Mark 7 (Part 2) :24-37 • Faith that Presses in and Perseveres

00:46:36
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Résumé

TLDRIn Mark 7:24-30, Jesus travels to the region of Tyre and Sidon, where he encounters a Syrophoenician woman whose daughter is possessed by a demon. Despite initially ignoring her and responding with a statement that seems dismissive, the woman humbly persists in her plea, cleverly arguing that even dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the children's table. Impressed by her faith, Jesus tells her that her daughter is healed. This passage highlights themes of humility, persistence in prayer, and the expansive nature of God's mercy, showing that faith can transcend cultural boundaries.

A retenir

  • 🙏 Humility is key when approaching God.
  • 💬 Persistence in prayer can lead to answers.
  • 🐶 The term 'dogs' reflects cultural attitudes of the time.
  • ✨ Faith can transcend cultural boundaries.
  • 🕊️ God's mercy is available to all who seek Him.
  • ⏳ God's timing may differ from our expectations.
  • 💖 Even small faith can yield great results.
  • 📖 The story emphasizes the importance of recognizing one's unworthiness.
  • 🤲 Jesus responds to genuine faith and humility.
  • 🌍 God's love extends beyond ethnic and cultural lines.

Chronologie

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    In Mark 7:24-30, Jesus travels to the region of Tyre and Sidon, seeking solitude but is approached by a desperate Gentile woman whose daughter is possessed by a demon. She humbly begs Jesus for help, demonstrating her faith and desperation. Despite her pleas, Jesus initially responds with silence, which raises questions about his intentions and the nature of faith in times of apparent rejection.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The woman is identified as a Syrophoenician, a Gentile, which adds complexity to her request for help from a Jewish teacher. The historical context reveals that the Jews often viewed Gentiles with disdain, yet this woman approaches Jesus with humility and persistence, begging for mercy for her daughter. Her background highlights the cultural tensions present in the narrative.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Jesus' response to the woman is challenging; he states that it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs, referring to the Jews as the children and Gentiles as dogs. This statement is shocking and seems dismissive, yet the woman responds with remarkable faith, acknowledging her unworthiness but asserting that even dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the table, indicating her belief in Jesus' power to heal.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    The woman's reply impresses Jesus, who acknowledges her faith and grants her request, stating that the demon has left her daughter. This moment illustrates the power of faith and humility, as the woman does not take offense at Jesus' words but instead uses them to express her understanding of his authority and mercy. Her persistence pays off, and she returns home to find her daughter healed.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    The narrative shifts as Jesus returns to the Decapolis region, where he had previously healed a man possessed by demons. This time, the people welcome him and bring a deaf man with a speech impediment to be healed. Jesus takes the man aside privately, demonstrating a personal and intimate approach to healing, which contrasts with the earlier public rejection he faced in the same area.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Jesus performs a unique healing by putting his fingers in the man's ears and touching his tongue, followed by a command for the man's ears to be opened. This method emphasizes the personal nature of the healing and the power of Jesus' words. The man is healed, and he begins to speak plainly, showcasing the transformative power of Jesus' intervention in people's lives.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    The crowd's reaction to the healing is one of astonishment, and they proclaim that Jesus does all things well. This marks a significant change in their attitude compared to their previous rejection of him. The narrative highlights the importance of faith, humility, and the recognition of Jesus' authority, as well as the transformative impact he has on individuals and communities.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:00

    The passage concludes with a reflection on the nature of faith in the face of silence and apparent rejection from God. The speaker emphasizes the importance of maintaining humility and perseverance in prayer, drawing parallels between the Syrophoenician woman's faith and the struggles believers face when God seems silent or unresponsive.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:46:36

    Ultimately, the message encourages believers to trust in God's goodness and perfect plan, even when circumstances are difficult or confusing. The speaker urges listeners to cultivate a personal relationship with God, emphasizing that true faith persists in the face of challenges and that God is always working for the good of those who love him.

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Vidéo Q&R

  • What is the main story in Mark 7:24-30?

    The story is about a Syrophoenician woman who begs Jesus to heal her demon-possessed daughter.

  • How does Jesus initially respond to the woman's plea?

    Jesus initially ignores her and later tells her that it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.

  • What does the woman say in response to Jesus?

    She replies that even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.

  • What is the outcome of the woman's faith?

    Jesus tells her that her daughter is healed, and she finds her daughter free from the demon when she returns home.

  • What does this passage teach about faith?

    It teaches that persistent faith and humility can lead to answers from God, even when faced with silence or rejection.

  • What does the term 'dogs' refer to in this context?

    In this context, 'dogs' refers to Gentiles, as Jews often used this term to describe non-Jews.

  • What is the significance of the woman's humility?

    Her humility is crucial as it demonstrates her recognition of her unworthiness and her desperate need for Jesus' help.

  • How does this story relate to the theme of God's mercy?

    It illustrates that God's mercy extends beyond cultural and ethnic boundaries, as the woman, a Gentile, receives healing through her faith.

  • What does the passage suggest about God's timing in responding to prayers?

    It suggests that God's timing may not align with our expectations, but persistence in faith is essential.

  • What lesson can we learn from the woman's response to Jesus' silence?

    We learn that we should not be discouraged by silence or apparent rejection but continue to seek God with faith.

