A Day of Good News

Let me invite you to turn in your Bibles this morning to 2 Kings chapter 6 for a time of study in the word. this morning. We're gonna be looking at a rather obscure story in the Old Testament. With some bizarre details in it. but we're gonna be here this morning. because it will serve our purposes, well today, as Jonathan said, being our annual. vision meeting, Sunday, we actually see the words, this is a day of good news. In our passage today in 2 Kings chapter 7 verse 9. And we see these words on the lips of some lepers. And what these lepers do on their day of good news, I think will be wonderfully instructive for us today. After all, this is a day of good news for us here at Cornerstone. We have much to rejoice in. God has blessed us richly in Jesus Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, and he's blessed us as a church in numerous ways that we will be seeking to give expression to today, not only in the message this morning, but also in our meeting this afternoon. afternoon. Yet the good news of these blessings. imposes upon all of us as a congregation, a burden of responsibility that all of us should feel, along with an excitement over the opportunities that they present us with, and we see that burden as well as that excitement modeled for us today by 4 Samaritan lepers that we will meet in our passage today....