1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 4 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 6 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 2: in your life. 7 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. Mark Chapter one, verse forty. 8 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 2: A man with leprosy came to him and begged him 9 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 2: on his knees, if you are willing, you can make 10 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 2: me clean. Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand 11 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 2: and touched the man. I am willing, he said, be clean. 12 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 2: Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cured. Jesus 13 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 2: sent him away at once with a strong warning. See 14 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 2: that you do not tell this to anyone, but go 15 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:51,919 Speaker 2: show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that 16 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 2: Moses commanded for your cleansing as a testimony to them. Instead, 17 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 2: he went out in began to talk freely, spreading the news, 18 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 2: and as a result, Jesus could no longer enter a 19 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:11,560 Speaker 2: town openly, but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the 20 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:15,040 Speaker 2: people still came to him from everywhere. 21 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: I'd like to speak today. 22 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 2: For a few moments about danger in the distance, danger 23 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 2: in the distance. Certain phrases in our Christian vocabulary lose 24 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 2: their power, or at least their ability to penetrate our 25 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 2: psyche because of usage. 26 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: Like when we say grace. 27 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 2: This is a phrase or a word, a concept that 28 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 2: is so familiar to many of us that I am 29 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 2: afraid when we sing amazing Grace, we can barely through 30 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 2: our yawning, understand just how scandalous the concept is. I 31 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 2: also thought that maybe what of our worship leaders at 32 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 2: one of our locations would write us. 33 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: A song called dangerous Grace? 34 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 2: Because to really understand the grace of God is to 35 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 2: understand that it jeopardizes the way you have lived your life, 36 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 2: and it will not be contained by our conception of it, 37 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,239 Speaker 2: but our conception of it must come up to the 38 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:24,639 Speaker 2: level of its efficacy. In Mark Chapter one, verse forty 39 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 2: through forty five, we see an example of this kind 40 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 2: of grace, and I'd like to spend the majority of 41 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 2: my time. 42 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: In just one verse. 43 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 2: The first verse, verse forty says that a man with 44 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 2: leprosy came to him. I looked in Matthew's Gospel, Luke's Gospel, 45 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 2: and John's Gospel to see if I could find a 46 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:47,800 Speaker 2: little more information about this man. Mark doesn't tell us 47 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 2: much about his background, his hair color, his eye color. 48 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 2: He doesn't even give the common courtesy of stating his name. Now, 49 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 2: come on, you even ask your server his name at 50 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 2: the restaurant, And this man, who is the subject of 51 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 2: one of the first miracles recorded in this market account, 52 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 2: does not. 53 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: Even get a name. 54 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 2: We are not told his name, but we are told 55 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 2: about his condition, which is leprosy. We're not given his name, 56 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 2: but we know about his issue, which is leprosy. It 57 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 2: goes to show that sometimes your identity can be consumed 58 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 2: by your issues. That is, you can become more known 59 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 2: by what's wrong with you than who you have the 60 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 2: potential to be. Is anybody here to the point that 61 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 2: you no longer know your own name, or you no 62 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 2: longer have a real sense of your identity or yourself. 63 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 2: We are losing a sense of ourself at times because 64 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 2: our issues have run so rampant that they have consumed 65 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 2: our issues have consumed our identity. Now, when Moses met 66 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 2: with God, the fire was burning the bush, but it 67 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 2: did not consume the bush. It burned and burned and burned, 68 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 2: and God spoke from the bush. He said, I want 69 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 2: you to know who I am. Moses said, who are you? 70 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 2: He said, I am? Moses said I am is a 71 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 2: good start. 72 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: What comes next? 73 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,159 Speaker 2: And then God said, without saying, whatever you need comes next, 74 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,039 Speaker 2: because I will not change I am, but what you 75 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 2: will need in different seasons of your life will change. 