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    verse 24 of Mark chapter 7 goes like
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    this and from there he arose and went
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    away to the region of Ty and siden and
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    he entered a house and did not want
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    anyone to know yet he could not be
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    hidden but immediately a woman whose
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    little daughter had an unclean Spirit
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    heard of him and came and fell down at
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    his feet now the woman was a gentile a
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    syrop phenician by birth and she begged
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    him to cast The Demon out of her
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    daughter and he said to her let the
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    children be fed first for it is not
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    right to take the children's bread and
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    throw it to the dogs but she answered
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    him yes Lord yet even the dogs under the
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    table eat the children's crumbs and he
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    said to her for this statement you may
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    go your way the demon has left your
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    daughter and she went home and found the
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    child lying in bed and the demon gone
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    let's stop there for right now let's
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    pray heavenly father as always we come
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    before you with a humble attitude at
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    asking you to speak to us through the
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    scriptures and to make them alive to our
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    hearts we understand Lord that this
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    comes through a work of your Holy Spirit
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    but it also is activated by faith and by
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    the humility of our hearts that are
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    willing to be taught so we pray father
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    God that our hearts would be receptive
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    today and that you would speak to us
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    from the depth of your understanding
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    that we might grow in the grace and
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    knowledge of who you are and Lord most
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    of all that we might put into practice
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    ice the things that we learn in your
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    word and we ask all these things in the
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    name of
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    Jesus
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    Amen um this last section of Mark
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    chapter 7 uh is basically two just kind
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    of small stories we read the first one
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    here um we're we're told here that Jesus
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    went outside of Israel to a place uh
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    which is referred to as Phoenicia we
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    would call it Lebanon today and it has
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    two main port cities of Ty and siden and
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    um actually you know we covered this
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    story back when we did our study through
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    the gospel of Matthew but since that was
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    about three and a half years ago I think
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    we can probably uh it's safe to go
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    through and and look at this uh again
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    but you can tell from the text and we
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    know from previous chapters that Jesus
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    had been trying for some time to get
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    away with his disciples and he had been
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    thwarted every time he would say to his
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    guys you know what we just need to get
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    away and and just hang out and rest for
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    a while because we were told they didn't
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    even get time to eat most of the time
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    and so it seems like and we're not told
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    the specifics but it seems like Jesus
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    kind of made the decision to go to
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    Phoenicia figuring probably wouldn't get
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    the big crowds you know because this is
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    not a Jewish era area uh Phoenicia was
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    an area that was frankly filled full of
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    Gentiles and
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    pagans
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    and yeah you know it wasn't the kind of
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    place you would expect there to be a big
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    uh group of people that were just
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    waiting for Jesus to show up but we're
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    told that um when he got to the
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    region uh he went to this house hoping
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    that nobody was going to see him but
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    once again a mother who had a child in
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    Desperate
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    circumstances heard that Jesus was there
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    and made her way over to that house
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    because of that situation and we're told
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    in verse
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    25 uh this this basic information a
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    woman whose little daughter had an
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    unclean spirit that of course a term for
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    uh a demonic Spirit uh came and you'll
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    notice the first thing she does is she
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    fell at his feet and take note of that
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    and we are immediately impressed with
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    the
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    woman's
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    humility and um as she humbled herself
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    before uh the Lord we we read this
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    passage and right away we're kind of
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    taken with this woman and we think
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    that's good that's a that's a good way
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    to start we like this you know she
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    didn't come with a hottie sort of a
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    thing or or proud she she immediately
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    humbles herself down on her knees before
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    the Lord and and and and so we kind of
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    think okay that's that's that's good
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    this this woman deserves to be helped
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    that's kind of the way we think you know
