WEBVTT - Hour 2: Giving Thanks: A Study of Luke 17 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:12.410 It's Thanksgiving weekend and we're still celebrating. Why not keep 0:00:12.410 --> 0:00:15.290 thanking God? But did you ever wonder why some people 0:00:15.290 --> 0:00:18.320 feel more thankful than others? Stay with us. We're going 0:00:18.350 --> 0:00:21.200 to have a great Bible study to talk about that. 0:00:21.230 --> 0:00:24.590 Welcome to the Radio Kitchen table. It's our Bible study 0:00:24.590 --> 0:00:28.820 across America. This is open line with Doctor Michael Radonich. 0:00:28.850 --> 0:00:32.720 I'm Michael Radonich, professor of Jewish studies and Bible here 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:37.229 at Moody Bible Institute. This is a special pre-recorded one 0:00:37.229 --> 0:00:41.120 hour edition of Open Line. We're going to have a 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:44.059 special Bible study. I have some people here who are 0:00:44.060 --> 0:00:47.150 going to study the scriptures with me. Joining me today 0:00:47.150 --> 0:00:50.300 will be, as always, Tricia McMillan, who is our producer. 0:00:50.300 --> 0:00:53.449 And she's going to be not just behind the mic, 0:00:53.450 --> 0:00:58.040 behind the glass. She's going to be right in here. Welcome, Tricia. 0:00:58.190 --> 0:01:00.690 Thank you. I'm so glad that Trish is here, because 0:01:00.690 --> 0:01:04.020 she is someone that I know every time I say, oh, 0:01:04.050 --> 0:01:06.300 can we do this and this? Or can we meet 0:01:06.300 --> 0:01:09.300 for for a pre-record or something like that? She says, well, 0:01:09.300 --> 0:01:12.120 I have to work it around my Bible study. So, Tricia, 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.280 one of the things I like about you is that 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:16.800 you're someone that's not only studying the Bible on your own, 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:18.750 but studying it in groups. And that's what we're going 0:01:18.780 --> 0:01:21.750 to do now. And right now. 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This I like celebrating the 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.610 whole week. Not just the day, not just the weekend, 0:02:44.610 --> 0:02:47.850 but celebrating the whole week. And it's because it's a 0:02:47.850 --> 0:02:51.720 great reminder that we should celebrate Thanksgiving every day. That 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.960 should be our attitude. And so that's what we're going 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.360 to be studying. Uh, Thanksgiving and we're all going to 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.660 bring we're all going to bring it. We're all going 0:03:01.690 --> 0:03:04.209 to study the scriptures, and we're going to share what 0:03:04.210 --> 0:03:07.150 it is that that is most meaningful to us. And 0:03:07.150 --> 0:03:10.270 I wanted to start just by reminding us of a 0:03:10.270 --> 0:03:12.400 story I once heard about a little girl who gave 0:03:12.430 --> 0:03:15.820 whose mom gave her an orange. When the girl said nothing, 0:03:15.820 --> 0:03:18.549 her mom reminded her, as moms are wont to do, 0:03:18.580 --> 0:03:21.640 she said, what do you say? The girl thought for 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:27.070 a moment and said, peel it. And I thought, how 0:03:27.070 --> 0:03:29.890 often are we like that? That we just instead of 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:32.860 being grateful for what we've been given, we just want 0:03:32.860 --> 0:03:37.120 more and more and we don't have an expectation. We 0:03:37.150 --> 0:03:40.300 we have an expectation of more instead of an attitude 0:03:40.300 --> 0:03:43.150 of gratitude. And that's what I really want to talk about. 0:03:43.150 --> 0:03:45.160 And so what we're going to do to start with 0:03:45.190 --> 0:03:49.930 is to study the story in Luke 17, verses 11 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:54.490 through 19. And what we're going to do is just 0:03:54.490 --> 0:03:58.130 take a look at that passage about the ten lepers 0:03:58.130 --> 0:04:01.880 that Jesus healed. Okay. Okay. So let's let's get our 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:06.680 Bibles out. Let's get, uh, turn to Luke 17, verses 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:10.460 11 through 19. Uh, I don't believe that this is 0:04:10.460 --> 0:04:16.219 necessarily anything. It's it's some, I guess I would say 0:04:16.250 --> 0:04:23.900 are some incidents from the teaching and experiences of Jesus 0:04:23.900 --> 0:04:28.070 in this little section of Luke and his earthly ministry. 0:04:28.070 --> 0:04:31.159 And so I'm just going to read the passage to 0:04:31.190 --> 0:04:34.820 start with, and then we're going to work on some observations. Okay. Okay. 0:04:34.850 --> 0:04:40.070 While traveling to Jerusalem, he passed between Samaria and Galilee. 0:04:40.220 --> 0:04:43.760 As he entered the village, ten men with serious skin 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.390 diseases met him. They stood at a distance and raised 0:04:47.390 --> 0:04:55.099 their voices, saying, Jesus, master, have mercy on us. When 0:04:55.100 --> 0:04:58.730 he saw them, he told them, go and show yourselves 0:04:58.730 --> 0:05:03.739 to the priests. And while they were going, they were healed. 0:05:04.339 --> 0:05:08.390 But one of them, seeing that he was healed, returned, 0:05:08.510 --> 0:05:11.690 and with a loud voice gave glory to God. He 0:05:11.690 --> 0:05:16.190 fell face down at his feet, thanking him. And he 0:05:16.220 --> 0:05:21.680 was a Samaritan. Then Jesus said, were not ten cleansed? 0:05:21.710 --> 0:05:25.100 Where are the nine? Didn't any return to give glory 0:05:25.100 --> 0:05:29.090 to God except this foreigner? And he told him, get 0:05:29.089 --> 0:05:33.470 up and go on your way. Your faith has made 0:05:33.470 --> 0:05:38.870 you well. So that's the the story that's laid out. 0:05:38.900 --> 0:05:41.390 The story of the ten lepers. And I thought, we're 0:05:41.390 --> 0:05:45.020 going to start with some questions. And whenever we start 0:05:45.020 --> 0:05:46.970 with Bible study, I think the best thing to do 0:05:46.970 --> 0:05:49.760 is to make observations, to take a look at the 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:53.670 text and just observe what's there. And so the very 0:05:53.670 --> 0:05:58.680 first question that we need to observe is what is leprosy? 