Reversing Incurable Consequences | Tony Evans Sermon

god knows what you like he knows our propensity and he has compassion when we come home come back home as quickly as possible though your sins being scarlet they shall be white as snow though they be red like crimson they shall be his wolf so whatever inheritance whatever god still wants to do for you to you through you in you don't lose anymore jesus christ broke the curse so don't ever talk about you being cursed again if you know jesus christ the curse the consequence of the law is broken the greatest miracle of all is when you dip yourself in the blood of jesus christ for the forgiveness of sins and the gift of eternal life we're introduced to naaman in verse 1 of 2 kings 5 where we read now naaman captain of the army of the king of aaron was a great man with all with his master highly respected because of him the lord had given victory to aaron the man was also a valiant water warrior but he was a leper this man's resume was impeccable everything about him said success like a five-star general he led the army and he was very successful in battle they viewed him as a great man he was highly regarded in society it says but he was a leper leprosy in biblical days was a skin disease it was a disease of the skin that slowly spread bringing about lesions sores and ultimately deformity and death for leprosy was an incurable disease in spite of his education he's a leper in spite of his notoriety he's a leper in spite of his financial success he's a leper in spite of rewards plaques accolades and recognition he's a leper because leprosy affected all of you things are popping out on your skin they're eating your skin away slowly and surely you know something's wrong with him it not only affected naaman physically because of the breakouts all over his skin that was eating his flesh alive it affected him relationally because leprosy was a communicable disease it was contagious so if you got too close to him you could catch it and so you were as the disease progressed you had to stay away from him so you would not also become a leper that meant he couldn't interact normally with his family or friends after a while it would be too dangerous that's why you even see in the mosaic law when a person with leprosy came around they were told to say unclean unclean they were castaways after a point because they were dangerous this man was a leper something so wrong that it messed up everything that was so right and there was no cure it was incurable so he is both simultaneously a captain a conqueror and a castaway most importantly leprosy is tied to something going wrong spiritually this man with everything right has one thing wrong messing up all that is right what is your leprosy what is that one thing in your life that is messing up all the good stuff going for you maybe you're successful in your career or with your finances or with your educational achievements maybe you can hand out a resume that is impressive but there's that one thing that you dare not put on it because it's just messing you up it's keeping you up at night you cannot function like you should be able to function because there is this leprosy this incurable situation you can't fix that was naaman's reality that was his scenario he had the the butt phrase but he was a leper the footnote on his life affecting everything well we're told in verse 2 that in one of his battles he captured a little slave girl the slave girl from israel went to naaman's wife her mistress verse 3 and says i wish that my master were with the prophet who is in samaria that he would cure him of his leprosy she told naaman's wife if we could get your husband my boss down to israel to the prophet elisha i believe elisha could change his leprosy situation she was a little girl she was a nobody in terms of her position in life and her age in life but she knew somebody she had a hook up and a connection that could change this man's world in this man's life so neiman goes to his boss the king and says this little girl told my wife who told me that i may be able to get my problem solved by the prophet in israel so the king watch this the king of era verse 5 says go now and i'm going to send a letter to the king of israel he departed he took with him 10 talents of silver 6 000 shekels of gold 10 changes of clothes brought them to the king of israel and he says i've sent name in my servant verse six to you that you may cure him of his leprosy well wait a minute that's not what the little girl said a little girl said there's a prophet in israel that can cure his leprosy the problem is naaman went to the federal government name it went to the king it says king government um i hear there's a solution in israel what you think the government said king said i'm going to give you some money and we're going to throw a budgetary solution to the problem we're going to fund your deliverance and so she gave him over a million dollars if you would put it in today's dollars ten changes are closed and we're gonna buy your solution you better have somebody in your life they may not have name and they may not have notoriety a little slave girl who knows somebody who knows somebody who is able to bring you to a divine deliverance because we've already said leprosy was incurable if he could have fixed it it would have been fixed if you could have fixed it it would have been fixed so he uses power