6. 'SIETE VECES LIMPIO' - Pastor Esteban Bohr || Un Futuro con Esperanza

[Music] Heavenly Father, we come before you this morning, thanking you for your holy day when we can rest from the week's work and focus solely on you. Thank you for giving us not only material things but also your time. As we study this topic, we ask that your Holy Spirit be with us and

guide us. If there is anyone in the valley of doubt about surrendering their life to Jesus, I pray, Lord, that this will be the day they make that decision. We implore you in the name above all names, the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. I want to invite you to open your Bibles to 2 Kings, chapter 5. This

will be the focus of our study today. We will study several verses. The beginning of this chapter tells the story of the healing of Naaman the Syrian, and we will see what lessons we can learn from this story, which occurred during the time of the prophet Elisha. Let's begin by reading chapter 5,

verse 1: Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was This man was great in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the Lord had given salvation to Assyria. This man was exceedingly valiant. Let's pause for a moment. He was a man who did not belong to the chosen people; that is, he

was a pagan. Now, I want you to notice the last part of verse 5: despite being a man, a general, a great man who was highly regarded and exceedingly valiant, it says, "But..." There's a "but": he was a leper. Now, to understand how serious leprosy was, I want to tell you something about leprosy in

biblical times. Today, leprosy doesn't terrify people as much because we have antibiotics, but in biblical times, leprosy caused terror because it was an incurable and degenerative disease that filled the hearts of the healthy with terror. They fled from leprosy. The disease was contagious, and over time, it disfigured a person who had contracted leprosy. Even