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In Matthew 9:18–34, Jesus raises the dead, heals the sick, restores sight, and frees the oppressed—each miracle calling for one thing: a personal response of faith.
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In this video 0:00 Faith, Desperation, and the Kingdom of God
Faith, Desperation, and the Kingdom of God 0:00 In Matthew chapter 9, death is in the house, disease is in the body, and darkness has stolen both voice and sight. And the world seems to unravel under the weight of the curse, but Jesus changes0:12 everything. With a word, he silences the mourners. With a touch, he heals what doctors never could. And with authority, he restores what the devil had stolen. In this chapter, heaven comes closer than0:24 ever before, and the only question left is how we respond. Welcome to Kingdom Come episode 17.0:36 Hello, everybody. Welcome into Kingdom Come. This is a study through the gospel of Matthew. Take out your journals. And if you're on YouTube, click that subscribe and the notification bell. Click the like button. So glad0:46 that you are here. Like I said, it is episode, 17. And again, taking out the journal because I'm encouraging you to write things down, fill in those answers to those questions in0:58 every section of this study. If you don't have the journal, check it out at tim hatch live dot com slash journal, or you can email us or stop at 1 of our locations of Water's Church, and you can pick it up for yourself1:09 in the, cafes of all of our locations. I'm glad to bring this content also to our pray dot com audience. Hello to pray and all those who are joining us here. And the followers and especially the1:20 supporters can't do it without you. God bless you. Let's get into this teaching, miracles that demand a response. And there are miracles in both Matthew 8 and Matthew 9 that aren't just1:32 about the healings or the exorcisms that people experience. They are about Jesus. And you've got to remind yourself continually when you go to the Bible, the Bible is about
1:44 Jesus. So many people wanna go to the Bible. They wanna find out how do I get to the good life? How do I figure out how to parent my kids or be married? And how do I make a lot of money maybe? Or get prosperity in my
1:56 life or feel less empty? Well, friends, I understand the needs of the human condition and the wants of the human condition. And many of them are valid and reasonable, and they are not selfish.
2:07 Many of them are not selfish. Some of them are. Many of them are not. But when we go to the Bible, first things first, it's about Jesus. It's about the man who is God, who came to rescue
2:19 us from the greatest problem that we will ever face, and that is the problem of sin within. And before we ever sin in action, we've got to remember that sin is a condition that
2:31 needs healing. It is a sickness. It is a blindness. It is a disease. Okay? All these healings that Jesus,
2:44 completes in Matthew 8 and 9, they're pictures of the problem of sin. And so we're gonna continue with this theme, but we're looking in this chapter at a series of contrasts. And the reason why I bring that up
2:56 is because contrast fill the world. In fact, they fill the very first pages of scripture. You have the contrast of light and darkness in the created order, land and sea. Then you have the contrast between
3:08 the vegetation and the animals, and even the contrast between man and the rest of creation. Adam couldn't find a helper amongst all of God's created beings, so God makes him a female companion. But the female is a
3:19 contrast to the male. Then you have the contrast between Cain and Abel and their 2 sons. And down the corridors of scripture are contrasts. Jacob and Esau, even before them. Abraham and
3:31 Lot. Jacob and Esau. Then you have the contrast between Israel and Egypt. On and on and on it goes. And what you have to understand is that in this passage, we're gonna see contrasts
3:44 in the experience of Jesus. And there's 2 different kinds of people from 2 different extremes of the societal spectrum in the first century. So with that in mind, let's get into it. Matthew chapter 9 verse
3:56 18, where we left off last time we were together. It says, while he was saying these things, what things are that? What things are those? Those are the things that he talked about when he talked about the kingdom being
4:05 new wine for new wineskins. Speaking about the old wine of the religious order, the old covenant, what John came to be the the the the final predecessor of Christ. He he was the
4:16 the diagnosis. Remember that? John the Baptist was the diagnosis of the sin condition in human hearts. The reason why there was no fasting, there was no mourning while Jesus was doing his miracles is because Jesus is
4:27 putting on display the picture of the eternal kingdom that is ours in Christ Jesus in a very temporal way through his 3 year ministry of healings and deliverances and joy
4:39 and new wine. There's going to be a new age. This is all a preview of coming attractions. So John was the diagnosis. Jesus is the cure. And so he was talking about that. That's the context in which this passage flows.
