Elisha Series

We're going to have our reading now from God's words. And so if you've got a physical bible, either here or at home, then you can turn to 2 Kings chapter 5. And we're carrying on our series in Elijah. We're going to read the first 19 verses. And after that reading, Peter is going to come up and preach to us.

And Safron has Safron has done the reading. We've prerecorded the reading today, so hopefully that's gonna come up. She's not in another part of the building with a microphone reading live. It's a prerecorded thing. And so, hopefully, that will that will play as the reading comes up.

Now Neiman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded because through him, the Lord had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy. Now bands of raiders from Aram had gone out and taken captive a young girl from Israel, and she served Neiman's wife. She said to her mistress, if only my master would see the prophet who was in Samaria, he would cure him of his leprosy.

Naiman went to his master and told him what the girl from Israel had said. By all means go, The king of Aram replied. I will send a letter to the king of Israel. So name and left, taking with him 10 talents of silver, 6000 shekels of gold, and 10 sets of clothing. The letter that he took to the king of Israel read, With this letter, I am sending my servant name into you so that you may cure him of his leprosy.

As soon as the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his robes and said, am I God? Can I kill and bring back to life? Why does this fellow send someone to me to be cured of his leprosy? See how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me? When Elijah, the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his robes, he sent him this message.

Why have you torn your robes? Make the man come to me, and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel. So Neiman went with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elijah's house. Elijah sent a messenger to say to him, Go, wash yourself 7 times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed. But Neiman went away angry and said, I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord His God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy.

Are not Abana and Farpa, the rivers of Damascus better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn't I wash in them and be cleansed? So he turned and went off in a rage. Neiman's servants went to him and said, my father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more then when he tells you wash and be cleansed?

So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan 7 times. As the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy. The Neiman and all his attendants went back to the man of God. He stood before him and said, now I know that there is no God in all the world except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.

The prophet answered, as surely as the Lord lives whom I serve, I will not accept a thing. And even though Neiman urged him, he refused. If you will not, said Neiman, please let me your servant be given as much earth as a pair of mules can carry. For your servant will never again make burnt offerings and sacrifices to any other God but the Lord. But may the Lord forgive your servant for this 1 thing?

When my master enters the temple of Rimon to bow down, and he is leaning on my arm, and I have to bow there also, When I bow down in the Temple of Rimon, may the Lord forgive your servant for this? Go in peace, Elijah said. Well, we've been working our way through the story of Elijah and then Elijah. And we're at this fantastic story. Let me pray.

Father help us so many wonderful truths in this story. Help us please to learn them. Give us ears to hear and hearts by your spirit to live them out in Jesus' name, amen. Now I wonder what the stronger desire is in you. Is it is it need or pride?

Need or pride. What's the stronger thing in your life? Need or pride. Try and think of the general sort of way that you desire those things. Need or price.

So need can make you do things that you never thought you would do because you need something. I desperately need this or I've resorted to desperate measures that I never thought I would resort to because I need. Yeah. And it might even be that you ask someone that you would never have any intention of being around for help. Perhaps someone you don't even like, someone you perhaps even despise.

But your need is so great, it drives you to ask for help, even of that person. So need is a strong thing in our life. But what about pride? The amazing thing about pride is, pride can be stronger than need, can't it? Have you ever noticed that in your life?

So pride can be so strong that you'll say no to help when you need it. That's an extraordinary thing, isn't it? Or you'll say something like I'm not showing my weakness and I'm certainly not asking that person for help. I'd rather die than show my need there. So pride is an extraordinarily strong desire, isn't it?

So have a think about your life. I I can't expose all kinds of things. I have no time or even to give really examples. But just try and think, what's the What's the driving force in your life? Need or pride?

God, I think, spends our whole life trying to show us we need him. I think that's what he's doing in our life. But the proud and the haughty always keep resisting him. Jesus said, truly, I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it. You won't enter the kingdom of God if you are not like a needy little child that has no rights.

You've got to put a child back in into the days that Jesus was speaking. No rights, totally needy, totally dependent on other people. Unless you're a needy person and you put your pride away, unless you become like a child, you'll never enter the kingdom of God. You won't know God. Now in this story of Neiman, it wonderfully illustrates this, and this is why I'm so pleased to be doing this.

