembling as she scared it out, And she falls down before Jesus and declares to Him in front of everyone why she touched Him, and that she's been healed right on the spot. The medical profession had more than a decade to try everything.

And she touches the outer hem of Jesus' garment and she's healed like that. What the doctors couldn't do in more than a decade for all the money that she had to spend, Jesus did in an instant. Jesus isn't angry at all. He wants to know who touched him and he gets to hear the story. He's not angry.

It isn't as if she stole the healing. Who touched me and stole that healing? That's not what this text is saying. No one can do that. Steal healing from Jesus?

She didn't do that. She's afraid. She comes trembling, but Jesus immediately reassures her of His kind intentions. Daughter, be of good cheer. Daughter, be happy your faith has made you well go in peace.

Let's let Matthew Henry have a say. It was his delight that virtue was gone out of him to do any good, and he did not grudge it to the meanest, meanest like the lowest. They were as welcome to it as to the light and heat of the sun. Nor had he the less virtue in him for the going out of the virtue from him, for he is an overflowing fountain." So he's saying two things here. She was welcome to it.

As welcome to be healed after 12 years of suffering as you are to sunshine. We don't think of sunshine as a gift from God, but it really is a gift from God and we're welcome to it. God doesn't begrudge us the sunshine at all. He didn't begrudge the healing to this woman. And Jesus's greatness, all sufficiency wasn't diminished at all from this.

It's not like, oh you took something I need. He has a bottomless well of it. An ocean without shores of it. Jesus calls her daughter, and I think we have to link this back to earlier in the chapter. It's in the same chapter, verse 21, my mother and my brothers are these who hear the Word of God and do it.

My people are my mother and my brothers and my daughter, I'd like to add. I think he adds it here. Same chapter. Whether it's appropriate or not to go around saying, have a blessed day to everyone indiscriminately, many of whom are currently under the curse of God, is an interesting question that I could probably take either side of depending on the day. Let's debate at the lunch table, and you assign me one side and I'll take it and you take the other.

And I don't care which side you assign me, I can argue either side of it. In any event, that's not what Jesus did. At times, brood of vipers was his message. So I think there is true significance in Jesus calling this woman daughter. He doesn't throw around words.

This is Jesus' daughter in a real and meaningful sense. I believe it's clear in our text that she had more than just faith that Jesus could heal her, that her faith that Jesus could heal her was an element of her saving faith. If you can come away from this text and say this is not a born-again woman, then you're doing something I can't do. In any event, a woman who had exhausted every other option believed that Jesus could do what none of them had done over a decade. And her faith was met with the power of God.

Her faith intersected with the power of God and the fountain of her blood dried up in an instant. The object of her faith, the Lord Jesus, exerted the power of God to heal her. When someone's faith results in something, I always say the same thing every time. This will be no exception. I doubt there will be in the future.

It's the object of faith. People have faith in all sorts of things that let them down, but if your object of faith is Jesus, He will never let you down. So there's nothing magical or mystical about faith. Faith in Jesus is well placed trust. People trust in all sorts of things that fail them, but Jesus never does.

That's the teaching of Scripture. Jesus sends her away in peace. Go in peace. Now, admittedly, this is a very customary parting. If you and I lived in Israel in this day and we parted, this is what we would say to each other.

But, again, Jesus doesn't throw around words, so I think it's safe to take this as meaningful. He's sending her away in peace. Verses 49 through 56. 49 through 56. Isn't that wonderful?

No, let's go back. She had been in this condition, how she felt and how she was viewed in her community. Nobody wanted to touch where she had been and she couldn't be part of what people were part of when they were learning the scriptures and worshiping God and that had gone on for 12 years. And this text ends with her completely healed and Jesus calling her daughter and sending her away in peace. Praise the Lord.

Okay, 49 through 56. While he was still speaking, someone came from the ruler of the synagogue's house saying to him, your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the teacher. But when Jesus heard it, he answered him saying, Do not be afraid, only believe and she will be made well. When he came into the house, He permitted no one to go in except Peter, James, and John, and the father and mother of the girl.

