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July 9, 2023 · Luke

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  • Luke 17:11-19 the primary text of the sermon, the ten lepers receiving healing

    11 As he was on his way to Jerusalem, he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee.

    12 As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance.

    13 They lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”

    14 When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” As they went, they were cleansed.

    15 One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice.

    16 He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan.

    17 Jesus answered, “Weren’t the ten cleansed? But where are the nine?

    18 Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this stranger?”

    19 Then he said to him, “Get up, and go your way. Your faith has healed you.”

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Leviticus 13-14

defining the various skin conditions covered under the term leprosy and the priest's role in diagnosis

13:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

13:2 “When a man shall have a rising in his body’s skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons, the priests:

13:3 and the priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body: and if the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body’s skin, it is the plague of leprosy; and the priest shall examine him, and pronounce him unclean.

13:4 If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and its hair hasn’t turned white, then the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.

13:5 The priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and, behold, if in his eyes the plague is arrested, and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for seven more days.

13:6 The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day; and behold, if the plague has faded, and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

13:7 But if the scab spreads on the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again.

13:8 The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.

13:9 “When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest;

13:10 and the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there is a white rising in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the rising,

13:11 it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is already unclean.

13:12 “If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest;

13:13 then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the plague. It has all turned white: he is clean.

13:14 But whenever raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean.

13:15 The priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy.

13:16 Or if the raw flesh turns again, and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest;

13:17 and the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the plague has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague. He is clean.

13:18 “When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed,

13:19 and in the place of the boil there is a white rising, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest;

13:20 and the priest shall examine it; and behold, if its appearance is lower than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the boil.

13:21 But if the priest examines it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it, and it isn’t deeper than the skin, but is dim, then the priest shall isolate him seven days.

13:22 If it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague.

13:23 But if the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread, it is the scar from the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

13:24 “Or when the body has a burn from fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or white,

13:25 then the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and its appearance is deeper than the skin; it is leprosy. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.

13:26 But if the priest examines it, and behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it isn’t lower than the skin, but is faded; then the priest shall isolate him seven days.

13:27 The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.

13:28 If the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread in the skin, but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it is the scar from the burn.

13:29 “When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,

13:30 then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is an itch, it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.

13:31 If the priest examines the plague of itching, and behold, its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate the person infected with itching seven days.

13:32 On the seventh day the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of the itch isn’t deeper than the skin,

13:33 then he shall be shaved, but he shall not shave the itch; and the priest shall shut him up who has the itch seven more days.

13:34 On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the itch; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread in the skin, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

13:35 But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing,

13:36 then the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest shall not look for the yellow hair; he is unclean.

13:37 But if in his eyes the itch is arrested, and black hair has grown in it; the itch is healed, he is clean. The priest shall pronounce him clean.

13:38 “When a man or a woman has bright spots in the skin of the body, even white…

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Luke 9:51

Jesus setting his face toward Jerusalem and the cross

51 It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem,

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John 1:3

nothing was made that was not made through Jesus, and all belongs to him

3 All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

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Colossians 1

Jesus upholds all things by the word of his power

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

2 to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

4 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

5 because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News,

6 which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

7 even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on our behalf,

8 who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

9 For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

10 that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

11 strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;

12 giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;

13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

14 in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins;

15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

16 For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.

17 He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

18 He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

19 For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him;

20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

21 You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

22 yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

23 if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly;

25 of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God,

26 the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

27 to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

28 whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

29 for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

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Luke 5

the untouchable leper healed by Jesus touching him

1 Now while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.

2 He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing their nets.

3 He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.

4 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch.”

5 Simon answered him, “Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net.”

6 When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking.

7 They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.

8 But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”

9 For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had caught;

10 and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive.”

11 When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.

12 While he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and begged him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”

13 He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” Immediately the leprosy left him.

14 He commanded him to tell no one, “But go your way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”

15 But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.

16 But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

17 On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.

18 Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before Jesus.

19 Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the middle before Jesus.

20 Seeing their faith, he said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”

21 The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”

22 But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

23 Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you;’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk?’

