The Sermon Walk With Me Jesus by David McGee
Nov 10, 2013
Walk With Me Jesus (36:52)
Referenced Scriptures: Luke 8:40-42; Luke 8:49-56
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Luke 8:40-42
40) It happened, as Jesus returned, the multitude welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him.
41) Behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus‘ feet, and begged him to come into his house,
42) for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes thronged him.
Luke 8:49-56
49) While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the synagogue‘s house came, saying to him, "Your daughter is dead. Don‘t trouble the Teacher."
50) But Jesus hearing it, answered him, "Don‘t be afraid. Only believe, and she will be healed."
51) When he came to the house, he didn‘t allow anyone to enter in, except Peter, John, James, the father of the girl, and her mother.
52) All were weeping, and mourning her, but he said, "Don‘t weep. She isn‘t dead, but sleeping."
53) They laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
54) But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, "Little girl, arise!"
55) Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat.
56) Her parents were amazed, but he charged them to tell no one what had been done.
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Next Sunday is our Thanksgiving Sunday Thanksgiving dinner and in the back of a pass around a list of all four individuals that would like to bring something bring food, desserts, or whatever. Bobby anything special when we have provided the main dish, and were just asking you to bring other things of this, write it down, and how many are going to bring with you so that we have an idea of how many plates, the sets, and in things and bring people know Brinkley bring other people invite somebody at the idea hundred percent of the people you bring will come okay. Moving right along. Now if you feed them, they will come. Now if you bring them. They'll be here or see something like that. Today we're looking at live chapter eight and we discussed some of this last week with the woman with the issue of blood, or the the problem with her hemorrhaging while it was in this setting off that Scripture. Last week we had this other story this other situation that was going on and Luke chapter eight beginning at verse forty one agreed versus forty through forty two and there's there's two titles that I I placed on this this message. If neither laughing at Jesus, because as a situation in here where people were laughing at him or the other title is walk with me, Jesus, so you can pick whichever one you like on verse forty. On his return. Jesus was walking by a crowd, he is left to get the land of the gallery and which is just across the Sea of Galilee, and he is turned in this area and there was a great crowd there waiting for him to return and on his return. Jesus was walking by a crowd. They were all there, expecting him a man came up. It's your job. I was called injurious, but one of the things if you go on Bible Gateway .com Bible Gateway .com has an audio Bible and you can click on that and pick up chapters are in the entire Bible. Listen to it and if you're reading the Bible and you like to hear that this they can read along with you. You can read along with the the person who is the audio Bible. So I turned it on to try and make sure that I say the right name. The names correctly and I always thought injurious and the guy on the audio Bible calls it, Jay Iris, so his name is Jay Iris and American opinion, JR risk by name. He was president of the meeting place is valid. Jesus feet and begged him to come to his home because his twelve -year-old daughter 's only child was dying Jesus went with him, making his way through the pushing jostling crowd verse forty nine while he was still talking someone from the leader 's house came up and told him your daughter die. No need to bother the teacher Jesus overheard and said don't be upset. Just trust me and everything will be all right going into his house. He wouldn't let anyone in, except Peter, John and James, and the child's parents. Everyone was crying and carrying on over her. Jesus said, don't cry. She didn't die, she's sleeping. They laughed at him. They knew she was dead. Then Jesus, gripping her hand called by called my dear child, it up. She was up in an instant up breathing again. He told him to give her something to eat. Her parents were Hispanic. Jesus warned them to keep quiet, don't tell a soul what happened in this room so as we think about this particular setting. I think in the context that here is yours, Jesus, he's just arrived back from the other side of the Sea of Galilee and again your side of the sea Galilee is not that far away. It's just maybe and maybe a mile across. Maybe a little longer. Somewhere in that good. The thing about the Sea of Galilee. It isn't that it's a very long and so so great in size. It's extremely deep, and that it is it it is encompassed by heels all around except I want and one end of the other. C there is a valid and the wind from the Mediterranean Sea will come across the land, and will funnel through this. This Valley and come right on the Sea of Galilee, and it will turn into a tidal wave. They are same in the other. C will become very rough storms come up very unexpectedly because they know few years ago, loan and the sixth is a sixties, not six seventy seven flood. They know they said that we grab the storm they got in the mountains and just never got out. Well, what happened that similar situations happen at the Sea of Galilee that storms come in from the Mediterranean, and they just come funneling through this valley, and they hit to the Sea of Galilee creates violent storms and so whenever we read them in the Scriptures about Jesus being on the Sea of Galilee and great storms coming up. That's what happens that the sea was very prone to those storms coming in from the Mediterranean Sea and they would come up very unexpectedly. They were young, you would be looking up and never being fields like Ron here's sometimes you look at the sky is bright and missing a note about the storm coming, and that's kind of what happened at the Sea of Galilee. So Jesus has returned from the community. The area called the gathering, and they were not of the Jewish descent, but they occupied one section or one area of the sea shore of the Sea of Galilee. What Jesus had returned from their in this crowd is there