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Jesus Heals The Leper - Part 2 | WALKING WITH JESUS
June 8, 2026 · 25 min
In Part 1 of Walking with Jesus, we are introduced to the first miracle of Jesus recorded in Mark where he touches and cleanses a leper. Learn the many principles that Pastor Chad draws from Mark 1.
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In Part 1 of Walking with Jesus, we are introduced to the first miracle of Jesus recorded in Mark where he touches and cleanses a leper. Learn the many principles that Pastor Chad draws from Mark 1. ...more Show the full description Show less In Part 1 of Walking with Jesus, we are introduced to the first miracle of Jesus recorded in Mark where he touches and cleanses a leper. Learn the many principles that Pastor Chad draws from Mark 1.
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0:18 Today on Awaken to Grace, we continue part 2 of our study of chapter 1 of the book of Mark. We are in a brand new series called Walking with0:29 Jesus, a study through the book of Mark and oh what an exhilarating, what a thrilling study this is going to be. Today, we're in verses 40 through 45. We are being0:41 introduced to the 1st miracle in the book of Mark where Jesus touches a leper. And what we're going to learn is that just as Christ came with0:52 authority and with compassion and just as He had the ability to touch the leper in Mark chapter 1, so Christ has the ability today. So1:04 He has the authority today. He has the compassion today to touch your life and to move in your life just as he did then. Friends, I'm so glad you're1:16 with me on this episode. If today speaks to your heart, to your life, I would love to know that. Send me an email. Let me know who you are, where you're listening from. Let me1:28 know how I can pray for you. You can always email me at pastor chad roberts at gmail dot com or download my free mobile app, Awakened to Grace,1:40 wherever you get your apps. Well, let's go to God's word today. Mark chapter 1 verses 40 to 45. He's writing to1:51 Roman believers at the person that right now you're setting beside in your row here at church this morning, they may not be here next Sunday. They may be in jail, they may have lost their2:03 property, they may be facing persecution or they may have been beheaded. That's the audience. And so he writes with an2:14 urgency, with a cadence. He pushes them, he ushers them to a decision. If this is the gospel, if this is Jesus Christ, if this is the Son2:26 of God, then make your decision, follow Christ. And he ends with the women at the tomb. They had a decision to make. Are we gonna go forward with Christ? And2:38 this is the audience that he's writing to. So as we study the book, yeah, there's gonna be a get up and go. There's gonna be an immediate, there's gonna2:50 be a straightforwardness, There's gonna be a cadence. There's gonna be a gallop to it. And we're gonna walk briskly through the book, why? Because your faith3:01 demands a response. Go to verse 40 with me. Today, I wanna take just a few moments and I wanna introduce you to the 1st miracle that John Mark3:14 shows us of Jesus. Now why would John Mark give us this miracle to begin with? Verse number 40, if you'll follow along with me. And a leper came to3:26 him imploring him and kneeling said to him, if you will, you can make me clean. I love that.3:39 Verse 41, and being moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him. And listen to what Jesus says, I3:50 will be clean. Are there sweeter words in the gospels and Jesus saying, I will. The next verse4:02 and immediately, see there's our word. It's all through chapter 1. And immediately the leprosy left him and he was clean. And Jesus sternly charged4:14 him not to tell anyone, but to go to the high priest and to show himself as Moses had commanded with an offering to show proof. And what did the man do4:26 in verse 45? He did the exact opposite. He blurted it out to everybody. And the fame of Jesus grew and what's the last phrase of verse 45? What's the last phrase of the4:37 chapter say? That Jesus could not go anywhere because of the crowds. And what happened? People came to see him from every quarter. Now let's understand a couple of things4:49 briefly this morning. If you're gonna take notes, I want you to note this. Throughout the entire scriptures, leprosy was 1 of the most feared diseases in all of5:01 Bible days. Throughout the scriptures, it always represented a type of sin. It always represented sin, it was a type of sin I should5:13 say. And leprosy, today it is not as feared like it once was because in these days, there wasn't a cure for it. Today, there is a cure for5:24 it. Today, we call it Hansen's disease, is what is the term for leprosy. Some years ago, I had the opportunity to go to Vietnam and we smuggled5:36 Bibles into pastures in Vietnam. It was a thrilling trip. And in that certain trip, they took us out into the country and took us to a leper5:48 colony. And we