This lesson is about the good news that every Christian has to share.
Question: What usually happens when you or someone else gets good news?
Most people would share it with someone else, probably many other people.
When my girls got married or had a baby we all knew about it and so did most of their friends. It is a natural thing to share your good news with someone. When your team wins a game you tell someone about it.
When the First and Second World War’s had ended multitudes were talking
about it and sharing the good news. It was in the newspapers and people were talking about it everywhere.
It seems like most of our news today blaring from our radios and what we read in our newspapers is not all good, but there is some that is good news and we appreciate the good news far more than the bad.
Today I want to talk about some people in the Bible that had some good news to share and they did not want to keep it to themselves.
These people were lepers. Some leprosy was a skin decease that must not have been contagious so those that had it could be around people, just in case you start wondering how these guys could be with other people. Some leprosy, if you had it, you would have to stay 50 feet up wind of people and holler “unclean” and also live in a commune type place with other lepers.
Check this story out in 2 Kings chapters 6 & 7. At the time Ben–Hadad had surrounded Samaria and besieged it. No one could go out and no one could get in. As time went on the people began to starve, having no way to get any food. It got so bad that two ladies agreed to boil their sons and eat them. This was a terrible situation with no hope in sight, then God intervenes through His servant Elisha.
There were four lepers sitting at the gate and this is what the lepers said, “Why should we sit here waiting to die? We will starve if we stay here and we will starve if we go back into the city. We might as well go out and surrender to the Aramean Army. If they let us live so much the better, but if they kill us we would have died anyway.” Then they went and they found no one there so they went from tent to tent eating and drinking collecting things for themselves.
In Chapter 7 verse 9 they said, “this is not right this is wonderful news and we are not sharing it with anyone.” So they went back to the city and told the gatekeepers who in turn sent a message to the King. It is hard to imagine how excited the people were when they found out that what these lepers said was in fact true. These lepers had some great news and they didn’t want to keep it to themselves. This news would bring an end to the famine and result in saving many lives. They might have had a celebration, what an exciting time it must have been.
Just as lepers had good news at the time and were excited to share it, each of us, if we are believers, have good news that will save many lives from going down to the pit of Hell.
Question: how excited are you to share the good news of the gospel with others that need to hear it? The good news we have is Jesus saves and will save even the vilest of sinners if they will repent and receive Jesus as Lord and Savior of their lives. Isn’t that the truth!
Question: are you sharing the good news? You come in contact with people everyday that need to hear the good news. I want to encourage you to do what the lepers did, go and share the good news with someone this week.
People are dying every day and they need Jesus so that they can receive eternal life.
There is nothing more exciting then being an instrument that God used to win someone to Him and God will bless you when you do.
Praise God! and have a great day.
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