welcoming him with jostling crowds so they were married anxious to see Jesus because they were interested in what he was meant to do for them. They were interested in hell. He refuses even to teach us to do some miracle is not to do something important and so they all wanted knowledge and along comes JI rests, who is the leader of the synagogue, so he's a man of importance is a man of importance who is well-known in the community and he just falls at the feet of Jesus becomes. And he brings his needy brings us dire need to Jesus. He followed his feet any. The Jesus, my child, my only child. My twelve -year-old daughter is dying. Something has to be done. Can you do something for her and so we see in this setting out a bag he was begging Jesus Jo please come. Please common touch my daughter and an alternate to come to our house and no do something about my daughter. There's different degrees. I think her different understandings of our faith, we have this insurer in who comes to Jesus and said you to speak the word. You don't need to come to my house. You don't need to come talk to my server got need to cut you to say the word is all taken care of. We have situations where people are beggars along the side of the road and air crying out Jesus you know, and Jesus stopped. This is the one you'll need to do while I'm blind and I need to see I'm crippled and I need to walk while it's interesting how that there's so many different types of people and different as it were levels of faith different expectations of Jesus and how that he never put anyone down for what they had. I give you look at ourselves. We went across the room and say I how would you pray, and you pray how would you approach Jesus and Jesus were walking down the aisle here would you fall at his feet would use you. Would you from your from your peers that allegations or Jimmy like Mary and Martha now and again is not critical, criticizing very modestly, Jesus, you can hear just a few days ago, our brother when the dive. So every situation we see people coming to Jesus in different scenarios. Who does he turn away, courtesy stop and say, you know what, that's not good enough, now you don't have enough faith. None of them. The only people. Jesus really had a problem with where the people who were so religious. They kept telling Jesus Kayden match up with what they were expecting. You know, we have rules and we have regulations as to how the Messiah is supposed to act, and you don't match up with our rules. Therefore, you don't. You're not really the Messiah and those of the individuals that know Jesus had a difficult time with was constantly confronting and telling you what you're nothing but a Whited sepulcher at the last. That doesn't mean much. But in those days, a white except liquor was to and you weren't allowed to talk to them. You are allowed to go near them. Are you one plea because the bodies are decaying, so they would paint them white, so that you went and got Amanda B so you want to be contaminated and it's interesting how that the Scriptures established rules, laws that were really protecting the people were really protecting them from disease and contamination in and things like that. And so there were laws don't go near the terms because it's it's it's a sin, but the idea is if you go near the jerseys are living there, just like the music and so Jesus Bill Whited sepulcher 's, there's a chill. We don't know near an Jesus says to the Pharisees, you just a bunch of Whited sepulcher 's full of dead men's bones that was a very derogatory comments of them that he was trying to get their attention, but think about all the other individuals who spoke in faith gyrus is one who comes to Jesus falls his feet and says my daughters dying. I need your help. And as soon as he starts, and that was our sermon or message last week was the woman who fell on her knees came through the jostling crowd and reached out and touched him of his garment. She was healed. And Jesus said, who touched me he felt virtue flow from him when we touched Jesus something happens to make us different, and happens on the inside happens on the outside and Jesus restored her physically and he restored her to her community, whatever he may have had her speak about what it happened and no sooner had that Bob did, that this woman had finished her declaration about all that happened, and news comes the Jerry SJ Iris while they verse forty nine while he was still talking someone from the leader 's house came up and told him your daughter died. No need to bother the teacher and I think of this in and in the context of what are the realities that we govern our life by one of the realities that come to us and say, you know what nothing changes our world is now let's just read the newspaper every day. Do you know that every obituary you read is a somebody died, Jenna, however. Cemetery plot that has the name of birth and date of death that everybody and there is by and say what was that have to do you know what we look for, we will find. And that is the truth now and incidents like that some people have died. They deceased the fall down there. I like the little black all the aliases the workplace like it says on the people who have died and have not fallen down. Do not expect to employ to beat your much longer. Yup, it's like a it like a show it up you follow the yellow brick road and you find your your find where you go to work. It is that life can be so predictable that I can tell you all the things that go wrong with this day before it even begins. I can tell you everything that's going to go wrong with this day before it begins I can tell you everything will be in the newspaper before before I read it is going to be about war. That's got to be about typhoons and hurricanes and disasters. If none of the about politicians and and and how that the political arena. How that someone in our community has had an accident how someone has failed how that this is gone wrong. How that is going wrong. I can tell you what the newspaper says right. So why whatever were reading it. Why do we expect to see something different it's it's informing us of all of the disasters it's informing us of our knowledge of them. I think don't read a newspaper now should we so should we not listen to the news. Now we need to be informed, but know that there's something else going on. Know that there's something else going on in our life. Besides the things that are wrong, what is it that we expect if I can