The Resurrection of Jairus' Daughter

Today we find ourselves once again in the book of Luke. So if you have your Bible, I would invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 8.

It has been 10 weeks since we last were in this book. Yep, we had an ordination of one of our elders. We had several Sundays leading up to Christmas Sunday that we spoke about the prophecies of Christmas. And then after that, we spoke about things you cannot afford to forget in the aftermath of the advent. And so that has taken us up to this point in the month of February to our study once again in the book of Luke. And I love to study the Gospels. I love to be able to see what it is that God wants us to learn about himself.

And as we study the Gospels, we study about the greatness and the glories of our God. We study about the magnificence of our Messiah. We study about the joy that only Jesus himself can bring to the souls of lost men. We study the lovely character of our Lord. And we begin to understand the significance and the supernatural work of our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. And in the Gospels, our Lord unveils himself to us that we might get a glimpse of his wonderful character. And once again in today's study, we are able to see the character of God displayed once again in Luke chapter 8.

I'm going to read to you verses 40 down through verse number 56 because it encompasses what we're going to talk about today. Plus it brings us back to where we were 10 weeks ago when we talked about the woman who was healed by our Lord. Luke chapter 8 verse number 40, And as Jesus returned, the multitude welcomed him for they had all been waiting for him. And behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was an official of the synagogue. And he fell at Jesus' feet and began to entreat him to come to his house.

For he had an only daughter, about 12 years old, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes were pressing against him. And a woman who had a hemorrhage for 12 years and could not be healed by anyone came up behind him and touched the fringe of his cloak. And immediately her hemorrhage stopped. And Jesus said, Who is the one who touched me? And while they were all denying it, Peter said, Master, the multitudes are crowding and pressing upon you. But Jesus said, Someone did touch me, for I was aware that power had gone out of me.

And when the woman saw that she had not escaped notice, she came trembling and fell down before him and declared in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him and how she had been immediately healed.

And he said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. While he was still speaking, someone came from the house of the synagogue official, saying, Your daughter has died. Do not trouble the teacher anymore. But when Jesus heard this, he answered him, Do not be afraid any longer. Only believe and she shall be made well. And when he had come to the house, he did not allow anyone to enter with him except Peter and John and James and the girl's father and mother. Now they were all weeping and lamenting for her.

But he said, Stop weeping, for she has not died but is asleep. And they began laughing at him, knowing that she had died. He, however, took her by the hand and called, saying, Child, arise. And her spirit returned, and she rose immediately. And he gave orders for something to be given her to eat. And her parents were amazed. But he instructed them to tell no one what had happened. Once again, we get a great glimpse of the glory of our God. And here we have a story that deals with man's ultimate fear.

And that is the fear of death. Every man, every woman who has ever lived, fears death. We push it to the recesses of our minds. We don't like to talk about it. We don't like to attend funerals. We don't like to really focus in on death. And yet, thanatology is one of the great studies of the Bible. Over 950 times in the New Testament, or the Old Testament, it speaks specifically about the death of an individual. And so we know that, that coupled with the New Testament, we have a lot of times the Bible speaks about death, because it is life's ultimate reality.

We don't like to talk about it, but it is the one thing every one of us has in common. We're all going to die. Some a little sooner than others. Some later than others. But everybody's going to die, guess what, on time. Nobody dies too late. Nobody dies too early. Everybody dies at their time that God has ordained them to die. And yet our wonderful Lord has done something very unique. He has removed the sting of death. He has removed the fear of death to those who believe in him. The writer of Hebrews, the second chapter, the 14th verse, said these words, that Jesus came to destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to its bondage.

We live in bondage to the fear of death. But when Jesus Christ came, he came to conquer not only the one who is the author of death, that is Satan himself, but he came to rid us of the fear of death. And that's what Jesus Christ does in our story today. The Bible says in John 5 verse number 21, for as the father raised up the dead and giveth them life, even so the son gives life to whom he will.

Truly, truly I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth on him that sent me hath everlasting life. For as the father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the son to have life in himself. Our Lord is the author of life. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. And he offers life to those who believe in him. The Bible says in John 11, 25, and 26, I am the resurrection and the life.

He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Those are powerful words spoken by Jesus at the tomb of Lazarus and Bethany. In John 14 verse number 19, Christ says, because I live, you shall also live.

