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In our first article, we looked at the faith that the hemorrhaging woman had—a faith that helped her press in through the crowd to receive healing from Jesus. In this article, we want to take a look at Jesus’ words to this woman: “Your faith has saved you” (Mark 5:34).
These are the same words he spoke to a number of other people in the gospels to comfort and reassure them. He spoke them to a blind beggar named Bartimaeus (10:46-52). He spoke them to a leper who returned to him after having been healed (Luke 17:11-19). And he spoke them to a sinful woman who washed Jesus’ feet with her tears and anointed them with perfume (7:36-50). In this article, we want to take a look at these stories to get a picture of how we can experience Jesus’ salvation in our lives today.
We tend to think of salvation in religious terms, as in salvation from sin or eternal life with God in heaven. But the Greek word that the gospel writers used in each of these stories is sozeo, which can mean “to heal,” “to save,”…
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