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Be a Christian Who Cares
2 Kings 5:1-15
Sermon by Rick Crandall
Grayson Baptist Church - July 28, 2013
INTRODUCTION:
*It's always a good idea to look back over life and think about the people who have made a difference: People who helped us in a time of need.
*People who blessed us.
-Opened new doors for us.
-Helped us grow.
-Imparted new wisdom.
-Made us more than we had been before.
*One of those people for me is a man named Richard Mencer.
In the mid-1990's Rich owned a kiosk Christian Bookstore at the mall in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
He also served on staff in a church up there.
I got to know Richard through his in-laws at Emmanuel Baptist Church.
*In early 1997, I was going through a discouraging time in my ministry.
Looking back, I can't even remember why.
But I was really discouraged.
Then one day Richard called out of the blue.
He told me he was going on a mission trip to Ukraine that summer.
He said they needed another pastor to go with them, that they had prayed about it, and felt like the Lord was leading them to ask me.
*Then Rich said he had shared all of this with the city-wide singles group he was leading, and they had volunteered to pay the $3,000 cost for the trip.
I couldn't believe it!
*God did a lot of great things on that trip.
But on top of everything else, He used that trip to give me a new burst of encouragement.
And all of that happened, because of some Christians who cared.
*We need to be Christians who truly care for other people.
How can we get there?
The servant girl in today's Scripture can help us.
This Hebrew girl was captured as a slave, and served Naaman's wife.
We don't even know her name.
But this young girl made an everlasting difference in Naaman's life, because she was a believer who cared.
She is a great example for us today.
*How can we be Christians who care?
1. First: Go beyond what's familiar.
*Verses 1& 2 introduce this young girl who was in a most unfamiliar situation:
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Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great and honorable man in the eyes of his master, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria.
He was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
2. And the Syrians had gone out on raids, and had brought back captive a young girl from the land of Israel.
She waited on Naaman's wife.
*Talk about an unfamiliar situation!
We don't know how long this young Jewish girl had been among the Syrians.
But she was able to break through all of the barriers in her path: A language barrier, a religious barrier, a racial barrier and a class barrier.
*There were all kinds of cultural differences between her and her owners.
But none of these barriers kept her from caring.
None of these barriers kept her from sharing her faith.
And in this she was a model of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
*A great place to see the Lord crossing barriers like this is in John 4:6-14.
There the Lord talked to a lost and lonely woman in Samaria:
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Now Jacob's well was there.
Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well.
It was about the sixth hour.
7. A woman of Samaria came to draw water.
Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink.''
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For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
9. Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, "How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?''
For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
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Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, `Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.''
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The woman said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.
Where then do You get that living water?
12. Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?''
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Jesus answered and said to her, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again,
14. but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst.
But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.''
*The Lord Jesus was weary.
But He wasn't too weary to care.
Jesus crossed gender, racial and religious barriers to offer His life-giving spiritual water to the Samaritan woman.
*By the grace of God, one of the most remarkable times I ever saw barriers crossed was in Chernigov, Ukraine in 1998.
I wouldn't even have been in Ukraine, if Richard had not invited me to go the year before.
But there I was.
And I was preaching in a church that Sunday morning, as a Ukrainian lady translated my message into Russian.
*That church had a ministry to deaf people, and there were about five or six on the front row.
As my interpreter translated my sermon into Russian, another lady translated her words into sign language.
And one of the deaf people got saved that morning!
*What a great blessing!
God allowed me to go 6,000 miles to tell people about Jesus Christ.
Then He translated His Word from English to Russian to sign language, all to get a precious lady saved.
*God loves to break through barriers, so we need to go beyond what's familiar.
2. And go beyond what's fair.
*Talk about an unfair situation here in vs. 2! "The Syrians had gone out on raids, and had brought back captive a young girl from the land of Israel."
The KJV calls her a "young maid".
The New American Standard calls her a "little girl".
*This little girl was captured and torn away from everyone she loved.
Then she was sold as a slave.
It would have been so easy for her to be bitter.
*Louis Bartet put it this way: "I don't know about you, but if I were the 'little girl' I would have been, to say the least, angry at my captors.
They were responsible for destroying my dreams.
They were responsible for the nightmares that woke me up in the night. . .
Because of them, I was alone in a strange land, and surrounded by strange people.
Because of them, I was miles away from my loving mother and father."
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*Greg Bitter said, "She had every reason to hate Naaman and wish evil on him.
(He was the commander of the Syrian army!)
He was responsible for stealing her away from her family and home.
He hurt her country.
He had ruined her future, condemning her to a life of slave. . .
She had every reason to hate him."
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*This young girl was in a rotten situation, and she could have been bitter.
"Why me, Lord? -- Life's not fair."
She would have been right about that last one.
Life is not fair.
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