Leviticus tonight. So Leviticus, and I believe tonight, well, you know what, let's start in Exodus 29. Exodus 29. We'll shortly be in Leviticus. One way, one thing that would be very helpful to you in your Bible study, would be to get very familiar with Exodus chapter 20 to Exodus chapter 40. Just get familiar with those 20 chapters. Go through those things, draw out your own copy of the tabernacle with the directions that are given, no preconceived notions, and put Each thing of the tabernacle doesn't have to be detailed with all the intricacies of everything. Even for the candlestick, make a rectangle. That type of thing. Draw out the outer court, draw out the tabernacle. When you find dimensions, write those in with the cubits and such and the boards and how many boards are on each side and lay those out. As it comes around to the point where there's direction given, north, south, east, west, write that in and arrange it accordingly for those things. And just get familiar with that stuff. Then go into the book of Hebrews and let Paul comment on what you drew. Okay? It'll make a whole lot more sense. Then take Paul with you and go back into the book of Leviticus, and start through Leviticus, and show those things, and take your tabernacle, and look through those things, and you know, like what Pastor Aspen says, take your finger and go to this spot at the altar, and right here is where they killed this one thing, and the blood was sprinkled here, and here, and here, okay? It'll be a good help to you, it'll be a great help to you. It'll really give you a good understanding to get into the rest of the Bible and such. And so, with that in mind, Exodus 29, we have the consecration of the priests going on, and they're getting consecrated here. And what I'm gonna attempt to do tonight, I believe the Lord would have us to look at these things, there is a correlation between the consecrating of the priests, the cleansing of a leper, and the cleansing of a woman who has had an issue of blood longer than her normal time. We're going to see all those things tie together, and Lord willing, we're then going to go into the book of Mark, and we're going to see Jesus Christ apply these things. But before we do, Brother Dale, as I am wont, would you want to go ahead and ask the Lord to bless our time? Amen. All right, Exodus 29, we're going to start right in verse 1 and just settle in. What we're going to do is we're going to read down through this to verse 21. And I want you to just try to file these small details away. All right, just kind of keep track of these things. When we get over to Leviticus 14 and then Leviticus 15, you'll see some similarities come out. And that's what I really want to point out here tonight for us. And with the Lord's help, we'll do that. But Exodus 29, starting right at verse 1. And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them, to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest's office. Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish, and unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened, tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened, anointed with oil, of wheat and flour thou shalt make them. Now the easiest thing there, when something is tempered, has the right amount mixed in with it. Okay, when something is anointed, it's something that has been put on the outside. All right, so just keep that, just let that give a little clarity there. Verse three, and thou shalt put them into one basket and bring them in the basket with the bullock and the two rams. And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and shall wash them with water. And if you had your picture of the tabernacle, you could look at that thing and say, okay, they came unto the door. That means completion. That means they are literally standing in the doorway. If we were to open those doors, Brother John was to stand there completely directly under that doorjamb. That's where they are at. They came unto the door. of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water. And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod. And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre. And then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and poured upon his head, and anoint him. And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them. And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them. And the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statue. And thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons. And thou, and now I want you to notice, and thou, and thou, and thou. God is speaking directly to Moses in this. All right, Moses didn't have to go through any preparation. He didn't have to have any blood sprinkled on him. He didn't have anything to be done to him in order for him to be able to accomplish these things with Aaron and his sons. Isn't that interesting? You ever notice that? Moses could go right in and out of the fellowship with God. He could walk right into God's presence. He could walk right into that most holy place. He could walk into the holy place. He could apply that blood without any preparation. Thou, again, in your King James Bible, thou, thy, thine, all begin with T, okay? Those are singular. Those are singular pronouns, accurate pronouns, showing exactly what it is. It's not a plurality, it's not a group of people, it's Moses that's being spoken of. When you get into ye, you, your, yours, those are all plural. All of those things show the plurality of that pronoun. And so, again, we're just gonna pause out here and just jump into John chapter three. And when Jesus says to Nicodemus, marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again. All right, and just showing the accuracy of that thing, how he is addressing Nicodemus in this thing, but that the entirety of the world must be born again. All those Pharisees must be born again. Those that Nicodemus came to Jesus by night to represent even, because he said, we know that thou art a teacher come from God. And he says, marvel not that I said it to thee, ye must be born again. All right, so just a little