4:50 Let's continue. While he was saying these things to them, behold, a ruler came in and knelt before him, saying, my daughter has just died, but come, lay your hand on her, and she will live. And Jesus rose and followed
4:59 him with his disciples. Now, the first person in this passage that we have to look at is called a ruler. His name is Jairus. The gospels of Matthew and Mark both call him Jairus. And
5:11 they refer to him as a synagogue ruler. So not just a ruler by, you know, according to civil order, but synagogue, a religious ruler. This guy was the inside of the insiders. He was possibly part
5:23 of the local officials that gathered that synagogue together. To put a synagogue in a town or village in the first century, you had to have 10 godly respected men who agreed together, covenanted together, they put this
5:33 list together, and then they would have roles and records of who was on that role, who could come to the synagogue, so on and so forth. This is the guy who ran the synagogue. He probably oversaw the worship. He probably
5:43 oversaw the scriptural readings. He scheduled the teachers. He was completely in charge of the religious life. Now listen, of the old order. He was respected. He was probably very conservative in
5:55 his theological positions, and he was revered and honored in society. Now in spite of all that, look what it says back in this text. He comes to
6:07 Jesus and what? He kneels before Jesus. Now remember that religious establishment is already starting to turn on Jesus. And here is a member of their own who comes to
6:18 Jesus and says, look, my daughter has just died. Come and lay your hand on her. Do you know what brings this man out of his religious system and to the good news of Jesus Christ? Desperation.
6:31 Some of you have family and friends, they're not coming to Christ. They're not, open to the gospel. Do you know what you need to pray into their life now more than ever before? You need to pray desperation into their
6:41 life. I I tell parents this and I do mean it. Some parents don't think I mean this in my church, but I do mean it. When your child is a prodigal, please pray for the famine.
6:53 When the prodigal goes and lives his rebellious life in Luke 15, it says that he's got friends, and he's got this great life, and he's doing all these wonderful things until a
7:05 famine. He said, here, famine hits the land. Then his money dries up, and so do so do his friends. Then he has no work, and he has to go and hire himself out to a man feeding pigs. Pigs were unclean according to Jews. So
7:15 he's at the lowest point of life. How did he get there? Because of the famine. And this Jairus, this synagogue ruler, this influential and powerful man, this public guy
7:26 publicly humbles himself before the carpenter from Nazareth turned rabbi, this kind of outsider, the guy that you might not wanna associate with if you're on the insider. And don't underestimate
7:39 desperation in people's lives because when people are desperate, they will drop all pretenses and come to Christ. You won't be able to keep them out of the church doors when life is desperate enough. Anyway,
7:52 as this happens, Jesus gets up and follows him. Matthew, Mark, Luke, they all sandwich these 2 miracles together, Jairus' daughter, with the healing of the woman with the issue of blood. Now let's take a look at that.
