I Am My Daddy’s Girl - A.k.a Son Of God!

Introduction:

I know my title sounds somewhat oxymoronic, but it’s not, because Sonship in the kingdom is not a gender issue, it is a redemption and adoption position. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. To them that believe He gave them power to become the sons of God.

This is not trans-genderism in any way (i personally do not subscribe to it, i believe that scripture is clear on that). Sonship in the kingdom is not an issue of gender, it is a redemptive and positional reality, received by adoption and inheritance through Christ.

The value of the believer is Christ IN me (my hope of glory), and the impact of the believer is Christ THROUGH me (diffusing the fragrance of his knowledge in every place).

Jesus boldly stated in Luke 12:15, that a man’s life, a woman’s life does not consist of the abundance of the things that they possess. This bold statement of Jesus reminds us that the truest worth and value of an individual is not in cars and houses and husband and wife and children and dresses and bank accounts, but in who Christ is in us, what truly makes us is not what is on us but who / what is in us.

Verse 25 - A certain woman:

Notice how Mark introduces her: a certain woman… no sense of identity, a nonentity, ordinary, a non-important person, a statistic, not of worth or value. she was a nobody.

Verse 26: All the stacks against her

Not only was she a non-entity, but she also had suffered MANY things of MANY physicians and was not getting any better. She spent her fortune until she was spent and left in a worse condition. The stacks were completely against her… until she HEARD about Jesus!

Verse 27-28: The Revelation of Jesus changed everything

When (the moment) she heard of Jesus, her journey to transformation began. She made her way to Jesus because of what she did with what she heard of Jesus – she said to herself…and kept saying to herself. The Greek word for said here is Lego, meaning, to keep adding building blocks on top of another.

Faith (the personal conviction about God in Christ) comes by hearing and hearing and hearing… continuous hearing. She heard about Jesus and kept rehearsing what she heard to herself by saying (vs 28). This was how her faith was activated.

It is not faith if what you hear is not about Jesus. Faith is not positive confession, it’s not optimism. It’s not motivation, faith is saying what the word of God says about Christ and about you. You can say all the nice things about yourself and still not have faith, because faith only comes from and by the word of Christ, not from positive words. Only the word of God is living and powerful, only God’s word has and gives life. She activated faith from what she heard not about her condition, or the news in town, but what she heard about Jesus. If what you’re hearing isn’t about Jesus Christ, you CANNOT have faith.

Verse 29: The Revelation of Jesus brings INSTANT transformation

Immediately the fountain of her blood stopped, her 12 year old long-standing situation instantly came to an end, because she heard of Jesus, believed what she heard about Him and confessed what she heard about Him. Here we see the principle of salvation - believing with the heart and confessing with the mouth - Romans 10:9-10; God salvaged her through her faith.

Verse 30: Virtue: God’s Inherent Nature

What she heard about Jesus led her to Jesus, to touch Him. She touched Him and virtue flowed out of Him. Whilst others only thronged Him (sunthlibo, meaning a contact that produces pain, a repulsive contact or to afflict by contact), she TOUCHED Him (haptomai, meaning to attach oneself to, to adhere to, to stick to, to have a welcoming contact with strong sense of continuity).

Faith in her, made her touch different, it wasn’t repulsive, but welcoming to His divine nature and virtue. She touched Him with her faith not her body, others were only making contact with Him without faith, so their touch was ordinary and could not evoke His virtue.

Virtue or virtuoso is Dunamis in the Greek, meaning inherent power, ability, force. Her faith provoked Jesus’s inherent nature of healing. Its wasn’t Jesus’ will that healed her, it was His nature that healed her. It wasn’t Jesus who willfully looked at her (for she came BEHIND in the press and touched the helm of His garment. She snuck up on Him from behind) to heal her, she touched His nature and pulled on His inherent power without His human will or permission. God’s nature will always do what it naturally does – good. God is good not because of what we have done or not done, God is good because it is His nature, and when His nature is contacted, it flows naturally! Faith provokes God’s nature, because faith alone pleases God. It is according to His good pleasure that we receive.