Today’s Sermon

Mark 1:40-45: “And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, “If you will, you can make me clean.” (41) Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.” (42) And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. (43) And Jesus sternly charged him and sent him away at once, (44) 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.” (45) But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in desolate places, and people were coming to him from every quarter.”

The title of the message was: Radical Compassion.

The points of the sermon were:

• Let (I would save “ask”) Jesus go where no else will go. (Let Jesus into your life.)
• Let Jesus do what no one else can do. (Let Jesus work in your life.)
• Jesus is sufficient for your wholeness. (Jesus is sufficient to make us whole, because removes those things that keep us from being whole in His death and resurrection.)
• Jesus removes our guild and shame. (like He remove the leprosy from the leper, He removed our sin and shame while on the cross.)
• Jesus atones for our sin. (He atoned for sin while on the cross.)
• Jesus restores our relationship with God. (Jesus told the leper to go to the priest and offer for his cleansing what Moses commanded, by doing this He would be proclaimed clean and so have his relationship restored with people. Jesus, through His own death and resurrection, restores the relationship with us and God , to all those that shelter in Him.)

And then the conclusion: “Are you will to embrace the wholeness Jesus offers through his compassion?”