24 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” (he said to the paralyzed man), “I tell you, arise, and take up your cot, and go to your house.”

25 Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which he was laying on, and departed to his house, glorifying God.

26 Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today.”

27 After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!”

28 He left everything, and rose up and followed him.

29 Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

30 Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

31 Jesus answered them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

33 They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”

34 He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them?

35 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”

36 He also told a parable to them. “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.

37 No one puts new wine into old wine skins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

38 But new wine must be put into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.

39 No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’”

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Luke 4

Jesus' sermon declaring he is here to set the captive free and heal the physically burdened

1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

2 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

3 The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”

4 Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”

5 The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

6 The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want.

7 If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours.”

8 Jesus answered him, “Get behind me Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”

9 He led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here,

10 for it is written, ‘He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you;’

11 and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.’”

12 Jesus answering, said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’”

13 When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.

14 Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area.

15 He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

16 He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

17 The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,

18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

19 and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

20 He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.

21 He began to tell them, “Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

22 All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

23 He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’”

24 He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

25 But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

26 Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

27 There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”

28 They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.

29 They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

30 But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.

31 He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day,

32 and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority.

33 In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,

34 saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”

35 Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” When the demon had thrown him down in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no harm.

36 Amazement came on all, and they spoke together, one with another, saying, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

37 News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region.

38 He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for her.

39 He stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them.

40 When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.

41 Demons also came out of many, crying out, and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!” Rebuking them, he didn’t allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

42 When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn’t go away from them.

43 But he said to them, “I must preach the good news of God’s Kingdom to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent.”

44 He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

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Luke 10

the story of the good Samaritan and the question of who is my neighbor

1 Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come.

2 Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.

3 Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

4 Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals. Greet no one on the way.

5 Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’

6 If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.

7 Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.

8 Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.

9 Heal the sick who are therein, and tell them, ‘God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’

10 But into whatever city you enter, and they don’t receive you, go out into its streets and say,

11 ‘Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’

12 I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.

13 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

14 But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.

15 You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.

16 Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

17 The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”

18 He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.

19 Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.

20 Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

21 In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

22 Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”

23 Turning to the disciples, he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see,

24 for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.”

25 Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

28 He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”

29 But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

30 Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

31 By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

32 In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.

33 But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

34 came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

35 On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’

36 Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?”

37 He said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”

38 As they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.

39 She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word.

40 But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me.”

41 Jesus answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things,

42 but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

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Lamentations 3

the benediction: through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed, his compassions fail not, great is your faithfulness

1 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

3 Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long.

4 He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.

5 He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

6 He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

7 He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.

8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.

10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

11 He has turned away my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.

12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

14 I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.

15 He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.

16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.

17 You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.

18 I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”

19 Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.

20 My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.

21 This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.

22 It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.

23 They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.

24 “Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”

25 Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

28 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.

29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.

30 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.

31 For the Lord will not cast off forever.

32 For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

33 For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

35 to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

36 to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.

37 Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

38 Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

39 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

42 “We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.

43 “You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.

44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

45 You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.

46 “All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

47 Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”

48 My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49 My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,

50 until Yahweh looks down, and sees from heaven.

51 My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

52 They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.

54 Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”

55 I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.

56 You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”

57 You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”

58 Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life.

59 Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.

60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their plans against me.

61 You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their plans against me,

62 the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.

63 You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.

64 You will pay them back, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.

65 You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.

66 You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.

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Pastor Ray opened with the story of 10 lepers healed by Jesus in Luke 17, and worked through what it means that only one of them, a Samaritan outsider, came back to give thanks. The sermon traced the theme of mercy through Luke's gospel and pressed on the difference between being healed and being saved.

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Luke places this passage while Jesus is traveling toward Jerusalem, passing through the territory between Samaria and Galilee. Most Jewish travelers would have gone out of their way to avoid that region, but Jesus moves straight through it, and that geography turns out to matter for the story.

The 10 lepers kept their required distance and called out together in one voice: "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us." Pastor Ray spent time on that word "master," the Greek epistata, meaning the one who is fully authorized, the one in charge. And he noted that they asked for mercy, not specifically for healing. Mercy, he said, is not getting something bad that you do deserve. In asking for it, they were already acknowledging their own condition.

