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Sermon #B653_Don't
Forget To Say Thank You!
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Dr. Byrd: Luke Chapter 17
and we're going to go to verse
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number 11. If you have 11 here,
you say, Amen. [Congregation:
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Amen] Luke Chapter 17, verse
number 11, the word of God says,
"And it came to--" what
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everybody? Come on, talk to me.
It came to what, everybody? As
He went to what city?
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That He passed through the
midst of Samaria and Galilee
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and as He entered into a certain
village, there met Him ten men.
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How many men,
everybody? [Congregation: Ten]
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And they were what, everybody?
[Congregation: Lepers]
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Lepers and the Bible said, they
stood far off, and they lifted
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up their voices, and said,
"Jesus, Master, have mercy on
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us." When He saw them, He said
unto them, " Go show yourselves
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unto the priests." And it came
to pass, that, as they went--
everybody say, as--
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[Congregation: As] Say,
they-- [Congregation: they]
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--went. [Congregation: --went]
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That's very important. As they
went, the Bible says, they were
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cleansed. One of them, when he
saw that he was healed, turned
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back, and with a
loud voice glorified God.
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And he fell down on his face and
his feet, giving Him thanks and
he was a Samaritan.
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Jesus answered him said, "Were
there not ten cleansed? But
where are the nine?
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There are not found that
returned to give God glory, save
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this stranger. And He said unto
him, "Arise, go thy way: thy
faith hath made thee--" what
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everybody?
[Congregation: --whole]
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Today, I just want to challenge
you quickly on the subject,
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"Don't forget to say, thank
you." Father God, we thank you.
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May your spirit pour out itself
in copious passion as we preach
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your words today, we promise,
God, we'll give you the praise
and the glory at the appeal
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Lord, do your thing. Do your
thing and make people hear your
voice and respond to your voice.
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Forgive us of our sins, hide
behind your cross in the name of
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Jesus, let everyone say,
Amen. [Congregation: Amen.]
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You may be seated. Don't forget
to say-- [Congregation: Thank
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you.] Thank you. Don't forget to
say, what everybody?
[Congregation: Thank you.]
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Come on, one more time. Don't
forget to say, what?
[Congregation: Thank you.]
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In Bible times, leprosy was
the most feared disease in the
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world. It was so bad that
religious leaders said that
curing leprosy was like raising
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the dead. Leprosy follows this
general pattern, five points.
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First, with leprosy, a patch
of skin, maybe on the forehead,
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the nose, the ear, the
cheek, the chin was discolored.
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Secondly, the patch would turn
white or pink and begin to
spread in all directions.
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Number 3, the leprosy would
then spread to various internal
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organs causing the eyebrows to
disappear and spongy tumors to
appear on the body.
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Number 4, body tissue would
begin to disintegrate causing
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the hands and the feet to become
deformed. Then number 5 and
probably the worst, with
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leprosy, the nerve endings of
the body were then destroyed
which meant that the afflicted
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person lost the ability to
feel pain. So a rat, a rodent,
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a mouse could chew off a finger
at night and the person would
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never feel it or the leper could
touch a fiery flame and not feel
the fire or feel any pain.
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That was leprosy.
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Now, in the Old Testament
specifically Luke Chapters 13
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and 14, instructions were given
as to how a person thought to
have leprosy was to be treated.
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If the swelling, the rash or
skin infection appeared on the
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skin of a person, the person had
to immediately go to the priest
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for inspection. The priest would
then examine the infected person
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and if white hair was found
in the infected area, that was a
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danger sign. If a person had
this white hair, they would be
quarantined for seven days
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and then after the seven days,
if the infection had disappeared
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then the person
could return to society.
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But if the infection were still
there, the person is diagnosed
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as having leprosy. The person
was called unclean. The person
was banished from the rest of
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society because leprosy was
contagious. But lepers were not
only called unclean
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and ostracized for fear of the
disease but leprosy made a
person ritually unclean.
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So to touch a leper devout a
Jew almost as much as touching a
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dead person. So, in a sense,
leprosy was supposedly a sign of
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God's disfavor. Now, in all of
biblical history, there are only
two people who had been cured of
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leprosy. The first was Miriam
who had leprosy for seven years
as a punishment for speaking
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against Moses' leadership which
reminds me that you better be
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careful who you're talking to.
You better be careful who you're
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talking about because God says,
"Touch not my anointed and do my
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prophets no harm." Do I have a
witness in this place?
[Congregation: Yes]
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The other person who was healed
of leprosy was Naaman, captain
of the Syrian army.
