April 7, 2024, Mark 5:24-34, "Has He Touched You Lately?" (Full)

Mark 5:24-34, this woman's issue of her blood made her an outcast from society.

Leviticus 15:25, a woman with an issue of her blood was declared unclean for ceremonial reasons, was excluded from the synagogue, and was shunned from family and society, until the issue was resolved

Mark 5:26, this woman spent all she had seeking a cure, and none was found. Jesus was and is the high priest, but in those times, with its customs, this woman had to go through a sort of priesthood in order to reach God.

Mark 5:27, until she heard about Jesus Christ, the great physician and healer of the soul.

Mark 5:27-28, Numbers 15:38, the woman touched the fringe of the borders ('touch [the hem of] his clothes'). In the Mosaic law, reaching for the fringe of the borders was obedience to God- 'remember all the commandments of God'. In this act, she was going to find salvation by grace.

Colossians 2:14, Christ fulfilled (nailed) the Mosaic law on the cross. Today the moral law still stands.

Mark 5:27-28, there was something that made Jesus stand out from the crowd and other physicians

Mark 5:27, she gave up her dignity, made her way through the crowd, and reached out to God. Today believers touch the Lord through prayer.

Matthew 7:7-8, ask, seek, knock- a promise from God.

Matthew 11:28-30, God's invitation to ask, seek, and knock on the door

Mark 5:33, her healing also led to her humility.

Isaiah 57:15, James 4:10, 1 Peter 5:6, humbling oneself before God and casting all of one's care on Him

Mark 5:30-33, after her healing, attention was now focused on her, to reveal who touched Jesus

Mark 5:30, 'virtue had gone out of him': God's ability on the human side to work miracles. A supernatural power went forth from Him and went into the woman.

Jeremiah 1:5, God already knew the future of the woman from eternity past, knew the event would have been recorded in the book of Mark, and knew people today would read about it

Matthew 23:12, a humbling experience. If the woman had come to God in pride, surely there would have been no healing.

Mark 5:34, Jesus Christ healed her of her affliction. The Greek construction of this verse implied 2 things:
. she was completely healed of her blood issue
. she was completely saved by grace

Psalm 147:3, the brokenhearted are healed

Mark 5:24-34, the woman is like us (all people, all sinners), and her affliction is like sin (all sinners had sin)

Isaiah 64:6, what makes sinners unclean is their sin

Isaiah 64:6, Mark 5:24-34, Isaiah 1:18, Jesus taking the sin, nailing it to the cross, and clothing the believer in righteousness

Psalm 25:6-7, Psalm 103:10-12, Micah 7:19, God casting away all the sin

Psalm 116:1-2, Isaiah 53:5, 1 Peter 2:24, the wages of sin are death. The result of uncontrolled blood loss is eventually death. God will have to take sin to the cross, pay the penalty in full, and then give robes of righteousness.

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