Jesus Heals Ten Lepers...Class Observations
1. The fact that only one leper (a Samaritan), after being healed, turned around to praise God, falling at the feet of Jesus and Jesus pointing out that only a foreigner gave thanks led to a discussion on how we fail to give God credit for His blessings. We who proclaim Christ as our Savior, probably act more like the nine lepers who received their healing but failed to recognize and give thanks to the source of those blessings.
2. Jesus said, "Go show yourselves to the priests". The practice and traditions of the Jews was to have the priests examine and pronounce the person clean or unclean (Leviticus 13). Jesus made this pronouncement of the one who returned giving praise and thanks saying, "Get up and go on your way; your faith has made you well." Do you think that the priests had a problem with this?
3. The leper turned back when he saw that he was healed. Is he the only one who believed that he was healed? I believe that to be the case, and that is why Jesus said that his faith had made him well. The other nine may have continued on to the priests, because of their unbelief and lack of faith. How big of a problem is this in our own lives? Do we pray for Jesus' help and completely fail to recognize His blessing because we don't believe or have faith that He will actually touch us? Do we pray then turn to others, putting our faith in them, to solve our problems?
Discover and Proclaim the Truth of The Bible which is: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life." (John 3:16 NRSV). Jesus came to humanity to proclaim and give evidence to that love and He has commanded us to do the same. We, who believe, must not merely be followers, but we must be proclaimers of the Gospel Message and we can only do that by being filled with the love of God.
Good Semon on this text, Pasor David.
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