WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.780 We're going to begin our worship this evening by singing to God's praise in Psalm 27 in the 00:00:04.780 --> 00:00:14.160 Sing Psalms. We're singing verse 1 to verse 5. The Lord's my Savior and my light, who will make me 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:21.320 dismayed. The Lord's the stronghold of my life. Why should I be afraid? When evildoers threaten 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:27.879 me to take my life away, my adversaries and my foes, they will stumble in that day. We're going 00:00:27.879 --> 00:00:32.439 to sing from verse 1 to 5. The tune is St. Columba, and we'll stand to sing. 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:27.859 St. Columba, and we'll make me dismayed. When evildoers threaten me to take my life away, 00:01:27.859 --> 00:01:57.840 my adversaries and my foes, they will stumble in that day. Although an army hands me in, 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:24.840 my heart will feel no dread. Though war against me should arise, I will lift up my head. 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:50.840 one thing that I need before the Lord, and this I'll see always, that I may come within 00:02:50.840 --> 00:03:02.840 in the cross-house and dwell in cross-house and dwell there all my days. 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:04.840 and in the cross-house and dwell there all my days. 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:06.840 on the beauty of the Lord, I constantly believe in his, and in his mouth may seem to know 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:08.840 the direction in the cross-house and dwell there all my days. 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:10.840 the beauty of the Lord, and in his way. 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:14.840 the beauty of the Lord, I constantly believe in his, and in his mouth may seem to know 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:16.840 the direction in his ways. 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:18.840 the beauty of the Lord, and in his dwelling is, and in his dwelling is, and in his ways. 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:20.840 the meaning is, and in his ways. 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:25.840 the beauty of the Lord, and in his dwelling is, and in his ways. 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:30.840 May seem to know 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:39.840 Direction in His ways 00:03:40.360 --> 00:03:46.080 For in His dwelling 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:49.840 He will be 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:54.840 Be safe in trouble 00:03:55.840 --> 00:03:58.840 Will face 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:04.020 Within His tent 00:04:04.020 --> 00:04:08.840 He'll shelter me 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:13.840 And on and on 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:16.840 Be raised 00:04:16.840 --> 00:04:25.780 Let's unite her 00:04:25.779 --> 00:04:26.759 Hearts in prayer 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:27.559 Let us pray 00:04:27.559 --> 00:04:33.159 Lord our God 00:04:33.159 --> 00:04:34.459 Our Father in Heaven 00:04:34.459 --> 00:04:37.019 The privilege is ours 00:04:37.019 --> 00:04:38.779 To come and draw near 00:04:38.779 --> 00:04:39.779 To You in worship 00:04:39.779 --> 00:04:41.979 The joy is ours 00:04:41.979 --> 00:04:43.779 To know that You are a God 00:04:43.779 --> 00:04:44.759 Who delights 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:46.579 In Your people coming 00:04:46.579 --> 00:04:48.679 And to draw near to You 00:04:48.679 --> 00:04:49.599 And to offer up 00:04:49.599 --> 00:04:51.419 Praise from the very bottom 00:04:51.420 --> 00:04:52.300 Of our hearts 00:04:52.300 --> 00:04:54.540 Rejoicing in the fact 00:04:54.540 --> 00:04:55.379 That You alone 00:04:55.379 --> 00:04:57.199 Are our salvation 00:04:57.199 --> 00:04:58.900 That in You alone 00:04:58.900 --> 00:05:00.360 There is salvation 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:02.000 For all who will come 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:03.520 And put their trust 00:05:03.520 --> 00:05:05.140 In the Lord Jesus Christ 00:05:05.140 --> 00:05:06.819 And we thank You 00:05:06.819 --> 00:05:07.960 That the Gospel 00:05:07.960 --> 00:05:10.040 Is an open invitation 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:11.800 That there are no restrictions 00:05:12.340 --> 00:05:13.379 Put on it 00:05:13.379 --> 00:05:15.480 But that there is a free offer 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:16.580 Through the Gospel 00:05:16.579 --> 00:05:18.180 We thank You 00:05:18.180 --> 00:05:19.439 That the Word 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:20.560 Became flesh 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:22.339 And dwelt among us 00:05:22.339 --> 00:05:24.000 And we thank You 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:25.319 That the beauty of Christ 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:26.319 Has been seen 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:27.979 And indeed is seen 00:05:27.979 --> 00:05:29.360 In this world 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:31.099 That there were many 00:05:31.099 --> 00:05:33.279 Who gazed upon the Lord 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:35.799 Who saw His works 00:05:35.799 --> 00:05:37.639 Who saw His miracles 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:38.959 Who spoke of them 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:40.939 Who marveled at them 00:05:40.939 --> 00:05:42.620 That we thank You 00:05:42.620 --> 00:05:44.259 That the greatest one 00:05:44.259 --> 00:05:44.719 Of all 00:05:44.719 --> 00:05:46.000 That was those 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:46.699 Who could say 00:05:46.699 --> 00:05:48.300 He is not here 00:05:48.300 --> 00:05:49.819 For He is risen 00:05:49.819 --> 00:05:51.399 We thank You 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:53.079 That there is such great hope 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:54.600 In those words 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:56.379 That though there were many 00:05:56.379 --> 00:05:57.159 Who looked on 00:05:57.159 --> 00:05:58.159 As our Lord 00:05:58.159 --> 00:06:00.759 Was led to the cross 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:02.779 And as He was crucified 00:06:02.779 --> 00:06:05.420 And as He gave His life up 00:06:05.420 --> 00:06:07.240 That there was much sorrow 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:08.100 In that time 00:06:08.100 --> 00:06:09.079 As there was darkness 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:10.360 Over all the earth 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:11.920 We thank You 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:13.740 For the resurrection morning 00:06:13.740 --> 00:06:15.220 We thank You 00:06:15.220 --> 00:06:15.980 For the power 00:06:15.980 --> 00:06:17.040 He has 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:18.720 Over conquering death 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:20.920 And that in Jesus Christ 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:21.280 Now 00:06:21.280 --> 00:06:23.020 We know the beauty 00:06:23.020 --> 00:06:24.020 Of salvation 00:06:24.020 --> 00:06:25.819 We know the delight 00:06:25.819 --> 00:06:26.580 To be able 00:06:26.580 --> 00:06:28.520 To come near to Him 00:06:28.520 --> 00:06:29.740 And we pray 00:06:29.740 --> 00:06:30.759 That even this evening 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:31.620 We will have that 00:06:31.620 --> 00:06:32.259 Great longing 00:06:32.259 --> 00:06:33.180 Of the psalmist 00:06:33.180 --> 00:06:34.660 That one thing 00:06:34.660 --> 00:06:35.300 We'll plead 00:06:35.300 --> 00:06:36.280 Before the Lord 00:06:36.280 --> 00:06:37.759 That we will seek it always 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:39.660 That we may come in 00:06:39.660 --> 00:06:41.320 Within God's house 00:06:41.320 --> 00:06:42.080 And dwell there 00:06:42.080 --> 00:06:42.939 All our days 00:06:42.939 --> 00:06:44.140 That we would see 00:06:44.140 --> 00:06:44.720 The beauty 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:45.980 Of the Lord 00:06:45.980 --> 00:06:47.880 And gaze constantly 00:06:47.880 --> 00:06:48.560 Upon Him 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:49.939 We thank You 00:06:49.939 --> 00:06:51.360 That that is not just seen 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:53.280 Here in this place 00:06:53.280 --> 00:06:54.840 But even as we leave here 00:06:54.840 --> 00:06:55.500 This evening 00:06:55.500 --> 00:06:57.240 Help us to fix our eyes 00:06:57.240 --> 00:06:58.480 On our Lord 00:06:58.480 --> 00:06:59.200 And Saviour 00:06:59.200 --> 00:07:00.260 Jesus Christ 00:07:00.260 --> 00:07:02.360 The one who heals 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:04.280 Our sin sick hearts 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:05.679 The one who 00:07:05.679 --> 00:07:07.039 If we come in repentance 00:07:07.039 --> 00:07:08.559 And confessing 00:07:08.559 --> 00:07:09.659 Our sins anew 00:07:09.659 --> 00:07:11.819 He is able to cleanse us 00:07:11.819 --> 00:07:12.879 From all our sin 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:14.719 So we acknowledge 00:07:14.719 --> 00:07:15.659 Lord before You 00:07:15.659 --> 00:07:16.519 And You this evening 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:17.599 Our shortcomings 00:07:17.599 --> 00:07:19.239 How we are a people 00:07:19.239 --> 00:07:20.659 Who falls short 00:07:20.659 --> 00:07:21.379 Of Your glory 00:07:21.379 --> 00:07:22.559 In so many ways 00:07:22.559 --> 00:07:25.119 You know the wickedness 00:07:25.119 --> 00:07:25.819 And the deceit 00:07:25.819 --> 00:07:26.599 Of our hearts 00:07:26.599 --> 00:07:28.419 As the word says 00:07:28.419 --> 00:07:30.459 The heart is wicked 00:07:30.459 --> 00:07:31.659 Beyond all things 00:07:31.660 --> 00:07:33.420 And we know Lord 00:07:33.420 --> 00:07:34.480 In our own experience 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:36.560 In our day to day lives 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:37.620 How easy it is 00:07:37.620 --> 00:07:38.640 For us to sin 00:07:38.640 --> 00:07:40.480 How often we say 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:41.260 The wrong thing 00:07:41.260 --> 00:07:42.120 How often we do 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:42.920 The wrong thing 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:44.940 How often the wrong thoughts 00:07:44.940 --> 00:07:46.120 Come into our minds 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:47.900 How often our inaction 00:07:47.900 --> 00:07:49.100 Is sin as well 00:07:49.100 --> 00:07:50.879 But we thank You 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:51.600 That there is yet 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:52.980 Forgiveness with You 00:07:52.980 --> 00:07:54.940 And so we come as sinners 00:07:54.940 --> 00:07:56.300 Before a holy God 00:07:56.300 --> 00:07:56.960 This evening 00:07:56.960 --> 00:07:59.000 Pleading with You Lord 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:00.400 Have