Sunday sermon notes preached 25-9-2016

1. Power of Cleansing
Mark 1:40-45

2. Mark 1:40-45
A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you
are willing, you can make me clean.”
Jesus was indignant. He reached out his hand and touched the man.“I
am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately the leprosy left him and
he was cleansed.
Jesus sent him away at once with a strong warning: “See that you
don’t tell this to anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer
the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a
testimony to them.” Instead he went out and began to talk freely,
spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town
openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to
him from everywhere.

3. Mark 1:41 - Jesus was indignant – NIV
• NIV Footnote: Many manuscripts Jesus was filled
with compassion
• William Barclay's New Testament renders it as
"Jesus was moved with pity to the depths of his
being"

5. Healing Touch

6. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God, stricken
by him, and afflicted. - Isa 53:4

7. “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and
your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you
want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it
to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round
with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all
entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of
your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark,
motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken;
it will become unbreakable, impenetrable,
irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
CS Lewis – The Four Loves