were able to minister to lepers and able to lay hands on them and pray over them. It's a fascinating thing.5:59 Today, especially in our country, we don't fear leprosy because of the treatments. But you have to understand this man that comes to Jesus on this day had no treatment options.6:12 Matter of fact, the scriptures and Jewish culture was quite clear. If you did have leprosy, you were completely isolated. Talking about quarantine,6:24 it was a permanent quarantine. You were not allowed around the public, you weren't allowed to live in society and if anyone did approach you by law, you had to shout out6:36 unclean so that they kept their distance from you. So for the fact that this man even the fact that he comes up to Jesus6:47 and he kneels before him is against the law. He had no business being that close to Jesus, especially being a rabbi. But this man was6:59 desperate. This man was willing to break protocol. He was willing to break the law. He was desperate for Christ to touch him. Let me tell you my friend, you know when God will move in your life is when7:11 you get desperate. You know when God will move in your marriage, you know when God will move in your family, you know when God will move in your heart and in your life, it's when we get desperate. And7:23 this man was desperate and he broke the law, he broke protocol, he kneels before Jesus and he says, if you will. Oh, isn't that the question today? Is7:35 Christ willing? Well, I wanna show you why I think that's such a powerful question. He did not ask if7:46 Christ was able. Catch that. He didn't ask if Christ had the ability. He asked if Christ had the willingness. If you7:58 go back in chapter 1 to verse 22, as I mentioned earlier, verses 22 and 27 notes that Jesus came with8:10 authority. Now why is that so important to understand? Now see, Matthew is gonna present Jesus to the Jew, Luke to the Greek, John to the8:22 universal church. But Mark's gonna present Jesus to the Roman mind. It's interesting to note, the way that John presents Jesus in his gospel, John8:34 Mark I should say, is as a servant. The key verse I believe is chapter 10. The son of man did not come to be what? Served,8:46 but to do what? But to serve. If you're gonna be great in the kingdom of God, you must be the servant of all, right? So Mark presents Jesus8:58 as a servant and I find that interesting because, you know, Mark was from a wealthy family. His mother Mary apparently had some wealth because she had such a large home that9:10 could accommodate the Jerusalem church, and the Bible speaks of her hired servants. John Mark knew what it was to be wealthy and to come from a background of hired servants.9:23 And he presents Jesus as a servant. And how did this servant come? What are the beginnings? What's the archaeology of the gospel of Jesus, the son of God?9:35 He came as a servant with great authority. See, my friends, that's why he can forgive sin. That's why he can heal diseases. That's why he can do9:46 miracles. That's why he can rescue out of the pit of sin is because Christ has all authority in heaven and on earth.9:57 Amen? But do you know how else he came? He not only came with authority, but look at verse 41. He came with compassion. It is 1 thing10:10 for someone to have great authority. It's a whole other for someone who has authority, who has as much compassion. And when this man breaks the10:22 law and kneels down in front of him, and begs for Christ, implores him to touch him. You know what happened to Jesus? He was moved with compassion. He was moved10:34 with pity. Friends, do you want me to tell you how the Lord sees you today? Psalms chapter 1 0 3 tells us that our heavenly Father is moved with pity.10:46 He has pity on his children, amen? Many of you know you can Listen, you can love children and I do love children. Gosh, before I had10:58 kids, I had no idea about kids. They'd come up to church and hug my leg and I would think, I see now do they talk yet? And they're like 5.11:10 But now that I've had children, understand some of the stages. Boy, kids are so much fun. Little kids in our church, oh, I love them. They'll come, they'll hug me, they call me pastor Chad, they11:22 draw me pictures. I don't have the heart to tell them I'm blind, but I take them. Oh, thank you so much. But I appreciate11:33 it so much. Listen, you may love children deeply today, you may be called to work with children. But how many of you know, you don't have the love, the11:45 compassion for all children the way you do your own children, right? And let me tell you, God loves humanity. He provides rain for the just and the11:57 unjust alike. He provides food for sinner and saint. He provides shelter and God is good to humanity. But let me tell you who He loves. Let me tell you12:09 who he pities. Let me tell you who he corrects. Let me tell you who he disciplines. Let me tell you who his anger does not kindle toward his children.12:20 And to as many as believed on Him, to them gave He the