Sermon Tone Analysis
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Pre-Sermon
Fathers’ Day, deep end of pool w/ Trinity, eternal fatherhood/sonship
Several positive, surely some of you challenging
Was thinking about that: who preaches a sermon like that?
Nobody trying to draw a crowd!
Know diff b/w these two?
ignorant | stupid
So do I: lacking knowledge about something vs. lacking intelligence or reason
I assume that at least some of you ignorant of some preaching (why else preach?)
I’ve paid careful attention since I got here, do not think stupid
Why challenge you with something so deep?
Love you
No higher thing to fill mind
Nothing sweeter
Why would I keep that from you?
Know may be challenging your thinking—don’t know when I’ve lost you
Up to you to tell me
Slide of book cover
I have job: trying to get better
So do you.
Listen Up!
A Practical Guide to Listening to Sermons
Don’t know if anyone needed to hear that
Now, let’s look at our text
Title slide again
Introduction
Baptized, wilderness temptation, begins preaching gospel, calls first disciples, cast out demon, healed crowds, left to preach other towns
Now encounter w/ leper
Must have healed lots of lepers:
Only two events recorded: this and the 10
Why is this one recorded?
Let’s see
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Unbearable Affliction
Leprosy: OT background, modern medicine
What was it?
Today “leprosy” = Hansen’s Disease
M-W Med Dict: chronic disease caused by bacteria characterized by modules on skin, esp.
face, followed by loss of nerve sensation & eventual paralysis and muscle loss, deformities
Loss of sensation —> injury —> infection —> death
Almost certainly not what OT calls leprosy (slow progress, different symptoms, used of clothing and leather).
Probably include, but not limited to.
OT = general skin diseases
Matters to God: 2 chapters in Leviticus (13 & 14)
Summarize the rest:
If appears more than skin-deep: unclean
If appeared not more than skin-deep, 7 day quarantine, check again
If no spread, 7-day quarantine; if faded: clean
If spread: unclean
Many more detailed instructions
Unclean:
If went away or became non-communicable, process for being pronounced clean, involved sacrifices
But no cure in ancient world.
Cut off from family, work, society.
Hopeless.
Unclean: terrible affliction
That’s what this man has been living with when he takes the extraordinary step of contacting Jesus
This leper’s faith
Look how he approaches: “came to him, imploring him”
“and kneeling, said to him”
“If you will, you can”
Total recognition of sovereignty
Compassionate Provision
Touching compassion
“Moved with pity” NIV 84:
Mark 1:41 (NIV84)
Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand
NIV 2011:
Mark 1:41 (NIV)
Jesus was indignant.
He reached out his hand
What happened?
No originals, only copies/mss.
Almost everywhere, very easy to reconstruct.
Few places, there are challenges, including this verb in this verse
Most MSS (>99%): “pity, compassion.”
A few: “angry”
Total rathole.
Monday afternoon.
Pity: overwhelming MSS
Anger: few MSS, easier explanation (speculation)
Thought about skipping this.
Usually spare you the messy stuff in study
Why include it now?
Biggest textual issue in NT end of Mark.
Plus want to increase your confidence—if reading NIV, doubt
Spare you rest: pity correct, why most every modern Eng translation uses it
If you doubt His compassion, look at His action.
What we might expect: rebuked demon, Luke says rebuked fever—why not rebuke leprosy?
This man is unclean.
Jesus knows (why commands to go to priests).
Touching unclean person: unclean
Yet what does He do? “he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, I will, be clean”
Touch should have made Jesus unclean.
It works in reverse:
Touch that should have made Jesus unclean instead made the leper clean
Stern instruction
After moving scene of compassion, Jesus very stern:
Mark 1:43–44 (ESV)
And Jesus sternly charged him and sent him away at once, and said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to them.”
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