Luke 5:12-15

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Luke 512-15

• Cleansed Like A Leper

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Leper, leprosy

• A slowly progressing and intractable disease
  characterized by subcutaneous nodules, scabs, or
  cuticular crusts and white shining spots
  appearing to be deeper than the skin.
• Other signs are 1) the hair of the affected part
  turns white, and 2) later there is a growth of
  quick raw flesh.

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Leper, leprosy

• This disease in an especial manner rendered its
  victims unclean. Even contact with a leper
  defiled whoever touched him, so, while the cure
  of other diseases is called healing, that of
  leprosy is called cleansing.
• ISBE

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The Lepers Faith

• I. Made him eager for cleansing

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Today

• Some dont believe they CAN be cleansed

1 Corinthians 1013 No temptation has overtaken
you but such as is common to man
1 Timothy 113-15 even though I was formerly a
blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent
aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted
ignorantly in unbelief 15 It is a trustworthy
statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ
Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among
whom I am foremost of all.
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Today

• Some dont believe they CAN be cleansed
• Some love their leprosy

2 Peter 213-15 suffering wrong as the wages of
doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in
the daytime. They are stains and blemishes,
reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse
with you, 14 having eyes full of adultery that
never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls,
having a heart trained in greed, accursed
children 15 forsaking the right way, they have
gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam,
the son of Beor, who loved the wages of
unrighteousness
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Today

• Some dont believe they CAN be cleansed
• Some love their leprosy
• Some love the company of lepers

Proverbs 1319 it is an abomination to fools to
turn away from evil. Proverbs 2110 The soul of
the wicked desires evil His neighbor finds no
favor in his eyes
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The Lepers Faith

1. Made him eager for cleansing
2. Made him believe he could be cleansed

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MIRACLES AND PARABLES, pg. 64, Dr. Thomson

• The land and the book speaks of lepers in the
  East, and says, the hair falls from the head and
  eye brows the nails loosen and drop off joint
  after joint of the fingers and toes shrink up and
  slowly fall away. The gums are absorbed and the
  teeth disappear. The nose, eyes, tongue and
  palate are slowly consumed. This disease turns a
  man into a mass of loathsomeness, a walking pile
  of pests. Leprosy is nothing better than a
  horrible and lingering death.

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Is Sin Incurable?

• 1 Corinthians 69-11
• Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not
  inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived
  neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
  adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10
  nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor
  revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom
  of God. 11 Such were some of you but you were
  washed, but you were sanctified, but you were
  justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
  and in the Spirit of our God.

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The Lepers Faith

• Made him eager for cleansing
• Made him believe he could be cleansed
• Was fixed on Jesus alone

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Many are trusting men instead of just coming to
Jesus, by His word

• Proverbs 1412
• There is a way which seems right to a man,
  But its end is the way of death.

Acts 2216 Now why do you delay? Get up and be
baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His
name.'
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The Lepers Faith

1. Made him eager for cleansing
2. Made him believe he could be cleansed
3. Was fixed on Jesus alone
4. Made him want a REAL cure

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Some want Freudian psychology, attacking the
guilt instead of the sin! Some want comfort, not
conversion. Some want security, not
sanctification.

• Galatians 67-8
• do not be deceived, God is not mocked for
  whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. 8
  For the one who sows to his own flesh will from
  the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows
  to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal
  life.

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The Lepers Faith

• Made him eager for cleansing
• Made him believe he could be cleansed
• Was fixed on Jesus alone
• Made him want a REAL cure
• Had its reward.

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The Lepers Faith

• The healing was wonderful, but the touch made
  it perfect.

What is your need? Cleansing, forgiveness,
encouragement, strength, love, family,
relationship, a fresh start, a blank slate?
Jesus touch is not just basic--it is perfect.