76 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:29,039 Speaker 2: So whatever you need I will already be before you 77 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 2: even know your need. 78 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:31,839 Speaker 1: I am what you need. 79 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 2: How many are grateful for an omnipotent, omniscient God who 80 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,720 Speaker 2: knows what you need and can be what you need now. 81 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 2: Some people know what you need, but they cannot be it. 82 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 2: Some people would love to give you what you need. 83 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:47,559 Speaker 1: If they could, but they can't. 84 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 2: God is the only one who simultaneously knows what you 85 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 2: need and is what you need. And I dare you 86 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 2: to look at the person next to you, even if 87 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 2: you've been married for forty three years, and tell them 88 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 2: you can't be what I need. Not in every season. 89 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 2: You can't be what I need. You might come close sometimes, 90 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 2: but I need a God who is familiar with my 91 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 2: secrets and my most intimate issues and has still made 92 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,599 Speaker 2: the decision to love me on my worst day with 93 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 2: no makeup on in my failure with my flaws. I 94 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 2: need a God who will choose me not just despite 95 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 2: my flaws, but because of my flaws, and cause all 96 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:25,480 Speaker 2: things to work together for my good according to his purpose. 97 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 2: Who will make my weakness his strength, Who will set 98 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 2: up and dwell in the midst of a broken praise? 99 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:31,599 Speaker 1: God? 100 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 2: Is that to me? This man has given no name. 101 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 2: We know his issue, but not his name. His identity 102 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:43,280 Speaker 2: has been completely. 103 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 1: Consumed by his issue. 104 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 2: I'm hanging out on this point because I wonder has 105 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 2: it ever happened to you? 106 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:51,719 Speaker 1: God did not say I am the great? I did. 107 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 2: But there is always a temptation in life to overidentify, 108 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 2: either with your issues or with your gifts. So if 109 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 2: you are really good at something, you can learn in 110 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:07,839 Speaker 2: life to perform in such a way that you receive 111 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 2: the praise of people because of. 112 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 1: What you do. God is not the great I do, 113 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: He is the great I am. 114 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 2: I feel like the revelation of this is worth us 115 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 2: hanging out in verse forty for just a minute. 116 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 1: We've got time. 117 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 2: A man with leprosy, A man with leprosy whose name 118 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 2: has been consumed by his disease, for. 119 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:28,159 Speaker 1: Which there is no cure. 120 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:32,720 Speaker 2: A man who has been relegated and confined and quarantined 121 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 2: to the outside quarters of society, prohibited from normal human relationships, 122 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 2: caused to dwell in desolation. 123 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: In Leviticus thirteen, we. 124 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 2: See a snapshot of the kind of situation this man 125 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:50,160 Speaker 2: would have lived. In the book of Leviticus, at points 126 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:53,360 Speaker 2: reads more like a whole thirty book than it does 127 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 2: like a scripture verse because all the dietary restrictions are there, 128 00:06:57,760 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 2: And then when you get to Leviticus thirteen, it's more 129 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:01,719 Speaker 2: like a dermatology manual. 130 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:03,839 Speaker 1: Then it is like a devotion. 131 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 2: And so don't read Leviticus if you're looking for that 132 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:07,839 Speaker 2: quick inspiration. 133 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: You know it gives prescriptions like this. 134 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 2: It says, if you have leprosy, anyone with such a 135 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 2: defiling disease must wear torn clothes, let their hair be unkempt, 136 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 2: cover the lower part of their face, and cry out unclean, unclean, 137 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 2: and watch what's next. As long as they have the disease, 138 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 2: they remain unclean. They must live alone, they must live 139 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 2: outside the camp. The greatest pain of this particular issue 140 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 2: is not physical, It is emotional. It is the pain 141 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 2: of isolation. So now you understand the significance of this phrase. 142 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 2: A man with leprosy who had no name came to him, 143 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 2: who was the name above every name. I could preach 144 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 2: that for a whole series. That thing just hit me, 145 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 2: the whole only Spirit of God just told me to 146 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 2: tell you that whatever name your issue has, there is 147 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,559 Speaker 2: a name that is above that name. 148 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 3: And if you can name. 149 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 2: The issue, I know a name that is a puppet 150 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 2: that can make your issue. She got it, that can 151 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 2: make your issue. Take a knee in the presence of 152 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 2: a mighty God. Let's take ten seconds and praise that name. 153 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 2: Come on that the name of Jesus. Every knee will vow, 154 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 2: and every talk confess. 