8:03 Matthew 9 verse 20, it says this, and behold, a woman who had suffered from a discharge of blood for 12 years came up behind him. 12 is going to be a key number. We're going to talk about this in just a moment. And
8:13 touched the fringe of his garment. So this woman has a serious problem. She is bleeding from her woman parts, and it has been going on for 12
8:25 years. Now what that meant was she was completely unclean according to the law. She could not be in public. In fact, she's breaking the protocols of Torah right now because the scripture says in Leviticus chapter 15, and
8:36 check this out. If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, if she has a discharge of blood beyond the time of her impurity, all the days of her discharge, she shall continue on uncleanness. All the days of her
8:46 impurity, she shall be unclean. And this is says this, every bed she lies on, will be unclean. Everything on which she sits shall be unclean. You touch her, you're unclean. On and on and on it
8:58 goes in the law that this woman is completely ostracized from society. She's completely isolated. This is a woman on the complete opposite end of the spectrum. Here here's the contrast. Jairus the
9:10 insider, Jairus the religious guy, Jairus the ruler of the synagogue, all the religious practices, and then the woman with the issue of blood, she's isolated, she's lonely, she's most likely divorced. Okay? If she had
9:20 been married her her husband definitely would have divorced her. Not only that, Mark chapter 5 tells us that she spent all that she had on physicians better, but rather grew worse. Now, in the ancient world, they were
9:31 always guessing as to how you handled these medical issues. They were always guessing. We do not have to guess, however, what their guesses were. Because we actually have records of the ancient remedies that would have
9:42 been applied to chronic bleeding to these women in the Mishnah and Talmud, these ancient commentaries on Torah, from the Jews in both the Babylonian times and in the Jewish times. And what we know is there is a couple of
9:53 crazy, crazy what what do you call them? Prescriptions. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Prescriptions from the religious leaders and the doctors of the day. 1 of them was you carry ash from an ostrich
10:05 egg in a cloth. You carry it around for a year, you'll be healed. Or carrying barley grain found in the dung of a white female donkey. Or drinking a potion made from oils boiled in wine. Or Or trying certain root,
10:15 bundles or herbs and you tie them around your neck. Or drinking wine mixed with alum and saffron. Or sitting at the crossroads and being startled by somebody from behind you. I mean, it was endless, you know,
10:26 superstitious kind of cures, whether they worked or not. Perhaps it just worked, you know, just kinda happen happenstance worked or whatever. She had spent her money on all of these things.
10:38 And also, the text says that she came up and she touched the fringe of his garment. Don't miss this. She reached out to touch the fringe of his garment. Now when we talk about that,
10:50 we think about the hem. But the word fringe is important here. It's referring to the tassels worn by Jewish men in the first century. They would wear this white and blue fabric underneath their overgarments. And at 4
11:02 corners of that garment were tassels, teeth tzatziki. Not tzatziki, that's the Greek sauce. Sorry about that. I don't know how to spell I don't know how to pronounce it, but it's tzitzit tzitzit. Sounds like that. It
11:13 looks like that. T z I t z I t. And, the 4 tzitzit, however you wanna say it. Excuse my butchering of the pronunciation pronunciation. These were,
11:25 tassels that had several knots on each tassel, 4 of them, and they were representative of the law. This is from Numbers chapter 15. God actually commands the men to wear these tassels on the corners of the garment and to
11:37 put a cord of blue on the tassel, and it was a reminder of the royal law. And so they were to do this to fulfill the law. They were to take the law seriously. So here's what you see in the person of Jesus. Okay?
11:49 He is fulfilling the law. He is wearing exactly what Numbers chapter 15 tells Jewish men to wear. And she looks to these tassels with faith. The tassels, not the hem, the tassels
12:01 of his garment. And she identifies healing in the tassels. Now why would she do that? Well, you have to go to Malachi chapter 4 for that. Malachi chapter 4 tells us that the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in
12:12 his wings. Now the thing about that garment was when a man walked, it would flow in the wind and it had the appearance of wings. And that was kind of like the cultural euphemism for that garment
12:24 after a while. It was she it was a winged garment and the prophecy in Malachi 4 2 says that the Messiah will have healing in those wings. So she
12:37 is aware, okay, of 2 things. Number 1, Jesus is Messiah. Number 2, there's healing in his wings. So superstitious? A little bit.
12:49 But nonetheless, you gotta give her credit for knowing the scriptures and knowing the scriptures better than maybe even Jairus himself. But Jesus does 2 things here. He fulfills the law by wearing the tassels. And
13:00 secondly, he fulfills the Messianic prophecy by providing healing to this woman as she had said to herself, if I touch his garment I will be made well, verse 21.
13:12 So she's got she's got saving faith and the word for saving here is going to be so so, meaning redeeming faith. She trusts Christ to heal her completely. So here we
13:24 have these 2 contrasts of 2 different people and it's all to make a big point I'm gonna get to in just a moment. Jairus is synagogue ruler, the influential, powerful public approach to Jesus. And then you got this woman
13:35 with the issue of blood excluded outside the community, poor without hope. She makes a private approach to Jesus. And guess what? They both receive a special touch from Jesus. And they were both
13:48 desperate. They were both desperate. Right? Because you you get desperate when you can't live normally. You get desperate when your child is suffering or when your child is dead.
