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 Please turn to the Gospel according to Mark.

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 The Gospel according to Mark will be in chapter 1 as we continue to proceed together in a look at this picture as we continue to proceed together in a look at this picture.

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 And a leper came to him, imploring him and kneeling, said to him,

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 If you will, you can make me clean.

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 Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him,

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 I will be clean.

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 And immediately the leprosy left him and he was made clean.

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 And Jesus sternly charged him and sent him away at once and said to him,

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 See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priests and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded for a proof to them.

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 But he went out and began to talk freely about it and to spread the news so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town,

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 but was out in desolate places.

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 And people were coming to him from every quarter.

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 Behold the glory of our God in the life of Christ.

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 Let's pray.

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 Father, we praise you for your holy word to us.

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 We recognize that it is inspired, that it is infallible and it is sufficient.

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 It's a guide and a rule for holy living.

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 And so I pray by the power of your spirit today that you will break through the obtuse nature of our minds

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 and through the callous nature of our hearts.

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 Change us this day into the image of your son.

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 Find us progressively more like him as a result of the time we spend together this morning.

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 Let this morning not be wasted on anyone in our hearing.

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 And we pray this in Christ's name.

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 Amen.

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 So I'm taking a little break from preaching and coming back.

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 And I come to a text that I essentially assigned to myself as I kind of helped the guys and broke it up

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 and given them some assignments to preach over the last three weeks.

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 And I come to another healing.

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 We see another healing.

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 We've seen quite a few so far.

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 We see a man with an unclean spirit.

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 We see Simon's mother healed.

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 And then many others.

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 You see a whole city gathers together at the door.

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 Verse 33.

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 And he healed many who were sick with various diseases and cast out many demons.

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 We know that Jesus did this as a major part of his ministry.

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 All of his days ministering, he was moving around and healing people.

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 Luke puts it this way.

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 Chapter 6, verse 19.

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 The Gospel of Luke.

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 And all the crowd sought to touch him for power came out from him and he healed them all.

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 John chapter 21, verse 25.

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 The last verse of the Gospel of John.

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 John records,

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 Now there are also many other things that Jesus did.

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 Were every one of them to be written,

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 I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.

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 So Jesus did a lot of miraculous things.

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 Lots of signs.

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 And these signs were intended to validate the message that he was bringing.

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 Jesus' primary ministry was not a ministry of healing.

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 He did these things, to be sure.

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 But his primary ministry was a ministry of preaching.

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 Chapter 1, verse 38 and 39.

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 And he said to them,

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 Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also.

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 For that is why I came out.

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 To preach.

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 And he went throughout all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons.

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 What was he preaching?

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 Verse 15 of chapter 1.

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 He says,

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 The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand.

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 Repent and believe in the Gospel.

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 This is the message that he was preaching.

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 The good news that the kingdom of God had come to bear in his life.

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 That he was leading the procession of the kingdom of God,

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 coming and bringing redemption to the world.

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 So the miracles validated the message.

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 Here we have one of two accounts of lepers being healed.

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 We can presume that many other lepers were healed,

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 as this was a fairly common ailment of the time.

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 Right?

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 The other, there were ten lepers, if you recall that story,

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 recorded in Luke chapter 17.

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 So, I've been wrestling with,

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 What do I do with this?

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 Right?

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 Once again, we see King Jesus,

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 the sovereign over all things,

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 exerting his authority over sickness.

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 What a thing to praise him for.

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 But we've seen that already, haven't we?

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 We've talked about that.

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 What do we say?

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 What is the fresh thing to bring to you?

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 And I've just been blessed beyond belief at the richness of this text.

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 So let's look at it together.

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 Right?

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 We see in verse 40 that a leper comes to him.

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 Right?

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 Comes to Jesus.

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 And we know that he is now in a city.

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 You look in verse 39.

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 And he went throughout all Galilee,

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 preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons.

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 So he's going into these cities that are in a province that's north of Jerusalem.

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 Right?

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 Galilee of the Gentiles.

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 He is occupying, going into the synagogues,

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 and he's preaching the gospel.

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 And wherever Jesus goes, there are great crowds.

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 Right?

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 They follow him everywhere he goes.

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 Verse 33 again.

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 And the whole city was gathered together at the door.

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 People are flocking to him.

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 Right?

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 To be healed.

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 And we hope to hear the message,

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 the good news of the coming of the kingdom of God.

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 We find here, though, a leper.

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 And this term in the Greek has a very broad meaning.

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 Right?

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 It simply means to scale or to peel off.

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 And in fact, it was used broadly to speak of all kinds of skin ailments.

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 So, if you have psoriasis, right, which many people suffer from that type of thing,

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 the Greeks would have called you a leper in that way.

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 Right?

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 But that's not believed what we're talking about in this case.

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 This would have been a person who was outcast because of the nature of their disease.

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 Not dry scalp.

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 Right?

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 That's not what's going on with this individual.

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 It's likely, most people agree, that this is what's today called Hansen's disease.

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 I was going to pronounce for you the...

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 Nope.

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 I'm going to do it.

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 I can do it.

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 Mycobacterium leprae is the official name of this thing.

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 It's a bacteria.

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 It's a bacillus that multiplies very, very, very slowly.

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 And I want to read to you a little bit about this particular disease.

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 Right?

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 It typically begins with a lighter patch of skin.

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 Nobody panic if you have a lighter patch of skin.

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 Right?

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 Usually on the brow, on the nose, on the ear, the cheek, or the chin.

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 If you miss some sunscreen spots on your face in the summertime, you don't have leprosy.

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 The patch begins to spread in all directions.

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 And one of the early signs is the eyebrows and eyelashes disappear.

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 Then spongy, tumorous swelling grows on the face and then on the body.

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 The disease becomes systemic.

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 It involves the internal organs as well as the skin.

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 Fingers and toes can be reabsorbed into the body because the bacillus invading the bone marrow

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 impairs the blood supply, causes the bones to shrivel.

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 It causes the extremities to shrivel.

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 So fingers and toes literally can pull back into the body.

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 And because of the loss of feeling, which is the major thing that's happening,

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 it's attacking the nerve system.

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 Right?

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 Because of this major loss of feeling, the primary thing that ends up happening to lepers

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 is that they hurt themselves not knowing that they're hurting themselves.

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 They lose sensation in their hands and in their feet.

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 And so they do things that cause great damage.

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 I read some modern day accounts of a woman who wore her fingertips completely off,

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 who had Hansen's disease, washing dishes.

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 And a man who destroyed his palms raking.

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 Right?

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 Like we all know when to stop raking when we're getting the blisters.

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 Right?

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 It's time to go inside and look at blowers online.

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 Right?

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 But these people can't feel this happening to them.

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 And so what often happens to them is they get these horrible wounds and then there is

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 no antiseptic.

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 There's no knowledge of how it is that they ought to take care of these things.

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 So they literally begin to rot.

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 They become infected and they begin to rot.

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 And this is the picture of what's happening to this man, this leper.

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 Right?

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 Now the disease is very communicable because it's transmitted through perspiration droplets

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 in breath.

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 Right?

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 So lepers in this day were very ostracized.

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 Right?

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 Just for the physical aspect of the disease.

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 People didn't want to be around them.

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 Interestingly, I don't know if this is true of this day.

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 I don't think anybody could possibly figure it out.

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 But interestingly, modern day, 95% of the human population has a natural immunity to this.

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 Think about Mother Teresa and all the years she spent with the lepers.

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 Right?

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 More than likely, she was immune to the even possibility of catching this disease.

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 But it was not understood in this day.

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 So people wanted nothing to do with lepers.

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 They wanted to be far, far from them because they did not want to contract this disease.

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 And they were forced to go out and live out in desolate places.

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 Right?

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 They often formed communities and lived together.

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 But beyond just the physical fear of being around lepers, there were some greater cultural

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 reasons that people in this day ostracized lepers.

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 For example, in chapter 12 of the book of Numbers, God gives leprosy as a judgment.

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 Right?

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 Bildad, in Job chapter 18, speaks of leprosy as a punishment.

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 He says it consumes the parts of his skin.

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 The firstborn of death consumes his limbs.

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 In 2 Samuel chapter 3, verse 29, this is right after Joab murders Abner, David utters a curse

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 against Joab and says,

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 May it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father's house.

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 And may the house of Joab never be one without one who has a discharge or who is a leprous

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 or who holds a spindle or who falls by the sword or who lacks bread.

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 He utters a curse on him that his family forever may have one of these things, one of those things

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 being leprosy.

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 The beginning of Leviticus chapter 13 gives direction as to how the priest was to declare

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 a leper unclean.

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 Priests were given as the judges over what was and wasn't clean.

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 And if somebody had leprosy, people believed they had leprosy, they were brought for a test.

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 And if they were found to have leprosy, they were cast out.

