Hate seethes out of his very being but one day he is given a copy of the Bible by abolitionists who come every day to pray at the window of his cell. The Bible is of course in English and so this man cannot read it. But by simply looking at the pictures of Jesus' birth, life, teachings, death, and resurrection-this illiterate man decides to give his life to God. He experiences rebirth and his bitterness disappears. He becomes a loving gentle, Christlike person who very clearly reflects the humility of our Lord, Who "...was oppressed and afflicted, yet did not open His mouth..." (Isaiah 53:7 ) One of my favorite scenes in the movie is when, shortly after his conversion experience, this man is walking to the courtroom and he looks to his left and sees above the houses the tops of three ship's masts and their cross beams that look just like the illustration he has just seen of the crosses on Calvary. And he smiles, remembering Jesus' death on his behalf. I share this to point out that God made it so simple for us to become Christians that you don't even have to be able to read in order to understand and respond to Jesus' death on our behalf. It is easy to become a Christian and receive eternal life.
Well, what was NAAMAN'S response to HIS simple cure? Verse 11 records that he responded with anger! His ears could scarcely believe what he had just heard. I can imagine he was thinking, "Where is this prophet? BUSY??? He did not even come out to meet me! He sent some measly servant to tell me to dip seven times in the muddy Jordan?! So in great rage Naaman wheeled that horse up and does a "Lone Ranger" imitation and then careens back down that street thinking, "Wait until Benhadad hears about this! He will avenge this insult!"
Late one night Dr. Leo Winters, the highly-acclaimed Chicago surgeon, was awakened by the phone. A young boy had been tragically mangled in a late-night accident. And the wounds were such that Dr. Winters' hands were possibly the only ones in the city or maybe even the whole region skilled enough to save the boy. The quickest route to the hospital happened to be through a rough area of the city, but with time such a critical factor, the doctor felt it was worth the risk. He almost made it through the neighborhood...almost....then, at a stop light, his door was jerked open by a man in a grey had and a dirty flannel shirt. "I've got to have your car!" the man screamed, pulling him from his seat. Dr. Winters tried to explain the gravity of the situation, but the man was not listening. He sped off in Winters' car. The doctor wandered for over 45 minutes before finding a phone. When he finally got a taxi and made it to the hospital, over an hour had passed.
He burst through the doors and into the nurses station but the nurse on duty only shook her head. It was too late. The little boy had passed away 30 minutes earlier. "His dad got here before he died." The nurse told him. "Please go and see him in the chapel. He is awfully confused. He could not understand why you never came." Without explaining Dr. Winters walked hurriedly down the hall and quietly entered the chapel. At the front knelt the huddled form of a weeping father, in a GREY HAT and a DIRTY FLANNEL SHIRT....he was the same man who had stolen the doctor's car. And, in so doing, he had tragically pushed from his life the only one who could help his son. Well, Naaman was about to make the same mistake. In riding off in a rage he was about to push from his life the only one who could cure him of leprosy. Now, let's try to deepen our understanding of what just happened by considering two questions:
a. First of all, why do you think Naaman was so angry?
Well, one reason was because his pride had been injured. He didn't like the way ELISHA treated him. He thought "I am a great man. I shouldn't be treated that way." Naaman wanted to be treated as a great man who just happened to have leprosy. But Elisha treated him as a leper who just happened to be a great man. But Naaman was also angry with the cure itself. Verse 12 infers that he thought, "The Jordan? That bug-infested, muddy, slow-moving river???? It just runs from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea. It is slow, filthy, sluggish. Why back home in Syria, we have beautiful clear mountain streams-the Abana and the Pharpar. If it is dunking that cures me, why can't I go there?" Naaman was mad because he thought he had a better way to be cured than was offered by Elisha. And you know, there is a lot of this same attitude going around today! More and more people say that Jesus is NOT the only way to God....and that to believe this is to be an intolerant, narrow-minded, spiritual bigot. You see, we live in a world where there seems to be endless options in virtually every arena of life. And people expect there to be options in the religious arena as well. But there aren't! Jesus wasn't kidding when He said, "I am THE way and THE truth and THE life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." As Peter said in Acts 4:12, "Salvation is found in no one else for there is no other name under heaven given to men where by we can be saved." The hymn text for "NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD" must have been inspired by the healing of a leper like Naaman for it draws this parallel between ours and Naaman's situation so very clearly. Remember it's words? "What can wash away my sin? What can make me WHOLE again? NOTHING----NOTHING---but the blood of Jesus!" Okay-second question:
