Persistent Faith - Mark 7:24-30

Joe Focht  SAM1013  3/26/2017

As Mark 7 continues, Jesus comes in contact with a Gentile woman who's tormented because of her demon possessed daughter. The interaction can seem hard to understand, but as Pastor Joe explains, we can see Jesus' heart of compassion.

  1. And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.
  2. For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
  3. The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
  4. But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
  5. And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
  6. And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
  7. And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.