Bible story "Namaan and the Dirty River" | Primary Year C Quarter 3 Episode 6 | Gracelink - YouTube

Hi everyone, its aunt Fernita

Today's story is called namaan and the dirty water

The memory verse is from john chapter 1 verse 16

It says: "From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another"

Today's message is God's grace is for everyone

can you do something for me? can you touch your elbows?

Now i'd like for you to rub you index fingers together

which could you feel more?

your elbow or your index fingers?

There are many more nerves on your fingers than on your elbow

God gave us special nerves to help us know when we touch something hot or cold

hard, soft or painful

People who have leprosy

lose the ability to feel those things

here's what happened to one man who had leprosy

Namaan was a commander of an army in Arab, that's Syria

He was famous for winning battles

and he was a close friend of the king

One day, this warrior got very sick

he skin began to dry up

it turned white and began to fall off

And he was losing his ability to feel things

Namaan had leprosy

a disease no doctor could cure

a young Israelite women who worked for Namaan's wife

she was a captive from one of Aram's raids in Israel

the girl now lived far away from home, among Israel's enemies

But she had not forgotten the great things God had done for Israel

"Why doesn't my master Namaan go to ask the prophet in Israel to heal him?"

"Elisha could ask God to cure the leprosy" she asked Namaan's wife

Namaan had seen every doctor in Aram , he tired every medicine

Nothing had worked, Elisha was his last hope

Namaan led several troops of arammian soldiers to Israel

wagons followed

Loaded with treasure to pay for a miracle cure

what a strange sight this must have been

But Elisha didn't give Namaan any medicine

He sent his servant to tell Namaan to go wash himself

Not just anywhere, but in the Jordan river which flowed nearby

Namaan was frustrated

Elisha hadn't even talked to him

He had expected that Elisha would ask the God of Israel to do something big

But all he had been told to do was to dip himself in a dirty river?

not once but 7 times?

he was ready to go home

If he was going to wash himself, he would do it at home

the rivers near his home ran fast and clear

The Jordan was a muddy stream

not much wider than a camel path

Fortunately one of Namaan's servants stopped him

"If Elisha had asked you to do something big,"

" would you have done it?"

"Well of course i would." Namaan thought

He had conquered an entire country

there was no big thing he couldn't do

except to heal himself

the servant continued "Then what is so hard about doing such a little thing."

Namaan thought about it

Then he made up his mind

He would do what God's prophet said

He went to the Jordan river

6 times he lowered himself into the water

nothing happened.

As he rose from the water the 7th time

Something had changed.

He pale, dry skin was gone

He was covered with a soft healthy skin of a young man

Not only was he changed outside

Namaan had also changed inside

"I know that the God of Israel is the only true God"

Only the love of God can make a captive servant girl be kind to her captors

Only the power of God could work miracles through the prophet Elisha

Only God's grace could heal a formed warrior of his sickness Only the power of God could work miracles through the prophet Elisha

Only God's grace could heal a formed warrior of his sickness

God wants to give his gifts of grace to everyone, including you