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    you know she's she's humbling herself
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    she's she's crying out to the Lord she
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    she deserves for the Lord to to respond
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    but Mark goes on and he tells us here in
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    verse 26 that the woman was a
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    gentile your Bible may say
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    Greek and she was of syrop phenician
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    birth no biggie there I mean he was in
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    the area of Phoenicia why wouldn't he be
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    uh confronted by someone who was born
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    and raised in the area that may not mean
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    a whole lot to you and I when we read
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    that this woman is of syrop phenician
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    birth but when you understand the
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    history of these people it takes on some
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    greater significance the areas of tyer
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    and siden particularly tyer were often
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    friendly with the Israelites you'll
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    remember when Solomon built the temple
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    and his own Palace he imported a lot of
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    wood from the this this Regional area
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    but there were times as the kingdom of
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    God progressed in the Old Testament that
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    the Pagan influence of The Phoenician
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    Kingdom became very pronounced
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    particularly when one of the kings of
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    the northern region married a Woman by
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    the name of Jezebel you guys remember
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    Jezebel yeah she was a real piece of
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    work let me tell you and she was a
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    Phoenician princess
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    and she was almost solely responsible
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    for popularizing the worship of baale in
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    Israel and this is the kind of stuff
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    that came out of that that area and and
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    the Jews were very leery of the people
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    there and so forth probably would avoid
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    them at all costs and yet here is a a
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    woman who comes from this kind of a
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    pagan background who comes and we're
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    told in verse 26 here in the middle
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    that she begged him to um cast The Demon
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    out of her daughter now Mark gives us
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    kind of an abbreviated sort of a thing
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    he just says she begged him and it kind
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    of just sounds like this woman came and
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    spoke to Jesus in a very pleading sort
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    of a way but Matthew tells us in his
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    account that the woman kept begging and
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    kept begging and kept begging and kept
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    begging uh Jesus to the point of
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    embarrassment to the point where the
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    disciples finally said you know Lord
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    send her away she just keeps she keeps
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    begging she keeps calling out after you
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    and so forth um and immediately we're
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    uncomfortable with what's kind of going
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    on in this in this thing because we
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    don't like to see people having you know
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    to be begging and Jesus is not
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    responding we like we like stories where
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    Jesus quickly takes care of a situation
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    and we're not concerned that the woman
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    is of syrop phenician birth do mean
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    anything to us we don't care she's just
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    a woman in need right and so we see this
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    woman she comes to Jesus she falls on
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    her knees before the Lord there's this
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    attitude instantly of humility and and
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    and and uh petition Lord please please
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    come and and take care of my little girl
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    she's got this demon she's horrible
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    she's tormented Lord would you please
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    cast but Jesus doesn't
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    respond Jesus goes a long time before he
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    says anything he just maintains his
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    silence and we're we don't like silence
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    when it comes from
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    God at
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    all we're bothered when we have it
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    happen to us we're bothered when we see
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    it happened to somebody else kind of
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    makes us Wonder a little
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    bit you know what's kind of going on
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    here why did they even put this in the
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    Bible you know Lord I don't know that I
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    would have had this one written down
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    because it doesn't really cast you in a
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    very pleasant
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    light the kind of guy who would sit and
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    listen to a woman a
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    mom you mothers you know and understand
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    that passion that you have for your
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    children when they're sick when your
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    kids are suffering when they've got
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    something going on in their lives that's
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    horrible what do you what do you what's
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    the first thing you say I I I would
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    gladly take take this on
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    myself I would gladly suffer what my
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    child is suffering with right now if
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    they would just be released from this
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    that's the way mothers think that's that
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    maternal sort of a protective heart of
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    the
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    mother Jesus certainly knows that and
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    he's hearing this thing crying out over