Now all wept and mourned for her, but he said, Do not weep. She is not dead but sleeping. And they ridiculed him, knowing that she was dead. But he put them all outside, took her by the hand, and called saying, little girl, arise. Then her spirit returned and she arose immediately.

And He commanded that she be given something to eat, and her parents were astonished, but he charged them to tell no one what had happened. This will be our little secret. I doubt it. This is Jesus and a dead girl. Jesus is still speaking.

He's still speaking to this woman who he just healed. When a messenger from Jairus' house came to tell Jairus that his daughter has died. There's nothing left to do but weep and mourn. He has one daughter. She was 12 years old.

Now she's dead. There's no longer any point in Jesus coming to heal her. So the messenger says, don't trouble the teacher. The messenger assumed that Jesus' power ended at the power to heal. It doesn't go any further.

But Jesus tells him, I had always assumed he was speaking to Jairus here, but that's not what the text says. Jesus tells the messenger, the messenger said, don't trouble the teacher, Jesus addresses the messenger, Don't be afraid, only believe. And this dead girl would be made well. So what would be required to raise the dead to life? Wow, what would be on that list?

What will it take to raise the dead to life? Only belief. The object of that belief, the Lord Jesus, has enough in and of himself to raise the dead. All you need to do is believe. Should we call the doctors?

No, they already failed with the woman. They arrived at Jairus' house. Jesus only allows Peter, James, and John, and Jairus, and his wife, the girl's mother, to go in with him. The house, however, is already full of people who are mourning. So picture this.

Jesus and Peter and James and John and Jairus and Jairus' wife come in. It's a full house And everyone is weeping because these are the people who knew the girl and she's dead. And they're mourning, they're grieving. The loss of a niece or a friend. Matthew 9.23, so this is from Matthew's account, Matthew 9 23, when Jesus came into the ruler's house he saw the flute players and the noisy crowd and the noisy crowd wailing.

Have you ever been where grief has reached this pitch? Where this inconsolable, uncontrollable grief where people aren't just weeping, they're wailing. It is awful to hear. I've heard this a couple of times in my life and it is awful to hear. They have flute players and people who are wailing.

This either means that it's been longer than we've been thinking that since she's been dead. We think it happened in the time we read the text, but we don't know how far they went, how long she's been dead, or she was so close to death that they're ready for this moment. That people around are around for her death. There is a death vigil for people when you know that it's hours or minutes. So it's one or the other.

It's either been a while since she's been dead so that people have been gathered before Jesus got there, or she was so close to dying that there's been a death vigil and people came because they knew this moment is coming. Jesus says, do not weep. She is not dead, only sleeping. To these people who are wailing with inconsolable, uncontrollable grief over the death of this girl. Now imagine being there and hearing someone saying that.

The response is inappropriate only because of who Jesus is. If this were any other human, it wouldn't be inappropriate at all. That they laughed him to scorn. That's how the King James renders it. They laughed him to scorn.

They ridiculed him because they know she's not asleep. If this is anyone in human history other than Jesus, she's not waking up. But the larger point is this. When Jesus has come to resurrect you, you're only sleeping. When Jesus comes on the scene to resurrect you, you're only sleeping.

He has the power to raise the dead to life. This is what we need to know about Jesus. He has the power to raise the dead to life. This is what we need to know about Jesus. He has the power to raise the dead to life.

Robert Stein says it brilliantly in his commentary. He's quoting somebody else, but whoever else that is is in the footnotes. I didn't even chase it down. Here's what is in Robert Stein's commentary. Jesus's statement is prognosis, not diagnosis.

What's diagnosis? Diagnosis is saying what the current state is. You have pneumonia. That's your current state. You have pneumonia.

What's prognosis? Doc, what's the outlook? What's the outlook? How long do I have? Do you think I'll recover?

Jesus saying she's asleep is prognosis. It's the doctor saying what the outlook is, not diagnosis, not saying what the current state is. That's exactly right. We know of three instances for certain that Jesus raised the dead. He raised the widow of Names, only son, in Luke chapter 7.

