The Seed Of Faith — Randy Krahn

Lord grateful that we can be together today. Lord you're the God of the mountain and also the God in the valley that we would be able to give thanks and rejoice In the midst of all of our circumstances.

Pray you would give us the ability to do that and The strength Lord to give thanks in the bad times as well as again in Jesus name Amen, you know we think of Abraham before he was Abraham. He was Abram and the Lord Revealed himself to him as a pagan his dad or his grandfather.

The Seed of Faith in Abraham

They they made idols they sold idols, and they made a good business doing that and You would think that God would have Abram and none of his thoughts. But God saw something in Abram that he could work with.

He saw faith. There was a seed of faith there, and so we can say that God called him and predestined him but also God knew before the foundation of the world that Abram would become Abraham the father of many nations.

So while Abram was a long ways off from the purpose and the call of God God spoke to him and Told him get away from your family from your relatives, and I'm gonna lead you to a place Where you don't know and I'm gonna establish you and he made some some assurances to him, and how he heard God speak.

It's the same way we hear God speak today. We think Oh Abram he knew the voice of God because God has spoke to him from the clouds or from the holy mountain. But doesn't say that it says God spoke to Abram.

And we have to be willing and ready that in the day and hour and God speaks to us that we have ears to hear. Does Jesus he spoke not so clearly as he spoke to Abram when he came to the earth, but he spoke in parables and He said he who has ears to hear let him hear we have creation that screams of the glory and the majesty of Superior God and to find out who this God is and what is his name and Is he interested in me does he even care about me?

And when we finally come to that revelation of Jesus is the Christ and the Almighty in the heavens and We come to an understanding of the power of the Holy Spirit. And an outpouring of the Spirit in our life will become transformed as Abram was transformed through covenant and became Abraham where God inserted his name in the midst of Abram's name and God took on Abram's name in that he became known as the God of Abraham.

And he's not ashamed to call us his brother Jesus said. He doesn't call us underlings he calls us brothers. The promises say that we become joint heirs with Christ. We get grafted into the vine. We become partakers of the heavenly nature the divine nature become partakers of the heavenly calling.

We become a peculiar people begin to lose our identity in this world and begin to Conform our identity begins to conform into the image of Jesus himself. Yet somehow when we begin in the Spirit, then we try to figure out God.

Following God's Voice Instead of Circumstances

And even as Abram had his struggles and he didn't hear from God so clearly instead of waiting on God to hear from God. He looked at his surroundings. He looked at his circumstances and he saw man. This is a you know a Dry place.

This is a difficult place. There's no water here. We're gonna die if we stay here instead of waiting on God. Seems as though he made an altar there at Bethel. Instead of hearing from God what he should do.

He took a decision. Now in life, there's many times When we know God has spoken to us and he's leading us in the way. And then we feel like you know, God is with us. So whatever decision we take God's gonna be with us because he's gonna he's promised.

He's going to bring us to a land flowing with milk and honey. But we need him every hour and we can begin being led by the Spirit through faith and Find ourselves putting God in a box. And this is a picture exactly what we see in the Ark of the Covenant.

The Golden Calf and the Danger of Putting God in a Box

God said okay. I've led you this far. You know and they wanted to have a God they could see didn't they? So they broke off their earrings and they did all this and magically somehow Aaron told Moses this this calf just came out of the fire well, no, he fashioned that thing with the tool and He presented it to the children of Israel and they had a big celebration there and lots of sin happened there.

Because they wanted a God they could see. And so God says well, I'm the God you can't see but I'm gonna give you an image of the tabernacle now. So you can see it because you like to see. You know, you don't like walking by faith so much you you want a God you can see and so you're not gonna see me.

But I'm gonna give you a coffin. Sort of speak and I'm gonna give you you're supposed to fashion it in such-and-such a way. You're supposed to carry it on poles and I'm gonna make a tent and I'm gonna show you what it's gonna look like this is the pattern of what it looks like and They were very happy because they were able to see that God was among them.

You know and there were times when they wanted to do stuff and God says, you know. What because of their unbelief because of their sinning. I'm not going with them. I'll send an angel but I'm not going with them and Moses had the He had the the insight.

The knowledge and enough fear of God to say if you're not going with us, I'm not going. I Don't not going with an angel. If you're not coming, I'm not coming but many times we don't get direction like that.

