It was good to have our pastor back. Pastor Douthwaite has been in Kenya for the last three weeks teaching at a seminary over there. Our Scripture texts were about the healing of lepers. Pastor Douthwaite developed the parallels between leprosy and sin. Leprosy is an infection that cut off those afflicted with it from other people, making them “unclean.” Sin is also like that. Naaman was healed of his leprosy when he bathed in a river Jordan, a sign of Baptism. Jesus touched the leper. Normally when someone touched somebody who was “unclean,” he himself became unclean. But when Jesus touched the leper–and us sinners–His cleanness makes us clean.
It was a profound, powerful, and illuminating sermon, an exposition of Scripture that proclaimed both the Law and the Gospel. The sermon is not posted right now, as I write this, but it will probably be at this site.
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