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Most Valuable Commodity?
Money?
Time!
I have a friend who is retired military, Lt. Col. in the army.
Owned 3 radio stations in LR.
Retired in his 50’s.
Since he’s retired from everything, he’s managed his own investments and done quite well.
Since he’s retired from everything, he’s managed his own investments and done quite well.
Has a net worth somewhere in the low 7 figures.
He is successful in his career.
Not too many years ago after spending 40 years in LR they packed up and moved to Dallas to be closer to grandchildren.
He told me that as he has gotten older he has realized that he had made a mistake.
Early in his life, end of life completely off his radar screen, he believed his money was his most valuable commodity.
And, he did a lot of good with it.
But now, looking back, he says he was wrong.
He wasted a lot of time that he can’t get back.
He wasted some money too.
But, he regrets more the time.
Now, clearly he understands that his time is by far his most valuable commodity.
And, he is judicious in how he spends.
B/C, it’s not just having the time, but spending the time wisely.
And the best use of time is with the people you care about and those that care about you.
Time is the most valuable commodity.
And, relationships are the most important use of your time.
One of the lessons Jesus taught over and over again; relationships matter most.
Beginning w/ what He made possible, a personal relationship w/ God.
Marriage, children, extended family, and church.
Church is not a building.
Ecclesia means a group of people who share a common purpose.
Church is unique.
We are the only org united and bound by the indwelling HS.
Other relationships are good and important.
But none more so than those united by God.
Time is our most valuable commodity.
And, building and maintaining strong relationships and our community is the most important way we can spend it.
Miracle #6, cleansing the leper, this is one of the important lessons Jesus communicates to his disciples and us.
It’s found in ; ; and .
We’re spending most of our time in the Mark passage.
Context
Still very early in Jesus’ ministry
, in the synagogue, reads from , a Messianic passage and claims that this was written about Him.
Clearly, claiming t/b the Messiah.
A capital offense.
Crazy and dead; or true.
Authority over nature, demons, and disease.
But, they’ve been taught and are used to a distant, impersonal God.
Jesus is very relatable.
Hangs out w/ the guys.
Casually visits w/ women.
Comfortable in a crowd of both religious and irreligious ppl.
And, He seems much less concerned about the religious rules and much more concerned about irreligious people.
He claims t/b the Messiah, proves He is by the miracles He performs.
But, at the same time, blows up the people’s paradigm of what they expect of God.
The disciples are just beginning to understand what it means that Jesus is the Savior and what it looks like to be one of His disciples.
Then, this happened:
A Dangerous Approach
Mark 1:
Leprosy
More than just one skin disease, it causes organs to rot, slowly.
Extremities lose feeling.
Unrealized injuries.
Open wounds that bleed and ooze.
Eventually, fingers, toes, and the nose fall off.
Ugly to look at.
A horrible odor.
Incurable, certain slow death.
Leprosy was a metaphor for sin.
The disease wasn’t sinful and it wasn’t necessarily contracted as a result of sin.
They would use the picture to illustrate what God sees when He sees a sinful person.
Ugly, smelly, separated from God, w/ no way to gain access.
There were many religious and societal rules regarding lepers.
The OT law was no only worship rules but it kept Israel alive and healthy.
“Wash your hands before you eat.”
Long before germs were discovered.
The Pharisees way overcooked what hand-washing cleaned.
Thus, the water pots that were used for the wine.
“Don’t cut meat w/ your butter knife.
Don’t spread butter w/ your meat knife.”
Prior to modern processing a chemical reaction would kill you.
If you did, throw it all out and bury the knife for 2 weeks.
Natural germ-killing.
Kosher again.
Today, we could eliminate virtually every STD w/in one generation if we strictly obeyed the OT laws regarding sex.
Only have sex w/ your spouse.
And, stay married until death.
Lepers terrified people b/c of the disease’s infectious nature and severity.
Lepers were quarantined.
No human contact for fear of spreading the disease.
Lepers had to cover themselves from head to toe to keep their bodily fluids to themselves and so people wouldn’t have to see them.
They had yell, “Unclean!
Unclean!” as they walked thru the village.
People were allowed to throw rocks at them to keep their distance.
Where “10’ pole” came from.
Allowed to hit and poke their bodies w/ their open wounds.
No groups, crowds or confined spaces w/ people.
If anyone touched a leper they were quarantined until it was certain that they had not contracted the disease.
Certainly, no worship.
No societal contact.
No physical contact.
Relationally, they were already dead.
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