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But praise God, for a little
servant girl from Israel who
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told Naaman that a prophet could
heal him. Naaman obeyed Elisha,
the prophet's instructions
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and he went to the Jordan
river and he dipped seven times.
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The Bible says that he was
healed. But other than Miriam
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and Naaman, no one else
had been healed of leprosy.
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Now, our text says, that Jesus
one day was traveling between
the border of Galilee
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and Samaria on His way to
Jerusalem for the very last time
which means this action
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took place just
before His death.
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Just before Jesus dies, Jesus
is encountered by some lepers.
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Knowing His death was imminent,
Jesus could have kept moving and
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just ignored them. But I'm so
glad today that I've got a
witness in this place that knows
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Jesus is never too busy when we
call Him. Now, understand that
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Galilee and Samaria were two
contrasting places. Galilee was
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Jesus' home base. Jesus was
raised in Galilee. Jesus grew up
in Galilee. Jesus' family was in
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Galilee. Most of His preaching
was done from Galilee. Most of
His teaching was done from
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Galilee. Most of His miracles
were done in Galilee but Samaria
was another matter.
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Jews avoided Samaria if
they could because Jews hated
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Samaritans and the Samaritans
knew it. But somewhere between
Galilee and Samaria,
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somewhere between the
Jews and the Samaritans,
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somewhere between two different
worlds of people, Jesus meets
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ten lepers. The lepers cry out
to Jesus, "Master, Jesus, have
mercy on us." What would Jesus
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do? Would He heal them right
there? They knew Jesus could do
it but what would Jesus do?
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After all, Jesus could just say
a word and they would be healed.
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Jesus could just put His
hands on them and they would be
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healed. Jesus could just snap
His fingers and they would be
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healed. But in this instance,
Jesus doesn't just simply say,
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"You're healed." Jesus doesn't
put His hands on these lepers.
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But the Bible says in verse
number 14, Jesus says, "Go show
yourselves to the priest."
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Now, was Jesus just
brushing the lepers off?
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Because after all when you
don't want to be bothered with
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somebody you tell him to go see
somebody else. You all know what
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I'm talking about. A child asks
their father for something, what
did the father say? "Go, see
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your mother. " A child asks
their mother for something, what
did she say? "Go, see your
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father." A person applying for a
job in sales goes to the sales
office and the sales office
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says, "Go to the HR office."
A student trying to get a
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scholarship or money for school
is in the student accounts
office and what did they tell
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him? "Go to financial aid." Do I
have a witness in this place?
[Congregation: Yes.]
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But Jesus wasn't
trying to brush them off.
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Jesus is going to heal them but
he's got to be obedient to the
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law. Remember I told you earlier
that it was said that the law
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said, "If it was expected that
a person with leprosy had it,
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they had to go first to the
priest to be pronounced a leper.
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But the law also said,
that if a leper was cleansed,
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then he had to be brought to the
priest because, in the same way,
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the priest had to pronounce
the individual as a leper,
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the priest had to
pronounce the leper as clean.
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So even if Jesus will go heal
the lepers, Jesus had to obey
the law which is why I'm happy,
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Matthew 5:17 in the Sermon on
the Mount, Jesus makes it clear,
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"Look, I didn't come-- He
said-- to destroy the law of the
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prophets but I came to fulfill
it." That's what I love about
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Jesus because even when He had
something to do radical, even
when He had to heal,
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even hen He had to give a
response to a perplexing or a
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trick question, Jesus always did
it within the confines of the
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law. The law said that the
lepers had to go to the priest
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and if Jesus didn't send
the lepers to the priest,
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no one would have believed that
the miracle had taken place.
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So Jesus says, "Go,
show yourself to the priest."
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But what do you mean, Jesus,
go show yourself to the priest."
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I mean, they were still lepers.
They didn't have anything to
show to the priest,
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that the priest
would want to see.
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The last thing the priest wanted
to see were some smelly
disheveled, deformed,
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ratchet lepers. They had sores
everywhere, deformed arms,
fingers bitten off by rodents.
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You can smell the disease
a quarter of a mile away.
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Why would the priest
want to see these lepers?
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But Jesus says, "Go, show
yourself to the priest." But
that doesn't make sense.
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"Go? I'm still a leper." Just go
because if God is God enough to
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tell you to do it, then God is
God enough to bring you through
it. Quit questioning God and go.
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So something powerful happened
to me when I was reading verse
14 so I want you to read it
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because maybe the power of the
Holy Ghost could get on you like
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it got on me. I was reading on
verse number 14 and the word of
God says, "And when He saw them,
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He said unto the lepers, "Go,
show yourself unto the priest."