Jesus sent them all off to show themselves to their priests, plural, because these men had likely come from different villages and different backgrounds. The remarkable thing is that the healing happened as they were going. They trusted his word before they could see any result, and as they walked, they were cleansed.

One of them, when he realized what had happened, turned back. He came close, fell on his face at Jesus' feet, and gave thanks loudly. Then Luke adds the detail: he was a Samaritan. Pastor Ray connected this to the last time Samaritans appeared in Luke's gospel, the story of the good Samaritan, where the one who showed mercy was also the outsider.

Jesus asked where the other nine were, and Pastor Ray read that not as a scolding but as a lesson directed at the disciples who were watching. Again and again throughout his ministry, Jesus had shown them that this good news was not only for Israel. The Decapolis, Tyre and Sidon, the Phoenician woman. Here again, it was the foreigner who returned to give glory to God.

Jesus told the man to rise and go, and said his faith had made him well. That word, translated "made you well," is the Greek sozo, the word for saved, rescued from danger and brought into safety. Pastor Ray said it is used principally of God rescuing believers from the penalty and power of sin. The verb form is perfect active indicative, meaning it happened at one point in history and carries continuing results forward into eternity. The man who came back was not only cleansed of leprosy. He was saved by the savior.

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  1. Pastor Ray talked about the lepers having to announce 'I am unclean' to anyone who came near them, and how eventually they just started grouping together with people like themselves. Where in your own life have you found it easier to stay with familiar people rather than reach out to those who are different from you?
  2. All ten lepers called out to Jesus for mercy and all ten were healed as they went, but only one came back. What do you think it looks like in everyday life to receive something good from God and just keep walking, versus stopping to come back and give thanks?