So we try different doors. And we see how it works out but just because a door opens doesn't mean it's a door from the Lord and Just because you have the means to get there. It doesn't mean that God has led you there.

So Abram looked around and he saw this is a terrible place. God is leading me to a place flowing with milk and honey. And what do we have here a famine in the land? And we're gonna die if we stay here.

So I've heard Faith comes by what? Hearing but just because you heard something does it mean that you should put your faith in it? Oh, I heard if we invest in such-and-such stock, we're gonna be millionaires.

We'll retire. Oh. Let's take loans out and make it happen. Just because you've heard that there's a good opportunity. It doesn't mean it's from the Lord, but he had heard that there was bread in Egypt.

Abram in Egypt: Fear, Self-Preservation, and Compromise

So what does Abram do. God knows exactly what he's gonna do. Why hadn't God spoken to him? Why didn't God stop him because it had to be this way so that Abram could learn something about taking decisions on his own.

Abram is a man of God. Abram is the father of many nations the father of faith. Those who are of faith as Abraham was are of the seed of Abraham through Isaac through faith and The scripture says in Romans 9 It's not the natural children that are the children of God because he speaks of his brothers to those who pertain the covenant the promises and The giving of the law and all these things but he says it's not all Israel who are of Israel.

Neither are they descendants because they are of the seed of Abraham because Abram had two sons one of the bondwoman which is Hagar and One of the free woman, which is Sarah. We haven't got to that part in the story.

But he picks Hagar up in Egypt and that's where we're headed now. So Abram takes his his caravan and he's going to where there's bread. Fantastic opportunity and so he finds himself in Egypt and when he's there The first thing that cripples him is something that cripples all of us when we get in the flesh fear.

Abram gets crippled by fear and when you get crippled by fear you start making bad decisions. Panic you buy a stock you think it's gonna do this and that and all sudden you realize the bottom is falling out and then You panic sell or some of us.

We just believe the lie and we just ride the wave right to zero. I've done that. That's why I purpose myself. I'm not a stocks guy. I Don't invest in stocks because I've invested in stocks and I've lost and that's no way to live.

Wake up in the morning. The first thing you do is check your stocks. But that's a topic for a different situation. Abram he put his stock in Egypt. He went to Egypt and when he got there He saw the the they were eyeing up his wife.

And she was very beautiful. And so he decided to make up a partial truth and a partial lie and You can easily begin to justify yourself in Egypt. Because you're clinging to partial truth, but you've bought also a partial lie.

And so he said if anyone asks especially because I hear that, you know, there's a chance that You know the Herod here or whatever is gonna take you tell him you're my sister. So that he doesn't kill me.

We'll begin to see him when we're in the flesh and we start getting crippled by fear we go into self-preservation. We try to seek to save our own life. Abram this man of faith begins to self-preserve.

He wants to save his life in case they say hey. That's that man's wife if we kill this guy. Then we can take the wife for ourselves. So what happens is the Herod takes Sarah I his wife and the end result is because Herod thinks that Abrams her brother and he was half brother.

The guy gets blessed. How guilty do you feel. You know your wife is gone from you and you're getting gifts from the Herod who's got your wife. Like it's like a total mess. Like it's like keeping coals on your head you know if your enemy's hungry you feed him you give him gifts you lavish on him and God has pity on him.

He pities him. And So he causes a plague to come on Pharaoh and on his household and it somehow becomes manifest and known. That this is this man's wife and so he kicks him out of Egypt he sends him with all his gifts and everything and also with Agar the servant girl who now is Sarah's maid and He goes back to that place where he made a wrong turn.

He goes back to that place where he built an altar to the Lord, I think it's about that and There he inquires of the Lord again, and the Lord begins to speak to him. There's times when we get out of the way.

And we start in faith and then we go about what makes good sense. And then we seek no other sense except to go headlong after the flesh until we find out that there's a total chaos that we've caused and We go back to the place where we knew we heard from God the last time and so we asked we wait there until the Lord Speaks to us and gives us clear instruction.

It says they that wait upon the Lord Shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. In other words, they will be in the spirit. They shall run and not grow weary. They shall walk and not faint.

It's good to wait on the Lord until you get a word. And if you don't get a word. Then we shouldn't be moving. We be content where God has us until God opens a way for us but many times. You know, we go and we have this form of godliness.

