Sunday School Lesson

1. Mark 5:21-43
Restores
March 24, 2019
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA
What’s the number one thing?
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1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV
31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
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2. March Memory Verse
Isaiah 41:10 NIV
10 So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Mark 5:21-24, 35-43 NASB
21 When Jesus had crossed over again in the boat to the other side, a large
crowd gathered around Him; and so He stayed by the seashore. 22 One of the
synagogue officials named Jairus came up, and on seeing Him, fell at His feet
23 and implored Him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death;
please come and lay Your hands on her, so that she will get well and live.”
24 And He went off with him; and a large crowd was following Him and pressing
(crushing) in on Him.
25 A woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, 26 and had endured
much at the hands of many physicians, and had spent all that she had and was
not helped at all, but rather had grown worse— 27 after hearing about Jesus, she
came up in the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak. 28 For she thought, “If I
just touch His garments, I will get well.” 29 Immediately the flow of her blood was
dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.
30 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in Himself that the power proceeding from Him
had gone forth, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My
garments?” 31 And His disciples said to Him, “You see the crowd pressing in on
You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’” 32 And He looked around to see the
woman who had done this. 33 But the woman fearing and trembling, aware of
what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the
whole truth. 34 And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in
peace and be healed of your affliction.”

3. 35 While He was still speaking, they came from the house of the synagogue
official, saying, “Your daughter has died; why trouble the Teacher anymore?”
36 But Jesus, overhearing what was being spoken, said to the synagogue official,
“Do not be afraid any longer, only believe.” 37 And He allowed no one to
accompany Him, except Peter and James and John the brother of James.
38 They came to the house of the synagogue official; and He saw a commotion,
and people loudly weeping and wailing. 39 And entering in, He said to them,
“Why make a commotion and weep? The child has not died, but is asleep.”
40 They began laughing at Him. But putting them all out, He took along the child’s
father and mother and His own companions, and entered the room where the
child was. 41 Taking the child by the hand, He said to her, “Talitha (taleeTHAH) kum
(KOOmee)!” (which translated means - “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”).
42 Immediately the girl got up and began to walk, for she was twelve years old.
And immediately they were completely astounded.
43 And He gave them strict orders that no one should know about this, and He
said that something should be given her to eat.
Mark 5:21-24, 35-43 NASB

4. Warren Wiersbe (Born May 16, 1929)
Bible Exposition Commentary (BE Series) N T – Volume 1.
Skip Heitzig
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Here, in the Gospel of Mark, we are dealing with the miraculous power of the
Lord Jesus Christ when He was on Earth during His first coming.
God established natural law and the universe goes on every single day
accordingly; in rhythm, in time, expectedly.
You know in advance when the sun's going to rise and set, etcetera.
But a miracle is the intervention into natural law by the supernatural - a divine
disruption.

5. It's where natural law, what normally happens, is interrupted.
God establish natural law and whenever He decides to supersede natural law,
He does so.
But God steps into the scene, from time to time, and moves things around; that's
the miraculous.
We're dealing with a couple of those times here in the Mark 5.
God's Servant, Jesus Christ, is the Master of every situation and the Conqueror of
every enemy.
If we trust Him and follow His orders, we need never be afraid.
Victory is the major theme that binds this section together.
Mark 4:35—6:43 recorded four miracles (we will see two of those this morning)
that Jesus performed, and each miracle announces even to us today the defeat
of an enemy (dangers, demons, diseases and death).
In the large crowd gathered around Jesus that day stood two people who were
especially anxious to see Him—Jairus, a man with a dying daughter; and an
anonymous woman suffering from an incurable disease.

6. The contrast between these two needy people is striking and reveals the
wideness of Christ's love and mercy.
Jairus was an important synagogue officer, and the woman was an anonymous
"nobody"; yet Jesus welcomed and helped both of them.
Jairus was about to lose a daughter who had given him twelve years of
happiness, and the woman was suffering from an affliction that had brought her
twelve years of sorrow.
Being a synagogue officer, Jairus was no doubt wealthy; but his wealth could
not save his dying daughter.
The woman was already bankrupt!
She had given the doctors all of her money, and yet none of them could cure
her, in fact, she was worse.
Both Jairus and the poor woman found the answers to their needs literally at the
feet of Jesus.
The ground is level at the feet of Jesus, for all who have burdens meet there.
In His victory over death, consider the three statements that Jesus made
concerning faith, hope and love.
Jesus spoke:
The word of faith (v. 36).
“Do not be afraid any longer, only believe.”
The word of hope (v. 39).
“The child has not died, but is asleep.”
The word of love and power (v.41).
“Little girl, I say to you, get up!”