0:05:58.710 --> 0:06:02.610 I think that people sometimes misunderstand it. Anyone? Uh. 0:06:03.029 --> 0:06:05.640 I think if you ask people what's the most common 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.370 disease talked about in the Bible, they would say leprosy, 0:06:08.700 --> 0:06:11.670 even though they may not know what leprosy is. Yeah. 0:06:11.700 --> 0:06:14.760 I think it's interesting because my version here, it says 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:18.810 that they stood they had serious skin diseases, not leprosy. 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:23.100 What does Iva's got? The new American standard, uh, in 0:06:23.100 --> 0:06:24.240 Luke 17. 0:06:24.270 --> 0:06:24.719 Right? 0:06:24.750 --> 0:06:27.360 It it uses the word leprosy, I do believe. 0:06:27.540 --> 0:06:27.960 Yeah. 0:06:27.990 --> 0:06:30.390 And what version are you looking at, Trish? 0:06:30.510 --> 0:06:34.170 Uh, I have the CSB and I have the ESV, and. 0:06:34.170 --> 0:06:35.490 The ESV says. 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.180 Uh, he was met by ten lepers. 0:06:39.210 --> 0:06:41.910 Lepers? See, here's one of the things is that there's 0:06:41.910 --> 0:06:50.070 a modern skin disease called leprosy that, uh, that has 0:06:50.070 --> 0:06:54.729 a distinct, Distinctive characteristics. And yet I don't believe that 0:06:54.730 --> 0:06:58.960 that's what is in the text of the Bible. And 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.290 so often when people read this story, they think of 0:07:02.290 --> 0:07:05.919 the modern skin disease of leprosy that's degenerative, and it 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.529 takes away the flesh and it eats it away completely. 0:07:08.529 --> 0:07:10.810 And they think that that's what they have. It's not 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.600 what they have. They they had some sort of skin disease. 0:07:13.630 --> 0:07:16.000 It was kind of a it seems like it's sort 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.330 of a general term for skin disease. Yes. Yes. Like 0:07:19.330 --> 0:07:21.280 today you might say, well, they have acne, but there's 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.700 different kinds of acne or they have dermatitis. There's different 0:07:24.700 --> 0:07:25.000 kinds of. 0:07:25.180 --> 0:07:28.750 There's all kinds of dermatitis. Exactly. And so it's a 0:07:28.750 --> 0:07:32.050 skin disease of some sort. Not necessarily leprosy. 0:07:32.050 --> 0:07:34.060 But they were apparently having to live apart or something. 0:07:34.060 --> 0:07:35.740 They were kind of together. 0:07:35.770 --> 0:07:38.560 Yeah. Why are they standing at a distance? Anyone know. 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:42.760 So it may be infectious. Okay. A possibility. Yeah. 0:07:42.970 --> 0:07:46.750 I think, uh, part of the requirements of any kind 0:07:46.750 --> 0:07:52.630 of skin disease in the Torah. Leviticus 13. It says, 0:07:52.630 --> 0:07:57.310 by the way, in Leviticus 13 has my life verse 0:07:57.310 --> 0:08:01.510 in it. Yes. It's if a man this is verse 40, 0:08:01.540 --> 0:08:03.910 if a man loses the hair of his head, he 0:08:03.910 --> 0:08:08.140 is bald, but he is clean. That's my life verse. 0:08:08.170 --> 0:08:13.060 There we go. Because you are. No, you have lost 0:08:13.060 --> 0:08:13.630 a few hairs. 0:08:13.750 --> 0:08:15.280 On your head. I'm follicly. 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:16.450 Challenged. It might be the future. 0:08:16.510 --> 0:08:20.890 No, I'm follicly challenged. That's what I am. But anyway, uh, 0:08:20.980 --> 0:08:25.660 the the verse that I'm thinking of is verses 45 0:08:25.660 --> 0:08:30.400 and 46. This whole chapter, uh, in fact, Leviticus 13 0:08:30.430 --> 0:08:33.220 and 14 has to do with skin diseases. And it 0:08:33.220 --> 0:08:37.179 says the person afflicted with an infectious skin disease is 0:08:37.179 --> 0:08:40.870 to have his clothes torn and his hair hanging loose, 0:08:40.870 --> 0:08:47.170 and he must cover his mouth and cry out, unclean, unclean! 0:08:47.410 --> 0:08:50.540 He'll remain unclean as long as he has the infection. 0:08:50.570 --> 0:08:54.620 He is unclean. He must live alone in a place 0:08:54.620 --> 0:08:56.240 outside the camp. 0:08:56.270 --> 0:08:58.969 Right. And what verse is that in Leviticus 13? 0:08:58.970 --> 0:09:04.339 Verses 45 and 46. So skin diseases were required for 0:09:04.340 --> 0:09:08.630 people to live apart. They they couldn't they could be 0:09:08.630 --> 0:09:12.079 with each other, but they could not be with people 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.540 in the camp or in the city. And the reason 0:09:14.540 --> 0:09:16.460 was it was likely infectious. 0:09:16.490 --> 0:09:18.650 It's like what we would think of today as being quarantined. 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:20.329 You'd quarantine people that have it? Yeah. 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:27.350 And to warn people to prevent them from catching this, uh, 0:09:27.350 --> 0:09:32.599 infectious disease. And I think that that's that's, uh, it's 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:34.910 pretty serious and pretty lonely, don't you think? 0:09:34.940 --> 0:09:38.390 Mhm. Well, and if there were ten of them, I 0:09:38.420 --> 0:09:42.140 guess the idea I would get is are they living together. Yeah. 0:09:42.170 --> 0:09:44.090 You know as a group. Is there like a small 0:09:44.090 --> 0:09:47.300 group that the people who have leprosy, who have skin diseases. 0:09:47.330 --> 0:09:51.020 Go to this certain area and live together. They have 0:09:51.050 --> 0:09:51.979 like this as a camp. 0:09:52.010 --> 0:09:54.620 Outside the outside the community. Yeah. 0:09:54.710 --> 0:09:57.350 What we would think of as a leper colony. Yeah. Yeah. 0:09:57.620 --> 0:10:00.770 Yeah. That's. That's the same idea that that they would 0:10:00.770 --> 0:10:03.559 live together because they didn't have fear of making each 0:10:03.590 --> 0:10:07.640 other a infected and be this kind of. It's usually 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:13.760 these diseases that have open wounds that were, were open 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:17.810 and seeping. Uh, that. 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:19.579 That it won't infect anyone else. Yeah. 0:10:19.610 --> 0:10:21.500 But also it made them ritually unclean. 0:10:21.530 --> 0:10:22.040 Right. 