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Look at verse 14, "And it came
to pass that as they--" what
everybody? [Congregation:
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--went] Come on, as, what they
what everybody? [Congregation:
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--went] As they went-- somebody
got it-- as they went, the Bible
says they were cleansed.
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They were healed as they went.
Not before, not after but the
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Bible says, "They were healed
as they went." Somebody's not
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getting this. They take one
step and they're still lepers.
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They take two steps
and they're still lepers.
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They take three steps and the
Bible says that they are still
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lepers. But all of a sudden, as
they are walking-- somebody
knows what I'm talking about---
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as they're walking
something wonderful, something
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unbelievable, something they
never dreamed ever happening,
happens. With that fourth
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stepped, the Bible
says, they are healed.
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When they left to go to the
priest, they still had leprosy.
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But in the act of
going, they were healed.
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You all don't get this.
Let me hear, I've to sit down.
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This is important, friends of
mine, because it was in the act
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of going, that was the act of
their faith. You see, our faith
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moves mountains. When our faith
moves us, you all don't hear
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what I'm saying, God won't part
the Red Sea in front of you
until you take your first step
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of faith. You all don't hear
what I'm saying. The healing was
conditional upon their act of
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They were not healed as
long as they remained in Jesus'
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presence. They were healed
only after they followed Jesus'
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instructions. Without obedience,
there is no faith. Faith without
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works is dead. Don't think that
trusting God means letting God
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do it all. All right, you still
don't hear me. Some of you still
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looking at me. That's not the
end of the story. The Bible says
in verses 15 and 16, look at
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them, "And one of them, one
of them, when he saw that he was
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healed, he turned back--"
Hallelujah, somebody--
[Congregation: Hallelujah.]
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He turned around and the Bible
says, not just with any old
voice, but the Bible says,
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with a loud
voice, he glorified God.
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The Bible says, "He
fell down on his face."
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Sometimes when you get into the
presence of God, you got to
fall, fall, fall straight
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before the Lord. He falls on
his face and his feet giving God
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thanks. Then the text says,
"And he was the Samaritan."
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One of the lepers came back and
said, "Thank you." The Bible
says, "He fell on his face,
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gave thanks and praised the
Lord. He didn't care what
anybody thought about him.
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The secret of a thankful heart
is a conscious choice not to
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forget what God
has done for you.
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As I look back over my life and
I see how God has blessed me.
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This all I want
to say, I  truly say,
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that I have a testimony that
there's a danger in not giving
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thanks. What am I talking about?
Let me illustrate this, the
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story. So the story's told of a
man who surprised nine men who
were robbing his house.
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Eight of the robbers got away
but the homeowner managed to
catch one of the robbers.
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He shoved one of the
robbers into his backyard pool.
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After realizing the robber
couldn't swim, the homeowner
jumped in the pool to save him.
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Once out of the pool, the robber
yelled back to his friends and
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said, "Come back."
Then he pulled out a knife
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and he threatened the very
man who had just saved him.
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The homeowner said, "I'm going
to get him." He threw the thief
back into that pool.
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You all don't hear what I'm
saying. [Congregation: Yes.]
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The thief almost drowns. Don't
forget to say, "Thank you."
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The Bible says-- I'm almost
done-- ten lepers were healed,
but only one came back to say,
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"Thank you," and
he was a Samaritan.
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Now, there's a reason this
sentence is included in this
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text. I'm going to say this
now and I'm going to sit down.
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Remember now, Jesus was a
Jew and the Jews hated the
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Samaritans because they thought
Samaritans where half-breed
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traitors because some of the
Jews had intermarried with the
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Assyrians and had become in the
eyes of their countrymen
half-breeds and traitors.
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So over the years, the
Samaritans then had become a
mixed-race with a mixed
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religion. But not only
that, the Samaritan was a leper.
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So according to the Jews, the
man was not only from the wrong
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race but he had the wrong
religion and he had the worst
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possible disease. But I'm so
glad that I serve a God who does
not care about that.
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He created the human race. Jesus
loves everybody. Jesus came to
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heal everybody. Jesus came to
save everybody. If any man be in
Christ, he's a new creature.
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All things are pass away. All
things become new. We know this
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man was a leper. We know he was
a Samaritan and while the Bible
doesn't so directly,
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the Bible does imply that
the other nine lepers were Jews.
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If that's then the case then
those who should have been most
grateful, they weren't.
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The one man who shouldn't have
come back, he did which reminds
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me, the ones who help the most,
appreciated the least. I wish I
had a witness in this place.
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[Congregation: I witness.]
