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If you would open your Bibles to the Gospel of Luke this morning, we’re going to look at one of the passages that I especially enjoy and appreciate, and one of the beautiful passages of someone coming to meet Christ.

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I love the encounters with Christ in the Bible.

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I love reading in Acts Gospel when the Apostle Paul meets Christ on the way.

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Just a transformative blessing that comes to a person’s life when they finally meet the Lord Jesus and experience all that he can give.

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It’s a gloriously wonderful thing.

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And so this morning we’re going to look at one of the early miracles of the Lord Jesus.

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As you read through the Gospels, if you were reading through the Synoptic Gospels, like if you were reading a parallel Bible so you could read each of the Gospels, and you come to this place in the Gospels, there would be a good bit that you would know about the Lord Jesus.

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You would know, for instance, that his coming was prophesied in the Old Testament.

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You would know that in addition to his coming being prophesied, there’s also the promise of the forerunner, John the Baptist, who would come before him, and that Jesus would come as a descendant of David.

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And then you would also see how that unfolds, the remarkable birth of Jesus, the angelic announcement to the various people, to Zechariah, to Mary, to the coming ultimately of the Lord Jesus’ birth.

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He was born of a virgin, the Virgin Mary.

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He is the Son of Mary.

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He is the Son of God.

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The remarkable blessing of Jesus’ coming.

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The text would tell you who he is.

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You’ll call his name Jesus.

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He is called Emmanuel, God with us.

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You call his name Jesus, which tells us his purpose.

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He’s coming to save his people from their sins.

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You call his name Jesus, which means, really, Savior, because he will save his people from their sins.

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There’s a lot that you would know about the Lord Jesus before you get to this passage.

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In Luke’s Gospel, it traces his genealogy on both sides, on both Mary’s side and on his father Joseph’s side.

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He’s descended on his earthly father, Joseph, who adopted him.

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They both go back.

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Their lineage goes back to David, just as the Old Testament prophesied.

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And all of these things unfold so remarkably.

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And yet, it takes more than that for us to even begin to understand who he is.

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And so we are about to read a passage, a very short passage, about a man who has been observing Jesus, who has seen what he has done and what he can do, and recognizes some powerful truths about him, and so comes to him with his need.

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We begin in Luke chapter 5, and we begin reading in verse 12.

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This is God’s holy word.

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While he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man covered with leprosy; and when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and implored him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”

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And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.”

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And immediately the leprosy left him.

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And he ordered him to tell no one, but to go and “show yourself to the priest and make an offering for your cleansing, just as Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

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But the news about him was spreading even further, and large crowds were gathering to hear him and to be healed from their sicknesses.

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We’ll stop reading there, and we’ll just look to the Lord and ask his blessing on his Word.

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Father, when we come to this passage, we recognize we’re reading a true account from our Savior’s life, and we’re reading that from your Word, which is true and comes to us with powerful authority.

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We thank you, Father, for that.

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We thank you for the example of Jesus’ authority as he speaks these words to the leper.

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And we ask, Father, that as we reflect on this passage, Lord, that you would speak to our hearts.

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You would help us to see our place and our condition before you.

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And, Father, that you would bless us as we seek you today.

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Bless us, Father, as we come to understand this passage.

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By the power of your Spirit, open the truth of this passage up to us today, we pray.

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In the name of our Savior, the Lord Jesus, we ask this for his glorious sake.

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Amen.

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Well, verse 12 says, While he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man covered with leprosy.

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Now, when you think about the plight of people in the world today, but particularly when you think back 2,000 years ago and consider the circumstances of people living in Jesus’ day in Galilee, this man was a man who had a very, very serious problem.

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He had leprosy.

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And if you know anything about leprosy, you know that that is a problem.

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That would be a misery on anyone.

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Now, just to be clear about it, when the Bible uses the word leprosy , it includes Hansen’s disease, which we think about today when you think about leprosy.

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But it was broader than that, the term.

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It meant any very serious skin disorder could be included in it.

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But no matter what you had, what kind of leprosy you might have, it was a very serious and life-changing condition.

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It was horrible because it alienated you from all of society.

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That was the problem.

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While he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man covered with leprosy.

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The man that comes to the Lord Jesus doesn’t just have leprosy.

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He’s got an extreme form of it.

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He’s had it for a while, and this condition is very serious.

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The text is literally saying his body is filled with leprosy.

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He’s covered with it.

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His condition is terrible.

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So this man has a serious, serious problem.

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In Jesus’ day, if you were a leper, you were considered dead.

