February 9, 2025
Series: Courageous Faith
Sermon: The Courage to Heal
Scripture: Mark 5:25-34 NAS
““A woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and had endured much at the hands of many physicians, and had spent all that she had and was not helped at all, but rather had grown worse— after hearing about Jesus, she came up in the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak. For she thought, “If I just touch His garments, I will get well.” Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction. Immediately Jesus, perceiving in Himself that the power proceeding from Him had gone forth, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My garments?” And His disciples said to Him, “You see the crowd pressing in on You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’ ” And He looked around to see the woman who had done this. But the woman fearing and trembling, aware of what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth. And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace and be healed of your affliction.””
INTRODUCTION: Mountains are made to be moved!
A Bold Action...
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”
-Hebrews 11:6 NIV
Desperation on Display:
Faith without works is dead.
-James
A Merciful Savior...
Immediately Jesus, perceiving in Himself that the power proceeding from Him had gone forth, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My garments?”
-Mark 5:30 NASB
Jesus' Response to the Woman:
A Transformative Outcome...
And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace and be healed of your affliction.”
-Mark 5:34 NASB
The woman was healed:
CONCLUSION: Courageous faith refused to be stopped by the crowd because mountains are made to be moved!