mercy upon us 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:01.979 And direct us 00:08:01.979 --> 00:08:03.019 Towards You 00:08:03.019 --> 00:08:04.120 Lead us in our worship 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:05.899 Lift up our hearts 00:08:05.899 --> 00:08:06.679 And our souls 00:08:06.679 --> 00:08:07.799 To You this evening 00:08:07.799 --> 00:08:10.179 So whatever our circumstances 00:08:10.179 --> 00:08:11.599 Whatever our situation 00:08:11.599 --> 00:08:14.099 We may find that great joy 00:08:14.099 --> 00:08:15.339 Of salvation 00:08:15.339 --> 00:08:16.879 Restored to our hearts 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:18.439 We thank You 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:19.179 That You are the one 00:08:19.179 --> 00:08:19.979 Who is able 00:08:19.979 --> 00:08:22.339 That we come before You 00:08:22.339 --> 00:08:24.319 With powerless hands 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:24.859 And lips 00:08:24.859 --> 00:08:26.099 We thank You 00:08:26.099 --> 00:08:27.539 For the power of Your Spirit 00:08:27.540 --> 00:08:28.760 We thank You 00:08:28.760 --> 00:08:29.780 For the power You have 00:08:29.780 --> 00:08:31.300 To work in and through us 00:08:31.300 --> 00:08:32.700 And so we plead 00:08:32.700 --> 00:08:34.340 Lord Your presence with us 00:08:34.340 --> 00:08:36.180 That You will draw near to us 00:08:36.180 --> 00:08:37.500 As we draw near to You 00:08:37.500 --> 00:08:39.420 Bless all our homes 00:08:39.420 --> 00:08:40.159 And families 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:41.399 As we unite our hearts 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:42.259 Together here 00:08:42.259 --> 00:08:43.600 Bless the homes 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:44.440 We reach into 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:46.039 Through the online services 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:46.620 As well 00:08:46.620 --> 00:08:47.340 And all who are 00:08:47.340 --> 00:08:48.879 Unable to be with us 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:49.920 For such a variety 00:08:49.920 --> 00:08:50.639 Of reasons 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:51.940 We thank You 00:08:51.940 --> 00:08:52.940 That we have the means 00:08:52.940 --> 00:08:53.320 To 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:54.539 For the gospel 00:08:54.539 --> 00:08:55.259 To go out 00:08:55.259 --> 00:08:57.039 We pray that You will bless it 00:08:57.039 --> 00:08:58.419 To all ends of the earth 00:08:58.419 --> 00:08:59.959 Not just the gospel 00:08:59.959 --> 00:09:01.099 Preached here today 00:09:01.099 --> 00:09:02.480 But throughout 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:03.839 Our denomination 00:09:03.839 --> 00:09:05.279 Throughout our churches 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:07.159 Throughout all the churches 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:08.500 Of the world today 00:09:08.500 --> 00:09:09.360 Wherever Your people 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:09.939 Have gathered 00:09:09.939 --> 00:09:11.019 As Your church 00:09:11.019 --> 00:09:12.539 That wherever Your name 00:09:12.539 --> 00:09:13.459 Has been praised 00:09:13.459 --> 00:09:15.139 That there will be much glory 00:09:15.139 --> 00:09:16.319 Given to You 00:09:16.319 --> 00:09:18.059 We pray for the work 00:09:18.059 --> 00:09:18.799 Of salvation 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:19.980 To be seen and known 00:09:19.980 --> 00:09:21.039 Far and wide 00:09:21.039 --> 00:09:22.559 But we thank You 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:23.579 That Your gospel 00:09:23.579 --> 00:09:24.579 Is not confined 00:09:24.579 --> 00:09:25.359 In any way 00:09:25.359 --> 00:09:27.259 Not limited in any way 00:09:27.259 --> 00:09:28.619 And even as we see 00:09:28.619 --> 00:09:29.839 In our reading this evening 00:09:29.839 --> 00:09:31.459 That Your word 00:09:31.459 --> 00:09:32.319 Is powerful 00:09:32.319 --> 00:09:33.500 To convict 00:09:33.500 --> 00:09:34.219 And to convert 00:09:34.219 --> 00:09:35.979 And so we pray 00:09:35.979 --> 00:09:36.779 For that power 00:09:36.779 --> 00:09:38.000 To be with us 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:39.219 As we hear Your word 00:09:39.219 --> 00:09:40.039 And as we come 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:43.500 To study it together here 00:09:43.500 --> 00:09:45.059 We know Lord 00:09:45.059 --> 00:09:45.879 That You know 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:46.799 Our very hearts 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:48.019 And our innermost thoughts 00:09:48.019 --> 00:09:49.459 And we thank You 00:09:49.459 --> 00:09:50.519 That as we come 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:51.039 In prayer 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:52.759 We come rejoicing 00:09:52.759 --> 00:09:53.299 In the hope 00:09:53.299 --> 00:09:54.120 That You are the one 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:55.299 Who is able to answer 00:09:55.299 --> 00:09:56.740 Above and beyond 00:09:56.740 --> 00:09:57.699 All that we ask 00:09:57.699 --> 00:09:58.279 Or imagine 00:09:58.279 --> 00:09:59.679 We thank You 00:09:59.679 --> 00:10:00.399 That as we ask 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:01.179 For comfort 00:10:01.179 --> 00:10:02.659 In our prayers 00:10:02.659 --> 00:10:03.259 That You are able 00:10:03.259 --> 00:10:03.860 To comfort 00:10:03.860 --> 00:10:05.719 Beyond the comfort 00:10:05.719 --> 00:10:06.579 We even imagine 00:10:06.579 --> 00:10:08.459 That we cannot enter 00:10:08.459 --> 00:10:09.500 Into the experiences 00:10:09.500 --> 00:10:10.360 Of Your people 00:10:10.360 --> 00:10:11.059 At times 00:10:11.059 --> 00:10:12.719 In the hurt they feel 00:10:12.719 --> 00:10:13.620 In the anxieties 00:10:13.620 --> 00:10:14.299 They have 00:10:14.299 --> 00:10:15.620 In those who are 00:10:15.620 --> 00:10:17.099 Downcast in their hearts 00:10:17.099 --> 00:10:18.519 Sorrowful in their souls 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:19.980 But we thank You 00:10:19.980 --> 00:10:20.679 That You are the one 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:21.879 Who is able to uplift 00:10:21.879 --> 00:10:23.279 That You are the one 00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:24.779 Who is able to encourage 00:10:24.779 --> 00:10:26.379 And so we pray 00:10:26.379 --> 00:10:26.960 For all 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:28.240 Who we know 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:28.639 And love 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:29.539 And care for 00:10:29.539 --> 00:10:30.639 Who are going 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:31.879 Through difficult times 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:32.899 Times of sorrow 00:10:32.899 --> 00:10:34.120 Times of illness 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:35.620 Times of grief 00:10:35.620 --> 00:10:37.199 We do pray Lord 00:10:37.199 --> 00:10:38.079 For Your hand 00:10:38.079 --> 00:10:38.879 To be upon them 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:39.419 For good 00:10:39.419 --> 00:10:40.679 That they would know 00:10:40.679 --> 00:10:41.480 That You are the one 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:42.399 Who is faithful 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:44.399 And always ever present 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:45.199 That You are the one 00:10:45.199 --> 00:10:45.980 Who is near 00:10:45.980 --> 00:10:47.879 We pray Lord 00:10:47.879 --> 00:10:49.300 For our communities 00:10:49.300 --> 00:10:50.300 At this time 00:10:50.300 --> 00:10:51.420 We know that there's 00:10:51.420 --> 00:10:52.399 Been so much activity 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:53.259 Around the town 00:10:53.259 --> 00:10:54.300 These past days 00:10:54.300 --> 00:10:55.980 We do thank You 00:10:55.980 --> 00:10:56.860 For many people 00:10:56.860 --> 00:10:57.480 We've met 00:10:57.480 --> 00:10:58.480 And spoken to 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:00.080 We do pray Lord 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:00.820 That even from 00:11:00.820 --> 00:11:01.720 This morning's 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:02.860 Breakfast 00:11:02.860 --> 00:11:03.500 That there will be 00:11:03.500 --> 00:11:04.259 Many seeds 00:11:04.259 --> 00:11:04.860 That have been 00:11:04.860 --> 00:11:05.440 Sown there 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:05.759 That will be 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:06.720 Blessed by You 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:07.659 Thank You 00:11:07.659 --> 00:11:08.460 For every engagement 00:11:08.460 --> 00:11:09.259 That was made 00:11:09.259 --> 00:11:10.379 With people in the hall 00:11:10.379 --> 00:11:11.259 Thank You 00:11:11.259 --> 00:11:11.840 For those who came 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:13.100 Into the worship service 00:11:13.100 --> 00:11:13.920 And maybe even here 00:11:13.920 --> 00:11:14.940 This evening too 00:11:14.940 --> 00:11:16.300 Those who are visiting 00:11:16.300 --> 00:11:16.840 With us 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:18.520 We pray Your blessing 00:11:18.520 --> 00:11:19.660 On each and every one 00:11:19.660 --> 00:11:21.620 And we do thank You Lord 00:11:21.620 --> 00:11:22.660 That You are a God 00:11:22.660 --> 00:11:23.960 Who is able to unite us 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:24.660 As a people 00:11:24.660 --> 00:11:26.260 Through praise 00:11:26.260 --> 00:11:26.940 And worship 00:11:26.940 --> 00:11:28.420 We thank You 00:11:28.420 --> 00:11:29.660 For the families 00:11:29.660 --> 00:11:30.400 Who are present 00:11:30.400 --> 00:11:30.980 This morning 00:11:30.980 --> 00:11:31.920 For the baptisms 00:11:31.920 --> 00:11:32.460 We thank You 00:11:32.460 --> 00:11:33.120 For the children 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:33.840 Who are baptized 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:35.500 We continue to pray 00:11:35.500 --> 00:11:36.560 Your blessing on them 00:11:36.560 --> 00:11:37.740 We thank You 00:11:37.740 --> 00:11:38.700 For that great covenant 00:11:38.700 --> 00:11:40.180 Promise that there is 00:11:40.180 --> 00:11:41.200 And we pray 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:41.940 That You will draw 00:11:41.940 --> 00:11:43.060 These children 00:11:43.060 --> 00:11:44.160 And all our children 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:46.480 To know the covenant 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:48.240 Promise of Christ 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:50.459 Fulfilled in Him 00:11:50.459 --> 00:11:52.059 That they through faith 00:11:52.059 --> 00:11:53.620 Might come to confess Him 00:11:53.620 --> 00:11:55.539 As their Lord and Saviour 00:11:55.539 --> 00:11:57.559 Look after all our young people 00:11:57.559 --> 00:11:58.959 During these holiday times 00:11:58.959 --> 00:12:00.719 Remember especially those 00:12:00.719 --> 00:12:02.100 Who are at camps just now 00:12:02.100 --> 00:12:03.439 We continue to pray 00:12:03.439 --> 00:12:04.620 For the camps 00:12:04.620 --> 00:12:05.600 That continue to meet 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:06.699 