#1,041 – He Makes Us Clean (Matthew 8:1–4)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Lord, we rejoice that You change the leper's spots and melt the heart of stone. All glory be to You for drawing near to us and cleansing us from sin. May we make Your cleansing power known.
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| 0:05.0 | Matthew chapter 8 verses 1 through 4 |
| 0:08.0 | when he came down from the mountain great crowds followed him |
| 0:12.0 | and behold a leper came to him and knelt before him saying Lord if you will you can make me clean and Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him saying, I will be clean. |
| 0:27.6 | And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. |
| 0:31.8 | And Jesus said to him, see that you say nothing to anyone, but go show yourself to the priest |
| 0:36.3 | and offer the gift that Moses commanded for a proof to them. |
| 0:42.2 | Can you imagine that scene? Like a leper, the most outcast in society, in culture, like the person that if you get anywhere close to them, they must |
| 0:58.8 | yell so that you stay away because if you were to touch them, you would be considered unclean. |
| 1:08.0 | Like we have become familiar with this term social distancing during this global pandemic. |
| 1:15.5 | The importance of staying away from other people |
| 1:19.9 | who may have a deadly disease. |
| 1:23.3 | Like that's how this leper lived every day of his life. |
| 1:29.4 | Like stay away from me. |
| 1:31.6 | No touching, no hugging, no closeness at all with anyone, anyone for all of his life. |
| 1:44.0 | And so he comes and he kneels before Jesus and says, |
| 1:47.0 | Lord, if you will, you can make me clean. |
| 1:50.0 | At this point, just imagine the crowds, they're like dispersing they're scattering |
| 1:53.2 | Jesus standing there and people wondering why is he not dispersing |
| 1:57.9 | scattering and instead of dispersing and scattering, Matthew 8-3 says, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him. |
| 2:09.0 | He could have just said, be clean. He could have just said be clean he could have just said it could have just |
| 2:14.8 | spoke it but no he reached out his hand and touched him he just went for it in a way that you can just imagine the crowds like what is he doing? |
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