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 So, Leviticus chapter 13, verses 45 and 46 says,

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 The leprous person who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose,

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 and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out,

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 Unclean! Unclean!

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 He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease.

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 He is unclean.

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 He shall live alone.

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 His dwelling shall be outside the camp.

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 Right?

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 So these are the instructions given to the Jewish people to preserve the health of the rest of the

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 Jewish community.

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 These people who were given this, they were forced.

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 They had to tatter their clothes.

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 They had to have scraggly, long hair.

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 You wanted to see them from far away.

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 That person has leprosy.

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 Avoid them at all costs.

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 One rabbi wrote that it was only safe to be within 150 feet downwind of a leper and 6 feet upwind of a leper.

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 Very strict rules.

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 Another rabbi prided himself in throwing rocks at lepers because he saw them as the judgment of God.

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 They were sinners.

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 They were to be cast out.

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 Another leper prided himself in...

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 Not a leper.

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 A rabbi prided himself in never eating food bought from a street that a leper had ever been on.

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 Right?

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 So he would understand, get the history.

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 Is that a leper ever been on this street?

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 I'm not buying food from this market.

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 He would buy clean food in this way.

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 These people were incredibly ostracized.

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 They had to walk around yelling,

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 Unclean! Unclean!

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 So no one would come near them.

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 People would be very aware of the disease that they carried.

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 So it was more than just the physical.

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 Right?

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 People saw it as a judgment of God on these individuals.

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 Right?

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 This man, in Luke 5, verse 12,

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 it says,

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 A man full of leprosy.

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 A man full of leprosy.

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 So this was not an early stage leper.

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 This man was in this state.

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 Hideous.

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 Infected.

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 Tattered clothes.

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 Hair around his face.

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 Should have been coming and yelling out,

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 Unclean! Unclean!

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 So that people would scatter from him.

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 But instead,

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 he comes to Christ.

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 Enters into a crowd.

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 Does the very thing that he should not do.

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 Oh, the shocking nature of his boldness.

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 We can learn something from that

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 as he comes to the feet of Jesus.

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 The account of the same story in Matthew 8.

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 The leper calls Jesus Lord.

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 Luke 5, 12-14 says that he fell on his face.

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 And we see here in Mark

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 that he comes and kneels before him.

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 Recognizing in some fashion,

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 we don't know of course,

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 that he knew that Jesus was the Messiah.

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 We don't know.

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 But he certainly recognized

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 that he was a reigning king.

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 He addresses him this way

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 as he calls him Lord.

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 And he comes to him

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 and implores with him,

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 If you will,

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 you can make me clean.

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 Now, I love this.

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 We're not going to make much of the leper

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 in this story.

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 But here is a place

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 that we should observe his life

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 and see the way he interacts with Jesus.

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 As he says,

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 If you will,

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 you can make me clean.

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 And in this little statement,

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 he recognizes Jesus' sovereign will

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 and his sovereign power.

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 He doesn't expect that Jesus will heal him.

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 He doesn't say in any way

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 that Jesus owes him healing.

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 But he says,

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 You have the ability.

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 You are Lord.

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 You can heal what's going on with me.

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 And if you see so fit,

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 will you please heal me,

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 a leper?

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 God owes us nothing.

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 We don't call on him

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 as if by our merit,

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 he owes us something.

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 God's will is sovereign

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 and he's also sovereign in his power.

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 We should pray this way.

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 Lord, if you will,

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 you can accomplish this thing.

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 If you will,

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 please work this out.

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 Do this thing for your glory.

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 I appreciate this leper's

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 pleading with Jesus in this way.

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 Now, this is not a magic equation

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 to see a response come from Christ.

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 Verse 41 does not record

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 because of the man's imploring,

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 because of the way in which

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 the man addressed Jesus.

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 Jesus moved.

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 Jesus is moved by one thing.

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 His pity.

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 He's moved by his pity.

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 Notice at the beginning of verse 41.

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 So while we ought to look

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 at the leper's life,

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 model ourselves after him,

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 we ought not see this

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 as an equation, right?

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 If you will,

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 you can heal me.

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 You can make me clean.

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 This is the way in which

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 we should look and observe

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 and pray to our God.

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 But Jesus moved with pity.

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 Some of your translations

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 may say compassion.

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 Another wonderful word

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 in this case.

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 And verse 41 says,

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 He stretched out his hand,

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 he touches him,

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 and he says,

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 I will be clean.

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 Right?

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 Not because of what the man had done,

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 but because of Christ's very nature.

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 Who he was.

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 He showed compassion to this man.

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 Psalm chapter 78,

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 verses 38 and 39,

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 speaking of God's work with Israel

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 prior to the psalm being written,

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 says,

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 Yet he,

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 being compassionate,

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 atoned for their iniquity

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 and did not destroy them.

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 He restrained his anger often

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 and did not stir up all his wrath.

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 He remembered that they were but flesh,

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 a wind that passes

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 and comes not again.

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 The compassion that God had

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 on his people

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 as he leads them out

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 of Egyptian captivity

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 and as they sin against him

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 continually and continually

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 and continually and continually.

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 Here we see recorded in Psalm 78

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 that he is compassionate,

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 that he holds back his anger,

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 and he remembers that they're but men.

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 Fallen in nature

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 and doesn't destroy them.

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 Isaiah chapter 49,

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 verse 13,

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 prophesying of our coming Messiah,

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 the one Jesus Christ,

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 says,

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 Sing for joy, O heavens,

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 and exult, O earth.

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 Break forth, O mountains,

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 into singing,

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 for the Lord has comforted his people

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 and will have compassion

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 on his afflicted.

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 Look at the fulfillment

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 of that very thing

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 as Jesus turns to this leper

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 and touches him.

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 Matthew chapter 35,

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 verse 36,

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 says,

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 And Jesus went throughout

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 all the cities and villages

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 teaching in their synagogues

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 and proclaiming the gospel

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 of the kingdom

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 and healing every disease

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 and every affliction.

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 When he saw the crowds,

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 he had compassion for them

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 because they were harassed

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 and helpless

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 like sheep without a shepherd.

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 God loves people

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 and he pities our state,

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 both our physical

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 and our spiritual state.

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 And so here we see Jesus

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 turn to the leper

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 and show such pity to him

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 that he reaches out

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 and he touches him.

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 This would have been shocking.

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 We don't understand

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 the way this disease

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 affected the culture.

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 We don't understand

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 how shocking it would have been

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 for this man

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 to walk in amongst us

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 and then for Jesus

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 in pity

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 and in compassion for him

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 to reach out

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 and touch him.

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 Leviticus 5.3,

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 the Israelites were commanded

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 not to touch a leper.

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 And here we see Jesus

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 stepping down in such a way

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 and reaching out

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 and touching him

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 and making him clean.

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 Verse 42,

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 we see once again,

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 I think Mark's favorite word,

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 immediately.

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 And immediately,

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 the leprosy left him.

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 Didn't take on

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 some healing power.

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 Jesus gave him some medicine

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 and over some time,

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 he got better.

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 Immediately,

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 the leprosy left him

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 and he was made clean.

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 Or does this say

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 he was restored?

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 Restored.

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 And we see Jesus' authority

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 once again

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 over this sickness.

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 Right?

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 He was made well

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 and whole.

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 Hansen's disease,

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 there's a cure for it.

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 Good news,

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 if you're not in that 95%

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 and you happen to go someplace

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 and contract Hansen's disease,

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 in 1982,

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 drugs were invented

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 that can eradicate,

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 they can stop the effects

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 of Hansen's disease.

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 They can get rid of that bacillum

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 in your system.

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 But guess what they don't do?

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 They don't restore

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 what's been damaged already.

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 Right?

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 If your fingers

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 and your toes

00:18:50.660 --> 00:18:51.500
 begin to pull back up

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 into your body,

00:18:51.960 --> 00:18:53.360
 it doesn't reverse that effect,

00:18:53.600 --> 00:18:54.100
 but Jesus,

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 in his power,

00:18:55.120 --> 00:18:55.579
 does that.

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 Makes him whole.

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 And you may be asking,

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 how do you know that

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 to be the case?

00:18:59.779 --> 00:18:59.940
 Right?

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 How do you know

00:19:00.600 --> 00:19:01.720
 that's even possible?

00:19:02.200 --> 00:19:03.240
 Jesus gives him a command

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 and he tells him

00:19:03.940 --> 00:19:04.900
 to go and present himself

00:19:04.900 --> 00:19:05.440
 to the priest.

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 And what he was telling him

00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:07.220
 to do was to travel

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 to Jerusalem,

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 which would have been

00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:10.579
 60 to 70 miles

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 from where he was.

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 And they would have walked.

00:19:13.700 --> 00:19:13.900
 Right?

00:19:14.299 --> 00:19:15.059
 He doesn't say,

00:19:15.180 --> 00:19:16.340
 spend some time here

00:19:16.340 --> 00:19:17.259
 in this town

00:19:17.259 --> 00:19:18.200
 and go through rehab.

