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Just a Few Crumbs
Mark 7:24-30
Mark 7:24-30
I’M JUST ASKING FOR THE CRUMBS
Intro: Does anybody in this room have a need in your life?
Most everyone here has several important needs.
I would go a step farther and say that most people in this room today have one or more major needs in their lives and some may not see how their need can be met.
Some people are looking at devastating family problems.
Some are looking at financial difficulty.
Some are looking at a problem with a child.
Some see their own souls and realize that they are lost.
Some are looking at a disease and wondering what lies ahead.
Some are looking at their parents and realizing they won’t be here forever.
I could stand here all day and not exhaust the list of problems that many of you are facing today.
In the midst of your problems, you need someone to help you.
You need someone you can turn to for your solution.
You need God to work in your life.
You don’t need Him to lift every burden, just the heaviest.
You don’t need Him to move every mountain, just the highest.
You don’t need God to give you the whole loaf, just a crumb.
That is the situation we are looking at in this passage today.
Jesus is approached by a mother who is in a desperate situation.
She needs something in her life.
She comes to the Lord and as she does, she is not asking for the whole meal, she is just asking for the crumbs.
She is just asking Jesus to move in her situation.
Jesus has just told the Pharisees, the scribes, His disciples and the multitudes that nothing in and of itself is unclean, Mark 7:14-16.
He told them that defilement is from within, Mark 7:20-23.
His message was simple: What a man is in his heart is what he truly is!
As soon as that encounter is over, Jesus and His men go to Tyre and Sidon, which is in the heart of Gentile territory.
Once again, they try to get some rest from the pressures of the ministry.
But, we are told in verse 24 that “He could not be hid”.
That is always the case!
When Jesus is in a person, a family, a church, a community, or wherever, He simply cannot be hidden!
Word will get out that He is in the house.
(Ill.
That is why we should do everything we can to ensure that we create and atmosphere where He can work among us!)
In this text, a burdened mother locates Jesus.
She begins to petition Him for the help she needs.
She faces several challenges, but she persists and she gets what she came for.
As I preach this text today, I want you to understand that there is hope for you.
God has the solution to your problem.
I want to share a few thoughts from this passage that may help us find what we need for our own lives today.
I want to preach on I’m Just Asking For The Crumbs.
I.
An Urgent Request- vs. 25-26
I. v. 25-26 THE MOTHER AND HER REQUEST
A. The Reason She Came – This woman came to Jesus because she was concerned about her daughter.
The child was demon possessed and was probably acting out in violence and anger.
She needed help in a desperate way.
It may be that the demon in causing bodily harm to the child.
This was the situation in the case of another demon possessed child, Matt.
9:22
B. The Reason She Cried – Matt.
15:23 tells us that she “cried” after Jesus.
The word means to “croak, to shout after another.”
It is the idea of a loud, persistent shrieking.
This woman was shouting to Jesus for the help she needed.
Why was she so frantic?
She was heartbroken over the condition of her child and she was determined to get her child the help she needed.
C. The Reason She Called – Verse 25 tells us that this woman had “heard of Him”.
Perhaps she had heard about how Jesus had healed all manner of diseases; about how He had opened the eyes of the blind and unstopped the ears of the deaf; about how He had driven the demons from other people.
She may have heard about how Jesus had gone over into the country of the Gaderenes and had delivered the man possessed by a legion of demons.
She may have said, “If He can deliver that man from a legion of demons, surely He can deliver my daughter from the grip of one devil!”
This woman came to Jesus because faith and hope had been aroused in her heart.
She needed something that society had not been able to provide.
She was looking for something that her dead religion had been powerless to give her.
She needed a solution that she had not been able to provide by her own self-efforts.
She was desperate and she saw Jesus as her only hope!
(Note: How many of you can identify with this poor, anxious mother?
Perhaps you are dealing with a child that is out of control.
Perhaps you are at your wits end over some situation in your life and you need help.
Perhaps you have exhausted every means at your disposal and do not know where to turn for help.
Maybe what you need is salvation.
Or, maybe what you need is restoration and forgiveness.
Whatever the need in your life may be today; you should take a lesson from this woman: Get that need to Jesus!
Regardless of what you face in your life today, the answer will be found in Him!
He can move your mountain; meet your need; save your soul; forgive your sins; touch your loved ones; you name it, He can do it!
But, you have to get it to Him! Don’t be afraid to call on Him; He invites you to come, Matt.
11:28; Jer.
33:3.
You do not have to bear this burden alone!
Bring it to Jesus, He cares, 1 Pet.
5:7; Heb.
4:15; and He can help, Heb.
4:16.)
II.
An Unwavering Resolve-vs.
27-28
II.
v. 27-28 THE MOTHER AND
HER RESOLVE
(Ill.
This woman comes to Jesus for help and when she doesn’t get the response she imagines, she stays after Jesus until she gets what she wants.)
A. v. 23-27 The Obstacles Of Faith – She had to overcome many obstacles in order to secure her daughter’s healing.
It seemed that she met resistance to her request at every turn.
Yet, she persisted until she achieved her goal.
Look at some of the obstacles she faced and overcame by faith.
1.
The Obstacle Of Race – Verse 26 tells us that this woman was from Tyre and Sidon.
Matt.
15:22 tells us that she was a Canaanite.
This reveals two things about this mother.
First, she was descended from a cursed people.
When Joshua led the people of Israel into Canaan, they had been commanded to totally destroy the Canaanites, Deut.
7:2.
She was a member of a doomed race.
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