14:00 Life's storms bring on a peculiar type of desperation that preaching just cannot create sometimes in the human heart. And sometimes we had to be thankful for the struggles that non believers go
14:12 through that we love because hopefully and prayerfully, we will see those struggles, point them to the person and the work of Jesus. Now that does not mean that everybody needs to go through struggle to turn to Jesus,
14:23 but I will say that America is such a comfort oriented society that the moment that our comfort is discomforted, that's when we start to open our hearts to him. Can I say a couple more similarities about these 2
14:34 contrasted persons? Number 1, Jesus heals based on their faith and not their status, which means he's approachable. And then number 2, neither of these people had perfect
14:46 faith. Jairus comes to Jesus, he steps outside of his religious, you know, subcategories, his his religious group in crowd, comes to this upstart rabbi that, you know, the
14:58 the the, the experts start to wonder, is he real? Is he the real deal? And Jairus puts his faith there. It's not perfect faith. It's faith that is predicated upon the health of his daughter, but Jesus responds to it.
15:09 This woman does not have perfect faith. She's putting her faith in the tassels of his garment, but it's not perfect faith. This is a little bit of a superstitious faith. It's not in the salvation of her soul. She wants
15:19 healing for her body. But Jesus responds to imperfect faith. And perhaps that is the greatest,
15:31 benefit of this text to you and to I. 9 verse 22 says, Jesus turned and seeing her said, take heart daughter, your faith has made you well. And instantly the woman was made well. Again, the word here for made well or
15:43 so, healed is so so. She is not just physically healed, she is spiritually made well. Her faith brought salvation to her body, to her
15:54 soul. And it wasn't perfect cross the t, dot the I kind of faith. This is good news for every single 1 of us because none of us
16:06 come to Christ with perfect faith. What I mean by that is we don't come with the most altruistic of intentions or honorable intentions. Come on. When you first came to Christ, be honest. You probably came to
16:18 Christ because hardship hit you. You probably came to Christ because life wasn't working out. You probably came to Christ because you realized that you needed help. And what were you looking for? Were you were
16:30 you looking to surrender your life to to the lord lordship of Jesus? Were you looking for God to bring about a renewal of your inner man so that you become a new person? No. You were just
16:41 looking for relief, friend. You were looking for your problems to go away and everybody in some sense comes to Christ with that in mind. I want my problems to go away. I want loneliness to go away. I want sickness to go
16:53 away. I want depression to go away. Can I can I just tell you? It's okay. Jesus responds to per to imperfect faith. The key is to look to
17:05 him. Okay? And then to think about this, just because you came to Christ for that reason does not mean that the solution
17:17 to that reason, okay, is why you stay with him. What do I mean by that? Let's say you come to Christ because you get cancer or your loved 1 gets cancer
17:29 and he does the miraculous. He heals because he still does heal. Now you are your loved 1 does not have cancer. Well, if your faith remains at that level of I'm only
17:40 coming because I may have cancer healed, then the moment the cancer is gone, you're going to abandon the Lord. So my point is, you start with the seed of faith, but let it grow, let it let it cultivate, let it become,
17:53 a more perfect faith wherein you realize that Jesus did not come to just solve your problems because any healing and any solution that he offers you in this life,
18:05 friends listen to me, is temporary. Even if he brings you back from the dead, it's still temporary because you're still gonna die. I always feel bad for Lazarus Lazarus. Lazarus
18:17 was raised from the dead and I have a feeling that when he came out of that grave, there was a there was a part of him that was like, oh no, I'm back? You ever think about that? He had to die
18:29 again. He had to die again. Any healing, any any provision, any miracle that Jesus performs for you in this life is temporary at best because you're going to die, you're going to leave it all behind.