In Revelation 21, 4, the Bible says that in the eternal state there will be no more death. In fact, when John the Baptist had a question about whether or not Jesus was truly the Messiah, Jesus sent John's disciples back to him and told them to say this to John in Matthew 11. He said, You go and show John again those things which you hear and which you see. The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, and the dead are raised. You see, it's our Lord who raises the dead.

We've already seen him in Luke chapter 7 raise the widow's son there at Nain from the dead. We know that there were probably others he raised from the dead because when he sent those disciples of John back to John while he was in prison, that is, John the Baptist, he told them that you have seen the dead raised. You see, our Lord is the all-powerful one. In Luke chapter 8, it describes to us the power of our God. We saw it in verse number 22 about, or verse 20, how he had the power over the sea. We saw him calm the wind and the waves.

We saw him with power over Satan because once the storm settled on the sea, they would land in the area of the garrisons and there he would cast out a man filled with legions. So we saw his power over the sea. We've seen his power over Satan, and we've seen his power over disease and over illness, when he would heal this young lady who was bleeding, who was hemorrhaging, and she received the healing touch of the Messiah. You see, it speaks about his great and wonderful power, and today we see the ultimate in his power when he raises a young girl just 12 years of age from the dead.

Six things I want you to see. I want you to begin by looking with me at this passage because it's a passage that begins with a whole throng of people there on the seashore in the area of Capernaum. They were waiting for him to return. As you recall, he had left the area of Capernaum and traveled to the land of the garrisons. He was there for just a brief moment as he would cast out this man filled with legion. He would set sail back to Capernaum, and there was a whole bunch of people just sitting and waiting for the arrival of Jesus.

Jairus was one of those, this synagogue official, was one of those individuals waiting for the arrival of Jesus. And when Jesus arrived, he ran up to him. He fell down before him and told him about his daughter who was sick, so sick that she was about to die. And Jesus said, I will go, and I will heal her. Well, you can imagine the emotions in Jairus. He was so thrilled that Jesus, first of all, had come back to Capernaum, and that he was able to meet him, and that he would fulfill the great plea of Jairus.

But as he was going, and the crowds were pressing against him, and remember, we told you, there were thousands of people around Jesus, not just tens and hundreds, but thousands of people. Wherever he went, there were so many people around him that sometimes he could not even move. He had to escape from the crowd. He had to rise early in the morning just to spend time alone, because once the day broke, everybody was at his doorstep. Everybody was with him throughout the day because of his miraculous power.

And so here it was, Jesus getting off the boat, being greeted by this synagogue official, and these people were pressing against him. And there was this one woman, this one woman who was completely defiled. She was a woman who had this bleeding problem for 12 years. And if you read the book of Leviticus, you know that she was not to be touched by her husband, by her children. She was excommunicated from the synagogue, from the temple. So she was nowhere around anybody, and yet she found herself creeping into this crowd, knowing that if she was able to get to Jesus, she'd be healed, she'd be forgiven, she'd be able to experience the wonderful power of God.

We know from Mark's account in Mark chapter 5 that after hearing about Jesus, she went to Capernaum to find him. So we know that she had heard about the healing power of Jesus. She had heard about this miracle worker called the Messiah. So she knew about Jesus, and so she went and she would crawl up to him, sneak up to him, and touch the fringe of his garment, and Jesus would stop and said, who touched me? And of course, Peter says, Lord, there are so many people. Everybody's touching you. It's no big deal that somebody touched you.

No, Jesus says, power has left me. And this young woman who did not want to be noticed, who was so concerned about just the healing power of Christ, that if she could just sneak in and sneak out, everything would be okay, but Jesus wasn't about to let that happen. And so he compels her to come out so all could see her. Why? Because not only did she need a physical healing, she needed social restoration. Because she was defiled, because she was excommunicated, because she was not able to be a part of what was happening in society, she needed full restoration.

And the Lord wanted everybody to know that she had been healed so she could be restored back to her family, back to her friends, back to society, so that she could live among the people. And so he called her out, and she began to testify as to the healing power of Jesus the Messiah. But it goes way beyond that, because this woman not only received healing physically, and not only did she receive healing socially, but she received the ultimate healing spiritually. How do we know that? Because Jesus calls her daughter.