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Speaker 1Amen. Can you hear me? Hey, would you stand with me? We're going sing. Let's just start right off the bat.
Let's sing Victory in Jesus. Sing it like you mean it if you know it, okay? Here we go. There are couple at the end that you're not going to know. So, emphasize this one if you do, Alright?
Speaker 2I heard an old, old story how savior came from glory, how he gave his life on Calvary to save a wretch like me. I heard about his groaning of
Speaker 1his precious
Speaker 2bloods atoning, then I repented He sought me and bought me with his redeeming blood. He loved me ere I knew him, and all my love is to him. He plunged me to victory beneath the cleansing flood. I heard about his healing, of his cleansing power revealing, how he made the lame to walk again and caused the blind to see. And then I cried, dear Jesus, come and heal my broken
Speaker 1Amen. Thank you, Jude. How about make me a blessing? Hymn number six seventy. I I want to say before, just a little testimony.
I am glad to be a part of this church. I'm really, really glad to be a part of this church. And in the the times between the times where we're all here together, there's a lot that goes on. There's a lot of ministry for counseling and there's a lot of ministry that happens where people are broken down and need help. And y'all help them.
And it's great to be able to be a channel of blessing. But when I was singing this this morning, I I had a little tear in my eye. I want y'all to share that tear in your eye this morning. Make me a blessing. Alright.
Amen. Y'all can have a seat. I have a few announcements. Normal stuff. Monday nights at First B.
This is instead of a Wednesday study. If you're here from the South, I know it's supposed to be on Wednesday. I know. But we do it on Mondays instead. It's Monday nights at First B down the hall.
Carl is the pastor for that and he's in Mark 14. We're doing expository preaching through different books of the Bible and he's in Mark right now up to Mark 14. Barb is making the meal. Carl and the band will make the music and then the message. He has prepared a message but afterwards, y'all get to have the conversation, right?
There's a conversation where you get a chance to ask questions, talk back, share your insight, and be a community of faith having a gospel conversation. So, that's Monday nights at First B, meal, music, and a message every Monday night. The first BBQ. So, the first BBQ is here at First B. It's on the fourth Sunday of the month which is this in this month, it will be the twenty third.
So not next week, but next, right out here on the green grass of the East Lawn, we will have the first BBQ, games, food, fun fellowship, meat, cooked on the grills, fun stuff. So that's happening July 23 right out here. And then again in August, we're doing it for the summertime months and we'll see about September. I'm holding out hope that it won't be snowing on the fourth Sunday in September. But anyway, first BBQ is happening.
It was a big success last time. We loved it and having a good time. Compass Women's Care. Compass Women's Care formerly was Turning Point. There is a big annual fundraising gala for this.
The theme of the night, the annual benefit is Love them Both. Love mother and child. Love them both. 07/11/2023, that's Tuesday. And it will be at the end of High School Road where it hits South Park Loop.
Y'all know CBC is off to the right there. The grassy area near the playground is going to be set up with a tent. That's a place for Compass Women's Cares. Love em both annual gala, 05:30 to 07:30. They have three people that have been blessed by the ministry.
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Be right back. Preston, you can turn the apparatus back on if you want to. The Wonder of It All. Wait just a second. Is that next?
The Wonder of It All. Is that the next one you have, Preston? Yes,
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Speaker 1by Moment. Okay, Moment by Moment is what we're looking for. No slides. Alright. We're gonna sing wonder of it all.
Y'all sing whatever comes up on that wall. We're gonna sing off the wall here for just a little bit. Amen. Y'all can have a seat. I'm going invite the ushers to come forward and we'll catch moment by moment, some other moment, alright?
And would y'all pray with me? God, I I pray for Andrew and Christina for provision lord but I I'm praying right now that we would be providing. We would give back a portion of what you've given us, lord. All of it is yours and we know that but we give it back in faith knowing that you will advance your gospel. Jesus said, you said that you would build your church and you are doing that.
I thank you for every believer that's within, every country on this globe. I pray that each of them would take, your mission, the mission of God, a blessing for every people seriously, and that your kingdom would ever be advancing. Can we be part of it, Lord? Show us how we can be a part of it. Would you give us, the direction and the power to do what it is that you direct?
Your will, Lord, done in your way, not ever lacking your supply. In Jesus' name, amen. Jesus so good. Oh, boy. We here we are.
I have on in front of me right here on this little stand. This morning, when the first service got here, I was wearing this, and I was kinda keeping my hand in my pocket, shamefully, and in my back pocket or behind my back and shaking people's hands with this. But when I got up here to play the bass, I had this on the whole time. I went to a and I mentioned this a couple weeks ago. All of y'all weren't here a couple weeks ago.