155 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 3: I don't want to wait till one day. I might 156 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 3: as well use my talk right now. 157 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 1: Praise this name. 158 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:51,439 Speaker 2: He came to him, and he did it. He did 159 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:55,440 Speaker 2: it all wrong. He did it all wrong. He did 160 00:08:55,559 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 2: the total wrong thing. This man, this he broke religious 161 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:08,320 Speaker 2: rule in the book. He didn't, first of all, announce unclean, unclean. Okay, 162 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 2: he didn't identify himself by his issue unclean, unclean. And 163 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 2: he did not keep the appropriate distance because when you 164 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 2: have leprosy, you've got to stay back because you are contagious. 165 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 2: This law was not given because people were cruel. It's 166 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:31,439 Speaker 2: kind of like I didn't think to say this in 167 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 2: the other ones, But y'all are so advanced you pull 168 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 2: stuff out of me. You know how there are certain 169 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 2: kids you don't want your kid around. Not that you 170 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 2: don't like that kid, but if that kid rubs off 171 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,080 Speaker 2: on your kid, it's just like they don't have the 172 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 2: same values, and then you might realize your kid is 173 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 2: that kid. That's a parenting sermon, and I don't do that. 174 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:04,079 Speaker 2: It's a it is It's crazy that he would think 175 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 2: to approach anyone, let alone the miracle worker from Galilee. 176 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 2: A man with leprosy came to him, came to him. 177 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: Let me do this, Let me take a second, two three, 178 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 1: four ten, so. 179 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 4: T two thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, 180 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 4: twenty one, twenty two lebron twenty four six, nine, thirty one, 181 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 4: two thirty three, thirty four, thirty five six. There's thirty 182 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:45,320 Speaker 4: eight thirty nine forty two. 183 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: What a three? What a four? What a five? 184 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 2: Six seven forty nine fifteen that's the distance, Wow, fifty 185 00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 2: paces away, the ffty paces away. That's how long you 186 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:05,200 Speaker 2: had this. That's that's the appropriate distance. 187 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: That a leper was supposed to keep. 188 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:14,679 Speaker 2: In order that they would not defile someone who was clean. 189 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:22,960 Speaker 2: Fifty fifty paces. I thought about calling this a message. 190 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:31,559 Speaker 2: Fifty paces to grace. I like that, not fifty shades 191 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 2: and nothing like that. Fifty paces to grace. 192 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 1: And he's. 193 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 2: He's he's allowed to be around people, not too close though, 194 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 2: not too close, though just at a distance. 195 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 1: He can come to church. The leper can come to church. 196 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 2: But if he comes to church, he has to sit 197 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 2: behind a special screen so nobody will catch what he has. 198 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 2: The only way that we'll make you sit in a 199 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 2: special place at elevation is if you are late, but 200 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 2: we don't check you at the door. You know what's 201 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:25,079 Speaker 2: your issue, and then see you accordingly. Wouldn't that be interesting, 202 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 2: because see, the leopard had an advantage over a lot 203 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 2: of us. His issue was on the outside. A lot 204 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 2: of us don't have spots on our skin. We have 205 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 2: secret spots, spots in our soul. Issues of insecurity you 206 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 2: can't see them. Certain issues you can see. You know, 207 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 2: certain addictions manifest in practical ways, and then someone goes 208 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 2: to get help. The thing about secret spots, though, is 209 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:00,679 Speaker 2: when they are on the inside of you. 210 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 1: And be in church, but you are behind a screen. 211 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 2: So the screen keeps other people from seeing you as 212 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 2: you really are, but it also keeps you from seeing 213 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 2: God as he really is. 214 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:23,959 Speaker 1: Y'all need to help me preach this. I'm feeling very 215 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: vulnerable back here. 216 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 2: You can come to church, but you're behind a screen. 217 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 2: You can come to church, but you don't really let 218 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 2: the presence of God touch you. Come to church, but 219 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 2: you fight down the emotions. You can come to church, 220 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 2: but you play it off because the people next to you, 221 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 2: they kind of know you, and you feel kind of 222 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:50,560 Speaker 2: a shame. See, shame always creates a screen, a screen 223 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 2: to keep you from being who you really are, from 224 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 2: seeing and being seen and from back here behind this screen. 225 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 2: I'm at church but not really coming home physically, but 226 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 2: I'm staying at work emotionally. I learn how to hide 227 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 2: behind the screen because if I stay behind. 228 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: The screen, they can't see me behind the screen. Give 229 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: me a phone. I need a phone. I need a 230 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 1: phone behind the screen, behind a screen. 