I Am My Daddy’s Girl - Aka 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.

Sonship in the kingdom is not a gender issue, it is a redemption, adoption and inheritance position, it is a position issue, received as an inheritance by adoption through redemption.

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.

Verse 26: All the stacks against her

Not only was she a non-entity, she 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…

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, her 12 year old long-standing situation instantly came to an end, because she heard of Jesus, believed Him and confessed Him. Here we see the principle of salvation, God salvaged her through her faith.

Verse 30: Virtue: God’s Inherent Nature

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.

Virtue or virtuoso is Dunamis, 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.

Religion and secular humanism will define virtuous as being successful, beauty, having means and wealth, to be rich in earthly affluence etc. even proverbs 30 have been attributed as the virtuous woman, or qualities of a virtuous woman. There’s nothing wrong with that, those are earthly metrics of hard-work. But is this the complete picture?