segue in that and go back into verse 12. Verse 11, And thou shalt kill the bullock before the Lord by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar. Now again, we can pause here and we can look at Jesus Christ in that, because when his side was stabbed, where he was killed, all that blood was poured out at the base of the altar. You see these things being accomplished in him. We'll carry on. Verse 13, And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the call that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar. But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung shalt thou burn with fire without the camp. It is a sin offering. Thou shalt also take one ram, and Aaron and his son shall put their hands upon the head of the ram. Thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood and sprinkle it round about upon the altar. Thou shalt cut the ram in pieces. and wash the inwards of him and his legs and put them into his pieces and unto his head. And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar. It is a burnt offering unto the Lord. It is a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto the Lord. And again, every time you see that sweet savor or a sweet smelling savor, it has always come from a burnt offering. Even those things in regards to the drink offering, those things were poured upon a burnt offering and they were burnt. Okay, just these small, very small details that show us doctrinally what Jesus Christ did, how that Christ died according to the scriptures. Okay, we'll carry on. Verse 19. And thou shalt take the other ram, and Aaron and his son shall put their hands upon the head of the ram. Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron. excuse me, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him. And he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him." Here we have the consecrating of the priests, so that they can minister to the Lord, to Israel, they can do their ministry in the tabernacle, they can do all of these things. The few things of details that I want you to pay attention to is the blood on the right ear, the right thumb, and the right great toe. Alright, pay attention to that. And with this, we're gonna go over to Leviticus chapter 14. Leviticus chapter 14. We'll start right in verse one here as well. And these, again, these things are fascinating to me, and so I pore over these a lot. And if you've missed something, if I go over something, see me afterwards and ask me, okay, you said this, but there was nothing to back that up. I more than likely have something already laid as a precept that I'm looking at that, and to me, it's already understood, it's given, and someone might not have that quite yet, and I would love to show you those things, okay? I might not have an answer for what you ask, okay, but I know the one that does, all right? So, Leviticus 14, right in verse one. It says, and the Lord spake unto Moses saying, this shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. All right, so this morning what we looked at is we saw that leprosy in the garment, we saw the leprosy, we looked at it a little bit there in the leprosy in a man himself, we spoke of it there where there can be leprosy in the home, okay, in the house, and all of those things. Now this, this is the law for leprosy in the day of his cleansing. Now this is what, when Jesus spoke to those 10 lepers, you know, and told them to go and show themselves to the priests and bring those gifts and offerings that Moses had commanded, it's this chapter that he was referring to. This was to be a testimony, because he said, so it's a testimony to them. To who? To the priests. Those lepers were to take those things to the priests and say, hey, we've been cleansed of our leprosy. All right, we're about to see this whole process lay out here for us. All right, this shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought unto the priest, and the priest shall go forth out of the camp, and the priest shall look, and behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper. Then shall the priest command to take him, for that is to be cleansed, two birds, alive and clean, and cedarwood, and scarlet, and hyssop. Now, First thing you notice right off the bat, these are all things that were at the crucifixion of Christ. These are all things that were there. Scarlet blood upon that garment of Jesus as it had been taken from him that they cast lots for. You see the cedar wood in that cross, right? Those cedars of Lebanon were used for many, many things. And I'm not going to preach this dogmatically, but if I was backed into a corner and said, what do you think the cross was made out of? What wood was it made out of? I would say it would be cedar. Okay, just simply off of this, if you want to disagree with that, I'm okay with that. You know, I can't, doesn't say it dogmatically right there, but I get the indication here. And there's that hyssop, that hyssop that was given to him with that vinegar. Okay, now we'll keep going, verse five. And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water. As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood that was killed, sorry, the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water. So he's taking all of these things that the leper had brought, and they're dipping them in that blood of that bird that was killed over running water. As you look at this, this is a living sacrifice. This was a sacrifice that was brought to the altar alive, as all of them were. One bird was killed, but yet there's one sacrifice that was brought to the altar that is going to leave that altar alive. And it's dipped in the blood of that slain bird and released into an open field. And here you find Paul teaching us in Romans chapter 12 verse 1, I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. You've been brought to that sacrifice. You've been brought to that altar. Jesus Christ himself has been slain. You've been dipped in that blood and you've been released into the open field so that everyone that looks upon you can see, hey, a leper has been cleansed. This is how