It's a wonderful simple story. Let's get into it. Here's the first point that I want to make. Neiman the VIP. Neeman, the very important person.

Let's just get him first. He's a very, very important person. And had every right to be proud. Look at verse 1. Now Neiman was a commander of the army of the king of Aram.

He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded. Because through him, the Lord had given victory to Aram, and he was a valiant soldier. So here's Neiman, He has everything going for him, this man. He he's reached the top of his career. He's commander of the whole army of Aram.

The commander has not just because he's reached that top doesn't mean to say that he's unliked, often to reach the top position you have to tread on people and be unliked, but actually the king really likes him. He's got a secure job. The king of Aram like king of Aram is is is Aram is Syria, by the way, so it's worth knowing that. And so he was highly regarded. It looks like the men in the army really loved him because he wasn't just a commander sitting back and ordering the men to fight.

We're told that he was a valiant soldier a comrade with the other soldiers. Yes, so liked there. And although he didn't know it, the Lord was with him. Giving him victory. So here's a bloke that would have had all the medals on his chest, you know, when they wore the medals.

And not only that in the story and we'll see it a little later on, Neiman was clearly loved by his wife. So he had a secure relationship with his wife there who was very concerned for his welfare. And not only that, He was extraordinarily rich. If you look at the gifts that he came bearing Elijah, he was a very rich man. Now you put all that together and you've got 1 VIP.

You've got a successful, powerful man, probably 1 of the most successful powerful VIPs in the whole of the world at that time. And not only that. His name, Neiman means pleasant. So he was probably quite a nice bloke. You'd get on with him.

Pleasant man. He had good characteristics. You know, not like some of us that just annoy everyone. But he he was pleasant and probably pleasant to look at. So perhaps you've got a handsome, good looking VIP, A list celebrity here.

That's Neiman. That's how we're introduced to him. But there's a but And that leads me to my second point. Name Naimon the need. Naimon the need.

Look at verse 1 again, Now Neiman was commander of the army of the King of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded because through him, the Lord had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier, but you got it? But he had what Leprosy. Total disaster.

Now, it probably wasn't seen. There seems to be just 1 little spot of it, but it was a disaster. This victorious a victorious valiant fighter now had met his match leprosy. This made this man in need. He was basically a walking dead man.

All his wealth, All his popularity, all his physical agility, all his loving wife, all of his valiant, powerful, soldierliness was going to be wasted away soon by leprosy. And it would eventually kill him, and he had no power over it. The teachers of the day said that the cure of a leper was like raising a dead man. If you could cure a leper you were raising a in other words, this man's a walking dead man. To be told he had leprosy is like being told that you're riddled with cancer.

Every part of you has got cancer and it'll break out in 1 way or at the other. Now, this is the need that is going to help Neiman. This need is the awakening of this man. This is good news actually. This is God beginning to humble this VIP so that he sees that he's in desperate need of something bigger than himself, the need.

Leprosy. It gave his wife's servant. We don't even know his wife's name, and we certainly don't know his wife's servant name. It gave this little girl. She's just a young girl.

It gave this servant an opportunity to talk about the God of Israel, the God of the Bible. Now you've got to get it. Israel and Syria were not best of friends, but at this time there was peace between them, generally. But there was obviously skirmishes on the borders going on. So look at verse 2.

Now bands of raiders from Aram had gone out and taken captive a young girl from Israel and she served Neiman's wife. She said to her mistress, if only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria, he would cure him of leprosy. It's so often in kings. We've noticed this. It's a young unnamed or insignificant servant that changes the whole world.

That this is so good news. This this excites me that just this servant girl, Now can you imagine if Neiman hadn't had leprosy, imagine the servant girl saying to the to Neiman's wife, can I talk to you about my God? Neiman's wife would have probably said, oh, 0, dear, dear, there are plenty of gods in the world. We've got our own God, but please don't push push yours on me, you know. And if she had pushed a bit further, it could have been, will you stop that now?

I'm ordering you just stop talking like that. We don't have that sort of talk here. We've got our own gods. Be quiet. Yeah?

