Emmanuel330: WEEK 29 - New Willingness: Lord, I want to be clean (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

Today's Reading: Matthew 8:1-4

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Please click this link to Matthew 8:1-4

English(ESV): http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew 8&version=NIV
Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew 8&version=CUV

Bible Study

After Jesus finished the Sermon on the Mount and came down from the mountainside, He exercised the authority of what He just taught - A New Being, New Doing and New Standard. But before we become a new being, something needs to happen.

This is what needs to happen as in today's passage. A leper being healed by asking whether Jesus is willing. Jesus says, "I am willing. Be clean!"

We are all lepers in someway, do you agree? No one is perfect. We all have something inside us unclean. Are you able to ask Jesus today the same question the leper asked if you have the courage to admit that you are also a leper. "Lord if you are willing, please come and make me clean."

That's the act of confession, the heart of repentance. Through repentance, we will be clean and start our new life as a New Being, New Doing and New Standard.

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

The topic I received from Jesus today is :

New Willingness: Lord, I want to be clean

That's your new willingness. Whether you are willing to ask Jesus to make you clean each day marks the difference whether you stay to be a leper or to be a powerful servant of God.

Are you willing to admit that you are one of the lepers and you need the blood of Jesus to cleanse you each day so that you can experience and exercise what Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount:

New Being, New Doing, New Standard

Dear Lord Jesus,

Lead us to be willing to ask you to make us clean each day. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Questions for group discussion

New Willingness: Lord, I want to be clean

新的願意: 主啊,潔淨我

Passage: Matthew 8:1-4

Questions for group leaders

1. Read Matthew 8:1-4 again now. Today passage's healing is the first thing Jesus did after he finished the sermon on the mount. If this is not a co-incidence, what is the significance of this healing? How is that to do with you?

2. Do you admit that you are also one of the lepers? Why? How frequent do you need cleansing and healing? How willing are you to ask Jesus for cleansing and healing?

3. What is the one step that you are going to do, to change when you walk out of this place today so that you are clean and healthy spiritually each day?

4. What is your highlight in today’s session?

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