7. As a ruler of the synagogue, Jairus was the highest standing spiritual authority in
the city of Capernaum.
He was not a priest (he may have been a Pharisee) but superintended all of the
affairs of the local house of worship.
As ruler of the synagogue, he was one of the most important and most
respected men in the community.
There can be no doubt that he must have regarded Jesus as an outsider, as a
dangerous heretic, as one to Whom the synagogue doors were rightly closed,
and one Whom anyone who valued his orthodoxy would do well to avoid.
Pharisees were the notorious enemies of Jesus Christ, so it was difficult for a man
of this stature, of this standing, of this position in the religious Jewish community
to come to Jesus to beg for his daughter to be healed.
His daughter, the light of his life, was on her deathbed, and when you're
desperate, you are more prone to overcome these kinds of prejudices.

8. Jairus believed that Jesus was powerful enough to heal his daughter so in
desperation, he decided to approach Jesus and fall at His feet.
Here we find that Jesus was approachable.
People could walk up to Jesus any time; it was easy to approach Him.
You didn't have to take a number or call Peter first.
He was approachable and still is!
But there's something else about Jesus that probably bothered this ruler—He's
interruptible.
He could be going in one direction but allow Himself to be interrupted by
another issue.
While Jesus was on the way to Jairus' house, He was touched by a woman who
had a flow of blood (the Bible tells us a twelve-year long flow of blood).

9. Jairus: "Jesus, come!"
Then, as He’s going, Jesus gets interrupted, and he makes a big deal of it, "Who
touched Me?"
The disciples thought it was a very peculiar question since the whole crowd was
pressing in on Him.
But only one touched Him in faith for healing!
We have a lot of folk around who use the name of Jesus freely.
They are running around saying that it is Jesus this, and Jesus that, and people
think they know Him.
Surely they do know Him, but they have touched Him as the crowd touched Him
-- not like this woman touched Him, for she touched Him in faith for healing and
Jesus could tell the difference between the touch of fame and the touch of faith.
Jesus felt power going out of Him.
All of the ministry that Jesus provided to people cost Him tremendously.
And ministry does cost people.
Jesus, it says, from time to time got totally physically
exhausted.
One time as the disciples took him along in a boat, He fell
asleep in the stern of the boat during a storm. (Mark 4:36-
38)

10. Billy Graham felt like a portion of his life was taken away from him physically
during those early crusade events that he never ever recovered from.
Preaching for one hour can be exhausting, equivalent to a six-hour workday for
a professional or an eight-hour workday for a physical laborer.
It takes that much energy out of a minister, for the mental wrangling & the
capacity it requires.
Jairus is probably standing on one leg, and then standing on the other leg.
He didn't have a watch—but he is looking at his sundial, thinking, "There's still
hope; there's still time."
Here was this man with hope and probably, wouldn't you say, with a little
impatience while he waited on Jesus to deal with this “interruption”.
The delay caused by the anonymous woman may have irritated Jairus, for by
the time Jesus was through helping her, news came that Jairus' daughter had
died.
Mark 5:35 NKJV
While He was still speaking, some came from the ruler of the synagogue's house
who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?”

11. Can you imagine what that sounded like, the finality of that statement?
The blood probably drained out of his face when he heard those dreaded
words, "She's dead. It’s too late."
They knew it was too late; he knew it was too late.
Let’s rephrase that—he thought it was too late - not knowing Who he's dealing
with.
Death is an enemy.
The Bible says in Hebrews that the entire human race is under the bondage of
the fear of death.
Hebrews 2:14-15 NIV
14 Since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity so
that by His death He might break the power of him who holds the power of
death—that is, the devil— 15 and free those who all their lives were held in
slavery by their fear of death.
There's this universal fear of death that people have, people we know!
The Bible calls it the last great enemy of mankind.

12. 1 Corinthians 15:26 NASB
26 The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
So, they said, “It's over. She's dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?"
Jairus' friends were sure that Jesus could do nothing more (John 11:37), but He is
the only One Who can conquer death (Hebrews 2:14-15).
Jesus encouraged Jairus with, “Do not be afraid any longer, only believe.” (Mark
5:36).
When everything seems to be falling apart around us, and even our friends
discourage us, all we can do is cling by faith to the promises of God.
Have you ever had people try to discourage you from your faith in the Lord?
“Don't even bother Him with that.”
People will ridicule your faith: "What do you mean you pray for that? What are
you, a nut?"
Or Satan will try to discourage you and dissuade you from trusting; am I right?