No other woman in scripture is called daughter, just this woman. Meaning that she's a child of the living God. She's entered the kingdom of God. He calls her daughter. He says your faith has made you well. And the word sozo is used to describe the fact that she has been saved from her sin. It's used of the ten lepers in Luke 17, where there were ten healed, but one came back. And Jesus said, were there not ten healed? Go in peace, your faith has saved you. And so there was a salvation that was brought to one of those ten lepers.

All ten were healed, but only one was truly saved. And his faith saved him. And also, we read it earlier in the book of Mark, or I'm sorry, earlier in the book of Luke, in Luke chapter 7, with the prostitute who came to Jesus. It was her faith also that saved her. Same word used, sozo, to describe the fact that she had entered into new life with Jesus Christ. And so this woman is called by Jesus' daughter. He says, your faith has saved you. Go into peace. Nobody can go into peace if they are not reconciled to God.

And so this woman had experienced the peace of Almighty God. That's the passage. That's the lesson we covered ten weeks ago in, I just gave it to you in what, five, ten minutes? There it is. You say, well, why didn't you give it to us in ten minutes, you know, ten weeks ago? Well, that's because we had to go into great detail. But that's where we are now.

And from the passage, I want you to notice the peril. What happens now? Look what it says, and this is our text for today, verse number 49. While he was still speaking, someone came from the house of the synagogue official saying, Your daughter has died. Do not trouble the teacher anymore. This is a great peril for Jairus. Now, put yourself in Jairus' sandals for a moment. You're all excited. Jesus has come to your city, and you're able to beckon him to come to your home. He says, I'm going to come.

And so on the way, you know, you're anxious, you're excited, you know that great things are going to happen because this is the Messiah. And all of a sudden he stops, and he talks about this woman. He brings her out to the crowd, and she then gives her testimony as to the wonderful power of God. And Christ responds to her, Daughter, your faith has saved you. Go into peace. And then it says, while he was speaking. We don't know how long he was speaking, but we know that Jesus is a teacher. Jesus is a preacher.

That's why when the man comes, the messenger comes from the house, we don't know who that messenger is. He says, don't trouble the teacher anymore. Jesus was known as a great teacher. That's what he did. And so he was speaking. Now, whether he was continuing to speak to the woman, whether he was speaking to the crowd, we don't know. But we know that Jesus was talking to the people about the saving grace that was available to them. So while he was speaking, so you can imagine Jairus and the very fact that, you know, can't you stop speaking and get to my house?

I mean, we've already had a little bit of a delay here because of this woman. Isn't it about time you continued your journey to my house? You can imagine the anxious spirit that Jairus has, the emotions running rampant in his mind, thinking what's going to happen next. Lord, you got to hurry, finish the sermon so we can get to where we need to be. Sometimes you folks are like that, right? You come to church, the avoid passion. I wish you'd hurry up. We got lunch to go to, we got places to be. So hurry up with the sermon.

So you can imagine Jairus, his daughter is sick. She's about to die. Lord, you got to get there. He promises to come and yet he's not coming. And that delay led to the death of his daughter. How would you feel? What would you be thinking? How was it you would respond to the Lord Jesus Christ? The Bible says that while he was speaking, someone from the house of the synagogue official Jairus came and said, your daughter's dead.

Your daughter's dead. Don't trouble the teacher anymore. There's no need for him to come now. Her sickness is over. It's led to her death. Think about this. This woman who had a bleeding for 12 years was a rejected woman and Christ would care for the rejected woman all the while ignoring the respected individual, the respected synagogue official. And a perceived delay looks like a denial. And here is this woman who was excommunicated from the synagogue and this synagogue official is one who is exalted in the synagogue.

And the Lord takes out time for this one who was rejected all the while not meeting the need of the one who is for all practical purposes, the most respected person in Capernaum. But you see in here, you see from our Lord, his availability and his accessibility. Our Lord is always available and always accessible. He's always around. And sometimes we forget that about our Lord, don't we? But there he is. He's there. And so there's a great peril that takes place. The girl has died. Here was a young girl, 12 years of age.

That's marrying age. If you're, if you're a Jewish young girl, that's the age you are betrothed to the young man. And she, the Bible doesn't tell us how long she was sick, whether it was a quick sickness or a long sickness, we don't know. But she was one who had all of her life before her. And here was this other woman who had lived her life and she was up in years. And why would the Lord spend time with her when he could spend time with me? Sometimes we think that, don't we? Why would the Lord ignore my situation?

