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Luke 8:40-56 Caversham Baptist 1.11.15 Call to Worship Come, Let's Praise God Together! Luke 8:40-56 Caversham Baptist 1.11.15 Call to Worship Come, let’s praise God together! Sing a new song— a song of God’s goodness and mercy, faithfulness and love. Thank you for how you value us. For God delights in His people, crowning them with honour and glory! Message This is our Jesus: Will we trust Him? Will we follow Him? Will we be like Him? The passage today is probably set in Capernaum, after Jesus returns from the Gerasenes region having healed/saved the demon possessed man. Read Luke 8:40-56 1) This is our Jesus: Will we trust Him? What a conclusion to the chapter! This passage builds from the earlier stories; the scattering of the seed, the parable of the lamp, Jesus calming the storm and healing the demon possessed man. And it’s not surprising in light of these events, the crowds now begin to expect great things of Jesus. Like us, after winning one world cup, we expect to win the next! Expectations… I took my class to the school Library. Well I sent them and when I arrived they were already in. The first thing I did was grizzle at them. Outside they had left their shoes all over the place. What would people think about us as a class, or me as the teacher? Get out and tidy them up I demanded! A wise old teacher aide took me aside and asked if the kids knew how I wanted the shoes left? Had I told them that I wanted them left in a perfectly straight line against the wall? No. Kids respond well to expectations. Correcting anyone when they didn’t know they’d done anything wrong is pointless. Of course I thought they should have known better. The next week, before we went to the Library, I told the class how I wanted the shoes left. Guess what happened? To my surprise it worked. They were left perfectly! No need to grizzle. Look at the expectations in this passage. The crowd were waiting for Jesus. What were they expecting? Jairus turns up, his expectations are obvious, his daughter is sick, Jesus by his reputation should be able to do something about it. Jesus is very much the last chance for the woman who had had all the available health remedies. Her expectation was healing. She got it. And then there’s the people mourning, professional mourners who were paid to set the sombre scene. They had no expectation of Jesus being able to do anything. They laugh. So for us, what’s our expectation of God? God will provide me a job. God will provide a wife or husband. God will find me a place to live. God will heal me. Where does that leave faith in verse 48 and belief in verse 50? In our expectations we can be demanding of God. We can turn God into our slave. We’re called to simply trust, have faith, and believe. If God doesn’t meet our expectations, will we still trust Him? We are to come humbly to God allowing Jesus to quietly come alongside us in our own muddle and fear. He welcomes our trembling touch, like the woman’s, and responds with that central and well known biblical command, don’t be afraid. 2) This is our Jesus: Will we follow Him? Recently I was introduced to a friend of one our people. I was impressed that there was no embarrassment shown in me, in faith or church. No head down and muttered explanation. And this is as it should be. We make a public statement at our baptism, semi public in here, and we should carry that on in our following of Jesus in the world. The woman who touches Jesus is caught out for sure. But read carefully verses 42 and 45. The people were crowding Jesus. Of course they were bumping and touching Him! And then in verse 45 they all deny it. Well, nearly all, v47, the woman comes forward in a very public statement. Now it’s worth backing up at this point. At the start of the chapter is the story of the farmer scattering the grain. Some seeds fall on hard ground, some the birds snatch, some are choked by weeds. In my understanding this (Greek word for) choked appears twice in the Bible, and only in this chapter, in verse 14 and again in verse 42, but here translated as crushed. The crowds almost choke Jesus, almost prevent this woman from reaching Jesus, almost choke out the faith and belief that she has. Imagine the peer pressure of these weeds too! But she stands tall. When the weeds deny touching Jesus she says, it was me, to you Jesus I was putting my hope. She had had many other treatments, all useless, until Jesus. She was like a lamp that needed lighting, but none of the other matches (treatments) were burning. Jesus was, and with his flame her bleeding stopped. And she fell at Jesus’ feet, like Jairus, like the demon possessed man earlier. This was an act of humble submission, an act of serious following. [Touch used 4x is the same word used earlier meaning kindling of light, regarding the lighting of the lamp] 3) This is our Jesus: Will we be like Him? The third thing I noticed about this passage was that it’s all back to front. What a difference the other side of the lake makes. We would say the other side of the tracks. When I grew up in Ashburton we knew this saying, the other side of the tracks. It was appropriate as the railway divides the town neatly in half. We of course saw the other side of the tracks as less than us. Some time later I realised that the more expensive part of town wasn’t our side after all. Look at the difference the other side of the lake makes! Jesus has been over to the Gerasenes area where a man with many demons has been freed. The demons are allowed to enter a herd of pigs and go into the water to be drowned. The town people tell Jesus to leave. On this side of the lake the people wait for and welcome Jesus. The man freed from the demons falls at Jesus’ feet, hardly surprising, here we have a synagogue official falling at Jesus’ feet! It shouldn’t be, it’s back to front. As the synagogue official, Jesus should have fallen at his feet – those in Jerusalem would have liked that! Jairus cared about his only begotten daughter? Amazing considering the value placed on women back then. Back to front. Jesus cared about a sick and unclean woman, equally unusual. People at a death laugh, not right. Jesus tells the family to keep it to themselves when He directed the man earlier to tell everyone what God has done for him. All these opposites. But that’s the gospel isn’t it, that’s the good news of Jesus. This Jesus who is God comes to earth and dies for us, who figuratively falls at our feet, to take our place, to die for us, to give us connection back to God. It shouldn’t be. We should have to work hard in prayer, in giving, in serving. First. But no, God comes, God sends Jesus, while we are still sinners to die for us, set us free and reconnect us with Him. This is demonstrated in this remarkable story today, of Jesus’ unexpected love to the sick and unwell, to the grieving. Jesus reaches through this sickness and death and in love, turning it into wholeness and hope. This is what Communion is about. A time for us to pause, be amazed, at the wonderful thing that God has done for us. Giving us wholeness, giving us hope, giving us life. We remember this as we take the bread and the juice, symbolising the body and blood of Jesus. Taking into us the symbols of Jesus body and blood that we might be more like Him. And that’s what we’re saying by coming forward to the servers, yes, I do want to follow you, I do want to be part of your church, your Kingdom. I do want you to be my God. And we acknowledge as we come that there are things we might have to leave behind, there are things we might have to give up, like expectations, in our pursuit of following Jesus. And we symbolise that with the stones, dropped not placed into the buckets, dropped with the satisfaction of noise, as we release the things that hinder us in our following of Jesus. What’s holding you back in following Jesus? What do you need to let go to really trust God? Use the stone as a symbol, let it go into the bucket, replace with the bread and juice, symbols of Jesus, symbols of life, hope, wholeness. Let’s pray Father God, we come again to this time of communion, a time of hope, of wholeness, of thankfulness. You have been so good to us! Thank you for what you have freely given us, thank you for the price you paid. Help us to let go of the things that hinder us, expectations, fears, worries. Free us to follow you completely. Hillsong – Glory to the King Benediction May you this week experience the wholeness and hope that Jesus brings To ponder: 1. Jesus says, “Your faith has saved you” – but in the boat, disciples are asked where is your faith? What’s the difference? 2.
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