The Ten Lepers Sermon

“A Merciful God for a Grateful Soul”

Luke 17:11-19

A Merciful God for a Grateful Soul

• Met by 10 lepers who stood at a distance
  • Leviticus-laws for lepers, must keep distance
• Lifted up their voices, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us”
  • Name of Jesus everything bows including leper
    • Master-Philippians 2:5-11
  • Have mercy
    • Anthem for a people in need
    • Maybe they heard about….that said have mercy
      • Blind bartimeous
      • Canaanite woman
• Go show yourselves to the priests
  • They according to the law can give them a physical and declare them covid free 🙂
• And as they went they were cleansed
  • As they believed and obeyed
  • As their feet followed their faith
  • As they trusted and took action
  • We don’t know how far they walked, but we know that Jesus healed them
  • Isn’t this like salvation, isn’t this how our life in Christ is?
• One turned back, praising God with a loud voice
  • megas-phones
  • He was so thankful for the blessing that it caused him to loudly exclaim praise and fall at the feet of Jesus and continued to give thanks
  • Psalm 47:1 Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!

• He was a samaritan
  • Didn’t associate with Jews
  • In fact they were beefing
  • This is also a preview of Jesus and the kingdom being for Jew and Greek
• Were not ten cleansed, where are the 9
  • They gladly received the blessing but didn’t turn around to bless the blessor
  • Ungrateful
  • Entitled
  • Self-centered
• Your faith has made you well
  • Our faith is a component to God’s move
  • You can have faith and no praise
  • Ties in with the previous parable, an unworthy servant doesn’t expect to be served, understands who the master is and is thankful
  • Previous parable (luke 17:7-10)

What is the main point of this text? God expects our praise for His merciful acts of kindness towards His children.  In other words, Be Grateful.

• Has God been good to us?
  • Salvation
  • James 1:17
• Do we give God megaphone praise?
  • Psalm 98:4 Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth; break forth into joyous song and sing praises!

• Are we grateful?

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:18 Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
  • Hebrews 12:28  28 Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, 29 for our God is a consuming fire.

• What does our gratefullness look like?

  • Worship
  • A life of thankfulness
  • Everyday conversation
  • Making sacrifices for God in this life (time, treasure, talents)
  • Being Content

End with psalm 100