18:41 And if you only have faith that stays with Jesus for the goodies that he can provide, it's it's immature. You've gotta grow and you gotta say, okay,
18:53 Lord, now what what do you wanna do in my life? How do how do you wanna shape me? How do you wanna make me into a new person? Amen? I I hope you're catching that. I hope you're understanding what I'm
19:05 saying. He will take the faith that you start with, and he will grow it. He is going to grow it into faith in him to make you what he wants you to be. Let's go on in the
19:17 story because I've got gotten too much into that. We're gonna move on. Verse 23. And when Jesus came to the ruler's house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion, he said go away for the girl is not
19:25 dead but sleeping. And he laughed at him. Now, according to ancient tradition in the first century, Jewish people when people died in their homes would hire professional mourners and wailing women to come in and just set
19:36 the tone for sadness within the house. 1 rabbi actually stated that even the poorest people in Israel would hire at least 2 mourners, 2 flutes and 1 and 1 wailing woman to come in and just kind of set this
19:48 atmosphere of sadness and, despair. Jesus puts them out of the house. What a picture, my friends, of the transformation work of Jesus Christ. He kicks the mourners out. Can transformation work of Jesus Christ.
19:59 He kicks the mourners out. Can I tell you if you're saved, there should be joy in your life? If you're saved, there should be rejoicing in your heart. No, you don't have no problems. No, you're not problem free. No,
20:10 you're not going to always have great days. That's not what I'm saying. But there's an inward joy. This is why Paul will tell the Philippians, rejoice in Lord always. And again, I tell you rejoice. There should be
20:20 continuous joy in the heart of a believer. Why? Because he is the resurrection and the life. So look what it says, verse 25. When he put the crowd outside, and the other gospels tell us he brings in Peter, James, and
20:32 John, it says he went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose. And the report of this went through all that district. So Jesus is showing us that he is the answer to the truest human need
20:45 that we are dead in trespasses and sins and he is the 1 who brings us back to life. Now again, the healing of the woman with each other's blood is a restoration to community, a restoration to regular life. The
20:56 the the resurrection of this little girl is a resurrection to life and he saves Jairus the pain of losing his daughter. But once again, these are all temporary healings. They are not permanent and that is that's what
21:07 you're gonna get get a hold of. Because if you don't have this picture, that these are illustrations of the new birth. You will look to Jesus only for your temporary needs to be
21:18 met. And let me tell you something, that kind of faith is not saving faith. It it can be the seed that leads to saving faith, but you want saving faith that
21:30 says, Lord, I'm coming. I may have come to you because I went through the divorce, but I'm staying with you because even if I never get married again, you are enough. Because even if I get married again, 1 of us is
21:42 gonna die, or we might get divorced, or something else might happen. I don't know, but regardless of what I go through, you are still the resurrection of my life. I have an eternal hope beyond this world.
21:54 So 3 people in this text of contrast. 3 people, Jairus, the synagogue ruler, the woman with the issue of blood, remember 12 years, and Jairus's daughter is known to be 12 years old. Now the thing that ties
22:06 these 2 women together is that you're, that that that period of 12 years. This is a picture by the way. In Jewish life, a girl was considered a woman at 12 years old. So the the the woman the girl had not even become a
22:18 woman, and the entire lifespan of the girl had been the entire torture of the woman with the issue of blood. And according to the law, you were unclean with the issue of blood because it was a picture
22:30 of dying. It was a picture of the loss of life. I talked about this in our Torah, study last year. And what you have here is a picture that this woman had been dying for 12 years, and so had this
22:42 little girl, because she died at 12 years old. The picture for us is the moment we're born, we begin to die. The moment we were born. Sad to say,
22:54 that's the bad news, we begin to die. Now mankind is doing whatever it takes. There are people out there paying all kinds of money to biohack themselves into eternal life. It will not work. I know Elon
23:06 Musk wants to put a little link, a little little chip in our brain, so that we can live on forever. It's not going to work. Okay? The moment we're born, we all begin to die. And there is only
23:18 1 person who can reverse that curse, and his name is Jesus. Okay. Now all this to say 1 simple point. Jesus is accessible. He is available to the synagogue ruler. He is available to the woman
23:30 and the outcast with the issue of blood. By the way, think of those tassels. That's where she touched. Right? Where are those tassels? Low to the ground. That's where the humble are. When you get desperate and you get
23:40 humble, you find Jesus. Now amazingly too in this text is that Jesus is surrounded by people. The other the other gospel writers say that the the disciples say, what do you mean who touched you? How do you know who
23:51 touched you? Everybody's touching you. He says, no, I felt power. There was this was different kind of touch. And so though he was surrounded by crowds and hard press on every side, he was responsive to the humble
24:03 plea of the individual within that crowd. Can I tell someone today that God hears your prayers? You are heard. You are heard with your imperfect faith,
24:14 okay, with your I just really want my problem solved kind of approach to Jesus. I'm not here to disparage that in any way. The reason why is because Jesus doesn't. He heals. He
24:26 responds. And some people will do this with themselves. They'll say, God's too busy for me. No, he's not. Jesus was not too busy for both Jairus and this woman with the issue of blood.
