Total Depravity

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Luke 5:12–16 ESV
12 While 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.” 13 And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him. 14 And 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.” 15 But now even more the report about him went abroad, and great crowds gathered to hear him and to be healed of their infirmities. 16 But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray.
Luke 5:12-16

Introduction

Of Leprosy, JC Ryle said:
Luke: Crossway Classic Commentaries A Leper Healed; Christ’s Diligence about Private Prayer (5:12–16)

Of all ills which can afflict the body, leprosy appears to be the most severe. It affects every part of the constitution at once. It brings sores and decay on the skin, corruption into the blood, and rottenness into the bones. It is a living death which no medicine can check or stay.

Leprosy was incurable.
It was highly contagious, and they weren’t sure of all the ways it could be spread.
It was believed that physical contact with a leper was a certain way to catch the disease.
The lepers had to cover themselves, so that they could not be accidently touched by a healthy person.
The person who caught leprosy was an outcast.
They had to separate themselves from the general population.
If they did go into public places, they had to wear coverings and shout as they moved, “Unclean. Unclean.”
The mass of humanity in market places parted like the Red Sea at the cry of the leper.
Of Leprosy, JC Ryle said
Luke: Crossway Classic Commentaries A Leper Healed; Christ’s Diligence about Private Prayer (5:12–16)

Of all ills which can afflict the body, leprosy appears to be the most severe. It affects every part of the constitution at once. It brings sores and decay on the skin, corruption into the blood, and rottenness into the bones. It is a living death which no medicine can check or stay.

The leper was not just an outcast in society, but according to the Old Testament, was also unclean for participation in religious exercises.

Sin - Leprosy of the Soul

Romans 8:7 ESV
7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.
God is absolutely pure.
God is absolutely just.
He is absolutely good.
God’s nature is so impeccable as to be beyond the possibility of sin.
1 Peter 1:16 ESV
16 since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
1 Peter
Yet here we find that the mind of man has enmity towards God.
Yet here we find that the mind of man has enmity towards God.
How can you hate One who is altogether good, just, and holy?
All of our sense of justice and morality rebel against it.
Think how you’d feel if someone came to you and said they hated mother Teresa.
What you think of someone who said they hated St. Nicholas?
Could you imagine someone saying that they were enemies with one of these historical figures?
God is far more lovely than any ordinary person who has ever walked the earth, yet God declares that man makes himself His enemy.
Romans 5
Romans 5:10–12 ESV
10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. 11 More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. 12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
Romans 5:10 ESV
10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
Martin Luther said, “My situation was that, although an impeccable monk, I stood before God as a sinner troubled in conscience, and had no confidence that my merit would assuage Him. Therefore I did not love a just and angry God, but rather hated and murmured against Him.”

Heart and Mind

Heart and Mind

Romans 8:7 ESV
7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.
Ecclesiastes 9:3 ESV
3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Ecclesiastes
Genesis 6:5 ESV
5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis 8:21 ESV
21 And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

The Will / Our Choices

John 8:34 ESV
34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.
2 Peter 2:19 ESV
19 They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.
2 Peter 2:19
Romans 7:14 ESV
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.

Polluted Affections and Desires

Ephesians 2:3 ESV
3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
Proverbs 21:10 ESV
10 The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.
John 3:19 ESV
19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
John 8:44 ESV
44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

A Giant Problem

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV
14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
1 Corinthians 6:14 ESV
14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.
The obvious answer is “none”.
Just as the leper’s contagious disease made fellowship with others impossible, so sin makes a relationship between man and God impossible.
Numbers 1:53 KJV 1900
53 But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.
The idea was that the Levites would surround the tabernacle and prevent anyone from approaching who was stained by sin.
God declared that anyone doing so would die.
Isaiah 59:1–2 ESV
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

A Joyful Conclusion

The leper said to Christ, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”
There was nothing that the leper could do but to reach out to Christ in faith.
Christ said, “I will; be clean.”
The stain of leprosy left the man and immediately he was completely clean.
He was transformed from outcast to citizen.
His fellowship was restored.
Romans 3:23 ESV
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 3:23 ESV
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23 ESV
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Reach out to Christ today for the forgiveness of your sin.
Just as He was willing with the leper, He will be willing for you.
John 6:37 ESV
37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

Conclusion

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Deuteronomy 3:15–20 ESV
15 To Machir I gave Gilead, 16 and to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the Valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a border, as far over as the river Jabbok, the border of the Ammonites; 17 the Arabah also, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east. 18 “And I commanded you at that time, saying, ‘The Lord your God has given you this land to possess. All your men of valor shall cross over armed before your brothers, the people of Israel. 19 Only your wives, your little ones, and your livestock (I know that you have much livestock) shall remain in the cities that I have given you, 20 until the Lord gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also occupy the land that the Lord your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his possession which I have given you.’
Deuteronomy 30:15–20 ESV
15 “See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. 16 If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, 18 I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, 20 loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”
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