Notes to Remember
"Your faith has made you well."
"Your faith has made you well."
Chapter 5 - New Covenant Genesis
I have one more example for you. The woman with the issue of blood was not healed by the Word she heard. Look at Mark 5:25-34:
Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had suffered many things from many physicians. She has spent all that she has and was no better, but rather grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment. For she said, “If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made will.” Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction. And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that power had gone out of Him, turned knowing in Himself that power had gone out of Him, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My clothes?” But His disciples said to Him, “You see the multitude thronging You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’” And He looked around to see her who had done this thing. But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth. And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well” (emphasis added).
Verse 28 says, “For she said…” and if you study this further, you find that it is a continuous action. Watch this! After “Your faith has made you well.” Her conviction or persuasion plus her corresponding action is what made her well, not anything Jesus said or did. It was her faith!
Now, let me break this down for you. What she said was not what she heard because Jesus was not preaching, nor was anybody else preaching; nor had anybody else done what she did. She heard that this Man was healing people. She heard that He was multiplying loaves and fishes. She heard that He was healing blind eyes. She heard that lame people were being raised up. But she did not hear that people were touching His garment and being made will. Nobody was preaching, “Touch His garment and you will be healed.” Nobody was preaching that! So, it was not the word she heard about Jesus that gave her the faith. The Word that she was hearing convinced her that He could heal.
If you know anything about the Old Covenant, you know that what she was hearing convinced her that He was a priest and a prophet because the Old Covenant said that if you were a priest of a prophet, you would be anointed with oil. The oil, however, was not to touch His flesh (see Exodus 30:31-32), but that oil would be in His garment. Based on that convent she knows that if He was a priest, there had to be oil in that garment.
Remember that this is Old Covenant; therefore, the price for her healing had not yet been paid in full. That price would be paid at the cross upon which Jesus had not yet been hung. All the miracles of Jesus’ ministry that are written in the New Testament are really under the Old Covenant The New Covenant or Testament actually began with the Book of Acts, not with Matthew. Until the Book of Acts, the price of redemption was not paid in full. Your Bible tells you that for a testament to be enforced, it fist requires the death of the testator, who is Jesus Christ (see Hebrew 9:17). So, again, this is Old Covenant. Jesus said Himself, “Do not think that I came to destroy the law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill” (Matthew 5:17). This means everything He did in His earthly ministry was a fulfillment of the Old Covenant and, when He died, the New Covenant began. So, this woman was in the Old Covenant. The price of redemption had not been paid in full. Therefore, in this case, power went out of Him.