In this week 00:12:06.699 --> 00:12:07.459 And the week ahead 00:12:07.459 --> 00:12:08.279 The weeks ahead 00:12:08.279 --> 00:12:09.839 We ask Your safety 00:12:09.839 --> 00:12:10.679 And Your protection 00:12:10.679 --> 00:12:11.399 And Your blessing 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:12.459 Over each and every one 00:12:12.459 --> 00:12:13.179 Of the leaders 00:12:13.179 --> 00:12:14.799 And all the activities 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:15.759 They are involved in 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:16.539 And the children 00:12:16.539 --> 00:12:17.639 Lord may they hear 00:12:17.639 --> 00:12:19.879 The gospel good news 00:12:19.879 --> 00:12:20.879 And may they be blessed 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:21.439 By it 00:12:21.439 --> 00:12:23.299 We do pray for 00:12:23.299 --> 00:12:25.139 The ongoing work 00:12:25.139 --> 00:12:26.259 Of the church 00:12:26.259 --> 00:12:27.360 Throughout our nation 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:28.699 And the nations of the world 00:12:28.699 --> 00:12:30.319 How we need Your light 00:12:30.319 --> 00:12:31.100 To go forth 00:12:31.100 --> 00:12:32.279 And with power 00:12:32.279 --> 00:12:32.879 Into our 00:12:32.879 --> 00:12:34.659 Into every nation 00:12:34.659 --> 00:12:35.379 Of the world 00:12:35.379 --> 00:12:37.019 To bless our leaders 00:12:37.019 --> 00:12:38.059 To bless those 00:12:38.059 --> 00:12:39.199 Who rule over us 00:12:39.199 --> 00:12:40.740 To bless those 00:12:40.740 --> 00:12:41.779 Who have such 00:12:41.779 --> 00:12:44.360 Desires for evil 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:45.219 In this world 00:12:45.219 --> 00:12:46.539 When we think of war 00:12:46.539 --> 00:12:48.199 And terrorist activities 00:12:48.199 --> 00:12:49.379 And greed 00:12:49.379 --> 00:12:50.459 And all of the things 00:12:50.459 --> 00:12:52.100 That direct our hearts 00:12:52.100 --> 00:12:52.679 So often 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:53.959 We pray for You 00:12:53.959 --> 00:12:55.079 To melt the hardest 00:12:55.079 --> 00:12:55.779 Of hearts 00:12:55.779 --> 00:12:57.399 To bring grace 00:12:57.399 --> 00:12:58.860 And to bring mercy 00:12:58.860 --> 00:13:00.939 And to bring repentance 00:13:00.939 --> 00:13:02.600 And to bring glory 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:03.459 To Your name 00:13:03.460 --> 00:13:05.360 So we continue to pray 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:06.780 For the needs of our world 00:13:06.780 --> 00:13:07.980 For Your protection 00:13:07.980 --> 00:13:09.340 Over us as a people 00:13:09.340 --> 00:13:10.759 For Your blessing 00:13:10.759 --> 00:13:11.680 To be upon us 00:13:11.680 --> 00:13:12.960 For Your reviving power 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:13.759 Of Your spirit 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:15.019 To be with us 00:13:15.019 --> 00:13:16.360 Even in this time together 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:17.639 May You continue 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:19.139 To bless us this day 00:13:19.139 --> 00:13:20.180 And look after us 00:13:20.180 --> 00:13:21.540 And go before us 00:13:21.540 --> 00:13:22.620 In the days ahead 00:13:22.620 --> 00:13:24.240 Direct our steps 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:25.100 And our paths 00:13:25.100 --> 00:13:26.860 Encourage our hearts 00:13:26.860 --> 00:13:28.160 And give us lips 00:13:28.160 --> 00:13:29.400 That will always sing 00:13:29.400 --> 00:13:30.200 Your praise 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:31.840 And witness for You 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:33.060 So Lord continue 00:13:33.059 --> 00:13:33.679 With us now 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:34.459 In our praise 00:13:34.459 --> 00:13:35.739 As we continue 00:13:35.739 --> 00:13:36.679 To worship You 00:13:36.679 --> 00:13:39.259 Forgive us all our sins 00:13:39.259 --> 00:13:40.779 And all we ask 00:13:40.779 --> 00:13:41.799 We ask the forgiveness 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:42.719 Of all our sin 00:13:42.719 --> 00:13:43.739 In Jesus name 00:13:43.739 --> 00:13:44.719 Amen 00:13:44.719 --> 00:13:48.799 We'll again sing 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:49.779 To God's praise 00:13:49.779 --> 00:13:51.079 In Psalm 125 00:13:51.079 --> 00:13:53.159 In the Scottish Psalter 00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:53.939 You'll find this 00:13:53.939 --> 00:13:55.159 On page 429 00:13:55.159 --> 00:13:59.100 Psalm 125 00:13:59.100 --> 00:13:59.120 Psalm 125 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:03.559 Page 419 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:07.240 We'll sing the whole 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:08.399 Of this Psalm together 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:09.120 Then the Lord 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:10.259 That firmly trust 00:14:10.259 --> 00:14:12.059 Shall be like Sion Hill 00:14:12.059 --> 00:14:13.699 Which at no time 00:14:13.699 --> 00:14:14.719 Can be removed 00:14:14.719 --> 00:14:16.839 But standeth ever still 00:14:16.839 --> 00:14:17.419 We'll sing 00:14:17.419 --> 00:14:18.759 The whole of this Psalm 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:20.039 The tune is St. Andrew 00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:21.439 And we'll stand 00:14:21.439 --> 00:14:22.319 To sing 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:22.440 From the Church 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:23.440 Amen. 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:54.440 Amen. 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:24.440 Amen. 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:54.440 Amen. 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:24.440 Amen. 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:54.440 Amen. 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:26.440 Okay. 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:39.559 We turn together to read in God's Word, a reading in the Old Testament and in the book of 2 Kings. 00:17:42.340 --> 00:17:44.600 2 Kings chapter 5. 00:17:46.740 --> 00:17:50.320 We're reading from the beginning of the chapter down to the middle of verse 19. 00:17:50.319 --> 00:17:57.939 2 Kings chapter 5, reading from the beginning of that chapter. 00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:50.299 1 Kings chapter 5, reading from the beginning of that chapter. 00:18:50.319 --> 00:19:20.299 1 Kings chapter 5, reading from the beginning of that chapter. 00:19:20.319 --> 00:19:30.319 1 Kings chapter 5, reading from the beginning of that chapter. 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:37.539 he is seeking a quarrel with me. But when Elisha, the man of God, heard that the king of Israel had 00:19:37.539 --> 00:19:45.159 torn his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, 00:19:45.619 --> 00:19:51.619 that he may know that there is a prophet in Israel. So Naaman came with his horses and chariots 00:19:51.619 --> 00:19:57.599 and stood at the door of Elisha's house. And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, 00:19:57.599 --> 00:20:05.539 Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean. 00:20:06.679 --> 00:20:13.579 But Naaman was angry and went away, saying, Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me and 00:20:13.579 --> 00:20:20.279 stand and call upon the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper. 00:20:20.939 --> 00:20:26.879 Are not Aban and Farpar, the rivers of Damascus, Beth and all the waters of Israel? 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:35.459 Could I not wash in them and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. But their servants came 00:20:35.459 --> 00:20:43.439 near and said to him, My father, it is a great word the prophet has spoken to you. Will you not do it? 00:20:44.179 --> 00:20:52.459 As he actually said to you, Wash and be clean. So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the 00:20:52.460 --> 00:20:59.920 Jordan according to the word of the man of God. And his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little 00:20:59.920 --> 00:21:07.500 child, and he was clean. Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came 00:21:07.500 --> 00:21:15.779 and stood before him. And he said, Behold, I know there is no God in all the earth but in Israel, 00:21:15.779 --> 00:21:23.779 so accept now a present from your servant. But he said, As the Lord lives before whom I stand, 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:33.000 I will receive none. And he urged him to take it, but he refused. Then Naaman said, If not, please, 00:21:33.539 --> 00:21:39.460 let it be given to your servant two mule loads of earth. For from now on, on your servant, 00:21:39.460 --> 00:21:47.680 on your servant will not offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any God but the Lord. In this matter, 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:53.559 may the Lord pardon your servant. When my master goes into the house of Rimon to worship there, 00:21:54.140 --> 00:22:01.059 leaning on my arm, and I bow myself in the house of Rimon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimon, 00:22:01.400 --> 00:22:09.299 the Lord pardon your servant in this matter. He said to him, Go in peace. 00:22:09.460 --> 00:22:17.539 And so on. And may God bless that reading from his word to our souls. We're going to sing again 00:22:17.539 --> 00:22:24.940 before we turn back to this passage in Psalm 31. We're singing the Sing Psalms version. Psalm 31 on 00:22:24.940 --> 00:22:33.360 page 36 of the Psalm books. I'm going to sing from verse 1 to verse 7. In you I have taken refuge, 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:41.439 Lord. You are my shelter in distress, so let me never be ashamed, but save me in your righteousness. 00:22:42.479 --> 00:22:47.939 We're going to sing verse 1 to verse 7, and the tune is Rockingham, and we'll stand to sing. 00:22:47.940 --> 00:23:17.920 in you I have taken refuge, Lord. You are my shelter in distress. Oh, let me never be ashamed, but save me in your righteousness. 00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:47.900 Lord, turn you here to hear my cry. How quickly to be dear to hear my cry. How quickly to be dear to hear my cry. 00:23:47.900 --> 00:24:10.900 Lord, deliver me, and bring my love and firm defense, my stronghold and security. 00:24:10.900 --> 00:24:33.900 You are my fortress and my love. You are my fortress and my love. 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00:26:17.220 Amen. 00:26:23.160 --> 00:26:27.720 Well, if we can turn back to our reading in 2 Kings 5. 00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:30.860 We want to consider these verses we've read. 00:26:31.339 --> 00:26:33.860 Together we read of this man called Naaman. 00:26:35.059 --> 00:26:40.079 Naaman, who was, as we read in verse 1, commander of the army of the king of Syria. 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:48.500 He was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. 