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Naaman The Officer Whose Leprosy Was Cleansed │ Msg 1214 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: Let's pray together.
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  Speaker 2: How good you are, Father, to bring young men and
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  Speaker 2: women from really thousands of miles away to minister to us,
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  Speaker 2: to use various media to touch a heart that's searching
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  Speaker 2: and lonely, to bring someone across another's path, to be
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  Speaker 2: of encouragement and assistance and accountability, to cultivate a friendship
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  Speaker 2: between opposite kinds of people, and to have that friendship
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  Speaker 2: grow into a relationship, and to have the spiritual life deepened,
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  Speaker 2: and to walk with Christ strengthened. It was no doubt
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  Speaker 2: that way with Paul and Timothy, and with Silas, and
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  Speaker 2: with Barnabas, and with doctor Luke. It certainly was that
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  Speaker 2: way between David and Jonathan and so many through the
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  Speaker 2: scriptures who grew together. And thankful Father, that you have
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  Speaker 2: not ceased doing that great work from one life to another.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm prompted to thank you at this moment for
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  Speaker 2: the Church of Jesus Christ, that you have raised up
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  Speaker 2: of so many different faces and different expressions, and in
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  Speaker 2: different cultures and languages, even different labels and denominations. Yet
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  Speaker 2: there are so many more things that draw us together
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  Speaker 2: than separate us. Forgive us, Father, for fighting with one
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  Speaker 2: another rather than arm in arm, marching together to the
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  Speaker 2: cadence of Christ, and sensing in that march a purpose
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  Speaker 2: and an objective that is eternal. Minister through the Word
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  Speaker 2: for the next few moments, as we open our hearts
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  Speaker 2: and as we close our minds to other distractions, that
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  Speaker 2: we might learn of you and learn more of your
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  Speaker 2: ways in the Savior's name, Amen, to prepare our minds
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  Speaker 2: for another Old Testament's story. I want you to take
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  Speaker 2: your Bibles, and I want you to locate the fifty
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  Speaker 2: fifth chapter of Isaiah. I have selected four verses that
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  Speaker 2: appear right in the heart of this thirteen verse chapter
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  Speaker 2: of scripture. I'm looking at Isaiah fifty five through nine,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to make a couple of three observations
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  Speaker 2: about Isaiah fifty five six through nine. First, let me
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  Speaker 2: read these somewhat familiar verses.
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  Speaker 1: For you seek the Lord while he may be found.
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  Speaker 1: Call upon him while he is near.
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  Speaker 2: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man
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  Speaker 2: his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord. And
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  Speaker 2: he that is the Lord, will have compassion on him
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  Speaker 2: and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For
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  Speaker 2: my thoughts are not your thoughts. Neither are your ways
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  Speaker 2: my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are
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  Speaker 2: higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than
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  Speaker 2: your ways, and my thoughts, yes, than your thoughts. First,
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  Speaker 2: will you observe that these words are addressed to those
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  Speaker 2: who don't know the Lord. They're seeking to find him.
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  Speaker 2: They are on a search, and these words are addressed
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  Speaker 2: to those in that search. They begin with a command,
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  Speaker 2: seek him while he can be found, and call on
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  Speaker 2: him while he is near. These are words addressed to
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  Speaker 2: people who are seeking and hoping in some way to
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  Speaker 2: call on the Lord. The second I notice these verses
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  Speaker 2: offer three things to a seeker. First, they offer an
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  Speaker 2: invitation to seek.
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  Speaker 1: To call.
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  Speaker 2: In verse six, and then the verses offer a warning.
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  Speaker 2: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous forsake
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  Speaker 2: his thoughts, and the warning let him return. The implied
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  Speaker 2: statement is if you do not, there is a price
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  Speaker 2: to pay. There are consequences that will follow. But there
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  Speaker 2: is an invitation, there is a warning. Then there are
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  Speaker 2: a couple of promises. At the end of verse seven,
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  Speaker 2: he will have compassion, he will abundantly pardon. So the
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  Speaker 2: verse offers three things to a seeker, It offers an invitation,
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  Speaker 2: the verses offer a warning, and the verses offer a
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  Speaker 2: couple of promises. Now, third, God clarifies that there is
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  Speaker 2: a surprise factor in coming to him. I find that
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  Speaker 2: in verses eight and nine, there is a surprise factor
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  Speaker 2: in coming to Christ, in coming to the Lord. And
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  Speaker 2: most of us, in our unsaved state did not know that.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, some of us are still learning how surprising
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  Speaker 2: a walk with God really can be.
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  Speaker 1: The surprise.
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  Speaker 2: My thoughts are not your thoughts. Those are God's words.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't think like humanity, thinks My ways are not
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  Speaker 2: like your ways. So his plan is different than ours,
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  Speaker 2: and you know it really works out in practical ways.
