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Intro:
1. Misery to Missionary
Naaman = Army commander...... raiding Israel...... Might man of valor!..... BUT HAS LEPROSY
Servant Girl - Has been ripped from her parents, her home, her temple (church family)...... and is not a servant to Naaman’s Wife..... NO LONGER FREE.
Grief, sorrow, and Misery that existed in that family, in her life..... HER WORLD WAS RIPPED FROM HER.....
What emotions filled her soul, SO MANY QUESTIONS.... but we see God’s sovereign grace on display in her life.....
Maybe she had the theology degree Joseph displayed when he told his brothers and said....
This servant girl is the perfect example of 1 Peter....
From her Misery she becomes a missionary!
From her various trial, she showed the geniuness of her faith.....
She pointed to the power of God in the prophet in Samaria!
How many times have we shared like she has out of GRACE and not GUILT!......
GO AND TELL.... GO AND TELL.... may be the message you hear week after week.....and there is an overwhelming guilt we feel.....
We become salvation sellers!
....our evangelistic efforts are based on guilt.... with an emphasis on numbers rather than people.
"Evangelism for the Rest of Us: by Dr. Mike Bechtle.
What was her motivation?.....God’s grace experience and God’s grace shared!
The Servant Girl displays a deep understanding of God’s grace.... even in her misery!.....
She has embraced the call to be a blessing to others.... even her enemies!
From her misery she became a missionary!
She is pointing to God and God alone!
This is the call to every Christian following Jesus!.....
All that we do should point towards Jesus!
If we are following Him, then everything we do must be pointing in that direction whether good or bad?
SHE UNDERSTOOD! God is at work 10,000 ways in your life right now.... and you see three of them! - J Piper.
In the Good?
How can we as a church point our community to Jesus?
We have one of the only full-sized gyms in our city, can we be creative on how to use it as a blessing to our community
We our the “friendliest” and welcoming Church in our community
We our a multi-generational church following Jesus!
With our time, talents, and treasures...... Yes I am talking about the financial blessing God has given to you and your family......
Your talents and gifts.... your time!
The Bad -
We face grief and sadness and sickness, God can use it, will we continue to point towards Jesus!
God works all things for your good and his purpose and GLORY!
2. gods to God Alone
Naaman was changed by GOD!
He moved from believing in gods to God alone!
Roughly..... MILLIONS of U.S. Dollars! and some NICE clothes!.... Elisha is going to be BLINGING!
The King of Israel in a time of peace gets this entourage and is nervous because he knows he cannot heal Naaman..... but Elisha being told by God most likely sent to the king for him to come to be healed by the prophet.
Naaman has a problem… leprosy..... it is a permanent issue of death that he can see!
Leprosy was a walking death sentence that also meant political, physical, and emotional death from people in his life..... WHEN this spot shows up.... he sees death staring him in the face!
I can BUY my healing..... Millions of dollars of worth.... he was all in on what it costs!
RICH YOUNG RULER!.... What must I DO to inherit eternal life?
What is the price tag
Willing to do whatever it takes to get rid of the death sentence of Leprosy in his life! - Leprosy
I know better than God....
You want me to jump in the dirty Jordan river?..... if this was the instruction, I could have done this in my country in far superior bodies of water!
What was the First though 6 dips like?. COME ON.... THIS AINT WORKING..... GOD IS THE ONLY GOD! .... then on dip 7?!!!!
Naaman shows the truth of the Bible that God is God alone!
It echos the NT that there is healing and salvation in Jesus Christ alone!
He mentioned God before and after his healing!
HE has been changed from gods to God alone!
God works through the servant girl, through Elisha, and even through his servants to bring him to faith!
The Lausanne Covenant, substantially crafted by John Stott, includes the phrase, ‘evangelization requires the whole church to take the whole gospel to the whole world’.[1]
Teamwork of Evangelism! Evangelism is a Y’all Sport!.....
Acts 1:8, a verse often quoted with regard to witnessing, shares the you-plural concept:
But [y’all] will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on [y’all]; and [y’all] will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
3. Forgetful to Forgetful
I fear what has taken place for the king happens all too often for us today!....
The King of Israel forgot that there was a prophet in Israel!
That somehow he had to do what only God could do!.....
Elisha the prophet was God’s presence in the kingdom and the KING FORGOT ABOUT HIM AND FORGOT ABOUT ELISHA!
It is interesting in this segment of miracles of Elisha, Elisha is not the main character, the miracle is not the only emphasis.
It is the characters in the story.... even the king who forgets GOD!
Jesus is God’s prophet and presence in the KINGDOM...... HE is Emmanuel..... yet are we like this king who forgets!
Symptoms of Forgetfulness for the King and I!
Self-centered focus - The King thought he would have to do it
God is too small - Is this King starting a quarrel with me.... what are his plans verse God’s plans
Busyness - What is happening here in front of me that is distracting me from what God is putting together
God is at work 10,000 ways in your life right now.... and you see three of them!....
We find that we think that we are in control of 10,000 thing happening in our life and that God fits into 3 of them!
Comfort and Safety - The king feared his peaceful kingdom was about to get upset!
This morning what do you need to hear from the Holy Spirit?
1. Unnamed servant girl - Are you overwhelmed by God’s grace that no matter the situation you point to Jesus!
2. Jesus Christ alone - Have you come to the point to recognize that you have a death sentence on you.... not in the form of leprosy, but in SIN....
That Jesus died for that sin so that you may be forgiven, healed, and made right with God for eternity!
3. Forgetful to Faithful - May we be found Faithful and not like the forgetful king!
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