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People considered you as if you were a dead person.

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You were literally the walking dead.

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You weren’t able to interact with society.

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You weren’t able to share a family.

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You were estranged from the entire community.

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Why is that?

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Why was that true?

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It’s true in part because of the Old Testament law and what took place under the law of Moses.

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In the law of Moses, I’m going to read you a portion from the book of Leviticus, chapter 13.

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And it tells us, I’ll just read, As for the leper who has the infection, his clothes shall be torn.

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When he’s out in public, wherever he is, he has to dress as a leper.

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He has to wear torn garments so that when people see him at a distance, they recognize him before they come close to him that this is likely a leper.

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When people normally kept their heads covered, but a leper was not allowed to keep his head covered according to this law.

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And wherever he went, he was to cover his face, cover his mouth, and shout and call out, “Unclean, unclean,” so that anyone around knew that he was a man who had leprosy.

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And then the text says, in Leviticus 13, it reads, He shall remain unclean all the days during which he has the infection; he is unclean.

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He shall live alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.

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He’s to live an isolated life.

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He’s not to share life with anyone.

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In fact, lepers weren’t even allowed to have conversations with people.

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If you came too close, if you were a leper and you didn’t do these things, you ran the risk of being stoned.

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So they practiced.

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This was their life.

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The life of a leper in the first century was an isolated life where you didn’t know the warmth of humanity.

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You didn’t have the warm embrace of a family member.

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You lived isolated and all by yourself.

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You lived with the terrible condition of leprosy and all the ravages that it made of your body.

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It was a horrible situation.

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This man had a horrible situation, and there was not a thing he could do about it.

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There was nothing that he could do.

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He was in a helpless situation.

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But you might be thinking, why did they have such laws that seemed so unfeeling?

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What was going on with those Old Testament laws that excluded someone like that from the community of believers?

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Well, in one way, it was more than just lepers.

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You see, in that Old Testament passage, when God began, he made his presence known to the people in Israel.

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He actually dwelt, he made a manifest presence of himself in the tabernacle.

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And he was dwelling in a real sense, in a significant way, with the people of Israel.

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The holy God is there with the people.

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And so the purpose of him doing that is so that we can learn something that is true about God, and in this case, something true about heaven as well.

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So in the laws, as you read those laws in the Old Testament, the point of the law was not what you probably think, and that is, well, that’s a pretty good law because it’s going to keep people from being infected.

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That wasn’t the point.

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Not the point.

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They weren’t concerned about the transfer of germs.

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With their dietary laws, they weren’t concerned about lowering your cholesterol.

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These things were all to teach a moral lesson.

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And so when it came for people being excluded from the tabernacle, who can enter into the tabernacle?

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Who can come into the presence?

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Well, there was a whole category of people who weren’t allowed to be there, including lepers, but also anyone who had a serious illness.

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I mean, if you were lame, you weren’t allowed into the temple.

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If you were blind or if you were deaf, you weren’t allowed into the temple.

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Why is that?

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Well, there’s a powerful lesson.

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It seems harsh to us.

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It is a harsh lesson.

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But you see, the harshness we need to get, but we also need to see the glory of it on the other side.

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Because in the presence of our holy God, there is no room for any person, obviously, immoral, to be in his presence.

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No sinful person is allowed there.

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But not just that.

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There are no ravages of sin, nothing that is a product of sin.

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And all these conditions are products not of the individual sin, but the sinfulness of mankind overall, all of us.

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You know, when illness and death and sickness and sorrow, all those things are consequences, ultimately, of the fact that we live as a people in rebellion against God, and we’re under his judgment.

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And so if a person was in the presence of God, which is like heaven, and they were blind or deaf or they had leprosy, there’s something incongruous that the consequences of sin is there in front of him.

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You see, he’s separate from all of that.

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He’s separate from not only the sin, but even the consequences of sin.

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In fact, in the law, if you touch the leper, then you were unclean and couldn’t enter into the temple until you went through the purification ceremonies in order to purify you so that you could enter once again into the temple, into the presence of God.

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Well, that seems so harsh.

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Now, think about the other side of it, though.

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Think about a heaven.

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Don’t you want to go to a heaven where there is no lame or blind, where nothing like that exists?

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There’s no sorrow or death or grief.

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But how do you get there?

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How do you move from this harshness of the standard which seems unbelievable?

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God is holy, and so there is no one can enter into his presence who is sinful at all or even carries the ravages of sin.

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How do you get there?

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How can anyone get there?

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Well, we look again at the plight of this man.