Why would the Lord not handle my problem? Why would he deal with somebody else's issues, but not deal with my issues? So we always ask those questions because somehow we think that God should always be at our disposal to do whatever it is we ask him to do. But just because he delays does not mean that he denies your prayer or your request. And our Lord in his sovereignty had a great and wonderful plan because he was going to change, listen carefully, everybody's perspective on death. We have the wrong perspective about death.

Jesus knows that. And so Jesus is going to change everybody's perspective on death. Well, for that to happen, she had to die. And so the Lord knows that. He understands that. Matthew's account says something really unique. It says this, my daughter has just died. Come and lay your hand on her and she will live. She will live. So when you look at Matthew's account and you look at Luke's account, it was one of those situations where Jairus would believe that even Jesus could raise her from the dead.

Now remember, Jairus had seen miracle after miracle after miracle. He lived in Capernaum. Capernaum was the hubbub of the ministry of Christ. There are more miracles done in and around that city than any other location in all of Israel. And they were accountable for what they saw. And this synagogue official believed in what had taken place. He had seen what had taken place earlier in the gospels when there was a man who was demon possessed in the synagogue in Capernaum who interrupted one of Jesus's sermons and Jesus cast the demon out.

So he would have been there for that because he is the synagogue official. He would have seen all the miracles that Jesus had performed in and around that city. So he knows about the power of the Messiah. You go and you lay your hands on her, touch her, she will live. My daughter's died, but she will live. Jesus gives a promise in verse number 50. Look what it says. But when Jesus heard this, he answered him, do not be afraid any longer, only believe and she shall be made well. She will live. Only believe.

Mark's account says these words, keep on believing. You have believed up till now, my son, don't stop believing. There is that faith mingled with fear. We experience that all the time. We believe in what God's going to do. We trust him. But there's that certain anxiety that wells up within us when things don't go necessarily as we had planned for them to go. We believe in God. It's like the one man who said, oh Lord, I believe, help thou my unbelief. We believe in what God can do. And yet sometimes there is that fear mingled with faith and the Lord says, you know what?

Just keep believing. Keep believing. Even though things don't happen in your timetable, you believe in me, you trust me, you keep my word, you follow my teaching, believe in me and watch and see what happens next. And that leads us to the perspective. And this is where our Lord wants to change your perspective and my perspective on death. Listen to what he says. He says this. And when he had come to the house, he did not allow anyone to enter with him except Peter and John and James and the girl's father and mother.

Now they were all weeping and lamenting with her, but he said, stop weeping for she has not died, but is asleep. Now you need to picture the scene here. Remember you got thousands of people coming with Jesus. They hear the fact that the girl's dead and Jesus tells them to believe. So they make their way to the house and the houses in Israel are not that big. And when they get there, the only ones allowed to enter the house are Peter, James and John. Note, this is the first time these three men are separated from the other 12.

This won't be the last time. There'll be many other times, but this is the first time that Peter, James and John, the inner circle of Christ are separated from the other 12 to be specifically with Jesus to watch him work.

So these three men come in with Jesus along with the mother, along with the father. And when they arrive in there, there is already a funeral taking place. That's why he tells everybody, stop weeping. Stop weeping. She's not dead. She's asleep. Now you must understand the Jewish funeral of the day. When we go to a funeral, you ever notice that when you go, it's always really, really quiet.

It's real quiet. You don't want to raise your voice. You want to always whisper. You know, I do lots of funerals and when I go to the funeral home, I usually meet the funeral director, whether it's at Rose Hills or Forest Lawn or Oakdale, and they're always, I'm great. How you doing? And there's, wow, it's good to have you with us. They always whispering and you've been to funerals. It's very somber. It's very quiet, but not in the days of Jesus. Quite the contrary, quite the contrary. Three things always happened at a funeral in Jesus, Jesus's day.

One, there was always loud weeping and loud wailing, loud lamenting. There were hired mourners and every poor person, listen, had to have at least one mourner and two flute players if you're poor. Well, Jairus, the synagogue official, he wasn't a poor man. So there were more than just one mourner. There were several of them, plus several flute players. We know from the account in Matthew, the text says these words. It says in verse number 23, when Jesus came into the official's house and saw the flute players and the crowd in noisy disorder.

