Who Touched ME?

Pastor Bryan – QUESTIONS JESUS ASKED – Who touched my robe?

“Jesus went with him, and all the people followed, crowding around him. ²⁵ A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding. ²⁶ She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, but she had gotten no better. In fact, she had gotten worse. ²⁷ She had heard about Jesus, so she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his robe. ²⁸ For she thought to herself, “If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed.” ²⁹ Immediately the bleeding stopped, and she could feel in her body that she had been healed of her terrible condition.

³⁰ Jesus realized at once that healing power had gone out from him, so he turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my robe?”

³¹ His disciples said to him, “Look at this crowd pressing around you. How can you ask, ‘Who touched me?’”

³² But he kept on looking around to see who had done it. ³³ Then the frightened woman, trembling at the realization of what had happened to her, came and fell to her knees in front of him and told him what she had done. ³⁴ And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over.”

Mark 5:24-34 (NLT)

WHAT BIBLICAL FAITH IS NOT

• Biblical faith is not a for answered prayers.
• Biblical faith is not a blueprint for a .
• Biblical faith is not about you .
• Biblical faith is not the absence of .

GUIDING PRINCIPLE: Faith is in the life of a Jesus follower.

“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”

Galatians 2:20

WHAT DOES FAITH DO…

“What good is it, dear brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but don’t show it by your actions?”

James 2:14

1. FAITH SEES differently.

“For we live by believing and not by seeing.”

II Corinthians 5:7

“I lift up my eyes to the mountains where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.”

Psalm 121:1-2

2. Faith HEARS differently.

“So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ.”

Romans 10:17 (NLT)

3. Faith SPEAKS differently.

“But we continue to preach because we have the same kind of faith the psalmist had when he said, “I believed in God, so I spoke.”

II Corinthians 4:13

4. Faith ACTS differently

“So you see, faith by itself isn’t enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless.”

James 2:17

5. Faith is TRANSFERABLE.

“Timothy, I thank God for you—the God I serve with a clear conscience, just as my ancestors did. Night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. ⁴ I long to see you again, for I remember your tears as we parted. And I will be filled with joy when we are together again. I remember your genuine faith, for you share the faith that first filled your grandmother Lois and your mother, Eunice. And I know that same faith continues strong in you. This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you. For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.”

II timothy 1:3-7