Okay. So, here we go. I’m going to read to you a big portion. This is going to be the biggest portion we’ve I think we’ve ever read this year thus far on our 343 uh 443rd day. 22 days remaining. Um let me get started because I don’t want to take much of your time. Uh I know that myself included got to hit the road um and get get moving quickly here.
[snorts] Luke chapter 8 beginning at verse 43. Luke chapter 8 verse 43 technically to verse 48. 43-48 of Luke chapter 8. But we will draw out a theme in our prayer together. This is beautiful. We all love this portion. Now, a woman having a flow of blood for 12 years who had spent all of her livelihood on physicians and could not be healed by any came from behind that is she’s approaching Jesus.
She came from behind and touched the border of Jesus’s garment and immediately her flow of blood stopped. And Jesus said, “Who touched me?” And when all denied it, Peter and those who were with him said, “Master, the multitudes thronging and pressing 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 had not or was not able to hide or was not hidden, she came trembling, falling down before him. And she declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason she had touched Jesus and how she she was healed immediately. And he said to her, “Daughter, be of good cheer. Your faith has made you well.
Go in peace. Wow. There’s a lot here, but we can only focus on one thing, and that is this. For 12 years, she had an issue of blood. She was unclean, which means her issue of blood was due to feminine issues, female issues. That could be a horrific diagnosis. No doubt. 12 years of excessive bleeding, anemic, sickly, weak, thin, pale.
And notice that she came from behind Jesus and she was determined. So, she came from behind, which means she somehow made it through the crowd. She pushed through to him. She laid hold of his garment to some degree. When I say lay hold, I mean that she touched his garment. She just touched his robe. Now we know later that these are ideas and plans that the woman had made up in her mind uh from her culture.
We know about her culture. When we do deep study from this, we find out that in in in her upbringing, uh she recognized that if she came close to authority, came close to um nobility, came close, um there and it’s still the human nature today to just reach out and touch somebody passing by. Like let’s say I don’t know, I’m really bad about this stuff, but um let’s say um somebody that you know, love, and respect was passing by and in a parade or something like that, you reached out and and you would you would respond by saying, “Oh, I
touched I touched her.” Or she he gave me a high five. This woman’s of that same mindset, but she’s more desperate than any of us have ever been. She’s saying to herself, “If I can just touch the hem of his garment, that’s all I need. That’s all that’s as close to Jesus as I need to get.” And when Jesus was touched like that, she touched the fabric.
