Griffin Sermon

Mom always had a thing between Griffin and Griffith; trying to remember which was which.

Today the sermon was about one story; two miracles, one interrupting the other, as told by Luke.

Doctor Luke relates the story of Jairus who comes to the Rabbai because his daughter is sick.  It's his only daughter and he is probably a bigwig and rich and so forth but when his daughter is sick none of this matters to him and he wants to run for help and he wants Jesus to run to his house and help his daughter. 

It's probably one of those times when desperation makes it so that nothing else matters. 

My daughter is sick.

You can help her.

Let's go.


Well, Jesus is the Healer and He starts walking.  What a relief it must have been for the Dad to see that help is on the way.  But that's not all that is on the way.

In a huge crowd of people; each in need of a miracle or two I'm sure- thanks for pointing that out, a woman knows that if she just touches the hem of His garment she will be healed.  Of course she has been through many things before.  She has had sickness for 12 years and her life-giving blood hasn't oozed out once or month or stayed in to circulate within her- it's flowed constantly, bringing her to the point where she has spent a fortune on doctors and has nothing else to do.  She's desperate also, and like Jairus, she has one thing on her mind, too.

Jairus has a daughter who is about 12.  This woman has bled for 12 years.

The one who made life is about to heal both of them.  But the healing can't come fast enough.

Jesus asks who touched Him.  He says He felt the power surge out of him as the woman was healed and He could feel it.  I don't think He was asking who touched Him because He didn't know.  I think He was asking who touched Him so that she would say it.  She had been healed in the crowd while Jesus was brushing up against so many people; and she knew she would be.  Jairus probably saw everyone along the way as an obstacle to his own miracle, but Jesus did two.