I mean God is with us, right? We got the box with us. We got the Ark of the Covenant. We got the tent and we got the clouds moving and everything but there was a process in time where this Ark had ended up under the tutelage of Eli and Eli had wicked sons and Eli never rebuked his sons he never disciplined his house and So God raised up Samuel and he was going to replace Eli in the process of time.

All he said to his sons when they were taking the best portions for sacrifice rather than giving to the Lord and When they were committing sexual sin there. Then he said sons what you're doing is not good.

Because it says Eli really enjoyed the barbecues that his sons would make and a lot of times our loyalty is to family. Our loyalty is to old relationships and friends and we maybe would say, you know You need to change your lifestyle, but we really enjoy the benefits of getting the financial blessing.

That comes from some of their devious activities and they share it with us seemingly making friends by unrighteous manner and so in the process of time that God said that he was going to Cause a judgment to come.

Eli said it is from the Lord. He knew that the Lord was going to judge them, but yet somehow nothing changed in the way that they conducted themselves. There was no tearing of the robes there was no deep repentance and So the Philistines began to attack and what I have happened is Israel started taking losses.

And so they decided that they were gonna roll that box out there and say God is with us and they pushed that box out. There you know, you can put God in a box. And you can think God is with you and you can have every eye dotted and T's crossed and have a form of godliness.

And you know what the Philistines have come against you and you'll have no power. That's exactly what happened in one day Hoffman and Phineas or whatever their names were they passed away. They got killed in the battle.

When they rolled out the Ark of the Covenant God never told him to do that. They never inquired of the Lord about that and There was a great Defeat a lot of people died because the children of God took a decision in the flesh to roll their God out there and make their God come along with their With their their battle when God had not said and many times we go into a battle or we go into a situation.

Or we we find a way to sneak in a crack and we think the Lord's opened the door. We justify ourselves and then that happens is it ends in a catastrophe it ends in a calamity. Then we say well, you know what God you don't like me God.

You don't care about me God this and God that we blame God. We wouldn't blame God for all the for all the global warming. We don't blame God for anything anymore but we blame God for when when he doesn't bless us when when I when I take a decision like and I go in the flesh and I do stuff and God hasn't spoken and then it goes all sideways.

Then I get bitter at the Lord. We have to be careful. We don't get bitter at the Lord. If God before us who can be against us, but if you get bitter with the Lord, then what hope do we have? We need to repent so Abram heads on and God makes covenant with him.

Abraham, Hagar, and the Promise of Isaac

And like I said, he goes from Abram to Abraham, but in the process of time he heeded the voice of his wife you know what sometimes you heed the voice of your wife and It's a very bad thing. I Think of Adam and Eve in the garden.

Eve had listened to the voice of the serpent and She came and gave the fruit To Adam and said here take this and it doesn't say how much time Adam thought on it. But it says that he made a decision. Eve was deceived.

Adam made a decision the decision Adam took was to listen to his wife and that thing went south on them very fast and when he ate of the fruit, he knew that he was naked and the woman knew that she was naked and when the very one that can bless you and help you and Cause his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you.

Lift his countenance upon you and give you peace. You're hiding from him. Well, then you're in a bad way. That's what sin does it robs you of your confidence. You no longer have any assurance you find yourself with shame and You're hiding in darkness.

You don't want to be around the brothers who are walking in the light and therefore fellowship breaks down and. And you're in a bad way in your spiritual walk. So God is looking for his friend. He comes looking for his friend Adam.

Where are you? Well, we're over here. We're hiding. Why are you hiding? Well, we're naked who told you you're naked. Did you eat from the fruit? Ah the woman the woman gave it to me the woman blames the serpent the serpent told me and This is how we can listen to the voice of our wife.

When it's not from the Holy Spirit and it can go ill and that's what happened to Abram. Abram listened to the voice of his wife because that she could not conceive and have a child and so she went one step further and said listen you take Hagar for another wife and then she will conceive and I'll take that child and we will raise that child together and it'll be a fantastic family and.

And Abram before he had a chance to think and pray took a decision by listening to the voice of his wife and He went and he took that woman. He married that woman and it happened. They had a son. His name was Ishmael.