13. So, the faith that was welling up within Jairus is now decimated by the
desperation of this incident.
“Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?”
As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, He said to the ruler of the
synagogue, “Do not be afraid any longer, only believe.”
Sometimes God has delayed, and we have wondered why.
That is when we need that special "word of faith" from the Lord (Don’t be afraid
and keep on believing), and we receive it as we spend time in His Word.
Now, folks, this is a command; it's in the imperative in the Greek.
It's a commandment, and it’s also in the present tense, continued action.
So, here's the best translation, “Jesus overheard that, and He sensed that the
man's bottom dropped out of his life, so Jesus said to him, 'Stop fearing; keep on
believing. Stop fearing; keep on believing.’ You came with faith, you trusted that
I could do this, stop your fearing, keep on—maintain that level of faith that you
had. Keep believing. But believe, in an ongoing, continual, persistent sense.”
That's the commandment of Jesus.
Faith and fear cannot live together; they're mutually exclusive.
The cure for your fears is faith in God.
One will overtake the other; they can't live together.
When you're fearful, it's because you are not exercising your faith.
When you have faith in God, it banishes fear.

14. So, it's a beautiful, succinct command, and it's one for us to take heed to today.
Stop fearing; keep on believing. Keep the faith, man.
Mark 5:37 NKJV
37 And He permitted no one to
follow Him except Peter, James,
and John the brother of James.
In this verse we have the first
incident when Jesus had—can
we call it an Executive Team?
He had twelve disciples, intimate followers, but on three different occasions (this
is the first), Jesus would separate from the other disciples and take just these
three: Peter, James, and John.
Jesus called together His inner circle:
1) here in Mark 5,
2) on the Mount of Transfiguration,
3) and in the garden of Gethsemane.
Each of these experiences taught them a lesson about death:
1) Christ is victorious over death (here),
2) glorified in death (Transfiguration),
3) and submitted to death (garden of Gethsemane).
Now, it's obvious that when somebody's grieving and you're at their small home,
to bring twelve buddies with you into somebody's house that you don't know, at
a time of grief, would be too much; it would be overwhelming.

15. So, Jesus sequesters them, and they go into the house: Peter, James, and John –
this little Executive Team.
Mark 5:38 NASB
38 They came to the house of the synagogue official; and He saw a commotion,
and people loudly weeping and wailing.
• Let’s paint a picture of an ancient funeral, because you're about to see
Jesus crash it!
Jesus was the great funeral crasher!
He's about to say, "This funeral is over!"
You're going to hear the response from the crowd, but we want to get this
background in order to appreciate what they say to Him.
Middle Eastern funerals were and even are today loud events; lots of wailing, lots
of screaming, lots of howling.
Because they buried their dead very quickly, there was only a short opportunity
to show how much you really loved that person.
It was believed that if you vocalized it, and shared it very emotionally, it's
because that person was so loved.

16. It's the opposite of our funerals.
You go to funerals here in the west, it's just the way we do funerals, it's a quiet
affair, its hush.
Funeral homes have signs: "Quiet Please."
You couldn't do that back then; they would have ripped it down.
We speak in hush tones, and the organ plays up front, and it's just a kind of a
quiet, more of a somber affair, little weeps, you know.
Not then, it was wailing and weeping and not only that, typically you hired
profession mourners.
People who, shall we say, primed the pump.
They just knew, it was time, "Okay, time for a funeral to start. Ready?
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
They just started wailing.
Even though it was an act, and they were professionals, and they were paid for
it, that primed the emotional pump when they heard crying and other people
would cry, too.
If you're around somebody who cries, you often weep with those who weep.
It's a natural, human response.
At ancient funerals there were also flute players.
According to Jewish tradition, even the poorest person of the land was entitled
to at least two flute players at his or her funeral.

