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THE HEALING OF A WOMAN WITH AN ISSUE OF BLOOD
LORD’S DAY, NOVEMBER 15
Mark 5:24-34; Matthew 9:20-22; Luke 8:43-48

Acts 4:8-12

 

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THE HEALING OF A WOMAN WITH AN ISSUE OF BLOOD
 
What misery sin has brought into the world! A long-standing painful disease afflicted this woman (Mark 5:25). Medical skill had proved unable to cure it (Mark 5:26). After twelve long, weary years battling the disease, relief seemed no nearer than at first (Prov 13:12).
 
How amazing it is that we do not hate sin more! Sin is the cause of all the pain and disease in the world. God did not create man to be an ailing and suffering creature. It was sin, and nothing but sin, which brought in all the ills that flesh is heir to. It was sin to which we owe every racking pain, every loathsome infirmity and every humbling weakness to which our bodies are liable. Hate sin with a godly hatred.
 
People thronged Christ with different feelings. Only one in the crowd touched Him with faith and was healed (Mark 5:24, 27). Many followed Jesus from curiosity without deriving benefit from Him. Many now go to church, but few touch Christ by faith and go home in peace.
 
This one woman, weary of her disease and her physicians, describes many a sinner. Such men and women have felt their sins deeply and have been sore afflicted by the thought that they are not forgiven and not fit to die. They have desired relief and peace of conscience, but have not known where to find them. They have tried many false remedies but not been helped. They have gone the rounds of all the forms of religion and wearied themselves with every imaginable man-made device for obtaining spiritual health. But all have been in vain.
 
Let all such take comfort in the miracle which we are now considering. Let them know that there is something that can cure them, if only they will seek it. There is one door at which they have never knocked in all their efforts to find relief. There is one Physician to whom they have never applied who never fails to heal. Let them consider the conduct of this woman in her necessity. When all other means had failed, she went to Jesus for help. Let them go and do likewise.
 
THOUGHT: Without Christ, without hope (Eph 2:12).

PRAYER: I thank Thee, Father, for my Saviour Jesus Christ.

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