Wash, And Be Clean

Text: *{2Kings 5:1-19}*(linked text)

I. God is, has always been willing to save any who humble themselves to be saved in God's way.

II. Naaman was a great man - second to the kind of Syria in power and authority - He was an honourable man - By him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria - A mighty man in valour - ...But Naaman was a leper...Leprosy is a type of sin in the bible...Leprosy a disease - Phillipines...

III. A little girl brought the news to Naaman.
 a. God often uses little children, etc. to accomplish His Purposes.

IV. Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
 a. Elisha sent a messenger to him and told him to "Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee. And thou shalt be clean."

V. 2Kings 5:11-15 "11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.

VI. Christ's purpose for coming into the world.

VII. Christ's accomplishment of that purpose...
 a. His crucifixtion....His rsurrection...His invitation...Man's condemnation.

VIII. Isaiah 1:15 "Come now, and let us reason together saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."

VIIII. Romans 10: 8-9 "The word is nigh thee even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is the word of faith, which we preach; That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."

X. Story - Saved alone....Heart deceitful...(Jer. 17:10)"I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings." (Jer. 17:15-16)"15 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.
16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee."
(Isaiah 1:2-3) "2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider."
(Rev. 22:17)"And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely."

XI. Healed - free (Titus 3:5)"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;"
(Eph. 2:8-9)"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast."
(John 4:10) "Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water."