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    and over and over and
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    yet he
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    responds with silence
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    and it's not hard to read a story like
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    this and kind of take up offense for the
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    woman in the way that she's being
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    treated and you know it only gets worse
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    you keep reading look at verse
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    27 and finally when he does speak what
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    does he say he says no let the children
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    be fed first for it's not right to take
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    the children's bread and throw it to the
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    dogs well you're kind of wondering here
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    if Jesus is kind of having a bad day you
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    know or or something like that kind of
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    like that
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    I'm sorry I just had to say
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    that yeah you got to understand
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    something about this term dogs the Jews
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    referred to the Gentiles as dogs whether
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    it was Samaritan or full Gentile you
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    know Samaritans are half breeds but they
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    called them dogs and the typical word
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    that they would use to
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    describe a gentile was a a word that had
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    a connotation that was very unpleasant
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    we are very dog friendly in our culture
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    today some of you guys are big dog
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    people God bless
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    you um when we go to Family Camp I get
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    to meet all of your
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    dogs and I hear
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    them I'm just kidding no I'm not
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    uh anyway we're just very dog friendly I
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    saw this one lady's uh profile on
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    Facebook and she was just like I love
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    dogs I want more dogs I don't want a
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    bigger house so I can have more
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    dogs and you know we to us dogs are you
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    know man's best friend you know we say
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    or something like that in in in Jewish
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    kind of thought the the the the most
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    popular term for dog was for a wild dog
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    and wild dogs ran in packs and they were
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    a big societal nuisance they got into
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    everybody's garbage and they were
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    dangerous and they would often um attack
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    people because they were wild they were
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    not domesticated and so there were there
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    were issues and that's and that's the
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    word that that uh the Jews often used
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    when they you when they referred to a
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    gentile as a dog now you do need to know
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    here that Jesus uses a different word
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    when he's talking to this syrop
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    phenician woman he uses a word
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    that really if you have a new King James
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    Bible on your lap your Bible says little
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    dog because it actually means puppy or
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    house dog it was it was a word that was
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    a little bit more geared to you know the
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    domesticated version of a dog so he's
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    he's softening it just a little bit
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    still doesn't sound wonderfully nice you
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    know but at least it's not the most
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    negative connotation but he's making a
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    Point here and here's the point it is
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    not proper when you go out and prepare
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    food for your family to take that food
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    and then feed it to your animals or your
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    dogs whatever and let your children uh
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    go hungry and again when it comes out to
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    this woman who has this great need in
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    her life of Jesus's touch we're kind of
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    taken aback by it we're a little bit
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    offended by it and we're we're kind of
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    like you know do you have to say
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    something like that
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    but you'll notice that it doesn't slow
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    this woman down at all you know you know
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    she hears this thing she's not daunted
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    at all she comes right back and she
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    starts off and her response is yes
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    Lord you know what that means I'm in
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    agreement this is a mother and this is
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    this woman knows the very principle The
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    Very point that Jesus is making you
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    don't take what's prepared for the
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    children and by the way in the picture
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    here Jesus is saying the children refers
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    to the nation of Israel he's saying I've
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    set a table for Israel and it's their
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    time to eat it's their time to come up
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    and feast and to accept and to embrace
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    namely himself the
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    Messiah now there will come a time when
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    this will be given to the Gentiles when
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    the Jews reject it it will then be
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    passed along to the Gentiles but that
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    time is not now so it is not proper to
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    take that which has been prepared pred
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    for the children for Israel and to give
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    it to their dogs her response is yes
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    Lord you see isn't that interesting as a
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    mother she knows and understands this
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    principle yeah you don't take what's for
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    your children and give it to the dogs I
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    get that but her response is so