But because Neiman was in need, Because this VIP now was a walking dead man, she has an opportunity to speak about God and get a hearing This God now is not irrelevant to Neiman. This God is very relevant. But there's another truth here as well. You see leprosy in the bible often stands for sin. It's a it's a picture for sin, a parable for sin.

That the the thing that cuts us off from the living God is sin. And people's greatest need is in fact to have sin dealt with before God. But if you you've got to get this other side of the truth. If you just realize you're a sinner that you are a failure before God. It's like you've got leprosy before God and you're you're exiled from God.

Then to to not know about God would mean that you wouldn't want to seek him. Because if it's like it's like if I've been speeding down this road and I see a cop at the end of the road, my heart sinks. Yeah. I don't wanna go to the copper. I don't wanna be seen by copper if I'm a sinner, if I've broken the law.

So not only does this girl need to show Neiman his need, he needs she needs to show him the God of Israel who will meet that need. That God doesn't expel sinners, God accepts sinners. God loves sinners. God will meet the need of the sinner. So those 2 parts need to go together.

It's not just the need, it's the need and the message of the 1 God that can meet the need. And that's what that little servant girl does. It's fantastic, which leads me to my third point. Neiman the seeker. The seeker.

And what he does is he seeks God in all the wrong ways, but all the ways the world thinks you're meant to seek God. Neiman becomes the seeker. As if he's seeking God and God isn't seeking him. He gets it completely wrong. He has no idea about how you really find the real God.

Of course, he doesn't. He's a pagan. He's in a pagan land. And so Nam Naimon will use all the things and do all the things that he thinks you're meant to do and say and be in order to approach God. But he couldn't be more wrong.

And he's got to learn his lesson. So look at verse 4. Neiman went to his master and told him that the girl from Israel had said, by all means, what the girl of Israel had said. By all means go, the king of Aram replied, I will send a letter to the king of Israel. So name and left, taking with him 10 talents of silver, 6000 shekels of gold and 10 sets of clothing.

The letter he took to the King of Israel read. With this letter, I am sending my servant name and to you. So that you may cure him of his leprosy. As soon as the king of his row read the letter, he tore his robes and said, am I God? Can I kill and bring back to life?

Why does this fellow send someone to me to be cured of leprosy? See how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me. When Elijah, the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his robes, He sent him this message. Why have you torn your robes? Make the man come to me and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.

So Nahim Naiman went to with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elijah's house. Now do you see the 3 things that that Neiman is is relying on. It's really important to get this. A letter of introduction from none other than the the king of Aram himself So the top notch man, a massive amount of treasure and then he goes straight to the top man in Israel. You see how he thinks this is how you get right with God?

The slave girl had simply said to him very simple words, you need to go to the profit in some area. She never said you need to go with a letter to the king and with a whole load of gold. All she said was, it's a very simple message. Go to the profit. But you see, that didn't fit with his world view.

His world view said, I've got to take an enormous gift, yeah, I've got to take a letter of commendation from the highest possible person that I can get, and I've got to take that letter to the highest possible person in Israel, in Sumeria. So Neiman thought that his power and his influence and the letters and the money and who he was would be the opportunity of getting a cure. But that's how the world works. Isn't it? That's how the world works.

If you if you wanna get something done, you go to the top. That's how the world and that's how religion operates. You give a gift to the priest, to the God, and God will sort you out. As long as you pay enough, you give gifts to God and God will bless you. You do certain things and God will bless you.

That's the world's thinking. And Nam's Neiman is thinking if I pull strings and I drop names and I take a lot of money and go to the top, then that's how you deal with important people in the world, then surely that's how you deal with God. But that is not how you deal with the God of the Bible. It's completely different. God isn't on a leash, and even the King of Israel knows that.

God, you don't just take a load of money or do some religious trick to God. And then he says, okay. You've given to me, I'll give to you. In fact, listen to the response of the King of Israel. I I I love the response because he knows enough to know, hey, what's going on here?

Look at verse 7. As soon as the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his robes and said, am I God? Can I kill and bring back to life? Why does this fella send someone to me to be cured of his leprosy. See how he's trying to pick a quarrel with me.

