Tell City Nazarene Church's Biblical Journey
With Pastor Charles Areson
Today's reading is Mark 5-8
Mark 5
Jesus in is surrounded by people. People who were followers, doubters, the curious, the self-serving, the self-righteous, you know the normal mix of people following the famous. Yet one person in the crowd was different.
Though many people had made contact with Jesus only one person touched him. Touched him in faith. A faith which changed her life forever. This was a woman who would have been considered unclean by the religious people of the day. Yet this time, instead of the unclean making the thing it touched defiled, the unclean was made clean.
Nothing holy in the Old Covenant could make the unclean clean. If the unclean touched a sacred object it was made unclean but someone greater than anything sacred in the temple was walking down the street. Somehow this woman understood with Jesus the rules would be different. Jesus could make her whole. He could make her clean.
Jesus still can if you reach out and touch him.
Photo by emily lau on Unsplash
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Mark 5
Jesus in is surrounded by people. People who were followers, doubters, the curious, the self-serving, the self-righteous, you know the normal mix of people following the famous. Yet one person in the crowd was different.
Though many people had made contact with Jesus only one person touched him. Touched him in faith. A faith which changed her life forever. This was a woman who would have been considered unclean by the religious people of the day. Yet this time, instead of the unclean making the thing it touched defiled, the unclean was made clean.
Nothing holy in the Old Covenant could make the unclean clean. If the unclean touched a sacred object it was made unclean but someone greater than anything sacred in the temple was walking down the street. Somehow this woman understood with Jesus the rules would be different. Jesus could make her whole. He could make her clean.
Jesus still can if you reach out and touch him.
Photo by emily lau on Unsplash
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