# Jesus' Authority Over Disease

Sermon transcript from Cross Church Phoenix.
Series: Miracles of Jesus
Date: May 10, 2026
Watch: https://crosschurchcares.com/phoenix/episodes/jesus-authority-over-disease

## Summary

What does it mean to truly hope against hope? Can a single touch transform your life? Join us as we explore Jesus' authority over disease and discover the profound healing available to all who seek Him. Let's dive in together!

## Transcript

0:08 · Well, good morning, Cross Church

0:10 · Phoenix. How are you?

0:11 · >> Good morning.

0:12 · >> Good morning. I always feel like I'm

0:14 · about ready to go on like an adventure

0:15 · after watching that. Like, like we're

0:17 · about ready to Well, we are through

0:19 · God's word. That's where we're going to

0:21 · go on an adventure, too. Uh I am Pastor

0:24 · DJ. I'm the pastor here at Cross Church.

0:26 · So, if I haven't met you, welcome. Uh

0:28 · come find me afterwards. I'd love to

0:30 · meet you and talk about Jesus with you

0:32 · and all the good stuff. Um, but at this

0:34 · time, would you open your Bibles to

0:37 · Matthew 9

0:41 · beginning at verse 20? And if you don't

0:43 · have a Bible, there's uh one in the seat

0:45 · back in front of you. Feel free to use

0:47 · that. Make it your Bible. You can mark

0:49 · it up, highlight it, underline stuff,

0:51 · and make it your Bible. It's our gift to

0:53 · you. You can have it, and we will uh

0:55 · gladly replace it.

0:59 · And once you get to Matthew 9 verse 20,

1:03 · put your finger there

1:06 · and turn over also to Mark 5. We're

1:10 · going to be in both passages this

1:13 · morning. Uh Matthew is straight and to

1:17 · the point uh in this particular miracle

1:21 · and uh he gives us three verses and Mark

1:23 · and Luke expand on our text this morning

1:27 · a little bit more. So, we're going to

1:28 · focus in on Mark's account. So, Matthew

1:32 · 9:20 and then also Mark 5 beginning at

1:36 · verse 25.

1:39 · Happy Mother's Day.

1:43 · Thank you to all you mothers. Whether

1:46 · you're physically a mother or a

1:48 · spiritual mother, I am grateful for you

1:53 · because whether or not you have children

1:55 · of your own or maybe you volunteer in

1:58 · the kids ministry or the nursery or you

2:01 · disciple children in any way, maybe

2:04 · through adoption or foster care, you are

2:07 · valued, loved, and appreciated. And from

2:10 · the bottom of my heart, I thank you for

2:14 · your service and for your role that you

2:18 · play in discipling our children. May you

2:20 · all be uh Titus 2 women. Um is my prayer

2:25 · for all of the women here at Cross

2:26 · Church. Everyone a Titus 2 woman.

2:32 · Well, if you're new with us, uh we're in

2:34 · a series going through the miracles of

2:36 · Jesus.

2:39 · The main purpose of Jesus miracles has

2:42 · never been the miracle in and of itself.

2:46 · Though they're awesome and incredible,

2:49 · the main purpose of Jesus miracles was

2:53 · always to reveal his authority

2:58 · over both the natural and the spiritual

3:02 · realm.

3:03 · Jesus Christ has authority over

3:06 · everything.

3:09 · And this morning we come to the second

3:12 · miracle in a in a two miracle passage.

3:16 · If you remember last week we focused on

3:19 · the raising of Girus's dead 12year-old

3:23 · daughter. Gyrus had come to Jesus. He

3:27 · said my daughter is dead but if you come

3:33 · you can raise her. And if you remember

3:37 · from last week, as him and the disciples

3:39 · and the rest are going to Gyrus house,

3:42 · there's an interruption. There's a pause

3:46 · in the story,

3:48 · and that's what we're going to focus on

3:50 · this morning. The wonderful, beautiful

3:52 · faith of an outcast woman. Let's pray.

3:55 · Father, we thank you for this morning.

3:58 · We thank you for your word.

4:02 · And now God, I just pray

4:06 · for everyone in here.

4:09 · I don't know what everyone's going

4:10 · through.

4:14 · I don't know how painful this day might

4:16 · be.

4:20 · But God, I pray

4:22 · that you would touch the lives of your

4:25 · people this morning.

4:28 · that you would show them love, your

4:30 · grace, your mercy, your kindness towards

4:33 · them.

4:36 · I pray God that you would give us eyes

4:38 · to see, ears to hear what the Holy

4:41 · Spirit has to say to the church here at

4:44 · Cross Church in Jesus name. Amen.