tell all the bad things that are going to happen in the day I let her know what the good things happened today. I ask you that question right now. One of the good things that happen in your life today, youth, yes yeah yeah yeah tonight. PS why White House briefing. What's happening your life today. Preachers could be done in fifteen minutes. Yes what that thing is happening your life today to get the gods go to protect me from what don't know yet, although I also happen while what good things that happened to me today. Why is that so hard. I said what you think what happened today. I could I I did this a number of years ago at the hospital. I put on a base to do elevator things at the hospital bill uplifting thoughts for the elevator. I was clever enough. Those were the days when I was clever. I guess here's a list of things that you're here. We are approaching Thanksgiving by the mess the mess to clean up after party, because it means I've been surrounded by friends. The taxes I pay means because unemployed. I have an income. The clothes that fit a little too snug means that I've had enough to eat a lawn needs mowing windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing, because it means I have a home the spot I find at the far end of the parking lot on Black Friday and Thanksgiving Thursday now that we're doing the final parking lot means what I can capable of walking you register the page you reconcile is an elevator thoughts that I have an efficient all the complaining I hear about our governor government because it means what we have the freedom of speech. The lady behind me in church. We don't have this problem. The laying kind in churches sings off key, because I can hear the piles of laundry and ironing, because it means my loved ones are near the huge heating bill because it means I'm warm the alarm that goes off in the early morning hours because it means one work and I'm alive wariness and aching muscles at the end of the day because it means I've been productive this date there are so many things up as we look at these in and I I look at young economy and the jobs in the illnesses and the physical problems and that the physical changes that you don't do these ever change that got around for a few thousand years and and yes they are barren and CDs are realities and Jay Iris, your daughter has died don't need to bother the master and when we look at our life. Sometimes I think we get stuck in a while and N/A we look at our church we look at our neighbors would look of our family. When you look at anything and we can find these negativities we can find this perspective and and there's no need to bother the teacher anymore. There's no need for you to pray that things will be different because it's already sealed. It's already done. Your daughter has died. Jesus already and overheard and said don't be upset, don't be upset with the realities that that come to you in life because easy. Our faith in a lot of talk about dreaming and talk about denial. Denial says all it doesn't exist. Faith says I'm a very real God, and the very real problem. And Jesus says what. Trust me walk with me soon when you have a chance to look at this and look at it through the eyes of faith and hear Jesus say walk with me or we can hear and be like the people in the house, which is a sexy, dancing, sleeping, and we can laugh at him. So here we are faced with words of encouragement that things can be different. God can make a difference in my life. Everybody think God can make a difference in my life. God can make a difference in my life again. God can make a difference in my life. Walk with me, Jesus, you walk with me, Jesus. Jesus is telling Jack gyrus but me walk with you, Jesus is telling us. Let me walk with you. Let me walk with you. So when Jesus is telling us. Let me walk with you a saying the message at the cleanup after the party means I've given you some friends think the clock in the house that needs cleaning the laundry to these done. Need to have a family to share with complaining about our government with freedom of speech with a chance to make a difference doesn't seem that way, but we do. And so we have partisan. Jason 's essay. Let me walk with you. Trust me when I think of that picture Jesus, saying, let me walk with you. I think about one of my most one of my favorite scriptures is when Jesus is after the cruise after the resurrection. There are two walking the road on the meas from Jerusalem to Emmaus and Jesus walks with these two individuals and they don't even know he's there that they don't recognize he misses Jesus okay, but he begins to explain to them the Scriptures. It begins so explained to them the prophecies in the Old Testament about the coming of the Messiah and his death and his sacrifice, and he walks with them, and when they arrive at their house. They constrained Jesus. It's almost like they pulled him into the house that the just stay with them for that night. And Jesus in unknown who is but whenever he breaks bread and praise their eyes were opened. Either they see his hands or they just sense the spirit that is there in Christ. Their eyes are open and the whole life changes. It's Jesus and he disappears and I think of our life in Jesus is walking with us. He's walking with us. He's walking with you, Jesus is walking with me say that Jesus is walking with me again. Jesus is walking with me. What's he telling about the world is or how great his promises are just as trust me, and everything will be all right. The realities of what is in these individuals are they all wrong. That is his daughter 's side of the all wrong. No, he doesn't exist to trust me, what are we trusting we are trusting in Jesus, whose word created the universe where trusting in his word that created the universe were trusting in God, who braved into loss. The breath of life and made us a living soul. We're trusting in him and were trusting in his wording that he brings into our hearts and because of the house anyway. Anyone answer with him except Peter, John and James, and the child's parents as when you think that we think that is what's the reason that he would only allow you, James and John and the parents never have bystanders and onlookers. We do it. What while gently I don't think she's already dead. What you do and what would work. I bring her back to life ceased to bring her back to life get rid of critics. The clinic is someone they never build a monument to credit the critic is always someone to