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
- Name of Jesus everything bows including leper
- 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!
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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.
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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
