Mark 5:37
Help Along the Way
Outline:
I. \\#Mark 1:1-15\\ Introduction
A. \\#1:1-8\\ Jesus Was Announced
B. \\#1:9-11\\ Jesus Was Authenticated
C. \\#1:12-13\\ Jesus Was Proven
D. \\#1:14-15\\ The Bridge
II. \\#Mark 1:16-2:28\\ Meet Jesus
A. \\#1:14-2:12\\ Jesus’ Authority
1. \\#1:16-20\\ Jesus Has Authority over Men
2. \\#1:21-22\\ Jesus Has Authority in Doctrine
3. \\#1:23-28\\ Jesus Has Authority over Demons
4. \\#1:29-39\\ Jesus Has Authority over Sickness
5. \\#1:40-45\\ Jesus Has Authority over Disease
6. \\#2:1-12\\ Jesus Has Authority over Sin
B. \\#2:13-28\\ Jesus Cares for Sinners
C. \\#2:13-28\\ Jesus Is Not Like Others
1. \\#2:13-17\\ He’s not like everyone else.
2. \\#2:18-22\\ He’s not like the disciples of John or the
Pharisees.
3. \\#23-28\\ He’s not like the Pharisees.
III. \\#Mark 3:1-35\\ Things Are Changing
A. \\#3:1-6\\ The Relationship Between Jesus and the Pharisees
B. \\#3:7-12\\ The Relationship Between Jesus and the People
C. \\#3:13-19\\ The Relationship Between Jesus and His Disciples
D. \\#3:22-30\\ The Relationship Between Jesus and the Scribes
E. \\#3:31-35\\ The Relationship Between Jesus and His Family
IV. \\#Mark 4:1-10:52\\ The Words and Power of Jesus
A. \\#4:1-20\\ Bad Weeds Kill Good Seeds
B. \\#4:21-34\\ Parable Epilogues
C. \\#4:35-41\\ Faith
D. \\#5:1-43\\ The Tormented Delivered
1. \\#5:1-20\\ Tormented by Demons
2. \\#5:21-24, 35-43\\ Tormented by Death
We are in the section of Mark’s gospel where he simply records the
words and the power of our Savior. The goal, I believe, is to show
Jesus in His might and wisdom, and does he ever accomplish that goal!
What is interesting is that it appears Mark recorded the miracles
that occurred on a single day. He never says that but he does give
that indication. In Mark 4, Jesus was sailing across the Sea of
Galilee, a storm comes up, and Jesus calms it. When He gets off the
boat, before He ever gets to the city, Jesus cast demons out of a
man. Again, before He gets into the city, the townsmen come out and
tell Jesus to leave, so He gets back into the boat and sails away.
In \\#21\\, Jesus got off the boat and is soon performing not one but
two miracles. It seems as though Jesus just did miracle after
miracle after miracle.
This passage contains a story within a story. We only want to
concentrate on the story about Jairus and his daughter. The story
begins \\#5:21-24\\ and resumes \\#5:35-43\\.
Because it is a split story and I am going to start at the end, let
me summarize the first part. Jairus was a father with a very sick
daughter. He had gone looking for Jesus and found Him. How long he
looked? We don’t know. Where he was from? We don’t know. Exactly
where he found Jesus? We don’t know. What we do know is that when he
found Jesus, he asked Jesus to come heal his daughter and Jesus
agreed. So the two began to travel together, but are stopped for a
period of time. Because of all that happens, Jairus is going to need
some help along the way—and Jesus will give it to him.
I see Jesus giving Jairus help in several ways. Let’s look at the
last help Jesus gave first.
I. Jesus helped along the way by giving Jairus a resurrection.
Mark 5:37 And he suffered no man to follow him,
save Peter, and James, and John the brother of
James.
38 And he cometh to the house of the ruler of
the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them
that wept and wailed greatly.
39 And when he was come in, he saith unto them,
Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is
not dead, but sleepeth.
40 And they laughed him to scorn. But when he
had put them all out, he taketh the father and
the mother of the damsel, and them that were
with him, and entereth in where the damsel was
lying.
41 And he took the damsel by the hand, and said
unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being
interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.