tell you what's wrong and how it should be made right engaged in error credits that were going into Jesus when Letterman is it now there's already people in the house and NFL next verse, and everyone was crying and carrying on over here so that were number of people in the house, and there is no crying in their upset about all that as happened with the death of this daughter so they all know she's she's not here. She died and gone and they're all crying over that and Jesus said, don't cry. She didn't die to sleep what we have in this situation is not that she just fell asleep and could be awakened awoke, she was. She had not. But when Jesus reads the word life returns, the dead in Christ shall rise with trouble, God shall sound, the dead in Christ shall rise we which are alive and remain to be caught up to meet them in the air. There is coming a day when the trump of God shall sound, anyone who has died their bodies when we come back to life and we we are alive when that happens, we're going to be changed and brought about heaven, and this tells us on that same capability of the word of God to transition, change us from death to life. If God can raise the dead of Jesus Christ and raise the dead, can he help you in your problem in your reality. So what are the things in a go wrong today. One of the things that I go right today. Let me walk with you in a when we say one of the things that go right with you today. Do we laugh. Jesus said, she's not dead. She's asleep in the case crazy when pastor says Jesus and word tells us things go right with you. They did not go well with you. Things are going to happen for you. Things are going to happen for you. Good things are going to happen for you. It's betimes. Amen. Good things are good for you. Why, because God is with you about it. He said he was going to abandon a lizard that God is going to abandon no one. So why, why would we think they were in his alone. You're somebody privileged enough to you done something bad enough so bad that God will break his word, and not show up true God will honor his word, far above anything that we are members ever done. The wishing film more. We want it's easy to feel comfortable talking about how much God loves us, then how much we love God, we can be a lot more comfortable talking about how much God loves us and how much we love God because his love for us, never fails. He never turns his back. He never walks away. He never leaves us alone win. I feel alone. That is not God speaking to you when I feel that things are going to work out. That's not God speaking from so they laughed at him, but Jesus reaching out and holding her hand, my dear child, it up, my dear child, get up, Jesus touches our hand, says David get up the name of thine but maybe done the press, or I don't like the way things are going, or I'm expecting all the bad things that happen. Jesus says David get a Jesus raises out to each one of us and says your name and says get up to your dentist come for life, the life that I put inside of you, the spirit that I'm instilled in you, the spirit that I bring to you and you think the spirit that is inside a bus. The spirit of God makes sense to you. This isn't something that people who have no faith in him, walked away from God, and an Internet setting here today, but we want to look at our life and recognize God 's Spirit speaks to the spirit inside of us, his spirit inside of us. God inside of us quickens us to hear what God is saying to us, and we change some people believe that it is cut that off the spirit inside in the filial having do it that they got big daddies whatever God is dead, easier, and God reaches out and touches your hand and says David get up with something better for you. But look at that stuff. Are they true is that it is a newspaper lying to us now as there is online plus LA might be opinionated and yell slanted as your people/ things. The matter what news we listen to. It's almost always slanted in one direction or another, but are they lying really is true, then it God does alive to us. He takes the truth of his Word that is eternal and says to us, David. You know, he takes the truth of his Word touches our life, and says get up now. We think happened to the parents J Iris, we can happen I know what well I'm sure glad I came to see you and your daughter Katie and Jesus says& anybody any. Also, but that the Harkin when he double telling everybody knows what does happen. People wanted to be around Jesus because of the miracles, the most important thing. Jesus was giving them was the word that would change their hearts in their minds and their perspective the most important thing Jesus can do for any one of us is to touch us with his word before he touches us with his miracles, because when God intervenes and gives you a miracle today. Watch the thing we want next week. I need another one last thing we need to make after that I need another one. Have we changed David, did you get up the change did you recognize the truth of my words. That's what God wants to instill in us is his Word. His Word will change us. It is teaching us the Scriptures are teaching us about the God who loves us will never leave us or forsake us. And no matter where we are adding our faith he'll never abandon us and he will never tell us you have enough faith. If we have enough faith to ask. We have enough faith you have enough faith to ask if you have enough faith to ask you have enough faith and then Jesus says to us, David get up you are rated paper I rated I know that that's true but also no read the word. This is the truth. This is a greater truth. This is the truth is the last forever. I will never leave you nor forsake you. Nothing is ever done a separate you from me. Get used to it yet. Yes, that nothing could ever separate you from my presence. Nothing could ever remove you from. I had nothing can ever come between me and you and let's then so we been praying for this lady and again she's in God 's hands. We pray for God 's miracles and to take place to transpire after this is another thing I was reading it says Gail has God in everything else has no more than he who has gone only the last God in everything else has no more than he who has gone only. We can't look at what other people while the stuff he who has gone and everything else and he was God only in the same father, thank you for your touch upon our lives. Thank you that you speak our name. Such are life, give us inspire our hearts renew a right spirit