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    wonderful she goes even the dogs eat
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    what's under the table you know they eat
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    the children's crumbs and I I get to see
  • 00:14:22
    this whenever I watch well of course I
  • 00:14:23
    raised four kids of my own but we never
  • 00:14:26
    had a dog we had cats I don't know why
  • 00:14:29
    we I don't know why I still have a cat
  • 00:14:31
    but don't let me get me started but we
  • 00:14:34
    didn't have dogs but my oldest daughter
  • 00:14:37
    has a dog a big dog 90 PB dog sled dog
  • 00:14:42
    uh that they allow in the house and and
  • 00:14:45
    she has three kids it's funny when meal
  • 00:14:47
    time comes this dog knows which kid is
  • 00:14:50
    going to drop the biggest chunks you
  • 00:14:52
    know and and he gravitates to the to the
  • 00:14:55
    kid and he'll sit right there you know
  • 00:14:58
    just playing plant himself just right
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    there and just wait for it to happen cuz
  • 00:15:01
    it's going to happen you know a
  • 00:15:03
    six-year-old is going to you know don't
  • 00:15:05
    tell your kids don't spill your milk
  • 00:15:08
    they will spill their milk don't tell
  • 00:15:10
    them you're going to get that all over
  • 00:15:12
    the place they already know that right I
  • 00:15:15
    at one point in my parenting I just told
  • 00:15:17
    my kids now be sure and spill your milk
  • 00:15:20
    because it took all the pressure off
  • 00:15:21
    right no now they were being obedient
  • 00:15:25
    anyway so there's this kind of this
  • 00:15:28
    picture you know and and she says even
  • 00:15:31
    that which is spilled under the
  • 00:15:34
    table the dogs eat up so you know she
  • 00:15:38
    makes this wonderful wonderful statement
  • 00:15:41
    to to the Lord and we're told that his
  • 00:15:44
    response is you know for this verse 29
  • 00:15:47
    if you look with me in your Bible he
  • 00:15:49
    said to her for this statement you may
  • 00:15:51
    go your way the demon has left your
  • 00:15:52
    daughter she went home and found the
  • 00:15:54
    child lying in bed and the demon gone
  • 00:15:57
    so we all kind of breathe a sigh of
  • 00:15:59
    relief you know turned out okay this
  • 00:16:03
    woman that we wanted to get helped you
  • 00:16:05
    know I mean she came with such an
  • 00:16:06
    attitude of humility and cried out to
  • 00:16:09
    the Lord again Matthew tells us
  • 00:16:11
    repeatedly for a long period of time and
  • 00:16:14
    then finally when she is responded to it
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    sounds a lot like
  • 00:16:19
    rejection and uh we're we're kind of
  • 00:16:23
    left to wonder you know
  • 00:16:25
    why why all the drama why couldn't Jesus
  • 00:16:29
    have just said okay Shazam there you go
  • 00:16:31
    your daughter's healed your whatever you
  • 00:16:34
    know and and you know why does he have
  • 00:16:36
    to drag it out why make her cry
  • 00:16:41
    out for this extended period of time and
  • 00:16:44
    then finally when he does speak to her
  • 00:16:46
    why make a derogatory statement you know
  • 00:16:49
    we're we're we're Americans we don't
  • 00:16:52
    like that we get offended really easy
  • 00:16:55
    you know we
  • 00:16:57
    Americans and uh so we're kind of
  • 00:16:59
    wondering why is this all really
  • 00:17:01
    necessary well I I think this is a
  • 00:17:03
    classic case of not being able to see
  • 00:17:07
    the whole picture like Jesus can see it
  • 00:17:11
    and there are a lot of passages in the
  • 00:17:13
    Bible frankly where Jesus confronts
  • 00:17:15
    people or heals people or rebukes people
  • 00:17:20
    in such a way that we're kind of left
  • 00:17:22
    scratching our head kind of
  • 00:17:24
    going that was weird why did you do it
  • 00:17:28
    that way and so forth um and because it
  • 00:17:31
    doesn't make sense to us from our
  • 00:17:34
    perspective we tend to kind of get
  • 00:17:36
    confused by it all and this is this
  • 00:17:38
    example is kind of one of those
  • 00:17:42
    instances and one of the interesting
  • 00:17:45
    things about this woman that Mark
  • 00:17:48
    doesn't tell us but Matthew does is that
  • 00:17:52
    um she actually knew who Jesus was from
  • 00:17:57
    at least she used all the right titles
  • 00:18:00
    let me show you a passage from Matthew
  • 00:18:01
    chap 15 where he gives us this Insight
  • 00:18:05
    Behold a Canaanite woman from that
  • 00:18:06
    region came out and was crying have
  • 00:18:09
    mercy you know look at how she cries
  • 00:18:12
    have mercy on me oh
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    Lord son of David Son of David is a
  • 00:18:18
    Messianic
  • 00:18:20
    title and that was a title that many
  • 00:18:23
    Jews were uncomfortable using Around
  • 00:18:26
    Jesus because they all knew what it
  • 00:18:29
    meant it meant you are the
  • 00:18:31
    Messiah but this syrop phenician woman
  • 00:18:34
    who shouldn't know anything about
  • 00:18:37
    Jewish understanding of the Messiah she
  • 00:18:40
    Nails it I mean she just zings it right
  • 00:18:42
    in there have mercy on me oh Lord son of
  • 00:18:45
    David and then goes on to explain the
  • 00:18:47
    situation that's kind of
  • 00:18:49
    impressive and you know we read
  • 00:18:51
    Matthew's account and we're kind of
  • 00:18:52
    further impressed by this woman not only
  • 00:18:55
    did she she maintain this attitude of
  • 00:18:57
    great humility
  • 00:18:59
    not only does she cry from the depth of
  • 00:19:01
    her heart but she kind of has this thing
  • 00:19:03
    about Jesus all dialed in as to who he
  • 00:19:05
    is and we're left with the conclusion
  • 00:19:08
    she deserves to be
  • 00:19:11
    helped and that's again a very American
  • 00:19:14
    way of for you and I to think about this
  • 00:19:17
    she deserves it
  • 00:19:19
    right and and that's why we're kind of
  • 00:19:22
    bummed
  • 00:19:23
    by she gets met with
  • 00:19:26
    silence and she's so deserving
  • 00:19:29
    and then he's quiet he ignores
  • 00:19:31
    her talking to the guys you know she's
  • 00:19:34
    just crying over
  • 00:19:35
    here and and you know we don't even know
  • 00:19:37
    if they're eating or just chatting or or
  • 00:19:41
    what they're
  • 00:19:42
    doing and I have to wonder you
  • 00:19:46
    know I wonder how we would respond I
  • 00:19:49
    wonder how I would respond I'll make it
  • 00:19:52
    personal if I was in this situation one
  • 00:19:55
    of my kids desperately
  • 00:19:58
    needs help and there's nobody that can
  • 00:20:00
    help this
  • 00:20:02
    child except this Jesus and I've heard
  • 00:20:04
    about
  • 00:20:05
    him and I believe I
  • 00:20:08
    believe that he could do something I
  • 00:20:10
    believe he can make a
  • 00:20:12
    difference but I go to him I seek him
  • 00:20:17
    out I lay my petition before
  • 00:20:20
    him and I get met with
  • 00:20:24
    silence and then after the silence what
  • 00:20:26
    I do get sounds very much like
  • 00:20:30
    rejection and I
  • 00:20:32
    wonder how would I respond beyond that
  • 00:20:35
    point would I would I walk away with my
  • 00:20:38
    feelings hurt because you know what I
  • 00:20:40
    think it's very very easy to get our
  • 00:20:41
    feelings hurt some people obviously more
  • 00:20:44
    than
  • 00:20:45
    others are quickly hurt by the things
  • 00:20:49
    people say or don't say and let me tell
  • 00:20:52
    you some when we're crying out to
  • 00:20:55
    God and we're in pain
  • 00:20:59
    and we're met with
  • 00:21:01
    silence wow that is
  • 00:21:04
    always a time of great
  • 00:21:07
    Temptation for us to give in to the hurt
  • 00:21:11
    of that situation and ask start asking
  • 00:21:14
    questions like doesn't God
  • 00:21:17
    know how hurt I am doesn't God know how
  • 00:21:21
    painful the situation is doesn't he
  • 00:21:24
    doesn't he understand how I'm feeling
  • 00:21:27
    and we feel very
  • 00:21:29
    rejected by it
  • 00:21:31
    all and there are a lot of
  • 00:21:36
    Christians who will enter a situation
  • 00:21:39
    like
  • 00:21:40
    that where you cry out to God with all
  • 00:21:43
    of your heart in the midst of your pain
  • 00:21:45
    and you are met with
  • 00:21:46
    silence and you are so hurt that
  • 00:21:50
    sometimes we just give
  • 00:21:53
    up so what is God doing in times of
  • 00:21:57
    Silence
  • 00:21:59
    what is he
  • 00:22:00
    doing well people love to try to answer
  • 00:22:02
    that question I've read a lot of
  • 00:22:03
    commentaries a lot of people teaching
  • 00:22:07
    even on this particular passage and and
  • 00:22:09
    and I've listened to a lot of Believers
  • 00:22:10
    talk about those times of life when God
  • 00:22:13
    doesn't seem to answer and people love
  • 00:22:15
    to you
  • 00:22:16
    know inject their
  • 00:22:19
    ideas here's what I think's going on oh
  • 00:22:22
    we're just
  • 00:22:23
    guessing we do that a
  • 00:22:26
    lot we it's called speaking into the
  • 00:22:29
    silence and it's not a very wise thing
  • 00:22:31
    to
  • 00:22:32
    do because honestly we don't know and
  • 00:22:35
    and what Jesus is doing in the life of
  • 00:22:38
    this syrop phenician woman by by holding
  • 00:22:41
    off for the long period of time that he
