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Ummary: Looking at The Leper's Exchange With Christ, We Find An Example of Moving From Powerless To Empower
Ummary: Looking at The Leper's Exchange With Christ, We Find An Example of Moving From Powerless To Empower
Looking at the leper's exchange with Christ, we find an example of moving from powerless to empower
Luke 5:12-16
12While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.”
13And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him. 14And he charged him to tell no one, but “go and show
yourself to the priest, and make an offering for your cleansing, as Moses commanded, for a proof to them.” 15But now even more the report about him went abroad, and great
crowds gathered to hear him and to be healed of their infirmities. 16But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray.
3. It destroys social interaction, cost us money, ruins marriages, families, futures, ruins the ability to trust, to have confidence, creates hypersensitivity
Matthew 12:20-21
Luke 4:18
A. Many of us take pills every morning, but there is no pill for a broken heart or shattered life.
Psalm 51:16-17
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John 16:7-8
Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. And when he
comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment.
A. Jesus said in verse 13, “I will; be clean.” This was in response to the Lepers request that if it is His will…”
B. In the first century Greek language there is no punctuation, if we read this w/o punctuation and if we read it as if we said it ourselves we read something else that is quite true
and quite encouraging.
“I will be clean.” Clean from drugs, alcohol, a miserable past, I will be clean of insecurity and hopelessness. I will be clean of a minimal life with low standards. I will be clean of
failures and I will be clean of doubts.
Verse 14 “And he charged him to tell no one, but “go and show yourself”
A. Make the changes that are necessary for everyone to see that you are in fact a Christian. Make changes that are obvious to all. “An ounce of example is worth a pound of
preaching.” Let your live tell the story of your change. Learn the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22-23 and let your obedience to God speak of your love for God. This does not
mean you never need to share the gospel. It means the proof of your changed life casts a backdrop that validates your words.
C. Now think of something you want. What do you have to do to get it? What’s stopping you? Do you have a spirit of disease or a Spirit of Life?