So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored and became like that of a little child, and he was clean.Then went he down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.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.Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the 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.
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… happened to Naaman when his servant pulled him to the side and said, Naaman, the hardest part is behind you. Do it. Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy. When I was a child, I thought like a child. But when I stopped thinking like a child, my skin was made new again. We take what is passing and turn it into something permanent. God took something that was permanent and turned it into something passing. It will pass. Kings and kingdoms will all pass away, but there's something about that name. It will pass. When Naaman did it, when Naaman dipped, when Naaman got out of his thought and got into the water and did what God told him to do. He was restored. I'm believing for Restoration Sunday in somebody's life today. The restoration of your right mind, the restoration of your peace, the restoration of your joy… That something you have convinced yourself is permanent is really passing. …
… And Elisha sent a messenger to him saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times and your flesh shall be restored and you shall be clean. Naaman became furious and went away and said, But indeed I said to myself, he shall surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord of his God. This is preconceived ideas of when you come to church, what God's supposed to do. And God says, I ain't doing none of that. I'm not doing it your way. I'm not going to do it like you and your mind say I have to do it. I am, I don't, my ways are not your ways. but this is a man who's dying and needs help but he's going to tell God how he's supposed to do it call on the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand and swoon you know, act like a healing evangelist or something and get out here and his hand over the place of my wounds and heal the leprosy he wants me to go jump in the river and dip seven times and I'll stop reading other than to say verse 13 and the servant came near and spoke to him and said my father if the prophet would have told you to do something great would you not have done it how much more then when he says to you wash and be clean so the man went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan according to the saying of the man of God and his flesh …
… would have done it. How much more then when he says, Wash and be clean. So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, 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. In verse 15, he said, there's no God in all the earth, only the God of Israel. Sinners have to be humbled. They have to be brought low. At first, Naaman was not willing to humble himself, But he later realized, better to be humble and live than be proud and dead. Again, salvation is for the destitute who have nowhere to turn, and they can't buy it. It comes as a gift. It comes as a gift. So Jesus ended that exposition with those two Old Testament accounts. Notice how the people responded. Verse 28, all the people in the synagogue were filled with rage as they heard these things. He had just destroyed their works righteousness system, their system of you earn your way to God's favor. …