Title [Breaking the Curse of Leprosy]
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[He broke the curse of leprosy] Luke 5:12-16 2007.10.21. Sunday worship service
1) Now, Sorokdo is connected to the mainland by a bridge between Nokdong and Geumsan, but this island has long been known to be separated from the mainland and enters only by boat, and once you enter the island, you cannot get out. This is because Sorokdo was an island where people with leprosy who were said to be incurable at the time lived. Leprosy is a disease that can be cured and cured as modern medicine tells us. Nevertheless, people even think of it as a punishment of heavenly punishment because of the fear of leprosy.
Likewise, in the very words of Leviticus, leprosy is called uncleanness, and uncleanness is called a curse.
2) Today's text, Matthew 8, tells us that we are cursed. It is a picture of a man with leprosy who spends his life in pain and suffering under the “curse” and the “chains of the curse.” The Lord met him and healed him, breaking the chains of curse that bound him and setting him free.
1. Let's look at the figure of a man with leprosy under the curse of the heavenly disease.
1) When God created man and placed him in the Garden of Eden, it was happiness and thanksgiving in God's grace. God's grace, which is full of God's blessings and grace, and allows us to enjoy all the good things of Eden, was a blessing to man. But even for a moment, when they fall into temptation and lose paradise, they are put under the curse of punishment. The wages of sin is death, and the sinner follows the penalty of death.
2) Look at this man with leprosy. How did our human beings, created in the image of God, become enslaved to the wretched disease of leprosy by being so rotten, pus and flaky by the rod? This is the chain of the curse of sin and death.
One day, when I woke up, white spots started to spread on my face and body, and I got scars and pus. Still no pain and no sensation. Even if I burn my hands while pouring boiling hot water, the blisters are white and swollen, it doesn't hurt. “This is so strange.” So I go to the priest. Then he decided it was leprosy. became unclean. From that day on, he had to leave the house, leaving his son and daughter behind, and it had been four years since he came into the mountains with nothing. The 4-year-old daughter I left behind must be 8, and I miss her crazy, but I don't dare go or call her to come here. Everything feels like it has fallen off a cliff and is under the curse of death. I heard rumors that my mother passed away, but I can't even die, and I can't cry because of the oxygen. This was the punishment of the curse.
3) Ladies and gentlemen, like the miserable suffering of the leper in the text, people are bound by the chains of the curse that binds them together. Do you see the chains of curses that bind us? How miserable are we under those chains? Those who are entangled in the chains of sin and disease, those who are caught in the trap of wealth and lust, and those who live swayed by greed are under these chains.
2. Jesus breaks the chains of the curse by healing a leper.
In today's text, this man with leprosy came to Jesus. Perhaps he had great courage. He must have been prepared to be stoned to death by people. Because the leper was unclean, he could not stand before people in broad daylight when people were active. If they see such a sick person, people will say they are unclean and throw stones at them. He must have come to Jesus prepared to be hit with that stone. Then the Lord broke the chains that bound him and returned his life to a man of God's blessing. That's right. The Lord broke the chains that no man could do anything about in an instant and transformed him into a new person of blessing and joy.
1) First, Jesus felt sorry for him. How upset are people when a leper unexpectedly appeared before their eyes in broad daylight? People say all at once. “I deny it. go away dirty. disappear.” Then the Lord sees him and has compassion on him. The people created by God have lost the image of God and are suffering from the leprosy of death, becoming such cursed chains. The Lord treats our people with compassion and compassion, just as the saying “have pity” means “have pity” on us.
Mother Teresa, who cared for lepers in the slums of Calcutta, India, said this. “When I see lepers here, I vaguely understand what the Lord had compassion for the lepers. A heart of pity, this compassion, works miracles.” That's right. “Compassion” is the driving force behind miracles.
2) Then the Lord approached the leper and touched the leper and said, the reach of the Lord's hand. How amazing is this? People avoid the leper from seeing his face because he is unclean, but does the Lord touch his body? According to Leviticus, a leper is an unclean person. Anyone who touches him or touches him will transfer his uncleanness, and he will become unclean as well. do. It is said to avoid contact with lepers as there is a high risk of infidelity or contagion. As the saying goes, how much do Jews try to follow the rules of chastity in order not to become unclean?
The Lord, who knew such laws, met the leper and touched his body. Jesus is the Word that you accept being unclean With these words, Jesus took upon himself the curse to save us from being unclean like lepers, to break the chains of death and punishment, that is, to break the chains of the curse.
As Isaiah 53 says, “He bore our sorrows and bore our sorrows, and in return for our chastisement, God chastises us, and in our afflictions he suffers.” By his punishment we have peace; by his wounds we are healed.” Just as in these words, you yourself healed the leper and took on the curse, breaking the curse of iniquity that bound us.
3) The Lord said, “Be clean” with the word of His power for the leper. You did. Let's think about it. The severe leprosy must be cured with medicine or treatment. But the Lord did not use this method, but healed him by the word of his power and power. Such power of the Lord is in the Word. It is the Word that created the heavens and the earth, the Word that created man, and the Word that breathed into man and became a living soul. It is a positive word toward the world, just like the saying that it was very good in the eyes. It is the word that establishes and blesses people's lives. It is the word that has power and is honored.
He felt pity for us who were under the chains of the curse and released the chains, but you are the Lord who bore the chains and even brought us under the curse. So we go before the Lord. We cry out for the grace of the Lord. Lord, take care of our pity.
3. May the Lord's power to break chains be with us.
1) As the Lord spoke, the leper's disease receded and he became clean. When the Lord spoke, verse 13 says that the leprosy left immediately. The word “immediately” here means “immediately” without delay. This verse speaks of the Lord's ability to break down and turn into blessings, especially when the Lord performs miracles, and the miserable situation of our people. Gentlemen, the Lord came and broke the power of the devil that had held people down with the disease called leprosy for many years and bound them under the chains of a curse. I believe my body has recovered.
2) What did the sick person feel when the chain of curses was broken? Did a tingling sensation like an electric shock run through his body? Did you feel like you were being hit by cold water under a cool waterfall? Or did you feel the heat as if a lump of ice was melting? Whatever it was, he could confirm that he was healed of his illness as Jesus had said.
The power of God that came immediately This was a miracle for him, a work of grace that saved his life, and the completion of the blessing that broke the curse of the past.
3) When we go before the Lord, and when we rely on Him and ask Him to have mercy on me, let's go to the Lord who renews our lives just as the Lord heals his cursed leprosy and gives him a new life. I say to the Lord and I pray that you may enjoy Your grace.
in conclusion
1) The church is a gathering of God's people. We are people who, like these lepers, have been resurrected by God's grace and help. God wants to heal us through faith. I believe you are the One who fills those who come to you with compassion and power. Ladies and gentlemen, we are the Lord's people, but are there any saints who still have the chains of the devil and Satan's curses holding us?
2) There is a book called [Break the curse that flows through the family]. If there is a chain of curses in that family that has been passed down through the generations, in my generation, that chain will have to be broken. In the name of Jesus, please break the chain that drives people's lives to that hell by having the devil take over and serve them. And now, I pray that you will establish a family of blessings that can be passed on to a thousand generations.
3) As the saying goes, “Those who hate me will be punished for it up to three or four generations, and those who love me will be blessed with a thousand generations. If you rely on God and come before the Lord to pray and confess, the curse that binds us with His power is He will set you free from the chains and bind you with chains of blessings and grace. I pray in the name of the Lord that you will become such a people who long for the Lord's power that He works for us as He breaks the chains that bind the lepers.