right, the power to become the children of God. Amen? God12:32 has pity on you today. God has compassion for you today. And if something in your heart says, but if I come to Jesus, will he turn me away? No, the Bible says he doesn't turn a12:44 1 away who comes to him. He will have pity on you today. He'll have compassion toward you. And see here's the good gospel news. Here's the archaeology. Here's the beginning of12:56 the good gospel news of the son of God, Jesus Christ. That if you come and you implore of Jesus today, you come and you seek Jesus today. Let me tell you, He not only has the13:08 authority to change your life, He has the compassion to do it. What a savior. And see every 1 of us are in the same boat today.13:19 Every 1 of us have the leprosy of sin. Every 1 of us have the exact same diagnosis. A leper could not help themselves. Let me tell you, leprosy, your skin would rot.13:32 The nerve endings would die. You could put your hand in a fire and not feel it. You could step through a nail and not feel it because the nerve endings were dead. And as the nerve13:44 endings died, so did the skin and the skin would rot and the skin would fall off and they would have to bandage their skin together. Friends, can you imagine the13:55 stench? Can you imagine the mess? Can you imagine the hurt? But when this man came to Jesus,14:08 the stench didn't bother him. No, he touched him. And let me tell you, precious friend today, the stench of your past,14:20 the stench of your sins does not scare the Lord Jesus Christ today. He will touch you and he'll change you.14:33 Amen. So Jesus stretched out his hand and he touched him and Jesus said, I will be clean. Verse14:44 43, and immediately ethos is the Greek word there, e u t h o s, and 41 times it's in the book of Mark. Ethos, and ethos immediately, the14:56 leprosy left him and he was made clean. But now Jesus is gonna instruct him, this is very bizarre, that there's a purpose to it.15:08 Verse, where am I at? 43, I think. And he's gonna strictly, he's gonna sternly charge him that is not to tell anybody. Now why would Jesus do that?15:20 I think now listen, Jesus wasn't worried about the authorities. He was all authority. He wasn't worried about Herod. He wasn't worried about Rome or Caesar Augustus or Tiberius or any of15:32 these. He wasn't worried about the Sanhedrin or the chief priest. The point is that God had a timing to things. And when the right time came, the son of God would be15:44 made the Passover lamb at the right time. And Jesus tells him, don't tell anyone, but I think there's a deeper purpose to that. And I'm gonna share with you that deeper purpose on the last phrase of verse15:55 45. So let me save that. Now, let's understand this and I'll I'll begin to come to the closing here. Verse 44, Jesus16:07 tells him something very interesting that you and I, our western years will miss this if we're not careful. Jesus tells him to go to the priest, present himself with an offering as Moses had commanded and let them16:19 examine him and as proof that he's been made clean. Now why would Jesus tell him to do that? You have to go back and understand Levitical law. So if you go back, if you ever tried just to sit16:31 down and read the book of Leviticus, it can be a chore. There's so much detail. And where we miss it in our Western minds is we try to read it and we try to make sense of all this16:43 detail and it doesn't make sense to us. What we have to do is we have to take the new covenant, we have to take what what is the reality of the new covenant to the shadow of the old covenant and we have to16:55 combine them and we have to say, oh, there's the meaning and the purpose. Everything in the law points to Jesus. All of the rituals, all of the offerings, all of the sacrifices,17:07 every detail points to the lamb of God being slain for the sins of the world, everything. So that when you and I get to heaven in Revelation chapter 5, and17:18 when no 1 is worthy to take the scroll, it is the lamb of God slain before the foundations of the world that's going to take the scroll and we're gonna shout,17:30 worthy is the lamb. And everything from Genesis to Revelation points to that very moment.17:42 So, Leviticus 14, let me explain to you what happens. Say amen if you're with me right now. Amen. I talk to people all the time. I'll ask them a question and I'll think, oh, they're not listening. And you know what17:52 they're doing? They're nodding their head, yes. But a blind man can't see that. I bet a lot of you as I'm preaching, you're nodding yes with me, but I can't see you.18:04 Let's understand this. Why did he have to go show himself to the priest? Understand Leviticus 14. If someone was healed of leprosy according to the law of Moses that God gave Moses in Leviticus18:16 14, this was the ritual, this is what you had to do. You had to go present yourself to the priest, let him examine you. And then the priest had to take 2 birds. They killed18:28 the 1 bird, they put blood on the live bird, they applied blood and they set it free. Now why would you suppose they did that?18:41 If sin is death, the wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal life. If the results of sin is death, then18:53 what must we have? Life. And what is life? The life of the flesh is in the blood. Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of19:05 sin. So you had to have animal sacrifice over and over and over. And why did you always have to have animal sacrifice? Because man always sins. But when Christ who was the lamb of God became the19:17 Passover lamb for us and his blood was shed once and for all according to Hebrews, that was enough for all time, for all sin to be forgiven in our life. That's why19:28 you and I don't shed blood today, we have the blood of Christ applied to us, amen? And it's sufficient, animal blood was not sufficient, Christ's blood was sufficient. Now,19:41 so they were to take the blood, put it on the live bird and release it. What did that represent? The death of Jesus and the resurrection of Jesus. You see that in the old19:53 law? But something very interesting happened. They then took the blood and watch this, they would take the leper, the person who was so broken and20:05 so diseased and given up for dead. And here this man or woman would be healed by the grace of God. And they would take the blood and look what they20:16 did. They put it on the right earlobe. They put it on the right thumb, and they put it on the right big toe. Now why would you suppose20:28 God ordained that? And then that wasn't enough. Do you know what they did next? They then took oil. Do you20:40 remember what oil represents throughout the entirety of the scriptures? The Holy Spirit. Amen? And on top of that blood, they would then take oil and the priest would put it on the man's20:52 right earlobe, right thumb, and right big toe. Friends, you cannot apply the Holy Spirit to a life until the blood of Jesus has been applied to a life.21:03 Amen? And do you know what it represents? What does the Bible say the way you and I get our faith? Faith comes by what?21:15 If any man has an ear, let him hear. Does that mean our floppy ears? No. It means if anyone wants to know21:26 truth, if anyone will receive truth, then let him hear it. And you know what happens when the blood is applied to your life? When the oil of the Holy Spirit is applied, let me21:38 tell you, the carnal mind cannot receive the things of God, but when the blood and the spirit is applied to a life, you'll receive the things of God into your life. Amen? Amen.21:50 And then doesn't the scriptures go further? We are not to be according to James, hearers only of the word, we're to be what? And so the blood and the oil was applied22:02 to the right thumb. Faith without works is dead. You and I are not to only be hearers, we're to be doers of the word. It is to reprove22:14 us, correct us, encourage us, guide us. Oh, we ought to receive the word of God like a welcome mat in our life. We ought to receive all of God's word into22:26 our lives. And then why is it applied to the big toe? Because you know what you and I are to do? When we hear the word and when we do the word, you know what the result22:38 is? Oh, we begin to walk according to the spirit. Amen? And when you walk according to the spirit, Galatians, you do not fulfill the lust of the flesh.22:49 And instead of living in sin, you live in the spirit. Why? Because the blood has been applied and the oil has been applied. And you are now23:01 cleansed from your sin. You're now a leper that has been made whole by the grace, by the gospel of Jesus Christ,23:13 the son of God. Can we say amen to that today? Amen. And now lastly, verse 45. So the man goes everywhere,23:24 telling everybody what Jesus had done. Now why did Jesus tell him not to? I think there's a reason. And this is, I think, the23:36 reason. If you will, just give me another 5 minutes here. Let me me tell you my heart in this matter. You and I are not to keep quiet about Jesus.23:48 You and I are to tell our story. You and I are to share the gospel. See, I think the difference was this man wasn't empowered by the Holy Spirit. But now according to Acts chapter 1 verse 8,24:00 you know what happens to us? When the Holy Spirit comes up on us, when the blood has been applied and the oil has been applied and we are now baptized and filled with the precious Holy Spirit. Do you know what he24:12 does? He empowers us to be witnesses of Jesus Christ. And now we who was a leper, we who were deadened by condition of24:24 sin. We who implore Jesus to touch our lives. Now we have the ability to tell everyone what Jesus has done for us. We are24:35 witnesses of Jesus. Do you use a streaming device at home or at work? Simply say, hey, Google. Play Awaken24:47 to Grace with Chad Roberts podcast and listen to our weekly podcast that is the current sermon that I preach each week at Preaching Christ Church.
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