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  Speaker 2: If I may interrupt our thoughts for a net, for
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  Speaker 2: a brief example.
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  Speaker 1: I thought we would have two children.
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  Speaker 2: I really did, with a boy, very healthy, happy, delightful
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  Speaker 2: little kid. We had a girl, soft, feminine, lovely, perfect,
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  Speaker 2: alpha omega.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect two children.
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  Speaker 2: But God's ways are not the ways of ours. His
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  Speaker 2: plans supersede our plans. I thought I would minister in
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  Speaker 2: one territory of the country throughout most of my life,
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  Speaker 2: and I would not minister in the very places that
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  Speaker 2: I have served the Lord throughout my ministry. He's full
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  Speaker 2: of surprises. Some of you just think you have reached
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  Speaker 2: the end of the tether, you have experienced the ultimate
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  Speaker 2: that the lords will lead in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Are you in for a surprise?
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  Speaker 2: As long as you have breath in your lungs, as
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  Speaker 2: long as you have the ability to move.
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  Speaker 1: About at will, the Lord will surprise.
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  Speaker 2: You with his ways. And the good thing is that
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  Speaker 2: his ways are well. Look for yourself. Our thoughts are
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  Speaker 2: not his thoughts, Our ways are not his ways.
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  Speaker 1: But I've left out the most important.
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  Speaker 2: His plan is higher than our plan. God's goal is
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  Speaker 2: not to bring us down.
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  Speaker 1: God's goal is to lift us up.
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  Speaker 2: God's goal is not to push us in a corner
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  Speaker 2: and hide us. God's goal is to pull us away
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  Speaker 2: from the corners and use us.
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  Speaker 1: That's his plan.
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  Speaker 2: Now, it's still in process, it's still going on. It's
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  Speaker 2: still going on in my life. About the time, I think.
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  Speaker 1: That is it. That was the year. That was, That
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  Speaker 1: was the ultimate.
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  Speaker 2: There is no way that I could know more surprises
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  Speaker 2: in God's arrangement. The next year is full of even
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  Speaker 2: more and even more. Now I'm saying all of these
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  Speaker 2: things out of Isaiah fifty five to prepare us for
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  Speaker 2: a story that's tucked away in the Second Kings chapter five.
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  Speaker 2: So will you go back to that Old Testament section
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  Speaker 2: of scripture. Those words from Isaiah fifty five are going
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  Speaker 2: to come back to haunt us in the life of
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  Speaker 2: a man we are about to study.
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  Speaker 1: Every story has a setting, just.
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  Speaker 2: Like every beautiful gem needs a setting in a ring
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  Speaker 2: or a necklace or a bracelet for it to be appreciated.
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  Speaker 2: And the setting of this story is a little bit
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  Speaker 2: unusual and perhaps not clear to a number of people.
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  Speaker 2: Just before we get into chapter five of Second Kings,
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  Speaker 2: let's understand that there is a war going on. It
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  Speaker 2: isn't as simple and easy war as no war is.
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  Speaker 2: It is a war within a nation. It is a
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  Speaker 2: nation at.
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  Speaker 1: War with itself.
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  Speaker 2: If we were reading American history in Second Kings chapter five,
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  Speaker 2: we would be reading during the era of nineteen six,
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  Speaker 2: of eighteen sixty one to eighteen sixty five, during our
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  Speaker 2: Civil War. The worst war we have ever been through,
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  Speaker 2: that is wars fought with weapons, with guns, with armament, etc.
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  Speaker 2: The worst war in all of time is the war
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  Speaker 2: for life. Of course, the whole issue of abortion. That's
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  Speaker 2: the worst war that's taken more lives than any other
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  Speaker 2: war in the history of time.
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  Speaker 1: That's the worst.
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  Speaker 2: But in human terms, in an American history, the worst
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  Speaker 2: war we've faced has been the Civil War, and it
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  Speaker 2: lasted for us only four four and a half five years.
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  Speaker 2: Israel lived as a nation for one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 2: years under three different kings, first Saul and then David
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  Speaker 2: and then Solomon. Because of the weakening of spiritual life
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  Speaker 2: in Solomon, by the time he died, his son was
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  Speaker 2: not walking with the Lord, and before too many months,
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  Speaker 2: the nation that had been united for over one hundred
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  Speaker 2: years almost one hundred and twenty five split. Most of
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  Speaker 2: the tribes were in the Northern kingdom called Israel. Two
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  Speaker 2: of the tribes remained in the Southern Kingdom, Benjamin and Judah.