So we've already seen him raise the dead in our study of the Gospel of Luke. There's this, Jairus' daughter, only daughter. Interesting, it was an only son, it's an only daughter. Jesus has so much compassion. And then in John chapter 11, it's Lazarus.

Did he raise more people from the dead? I'm not betting against it, but we don't have a specific account in the gospel. I know a lot of people Jesus raised from the dead, so none of this surprises me. Jesus puts all the naysayers out. Naysayers have to get out.

He takes this 12-year-old dead girl by the hand. He says, little girl arise. And she arises immediately. Like Gary said, there's not an intermediate state here where she's starting to warm up. Now she rises immediately.

He healed immediately. This woman who had had the flow blood for 12 years is healed immediately. Now he raises from the dead immediately. Her spirit returned and she arose immediately. I'm not going to make more of her spirit returning for two reasons.

One, Luke doesn't. I'll give it the time Luke does. That would be none. He just says her spirit returns. There's lots of interesting questions about that.

There are other texts that go to that. This text isn't for teaching about that. The other reason is that this word spirit, nouma in the Greek, can mean breath. It could just be she started breathing again and she arose immediately. That is a possible rendering of this text.

Jesus commands that she be given food. Why? Because living people need food and she's a living person. There may be other reasons than that, but I know that reason for sure. Normal people need food, and she's coming back into normal life.

And she's going to need three square meals a day. Jesus says, feed her. Her parents are astonished. That's the understatement of the year. Imagine the emotions of this mother and father of an only daughter, a 12 year old daughter.

Do you know how long that is? Do we have any 12 year olds in the room? Raise your hand if you're 12 years old. Okay. Grace and Carter are 12 years old.

So this is what we're talking about here. The woman had a flow of blood for as long as those two have been alive. And this girl, it would be like the Lundquist losing grace, or the Santles losing Carter. Imagine what they think of Jesus. Imagine how they think of Jesus.

But Jesus charges them not to tell anyone what happened. It was just on the other side of the Sea of Galilee. He cast a legion of demons out of a man and he says, go home and tell them what good things God has done for you. Tells the parents of this woman, don't tell anyone. Why?

I don't really know. I do know that Jesus came and healed multitudes of the sick. That's actually not an understatement. He did not come to raise multitudes of the dead. I do know that Jesus' ministry could never be characterized as a raising from the dead ministry.

You could say he had a healing ministry for sure. Maybe that's why I don't really know. Interestingly, Matthew doesn't record Jesus forbidding the parents to tell people, but he does record this, Matthew 9 verse 26, and the report of this went out into all the land. The parents didn't need to say a word. There were plenty of people who knew that she was dead.

They laughed Jesus to scorn when they said she wasn't dead. So, when she's alive they know that she was raised from the dead. Now a quick note on Peter, James, and John. We find Peter, James, and John taken aside by Jesus in a special way on three occasions. This is one of them to see this girl with their own eyes be raised from the dead.

The Mount of Transfiguration will happen just in a couple of chapters where they'll be taken up and they will see Jesus meet with Moses and Elijah and he'll be transformed and his face will shine like the sun. And then Gethsemane, They will be called to go further with Him into the garden to pray. Here's what J.C. Ryle says, These three apostles that should be remembered were three times singled out from the rest of the twelve and allowed to be our Lord's companions on special occasions. They were with him on the Mount of Transfiguration and in the Garden of Gethsemane and on the occasion of this miracle.

None of the Apostles had such a clear revelation of our Lord's divinity, our Lord's humanity, and our Lord's power and compassion towards the sorrowful and sinful. I think that's a great way. Nobody had greater insight, had been given greater insight into Jesus's divinity. He's God to his humanity. He's also man to his compassion for people.

Then Peter, James, and John. Peter would go on to be the apostle to the Jews, as Paul was the apostle to the Gentiles, the leading apostles to a people. And John would be the only disciple not martyred, would live a long life, would give us the Gospel of John and 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, these three precious letters. And James was given the privilege of being the first martyr in the book of Acts. I believe that's true.

