The Bleeding Woman

Christ Church of Central Arkansas

LIFE APPLICATION 1. This woman was so desperate she was willing to risk radical social shaming and even potential punishment for violating the Levitical laws of isolation. She was well-known and could have easily been spotted entering and moving about in a crowd. 2. This woman was so desperate she was willing to risk making a Rabbi unclean, knowing that if she wasn’t healed, she just shut down his entire ministry according to the Law. 3. This woman was so desperate she knew the only thing left to her was faith in Jesus. 4. This woman’s faith was so real and so radical, that she believed touch the fringe of his clothes would be enough to heal her. 5. This woman did not let religion keep her from having a relationship with Jesus. 6. Jesus has the authority to heal a woman bleeding to death and raise a young child who had just died. 7. The desperate faith of the unclean woman absolutely infused courage into the faith of Jairus after he was told his daughter had already died. God knew the high status male need encouragement from the sold-out and desperate faith of the lowest status woman slowly hemorrhaging to death. 8. We are all slowly bleeding out and dying. 9. Have you had enough yet with all the alternatives to Jesus?