4:48 · Well, if you are able to, let's stand as

4:51 · we read God's word together. If you're

4:54 · not, that is totally fine. You can stand

4:56 · with us in spirit. It's about the heart

4:58 · postured towards God's word. But the

5:01 · standing is just a resemblance of our

5:03 · reverence for his word. And we're going

5:04 · to read Matthew 9 20-22 and also a

5:09 · passage from Mark 5 beginning at verse

5:12 · 30 is where I'll be reading. So the word

5:15 · of God says this. Just then, or behold,

5:20 · a woman who had suffered from bleeding

5:23 · for 12 years approached from behind and

5:27 · touched the end of his robe. For she

5:30 · said to herself, "If I could just touch

5:34 · his robe, I'll be made well." Jesus

5:38 · turned and saw her, "Have courage,

5:40 · daughter." He said, "Your faith has

5:45 · saved you."

5:47 · And the woman was made well from that

5:49 · moment. And picking up in Mark 5

5:52 · beginning at verse 30, it says this.

5:55 · Immediately Jesus realized that power

5:58 · had gone out from him. He turned around

6:02 · in the crowd and said, "Who touched my

6:04 · clothes?" His disciples said to him,

6:07 · "You see the crowd pressing against you,

6:10 · and yet you say, "Who touched me?" But

6:14 · he was looking around to see who had

6:16 · done this. The woman with fear and

6:20 · trembling,

6:22 · knowing what had happened to her, came

6:24 · and fell down before him and told him

6:29 · the whole truth.

6:31 · Daughter, he said to her, "Your faith

6:35 · has saved you. Go in peace and be healed

6:40 · from your affliction." Amen. Thanks. You

6:42 · can be seated.

6:50 · In Romans 4 verse 18,

6:55 · Paul uses a curious,

6:58 · interesting phrase to describe Abraham's

7:03 · faith.

7:05 · Paul says, "Abraham

7:08 · hoped against hope.

7:13 · hoped against hope.

7:17 · And if you have a handout, you'll see

7:19 · that's our main heading this morning. If

7:20 · you don't, they're on the tables in the

7:21 · back. Hoping against hope.

7:26 · What does it mean to hope against hope?

7:32 · How did Abraham

7:35 · hope against hope? Well, if you

7:38 · remember, God back in Genesis promised

7:42 · Abraham and Sarah would have a son.

7:47 · This son would come from Abraham and

7:49 · Sarah, not anyone else. Abraham and

7:53 · Sarah.

7:55 · The promise came, God's promise to

7:57 · Abraham came when Abraham was 75 years

8:01 · old.

8:05 · Sarah is 10 years. his junior. So she is

8:08 · 65.

8:11 · They waited and waited for the promised

8:15 · child. And as they waited and waited,

8:18 · they got older and older.

8:22 · Every year that passed seemed to be a

8:24 · year the promised child never came.

8:29 · As much as they tried, Sarah remained

8:31 · childless

8:33 · until Abraham was 100 years old, meaning

8:39 · Sarah was 90,

8:43 · well past normal childbearing years. And

8:48 · having been barren for 90 years,

8:54 · it would be easy to lose hope.

8:58 · 25 years of waiting, 25 years to lose

9:03 · hope, 25 years to lose faith. But

9:07 · Abraham didn't lose either one.

9:11 · Which leads Paul in the New Testament to

9:14 · describe Abraham's faith in Romans 4:18,

9:18 · saying in hope against hope, he

9:22 · believed.

9:26 · It means hope against hope. It means

9:30 · that against all odds, against all human

9:35 · reason and logic, against the

9:38 · hopelessness of the situation, Abraham's

9:41 · faith remained strong and he believed

9:45 · God.

9:48 · And that child Isaac eventually came.

9:50 · That's hope against hope.

9:55 · The woman in our text this morning is

9:58 · another example

10:00 · of hoping against hope. So the first

10:04 · thing I want you to see is this. Number

10:05 · one, the reality of our hopelessness.

10:10 · The reality of our hopelessness.

10:15 · Because this story simply begins with

10:18 · the reality of her hopelessness.

10:22 · She bled for 12 years.

10:27 · Imagine that for a moment.

10:30 · Her issue of blood would render her

10:33 · ceremonially unclean constantly.

10:39 · Every day she woke up

10:44 · would be another day she's automatically

10:47 · unclean.

10:49 · And not only that, everything she

10:52 · touches, everyone she touches would be

10:57 · unclean also according to the Old

11:00 · Testament law.

11:03 · And she sought help. The other gospels

11:06 · tell us she sought help from many

11:11 · doctors. Every doctor she could find.

11:16 · She spent every penny she had to get

11:19 · help. You want to know what she got in

11:22 · return? Worse. That's what she got. The

11:25 · scriptures specifically say she spent

11:27 · everything, every cent she had and got

11:30 · worse.

