“See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”and said to him, “See that you say nothing to anybody, but go show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”And saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.and saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but go show thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
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and Jesus sternly charged him and sent him away at once and said to him see that you say nothing to anyone but go show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded for a proof to them but he went out and began to talk freely about it and to spread the news so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town but was out in desolate places and people were coming to him from every quarter. And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered there so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. And they came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him. and when they had made an opening they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay and when Jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic son your sins are forgiven now some of the scribes were sitting there questioning in their hearts why does this man speak like this he's blaspheming who can forgive sins but God alone and immediately Jesus perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves said to them, Why do you question these things in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, Your sins are forgiven, or to say, Rise, take up your bed and walk? But that you may know that the …
… and Jesus sternly charged him and sent him away at once and said to him, see that you say nothing to anyone but go show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded for a proof to them. But he went out and began to talk freely about it and to spread the news so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town but was out in desolate places and people were coming to him from every quarter. And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered there so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. And they came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him. and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. …
… This had me cracking up. Jesus went to him and said, once with a strong warning, see that you don't tell this to anyone, but go show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing as a testimony to them. 45. Instead, he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly, but stayed outside in lonely places. The more that I wrestled with this text, I realized that many of us, we've surrendered our lives to Jesus, but we're struggling with submitting to his authority. Today, my plea to you is to go under the authority of God. You want his love, but you reject his wisdom. didn't just want to save you he wants to lead you he wants to guide you and so today I wanted to slow down for a moment to just charge you in this in this season of your life to make a decision say I'm going to obey the voice of God I'm going to do what he said to do now just for a moment there may be someone in the room that's like hey I've never heard God speak to me. I don't even know what you mean when you say that. I heard a pastor say this once. I'm going to try to give this to you really quick about hearing the voice of God just for a moment, because I think it'll help you in this journey. We know that God is in three persons, God the Father, …
made clean. And Jesus sternly charged him and sent him away at once and said to him, see that you say nothing to anyone but go show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing when Moses commanded for a proof to them. But he went out and began to talk freely about it and to spread the news so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in desolate places. People were coming to him from every quarter. Let's pray. Father in heaven, we ask for your help now, not only in coming to the hearing and the preaching of your word, but we do pray for our community here in Matthews, the Charlotte area, and the millions of people here in the southeast and up the east coast facing this winter storm. We pray for your protection. We can often take for granted how relatively easy our lives are most of the time, how smoothly things go, getting where we want, what we need in relative comfort. We pray that you would provide for us, especially those who may be older or ill or in difficult circumstances, we pray that you would spread your wings and you would give us all that we stand in need of. And help us now that we may, in whatever situation we find ourselves, we may now attend to the hearing of your word that you would have just what we need to hear by your Spirit. In Jesus' name, amen. I'm sure that many of you have read …