change our hearts in the way that we can see you were clearly put knowledge in our minds that we can think more clearly give us wisdom and understanding about life and death than problems and cannot you just are one with us, and you give us hope that never ends a life that is filled with your presence and Jesus, you never turn us away. The matter what realities come into our life. Walk with me, Jesus walk with me, Jesus walk with me through the valleys of the shadows walk with me through the plains of despair into the mountain tops of greatness. Enjoy, so, God and walk with us as friend with friend thank you Jesus for being our friends and men. Amen, I bless youNext Sunday is our Thanksgiving Sunday Thanksgiving dinner and in the back of a pass around a list of all four individuals that would like to bring something bring food, desserts, or whatever. Bobby anything special when we have provided the main dish, and were just asking you to bring other things of this, write it down, and how many are going to bring with you so that we have an idea of how many plates, the sets, and in things and bring people know Brinkley bring other people invite somebody at the idea hundred percent of the people you bring will come okay. Moving right along. Now if you feed them, they will come. Now if you bring them. They'll be here or see something like that. Today we're looking at live chapter eight and we discussed some of this last week with the woman with the issue of blood, or the the problem with her hemorrhaging while it was in this setting off that Scripture. Last week we had this other story this other situation that was going on and Luke chapter eight beginning at verse forty one agreed versus forty through forty two and there's there's two titles that I I placed on this this message. If neither laughing at Jesus, because as a situation in here where people were laughing at him or the other title is walk with me, Jesus, so you can pick whichever one you like on verse forty. On his return. Jesus was walking by a crowd, he is left to get the land of the gallery and which is just across the Sea of Galilee, and he is turned in this area and there was a great crowd there waiting for him to return and on his return. Jesus was walking by a crowd. They were all there, expecting him a man came up. It's your job. I was called injurious, but one of the things if you go on Bible Gateway .com Bible Gateway .com has an audio Bible and you can click on that and pick up chapters are in the entire Bible. Listen to it and if you're reading the Bible and you like to hear that this they can read along with you. You can read along with the the person who is the audio Bible. So I turned it on to try and make sure that I say the right name. The names correctly and I always thought injurious and the guy on the audio Bible calls it, Jay Iris, so his name is Jay Iris and American opinion, JR risk by name. He was president of the meeting place is valid. Jesus feet and begged him to come to his home because his twelve -year-old daughter 's only child was dying Jesus went with him, making his way through the pushing jostling crowd verse forty nine while he was still talking someone from the leader 's house came up and told him your daughter die. No need to bother the teacher Jesus overheard and said don't be upset. Just trust me and everything will be all right going into his house. He wouldn't let anyone in, except Peter, John and James, and the child's parents. Everyone was crying and carrying on over her. Jesus said, don't cry. She didn't die, she's sleeping. They laughed at him. They knew she was dead. Then Jesus, gripping her hand called by called my dear child, it up. She was up in an instant up breathing again. He told him to give her something to eat. Her parents were Hispanic. Jesus warned them to keep quiet, don't tell a soul what happened in this room so as we think about this particular setting. I think in the context that here is yours, Jesus, he's just arrived back from the other side of the Sea of Galilee and again your side of the sea Galilee is not that far away. It's just maybe and maybe a mile across. Maybe a little longer. Somewhere in that good. The thing about the Sea of Galilee. It isn't that it's a very long and so so great in size. It's extremely deep, and that it is it it is encompassed by heels all around except I want and one end of the other. C there is a valid and the wind from the Mediterranean Sea will come across the land, and will funnel through this. This Valley and come right on the Sea of Galilee, and it will turn into a tidal wave. They are same in the other. C will become very rough storms come up very unexpectedly because they know few years ago, loan and the sixth is a sixties, not six seventy seven flood. They know they said that we grab the storm they got in the mountains and just never got out. Well, what happened that similar situations happen at the Sea of Galilee that storms come in from the Mediterranean, and they just come funneling through this valley, and they hit to the Sea of Galilee creates violent storms and so whenever we read them in the Scriptures about Jesus being on the Sea of Galilee and great storms coming up. That's what happens that the sea was very prone to those storms coming in from the Mediterranean Sea and they would come up very unexpectedly. They were young, you would be looking up and never being fields like Ron here's sometimes you look at the sky is bright and missing a note about the storm coming, and that's kind of what happened at the Sea of Galilee. So Jesus has returned from the community. The area called the gathering, and they were not of the Jewish descent, but they occupied one section or one area of the sea shore of the Sea of Galilee. What Jesus had returned from their in this crowd is there welcoming him with jostling crowds so they were married anxious to see Jesus because they were interested in what he was meant to do for them. They were interested in hell. He refuses even to teach us to do some miracle is not to do something important and so they all wanted knowledge and along comes JI rests, who is the leader of the synagogue, so he's a man of importance is a man of importance who is well-known in the community and he just falls at the feet of Jesus becomes. And he brings his needy brings us dire need to Jesus. He followed his feet any. The Jesus, my child, my only child. My twelve -year-old daughter is dying. Something has to be done. Can you do