  • 00:22:43
    did and then finally saying something
  • 00:22:45
    that you and I would consider to be
  • 00:22:46
    hurtful and offensive and re and and
  • 00:22:48
    part of a a rejection sort of a thing
  • 00:22:52
    that's I don't know what's Jesus doing I
  • 00:22:55
    don't
  • 00:22:56
    know I don't you know but doesn't that
  • 00:22:59
    happen a lot you guys don't don't you
  • 00:23:02
    find that in the course of your
  • 00:23:05
    Christian Life things happen to you and
  • 00:23:08
    to other people that you don't get and
  • 00:23:10
    you don't
  • 00:23:12
    understand and and and and so what are
  • 00:23:14
    we going to do you know with that sort
  • 00:23:16
    of a
  • 00:23:17
    thing one of the things we have to
  • 00:23:19
    remember and this is something we
  • 00:23:20
    learned last week in our first half of
  • 00:23:24
    the study of uh Matthew chapter 7 we
  • 00:23:27
    learned that God always looks at the
  • 00:23:29
    heart and because he can see the heart
  • 00:23:32
    clearly you you and I can't we can't
  • 00:23:35
    even see our own Hearts I mean we think
  • 00:23:37
    we know our hearts but God sees our
  • 00:23:39
    heart in a perfectly transparent way and
  • 00:23:42
    he knows how to best address situations
  • 00:23:45
    and things in our lives and if sometimes
  • 00:23:48
    addressing that situation begins with a
  • 00:23:51
    period of Silence that's his business
  • 00:23:54
    here's the question are you and I going
  • 00:23:56
    to get hurt are we going to get hurt
  • 00:23:57
    feelings are we going to become angry
  • 00:23:59
    are we going to become bitter are we
  • 00:24:00
    going to close our Bible and say all
  • 00:24:02
    right enough with that junk I'm done
  • 00:24:04
    with this this I don't I don't think God
  • 00:24:07
    cares I don't think you know I don't
  • 00:24:09
    think he's
  • 00:24:11
    listening and that is the very common
  • 00:24:15
    and very often uh damaging sort of a
  • 00:24:19
    response that people will
  • 00:24:22
    have and just you
  • 00:24:24
    know as we look at the passage here I
  • 00:24:28
    just got done telling you I don't know
  • 00:24:30
    what Jesus is doing exactly I'll tell
  • 00:24:31
    you what it what it looks like but
  • 00:24:34
    that's again this is going to be a guess
  • 00:24:35
    okay what it looks like he's doing is
  • 00:24:37
    drawing out a genuiness of faith in her
  • 00:24:41
    life to see if she's going to persevere
  • 00:24:43
    and press through even after the silence
  • 00:24:48
    and the appearance of Rejection it
  • 00:24:49
    appears and you know the woman comes
  • 00:24:51
    through with flying colors I got to tell
  • 00:24:53
    you this is a neat lady I mean if I want
  • 00:24:55
    somebody interceding for me I think I'd
  • 00:24:57
    get this gal
  • 00:24:58
    cuz she's a mom for one thing and she is
  • 00:25:02
    bold for another and she is full of
  • 00:25:07
    perseverance and she doesn't let any of
  • 00:25:09
    this thing stop her this statement that
  • 00:25:12
    she finally makes even in the face of
  • 00:25:14
    this
  • 00:25:15
    rejection you know no I I'm not it's not
  • 00:25:18
    proper to take what is intended for the
  • 00:25:20
    children and give it to the dogs instead
  • 00:25:22
    of going you forget you then buddy and
  • 00:25:25
    walking storming out she comes back with
  • 00:25:27
    this incredible response of faith that
  • 00:25:31
    says yes Lord but even the dogs eat the
  • 00:25:33
    crumbs that fall from the table and
  • 00:25:35
    we're all just like wow that's
  • 00:25:37
    incredible what an what an amazing
  • 00:25:39
    statement that she continues on even in
  • 00:25:43
    the face of all of this and she you know
  • 00:25:45
    and it's such a statement of faith too
  • 00:25:47
    because she's basically saying I don't
  • 00:25:48
    need the meal give me the crumb the
  • 00:25:50
    crumb's enough you know which is
  • 00:25:53
    powerful in and of itself but please
  • 00:25:56
    don't miss the
  • 00:25:59
    because I think this is really the point
  • 00:26:00
    of the passage she held
  • 00:26:03
    on to faith even in the midst of Silence
  • 00:26:08
    even in the midst of apparent rejection
  • 00:26:10
    she held on and that is the lesson
  • 00:26:15
    here she could have done what you and I
  • 00:26:19
    have done I dare say and that is you
  • 00:26:21
    know be sent into an emotional tail
  • 00:26:24
    spin when God is silent and doesn't
  • 00:26:27
    respond according to our
  • 00:26:29
    expectations believe me I've been there
  • 00:26:32
    I can be just as emotional as you can
  • 00:26:35
    and feel just as disappointed when God
  • 00:26:37
    doesn't respond and she could have done
  • 00:26:40
    that she could have gotten mad she could
  • 00:26:42
    have you know given up but she
  • 00:26:44
    maintained two very important
  • 00:26:47
    things and and these are very important
  • 00:26:49
    for us to see first of all she
  • 00:26:51
    maintained her attitude of
  • 00:26:54
    humility even in the face of what she
  • 00:26:57
    was receiving from the Lord
  • 00:26:58
    Lord understanding her own
  • 00:27:01
    unworthiness and then second of all she
  • 00:27:03
    maintained her
  • 00:27:05
    faith and understood that if she
  • 00:27:07
    persisted ultimately she believed Jesus
  • 00:27:10
    would
  • 00:27:11
    respond I mean why else keep talking if
  • 00:27:15
    you're convinced that it's not going to
  • 00:27:17
    do any good you usually shut
  • 00:27:19
    up right so she kept talking which
  • 00:27:24
    suggests well more than suggests tells
  • 00:27:26
    us that she believed D there would be a
  • 00:27:30
    good conclusion to this
  • 00:27:34
    situation let me let me let me explain a
  • 00:27:36
    little something about the difference
  • 00:27:38
    between this woman and us let me tell
  • 00:27:40
    you why we get angry at God let me tell
  • 00:27:43
    you why we get sent into those emotional
  • 00:27:46
    tail spins when God doesn't meet our
  • 00:27:48
    expectations you ready for this because
  • 00:27:50
    we think we deserve it we deserve
  • 00:27:54
    better we think we deserve better I've
  • 00:27:58
    actually had unbelievers tell me when
  • 00:28:00
    I'm sharing the Lord with them they'll
  • 00:28:01
    say well what's God ever done for me
  • 00:28:03
    I'll saywell what do you deserve to have
  • 00:28:04
    God do for you and they're usually like
  • 00:28:08
    well and they don't you know because
  • 00:28:10
    they're kind of caught in the face of
  • 00:28:12
    their attitude that I'm entitled I mean
  • 00:28:14
    does isn't isn't good stuff what God
  • 00:28:17
    does isn't he in the business of
  • 00:28:19
    showering us with good
  • 00:28:21
    stuff how come I haven't gotten it I
  • 00:28:24
    called out to him I prayed I didn't get
  • 00:28:26
    the good stuff I'm you know forget God
  • 00:28:28
    what does that attitude say I deserve
  • 00:28:32
    it that's why we get mad that's why we
  • 00:28:35
    get disappointed that's why we that's
  • 00:28:38
    why we throw up our hands and say I'm
  • 00:28:40
    done with all this God
  • 00:28:42
    stuff you know I'm GNA be treated like
  • 00:28:45
    in this
  • 00:28:47
    fashion do you see the here's the deal
  • 00:28:49
    with the cyr phenician Woman Jesus not
  • 00:28:52
    only has this protracted time where he
  • 00:28:55
    ignores
  • 00:28:56
    her but then when he finally speaks up
  • 00:28:58
    and he says to her it's not right to
  • 00:29:01
    give this stuff to the children's dogs
  • 00:29:04
    when it's prepared for them she's not
  • 00:29:07
    even
  • 00:29:08
    phased she doesn't have any issues with
  • 00:29:10
    her own personal worthiness she she's
  • 00:29:12
    not sitting there going I deserve this
  • 00:29:15
    Jesus I have been here for how long now
  • 00:29:18
    crying out to you and what do you do
  • 00:29:21
    first you ignore me then you insult me I
  • 00:29:26
    never you you know sort of a thing
  • 00:29:29
    right she doesn't do that why the issue
  • 00:29:33
    of worth isn't even on the
  • 00:29:37
    table she understands from the get-go
  • 00:29:41
    she's not worthy she knows that it's a
  • 00:29:45
    foregone conclusion we don't know that
  • 00:29:48
    we go into it thinking we
  • 00:29:50
    are good God I called you
  • 00:29:54
    answer because this is me calling
  • 00:29:58
    and I'm worthy right this woman didn't
  • 00:30:02
    struggle with that she wasn't trying to
  • 00:30:04
    convince God of anything she knew she
  • 00:30:06
    wasn't worthy of a response she knew she
  • 00:30:08
    wasn't
  • 00:30:09
    worthy as a as a non-jew she
  • 00:30:13
    knew say what you want I don't care it's
  • 00:30:16
    not going to phase me because selfworth
  • 00:30:19
    isn't on the table now listen I
  • 00:30:21
    understand some people actually have
  • 00:30:22
    feelings of un they don't feel worthy I
  • 00:30:25
    I get that we hear that actually quite
  • 00:30:27
    often people will say I don't feel
  • 00:30:28
    worthy of God's love and so I know that
  • 00:30:31
    some people feel that way but you know
  • 00:30:32
    what those people are still talking
  • 00:30:35
    they're relating to God from the
  • 00:30:37
    standpoint of worthiness or worth
  • 00:30:40
    selfworth even those people who feel
  • 00:30:42
    unworthy are basing it on worth and
  • 00:30:45
    they're telling you by saying I don't
  • 00:30:48
    feel worthy of God's love that it ought