00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:53.960 He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper. 00:26:54.619 --> 00:26:55.679 And so it goes on. 00:26:58.819 --> 00:27:04.139 There are many things that we maybe think are hidden from others in this life. 00:27:04.139 --> 00:27:09.919 Many things that we probably know in our own hearts that we're glad that people don't know about us. 00:27:10.939 --> 00:27:15.579 But God's word reminds us that there is nothing hidden from the Lord. 00:27:16.399 --> 00:27:18.699 You know, in the psalm we just sang, Psalm 31. 00:27:19.740 --> 00:27:22.039 In verse 7 we read these words. 00:27:22.139 --> 00:27:24.359 For my affliction you have seen. 00:27:24.939 --> 00:27:28.419 To you my soul's distress is known. 00:27:29.559 --> 00:27:35.879 And in the midst of Naaman's life, in the midst of everything that was good in his life, as he would see it himself, 00:27:35.880 --> 00:27:40.100 there was something that was a great affliction to him. 00:27:40.980 --> 00:27:50.620 But almost unbeknown to him, the Lord had a great plan and a greater plan for him than anything that he could have planned in his own heart. 00:27:51.460 --> 00:27:55.920 And that's what we want to look at this evening as we come to look at this passage. 00:27:55.920 --> 00:28:03.600 One of the many things that people will look forward to on a Sunday, and perhaps you've already enjoyed this afternoon, 00:28:03.779 --> 00:28:05.960 is to sit down to a nice meal. 00:28:06.820 --> 00:28:10.740 To sit down and enjoy maybe a traditional Sunday roast. 00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:14.860 Gathered around the table, maybe with family and friends. 00:28:15.600 --> 00:28:18.660 Sometimes it's hard to beat, just a nice roast and all the trimmings. 00:28:18.660 --> 00:28:22.400 But with it comes another issue. 00:28:23.340 --> 00:28:23.860 The dishes. 00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:30.360 There may be a rush to come and sit at the table when everyone's called, that the food is ready. 00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:34.860 But then once all the food is gone, once all the food has been devoured, 00:28:35.400 --> 00:28:37.160 there'll be a different kind of rush. 00:28:37.580 --> 00:28:41.340 And that's the rush away from having to do the dishes. 00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:43.960 We'll leave that for someone else to do. 00:28:44.900 --> 00:28:48.140 Because to make a roast involves a lot of work. 00:28:48.660 --> 00:28:51.600 The roasting dish will be hard to clean. 00:28:52.100 --> 00:28:57.180 The pan of vegetables that's dried and burnt to the bottom will be impossible to clean. 00:28:57.300 --> 00:29:03.380 The Yorkshire dish, the Yorkshire pudding dish, it just will not clean no matter how much you scrub at it. 00:29:03.460 --> 00:29:04.620 So there's a lot of work. 00:29:05.160 --> 00:29:07.480 And that's when people will disappear. 00:29:08.340 --> 00:29:12.900 And that's why there are billions spent on trying to find the magic cleaning agent 00:29:12.900 --> 00:29:17.000 or the magic machine that will do the work for you. 00:29:17.000 --> 00:29:23.819 But there are some stains that are just impossible and so hard to remove. 00:29:25.819 --> 00:29:32.720 Well, this evening as we look at Naaman, we're looking at a man who in the midst of all his power and all his wealth, 00:29:33.539 --> 00:29:36.740 a man who probably never had to clean a dish in his life. 00:29:36.740 --> 00:29:40.620 We look at him, but he's got a different problem. 00:29:41.339 --> 00:29:44.380 A different issue that's needing cleaning. 00:29:45.259 --> 00:29:52.420 But no matter how much he has and no matter how much he can try to deal with this issue himself, 00:29:52.680 --> 00:29:53.940 it is impossible. 00:29:54.980 --> 00:29:59.779 It's a stain that's impossible to remove by himself. 00:29:59.779 --> 00:30:05.680 As we've read there in verse 1, you see so many things about this man. 00:30:07.099 --> 00:30:12.379 So many things that would have held him in great esteem among his people. 00:30:13.019 --> 00:30:19.240 He was a man of great power, a commander of the army, second only to the king of Syria. 00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:28.299 And yet he finds himself having to humble himself and look for help from someone he would never want to go near 00:30:28.299 --> 00:30:30.319 by his own choice. 00:30:30.700 --> 00:30:33.440 To go to the people of Israel. 00:30:34.019 --> 00:30:35.940 To go to the prophet of God. 00:30:36.200 --> 00:30:39.480 To go to Elisha in order to be healed. 00:30:39.480 --> 00:30:48.620 And yet it's into this amazing situation that we see God working things for his good. 00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:55.420 From the most unexpected of sources comes a word of hope to him. 00:30:55.960 --> 00:30:58.860 From a little girl who had been taken captive. 00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:03.240 Who has a great burden for her Lord as she calls him. 00:31:03.299 --> 00:31:04.019 For her master. 00:31:04.019 --> 00:31:08.740 And she speaks to his wife these wonderful words. 00:31:08.879 --> 00:31:11.619 If only he would look to the Lord. 00:31:12.180 --> 00:31:16.240 If he would only listen to this prophet of God. 00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:24.420 And it's in this encounter that the word of God takes hold of this man who was a stranger to the God of Israel. 00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:27.200 A stranger to the Lord and his grace. 00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:33.099 And at the center, at the heart of it, is what it really means to be clean. 00:31:34.019 --> 00:31:38.000 To have that stain of sin washed away. 00:31:38.639 --> 00:31:41.460 A stain that we can never remove ourselves. 00:31:42.139 --> 00:31:43.680 But that only the Lord can. 00:31:44.460 --> 00:31:46.420 It's a reminder to us of ourselves. 00:31:46.920 --> 00:31:51.240 And how we are a people who are unclean in so many ways. 00:31:51.900 --> 00:31:55.440 But how the Lord is able to work from the inside out. 00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:56.799 To make us clean. 00:31:56.920 --> 00:31:59.639 In other words, to make us right with God. 00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:03.480 But we may see ourselves in Naaman. 00:32:03.620 --> 00:32:05.540 Or we have to see ourselves in Naaman. 00:32:05.800 --> 00:32:08.440 In different ways to know this cleaning. 00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:11.620 In order for our hearts to be made right with God. 00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:13.500 Our hearts need to be pricked. 00:32:13.720 --> 00:32:15.300 Just as Naaman's was. 00:32:16.220 --> 00:32:19.140 And there's three things I want us to see about Naaman this evening. 00:32:19.520 --> 00:32:21.200 That remind us of ourselves. 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:23.420 The first thing is this. 00:32:23.500 --> 00:32:25.759 That Naaman was a sick man. 00:32:25.759 --> 00:32:29.879 The second thing is he was a stubborn man. 00:32:31.200 --> 00:32:32.420 The third thing. 00:32:32.980 --> 00:32:35.759 And the most amazing thing is he was a saved man. 00:32:36.740 --> 00:32:40.480 So the first thing we see is Naaman is a sick man. 00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:45.099 Naaman and who he was. 00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:46.960 We are introduced there in verse 1. 00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:48.920 It tells us all about him. 00:32:49.619 --> 00:32:50.779 But what does it tell us? 00:32:51.119 --> 00:32:54.059 What does it say in that verse that stands out to you? 00:32:54.059 --> 00:32:55.839 He was a commander. 00:32:56.579 --> 00:32:59.980 Commander of the army of the king of Syria. 00:33:00.740 --> 00:33:06.079 Which at this time was one of the most powerful kingdoms in the whole world. 00:33:06.700 --> 00:33:11.099 It's hard for us to imagine just the power that this man had. 00:33:11.240 --> 00:33:14.419 The hold that he had over his own armies. 00:33:14.700 --> 00:33:16.619 And over all the nations around him. 00:33:16.679 --> 00:33:18.919 People lived in fear of him. 00:33:19.559 --> 00:33:21.940 He was a commander in the midst of this. 00:33:21.940 --> 00:33:26.700 It says too that he was a great man with his master. 00:33:27.640 --> 00:33:30.900 He was trusted by the king of Syria. 00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:36.559 He gave him all authority and all power to do as he saw right in his eyes. 00:33:36.640 --> 00:33:38.759 To go about all his conquests. 00:33:39.259 --> 00:33:43.000 He was trusted by the king of Syria. 00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:49.420 It also says that he was a mighty man of valor. 00:33:49.420 --> 00:33:51.800 He was a brave man. 00:33:51.920 --> 00:33:54.039 He had conquered many nations. 00:33:54.180 --> 00:33:54.920 Many people. 00:33:55.279 --> 00:33:58.519 He'd won many battles over his years. 00:33:58.940 --> 00:34:04.080 You can almost see him as being untouchable in so many different ways. 00:34:05.500 --> 00:34:11.619 And these are the kinds of things that in our day and age are so appealing to people now as well. 00:34:11.619 --> 00:34:21.199 They want this sense of being untouchable as we were hearing this morning about everybody has their own individual ideas. 00:34:22.139 --> 00:34:24.259 You cannot tell me what to do. 00:34:24.319 --> 00:34:26.519 I am going to do what I want. 00:34:27.679 --> 00:34:31.099 And these are the things that people see as being important. 00:34:31.099 --> 00:34:36.139 People want power and wealth and authority are strived for. 00:34:36.579 --> 00:34:40.739 And as we've seen over the last few years, they're not easily given up. 00:34:41.699 --> 00:34:44.739 Nobody wants to let go of this power. 00:34:45.279 --> 00:34:48.259 Nobody wants to let go of this authority if they have it. 00:34:49.400 --> 00:34:52.239 People want this sense of power. 00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:58.539 But yet there is something about Naaman in this verse that it tells us to. 00:34:58.699 --> 00:35:00.000 Something telling. 00:35:01.039 --> 00:35:04.739 You see, at the end of verse 1, there is a but. 00:35:06.039 --> 00:35:07.719 He may have been all these great things. 00:35:07.799 --> 00:35:08.479 A commander. 00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:10.000 A trusted man. 00:35:10.059 --> 00:35:10.979 A man of valor. 00:35:11.579 --> 00:35:12.739 A mighty man of valor. 00:35:13.439 --> 00:35:14.939 Yet it says at the end of the verse, 00:35:15.619 --> 00:35:18.219 But he was a leper. 00:35:18.219 --> 00:35:22.879 He was a sick man. 00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:25.480 No matter how much power. 00:35:26.219 --> 00:35:28.459 No matter how much money or authority he had. 00:35:29.039 --> 00:35:31.500 This was something that was incurable. 00:35:32.659 --> 00:35:35.139 He was a sick man. 00:35:37.679 --> 00:35:43.500 Now we've experienced much sickness in different ways over these last few years. 00:35:43.500 --> 00:35:49.059 Our world was living in a way where it seemed people were untouchable. 00:35:50.099 --> 00:35:51.340 Nothing could get to them. 00:35:52.420 --> 00:36:01.340 And yet during the pandemic, it seemed at some points that each day it was emphasized just how contagious the virus was. 00:36:02.300 --> 00:36:06.880 And it was often noted that even so-and-so has got it. 00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:19.500 And it's almost like people were astonished, surprised, that people in positions such as the rich and the famous sports people, the politicians, that this virus could touch them. 00:36:21.559 --> 00:36:25.519 And yet no one was immune to it. 00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:31.380 No matter the power that Naaman had. 00:36:32.179 --> 00:36:35.019 No matter the wealth that Naaman had. 00:36:35.500 --> 00:36:36.420 He was sick. 00:36:37.739 --> 00:36:40.659 And no matter the power that anyone has today. 