Paul teaches you the Old Testament. You find these things throughout Paul's writings, and Peter does the same thing throughout. He'll be speaking of blood, sacrifice, atonement, anointing, anything like that. He has something very specific from the law in mind. All right? And as he takes you, as your apostle, he takes you by the hand into this Old Testament, and he'll lead you through places like this, and oh my goodness, boy, just the riches of the Word of God that come out of this, okay? And it's just the holiness to it. You understand, hey, we're to bear the blood of Jesus Christ to this lost world. It talks about, in the New Testament also, where it talks about the blood of his cross, okay? He's referring to this, where this cedar wood is dipped in that blood. Okay, so just hang on to those things, tuck them away. Maybe the Lord will bring you something later. All right, verse 7. And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field. And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shall shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water that he may be clean. And after that he shall come into the camp, and tarry abroad out of his tent seven days. It shall be on the seventh day that he shall shave all his hair off his head, and his beard, and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. And he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean. And on the eighth day he shall take two lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenths deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil." Now I want to clear that up too. You say, okay, well he's bringing flour. What's this thing of meat? There's no meat there. I'm thinking a lamb chop or, you know, a beefsteak is meat. No, no, this is the inner part of the grain. This is very laborsome to get to. It isn't just, you know, you take the outer husk off and then you just grind what's left there. No, you take the outer husk off and you take that outer shell off and it's that little bit in the middle. You ever take a kernel of corn that's been cooked and you can squeeze that thing and shoot that little, that little dug, you can take that little thing and squeeze it and shoot that thing at your sister, all right? It can be pretty accurate with those. But that little thing that shoots out, that is the meat. Okay, that is what God is referring to here. It's not meal, it's meat, okay? And so, we'll carry on in this though. Just a little clarity there, don't do that, all right? And he shall slay the lamb, verse 13. I skipped a verse or two. Where are we at? Verse 11, sorry. And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. Does that sound familiar? The same place that those priests were brought to for their consecration. This leper who has been exiled outside of the camp has been brought to the very door of the tabernacle in the same place. Let's keep going. And the priest shall take one he-lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and waive them for a waive offering before the Lord. And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering. Now isn't that interesting? The same thing that is done for this leper has been done for that priest beforehand. And it says it's in the same place that that sin offering is killed. And then he tells you exactly where that is. in the holy place. For the cleansing of this leper, this lamb is to be killed within that holy place, inside the tabernacle. Just let that sink in for a minute. He says, as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering. It is most holy. And I tell you, I'm still studying that thing of most holy out. That phrase is used a number of times throughout the Bible. And there is some great riches in there. And I'm just letting the Lord lead me in that. And someday here, shortly, I pray, shortly, he'll let me preach those things. But regardless of all that, This is done in the holy place and these offerings are most holy. Verse 14, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed. Does that sound familiar? And upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot. And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand, and the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord. And the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering." So I want you to note very clearly, the blood is applied first, then the oil. Okay? Verse 18. And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed. And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord. Now these things are very important to understand. And studying that tabernacle out to see where the Lord is in relation to all of this. There are certain things that are done in this location, certain things that are done toward this direction, and then there are certain things that are done before the Lord. Okay, it's not like in a sequence of time, like I did this before I did that. No, no, it's as though like this pulpit is before me. It's right here. This is where this cleansing takes place. This is where this whole ceremony takes place with the applying of the blood and the applying of the oil and the killing of that lamb and all of these things are done before the Lord in the most holy place. A place that only the priests ever get to go. Finish this out, and the priest shall offer the sin offering and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness, and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering. And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar, and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean. Hallelujah. These things are done so that that man can be declared clean. And I want you to understand the precious nature of this. This is what God has set forth for these rotten, filthy, maimed lepers in the day of their cleansing. The most defiled. And they are dealt with as priests. Now I didn't say they were put into the priesthood, but they are anointed in the same place and in the same manner as the priests in the day of their consecration. And this is the only other thing that is done for this, is with the leper, in that place, in that same manner. And to