You see at a Jewish funeral during the time of Jesus, it wasn't a quiet, somber affair. It was a loud affair with great noisy disorder. There was great howling and shrieking of voices. That's how they mourned. And they would hire these mourners to come in and they would weep and lament. And before they came, listen carefully, they would study the history of the family. Because in the history of the family, there were others who had passed on, others who had died. And so in their weeping and wailing, they would mention the names of those who had already passed on, just in case you came to the funeral and you weren't really, you know, in love with your Uncle Joe or Aunt Susie.

They would mention someone who was close to you and died. So then you could become teary and begin to lament as well. So you could join in the wailing. They also required to rip their clothes. If you read the Talmud, there were 39 different requirements for how to conduct a funeral in the days of Jesus. They had to rip their clothes. And so if you were going to go to the funeral, you'd pick out something you didn't like or something you maybe you did like, but you wanted your husband to replace it for you.

You'd bring that and you'd rip that at the funeral. And every rip couldn't be just a little tear, had to be big enough to put your fist through. Okay? And so if you were the family, the mother and father, you'd have to rip it right above your heart. Now if you're a woman, you would rip your undergarment, turn it around, wear it backwards, so that you could rip the outer garment. Okay? And that's how you would express your lamenting during the ceremony. And so there'd be the ripping and the tearing of clothes.

Okay? And notice that once that was done, you could stitch it back up, but it had to be loosely stitched for 30 days.

So people would know that you were lamenting the death of a loved one. Don't you wish you could go to a funeral in Jesus's day and rip some of your clothes so your husband could buy you some new clothes? I mean, that's what else was taking place. And there were also hired flute players who would come and they would play in reaching noise. This is what was happening. So Jesus walks in. All these people are lamenting and carrying on ripping their clothes. The flute players are playing. It's a noisy disarray according to Matthew's account.

And Jesus walks in and says, stop. Stop this. Everybody out. Read Mark's account. It says that he puts them out. Now we know how Jesus does that, don't you? You know about how it is he took a whip in the temple and ran out the money changers, right? Jesus actually put them out. You don't want to be messing with Jesus, the son of God, when he is not very happy. And so he puts them all out of the house. Stop. Stop the wailing. She's not dead. She's asleep. She's asleep. Now notice what happens with the mourners.

It says, and they began laughing at him, knowing that she had died. Kata Galeo is a word that means to laugh with scorn and disdain. Same word used in Matthew 27 of how they laughed and mocked Jesus when he hung on the tree. They laughed at him. He didn't know what he's talking about. She's dead. They mocked him on their way out. They were embarrassed because they were humiliated by Jesus, number one.

And number two, they had come because they were hired flute players. And if she's not dead, they don't get paid. All right. So they're not very happy. And so they're leaving saying, you know what? This guy, he's crazy. He's wacko. And they began to laugh at him and to mock him. But I want you to notice what Jesus said.

She's not dead. She's asleep. Jesus's perspective on death is a lot different than your perspective and my perspective. He says, this is not final. This is not over. She's only asleep. You see, he's saying that death is something that's temporary, never final. You must remember that once you were created, listen carefully, you will never die. You'll never die. Oh, your body's going to fail and it's going to keel over one day. Oh, but your spirit's going to live forever. Going to live forever. We are created, but we will never die because we will live forever either with God or apart from God.

We see death as final, as the fact that it's over, but it's not. Jesus says, you know what? She's only asleep because he wants them to realize that this is not a final thing. It's temporary. Even in Acts, remember chapter 13, it says, verse 36, I believe, when David had fallen asleep, after serving God's purposes in his own generation, David fell asleep. Death views, the Bible views death as sleep because it's not over. It's almost as if you go to sleep and you awake where? Either in heaven or in hell.

You read it also in the book of John, John chapter 11. It says this in verse number 11, this he said, and after that he said to them, our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. Remember they had heard that Lazarus was sick. And so Jesus purposely did not go to Bethany because he wanted Lazarus to die. We have a hard time with that, don't we? That sometimes Jesus wants you dead. We have a hard time with that, but Jesus didn't go to Lazarus when he was sick. He delayed so that he would die. And this is what he says.

Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go that I may awake him out of sleep. Verse 12, the disciples therefore said to him, Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover. Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he was speaking of literal sleep. Then Jesus therefore said to them plainly, Lazarus is dead. And I'm glad for your sakes that I was not there so that you may believe. Let us go to him. You ever think about Jesus being glad that somebody's dead. He was, he was remembered.