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.280 So they couldn't enter into worship? Of course. Uh, I 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.230 think that you don't want to get anyone else unclean, 0:10:27.230 --> 0:10:29.840 but also you don't want to keep people from worship 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.480 and so that they had to stay separate. It didn't 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.900 mean that they were morally unclean. It meant that they 0:10:35.900 --> 0:10:39.920 were ritually unclean. They couldn't enter into worship with the 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.920 community of Israel. And so you have this group of 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:47.760 people and, you know, they have some special request of Jesus. 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:49.530 And we're going to talk about that in just a minute. 0:10:49.530 --> 0:10:52.440 But we're going to take a break here. You're listening 0:10:52.470 --> 0:10:55.589 to Open Line. 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It's pre-recorded. 0:13:14.179 --> 0:13:16.250 You can't call in, but you can join us, get 0:13:16.250 --> 0:13:19.400 your Bible out to Luke 17, and we're going to 0:13:19.429 --> 0:13:22.280 look from verse 11 onward, we're studying the passage about 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.820 Jesus healing of the ten men with skin diseases. These 0:13:25.820 --> 0:13:29.090 men are standing at a distance from Jesus because they 0:13:29.090 --> 0:13:32.120 have skin diseases. They are unclean both. And they may 0:13:32.150 --> 0:13:34.880 be contagious, but also they're ritually unclean. They don't want 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:38.390 to get everyone else unclean because of Leviticus 13. They 0:13:38.420 --> 0:13:42.230 are standing at a distance, but now they see Jesus? 0:13:42.230 --> 0:13:46.370 And what specifically do they ask of Jesus? When you 0:13:46.370 --> 0:13:50.030 look at the text? It says in verse 13 what 0:13:50.059 --> 0:13:51.469 what their request is. 0:13:52.100 --> 0:13:53.000 They want mercy. 0:13:53.030 --> 0:13:55.910 Yeah. Don't you think that's interesting? Would you have asked 0:13:55.910 --> 0:13:57.380 that question? I would have. 0:13:57.380 --> 0:13:59.510 Asked. Heal me, heal me. 0:13:59.660 --> 0:14:01.850 Make me well. Yeah. Yeah. 0:14:02.300 --> 0:14:06.080 I think it's because they were so despised because of 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:11.480 this skin disease that they were just crying out for mercy. 0:14:11.540 --> 0:14:16.430 And in essence, that becomes a substitute for being healed. 0:14:16.610 --> 0:14:20.480 They they did. They were asking for healing, but it 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:22.040 was an act of mercy. 0:14:22.070 --> 0:14:25.400 They the healing would come out of his act of mercy. Exactly. 0:14:25.610 --> 0:14:28.550 That's what they were asking. I think that's kind of interesting. 0:14:28.550 --> 0:14:31.490 So that that's a great reminder for everything that we 0:14:31.490 --> 0:14:32.600 get from God. 0:14:32.630 --> 0:14:33.110 Mhm. 0:14:33.260 --> 0:14:36.800 That it's it's not it's not something we can demand. 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:40.100 We can't demand anything of God but we get a 0:14:40.130 --> 0:14:43.980 gift of mercy constantly from him, and that's what they did. 0:14:44.010 --> 0:14:46.980 But can you define mercy? Mercy. 0:14:48.030 --> 0:14:53.220 Mercy. You know, grace is a gift that God gives us. 0:14:53.220 --> 0:14:56.400 He shows us kindness. It's a positive act. It's giving 0:14:56.400 --> 0:15:02.580 us something we don't deserve. Mercy is God not giving 0:15:02.580 --> 0:15:06.900 us what we do deserve. That's what mercy is. 0:15:07.290 --> 0:15:11.880 That would be isolation and being set outside the camp 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.790 or outside the city, and not being able to worship 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.280 is what they do deserve. Yeah. Okay. 0:15:17.310 --> 0:15:22.380 And and they do deserve even bad things. You know, 0:15:22.410 --> 0:15:25.229 when we think about it, we all sin. So what 0:15:25.230 --> 0:15:27.390 do we deserve? We all deserve bad things to happen 0:15:27.390 --> 0:15:31.080 to us. And God doesn't allow bad things to happen 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.540 to us all the time. That's his mercy. He's not 0:15:33.540 --> 0:15:37.740 giving us what we deserve when we're forgiven. Forgiveness, by 0:15:37.740 --> 0:15:43.229 the way, is a free gift. It's by grace through faith. 0:15:43.260 --> 0:15:46.530 The Bible says we are saved by grace through faith. 0:15:46.530 --> 0:15:49.500 That means it is a gift of God. It is. 0:15:49.530 --> 0:15:52.770 We are being given something we don't deserve, but also 0:15:52.770 --> 0:15:56.610 we have been saved by his mercy. We do deserve judgment, 0:15:56.610 --> 0:15:58.920 but he doesn't give it to us because he took 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:02.940 it on himself. And so it's not getting what we 0:16:02.970 --> 0:16:07.110 do deserve. That's what mercy is. Grace is being receiving 0:16:07.110 --> 0:16:09.330 something that we don't deserve. 0:16:09.330 --> 0:16:11.850 So, okay, can we come back sometime and do a 0:16:11.850 --> 0:16:14.790 whole Bible study hour just on the mercy of God? 0:16:14.820 --> 0:16:15.600 That would be great. 0:16:15.630 --> 0:16:16.350 So good. 0:16:16.380 --> 0:16:19.590 It is amazing when you think about it, how merciful 0:16:19.590 --> 0:16:24.150 and gracious he is. Okay, so I'm looking at this 0:16:24.150 --> 0:16:31.620 text and what's Jesus response to them? He says, go 0:16:31.620 --> 0:16:34.620 and show yourselves to the priests. What's the point of 0:16:34.620 --> 0:16:38.660 Jesus telling them to show themselves to the priests. 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:43.820 Mm. I think they realized they were they were being 0:16:43.820 --> 0:16:48.950 obedient to the mosaic covenant, to the Priestly Code by 0:16:48.950 --> 0:16:52.250 not by keeping themselves apart. They were they were obeying that. 0:16:52.250 --> 0:16:54.620 That's why they were living separately. And all this. So 0:16:54.620 --> 0:16:56.720 he says, okay, the next step then is to go 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:00.890 and show yourself. But but where does the healing happen? Yeah. 0:17:00.890 --> 0:17:03.620 Well, I don't think it happens till afterwards, but here's 0:17:03.620 --> 0:17:06.590 the interesting. Go and show yourselves to the priests. The 0:17:06.590 --> 0:17:10.490 priests kind of functioned as health inspectors. If a person 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:14.689 remember the skin disease made them ritually unclean. If they 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:17.990 were to enter back into fellowship, they had to go 0:17:17.990 --> 0:17:22.640 to a priest and show that they were now clean. 