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  Speaker 2: They came to be known as simply Judah. Now, the
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  Speaker 2: scene we are looking at is a scene that took
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  Speaker 2: place in the Northern Kingdom during the Jewish Civil War.
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  Speaker 2: It's a time of upevil It's a troubled era. It
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  Speaker 2: is a time in which God worked mainly through his spokesmen,
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  Speaker 2: who were known as prophets. Between a prophet then and
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  Speaker 2: a prophet today is that then he was a prophet
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  Speaker 2: in the technical sense of the word.
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  Speaker 1: He spoke ex cathedra.
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  Speaker 2: God's word was not complete, and when a prophet stood
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  Speaker 2: to declare, if he was a true prophet to declare
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  Speaker 2: the word of the Lord, he made no mistakes in
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  Speaker 2: the declaration. His prophecies were precisely as God's oracle would
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  Speaker 2: have been written, and often they were put into written form,
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  Speaker 2: and they have found their ways in their way into
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  Speaker 2: the Bible that we love and read today. The particular
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  Speaker 2: spokesman who was at odds with his times in this
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  Speaker 2: particular era is the man Elisha. The main prophet during
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  Speaker 2: the Kings, in the early part of the Kings would
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  Speaker 2: be Elijah, that is in the writing of First Kings.
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  Speaker 2: But the main prophet now now that Elijah is off,
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  Speaker 2: is a man whose name sounds much like his.
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  Speaker 1: It is Elisha.
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  Speaker 2: Elisha walked in step with his God. And remember God's
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  Speaker 2: ways are different, and God's ways are higher than man's ways.
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  Speaker 2: So he was walking.
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  Speaker 1: At odds with his times. By the way that still
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  Speaker 1: goes on.
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  Speaker 2: People who walk with God walk against the cadence of
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  Speaker 2: the world. They do not watch the world for their cues.
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  Speaker 2: They do not pay attention to the world for their direction.
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  Speaker 2: They in fact, we in fact resist the counsel of
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  Speaker 2: the world in learning how to live our lives. In
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  Speaker 2: that sense, we have that in keeping with the early prophets,
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  Speaker 2: and Elisha is the man we have in mind here. Now,
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  Speaker 2: what we have in Second King's five is a story
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  Speaker 2: of a miracle, and the main character in the story
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  Speaker 2: is a man named Naeman Naam a n who's mentioned
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  Speaker 2: in verse one.
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  Speaker 1: Naemen.
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  Speaker 2: Now the question you might have is was he a
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  Speaker 2: Jew in the Northern or the Southern Kingdom? Remember we
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  Speaker 2: said it was the Northern Kingdom, But he wasn't a Jew,
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  Speaker 2: who was a Syrian. And that's important when you see
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  Speaker 2: the last part of this first verse. Will get there
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  Speaker 2: in a moment. Understand now, he is an unsaved Syrian
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  Speaker 2: military officer who serves the King of Syria named Ben Haydad,
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  Speaker 2: who wasn't mentioned in this account, but is mentioned elsewhere
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  Speaker 2: in the in the in the Book of Kings. Now,
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  Speaker 2: notice in verse one he is a proud man. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, we read he is captain of the King's Army,
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  Speaker 2: the army of the King of Syria, perhaps highest ranking
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  Speaker 2: Germany during its during the its involvement in the Second
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  Speaker 2: World War had a position known as a field marshal,
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  Speaker 2: and every once in a while you would read a
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  Speaker 2: field marshal Rammel or another field marshal. I think perhaps
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  Speaker 2: this might be along that line. He was no doubt
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  Speaker 2: responsible for a section of the war under Syrian rule
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  Speaker 2: at the time, so he is a high ranking officer.
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  Speaker 2: We read also he was a great man with his master,
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  Speaker 2: so apparently Ben Haydad, the King of Syria, and Naeman
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  Speaker 2: spent time together. There was a mutual respect, certainly between
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  Speaker 2: the king and this captain in the army. Third, we
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  Speaker 2: read he was highly respected, highly respected, and he was
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  Speaker 2: an honorable man. I read fourth that he was an
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  Speaker 2: instrument in preserving peace. The man was also a valiant warrior.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't an armchair general who stayed back behind them allies.
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  Speaker 2: He was involved in the skirmishes and in the battles.
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  Speaker 2: He probably had the scars of war. But says the text,
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  Speaker 2: and it changes everything.
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  Speaker 1: He was a leopard.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, you will notice in the New American Standard
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  Speaker 2: Bible the words but he was or in italics, which
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  Speaker 2: means they aren't in the Hebrew text. So literally it
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  Speaker 2: reads the man was also a valiant warrior.
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  Speaker 1: Leper. It's supposed to be abrupt. It is extremely it's
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  Speaker 1: just awkwardly abrupt.