42 And straightway the damsel arose, and walked;
for she was of the age of twelve years. And they
were astonished with a great astonishment.
43 And he charged them straitly that no man
should know it; and commanded that something
should be given her to eat.
A. The resurrection is actually what Jairus and his daughter
needed all along, but Jairus did not know it.
B. \\#35\\ Jairus had sought Jesus because his daughter was sick.
1. Jairus wanted Jesus to heal her.
a. Jairus sought Jesus, found Jesus, requested and
acquired from Jesus a healing, but unbeknown to
Jairus, a healing would not help.
b. The girl’s condition changed for the worse from the
time Jairus left until the time he found Jesus.
c. A healing won’t help a dead person.
2. We know what a healing is.
a. A healing is a physical repair.
b. If there is something in the body that should not be
there, the repair is to remove it.
c. If there is something not in the body which needs to
be there, the repair is to add it.
d. If there is something clogged in the body, the repair
is to unclog it.
e. If there is something not functioning in the body, the
repair is to mend it.
3. However, putting a band aid or a bandage on a corpse won’t
repair it.
a. A blood transfusion won’t heal it.
b. Even organ transplants won’t help.
4. The only thing that will help a dead person is a
resurrection.
5. Although Jairus did not know it, the repair he sought was
no longer sufficient.
6. Jairus was seeking for a repair when what he needed was a
resurrection.
C. This is the condition of the whole world.
1. Our society senses that things are wrong.
a. I read an article which conveyed an interview with the
Chief of Police in Portland. The article said that
the riots have been going on for 100 days now.
b. I thought two things:
(1) He called them riots and protests.
(2) Why? Why let anything like that go on for 100
days.
c. But I think the reason so many are being are being
duped into such behavior is because they are looking
for a way to repair the things that broken.
d. Yesterday, Coach Nick Sabban lead a Black Lives
Matters parade!
(1) Imagine that.
(2) A university coach leading a parade to honor
terrorist and thugs whose stated purpose is to
to destroy the family and the church.
e. These people are looking in the wrong places for the
wrong thing.
f. Society doesn’t need a repair. It needs a
resurrection.
2. The same thing happens in religion.
a. People think a few good deeds, a baptism, or a
membership will repair what is broken.
b. But it is not a repair they need.
c. It is a resurrection.
d. What they need—what they must have—is new life in
Jesus.
D. \\#24\\ Jesus had agreed to go with Jairus before Jairus even
knew what he what he needed.
1. But Jesus knew, and Jesus was going to give them what
they needed.
2. Yet, that will be the last help that Jesus gave to this
family—at least the last help recorded in the Scriptures.
a. We will not see Jairus or his daughter mentioned in
the Bible again.
b. From that perspective, this is the last help recorded
that Jesus gave to them; however, it was not the
first help Jesus gave them.
II. \\#5:21-24\\ The first help that Jesus gave was love.
Mark 5:21 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.
22 And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers
of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw
him, he fell at his feet,
23 And besought him greatly, saying, My little
daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray
thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may
be healed; and she shall live.
24 And Jesus went with him; and much people
followed him, and thronged him.
A. \\#24\\ The Bible says that Jesus went with this man.
1. A stranger came to Jesus needing help and Jesus stopped
what He was doing and went with him.
2. I don’t think that was unusual. Jesus probably did this
all the time.
3. Why would Jesus do that, over and over again?
4. Jesus went because He loved this man, and He loved his
daughter.
5. Love is what has motivated all that God has ever done for
the human race. \\#John 3:16\\
a. our creation, our free will, life after sin, sending
Jesus to the earth and to the cross, 2,000 years of
preaching the gospel around the globe
b. All of these things was because God wanted a people to
love and a people that would choose to love Him back.
B. What is love?
1. The best definition I have heard is: Love is putting
another one or another thing about all else.
2. You can see love in three ways:
a. Love cares.
b. Love desires to help.
c. And love follows through with that desire to help.
C. Sadly, there are some areas in which you and I cannot be like
Jesus.
1. We cannot cure the sick or to raise the dead—not like
He could— but we can certainly love.