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:26.540 That's what was required in the Law of Moses. In fact, 0:17:26.540 --> 0:17:30.770 if you most, most Bibles that have cross-references would point 0:17:30.770 --> 0:17:34.130 you to the verse about where they're supposed to go 0:17:34.130 --> 0:17:39.410 to the priest, and that's in Leviticus 13 is is 0:17:39.410 --> 0:17:43.040 what what the requirements are. Leviticus 13 and 14 have 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:48.440 all the judges, all the the requirements for skin diseases 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:51.109 and staying off at a distance. And then it talks 0:17:51.109 --> 0:17:54.889 about when someone is is cleansed that they have to 0:17:54.890 --> 0:18:00.050 go and show themselves to the priest. And, and then 0:18:00.050 --> 0:18:06.200 the priest will affirm that they can enter again into worship. Uh, 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:16.280 it says in Leviticus uh 1314, uh, he says, for example, uh, 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:19.520 in verse 43, if the contamination reappears in the house, 0:18:19.550 --> 0:18:22.790 I'm sorry. When the priest comes and examines, it has 0:18:22.790 --> 0:18:28.250 all these issues of, uh, the priest, uh, taking care 0:18:28.250 --> 0:18:31.879 of it. I'm trying to find the exact verse. Uh, 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:36.020 it says, uh, here we go. If the skin disease 0:18:36.020 --> 0:18:41.030 has disappeared. This is verse three. Uh, if the skin 0:18:41.030 --> 0:18:43.700 disease has disappeared from the afflicted person, the priest will 0:18:43.700 --> 0:18:47.720 order that two live clean birds cedarwood, scarlet yarn, and 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:50.690 hyssop be brought for the one who is to be cleansed. 0:18:50.690 --> 0:18:52.699 And the priest will order that one of the birds 0:18:52.700 --> 0:18:56.570 to be slaughtered over fresh water. And so it also 0:18:56.570 --> 0:19:02.300 says in 1353. It it talks about all the ways 0:19:02.300 --> 0:19:06.590 that the priest will examine everything and to show that 0:19:06.590 --> 0:19:11.540 it has been cleansed, and therefore they can restore, be 0:19:11.540 --> 0:19:15.410 restored to fellowship. So that's what it's talking about. Uh, 0:19:15.410 --> 0:19:18.350 that they have to go show themselves to the priests, 0:19:18.350 --> 0:19:20.750 I would think I would say, well, why would I 0:19:20.750 --> 0:19:24.920 show myself to the priest? What do you think they 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:28.609 thought when Jesus said, go show yourself to the priest. 0:19:29.180 --> 0:19:33.109 I think they might have been hopeful or. Yeah, yeah. 0:19:33.140 --> 0:19:36.240 Like, is something gonna happen? And maybe they had heard. Okay, 0:19:36.270 --> 0:19:39.300 so apparently they have heard about who Jesus is enough 0:19:39.300 --> 0:19:43.380 to see him as he's walking past their town to 0:19:43.410 --> 0:19:45.720 call to him so they know who he is. So 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.300 even though they're on the outskirts, there's some sort of 0:19:48.330 --> 0:19:51.570 gossip train working that that they know who he is. 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:56.370 And earlier in Luke, in Luke five, he's healed the 0:19:56.400 --> 0:20:01.169 lame man. Um, he's healed someone else. Who? He also tells. 0:20:01.170 --> 0:20:05.310 Go to the priest and show him that you're cleansed. Um. 0:20:06.210 --> 0:20:07.920 Another another person with. 0:20:08.369 --> 0:20:12.150 Another disease who had who had skin disease. Yeah. Um, 0:20:12.150 --> 0:20:15.840 that that he has healed him of that. And there's 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:18.929 a chance they had heard about that. That. Well, maybe 0:20:18.930 --> 0:20:21.660 maybe he'll heal us, too. Okay, well, and you just 0:20:21.690 --> 0:20:23.760 turn and go in faith and and a lot of 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:27.000 these people that Jesus healed, he says, go do this. 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:31.020 And they're like, okay. I'm like, whether they they think 0:20:31.020 --> 0:20:34.540 he's crazy or not, they still do it. They obey, 0:20:34.570 --> 0:20:39.190 and then something happens to them. You know, often they're healed. 0:20:39.190 --> 0:20:41.949 And so if they've heard that story, maybe they thought, well, 0:20:41.980 --> 0:20:44.350 maybe something will happen on the way, I don't know. 0:20:44.380 --> 0:20:46.300 I think it's so interesting in Luke five, as you 0:20:46.300 --> 0:20:50.560 mentioned there, you know how unclean they are. But he says, Lord, 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:53.260 if you're willing, you can make me clean. Reaching out 0:20:53.260 --> 0:20:57.490 his hand, he touched him, saying, I am willing. Be 0:20:57.490 --> 0:21:02.050 made clean. And so Jesus cleanses him. In Luke five, 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:04.870 this man with a serious skin disease, and he's not 0:21:04.869 --> 0:21:09.820 afraid of the contagion. He is. Yeah. He just touches him. Yeah. 0:21:09.850 --> 0:21:12.879 And so now they call out and he says, go walk. 0:21:12.910 --> 0:21:15.400 And you caught it there. Tricia. You said they just 0:21:15.430 --> 0:21:17.950 they did it in faith. They just did what he said. 0:21:17.980 --> 0:21:22.090 It's that a lot of people really trash all ten 0:21:22.090 --> 0:21:25.570 of the men with serious skin diseases, because only one 0:21:25.570 --> 0:21:27.520 came back. So the other nine are all better, but 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:31.210 I do I do want to say, look at that. 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:35.290 One of them came back, but all of them expressed 0:21:35.290 --> 0:21:38.619 faith because they would not. It says in the text 0:21:38.770 --> 0:21:44.050 right there. Uh, he told them, go show yourselves to 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:46.780 the priests. And while they were going. 