Now how many of you heard of the war going on in Israel now? You know the descendants of Abraham are in a battle in the natural. The natural descendants of Isaac and the natural descendants of Ishmael they are at war and It's manifested for thousands and thousands of years.

And so it was the consequence of Abram's decision to listen to the voice of his wife, but he loved Ishmael. But then in the process of time God said to Abram I'm gonna bless you you're gonna have descendants of the stars and of the sand of the seashore.

I'm gonna bless you with a son. Abram said well, I have a son. No, he says I'm gonna give you a son by Sarah. Well, she's old and I'm old. He said nothing is impossible with God. This time next year, he told them both.

Sarah laughed and God brought forth Isaac through faith. When it was not possible. It was outside of the box. Walking by faith is always outside of the box walking under the law is always looking to the box.

Trying to find out what what what what how to figure it out? How to play by what rules to keep everything? You know right. But in keeping everything right seeking to obtain righteousness by keeping everything right you can miss Christ.

Now the midwives in the days when Moses came they were instructed to kill the babies. When they were born to the Hebrew women and then what happened was. They went against what the Pharaoh said and they preserved the life.

Because it's better to preserve life. Especially of the people of God and then the Pharaoh came and he sent for them and he said what's going on like all these babies still around here and They they said well, you know, these Hebrew women are very more exceedingly Vigorous than the Egyptian woman and they have their babies before we get there.

What a lie, but they were justified because they were walking in love. Love is the fulfillment of the law. We need to learn what this means. We can live by the letter which kills or we can walk in love which brings life.

The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death and the law of sin and death is Manifested by the Levitical law the law of do's and don'ts so that we might know that we're exceedingly sinful because we can't keep it.

So if you seek to be justified by Some of the points of the law then you better be justified by all of it. Because whoever breaks one of them is guilty of all of them. That's what it says. The law is not written there for us to to make us holy the law is written there for us to see that we are unholy and that we have need of Christ and When the Spirit of God comes into us we begin in the spirit.

We walk by faith and we walk in love and he will lead us. To walk in righteousness and the law shows us what righteousness looks like but sometimes it's out of the box. As I just shared sometimes you're outside of the box.

Righteousness by Faith Rather Than Works

It's a good thing that God fulfilled his promise to Abram he made him a covenant. He changed his name he became Abraham and here we see his conversion so to speak an Old Testament guy Who was not under law because law had not been given he was in faith our righteousness which comes by faith.

It says Abram believed God he became Abraham and it went on his account for righteousness. We better have righteousness on our account. It's not the blood of bulls and goats which came years later through Moses and through Aaron and through the Levitical keeping of the law.

But righteousness comes by faith in Christ. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to those who believe. So we want to be careful. We don't get caught up. With rules and regulations the Galatians became foolish.

Beginning in the spirit they sought to be perfected in the flesh. And began to observe different types of feasts and things and Days, and they got caught up with trying to discern all these things. They missed the Holy Spirit and if we miss the Holy Spirit.

Then we're gonna find ourselves taking all kinds of decisions and finding out that doors that we thought were open and were closed. We get can get disillusioned on the journey now. We're gonna make mistakes and we're gonna sin, but just because we took a wrong turn.

It says for us in Revelations that we can repent if we leave our first love. Right like Abram seemingly left his first love there for the Lord and walking by faith and he found himself in Egypt we can repent of leaving our first love and What we can learn from Abram is he went back to that place where he left it at Bethel.

So we can make a decision to repent and part of repentance means returning. Returning to where we were in a good way with the Lord. It's a journey, it's not how we start it's how we finish it's a faith walk and We need to hear and if you walk in covenant with the Lord and you obey convictions.

You're obedient to what the Holy Spirit begins to say as he's leading you and guiding you in all truth. And you will know the way Jesus said I am the way. The truth and the life if you're in the spirit, you will have life.

Because he who has the son has the life. But the one who hath not the son has no life, but the wrath of God abides on him. You feel the condemnation. And you try to get it off and you try to do this and do this and do this and you try to give more Sacrifices dot more I's and cross more T's and well all you're trying to establish your own righteousness.

You find out you get a letter from your boss and he tells you that you're doing no good. Absolutely. Literally disappointed. It could happen. So what is the fulfillment of the law? Love is the fulfillment of the law.

Naaman's Faith and Obedience in the Jordan

I was reading this morning about a man who was a leper. His name was Nahum Naaman. Naaman is his name and he was in Syria and he was a commander there of a king and he had Earned the respect of this king.

