Sermon Tone Analysis

A Dirty Man Asks Jesus For Cleaning

1. Jesus is in one of the cities

2. A man covered in leprosy implores Jesus saying “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”

v.12

Jesus said “I Am Willing.”

V.13

1. Jesus stretched out His hand and touched him.

2. Jesus said “I am willing”

3. Immediately the leprosy left him.

Jesus is the Great High Priest and Healer V.14

1.

He ordered him to tell no one.

NOTE: This is a similar command he gave to the demons coming out of those in Luke 4:41.

Some say Jesus was looking to conceal who He was until the right time.

It may also be true that He was looking to keep the crowds from growing as we see happen in v.15.

But I wonder if it’s not more about teaching us the intimacy with the Father.

Jesus taught when you pray, go into your closet, when you give to the poor do not sound a trumpet as the hypocrits do. . .

If Jesus taught the quiet power of the Kingdom then it stands to reason He too would live that way.

2. Show yourself to the Priest and make an offering for your cleansing, just as Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.

ILLUST: God’s plan for the Leper Numbers 5:1-4, Leviticus 13-14

1.

The Priest would look at the infection and pronounce a person “unclean”

2. The priest, according to the severity may isolate the person and if it fades the priest can declare him clean.

3.

But if the infection is a white swelling in the skin, the hair is white, and raw flesh in the swelling then the Priest declares it to be “Chronic Leprosy”.

4. Leviticus 13:18-52 continues to describe symptoms and how to deal with even the clothing.

Clothing of a leprous person is to be torn, he shall live alone and dwell outside the camp.

NOTE: The point here is that Jesus has diagnosed and called this man clean.

Only the Priest was to do this.

Leviticus 14 the leper is to be brought to the priest and the priest was to go to the outside of the camp and if the leprosy was gone the priest would give orders for the sacrifice and the leper would wash his clothes, shave his hair, bathe to be clean and then live outside his tent and on the eighth day the Priest “who pronounces him clean shall present the man to be cleansed” v.11 “ . .

.so the priest shall make atonement on his behalf before the Lord.”

v.18b

CLOSE: Jesus is the High Priest, Jesus alone Makes Clean.

The Clean give testimony to those around them.

Jesus told this man to go a present the sacrifice to the priests as a testimony.

Reveal to the Priests that Jesus the Healer, the Savior of the world is here.

Whether you and I are healed or not, in Christ Jesus we are forgiven and the Kingdom reason is to be a TESTIMONY!

Jesus said I am willing to forgive, to heal, for your benefit and good but also that you might testify that He not only exists but invites anyone who will trust Him to enter into His Kingdom.