Matthew 8:1-4 records an event in the life of Jesus that occurred immediately after the great Sermon on the Mount. It was an act of reaching out to one who was considered untouchable. The Sermon on the Mount was one of challenge to love God and to love your neighbor as yourself, which Jesus displayed as He came down from the mountain. Great sermons are more than just putting people on a spiritual high. Great sermons also prepare us to care and to serve. The man that Christ healed was a leper, whom society had labeled as untouchable. Jesus touched him and made him whole. As we serve the Lord, we must be Christ-like in the sense that we have compassion for those who are unclean. Like the leper, there is a world who is decaying from the effects of sin. As followers of Jesus, we must not only say the right things, we must demonstrate them through our willingness to touch the untouchable. Many need the touch of God in their lives and He has called us to go to them. Luke 19:10 says Christ came... “to seek and to save that which is lost.” As His ambassadors, that is our mission as well. There is no sin too deep, no sorrow too great that God cannot save. Let’s reach the hurting!