I don't think anyone was martyred in Acts before James. Let me end with a quick comparison and then we'll do some applications. The quick comparison. David Garland says this. This is a comparison between the woman who was healed and Jairus who came for the healing of his daughter and whose daughter was raised from the dead.

The woman has suffered as long as the child has been alive. Other than that, the main characters occupy opposite ends of the economic, social, and religious spectrum. Jairus is a prominent male leader of the community. The woman is nameless, and her wearying disorder isolates her from the community. He has a household and has means.

She has been made destitute from seeking treatment for her ailment. He has honor and can approach Jesus directly with his plea for help. She has no honor and must, she thinks, approach Jesus in a secretive manner from behind. The two characters share only one thing, their desperate desire for healing and their belief that Jesus has the power to provide it. Both humble themselves before Jesus.

Both must publicly recognize Jesus as a source of power. In both cases, their faith is demonstrated by their hoping when all seems hopeless, and by their public action." That is a really good comparison of these two people. What do we learn from it? Jesus is a Savior for all kinds of people. Poor people need Jesus, but not just poor people.

Rich people, connected people, leading people need Jesus just as badly and sometimes worse than poor people. He is the Savior for all kinds of people. He's what we need. Whoever we is, I can say that in any audience. Jesus is what we need.

I can say it in an audience of rich and connected people, and I can say it in an audience of destitute unknowns, and it's equally true. Applications, I give you three. Listen to Isaiah 55 verses 1 and 2. Isaiah 55 verses 1 and 2. Oh, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters.

And you who have no money, come buy and eat. Yes, come buy wine and milk without money, without price. Why do you spend money for what is not bread and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully and eat what is good and let your soul delight itself in abundance. She spent all her money.

She was only worse, not better. She comes to Jesus without a penny. She's healed. All she needed to be was desperate. All she needed to do was come.

All you need to be is thirsty. And he tells you, come and drink. All you need to be is desperate. And you can see the power of God at work to heal the desperately sick, and to raise the dead. Two.

The charlatans won't do anything for free. Jesus won't do anything for money. That should tell you everything you need to know. The Shalim won't do a single thing for free. Jesus won't do a single thing for money.

You just have to be thirsty. If you're not thirsty, he has nothing for you. But if you're thirsty, he tells you, come and drink all you like of living waters which are well up to eternal life. Number two, We are watching Jesus roll back the curse chapter by chapter, section by section. We just take debilitating sickness in stride as if it's normal.

It's not normal. God didn't create the world that way. We brought these terrible things into the world. Jesus came to roll all that back. God didn't make this world with disease and death.

We did that. But the work of the cross wipes all that away. Praise God. Three, finally, Jesus has the keys. What keys?

Thank you for asking. Revelation 1. Revelation 1. Listen to Jesus in His glory in Revelation 1 verses 17 and 18. John writes, And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead, but he laid his right hand on me saying, Do not be afraid, I am the first and the last.

I am he who lives and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and death." He has the keys to Hades and death. In our text, he just uses the key. Little girl, I say to you arise.

My friend has the key. My friend has the key to Hades and death. He's the friend of sinners. You're going to die. What then?

Well, If your friend has the keys, it's no big deal. Can you believe that? Do you believe that? That if your friend has the keys, when you die, it's good news. It's good news!

That was good news. Let's pray. Jesus, to see you in your glory with the keys. Thank you for ending the Bible that way. You proved it so much in the gospel, but we didn't hear it in those terms.

And to just see at the beginning of the last book of the Bible that you hold the keys to Hades and death. That you conquered our last enemy. Did that on behalf of your people. Such a sweet thought. I pray that our hearts would be so encouraged by your compassion for sinners and your care for desperate people that the thirsty can come to you and drink freely.

All we need is thirst. God, I pray that you would give thirst to anyone in this room who's never really felt thirsty. That they would begin to feel thirsty. A thirst that would only be satisfied by coming to you to receive what only you can give. I pray these things in Jesus name, Amen.