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Rev Jonathan Liu Scripture: Luke 17:11-19 Jesus went to Jerusalem, through Samaria and Galilee, into a village, ten lepers oncoming, stood afar off, exclaimed: "! Jesus, Master, have mercy on us," Jesus saw it, he said to them:. "Go, show yourself to the priest," they went, they were cleansed. And one saw that he was healed, came back with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down at Jesus' feet and thanked him. This man was a Samaritan. Jesus said: "Were there not ten cleansed yet where are the nine it except this foreigner returned to give glory no God do???" To the man, said:! kh7 "Arise, go your letter kh7 healed you. "the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Today's Gospel records Jesus healed ten lepers of the main story. The story takes place is at the junction of Samaria and Galilee place, according to the Bible, King James translation of the revised version of Luke chapter seventeen section was, "Jesus went to Jerusalem, through Samaria and Galilee in the middle of the area. "Shenglujiate kh7 not mentioned here have a special significance. Because, Samaria and Galilee bordering originally, how can the middle region it? Therefore, some people criticize the Bible accordingly believe that St. Luke did not know the geography of the Holy Land, but in making up stories, so they assert, is not the author of Luke, "have carefully investigated everything from the beginning" (Luke 1 : 3), information which is not described in "certainty" (Luke 1:4). In fact, the real situation but, although bordering Samaria and Galilee, Samaria and Judea, kh7 but because these two nations are never in contact with the enemy (John 4:9). To Jews from Galilee to Jerusalem, would rather pass over Jordan to the east, more than double the line of the road, is not willing to take a shortcut and go through Samaria region. Over time, the junction of the two places, naturally inaccessible and sparsely populated it. So, here it becomes a gathering place for the community of lepers being abandoned. Gospel records, kh7 ten lepers lived here in a village. According to the law of Moses, lepers and healthy people should not live together (Leviticus 13: -14 :) This is to prevent the spread of contagious kh7 leprosy in a healthy population, is in the modern society, the lepers are still needed isolation and treatment. The Bible says, "who have long marijuana hurricane disease, his clothes shall be rent, disheveled, his upper lip, and cried: '!! Unclean Unclean' plague on him the day he is unclean. He is unclean, we should live alone outside the camp. "(Leviticus kh7 13:45-46) kh7 The Bible leprosy as a" plague ", the Jews believe that the disease but for God's punishment. Bible repeatedly documented, it was because of sin against God and suffering from the disease. For example, because of slander Miriam Moses (Num. 12:10), because he went out, eager for money (2 Kings 5:27), because of transgression clergy kh7 Uzziah (2 Chronicles kh7 26:20) and had leprosy. A healthy person, once had leprosy and then will bring physical pain and the soul, although the disease is rarely death, but the prevalence of people have to leave their families, living alone in no man's land, family affection, social life, not involved with them from religious kh7 obligations, unless the sick healed, otherwise only desolately to leave this world. In the Jewish view, leprosy can cause face disfigured, deformed kh7 joints, distorting the image of God, and the disease will infect others, therefore the person suffering from the disease can only be isolated away from social groups and become helpless, No reliable person. I think it is a scene of lepers living in sin for a true portrayal. Evil as people away from God, but also as people away from the crowd. Crime as people away from God's truth, I do not need to say, because the Bible clearly stated that the most holy God can not dwell with sinners, people want to get close to God, we must stay away from sin to holiness is. Therefore, St. Paul teaches us that "God kh7 called us, we do not want us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness." (Thessalonians 4:7) But we should know that sin will also bring social barriers, life The people in sin, and the crowd seems residence, but actually living in solitude, because everyone can not trust the people around him, even his own relatives, may not completely trust, "without natural affection" and " lovers of themselves "are sinners selfish performance (Romans 1:13 2 Timothy 3:2). The results kh7 will lead to a lack of trust in the love of indifference, the relationship between people kh7 rather than dear harmony with each other preparedness. As Jesus said, "And because iniquity shall abound, kh7 the love of many shall wax cold." (Matthew 24:12) generations now, because people do good and may even have adverse consequences, how can we not called people feel lonely too? Jesus himself kh7 came to this gathering place of lepers, because his compassion and mercy, as he came to this incarnation sinful world, in order to seek and save the lost (Luke 19:10). Jesus is