231 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 2: The Devil's got us hiding behind scream how creepy is it? 232 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 2: With my hand preaching to you right now behind that screen, 233 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 2: behind that screen where you create digital personas to hide 234 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 2: your dysfunction. And in an age where we have more 235 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 2: apparatus to connect than ever before, we are impotent to 236 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 2: be intimate because intimacy requires proximity. In other words, you've 237 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 2: got to come out and be seen, and you can't 238 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 2: be seen since yours behind a screen. 239 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: The man violated the law that was meant to. 240 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 2: Protect the people from being infected by what had consumed 241 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 2: his skin. And he heard that there was a man 242 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 2: who had been standing up in synagogues and telling demons 243 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 2: to sit down and shut up. And he figured, if 244 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 2: Jesus can deal with demons, maybe he's got something for 245 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 2: my skin too. 246 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 1: If Jesus can do. 247 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 2: That for them, see, that's what you need to be encouraged. 248 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 2: If he ever did it for anyone wants to stop 249 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 2: him from doing it for you. You decided to take 250 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 2: the walk of shame fifty steps. The first one must 251 00:15:55,560 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 2: have been the hardest. If I stay here, I'm going 252 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 2: to die. I'd rather die trying to behold than live 253 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 2: half hearted. Here's my whole sermon in case you're watching 254 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 2: this online in Wisconsin and you need to get lunch 255 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 2: in the oven, and you can't watch the rest. The 256 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 2: danger of isolation is much greater than the risk of intimacy. 257 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:40,480 Speaker 2: That's the whole sermon. 258 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:46,359 Speaker 1: It's safer to come out from behind. 259 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 2: The screen and be seen as you really are than 260 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 2: it is to hide behind an image of what you 261 00:16:55,360 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 2: want people to think you are while you die inside 262 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:09,359 Speaker 2: the secret spots, secret insecurities that caused us to stay 263 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,600 Speaker 2: behind performance and profession. 264 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 1: So he started that walk of shame forty nine, forty eight. 265 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:36,359 Speaker 2: Nobody stopped me yet. Forty seven I got a question, 266 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 2: just a question. Where was Peter? Peter shouldn't have let 267 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:47,200 Speaker 2: this man get that close to Jesus. Remember when Peter 268 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:48,919 Speaker 2: cut off Malcus's ear in the garden. 269 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: Where was his sword? 270 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:55,439 Speaker 2: This could have ruined the whole ministry, because if the 271 00:17:55,680 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 2: unclean touches the clean, the clean becomes unclean. Forty six. 272 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:05,639 Speaker 2: But this man had apparently become desperate. I don't know 273 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:07,480 Speaker 2: what happened on this day, or if it was just 274 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 2: his personality type, but he decided to try. I'm going 275 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 2: to present myself forty five, forty four, forty three, forty two, 276 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:23,920 Speaker 2: forty one, forty still got a long way to go. 277 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 2: But I'd rather I'd rather find out for myself thirty 278 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:32,679 Speaker 2: nine thirty eight because if he can really do what 279 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:35,200 Speaker 2: they say he can do, I can hold my daughter again. 280 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 2: Thirty seven, thirty six thirty five. 281 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 1: I don't even know if I'm going. 282 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:45,639 Speaker 2: To make it to him, because they could kill me 283 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:48,159 Speaker 2: for what I'm doing right now. They can stone me 284 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 2: outside the camp for daring to bring my defiled self 285 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 2: in the presence of the undefiled. 286 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 1: But thirty four thirty three. 287 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 2: Because sometimes you come to a point where you don't 288 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:01,679 Speaker 2: even care how it looks anymore, or really even what 289 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 2: it costs you. Because I'd rather live as I really 290 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 2: am than die in this lonely place. So thirty two 291 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:16,920 Speaker 2: thirty one, I wonder is anybody coming today? Thirty twenty 292 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 2: nine twenty eight. I hope they don't kill me. Twenty seven, 293 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 2: twenty six, twenty five. I know I look crazy, but 294 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:27,960 Speaker 2: twenty four, twenty. 295 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 3: Three, twenty two I might as well. Twenty one I've 296 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:36,160 Speaker 3: already lost so much. Twenty I'm desperate now I'm closer now. 297 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:45,879 Speaker 5: Eighteen seventeen sixteen there is fifteen fourteen thirteen, twelve, eleven 298 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 5: ten nine, Hey. 299 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: Am I really gonna do this. Come too far to 300 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: turn around. 