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 Make sure you get

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 your legs back under you

00:19:20.120 --> 00:19:21.059
 before you make the journey.

00:19:21.059 --> 00:19:21.759
 Right?

00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:22.759
 He gives him a command

00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:24.940
 to go and do what is proper

00:19:24.940 --> 00:19:26.899
 to make the sacrifice,

00:19:27.139 --> 00:19:27.599
 the cleansing

00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:28.740
 that Moses commanded.

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 And so he goes

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 and he does this.

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 So he made him whole

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 in this act.

00:19:35.099 --> 00:19:35.179
 Right?

00:19:35.379 --> 00:19:36.220
 Now it's interesting,

00:19:37.099 --> 00:19:38.399
 we see all

00:19:38.399 --> 00:19:39.399
 as Jesus is performing

00:19:39.399 --> 00:19:39.819
 these miracles,

00:19:39.919 --> 00:19:40.460
 he's healing

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 and he's healing

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 and he's healing.

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 We see lots of this

00:19:42.899 --> 00:19:43.579
 terminology,

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 healing.

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 But as it regards

00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:46.299
 leprosy,

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 we never see

00:19:47.139 --> 00:19:48.079
 leprosy

00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:49.139
 and healing

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 put together.

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 It's always

00:19:50.460 --> 00:19:51.559
 made clean.

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 Isn't that fascinating?

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 I know that you're just going,

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 okay, tell us what it means.

00:19:58.019 --> 00:19:58.180
 Right?

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 Just tell me what it means.

00:20:00.700 --> 00:20:00.839
 Right?

00:20:01.079 --> 00:20:02.960
 I don't know for sure.

00:20:04.019 --> 00:20:04.759
 Is that fair?

00:20:05.980 --> 00:20:07.440
 I don't know for sure

00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:08.339
 why it's always

00:20:08.339 --> 00:20:09.279
 coupled in this way.

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 Here's my presumption.

00:20:11.019 --> 00:20:11.819
 Here's my presumption.

00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:14.399
 The Jewish culture saw

00:20:14.399 --> 00:20:16.059
 the person that was

00:20:16.059 --> 00:20:16.939
 defiled in this way

00:20:16.939 --> 00:20:17.480
 as unclean.

00:20:17.539 --> 00:20:18.439
 They saw it as a judgment

00:20:18.439 --> 00:20:18.980
 from God

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 and they cast them out.

00:20:19.899 --> 00:20:20.779
 These people were cast out

00:20:20.779 --> 00:20:21.399
 from culture.

00:20:21.579 --> 00:20:22.399
 They were cast out

00:20:22.399 --> 00:20:23.559
 from the worship of God

00:20:23.559 --> 00:20:24.480
 in the Jewish synagogue.

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 They weren't allowed

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 to go to the temple

00:20:26.179 --> 00:20:27.019
 to make sacrifice.

00:20:27.240 --> 00:20:27.899
 In every way,

00:20:28.240 --> 00:20:29.179
 they were estranged.

00:20:30.379 --> 00:20:30.779
 Removed

00:20:30.779 --> 00:20:31.899
 from the society

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 because they were

00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:33.379
 dirty

00:20:33.379 --> 00:20:34.460
 in this way.

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 And I think the reason

00:20:36.220 --> 00:20:36.980
 that it's recorded

00:20:36.980 --> 00:20:37.500
 in this way,

00:20:37.559 --> 00:20:38.480
 that they're made clean,

00:20:38.740 --> 00:20:39.419
 is that they're being

00:20:39.419 --> 00:20:40.159
 restored.

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 Right?

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 Externally,

00:20:41.819 --> 00:20:42.980
 they're being made clean.

00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:44.220
 They're being restored

00:20:44.220 --> 00:20:45.160
 to the ability

00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:46.019
 to enter back

00:20:46.019 --> 00:20:46.920
 into Jewish culture

00:20:46.920 --> 00:20:47.920
 and to attend

00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:48.700
 temple worship.

00:20:48.799 --> 00:20:49.360
 We see the command

00:20:49.360 --> 00:20:50.500
 to go to the priest

00:20:50.500 --> 00:20:51.559
 and to the temple.

00:20:52.420 --> 00:20:53.640
 And I think that's why.

00:20:53.819 --> 00:20:54.860
 That's this picture

00:20:54.860 --> 00:20:55.819
 of uncleanliness

00:20:55.819 --> 00:20:56.860
 and cleanliness.

00:20:57.259 --> 00:20:57.340
 Right?

00:20:57.440 --> 00:20:58.000
 I don't think

00:20:58.000 --> 00:20:58.660
 what we see here

00:20:58.660 --> 00:21:01.559
 is that this man's soul

00:21:01.559 --> 00:21:02.200
 is restored.

00:21:03.120 --> 00:21:03.860
 I think that simply

00:21:03.860 --> 00:21:05.019
 he is healed,

00:21:05.340 --> 00:21:06.059
 made clean

00:21:06.059 --> 00:21:08.120
 from his leprosy.

00:21:08.740 --> 00:21:08.880
 Right?

00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:09.960
 And that's important

00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:11.080
 lest we think

00:21:11.080 --> 00:21:11.980
 too much of this leper

00:21:11.980 --> 00:21:13.080
 because he's

00:21:13.080 --> 00:21:14.100
 a rather

00:21:14.100 --> 00:21:17.220
 disobedient character.

00:21:17.820 --> 00:21:18.340
 Is he not?

00:21:18.460 --> 00:21:19.020
 Verse 43

00:21:19.020 --> 00:21:19.680
 says,

00:21:19.800 --> 00:21:20.120
 And Jesus

00:21:20.120 --> 00:21:21.900
 sternly charged him

00:21:21.900 --> 00:21:23.040
 and sent him away

00:21:23.040 --> 00:21:24.480
 at once.

00:21:24.880 --> 00:21:26.220
 And the Greek word here

00:21:26.220 --> 00:21:27.480
 for sternly charged

00:21:27.480 --> 00:21:29.920
 means in its most literal

00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:30.840
 form,

00:21:31.040 --> 00:21:31.400
 snorted.

00:21:32.360 --> 00:21:33.620
 Not the way you would

00:21:33.620 --> 00:21:34.640
 snort something.

00:21:35.140 --> 00:21:35.420
 Right?

00:21:35.420 --> 00:21:36.560
 But like the way

00:21:36.560 --> 00:21:37.380
 a bull would snort.

00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:38.120
 Like a command.

00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:39.240
 Like,

00:21:39.560 --> 00:21:40.860
 I'm telling you

00:21:40.860 --> 00:21:41.700
 what you better do.

00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:42.560
 That's what the

00:21:42.560 --> 00:21:43.920
 kind of strength

00:21:43.920 --> 00:21:44.620
 of this language is.

00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:45.460
 They're very strong.

00:21:46.200 --> 00:21:47.560
 Sternly charged him.

00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:48.539
 Right?

00:21:48.740 --> 00:21:49.680
 And what did Jesus say?

00:21:49.740 --> 00:21:50.480
 That we will know

00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:51.440
 people are his disciples

00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:52.500
 if they keep his word.

00:21:53.360 --> 00:21:53.539
 Right?

00:21:53.720 --> 00:21:54.380
 So here we see

00:21:54.380 --> 00:21:54.779
 this leper.

00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:55.279
 He gives him

00:21:55.279 --> 00:21:56.259
 a direct command

00:21:56.259 --> 00:21:57.080
 and the leper does

00:21:57.080 --> 00:21:57.620
 what?

00:21:57.700 --> 00:21:58.480
 The opposite.

00:21:59.620 --> 00:21:59.820
 Right?

00:21:59.820 --> 00:22:00.500
 He does the very

00:22:00.500 --> 00:22:01.360
 opposite

00:22:01.360 --> 00:22:02.519
 of the thing

00:22:02.519 --> 00:22:03.279
 that he commanded

00:22:03.279 --> 00:22:04.660
 him to do.

00:22:05.340 --> 00:22:05.680
 And so I don't

00:22:05.680 --> 00:22:06.120
 think it's right

00:22:06.120 --> 00:22:06.660
 for us to think

00:22:06.660 --> 00:22:07.040
 when we say

00:22:07.040 --> 00:22:07.460
 that the leper

00:22:07.460 --> 00:22:08.100
 was made clean

00:22:08.100 --> 00:22:08.560
 that his soul

00:22:08.560 --> 00:22:09.140
 was made clean.

00:22:09.200 --> 00:22:09.600
 I think that he

00:22:09.600 --> 00:22:10.040
 was healed

00:22:10.040 --> 00:22:10.759
 of his leprosy.

00:22:11.300 --> 00:22:11.480
 Right?