something for her and so we see in this setting out a bag he was begging Jesus Jo please come. Please common touch my daughter and an alternate to come to our house and no do something about my daughter. There's different degrees. I think her different understandings of our faith, we have this insurer in who comes to Jesus and said you to speak the word. You don't need to come to my house. You don't need to come talk to my server got need to cut you to say the word is all taken care of. We have situations where people are beggars along the side of the road and air crying out Jesus you know, and Jesus stopped. This is the one you'll need to do while I'm blind and I need to see I'm crippled and I need to walk while it's interesting how that there's so many different types of people and different as it were levels of faith different expectations of Jesus and how that he never put anyone down for what they had. I give you look at ourselves. We went across the room and say I how would you pray, and you pray how would you approach Jesus and Jesus were walking down the aisle here would you fall at his feet would use you. Would you from your from your peers that allegations or Jimmy like Mary and Martha now and again is not critical, criticizing very modestly, Jesus, you can hear just a few days ago, our brother when the dive. So every situation we see people coming to Jesus in different scenarios. Who does he turn away, courtesy stop and say, you know what, that's not good enough, now you don't have enough faith. None of them. The only people. Jesus really had a problem with where the people who were so religious. They kept telling Jesus Kayden match up with what they were expecting. You know, we have rules and we have regulations as to how the Messiah is supposed to act, and you don't match up with our rules. Therefore, you don't. You're not really the Messiah and those of the individuals that know Jesus had a difficult time with was constantly confronting and telling you what you're nothing but a Whited sepulcher at the last. That doesn't mean much. But in those days, a white except liquor was to and you weren't allowed to talk to them. You are allowed to go near them. Are you one plea because the bodies are decaying, so they would paint them white, so that you went and got Amanda B so you want to be contaminated and it's interesting how that the Scriptures established rules, laws that were really protecting the people were really protecting them from disease and contamination in and things like that. And so there were laws don't go near the terms because it's it's it's a sin, but the idea is if you go near the jerseys are living there, just like the music and so Jesus Bill Whited sepulcher 's, there's a chill. We don't know near an Jesus says to the Pharisees, you just a bunch of Whited sepulcher 's full of dead men's bones that was a very derogatory comments of them that he was trying to get their attention, but think about all the other individuals who spoke in faith gyrus is one who comes to Jesus falls his feet and says my daughters dying. I need your help. And as soon as he starts, and that was our sermon or message last week was the woman who fell on her knees came through the jostling crowd and reached out and touched him of his garment. She was healed. And Jesus said, who touched me he felt virtue flow from him when we touched Jesus something happens to make us different, and happens on the inside happens on the outside and Jesus restored her physically and he restored her to her community, whatever he may have had her speak about what it happened and no sooner had that Bob did, that this woman had finished her declaration about all that happened, and news comes the Jerry SJ Iris while they verse forty nine while he was still talking someone from the leader 's house came up and told him your daughter died. No need to bother the teacher and I think of this in and in the context of what are the realities that we govern our life by one of the realities that come to us and say, you know what nothing changes our world is now let's just read the newspaper every day. Do you know that every obituary you read is a somebody died, Jenna, however. Cemetery plot that has the name of birth and date of death that everybody and there is by and say what was that have to do you know what we look for, we will find. And that is the truth now and incidents like that some people have died. They deceased the fall down there. I like the little black all the aliases the workplace like it says on the people who have died and have not fallen down. Do not expect to employ to beat your much longer. Yup, it's like a it like a show it up you follow the yellow brick road and you find your your find where you go to work. It is that life can be so predictable that I can tell you all the things that go wrong with this day before it even begins. I can tell you everything that's going to go wrong with this day before it begins I can tell you everything will be in the newspaper before before I read it is going to be about war. That's got to be about typhoons and hurricanes and disasters. If none of the about politicians and and and how that the political arena. How that someone in our community has had an accident how someone has failed how that this is gone wrong. How that is going wrong. I can tell you what the newspaper says right. So why whatever were reading it. Why do we expect to see something different it's it's informing us of all of the disasters it's informing us of our knowledge of them. I think don't read a newspaper now should we so should we not listen to the news. Now we need to be informed, but know that there's something else going on. Know that there's something else going on in our life. Besides the things that are wrong, what is it that we expect if I can tell all the bad things that are going to happen in the day I let her know what the good things happened today. I ask you that question right now. One of the good things that happen in your life today, youth, yes yeah yeah yeah tonight. PS why White House briefing. What's happening your life today. Preachers could be done in fifteen minutes. Yes what that thing is happening your life today to get the gods go to protect me from what don't know yet, although I also happen while what good things that happened to me today. Why is that so hard. I said what you think what happened today. I could I I did this a number of years ago at the hospital. I put on a base to do