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PROVEN | Week 3 | Sermon · Rewind

Rock Point Church

Pastor Daniel Goulding · Jul 9, 2024

Pastor Daniel Goulding · Jul 9, 2024 · 46 min watch · 2 min read

PROVEN | Week 3 | Sermon

Devotional days

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Day 7

Scripture in this message

Matthew 9
Matthew 9:18
Matthew 9:19
Matthew 9:20
Matthew 9:22
Leviticus 15

Big Idea Key points Application

Big Idea

A desperate faith is a transformative faith — God does His biggest miracles when people get desperate enough to reach for Him.

Jesus meets people not where they've got their lives figured out, but right in the middle of their desperation. In Matthew 9, a religious leader, a woman with an incurable bleeding disorder, and a dead little girl all get to the end of themselves — and in each case, small, feeble faith reaching toward Jesus is met with real transformation.

Key points

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1Jairus, a religious opponent of Jesus, comes desperate for his dying daughter, and Jesus receives him without bringing up the past.
Pastor Daniel walks through Matthew 9:18-19, noting that Jairus was likely a Pharisee who had preached against Jesus as a fraud just days before. When his daughter dies, all the theological differences fall away, and Jesus simply gets up and goes with him — no debate, no reminder of past hostility.
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2A woman with twelve years of bleeding, ceremonially unclean and isolated, reaches out with feeble faith and Jesus turns around for her.
Drawing on Matthew 9:20-22 and filling in details from Mark 5, Pastor Daniel describes a woman excluded from society under Leviticus 15's purity laws, who spent everything on doctors and only got worse. Her faith is small — she believes only that touching the hem of His robe will be enough — yet Jesus stops and calls her daughter.
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3It's not the size of your faith that matters, it's the object of your faith.
Pastor Daniel argues that the woman's weak, feeble faith still produced a miracle because it was aimed at the right person — a man who conquered death and still works miracles today. God does big miracles with small faith when that faith is placed rightly.
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4Jesus exposes the healed woman publicly because hidden healing isn't real freedom.
Rather than letting her slip away unnoticed, Jesus asks who touched Him and draws her out of the crowd. Pastor Daniel explains that Jesus heals her socially and relationally, not just physically, by naming her daughter in public — because healing that stays secret leaves the person still bound to shame and reputation.
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5Real breakthrough requires coming out of hiding, not just a private moment with God.
Pastor Daniel connects this to the woman at the well, where Jesus goes straight to her place of shame so He can actually heal it. He warns that a private religious moment that is never revealed or dealt with leaves the enemy free to remind a person of who they used to be.
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6Jesus raises Jairus' daughter from the dead, proving His power over the ultimate enemy.
Pastor Daniel reads Matthew 9:23-25, where Jesus tells the mourning crowd to leave, is laughed at, and then raises the girl by simply taking her hand. He notes Jesus tells the family to keep it quiet, protecting the girl's future over His own reputation, showing that Jesus has power over sickness, nature, and death itself.

I believe that a desperate faith is a transformative faith

A story from life

Preacher recounts cutting the lock off the gas line himself rather than wait five more weeks for hot water after moving to Arizona

Application

Pastor Daniel calls the church to stop just playing church and step out of the crowd toward their own breakthrough.

Bring your desperation to Jesus instead of hiding it
Whatever is plaguing you, don't settle into it as your identity — reach out to Jesus like the woman who only had enough faith to touch His robe.
Make Jesus your only option, not one of several
Reorient your whole life around who Jesus is instead of treating Him as just one tool among many for fixing your problems.
Let your struggle be exposed instead of staying private
Stop seeking healing only in secret; be willing to let your struggle be seen so it can actually be dealt with and healed, not just managed.
Get uncomfortable and take a physical step forward
Get out of your seat, out of the crowd, and come to the front to meet God in your circumstance, trusting Him even if what you feel is doubt rather than confidence.