government he uses money to solve the problem so the king sends to the king of israel and tells the king of israel i'm paying you off to fix my captain's problem how's the king of israel respond verse 7 when the king of israel read the letter he tore his clothes and said am i god to kill and make alive because it was a life-and-death sentence leprosy that this man is sending word for me to cure a man of his leprosy but consider now and see how he is seeking a quarrel against me well elijah hears about the king tearing his clothes because naaman went to the king at the instruction of his master because his master is listening has the wrong approach and elijah tells the king of israel sin name it to me send it to me okay so now it's going to get good i mean it's real good verse 9 so naaman came with his horses and his chariots and stood at the house of elisha he knocks on elijah's door uh-oh verse 10 elisha sent a messenger saying go wash in the jordan seven times and your flesh will be restored to you and you will be clean [Music] this is the tony evans training center an online platform of courses featuring compelling video and audio teaching by dr tony evans each course follows a scripture based curriculum that you'll find to be timely and challenging course topics range from exegetical deep dives and book studies to building a family with a kingdom mindset choose the content that's right for you on your terms and engage in valuable discussions with other students via the community dashboard this course is for your implementation through your church for the well-being of your community life is busy but bible study is still possible the tony evans training center explore the kingdom anytime anywhere but naaman was furious ticked off mad and went away and said behold i thought i'm coming back to that he will surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the lord his god and wave his hand hocus pocus all over the place and cure the leprosy the end of verse 12 says he went away in a rage because he said are not ebene and far part of the rivers of damascus better than the waters of israel could i not wash them and be clean turned away ticked off i am not just naming i'm captain name it do you elijah you don't know who you're dealing with here so he says there are two rivers in damascus in verse 12. they got these two rivers in damascus and they got clean water boy man name it let's get something straight didn't you come here cause you dirty i mean you got all this puffs coming out your skin you got all these sores on the skin skin you you came here cause you dirty so watch this the reason why naaman had issues with the jordan is because he didn't understand the jordan see for him it was a dirty river but for elisha it was the place where god did miracles it was joshua with the priest stepping in the jordan that let the folk flow over on dry land it was elijah and elisha at the jordan where miracles took place if he only understood the joy then he would have seen more than mud and more than dirt he would have seen that's the place where god shows off but see if you don't know where god shows up you're going to bring your edumacation you're going to bring what your professors say and think you're going to bring what the world's perspective is well if it was that good you wouldn't be incurable it would have been dealt with a long time ago yeah god lets us be in situations that no man can fix so that you got to deal with him on his terms so his servant comes to him and says verse 13 my father had the prophet told you to do some great thing give him another million give him this give me would you not have done it how much more than when he says go wash and be clean if he'd give you something hard you gladly gone and done it it gives you something easy and now you're going to fuss and cuss and get mad at the prophet so verse 14 he went down and dipped himself seven times in the jordan watch this according to the word of the man of god and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child and he was clean don't let your dignity keep you from solving your problem until obedience has been completed you cannot expect a supernatural incursion into your circumstances to calm it correct it and reverse it to whatever level the sovereign will of god will allow for what you and i must do is stop arguing with god's word what is your leprosy i want to tell you now related to whatever deliverance god is going to give you for that thing that will not go away that until you adopt i adopt we adopt radical obedience that's obedience to the end even to the point of rejecting our own perspective or that of our friends you'll not see god his flesh verse 14 became like the flesh of a little child whoa okay don't don't read that too fast wait a minute he came to be delivered he came up the seventh time not only was he delivered but god took him all the way back to babyhood he got delivered and restored god reversed that thing it took him as a grown man and it took him to the day he came out of his mother's womb as a child or an infant god is so powerful not only can he cure what's been a problem for years he can take you back before it was a problem at all that's called exceedingly abundantly above all you can ask or think it says he's saying heal me god says i'm gonna make you like a little baby he was healed physically but he was also healed spiritually how do i know