Doesn't it totally break form with Jesus? WHO TOUCHED ME? WHO TOUCHED ME? That doesn't sound like Jesus. That sounds like Obi-Wan Kenobi! [Laughter] WHO TOUCHED ME? WHO TOUCHED ME? POWER HAS LEFT FROM ME. Everybody look over here! This lady with an issue of blood, she just touched me! Why would a rabbi do that? Why would a First Century rabbi draw attention to the fact that an unclean person had just touched Him? What will everybody think of Him? Everybody will think He's unclean. Now it's important theologically to know she got healed immediately, so did Jesus become unclean? No. Did everybody think He did? Yes. It's very important, and so He turns to the lady and He speaks to her. He doesn't speak physical healing to her. Although she was already healed, He says go in peace. In other words shalom; in other words go in wholeness without one missing piece.
Let me say it this way. Lady, go and be whole. Go and whoever your next husband is, don't make him pay for the rejection this one did to you. Lady, go and don't be bitter about the way people treated you for 12 years. Lady, go with peace in your heart, go in shalom. Now where was Jesus going? Jairus' daughter, so while He's still speaking the people from Jairus' house show up and they say - what did they say to Jairus? Do you guys know the story? They say Jairus, your daughter is dead. Why bother the rabbi any more - which is a bit insensitive isn't it? Jesus was on His way there. This crazy lady with an issue of blood for 12 years stopped Jesus, interrupted Him and now my daughter's dead! Jairus, your daughter is dead. Why bother the rabbi any more - which is totally insensitive, unless you understand that according to Levitical law it was against the law to knowingly walk into a room where a dead body was. You could not knowingly walk into a room where a dead body was without becoming unclean - unless you were already considered unclean by the public.
Jesus was smart. WHO TOUCHED ME? Everybody look over here. WHO TOUCHED ME? This lady with an issue of blood, she just touched me! Why? Because He needed everybody to think He was unclean so they'd let Him in the room. He was one step ahead, but He covers His bases doesn't He? He says oh, she's not dead, she's just asleep. [Laughter] Wink wink. And it says but they all laughed at Him, so He put them all out except for James and John, or Peter, James and John. It says they put them all out except for Peter, James and John. Now I want you to look at your Bible and look at verse 40, Mark 5:40. And they laughed and jeered at Him, but He put them all out and taking the child's father and mother and those who were with Him, He went in to where the little girl was lying - so they let Him in the room. And He took her by the hand. Now we have a real problem don't we? If it's against the law to walk into a room where a dead body is, is it against the law to touch one? You better believe it.
If she doesn't get up immediately then Jesus' whole mission on earth is hurt, because He can't be an unclean sacrifice. So if He took her by the hand and He's following their Torah, what does He have wrapped around His hand? There will come from God a son of righteousness with healing in His wings - so He takes her by the hand and look what He says. Wait a minute, first look up here, look at the words: tallit, kanaf, tassels, tallit. Look what He says: And He took her by the hand and He said to her [Talitha kum! 00.37.42] In other words let me say it this way: Little girl, My child, the presence of God is here. Talitha kum! My child, the presence of God is here, get up and she gets up. As ministers in the kingdom of God it's our only right to serve the tassels. It is our right. It is my job tonight to look at you and say Talitha kum; My child, the presence of God is here. Get up. And it is my job and it is your job, it is our responsibility that tonight to our husband and our wife, tomorrow to our co-workers, to anybody who comes in our contact, that our hands stay wrapped in the tassels.