00:36:40.659 --> 00:36:43.920 Or the status that anyone has today. 00:36:44.460 --> 00:36:46.980 People are not immune to sickness. 00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:53.719 But this is telling us more than just a physical illness. 00:36:53.719 --> 00:36:57.799 This is reminding us of a greater problem. 00:36:58.579 --> 00:37:05.879 A problem that's even more contagious than any virus of this world that comes our way in this world. 00:37:06.500 --> 00:37:09.000 And it's the problem of sin. 00:37:10.459 --> 00:37:14.279 Sin is the greatest sickness that we experience. 00:37:15.139 --> 00:37:17.239 And we all have it. 00:37:17.239 --> 00:37:21.779 You see, no matter how you describe your life today. 00:37:22.299 --> 00:37:26.339 No matter how well you feel today. 00:37:26.899 --> 00:37:31.279 Or no matter how weak and vulnerable you maybe feel today. 00:37:32.379 --> 00:37:35.899 This is something we cannot get away from. 00:37:36.739 --> 00:37:39.579 This is a problem we all have. 00:37:40.159 --> 00:37:43.699 We all have this but in our life. 00:37:43.699 --> 00:37:46.679 Not I am a leper. 00:37:47.819 --> 00:37:49.099 But I am a sinner. 00:37:50.919 --> 00:37:52.839 I am a sinner. 00:37:54.799 --> 00:37:57.199 Naaman was a sick man. 00:37:58.619 --> 00:38:01.359 You and I are sick people. 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:04.799 Because the word of God tells us so. 00:38:05.699 --> 00:38:08.839 You read in the book of Romans chapter 3 verse 23. 00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:14.120 We all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:18.400 No matter how much we try and deny it. 00:38:18.940 --> 00:38:22.940 No matter how much we try and push that away from us. 00:38:23.620 --> 00:38:28.120 No matter how much the world will tell us that we cannot say you are a sinner. 00:38:28.119 --> 00:38:33.019 The word of God tells us that we are sick. 00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:36.739 That we are all sinners. 00:38:38.440 --> 00:38:41.000 Naaman was a mighty man. 00:38:41.440 --> 00:38:42.859 A powerful man. 00:38:43.619 --> 00:38:45.159 But he was a sick man. 00:38:46.519 --> 00:38:48.480 But in the midst of this. 00:38:49.279 --> 00:38:51.759 There is something greater going on. 00:38:52.859 --> 00:38:55.059 God is at work. 00:38:55.059 --> 00:38:59.340 There is another but in this verse. 00:39:00.539 --> 00:39:01.320 A verse. 00:39:01.659 --> 00:39:03.179 A but that we maybe don't see. 00:39:03.500 --> 00:39:05.960 Immediately that doesn't stand out as much as. 00:39:06.199 --> 00:39:07.579 But he was a leper. 00:39:08.940 --> 00:39:11.059 You see in this opening verse. 00:39:11.279 --> 00:39:12.639 It is not all about Naaman. 00:39:13.599 --> 00:39:14.940 It is not telling us. 00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:16.940 How great Naaman was. 00:39:17.699 --> 00:39:18.900 It is telling us. 00:39:19.219 --> 00:39:20.480 How great God is. 00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:23.340 You read through verse 1 there. 00:39:23.340 --> 00:39:25.700 And there is all these things about Naaman. 00:39:26.019 --> 00:39:27.620 Naaman was a commander of the army. 00:39:28.140 --> 00:39:29.800 He was a great man with his master. 00:39:29.940 --> 00:39:30.740 High in favor. 00:39:31.700 --> 00:39:33.120 But in the middle of the verse it says. 00:39:33.480 --> 00:39:34.840 Another but if you like. 00:39:35.640 --> 00:39:36.460 But because. 00:39:37.100 --> 00:39:37.900 By him. 00:39:38.420 --> 00:39:39.260 The Lord. 00:39:39.820 --> 00:39:41.300 Had given victory to Syria. 00:39:42.660 --> 00:39:45.240 It wasn't through Naaman's power. 00:39:46.180 --> 00:39:48.400 It wasn't through Naaman's. 00:39:48.780 --> 00:39:49.820 Military tactics. 00:39:50.039 --> 00:39:50.539 Or skills. 00:39:50.539 --> 00:39:53.059 It was the Lord. 00:39:53.059 --> 00:39:54.639 That had given victory. 00:39:55.340 --> 00:39:56.699 It was the Lord. 00:39:56.980 --> 00:39:57.960 Who had won. 00:39:59.840 --> 00:40:00.619 God. 00:40:00.820 --> 00:40:02.179 Was in the midst. 00:40:02.440 --> 00:40:03.500 Of everything here. 00:40:04.340 --> 00:40:06.579 And it's a reminder to us as well. 00:40:06.699 --> 00:40:07.139 For all. 00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:09.119 Our world is sin sick. 00:40:10.099 --> 00:40:11.239 That God. 00:40:11.779 --> 00:40:13.119 Is working in this world. 00:40:14.059 --> 00:40:15.380 God is working. 00:40:15.579 --> 00:40:16.739 His purposes. 00:40:17.519 --> 00:40:19.059 Through all his works of providence. 00:40:19.059 --> 00:40:19.699 Providence. 00:40:20.179 --> 00:40:21.659 God is still working. 00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:22.940 Providence. 00:40:23.039 --> 00:40:24.940 That doesn't seem to make sense to us. 00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:25.699 At times. 00:40:26.219 --> 00:40:27.679 Who could understand. 00:40:28.119 --> 00:40:30.320 Why this mighty nation of Syria. 00:40:30.539 --> 00:40:31.299 Naaman's day. 00:40:31.659 --> 00:40:32.779 Was all conquering. 00:40:32.860 --> 00:40:33.659 And all powerful. 00:40:33.659 --> 00:40:35.920 When they did not trust God. 00:40:37.500 --> 00:40:38.840 Yet in the midst of it. 00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:40.860 God was teaching his people lessons. 00:40:41.619 --> 00:40:43.139 And God was working. 00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:45.119 Even in the heart of Naaman. 00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:46.739 An enemy of God. 00:40:46.739 --> 00:40:48.459 It was the Lord. 00:40:48.459 --> 00:40:49.919 Who had given. 00:40:50.619 --> 00:40:51.059 Victory. 00:40:52.679 --> 00:40:54.359 In all the victories. 00:40:54.739 --> 00:40:55.679 That Naaman had. 00:40:56.039 --> 00:40:57.339 It was the Lord. 00:40:58.419 --> 00:40:59.019 Naaman. 00:40:59.339 --> 00:41:00.619 Could do nothing. 00:41:00.979 --> 00:41:02.139 Without the Lord. 00:41:02.479 --> 00:41:03.059 Willing it. 00:41:04.059 --> 00:41:04.839 And the same. 00:41:05.179 --> 00:41:06.819 Is true for ourselves. 00:41:07.059 --> 00:41:07.279 Too. 00:41:08.279 --> 00:41:09.779 We are lost. 00:41:10.299 --> 00:41:11.539 Apart from the Lord. 00:41:11.539 --> 00:41:11.619 God. 00:41:12.659 --> 00:41:14.099 But we should be thankful. 00:41:14.699 --> 00:41:16.099 That the Lord is speaking. 00:41:16.940 --> 00:41:18.340 That the Lord is working. 00:41:19.179 --> 00:41:20.480 That the Lord looks down. 00:41:20.599 --> 00:41:22.019 On this sin sick world. 00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:23.639 And what does he want for his people. 00:41:24.599 --> 00:41:25.800 That they might be saved. 00:41:26.800 --> 00:41:27.940 That they might come. 00:41:28.460 --> 00:41:28.940 To him. 00:41:29.579 --> 00:41:30.320 And be saved. 00:41:31.219 --> 00:41:33.119 Because there is something else here. 00:41:33.159 --> 00:41:34.320 In these opening verses. 00:41:34.480 --> 00:41:35.440 That reminds us. 00:41:35.800 --> 00:41:37.719 Of God's great works. 00:41:37.719 --> 00:41:39.799 In verse 2. 00:41:39.939 --> 00:41:40.480 It says. 00:41:41.099 --> 00:41:41.859 Now the Syrians. 00:41:41.980 --> 00:41:43.039 On one of their raids. 00:41:43.159 --> 00:41:43.959 Had carried off. 00:41:44.079 --> 00:41:44.899 A little girl. 00:41:45.219 --> 00:41:46.619 From the land of Israel. 00:41:47.159 --> 00:41:47.980 And she worked. 00:41:48.059 --> 00:41:48.659 In the service. 00:41:48.659 --> 00:41:49.639 Of Naaman's wife. 00:41:50.439 --> 00:41:51.079 She said. 00:41:51.199 --> 00:41:51.959 To her mistress. 00:41:52.159 --> 00:41:52.379 Would. 00:41:52.859 --> 00:41:53.819 That my Lord. 00:41:53.939 --> 00:41:54.899 Were with the prophet. 00:41:55.399 --> 00:41:56.619 Who is in Samaria. 00:41:58.000 --> 00:41:58.859 It's such. 00:41:59.500 --> 00:42:01.079 A minute detail. 00:42:01.199 --> 00:42:02.379 In so many ways. 00:42:03.099 --> 00:42:03.539 Naaman. 00:42:03.759 --> 00:42:05.359 Would have had no thought. 00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:06.480 For this little girl. 00:42:06.519 --> 00:42:07.800 As she was taken captive. 00:42:08.200 --> 00:42:09.519 Probably along with hundreds. 00:42:09.620 --> 00:42:11.240 Or even thousands of others. 00:42:12.440 --> 00:42:14.460 But this little girl. 00:42:15.079 --> 00:42:17.120 Was about to change his life. 00:42:17.940 --> 00:42:19.059 This little girl. 00:42:19.380 --> 00:42:20.620 In God's providence. 00:42:20.620 --> 00:42:21.820 Was brought to work. 00:42:21.820 --> 00:42:23.260 In his household. 00:42:24.079 --> 00:42:24.880 To have a word. 00:42:25.019 --> 00:42:25.620 To speak. 00:42:26.099 --> 00:42:27.320 To Naaman's wife. 00:42:28.059 --> 00:42:28.340 Would. 00:42:28.840 --> 00:42:29.840 That my Lord. 00:42:30.220 --> 00:42:31.120 Were with the prophet. 00:42:31.280 --> 00:42:32.280 Who is in Samaria. 00:42:33.460 --> 00:42:34.559 Watching the courage. 00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:36.179 Of that little girl. 00:42:36.179 --> 00:42:36.900 To speak. 00:42:37.699 --> 00:42:39.000 To say these words. 00:42:39.320 --> 00:42:40.420 To her masters. 00:42:40.599 --> 00:42:41.539 In their own home. 00:42:42.420 --> 00:42:44.059 To stand up before them. 00:42:44.420 --> 00:42:45.460 And direct them. 00:42:45.739 --> 00:42:46.480 To their enemy. 00:42:47.619 --> 00:42:48.279 And say. 00:42:48.639 --> 00:42:50.159 You can get help there. 00:42:50.840 --> 00:42:51.739 From this man. 00:42:52.059 --> 00:42:52.820 Of God. 00:42:53.820 --> 00:42:55.159 From this prophet. 00:42:55.799 --> 00:42:56.779 Of God. 00:42:58.400 --> 00:42:59.619 The courage. 00:43:00.219 --> 00:43:01.400 Of this little girl. 00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:02.940 And then. 00:43:02.940 --> 00:43:03.960 Isn't it wonderful. 00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:05.180 How God. 00:43:05.260 --> 00:43:06.039 Works together. 00:43:06.160 --> 00:43:06.940 All things. 00:43:07.980 --> 00:43:08.559 How God. 00:43:08.639 --> 00:43:09.119 In the midst. 00:43:09.200 --> 00:43:10.059 Of this mighty. 00:43:10.619 --> 00:43:11.539 Man of valor. 00:43:11.740 --> 00:43:12.260 Life. 00:43:13.260 --> 00:43:13.780 Uses. 00:43:13.980 --> 00:43:14.500 A little. 00:43:14.740 --> 00:43:15.700 Helpless girl. 00:43:16.539 --> 00:43:17.480 To direct him. 00:43:17.740 --> 00:43:18.639 To the place. 00:43:19.240 --> 00:43:19.900 Of healing. 00:43:20.900 --> 00:43:21.840 What we see. 00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:22.920 In this little girl. 00:43:23.440 --> 00:43:24.420 Is what we should see. 00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:25.440 In every Christian. 00:43:26.300 --> 00:43:26.820 Courage. 00:43:28.079 --> 00:43:28.740 Courage. 00:43:28.739 --> 00:43:29.639 To speak. 00:43:30.219 --> 00:43:31.559 And to point people. 00:43:32.219 --> 00:43:33.659 To the prophet of God. 00:43:34.259 --> 00:43:35.479 To the son of God. 00:43:35.979 --> 00:43:37.239 To Jesus Christ. 00:43:38.159 --> 00:43:38.919 And to say. 00:43:39.359 --> 00:43:40.919 To the sin sick world. 00:43:41.479 --> 00:43:42.959 I know your problem. 