This is our final study in this series, Girls and Boys. It is also my final Assembly meeting for 2024. In the will of the Lord, I will be back in the new year to start a new study. I trust that your have learned something of the Saviour’s interest in and love of boys and girls and what blessings He has for them.
Let us take our final look at the wonderful raising of the daughter of Jairus.
I. PLEASE CONSIDER THE EVIDENCE THAT SHE WAS REALLY ALIVE.
1. She arose. She arose up holding the Saviour’s hand!
2. She was given food. The Lord Jesus “commanded that something should be given her to eat,” verse 43. Do you remember the saviour’s command to Peter? “Feed my lambs”, John 21:15, 16,17.
3. Here father and mother were the first to see her raised from the dead. When a boy or girl is saved it is Mum and Dad who will see the changed first of all!
The three disciples also witnessed it. So, those who serve the Lord, minister, Sabbath School teachers, Christian School teachers, will be the amongst the first to see the change.
II. PLEASE NOTE THE STRANGE COMMAND THE SAVIOUR GAVE THEM ALL.
“And he charged them straitly that no man should know it,” verse 43.
This would appear to be the very opposite to that which you would think the Lord would want!
He had issued such a command before. Why would He command this?
1. The Saviour wants no ‘false’ interest in Him created. Many came seeking Christ for very wrong reasons. John 6:2, 44-45, 60, 66. They did no truly follow Him in order to obey and love Him.
2. Such an earthly interest hindered His work. “And he straitly charged him, and forthwith sent him away; And saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them. But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter,” Mark 1:43-45. “Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did. But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,” John 2:23-24.
3. He knew what things such knowledge might prompt foolish men to attempt to do. John 6:15. The Saviour came to die for His elect at Calvary. He did not come to reign as KING from Jerusalem. That will take place at His second coming.
“And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more,” Isaiah 2:2-4.
Oh glorious day!!