  • 00:30:50
    to be based on worth you see even though
  • 00:30:55
    they're saying I don't feel worthy of it
  • 00:30:57
    they're telling you I I should probably
  • 00:31:00
    feel worthy because isn't that how God
  • 00:31:01
    treats US based on our
  • 00:31:04
    worth guys you get this God does not
  • 00:31:06
    treat US based on our worth okay get
  • 00:31:09
    that out of your head that's an
  • 00:31:11
    americanism that you have to excise from
  • 00:31:13
    your brain and your heart you have to
  • 00:31:16
    get rid of it the syrop phenician woman
  • 00:31:17
    wasn't even challenged by these
  • 00:31:20
    things it was that you know she like hey
  • 00:31:22
    I just need your
  • 00:31:23
    help she couldn't be
  • 00:31:26
    offended she could couldn't she already
  • 00:31:29
    knew she wasn't
  • 00:31:31
    worthy she got that part right I like
  • 00:31:35
    this woman she's
  • 00:31:38
    cool
  • 00:31:40
    so
  • 00:31:44
    anyway
  • 00:31:47
    listen your child may not be in the
  • 00:31:51
    desperate
  • 00:31:52
    situation that hers was
  • 00:31:55
    in but
  • 00:31:59
    you know possessed by a a demon but they
  • 00:32:03
    still may be in the clutches of the
  • 00:32:04
    devil just the same here's my
  • 00:32:07
    advice be like this
  • 00:32:11
    mom be like this lady and don't let
  • 00:32:13
    anything get in the way of bringing your
  • 00:32:16
    cries before the throne of grace don't
  • 00:32:18
    let anything get in the way including
  • 00:32:21
    silence because the Silence of God is
  • 00:32:23
    one of the greatest temptations that you
  • 00:32:25
    and I deal with in terms of feeling
  • 00:32:30
    rejected and
  • 00:32:32
    hopeless it is a huge Temptation I'm
  • 00:32:36
    saying to you don't let that happen
  • 00:32:40
    press in and don't let how your life is
  • 00:32:44
    going or what has happened color your
  • 00:32:47
    opinion of God's love and his Mercy you
  • 00:32:50
    know I love the fact that during worship
  • 00:32:53
    today we emphasized did you notice how
  • 00:32:56
    much we emphasize the love of God
  • 00:32:58
    and how good he is you're a good good
  • 00:33:01
    father we sing that and those are great
  • 00:33:05
    lyrics and they're
  • 00:33:07
    wonderful but as soon as Life Starts
  • 00:33:11
    going hard we start wondering if
  • 00:33:14
    maybe I don't know it might not be true
  • 00:33:17
    it's pretty tough to say God is good
  • 00:33:19
    when things in your life are not good
  • 00:33:22
    right so what when you're going to God
  • 00:33:25
    and you're pressing in for an answer
  • 00:33:27
    you're coming to him for a solution
  • 00:33:29
    what's going to keep you coming when
  • 00:33:31
    you're met with silence when you're met
  • 00:33:33
    with what appears like rejection what's
  • 00:33:35
    going to keep you
  • 00:33:38
    coming if you you know if you reject the
  • 00:33:41
    idea finally that he is good well
  • 00:33:45
    there's going to be
  • 00:33:46
    nothing he meets me with
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    silence he he rejects me or at least it
  • 00:33:52
    appears like it so my conclusion is he
  • 00:33:56
    is not good
  • 00:33:58
    you're done I mean you're in a hopeless
  • 00:34:01
    scenario at that particular point I want
  • 00:34:03
    you to notice how this woman did not
  • 00:34:06
    allow what was happening to stop her
  • 00:34:09
    from
  • 00:34:11
    believing this man has the
  • 00:34:14
    answer and if I continue to press in and
  • 00:34:17
    if I continue to make my need
  • 00:34:20
    known he's going to do something and I'm
  • 00:34:22
    not going to let anything get in the way
  • 00:34:25
    I don't care how long he ignores me I
  • 00:34:27
    don't care what he may say that may
  • 00:34:29
    sound like rejection I am staying here
  • 00:34:34
    until this thing gets dealt with you
  • 00:34:37
    know why because he's good and I may not
  • 00:34:41
    feel like he's good right now but I'm
  • 00:34:44
    going to believe what he says in his
  • 00:34:47
    word he is good and I'm going to hang on
  • 00:34:52
    to
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    that people that's where Faith really
  • 00:34:56
    flies the final part of this chapter
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    goes like this verse 31 then he returned
  • 00:35:03
    from the region of Ty and went through
  • 00:35:04
    sidon to the Sea of Galilee finally in
  • 00:35:07
    the region of the decapolis stop there
  • 00:35:09
    for a moment it's called the decapolis
  • 00:35:11
    because it was a region that was made up
  • 00:35:13
    of 10 cities and and let me remind you
  • 00:35:16
    here that just a couple of chapters ago
  • 00:35:19
    in Mark chapter 5 Jesus went to this
  • 00:35:21
    region and when he got off the boat
  • 00:35:23
    you'll remember he was met with what the
  • 00:35:25
    man we call the man of the tombs
  • 00:35:27
    remember remember the man who had all
  • 00:35:30
    those demons that no one could control
  • 00:35:32
    and Jesus did a powerful work of
  • 00:35:36
    releasing that man from that demonic
  • 00:35:38
    possession and you'll remember that what
  • 00:35:40
    happened in the midst of that uh
  • 00:35:41
    situation was the demons asked
  • 00:35:43
    permission to go into a herd of pigs
  • 00:35:45
    Jesus allowed them to they freaked out
  • 00:35:47
    of their brain ran down the hill and
  • 00:35:49
    started floating in the water I mean
  • 00:35:51
    they died the whole herd of Pigs we're
  • 00:35:53
    told the towns people came out they
  • 00:35:55
    looked at the situation the man was in
  • 00:35:57
    his right mind
  • 00:35:58
    pigs are now floating and they basically
  • 00:36:00
    said to Jesus um would you just kind of
  • 00:36:03
    go they were like just leave just leave
  • 00:36:07
    and he did right but then you remember
  • 00:36:09
    the last thing that happened was that
  • 00:36:11
    the man who'd been set free said to
  • 00:36:13
    Jesus I want to come with you Jesus said
  • 00:36:16
    no you got to stay here you got to go
  • 00:36:17
    tell your family you got to tell your
  • 00:36:19
    friends I want you to go throughout
  • 00:36:20
    these area I want you to tell him what
  • 00:36:22
    God has done for you and he did and now
  • 00:36:25
    Jesus is back it's months later now
  • 00:36:27
    Jesus is back he's at the same area and
  • 00:36:30
    I want you to
  • 00:36:32
    see that that the the attitude of this
  • 00:36:35
    people has changed verse 32 we're told
  • 00:36:38
    here that they they brought to him a man
  • 00:36:40
    who was deaf and had a speech impediment
  • 00:36:42
    and They begged him to lay his hand on
  • 00:36:44
    him again these are the people that just
  • 00:36:46
    a little while ago were encouraging
  • 00:36:48
    Jesus to leave their area now they're
  • 00:36:50
    bringing sick people and saying please
  • 00:36:51
    Lord touch this man verse 33 says and
  • 00:36:55
    taking him aside from the crowd
  • 00:36:56
    privately he put his fingers into his
  • 00:36:58
    ears and after spitting touched his
  • 00:37:00
    tongue kind of gross and looking up to
  • 00:37:04
    heaven he sighed and said to him F FAA
  • 00:37:08
    which is an Aramaic word by the way and
  • 00:37:10
    Mark gives us the uh translation it is
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    be opened and his ears were opened his
  • 00:37:17
    tongue was released and he spoke plainly
  • 00:37:21
    great story we like this we like it when
  • 00:37:23
    people get helped right away um uh it's
  • 00:37:26
    a story of a specific healing but there
  • 00:37:27
    are some
  • 00:37:29
    unique uh things about this that I'll
  • 00:37:31
    just throw out that you can take note of
  • 00:37:33
    first of all Mark is the only gospel
  • 00:37:35
    writer who tells this story second of
  • 00:37:37
    all uh the word that is translated
  • 00:37:39
    speech impediment is used here in Mark
  • 00:37:42
    and nowhere else in the New Testament
  • 00:37:44
    interesting and thirdly this is a really
  • 00:37:47
    weird way to heal somebody I mean you
  • 00:37:50
    know ears or fingers in your ears and
  • 00:37:53
    then spitting and then touching his
  • 00:37:56
    tongue
  • 00:37:58
    but you know you think about it and what
  • 00:38:00
    was the issue with the man he was deaf
  • 00:38:03
    and he had a speech impediment obviously
  • 00:38:05
    can't hear himself talk so these are the
  • 00:38:08
    areas that need to be touched right and
  • 00:38:10
    so I think Jesus is communicating first
  • 00:38:12
    of all to him what he's about to do but
  • 00:38:15
    he he he goes through this very odd
  • 00:38:19
    process of healing this man and I love
  • 00:38:23
    that he is healed with a word be opened
  • 00:38:26
    you know and the man is released his it
  • 00:38:30
    says his tongue was set free or released
  • 00:38:33
    as what it means his ears were opened
  • 00:38:36
    and so forth and he began to speak
  • 00:38:39
    plainly and you know Miracles are always
  • 00:38:41
    fun to read Because Miracles are
  • 00:38:42
    Miracles and miracles are fun and
  • 00:38:44
    everybody likes to think about miracles
  • 00:38:45
    and we would love to see more miracles
  • 00:38:47
    and even have them going on in our own
  • 00:38:49
    life but you know there's something else
  • 00:38:50
    about this story that really is cool and
  • 00:38:54
    that is what we read in verse 33 if you
  • 00:38:57