301 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 2: I'm closer to this than I am to that. Seven six. 302 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 2: You're gonna keep marching around those walls? Are you're gonna 303 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:09,800 Speaker 2: stop them? Five? 304 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:17,399 Speaker 3: Four three two? Want somebody shot up here? 305 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 1: Here? 306 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:22,800 Speaker 3: I am Lord. 307 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 2: I'm a man of unclean lips, and I live amongst 308 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 2: the people of unclean lips. 309 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:29,360 Speaker 1: And you can see. 310 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:32,159 Speaker 2: In my skin that on the surface, I'm defiled. But 311 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 2: I have more faith than a lot of the people 312 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:42,399 Speaker 2: who have perfect skin, because at least I came. I 313 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 2: heard that you could heal, and I'm here, and I 314 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 2: know I'm not supposed to be here, and I know 315 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 2: they could kill me for being here. And if you 316 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:56,399 Speaker 2: are who I've heard you are, you are the Holy 317 00:20:56,440 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 2: One of God, and your holiness and my holiness do 318 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:04,159 Speaker 2: not belong in this same vicinity. 319 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:05,199 Speaker 1: But I'm here. 320 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 2: I took fifty steps to get here that I wasn't 321 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:17,680 Speaker 2: supposed to take. But I'm here. I'm completely out of place, 322 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 2: but I'm here. Put the verse up again. I'm here. 323 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 2: I'm out of place. Oh it wasn't the fifty steps 324 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:40,959 Speaker 2: that got him healed. It was the next thing he 325 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 2: did when he got there a man with leprosy came 326 00:21:47,320 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 2: to him and begged him. 327 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:04,320 Speaker 1: I'm here. 328 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 2: And I'm humble. It wasn't those first fifty steps that 329 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:19,680 Speaker 2: got him healed. It was the fifty first. You can 330 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:21,679 Speaker 2: come all the way to church and not get healed, 331 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:27,119 Speaker 2: because you won't get it like this. But if you 332 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 2: will humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, I 333 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 2: hit your knees in your heart and let Cotton know 334 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:42,120 Speaker 2: I don't want to be my issues anymore. I heard 335 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:48,400 Speaker 2: what you could do, and if you will, you can 336 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 2: make me clean. I know you can. I'm just not 337 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 2: sure if you will. I found out as much easier 338 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 2: to get people to believe that God is great than 339 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 2: it is to get them to believe that God is good. 340 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 2: It's not hard to get people to believe that God. 341 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 1: Can do anything. 342 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 2: The universe declares the glory of God, and the sky 343 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:16,280 Speaker 2: sow forth his power, the firmament, his handiwork is not 344 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 2: can God make an ocean that I wonder about its? 345 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 1: Can God still the seas within me? Because I know 346 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 1: you can? But will you and Jesus did something. 347 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 2: So scandalous, so dangerous. See, intimacy is risky for Jesus 348 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 2: to touch this man, it put him at risk of 349 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 2: catching what the man had. 350 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:59,360 Speaker 1: And he touched the man. He touched the man. 351 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,200 Speaker 2: Some of you will even high five your neighbor in 352 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 2: church without hand sanitizer, and Jesus touch the man is 353 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 2: lise aden. 354 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,680 Speaker 1: He touched them. 355 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 2: You can't do that, Jesus, because according to levitical law, 356 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 2: if the unclean touches the clean, the clean will become unclean. 357 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,840 Speaker 2: Jesus said, I did not come to abolish the law, 358 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:32,720 Speaker 2: but to fulfill it. See when that which is perfect 359 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 2: has come, that which is imperfect will be done away with. 360 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:43,360 Speaker 2: Now one greater than Moses is on the scene. This 361 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 2: is one greater than he who heard I Am. 362 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,160 Speaker 1: This is the I Am which. 363 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:51,159 Speaker 2: Was spoken of in that bush, and he's on the scene. 364 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:55,200 Speaker 1: So Jesus says, I'm not worried about touching him. 365 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 2: If the unclean touch the clean, then the clean becomes 366 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 2: un clean. But if the unclean touches Jesus, Jesus. 367 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,160 Speaker 1: You'll better get ready. I'm a trump this. 368 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:14,280 Speaker 2: Who is the perfect sinless thunless lamb of God, when 369 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:19,679 Speaker 2: one is unclean touches one is perfectly clean, The unclean 370 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 2: doesn't make the clean unclean. 371 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:26,399 Speaker 3: The clean makes the unclean clean, Shut up out grace 372 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,199 Speaker 3: not That made me happy when I read it. I 373 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 3: thought about how he is not. 374 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 2: A saying to be identified with me, how he's not 375 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,400 Speaker 2: worried about catching what I got. 376 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,640 Speaker 3: But if I get close enough to Jesus, it's righteous. 377 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,720 Speaker 3: It's a room for me. Now I find somebody and say. 378 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 2: Catches, catch grace, catch praise, pay announcement. 379 00:25:55,280 --> 00:26:00,800 Speaker 3: Grace is contagious. Praise is contagious. For all of you 380 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 3: who are sitting next. 381 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 2: To somebody who doesn't want to praise God, I. 382 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:10,240 Speaker 3: Dare you to break out and seize on until your 383 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 3: home role is praising God. Come on, play meant the 384 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 3: three people in the center section. Praise is contagious. Oh man, 385 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:22,159 Speaker 3: No five, the Lord with me. Let us exupt. 