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  Speaker 2: In the original text, Lepper supposed to scream at you
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  Speaker 2: from the passage. Lepper, it wouldn't cure itself, was terminal.
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  Speaker 1: Of course.
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  Speaker 2: Now, had he been a Jew, he would have become
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  Speaker 2: an outcast once the.
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  Speaker 1: Leprosy showed up. But he's Syrian.
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  Speaker 2: Remember, in a very reliable work by Kyle and Dalitch,
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  Speaker 2: this old German couple of scholars put together commentaries on
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  Speaker 2: the Old Testament. Kyle writes in this work on Second Kings,
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  Speaker 2: there is an allusion here to the difference between the
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  Speaker 2: Syrians and the Israelites in their view of leprosy. Whereas
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  Speaker 2: in Israel lepers were excluded from human society, in Syria,
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  Speaker 2: a man afflicted with leprosy could hold a very high
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  Speaker 2: state office, in the closest association with the king.
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  Speaker 1: It's unheard of in Israel.
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  Speaker 2: When you were a leper, you were put out of
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  Speaker 2: the camp, you were put out of the city, and
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  Speaker 2: you were treated as an outcast.
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  Speaker 1: Not in Syria. So here he is.
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  Speaker 2: In the warp and roof of life, in touch with
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  Speaker 2: involved with different people, and now out of blue he
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  Speaker 2: discovers he has leprosy. Years ago, when I worked in
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  Speaker 2: a machine shop, I broke my hand on the chuck
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  Speaker 2: of a turret lathe that I was working on, and
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  Speaker 2: this was called a tracer lathe and it was speeding
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  Speaker 2: at multiple, multiple revolutions per minute and I got my
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  Speaker 2: hand too close and boom, I broke it in this
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  Speaker 2: bone on my left finger. A small finger came out
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  Speaker 2: and what was a terrible looking thing. And I had
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  Speaker 2: to go to an orthopedic surgeon to get it worked on.
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  Speaker 2: Still have that scar there where he cut it open
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  Speaker 2: and put it all back together. Wonderful a surgeon. He
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  Speaker 2: was a surgeon of the hand, and I just appreciated
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  Speaker 2: the way he did his work. And except for having
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  Speaker 2: a barometer on my hand, when it's going to get cold,
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  Speaker 2: I can feel it in my bones, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And when it's going.
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  Speaker 2: To change weather, I can feel it. Other than that,
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  Speaker 2: I have no disability from it at all. Anyway, when
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  Speaker 2: I went back to have the little pin, looked at
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  Speaker 2: that he had put from the knuckle all the way
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  Speaker 2: down to the wrist. As he said that, he said
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  Speaker 2: to me, I won't be here the next time you
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  Speaker 2: come back.
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  Speaker 1: For an examination.
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  Speaker 2: He said, I'm gonna I'm going to go and have
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  Speaker 2: a little mole taken off my stomach. He said, In fact,
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  Speaker 2: he showed it to me, opened his shirt and there's
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  Speaker 2: a little black mole right there, about the size of
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  Speaker 2: your fingernail and your small finger. And he said, it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of irritating. It's right on the belt line. I
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  Speaker 2: just want to have it taken out. So I went
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  Speaker 2: back in two weeks to have my hand looked at,
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  Speaker 2: and the man was dead.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it. Here was this up and coming,
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  Speaker 1: capable pace setter of an orthopedic surgeon dead.
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  Speaker 2: When they cut him open, they found that he was
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  Speaker 2: full of cancer, and they didn't touch him. They sewed
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  Speaker 2: him up, asked him if he had a will, and
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  Speaker 2: he took care of necessary legal matters and financial matters.
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  Speaker 1: He was gone. I couldn't I couldn't believe it. My
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  Speaker 1: mouth literally fell open.
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  Speaker 2: When I asked about how the surgery went, they said, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you haven't heard doctor so and so has died. He
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  Speaker 2: was in his mid thirties. It's that kind of abruptness
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  Speaker 2: when you read at the end of verse one.
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  Speaker 1: Leper as good as dead terminal.
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  Speaker 2: I can't imagine how the man felt the morning that
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  Speaker 2: he was dressing and he found the first spot. And
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  Speaker 2: though Syrian he knew what leprosy looked like, changed everything.
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  Speaker 2: Suddenly the metals that hung from his chest seemed unimportant.
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  Speaker 2: In a matter of seconds, his future paled into insignificance.
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  Speaker 1: It was a leper.
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  Speaker 2: We're not told every detail of what he said or
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  Speaker 2: what he did, but out of the blue, and this
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  Speaker 2: is just the way God works. There's a little servant
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  Speaker 2: girl that comes across his path. Remember what we read
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  Speaker 2: in Isaiah fifty five. My ways are not your ways.
