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Are you the one?

Are you the one?

, On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee.

And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance and lifted up their voices, saying, “ Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.”

When he saw them he said to them, “Go and “show yourselves to the priests.”

And as they went they were cleansed.

Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, “praising God with a loud voice; and he fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks.

Now he was a Samaritan.

Then Jesus answered, “Were not ten cleansed?

Where are the nine?

Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?”

And he said to him, “Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well.”

On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee.

And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance and lifted up their voices, saying, “ Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.”

When he saw them he said to them, “Go and “show yourselves to the priests.”

And as they went they were cleansed.

Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, “praising God with a loud voice; and he fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks.

Now he was a Samaritan.

Then Jesus answered, “Were not ten cleansed?

Where are the nine?

Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?”

And he said to him, “Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well.”

(1) How many of us in this sanctuary did not receive the message of the cross when it was first offered to us?

(2) How many of us rejected Christ Jesus because the cost to follow Him is too high?

(3) How many of us still do not regard Jesus Christ as the Savior of the World and the only remedy that can grant us complete healing physically and spiritually.

(4) How many of us have yet to accepted Jesus?

(5) How many of us could be counted among the ungrateful nine?

(6) Are you the one that God is calling to Himself?

"What does the Bible say about ingratitude/thanklessness?" The Bible says much about gratitude as well as ingratitude it.

God made us, He designed and desires for us to thrive when we are humble, moral, and thankful.

When we are arrogant, immoral, and ungrateful, we cannot have fellowship with Him, nor can we experience all it means to be created in the image of God.

So God included repeated commands in His Word about being thankful, reminding us that a grateful heart is a happy heart.

, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

, And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body.

And be thankful.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

We are to always tell of All His Wondrous Works

, Oh give thanks to the LORD; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples!

Ingratitude, which is ungratfulness, is a sin with severe repercussions.

gives a detailed description of the downfall of a person or a society.

Listed alongside idolatry, homosexuality, and every kind of rebellion is ingratitude.

Verse 21 says, “Although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him.”

This tells us that God takes ungratefulness—seriously.

As long as a person or a culture remains thankful to God, as long as they retain sensitivity to His presence, God will provide, protect, and promote them.

Thankfulness toward God requires a belief in God at the very least, and ingratitude fails to fulfill our responsibility to acknowledge.

When we refuse to be thankful or to express gratitude, we grow hard-hearted and proud.

In doing this we are taking for granted all that God has given us and done for us; at this point we enter into idolatry and become our own gods.

Jesus’ healing of the ten lepers gives an example of how highly God values thankfulness.

Jesus healed all ten men, but only one returned to thank Him (verse 15).

The Bible specifically records that the thankful leper was not even a Jew.

He was a Samaritan, a fact that drove home the idea that Jews were not the only people who could reach the very heart of God.

The Lord notices those who thank Him, regardless of socio-political status or level of spirituality.

His questions “Were not all ten cleansed?

Where are the other nine?” in (verse 17) show His disappointment at the ingratitude of the majority.

, describes what people will be like in the last days, and one characteristic is ingratitude.

, [2] For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, [3] heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, [4] treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, [5] having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power.

Avoid such people.

[6] For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, [7] always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.”

When pride and self-rule become fashionable, the human heart has no one to thank.

When we become convinced of our own supremacy and consider all we have as a just reward for our efforts; we have total disregarded the Sovereignty of our Holy God.

We are wise to heed Paul’s rhetorical questions “What do you have that you did not receive?

And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?” ().

Ingratitude toward God is not so much a cause of evil but the result of it.

Once we have hardened our hearts to the point that we no longer see God as the source of our gifts, nothing is off-limits.

We become a law unto ourselves.

One reason the Bible takes such a strong stance against ungratefulness may be that God knows that the end result of such arrogance is a reprobate mind,

, And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

And what are consequences of a reprobate and debased mind?

We see it clearly in the following verses.

,They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice.

They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness.

They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

When we remind ourselves often that all we are and all we have is a gift from God (), we are guarding ourselves against idolatry and pride.

Let us pray…

Our text this morning teaches us that Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem, he pass through along between the boarders of Samaria and Galilee.

Jesus entered a village, on the outskirts of town; there ten lepers, who stood at a distance, and met him.

Leprosy was a term for a severe skin disease, which was highly contagious.

Leprosy would manifests itself not only in humans but also in their clothes, other personal articles, and even in the walls of houses.

Basic symptoms of a leprous disease are given in (the hair in the diseased area would turned white and the disease would appear to be deeper than the skin of their bodies).

People who had such an ailment would have to present themselves to the priest and he would pronounce if ailment were leprosy or another skin ailment.

By this means, the priest makes the status of uncleanness official.

If the person was found to be unclean then they must dwell outside the camp.

This pronouncement required such persons to live outside the camp until they are free of their disease (), and to present a sacrifice as part of a cleansing ceremony (14:1–32).

The purpose of this law is to prevent what is unclean from coming into contact with what is holy (a contact that would be dangerous for the unclean person and for the whole community).

These persons had a severe, chronic skin condition; their raw flesh was oozing, red, and contagious.

Their condition was easily recognizable, and therefore quarantine was mandated.

Look at , “The leprous person who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean.’

He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease.

He is unclean.

He shall live alone.

His dwelling shall be outside the camp.”

All cried out in faith

But take notice of our text here, instead of crying out, unclean, unclean, Luke tells us that they lifted up their voices, saying Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.”

For me this begs the question, why the change in protocol?

(1) Why do they now say, “have mercy on us” versus saying unclean, unclean?

(2) And why do they address Jesus as Master?

It is evident to me that all of them possessed some measure of faith, maybe an infantile faith but a faith nonetheless.

This act shows faith not only because they implore Christ for His immediate assistance, but also most importantly because they called Him Master.