Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Paul David Tripp connects

the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

A life of faith is radical.

It calls us to trust God in ways that feel impossible, but faith is only as strong as its object.

In today's episode, we continue our sermon series from the archives, the gospel according to Mark, as Paul explores the

stories of gyrus and the bleeding woman, showing how placing their faith in Jesus made all the

difference. To hear more sermons from Paul, visit paultrip.com slash sermons. Now here's Paul

with today's message.

Well, the world of Mark 5, beginning with verse 21, should be familiar to you.

It's the world where you live.

It's a world that has been dramatically broken by sin, where hard and

difficult things are a regular human experience. A father who is facing the death of his little girl. It's not supposed to happen.

Children are supposed to outlive their parents. And you can embrace the helplessness of this man as he's watching his little girl slip into death, and there's nothing he can do.

It's a world where people suffer physical things that are chronic, that destroy your life. You can't live around them.

They shape everything that you do and you face every day, like this woman with this issue of

blood. The best of human help has not been helpful.

Sort of a ironic comment here that this woman had suffered at the hands of many physicians

for many years and all she had gotten from it is poverty.

If you're in the medical profession, don't take offense.

There wasn't a whole lot of understanding of the pathology of disease in these days.

It's a world where faith is a war.

Are you actually going to believe the radical claims of Jesus?

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