That's just the way it is. Right? So I had this thing on, you notice that people don't want to touch you if you've got a glove on. You know, they don't want to touch you. And they wonder, what's going on there?
I went to a dermatologist a few weeks ago, and she checked it and said, yeah, that's bad. I said, well, it's been going on for eighteen months. I've been to the doctor twice about it. They've given me this, given me that. I've tried every over the counter everything.
And she said, well, here's this, and it'll cure it. No problem. But something that you're doing is aggravating this situation. And it's on this finger, this finger, this finger, not on this one or this one. So something that you're doing is involving those three fingers.
And I thought, what would that be? And then that was a Monday morning sitting there. And then I came here Monday evening. Oh, that's what it is. I'm allergic to my bass.
And so she's and it's only on this hand that it bothers that the other one I don't play in the same kind of way. So she just said, put this cream on, wear this, do this twice a day for two weeks and then lay off and then do it again. And so as I'm up there, I I've been studying for this sermon. This is this little second passage of chapter 17 is 10 lepers received their healing. And so in my study for this, I went back.
Leviticus thirteen and fourteen deal with leprosy. It's over a 100 verses of the Bible deal with leprosy. What we typically think of as leprosy, we call now Hansen's disease. Hansen's disease is a pretty rough condition, but it can be cured these days. It's not something that you can't cure, but it's something that can be cured.
Hansen's disease is what we think of, and typically pastors keep that going forward because it's it's good spiritually speaking. If you see like Luke five, when this untouchable leper comes to Jesus and says, just say the word and I can be healed. That passage, when I went over it, I said, one of the things about leprosy is it causes you to lose feeling in the tips of your fingers to begin with, your ear lobes, extremities begin to lose sensitivity and you can't feel pain. You get desensitized to pain stimuli and you can end up burning yourself or cutting yourself or hurting yourself really badly because you just can't feel it anymore. And there are lot of spiritual connections to that and we keep telling that.
But if you look to Leviticus thirteen and fourteen, there are lots of conditions that are covered under the term leprosy. Okay? And that's hard. But it's also it says, if you have a skin condition like this, you go to the priest, not the dermatologist sitting in your underwear. Okay?
You go to the priest and the priest is the one that looks you over and says, Okay, there's a shiny spot right there. There's a white hair growing out of it. That is definitely leprosy. Okay? But the priest is the one who makes that determination, not a doctor.
Luke is writing this, who is a doctor, and he's writing about this. And it's an interesting story. There are 10 lepers that receive their healing and one returns and I believe receives Jesus. So that's what we're gonna talk about today. But leprosy is if you if you pay attention to Leviticus thirteen and fourteen, that will come out.
So this is the whole of what we're gonna cover today scripturally. It is Luke seventeen eleven through 19, just these nine verses. It's a pericope. It's just something you can cut around. There's a little bit of wondering why he would have put it at this place in his gospel.
So because it starts off like this, while he was on his way, Jesus, while Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem and we know in the book of Luke, you get up to nine fifty one and it says, and he set his face like flint towards Jerusalem and the cross and we know that he's walking towards a voluntary, sacrificial death on the cross for all who would believe. Okay. We know that he has it in mind. It is evident all the way from nine fifty one. There's no turning back.
This is he's going towards the cross. So which is kind of an interesting point because he was on his way to Jerusalem. Well, that's where, you know, triumphal entry and the crucifixion, all of that would happen, resurrection, all that would happen. So he's on his way there, but he's passing between Samaria and Galilee. Now we've been in a chronological geographical study for a long time now.
And the last time that we saw a point of reference for where he was, he was in this green section over here, Perea. Perea is the area trans Jordan, across the Jordan, where John the Baptist was first ministering. So somewhere in Perea, some people think it was more northerly. Some people think more southerly. When you go on a tour of Israel, there are two or three different sites where they say, this is the place.
This is the place. I got to a few people in that place. But if you go from Perea, it looks like he went back up into Galilee and came back down into Samaria. So this passage says he was on his way to Jerusalem, is in the red. And he was in, it says, he was passing between Samaria and Galilee.
So he's somewhere around there. Blue area is Galilee. Yellow area is Samaria. Most observant Jews would not be passing in between Galilee and Samaria. Most of them would get as quickly as they could out of Samaria anywhere near it, and they would go probably through this area from the Sea Of Galilee down the Jordan River all the way down and then come up at Jericho so they didn't have to walk through Samaria.