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Scripture in this message

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“We are in the middle of a series called Proven, looking at the section in the Gospel of Matthew, where Jesus does very specific miracles to prove that he's not just a good teacher, but he actually is God in human form. So if you brought a Bible, open them up to Matthew chapter nine”
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“Matthew nine eighteen, here's how the story begins. It says in verse 18 that as Jesus was saying this, again, talking about fasting, the leader of a synagogue came and knelt before him”
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“Verse 19 says, So Jesus and his disciples got up and went with him. It's one sentence. Matthew doesn't even remember there being a conversation”
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“And now in verse 20, the scene kind of changes a second. It says, Just then a woman who had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding came up behind him and she touched the fringe of his robe”
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“And then verse 22 says three of the most powerful words that you'll see in scripture. It says, Jesus turned around. And when he saw her, he said, daughter be encouraged. Your faith has made you well”
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“You've gotta remember the Jewish law. Leviticus chapter 15 says that Jews can have nothing to do with blood and that husbands aren't even allowed to be in the same room with their wives when they're on their menstruation cycle”
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“Look at how Mark records the same story in verse 24. It says, Jesus went with him, okay, with Jairus and all the people followed crowding around him”
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“Verse 25 says, A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding. Now here's some new information that we learned. She had suffered a great deal from many doctors”
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“Look how the story continues in verse 27. She had heard about Jesus. So she came up behind him through a crowd and touched his robe for she thought to herself, if I can just touch his robe, I will be healed”
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“Jesus in verse 30 realized that once that healing power had gone out from him. So he turned around in the crowd and he asked, Who touched my robe”
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“Verse 32, but he kept on looking around to see who had done it. Then the frightened woman trembling at the realization of what had happened to her, she came and she fell on her knees in front of him”
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“This is how the story wraps up in Matthew nine twenty three. It says that when Jesus arrived at the officials home back at Jairus' house, he saw the noisy crowd and he heard the funeral music playing”

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Day 1

There is something striking about how Matthew opens this scene. Jairus doesn't send a messenger. He doesn't write a note. He comes himself — a synagogue leader, a man with a reputation and a position to protect — and he falls at Jesus's feet in public. Desperation has a way of stripping away the things we normally hide behind. Pastor Daniel pointed out that all three miracles in Matthew 9 share a single common thread: desperation that leads to action is met with transformation. Not desperation that stays home and worries. Not desperation that talks to everyone except Jesus. Desperation that moves. What's equally striking is Jesus's response. Verse 19 says He 'got up and went with him.' No lecture about Jairus's past doubts. No conditions attached. No waiting room. Jesus simply goes. That immediate, unhesitating movement toward a hurting person is not just a first-century story — it is a picture of who Jesus is. He is not reluctant. He is not keeping score. He sees a father who has run out of options and He goes. If you are in a season where circumstances have stripped away your usual coping strategies, that is not a sign that God is distant. It may be the very thing that gets you moving toward the only One who can actually help.

For reflection

What has desperation revealed about what — or who — you are actually trusting most?

Pray

Pray for the courage to let your desperation move you toward Jesus rather than away from Him.

Day 2

To feel the weight of what the woman in Matthew 9 did, it helps to sit with Leviticus 15 for a moment. The law was specific: a woman with a prolonged bleeding condition was considered ceremonially unclean, and anything or anyone she touched became unclean as well. For twelve years, this woman had not simply been sick — she had been untouchable. Every social connection, every act of worship, every casual brush of the shoulder in a crowd carried a consequence. When Pastor Daniel described her condition, he wasn't just painting a picture of physical suffering. He was describing someone who had been systematically excluded. And yet she moves into the crowd, reaches out, and touches the hem of Jesus's garment. That act alone was a declaration: I believe He is worth the risk. Leviticus 15 isn't in the New Testament for nothing. The law showed people what uncleanness required. Jesus showed people what grace does — He doesn't become unclean by contact with her. Instead, she becomes whole through contact with Him. The rules ran in one direction; His power runs in the other. If you have ever felt like your condition — whatever it is — makes you too much for God to want to deal with, this passage is a direct answer to that fear.