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This man covered with leprosy.

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This person who they considered, in Jesus’ day, a person became leprous, the family grieved his death.

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He was separated from them.

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It’s a very serious thing to have leprosy.

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You know, when Jesus heals this leper, when he heals all these people, there is something that goes beyond the healing that takes place.

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There’s a powerful lesson that God has for us to teach us about our condition.

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And there are obvious connections.

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Just from what I’ve said so far, you can begin to connect.

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There’s a connection between the leprosy and the cause of the leprosy, which is the moral failure that we have before God.

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And so we begin to make that connection.

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Leprosy is a very powerful symbol of our sinful condition.

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And I think that is a good part of the reason that this miracle takes place.

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And Jesus does this miracle because he’s going to do more than just heal this man.

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And the very next passage, you might remember, the next pericope , the next section in Luke’s Gospel, is that account where those men break open the ceiling and lower the paralyzed man down in order for Jesus to heal him.

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And the remarkable thing there is Jesus makes the point there.

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He didn’t just heal the man, which he could have done.

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Jesus makes the point of saying, Your sins are forgiven.

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You see, it is about the sins being forgiven.

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He got in trouble with the Pharisees when he said that, but that’s the point.

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He is doing more than just healing a person.

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And the same thing is true with this leper.

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You see, there’s a lot to learn in just these very few verses about this man, what he was able to come to understand about Jesus and about himself and about the need that he had.

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You know, there is something blessed, believe it or not.

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There’s a kind of blessing that this leper has that a lot of people today don’t have.

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This leper knew that he had a problem, and he knew that there wasn’t a thing he could do about it.

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But most people today, many people, have no idea what their problem is.

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They don’t know of their sin condition before God.

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They don’t know that just as the leper is estranged from the presence of God, and of society in that case, so it is for a sinner.

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God separates himself from sinful people.

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And he does that ultimately; that means eternal separation from God.

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That’s the problem people have.

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And when they think about that problem, they think, well, it’s probably not so bad in my case.

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I’m probably okay.

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You know, there are sins and then there are sins.

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They compare themselves with each other and they think, well, I know a lot of people a lot worse off than I am, so when I think about that person, I’m probably okay.

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I’m not as bad as that person is.

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And they think about the nature of what they’ve done, but they don’t understand the magnitude of their sin.

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They don’t understand who they’re actually sinning against.

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They don’t understand the seriousness of it.

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You know, they told a lie and they hurt someone in some way, and that’s pretty bad.

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They know that’s bad.

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They tried to do what they could to make up, and they think it’s bad what they’ve done, but they’ve been hurt too.

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So maybe, you know, it’ll all work out.

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And when they think about their sins against God, they think in a similar way, as if God were just anyone else.

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And Psalm 50:21 says, God is speaking to the wicked man there.

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And God says, You thought I was just like you.

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That’s his problem.

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He thinks that God is just another person, just like any person.

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But God is infinitely holy and perfect and extraordinary.

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I mean, to know God the tiniest bit is to know that he is not like us.

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And that’s the standard.

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The perfection of God, not the person next door.

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You don’t have to live better than the person next door.

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Jesus said that the standard for you to get into heaven, you’re going to be perfect to get into heaven.

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You’re going to live a life to get into heaven?

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Well, Jesus said that was the standard.

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You are to be perfect.

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Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, Be perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect.

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If Jesus graded on a curve, he curved the grades so that 95%, you’re good, well, then 5% of heaven would be sinful.

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He doesn’t grade on the curve.

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Heaven is perfect.

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The people that he lets in are perfect people.

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So that gives us a problem, doesn’t it?

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We recognize that if we’re thinking people at all, we know that if that’s the standard, I don’t meet it.

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I’ve got a problem.

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We think maybe I hurt somebody, and maybe that’s not so bad, but we don’t consider what it means to sin against a holy God who’s eternal, to be in rebellion against such a God.

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That’s the standard.

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That’s the problem.

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It’s like, say, you go up to your closet and you pull out this box, and it’s got old pictures in it and a lot of things, and you take the thing to your living room and you’re pulling out the pictures.

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And accidentally, you didn’t know it was in there, but there was a bottle of ink.

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And when you pull that out, it drops on your carpet and spills all over the floor.

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And you pick the bottle up and you read it on the side, and it says indelible .

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Well, that would be pretty sad, wouldn’t it?

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You would think, I’ve just ruined my carpet.

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I mean, there’s no way I’m going to cover the spot up.

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I’m going to have to replace this carpet, and it’s going to cost.