24:38 He hears your prayers. So pray. Pray and expect him to hear. Let's move on. Verse 27. And as Jesus passed on from there, 2 blind men followed him crying
24:50 aloud, have mercy on us, son of David. Now the gospel records the gospels, sorry, record more instances of healing blind people than any other healing. I don't know if
25:02 you knew that. It's kind of interesting. But it's really just suggesting the prevalence of blindness in Jesus's day. And what we have to understand about blindness in their day as opposed to ours day is that many
25:14 people were born blind. In fact, I think it was up to 10 to 12 percent of the population was born blind. Now that doesn't mean they were born blind from the womb. Sometimes they were blinded shortly after the womb, and,
25:25 historians tell us it was possibly because of the gonorrhea that was in the mother's womb at the time of birth or at the time of gestation. Gonorrhea has historically been a significant cause of blindness in newborns
25:37 throughout the ancient world. And so what happens is the gonorrhea infects the child through the, the cornea, and a bacteria develops, and then there's a blindness that comes upon the child.
25:48 Now back in the 18 eighties in Germany, a doctor named Carl Kreed, developed a little solution that would put in infants eyes and he brought the rate from 10 percent of children born
26:00 or developing blindness in their infancy down from 10 percent down to nearly 0. And today, we use an even safer method with more effective antibiotics that are applied. That's what
26:12 when you give birth, and I saw this with my children, when when you give birth, they bring them over to the table and they stick little droplets into their eyes right away. They're purging, whatever bacteria might be in
26:23 that eye and providing a sight to the child. Anyway, in the ancient world, you didn't have these options. And because of the poverty, the unsanitary conditions, dust storms, the dryness of the ancient world, and then
26:34 prevalence of unknown diseases and, infections and viruses in the in the life of the mother, you had exceedingly high rates of blindness amongst infants. These 2 men had been
26:46 either born blind or they were, had developed blindness in infancy. Why do I say all this? I never bring this stuff up for any for no reason. There is a picture here, again,
26:58 of the Messiah ship of Jesus. When Isaiah is called to preach to Israel, this is 800 years before Christ, he sees the Lord in the temple, Isaiah chapter 6.
27:10 And God says, go and tell these people, be ever hearing but never receiving. And then in verse 6, verse 10 of chapter 6, he says, make the heart of this people dull and their eyes heavy and blind their eyes,
27:22 lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears. And so what what God is saying is, look, you're gonna preach what they're not going to hear. Their hearts are hardened, and you're just going to reveal the natural
27:30 inclination of of normal man is going to be to reject God. Can I tell somebody? God is never surprised when people reject him. We get surprised. I understand that we get surprised because we
27:42 have received him, but the fact that we've received him is a sign that God has worked upon our hearts and changed us. The more you read about the human condition in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, the more
27:52 you understand that it is a miracle that anybody responds to Jesus because we are inherently born blind. We are inherently through the sin nature that's passed down to us from our parents,
28:05 blinded to the truth. And anyone who sees has been given that grace to see by almighty God. My
28:16 salvation is his work, not mine. Please get a hold of this. I'm begging you so that you read the Bible rightly. So anyway, Isaiah
28:28 goes out and preaches. He hardens the people's hearts because that's the heart of man. It's hard. It's rebellious. And then he says a prophecy in chapter 35, the eyes of the blind shall be opened, the ears of the deaf
28:39 shall be unstopped, and the lame will leap like a deer, and the tongue was and and the tongue of the mute will sing for joy. That's Isaiah 35 verses 5 and 6. What we are seeing here in Jesus's ministry is the
28:51 fulfillment of that prophecy. Only Jesus, only the Messiah can raise the dead. Those 2 women started dying from the day they were born. Well, we're all born blind and only
29:03 Jesus can open the eyes of the blind. What this is telling us and and did you hear what those 2 men called Jesus? Can we go back to that? Let's go back to it. What did they say?