For reflection

In what area of your life have you assumed that your situation disqualifies you from coming to Jesus?

Pray

Pray for a fresh understanding of the way Jesus's grace reverses the direction you expected.

Day 3

She didn't announce herself. She didn't ask permission. She just reached. And Pastor Daniel made a point worth sitting with: her faith was not particularly impressive by any standard measurement. Twelve years of trying everything else first. A plan that amounted to 'if I can just touch the edge of His coat.' No theological precision. No bold declaration. Just a feeble, half-formed, desperate reach. And it was enough. Because it wasn't the size of her faith that did the work — it was the object of it. That distinction matters more than we often give it credit for. We spend a lot of energy worrying about whether our faith is strong enough, certain enough, or free enough from doubt to 'qualify' for God's help. But the woman's story gently dismantles that whole framework. What she had was a small faith aimed at a very large Savior — and He stopped mid-journey for her. If your faith feels thin right now, if it feels more like reaching in the dark than confident trust, that does not disqualify you. The object of your faith — a risen, miracle-working Jesus — does not shrink when your faith does. A feeble reach toward Him is still a reach toward Him, and He notices.

For reflection

How might your life look different if you stopped measuring the strength of your faith and started focusing on who your faith is aimed at?

Pray

Pray honestly about how small your faith feels right now, and ask Jesus to meet you there.

Day 4

Mark's account gives us something Matthew moves past quickly: the moment Jesus stops and asks, 'Who touched Me?' The disciples think the question is almost absurd — there's a crowd pressing in from every direction. But Jesus is not asking because He lacks information. He is asking because He refuses to let this woman slip back into anonymity. She came hoping for a quiet, private transaction. Touch the coat, take the healing, disappear into the crowd — no one has to know. But Jesus calls her out. Not to embarrass her. Not to expose her as someone who broke the rules. He calls her out to call her in. He calls her 'daughter.' That word is not incidental. It is a declaration of belonging. In one word, He gives back everything the twelve years had taken — identity, family, standing, worth. Pastor Daniel's point here was not just theological; it was deeply practical. Real freedom, he said, lives on the other side of exposure, not secrecy. The woman got her healing in hiding, but she received her restoration in the open. There is a difference between the two. What Jesus offers is not just the removal of the symptom but the full restoration of a person — and that kind of restoration tends to require being seen.

For reflection

Is there something you've been hoping Jesus would heal quietly, without anyone — including you — having to fully look at it?

Pray

Pray for the willingness to be known — by Jesus, and perhaps by someone safe in your community — rather than healed in hiding.

Day 5

By the time Jesus arrives at Jairus's house, the mourners are already there. The flute players, the wailing, the settled assumption that it is over. When Jesus says, 'The girl isn't dead; she's only asleep,' they laugh at Him. Matthew doesn't soften that detail. The crowd laughs. These are not cartoon villains — they are people responding reasonably, from a human vantage point, to what looks like an obvious reality. Death is death. And Jesus sends them outside and raises the girl anyway. Pastor Daniel used this moment to make a point that is worth staying with: even death is no obstacle when Jesus shows up. The crowd's laughter did not change what Jesus was about to do. Their doubt did not diminish His power. He is not limited by the consensus of the room. Whatever you are facing that feels final — whatever situation the reasonable, experienced people in your life have quietly written off — Jesus has not written it off. That doesn't mean every story ends the way Jairus's did in Matthew 9. But it does mean that no situation is beyond Him, and that the crowd's verdict is never the last word. The laughter stopped when the girl walked out.

For reflection

What have you, or the people around you, already started treating as final — and what would it mean to bring Jesus into that room?

Pray

Pray about the situation in your life that feels most beyond reach, and ask Jesus to meet you in it.

