Look at Mark 5. So over the years this legend developed that this messiah would come and there would be healing in his tassels. In other words there's healing in the word of God, the name of God, the ways of God and the grace of God as it is attached to messiah. In other words the way Jesus wore the presence of God brings healing, and the way you can wear the presence of God can bring healing too if you wear it this way. It's the disposition of messiah and I'm not talking about just healing. I'm talking about wholeness. I'm talking about emotional wholeness without one missing piece. If you look at Jesus, Jesus was concerned with people's physical healing and He dealt with that, but bigger than that He spoke to their emotional health. Why? Because one day we're all going to die anyway and what's a few years extra life in terms of eternity? Why would God want to give you 15 more years? Although He does that to people, why would He want to give you 15 more years? Is it that important to God? Not really, it's that important to you, because the truth is we're going to spend eternity with Him anyway.
What Jesus is more concerned with is that the life you live now has quality emotional health. Okay, in Mark 5 - this is so cool. Mark 5:21 and following. I'm just going to tell this story. You can kind of just know where I'm at by this. It starts out with saying that there was this guy named Jairus okay. Jairus came and asked Jesus to come pray for his daughter. Jairus was a big time synagogue ruler and Jairus comes and he says Jesus, I want you to come pray for my daughter. She's on the point of death. So Jesus says okay, this is what we'll do. I'll go pray for your daughter. Now all of Mark 5 is all about Him going to Jairus' daughter. It's all about that. Now what happens on the way to Jairus' daughter is so spectacular that a lot of times we stop there, but the whole story is about Jesus going to Jairus' daughter so it's very important that we understand that Jesus is going to Jairus' daughter, because we have to know He's going to Jairus' daughter. Am I being clear enough? [Laughter]
So where is He going? Jairus' daughter. I'll say that again - Jairus' daughter. So Jesus is walking along and He's on His way to Jairus' daughter and He gets interrupted. He gets interrupted, which is a good lesson for us because sometimes the greatest moves of God come in interruptions. Sometimes the greatest move of God comes in an interruption, that if we're so task oriented that any little thing that throws us off our schedule, if we get stressed out by that sometimes we miss God's greatest grace. Jesus is on His way to Jairus' daughter and there's a whole big crowd behind Him. It said that there was a lady there who had an issue of blood for 12 years. She has an issue of bleeding for 12 years. Now we have to understand something. Two words you have to understand in this passage or you can't understand the chapter, and that is tamei and tahor, tamei and tahor. Tamei meant unclean, t-a-m-e-i. Tamei meant unclean. Tahor means clean, so you had tamei or you were tahor. Everybody was either tamei or tahor.
Lepers had to walk through town saying tamei! Tamei! Tamei! Unclean, unclean, unclean. The problem with tamei was it was very contagious. We define sin so poorly. If I was to give a survey in most churches and I say would you please define sin in one sentence, you would hear mostly things like this: sins are the bad things that we do that are against what God would want us to do. That's not a bad definition of sin, it's just not complete. Is sin the bad things we do? Yes, but it's much bigger than that. Sin was anything that wasn't perfect. Sin is anything that isn't perfect. In the Book of Leviticus it says it's a sin for a person to have dandruff - so check your neighbour out, see if they're in sin right now. [Laughter] Just kind of check them out. Yeah? Sin to have dandruff, yeah. It was a sin to have [dim 00.27.23] eyes, so if you need eye glasses it's tamei. [Laughter] It's unclean. It made you tamei to have a period, so if you're here tonight and you have a period every month that would make you tamei.