11:34 · The last thing

11:37 · that would make sense is to go to a

11:40 · Jewish rabbi whose background is in

11:43 · carpentry.

11:50 · One of the reasons that this scene is so

11:52 · beautiful and so wonderful is because

11:57 · there is a great contrast between Jirus

12:02 · and this woman.

12:04 · And that's why every gospel writer that

12:06 · documents this keeps it the same way.

12:09 · You have Jarus comes to Jesus begging

12:12 · for him to raise his daughter back to

12:15 · life. Then an incident in between on the

12:18 · way the woman comes and then back to J

12:20 · Iris because all of the gospel writers

12:23 · want you and me to see something. J Iris

12:27 · as a synagogue ruler would be wealthy.

12:32 · She, as we know, spent every penny on

12:35 · doctors and got worse. She's poor.

12:40 · He Gus would be highly esteemed and

12:43 · respected as a synagogue ruler. She

12:46 · would be rejected.

12:50 · He would be honored. She would be

12:53 · ashamed. He led the synagogue.

12:57 · She would be exccommunicated from it

13:00 · because of her hemorrhage making her

13:03 · constantly, persistently unclean.

13:07 · He experienced the joy of raising a

13:12 · daughter for 12 years, the gift of a

13:15 · daughter. She experienced misery for 12

13:19 · years as a social outcast due to her

13:23 · condition.

13:26 · What do they have in common?

13:30 · Coming to Jesus Christ in their

13:33 · brokenness. That's what they have in

13:36 · common. That's what unites them.

13:41 · And though it's Mother's Day, this ain't

13:42 · just two mothers or women. Have you

13:46 · experienced a time in your life

13:50 · where you felt utterly hopeless?

13:54 · Complete hopelessness.

13:58 · Maybe that's right now.

14:01 · Maybe you dread these days

14:05 · or other holidays like Christmas and

14:07 · Thanksgiving and or Father's Day because

14:11 · all they are are reminders

14:14 · of those

14:16 · who've passed.

14:21 · Maybe you feel alone.

14:24 · This woman would be well acquainted with

14:26 · loneliness

14:29 · as a rejected social outcast.

14:34 · Maybe you feel abandoned. Those who were

14:38 · supposed to love you left you.

14:42 · Maybe you had big plans in life.

14:47 · No doubt I could venture to say in those

14:48 · days especially the uh importance and

14:52 · desire uh uh for children. She would

14:55 · likely have wanted children being

14:56 · desperate for children but no one will

14:58 · marry her in this condition.

15:02 · Maybe she had big plans. Maybe you had

15:04 · big plans and then the accident happened

15:06 · or the diagnosis came or you got the

15:08 · phone call and everything came crashing

15:10 · down.

15:14 · Hoping against hope doesn't ignore the

15:19 · reality of our pain and suffering or

15:23 · hopelessness.

15:26 · What hoping against hope does do is it

15:29 · faces it head on with our second truth,

15:32 · the reality of our hope in Christ.

15:36 · That's what it does

15:39 · in Mark 5:27. So, if you're not in Mark,

15:42 · if you would turn over to Mark 5,

15:44 · beginning at verse 27. Now, we'll camp

15:47 · there the rest of our time.

15:51 · In Mark 5:27, we read,

15:56 · I love the sound of of papers turning.

15:58 · Just kind of stop and listen to it for a

16:00 · sec. But

16:03 · the next gospel over chapter 5, Matthew,

16:06 · Mark,

16:08 · and in Mark 5:27, we read this woman

16:13 · heard the reports about Jesus

16:16 · probably because he's started his

16:19 · ministry now. He's been doing some

16:20 · things here and there. He's already

16:21 · causing a ruckus. The Pharisees already

16:23 · hate him and think he's a blasphemer and

16:26 · all this, but word is spreading about

16:28 · Jesus. She probably heard the reports of

16:31 · his miracles and healings.

16:34 · Now remember,

16:36 · she is constantly unclean.

16:41 · And she would know, she knows she's not

16:45 · supposed to be out touching everybody

16:48 · because Old Testament law said anyone or

16:50 · anything she touches is made unclean.

16:53 · That was Old Testament law. Now, that

16:56 · was supposed to be for a period of time,

17:00 · 5 or 7 days or whatever, and then they

17:02 · were brought back in. This is persistent

17:05 · 12 years.

17:08 · She has been dealing with this, meaning

17:11 · she's an outcast.

17:16 · She knows she's not supposed to be out.

17:18 · She's lived for years in loneliness,

17:20 · pain, and sorrow. And yet yet she hears

17:23 · about Jesus and says, "I'm going to him.

17:27 · I'm going to him and I I don't need

17:30 · much. I just need to touch

17:35 · a touch of his garment and I'll be made

17:38 · well." And that is hoping against hope.