17. Now, the flute players didn't play melodious sounds like "How Great Thou Art" or
"Amazing Grace"; they were just sort of disassociated sounds.
And so, you'd walk into a place and you can just imagine, people would be
moving up and down and "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh," and then bad music happening.
It's, like, what happened?
Not only that, it was customary to rend or rip one's garments at a funeral.
Today when you go to a funeral, you usually wear your best clothes; you pick
out a good suit, or you pick out a nice dress, you know.
Not back then, you're going to a funeral, pick out something you don't mind
getting torn up.
It's not like you would put on your nice stuff and go, "Honey, how does this look?
How does this robe look and this tunic? Is that cool? How does it look from the
side? Is that look pretty good?"
You didn't care; it was going to be ripped.
The Talmud had thirty-nine different instructions on how to rip your garment at a
funeral?
There were laws like, you would rip your garment if you were related to the
person - always over the heart.
You would bare the skin and show the skin, and you rip your garment about
down to the heart, but never as far as the navel; you didn't want to be obscene.
If you were not related, you would rip your garment somewhere smaller but still
near the heart.

18. A woman would rip her garment in private and often the garment was then worn
backwards to demonstrate the tear in the back, for obvious reasons.
A friend in mourning did not work for three days and the prohibition of work
extended even to his servants.
He wasn’t to shave, or "do anything for his comfort."
He wasn’t to not read the Law or the Prophets, for to read these books is joy. He
was allowed to read Job, Jeremiah and Lamentations.
So, Jesus came to this scene and that was what was going on here.
This child was fully dead.
The flutes were playing, there was mourning, the garments were ripped, the hair
was disheveled, and Jesus walked in.
And He was always calm.
He was like the eye of a hurricane.
He was never frazzled, He was just—"Stop fearing; keep believing. Let's go to
your house. Let's check this out."

19. Mark 5:38-40 NKJV
38 He came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, saw a tumult and those
who wept and wailed loudly. 39 When He came in, He said to them, "Why make
this commotion and weep? The child is not dead, but sleeping." 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 in where the
child was lying.
What a thing to say.
"Why are you acting like this?”
That's an odd thing to ask, because every funeral had that happen.
"Why are you making a big commotion?"
"Um, because she's dead?"
Jesus says, “The child is not dead, but sleeping."
They thought that was the stupidest thing they had ever heard, "That's ridiculous."
Why did Jesus use that terminology - “sleeping”?
Because He's redefining what death is in the life of a believer.

20. He's not saying that when you die your soul sleeps.
There's a whole doctrine called "soul sleep," that you go into unconsciousness,
and you just sort of drift aimlessly without any connection to consciousness.
You unplug for thousands of years until whenever Jesus comes back.
That's not true by the way; it’s just not true (it is the body that sleeps).
"To live is Christ, to die is gain. I would rather depart and be with Christ," Paul
said.
The reason Jesus said she was only sleeping is He was using a metaphor. "I'm
about to wake her up … there's going to be a resurrection!"
Now, the apostles pick up on this metaphor throughout the Scriptures.
Paul talks about those who sleep in Jesus, in First Thessalonians, chapter 4.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 NASB
13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are
asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.

21. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with
Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. 15 For this we say to you by the word
of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will
not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend
from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet
of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain
will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air,
and so we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with
these words.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 NASB
On another occasion Jesus said, "Our friend Lazarus is sleeping. I'm going to go
wake him up."
And then the disciples didn't get that, and go, "Oh, well, if he's sleeping, just let
him alone. He'll wake up on his own."
So, Jesus said, "Lazarus is dead."
In the book of Acts, Stephen as he was being stoned to death, when he died,
Luke says, "And he fell asleep."
All of that imagery says that you have no more to be afraid of about death than
a person taking a nap.
A person taking a nap, takes the nap, is refreshed, gets up.
Every believer in Christ that dies will wake up.
Actually, everybody will wake up.
Daniel 12:2 NIV
2 Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting
life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.

22. So, Jesus speaking words of spiritual reality says, "That child isn't dead, the child
is just sleeping. I'm about to wake her up."
"And they ridiculed Him." The most ridiculous thing they had ever heard.
Mark 5:40b
40b But when He put them all outside,
• Actually, this is stronger in the Greek.
• "He backed them out."
• “Get out of here! Out of here! Out of here! Out of here! Out!”
• He pushed them out. "Get these faithless mockers out of here."
They ridiculed Him, He put them all outside, and “He took the father and the
mother of the child, and those who were with Him, and entered where the child
was lying."
Now in parallel accounts of this miracle, it says, "They laughed Him to scorn."
They laughed in His face.
If they can go from mourning that quickly to laughing, it shows you how
insincere their mourning was.
Mark 5:41a NKJV
41a He took the child by the hand, and said to her, “Talitha, cumin,” (Aramaic)

