TALITHÁ KOÚMI – Part 3

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE

WEDNESDAY, 4TH MAY, 2022

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

General Overseer

TALITHÁ KOÚMI – Part 3

MEMORIZE: “And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise." Mark 5:41.

SCRIPTURE READING:  Mark 5:39-42.

“when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying. And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise. And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment.” 

EXPOSITION:

Jesus Christ raised the dead child to life in the presence of witnesses. It silence His mockers and the helpless sympathizers. These are the seven (7) facts we need to know about the incidence that brought about “Talitha cumi”:

1. That the child was extremely well beloved, for the relations and neighbours wept and wailed greatly. It is very afflictive when that which is come forth like a flower is so soon cut down, and withereth before it is grown up; when that grieves us, of which we said, This same shall comfort us. 

2. That it was evident beyond dispute, that the child was really and truly dead. Their laughing Christ to scorn, for saying, She is not dead, but sleepeth, though highly reprehensible, serves for the proof of this. 

3. That Christ put the crowd of mourners out as unworthy to be witnesses of the miracle, who were noisy in their sorrow, and were so ignorant in the things of God, as not to understand him when he spoke of death as a sleep, and so scornful, as to ridicule him for it. 

4. That he took the parents of the child to be witnesses of the miracle alongside his three closest disciples is because in it he had an eye to their faith, and designed it for their comfort, who were the true, for they were the silent mourners. 

5. That Christ raised the child to life by a word of power, which is recorded here, and recorded in Syriac, the language in which Christ spoke, for the greater certainty of the thing; Talitha, cumi; Damsel, I say unto thee, Arise. Dr. Lightfoot saith, It was customary with the Jews, when they gave physic to one that was sick, to say, Arise from thy disease; meaning, We wish thou mayest arise: but to one that was dead, Christ said, Arise from the dead; meaning, I command that thou arise; nay, there is more in it--the dead have not power to arise, therefore power goes along with this word, to make it effectual. Give what thou commandest, and command what thou wilt. Christ works while he commands, and works by the command, and therefore may command what he pleaseth, even the dead to arise. Such is the gospel call to those that are by nature dead in trespasses and sins, and can no more rise from that death by their own power, than this child could; and yet that word, Awake, and arise from the dead, is neither vain, nor in vain, when it follows immediately, Christ shall give thee light, Eph 5:14. It is by the word of Christ that spiritual life is given, I said unto thee, Live, Eze 16:6. 

6. That the damsel, as soon as life returned, arose, and walked, Mr 5:42. Spiritual life will appear by our rising from the bed of sloth and carelessness, and our walking in a religious conversation, our walking up and down in Christ's name and strength; even from those that are of the age of twelve years, it may be expected that they should walk as those whom Christ has raised to life, otherwise than in the native vanity of their minds. 

7. That all who saw it, and heard of it, admired the miracle, and him that wrought it; They were astonished with a great astonishment. They could not but acknowledge that there was something in it extraordinary and very great, and yet they knew not what to make of it, or to infer from it. Their wonder should have worked forward to a lively faith, but it rested in a stupor or astonishment. 

PRAYER POINT:

LORD, Every fortune and dream in me that is dead, restore it back to life and let it flourish henceforth in Jesus name. 

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR – Ezra 1-4

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