    look with with me there at the beginning
  • 00:38:58
    of that verse it says and taking him
  • 00:39:01
    aside from the crowd privately and I got
  • 00:39:04
    to tell you something I like that I like
  • 00:39:07
    it for a bunch of different reasons I
  • 00:39:08
    love the fact that Jesus wasn't playing
  • 00:39:11
    to the crowd but I also love that Jesus
  • 00:39:15
    often took people out of the public
  • 00:39:17
    Spotlight to do a a very intimate and
  • 00:39:20
    personal work in their lives and I'm
  • 00:39:24
    sure this was probably done to the
  • 00:39:26
    disappointment of some of the people who
  • 00:39:27
    came because they were look lose and
  • 00:39:29
    just wanted let's go see a miracle sort
  • 00:39:30
    of a thing and yet Jesus pulls this man
  • 00:39:32
    away from the crowd gets alone with him
  • 00:39:36
    and does this work and and and again
  • 00:39:37
    this is something we see in the word of
  • 00:39:40
    God where Jesus
  • 00:39:43
    withdraws from the crowds and so
  • 00:39:46
    forth but you know when I think about my
  • 00:39:51
    own life and maybe you can take a moment
  • 00:39:52
    to think yourself about some of the most
  • 00:39:55
    T most powerful times that God has
  • 00:39:57
    worked in your life and I I I thought
  • 00:39:59
    about this as I was going through this
  • 00:40:01
    passage and it became very apparent to
  • 00:40:04
    me that those times when God has most
  • 00:40:08
    powerfully moved in my life I've been
  • 00:40:10
    alone with him it's not been around
  • 00:40:12
    other people it's been when I have just
  • 00:40:15
    been forced for some reason or another
  • 00:40:17
    to kind of be alone and that's not to
  • 00:40:20
    say I I love being alone necessarily I
  • 00:40:22
    love being with you guys I love
  • 00:40:24
    worshiping with you I love praying with
  • 00:40:26
    you but one of the the reasons I like it
  • 00:40:28
    so much is because it's
  • 00:40:29
    easy when the worship team is up here
  • 00:40:32
    playing it's easy to start singing and
  • 00:40:34
    worshiping I mean like all of us we're
  • 00:40:36
    we just start just singing but before
  • 00:40:39
    long you know we're we're singing it to
  • 00:40:40
    the Lord and we're really pressing in
  • 00:40:43
    and we're really focusing on him at
  • 00:40:45
    least I hope so and then when people
  • 00:40:47
    begin to pray you know don't you find it
  • 00:40:49
    hard now some of you guys are prayer
  • 00:40:50
    warriors God bless you this doesn't
  • 00:40:52
    apply to you but for the rest of us it's
  • 00:40:54
    hard to pray alone it's just it's hard
  • 00:40:56
    to you just kind of get going and yours
  • 00:40:57
    thinking about what needs to be done and
  • 00:40:59
    your mind easily can kind of run after
  • 00:41:01
    some other thoughts and and and stuff
  • 00:41:03
    and praying is hard that's why I love to
  • 00:41:05
    get together you know with other people
  • 00:41:07
    and pray because it keeps me on you know
  • 00:41:09
    task keeps me on course right it's easy
  • 00:41:13
    but boy when you get alone I don't know
  • 00:41:15
    well I don't know about you when I get
  • 00:41:17
    alone that's when things get very real
  • 00:41:20
    very
  • 00:41:21
    quickly and you know you stop
  • 00:41:24
    pretending we can pretend really easily
  • 00:41:27
    in worship I can be have my eyes closed
  • 00:41:30
    and you know like this and be thinking
  • 00:41:32
    about the ball
  • 00:41:34
    game I'm just admitting to you or what
  • 00:41:37
    I'm going to have for
  • 00:41:38
    dinner thank you Lord for dinner or what
  • 00:41:41
    whatever you know I mean I can do that
  • 00:41:43
    and and you can too I can be praying or
  • 00:41:46
    you can be praying and I'm in the room
  • 00:41:47
    and we're all holding hands and you're
  • 00:41:49
    praying and I'm thinking about something
  • 00:41:52
    else boy you know when you when you when
  • 00:41:55
    you get alone with God it's like there's
  • 00:41:57
    no pretending anymore it's just me and
  • 00:41:59
    God and he doesn't he doesn't impress
  • 00:42:01
    easily at
  • 00:42:03
    all and it's just
  • 00:42:06
    us just me and
  • 00:42:10
    him and that's a good
  • 00:42:12
    thing you know Jesus
  • 00:42:15
    often broke away from the crowds to just
  • 00:42:18
    get alone with his heavenly
  • 00:42:21
    father and I've been always I've been
  • 00:42:24
    challenged by that a lot thinking you
  • 00:42:28
    know I I really should cultivate that in
  • 00:42:29
    my own life it's it's a tough thing
  • 00:42:31
    though it's a difficult thing to kind of
  • 00:42:34
    do but it really puts the personal in a
  • 00:42:37
    personal relationship with God otherwise
  • 00:42:40
    if I only pray in front of other people
  • 00:42:42
    and worship in front of other people
  • 00:42:43
    then I have a fairly public relationship
  • 00:42:46
    with God it's like God I'll talk to you
  • 00:42:48
    as long as there's other people around
  • 00:42:50
    I'll worship you as long as there's a
  • 00:42:52
    band you know as long as they strike up
  • 00:42:54
    the tune then I'm good to go but you
  • 00:42:56
    know if I'm just kind of alone in my car
  • 00:42:58
    or in my bedroom or or
  • 00:43:01
    whatever don't expect a whole lot out of
  • 00:43:03
    me you know because I'm not really into
  • 00:43:05
    that sort of a thing well I think we
  • 00:43:07
    need to get into that sort of thing I
  • 00:43:08
    think we need to generate and and and
  • 00:43:10
    cultivate a a a personal walk with God
  • 00:43:15
    but these last two verses are very
  • 00:43:17
    interesting as well it says in verse 36
  • 00:43:19
    and Jesus charged them to tell no one
  • 00:43:21
    but the more he charged them the more
  • 00:43:23
    zealously they proclaimed it and they
  • 00:43:25
    were astonished being beyond measure it
  • 00:43:28
    says that the things that Jesus was
  • 00:43:30
    doing saying he has done all things well
  • 00:43:33
    he even makes the deaf hear and the mute
  • 00:43:37
    speak and I want to just end by focusing
  • 00:43:40
    on that last comment right there that
  • 00:43:42
    the people of this region the region of
  • 00:43:43
    the decapolis are saying in the you know
  • 00:43:46
    to one another he does everything well
  • 00:43:49
    he does all things well that's a good
  • 00:43:52
    thing to say I mean these are the people
  • 00:43:54
    who got very annoyed last time Jesus was
  • 00:43:57
    there because he was kind of
  • 00:43:59
    interfering we we just want to raise
  • 00:44:01
    pigs okay you guys get it pigs were
  • 00:44:04
    unclean animals Jews were not supposed
  • 00:44:06
    to raise pigs unlawful right but they're
  • 00:44:08
    like raising pigs and they're just kind
  • 00:44:10
    of living their own lives and you know
  • 00:44:12
    when we do that when we're living our
  • 00:44:13
    own lives living for ourselves I don't
  • 00:44:15
    really care about what God's word has to
  • 00:44:17
    say I'm just going to live my life and
  • 00:44:18
    God comes into my life that's an
  • 00:44:21
    interference have you ever had a
  • 00:44:22
    Christian come up and start talking to
  • 00:44:23
    you about Jesus when you didn't want to
  • 00:44:25
    hear anything about it and it's
  • 00:44:27
    interference like you know like just go
  • 00:44:28
    away that's exactly what they said to
  • 00:44:31
    Jesus the last time just please go away
  • 00:44:33
    You're
  • 00:44:35
    interfering but things have changed
  • 00:44:38
    there's been time the man of the tombs
  • 00:44:40
    has been out there doing a great
  • 00:44:42
    job and now the people their hearts are
  • 00:44:45
    open their minds are open they're
  • 00:44:47
    looking at what Jesus is doing this is
  • 00:44:49
    good and you know this this response
  • 00:44:52
    that this is good he does all things
  • 00:44:55
    well is
  • 00:44:57
    is something that we all must come to
  • 00:45:00
    eventually and we do once we stop
  • 00:45:02
    arguing with God and once we stop trying
  • 00:45:05
    to figure everything out and make make
  • 00:45:06
    him explain everything to us you know I
  • 00:45:09
    just get mad at God because he don't
  • 00:45:10
    tell me what he's
  • 00:45:12
    doing and that's me exalting my
  • 00:45:15
    intellect over the top of his will and
  • 00:45:18
    saying listen if you don't explain
  • 00:45:19
    yourself to
  • 00:45:20
    me we're not going to have a good
  • 00:45:22
    relationship
  • 00:45:24
    here but when I stop
  • 00:45:27
    insisting on my own will when I stop
  • 00:45:30
    insisting on my own understanding being
  • 00:45:33
    satisfied and I begin to trust in the
  • 00:45:35
    fact that he is a good good
  • 00:45:39
    father things begin to change my
  • 00:45:42
    attitude toward him begins to change and
  • 00:45:44
    I begin to see that he does all things
  • 00:45:47
    well and eventually we can come to that
  • 00:45:49
    place like the psalmist and let me put
  • 00:45:51
    this up on the screen for you this is
  • 00:45:54
    from Psalm chapter 18 I've quoted out of
  • 00:45:56
    the NIV because I like it as for God his
  • 00:45:59
    way is perfect isn't that a great verse
  • 00:46:02
    The Lord's word
  • 00:46:05
    flawless goes on to Simply say he
  • 00:46:07
    Shields all who take refuge in him but I
  • 00:46:09
    love that statement as for God his way
  • 00:46:12
    is
  • 00:46:25
    perfect e
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