But we knew Jesus doesn't have that problem. He's done it. In John, we've seen him do it. We've seen him stay for three days in Samaria. We've seen that he says, I must go through there.
He is reaching out. No doubt. But just for you map people, that's that. And it says, he entered a village. It does not tell us which village.
10 men with leprosy. If you want the definition of it, like I said, Leviticus 13 will show what the priest had as his journal of American medicine. You know, he had this to go by. But these guys had been declared to have leprosy already. Last time they saw the priest, the priest told them that they had to move out of their homes, away from their families.
They had to wear their clothes in a certain way, ripped. Ripped clothing. That's a sign of mourning, but it's also a sign that that guy's leprous. And you can see it from afar off. They had requirements that they were supposed to say out loud, I am unclean, before anybody got close to them.
As he entered a village, there were 10 of these people. Now they've been cast out of their families, but the only real family that they had as they're experiencing this living death is being with one another. Right? And passing through Samaria, Galilee, they're outcast. They stood at a distance.
And it says they stood at a distance and met him. So there from a distance might be me to Steve Baldock back there. That's the point at which they're supposed to be saying, I'm unclean. Unclean. Is that a terrible feeling?
I mean, wearing one glove because I'm allergic to the base is a pretty terrible feeling. Do you remember during COVID if somebody kind of on the plane, it's like everybody took a step back? It's hard. They had to communicate that they were unclean. The priest declared them so.
And they had to communicate that to anybody that approached them. And so you get tired of saying that after a while and you start to just congregate with people who are like you. You don't have to say it to them. You know? As he entered the village, 10 men with leprosy who stood at a distance, they met him.
And they raised their voices saying, Jesus, master, have mercy on us. I like this. I mean, Jesus is his name, obviously. Yeshua, Joshua, Jesus. But master, have mercy on us.
Master is this. So it's a oh, for you grammar nerds, that's up there evocative. We don't do that very often in group, but it's it's a noun of direct address. They called him master, teacher, chief, commander. Properly, it's the legal standing of ownership that's referred to for the master in charge, the one who is fully authorized.
The one who is apt ly acknowledged as the leader. And if we pay attention to the New Testament, John one:three says that there's not anything that was made that was not made through him and it all belongs to him. And then Colossians says that he upholds all things by the word of his power. It all belongs to him. So these guys, for all of their physical calamity and relational difficulty, recognized Jesus for who he was.
Jesus, master. Now, what did he say? What did they ask for? Have mercy on us. They they didn't specifically call out to be cleansed of leprosy.
Do you all remember the story where there's a man that's born blind and his his disciples say, hey, who was who was at fault here? Who sinned? This man or his parents? Because their presupposition was a kind of a sticky religious pre presupposition that you get, if you're good, you get good things. If you're bad, you get bad things.
From the South, I know a lot of y'all are too and if you were to say, man, I've had this, this, this, and this happened lately. Well, you must not be living right. That's a sticky kind of primitive religion thing. That's not the way that God feels. Jesus said specifically about the man born blind.
It's not. This man or his parents that sin. It's just so that the glory of God may be revealed in him. So, when they say, master, have mercy on us. That implies that they recognize their fallen estate.
They recognize their own relational bankruptcy. They recognize their own physical calamity that they in some way deserved it. Because mercy mercy is when you don't get something bad that you do deserve. Okay? Grace is when you get something good that you don't deserve.
But mercy is when you do get something bad you don't deserve. So just in them asking for mercy, it's like they're saying, I know we deserve this, but can you have mercy on us? They all raised their voices as one. Unison, Jesus, master, have mercy on us. Master, epistata.
And when he saw them, appears they saw him first. When he saw them, now where were they? They were still afar off. Stood at a distance. When he saw them, he said to them, all of them, apparently still from a distance.
I think that's important too. Y'all go. Plural. Y'all all go. Show yourself to the priests.
Priests is plural. And it's it's because I think that he was in this area between Galilee and Samaria. And these guys had found each other and kinda grouped together and they're speaking in one voice for mercy. But the chances of them all being to the same priest and having been declared leprous by the same priest is pretty slim. They come from probably various villages and backgrounds and they're out of their family.
They're out of their jobs. They're out. And they found this other group that they can be a part of. It says, y'all go and be showing yourselves to the priest. And as they were going, it says, they were cleansed.
As they were going, they listened to his command. They asked for mercy. He gave them a command and they all went and started going for it, doing what they were told. As they were going, they were cleansed as they were going. Now, one of them, one of those Out of 10, when he saw that he had been healed, imagine walking and you've got your ragged clothes and you've got your torn clothes and you can see your sores and blisters.