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Well, that would be one thing.

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Suppose instead of spilling the ink on that carpet, you were visiting a friend, and when you spilled the ink, it fell on a Persian rug that was borrowed from the Smithsonian.

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Something that was of immeasurable value.

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Well, you would feel a little differently, wouldn’t you?

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How can you replace that?

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What can you do to amend that?

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That’s the situation.

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When we offend a holy and perfect God, we commit an offense that there’s no way that we can make an atonement for in ourselves.

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It is something that is infinite.

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We sin against an infinite God, and our sins take on a problem.

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The problem is that we can’t do anything about it.

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We’re like exactly a leper who is in a hopeless situation, who can’t help himself.

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Or we think, I haven’t done many sins.

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I mean, I’ve done all the little sins, done these little sins, and maybe that’d be okay, maybe enough good things.

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Well, think about the carpet.

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Think about your sin.

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When you start reading through the Bible and you see all the ways that we sin, with wicked thoughts.

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If you think an angry thought where you’d really like to punish this guy for what he did, think an angry thought.

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The Lord Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount says that such angry thoughts, that’s the path to murdering someone.

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And so the sin that you’re committing is likened to the sin of murder.

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Adulterous thoughts.

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You look on a woman to lust after her; it’s like the sin of adultery.

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It’s leading to that.

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Those are sinful thoughts.

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Failing to do the good things we know to do is considered a sin.

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How many ways do you sin in a single day?

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The thoughts you think, the things you do, the words you speak.

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It’s hard to say how many sins a reasonably moral person can commit in a single day.

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And those sins add up.

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The sins add up over time.

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I mean, if you only sin three sins a day, that’s an awful lot of sins in a year.

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Over a lifetime, if you lived, say, 70 years, that would be more than 75,000 sins.

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That’s a lot of sins.

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And we think, well, those aren’t big sins.

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Those are small sins.

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So what?

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You know, it’s just a little thing.

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Well, think about that splotch on the carpet, on that Persian rug.

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If you just think of that, 70,000 sins, 70,000 stains on that rug, 70,000 little bits of filth, 70,000 ink blots.

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It might have been a valuable carpet.

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You know, when God created you, he created us in his image.

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But what is the value of us when we’re covered with the filth of the stains of sin?

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What is that?

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I mean, is it any wonder?

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What do you do with a carpet like that?

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Well, you throw it out, don’t you?

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It’s irredeemable, it seems, for us.

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We can do nothing with it.

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So God deals with us, and we have these accumulated transgressions, and over our lifetime, we’re exactly like this leper.

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Not one spot of leprosy on the arm, not just one.

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He was covered with leprosy, and so are we before God.

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All these little things, and they’re not little things.

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The smallest sin is a rebellion against our holy God.

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The smallest sin are abominations, not just the big ones.

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We think because we didn’t do the big ones, we might be okay.

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We think the little ones are all right.

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No, it is a rebellion against our holy God.

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It’s like despising God.

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When David sinned, in that sin with Bathsheba, Nathan comes to David, and he tells him that he has despised the word of God.

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And in the next verse, it even says, You have despised God.

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That’s the nature of our sin.

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It’s a despising of God’s way.

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It’s a despising of what he desires.

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It’s a despising of God.

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It’s serious.

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The small sins are serious, as well as the large sins.

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So we come before God as helpless as this man coming to Jesus to find healing.

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We think because we’ve got little sins… I expect that this leper felt that way at one point in his life.

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You know, he wakes up one morning and he looks down at one of his arms, and there’s a little tiny spot there.

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And he thinks, well, it’s probably nothing.

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I’ll watch it a day or two, and I’m going to kind of keep it hidden.

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I don’t want anybody paying attention to that.

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And so after a while, he can’t keep it hidden, and somebody notices it.

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And finally, more than one person, and they say, you need to take that to the priest.

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And so he takes it to the priest, and the priest looks at it.

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He compares it with all that he knows from the Bible and their tradition and their instructions, and they watch it for the period of time that’s allowed.

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And it comes back and he knows.

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He makes the diagnosis.

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He absolutely knows.

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It’s leprosy.

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And he tells him, this is leprosy.

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What an incredible condemnation that would be.

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And that’s what this man experienced.

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At some point in his life, years earlier than what we’re reading about, that was his experience, and he was set outside this community, not to know the warmth of a human touch, not to know the comfort of a person, another person, or even fellowship, or a reasonable conversation.

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He was isolated and alone.

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That was his circumstance when he comes to Jesus.

