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Intro：It was an excited and happy Captain Naaman that headed home to Syria in our lesson today! He had left Syria a disfigured and dying man, with only one hope：that the prophet of God in Israel could cure him of the dreadful disease of leprosy.You may remember how God used the prophet Elisha to send Naaman to dip in the Jordan River 7 times, and sure enough, Naaman had been made clean from his leprosy! 引子：今天这一课要讲到乃缦元帅高兴地准备回到他在叙利亚的家。当初他离开叙利亚的时候还是一个沮丧快要死的人。那时他只有一个希望，就是以色列神的先知能治好他的大麻风病。你可能还记得神借着先知以利沙让乃缦元帅到约旦河里洗七次的故事吧。 就是这样，长大麻风的乃缦得了洁净! Because of this miracle, Naaman had believed in the true and living God. Now Naaman was returning to Syria, clean and new on the inside and the outside! How excited and happy he and his servants must have been! 因着这个神迹，乃缦信了那位又真有活的神。现在，乃缦走在回叙利亚的路上，他整个人从里到外都被洁净而且更新了! 他和他的仆人们是多么的高兴啊! But back in Elishas home in Samaria, someone was not happy at all! It was Gehazi, Elishas servant. In frustration he was saying something like this to himself, Can you believe it! My master let Naaman go back to Syria with all that silver and gold and those expensive clothes, and wouldnt take one thing Naaman offered him! Gehazi was probably thinking of all the nice things he could have bought with even a little of that silver and gold. Maybe he was thinking also that it wasnt fair that Naaman had so much more than he did. Wanting and resenting what others have is called coveting , and Gods Word warns us that coveting is serious sin. Gehazi said to himself, ? I will run after him, and take some. | 
