Taking her by the hand, Jesus said, “Talitha koum!” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, “Talitha cumi!” which means, being interpreted, “Girl, I tell you, get up!”And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.And taking the child by the hand, he saith unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, Arise.
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That's very powerful. And I'll explain in just a moment. I'm preaching today on this verse that says that they wept loudly. They were making much ado. A commotion was going on. As a matter of fact, they bury their dead, the Jews do, within 24 hours. And they had professional flute players in Christ's time and professional weepers and criers and people who would throw big commotions over helping grieve with the parents, in this case, who had lost a daughter. Notice that fear makes noise, but faith makes room. Jesus cleared out the room from all the noise. And I'm preaching on faith makes noise, or fear makes noise. I'm preaching on fear makes noise, but faith makes room. And I specifically want you to focus in on why make you this a do. Shakespeare read this in the Bible, and he wrote a very famous play called Much Ado About Nothing. it was inspired from Jesus' words. How that we get in a situation and we blow it up. …
God's Word. We're looking in an age of spiritual searching at what Jesus Christ says about how to find spiritual reality. And today we see what Jesus teaches about faith, because faith is the way you find spiritual reality. It's the way you connect. And one of the things that began to open up to me after reading this over and over again and having read it for years, I suddenly began to realize that Jesus is the consummate teacher here when it comes to faith. Faith, believing, is clearly the key. It's something he brings up in each situation. But look how carefully, look how carefully he arranges things so each healing has a particular audience. Notice how he goes out of his way to absolutely set things up so that what happens to the woman with the flow of blood is done in the most public way. He wants everybody to see this. He wants everybody to know this. He wants everybody to remember this. He gets her out there so everybody gets to see that one. And yet with Jairus' daughter, he's very, very particular about keeping it a very small number of people to see it. He won't let all of his disciples go. He only lets Peter, James, and John go. He will not let the rest of the family and all of the friends and neighbors stay in. Only the parents of the child go in. Why? It's very interesting. Why? …
"The moment a sinner believes, And trusts in his crucified God, His pardon at once he receives, Redemption in full through His blood." You will remember in Christ's life that most of the cures He worked—yes, I believe all—were instantaneous cures. Look! There lies a man stretched upon his couch from which he has not risen for years. "Take up your bed and walk," said Christ in majesty—and then, without the intervention of weeks of convalescence, "immediately he rose up before them and took up that where he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God." There is another man! He is deaf and practically dumb. Christ said to him, "Ephphatha, that is, Be opened, and immediately his ears were opened and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plainly." Yes, and even in the case where Christ healed death, itself, he did it instantaneously. When that beautiful young creature lay asleep in death upon the bed, Jesus went to her and though her dark ringlets covered up her eyes, which were glazed in death, Jesus did but take her clay-cold hand in His and say to her, "Ta-litha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto you, arise," then, "straightway the damsel arose and walked." It is true that in conversion, Christ commences a work which is to be carried on through life in sanctification, but the justification of the sinner, the taking away of the curse, is done in a single moment. "Unwrite the curse," says God, and it is done! The acquittal is signed and sealed—it takes not long. I may stand here at this moment and I may have believed in Christ but five minutes ago—still, even if I have believed in Christ for only that short time, I am as fully justified, in …