The Revelation of Jesus – 1^st Advent

The First Deed of the Messiah – Healing of a Leper  Matt 8:2-3; Mark 1:40-45; Luke 5:12-16

1. Mosaic Law provided rules for many life and worship issues
2. 1. No cure for lepers in rabbinic writings.
   2. No record of any Israelite ever cured of leprosy after the Mosaic Law.
   3. Leprosy was left out of the Rabbinic cures. Why? Lev 13-14
      1. Report to priesthood, “I was a leper, but now I have been healed.”
      2. Priesthood to give two bird initial offering
      3. 7 day investigation to determine –

• • • • Was the person really a leper?
      • Was the person really healed of leprosy?
      • What were the circumstances of his healing?
  •     4. If the leper is healed, the priest shall go out of the camp on the 8^th day, then four offerings

2. The Messianic cure of a leper Matt 8:2-4; Mark 1:40-45; Luke 5:12-16

1. 5:12 What was the circumstance?
2. 5:13 What did Jesus do?
3. 5:14 What did Jesus tell the one healed?
4. 5:15 What happened next?
5. 5:16 How did Jesus respond?

3. The Jewish leadership response M 9:1-8; Mark 2:1-12; Luke 5:17-26

• Luke 5:17 some of the Jewish leaders –
  • Observation –
  • Investigation –
  • Power of the Lord, present to heal him – Why?
• Mark 2:1-12 Four friends brought a paralytic, but Jewish leaders blocked the way.

SO WHAT?

• God came to man, spoke in man’s language, and acted to reveal credibility. Why? Because God loves man!
• God functioned under His own Word, because He wrote it.
• The leper did nothing to deserve the leprosy and God healed him.
• God wants us challenged, will we believe Him? Will we balance our time to reach others for Christ and disciple them?

Now What?

• God has already done everything,… Does that produce a passion to study, to pray, to sing, to witness His life?
• Your greatest deliverance is from the power of sin.
• You have the opportunity to learn the Word…. Will you do the Word? Trust the Word? Live out the power of the Word? Reach others for Christ and disciple them?

 Questions

• What were the two kinds of miracles the religious leadership believed existed?
• Why is there so much in Leviticus 13-14 about examination and cleansing of lepers if there was never one that was healed?
• If Jesus touched the leper, why didn’t He become unclean?
• Why did Jesus choose to heal this leper?
• Did Jesus want the religious leadership to accept Him as Messiah? What did Jesus do?
• What prevents you from continually believing that Jesus is the Messiah? What commands do we obey and what commands do we not obey?
• What do we need to do?