386 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:38,680 Speaker 2: Touch everybody you can reasay. Grace is contagious. It's contagious. 387 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 2: It's contagious. It's contagious. Grace is more contagious than shame. 388 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what you've done. It doesn't matter where 389 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:49,239 Speaker 2: you've been, it doesn't matter what you smell like, it 390 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,160 Speaker 2: doesn't matter what they labeled you. 391 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,119 Speaker 3: You are not what you did, and you are not 392 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 3: what they said. 393 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:58,920 Speaker 2: Somebody shout, I am the lissness of God. Now take 394 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 2: twenty seconds and that like you. 395 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:01,080 Speaker 3: Just got here. 396 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:15,119 Speaker 6: I am I never heard of before. I heard I 397 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 6: am the Bread of Life. I heard I am the 398 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 6: Light of the world. I heard I am the Date. 399 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 6: I heard I am the Good Shepherd. I heard I 400 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:22,239 Speaker 6: am the Way of the Truth and the Life. I 401 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,720 Speaker 6: heard I am the Resurrection. I've never heard this one. 402 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 6: I am Willing. God's nickname is Will. And he touched him, 403 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 6: and he touched that man. The first time that that 404 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 6: man felt something on his skin. 405 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,440 Speaker 2: He was touched by the one who wrapped him in flesh, 406 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:54,960 Speaker 2: and the word became flesh. 407 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 1: This is just a gospel message. 408 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,440 Speaker 2: This is just a gospel message that's not very deep. 409 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 1: I understand that it's not very profound. I get that. 410 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 2: But it's so much shame that keeps us away from 411 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,119 Speaker 2: the presence of the God who is already willing to 412 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 2: take it away. 413 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 1: So much shame. 414 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:18,480 Speaker 2: When Jesus looked at that man, the Bible says he 415 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:28,159 Speaker 2: was forty one filled with compassion. He was filled with compassion. 416 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,680 Speaker 2: You look confused? Are you confused? 417 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 1: Nine? Ten? Coming back? Well, thirteen forty. 418 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 2: I saw you had that digital Bible sitting next to you. 419 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:50,160 Speaker 2: I noticed you had that digital Bible. And when I 420 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 2: just said that Jesus was filled with compassion, you look confused. 421 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 2: Sit down, Let's talk about it for a second. Pull 422 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 2: it back out. Because they said Jesus was filled with compassion. Yep, 423 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,160 Speaker 2: there it is, Give me yours. This is a mess 424 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 2: right here. Let me break out this woman's pink Bible 425 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:17,720 Speaker 2: to show you what the word. 426 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:18,120 Speaker 1: Of God is. 427 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 2: Oh see, this is what your says too. 428 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 1: It says filled with compassion. We're all reading that same translation. 429 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,080 Speaker 1: Who's got an orange elevation Bible? 430 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,640 Speaker 2: You got one we gave away like nineteen thousand of 431 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,280 Speaker 2: these two people who made a profession of faith or 432 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 2: rededication in Christ last year. Praise the Lord. We studied 433 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 2: a Bible like this. Yep, see this one we gave you. 434 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:58,200 Speaker 2: This one is the one I wanted to show. They 435 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:06,960 Speaker 2: translated it from Greece and sometimes the languages. There's a 436 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:11,280 Speaker 2: distance between culturally, how they saw certain concepts and how 437 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 2: we see certain concepts. 438 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,000 Speaker 1: And when we say grace, it's a soft term. 439 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:21,440 Speaker 2: But when the Hebrew mind thought of grace, they imagined 440 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 2: grace coming from the same place that anger came from. 441 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 1: It all came from I'm a teacher. Word. 442 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 2: You got any friends who make fun of you for 443 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 2: coming to this church, break this out on them at 444 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 2: lunch today, splug NEETs so my. 445 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:38,760 Speaker 1: Yeah. 446 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 2: Just say it with confidence. They won't know if you 447 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 2: said it right. Just say it, Just say in the Greek. 448 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,920 Speaker 2: Tell your neighbor in the Greek, it's splug NEETs so my. 449 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,959 Speaker 2: And here in this translation, which they did in twenty eleven, 450 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,720 Speaker 2: the n IV Translation Committee, they did it a little different. 451 00:30:55,760 --> 00:31:00,800 Speaker 2: They said Jesus was indignant and eighty four. When they 452 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 2: got together to translate it according to the same protocol 453 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 2: of translation, they put it as put the other one 454 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 2: up there again, if you can in the back compassion. 455 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,240 Speaker 2: And then when they translated it again, they said, no, 456 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:19,120 Speaker 2: it should be indignant, angry, furious, frustrated, annoyed, indignant, undignified. 