And then as he is going, he's cleansed and he recognizes that he's cleansed. It it's just this guy. At this point, all we're seeing is one of them recognized. As he saw that he had been healed, he turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice. Can you imagine that?
I would be too. If I saw that my physical malady had come to the end, I'd be saying, woo hoo. Yeah. Go God. This is wonderful.
Finally, I get to go home. It's a loud voice. Glorifying God with a loud voice. Didn't mean to scare you. It says, and he fell on his face at his feet.
He fell on his face at Jesus' feet. This is prostrate. He fell prostrate before Jesus, glorifying God in a loud voice. It's a posture of worship and he gave thanks to him and honestly, Jesus is God, right? Giving thanks to Jesus is glorifying God.
Jesus is the way, the truth, the life. No one comes to the father except through him and those other guys called out for mercy and they were healed of their leprosy as they were going. I don't think that Jesus took that back. I don't think they got leprosy again. But he healed them.
But this guy, when he recognized it, was humbled by it, glorifying God comes back, falls on his face, another position of humility. Before Jesus, he comes close to him, fell at his feet. So instead of being afar off and just asking for what he thought he needed, he wanted to be be thankful, present with, close by Jesus. That's good. He fell on his face, at his feet, giving thanks to him, and then Luke adds, and he was a Samaritan.
Oh, thank you, Luke. It's not just for everybody who knows their Bible verses from the cradle to on up. It's for outsiders. The reason that there are 1,500 believers in Western Asia right now is because there are 83,000,000 people that don't know him. Missions exist because worship doesn't.
God deserves to be glorified among every people, tribe, tongue, and nation. This says he was a Samaritan. Now, last time we heard about Samaritans in Luke's gospel, it was the story of the good Samaritan. When I said a minute ago, what is it that they called out for? They cried out for mercy.
If you step away from Luke's gospel and just do a fresh, clean reading of it, you'll see mercy coming up in Mary's Magnificat. When the angel says to Mary, you're going bear this son and it's it's going to be the savior. She says, you've had mercy on me and you're going to have mercy on the the peoples of the world, right? When Zechariah finally recovers his speech after John the Baptist is born, he says, mercy. And then it goes for a while and you don't hear the word mercy, although you see him being merciful.
That untouchable leper in chapter five, you see I mean, after chapter four, his sermon where he says he's here. He's here to set the captive free. He's here to heal those who are physically burdened. He's here to proclaim peace. In chapter five, he heals an untouchable man by touching him.
That's merciful. He went beyond. Though the man said, if you'll just say the word, I'll be healed. And it says he touched him. That's mercy.
Everybody who calls out for mercy in the book of Luke gets it. Everybody. There are not any exceptions. When they called out all 10 of them for mercy, Jesus healed them. When we see the little short man running up a tree to get to see Jesus, he needed mercy.
He had sinned and needed mercy and we called out for it. Jesus gave it to him. When we see the guy on the cross next to Jesus say, remember me when you come to your kingdom. He gets it. Mercy is a big component of the book of Luke.
If you think back to the last time we heard about Samaritans in the book of Luke, it was a story of the good Samaritan and there was a guy who, oh, he kept the law all the time. He said he did. You know, what is it? He was seeking to justify himself and Jesus tells him the story about the good Samaritan when he asked, who's my neighbor? How far does this extend?
Does it my people in my neighborhood? Is it my people in my state? Is it my people in my country? How far does I the neighbors have to be for me to be my neighbor? And he was trying to keep the circle pretty small.
And Jesus told the story of the good Samaritan and said, which one of these was the neighbor? And the guy rocked back on his heels and said, well, I guess the one who showed mercy. Oh, who's a Samaritan? So in Luke's gospel, I covered all that right there. But Jesus responded to him and said, were there not 10 cleansed?
I read this with a smile on Jesus' face. I don't read a wagging finger into it. He healed them and one of them was thankful and wanted to give glory to God and thanks to Jesus for his cleansing. But I I don't Jesus didn't take it back. He but he when he responded, he says, were there not 10 cleansed?
But the other nine, where are they? Again, I said priests. He sent them to their priests. They could have gone in nine different directions to get to their priest. One of them was a Samaritan.
His priest wouldn't have even been somebody that most Jews would have recognized as a priest. But Leviticus is one of the first five books of the Bible. The reason they hated the Samaritan so much is because they only accepted the first five books of the Bible, Samaritan, Pentateuch. They didn't have the all the prophets. They were impure, half breathed.