23. How did this little bit of Aramaic get itself embedded in the Greek of the
gospels?
The reason is because Mark got his information from Peter.
Peter had been there; he was one of the chosen three, the inner circle, who had
seen this happen and he could never forget Jesus' voice.
In his mind and memory, he could hear those words all his life.
The love, the gentleness, the caress of it lingered with him forever, so much so
that he was unable to think of it in Greek at all, because his memory could hear
it only in the voice of Jesus and in the very words that Jesus spoke.
The reason it's Aramaic is because that was the household language of the day.
That’s the language the little girl spoke.
When the Jews came back from Babylon, they kept speaking the language of
Babylon (Chaldean, Aramaic), and so that was still prevalent, especially among
rural populations.
So, Jesus spoke Aramaic with them.
Mark 5:41 NKJV
41 Then He took the child by the hand, and said to her, “Talitha, cumi,” which is
translated, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.”
• It's better translated "little lamb." "Little lamb, arise!"
• You know how we give our children cute little names?
And that's so fitting for a little girl. "Oh, you sweet, little lamb." They like that. Now,
when they're about older than three, that won't work. And when they get much
older you think of different animal names to call them, perhaps.

24. But this is very fitting for this little child but it's not what was said which brought
Jairus' daughter back to life.
It was Who said it!
We find here that our Lord raised a little girl, He also raised a man in the vigor of
young manhood (the widow's son at Nain), and then probably a mature man or
even a senior citizen, Lazarus.
Jesus raised them all the same way, He spoke to them!
This little girl represents the little folk, those little ones before they reach the age
of accountability.
And He said to her in this lovely way, "Little lamb, wake up!"
Vernon McGee said:
“I know right now I'm speaking to a lot of folk who have lost little ones. When we
lost our first little one, what a sad thing it was for us. It's wonderful for me to know
that although she has been in His presence for many years, one of these days
He's going to speak those words again, ‘Little lamb, wake up!’
He'll be talking to my little lamb and to your little lamb.
Then that little form that we laid away will be raised from the grave, the spirit
joined to the glorified body, and we will again have our little ones someday.
What a wonderful, beautiful thing this is.
It is a demonstration of His power.”

25. "Immediately the girl arose and walked."
Now just try to imagine Mom and Dad, and then eventually those people who
were waiting outside.
Mark 5:42 NKJV
42 Immediately the girl arose and walked, for she was twelve years of age. And
they were overcome with great amazement.
I'm glad it's stated that way; there's no other way to state it—overcome,
speechless, there are no words, there's no fitting emotion.
Mark 5:43 NKJV
43 But He commanded them strictly that no one should know it, and said that
something should be given her to eat.
The girl not only came back to life, but was also healed of her sickness, for she
was able to get out of bed and walk around and eat.
Divine miracles never replace common-sense care.
A miracle was done, but then Jesus said, "Make sure she gets some chicken
soup." I like that!

26. The worst human disaster can be met with courage and gallantry when we meet
it with God.
They laughed Him to scorn because they thought His hope was groundless and
His calm mistaken.
But the great fact of the Christian life is that what looks completely impossible
with men is possible with God.
What on merely human grounds is far too good to be true, becomes blessedly
true when God is there.
They laughed Him to scorn, but their laughter must have turned to amazed
wonder when they realized what God can do.
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March 31, 2018
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA

27. The Plan of Hope & Salvation
John 3:16 NASB
16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”
John 14:6 NASB
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to
the Father but through me.”
Romans 3:23 NASB
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23a NASB
23a For the wages of sin is death,
• Death in this life (the first death) is 100%.
• Even Jesus, the one who doesn’t deserve death, died in this life to pay the
penalty for our sins.
• The death referred to in Romans 6:23a is the second death explained in
Revelation 21:8.
Revelation 21:8 NASB
8 “But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and
immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the
lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
• Anyone who’s lifestyle is one or more of the sins listed in Revelation 21:8,
will experience the “second death” if they do not repent.
• To Repent means to turn around, to go in the opposite direction, to turn
away from sin and to come to Jesus.
Romans 6:23b NASB
23b but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 5:8 NASB
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for
us.
Revelation 21:7 NASB
7 “He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be
My son.”
• Romans 10:9-10 explains to us how to be overcomers.

28. Romans 10:9-10 NASB
9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that
God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person
believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in
salvation.
Romans 10:13 NASB
13 for “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
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