17:42 · That is faith.

17:45 · Because what this shows us is that

17:47 · against all odds, all human logic and

17:50 · reason, no doctor can fix her. She went

17:54 · broke trying to find a doctor who could

17:57 · do something. And though no one could do

18:00 · anything, she believed Jesus could.

18:06 · Hoping against hope says, "No matter

18:09 · what's going on right now in my life,

18:13 · how much it hurts, how sorrowful I am,

18:16 · how alone I feel, if I can just be in

18:20 · the presence of Jesus Christ, I'll be

18:24 · made well. I'll be okay.

18:28 · If I can just be with God,

18:32 · my life will be made whole.

18:37 · That's the reality of our hope in

18:40 · Christ.

18:43 · How does that look in your situation?

18:47 · Do you just give up? Throw the towel in?

18:51 · Tired of dealing with this? Throw your

18:53 · hands up in the air and say, "I'm done.

18:55 · Peace out. See you later." done with

18:57 · this whole Christian thing, this whole

19:00 · church thing.

19:03 · Uh, I'm done.

19:06 · Jesus hasn't taken away. God's not

19:08 · helping me out. Um, I'm throwing in the

19:11 · towel.

19:14 · Or do you run to Christ and you look at

19:18 · your situation and say, "I need Christ

19:20 · more. I need church more.

19:25 · I need the gospel more. I need Bible

19:28 · reading more. I need my prayer life

19:31 · more. I need my devotional life more

19:34 · because of this situation that I'm in.

19:41 · I can't imagine. Can you just imag how

19:44 · many times this woman probably wanted to

19:46 · give up on life?

19:50 · We give up on for much less, right?

19:55 · a hangail or something. No, I'm just

19:56 · kidding.

20:02 · And yet she doesn't.

20:04 · She heard about Christ and just ran to

20:07 · him. The reality of her hope in Christ

20:11 · is just as real as the reality of her

20:14 · hopelessness without him.

20:18 · And that same hope in Christ is

20:20 · available to you and to me, to us.

20:26 · And this leads me to my last point. This

20:28 · is incredibly important. The reality of

20:31 · our peace with God.

20:33 · The reality of our peace with God. If

20:37 · you look down at from Mark 5, if you

20:39 · looked at verse 30,

20:42 · verse 30,

20:44 · Jesus perceives

20:47 · power has gone out of him,

20:53 · out from him.

20:56 · You see what's happening here? She

20:58 · touches him. Jesus

21:01 · senses in himself, "Power has gone out

21:03 · for me." Here's the thing. She in

21:05 · touching him didn't make him unclean. He

21:09 · made her clean.

21:12 · The opposite happened because of the

21:14 · power that's exuding from Jesus Christ.

21:18 · She is made clean by his power.

21:23 · And so Jesus asks, you know, who touched

21:24 · me, right? Who touched me? And of

21:28 · course, we know that Jesus knows who

21:30 · touched her. This is not a mystery to

21:34 · Jesus. He is doing this on purpose.

21:36 · Everything Christ does is intentional of

21:38 · course, but this serves a specific

21:40 · purpose. And so the woman comes in fear

21:44 · and trembling, falls down before Jesus.

21:46 · Our word for worship in Greek, prouneo,

21:48 · falling down on your face,

21:51 · is used over and over. She falls down,

21:54 · prostrates herself

21:57 · in fear and trembling. in fear and

21:59 · trembling before Jesus had told him the

22:01 · whole truth. Then Jesus looks at her and

22:05 · says, "Daughter,

22:07 · glorious, right, daughter,

22:10 · your faith has saved you." Listen, don't

22:16 · forget that

22:18 · your faith has saved you. Go in peace.

22:21 · Don't forget that.

22:23 · And be healed from your affliction.

22:29 · Why is Jesus doing this? Pointing her

22:32 · out, calling her out. Is he being mean?

22:34 · Is he trying to embarrass her? No. No.

22:36 · No. No. No. No. No. No. No. This is

22:38 · grace and mercy beyond anything we can

22:42 · imagine. Jesus just changed her life and

22:46 · made it public.

22:49 · She is declared healed publicly. That is

22:54 · mercy. That's a gift. You know why?

22:58 · Because she would have a reputation.

23:01 · People would know who she is.

23:05 · And she hadn't been able to hug someone

23:09 · for years. No one wants to touch her

23:11 · because of this. And Jesus publicly

23:15 · declares that she is made well, that she

23:18 · is healed. She can go worship now. She

23:21 · could touch people and things and not

23:23 · make them unclean anymore. She's free.

23:25 · She could hug someone

23:28 · and not make them unclean. People would

23:32 · not be afraid to embrace her anymore.