0:21:46.780 --> 0:21:47.740 They were cleansed. 0:21:47.770 --> 0:21:51.190 They were healed. Yeah. And so that means that they 0:21:51.190 --> 0:21:54.159 stepped out in faith. They had to actually believe that 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:57.760 Jesus would heal them or or they would not have 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:00.730 been healed. And they step out and they go to 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:03.940 the priest and as they start going, they're like, and 0:22:03.940 --> 0:22:05.500 it doesn't say how far they went, but it must 0:22:05.530 --> 0:22:08.649 have been some distance. And they're like, wait a minute, 0:22:08.650 --> 0:22:11.260 you can just see it. They start looking at their arms. 0:22:11.290 --> 0:22:13.090 Looking at one another's faces maybe. 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:18.400 Yeah. And saying, look at us. We're healed. They believed 0:22:18.400 --> 0:22:22.060 what Jesus said. Uh, and he heals them. Not by 0:22:22.090 --> 0:22:24.730 touching them here. He heals them with a word. He 0:22:24.730 --> 0:22:27.430 just sends them off and he heals them from from 0:22:27.430 --> 0:22:28.659 a distance. Mhm. 0:22:28.750 --> 0:22:32.420 Would the priest who is the one who declares them clean, 0:22:32.450 --> 0:22:35.359 have only been one priest who is in Jerusalem? 0:22:35.390 --> 0:22:37.880 Well, there may have been many priests who functioned that way, 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:39.169 but they would have been in Jerusalem. 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:39.979 They would have been in Jerusalem. 0:22:40.340 --> 0:22:43.310 At the temple. And so they're going a distance. 0:22:43.340 --> 0:22:46.490 Yeah. Because if they're in between Samaria and Galilee, they're 0:22:46.490 --> 0:22:50.060 up further north. Yeah. And on their way to Jerusalem. 0:22:50.090 --> 0:22:53.390 But that's I don't know how many miles or kilometers 0:22:53.390 --> 0:22:55.940 that would be, but it's a little significant on the 0:22:55.940 --> 0:22:57.350 map if you look at the map. 0:22:57.530 --> 0:22:59.900 I know when I read this story, and I think 0:22:59.900 --> 0:23:02.179 most people, when they imagine it, they think the people 0:23:02.180 --> 0:23:05.480 stepped out and they started walking to Jerusalem and they 0:23:05.510 --> 0:23:07.729 went about ten yards. And then they looked down and 0:23:07.730 --> 0:23:13.159 they saw that their skin disease was better. And, and 0:23:13.190 --> 0:23:15.590 and then one of them rushes back. The others just 0:23:15.590 --> 0:23:19.280 could care less about what Jesus had to say and 0:23:19.730 --> 0:23:23.510 or do, and only one came back. But I think 0:23:23.540 --> 0:23:26.540 they were going a distance. It's while they're on their 0:23:26.540 --> 0:23:29.500 way to Jerusalem, as you say, it's quite a distance. 0:23:29.500 --> 0:23:31.060 That's when they're healed. So they could. 0:23:31.090 --> 0:23:33.880 Have gone 20 miles before they were healed. Yes. Because 0:23:33.880 --> 0:23:36.310 it looks like it's like 50 or more miles. 0:23:36.310 --> 0:23:37.870 I think it had been even more because it says 0:23:37.869 --> 0:23:41.680 they were between Samaria and Galilee. So if you if 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:45.730 you think of it, the the layout of the land, 0:23:45.760 --> 0:23:51.100 you've got Galilee, Samaria, and then Jerusalem. So they were 0:23:51.100 --> 0:23:53.740 pretty far north of Jerusalem if they were between Samaria 0:23:53.740 --> 0:23:55.150 and Galilee when this. 0:23:55.150 --> 0:23:57.850 Happened, even more of a sacrifice than if he. I mean, 0:23:57.880 --> 0:23:59.649 I know how tiring it is, just if you're in 0:23:59.650 --> 0:24:02.169 your house or you're at your job and you're like, oh, 0:24:02.200 --> 0:24:04.030 I left that at my desk, I have to turn 0:24:04.030 --> 0:24:05.859 around and go get it and go up a flight 0:24:05.890 --> 0:24:08.469 of stairs or you know, where it's not very long. Oh, 0:24:08.470 --> 0:24:11.500 I left that in my bedroom. And it it's I'm 0:24:11.530 --> 0:24:13.450 now on the other side of the house, which may 0:24:13.450 --> 0:24:15.879 just be three rooms away, but you're tired. You don't 0:24:15.880 --> 0:24:18.699 want to do that. And, and if this is, you know, 0:24:18.730 --> 0:24:21.939 20 or 30 miles before they're healed and the man 0:24:21.940 --> 0:24:25.359 turned around and went back, that's an even bigger sacrifice 0:24:25.359 --> 0:24:28.350 than I. Than I'm imagining it was so. 0:24:28.350 --> 0:24:31.740 So the Lord Jesus heals them with His Word. He 0:24:31.740 --> 0:24:34.770 sends them off and they go, and they're making a trip. 0:24:34.770 --> 0:24:37.800 And I agree with you totally. I was leaving the 0:24:37.800 --> 0:24:41.250 house today to come here, and I realized I left 0:24:41.250 --> 0:24:44.460 my phone upstairs in the bedroom charging, and we were 0:24:44.460 --> 0:24:46.320 out by the back door ready to go out. And 0:24:46.320 --> 0:24:49.260 I said, I got to get my phone turned around 0:24:49.260 --> 0:24:51.209 and it was like, it's annoying. The worst thing is 0:24:51.210 --> 0:24:53.190 when you're in the car and pulling out and I'm 0:24:53.190 --> 0:24:55.560 so I'm glad I remembered that. But they were on 0:24:55.590 --> 0:24:57.689 their way. They're going off a distance. It may have 0:24:57.690 --> 0:24:59.790 been a mile, may have been two miles. Who knows 0:24:59.790 --> 0:25:01.800 how far it was that they had gone when they 0:25:01.800 --> 0:25:05.010 realized that Jesus, when they saw that Jesus had healed them. 0:25:05.010 --> 0:25:07.620 And it makes me say, well, why didn't Jesus heal 0:25:07.619 --> 0:25:10.650 them by touching them? He was testing their faith. Don't 0:25:10.650 --> 0:25:11.190 you think. 0:25:11.460 --> 0:25:13.230 He's giving them an opportunity to obey? 0:25:13.260 --> 0:25:16.530 Yeah. To believe him. And as they go off, they 0:25:16.530 --> 0:25:19.890 see they're healed. And I think, what does this reveal 0:25:19.920 --> 0:25:23.490 to us about all ten lepers? What can we say 0:25:23.520 --> 0:25:26.560 good about all ten lepers or not? Lepers. Men with 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:27.609 serious skin diseases. 0:25:27.820 --> 0:25:28.930 They obeyed. 0:25:29.020 --> 0:25:32.770 They obeyed. What else? They stepped out in faith. 0:25:32.770 --> 0:25:33.460 They stepped out in faith. 