<TITLE>13. Par 42-44</TITLE>L-42 All right. We find out when Jesus got onto the shore... The day before that the doctor probably come as a Christian usually does or believer or whatever it is... When someone gets sick, they do what they can for them.
Jairus had one little girl about twelve years old. She took sick. God knew what He was going to do. That's the reason Jesus come over there. So Jairus' little girl took sick at about twelve years old. The doctor perhaps came, and checked her over, and said, "Well, we're give her a few of these remedies, these boiled leaves and barks and so forth. She will probably pull out of it. She's got a little fever or so forth."
Days past, respiration begin to fall. All of these remedies--the poor man doing everything that he knew in that day to do. He done all he could, probably an immediate friend to the family. He used all of his drugs and everything he could, and the girl grew worse and worse.
Finally he come in, and taken her pulse perhaps, and said, "Well, come out here, Jairus, you and your wife, I want to speak to you. I got something sad I have to say to you. I hate to do it, as your doctor, but in all my scientific knowledge that I have; your child's a dying. I'm watching her heartbeat. It's slowing up every minute. I've give her everything that I know how to give, and still she goes worse and worse. The respiration's about gone. Your child can't live but a little while longer, so you get ready for the shock."

L-43 Little Jairus, and the doctor doing everything that he could do, I imagine he paid the doctor, thanked him for all of his service, and went away. Poor little fellow, Mrs. Jairus, she was crying, probably Jairus, himself. Then way back down in the gable end of his soul, there was a little spark that he'd heard Jesus of Nazareth was the Son of God, and the promise that God would send Him in that day and would do these things, 'cause Isaiah said, "The lame shall leap like a hart," and so forth would take place. And if that Man was a fulfilling of that promise, then He had the glory of God with Him. So he said... I can see him go in and get his hat. And all the people, the members of the synagogue, around to watch the child die, and I can hear them say, "Jairus, where goest thou?"
Well, Jairus said, "I'm going to take a little visit." Somebody must've told him that Jesus was a coming. That's a good message to preach even today. "Jesus is coming."

L-44 Well, they heard He was going to be down there, was down there, rather, at the willows, at the river-bank, and they heard that He was coming. So faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God. So Jairus gets his little hat on, his little priest hat, and here he goes. I can hear his church members say, "Jairus, where you going?"
His wife said, "Honey, where you going?"
"I'm making my way to see Jesus," he said.
That's a good thing to do. In the hour of distress, make your way to Him, for He's the very present help in the time of trouble. I can hear his associates and all the deacon board say to him, "Boy, you'll be excommunicated. Remember that. Just wait till the next general meeting, and we will sure have you throwed out. You know what the high priest said, 'Anybody would fool around such a fellow as that, we don't have nothing to do with that.'"


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