me, that's just precious, because I see myself as that leper, and I see myself as being unclean, and I see myself coming to Jesus Christ, and He has declared me clean, and He has applied that blood, and He has applied that oil to my right ear, and my right thumb, and my right great toe, and He has declared me clean, but not only clean, He has declared me a priest. that I can go before Him. Hallelujah. It's just precious to me. And these are the riches of the book of Leviticus. You see why I love it so much? There's so much here. Oh my goodness, friends, Jesus Christ is so much throughout this. And there have been things that have jumped out at me as I've been reading through, and I've said, Lord, should I go there? And He says, no, that's just for you. Just keep pressing on. And so we just press on. But I'm telling you what, there's riches in this book. As rich as in this book, if you're looking for him, let's look at verse 21. It says this, and if he be poor and cannot get so much, well, hallelujah for that. I'm a poor man. I do not have the means of these things to get these required things for my cleansing. Oh, but God made provision for the poor. You go ahead in the first chapter of Leviticus and you see where God has laid those things out for a rich man, for a middle class, and for the lowest of the low. He's made provision for all of that. And if he be poor and cannot get so much, then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waived, to make an atonement for him, one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering and a log of oil, and two turtle doves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get. And the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering. Now you see those two birds brought? Okay, very similar there, slight difference. Okay, but let's keep going with this, verse 23. And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord. Exactly in the same place where that priest was consecrated. Where all of these things were done for that priest. It's done even for the lowest of the low of the lepers. The poorest of lepers. There were rich lepers. There was Naaman. He was a very rich man and he had leprosy. There was provision for him. Oh, and then there was those ten lepers who didn't have two sticks to rub together to make a fire. God made provision for them. Hallelujah. Go to verse 30. It says, And he shall offer one of the turtle doves or of the young pigeons such as he can get. How about that? Such as he can get. What are you able to bring? You know what you have to offer God? You. In your filthy, wretched state, that's what you have to offer to God. That is the best. It's what God required. He wants you. We keep going, such as he can get, even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering, and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the Lord. This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing. And again, I say, hallelujah, thank you, Lord Jesus, for making those provisions for a poor man. Now, let's go to Leviticus 15. And here in Leviticus 15, we see a bit of a shift. At the end of Leviticus 14, you see the cleansing of a house and what's to be done in a house. And it would do you well to go through Leviticus 14 from where we ended to the end of that and see what God commanded for a house and where there could be leprosy in a house and what was required of that. Sometimes the house was required to be absolutely destroyed and beaten to powder. It burned. And there are some things that you might just have to destroy out of your house because God said so. And it would be good for you to do so. Okay? You seek the Lord on those things. Chapter 15. Oh, let's see. Let's go to verse 25. We'll just read a few verses of this. We could go through the whole thing of this woman having an issue of blood. You know what? Let's start in verse 19. We'll just read verse 19, then we'll just jump to verse 25. I want to look at this here. Leviticus 15, verse 19. And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days, and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the evening. All right? So those of us who know, you know exactly what this is all about. And in those things, there is an uncleanness to that in this day. Okay? As we see, these things are unclean before the Lord. Verse 25. And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation, all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation, she shall be unclean. The whole time, all the days that this woman has this issue of blood, she is unclean before the Lord. She is unclean before the people, not to be touched. God is very specific in these things that are clean and unclean. We're going to carry on in this. Verse 26. Let's see. Yeah, verse 26. It says, every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation. And whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean as the uncleanness of her separation. And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. But if she be cleansed of her issue, then shall she number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or turtle doves as we saw there in Leviticus 14, okay? But two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. Isn't that interesting? These things are being brought to that same place. These two birds brought to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for her before the Lord for the issue of her uncleanness. Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them. You see, God is holy. And he says, be ye holy as I am holy. And he requires holiness. And so what he gave was strict instruction that the people wouldn't die. What a great grace. What a great grace from God that he would show these folks exactly what they needed to do so that they could be right with God even in their uncleanness and the issue of their flesh. Look at this. Verse 32, this is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith, and of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean. Now all these things God lays out for us, and what did we see? In Exodus 29 we saw the consecrating of those priests. We saw certain sacrifices that had to be brought, very specifically. And blood had to be applied here, and sprinkled here, and oil had to be done there. And as these priests are being consecrated to that office, it was done in a very specific place, in a very specific way. Then what we see is the lepers, these unclean people, coming before the Lord in their cleanness, in the day of their cleansing, as they have been cleansed from their leprosy, and they come before the Lord, and it is in the exact same place that those priests are declared clean and fit and ready to do that office of a priest. What a holy thing! Because those sacrifices for the priest and the sacrifices for the leper were killed in the holy place. That's what your Bible said. The only thing that was killed in that holy place was for the priest and for the leper. Oh, and I tell you again, Jesus Christ coming and taking that oil, taking that blood first and applying it to my ear and to my thumb and to my toe, and then taking the oil and applying it to my ear and my thumb and my toe, and showing those things forth in the law and fulfilling all of that for me. Remember, in the day of His consecration, He stood before the Lord. You go to Zechariah chapter 6 and you see Him standing there. filthy garments and those garments are taken from him and we see those those new garments put on the garments of the priesthood and we see a fair miter put upon his head just as that high priest was anointed and put new garments on and was washed and was cleansed and had that fair miter put upon his head that fair miter that had that crown upon it that said holiness to the Lord that he might bear the iniquity of the holy things that he would bear that that that signet before the people and before the Lord continually throughout his course, so that those people's iniquities would not overtake them. God would look upon the people, he would see the iniquity, then he would see that priest who had been consecrated, and he would, that signet, and that fair miter upon his head, where it says, holiness to the Lord, and he would remember his law. We have that leper being cleansed. We have that leper being anointed with blood and with oil. We see those sacrifices made. We see that living bird, that living pigeon, that dove being let loose into the open field, bearing the blood of that slain dove. And anyone that would see a bird with blood on it flying in the field and what they would see is they would see a bird with blood and they would know because of the law of God, because this was read to them and it was given distinctly. Moses gave them this law. They would say, hey, there's that bird that that leper brought before the priest. A leper has been declared clean. And again, the lost world ought to look to us and be able to see the blood of Jesus Christ upon us. A.W. Tozer said you ought never to lose the stigmata of the cross. You ought never to lose that mark of the cross of Christ. Don't ever get too big for that. Don't ever get too big for the blood of Jesus. If you ever do, you're in dangerous grounds. Dangerous grounds. But then we see this woman with an issue of blood that goes beyond her normal time. And she is declared as unclean throughout all the days of the issue of her blood. And certain things that were to be brought when she was to be declared clean. And again, it's those two birds, again killed at the door of the tabernacle. It's a precious thing. All these things that God makes provision for. Now let's go to Mark chapter five. Let's just look at Jesus a little bit, and I think we'll be done tonight. Mark chapter 5 is, it really is quite cram-packed. There's a lot going on in here. You have Jairus. by name, this ruler of the synagogue. And he's got, I'll tell you, let's start at verse 22. Mark chapter five. We'll start at verse 22. And behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jarius by name. And when he saw him, he fell at his feet, and besought him greatly, saying, my little daughter lieth at the point of death. I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed, and she shall live. And Jesus went with him and much people followed him and thronged him. Then all of a sudden we have a little bit of an interruption. I mean this is an important task that Jesus is on. He's going to go so that this little girl die not. And we have an interruption. And a certain woman. Now something I want you to understand very specifically is that when your Bible shows you a certain man or a certain woman, this is no parable. This is no example. This is no end sample. This is a real life thing that has happened. Which is very interesting because there was a certain man that had two sons. One said to his father, divide unto me the portion of goods that belongeth to me. He took those and he went off into a far country. That is an actual event. There are some parables that are true stories. So even those that would want to say Luke chapter 16 with that rich man and Lazarus, they would want to say that, oh, that's just a parable. Let me tell you what, it was a certain man, a certain rich man fared sumptuously every day. Okay. These are just these little details that you start seeing. And boy, I tell you what, it makes this book a little bit deeper than what you thought it was before. Now, let's keep going. We have this interruption. This woman comes, okay? Where do we leave off? Verse 25, and a certain woman which had an issue of blood 12 years. Oh, so here's a woman that falls right into the category of Leviticus chapter 15. She's unclean. The issue of her blood has gone well beyond her seven days of uncleanness. She's unclean. Everything that she touches is unclean. Everyone that touches anything that she's touched is unclean. Anyone that touches her is unclean. There's uncleanness there. 