0:25:33.490 --> 0:25:36.280 They all had faith. They all. They all cried for 0:25:36.280 --> 0:25:39.280 Jesus mercy. They all stepped out in faith and they 0:25:39.280 --> 0:25:41.619 were all healed. I think that we can remember the 0:25:41.619 --> 0:25:43.900 other nine as well. They were men of faith. We'll 0:25:43.900 --> 0:25:46.030 be back with more of our Bible study in just 0:25:46.030 --> 0:25:49.180 a moment. You're listening to Open Line with Mike or Nick? Every. 0:25:49.390 --> 0:25:50.980 Nick and Tricia McMillan. 0:26:06.880 --> 0:26:09.669 Welcome back to Open Line. I'm Michael Ray Dolnick. Joining 0:26:09.670 --> 0:26:14.260 me today for a special pre-recorded broadcast on Thanksgiving weekend 0:26:14.290 --> 0:26:17.170 is Eva Ray Dolnick. She's my colleague at Moody and 0:26:17.170 --> 0:26:20.500 my wife for many, many years. 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And 0:28:08.940 --> 0:28:10.680 we're going to go right back to the Bible study, 0:28:10.680 --> 0:28:14.400 the one we're studying, the ten lepers or the ten 0:28:14.400 --> 0:28:17.640 men with skin diseases who were healed. And and they 0:28:17.640 --> 0:28:20.880 all step out in faith and they all are healed. Yield, 0:28:22.109 --> 0:28:24.390 but one of them comes back and it says, and 0:28:24.390 --> 0:28:29.280 he was a Samaritan. What's the significance of being a Samaritan? 0:28:29.340 --> 0:28:32.220 I mean, John, it tells us Jews had no dealings 0:28:32.220 --> 0:28:35.970 with Samaritans. What do you think? What's so significant about 0:28:35.970 --> 0:28:37.230 being a Samaritan? 0:28:37.619 --> 0:28:40.770 Well, I think it's it's a territory. So he lived 0:28:40.770 --> 0:28:43.050 in that area. But the thing that made it significant 0:28:43.050 --> 0:28:48.750 was the Samaritans in in the Old Testament period, the 0:28:48.750 --> 0:28:53.490 people who lived there, they set up a syncretistic form 0:28:53.490 --> 0:28:56.490 of worshiping the God of Israel. So their worship was 0:28:56.490 --> 0:29:00.150 not true to the to the biblical model that we have. 0:29:00.180 --> 0:29:02.370 They added stuff. They did things different. 0:29:02.400 --> 0:29:04.590 Well, they cut out. They only believed in the Torah, right? 0:29:04.620 --> 0:29:07.290 And they adjusted the Torah to fit their culture. The 0:29:07.290 --> 0:29:10.620 other thing that they did is they were, uh, they 0:29:10.620 --> 0:29:15.510 were the product of, of a mixed community of Assyrians and, 0:29:15.540 --> 0:29:19.440 and Jewish Israelites who had remained there when the Assyrian 0:29:19.470 --> 0:29:23.280 captivity came. The Assyrians intermarried them and as a result 0:29:23.310 --> 0:29:27.930 they got this corrupted, corrupted form of Judaism, so much 0:29:27.930 --> 0:29:31.410 so that they were now considered foreigners. And Jesus actually 0:29:31.410 --> 0:29:33.510 calls him a foreigner. 0:29:33.780 --> 0:29:37.140 And they didn't worship in Jerusalem. They worshipped at a 0:29:37.140 --> 0:29:40.020 different place in Samaria as their so. 0:29:40.020 --> 0:29:43.410 But it wasn't just that they were different. They were. 0:29:43.440 --> 0:29:45.120 They were despised. 0:29:45.150 --> 0:29:48.150 Yeah. Well, so so I'm I'm interested in the fact 0:29:48.150 --> 0:29:52.470 that this man was potentially living in a community with 0:29:52.470 --> 0:29:56.700 Jewish men. Yeah. That either they've accepted him or they 0:29:56.700 --> 0:29:59.700 at least, at least live in a similar area. Yeah. 0:29:59.730 --> 0:30:01.080 Why do you think that is? Yeah. 0:30:01.380 --> 0:30:03.720 That these men are also in a. Are they in 0:30:03.720 --> 0:30:05.760 a Samaritan? I mean, it says they're in between. They're 0:30:05.760 --> 0:30:08.010 in a village. So we don't necessarily know that the 0:30:08.010 --> 0:30:12.990 other nine Jewish men are living in Samaria, but they're 0:30:12.990 --> 0:30:13.560 in that. 0:30:13.560 --> 0:30:15.810 I wouldn't be surprised if there was a Samaritan village 0:30:15.810 --> 0:30:20.830 nearby just south of where they were, and a Galilean 0:30:20.830 --> 0:30:23.770 village just north. And they were all kind of. Out. 0:30:23.770 --> 0:30:26.770 And they were all in the inn, as he called it, 0:30:26.770 --> 0:30:32.200 before a leper colony. Together. And it's the the companionship 0:30:32.200 --> 0:30:35.950 of misery that they, you know. When people are living 0:30:35.950 --> 0:30:39.490 at the, at the, at the dregs on the outside 0:30:39.490 --> 0:30:42.610 without any hope of ever getting on the inside, very 0:30:42.610 --> 0:30:46.240 often issues like. 0:30:46.270 --> 0:30:49.870 Those destitute circumstances bind them together more than their differences 0:30:49.870 --> 0:30:51.340 would have kept them apart. Yeah. 0:30:51.370 --> 0:30:56.080 So? So they're all together. But, you know, the Samaritans, 0:30:56.320 --> 0:30:59.020 they were they were not just despised. People always think 0:30:59.020 --> 0:31:01.210 of the Samaritans as being good because of the parable 0:31:01.210 --> 0:31:03.520 of the Good Samaritan. And that misses the point of 0:31:03.520 --> 0:31:07.450 the parable of the Good Samaritan, that the reason it 0:31:07.450 --> 0:31:10.240 was so shocking that that Samaritan was good is because 0:31:10.240 --> 0:31:14.320 they were so despised. They had obstructed the Jewish people 0:31:14.320 --> 0:31:16.750 when they returned from captivity and wanted to build Jerusalem. 0:31:16.750 --> 0:31:19.470 If you read the book of Nehemiah, it is Samaritans 0:31:19.470 --> 0:31:22.620 who are participating in trying to keep them from the 0:31:22.620 --> 0:31:32.790 Jewish people, from building Jerusalem. Later on, when the when the, uh, Antiochus, uh, 0:31:32.790 --> 0:31:35.670 during the time of Hanukkah, when he was attacking the 0:31:35.670 --> 0:31:40.050 Jewish people and he was defiling the the temple and 0:31:40.050 --> 0:31:42.510 trying to make practice of the worship of the God 0:31:42.510 --> 0:31:48.360 of Israel illegal, it was Samaritans who sided with him, uh, 0:31:48.360 --> 0:31:51.750 and joined, uh, Antiochus the Fourth in his oppression of 0:31:51.750 --> 0:31:55.650 the Jewish people. And, uh, as a result, one of 0:31:55.650 --> 0:31:59.100 the descendants of the Maccabees destroyed their temple on Mount Gerizim. 0:31:59.280 --> 0:32:02.250 It led to a great deal of hostility, but the 0:32:02.250 --> 0:32:04.260 only way I could describe a Samaritan would be sort 0:32:04.290 --> 0:32:09.780 of like, uh, the local drug pusher or the the, the, 0:32:09.780 --> 0:32:14.040 the supporter of terrorism of al Qaeda or something like that. 0:32:14.040 --> 0:32:17.630 They they were really on the outs. And yet this 0:32:17.630 --> 0:32:22.700 one is the one that comes back. Uh, and so 0:32:22.880 --> 0:32:28.910 here's the thing. None of them could have expected healing, right? Right. 