elevator things at the hospital bill uplifting thoughts for the elevator. I was clever enough. Those were the days when I was clever. I guess here's a list of things that you're here. We are approaching Thanksgiving by the mess the mess to clean up after party, because it means I've been surrounded by friends. The taxes I pay means because unemployed. I have an income. The clothes that fit a little too snug means that I've had enough to eat a lawn needs mowing windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing, because it means I have a home the spot I find at the far end of the parking lot on Black Friday and Thanksgiving Thursday now that we're doing the final parking lot means what I can capable of walking you register the page you reconcile is an elevator thoughts that I have an efficient all the complaining I hear about our governor government because it means what we have the freedom of speech. The lady behind me in church. We don't have this problem. The laying kind in churches sings off key, because I can hear the piles of laundry and ironing, because it means my loved ones are near the huge heating bill because it means I'm warm the alarm that goes off in the early morning hours because it means one work and I'm alive wariness and aching muscles at the end of the day because it means I've been productive this date there are so many things up as we look at these in and I I look at young economy and the jobs in the illnesses and the physical problems and that the physical changes that you don't do these ever change that got around for a few thousand years and and yes they are barren and CDs are realities and Jay Iris, your daughter has died don't need to bother the master and when we look at our life. Sometimes I think we get stuck in a while and N/A we look at our church we look at our neighbors would look of our family. When you look at anything and we can find these negativities we can find this perspective and and there's no need to bother the teacher anymore. There's no need for you to pray that things will be different because it's already sealed. It's already done. Your daughter has died. Jesus already and overheard and said don't be upset, don't be upset with the realities that that come to you in life because easy. Our faith in a lot of talk about dreaming and talk about denial. Denial says all it doesn't exist. Faith says I'm a very real God, and the very real problem. And Jesus says what. Trust me walk with me soon when you have a chance to look at this and look at it through the eyes of faith and hear Jesus say walk with me or we can hear and be like the people in the house, which is a sexy, dancing, sleeping, and we can laugh at him. So here we are faced with words of encouragement that things can be different. God can make a difference in my life. Everybody think God can make a difference in my life. God can make a difference in my life again. God can make a difference in my life. Walk with me, Jesus, you walk with me, Jesus. Jesus is telling Jack gyrus but me walk with you, Jesus is telling us. Let me walk with you. Let me walk with you. So when Jesus is telling us. Let me walk with you a saying the message at the cleanup after the party means I've given you some friends think the clock in the house that needs cleaning the laundry to these done. Need to have a family to share with complaining about our government with freedom of speech with a chance to make a difference doesn't seem that way, but we do. And so we have partisan. Jason 's essay. Let me walk with you. Trust me when I think of that picture Jesus, saying, let me walk with you. I think about one of my most one of my favorite scriptures is when Jesus is after the cruise after the resurrection. There are two walking the road on the meas from Jerusalem to Emmaus and Jesus walks with these two individuals and they don't even know he's there that they don't recognize he misses Jesus okay, but he begins to explain to them the Scriptures. It begins so explained to them the prophecies in the Old Testament about the coming of the Messiah and his death and his sacrifice, and he walks with them, and when they arrive at their house. They constrained Jesus. It's almost like they pulled him into the house that the just stay with them for that night. And Jesus in unknown who is but whenever he breaks bread and praise their eyes were opened. Either they see his hands or they just sense the spirit that is there in Christ. Their eyes are open and the whole life changes. It's Jesus and he disappears and I think of our life in Jesus is walking with us. He's walking with us. He's walking with you, Jesus is walking with me say that Jesus is walking with me again. Jesus is walking with me. What's he telling about the world is or how great his promises are just as trust me, and everything will be all right. The realities of what is in these individuals are they all wrong. That is his daughter 's side of the all wrong. No, he doesn't exist to trust me, what are we trusting we are trusting in Jesus, whose word created the universe where trusting in his word that created the universe were trusting in God, who braved into loss. The breath of life and made us a living soul. We're trusting in him and were trusting in his wording that he brings into our hearts and because of the house anyway. Anyone answer with him except Peter, John and James, and the child's parents as when you think that we think that is what's the reason that he would only allow you, James and John and the parents never have bystanders and onlookers. We do it. What while gently I don't think she's already dead. What you do and what would work. I bring her back to life ceased to bring her back to life get rid of critics. The clinic is someone they never build a monument to credit the critic is always someone to tell you what's wrong and how it should be made right engaged in error credits that were going into Jesus when Letterman is it now there's already people in the house and NFL next verse, and everyone was crying and carrying on over here so that were number of people in the house, and there is no crying in their upset about all that as happened with the death of this daughter so they all know she's she's not here. She died and gone and they're all crying over that and Jesus said, don't cry. She didn't die to sleep what we have in this situation is not that she just fell asleep and could be awakened awoke, she was. She had not. But when Jesus reads the word life