that the middle of verse 15 because he says but now i know there is no god in all the earth but in israel oh now i know okay my man had changed the statement a few verses earlier he said i hope that his god would deliver me but now elijah's god has become naaman's god why does god leave you in an incurable situation leave me an incurable situation leave us an incurable situation so we can get around to finding out who god really is he doesn't just want to be your buddy he doesn't want to be just another guy he wants to show you when he shows out and shows off he's in a class all by himself now i know that there is no other god except the god of israel verse 17 if not please let your servant at least be given two mules two mules load of earth for your servant will no longer offer burnt offerings nor will he sacrifice to other gods but to the lord he said watch this the dirt i didn't want to go down in jordan i want two loads of it and two mules because i'm carrying this dirt back with me because on this dirt i'ma build me an altar so i can worship the only true god i'm taking my blessing with me everywhere i go i'm gonna make a pile of dirt i'm gonna set up my altar and i'm a worship god cause guess what when god delivers you like this when he takes away your leprosy when he reverses something that's been messing with you for days months years and decades and you come to see this is no joke god is no joke he can meet you in your deepest hole reverse you back to a baby status you're gonna want that god every place else you go so if you got a leopard situation something that won't go away and there's another verse i want to mention in closing luke 4 27 says there were many lepers in israel this is in the new testament jesus is talking luke 4 27 he said there were many lepers in israel but god healed none of them except naaman and that's in the new testament jesus is talking he said there were many folk like naaman in israel but none of those folk in israel who are my people got healed from their leprosy except the foreigner named naaman because he's not a jew what's he saying you can be part of the people of god and never see god work you can come to church every week you can be an israelite and a leper and live the rest of your life as a leper because you refused to do what a foreigner did a foreigner believed god tell the end got a miracle to folk in church worship god got nothing because of their unbelief we have in our community a lot of places that clean things we have cleaners that cleans clothes we have car washes it cleans cars we've got hair salon it cleans messed up hair we've got nail salons it cleans messed up nails and cuticles you come out different than you went in now the reason why you come out different than when you went in is when you went in you did exactly what they asked you to do the cleveland said give me the clothes and turn it over to me you turn it over to them then you back clean clothes you hook the car up you drive it up to the place they tell you they hook it up you go and you wait you do what they tell you to do comes out clean you put your nails over here you do you do what they tell you to do and you come out different but in the church folk come into the church dirty hear from god what to do and leave the same way they came in because they refused to do what the instruction manual demanded so if you want to see god in your situation you have to put down your pride put down your notoriety the kingdom of god you got to go low in spite of your notoriety degrees money position and power you got to humble yourself before the mighty hand of god when we do to completion what god has said do you've opened yourself up to a jordan experience in a dirty place and by the way the greatest miracle of all is when you dip yourself in the blood of jesus christ for the forgiveness of sins and the gift of eternal life [Music] one of the great statements in the bible is that nothing is impossible with god when man has run out of human solutions and human resolution to life's dilemmas you have not come yet to the end of your rope god is able to reverse the worst of circumstances god is able to heal the deepest of physical and mental and emotional calamity when the doctors say there is no cure god is able to reverse what they say based on what he says when your friends say this problem can't be solved god is able to enter in and fix what you thought was permanently broken when that relationship looks like we can never heal god is able to bring a bomb of healing into your heart your mind and yes even your body so until god gives the last word you've not yet heard the last word no matter how many people think they've given you the last word so you don't give up you don't quit you don't throw in the towel you fulfill all that god demands and expects of you you do all that he has given you to do and you trust him for the supernatural to enter into the natural and absolutely nothing will make god seem more real to you than when he does what men and man could not do because we are finite and he is infinite so keep trusting in god return and get close to him and watch him take what was broken repair it so that you can move forward in your life with him with others in a way that brings you good and brings him glory [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 27min 40sec (1660 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 17 2021