0:32:29.450 --> 0:32:32.480 But why was this even more true of a Samaritan? 0:32:33.560 --> 0:32:36.290 None of them could expect. I mean, you can't expect 0:32:36.320 --> 0:32:38.990 God to heal you or the Messiah to come in 0:32:38.990 --> 0:32:42.440 your presence and heal you. But they asked, why was 0:32:42.440 --> 0:32:47.030 this Samaritan? You know, why was it even that if 0:32:47.060 --> 0:32:50.240 if it's. I say it's true of everyone, but it's 0:32:50.240 --> 0:32:53.240 even more true of a Samaritan. Why? 0:32:53.270 --> 0:32:58.760 I think that Jesus was known as a local traveling teacher. Rabbi. 0:32:59.090 --> 0:33:02.450 His his law was all from the from the from 0:33:02.450 --> 0:33:05.240 the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And yet he's 0:33:05.240 --> 0:33:07.700 ghosted this person and asked for mercy. Yeah, he goes. 0:33:07.700 --> 0:33:09.110 To him and and. 0:33:09.110 --> 0:33:13.700 Even even in his teaching, like so my Bible cross-referenced. Um, 0:33:13.710 --> 0:33:17.760 Matthew ten, verse five, when Jesus sends out the 12 0:33:17.760 --> 0:33:21.060 and tells them, go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter 0:33:21.090 --> 0:33:23.430 no town of the Samaritans, but rather go to the 0:33:23.430 --> 0:33:25.380 lost sheep of the house of Israel. This was not 0:33:25.410 --> 0:33:30.300 his priority of people that he that his main ministry 0:33:30.330 --> 0:33:31.650 was to. 0:33:31.680 --> 0:33:34.950 Yeah. His main ministry was to Israel. And and here's 0:33:34.950 --> 0:33:38.250 the thing to remember. Israel is the covenant people. They 0:33:38.250 --> 0:33:40.320 had a covenant by which to stand with God. They 0:33:40.320 --> 0:33:45.870 had the Abrahamic covenant. God gave special promises, including promises 0:33:45.870 --> 0:33:49.380 of blessing to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 0:33:49.380 --> 0:33:53.130 So they had covenant standing. The Samaritans were cut off. 0:33:53.130 --> 0:33:56.280 They had no standing. They could. They had no basis 0:33:56.280 --> 0:33:59.760 upon which to appeal to the Messiah of Israel. They 0:33:59.760 --> 0:34:04.830 had nothing, no expectation of any relationship with the Messiah 0:34:04.830 --> 0:34:07.770 of Israel. Even Jesus said to the Samaritan woman, we 0:34:07.770 --> 0:34:12.330 worship that which we know for salvation is of the Jews. 0:34:12.330 --> 0:34:17.170 He says to her. He doesn't say it's of the Samaritans. 0:34:17.170 --> 0:34:21.040 And yet here he is. He is the one with 0:34:21.040 --> 0:34:24.400 these others who is healed. He had less expectation than 0:34:24.400 --> 0:34:24.759 any of us. 0:34:24.790 --> 0:34:27.220 I think maybe he was more amazed than. Yeah. 0:34:28.210 --> 0:34:30.520 Would it would it have been typical for him to 0:34:30.550 --> 0:34:34.480 go to the priest in Jerusalem? I mean, Jesus says, 0:34:34.510 --> 0:34:35.980 go to the priest. I don't know him. 0:34:36.070 --> 0:34:38.140 I don't know, maybe he's a true follower of the 0:34:38.170 --> 0:34:41.380 God of Israel now and and then he can go 0:34:41.380 --> 0:34:45.100 to the priest in Jerusalem, because that's the issue at hand. 0:34:45.100 --> 0:34:47.680 Even there's a court of the Gentiles. Gentiles can come 0:34:47.680 --> 0:34:51.520 and worship in, in Jerusalem. Uh, and so he's going 0:34:51.550 --> 0:34:52.840 there to do that. 0:34:52.840 --> 0:34:56.950 So, yeah, maybe he suddenly understood what it really meant. Yeah. 0:34:56.980 --> 0:35:02.500 Yeah, maybe, maybe that's what it was. Uh, now. Uh, 0:35:02.770 --> 0:35:06.339 so what does that make him? It makes him not 0:35:06.340 --> 0:35:09.489 just grateful like the others. It makes him, I think, 0:35:09.489 --> 0:35:13.120 even more grateful. He has a. I think the others 0:35:13.120 --> 0:35:16.209 were grateful. I don't doubt it. But how does he 0:35:16.210 --> 0:35:18.189 express his greater gratitude? 0:35:19.000 --> 0:35:21.790 He sacrifices his time to turn around and come back. 0:35:21.820 --> 0:35:22.989 And his energy. Yeah. 0:35:23.020 --> 0:35:25.750 And he's glorifying God. So he really believes in God now, 0:35:25.750 --> 0:35:29.260 and he is coming to thank the Lord Jesus for 0:35:29.260 --> 0:35:33.009 what he has done. And it's because his he had 0:35:33.010 --> 0:35:37.750 a greater sense of of God's grace and mercy in 0:35:37.750 --> 0:35:40.960 his life, because he had nothing to stand on. And 0:35:40.960 --> 0:35:46.330 so what the question then becomes, how can we become 0:35:46.330 --> 0:35:51.009 more grateful? What can we expect God to do for us? What? 0:35:51.040 --> 0:35:54.940 What can we right? What's our standing that we can say, God, 0:35:54.940 --> 0:35:58.330 you must show me mercy. What can we expect of God? 0:36:00.040 --> 0:36:03.969 I have a verse there that I that I often 0:36:04.000 --> 0:36:10.090 think of. It's Lamentations 322 because it's it's what we 0:36:10.130 --> 0:36:15.020 can expect of God. As so often we don't, you know, 0:36:15.050 --> 0:36:18.109 when we think about it. What can I expect of God? 0:36:18.110 --> 0:36:23.510 What do I deserve from God? And here's what it says. Uh, 0:36:23.510 --> 0:36:28.430 because of the Lord's faithful love, we do not perish. 0:36:28.520 --> 0:36:32.029 I like some versions that say, because of the Lord's 0:36:32.030 --> 0:36:36.800 love or his loving kindness, we are not consumed. What 0:36:36.800 --> 0:36:40.040 do I deserve every moment of the day? I deserve 0:36:40.040 --> 0:36:44.150 lightning bolts from heaven. That's what I deserve. Uh, if 0:36:44.150 --> 0:36:46.339 I were to say, God, give me what I deserve, 0:36:46.340 --> 0:36:49.340 I'd be a little pile of cinder right here. 0:36:49.370 --> 0:36:49.969 Right? 0:36:50.360 --> 0:36:53.419 And so that that's a great reminder, because we always 0:36:53.420 --> 0:36:56.779 think we deserve so much more. And yet, if we 0:36:56.810 --> 0:37:01.520 got what we deserved, we'd be just dust. And I 0:37:01.520 --> 0:37:05.870 think that's what this Samaritan understood, that he didn't deserve anything. 0:37:05.870 --> 0:37:08.629 And yet he got the greatest gift that he could imagine. 