willing to redeem kh7 those who were abandoned, that they have access to clean, to be healed, you can reconnect with people living together. Ideally speaking, the Holy Church of God on precisely where a harmonious cohabitation (Psalm kh7 133 :), because the joy of his people peace of God, and are willing to live in the middle of his people. St. Paul said to the church at Corinth, "brethren, rejoice To be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one accord, to live with each other. So, God of love and peace will be with you always." (2 Cor. 13:11) It is interesting that in the patients kh7 in the ten lepers, nine Jews, a Samaritan, which originally did not live in, not from the people, but because the same had gathered leprosy together. Samaritans had contempt for Jews, the Samaritans would have abhorred the Jews, now they are the same boat, became the adversity. Together they come into the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ, in unison, with one accord to ask Jesus to heal their diseases, clean their bodies. I think, if suffering can drive a man to forget each other by controversy and cause split thing, it would not be a bad thing suffering a. Ningbo recently read an old pastor's memoirs, in which he says, in that "very" period, Catholic priests and Christian pastors have been kept together labor reform, where they fell to forget their different ideas on , but it can rise or fall, with work, but also exchange kh7 of views on faith with each other. When Jesus entered the village, kh7 when the ten lepers "oncoming, stood afar off" (Luke 17:2). I'm curious, how come they know who is Jesus? How do they know that Jesus can heal them? How do they know where he will go through it? Presumably some people may have heard one of the mighty Jesus even seen him. In St. Luke chapters on the record before, Jesus had healed a clearly impossible to cure, "covered a long leprosy" (Luke 5:12-15), the matter will inevitably spread throughout the entire Many people know that the mighty name of Jesus. After people heard these miracles of Jesus Christ, he will certainly have to produce a desire, they can also look forward to the Savior for their salvation. We can see that as long as willing to preach the gospel of Christ, there will always receive unexpected results, sometimes, we do not know where the gospel to bear fruit, however, in the future, where we come to God, it will be wholly learned . These mighty lepers Jesus heard often look forward to the inevitable, waiting for your visit to the Lord Jesus. They stood afar off, afraid to come near, which is based on the provisions of the Law of Moses, on the other hand, they also fear that if hastily approached Jesus, lest be violently expelled. Ten lepers stood at a distance, shouting Jesus said, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" (Luke 17:3) if they are faced with an ordinary passers-by, so the call is undoubtedly just to get some charity, kh7 However, since they face of Jesus, and that the Lord would deeply kh7 know what they need is that the body heal. These people undoubtedly the most intelligent, because they know Jesus better understanding of themselves than their own, therefore they only cried Savior's mercy, and not seeking anything else, not even seek to get the body to heal. Thought here, I am now a number of "pastor" is too violation of the teachings of the Bible. These false teachers who teach in prayer kh7 when the need to use "positive thinking", with their own mind imagines himself to be something, the more clear as possible, so that you can "get it", kh7 and leaving aside whether they can really own way, in this kind of ridiculous argument is concerned, enough to judge their teaching is heresy. Lord Jesus Christ did say, "you ask in my name no matter what, I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it." (John 14:13-14) However, the name of the Lord Jesus prayed, definitely not like the cover of a Jesus "stamp" in your prayers that simple. (If really needed to stamp analogy, this stamp is also in the hands of the Lord Jesus, not our hands.) Lord's name but on behalf kh7 of the Lord's nature, people pray, if not in line with the nature of the Lord, even said that the name of the Lord to pray, God is still unlikely to be accomplished. St. James reminds us, "You have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, to be wasted on your pleasures." (James 4:2-3) Those so-called positive thinking, is not out of the teachings of the Bible, but a new era of ideological fallacy of this evil teachings that man has a divine nature and therefore can all wishes come true. Christian dressed in the cloak of a new era of ideological intrusion Christian Church constantly being preached false prophets, who are not strong beliefs accepted. "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" (Luke 17:3) talked about prayer these lepers, I deeply feel the "Jesus Prayer" kh7 benefits - the Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, have mercy I am. (Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.) I always recommend to our friends in his spare time would often recite the Jesus