29:15 Have mercy on us, son of David. When they say son of David, this is a messianic name. They were
29:27 physically blind, but they had ears to hear, and the Lord had opened their hearts to the point that they understood. This is the anointed 1. Jesus is
29:38 the anointed 1, the Messiah. Here's what Messiah means. Messiah in Hebrew. It means to anoint with oil, to set apart for divine service. Meseach in Hebrew or Christo
29:51 in Greek, to anoint with oil, to set apart for service. In the Old Testament, 3 kinds of people were anointed for service. Kings, priests, and prophets. Jesus is the anointed king, the anointed priest, the anointed
30:03 prophet. He is the anointed 1, the Messiah. So when they make the claim or when they cry out, Jesus, son of David have mercy on us, they are making an
30:14 absolute astute, observation about who Jesus is. You have to understand too that the son of David thing, they understood that that's scripture speaking that the the Messiah will come from the line of David. The Old
30:25 Testament contains a remarkably, detailed framework that narrows down the identity of Messiah with increasing specificity the further you go in the old testament.
30:37 And I wanna run that down for you here. You have the Genesis 3 15, the seed of the woman will crush the serpent's head. That's that means that the Messiah will come from humanity. He says that to Eve. Then you have it
30:47 from Abraham's family because Genesis 12 verse 3 and Genesis 22 verse 18 says, through your offspring all nation of the earth will be blessed. Then we also know that it's not from, Esau, the firstborn of Abraham Isaac,
30:58 but from Jacob, the younger more, you know, deceitful son of to son of Isaac, because God promises Isaac in Genesis 26 verse 4, I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the as the stars of the heaven, and give to
31:08 your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring, all nations of the earth shall be blessed. Then we also know from the tribe of Judah, you know, Jacob has 12 sons. And which 1 of those sons will be the royal son
31:19 from which Messiah comes because the line comes from humanity, it comes through the line of Abraham, and not through Asa but Esau but through Jacob. And so which of Jacob's sons will be the anointed 1? Well, we know it's
31:28 the tribe of Judah. And then we also know that from the tribe of Judah comes David. And David is promised in second Samuel chapter 7 that from 1 from his offspring, God will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
31:37 We also know from Micah chapter 5 2 that he will be born in Bethlehem. We also know in Isaiah 7 verse 14 that he will be born of a virgin. We also know that he will be preceded by an Elijah type figure in Isaiah 40 verse
31:49 3 and Malachi 3 verse 1, a voice in the wilderness crying out, prepare the way of the Lord. We know he will minister in Galilee from Isaiah 9 1 to 2. We also know that miraculous signs will be from him, which I just
32:01 talked about, Isaiah 35 verses 5 and 6, the eyes of the blind will be opened, the ears of the deaf unstopped. What we are seeing Matthew do, and please see it. We are studying the gospel of Matthew for this reason, is
32:12 that Matthew is not writing a narrative history. He is writing a theological history of Jesus's life. He is interpreting the Old Testament narrative through the lens of
32:24 Jesus Christ. That's what he's doing. Jesus fulfills all of these prophecies, all from Genesis 3 15 all the way down Isaiah 35 and all the way, if you will, to Micah 5 2, which is later in our canon in the
32:36 modern Bibles. And the chances of anyone else fulfilling all these prophecies, and there are many many others by the way. I think there's like
32:48 250 prophecies and Jesus fulfills every single 1 of them. And someone once said that the chances of a single person fulfilling all 250 or I think it's 300 prophecies of the Messiah in the Old Testament,
33:01 are the chances of filling the state of Texas with 3 feet deep, a 3 foot deep level of coins, and you color 1 of those coins red, and you randomly stick your hand into the state and pick up that
33:12 coin, and it's the red coin. So Jesus is the fulfillment, the Messiah, the Anointed 1 that the prophets and
33:24 Moses spoke about. Luke 24 20 four-twenty 7, when he walks on the road to Emmaus with the men from Jerusalem for 7 miles, he unpacks the
33:36 scriptures, beginning with Moses and all the prophets, the scriptures concerning himself. He is the fulfillment of the Old Testament. That is Matthew's aim here. And I'm emphasizing this for a reason. Just give me a
33:47 second. We will get to why. So Matthew 29 28 says this, when he entered the house, the blind men came to him. Now, desperation once again. The desperation of Jairus, the desperation
33:59 of the woman. Right? Now we have the desperation of the blind men because they cried out. And and the word for cry out in the previous verse could mean they shrieked and they wouldn't stop. In fact, other texts tells us
34:10 that they said to be quiet and they cried out all the more. It is called desperation. And some of us Christians, we need to get our desperation back. We have lost it.