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  Speaker 2: My ways are higher than your ways. I am working
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  Speaker 2: when you don't even know how I am or where
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  Speaker 2: I am working. You don't even know who I'm working through.
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  Speaker 1: Look at verse two.
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  Speaker 2: The Syrians had gone out in bands and had taken
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  Speaker 2: captive a little girl from the land of Israel. And
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  Speaker 2: she waited on Nayam's wife. Isn't that interesting how these
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  Speaker 2: lives criss cross and dovetail. And she said one day
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  Speaker 2: to her mistress, I wish that my master were with
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  Speaker 2: the prophet who is in Samaria.
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  Speaker 1: The prophet is Elisha she knows of Elisha. This man
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  Speaker 1: didn't know of Elisha. His world is Syria, and if
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  Speaker 1: he knew of him, he had quickly put him out
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  Speaker 1: of his mind. Prophet prophet?
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  Speaker 2: Who cares about some Jewish prophet when you're a Syrian
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  Speaker 2: field marshal. She says to her her mistress, I wish
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  Speaker 2: your husband could be with the prophet in Samaria. He
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  Speaker 2: would cure him of his leprosy. Now you better believe
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  Speaker 2: that that wife said something to her husband that night.
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  Speaker 2: She says to him, Namon, my maid was speaking to
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  Speaker 2: me today as we were finishing with our meal, And
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  Speaker 2: and she knows someone who is in that land, that
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  Speaker 2: territory of Israel, that you and I don't know of,
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  Speaker 2: But somehow he has power. Then you wonder if Naeman
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  Speaker 2: was open to it Verse four. And Naemon went in
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  Speaker 2: and told his master, that's the King ben Hadad, saying thus,
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  Speaker 2: and thus spoke the girl who is from the land
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  Speaker 2: of Israel. Remember, my ways are not your ways. My
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  Speaker 2: ways are higher than your ways. And out of the blue,
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  Speaker 2: across his path comes this little maid who brings to
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  Speaker 2: his attention through his wife a man in Samaria, which
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  Speaker 2: leads him to say soon to his authority. There is
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  Speaker 2: someone who can help me in the land of Israel.
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  Speaker 2: Now I understand there's a lot of prejudice. There isn't
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: an openness between these countries. But when you're pressed, those
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  Speaker 2: kind of things sort of break down. Now, there was
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  Speaker 2: a desperate search that takes place in Naeman's life in
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  Speaker 2: between verses five through twelve.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't want you to.
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  Speaker 2: Miss the mistakes he makes because he's thinking like an
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  Speaker 2: unsaved person thinks when seeking the Lord. I see two
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  Speaker 2: or three major mistakes he makes. Look at verse five.
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  Speaker 2: The King of Sirius said, go now, I will send
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  Speaker 2: a letter to the King of Israel and Naemun departed,
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  Speaker 2: and look at what he did. Of course, there is
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  Speaker 2: no free lunch. You're gonna buy it. So he took
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  Speaker 2: with him about four million dollars in silver and gold
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  Speaker 2: and ten new suits from Syria's finest men's clothing store.
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  Speaker 2: He takes all of that with him, as if he
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  Speaker 2: makes his journey from Syria to Samaria, where Elisha is
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  Speaker 2: living his life.
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  Speaker 1: What's he thinking.
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  Speaker 2: He's thinking, cures don't come cheap, But that's no problem
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  Speaker 2: if it takes money. I've got money. His first mistake
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  Speaker 2: is I'll buy my cleansing. That's still going on, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, people who believe. If I am going to
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  Speaker 2: get something as rich and significant as heaven, it's going
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  Speaker 2: to cost and I am willing to pay.
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  Speaker 1: You know something.
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  Speaker 2: There are more people willing to pay their way to
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  Speaker 2: heaven than to believe their way into heaven. More people
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  Speaker 2: are willing to buy heaven than to take it by
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  Speaker 2: faith free of any cost. I know, I've heard from
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  Speaker 2: too many of them. If this costs me something, it
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  Speaker 2: makes sense, I'll buy it. But if you're telling me
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  Speaker 2: it's a free gift, on suspicious of it, nothing's free.
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  Speaker 2: That's the way the unsaved thing. There's a second mistake,
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  Speaker 2: and that is I'll get my cleansing from another man.
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  Speaker 2: Now look at what he does. He brought the letter
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  Speaker 2: to the King of Israel, saying, now, as this letter
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  Speaker 2: comes to you, behold, I have sent Naem and my
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  Speaker 2: servant to you that you may cure him of his leprosy.
