Touching the Hem of His Garment

This sermon centers on the healing of the woman with a chronic issue of blood in Luke 8:43–48, using her story to illustrate the gospel's core truth: salvation is not found in human effort, words, or rituals, but in faith alone in Jesus Christ. The woman's condition—diseased, destitute, and desperate—serves as a powerful metaphor for the sinner's spiritual state: isolated by sin, bankrupt in resources, and hopeless apart from divine intervention. Her act of touching Christ's garment, though silent and unorthodox, reveals the essence of saving faith—trusting in Christ's person and power, not in one's own works or prayers. The sermon emphasizes that true healing comes instantly and completely through faith in Christ, who offers immediate peace, restoration, and adoption into God's family. It calls all who are spiritually broken to abandon self-reliance, repent, and reach out in faith to Jesus, the only remedy for the soul's deepest ailment.