Corona Chronicles - Crown of Thorns

Welcome again to corona chronicles. I guess imagine. Imagine this because this is the story we're gonna see in a minute. Imagine you have a 12 year old daughter who's who's seriously seriously ill. You dial 9 9 9 and the ambulance is coming.

You hear it coming up the road and your heart is thinking, oh, great, these paramedics will be able to do something. And then it stops And it helps an older lady that's had a problem for 12 years, the same age as your daughter, and they help her out, and then your daughter dies. What would you think Well, we're in 1 of these Marx sandwiches, where he has 1 story in the middle of another story, and it's like it's like the layers of a sandwich. You have the bread, which is 1 story, and then this middle story in in in the middle, like like the meat in the sandwich. But we're gonna look at the outer layers.

Yep. So maybe really from March chapter 5 verse 21, the first part of this sandwich. When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. Then 1 of the synagogue leaders named Jairus came. And when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet.

He pleaded earnestly with him. My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live. So Jesus went with him. And then second, a piece of bread from verse 36.

Yes. Over hearing what they sorry. Verse 35. While Jesus was still speaking, Some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. Your daughter is dead, they said.

Why bother the teacher anymore? Over hearing what they said, Jesus told him, don't be afraid, just believe. He did not let anyone follow him except Peter James and John, the brother of James. When they came to the home of the cynical leader, Jesus saw a commotion with people crying and wailing loudly. He went in and said to them, why all this commotion and wailing.

The child is not dead, but asleep, but they laughed at him. After he put them all out, he took the child's father and mother and the disciples who were with him and went in where the child was. He took her by the hand and said to her, Tali Thakuu, which means little girl, I say to you, get up. Immediately, the girl stood up and began to walk around She was 12 years old. At this, they were completely astonished.

You gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this. And told them to give her something to eat. So you've got this scenario. Jesus come over. In the boat, great crowds again, all crowding him.

And then this synagogue leader, which is quite interesting because many of the the leaders have been very much against Jesus, haven't they? And we know from chapter 3 verse 6 that the great leaders from Jerusalem already want to kill him. And he's got a massive problem. His darling daughter, is dying. And he knows, doesn't he?

He clearly knows. It's only really 1 hope. And the 1 hope is Jesus. But he delays, and she dies. What was that about?

So was he just lazy? Or you know what's going on with it? Yeah. Or he's sort of like a chilled out hippie that we see him. It got plenty of time all the time in the world.

Yeah. Well, Jesus clearly knows what's going on, doesn't he? Because he he hears that she's dead, and this is in verse 36. And this is not surprise to him. Yeah.

In fact, he he knows -- Yeah. -- he he says don't be afraid just believe. Yeah. So it's not, you know, he's not Oh, what have I done? I've made a huge mistake.

I should never have stopped for this woman. It's all should have got a faster donkey or something or sped up a bit. Why did I stop for that old lady? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So this is clearly in his plan, isn't it? He knows what's going on? Yeah, because she has died, even though it says there, in verse 39, He goes on as his wildest wailing and some stuff. The child is not dead, but asleep, but they laugh.

Yeah. So he he's not actually saying she's a sleep issue in, you know, physically asleep. Yeah. She is definitely dead. Yes.

But that's why he puts them all out because And he and he says to her, he he wouldn't say he wouldn't say little girl, I say to you get up. It it's it reminds me when he says to the paralyzed man, he says, I say to you get up. Take your mouth and go home. There's there's power in his words. Mhmm.

You don't you don't need Jesus' power to wake you up if you're asleep. But here, He treats sleep. He treats death like sleep. Yes. To him, because he's the author of I mean, I always think it's interesting because she's nearly a teenager.

But it's hard waking a teenager up from sleep. And I think it's harder for me as a parent trying to wake up where my kids were teenagers, it's harder for me to try to wake up teenagers from sleep than it is for Jesus to wake someone up from death. That's the amazing thing about Jesus. Because Jesus says, 1 thing and they get up. 1 thing.

They do shake their teenager. Yeah. Come. Come, little girl, come. Yeah.

And it's it's a lovely thing, isn't it? Even in that aramaic language, you know, to Liza Kuhm, whoever I'm sure you say it much nicer than that. But there's a beautiful this about it, isn't it? Yeah. You know, little girl, I say to you get up.

Yeah. Get up. It's very it's very gentle, isn't it from Jesus? He's not sort of rebuking death and but he's call he's calling it's interesting, he's calling the girl -- Yes. -- speaking to her.

But it's very affectionate and caring, isn't it? Yeah. Little girl. I think the other thing that just stands out a bit, you know, I've said this at funerals that you know, they're laughing at funeral. Yes.

And they're laughing at Jesus. Because they don't believe in the Because they don't really believe in what he's saying. That he can treat death like like sleep. Yep. Yeah.

Yeah. And I think the other thing, just to sort of, you know, in the in the new testament, you see for those who are Christians that death is like sleep, Yeah. But it talks about the saints who have fallen asleep, the Christians that have fallen asleep. Yes. Not have died.

They've just fallen asleep. And in 1 sense, sleep is a practice, isn't it? For death? You know, you go to sleep and wake up. There's a new day.

And in a sense, That's how Jesus treats death. We die, and we wake up in the, you know, in the resurrection and the new life and so forth. Yeah. So that's the power of Jesus. Yeah.

And that's because that's the confidence we can have at a Christian funeral. Because we I mean, God can see all of eternity. So he sees the day, the night, and then the day again. So for him, there's no panic at all. Is there?

I mean, she's just as weak when he sees lazarus because he's not, you know, his death was is a is a horrible thing, but he also he sees the other side. So there's no there's no sort of panicking, and I suppose that's the confidence we have as well there. Yeah. You know, they will wake they will wake again. Yeah.

Absolutely. And the leaders and even the synagogue and the religious people really in the face of death, what can we do other than whaler? Cry. Yeah. But that's the great hope, isn't it?

The Jesus is the resurrection. Yes. And you've just been to a funeral, haven't you? And those words are amazing, aren't they? They're amazing.

Yeah. And it would have been great, wouldn't it, if the minister of the funeral you're at had taken these verses and expanded them. Gonna stay at home. Yeah. Particularly because there was a bloke I spoke to you there who believed in Jesus but didn't believe in the resurrection.

Well, not a member of the church, just part part part of family. Yeah. And I kind of actually wish I'd taken into this and said, well look. Yeah. Jesus It's the resurrection.

Yeah. Yeah. And so there's this beautiful scene. The immediately the girl stands up and began to walk around, and she was 12 years old, which reminds us of the other story we're gonna look at next time. And they were completely astonished with this.

Yeah. And the amazing detail that he he he's they're also astonished. They forget that she's a little girl. He's hungry. When was the last time she ate?

Yeah. Is this just a really sweet detail, isn't it Jesus to say? Well, you know, get us into it. Yeah. Something doing.

Absolutely brilliant. Well, that's the Jesus that we believe in. That's the Jesus of the bible, and the Jesus is your life today, that he comes in to our lives and can change death to life. He is the resurrection of the life. See you next time.