THE CURE FOR YOUR LEPROSY (6 OF 6)
by Bob Ingle
Scripture: Mark 1:40-45
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The Cure for Your Leprosy (6 of 6)
Series: The Beginning of the Gospel
Bob Ingle
Mark 1:40-45
I was thinking this week about things you don't want to hear from your doctor. If you're getting an exam or a check-up, there are certain things you don't want to hear him say. You don't want him to say, ''Hmmmm, that's interesting.'' I don't want to be interesting. As a patient, I want to be boring, I want to be ordinary, I want to be routine. I don't want to be interesting. How about if he's got his miner's hat on, he's got that little light, and he's checking the crevices and he says, ''What in the world...''? You don't want to hear that. That does not instill confidence. That is not something you want to hear. How about, right before surgery, and you're going down under the anesthesia, you hear, ''Nurse, hand me another scotch.'' Nope. Not helpful!
I don't know about you, but as my doctor examines me, I don't want to hear him sweetly singing, ''The thigh bone's connected to the hip bone, the hip bone is connected to the...''. You should already know this by now, you don't need a little song to help you, you'd better know this.
If you're over 45, there are certain words you don't want to hear. You don't want to hear scary words like ''heart disease'' or ''diabetes,'' or ''pregnancy.'' Right? Anything but that. God, I promise I'll be good. In the first century, there was one word from your doctor that you definitely did not want to hear. It was probably, at that time, the worst. It would have been the word leprosy. It was a death sentence. And not only did leprosy kill you, before it killed you, it tortured you. Sometimes, from 10 to 30 years, it was torture you, then it would kill you. It was the most heinous and hideous of all diseases because it would leave you utterly destitute and totally hopeless.
And so Mark presents us, at the end of this amazing foundational chapter, he wants us to get an encounter between Jesus and a leper. What we have here ...
Series: The Beginning of the Gospel
Bob Ingle
Mark 1:40-45
I was thinking this week about things you don't want to hear from your doctor. If you're getting an exam or a check-up, there are certain things you don't want to hear him say. You don't want him to say, ''Hmmmm, that's interesting.'' I don't want to be interesting. As a patient, I want to be boring, I want to be ordinary, I want to be routine. I don't want to be interesting. How about if he's got his miner's hat on, he's got that little light, and he's checking the crevices and he says, ''What in the world...''? You don't want to hear that. That does not instill confidence. That is not something you want to hear. How about, right before surgery, and you're going down under the anesthesia, you hear, ''Nurse, hand me another scotch.'' Nope. Not helpful!
I don't know about you, but as my doctor examines me, I don't want to hear him sweetly singing, ''The thigh bone's connected to the hip bone, the hip bone is connected to the...''. You should already know this by now, you don't need a little song to help you, you'd better know this.
If you're over 45, there are certain words you don't want to hear. You don't want to hear scary words like ''heart disease'' or ''diabetes,'' or ''pregnancy.'' Right? Anything but that. God, I promise I'll be good. In the first century, there was one word from your doctor that you definitely did not want to hear. It was probably, at that time, the worst. It would have been the word leprosy. It was a death sentence. And not only did leprosy kill you, before it killed you, it tortured you. Sometimes, from 10 to 30 years, it was torture you, then it would kill you. It was the most heinous and hideous of all diseases because it would leave you utterly destitute and totally hopeless.
And so Mark presents us, at the end of this amazing foundational chapter, he wants us to get an encounter between Jesus and a leper. What we have here ...
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