Acts 4:31 “And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.”Boldness is given to those resisting the status quo.Get Desperate (*title of message)Holy desperation is extraordinary behavior (boldness) prompted from extraordinary needMark 5:25-34 NKJV (I’m gonna read it all..so if you wanna type it up so they can follow along…)“According to the Jewish ideas of the time, if this woman touched anyone, she made him or her ceremonially unclean. This uncleanness did not allow them to take part in any aspect of Israel’s worship.“- David Guzik“By the very law of her people, she was divorced from her husband, and could not live in her home; she was ostracized from all society, and must not come into contact with her old friends; she was excommunicated from the service of the synagogue, and thus shut out from the women’s courts in the temple.“-Morgan“When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said, “If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.”1) HOLY DESPERATION LEADS TO BOLDNESS BECAUSE OF CONVINCED FAITH2) HOLY DESPERATION LEADS TO BOLDNESS THROUGH DELIBERATE DECISIONS“Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction.”“And Jesus immediately knowing in Himself that power had gone out of Him, turned around in the crowd and said, ’Who touched My clothes?’”3) HOLY DESPERATION LEADS TO A BOLDNESS THAT GETS THE ATTENTION OF GOD“Augustine long ago said of this story, ’Flesh presses, Faith touches. ’He can always distinguish between the jostle of the curious mob and the organized touch of a needy soul.“-Morgan“But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.”4) HOLY DESPERATION LEADS TO BOLDLY CLAIMING WHAT’S YOURS IN CHIRSTIsaiah 6:1 “I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple.”“Every devout Jew wore an outer robe…to signify to others, and to remind themselves that the wearer was a member of the chosen people of God.“-Barclay“And He said to her, ’Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.”5) HOLY DESPERATION LEADS TO BOLDLY BEING IDENTIFIED AS CHILDREN OF GOD6) HOLY DESPERATION LEADS TO A BOLDNESS PLATFORMLuke 8:47 it says “now when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before Him, she declared to Him in the presence of all the people the reason she touched Him and how she was healed immediately.”Mark 6:56 “Wherever He (Jesus) entered into the villages, cities, or the country, they laid the sick in the market places, and begged Him that they might just touch the hem of his garment. And as many as touched Him were made well.”