00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:45.000 Because I have it too. 00:43:45.799 --> 00:43:46.619 I am a sinner. 00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:47.959 In my heart. 00:43:48.659 --> 00:43:49.579 Yet I know. 00:43:50.079 --> 00:43:50.899 Where there is hell. 00:43:51.859 --> 00:43:52.239 Would. 00:43:52.659 --> 00:43:53.659 That you would go. 00:43:54.039 --> 00:43:54.759 To Christ. 00:43:55.839 --> 00:43:56.179 Would. 00:43:56.179 --> 00:43:57.059 That you would come. 00:43:57.059 --> 00:43:57.659 To him. 00:43:57.659 --> 00:43:58.940 Who is able. 00:43:59.460 --> 00:44:00.000 To heal. 00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:02.739 We have a powerful man. 00:44:03.159 --> 00:44:04.960 Who is a sick man. 00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:06.900 But who hears. 00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:08.980 Of a great God. 00:44:10.219 --> 00:44:12.539 And that is what we should long for today. 00:44:12.659 --> 00:44:13.320 For ourselves. 00:44:14.059 --> 00:44:15.779 To know our sickness. 00:44:16.940 --> 00:44:17.659 To know that. 00:44:18.019 --> 00:44:20.099 No matter what power we feel we have. 00:44:20.739 --> 00:44:23.420 We are unable to do anything about this sickness. 00:44:23.420 --> 00:44:25.740 But to hear. 00:44:26.420 --> 00:44:27.619 That there is a God. 00:44:28.119 --> 00:44:28.900 Who can help. 00:44:29.860 --> 00:44:31.260 To acknowledge our sin. 00:44:32.039 --> 00:44:34.460 To acknowledge our weakness before God. 00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:36.760 Pleading for help. 00:44:37.240 --> 00:44:37.800 With him. 00:44:39.380 --> 00:44:41.200 But we see the second thing. 00:44:41.619 --> 00:44:44.099 Is a problem we also have so often. 00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:45.380 Naaman. 00:44:46.099 --> 00:44:47.720 Is a stubborn man. 00:44:47.719 --> 00:44:51.359 And isn't that a problem. 00:44:51.859 --> 00:44:53.399 We so often have. 00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:54.799 Ourselves too. 00:44:55.439 --> 00:44:57.639 You just look at the way Naaman responds. 00:44:57.839 --> 00:44:59.139 When he hears about this. 00:44:59.519 --> 00:45:00.980 Possibility of help. 00:45:01.879 --> 00:45:02.519 He hears. 00:45:02.959 --> 00:45:04.179 The potential of healing. 00:45:04.679 --> 00:45:05.339 For himself. 00:45:05.779 --> 00:45:06.399 And he's keen. 00:45:06.959 --> 00:45:07.919 To find out. 00:45:08.319 --> 00:45:09.019 What it is. 00:45:09.699 --> 00:45:11.959 But he wants it on his own terms. 00:45:11.960 --> 00:45:14.579 He wants everything done. 00:45:15.059 --> 00:45:16.059 His way. 00:45:17.019 --> 00:45:18.199 And that's because. 00:45:18.599 --> 00:45:19.760 Like you and I. 00:45:20.260 --> 00:45:21.420 He was stubborn. 00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:22.960 Sin. 00:45:23.460 --> 00:45:24.380 Makes us stubborn. 00:45:25.720 --> 00:45:27.039 Sin makes us a people. 00:45:27.240 --> 00:45:28.980 Who want to work things out. 00:45:29.179 --> 00:45:29.940 For ourselves. 00:45:30.559 --> 00:45:32.019 We want things done. 00:45:32.699 --> 00:45:33.880 In our own way. 00:45:35.159 --> 00:45:36.539 And who is willing. 00:45:37.220 --> 00:45:38.199 To acknowledge. 00:45:38.579 --> 00:45:39.579 Their stubbornness. 00:45:39.579 --> 00:45:41.659 We are so often. 00:45:41.860 --> 00:45:42.500 Too slow. 00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:43.960 To admit it. 00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:45.500 Even if someone was to tell us. 00:45:46.099 --> 00:45:47.279 Why are you so stubborn? 00:45:47.299 --> 00:45:48.980 Or you're just a stubborn person. 00:45:50.119 --> 00:45:51.380 Our natural reaction. 00:45:51.380 --> 00:45:52.179 Would be to say. 00:45:52.259 --> 00:45:53.219 I'm not stubborn. 00:45:54.619 --> 00:45:55.679 Our stubbornness. 00:45:56.039 --> 00:45:57.179 Makes us stubborn. 00:45:57.299 --> 00:45:58.299 To admit we're stubborn. 00:45:59.360 --> 00:46:00.460 We don't want. 00:46:00.599 --> 00:46:01.400 To admit it. 00:46:02.279 --> 00:46:03.699 And we'll go on the defensive. 00:46:04.199 --> 00:46:05.059 Straight away. 00:46:06.119 --> 00:46:06.500 And so. 00:46:06.619 --> 00:46:08.099 If someone tells us. 00:46:08.539 --> 00:46:09.500 You're a sinner. 00:46:10.159 --> 00:46:11.920 And you need to come to Christ. 00:46:12.819 --> 00:46:14.099 Our natural reaction is. 00:46:14.539 --> 00:46:15.559 No I'm not. 00:46:16.099 --> 00:46:18.079 And how dare you tell me so. 00:46:19.000 --> 00:46:19.819 And you see. 00:46:20.259 --> 00:46:21.259 Our own hearts. 00:46:21.500 --> 00:46:22.360 In Naaman's. 00:46:22.940 --> 00:46:23.980 In his stubbornness. 00:46:23.980 --> 00:46:24.679 As you see. 00:46:25.059 --> 00:46:26.279 In verse 11. 00:46:27.920 --> 00:46:29.779 Naaman was angry. 00:46:30.940 --> 00:46:32.179 He was angry. 00:46:33.719 --> 00:46:35.219 And he went away. 00:46:36.079 --> 00:46:36.440 Saying. 00:46:36.440 --> 00:46:36.920 Behold. 00:46:36.920 --> 00:46:38.059 I thought he would surely. 00:46:38.059 --> 00:46:39.059 Come out to me. 00:46:39.480 --> 00:46:40.240 And stand. 00:46:40.400 --> 00:46:41.139 And call upon. 00:46:41.360 --> 00:46:42.340 The name of the Lord. 00:46:42.460 --> 00:46:44.039 And just wave his hand. 00:46:44.039 --> 00:46:44.840 Over the place. 00:46:44.940 --> 00:46:45.820 And cure the leper. 00:46:45.820 --> 00:46:46.640 Why. 00:46:46.640 --> 00:46:48.840 Why. 00:46:48.840 --> 00:46:50.680 Was he so angry. 00:46:53.539 --> 00:46:54.059 Because. 00:46:54.320 --> 00:46:55.240 In his stubbornness. 00:46:55.300 --> 00:46:56.660 He couldn't humble himself. 00:46:56.880 --> 00:46:58.000 To this point. 00:46:58.460 --> 00:46:59.640 Where he would receive help. 00:46:59.780 --> 00:47:00.920 From somebody else. 00:47:01.780 --> 00:47:03.260 He wanted it done. 00:47:03.980 --> 00:47:04.100 To. 00:47:04.280 --> 00:47:05.300 In his way. 00:47:05.300 --> 00:47:05.980 First of all. 00:47:05.980 --> 00:47:06.539 He thought. 00:47:06.539 --> 00:47:08.480 He could sort things out. 00:47:08.560 --> 00:47:09.039 For himself. 00:47:09.180 --> 00:47:09.960 By his wealth. 00:47:11.580 --> 00:47:12.340 You see that. 00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:12.840 In the middle. 00:47:13.400 --> 00:47:14.320 Of verse 5. 00:47:14.400 --> 00:47:15.039 In verse 5. 00:47:15.100 --> 00:47:15.360 It says. 00:47:15.460 --> 00:47:16.400 The king of Syria said. 00:47:16.519 --> 00:47:17.000 Go now. 00:47:17.500 --> 00:47:18.500 And I will send a letter. 00:47:18.600 --> 00:47:19.560 To the king of Israel. 00:47:19.920 --> 00:47:20.519 So he went. 00:47:20.700 --> 00:47:21.420 Taking with him. 00:47:21.539 --> 00:47:22.900 Ten talents of silver. 00:47:23.500 --> 00:47:25.460 Six thousand shekels of gold. 00:47:25.960 --> 00:47:27.200 And ten changes. 00:47:27.680 --> 00:47:28.580 Of clothes. 00:47:29.980 --> 00:47:31.420 In today's value. 00:47:31.420 --> 00:47:33.039 You're looking at silver. 00:47:33.200 --> 00:47:34.019 They're worth about. 00:47:34.180 --> 00:47:35.800 Two hundred thousand pounds. 00:47:36.740 --> 00:47:37.480 And gold. 00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:37.920 Worth. 00:47:38.420 --> 00:47:38.860 Probably around. 00:47:39.099 --> 00:47:40.400 Three million pounds. 00:47:41.440 --> 00:47:42.360 And here he is. 00:47:42.480 --> 00:47:43.500 Carrying this wealth. 00:47:43.639 --> 00:47:44.019 With him. 00:47:44.360 --> 00:47:45.220 In the hope. 00:47:45.340 --> 00:47:45.920 That he could probably. 00:47:46.180 --> 00:47:46.559 Buy. 00:47:47.019 --> 00:47:47.960 His cleansing. 00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:50.639 Purchase it for himself. 00:47:50.740 --> 00:47:51.559 And to be able to say. 00:47:51.880 --> 00:47:52.920 I have done it. 00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:54.059 By my own wealth. 00:47:54.480 --> 00:47:55.840 And by my own means. 00:47:57.400 --> 00:47:58.599 But we are fools. 00:47:58.599 --> 00:47:59.159 To think. 00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:00.139 That we can in any way. 00:48:00.700 --> 00:48:01.260 Do anything. 00:48:01.260 --> 00:48:02.360 To earn or pay. 00:48:02.540 --> 00:48:03.440 For our salvation. 00:48:04.440 --> 00:48:05.360 To find a way. 00:48:05.640 --> 00:48:07.000 That is going to save me. 00:48:07.080 --> 00:48:07.620 That's. 00:48:07.700 --> 00:48:10.020 A cost that I can pay myself. 00:48:11.460 --> 00:48:12.680 Because our salvation. 00:48:12.840 --> 00:48:13.500 Is a cost. 00:48:14.260 --> 00:48:14.920 That we can. 00:48:14.980 --> 00:48:16.200 And could never pay. 00:48:18.120 --> 00:48:19.280 Isaiah 55. 00:48:19.620 --> 00:48:20.200 Verse 1. 00:48:20.300 --> 00:48:20.620 Is that. 00:48:21.040 --> 00:48:22.080 Great invitation. 00:48:22.240 --> 00:48:22.680 And says. 00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:23.100 Come. 00:48:23.580 --> 00:48:24.560 Everyone who thirsts. 00:48:24.620 --> 00:48:25.820 Come to the waters. 00:48:25.820 --> 00:48:27.760 He who has no money. 00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:28.320 Come. 00:48:28.800 --> 00:48:29.540 Buy and eat. 00:48:29.700 --> 00:48:30.000 Come. 00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:31.539 Buy wine and milk. 00:48:31.619 --> 00:48:32.400 Without money. 00:48:32.800 --> 00:48:33.980 And without price. 00:48:35.380 --> 00:48:37.360 But Naaman would rather bring. 00:48:37.739 --> 00:48:38.800 His own wealth. 00:48:39.480 --> 00:48:40.159 To buy it. 00:48:41.500 --> 00:48:43.059 And isn't that the stubbornness. 00:48:43.099 --> 00:48:43.840 Of our hearts. 00:48:43.980 --> 00:48:44.760 So often too. 00:48:46.059 --> 00:48:46.880 Where we feel. 00:48:47.260 --> 00:48:47.980 That there is a way. 00:48:48.099 --> 00:48:49.019 We can do something. 00:48:49.159 --> 00:48:50.320 About our situation. 00:48:50.460 --> 00:48:51.260 Ourselves. 00:48:51.260 --> 00:48:53.500 We need to learn. 00:48:53.500 --> 00:48:54.020 This lesson. 00:48:54.020 --> 00:48:54.900 Of our stubbornness. 00:48:55.200 --> 00:48:56.280 You cannot. 00:48:57.100 --> 00:48:58.100 We cannot. 00:48:58.720 --> 00:48:59.280 Do anything. 00:49:00.520 --> 00:49:01.520 The second way. 00:49:01.600 --> 00:49:01.880 You see. 00:49:01.960 --> 00:49:02.540 He was stubborn. 00:49:02.700 --> 00:49:02.820 Was. 00:49:03.360 --> 00:49:04.240 Who he came to. 00:49:05.060 --> 00:49:06.240 He was told. 00:49:06.440 --> 00:49:06.920 To go. 00:49:07.500 --> 00:49:08.340 To the prophet. 00:49:08.500 --> 00:49:09.000 Of God. 00:49:09.100 --> 00:49:09.660 In Samaria. 00:49:11.160 --> 00:49:12.900 But who does he come to? 00:49:13.460 --> 00:49:14.200 He came. 00:49:14.660 --> 00:49:15.420 To the king. 00:49:15.420 --> 00:49:17.440 Elisha. 00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:19.200 Was almost way down the ranks. 00:49:20.200 --> 00:49:22.980 He wasn't going to go to a common person. 00:49:23.300 --> 00:49:24.880 He was going to go to the top. 00:49:24.980 --> 00:49:25.519 To the king. 00:49:26.300 --> 00:49:28.079 If anyone was going to help him. 00:49:28.380 --> 00:49:30.900 It would have to be someone really important. 00:49:30.900 --> 00:49:35.240 So he goes. 00:49:35.240 --> 00:49:36.039 To the king. 00:49:37.680 --> 00:49:38.440 But no. 00:49:39.079 --> 00:49:40.300 It wasn't to the king. 00:49:40.480 --> 00:49:41.240 He had to go. 00:49:41.820 --> 00:49:43.119 But his stubbornness. 00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:44.280 Made him. 00:49:44.680 --> 00:49:46.720 When he did eventually go to Elisha. 