457 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:27,760 Speaker 2: Which one is it? Was he filled with compassion or 458 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 2: was he indignant? Yes, yes, he was filled with compassion, 459 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 2: and he was indignant. He came from the same place. 460 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 2: Plug needs some eye. It means the guts, the bowels, 461 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 2: the place where you really. 462 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:53,040 Speaker 1: Feel it, which becomes. 463 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 2: Much more meaningful when you remember that the first sign 464 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,520 Speaker 2: of lepers he is that you lose feeling in your extremities. 465 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,560 Speaker 2: And now this man who has lost the ability to 466 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 2: feel and who has gone numb, is touched by a 467 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:17,840 Speaker 2: savior who can feel for him. This is where Christianity 468 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,920 Speaker 2: is different than every other world religion. 469 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,240 Speaker 1: This is why we're not just one. 470 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,680 Speaker 2: In a list, because we have not a high priest 471 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:29,520 Speaker 2: who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but. 472 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 1: He is able to be touched with the feeling. And 473 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,320 Speaker 1: you know what happens in life. 474 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:44,960 Speaker 2: We go numb, especially in this age of information where 475 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:51,120 Speaker 2: we are expected to process all of the events all 476 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,360 Speaker 2: at once, the good ones, the bad ones. We can't 477 00:32:54,800 --> 00:33:00,920 Speaker 2: feel it anymore. When you go numb, you can get 478 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,760 Speaker 2: hurt and not feel it, and you can die of 479 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:08,320 Speaker 2: a small cut that becomes infected because you do not 480 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,720 Speaker 2: feel it and you don't know it needs healing because 481 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:17,400 Speaker 2: you do not feel it. Has the enemy made you 482 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:23,480 Speaker 2: go numb to the point that you no longer feel splat. 483 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:26,560 Speaker 1: Needs some mind? Jesus felt for the man. The religious 484 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 1: system had gone numb. The religious system. When Jesus healed 485 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:31,440 Speaker 1: a man with a shriveled hand. 486 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,240 Speaker 2: One chapter later in Mark, they were worried about which 487 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:36,920 Speaker 2: day he did it on. They had gone so numb 488 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 2: that the only thing they could think about was he 489 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:40,400 Speaker 2: broke the rules. 490 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:42,240 Speaker 1: But Jesus, who. 491 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:46,880 Speaker 2: Is the righteousness of God, looked at this man with compassion, 492 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,680 Speaker 2: and he looked at the shame that the man. 493 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,520 Speaker 1: Carried with anger. Splot needs some mind. 494 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 2: And Jesus, looking at the man's condition, breaks the rules, 495 00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:58,720 Speaker 2: makes a move. 496 00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:02,600 Speaker 1: He feels for the man. He touches the man. 497 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,560 Speaker 2: He touches him because he feels for him. 498 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 1: I want to feel again, God. 499 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:12,000 Speaker 2: I want my heart to break over the state of 500 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,480 Speaker 2: my family. I want my heart to break over the 501 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,799 Speaker 2: state of race relations in my nation. I want my 502 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,600 Speaker 2: heart to break over what is not yet perfect in me. 503 00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:25,719 Speaker 2: I want to feel again, God. I want to feel 504 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:29,120 Speaker 2: the joy of your presence. Cast me, not away from 505 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:32,120 Speaker 2: your prentice, renew a right spirit in me. 506 00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:38,200 Speaker 1: I want to feel again. I don't want to. 507 00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:43,000 Speaker 2: Go through life hiding behind screens and numb on the inside. 508 00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:47,280 Speaker 1: I don't want to feel again. I want your presence 509 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:48,520 Speaker 1: more than I want to profal. 510 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:58,040 Speaker 3: I want to feel again. Why was he angry? 511 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,600 Speaker 1: Wasn't angry the man. It wasn't the man's fall. He 512 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:03,880 Speaker 1: had leprosy. 513 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:08,680 Speaker 2: Maybe he was mad because he knew that the man 514 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:10,719 Speaker 2: was going to do exactly what he told him not 515 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:11,080 Speaker 2: to do. 516 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:16,560 Speaker 1: Did you catch that part in verse forty three? 517 00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:21,560 Speaker 2: Jesus sent him away at once with a strong warning. 518 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:26,000 Speaker 1: Again, the English is weak. It's weak. It's not wrong, 519 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:26,680 Speaker 1: it's just weak. 520 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:33,799 Speaker 2: It means Jesus charged the man with a flared nostril. 521 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,360 Speaker 1: That's the picture. Look this up on Google. 522 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,200 Speaker 2: You will see one scholar said. 523 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:47,120 Speaker 1: Jesus snorted. Now, I know you don't like snorting Jesus. 524 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 1: You like snuggy Jesus. But Jesus snorted. 