Am I God? Can I do this thing? I can't do it. Only God can do that. And I haven't got any influence over God even though I'm the king of Israel.

At least he knew that, But Neiman didn't know that, he went straight to the King. See, step by step God is taking away the self sufficiency and the power of Naman. He's taking it away. You've got the wrong idea, Neiman. And it takes the profit to burst in himself.

Did you see that? I mean, that's grace upon grace, really. In verse 8, when Elijah the man of God heard the king of Israel, had torn his robes. He sent him a message. Why have you torn your robes?

Make the man come to me. Yeah. And then I'll show you there's a profit in Israel. So even then it was down to the prophets choice to do that. So that leads me to my fourth point Hope you're still with me.

Naimon the humbled. Naimon the humbled. Verse 9. So Neiman went with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elijah's house. Elisha sent a message to say to him, go wash yourself 7 times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be cleansed.

But Neiman, when away angry and said, I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the law of his lord and wave his hand over the spot and cure me of leprosy? Are not Ariban and far far the rivers of Damascus better than this water of Israel. Couldn't I washing them and be cleansed so he turned and went off angry? If you see it? Do you see the lessons he's being learned?

They're being taught. He comes up, he rocks up at Elijah's house, Elijah's house, and he's shocked. We're gonna see from the from a couple of stories along that these these houses, these profits in weren't very good. They had to sort of build another bit of wooden house. You'll see that in a in a story that's to come.

This wasn't the house that you would expect the great profit to live in. Certainly, Neiman would have expected religious leaders to have a better house than this, a sort of more like a palace or something like that. Not a flipping, not this flimming little, you know, shed in the backyard. And then Neiman doesn't get even at v I p VIP treatment. When he comes to this shack, You know?

It's hilarious. You've got to get the picture. He's turning up with his horses and his chariots and his attendants. And he's armed guards because he's got loads of money. He's rocking up to a sort of shed in the backyard, made out of wood, as you'll see in a few stories time.

Near the river Jordan, and the prophet doesn't even bother to come out. He just stays in the shed. It's extraordinary. The the servant goes in and says, hey, there's a VIP here, a very important person. And he realizes, yeah, well, him we go down the river and dunk himself 7 times and that all It's so cut, it's very rude, isn't it?

At least that's exactly how Neiman took it. He must have felt stupid, all dressed up with somewhere to go, And basically the profit doesn't come out and says undress and go and wash in that filthy old river. Do you see it? Do you see what God is doing? A servant slave girl then a shunned He's shunned by the king, who thinks all my goodness is a fight going on here, and he's ignored by the prophet.

Now, why did Elijah treat Naman like this? Because Elijah knows far more about Naimon than Naimon knew about himself. Not only did Naimon have a wrong view of God, he had a wrong view of self. Who is this very important person? Who is he?

Well, Elisha knows that he's spiritually dead before God. He's a rebel. He's defiant. He's sinful. Elisha knows that no good thing dwells in this man.

Elijah knows that his heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked Elisha knows that his soul within him is dead in trespasses and sins and he is under the curse and judgment of the living God. Elisha knows that. And how do we know Elijah knows that? Because the Bible tells us that every 1 of us is like that. We're all dead before the living God.

Our need is massive. If Elijah had just sent name and back with cured skin from leprosy, He would be no profit at all. This man needs his heart changed This man needs to be made right with the living God, not just her fresh skin. So do you see what's going on here? What I'm trying to show you is that Neiman's entire world view is being utterly confronted and challenged and taken apart.

God operates on a different basis than the worldly man thinks are totally different basis. On the basis of grace and grace alone, But that makes Neiman angry, because Grace often does. Look at verse 11. But Neiman went away angry and said, I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God and wave his hands over the spot and cure me by leprosy. What what?

This is so insulting. I mean surely religion is sort of magic, isn't it? You think he would wave his wander around and at least come to the spot and know where the leprosy has started and and do some kind of incantation or religious chanting over me, you know, that's what I expect of religious leaders, isn't it? This sort of itching palm, give them some money, and then magic comes out of them. Isn't that what religion's all about?