00:22:11.560 --> 00:22:12.060
 But then we see

00:22:12.060 --> 00:22:12.980
 him being immediately

00:22:12.980 --> 00:22:14.300
 disobedient to the

00:22:14.300 --> 00:22:15.620
 command of Christ.

00:22:16.660 --> 00:22:17.160
 And so we get

00:22:17.160 --> 00:22:18.880
 these two commands.

00:22:18.980 --> 00:22:19.320
 We get both

00:22:19.320 --> 00:22:20.300
 a positive command

00:22:20.300 --> 00:22:21.100
 do this

00:22:21.100 --> 00:22:22.860
 and a negative

00:22:22.860 --> 00:22:23.340
 command

00:22:23.340 --> 00:22:24.640
 do not do

00:22:24.640 --> 00:22:25.600
 this.

00:22:26.019 --> 00:22:26.140
 Right?

00:22:26.140 --> 00:22:26.840
 So verse 44

00:22:26.840 --> 00:22:27.600
 he said to him

00:22:27.600 --> 00:22:29.440
 see that you say

00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:30.380
 nothing to anyone

00:22:30.380 --> 00:22:30.880
 but go

00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:31.460
 show yourself

00:22:31.460 --> 00:22:32.040
 to the priest

00:22:32.040 --> 00:22:32.960
 and offer

00:22:32.960 --> 00:22:33.620
 for your cleansing

00:22:33.620 --> 00:22:34.259
 what Moses

00:22:34.259 --> 00:22:34.720
 commanded

00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:35.619
 for a proof

00:22:35.619 --> 00:22:36.420
 to them.

00:22:36.819 --> 00:22:37.460
 So the positive

00:22:37.460 --> 00:22:37.940
 command

00:22:37.940 --> 00:22:38.640
 go

00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:39.579
 show yourself

00:22:39.579 --> 00:22:40.119
 to the priest

00:22:40.119 --> 00:22:40.559
 and offer

00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:41.220
 for your cleansing

00:22:41.220 --> 00:22:41.960
 what Moses

00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:42.519
 commanded

00:22:42.519 --> 00:22:43.740
 for a proof

00:22:43.740 --> 00:22:44.180
 to them.

00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:46.759
 Why would he

00:22:46.759 --> 00:22:47.200
 have wanted

00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:48.160
 this to take

00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:48.619
 place?

00:22:49.559 --> 00:22:49.660
 Right?

00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:50.160
 This was

00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:51.140
 Levitical law

00:22:51.140 --> 00:22:52.099
 remember still

00:22:52.099 --> 00:22:52.859
 just as they

00:22:52.859 --> 00:22:53.339
 would have

00:22:53.339 --> 00:22:53.980
 paid attention

00:22:53.980 --> 00:22:54.420
 then

00:22:54.420 --> 00:22:54.839
 they were still

00:22:54.839 --> 00:22:55.420
 paying attention

00:22:55.420 --> 00:22:56.240
 to this commandment

00:22:56.240 --> 00:22:56.960
 the priest

00:22:56.960 --> 00:22:57.900
 would have

00:22:57.900 --> 00:22:58.599
 wanted to

00:22:58.599 --> 00:22:59.619
 proclaim

00:22:59.619 --> 00:23:00.299
 somebody

00:23:00.299 --> 00:23:00.859
 clean

00:23:00.859 --> 00:23:01.959
 this man

00:23:01.959 --> 00:23:02.559
 now no

00:23:02.559 --> 00:23:03.059
 longer

00:23:03.059 --> 00:23:03.519
 has

00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:03.979
 leprosy

00:23:03.979 --> 00:23:04.239
 there was

00:23:04.239 --> 00:23:04.659
 a process

00:23:04.659 --> 00:23:05.059
 by which

00:23:05.059 --> 00:23:05.279
 they

00:23:05.279 --> 00:23:05.979
 identified

00:23:05.979 --> 00:23:06.239
 them

00:23:06.239 --> 00:23:06.699
 as a leper

00:23:06.699 --> 00:23:07.219
 there was

00:23:07.219 --> 00:23:08.079
 also a process

00:23:08.079 --> 00:23:08.759
 if they thought

00:23:08.759 --> 00:23:09.459
 they were healed

00:23:09.459 --> 00:23:10.099
 of leprosy

00:23:10.099 --> 00:23:11.000
 that they would

00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:11.659
 do the same

00:23:11.659 --> 00:23:12.379
 that they would

00:23:12.379 --> 00:23:13.359
 proclaim them

00:23:13.359 --> 00:23:14.259
 clean

00:23:14.259 --> 00:23:15.920
 Jesus

00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:16.759
 is on his

00:23:16.759 --> 00:23:17.339
 way

00:23:17.339 --> 00:23:18.619
 to Jerusalem

00:23:18.619 --> 00:23:19.700
 is he not?

00:23:20.460 --> 00:23:21.240
 and I believe

00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:21.779
 what he's doing

00:23:21.779 --> 00:23:22.440
 is he's sending

00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:23.400
 before him

00:23:23.400 --> 00:23:24.559
 not to

00:23:24.559 --> 00:23:25.400
 everyone

00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:25.980
 he's telling

00:23:25.980 --> 00:23:26.119
 them

00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:27.319
 don't run

00:23:27.319 --> 00:23:27.640
 around

00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:28.059
 don't run

00:23:28.059 --> 00:23:28.259
 around

00:23:28.259 --> 00:23:28.759
 run in your

00:23:28.759 --> 00:23:29.140
 mouth

00:23:29.140 --> 00:23:29.879
 but go to

00:23:29.879 --> 00:23:30.420
 the priests

00:23:30.420 --> 00:23:31.299
 and I think

00:23:31.299 --> 00:23:31.759
 what he's doing

00:23:31.759 --> 00:23:32.279
 is he's sending

00:23:32.279 --> 00:23:32.700
 a witness

00:23:32.700 --> 00:23:33.319
 of himself

00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:34.440
 to the priests

00:23:34.440 --> 00:23:35.500
 certainly this

00:23:35.500 --> 00:23:35.859
 man is going

00:23:35.859 --> 00:23:36.180
 to say

00:23:36.180 --> 00:23:37.000
 I was a leper

00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:37.420
 and now I

00:23:37.420 --> 00:23:37.700
 was made

00:23:37.700 --> 00:23:38.160
 clean by

00:23:38.160 --> 00:23:38.640
 this man

00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:39.359
 Jesus Christ

00:23:39.359 --> 00:23:40.000
 and they

00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:40.400
 would go

00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:40.700
 through the

00:23:40.700 --> 00:23:41.119
 process

00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:42.039
 of inspecting

00:23:42.039 --> 00:23:42.319
 him

00:23:42.319 --> 00:23:43.180
 and certainly

00:23:43.180 --> 00:23:43.960
 then know

00:23:43.960 --> 00:23:45.000
 he was

00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:47.180
 pre-delivering

00:23:47.180 --> 00:23:48.000
 the indictment

00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:48.360
 for their

00:23:48.360 --> 00:23:48.920
 unbelief

00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:50.620
 in Leviticus

00:23:50.620 --> 00:23:51.340
 chapter 14

00:23:51.340 --> 00:23:52.019
 we get this

00:23:52.019 --> 00:23:52.680
 prescription

00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:53.220
 for the way

00:23:53.220 --> 00:23:53.779
 this happens

00:23:53.779 --> 00:23:55.140
 and this

00:23:55.140 --> 00:23:55.340
 stuff

00:23:55.340 --> 00:23:56.100
 it's so hard

00:23:56.100 --> 00:23:56.500
 you read

00:23:56.500 --> 00:23:56.799
 these old

00:23:56.799 --> 00:23:57.420
 Levitical laws

00:23:57.420 --> 00:23:57.740
 you're like

00:23:57.740 --> 00:23:58.240
 they're supposed

00:23:58.240 --> 00:23:58.900
 to do what?