Jesus holds the keys to death and Hades revelation one 18. They're in his hands. He has the authority over who lives and who dies. And then it says this in verse number 43. And when he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, Lazarus come forth. He who had died came forth bound hand and foot with wrappings. And his face was wrapped around him with the cloth. Jesus said to him, unbind him and let him go. You see, Jesus wants to change our perspective and our view of death. He says it's not final.

It's only temporary. He says that again, through the pen of the apostle Paul in first Thessalonians chapter four, verse number 13, he says, but we do not want you to be uninformed brethren about those who are asleep that you may not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.

And he goes on to talk about the great fact of the, the translation of the church. So rapture the church when those who are dead in Christ will, will rise first.

The same thing is said in first Corinthians chapter 15. So death is referred to quite often as, as sleep in the Bible, because it's not something that's permanent. It's something that's just temporary. So Jesus walks in and says, well, she's not dead. She's just asleep. And people say, she's dead, man. There's no pulse. There's no heartbeat. She's dead. And they're laughing as they walk out of there. But Jesus had a plan. He wants to change your perspective and mine on death. Oh, by the way, the spirit never sleeps.

The spirit never sleeps. See, once you were created, you live forever. Your body will die, but your spirit will depart either in heaven or in hell. That's why Paul said for me to live as Christ and to die as what? Gain. In second Corinthians five, he said it's far better to depart because he knows that when he dies, he's going to go home and be with the Lord.

And so the Bible defines death in a very temporary nature, because that's exactly what it is. It's never ever over because you live forever with God or without God. Which leads us to his power. Verse number 54, it says this. He, however, took her by the hand and called saying, as Mark says it, Talitha, Kumi, little girl, arise. Little girl arise. And her spirit returned and she rose immediately. And he gave orders for something to be given to her to eat. She arose immediately. Listen, he called her spirit back and he said to her, little girl arise.

And her spirit returned to her, not some other spirit, not some angelic spirit. Her spirit returned to her and she arose. There was no therapy. There was no rehab. There was no need of a restoration because now she was completely healed. You see, when Jesus heals somebody, listen, there's no rehab. Did you get that? When Jesus heals you, there's no rehab and there's no restoration. Jesus healed this young lady and she immediately arose. And if she had been sick for a long time and she had been in bed for a long time, she would have been weak and the sickness would have caused her to be extremely weak.

When she received the spirit, she would need some kind of help to get back up. Help her up. No, no, help her up. She arose immediately. He says, give her something to eat to prove that this was not some fantasy, to prove that this was not some kind of trickery, to prove that this was a real resurrection. It was a real complete healing. And she's back in her body once again. She's normal, feed her, give her something to eat. The power of the Lord to speak the word and it happens just as he says. That leads us to point number six, the prohibition, verse 56.

And her parents were, listen, amazed. Now that's probably not a good translation. Existemi is a word that means out of your mind. It's used all throughout this chapter, Luke 8. It was used about the disciples in the boat when the wind and the waves stopped at an instant and they stood amazed. They stood outside of themselves. They were so flabbergasted. They could not begin to comprehend the normalcy of what was taking place because it wasn't normal. It was supernatural. Same thing said of the people in the land of the Gerardines.

When the demoniac had had legion cast out of him, existemi, they were out of their minds as to the power of this one called Jesus. Same is true of the woman with the hemorrhage who was healed in verse number 47. It says she came trembling in fear, out of her mind because she was so amazed at what had taken place. Same thing now happens with the parents. You can understand that, can't you? I mean, if you've had someone close to you die and all of your hopes and dreams are dashed and all of a sudden they're raised before your eyes, I mean, would you not be standing outside of yourself as well?

I mean, that's way beyond normal comprehension and it took place in your house in front of your eyes and you're thinking, wow, this is great. And then Jesus says these words.

He instructed them to tell no one what had happened. That's odd. Why would he tell them that? You would want to go after the mourners and do that little neener, neener, neener thing, you know, ah, you guys are wrong. Ah, she's only asleep. She's alive. Ah, you know, there's that carnal part of us that would like to go after them and set them straight, right? And so you're telling somebody, I've got to make this known throughout the region what you have done. And Jesus says, don't tell anybody.

