I. Vs. 35: Jesus Prays
Psalm 5:3; My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Jehovah; in the morning I will direct my prayer to You, and I will look up.
Psalm 88:13; But to You I have cried, O Jehovah; and in the morning my prayer shall go before You.
Matthew 6:5-6; And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward. But you, when you pray, enter into your room. And shutting your door, pray to your Father in secret; and your Father who sees in secret shall reward you openly.
Charles Spurgeon said, “Woe unto that man whose devotion is observed by everybody, and who never offers a secret supplication. Secret prayer is the secret of prayer, the soul of prayer, the seal of prayer, the strength of prayer. If you do not pray alone, you do not
pray at all. I care not whether you pray in the street, or in the church, or in the barrack-room, or in the cathedral; but your heart must speak with God in secret, or you have not prayed.”
II. Vss. 36-39: Preaching in Galilee
III. Vss. 40-45: A Man Cleansed
Leprosy is an illustration of sin.
1) Its progressive
James 1:14-15, But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death
2) It is Desensitizing
3) It is Isolating
Isaiah 59:2, but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
4) It is incurable and fatal without God
1 John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
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