00:23:59.180 --> 00:23:59.559
 so let me see

00:23:59.559 --> 00:23:59.880
 if I can get

00:23:59.880 --> 00:24:00.299
 this right

00:24:00.299 --> 00:24:01.140
 something like

00:24:01.140 --> 00:24:01.519
 this

00:24:01.519 --> 00:24:02.640
 the leper

00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:03.059
 is examined

00:24:03.059 --> 00:24:03.700
 by a priest

00:24:03.700 --> 00:24:04.880
 two birds

00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:05.299
 are taken

00:24:05.299 --> 00:24:05.680
 and one

00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:06.220
 is killed

00:24:06.220 --> 00:24:06.940
 over running

00:24:06.940 --> 00:24:07.259
 water

00:24:07.259 --> 00:24:08.440
 in addition

00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:09.059
 they're taking

00:24:09.059 --> 00:24:09.660
 cedar

00:24:09.660 --> 00:24:10.420
 scarlet

00:24:10.420 --> 00:24:10.900
 and hyssop

00:24:10.900 --> 00:24:11.600
 these things

00:24:11.600 --> 00:24:11.920
 are taken

00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:12.340
 together

00:24:12.340 --> 00:24:12.980
 with the living

00:24:12.980 --> 00:24:13.259
 bird

00:24:13.259 --> 00:24:13.720
 dipped in

00:24:13.720 --> 00:24:13.980
 the blood

00:24:13.980 --> 00:24:14.339
 of the dead

00:24:14.339 --> 00:24:14.579
 bird

00:24:14.579 --> 00:24:15.500
 then the living

00:24:15.500 --> 00:24:15.940
 bird is allowed

00:24:15.940 --> 00:24:16.480
 to go free

00:24:16.480 --> 00:24:17.920
 now this is all

00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:18.380
 symbolic

00:24:18.380 --> 00:24:19.200
 the man

00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:20.180
 washes himself

00:24:20.180 --> 00:24:20.900
 and clothes

00:24:20.900 --> 00:24:21.480
 shaves

00:24:21.480 --> 00:24:22.420
 seven days

00:24:22.420 --> 00:24:22.700
 are allowed

00:24:22.700 --> 00:24:23.200
 to pass

00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:23.660
 and then he's

00:24:23.660 --> 00:24:24.259
 re-examined

00:24:24.259 --> 00:24:25.620
 he must then

00:24:25.620 --> 00:24:26.200
 shave his hair

00:24:26.200 --> 00:24:26.519
 again

00:24:26.519 --> 00:24:26.920
 his head

00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:27.420
 his eyebrows

00:24:27.420 --> 00:24:28.299
 certain sacrifices

00:24:28.299 --> 00:24:29.000
 are then made

00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:29.740
 consisting of

00:24:29.740 --> 00:24:30.519
 two male lambs

00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:31.220
 without blemish

00:24:31.220 --> 00:24:32.440
 one ewe lamb

00:24:32.440 --> 00:24:33.440
 three tenths of

00:24:33.440 --> 00:24:34.100
 amount of fine

00:24:34.100 --> 00:24:34.579
 flour

00:24:34.579 --> 00:24:35.500
 mingled with oil

00:24:35.500 --> 00:24:36.460
 and the restored

00:24:36.460 --> 00:24:37.100
 leper is then

00:24:37.100 --> 00:24:37.920
 touched on the tip

00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:38.539
 of the right ear

00:24:38.539 --> 00:24:39.940
 the right thumb

00:24:39.940 --> 00:24:40.600
 and the right great

00:24:40.600 --> 00:24:41.319
 toe with a mixture

00:24:41.319 --> 00:24:41.700
 of blood

00:24:41.700 --> 00:24:42.140
 and oil

00:24:42.140 --> 00:24:43.500
 finally examine

00:24:43.500 --> 00:24:44.299
 for the last time

00:24:44.299 --> 00:24:44.960
 and if the cure

00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:45.700
 is indeed real

00:24:45.700 --> 00:24:46.799
 he's allowed to go

00:24:46.799 --> 00:24:47.539
 with a certificate

00:24:47.539 --> 00:24:49.440
 that he is cleansed

00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:49.700
 right

00:24:49.700 --> 00:24:51.140
 this is an incredible

00:24:51.140 --> 00:24:51.559
 process

00:24:51.559 --> 00:24:52.039
 and I am sure

00:24:52.039 --> 00:24:52.600
 that there's a lot

00:24:52.600 --> 00:24:53.600
 of great depth

00:24:53.600 --> 00:24:54.580
 for us to understand

00:24:54.580 --> 00:24:55.860
 all of the symbols

00:24:55.860 --> 00:24:56.460
 that are contained

00:24:56.460 --> 00:24:56.740
 within

00:24:56.740 --> 00:24:57.759
 but I want you to see

00:24:57.759 --> 00:24:58.200
 that this is what

00:24:58.200 --> 00:24:58.840
 Jesus was asking

00:24:58.840 --> 00:24:59.400
 him to go do

00:24:59.400 --> 00:25:01.039
 as Moses commanded

00:25:01.039 --> 00:25:02.080
 for a proof

00:25:02.080 --> 00:25:02.700
 to them

00:25:02.700 --> 00:25:03.900
 to those priests

00:25:03.900 --> 00:25:04.420
 that he was going

00:25:04.420 --> 00:25:04.860
 to come

00:25:04.860 --> 00:25:05.880
 and preach the gospel

00:25:05.880 --> 00:25:06.799
 to and they would

00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:07.660
 end up having him

00:25:07.660 --> 00:25:08.500
 crucified

00:25:08.500 --> 00:25:10.359
 so that's the

00:25:10.359 --> 00:25:11.079
 positive command

00:25:11.079 --> 00:25:11.779
 go and do

00:25:11.779 --> 00:25:12.500
 this thing

00:25:12.500 --> 00:25:13.000
 we don't know

00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:13.819
 if he ever actually

00:25:13.819 --> 00:25:14.180
 does

00:25:14.180 --> 00:25:14.680
 we don't know

00:25:14.680 --> 00:25:15.180
 if he makes it

00:25:15.180 --> 00:25:15.700
 there or not

00:25:15.700 --> 00:25:17.140
 there's a negative

00:25:17.140 --> 00:25:17.960
 command as well

00:25:17.960 --> 00:25:18.740
 say nothing

00:25:18.740 --> 00:25:19.759
 to anyone

00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:21.140
 we can see

00:25:21.140 --> 00:25:21.700
 how he did

00:25:21.700 --> 00:25:22.779
 with this

00:25:22.779 --> 00:25:23.299
 right

00:25:23.299 --> 00:25:24.619
 it's interesting

00:25:24.619 --> 00:25:25.019
 to me

00:25:25.019 --> 00:25:25.680
 and this is another

00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:27.119
 I'm not really sure

00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:27.839
 moment

00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:29.119
 I tell you

00:25:29.119 --> 00:25:29.619
 I want to have

00:25:29.619 --> 00:25:30.339
 all the answers

00:25:30.339 --> 00:25:31.140
 to every question

00:25:31.140 --> 00:25:31.720
 you may ever have

00:25:31.720 --> 00:25:32.140
 in life

00:25:32.140 --> 00:25:33.319
 but I won't

00:25:33.319 --> 00:25:35.339
 we constantly

00:25:35.339 --> 00:25:36.279
 see Jesus

00:25:36.279 --> 00:25:36.939
 warning people

00:25:36.939 --> 00:25:37.919
 not to talk

00:25:37.919 --> 00:25:38.339
 about what he's

00:25:38.339 --> 00:25:38.619
 doing

00:25:38.619 --> 00:25:39.960
 constantly

00:25:39.960 --> 00:25:41.700
 all throughout

00:25:41.700 --> 00:25:42.279
 the bible

00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:43.119
 and you go

00:25:43.119 --> 00:25:43.919
 okay well let's

00:25:43.919 --> 00:25:44.359
 just think about

00:25:44.359 --> 00:25:45.059
 why that may be

00:25:45.059 --> 00:25:45.639
 was it that he

00:25:45.639 --> 00:25:46.179
 was trying to

00:25:46.179 --> 00:25:47.319
 delay his death

00:25:47.319 --> 00:25:47.980
 right

00:25:47.980 --> 00:25:48.299
 because he was

00:25:48.299 --> 00:25:49.139
 causing quite a

00:25:49.139 --> 00:25:49.460
 stir

00:25:49.460 --> 00:25:50.359
 those great

00:25:50.359 --> 00:25:51.159
 crowds are already

00:25:51.159 --> 00:25:52.019
 amassing around

00:25:52.019 --> 00:25:52.559
 him and following

00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:52.919
 him around

00:25:52.919 --> 00:25:54.159
 the Galilee of

00:25:54.159 --> 00:25:54.619
 the Gentiles

00:25:54.619 --> 00:25:55.700
 was not like a

00:25:55.700 --> 00:25:56.799
 highly populated

00:25:56.799 --> 00:25:57.659
 place

00:25:57.659 --> 00:25:59.519
 the desert areas

00:25:59.519 --> 00:26:00.099
 where he often

00:26:00.099 --> 00:26:00.799
 was moving through

00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:01.319
 where these people