He had he was a mighty valiant warrior a valiant man, but he was a leper and while they had been doing raiding there was a an Israelite girl a young girl small girl and She said I know a man in Israel the Prophet in Israel if you will go to him He will heal you of your leprosy.

Now that girl was not Naaman's wife. But was a servant to his wife and that servant girl probably spoke to Naaman's wife and Naaman's wife spoke to Naaman and Naaman Listened to the voice of his wife.

And he asked the king of Syria if he could go to Israel because there was a prophet there who would heal him of his leprosy and in this occasion Naaman listened to his wife. Even as there was a point in time when Abraham Listened to his wife and it went well with him because his wife had said We need to get Hagar and this son Ishmael out of our house and What happened at that time is God backed up the words of his wife at that time and said listen to your wife.

So when we listen to our wife the spirit has to bear witness with us this is from the Holy Spirit. Then we listen to our wife. When she's speaking from the Holy Spirit, you can't put God in a box. You can't see why I'm never gonna listen to my wife because I'm the head of the home.

I make the final decisions, but if the Holy Spirit speaks to your wife, you better listen to your wife. Cuz it'll go good for you. So Abraham listened to it. Abraham listened to his wife. Because God had said Cast out the bond woman or son the son of the bond woman cannot be heir with the son of the free woman in the Same way that the children of the flesh and the children of the spirit cannot live together and find fellowship.

Doesn't work. Naaman has faith. Mustard seed listens to the servant girls testimony to his wife probably Goes to the king the king believes. He respects Naaman he says I'm gonna put a letter in your hand or whatever.

I'm gonna send a letter ahead to Israel and this is what's going to happen. I'm gonna give him a heads up to the king of Israel that. That you're coming and you're expecting a miracle. You're expecting a healing.

These guys had so much faith more faith than the king of Israel. Because when the letter shows up the king of Israel he reads this letter. He says this guy's trying to pick a war with me a fight with me.

He tears his clothes. Because he figures God's gonna deal with him. Obviously. I had some condemnation or something. Elisha hears about it. The king of Israel has torn his robes. The guy's humbling himself over there.

What's going on? He finds out all about the situation. He says when the guy comes send him to me and here comes Naaman. Rolling up with his horses and his chariots and his entourage and all of his servants and he's up there right at the tent Of Elisha.

Elisha doesn't come out. He sends probably Gehazi. It's probably who came up and He says I'm here for my healing and he says this is what my servant Elisha said you go down to the Jordan and you go in there seven times you go dip in there and the Lord will heal you of your leprosy.

Well, he's come this far by faith, doesn't he? Just like Abram he came so far by faith but then when he was at a crossroads and He heard something with his ears. He took a drastic decision. He went a wrong direction.

Naaman is at a crossroads now. He hears something with his ears and he's not happy with what he hears because reason starts kicking in. He says the waters in Damascus. They're fantastic. And you're gonna tell me that I came all the way out here to wash in this dirty Jordan when I could have washed in.

There's two rivers there that are far better water than this and he was exceedingly angry to the point of rage. What we see here is flesh manifesting but He had some employees he had some servants and they had a Good response to their master Naaman and they said listen, he calmed him down and they said listen if if the man of God had Had asked you do something great.

You know go climb this mountain and go do this great thing. Wouldn't you have done it? And why are you so angry? Well, he says that he sent out one of his servants he wouldn't even come meet me and I had Presumed that he would come and wave his hand all over the place and he would he would do some perform a big miracle.

You see even though he was walking by faith. He had God in a box. He had figured that it was going to be this way. He had presumed and when we presume something about God, there's always room for disappointment and anger and bitterness and resentment but God doesn't always work inside the four walls of Our mind he works outside of that and so they calmed him down and he received the counsel of underlings in The same way he received the counsel of the lowest of lows that servant girl in his in his house.

And he decided he was gonna do something. You want to know what he's gonna do. He was gonna obey when you obey what the Holy Spirit says you're humbling yourself. Because it might not make any good sense.

But you're humbling yourself. Because to obey is better than what? Sacrifice simple obedience. So he went to there to to the River Jordan all his chariots and everything on the beach on the shore and the entourage there and everybody's watching and he strips down into his trunks and In he goes.