b. Why do you think Elisha treated Naaman that way?
I mean why not go out and pay him a little respect? Well, I think acted like this because he wanted Naaman to learn about the power of the TRUE GOD. He wanted this man to learn that the cure he would receive was not in anything ELISHA would do. The cure came from the LIVING GOD. You see, Elisha knew how Naaman would expect to be cured. The SYRIAN MAGICIANS would have worked all manner of mumbo jumbo to cure his leprosy. So Elisha wanted to teach Naaman that God's cure is not a result of man's achievements. And today-salvation is based on the same principle. We are not cured of our sin by anything we do or accomplish. We are cured by our faith in God's achievement on the cross. I also think Elisha wanted to give NAAMAN an experience of faith. Think of it...you are infected with a deadly disease and are told to cure yourself by immersing in a filthy germ laden river. It doesn't make any sense...and usually faith doesn't either. As Philip Yancey says, "Faith is believing something in advance that will only make sense in reverse."
Well, Naaman would have died of leprosy if it were not for some loving servants who had the guts to standup to their master and question his actions. Verse 13 says that they stopped Naaman and said in essence, "Wait a minute, General Naaman. Cool off and think for a second or two. If this ELISHA had asked you to do a difficult thing, you would have done it, wouldn't you? If he had asked you to crawl on your knees the 150 miles back to Damascus in penance, you would have done it. If God had asked you to hide in a cave on Mt. Hermon for three years eating nothing but grasshoppers and wild honey and pray eight hours a day you would do that General, wouldn't you? But instead of asking you to do something difficult, he has asked just a simple thing....go dip seven times in the Jordan River. It's even on your way home! Don't you think it is reasonable...he asks such a simple thing....why not give it a try?"
And then Naaman demonstrates one reason people admired him so. He cooled off and showed good judgement and said, "Yes." So, he rode to the banks of the Jordan River on that magnificent stallion. He looked down at the slow-moving muddy water and shook his head probably thinking,
"I can't understand it but this prophet of God said to do it so I will." Now, let's look closely at what happened next...and note three things:
 Naaman got down off his horse.
Now remember, Naaman was a general. When other soldiers walked....he rode! But he got down off his horse. And you know that is the first step to God. We have to humble ourselves. We have to get down off our "high horse"and admit in all humility that we are a sinners like everyone else on this planet. We must get down on that level ground before the cross....and admit our sin-because IT'S NOT ANYTHING WE ARE THAT GRANTS US SALVATION.
 The next thing that happened was NAAMAN took off his medal-laden uni-form.
And when we come to God, for the cure for our sin, we must lay aside all our credits and achievements, all our virtues and righteousness-everything that we say makes us good and admit that none of it is even close to being good enough. As Isaiah 64:6 says even "...our RIGHTEOUS deeds are like filthy rags." So we come to the God-with nothing in our hands because-IT'S NOT ANY THING WE DO THAT GRANTS US SALVATION.
 And then...Naaman walked into the water in obedience.
He ducked under once-nothing happened. He ducked a second time-nothing happened. A third time. A fourth time...still nothing. A fifth time- "Maybe this was not such a good idea!" A sixth time----still nothing. A sev-enth time...and this time...when Naaman came up the Bible says his flesh was restored and his skin became clean and soft like that of a baby. Do you know how clean babies smell? Well, Naaman was the only person in history to get to smell like that as an adult! Naaman lost his pride and then he lost his leprosy! Isn't that great!?
Invitation
Now, I wonder? Is it possible that there are some of you here this morning that have not been cured yet? You are still suffering from this curse of sin, this "disease" that ends life and makes it's achievements futile. If so, then listen. Don't make the mistake NAAMAN almost made! Don't push away the only cure there is. In humility right now. Admit your sin to God. Ask Jesus to forgive you and to be your Lord. Remember, it's not who you are, it's not what you do; it is simple faith in what Jesus has done that you are cured! Dr.Diana Brevan @ Jesus Is Lord Fellowship WWI Where Jesus Is Lord

Salvation Prayer
Have you ever made Jesus the Lord and Savior of your life?
If not, pray this prayer and start a new life in Christ.

Dear God,
I come to You in the Name of Jesus. I admit that I am not right with You, and I want to be right with You. I ask You to forgive me of all my sins. The Bible says if I confess with my mouth that “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in my heart that God raised Him from the dead, I will be saved (Rom. 10:9). I believe with my heart and I confess with my mouth that Jesus is the Lord and Savior of my life. Thank You for saving me!
In Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen.

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