00:26:01.319 --> 00:26:01.839
 were gathering

00:26:01.839 --> 00:26:02.619
 to meet with him

00:26:02.619 --> 00:26:03.959
 were not pleasant

00:26:03.959 --> 00:26:05.379
 places to be

00:26:05.379 --> 00:26:06.239
 you recall when he

00:26:06.239 --> 00:26:07.439
 feeds the 5,000

00:26:07.439 --> 00:26:08.500
 later the 4,000

00:26:08.500 --> 00:26:09.139
 people it's because

00:26:09.139 --> 00:26:09.879
 they came out to a

00:26:09.879 --> 00:26:10.579
 place that there

00:26:10.579 --> 00:26:11.459
 was no food

00:26:11.459 --> 00:26:12.500
 right they were

00:26:12.500 --> 00:26:13.099
 following into these

00:26:13.099 --> 00:26:14.019
 bizarro places

00:26:14.019 --> 00:26:14.559
 he was causing

00:26:14.559 --> 00:26:15.859
 quite a hubbub

00:26:15.859 --> 00:26:17.299
 so was he doing

00:26:17.299 --> 00:26:17.979
 that because he

00:26:17.979 --> 00:26:18.819
 knew it's not

00:26:18.819 --> 00:26:19.500
 quite time I

00:26:19.500 --> 00:26:20.099
 must delay I

00:26:20.099 --> 00:26:20.639
 must delay I

00:26:20.639 --> 00:26:21.219
 must delay

00:26:21.219 --> 00:26:23.019
 and I can take a

00:26:23.019 --> 00:26:23.579
 little bit of

00:26:23.579 --> 00:26:24.779
 answer and comfort

00:26:24.779 --> 00:26:25.479
 in that but

00:26:25.479 --> 00:26:26.759
 God is sovereign

00:26:26.759 --> 00:26:27.479
 over all these

00:26:27.479 --> 00:26:28.339
 things right

00:26:28.339 --> 00:26:29.139
 like he knew

00:26:29.139 --> 00:26:30.099
 exactly the day

00:26:30.099 --> 00:26:31.000
 that he would die

00:26:31.000 --> 00:26:31.579
 he knew exactly

00:26:31.579 --> 00:26:32.539
 the way in

00:26:32.539 --> 00:26:33.339
 which he would

00:26:33.339 --> 00:26:33.839
 die so it

00:26:33.839 --> 00:26:34.359
 doesn't really

00:26:34.359 --> 00:26:35.059
 complete the

00:26:35.059 --> 00:26:35.740
 answer for me

00:26:35.740 --> 00:26:36.159
 but let's just

00:26:36.159 --> 00:26:36.599
 look at a couple

00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:37.200
 of other places

00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:39.480
 here in Mark

00:26:39.480 --> 00:26:40.099
 chapter 3

00:26:40.099 --> 00:26:41.019
 verse 11 and 12

00:26:41.019 --> 00:26:41.759
 and whenever the

00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:42.259
 unclean spirits

00:26:42.259 --> 00:26:42.920
 saw him they

00:26:42.920 --> 00:26:43.639
 fell down before

00:26:43.639 --> 00:26:44.079
 him and cried

00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:44.740
 out you are the

00:26:44.740 --> 00:26:45.319
 son of God

00:26:45.319 --> 00:26:46.779
 so the unclean

00:26:46.779 --> 00:26:47.720
 spirits the demons

00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:49.379
 cry out you are

00:26:49.379 --> 00:26:49.859
 the son of God

00:26:49.859 --> 00:26:50.500
 and he strictly

00:26:50.500 --> 00:26:51.460
 ordered them not

00:26:51.460 --> 00:26:52.119
 to make him known

00:26:52.119 --> 00:26:54.659
 interestingly that

00:26:54.659 --> 00:26:55.720
 we see throughout

00:26:55.720 --> 00:26:57.559
 Mark demons

00:26:57.559 --> 00:26:58.279
 being more obedient

00:26:58.279 --> 00:27:01.359
 than people to the

00:27:01.359 --> 00:27:01.879
 power of God

00:27:01.880 --> 00:27:03.960
 chapter 5 verse

00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:05.260
 43 the first

00:27:05.260 --> 00:27:05.840
 part of it

00:27:05.840 --> 00:27:07.080
 Jairus a leader

00:27:07.080 --> 00:27:07.600
 of the synagogue

00:27:07.600 --> 00:27:09.180
 his daughter was

00:27:09.180 --> 00:27:09.920
 brought back to

00:27:09.920 --> 00:27:10.680
 life if you remember

00:27:10.680 --> 00:27:11.840
 this story and

00:27:11.840 --> 00:27:12.620
 then Jesus says in

00:27:12.620 --> 00:27:13.560
 verse 43 and he

00:27:13.560 --> 00:27:14.320
 strictly charged

00:27:14.320 --> 00:27:15.460
 them that no one

00:27:15.460 --> 00:27:16.400
 should know this

00:27:16.400 --> 00:27:19.020
 chapter 7 verse 36

00:27:19.020 --> 00:27:19.640
 we see the healing

00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:20.940
 of a deaf man and

00:27:20.940 --> 00:27:21.620
 Jesus charged them

00:27:21.620 --> 00:27:22.760
 to tell no one but

00:27:22.760 --> 00:27:23.640
 the more he charged

00:27:23.640 --> 00:27:24.380
 them the more

00:27:24.380 --> 00:27:25.140
 zealously they

00:27:25.140 --> 00:27:25.840
 proclaimed it

00:27:25.840 --> 00:27:28.180
 chapter 8 verse

00:27:28.180 --> 00:27:30.880
 26 he ups the

00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:31.680
 charge after healing

00:27:31.680 --> 00:27:32.420
 a blind man and

00:27:32.420 --> 00:27:33.760
 he sent him home

00:27:33.760 --> 00:27:35.620
 saying do not

00:27:35.620 --> 00:27:36.360
 enter the village

00:27:36.360 --> 00:27:37.760
 he goes so far as

00:27:37.760 --> 00:27:39.000
 to say you're

00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:39.440
 going to tell

00:27:39.440 --> 00:27:40.120
 people so just

00:27:40.120 --> 00:27:41.180
 don't even go to

00:27:41.180 --> 00:27:42.040
 where people are

00:27:42.040 --> 00:27:44.520
 right just go home

00:27:44.520 --> 00:27:48.000
 so here again is

00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:49.180
 my very best at

00:27:49.180 --> 00:27:50.480
 this and if it

00:27:50.480 --> 00:27:51.680
 helps you I try to

00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:52.540
 confirm my guesses

00:27:52.540 --> 00:27:53.660
 amongst other

00:27:53.660 --> 00:27:55.520
 biblical scholars I

00:27:55.520 --> 00:27:56.120
 think that what

00:27:56.120 --> 00:27:57.060
 Jesus is doing here

00:27:57.060 --> 00:27:58.660
 as he's working as

00:27:58.660 --> 00:27:59.460
 he's performing

00:27:59.460 --> 00:28:00.200
 these miraculous

00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:01.920
 things to belittle

00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:04.240
 the miracles in

00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:05.259
 order to exalt the

00:28:05.259 --> 00:28:07.620
 message Jesus

00:28:07.620 --> 00:28:09.400
 heals here all

00:28:09.400 --> 00:28:10.040
 throughout the

00:28:10.040 --> 00:28:11.840
 gospels not just

00:28:11.840 --> 00:28:12.800
 people of faith

00:28:12.800 --> 00:28:13.980
 right he heals

00:28:13.980 --> 00:28:15.320
 all kinds of

00:28:15.320 --> 00:28:16.680
 people I think

00:28:16.680 --> 00:28:17.120
 that the leper

00:28:17.120 --> 00:28:17.720
 here is a great

00:28:17.720 --> 00:28:19.080
 case for that a

00:28:19.080 --> 00:28:19.519
 man who is

00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:20.400
 immediately

00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:21.380
 disobedient to

00:28:21.380 --> 00:28:21.940
 the command of

00:28:21.940 --> 00:28:23.840
 Christ I don't

00:28:23.840 --> 00:28:24.180
 believe was

00:28:24.180 --> 00:28:25.080
 regenerate hopefully

00:28:25.080 --> 00:28:26.000
 in hearing of the

00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:26.560
 gospel he did

00:28:26.559 --> 00:28:27.579
 become so later

00:28:27.579 --> 00:28:29.179
 on right so

00:28:29.179 --> 00:28:32.379
 so he he heals

00:28:32.379 --> 00:28:33.599
 and just does so

00:28:33.599 --> 00:28:34.480
 and just spreads it

00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:35.240
 and goes and goes

00:28:35.240 --> 00:28:36.000
 and goes and

00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:37.440
 these huge crowds

00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:38.099
 are gathering to

00:28:38.099 --> 00:28:39.159
 him because of the

00:28:39.159 --> 00:28:40.659
 healing not because

00:28:40.659 --> 00:28:41.359
 of the message

00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:43.119
 right as you see

00:28:43.119 --> 00:28:43.839
 him speak in

00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:45.039
 parables all

00:28:45.039 --> 00:28:45.579
 throughout the

00:28:45.579 --> 00:28:47.000
 gospels he does

00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:48.220
 so and he tells us

00:28:48.220 --> 00:28:48.960
 because he wants

00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:49.559
 people who have

00:28:49.559 --> 00:28:51.440
 ears to hear to

00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:52.419
 understand and those