Day 6

Pastor Daniel spent real time on a detail that is easy to read past: Jesus does not remember Jairus's faithless past. There is no record in the text of Jesus pausing to review Jairus's spiritual resume before agreeing to go with him. No 'let's talk about how you've handled your faith in harder seasons.' Just — He got up, and He went. That is the Jesus who meets people exactly where they are. Not where they should be. Not where they were six months ago. Where they are right now, in this moment of need. And here is what makes that remarkable in Jairus's case specifically: he is a synagogue leader. He is, by definition, someone who had access to religious community and scripture and tradition — and none of it had been enough to fix this. He comes to Jesus not as a theological confident, but as a father who has run out of answers. When Jesus is one option among many, we tend to try the other options first. Pastor Daniel's challenge is that Jesus needs to move from being one option among many to being the only option. That shift — that reordering — is less about a dramatic decision and more about an honest acknowledgment: everything else I've tried has not been enough.

For reflection

What other 'options' have you been cycling through, and what would it look like to bring them to a stop and go directly to Jesus?

Pray

Pray for an honest inventory of where Jesus ranks in your actual daily responses to hard things — and for a genuine reordering.

Day 7

Looking back across this whole passage, a single thread runs through every story: people who were desperate enough to move found a Jesus who was ready to meet them. Jairus left his position behind and fell at Jesus's feet. The woman pressed through a crowd that could have turned her away and reached for the hem of His robe. Even in death, a girl was raised because a father refused to stop at the closed door. Each of them was met — not with conditions, not with disappointment, but with a Jesus who stopped, who went, who took her hand. Pastor Daniel's invitation across all of it was the same: stop seeking healing in hiding. The things that have been getting worse no matter what you try — the plaguing issues you've been managing privately — are not meant to stay there. You were not designed to carry them alone, and Jesus did not come to offer you a quiet, anonymous transaction. He came to call you daughter. He came to call you son. He came to restore you fully and openly, so that when you walk out, the people around you know something has happened. That kind of restoration is still available. The same Jesus who stopped for one desperate woman in a crowd is the One you are reaching toward right now.

For reflection

As you look back over this week, what is the one thing you sense Jesus most wants you to stop hiding and bring into the light?

Pray

Pray for the specific courage to take one real step this week — toward Jesus, toward community, toward the open — rather than staying in hiding.

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This message follows three desperate people in Matthew 9 who each did something uncomfortable to get to Jesus — and every one of them walked away changed. Take a moment to think about what made each of those encounters so different from a casual religious interaction.

Discussion questions

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In Matthew 9:18-26, all three miracles share a common thread: desperation that leads to action. What do you notice about the way each person approaches Jesus — what does each one actually do, and what does that cost them?
2
When Jairus comes to Jesus, Matthew 9:19 simply says Jesus got up and went with him. What does that immediate, unhesitating response tell us about how Jesus sees people who come to Him in need?
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The woman in Matthew 9:20-22 had been bleeding for years and had exhausted every other remedy. Pastor Daniel pointed out that her faith was feeble and her approach was hidden — yet Jesus called it faith and healed her anyway. What does that say about what actually produces transformation, the size of the faith or the object of it?
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After the healing, Jesus stops and calls the woman 'daughter' in front of everyone, refusing to let the moment stay private. Pastor Daniel drew on Mark 5:25-34 here, noting that Jesus refused to let her return to a life of hiding. What do you think He was doing for her by making that public declaration — what changes for her beyond the physical healing?
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Pastor Daniel challenged us that if we won't reveal something, He may not be able to heal it — that healing in hiding can keep people returning to church week after week, unchanged. How might that idea reshape the way we think about doing life together as a community, rather than each of us managing our struggles privately?
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By the end of Matthew 9:23-26, Jesus has healed someone on the margins of society, stopped for a single overlooked woman, and raised a dead girl while a crowd laughed at Him. Pastor Daniel described this as Jesus moving from being one option among many to being the only option. What would it look like, practically, for a community of people to relate to Jesus that way rather than as one resource alongside others?

Pray together

Courage to step out of hiding and bring what feels most stuck or most broken to Jesus — the One who stops, sees, and calls us daughter or son

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