Compassion, Command, and Conversion
Mark 1:40-45

I. Recognizing the Need for Divine Intervention
A. The Condition of the Leper
1. The Leper’s Lament:
2. The Leper’s Longing:
3. The Leper’s Leap of Faith:
B. The Call to Consciousness
1. Understand the Only One Who Can Cure

II. The Compassionate Christ
A. The Compassion of Christ
1. Compassion as the Core of Christ’s Character
B. The Conduit of the Cure
1. The Power of Personal Presence

III. The Call for Confidence and Compliance
A. The Command to Silence
1. The Significance of Obedience:
B. The Commission to Show
1. Fulfilling the law and gaining public validation of healing

IV. Sharing the Salvation Story
A. The Distribution of the Power
1. The Power of Personal Testimony:
B. The Price of Popularity