00:28:52.419 --> 00:28:53.259
 who don't to have

00:28:53.259 --> 00:28:54.019
 no idea what's

00:28:54.019 --> 00:28:55.399
 going on these huge

00:28:55.399 --> 00:28:56.500
 crowds of people

00:28:56.500 --> 00:28:57.079
 that were

00:28:57.079 --> 00:28:57.500
 amassing around

00:28:57.500 --> 00:28:58.140
 because of the

00:28:58.140 --> 00:28:59.440
 miracles that he

00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:00.019
 was performing

00:29:00.019 --> 00:29:01.640
 again Jesus

00:29:01.640 --> 00:29:02.319
 ministry was not

00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:03.619
 primarily a healing

00:29:03.619 --> 00:29:04.740
 ministry right

00:29:04.740 --> 00:29:05.460
 it's a wonderful

00:29:05.460 --> 00:29:06.680
 aspect of his

00:29:06.680 --> 00:29:07.240
 ministry the

00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:07.700
 miracles he

00:29:07.700 --> 00:29:08.700
 performed but it

00:29:08.700 --> 00:29:09.859
 was rather a

00:29:09.859 --> 00:29:11.700
 preaching ministry

00:29:11.700 --> 00:29:12.579
 the miracles

00:29:12.579 --> 00:29:14.799
 validated the

00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:16.880
 message right

00:29:16.880 --> 00:29:17.640
 now in

00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:19.500
 Christendom

00:29:19.500 --> 00:29:21.519
 particularly the

00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:22.400
 blogosphere if you

00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:23.059
 pay attention to

00:29:23.059 --> 00:29:23.720
 all these things

00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:24.200
 there's a lot of

00:29:24.200 --> 00:29:24.779
 hubbub going

00:29:24.779 --> 00:29:25.500
 around about

00:29:25.500 --> 00:29:27.160
 miraculous gifts

00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:27.740
 of the spirit

00:29:27.740 --> 00:29:28.500
 and do these

00:29:28.500 --> 00:29:29.420
 things still operate

00:29:29.420 --> 00:29:30.339
 and practice in

00:29:30.339 --> 00:29:30.640
 the world

00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:31.180
 John MacArthur

00:29:31.180 --> 00:29:31.860
 had a conference

00:29:31.860 --> 00:29:32.400
 that just caused

00:29:32.400 --> 00:29:33.440
 everybody to get

00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:34.779
 into a tizzy about

00:29:34.779 --> 00:29:37.440
 it right and it's a

00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:38.279
 question worth asking

00:29:38.279 --> 00:29:40.299
 to be sure right and

00:29:40.299 --> 00:29:41.019
 I'll tell you where I

00:29:41.019 --> 00:29:42.339
 stand on this I think

00:29:42.339 --> 00:29:43.160
 that these things do

00:29:43.160 --> 00:29:44.480
 still take place but

00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:45.240
 not as the normal

00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:47.360
 practice that's what I

00:29:47.360 --> 00:29:48.180
 believe I think God

00:29:48.180 --> 00:29:48.900
 still heals people

00:29:48.900 --> 00:29:50.220
 using medicine and

00:29:50.220 --> 00:29:52.620
 doctors primarily right

00:29:52.619 --> 00:29:53.399
 but he still does

00:29:53.399 --> 00:29:54.359
 miraculous things

00:29:54.359 --> 00:29:56.719
 certainly he does I

00:29:56.719 --> 00:29:57.639
 think particularly in

00:29:57.639 --> 00:29:58.259
 places where the

00:29:58.259 --> 00:29:58.819
 gospel is being

00:29:58.819 --> 00:29:59.779
 advanced for a new

00:29:59.779 --> 00:30:00.959
 time he brings

00:30:00.959 --> 00:30:01.959
 miracles along to

00:30:01.959 --> 00:30:03.219
 validate the message

00:30:03.219 --> 00:30:04.079
 to grab people's

00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:04.759
 attention they go

00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:06.739
 whoa what is going

00:30:06.739 --> 00:30:07.879
 on this man he's

00:30:07.879 --> 00:30:08.899
 coming and he's

00:30:08.899 --> 00:30:09.559
 laying hands on

00:30:09.559 --> 00:30:10.139
 people and they're

00:30:10.139 --> 00:30:12.199
 becoming well after

00:30:12.199 --> 00:30:13.079
 they've been sick

00:30:13.079 --> 00:30:15.819
 immediately and it

00:30:15.819 --> 00:30:16.819
 validates the message

00:30:16.819 --> 00:30:17.699
 but here's the thing

00:30:17.699 --> 00:30:18.199
 that we have to be

00:30:18.199 --> 00:30:18.939
 careful about we have

00:30:18.939 --> 00:30:19.959
 to recognize that

00:30:19.959 --> 00:30:20.639
 that's what the

00:30:20.639 --> 00:30:22.359
 healing is for it's

00:30:22.359 --> 00:30:23.179
 for the message

00:30:23.179 --> 00:30:24.899
 right and a lot of

00:30:24.899 --> 00:30:25.539
 the men that run

00:30:25.539 --> 00:30:26.240
 around in the

00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:27.319
 charismatic movement

00:30:27.319 --> 00:30:28.279
 that are big leaders

00:30:28.279 --> 00:30:29.019
 of this movement

00:30:29.019 --> 00:30:30.299
 it's not about the

00:30:30.299 --> 00:30:31.079
 message it's about

00:30:31.079 --> 00:30:33.119
 the healing right

00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:34.639
 about the amazing

00:30:34.639 --> 00:30:35.679
 ways in which God

00:30:35.679 --> 00:30:36.719
 wants to bless your

00:30:36.719 --> 00:30:38.959
 life right God

00:30:38.959 --> 00:30:39.759
 wants to bless our

00:30:39.759 --> 00:30:40.719
 life with himself

00:30:40.719 --> 00:30:43.039
 right not primarily

00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:44.059
 health and he does

00:30:44.059 --> 00:30:45.879
 it sometimes but not

00:30:45.879 --> 00:30:47.939
 primarily Paul had a

00:30:47.939 --> 00:30:48.779
 thorn in his flesh we

00:30:48.779 --> 00:30:49.379
 don't know what this

00:30:49.379 --> 00:30:50.559
 thing was but he

00:30:50.559 --> 00:30:51.359
 prays three times that

00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:51.959
 God would take it away

00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:52.940
 and God says no my

00:30:52.940 --> 00:30:53.759
 grace is sufficient for

00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:54.819
 you my powers made

00:30:54.819 --> 00:30:55.620
 perfect in your

00:30:55.620 --> 00:30:57.440
 weakness right God

00:30:57.440 --> 00:30:59.700
 wants us to be weak

00:30:59.700 --> 00:31:01.759
 he wants us to be

00:31:01.759 --> 00:31:03.940
 dependent on him

00:31:03.940 --> 00:31:07.360
 last Sunday most of you

00:31:07.360 --> 00:31:09.079
 know many of you know

00:31:09.079 --> 00:31:11.059
 I wasn't here and the

00:31:11.059 --> 00:31:11.840
 reason for that is I

00:31:11.840 --> 00:31:12.779
 went on a hunting trip

00:31:12.779 --> 00:31:13.700
 but not because I went

00:31:13.700 --> 00:31:14.500
 hunting I didn't skip

00:31:14.500 --> 00:31:15.640
 out on church I love

00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:16.500
 being with you guys I

00:31:16.500 --> 00:31:17.220
 would way rather be

00:31:17.220 --> 00:31:18.539
 here than go hunting

00:31:18.539 --> 00:31:20.960
 I missed out because I

00:31:20.960 --> 00:31:22.079
 went hunting with a

00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:25.940
 mountain man who is

00:31:25.940 --> 00:31:27.200
 15 years older than me

00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:28.359
 and can hike me into

00:31:28.359 --> 00:31:30.299
 the ground and I told

00:31:30.299 --> 00:31:31.180
 him I have really

00:31:31.180 --> 00:31:33.519
 horrible knees and don't

00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:34.420
 need to be super active

00:31:34.420 --> 00:31:35.740
 and he said that's fine

00:31:35.740 --> 00:31:36.460
 because we'll either go

00:31:36.460 --> 00:31:37.460
 out on the forest service

00:31:37.460 --> 00:31:38.259
 property or we'll just

00:31:38.259 --> 00:31:38.720
 hunt out of my

00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:41.000
 property now I've gone

00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:41.899
 over to Wes's house a

00:31:41.899 --> 00:31:42.559
 few times and hunting

00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:43.399
 and when we go hunting

00:31:43.399 --> 00:31:45.159
 on Wes's property you get

00:31:45.159 --> 00:31:46.159
 to walk a hundred yards

00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:47.560
 out of his backyard and