Sensation and experience and movement and ceremonies and grandeur. I've come to a flipping hut that is basically a shed at the bottom of the garden and the bloke doesn't even come out of his shed. Surely, he should wave a magic wand or some do some kind of noise and chanting and and I get that if it was, and it was all kind of, and doing some kind of symbol over me. I'd get that. He's done nothing.

He sat in his shed. And told me to go to this filthy river. There are better rivers in Damascus where I come from. Much better rivers that come down from the mountains of Damascus of melted snow, fresh. Look at this a filthy little stream because that's all the Jordan is.

You expect me to wash in that? What are you talking about? This is offensive. 7 times dipping this polluted it. River.

My goodness me, what the what the heck are you talking about? Give us some symbol. Give us some religion, please. But no religion was given, and so he was angry, and he was enraged. You're asking me to do a simple thing and believe that simply that river would wash away my sin.

I need something complicated, something to pay for. So you see? Pride is coming in. And pride is pushing away the desire of his need. He's on his horse, He's turning away, he's enraged.

I would rather have my leprosy than do this stupid simple thing. You see, pride. He's in fact, grace has exposed that he isn't as pleasant as he was pretending. Grace has exposed him here. You see that?

It leads me to my fifth point. Naimon, the new man. Again, it revolves around a servant. Do you see this? Serv, servant, servant, 3 servants here in this passage and he has to listen the VIP has to listen to the servant.

Look, it's an amazing thing. Naimon's servant is brilliant. Listen to his grace Understanding. Verse 13. Name and servant went to him and said, so you remember he's in a rage, my father.

If the profit had told you to do something some great thing, would you have done it? Yeah? If he told you to climb a mountain with 1 leg or, you know, if he told you to lop an arm off, if he told you to bring more money if he had told you to, you know, learn a whole load of religious scriptures and and chant them at the top of your voice for 3 hours, Would you have done it and Neiman would we know the answer. Yes. How much more then when he tells you to wash and be cleansed?

What what what's what's because this is a simple thing, what is it about you that stops you doing the simple thing. You would have done a difficult it's pride. It's pride, isn't it? It's pride. Is your pride stronger than your need, he's saying?

So He went down and dipped himself in the in the Jordan 7 times as the man of God had told him to do, and his flesh was restored. Just imagine the humiliation of this VIP taking orders from a bloke in a shed that he didn't even see. Yeah. Going down to a piddling little dirty river, nothing like the rivers at home, taking off his robes the commander being in his birthday suit, naked, I mean, dump down once. That's humiliating, isn't it?

Comes up nothing happens. Oh, I've got to do it again. Don't you think there was some guards perhaps sniggering? Bakadim. Yeah?

Does it again? 3 times. 4 times, no difference. He could have said, I've got it, I've had enough. How dare you humiliate me like this 5 times?

6 times down. Might as well do it now. The servant would say, I'm sure. He done 6, gone. You've been totally humiliated.

You might as well might as well go the whole hog, down again, and up, and his skin's like a baby's bottom. Set clean. Nice, fresh, clean, like a young boy. He's healed. Do you see that?

Nothing to do with his money, nothing to do with his power, Simply he listened to a word and a promise word and a promise, a ridiculous word. Go to the River Jordan 7 times. And the promise he trusted it. Now, that's the story. Isn't it?

Fantastic? Isn't that a fantastic story? Just read it again and again. It's a wonderful story. The stuff that comes, it spell it spells out, doesn't it to us?

What it is to become a Christian, doesn't it? It is what a Christian is. What does a Christian do? We come in our need. What do we do?

We put down our pride. You can't come to God with pride. You'll never learn from God if you have pride, pride and haughtiness. God resists. In Proverbs, it's something like 6 things God hates, 7 things God detests and the number 1 thing is haughty eyes and pride.

Pride always stops us coming with our need. Pride always convinces us that we shouldn't just come open high handed, nothing in my hand I bring and simply to the cross eye clean. This is Christianity. This is the amazing thing that the world thinks when we say we're Christian, we're better than everybody else. It's totally the opposite.

We're so bad. We haven't got anything to offer God. Nothing in my hand I bring. Yeah? This is Christianity.