12 years in that case. 12 years. What is this, 2025? All right, we put it 2015, it'd be like 2013. Some of you remember 2013? How many of you were born in 2013? Okay. It'd be like this woman not being able to touch anything and nobody able to touch her for as long as you've been alive. That's something. Let's keep going. Verse 26, and it suffered many things of many physicians and it had spent all that she had and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse. When she had heard of Jesus, And that's really the best thing here, all right? We're going to look at something in verse 34 when we get there. But keep this in mind because we're going to drop back to this, all right? And when she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind and touched his garment. For she said, if I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press and said, who touched my clothes? And his disciples said unto him, thou seest a multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, who touched me? And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing. You see, he knew exactly what had happened. He knew exactly who it was. So why did he ask, who touched me? He wanted her to own it. Same thing as in the garden. Adam, where art thou? But Adam hid. Look at this woman. But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him and told him all the truth. He said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole. Go in peace and be whole of thy plague. Now, we need to unpack this a bit. This woman had an issue of blood 12 years. This issue of blood had made her unclean, according to the law, and anything that she touched was unclean. Anyone that touched her or touched anything that she touched was unclean. There were certain things that were required to be done. For 12 years had this issue. But yet she had heard of Jesus. Now if you notice there in verse 34, it says, daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole. It was her faith. But we're not justified by our faith. We're not justified by the works of the law. We're justified by the faith of Jesus Christ. So how did her faith make her whole? Well, faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Let's go back up here. Look at verse 27 again. When she had heard of Jesus, faith came to her. So much so that she knew she had to get to the garment of Jesus. I find it very interesting we sang that, Ivory Palaces, talked about those garments in Cassia dipped with healing in their touch. The Lord arranged that. Whoever had picked that song had no idea of what I was gonna preach tonight, but God did. God's giving you a message tonight. But this woman had heard of Jesus. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, in John chapter 1 verse 14, and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. She heard of Jesus. She heard of the Word of God. Faith came to her. And Jesus drew her unto himself. You can imagine this, just put yourself there, you're Jesus, walking along in this press, and there's a great crowd among you, and I don't know how many were there, but it was a press, okay? And he knows the very heart of this woman that's coming up behind him. And he's there walking with Jarius, and they're on their way, trying to get through this press, and there's an urgency in Jarius just to get to his daughter. Jesus is going along and then all of a sudden, up, there goes the virtue. She touched his garment. He says, who touched me? And he turned about to see her. She, trembling and fearful, fell before him and told him all the truth. Told him all the truth. Everything that she had done, And you wanna know what? He said, thy faith hath made thee whole. Be healed of thy plague. Again, what we mentioned this morning, this woman went to Jesus with an issue. And Jesus Christ looked deeper than the issue and dealt with the plague. Now what I want you to know, the connection that we have between a leper, a priest, an unclean woman, is that there are things on the inside that needed to be cleansed. There need to be things done so that there could be a cleansing. And oh, I tell you what, you go to Jesus Christ with the issues of life. You go, listen, keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life. You go to Jesus Christ and you open up your heart to him and you lay that thing bare before him. It's open and naked before the eyes of him with whom we have to do anyways. He can see it all. Just be honest with him. Go to him, fall before him, tell him the truth. That's what this woman did. She said, I knew that if I even just touched your garment, I'd be made whole. Cause that's what she said in her heart earlier. She knew it. I shall be made whole. It was an absolute with her. That's faith. You don't get that faith without hearing from the word of God. That faith comes to you. Listen, in order for you to be born again, it's that same saving faith. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. You hear of Jesus Christ, who is a miracle worker. You hear of Jesus Christ, who is the Lamb of God. You hear of Jesus Christ, who fulfilled all those things in that law. You hear of Jesus Christ, who is that priest, who is that prophet, who is that king. You hear of Jesus Christ, who is the Lord of hosts. You hear of Jesus Christ, who is Jehovah God. You hear of Jesus Christ, who is that Lamb, which taketh away the sin of the world. The faith cometh to you. And when you finally bow before Him and you yield your will to His, He'll save you. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. It's an absolute. And so as much as an absolute as this woman knew that if she just got and touched the hem of the garment of Jesus, she'd be made whole of her plague. She knew it. That's what faith is. We talked about that Thursday night. Faith is knowing. It's just knowing. You know it's a truth. You know it's a fact. There's no getting around it. And so we have this woman. Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole. Go in peace. Behold thy plague. And so I just wanted to do a little study tonight. We're done. Showing these things of Jesus Christ, showing these things out of the law. Remember, the law is our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ. It shows us these things that he fulfilled. It shows us all these things that he is able to do in you. He hasn't lost any power today. The word of God has lost no power. The hindrance is you. So come to him, get a healing. There, why don't you come on up here and we'll