If You Are Willing

Sermon Text: Mark 1:35-45

If Jesus found it necessary to rise early to pray, how much more should we need to rise for prayer? In order for us to see through the immediate circumstances we need to be in communion with God. Through spending time in prayer, we become more in tune with the will of the Father.

So much of Christianity today is built around coming to get a “touch from God.” Some things haven’t changed. We see that many we seeking Christ as He walked on the earth: not for the words that He spoke but for the touch of healing that He could do.

Leprosy is commonly used in the Bible as a type of sin. As the leper was placed under the Levitical law, so are we as sinners placed under the law. The purpose of the law is to show us our need of God’s redemption. As the leper who approached Christ knew he needed cleansing, so we should approach Christ knowing that we need cleansing from our sin.

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