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He sees Jesus, and he falls down before Jesus.

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And he’s been, obviously, observing Jesus from a distance for a while.

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He knows what Jesus is capable of.

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He knows more about Jesus than most people do today.

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Because when he comes to Jesus, he fell on his face before him.

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He comes to him in complete humility.

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And he implores him, saying, Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.

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He knows.

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He’s seen it.

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He knows the power that Jesus has to cleanse a person like him.

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The power that Jesus has.

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As you read through these miracles in the Bible, the one thing that they teach us is that Jesus had enormous power.

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He raised Jairus’ daughter from the dead.

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He healed the woman with the issue of blood.

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He transformed people.

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And all these examples are people who can’t do anything about their condition.

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If you were dead, you can’t do much about it.

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Just like this leper, just like the woman with the issue of blood who had taken her problem to countless doctors over her lifetime and spent all her money.

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There was no answer.

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Comes to Jesus, just touches him, and is transformed.

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There’s only one thing that this leper doesn’t know.

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He doesn’t know whether Jesus will heal him.

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He doesn’t know if Jesus will do it.

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He knows he can do it.

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There’s no disputing that.

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He’s proved that over and over.

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He’s seen it.

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But will he do it?

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Will Jesus bring the healing and cleansing that he’s asking for?

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He says, If you’re willing, you can make me clean.

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And he stretched out his hand.

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Jesus stretched out his hand, and he touched him, and he said, I am willing.

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Be cleansed.

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Do you know what that is?

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I mean, Jesus could have healed him in lots of different ways, but what Jesus did there was show incredible compassion for this man.

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He knows what his condition is.

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He knows how isolated his life is.

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He knows what the law of Moses says.

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And do you know how he heals him?

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By touching him.

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This man who hadn’t known the warmth of a human touch, Jesus comes up to him, and when he appeals to him, he touches him and says, I’m willing.

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Be cleansed.

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And the text says, immediately .

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Immediately.

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Immediately the leprosy was cleansed.

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Immediately the leprosy left him.

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That’s the transformative grace of the power of God.

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And that’s what Jesus does for us.

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This is the very reason Jesus came into this world.

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This is why he came.

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What is his heart?

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It’s a heart of compassion who sees us like the lepers, estranged from God on the outside, not allowed to come in.

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He instructs this man, go show yourself to the priest.

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There’s a testimony to the priest, and the priest will say, you’re good, and come back into society.

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Christ has made it better.

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Christ has fixed it.

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He has taken the problem, and it has cleansed him.

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It has gone away.

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Jesus came into the world for that very reason.

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For that very reason.

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700 years before Jesus was born, God sends the prophet Isaiah.

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And the prophet Isaiah tells us why the Messiah is necessary and what he will do when he comes.

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In Isaiah 53, it tells us, looking ahead, seeing Jesus, it says, Surely our griefs he himself bore, and our sorrows he carried; yet we ourselves esteemed him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

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But he was pierced through for our transgressions, and he was crushed for our iniquities; and the chastening for our well-being fell on him, and by his scourging we’re healed.

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All of us, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on him.

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Why did Jesus come into this?

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Why did the Son of God take on human flesh and was born in this world?

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He came to live a perfect life.

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He came to live a life that we can’t live.

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And he came to go to a cross to pay for a sin, a debt that we can’t afford to pay.

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And that’s exactly what he did for us.

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All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us turned to his own way, but the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

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One of the great Bible teachers of the 20th century was a man named Donald Barnhouse.

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And when Donald Barnhouse was 15 years old, he didn’t know the Lord.

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He knew he had some serious problems.

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And somehow he comes across this man who had formerly been a drug addict, but who God had saved in a miraculous way and had become a minister, a preacher of the gospel.

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And so Barnhouse is listening to this man, and he knows, this man has something that I need.

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There’s something that I need from this man.

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So he made it a point to be able to talk to him.

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He came to him and started talking to him.

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And he was explaining the gospel to him, and Barnhouse doesn’t quite get it.

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And so the man gives an object lesson, which helped Barnhouse and helped him come to faith in Christ.

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And what he did was, he took Barnhouse’s hand, had him hold it out, pulled his hand out, and he took a book, like this hymn book, and he laid it in his hand.

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And he says, it’s a very simple illustration, he says, see this?

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This is your problem.

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This is your sin, the sin that is on you.

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And because of your sin, you’re under the condemnation of God.

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And when he did that, he pushed down on the book.

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And he felt the weight of that burden, the weight of the condemnation that is on you.