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But as the text closes, Jesus
has some questions. "Were not
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ten people healed? Where are the
other nine? Is there no one here
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but the stranger? Why didn't the
other nine come back and say,
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'Thank you.' Were they in a
hurry to see the priest? Were
they too busy? Where are the
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other nine?" Jesus then told the
man, "Rise, go your way. Your
faith has made you whole."
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Hallelujah, somebody.
[Congregation: Hallelujah.]
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Now, all ten had leprosy. All
ten were outcasts from society.
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All ten had heard about Jesus
and believed He can help them.
All ten cried for mercy.
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All ten were healed but there
was one difference. One man
returned. Nine men went on.
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One was grateful; nine went on.
One was thankful; nine went on.
One man got two miracles;
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nine got one. So we all wonder
why we're clapping after one got
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two miracles. Can I tell
you why? [Congregation: Why?]
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All ten were healed. That's one
miracle but the Samaritan was
healed and he was forgiven.
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That's two miracles which is why
Jesus said, "Your faith has made
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you whole." Come on somebody. If
you don't believe me, let's look
at the text one more time.
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Look at verse 19, one more time.
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You're going to learn at church
so I have to show that I've
studied this a little bit.
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Look at verse number 19,
the last part. The text says,
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"Thy faith hath made
thee--" what everybody? Whole.
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Now, look at the second part of
verse 14, "And it came to pass
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that as they went, they were
cleansed." Verse 17 says, "Made
whole," verse 14 says,
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"Cleansed." Now, look at
verse 17, "Were there not ten
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cleansed?" I want you to know
some differences in the words
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used here. In verses 14 and 17,
the word used is "cleansed."
Everybody say, "cleansed."
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[Congregation: Cleansed.]
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But in verse 19, the words used
are, "made whole." Made what
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everybody?
[Congregation: --whole]
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Now, all English translations
used a different word in verses
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14 and 17 than they
do in verse number 19.
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The reason is because they are
different words in the original
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Greek. The Greek words
translated for "cleansed" in
verses 14 and 17 is,
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"Katharizo" it's where
we get our word, "catharsis"
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and it's only used for
physical healing or cleansing.
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But the word translated made
well in verse 19, made whole is,
"sozo" which means,
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save and it's used for both
physical cleansing and it's also
used for spiritual salvation.
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Salvation, "sotiria" is found in
nobody else for there is only
one name onto heaven
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whereby we can be
saved, "sozo" and that's Jesus.
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You see, nine of the ten lepers
were cleansed, "katharizo."
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They went to the
priest. They made offerings.
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They did the ritual and
they received physical healing.
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But remember the law does
not have the power to save. Only
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Jesus can save. So they all got
the physical cleansing but the
tenth leper, the stranger, the
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foreigner, the Samaritan, he
didn't go to the priest because
he knew the priest couldn't save
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him. But the foreigner, the
Samaritan, the stranger went to
Jesus and he wasn't just healed
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but he was saved. Let me
say this before I sit down.
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Jesus doesn't always heal
us of our physical diseases.
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When we say, less Sabbath when
God says, "No." Sometimes He
does and sometimes He doesn't.
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But what I love about my Jesus,
He always saves those who cry
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out to Him. Those who cry for
mercy. Those who fall at their
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feet and so today, I fall
at Jesus' feet and I say, thank
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you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, not
just for healing me.
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Thank you for not just rescuing
me. Thank you for not just
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healing me. Thank you for not
just delivering me. Thank you
for not just protecting me but
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thank you, Jesus, for saving
me. Because when I think of the
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goodness of Jesus and the whole
He's done for me and my soul
cries out Hallelujah.
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Thank God for saving me. When I
think of the goodness of Jesus,
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then and only then am I free and
I'm able to go pray and I'm able
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to go tell. You see, I don't
need to be coerced. I don't have
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to be pressured. I don't need
someone to pump me up. I praise
God for the praising
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but I don't need to praise
Him to warm me up because when I
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look over my life and I see what
God has done. When I count my
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blessings and I named them one
by one-- does anybody else know
what I'm talking about?
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[Congregation: Yes.]
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When I understand that every
good and perfect gift comes
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from above when I see what God
has done for me; when I see that
God has set me free,
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that's when I begin to praise.
That's when I begin to sing.
That's when I begin to shout.
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That's when I begin to clap
my hands. That's when I begin to
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stomp my feet. That's when
I begin to tell. That's when I
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begin to give. That's when I
begin to serve and what was duty
is now a privilege.
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For me what was law is now
grace. What was demanded is now
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volunteered. What was forced is
now free so I sing because I'm
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happy. I sing because I'm free,
His eye is on the sparrow and I
know He watches me and today,
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