23:36 · People would keep her at an arm's

23:38 · length. Now she is clean.

23:43 · Now you need to see something extremely

23:45 · important.

23:47 · There are different words in Greek for

23:51 · being healed or made healthy.

23:55 · or cured.

23:57 · There's therapo,

24:00 · which sounds like what it is, right? It

24:03 · sounds like our word therapy. That's

24:05 · where we get it from. Therapuo.

24:08 · This word means simply to be healed or

24:10 · cured.

24:12 · In Matthew uh 4:23,

24:15 · uh Matthew uses that word to describe

24:18 · Jesus's general healing ministry.

24:21 · Matthew 4:23 says, "And he went

24:23 · throughout all Galilee, uh, teaching in

24:25 · their synagogues and proclaiming the

24:26 · gospel of the kingdom and healing every

24:28 · disease and every affliction among the

24:30 · people." He just went around healing

24:32 · everybody, most everybody. His general

24:34 · healing ministry. He went about healing

24:37 · and curing things, people is what he's

24:39 · telling you. Then there's this word

24:42 · yomi.

24:44 · Yomi, which is basically a synonym to

24:48 · therapo. It also means to be healed or

24:51 · cured.

24:53 · I am specifically repeating healed and

24:56 · cured in English to show the point that

25:00 · these words are basically synonyms are

25:02 · interchangeable just like therapuo and

25:04 · yomi are. If I said somebody was healed

25:08 · from their cancer or if I said they were

25:11 · cured from their cancer, you might be

25:13 · like, "Oh, that's that's like saying the

25:15 · same thing or I was healed from a broken

25:16 · leg or cured." It's, yes, there's little

25:19 · nuances, but it's generally saying the

25:21 · same thing. That's these two words.

25:25 · And here's what I want you to see in

25:27 · Mark 5:29.

25:30 · It's the word yomi

25:33 · where it says she sensed in her body is

25:37 · key in her body that she was healed.

25:40 · Yomi of her affliction. What this simply

25:44 · means is she's been cured. Healed. the

25:47 · flow of blood stopped physically

25:52 · in her body. That's what that means.

25:56 · Then there's the word soozo.

26:00 · Soozo. And you say, "So what, DJ? I'll

26:02 · tell you." So what? I'll tell you. So

26:04 · what? So

26:07 · this word means to be saved or slash in

26:12 · right relationship with God.

26:16 · This is very key.

26:20 · This is the word Jesus uses in Mark 5:34

26:27 · when he says, "Your faith has saved

26:30 · you." So, you may have a translation

26:32 · that says like healed her or made her

26:34 · well.

26:36 · The CSB got it right when they said

26:38 · saved you because that's what it means

26:40 · literally to be saved. It's used all

26:42 · over the New Testament.

26:45 · What this is saying is simply this. Yes,

26:48 · she's been healed physically. Oh my.

26:51 · Cured of a physical blood flow. But what

26:54 · Jesus is saying is that more has

26:57 · happened than physical healing.

27:00 · That's what he's saying. Her faith in

27:03 · Christ saved her.

27:07 · Look at Mark 5:34.

27:10 · Look at verse 34. Mark 5. Jesus is

27:13 · treating the two events separately. Two

27:17 · things have happened. So really this is

27:18 · a two for one miracle. A physical and a

27:21 · spiritual miracle. He says Jesus does

27:25 · your faith has saved you. Go in peace

27:28 · and be healed of your affliction. You've

27:32 · been saved

27:34 · also. You've been healed. Go.

27:39 · Jesus is saying she's saved and healed.

27:41 · You have both yo my and so you have

27:45 · physical and spiritual healing.

27:48 · That's why listen. That's why he says go

27:54 · in peace. Did you know that Jesus only

27:58 · says go in peace to those who have

28:00 · saving faith in him?

28:05 · He doesn't say that to everyone that

28:08 · gets healed.

28:10 · For example, in Luke 7, Jesus is invited

28:14 · over to a Pharisees house for dinner.

28:18 · His name is Simon the Pharisee.

28:23 · A woman, different woman, a woman hears

28:27 · Jesus is at this Pharisees house,

28:29 · Simon's house, and she goes in. You

28:32 · might recognize the story when I start

28:33 · to describe it. She goes in with an

28:35 · alabaster flask of oil

28:39 · and she begins weeping at Jesus' feet.

28:44 · And so in Luke 7, her tears are wetting

28:50 · Jesus' feet. And so if you remember, she

28:52 · begins to wipe Jesus' feet with her

28:56 · hair.