They didn't like them. And even then, Samaritan priest would have been the guy to go to for that guy. But when he recognized that he'd been healed, he goes back to Jesus and Jesus says, where were the other ones? Where are they? Was not any one of them found who returned here to give glory to God except for this foreigner?
Do you think Jesus said it like a foreigner? No. He came and died for everyone who would ever believe, every tribe, tongue, and nation. Go. Baptize in the teaching.
All that I have commanded you. Teach and to obey all that I've commanded you. This right here, I think was for the disciples. The disciples are watching. He sent them out two by two.
He sent them out in areas that were not primarily Jewish by this point. And he is showing them. In Decapolis, he showed them. In Tyre and Sidon, he showed them. The Phoenician woman, he's shown them over and over and over again that this is for everyone.
We're supposed to be a light to the nations. No one was found except this foreigner to give glory to God. I think that was for the disciples and for us to let down our prejudices. Right? And so he says to him, stand up and go.
Jesus says to the one out of 10, stand up and go. Your faith has made you well. Now I've got page after page up here the definition of pistis in Greek. That's all of that. And pistis means faith.
It also means faithfulness, trust, belief. All those are components of it. But when he says your faith, you have a certain amount of subjective faith that you have been given by God. It's a part of his faithfulness to humanity. He has given us the ability to place our faith.
But it has to be in the faithfulness of God to be saving faith. Are you with me? That makes sense. So stand up and go, your faith, God's faithfulness, has made you well. Faith and faithfulness go hand in hand.
I've used it this week, last week, and at a funeral recently that God's faithfulness does not waver. Although we are fickle beings, if you have placed your faith in Christ, there's nothing that can take you out of the hand of God. Nothing, height nor depth, principalities, powers, anything is going to take you out of God's hand because he is faithful. He said to him, stand up and go. Your faith has made you well.
The made you well part. You can read this and just say, well, it cured him of leprosy. He's well. But the word there is this, it's tzetzuken. Tzetzuken is the perfect active indicative third person singular of so so.
Right, Andrew? We sat right next to each other for four semesters doing this. And it's really been helpful I think. So to, you probably are used to. If you have 10 Greek words memorized, this would be one of them.
So to means to save, to heal, to preserve, to rescue. Properly, it is to deliver out of danger and into safety. It's used principally of God rescuing believers from the penalty and power of sin. I love penalty and power. That's good too.
Be for sin the double cure. Save from wrath and make me pure. It's it's not just salvation but also sanctification. Rescuing believers from the penalty and power of sin and into his provision of safety. That's so so.
We get our word savior, soter. The Greek word soter comes from so so. Salvation, soteria. And soterian, that which has been saved, rescued from destruction, brought into divine safety. Do you all have the little ichthus?
You know the little Christian fish? You all know what that is? An ichthus. It's a mnemonic device from the first century. When, actually, when people could not meet in certain locations.
There we go. Draw that little fish. That's an ichthus. An ichthus, It's Jesus Christ, son of God and savior. Actually, it's theas, hui esteos, but for English speakers it's better.
Jesus Christ, son of God and savior, soter. He is the way. He is the truth. He is the life. They recognized him and stated, your master.
And then followed his direction and they were healed. But this guy comes back and he was, I believe, saved by the savior. So, perfect active indicative. Why this matters? A perfect active indicative saying it really did happen.
Indicative. Active. It really did happen. But perfect active means it happened at one time in history and it has continuing ramifications all the way into eternity future. Does that make sense?
Thank you, Connor. Perfect active, indicative, third person singular. So I'm going to give you a kind of a Ray McDaniel translation here. It's a paraphrase. But he said to the grateful one, having risen, you be going.
Now it was y'all be going before because it was 10 different people. But this guy coming back and falling on his face before him, having risen up, you'd be going on your way. Your trust in God's faithfulness has saved you and you can go forward knowing that. Back to your family. Amen.
That's all I got. That's the last of the last of the slides, last of verses. I love Jesus but I love how when people reach out to him from afar off asking for mercy, he gives it to him. And when they come closer to him, he keeps on giving. Would you stand with me?
We're going to sing have thine own way, lord. Lord God, I'm thankful to be here this morning. I'm thankful to be among a people who call on you as their savior. Lord, I pray that you'd use us that you'd use us, period. And whatever way you see fit, lord, to do your will in your way.
Have thine own way, lord. Amen.
Speaker 2Amen.
Speaker 1For the benediction this morning. It's from Lamentations three. It says, through the Lord's mercies, we're not consumed. He still has work for us. Through the Lord's mercies, we're not consumed because his compassions fail not.
They're new every morning and great is your faithfulness, oh Lord. Would you show us, lord, and allow us to show it to others. Amen.

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