TOUCHING A WOMAN FROM A FOREIGN LAND

(Message by Tanny Keng)

0. Introduction

a) What kind of people did Jesus associate with? Whom did he consider important enough to touch?Here we see many of the people Jesus came to know. Some reached out to him; he reached out to them all. Regardless of how great or unknown, rich or poor, young or old, sinner or saint - Jesus cares equally for all. No person is beyond the loving touch of Jesus.

1. Jesus talked with ...

i) A woman form a foreign land.

a) Text reference: Mark 7:25-30

i) ²⁵ For a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard about Him, and she came and fell at His feet. ²⁶ The woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. ²⁷ But Jesus said to her, “Let the children be filled first, for it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.” 

²⁸ And she answered and said to Him, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs under the table eat from the children’s crumbs.” ²⁹ Then He said to her, “For this saying go your way; the demon has gone out of your daughter.” ³⁰ And when she had come to her house, she found the demon gone out, and her daughter lying on the bed. (Marki 7:25-30 NKJV)

The End ...