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Precious Problems
Mark 5:21-43
How many of you have heard of Levis Jeans ?
Article in time magazine 1950 on their hundred year anniversary.
When 20-year-old Levi Strauss sailed from Manhattan round Cape Horn to San Francisco in 1850 to seek a fortune in the gold fields, he carried a roll of canvas in his baggage.
He intended to sell it to a tentmaker to get enough cash for a grubstake.
But when he got ashore, the complaint of a friendly miner gave him a better idea.
“Pants don’t wear worth a hoot up in the diggins,” said the miner.
“Can’t get a pair strong enough to last no time.”
Levi promptly went into the clothing business.
He had a tailor cut a pair of trousers from his canvas roll, and soon the miner was strolling all over town, boasting how strong were these “pants of Levi’s.”
With one satisfied customer, Strauss found he had a steady stream of men who wanted “Levis.”
In a shop on San Francisco’s California Street, he began making dozens of pairs of the waist-high overalls which defied the wear & tear of bronc-riding, gold-mining and plain ordinary living.
You see what he thought was a problem became something that gave him great wealth and changed the lives of so many people.
What he thought was a problem was actually the best thing that ever happened to him.
Here we find a man with a Problem.
I want to submit to you that this Problem in Jariuses life was a good thing.
What was his problem his little daughter lay at the door of death and ultimately died before he could get Jesus to help her.
But that problem as scary as it was in his life was precious and it set in motion some good things in his life.
How many of you have a Problem.
At church we call it a cross.
Or a thorn.
Something that looms overhead.
Your mind constantly goes there , Maybe it is an obstacle in your mind, insurmountable.
Beyond your control, maybe it is embarrassing.
It brings you to tears it did jarius
It wakes you up at night I am sure it did jarius
Maybe even it makes you wish you were not alive at times
If gives you anxiety Jarius
It makes you want to quit on God
It makes the future look bleak jarius
It makes you feel like a failure
You literally hate your position at times
If you are not there now thank God but most of us have been there and we have all been tempted to feel this way
How many of you know what I am talking about.
If you do not you will one day
And the point of this message is not to aid to our despair but to be able to put our trust in God and we find the key to do that in this passage.
Here is what I want to tell you that problem is precious.
God works through problems
Hew has it so designed that he teaches in the storm.
He gets you in a vulnerable position than he teaches you.
The spiritual training during a problem
It is just how the christian life is set up
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
2 requirements saved and love God
So I want to go through this passage and point out how that problem is precious.
And I want you to think about that problem as we go through this
Prayer is Promoted
And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much people gathered unto him: and he was nigh unto the sea.
And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,
I want you to think of your prayer life
I want to think about what is it in your life that consistently drives you to your knees
No maybe it should not be so but it is so
Do not ever feel guilty going to God with a problem I love it when my children or those under my lead come to me say I have this problem I want your help on.
That excites me it invigorates me
We all the verse Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
He told him that in prison The Lord came to jeremiah in Prison
Whatever that brings you to Christ is a good thing
He wants you to come to him with your problems he just does not want you to lie to him and falsy repent and make great promises and give great pennies
What prompted this prayer was a Problem his daughter was sick.
I think the greatest fears a family man has is losing his wife or losing his kids.
How many times have we been driven to our knees by these precious problems.
You see in my life many times like Jarius the threat of loss has driven me to my knees
And the actual loss itself has kept me there.
If you had everything you desired and were never sick and never had people problems or financial problems.
Do you think you would pray much?
Personal No longer part of the crowd
And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much people gathered unto him: and he was nigh unto the sea.
And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,
You ever wonder how the Lord has time to notice you I mean heaven is so far away and the crowd is so big and the need is so great.
I mean really I am just another number
My ss number 8 digits
I mean to the economy we are just another number
Columbia people medellin
To the sensas we are just another number.
But through problems you know what you find There is a god in heaven that is interested in me personally
I am not just a part of the crowd
My hair are numbers not a sparrow falls to the ground without him knowing about it and he cares more about me than the sparrows.
I am not just a face in the crowd he knows me personally better than I know myself.
That becomes evident to me when I have a problem.
Think about the people in the story of the gospels
How many of them had a problem
Blind man
Demon possessed man
Woman with an issue of blood right here
The lame man let down through the ceiling
Zachas climbed up in a tree
The ten lepers.
They all had a problem they had a question they had a family member that was sick
And that is how they entered the gospel story.
Listen I don't care who you are if you are born again you entered that relationship because you had a problem.
You were a sin sick sinner.
That drove you out of the crowd to a compassionate saviour
This problem prometed prayer.
You see it is his way or working with you in a special way.
Pride is put down
And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,
This was a ruler of the synagogue in Capernaum
Therefore, he had a very prestigious position among the Jews.
But in spite of his prestigious position, Though he was a leader of the synagogue, yet he showed great respect for Christ by falling down in deference to Christ.
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