Browsing Archive: July, 2017
Posted by David Puffer on Sunday, July 30, 2017,
John 5:2-9 Now there is in Jerusalem by the
Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five
porches. In these lay a great multitude
of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a
certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in
first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he
had. Now a certain man was there who
had an infirmity thirty-eight years. When Jesus s... Continue reading ...
The Agony And The Leprosy Part 2
Posted by David Puffer on Sunday, July 16, 2017,
Luke 17:11-13 Now it
happened as He went to Jerusalem that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. Then as He entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who
were lepers, who stood afar off. And they lifted up their voices and
said, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!"
In part 1 we looked at the
similarities between the condition of sin and the disease known as Leprosy.
We noticed that it was thought of as
a divine judgment, so they called it “tsara
’ath: to be scou...
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The Agony And The Leprosy Part 1
Posted by David Puffer on Sunday, July 9, 2017,
Luke 17:11-13
Now it happened as He went to Jerusalem that He passed through the
midst of Samaria
and Galilee.
Then as He entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers,
who stood afar off. And they lifted up
their voices and said, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!"
In Jesus’ day there was no
disease that was feared as much as leprosy was.
It was thought of as a
divine judgment, so they called it “tsara
’ath: to be scourged
or strickened”.
For this reaso...
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