Calling Out

January 26, 2020
While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell with his face to the ground and begged him, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” Luke 5:12
  • "Don't put a period where God has put a comma because that's not the end of your story."
  • The leper could not go to the temple, but he could come to Jesus
While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell with his face to the ground and begged him, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” Luke 5:12
  • The leper didn't call out for anything superficial, he called out for the supernatural
  • In order to get well, you have to want to get well
  • People don't get well until they want to get well and say "I don't want to live like this anymore."
Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him. Luke 5:13
  • Jesus is not afraid of our mess; He's willing to step into it, if we're just willing to call out and ask Him to.
Then Jesus ordered him, “Don’t tell anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.” Luke 5:14

Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. Luke 5:15