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  Speaker 2: So the king sits there and he's reading this. Is Jehoram,
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  Speaker 2: the King of Israel. It came about when Jehoram read
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  Speaker 2: the letter that he tore his clothes and said, am
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  Speaker 2: I God to kill and to make alive? That this
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  Speaker 2: man is sending me, is sending word to me to
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  Speaker 2: cure a man of his leprosy.
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  Speaker 1: Let's look into this considered.
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  Speaker 2: Now and see how he is seeking a quarrel against me.
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  Speaker 2: He's suspicious, he wonders what this is all about.
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  Speaker 1: Now the Naeman.
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  Speaker 2: Comes, thinking this man is going to cure him. He
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  Speaker 2: doesn't know who it is, but he comes trusting in.
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  Speaker 2: A man gives him a letter says, I'm ready for
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  Speaker 2: you to cure me. Look at verse eight. It happened
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  Speaker 2: when Elisha. Now there's the man that's got the power.
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  Speaker 2: The man of God heard that the King of Israel
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  Speaker 2: had torn his clothes. He sent word to the king. Now,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: by the way, how would Elisha hear about Naeman's visit?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there was no major newspaper that was delivered
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: every morning into the driveway of Elisha. Life wasn't quite
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 1: But the beauty of it all is that God is
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  Speaker 1: at work, and his ways are higher than our ways.
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  Speaker 2: He works in surprising ways. He gets information from one
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: source to another. You look back and you wonder how
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: did that happen?
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  Speaker 1: Can't explain it we're not even told here.
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  Speaker 2: All we're told is that Elisha is We're told it
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  Speaker 2: happened that he heard that the king of Israel had
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  Speaker 2: torn its clothes in it, and he sent word to
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  Speaker 2: the king saying, why have you torn your clothes? Let
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  Speaker 2: him come to me, and he shall know that there
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  Speaker 2: is a prophet in Israel. Now this leads to his
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  Speaker 2: third mistake. So Nayeman came with his horses and his
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  Speaker 2: chariots and stood at the doorway of the house of Elisha.
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  Speaker 2: This is the moment of truth, Lepper, standing in the
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  Speaker 2: doorway of profit.
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  Speaker 1: Watch.
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  Speaker 2: Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, go and wash
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  Speaker 2: in the Jordan. Go and wash in the Jordans seven times,
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  Speaker 2: and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you
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  Speaker 2: should be clean.
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  Speaker 1: Period.
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  Speaker 2: Now here's a man who has multiple millions of dollars
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  Speaker 2: worth of silver and gold and clothing ready to pay
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  Speaker 2: his way. Here is a man who has already been
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  Speaker 2: suspected of some kind of plot by the king, now
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  Speaker 2: standing at the doorway getting word from not the profit
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: did you get it from a messenger? And he's ticked
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: off to use today's terms. Verse eleven says he was furious,
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  Speaker 2: and he went away and said, behold, I thought, see
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: that's his first mistake.
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  Speaker 1: I had it all planned that it would be like this.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: I thought Elisha would surely come out to me.
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  Speaker 2: You see, he's the captain, and when you're a field marshal,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: most folks jump when you snap your finger. Surely Elisha
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: will come out of this little house where he lives and.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to me. I thought he would do that. See.
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  Speaker 2: The third mistake is this isn't the way I had
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: in mind. This isn't what I thought would happen. I
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  Speaker 2: thought something else would occur. Look, he was furious, he said.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: I thought he would surely come out to me and
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: stand and call on the name of his God and
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: do his voodoo and wave his hand over it and
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: cure the leper. I thought he would just do the
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: mumbo jumbo thing, and I'd pay him. I'd be on
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  Speaker 2: my way, clean and healthy and happy and ready to
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: live the rest of my life. That's what I thought
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: would happened. And then you'll get a little prejudice in
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: verse twelve, I mean, are not Abana and Fiparer the
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: rivers of Damascus better than all the waters of Israel
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  Speaker 2: could I not wash in them and be clean. So
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: he turned and went away in a rage. How dare
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  Speaker 2: he think I'm gonna put my body in some muddy
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: river called Jordan in Israel when we've got these great
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: rivers back home, I'm going to any one of them.
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  Speaker 2: They're better those two rivers than all the waters put
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: together in the land of Israel. Sound familiar, Sound like
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: they're wrestling. You're hearing from someone you've talked to about
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: the Savior. Well, I thought this, Well I expected that.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: I didn't think it would be like this. I mean,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: I never There's a whole other set of circumstances here.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: It's another game plan. I thought he'd come out to me.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: I thought he'd stand personally before me. I thought he'd
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: call in the name.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Of his God.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he'd do his magic, do his chance. I
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: thought immediately it'd all be taken away. I mean, after all,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: look at the reward I brought with me. I've already
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: gone the second mile. And on top of this, he's
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: telling me to duck down in a Jordan river.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely no way.