34:22 We have lot we have decided this is as far as we're gonna go. We can't do much more. I guess this is our lot in life. No. Get your desperation back. God responds to desperate faith. Desperate please. Now notice
34:34 finally, as the long narrative of Matthew 8 9 here we go. Are you ready? When he entered the house, the blind man came to him and Jesus said to them, do you believe and this is the key this is the key question. Do
34:46 you believe that I am able to do this? They said to him, yes, Lord. Okay. There is a verbal confirmation of faith that Jesus wants from these men. Now unpack the
34:57 miracles of Matthew 8 and 9 and that's what you see, the commonality from Matthew 8 all the way through Matthew 9, faith. We come to Christ and we put our faith in him. And every single person who
35:09 ever comes to Christ, that's where it starts. You put your faith in him. You put your faith in him because you need he, him to do what you cannot do for yourself. And whether that be healing or provision
35:21 or security or identity or validation, those things can only come from him. He is looking to your heart to put your faith in him. And
35:34 understand this, desperation is part of the is part of the deal. Because these guys wouldn't give up. They cried out. The word could be shrieked. They wouldn't stop. They also follow
35:46 him into the house. They they don't give up. The woman with the issue of blood does not give up. Jairus does not give up. Desperation and persistence, keys to experiencing what
35:57 Jesus wants us to experience. Now I got a comment from last episode, and I I bring this up because it's a good opportunity to teach. When I was teaching about the,
36:10 the healing of the man who was let down by, his friends, the calming of the storm, this is the beginning of well, calming of the storm is chapter 8. Chapter 9 is the the paralytic when
36:22 Jesus sees their faith. And the comment that I got on YouTube, which I only bring up forgive me. I don't wanna embarrass you, Susan. This is the comment, no forgiveness without repenting, asking for forgiveness, and
36:32 changing your wicked ways. No. I understand what Susan is saying here. Shouldn't these people first say I repent and and and I ask for forgiveness? Okay. I hope you're understanding now through this teaching what I'm
36:43 getting at. We always come to Christ with imperfect faith. We always come to Christ wanting something other than what you're talking about, forgiveness of sins and repenting. But the healing and the
36:55 rising from the dead and the opening of the blind eyes, these are pictures for us to help us understand that our condition is such that we cannot come to the realization
37:06 of our need for forgiveness or repenting for our from our sins without the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. That that when the man is let down by his friends into
37:18 the room and Jesus forgives him, Jesus takes the initiative to do for him what he ultimately needs and then heals them because that's kind of like a second thought. What he really needs is forgiveness for sins.
37:30 And and it's and it unpacks the reality, friend, listen, that in every instance of salvation, God takes the initiative,
37:43 not us. This is hard for some Christians to get a hold of, and I know because I was raised this way. It's up to us. We've got to respond, and that's true.
37:54 Whosoever will call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. But how can they call on him unless someone preaches to them? Who sent the person to preach to us? God. Get it? God, in sending the person to
38:06 preach to us, took the initiative to preach the gospel so that our hearts were cut. Our hearts were opened by the preaching of the gospel and the power of the holy spirit. And we responded. God took the initiative. If
38:17 you're saved, give God praise. He did it, not you. And the nature of grace is such that Jesus forgives because he's gracious not because we are worthy. We don't get forgiveness because weShow more
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