A message on healing

1. A life of light and a
life of darkness
Mark 5:21-43

2. I want to speak about DARKNESS and
LIGHT in the lives of two people and how
Jesus met their needs in both cases.
1. One was the LIGHT in her father’s life,
she was his beautiful princess, the joy of
his life, in her sickness Jairus on her
behalf came to Jesus for Him to heal her,
to restore her not only life, but to restore
Jairus his LIGHT again.

3. I want to speak about DARKNESS and
LIGHT in the lives of two people and how
Jesus met their needs in both cases.
2. The other spent her life in DARKNESS
and sorry, no one came on her behalf,
because sadly her sickness casted her
outside, with no family or friends, she
was unclean, untouchable, YET all she
needed to do was to TOUCH the helm of
Jesus.

4. Jesus TOUCHED both, and both
where healed, both entered
into life and LIGHT again. Both
made contact with Jesus. One
alone, and one in the midst of
a crowd.

5. 1. JAIRUS DAUGHTER IS HEALED; SHE WAS A LIGHT
FOR 12 YEARS, IN HER FATHER’S LIFE.
21 Now when Jesus had crossed over again by boat
to the other side, a great multitude gathered to
Him; and He was by the sea.
Back on the western shore of blue Galilee, the Lord
Jesus was soon in the center of “a great multitude”
there are many in need of Jesus’ touch in their
lives. An upset father came running up to Him. It
was Jairus, one of the rulers of the synagogue. His
little daughter was dying.

6. 22 And behold, one of the rulers of the
synagogue came, Jairus by name. And when
he saw Him, he fell at His feet.
Jairus, “one of the rulers of the synagogue,”
was a lay leader charged with supervising
services at the synagogue. Aware of Jesus’
miraculous powers, Jairus approached Jesus
with perhaps the greatest need he had ever
faced. He knew that Jesus could meet his
need.

7. 23 and begged Him 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.”
24 So Jesus went with him, and a great multitude followed
Him and thronged Him.
By this time, messengers had arrived with the news that
Jairus’ daughter had died. There was no need to bring the
Teacher. The Lord graciously reassured Jairus, and then
took Peter, James, and John to the house.
They were met by the unrestrained weeping characteristic
of eastern homes in times of sorrow, some of it done by
hired mourners. Several professional mourners were
required even at the funeral of the poorest person; more
mourners would assemble at the death of a member of a
prominent family like this one.

8. 40 And they ridiculed Him. But when He had put them all
outside, He took the father and the mother of the child,
and those who were with Him, and entered where the
child was lying.
When Jesus assured them that the child was not dead but
sleeping, their tears turned to scorn. Unconcerned He took
the immediate family to the motionless child, and taking
her by the hand, said in Aramaic, “Little girl, I say to you,
arise.” It was her native tongue and I think it could be
translated “Little lamb, wake up!” That’s what He said to
her and that is a sweet, lovely thing.
Immediately the twelve-year-old girl got up and walked.

9. 2. A WOMAN IS HEALED; SHE HAD BEEN IN DARKNESS FOR
12 YEARS, OUTSIDE OF ANY HOME.
25 Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve
years,
She had been in this condition for twelve years. Did you
notice that the young girl was twelve years old? Twelve
years of suffering coming to an end and twelve years light
entering into darkness, the darkness of death. The father
who had come, when he saw our Lord talking to this
woman and dealing with her, I am sure thought, Oh, why
does not He hurry. Does not He know that my little girl is so
sick at home that she will die unless He moves?

10. This woman’s sickness was reckoned as if
she had a menstrual period all month
long; it made her continually unclean
under the law (Leviticus 15:25–28)—a
social and religious problem on top of
the physical one. The ailment probably
started after puberty; given an average
ancient life expectancy of about forty
years and the “twelve years” that she
had been ill, she may have spent half or
all her adult life with this trouble.

11. If this woman touched anyone or anyone’s clothes,
she rendered that person ceremonially unclean for
the rest of the day (cf. Leviticus 15:26–27). Some
uncleanness was unavoidable, but it was
inconvenient to fulfill the required bath, and men
avoided uncleanness when they could.
Because she rendered unclean anyone she touched,
she should not have even been in this heavy crowd.
Thus she could not touch or be touched, was
probably now divorced or had never married, and
was unimportant to Jewish society.

12. 26 and had suffered many things from many
physicians. She had spent all that she had
and was no better, but rather grew worse.
This woman had suffered with chronic
bleeding for twelve years. The many
physicians she went to had apparently used
some drastic forms of treatment, drained her
finances, and left her worse rather than
better. When hope of recovery was all but
gone, someone told her about Jesus.

13. She lost no time in finding Him. Easing
her way through the crowd, she touched
the border of His garment. Immediately
the bleeding stopped and she felt
completely well.
In telling this incident, it is interesting
that Luke, who was a physician, said she
could not be healed. Mark says that she
had suffered many things of the
physicians, and she had spent all that she
had.

14. 29 Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried
up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of
the affliction.
30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that
power had gone out of Him, turned around in the
crowd and said, “Who touched My clothes?”
The word “immediately” is used twice in this
context. Both the woman and Jesus at the same
time knew what had happened. The woman had
no idea that Jesus had consciously healed her.
While she sought to disappear into the crowd,
Jesus turned and asked, “Who touched My
clothes?”

15. He wanted to correct any mistaken
notion she may have had about her
healing. It was not any magical quality
of His clothing, but His divine will that
had made her well. No one else was
aware that the healing had happened.
31 But His disciples said to Him, “You see
the multitude thronging You, and You
say, Who touched Me?'” “Who touched
My clothes?”

16. His disciples thought the question was
silly. Many people were jostling Him
continually. Why ask “Who touched
Me?” But there is a difference between
the touch of physical nearness, and the
touch of desperate faith. It is possible to
be ever so near Him without trusting
Him, but impossible to touch Him by
faith without His knowing it and without
being healed.

17. CONCLUSION:
No situation is so desperate that Jesus
cannot work. Disease, delays, and even
death are under His control. Jesus goes
with you to the place of disappointment
and sorrow and meets your needs. No
matter how depressing your situation
may appear, “Do not be afraid; only
believe” verse 36.