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And he says what Christ did on the cross is that he took that sin debt and laid it on himself.

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And then he read that verse that we just read from Isaiah.

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All we like sheep have gone astray.

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We’ve turned everyone to his own way.

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That’s sin.

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And that’s the burden of sin.

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But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on him.

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Jesus took that burden of sin.

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He died on the cross to pay for that.

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The New Testament teaches absolutely the same truth repeatedly.

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2 Corinthians 5:20: He made him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

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1 Peter 2:23 and 24: When they hurled insults at him, when Christ was on the cross, he didn’t retaliate.

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When he suffered, he made no threats.

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Instead, he entrusted to him who judges justly.

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And then it says, He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness.

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Jesus took our sin on the cross.

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He suffered on the cross the darkness of separation from the Father for you.

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It’s an eternal debt that only our eternal God could pay.

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It would take us forever and ever, for all eternity, to pay for our sin.

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But Jesus took that sin on himself, and he paid for it.

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He paid for that.

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And so all the consequences of that are paid for.

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All the curse, as the carol that we sing, as far as the curse is found, that’s how far the redemption will stretch.

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When we enter heaven, God allows us to enter heaven because our sins are paid for.

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And we come to heaven clothed in the righteousness of our Lord Jesus, and we come to him in that way, perfect in Jesus Christ with his perfection.

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And God removes our sin.

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He removes all the ravages of sin.

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There’s no leprosy, no crying or mourning or tears.

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He takes all of it away.

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He raises us to new life in Christ, and he will raise us from the dead, and we will live in glory with him forever and ever.

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That’s the good news of the gospel.

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Yes, it’s difficult news.

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How do we receive that?

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Well, I suggest to you that we do that in the same way that this man did.

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We come to him in humility, recognizing his lordship, bowing before him, and saying that prayer that he prayed, Lord, if you’re willing, you can make me clean.

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And enjoying the cleansing that only can come to us through the sacrifice that Christ has offered to us, and putting our trust in that, believing it.

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We need to trust the Lord Jesus and his work and stop trusting ourselves.

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A million religions in the world, I don’t know how many there are, there are thousands and thousands, all of them say essentially the same thing, that if you do the right things, if there is any hope for you at all, if you can get rid of sin, you have to do it by working on it and doing something about it.

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But the message of the gospel is different.

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And that is that Jesus Christ came to do something about your sin, something that you will never be able to do.

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Can’t do it yourself.

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You’re like the leper, and you’re in a helpless situation.

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So you come to him, and you plead to him.

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And you say, Lord, if you’re willing, you can make me clean.

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And Jesus will touch you like he touched the leper.

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Your sins have been removed, paid for by the Lord Jesus.

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And you can have new life, the life of Christ in yourself.

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That’s the message of the gospel.

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That’s the gospel message.

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Let me pray for us.

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I guess we will go ahead and have the Lord’s table this morning.

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We’ll share in that, but let me pray for us before we do that.

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Father, we thank you for this simple gospel, the truth of the gospel, the extraordinary gospel of Christ’s coming.

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We thank you for the beauty of our Savior and what he’s done for us.

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Lord, I know that these words that I’ve spoken mean little, but the words that I’ve read from your Word, Father, they are life.

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They’re life.

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I ask, Father, by your mercy, that you open our hearts to receive you today.

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I pray for anyone, Lord, who needs you and has become aware of their great need for you.

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Father, that their trust right now would be in Christ.

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Not in anything that they’ve done.

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Not in themselves and Christ, but in Christ alone.

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In him alone.

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Recognizing that the debt Christ has paid is sufficient.

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And Father, that if we put our trust in you, turn from our sins, looking to you, that you will give us life.

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You will give us the heart to live for you.

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We ask, Lord, for that grace today.

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Bless us in this way.

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We leave each one, Father, to your special grace and ask, Father, your blessing today.

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Lord, we thank you for the table that is before us, the bread and the cup, which symbolizes the work that Christ has done for us.

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The bread symbolizes the body of Jesus that was broken in our place.

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It’s a message of the gospel.

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The cup is the blood that was poured out, which brings remission, the forgiveness of our sins.

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Father, that work took place on the cross, and today we remember it.

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We remember the work that Christ has done.

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Father, as we celebrate the Lord’s table today, I pray that we would do so with hearts of great gratitude.

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As we receive this, Lord, we would do so in complete faith in your work.

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Help us with this, we pray.

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Help us to worship you as we celebrate the Lord’s table this morning.

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We ask this in Jesus’ name.