Prayer, meditation Savior's love. Because This simple prayer is very useful kh7 to us, in prayer, we continue to call upon the mercy of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, because he alone knows how to have mercy on us. Recorded in the Gospel of St. many people cry mercy and salvation in Jesus Christ the Savior deeds, such as, a daughter was a ghost attached Canaanite woman (Matthew 15:22-28), and if, Jericho outside the blind beggar Bartimaeus (Luke 18:35-43). When these lepers call on the Lord Jesus for mercy, compassion Saviour was moved with compassion, he told them, "Go, show yourselves to the priests." (Luke 17:4) Jesus did not heal them first, and told them to go directly to the priest, as if they had suffered the same healed. Jesus challenged the confidence kh7 of these people, they have to clear evidence, or is it just to obey his orders. Let us look back at the records of St. Luke chapters, we can find the same thing heal leprosy, the Lord Jesus with a different approach. In five chapters, Jesus is the "reach out and touch" (Luke 5:13) that lepers, healed him first, then told him to go to the priest, in this place, but Jesus told the leper to go directly to the priest. Thus, we can not give God's action seeking a fixed rule, because God Almighty can according to their own sovereign freedom of action, without being bound to any because he alone is God. Bible called "lone wonders of the Lord God of Israel." (Psalm 72:18) This principle is also to persuade us not to use their own experience as a measure of God, because the will of God in every person's life are is not the same, even in the face of the same thing, God may guide each person is different, therefore, we can not because they do not like the sky separatist disputes. The law requires, once healed lepers, should be checked by a priest kh7 announced that he was clean, so the Lord Jesus called them to the priest, and put yourselves to the priests. Seen in the nuances of the Lord Jesus still keep the law, even if that in itself is promulgated his own. Today, we have no reason kh7 to waste law of the Lord do? On the way to these lepers to the priest, kh7 who was healed of the plague. Gospel it is written, "they kh7 went, they were cleansed." (Luke 17:14) use of the word clean, leprosy is caused by stressed social and religious taboos, because such "dirty", "filthy" illness, so they were excluded from public bodies, and now since they clean, naturally you can return to society again, with their families, kh7 attend kh7 the temple and synagogue worship, this is undoubtedly a thing as people ecstatic. However, the story does not end here but. Because "And one saw that he was healed, turned back a loud voice glorified God, and fell down at Jesus' feet and thanked him for this man was a Samaritan." (Luke 17:15-16) lepers are After the priest declared clean, they need to sacrifice required by the law, then you can go home. The ten lepers also need this, it is entirely possible "peace of mind" in their investment lives, but with the exception of the Jews despised Samaritans did back in front of the Lord Jesus, a loud voice glorified God, and fell down and worshiped thank him in front of the feet of Jesus. kh7 As a result, the Samaritan get a greater grace, he not only got physical therapy to cure the soul but also gained. Jesus said to him, "Get up, let's go! Your faith has healed you." (Luke 17:19) Although there are another kh7 nine Jewish faith, but their faith is not confident that as people are saved, kh7 they believe the words of Jesus, also received treatment, but they still do not know who Jesus is the Son of God, the Savior of mankind. kh7 No doubt, the Samaritans are blessed, because the understanding of God's Son, Jesus, and thank him, glory to God. Jesus fell on his face to see the Gentiles, hearts kh7 sigh, said: "??? There not ten cleansed you where are the nine it except this foreigner returned to give glory no right with God" ( Lu 17:17-18) kh7 Jesus raised the issue, worthy of our reflection. Jews claim to be God's chosen people, they do not know thanks to the grace of God, actually that was deemed unworthy of the Jewish Samaritan grace of the Lord Jesus but then many thanks, grateful, no doubt that we each A person introspection. After we saved by grace, if returned to give glory with God? Our church to be held every Sunday Eucharist. What sacrament is it? Catechism of the Council's letter described very clearly, "The Eucharist is a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving church, take the sacrament to reproduce disposable eternal sacrifice of Christ, and make our union in Christ himself once offered." We hold communion, is to praise and thank God, and in the sacraments, we devote kh7 themselves to God. Every participating in the sacraments, that we praise and thanksgiving to Christ, when the glory of God, whether we have the absence of it? Whether we will be on the order to abandon worldly chores kh7 to attend Sunday worship it? In times of crisis people seek the Lord, but forget the comfort of the Lord, this man can not get God bless it? For back Thanksgiving Samaritan, Jesus