02/12/2023 Midtown Church Sacramento
Series – Hope, Health & Healing
NO HOPE WITHOUT LOVE
Pastor Otis Amey
Main Text: Mark 5:25-30
What’s love got to do with hope?
3 Different Types of Love:
EROS – Love between the sexes
PHILEO – Brotherly love / friends / more general
AGAPE – Unconditional love (highest form of love)
John 3:16: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Biblical Background: Mark is telling a story about a woman who “interrupts” Jesus while He’s on His way to heal someone else. He’s sharing how real love should compel us to spread life-changing hope.
A love that leads to hope
Mark 5:21-27:
When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. 22 Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. 23 He pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live.” 24 So Jesus went with him.
A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak…
Hebrews 11:1:
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
Biblical Hope – A confident expectation and desire for what is to come. A belief that something good will come regardless of your current circumstance!
A Hope That Leads to Freedom
Mark 5:28-31:
…because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” 29 Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
30 At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”
31 “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”
A Freedom That Leads to Family
Mark 5:31-34:
“You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”
32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 33 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”
Final Thought – Where is the Hope? Everywhere!
Romans 10:14-15:
How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
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