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  Speaker 2: Next time you have a chance to read Bunyan, you
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: will meet a character named mister Loathe to stoop. I
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: thought of him when I read about Naeman's response. Loath
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: to stoop, you may recall, comes across Immanuel, and in
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: order to come to terms with himself he wants. He
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: doesn't want to stoop. He he wants Immanuel to recognize
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: his own superior character and dignity. Upon finding there was
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: no way that that would happen, there was no way
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: he could come to the Savior, but by bending and stooping,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: he refused to do so. Naheman is an ancient captain
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: loathe to stoop. I am not about to do what
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: he says. Once again, God's ways are not our ways. Earlier,
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: a servant girl spoke verse two. Later, a messenger spoke
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: verse ten. And now there's a third unnamed individual or
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  Speaker 2: group of individuals. It's amazing whom God uses in our
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: lives verse thirteen. As he turns away in a rage,
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  Speaker 2: his servants came near and spoke to him and said,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: my father, had the prophet told you to do some
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: great thing, would you not have done it?
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Did they know him?
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  Speaker 2: Oh better than he would ever believe if he had
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: told you to do something great and you would have
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: done it? How much more than when he says to you, wash.
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  Speaker 1: And be clean.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think they're saying, wake up, Naelman, this
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  Speaker 2: is your chance. Just go down to the river and
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  Speaker 2: dip seven.
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  Speaker 1: Times and you will come up cleansed.
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  Speaker 2: What a message this is to those people who are
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: still saying it's just too simple, just doesn't have enough
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  Speaker 2: dignity to it. I mean, just to believe in the Savior,
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  Speaker 2: just to give my life to Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it. Just that. I'm impressed with.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: His momentary sense of teachability verse fourteen. So he went
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: down and he dipped himself seven times in the Jordan.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Can't you see the servants sitting on the rock?
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: One, two, three, go ahead, four, five, six, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not one more. Seven. Look at this.
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  Speaker 4: And his flesh was restored like the flesh of a
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  Speaker 4: little child, and.
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  Speaker 1: He was clean. That is an incredible miracle. Water.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if we could bottle that kind of power
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: and dispense it.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: But it isn't bottle water.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: It isn't the place, it isn't the the details.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: It's the working of God, God in the life of
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  Speaker 2: a diseased man. It's doing exactly what the Lord says
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  Speaker 2: that brings the change. It isn't studying about it, it
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: isn't talking about it, It is doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Not until he did was he clean.
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  Speaker 2: There are some lessons we learned at Nieman's expense, aren't there?
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  Speaker 2: I can think of four of them. Number one, it
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: is not until we accept the fact that we are
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  Speaker 2: diseased that we seek cleansing. Christ didn't come to call
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: I can just get people to believe their sinners. We
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: are three fourths of the way toward their salvation.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Just getting people to admit I am lost, I am
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: unable to get myself. It's not until we accept the
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: fact that we are diseased that we see cleansing. Second,
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  Speaker 2: another lesson, it is not until we hear the truth
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  Speaker 2: that we discover.
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  Speaker 1: The way.
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  Speaker 2: To find relief. We've heard testimonies from people who heard
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: the message of the Savior in any number of ways,
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: and it was not until they heard the truth that
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: they discovered the way to relieve. In Naheman's case, each
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: person God brought across his path led him closer. I
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: call it links in the chain. By the way, who's
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: God bringing across your path lately? Don't take it lightly.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Some of you have had a rather interesting pilgrimage. In
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: the process of a few years, you have met a
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: person who, interestingly, it seemed almost a coincidence that person
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: got you in touch with another and it altered the
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: course of your life, and you decided, perhaps even to
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: move or to make a change in your lifestyle, which
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: led you to yet another group or another individual who
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  Speaker 2: provided something altogether different from the first person.