525 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,600 Speaker 2: And told the man, don't tell anyone what I did 526 00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:57,239 Speaker 2: to you, because if you tell people, it will prohibit me, 527 00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,359 Speaker 2: because they will just want me to do for them 528 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,879 Speaker 2: of miracle. But I've got to do what I came 529 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 2: to do, which just die for their sin, not just 530 00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:15,319 Speaker 2: fix their issues. And Jesus said that Marty McFly thing 531 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,000 Speaker 2: going on, you know that back to the future. He 532 00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,040 Speaker 2: knew that the man was going to do exactly what 533 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,480 Speaker 2: he told him to do, but he healed him anyway. 534 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,279 Speaker 2: He knew you would still struggle with sin, but he 535 00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,880 Speaker 2: saved you anyway. 536 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:30,080 Speaker 1: This is so powerful. 537 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,680 Speaker 2: I need to hurry up touch somebody said he did 538 00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:38,719 Speaker 2: it anyway. He knew that even though my chains would 539 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:43,400 Speaker 2: be broken, I would still struggle with the remnant of 540 00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:49,279 Speaker 2: my sin. But he did it anyway. Jesus told the man, 541 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:54,960 Speaker 2: don't tell anyone, and the man went and told him anyway. 542 00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:59,080 Speaker 1: Now I could preach that a couple of ways. One 543 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,000 Speaker 1: way would be when. 544 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:02,759 Speaker 2: God has touched you and healed you in ways that 545 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:04,760 Speaker 2: no one can. You can't keep it to yourself. 546 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,400 Speaker 1: No one will have to train you to evangelize. You 547 00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:14,400 Speaker 1: will just naturally tell somebody he changed me. 548 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,200 Speaker 2: In fact, your life will be like product placement. People 549 00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:22,520 Speaker 2: will start asking you what happened to you, and you'll 550 00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:26,200 Speaker 2: be like, come see a man who told me, Come 551 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:29,080 Speaker 2: see a man who wasn't ashamed to touch me. 552 00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:32,160 Speaker 3: Don't just come to church with me, You need to 553 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:32,799 Speaker 3: meet a man. 554 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:36,279 Speaker 1: He went in. 555 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:46,839 Speaker 2: He went and told everybody what he wasn't supposed to tell, 556 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:49,360 Speaker 2: And the Bible says. 557 00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:55,800 Speaker 1: That because he did. It's so beautiful. 558 00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:02,799 Speaker 2: That Jesus verse forty five could no longer enter a 559 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:04,800 Speaker 2: place openly. 560 00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:13,560 Speaker 1: You see it, do you see it, but stayed outside 561 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,360 Speaker 1: in lonely places. 562 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:25,200 Speaker 2: When this story started, the leper was in the lonely place. 563 00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:30,440 Speaker 1: By the time it was. 564 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:43,280 Speaker 2: Over, Jesus was where the leper belonged. Here is the gospel. 565 00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,360 Speaker 2: He did not just heal the man's skin. 566 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:48,720 Speaker 1: He took his place. 567 00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:57,120 Speaker 2: And that's why I praise him. Not just because he 568 00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,279 Speaker 2: gave me a good parking spot, not just because my 569 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:04,360 Speaker 2: family always went to church, not just because I feel guilty, 570 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:08,560 Speaker 2: but because he took my place. Somebody shout, he took 571 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:13,440 Speaker 2: my place. See, the Bible says the leper came to Jesus. 572 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:17,400 Speaker 2: I beeck to different because in the fullness of time 573 00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:21,160 Speaker 2: God sent his son to be born of a virgin. 574 00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:23,719 Speaker 2: The lever didn't come to Jesus. 575 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:27,399 Speaker 3: Jesus came to the leper. I want you to know 576 00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:31,879 Speaker 3: he sees where you are. He knows what you struggle with. 577 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:36,560 Speaker 3: He is not ashamed to come to you. Somebody get 578 00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:47,200 Speaker 3: a place because he can. He didn't just heal my issue. 579 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:49,160 Speaker 3: He took my place. 580 00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:52,960 Speaker 1: He took my place. 581 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:58,120 Speaker 2: Now the leper can go in and Jesus must stay out. 582 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:06,200 Speaker 2: And he became sin who knew no sin that we 583 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:10,880 Speaker 2: might become the righteousness of God. 584 00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:14,640 Speaker 1: This gospel I. 585 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:19,440 Speaker 2: Preach has the power to take away your guilt and 586 00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:23,440 Speaker 2: your shame. But you've got to get in position. My brother, 587 00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:34,920 Speaker 2: my sister, you can't get this grace until you're willing 588 00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:42,520 Speaker 2: to bring yourself into submission. If you will, you can 589 00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:49,359 Speaker 2: you see I'm weak? I heard you were strong. Will 590 00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:50,040 Speaker 2: you do it for me? 591 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:56,200 Speaker 1: God? On the inside. I don't just want my screen. 592 00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:59,160 Speaker 2: To be shinier. I want you to touch me on 593 00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:03,120 Speaker 2: the inside. I want to feel again. I want to 594 00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:07,319 Speaker 2: feel again. I want to return to my first love. 595 00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:11,400 Speaker 2: I want my lamb to burn again with holy oil. 596 00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:21,319 Speaker 2: Will you touch me? Lord and Jesus reached out, touch 597 00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:21,880 Speaker 2: the man. 598 00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:27,000 Speaker 1: And his shame was gone. 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