G2532 G151 G2532 G3473 G2228 G2160 G3588 G433 G3756 G433 G235 G3123 G2169 5 You can be sure that no immoral, impure, or greedy person will inherit the Kingdom of Christ and of God. Instead, let there be thankfulness to God. Such sins have no place among God's people. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God. G1096 G3402 G3767 G3402 G2316 G5613 G27 G5043 2 Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. Walt, Seedbeds Sower in Chief, is a Bond Slave of the Lord Jesus Christ.Living in the Light 5 Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children. Join the Daily Text Fasting Challenge here. Whenever you sign up, it will begin the following Tuesday. Subscribe to receive the Daily Text email. Do you see the difference between praying, “God if it’s your will, would you _” and, “Lord Jesus, if you are willing, you can _.” It’s not as subtle as it looks. What keeps us from actually becoming desperate before God? Could it be our pride and need to retain control?ģ. THE QUESTIONSġ. What keeps you from laying hold of these three words of Jesus, “I am willing,” in your own situation? Could it be your fear of being disappointed? Would you be willing to risk that?Ģ. Often we can be in a desperate situation without actually becoming desperate ourselves. I want us to stop there and press rewind on our DVR’s and watch the instant replay on this scene and these words and what happens next about a dozen times. Second, note the three extraordinary words spoken by Jesus, “ I am willing.” First, this prayer, “ If you are willing you can make me clean,” is a different prayer than, “God, if it is your will, would you heal thus and so.” The former is going all in. And so often, this is precisely where God meets us. My friend and mentor, Maxie Dunnam, once put it this way, “Most people prefer the hell of a predictable situation rather than risk the joy of an unpredictable one.” So often it takes an impossible situation or need to bring us beyond our own respectability and into the realm of desperation before God. He had come to the place where he knew the cost of taking this risk was less than the cost of staying in his predictable and painful situation. The leper was sick and tired of being sick and tired. The leper possessed a quality and tenacity of faith known to the Kingdom as desperation.
Do you realize how desperate a leper had to be to come within a hundred yards of people without leprosy, not to mention the Son of God. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, a leper found his way to Jesus and knelt before him. I consider that a large part of what I’m trying to do with the Daily Text. Do not underestimate the importance of teaching in the work of making disciples. Could it be that another reason we do not see many demonstrations of this Kingdom is because we are not properly taught about the nature of this Kingdom? Just asking. One of the under-celebrated aspects of the ways of the Gospel and the Kingdom of God is the way teaching about the Kingdom (or the rule of God) precedes demonstrations of the Kingdom (or the rule of God).
#Lord clean me up series
Now we will see Jesus perform a series of ten miracles. Before we get to that, though, let’s notice how we are moving down the mountainside with Jesus after he has just taught us the celebrated Sermon on the Mount. There’s a word that sums up this story and a number of those following: Desperation. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.” CONSIDER THIS 4 Then Jesus said to him, “See that you don’t tell anyone. “Be clean! ”Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy. 2 A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”ģ Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him.
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