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Introduction
Hurricane Sandy - Starbucks Chris Hernandez: “There’s nothing else we would’ve gone out for.
This makes the day complete.”
Bethany Owings walked 10 blocks with 1 year old daughter to get Starbucks in the storm.
I went to Chik-Fil-A with pneumonia.
What are you desperate for and what would you do to get it?
What are you desperate for and what would you do to get it?
As Hurricane Sandy bore down on New York City, almost everything shut down—except at least one rogue Starbucks near Times Square.
Desperate (addicted?)
but highly committed Starbucks junkies fought high winds, dangerous rains, and dire warnings just to get a latte or a cup of coffee.
Bethany Owings, 28, walked 10 blocks with her one-year-old daughter for a fix.
"I saw on Facebook that they were open," she said.
"It was scary not having Starbucks."
Her neighbor and friend 29-year-old Chris Hernandez came along and later said, "When she said they were open, I was like, 'Pack the baby up.
Let's go!' I didn't know they were all going to close.
I started panicking.
There's nothing else I would've gone out for.
This makes my day complete."
Two stories of desperate faith - two very different people who know that Jesus is their only hope and are desperate for His power.
Two stories of desperate faith - two very different people who know that Jesus is their only hope and are desperate for His power.
Story of two individuals who were desperate and willing to risk their reputation and lives to get what they needed.
Christian = someone who is desperate for the work of Jesus.
Disciple is someone who is growing in knowledge of Jesus.
A disciple is someone who is growing in dependency (desperateness) on Jesus.
You know you cannot live without Him.
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Christian = someone who is desperate for the work of Jesus.
We often think that a disciple is someone who is growing in knowledge of Jesus.
A disciple is someone sho is growing in dependency on Jesus - growing in desperateness.
You know you cannot live without Him.
A disciple of Jesus is someone who knows that he cannot live without Jesus - therefore, I have to learn about Him, I have to get to know Him, I have to experience Him, I have to have His help in my life.
Are we desperate for Jesus?
Three characteristics of a desperate faith.
A person of desperate faith is willing to be humbled by Jesus.
Urgency - The whole story has a sense of urgency (Getting Staci to hospital)
Jesus back in Galilee (Capernaum) and immediately confronted by Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue.
An important man.
He made sure that each Sabbath the instruction and worship in synagogue was orderly.
He made sure there were teachers ready and the right Scriptures were read and that the synagogue was cared for.
Highly respected in his city.
You would expect Jairus to be swayed by the religious leaders - that’s who he associated with.
Jairus should have seen Jesus as a heretic and blasphemer like the other religious leaders.
However, Jairus had a need - little girl was sick to point of death.
She was about twelve, and the only child he had.
So much life ahead of her, but seemed fading.
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Heartbroken with nowhere else to turn, he goes to Jesus.
He heard of the miracles, maybe even witnessed them.
In spite of what the religious leaders were telling him, Jairus knew that the only chance his daughter had was to get Jesus to his home.
A great crowd - Jairus makes his way through, falls on his feet, and begins to beg Jesus to come to his house.
(He approaches Jesus in a very different way than another religious leader, Nicodemus, did.
Why? Desperation) “Just come lay your hands on her.
She will be well.”
Faith!
Humility!
This religious leader bows before Jesus - Not what he should have done!
He publically declares that he believes that Jesus could heal this girl.
When you’re desperate for the power of Jesus, you’ll humble yourself before Him.
Pride says, “I don’t need Jesus.
I can figure it out on my own.
I can do all things in my strength.”
Humility says - “I can’t do it without Jesus.
I’m weak and insufficient.
I need Him more than anything else in this life.”
Humility says - “I don’t care who knows that I can’t do it.
I don’t care who knows that I am insufficient and weak.”
At this moment, when his daughter’s life was on the line, Jairus didn’t care what the religious leaders thought about his faith in Jesus.
He didn’t care if they laughed at him, ridiculed him, or called him a traitor.
All Jairus cared about was getting Jesus to come home with him!
We are far too concerned with what people think about us and far too little concerned with experiencing the work of Jesus in our lives.
Are you to proud to say, “Jesus, I need you?” How long will you let your life remain a mess?
When was the last time you said, “I can’t do it and I don’t care who knows that I can’t do it?”
This is what the church is missing!
Desperate people!
Jesus responds to desperate people!
A person of desperate faith is not satisfied with simply receiving gifts from Jesus.
Jesus agrees to go with Jairus.
All of a sudden hope!
Imagine Jairus grabbing Jesus by the hand, hurriedly rushing through the streets, trying to get home.
There’s not much time.
But, Jairus isn’t the only one who is desperate for the power of Jesus.
There’s a woman who’s been sick for years; not a life-threatening illness like the little girl, but an illness that has caused people to treat her as if she was dead.
Issue of blood - 12 years - some type of hemorrhage that would not go away.
She had seen every dr.
possible and spent her life savings trying to look for answers.
She hadn’t gotten better.
She had gotten worse.
Problem: she couldn’t be around anyone because she was unclean.
She was the opposite of Jairus.
Jairus was respected.
She was shunned and forgotten.
She couldn’t participate in religious life.
If anyone touched her, they would become unclean and have to go through cleansing rituals to be able to worship.
Imagine that most of her time spent at home, away from people.
Hears the news of Jesus in the streets of her town.
Could this be her chance?
Imagine - wraps her head so no one will notice her.
Quietly but quickly moves through the street.
Maybe if she just touched Jesus she would be healed.
Reaches out and touches Jesus’ garment, but Luke gives us a key detail.
“She touched the fringe of his garment.”
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