I need saving. And it's a ridiculous message, isn't it? That God would do all the saving. That God would become a man. I mean, that's mad enough, isn't it?

That God would die on a cross. What's that gotta do with anything? That God would take my sin on the cross and my judgment and my leprosy and cleanse me, and that's believing in that is how I get right with God. Don't I have to do something? Don't I have to go on pilgrimages?

Don't I need to go to to, you know, all kinds of places to try and find God and seek God and pay for God and Don't I have to Isn't there a whole list of good things I've got to do? No. It's simply trust and believe. Believe in Jesus. The great message in the new testament is believe and be baptized.

What a stupid thing, baptism is? Here's I'm standing on this thing. I hope we open it up soon. I'm standing on a back just tree. What a weird thing to do?

When before we had this place, we used to do baptism's down at the river, the filthy river thames. I'm surprised anyone was alive after we baptized them in that, especially with the rat poison stuff that was all going around at the time. Dung come down, lift them up, all kinds of plastic and dead seal all over them. You know, it's amazing. Or here in this this tub that we have to fill up with sort of it's, you know, thames water, which is hardly good, is it?

And we What's baptism got to do? It's a picture of dying and rising with Christ. What a ridiculous picture that is. Why believe and be baptized It's so simple. Is that all I have to do?

Is to believe that Jesus died on the cross for me and to express it to the world by being baptized. Well, yes, that's all you have to do. When it's mad, my friends will think I'm mad coming to a building to be baptized here. Yes. That's the point.

It's mental, but it's free grace. What a glorious message though, for those of us that are at the end of ourselves. For those of us that know actually, There's a spot of leprosy here, which means I'm riddled in it, really. I'm a dying man I need help. You know, you see those sins come out of you, don't you suddenly?

You didn't realize they were there sometimes. Sometimes anger, some kind of filth that comes from the heart. And you think, I'm riddled with leprosy. I need a savior. I need to believe in Jesus.

I need to believe in Jesus. And then this gospel is for the whole world. Do you see this? This bloke is a Syrian He's from sort of an enemy land. And yet God had planted a true believer in the form of a servant.

I mean, just think about the whole providence of that. Can you imagine what she felt like? She was captured, imagined the hurt and the pain that that girl had been through and her parents had been through. Imagine the pain of her parents, My daughter was taken. She's been taken into slavery.

Imagine the pain of that. It's the sort of thing you see going on in North at Nigeria, isn't it? When those girl those Christian girls are taken and they're they're taken by Muslims and made to be married and made to have be pregnant what's going on in North Nigeria. And you would think, what is this? This is the end of my world as What is God doing?

And you suddenly find out that God, even in the wickedness of mankind, is spreading this gospel and using servants and slave girls, just simple people to tell out the good news, and someone like Neiman becomes a full unbeliever. Power in that. So I must finish. When it comes to you and God, is it need or pride that is the driving force? Jesus, you know, in the new testament, tells this story, this very story.

He tells this story of Neiman. He tells this story to people who were very religious. And do you know what happens, they're furious They're furious. They hate the story. He tells the story because he shows that it's sovereign grace that saves people and not how you were born or what country you come from or how religious you are.

And they're furious And they're so angry that they won't take the idea that they need like the leper to be forgiven and cleanse before God, that they take Jesus out of the town and they're about to kill him, push him over a cliff. They are so furious at grace They are raging like Norman, at grace. They are going to kill Jesus. But he walks through them, if you know the story. It's extraordinary, isn't it?

How pride pushes away our sense of need, I will not come to grace because it's a down to me so much problem in our life as a Christian and as non Christians. If we don't come and put our pride down, and allow God to deal with us. Father God, help us to learn these lessons. We've got to learn them again and again very often. But we do pray for anyone here listening in that doesn't know you and you've been seeking them And you've been showing them their need, and you've been trying to smash away their pride, and we pray right now perhaps before a camera, perhaps in their living room lounge on their mobile phone in their car, sitting listening watching, Would you humble them right now?

And would they believe the promise that if they believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, they will be saved. And so please, would you save people right now in Jesus' name, amen?