With that, let's get into the Word. Second King's Chapter 5 tonight. Again, looking forward to what the Lord has for us.

A very interesting chapter. I know I say that about every chapter, but a very interesting chapter that's before us tonight.

So why don't we go ahead and pray. We'll ask God's blessing on our time together in his word if you would join with me.

Oh Lord, thank you. Thank you so much for all that you're doing, Lord. We give you all the glory

and all the praise. Lord, we're so thankful to you for just your goodness and your faithfulness

to us and just the way that you always show yourself so faithful. Lord, we want to tonight

just set aside everything now and all the busyness of the week just the the

distractions of the cares and the affairs of our busy lives Lord we just want to

set all of that aside and focus our attention upon you and your word and that

which you have for us in your word tonight. So Lord,

would you minister to us now as we commit our time to you in Jesus' name. Amen. All right,

let's jump in. Verse one. Pardon me. Now, Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great and honorable man in the eyes of his master, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was also a mighty man of valor, but, and this

is a big one, he was a leper. So the chapter begins by introducing us to an interesting

man as we're going to see by the name of Naiman.

And we're told that he was an honorable man and a mighty man of valor. There's not very

many men in the Bible that it says of them that they were a mighty man of valor. And apparently

he was the military commander of

the army of Syria. However, we're also told that this man had leprosy, which at the time, and

even now for the most part, is an incurable disease. It's not curable today, but modern medicine has really

advanced in treating this hideous disease, and it is hideous. We don't call it leprosy

actually today anymore. We call it Hansen's disease. And again, it's still incurable,

but it is to some degree somewhat manageable. First two, and the Syrians had gone out on raids

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