A MIRACLE OF GOD'S HEART (6 OF 16)
Scripture: Luke 5:12-16
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A Miracle of God's Heart (6 of 16)
Series: The Miracles of Luke
Richard Bradley
Luke 5:12-16
We can discover a lot about God in the Old Testament. We can certainly know that He exists and that as the Creator He possesses unlimited power. Also, we can know something of His ethical demands on the lives of His followers. As someone has well said, ''The Ten Commandments are not God's ten suggestions.''
While we can discover a lot about God in the Old Testament we can never really get to know Him. Under the terms of the old covenant He is the God of Mt. Sinai. At the mountain of God, on the pain of death, His own people were commanded to come only so close to Him but no closer. It's really hard, if not impossible, to intimately know a God we can't approach. Think about Moses. He longed to know God and saw more of Him than anyone else but never got to see His face.
This is not so in the New Testament. Whereas in the Old Testament we can know of God's attributes, in the New Testament we discover what His heart is like. We can know Him personally through the personality of the Lord Jesus. In this passage we are privileged to get a glimpse of God's heart through Jesus' interaction with one of the most pitiful characters of His day; a leper. No one was more ostracized socially or even feared in Jesus' day than a leper. While this man was helpless and hopeless he could still touch the heart of God.
12 And it happened when He was in a certain city, that behold, a man who was full of leprosy saw Jesus; and he fell on his face and implored Him, saying, ''Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.''
13 Then He put out His hand and touched him, saying, ''I am willing; be cleansed.'' 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 a testimony to them, just as Moses commanded.''
15 However, the report went around concerning Him all the more; an ...
Series: The Miracles of Luke
Richard Bradley
Luke 5:12-16
We can discover a lot about God in the Old Testament. We can certainly know that He exists and that as the Creator He possesses unlimited power. Also, we can know something of His ethical demands on the lives of His followers. As someone has well said, ''The Ten Commandments are not God's ten suggestions.''
While we can discover a lot about God in the Old Testament we can never really get to know Him. Under the terms of the old covenant He is the God of Mt. Sinai. At the mountain of God, on the pain of death, His own people were commanded to come only so close to Him but no closer. It's really hard, if not impossible, to intimately know a God we can't approach. Think about Moses. He longed to know God and saw more of Him than anyone else but never got to see His face.
This is not so in the New Testament. Whereas in the Old Testament we can know of God's attributes, in the New Testament we discover what His heart is like. We can know Him personally through the personality of the Lord Jesus. In this passage we are privileged to get a glimpse of God's heart through Jesus' interaction with one of the most pitiful characters of His day; a leper. No one was more ostracized socially or even feared in Jesus' day than a leper. While this man was helpless and hopeless he could still touch the heart of God.
12 And it happened when He was in a certain city, that behold, a man who was full of leprosy saw Jesus; and he fell on his face and implored Him, saying, ''Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.''
13 Then He put out His hand and touched him, saying, ''I am willing; be cleansed.'' 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 a testimony to them, just as Moses commanded.''
15 However, the report went around concerning Him all the more; an ...
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