00:31:47.560 --> 00:31:48.540
 climb up into a fixed

00:31:48.540 --> 00:31:50.160
 stand there's no wind

00:31:50.160 --> 00:31:51.040
 it's real nice got

00:31:51.040 --> 00:31:51.700
 little windows that

00:31:51.700 --> 00:31:54.580
 fold down right easy

00:31:54.580 --> 00:31:56.960
 the same weekend last

00:31:56.960 --> 00:31:58.519
 weekend Wes drank coffee

00:31:58.519 --> 00:32:01.320
 while he hunted well not

00:32:01.320 --> 00:32:02.420
 with the guy I went with

00:32:02.420 --> 00:32:04.220
 we got to his place and

00:32:04.220 --> 00:32:05.000
 it was a cabin on top

00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:06.620
 of a mountain and I

00:32:06.620 --> 00:32:07.200
 said yeah let's just

00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:08.220
 hunt out of here and he

00:32:08.220 --> 00:32:08.759
 goes okay we're gonna

00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:09.720
 go to that mountain then

00:32:09.720 --> 00:32:11.540
 and I said or we could

00:32:11.540 --> 00:32:12.240
 go to the other place

00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:15.279
 you had picked out which

00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:16.559
 which also put me on

00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:17.720
 top of a mountain I

00:32:17.720 --> 00:32:19.339
 also ended up in 20

00:32:19.339 --> 00:32:20.940
 degrees on top of a

00:32:20.940 --> 00:32:21.819
 mountain watching

00:32:21.819 --> 00:32:23.000
 squirrels that's what I

00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:26.079
 did on Saturday but I

00:32:26.079 --> 00:32:26.980
 know I know some of you

00:32:26.980 --> 00:32:27.680
 know this and some of you

00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:28.440
 don't but for about the

00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:29.819
 last 12 years I've had

00:32:29.819 --> 00:32:30.839
 really chronic

00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:33.139
 tendinitis muscle

00:32:33.139 --> 00:32:34.440
 tightness and tendinitis

00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:35.879
 that's it's agonizing

00:32:35.879 --> 00:32:37.759
 and please don't come up

00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:38.319
 to me after the service

00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:39.019
 and tell me all the ways

00:32:39.019 --> 00:32:39.639
 I should fix it because

00:32:39.639 --> 00:32:40.440
 I've tried a lot of

00:32:40.440 --> 00:32:42.399
 things we're we're

00:32:42.399 --> 00:32:43.579
 working right now with a

00:32:43.579 --> 00:32:45.460
 new kind of radical

00:32:45.460 --> 00:32:46.720
 diet to make it I

00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:47.519
 think this actually may

00:32:47.519 --> 00:32:48.519
 be the thing I need but

00:32:48.519 --> 00:32:50.619
 but it's debilitating for

00:32:50.619 --> 00:32:52.099
 me at times and certainly

00:32:52.099 --> 00:32:52.939
 when you hike me straight

00:32:52.939 --> 00:32:54.319
 up a mountain for an

00:32:54.319 --> 00:32:56.359
 hour that'll happen so I

00:32:56.359 --> 00:32:57.740
 was at home in a lot of

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 pain at that time and I've

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 prayed that God would

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 heal me in my mind I'd be

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 more effective I'd be a

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 better husband and a

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 better father I could cut

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 the grass more

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 efficiently and play

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 harder with the boys I

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 could be at church every

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 Sunday because I'm not I'm

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 at home feeling crippled on

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 the couch in my mind that

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 would be better but I'm

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 always drawn to this this

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 concept that Paul presents

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 to us as Jesus speaks back

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 to him and says my power is

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 made perfect in your

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 weakness right God keeps me

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 so frail because I think he

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 knows that I'm going to rush

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 off without him if I had

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 power and strength to

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 accomplish things that would

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 take great pride in my

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 physical prowess and forget

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 that I need him every day

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 and every hour right I think

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 I would often forget that I

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 am not made for this place

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 that I am made for an

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 eternal place and I'm

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 passing through this place

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 that this body is on loan and

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 I get to get a new one

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 someday praise God right I

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 keep hoping that I'll learn

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 those lessons and then God's

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 going to heal me we'll see

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 we'll see so so that's what's

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 going on here so we have to

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 recognize as we look at these

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 types of things these

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 miraculous things and

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 especially in the life of

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 Jesus that it was primarily

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 about the message the good

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 news of the coming of the

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 kingdom of God right that he

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 brought along the redemption

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 of our souls that's found in

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 him right God's light bearing

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 in our dark hearts that is

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 what Jesus came to accomplish

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 that was his task to seek and

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 to save the lost praise God we

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 are beneficiaries of that

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 great mission but the leopard

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 ignores this negative command

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 he goes out verse 45 he went

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 out and began to talk freely

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 about it and to spread the

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 news so that Jesus could no

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 longer openly enter a town but

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 was out in desolate places and

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 people were coming to him from

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 every quarter now again I don't

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 believe in any way that this this

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 man thwarted Jesus plans that he

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 gave him a command and he ignored

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 the command and Jesus said man

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 now I can't go into the towns

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 because people are going to

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 throng to me about healing and

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 it's not about healing it's about

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 the message I'm just going to

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 stay in desolate places certainly

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 our Lord knew this is what was

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 going to happen even as a

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 command of the man he knew he's

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 going to fail at this command but

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 notice the great metaphor of this

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 story the great metaphor of this

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 story the picture that Jesus trades

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 places with the leper the leper comes

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 to him from desolate places the man

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 was an outcast the man could have

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 been only around other lepers he was

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 cut off from the kingdom of God just

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 like we once were when we weren't in

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 Christ he was a cast off just like we

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 were the sickness of our sinful nature

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 makes us numb to the effects of it

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 does it not the same way leprosy makes

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 people numb to the pain the infection

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 that's going on in them makes us so so

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 numb to what's happening in our lives

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 as we sin we rot rather from the

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 outside in as a leopard does from the

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 inside out right but but because

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 Jesus trades places with us on the

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 cross he brings us in back into the

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 community of faith he places himself

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 in a desolate place where he bears the

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 wrath of God for our sin to make us

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 clean then this a precious picture this

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 is the thing and I went whoa I love this

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 text I don't just have to teach about

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 Christ's authority over healing or over

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 sickness which is an awesome thing to

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 preach about but I get to preach that

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 Jesus takes our place it's exactly what

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 he does with this man he lets him come

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 in and he goes out puts himself out in

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 desolate places so that we would be

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 welcome I want you to turn one place in

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 closing to Titus chapter 3 this is one of

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 my favorite gospel presentations it's

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 short and so rich

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 Titus right before Philemon right before

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 the book of Hebrews

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 beginning in verse 3 of chapter 3 Paul's

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 here instruction to to Titus for we

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 ourselves were once foolish all of us

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 every one of us we're foolish disobedient

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 led astray slaves to various passions and

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 pleasures passing our days in malice and

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 envy and then catch this just with in mind

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 the idea of this leper hated by others and

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 hating one another hated cast out verse 4

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 but when the goodness and loving kindness of

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 God our Savior appeared the man Jesus

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 Christ is what's being referred to there

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 the goodness and loving kindness of God

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 our Savior appeared he saved us not because

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 of works done by us in righteousness but

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 according to his own mercy by the washing

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 of regeneration and renewal of the Holy

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 Spirit you see the metaphor in that you see

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 that what he did is he made this man clean

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 physically but for us he makes us clean in

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 our hearts according to his mercy his

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 compassion would be a way of saying that

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 right not because we give proper response to

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 him but because he loves us he washes us

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 regenerates us renews us by the power of

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 the Spirit he makes us clean verse 6 whom he

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 poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ

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 our Savior so that being justified by his

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 grace we might become heirs according to

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 the hope of eternal life isn't that good

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 this picture the glory of Jesus Christ as

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 he shows compassion to this man and trades

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 places with him puts himself out in the

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 desolate places so that this man could be

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 part of the community once again I hope

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 this causes you to praise God for your

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 salvation Jesus took your place Martin

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 Luther called it the great exchange took

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 on the wrath for your unrighteousness and

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 gave to us his righteousness that we might

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 stand right the the word justified there in

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 verse 7 we can stand before God and when

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 God looks at us he sees Christ right granted

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 us access perfect access even though we fail

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 still right even as the leper is

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 disobedient immediately my life looks like

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 that sometimes I open the pages of this

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 wonderful book and I'm told to do

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 something and I walk away and I do the

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 opposite of that thing even though

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 because I've placed my faith in Christ I

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 stand right before God and we must this

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 morning ask ourselves we behold Christ

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 his great compassion his sovereign will his

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 sovereign power we appreciate that we

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 have to ask has that been extended to us as

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 individuals right has that been extended has

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 Christ taken my place and I can tell you

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 if you don't know that to be sure just

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 believe that it's sure right your belief is

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 the very evidence that it has believe that

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 Christ died on your behalf he is the son

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 of God he is exalted now and in him is the

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 righteousness of God let's pray together

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 God bless you

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