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Tuesday 4th Week OT
St. Luke’s Institute
February 3, 2015
STORIES OF A GIRL
& A WOMAN ++++++++++++++++
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Mark
has sandwiched together 2 healing stories, 1 of a 12-year old girl, the other of
a woman who’s suffered from hemorrhages for 12 years
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He
begins the story of the girl; then stops it & inserts story of the woman w/
the hemorrhages
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He
then returns & finishes story of the young girl
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Both
girl & woman are in desperate situations
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Both
stories focus on faith as cause of their cures
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young girl, who’s at point of death, it’s her father who manifests faith that J
can help her
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W/
woman w/ hemorrhages, it’s woman herself
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The
2 stories play off 1 another & that’s by design – the so-called sandwich
methodology
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Both
stories demonstrate what’s involved in the dynamics of faith
5 STEPS OF FAITH 4
BOTH ++++++++++++++++++++++
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Notice
following aspects that may apply 2 selves
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Like
girl’s father someone in authority may have sought out healing intervention of
SLI for a resident or, like woman, resident may have sought SLI’s help for a
healing
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In
both, there’s risk involved in approaching J
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Both
girl’s father & woman w/ the hemorrhages demonstrate BOLDNESS in approaching Jesus
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Both
also manifest strong CONFIDENCE that
what’s needed will be granted
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In
both EMPOWERMENT flows from coming
into contact w/ J
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Finally,
there’s TRANSFORMATION 4 both girl &
woman
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Both
get their lives back
CONCLUSION ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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For
Mark, the dynamics of faith then are RISK,
BOLDNESS, CONFIDENCE, EMPOWERMENT, and TRANSFORMATION
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This
is the faith that can move mountains
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What
we learn from Gospel is you can’t have last 2: EMPOWERMENT and TRANSFORMATION…
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W/o
1st 3: RISK, BOLDNESS, and
CONFIDENCE
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Which
do I lack?” may be an appropriate question for us this morning
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