00:49:47.440 --> 00:49:49.260 He wouldn't even go through his door. 00:49:50.220 --> 00:49:51.579 He wasn't going to come down. 00:49:51.700 --> 00:49:53.220 And go into his place. 00:49:53.260 --> 00:49:54.820 He was going to have to come out to him. 00:49:55.180 --> 00:49:56.119 To help him. 00:49:56.180 --> 00:49:57.700 Did he not know who he was? 00:49:58.480 --> 00:50:00.440 And how important a person he was. 00:50:00.900 --> 00:50:04.720 In our stubbornness. 00:50:05.019 --> 00:50:06.579 We need to humble ourselves. 00:50:07.780 --> 00:50:10.500 To recognize how unimportant we are. 00:50:11.559 --> 00:50:14.200 And to realize the importance of the one. 00:50:14.420 --> 00:50:15.900 Who is able to help. 00:50:17.200 --> 00:50:19.139 The one who came into this world. 00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:22.460 Who humbled himself by coming into this world. 00:50:23.579 --> 00:50:27.079 Who was nothing to be looked at. 00:50:27.079 --> 00:50:31.139 And yet when we are saved. 00:50:31.199 --> 00:50:32.799 As the psalmist says. 00:50:32.920 --> 00:50:34.900 That we might see the beauty of the Lord. 00:50:35.599 --> 00:50:37.759 The beauty of Jesus Christ. 00:50:38.579 --> 00:50:40.699 And humble ourselves before him. 00:50:41.980 --> 00:50:44.219 Our stubbornness wants things done. 00:50:44.579 --> 00:50:45.259 Our way. 00:50:47.199 --> 00:50:49.299 But humility teaches us. 00:50:49.460 --> 00:50:50.619 And grace teaches us. 00:50:51.119 --> 00:50:52.500 There is nothing we can do. 00:50:52.500 --> 00:50:54.840 That it has all been done. 00:50:55.179 --> 00:50:56.699 By the Son of God. 00:50:57.039 --> 00:50:58.519 By Jesus Christ. 00:50:59.179 --> 00:51:00.840 And to see Jesus. 00:51:01.679 --> 00:51:03.980 And to see the price that he has paid. 00:51:04.659 --> 00:51:06.039 Should humble us. 00:51:06.920 --> 00:51:09.559 That he came to give his life. 00:51:09.960 --> 00:51:11.619 As a ransom for many. 00:51:12.119 --> 00:51:15.000 That he came to pay the price. 00:51:15.380 --> 00:51:17.079 That we could never pay. 00:51:17.079 --> 00:51:19.440 The book of Acts. 00:51:20.039 --> 00:51:21.699 It tells us that there is only one. 00:51:21.940 --> 00:51:24.360 Who can heal our sin sick hearts. 00:51:25.039 --> 00:51:26.679 In chapter 4 verse 11. 00:51:26.819 --> 00:51:27.259 It says. 00:51:27.819 --> 00:51:29.420 This Jesus is the stone. 00:51:29.539 --> 00:51:30.980 Who was rejected by you. 00:51:31.460 --> 00:51:33.319 He has become the cornerstone. 00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:35.420 And there is salvation. 00:51:36.039 --> 00:51:37.360 In no one else. 00:51:38.500 --> 00:51:39.840 For there is no other name. 00:51:39.840 --> 00:51:41.639 Under heaven given among men. 00:51:41.860 --> 00:51:43.880 By which we must be saved. 00:51:43.880 --> 00:51:47.860 There is no other way. 00:51:49.960 --> 00:51:51.260 In a stubbornness. 00:51:51.619 --> 00:51:52.500 Naaman thought. 00:51:53.000 --> 00:51:55.220 He could do things his way. 00:51:56.619 --> 00:51:57.780 Again you look at. 00:51:58.099 --> 00:51:59.099 Verse 11. 00:51:59.220 --> 00:51:59.800 And it says. 00:51:59.940 --> 00:52:00.519 In his anger. 00:52:00.680 --> 00:52:01.240 Behold. 00:52:01.980 --> 00:52:03.440 I thought. 00:52:03.780 --> 00:52:06.260 That he would surely come out to me. 00:52:07.340 --> 00:52:08.539 I thought. 00:52:08.740 --> 00:52:11.039 This is how it was going to work out. 00:52:11.039 --> 00:52:12.239 I thought. 00:52:12.239 --> 00:52:14.360 This was what was going to happen. 00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:16.779 And we all have our own plans. 00:52:16.940 --> 00:52:17.679 I thought. 00:52:17.840 --> 00:52:19.659 This is how I would be saved. 00:52:21.219 --> 00:52:22.420 But the truth. 00:52:23.139 --> 00:52:24.539 Changes it for us. 00:52:25.480 --> 00:52:26.980 To recognize it so often. 00:52:27.079 --> 00:52:28.239 Not what we thought. 00:52:29.500 --> 00:52:31.579 But what the Lord wants. 00:52:33.820 --> 00:52:35.420 He thought he could change. 00:52:36.059 --> 00:52:37.139 God's plan. 00:52:38.019 --> 00:52:38.719 Naaman thought. 00:52:38.719 --> 00:52:39.619 His ways. 00:52:39.619 --> 00:52:39.639 His ways. 00:52:40.059 --> 00:52:40.759 Were superior. 00:52:41.119 --> 00:52:42.059 To God's ways. 00:52:42.139 --> 00:52:43.319 He even found fault. 00:52:43.599 --> 00:52:44.959 In God's plan. 00:52:45.819 --> 00:52:47.579 When Elisha says to him. 00:52:48.019 --> 00:52:48.739 Through the messenger. 00:52:48.959 --> 00:52:50.319 Go and dip yourself. 00:52:50.799 --> 00:52:52.039 Seven times. 00:52:52.219 --> 00:52:52.939 In the Jordan. 00:52:53.959 --> 00:52:55.459 What's his response? 00:52:56.399 --> 00:52:57.480 What an insult. 00:52:58.939 --> 00:53:00.459 Are there not better rivers. 00:53:00.579 --> 00:53:01.559 In my own country. 00:53:01.659 --> 00:53:03.459 That I could go and dip myself in. 00:53:04.639 --> 00:53:06.500 Are there not better places. 00:53:06.500 --> 00:53:07.299 I could go. 00:53:07.300 --> 00:53:10.120 Be a bit like someone. 00:53:10.300 --> 00:53:10.980 Saying to us. 00:53:11.160 --> 00:53:11.920 Go to Glasgow. 00:53:12.260 --> 00:53:14.260 And dip yourself in the Clyde. 00:53:15.180 --> 00:53:15.539 You say. 00:53:15.620 --> 00:53:15.800 Well. 00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:17.740 Why not just go to the Creed? 00:53:18.340 --> 00:53:19.200 It's cleaner. 00:53:20.060 --> 00:53:21.019 It's better. 00:53:22.320 --> 00:53:23.960 But when God says. 00:53:24.320 --> 00:53:25.320 To do something. 00:53:26.039 --> 00:53:27.200 You must do it. 00:53:28.480 --> 00:53:30.000 We must obey. 00:53:30.280 --> 00:53:31.860 The command of God. 00:53:31.940 --> 00:53:32.680 And not say. 00:53:33.080 --> 00:53:34.860 But I've got a better idea. 00:53:34.860 --> 00:53:37.220 I've got a better way. 00:53:37.860 --> 00:53:39.120 If God says. 00:53:39.280 --> 00:53:39.980 Go to church. 00:53:40.019 --> 00:53:41.059 To hear his word. 00:53:41.320 --> 00:53:42.420 You don't say no. 00:53:44.440 --> 00:53:45.820 If God says. 00:53:45.980 --> 00:53:46.920 You're a sinner. 00:53:47.019 --> 00:53:47.500 You don't say. 00:53:47.620 --> 00:53:48.440 No I'm not. 00:53:49.860 --> 00:53:51.120 If God says. 00:53:51.200 --> 00:53:52.140 You must repent. 00:53:52.539 --> 00:53:53.140 You don't say. 00:53:53.220 --> 00:53:53.420 No. 00:53:53.480 --> 00:53:54.400 I've got no need. 00:53:54.400 --> 00:53:55.200 For repentance. 00:53:56.500 --> 00:53:57.780 If God says. 00:53:58.200 --> 00:53:59.240 Believe in the Lord. 00:53:59.240 --> 00:54:00.019 Jesus Christ. 00:54:00.019 --> 00:54:01.059 It's the only way. 00:54:01.079 --> 00:54:01.739 To salvation. 00:54:02.239 --> 00:54:03.259 You don't have the right. 00:54:03.340 --> 00:54:04.000 To turn and say. 00:54:04.159 --> 00:54:04.320 No. 00:54:05.239 --> 00:54:06.619 I've got a better way. 00:54:07.800 --> 00:54:09.159 For there is only one way. 00:54:09.259 --> 00:54:10.039 To be saved. 00:54:10.559 --> 00:54:11.900 And that is through him. 00:54:14.019 --> 00:54:14.579 Millions. 00:54:14.940 --> 00:54:15.699 Every day. 00:54:15.820 --> 00:54:16.940 Make the same mistake. 00:54:17.059 --> 00:54:17.960 That Naaman made. 00:54:19.039 --> 00:54:20.219 Perhaps you've been making. 00:54:20.219 --> 00:54:20.960 That mistake. 00:54:21.059 --> 00:54:21.800 In your own life. 00:54:22.199 --> 00:54:22.699 Again. 00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:23.320 And again. 00:54:23.639 --> 00:54:24.400 You think. 00:54:25.000 --> 00:54:25.960 Your own ways. 00:54:26.079 --> 00:54:26.980 I thought. 00:54:27.539 --> 00:54:28.800 I could do this. 00:54:29.240 --> 00:54:30.039 I thought. 00:54:30.139 --> 00:54:30.760 I could do it. 00:54:30.880 --> 00:54:31.480 This way. 00:54:31.639 --> 00:54:32.820 Or a better way. 00:54:33.780 --> 00:54:35.280 I've got a better plan. 00:54:36.840 --> 00:54:38.300 But God is saying. 00:54:38.579 --> 00:54:38.820 No. 00:54:39.820 --> 00:54:41.260 There is no other way. 00:54:41.599 --> 00:54:42.639 To be saved. 00:54:43.559 --> 00:54:44.559 So he speaks. 00:54:44.559 --> 00:54:45.559 To Naaman's. 00:54:46.139 --> 00:54:47.280 Stubborn heart. 00:54:48.280 --> 00:54:49.039 In the same way. 00:54:49.179 --> 00:54:49.539 He speaks. 00:54:49.619 --> 00:54:50.179 To our own. 00:54:50.360 --> 00:54:51.380 Stubborn hearts. 00:54:52.280 --> 00:54:52.920 And he says. 00:54:53.019 --> 00:54:53.900 Do it my way. 00:54:55.360 --> 00:54:55.820 Come. 00:54:56.980 --> 00:54:57.820 Repent. 00:54:59.000 --> 00:55:00.360 And put your trust. 00:55:00.860 --> 00:55:02.679 In the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:55:03.719 --> 00:55:05.440 In our stubbornness. 00:55:06.199 --> 00:55:08.179 God sent his son. 00:55:09.019 --> 00:55:10.740 To bring a stubborn people. 00:55:11.400 --> 00:55:12.460 Back to himself. 00:55:13.539 --> 00:55:14.159 There is only. 00:55:14.840 --> 00:55:15.480 One way. 00:55:16.800 --> 00:55:17.079 Naaman. 00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:18.860 Was a sick man. 00:55:18.980 --> 00:55:20.380 Something we must acknowledge. 00:55:21.039 --> 00:55:22.579 Naaman was a stubborn man. 00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:23.440 Something again. 00:55:23.559 --> 00:55:24.659 We must acknowledge. 00:55:24.659 --> 00:55:26.259 And turn our hearts. 00:55:26.359 --> 00:55:27.019 Towards him. 00:55:27.219 --> 00:55:28.199 But the third thing. 00:55:28.239 --> 00:55:29.000 And the great thing. 00:55:29.079 --> 00:55:29.759 You see here. 00:55:29.859 --> 00:55:30.799 Is Naaman. 00:55:30.799 --> 00:55:31.960 Is a saved man. 00:55:34.480 --> 00:55:35.440 When we see. 00:55:35.839 --> 00:55:36.719 God's grace. 00:55:37.079 --> 00:55:37.480 Fulfilled. 00:55:37.559 --> 00:55:38.019 In his life. 00:55:38.079 --> 00:55:38.599 You see the. 00:55:39.079 --> 00:55:39.779 I thought. 00:55:39.899 --> 00:55:40.659 I knew best. 00:55:40.779 --> 00:55:41.559 In verse 11. 00:55:41.559 --> 00:55:42.559 God. 00:55:42.559 --> 00:55:42.799 I know. 00:55:42.799 --> 00:55:44.519 He is a saint. 00:55:44.519 --> 00:55:44.559 I know. 00:55:44.559 --> 00:55:45.019 He is a saint. 00:55:45.019 --> 00:55:46.159 In verse 15. 00:55:46.159 --> 00:55:46.440 He returned. 00:55:46.440 --> 00:55:47.400 To the man of God. 00:55:47.539 --> 00:55:48.039 To Elisha. 00:55:48.659 --> 00:55:50.079 He and all his company. 00:55:50.259 --> 00:55:50.900 And he came. 00:55:50.980 --> 00:55:52.159 And stood before him. 00:55:52.179 --> 00:55:52.579 And he said. 00:55:53.380 --> 00:55:53.880 Behold. 00:55:54.559 --> 00:55:55.279 I know. 00:55:55.759 --> 00:55:57.219 There is no God. 00:55:57.299 --> 00:55:58.139 In all the earth. 00:55:58.719 --> 00:55:59.559 But in Israel. 00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:01.799 I thought. 00:56:02.019 --> 00:56:02.759 I knew. 00:56:02.940 --> 00:56:03.519 He is saying. 00:56:03.619 --> 00:56:04.480 You see his humility. 00:56:05.559 --> 00:56:06.500 Now I know. 00:56:07.860 --> 00:56:08.980 Now I know. 00:56:08.980 --> 00:56:16.960 there is no other God in all the earth but in Israel. And this is the God who has come to us 00:56:16.960 --> 00:56:26.840 in the person of Jesus Christ. There is no other God but him. What a transformation for this man 00:56:26.840 --> 00:56:32.480 Naaman, the second most powerful man in the world, humbled before God. 00:56:32.480 --> 00:56:44.480 How was he humbled? How did he come to this point? He obeyed the word of God from the prophet. 00:56:45.860 --> 00:56:53.579 He dipped himself seven times into the Jordan and he was cleansed. 