returns, the dead in Christ shall rise with trouble, God shall sound, the dead in Christ shall rise we which are alive and remain to be caught up to meet them in the air. There is coming a day when the trump of God shall sound, anyone who has died their bodies when we come back to life and we we are alive when that happens, we're going to be changed and brought about heaven, and this tells us on that same capability of the word of God to transition, change us from death to life. If God can raise the dead of Jesus Christ and raise the dead, can he help you in your problem in your reality. So what are the things in a go wrong today. One of the things that I go right today. Let me walk with you in a when we say one of the things that go right with you today. Do we laugh. Jesus said, she's not dead. She's asleep in the case crazy when pastor says Jesus and word tells us things go right with you. They did not go well with you. Things are going to happen for you. Things are going to happen for you. Good things are going to happen for you. It's betimes. Amen. Good things are good for you. Why, because God is with you about it. He said he was going to abandon a lizard that God is going to abandon no one. So why, why would we think they were in his alone. You're somebody privileged enough to you done something bad enough so bad that God will break his word, and not show up true God will honor his word, far above anything that we are members ever done. The wishing film more. We want it's easy to feel comfortable talking about how much God loves us, then how much we love God, we can be a lot more comfortable talking about how much God loves us and how much we love God because his love for us, never fails. He never turns his back. He never walks away. He never leaves us alone win. I feel alone. That is not God speaking to you when I feel that things are going to work out. That's not God speaking from so they laughed at him, but Jesus reaching out and holding her hand, my dear child, it up, my dear child, get up, Jesus touches our hand, says David get up the name of thine but maybe done the press, or I don't like the way things are going, or I'm expecting all the bad things that happen. Jesus says David get a Jesus raises out to each one of us and says your name and says get up to your dentist come for life, the life that I put inside of you, the spirit that I'm instilled in you, the spirit that I bring to you and you think the spirit that is inside a bus. The spirit of God makes sense to you. This isn't something that people who have no faith in him, walked away from God, and an Internet setting here today, but we want to look at our life and recognize God 's Spirit speaks to the spirit inside of us, his spirit inside of us. God inside of us quickens us to hear what God is saying to us, and we change some people believe that it is cut that off the spirit inside in the filial having do it that they got big daddies whatever God is dead, easier, and God reaches out and touches your hand and says David get up with something better for you. But look at that stuff. Are they true is that it is a newspaper lying to us now as there is online plus LA might be opinionated and yell slanted as your people/ things. The matter what news we listen to. It's almost always slanted in one direction or another, but are they lying really is true, then it God does alive to us. He takes the truth of his Word that is eternal and says to us, David. You know, he takes the truth of his Word touches our life, and says get up now. We think happened to the parents J Iris, we can happen I know what well I'm sure glad I came to see you and your daughter Katie and Jesus says& anybody any. Also, but that the Harkin when he double telling everybody knows what does happen. People wanted to be around Jesus because of the miracles, the most important thing. Jesus was giving them was the word that would change their hearts in their minds and their perspective the most important thing Jesus can do for any one of us is to touch us with his word before he touches us with his miracles, because when God intervenes and gives you a miracle today. Watch the thing we want next week. I need another one last thing we need to make after that I need another one. Have we changed David, did you get up the change did you recognize the truth of my words. That's what God wants to instill in us is his Word. His Word will change us. It is teaching us the Scriptures are teaching us about the God who loves us will never leave us or forsake us. And no matter where we are adding our faith he'll never abandon us and he will never tell us you have enough faith. If we have enough faith to ask. We have enough faith you have enough faith to ask if you have enough faith to ask you have enough faith and then Jesus says to us, David get up you are rated paper I rated I know that that's true but also no read the word. This is the truth. This is a greater truth. This is the truth is the last forever. I will never leave you nor forsake you. Nothing is ever done a separate you from me. Get used to it yet. Yes, that nothing could ever separate you from my presence. Nothing could ever remove you from. I had nothing can ever come between me and you and let's then so we been praying for this lady and again she's in God 's hands. We pray for God 's miracles and to take place to transpire after this is another thing I was reading it says Gail has God in everything else has no more than he who has gone only the last God in everything else has no more than he who has gone only. We can't look at what other people while the stuff he who has gone and everything else and he was God only in the same father, thank you for your touch upon our lives. Thank you that you speak our name. Such are life, give us inspire our hearts renew a right spirit change our hearts in the way that we can see you were clearly put knowledge in our minds that we can think more clearly give us wisdom and understanding about life and death than problems and cannot you just are one with us, and you give us hope that never ends a life that is filled with your presence and Jesus, you never turn us away. The matter what realities come into our life. Walk with me, Jesus walk with me, Jesus walk with me through the valleys of the shadows walk with me through the plains of despair into the mountain tops of greatness. Enjoy, so, God and walk with us as friend with friend thank you Jesus for being our friends and men. Amen, I bless you