28:58 · Oh, when the Pharisee, Simon the

29:00 · Pharisee, saw it. He says,

29:03 · um, if Jesus were a prophet, he'd know

29:05 · what kind of woman this is. So, she had

29:08 · a reputation, too. We don't know what

29:09 · she was. Maybe a prostitute, maybe some

29:11 · kind of sinner of some sort. But the

29:14 · Simon says if Jesus were a real prophet,

29:17 · he would know. He wouldn't let this girl

29:20 · touch him. And right now, she's wiping

29:23 · his feet with her hair. Jesus ain't

29:25 · legit. That is the Pharisees um

29:28 · assessment of the situation. And Jesus

29:30 · looks at Simon and says,"Simon, I got

29:32 · something to say to you." That ought to

29:35 · get your attention, right? If Jesus

29:36 · looks you in the eyes, says, "I got

29:37 · something to say to you. Listen up."

29:40 · Right? And then Jesus shares a parable.

29:42 · You can read that on your own with

29:44 · Simon. And turns to the woman and says,

29:49 · "Your faith has saved you." So,

29:54 · go in peace.

30:00 · The reality is this.

30:03 · You can be, I can be, we can be

30:06 · physically healed and still spiritually

30:10 · dead and have no peace with God.

30:15 · Peace with God is only found in Jesus

30:21 · Christ.

30:23 · It is repeated over and over in the New

30:25 · Testament. When Jesus was risen from the

30:30 · dead

30:32 · and he was appearing to people, he would

30:35 · say over and over like on repeat, right?

30:37 · Peace be with you. Peace be with you.

30:42 · Paul in his letters would often put

30:45 · grace and peace together. He would say,

30:46 · "Grace and peace be with you to the

30:49 · churches in Jesus Christ."

30:53 · First Peter uh 5, Peter says, "Peace to

30:56 · all of you who are in Christ."

31:02 · John in his letter 2 John 3 just as a

31:05 · sample he says grace mercy and peace

31:07 · will be with us from God the father and

31:10 · from Jesus Christ the father's son I say

31:15 · that to say this here in our passage

31:17 · Jesus is pointing out

31:22 · that not only did this woman receive

31:25 · physical healing but that her faith in

31:28 · Jesus saved her eternal eternally and

31:31 · she now has peace with God. The more

31:35 · important miracle.

31:41 · Do you have peace with God this morning?

31:45 · Do you

31:49 · do you have peace with God this morning?

31:54 · I could ask that question another way.

31:56 · Are you in Christ this morning?

31:59 · Because if you're not, you don't have

32:00 · peace with God. Just plain and simple.

32:08 · The most important thing this Mother's

32:10 · Day is having peace with God. You say,

32:13 · "What's the message from Cross Church on

32:15 · this Mother's Day?" Um, be in Christ.

32:18 · Get saved. That's the message.

32:23 · That's the most important thing. When

32:25 · Jesus uh healed 10 lepers in Luke 17, uh

32:30 · he he sent them to go show themselves to

32:33 · the priests. He heals 10 lepers. It

32:36 · says, "Go show yourselves to the

32:38 · priest." And only one only one came

32:42 · back, it says, and gave glory to God.

32:45 · Let me describe this. The one who came

32:47 · back fell at Jesus' feet. Sound

32:50 · familiar? Like the woman did. And

32:52 · thanked him. And Jesus is like, this is

32:55 · my paraphrase, right? Um, were there not

32:58 · 10 cleansed?

33:01 · Where's everyone else?

33:04 · No one's returning to give glory to God

33:07 · except this one guy.

33:10 · And then Jesus looks at the one leper

33:12 · who was healed and came back and says,

33:15 · "Get up and go your way. Your faith has

33:20 · so saved you.

33:23 · Don't miss it. He was already cleansed

33:25 · of his leprosy like the other nine. He

33:28 · was already cleansed of leprosy,

33:33 · but he wasn't saved till he came back to

33:37 · the feet of Jesus, believed, and had

33:40 · faith in Christ, and gave glory to God.

33:46 · He's the only one who is saved.

33:50 · 10 were healed. one was saved from his

33:55 · sin. Don't miss it. Don't miss it.

34:00 · The leper was changed both outside and

34:02 · inside just like this woman. She's not

34:04 · just cured. She is changed. She is

34:07 · saved. Her encounter with Christ both

34:10 · physically and spiritually changed her.

34:13 · Because the truth is this. You cannot

34:16 · cannot did I mention you cannot have a

34:19 · genuine encounter with Jesus and leave

34:22 · the same.

34:24 · You can't.

34:28 · You may not have a 12-year hemorrhage,

34:31 · but all of us, every last person

34:34 · listening to my voice in this room or

34:36 · online either is or w is or was lost in

34:40 · the hopelessness of sin.