00:56:54.579 --> 00:57:01.159 There was repentance. There was humility. There was obedience. 00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:10.400 He went from unwilling to willing. And you notice some things that brought him to this point. 00:57:12.079 --> 00:57:20.639 There was a word from his own servants in verse 13. Even when he was angry, his servants came and said 00:57:20.639 --> 00:57:29.519 to him there in verse 13, my father is a great word. The prophet has spoken to you. Will you not do it? 00:57:29.519 --> 00:57:37.599 Will you not do it? And sometimes we just have to speak directly to people. People are angry against 00:57:37.599 --> 00:57:46.500 God. But they said to him, my Lord, my father, it's a great word the prophet has spoken. 00:57:48.639 --> 00:57:52.259 Sometimes the hardest thing for us is to speak the truth. 00:57:52.260 --> 00:57:59.220 But in a world that's so confused and lost, it is the truth that needs to be heard. 00:58:00.900 --> 00:58:03.580 My friends, you are sinners. 00:58:05.260 --> 00:58:09.160 But my friends, there's a cure in Jesus Christ. 00:58:10.860 --> 00:58:15.360 Naaman's stubbornness is turned to submission. 00:58:15.360 --> 00:58:22.480 Who would have thought, looking at this man, this Naaman, the most powerful man at this time, 00:58:23.920 --> 00:58:27.099 that in his stubbornness, he would be changed. 00:58:28.980 --> 00:58:35.400 And when we look around ourselves today, we see our own stubbornness and we see the stubbornness of others. 00:58:35.400 --> 00:58:43.960 We see the truth in love. 00:58:43.960 --> 00:58:48.039 Naaman dipped himself in the Jordan. 00:58:49.160 --> 00:58:53.139 And what the word of God is telling us is, you must believe. 00:58:54.579 --> 00:58:57.660 You see, Naaman wasn't changed by the dipping itself. 00:58:57.760 --> 00:58:59.960 He wasn't changed by the Jordan itself. 00:58:59.960 --> 00:59:06.320 It was by the power of God that changed this leper into a man who was clean. 00:59:07.679 --> 00:59:09.760 And how are we made clean today? 00:59:10.780 --> 00:59:12.340 How can we be made clean? 00:59:13.079 --> 00:59:15.679 Well, Peter, in his first letter, tells us, 00:59:15.860 --> 00:59:18.960 not with perishable things such as silver or gold, 00:59:19.579 --> 00:59:21.740 but with the precious blood of Christ, 00:59:22.360 --> 00:59:25.300 like that of a lamb without blenish or spot. 00:59:26.320 --> 00:59:29.559 We are made clean through faith in Christ. 00:59:29.960 --> 00:59:35.599 And Naaman's cleansing was complete. 00:59:36.679 --> 00:59:38.980 He got more than his health. 00:59:39.800 --> 00:59:41.420 He was made whole. 00:59:41.880 --> 00:59:44.280 It tells us there at the end of verse 14, 00:59:44.900 --> 00:59:48.179 his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, 00:59:48.559 --> 00:59:50.000 and he was clean. 00:59:51.000 --> 00:59:52.360 He was made well. 00:59:53.119 --> 00:59:58.059 And you see it so often in the cleansing of Jesus in the New Testament. 00:59:58.059 --> 01:00:01.279 The woman with the issue of blood. 01:00:02.480 --> 01:00:03.799 Blind Bartimaeus. 01:00:04.739 --> 01:00:06.259 And so it goes on, there's so many. 01:00:06.880 --> 01:00:09.199 By the touch of Christ, they are made well. 01:00:09.799 --> 01:00:10.779 They are made clean. 01:00:11.420 --> 01:00:12.239 They are made whole. 01:00:12.340 --> 01:00:15.019 Your faith has made you well, he says. 01:00:15.019 --> 01:00:18.519 We need that faith. 01:00:19.699 --> 01:00:21.239 And as he is made well, 01:00:21.940 --> 01:00:26.159 you also see that even in his anxieties and his fears 01:00:26.159 --> 01:00:30.039 of being a man who had come to trust in the God of Israel, 01:00:30.440 --> 01:00:33.039 and he had to go back to his own people, 01:00:33.159 --> 01:00:34.000 to his own land, 01:00:34.039 --> 01:00:37.380 and the fear of the worship that they were involved in. 01:00:37.380 --> 01:00:43.059 And you see that in verse 17 down to the middle of verse 19. 01:00:43.840 --> 01:00:48.579 He's going back to a place that is offering sacrifices to any God, 01:00:48.660 --> 01:00:49.940 but the Lord, it says. 01:00:50.920 --> 01:00:53.860 There's so much that is wrong with where he is going. 01:00:54.900 --> 01:00:56.460 And he has this fear. 01:00:57.539 --> 01:01:00.000 And he brings this fear to Elisha. 01:01:00.820 --> 01:01:02.260 He's almost saying to him, 01:01:02.619 --> 01:01:04.680 he's bowing himself before him. 01:01:04.679 --> 01:01:06.419 He's saying in verse 18, 01:01:06.539 --> 01:01:09.259 in this matter, may the Lord pardon your servant. 01:01:10.399 --> 01:01:13.219 He knows the challenges he's going to have going back. 01:01:14.099 --> 01:01:15.779 But Elisha says this to him, 01:01:16.399 --> 01:01:17.559 go in peace. 01:01:19.539 --> 01:01:21.799 And one of our greatest fears 01:01:21.799 --> 01:01:24.899 when it comes to faith in the Lord Jesus 01:01:24.899 --> 01:01:27.839 is to go back into the world 01:01:27.839 --> 01:01:32.879 and to live among a people who will challenge our faith, 01:01:32.880 --> 01:01:37.260 a people whose ways may be so different to our faith, 01:01:37.360 --> 01:01:39.579 to hear a language that hurts, 01:01:39.740 --> 01:01:42.160 to see behavior that hurts. 01:01:44.099 --> 01:01:45.640 We don't avoid it. 01:01:47.260 --> 01:01:49.559 You see, Naaman was being put back there 01:01:49.559 --> 01:01:51.619 as a light for the gospel, 01:01:52.480 --> 01:01:55.660 a powerful man in the midst of that nation, 01:01:55.659 --> 01:01:58.379 just like Daniel, 01:01:59.159 --> 01:02:00.359 who stood up for the Lord, 01:02:00.440 --> 01:02:02.980 just like so many we see in the scriptures 01:02:02.980 --> 01:02:04.359 who stood up for the Lord. 01:02:04.460 --> 01:02:05.960 And so we as Christians 01:02:05.960 --> 01:02:08.239 are to stand up for the Lord. 01:02:09.460 --> 01:02:11.980 Do not be afraid to believe. 01:02:13.420 --> 01:02:14.579 For the Lord says, 01:02:15.259 --> 01:02:16.159 go in peace. 01:02:17.199 --> 01:02:19.139 And what these words means is 01:02:19.139 --> 01:02:20.799 he goes with us. 01:02:20.800 --> 01:02:24.900 When we are well, 01:02:25.880 --> 01:02:26.940 we are to tell others 01:02:26.940 --> 01:02:28.620 of the way to be well 01:02:28.620 --> 01:02:30.740 and not to be afraid, 01:02:31.400 --> 01:02:32.900 for the Lord is with us. 01:02:33.620 --> 01:02:35.280 He will never leave us 01:02:35.280 --> 01:02:37.280 or forsake us. 01:02:38.280 --> 01:02:40.640 He is with his people always. 01:02:40.780 --> 01:02:42.180 That is the great promise. 01:02:43.960 --> 01:02:46.420 Do you see yourself then in this man, Naaman? 01:02:46.420 --> 01:02:49.880 We are a sick people, 01:02:50.440 --> 01:02:51.460 just like Naaman. 01:02:53.280 --> 01:02:54.800 But in God's providence, 01:02:54.960 --> 01:02:56.159 here we are with the opportunity 01:02:56.159 --> 01:02:56.880 to know 01:02:56.880 --> 01:02:59.599 the one who is able to make us clean, 01:03:00.700 --> 01:03:01.519 the Lord Jesus. 01:03:02.800 --> 01:03:04.760 We are a stubborn people. 01:03:05.940 --> 01:03:07.800 Our hearts are always stubborn. 01:03:08.639 --> 01:03:10.320 To be told what we must do, 01:03:10.380 --> 01:03:11.340 we don't like it. 01:03:12.480 --> 01:03:14.300 The Lord is telling us, 01:03:14.300 --> 01:03:15.559 humble yourselves. 01:03:16.420 --> 01:03:17.420 Humble yourselves 01:03:17.420 --> 01:03:19.139 unto the mighty arm of God 01:03:19.139 --> 01:03:21.639 so that he may lift you up. 01:03:22.519 --> 01:03:24.680 That's what the gospel tells us. 01:03:25.619 --> 01:03:27.260 And the gospel assures us 01:03:27.260 --> 01:03:29.920 that when we come to the Lord Jesus, 01:03:30.840 --> 01:03:31.880 we are made well, 01:03:32.559 --> 01:03:33.740 we are made clean, 01:03:34.480 --> 01:03:37.059 and we are able to go in peace. 01:03:38.000 --> 01:03:41.619 That peace that only he can give. 01:03:41.619 --> 01:03:47.659 We all have this issue of uncleanness. 01:03:48.719 --> 01:03:51.880 The stain that's so hard to remove, 01:03:51.980 --> 01:03:53.460 impossible for ourselves. 01:03:54.619 --> 01:03:57.339 But God sent his son into this world 01:03:57.339 --> 01:03:59.659 that these stain of sin 01:03:59.659 --> 01:04:02.299 may be eradicated from our hearts, 01:04:02.719 --> 01:04:05.420 that we may be made well with him, 01:04:05.420 --> 01:04:08.480 and that we may know his peace. 01:04:09.200 --> 01:04:10.380 Just like Naaman, 01:04:10.639 --> 01:04:13.840 we are to humble ourselves in obedience 01:04:13.840 --> 01:04:16.639 and come to him. 01:04:17.340 --> 01:04:20.480 So may we hear that great invitation 01:04:20.480 --> 01:04:22.900 to come and be clean, 01:04:23.420 --> 01:04:24.480 to be well, 01:04:25.420 --> 01:04:27.559 and to go in peace. 01:04:27.559 --> 01:04:30.579 May God bless his word to us. 01:04:32.159 --> 01:04:34.199 We're going to conclude by singing 01:04:34.199 --> 01:04:36.420 to his praise in Psalm 92 01:04:36.420 --> 01:04:38.400 in the Scottish Psalter. 01:04:38.519 --> 01:04:39.559 Psalm 92, 01:04:41.559 --> 01:04:44.980 page 351. 01:04:47.079 --> 01:04:50.039 We'll sing from verse 1 to verse 3. 01:04:51.039 --> 01:04:51.960 Psalm 91, 01:04:53.219 --> 01:04:54.460 Psalm 92, sorry. 01:04:54.460 --> 01:05:02.500 Psalm 92, 01:05:03.760 --> 01:05:05.019 in the Scottish Psalter, 01:05:05.559 --> 01:05:06.780 verse 1 to verse 3. 01:05:06.880 --> 01:05:08.380 To render thanks unto the Lord, 01:05:08.840 --> 01:05:10.059 it is a comely thing, 01:05:10.119 --> 01:05:10.880 and to thy name, 01:05:11.360 --> 01:05:12.320 O thou most hide, 01:05:12.380 --> 01:05:14.519 you praise aloud to sing. 01:05:14.599 --> 01:05:17.320 We'll sing from verse 1 to verse 3 01:05:17.320 --> 01:05:18.780 to God's praise. 01:05:24.460 --> 01:05:29.460 You praise aloud to sing. 01:05:29.460 --> 01:05:47.460 You praise aloud to sing. 01:05:47.460 --> 01:05:52.460 To praise aloud to sing. 01:05:52.460 --> 01:05:59.460 To praise aloud to sing. 01:05:59.460 --> 01:06:06.639 Love to die in all the most high, 01:06:06.760 --> 01:06:11.460 to praise aloud to sing. 01:06:11.460 --> 01:06:17.460 Thy lovingkindness to show 01:06:17.460 --> 01:06:24.619 for when shines a morning light, 01:06:24.619 --> 01:06:31.559 and to declare thy faithfulness 01:06:31.559 --> 01:06:36.559 with pleasure every night, 01:06:36.559 --> 01:06:38.559 with pleasure every night, 01:06:38.559 --> 01:06:45.559 with pleasure every night, 01:06:45.559 --> 01:06:55.559 and to declare thy faithfulness, 01:06:55.559 --> 01:07:01.559 with pleasure every night, 01:07:01.559 --> 01:07:07.559 on heart and sing it instrument, 01:07:07.559 --> 01:07:12.559 upon the psaltery, 01:07:12.559 --> 01:07:15.559 And on heart and singлена. 01:07:15.559 --> 01:07:17.559 And on heart we shall 01:07:17.559 --> 01:07:22.559 and sound a BE sweet melody, 01:07:22.559 --> 01:07:27.559 and邊 sweet melody, 01:07:27.559 --> 01:07:32.179 and邊 sweet melody, 01:07:32.559 --> 01:07:36.559 and邊 sweet melody, 01:07:36.559 --> 01:07:37.559 and two. 01:07:37.559 --> 01:07:45.440 And on the heart will fall in sun 01:07:45.440 --> 01:07:50.219 And grace be carried out thee 01:07:50.219 --> 01:07:55.699 After the benediction I'll go to the door to my right hand side 01:07:55.699 --> 01:07:57.079 Let's close with the benediction 01:07:57.079 --> 01:08:01.019 Now may grace, mercy and peace from God 01:08:01.019 --> 01:08:03.340 Father, Son and Holy Spirit 01:08:03.340 --> 01:08:06.079 Rest upon and abide with us all 01:08:06.079 --> 01:08:07.940 Now and forevermore 01:08:07.940 --> 01:08:08.819 Amen