2. We can care for people, want to make things better, and
even help make some things better.
3. Our love can do two things:
a. It can comfort them.
(1) Love does not heal.
(a) Jesus was already giving love to Jairus, but
his daughter was still dead.
(b) It would take a resurrection to change that.
(2) But I will promise you that the care Jairus
felt from Jesus, the desire to help, and the
help was already giving comforted Jairus.
(3) Life is tough and it doesn’t cost much to care.
(4) Love your family, your friends, other Christians,
and even strangers.
(5) The first help Jesus gave to this family was to
love them.
(6) That is a help we too can give.
b. Our love can also help some people to want better, to
do better, and to be better.
(1) It may not have that effect on everyone, but it
will have that effect on some.
(2) A Christians’ love can and should point others to
the One who loves the most—Jesus.
(3) It is God’s love that they really need, but our
love might move them to seek Him, to accept Him.
D. Why did Jesus go with Jairus? Why not just speak the word and
heal his daughter?
1. I think it was because Jairus’ downward journey was not
over yet.
a. Have you ever been on one of those emotional roller-
coasters where you thought things could not get any
worse—but it did?
b. Jairus was not at his lowest point yet.
c. It was on the way; and I believe Jesus wanted to be
with Jairus when he got there.
2. When Jairus left, his daughter was sick but alive.
a. While on his search, the daughter died and a messenger
was sent to give him the bad news.
b. That messenger was already on his way, and we know
that he will meet Jairus on his way home.
c. I think Jesus knew that too.
(1) Even if Jesus had healed the daughter from a far,
the messenger would not have known.
(2) The messenger would deliver his message and that
message, even if Jesus had resurrected his
daughter, would shake Jairus’ faith and crush
his soul.
(3) I believe Jesus went with Jairus because He did
not want Jairus to face that alone!
3. I know it sometimes seems that God is sending us to the
depths of pain and defeat, but God never wants to send
us to that desperate place alone.
a. Jesus wants to go with you to it.
b. Jesus wants to love and comfort you while you are
there.
III. The second help that Jesus gave was faith.
A. Jesus spoke two statements that He really did not have to say.
1. The first was spoken to Jairus immediately after the
messenger delivered his message.
Mark 5:36 …Be not afraid, only believe.
2. The second was spoken in Jairus’ presence when Jesus
arrived.
Mark 5:39 … Why make ye this ado, and weep?
the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.
B. The Bible tells us how the people responded when Jesus made
this statement.
Mark 5:40 And they laughed him to scorn…
1. Why would Jesus make that statement—even with it being
true?
a. If all that Jesus wanted to do was to impress the
people with His power and might, neither statement
was necessary.
(1) Just raise the girl.
(2) That would have done it.
b. Why not just raise her and let His actions speak for
themselves?
c. There may have been several, but I see one really
important reason.
2. Jesus wanted to give them faith.
a. By telling them in advance that something great was
about to happen, Jesus was giving them an opportunity
to believe.
(1) Granted, for the mourners inside the room, it was
a short opportunity—just a few minutes.
(2) For Jairus, it was slightly longer. Maybe an
hour, maybe several, although I’m sure it seemed
to him and his family like an eternity.
b. But that is the way faith is.
(1) Even though for those who are suffering it may
seem like an eternity, in actuality, faith only
lasts for a short time.
(a) For the mourners, a few minutes.
(b) For the father, perhaps a few hours.
(c) For you and me, it may be a few years, even
as long as a few decades; but in the scope
of eternity, that is not very long at all.
(2) Jesus spoke to offer these people a short time to
believe because rewards and understanding come
with faith.
(3) The delay in raising the girl may not have seemed
like it at the time, but the faith they grew
during that time would help them again and again
in this life and reap for them eternal rewards.
(4) Jesus was giving them an opportunity to grew
their faith.
(5) And He speaks tonight for the same reason, to
give us an opportunity to believe, to have
faith.
In closing let me remind us that once we reach the journey’s end, the
greatest help of all will be given to us, the resurrection; but God
offers to us help along the way. We could mention more of them, but I
see God offering Jairus love and faith. Let us take these miracles of
power that God offers us and continue our journey in power.
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