34:44 · And you can try every which way you want

34:48 · to free yourself from the burden of your

34:51 · sin. You won't be able to do it. Spend

34:53 · all the money you want finding release

34:56 · from your sin. You can't buy it. You

34:59 · can't earn it. You can't do it on your

35:01 · own. No more than she could get rid of

35:05 · her disease on her own.

35:09 · She couldn't rid herself of this. She

35:11 · couldn't pay to get it done. She had to

35:13 · come to Christ.

35:16 · We need Christ to save us from sin.

35:21 · And if you don't know him this morning,

35:23 · come to him. Pour your heart out to him.

35:25 · Cry out to him for forgiveness of your

35:28 · sin. Cuz that's our primary need.

35:32 · I said this last week. I'm going to say

35:33 · it again. That is primary.

35:36 · Yes, we come to him and we pray for

35:38 · healing. We pray for comfort in loss,

35:40 · all of those things. Yes and amen. But

35:42 · our primary need is salvation from sin.

35:48 · The biggest miracle of this whole

35:50 · incident is her forgiveness and her

35:52 · salvation from her sin.

35:56 · Her her physical healing is secondary

35:58 · just like the paralytic, right? Your

36:00 · sins are forgiven. What? Yeah, I forgave

36:03 · you of your sin. Well, I'm still

36:04 · paralyzed. Yeah. And then Jesus gets to

36:06 · that one later. But the first primary

36:11 · miracle was that Jesus saved the

36:14 · paralytic from sin and then healed him

36:17 · of his paralysis. That was secondary.

36:19 · Just like this woman, her healing

36:21 · physically is secondary to her

36:23 · spiritual.

36:25 · And like this woman left changed. You

36:28 · can leave here changed.

36:31 · And you say, "Well, I'm too far gone.

36:32 · I'm too sinful. My life's too much of a

36:34 · mess." DJ, you don't know the depths of

36:37 · the sin I'm in. I'm in the deepest

36:39 · trenches of sin. God can't save me. Oh,

36:42 · yes, he can.

36:44 · Oh, yes, he can.

36:48 · Hope against hope.

36:55 · against all human logic, against all

36:58 · reason, human reason, against all odds,

37:01 · against the reality of death for J. Iris

37:03 · and his daughter, or against the reality

37:06 · of an incurable hemorrhage for the

37:07 · woman. They both came to Christ and left

37:12 · changed

37:13 · inside and out.

37:16 · And could I plead with you to not leave

37:20 · this Mother's Day unchanged?

37:24 · We have fun. We celebrate our moms. We

37:27 · got treats in the back. We've got child

37:29 · dedications. It's great. But if you

37:32 · leave here unchanged,

37:36 · what's the point?

37:41 · And if you would like to meet with me in

37:42 · the back after service, you can come

37:44 · find me. I'd love to talk with you about

37:47 · your greatest need and your

37:48 · hopelessness,

37:50 · Jesus Christ.

37:54 · And we have a wonderful opportunity this

37:56 · morning to dedicate our children to

37:59 · Christ.

38:01 · And so I want to invite now um the

38:04 · Wiznooki and the Ramos family um Madison

38:07 · and Virgil to come on down and join me

38:10 · here on the stage real quick.

38:17 · Yeah.

38:26 · You guys want to come right up here?

38:30 · We have Madison Whiz Newski and Justin

38:33 · and Lily. And then we have Mr. Virgil

38:38 · Ramos and Sarah and Gabe.

38:42 · Um, one of the things I love about the

38:46 · scriptures is, I mean, I love everything

38:48 · about the Bible, don't get me wrong, but

38:49 · I love in Genesis 18:19, God tells us

38:53 · why he chose Abraham.

38:56 · And he says this in Genesis 18:19, he

38:58 · says, "I have chosen him." The Lord

39:00 · says, "For I have chosen him that he may

39:02 · command his children and his household

39:07 · after him to keep the way of the Lord by

39:10 · doing righteousness and justice so that

39:15 · the Lord may bring to him may bring to

39:18 · Abraham what he has promised him." He

39:21 · chose Abraham

39:23 · for the specific purpose

39:26 · of training his children in the ways of

39:29 · the Lord. And this carries over into

39:32 · Deuteronomy 6:es 5-7

39:35 · where it says this, "You shall love the

39:37 · Lord your God with all your heart and

39:39 · with all your soul and with all your

39:41 · might. And these words that I command

39:44 · you today shall be on your heart." And

39:46 · then it says this. This is the

39:49 · expectation.

39:51 · You shall teach them diligently to your

39:54 · children.

39:56 · You shall teach them diligently to your

39:59 · children.

40:01 · And shall talk of them when you sit in

40:03 · your house and when you walk by the way

40:05 · and when you lie down and when you rise.

40:07 · That is a Hebrew way of saying all the

40:09 · time. All the time.