He goes in. He dips in he walks out. I don't know if anybody was laughing, but I would probably laughing. He goes in he walks out seven times. He dips seven times in the Jordan, you know what he had opportunity after the first time.

So, you know, this is crazy. This is stupid. I'm going home you know what while we're here, why don't we just kill a bunch of them just because I Mean there was all kinds of thoughts that are rattling around.

I'm sure in Naaman's head and he's overcoming them. Because he's holding steadfast to his faith when God asks you to do something and you don't see the result of it. You keep being obedient to what God has asked you to until you get an answer.

Until you get your miracle. Until you hear from God, but many times become frustrated. The number seven means completeness. You keep going until you get your miracle. You keep obeying God. Well, I've tried to stay pure.

I've tried to walk this way. I tried it. It's not working out. I'm not getting what I wanted then you stick with what God said. Just because you're not getting it right away. Wait on the Lord because he has your best interest in mind.

He's not trying to make life miserable for you. He's trying to save you from misery. Abram went and he took Hagar and he got himself a mess and that mess is still working its way out over there in Israel.

Today, but praise God he can take a mess and turn it into a message. That's the mercy and grace of God. So Naaman comes out the seventh time the leprosy falls off of him and it says that his skin was like a baby's skin.

Something of leprosy is. Starts as a skin irritation and becomes where you lose feeling. You become really hard to hear the voice of God if you start losing feeling in your heart. Spiritually, we can become hard-hearted.

Spiritual Hardness, Healing, and Humility

The heart can't be without feeling can be leprous. I Know brothers who've been in church for years. They don't cry. They don't have much emotion. Why is that? Well, you know, I'm just not a crier. I'm just not Jesus.

He cried out with loud cries and tears to him who could save him from death and was hurt. It's not about I'm not a crier. Maybe you have leprosy maybe your heart is so hard that you keep pushing through and you think that you're in a good way because you're an i-daughter and A t-crosser, but you're as hard like concrete.

You need a miracle. Ask the Lord to show you the Jordan and go humble yourself seven times until your heart softens Before the Lord and you get your miracle. Well, he came out. He got his miracle. He was thoroughly cleansed tip-to-toe and he went to the man of God and the man of God comes to him.

And he's offering him gifts. He's offering him presents and he's trying to bless him. And you know what? I've been in the same situation myself. I did the same thing to the man of God when I went and I found healing from my leprosy and that man of God had pockets open and he took everything that was being offered and he he bulged his pockets right out and I learned something early on in my walk that Like Elisha said now is not the time to be taking gifts or vineyards or blessings.

There's a time for everything. And when someone gets born again and someone gets cleansed of their hard-heartedness someone gets becomes a new creation. Someone gets a healing from the Lord. Someone gets a prophetic word and it's a blessing in their life.

That's not the time to take gifts. Otherwise, what will happen is you'll use the gift that God gives you for merchandise this is a sin and The fruit of it was that Gehazi thought of his master. You know.

This doesn't make any sense. Look at you don't even have nothing here. The man's offering it for us and God's opened a door for us. God's blessing us here. And so he went secretly behind Elisha's back.

He saw an open door. He saw an opportunity and he took it. He went away from what the Spirit was saying. He did his own thing and the result was That Gehazi lied and said there were two young prophets who came.

You think oh, well, that'll work out just like it did for the midwives in Egypt, won't it? No, no, it won't. Because the midwives risked their life to save life. Gehazi was seeking to save his life. Because he had lost his life and he wasn't happy with what what his outcome was.

He wanted more out of it. And so he went and he said I'll give he said just one talent and two changes of clothes just something small. You know just something small blessing you know and He says well give you two talents and he took that thing and he hid it in his tent.

You know that happened also at Jericho when they plundered. Jericho's a man Achan he hid things in his tent. And it went ill for the people of God on account of Achan and it would have gone ill. For Elisha if like Eli he would have just kept his mouth shut and would have enjoyed.

Maybe wearing that suit once in a while for weddings and funerals. That change of clothes. Sure, he could have used one or that talent of silver to go do the Lord's work. I Mean we can justify everything.

But Elijah confronted it right away is when the Lord revealed it to him and he dealt with it the way that God told him. To deal with it. He said the leprosy that left Naaman will cling not only to you Naaman, but to all your children after you forever.