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  Speaker 1: In the chain, in the links of the chain.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: And here you are a few years later, absolutely different
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  Speaker 2: than you were back when you began this journey, this pilgrimage.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: God knows what he's doing. We heard last.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Easter about a fellow who was a graduate of UCLA
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: and his wife had spoken to him about Christ and
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: he wasn't interested. But as time passed he began to
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: soften and out of the blue, they are at a
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: public park and he goes into this public rest and
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: he meets a black man who is in there cleaning
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: the restroom. I mean, it's just inadvertent conversation. And when
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: this individual cleaning the restroom begins to you know, he's
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: the light is in his life, and the joy is
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: in his heart and He's bubbling over with enthusiasm, and
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: our UCLA friend asks him what this is all about.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: He says, I just have to tell you. It's the
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Lord Jesus Christ who has changed my life. And the
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: man thought, I mean, if I've got my wife on
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: one side saying this, and out of the blue meet
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: another fellow I've never met, there's got to be something
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: to it.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: And the long short of it is he gave his
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: heart to Christ.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Don't take lightly individuals God brings across your path. There's
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: a little servant girl here and there. There is a
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: messenger that sticks his head out of the prophet's house.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: There is there is a servant who comes near verse
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: thirteen and speaks the truth and confronts you with something
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: you need to deal with. Don't take that lightly. These
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: are all fingers on the hands of God moving.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Changing.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: I heard from a fellow who works in the service station.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: He was pumping gas and these people kept driving in
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: with this sign on the back of the car.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: It was an excluse. It was a fish and he
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: kept wondering, where are all these Fishermen's club. They must
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: all be a part of this group of people at
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: fish and he said, we weren't within hundreds of miles
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: of a place to fish. I kept scratching that.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Finally I said to one guy, why are you all
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: of you fishermen out here on this highway? And the
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: fellow says, well, what you need to know is that
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: that fish is an ancient symbol of Christians. He said,
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: in fact, the word exclus represents Jesus Christ the Lord.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: And he described to him the letters that make up the.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Greek fish, and it led him too.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Christ pumping gas a little sign on the back of
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: a car another messenger that God uses. It's not until
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: we hear the truth that we discover the way to
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: find relief.
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  Speaker 1: Third, it's not until we come to an end of
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: ourselves that we're ready to go God's way.
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  Speaker 2: Money, nope, logic, no important people, no pride, No God
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: tells us you must be born again. It's humbling, it's simple,
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: if I may. It's illogical, it doesn't fit the scheme
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: of earthly things, it doesn't appeal to the flesh. It
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: results in being misunderstood, scoffed at, even persecuted, at times,
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: treated rudely. But it's true, and you have to come
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: to an end of yourself to believe and to go
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: God's way. Not until then are we ready for it. Fourth,
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: and finally, it is not until we actually do as
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: God requires that cleansing occurs. Naheman finally had to get
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: in the Jordan, He had to strip down, he had
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: to walk out into the muddy waters, and he had
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: to literally go under the water seven times. Nothing more,
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: nothing less, nothing else, because That's God's way. And when
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: he did, and not until he did, was he cleansed.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Alexander White, one of my favorite Old Testament biographers, in
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: fact Bible character writers, says, my brethren, salvation is not
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: cut to your pattern. Leprosy is not cured on your prescription.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: I advise you to get over your temper and to
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: try that very way that you have up till now
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: been so hot and so loud against. It will humble
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: you to do it, and you are not a humble man.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: But if you ever come back from Jordan with your
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: flesh like the flesh of a little child, you'll be
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: the foremost to confess that you had almost been lost
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: through your pride and your prejudice and your ill nature.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: And then he pleads, oh, lefer leper go out with
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: thy loathsome and deadly heart, Go washing Jordan. Go in
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: God's name, Go in God's strength, God's pity.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Go this moment. That's the message.
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  Speaker 2: I invite you not to a river filled with water,
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: but to a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: And sinners plunged beneath that flood. Lose all their guilty.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Stain all their guilty. Stain. Let's bow together, will you please?
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Salvation is not cut to your pattern. Leprosy is not
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: cured on your prescription. If you want to know God,
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: if you want to know what it is to have peace, forgiveness.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Eternal life, hope beyond the.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: Grave, and excitement until the grave arrives, you got to
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: come God's way. You don't need the River of Jordan.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: You need the Savior. And you're surrounded by people all
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: around this country, in fact, dotted all around this world,
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: who claim the name of Christ. And you'll find in every.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: Case their search for hope has stopped. It stops with Christ.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: In every other religion, the search goes on because there
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: isn't peace, satisfaction, security and forgiveness. There is just more searching. Father,
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: I thank you for the truth of this great Old
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: Testament story. I'm grateful that it's still true that our
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: ways are not your ways, that your ways are higher
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: than ours, and we must confess in this hour better
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: than ours. Many of us have wasted far too many days,
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: perhaps even years, on our own search, looking for something
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: to buy, some person, to impress, some way that we
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: expected you to change our lives, and we've come to
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: realize that it's the simple faith in Jesus Christ that
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: does the job. You're satisfied with his death. Give us
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: a sense of satisfaction in it as well, Lord, and
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: calm our spirits, and use our lives to reach others
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: who are.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: On a search and are going about it the wrong way.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus Christ, we trust you and
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: we thank you Amen. The preceding message, Nayman The Officer
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  Speaker 1: whose Leprosy was Cleansed, was copyrighted in nineteen ninety nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety two, two thousand and six, twenty twelve, and twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, and the sound recording was copyrighted in twenty
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