Coming Down the Mountain

Sermon Notes

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Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe
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**1. THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS

1. BEHOLD, A LEPER **

Leviticus 13:45–46
The leprous person who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean.’ He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He shall live alone. His dwelling shall be outside the camp.

Hebrews 13:12
So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.

Hebrews 13:13–14
Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

Jamey Vizzini
The King who astonishes is Savior who cleanses

Kent Hughes
… the plight of the leper illustrated the effects of sin, though the leper was actually not any more sinful than anyone else.. R. C. Trench, the great Greek scholar and the inspiration for and first editor of the monumental Oxford English Dictionary (OED), recognized this, saying that though the leper was not worse or guiltier than his fellow Jews, nevertheless he was a parable of sin—an “outward and visible sign of innermost spiritual corruption.” The leper is a physical illustration of the heart of every human being! If for a moment we could see a visible incarnation of ourselves apart from the cleansing work of Christ, we would see ourselves as the walking dead—forms dead in their trespasses and sins—forms trying to cover themselves with filthy rags.