40:12 · When they're as happy as that or not.

40:15 · Just kidding. Yeah. This they're doing

40:17 · great. You guys are awesome.

40:20 · And uh to round us out in the New

40:22 · Testament, Paul says in Ephesians 6:4,

40:24 · he says, "Fathers, fathers, fathers, do

40:27 · not provoke your children to anger, but

40:30 · bring them up in the discipline and

40:32 · instruction of the Lord."

40:36 · So, as we dedicate these children to the

40:38 · Lord, uh not only are the parents making

40:41 · a commitment, but we as a church are

40:43 · making a commitment to these families.

40:47 · And so first I'm going to read a series

40:49 · of uh commitments the parents are

40:51 · making. Ready? All right. These are the

40:54 · commitments.

40:59 · As the parents of these children the

41:00 · Lord has given us in the presence of our

41:02 · church family. We promise to commit the

41:05 · gift of our child to God

41:08 · acknowledging they belong to the father

41:11 · and it is our privilege and

41:12 · responsibility to care for them. Every

41:15 · good thing we have comes from God. And

41:18 · our child belong to God before they ever

41:21 · belong to us.

41:23 · We promise to pray for our child's

41:25 · conversion to Jesus Christ as their

41:28 · personal Lord and Savior and call upon

41:30 · the power of the Holy Spirit to enable

41:33 · us to provide nurture, care, and

41:37 · guidance to our child in the ways of the

41:39 · Lord.

41:41 · We promise to be an example for our

41:43 · child as we seek to obey God and his

41:45 · word with our lives.

41:48 · We promise to make being part of the

41:50 · body of Christ a priority as we raise

41:53 · our children in God's church. We promise

41:56 · to discipline or disciple and discipline

41:58 · our children and train them up in the

42:00 · nurture and admonition of the Lord. So

42:03 · parents, are you making this commitment

42:05 · to dedicate your children to the Lord in

42:08 · this way?

42:10 · They said yes. I know they don't have a

42:12 · mic,

42:15 · but it's not just a one-way street,

42:16 · right? That's they are dedicating their

42:18 · children and making a commitment to them

42:20 · publicly. But the flip side of that is

42:23 · that we as the church are also making a

42:26 · commitment to them, to these families.

42:29 · So, I'm going to read a series of

42:30 · commitments that we as a church are

42:32 · making as well. And as a church, in the

42:34 · presence of these parents, we

42:36 · acknowledge that these children are

42:38 · gifts from God. And it's our privilege

42:40 · and responsibility to help these parents

42:42 · care for them.

42:45 · We commit to praying for our children uh

42:47 · for for these children's salvation and

42:50 · that they would come to know Jesus as

42:52 · their personal Lord and Savior at the

42:54 · earliest possible time. And we commit to

42:57 · be the loving church that these

43:00 · dedicated children need and to be

43:02 · examples for them as they grow up. And

43:05 · we promise to help these dedicated

43:07 · children follow the Lord's will with

43:09 · their lives. So church family,

43:12 · if you are joining me in this

43:15 · commitment, will you stand together with

43:17 · me and extend your arm out in our

43:20 · direction, in their direction as we pray

43:22 · over these families.

43:25 · Let's pray. Father, we thank you uh we

43:28 · thank you for these children. We thank

43:31 · you for the blessing

43:34 · of Virgil and Madison.

43:38 · They are a gift from you. Children are a

43:40 · gift, a heritage from the Lord.

43:44 · And so we dedicate them to you, Lord. We

43:47 · pray even now

43:50 · that you by the power of the Holy Spirit

43:54 · would draw these children to you

43:58 · to bring them to faith and trust in

44:00 · Jesus Christ that they would too would

44:02 · see

44:04 · their need to turn away from their own

44:06 · sin and come to Jesus Christ. We pray

44:10 · for these parents right now, God, that

44:14 · they would lead their families well.

44:18 · We pray that you would be the number one

44:21 · priority in their home.

44:24 · And God, we pray that as a church, we

44:27 · would come alongside them in this

44:30 · wonderful privilege and honor to raise

44:33 · up our children in the nurture and

44:36 · admonition of the Lord.

44:39 · We thank you and we praise you in Jesus

44:41 · name. And all God's people said,

44:43 · >> "Amen." Amen. Amen. Well, we have

44:51 · we have Baby's New Testament with the

44:55 · Psalms. So, we've got Virgil here. And

44:58 · you want the blue one right here. Right

45:01 · there. And Madison. And here's that.

45:06 · Amen. Right. Amen.

45:11 · I want to uh invite the worship team up.

45:13 · You guys can step on down. Thank you.

45:16 · And um let's stand as we uh I know you

45:19 · guys just sat uh but let's stand up as

45:21 · we sing our last song.