Don't tell anybody what has just happened here. Well, they're going to know. I mean, she's going to be outside playing in the street again. They're going to see her. The people on the outside of the house, they're going to know because they're going to know that there's a great excitement in the house. The news is going to spread. Why can't we go tell anybody? You know, you ever notice that when something that happens great to you, the very first thing you want to do is call somebody.

Sometimes Jesus says, you know what? Don't say anything. Because if you don't worship first, then your witness is not nearly as effective.

He wanted them to worship, to enjoy their family, the reunion that God had done in their lives, to be grateful. You know, so many times we don't spend time thanking God just in the quietness of our homes. We're so quick to tell everybody else what great things God has done. And so we should be. But Jesus says to them, and this is not the first time he said it.

He said it on many occasions. He told to a man who in Mark chapter one, who he said, you know what? Don't tell anybody. He wouldn't tell everybody. And Jesus said that because he knew that if once he told everybody, he wouldn't be able to get out of the house and walk around because he would be inundated with people. And sure enough, he was another time. He told, told him, don't tell anybody because it was a judgment upon unbelief in Israel. So there's a, there's a motive behind why Jesus says, don't say anything to anybody.

He wants these people to worship him. He wants these people to rest in the fact that God is true to his word. He wants him to rest in the fact that death is not permanent. It's temporary. He wants him to rest in the fact that Jesus can be trusted in that Jesus needs to be worshiped as the Lord God of the universe who has the keys to death and the keys to life. What a beautiful story about our Lord. But you know, folks, our Lord is going to do that with everybody. Did you know that he's going to do what he did in this little house in Capernaum with this little girl, with everyone in this room and everyone who has ever lived?

Did you know that he's going to resurrect everybody? Let's know what the Bible says in John chapter five, John chapter five says in verse number 24, truly, truly.

I say to you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. Verse 25, truly, truly. I say to you an hour is coming and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the son of God and those who hear shall live for just as the father has life in himself, even so he gave to the son also to have life in himself and he gave him authority to execute judgment because he is a son of man. Do not marvel at this for an hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs shall hear his voice and shall come forth those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life.

Those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment. Jesus says death is temporary. No one remains in that death state. One day everybody who's in the tomb will hear the voice of the son of man and he will call forth those who believe in him unto the resurrection of life. That's called the first resurrection and those who do not believe in him, he will call them forth as well and the Bible in the book of Revelation 20 calls that the second resurrection.

It's the resurrection unto judgment. Everybody will have their body resurrected and joined with their spirit. Those who are believers will have a glorified body just like our Lord had after his resurrection that perfect glorified body that can go through doors without opening them by the way. That perfect glorified body you will have one day at the resurrection of life. But every unbeliever will also have their body resurrected. They will hear the voice of the son of man and in Revelation 20 it talks about the the resurrection into judgment and that great white throne judgment in Revelation 20 verses 11 to 15 when all the deeds of those who do not know him are put before them and they are judged.

Every man and those who are resurrected in the second resurrection will be cast into eternal judgment forever where their bodies and their souls will experience the eternal torment of hell separated from the Lord God of the universe forever.

And that is final. That's final. And I wonder today after reading the story about the daughter of Jairus and her death and the resurrection of her life, do you understand that you are a part of the first resurrection?

That you'll be resurrected unto life and not into death because you believe in Jesus Christ our Lord. The gospel of Luke is about Christ and who he is, his identity and all of his glory. And unfortunately there'll be many people that won't be a part of that first resurrection.

They'll be a part of the second resurrection, the resurrection unto judgment. But the Bible speaks the truth. And if you're here today and you don't know for certain that when you die you'll spend eternity with Christ, you need to come up and see one of our elders after the service is over so you have ironclad assurance of your eternal destiny. So important. God didn't bring you here today by accident. Nobody's here by accident. Everybody's here by divine appointment. If you're not certain that you'll be resurrected unto life, then you'll be resurrected unto death.

Complete separation from the eternal God forever and ever and ever. You don't want that to happen. The Lord doesn't want that to happen. So make this day a day you understand the truth about life and death in your eternal destiny. Let's pray. Father we thank you for the glories of your word and the greatness of your kingdom. We thank you Lord for how true you are. And I pray that Lord if there'd be one person among us today that does not know for certain that Jesus Christ rules and reigns supreme in their life that today would be the day of their salvation.

They give their life to Christ so that when they died they would go home to be with Jesus Christ our Lord. We pray in Jesus name. Amen.