0:37:08.630 --> 0:37:13.680 He was healed of this skin disease. And so, uh, 0:37:13.680 --> 0:37:18.719 I think that's what the that's what he received. Well, 0:37:18.870 --> 0:37:22.410 if that's what made him grateful, what what should we 0:37:22.440 --> 0:37:23.670 be grateful for? 0:37:24.150 --> 0:37:25.169 Much more. 0:37:25.200 --> 0:37:26.220 Much more. 0:37:27.060 --> 0:37:30.900 You know, I was thinking just earlier in this passage, 0:37:31.080 --> 0:37:38.219 Jesus talks about he gives this the story about, uh, 0:37:38.550 --> 0:37:42.870 about faith and and obedience, and he gives the story 0:37:42.870 --> 0:37:45.330 about the guy who comes in and with his servant. 0:37:45.330 --> 0:37:47.279 And he didn't say to his servant, go and sit 0:37:47.280 --> 0:37:49.560 down and I'll take care of you. The servant says, no, no, 0:37:49.590 --> 0:37:51.690 it's my job to take care of you. And he 0:37:51.690 --> 0:37:54.720 ends that little dialogue. And just right before the lepers 0:37:54.750 --> 0:37:57.870 being cleansed. And in Luke 1710 it says, so too, 0:37:57.900 --> 0:38:00.930 when you do all things which are commanded of you, say, 0:38:00.930 --> 0:38:05.100 we are unworthy slaves. We have done only that which 0:38:05.100 --> 0:38:08.190 we ought to have done. That's our attitude. Anything we 0:38:08.190 --> 0:38:09.810 do is we're unworthy. So it's. 0:38:09.810 --> 0:38:14.730 Unworthiness. So I think the point of this story, the 0:38:14.730 --> 0:38:17.670 great lesson for us, if we want to develop a 0:38:17.670 --> 0:38:21.629 heart of thanksgiving, a heart of gratitude, it's to to 0:38:21.660 --> 0:38:27.149 compare what we do deserve, which is judgment with what 0:38:27.180 --> 0:38:28.710 God has given us. 0:38:28.710 --> 0:38:30.330 Which is mercy. 0:38:30.810 --> 0:38:34.710 And it's when we realize how much God has given us, 0:38:34.710 --> 0:38:37.800 how much mercy he has shown us compared to what 0:38:37.800 --> 0:38:43.020 we deserve, will become like this 10th man with skin disease. 0:38:43.050 --> 0:38:46.350 And we'll just keep going back, being more and more grateful. Uh, 0:38:46.350 --> 0:38:48.810 it's I think the reason that we are not grateful 0:38:48.810 --> 0:38:51.540 sometimes is we we forget what we do deserve. 0:38:51.690 --> 0:38:53.100 We sort of take it for granted. 0:38:53.130 --> 0:38:56.280 Yeah, we have this. We have this attitude of expectation 0:38:56.280 --> 0:39:00.510 of that we're better than we actually are. Yeah. Because 0:39:00.690 --> 0:39:03.660 that we're entitled to God's mercy. Yeah. Because we're not. 0:39:03.690 --> 0:39:05.310 We're better than that guy. Yeah. 0:39:05.340 --> 0:39:05.670 Yeah. 0:39:06.130 --> 0:39:06.910 Yeah. 0:39:07.570 --> 0:39:09.549 Actually, even when we think we're better than that guy, 0:39:09.790 --> 0:39:10.390 we're not really. 0:39:10.420 --> 0:39:10.780 We probably. 0:39:10.810 --> 0:39:12.130 Were not. But nevertheless. 0:39:12.160 --> 0:39:13.090 We think we are. 0:39:13.390 --> 0:39:14.920 Yeah. Pride, man. 0:39:14.950 --> 0:39:15.549 Yeah. 0:39:15.550 --> 0:39:16.450 So. 0:39:17.170 --> 0:39:20.770 So we're going to talk about now that we know 0:39:20.770 --> 0:39:23.589 what we deserve and how gracious God is and how 0:39:23.620 --> 0:39:24.489 merciful he is. 0:39:24.520 --> 0:39:25.870 And how grateful we should be. 0:39:25.900 --> 0:39:26.710 Yeah, we're going. 0:39:26.739 --> 0:39:28.660 To come back and talk about some steps we can 0:39:28.660 --> 0:39:31.930 take about how to be more grateful all the time. 0:39:31.930 --> 0:39:34.330 So stay with us. You're listening to Open Line with 0:39:34.330 --> 0:39:40.360 Michael Jelinek. Jelinek and Tricia McMillan. More Bible study straight ahead. 0:39:46.630 --> 0:39:49.990 We're so glad that Febc partners with Open Line with 0:39:49.989 --> 0:39:54.580 Doctor Michael Radonich, bringing the Febc mailbag every week. 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Right now, what we want to do is 0:40:34.510 --> 0:40:38.740 talk about some principles from Scripture about how to be 0:40:38.739 --> 0:40:41.470 a person, how to express thanks, how we should have 0:40:41.469 --> 0:40:43.960 a grateful heart. And I was thinking of a verse 0:40:43.960 --> 0:40:47.590 that says Psalm. It's Psalm 30, verses ten through 12. 0:40:47.620 --> 0:40:52.630 It says, uh, Lord, you have turned my mourning into 0:40:52.630 --> 0:40:56.560 joyful dancing. You have taken away my clothes of mourning 0:40:56.560 --> 0:40:58.960 and clothed me with joy, that I might sing praises 0:40:58.960 --> 0:41:01.450 to you and not be silent. And here it is. Oh, 0:41:01.480 --> 0:41:06.920 Lord my God, I will give you thanks forever. It's something. 0:41:06.920 --> 0:41:11.690 Gratitude should be something that we express continually. Okay, Tricia, 0:41:11.719 --> 0:41:13.370 you have a favorite verse you want to hit? 0:41:13.400 --> 0:41:16.640 I do. I was looking at first Thessalonians 516 through 0:41:16.670 --> 0:41:21.469 18 which says, rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks 0:41:21.469 --> 0:41:24.650 in all circumstances, for this is the will of God 0:41:24.650 --> 0:41:28.310 in Christ Jesus for you. That it is this whole 0:41:28.310 --> 0:41:32.480 attitude that characterizes your inner life that you are rejoicing 0:41:32.480 --> 0:41:35.900 always in all circumstances, praying without ceasing, not that you're 0:41:35.930 --> 0:41:39.950 always praying, but that it is a constantly recurring with 0:41:39.950 --> 0:41:43.730 faithful consistency. Prayer life. Um, and. 0:41:43.730 --> 0:41:45.439 Even giving crummy circumstances, even crummy. 0:41:45.469 --> 0:41:49.730 Circumstances give thanks in all circumstances. Not for all circumstances, 0:41:49.730 --> 0:41:52.640 but in all circumstances. For this is the will of 0:41:52.640 --> 0:41:55.820 God in Christ Jesus for you. And there was a 0:41:55.820 --> 0:42:00.080 story that I heard in, in seminary, um, about Matthew Henry, 0:42:00.230 --> 0:42:03.450 who had a man had stolen his wallet, and out 0:42:03.450 --> 0:42:06.450 of that, he reflected on the incident and wrote down 0:42:06.450 --> 0:42:10.980 these four things about being thankful. And the first was 0:42:10.980 --> 0:42:13.950 that I'm thankful that he never robbed me before. Number two, 0:42:13.980 --> 0:42:16.200 I'm thankful that although he took my wallet, he did 0:42:16.200 --> 0:42:18.930 not take my life. Number three although he took all 0:42:18.930 --> 0:42:21.689 I had, it was not much. And number four, I'm 0:42:21.690 --> 0:42:23.910 glad it was I who was robbed and not I 0:42:23.940 --> 0:42:26.730 who did the robbing. So just having that perspective that 0:42:26.730 --> 0:42:29.040 can change how you even view your circumstances. 0:42:29.130 --> 0:42:31.170 That's so great. What a what a great story. 0:42:31.200 --> 0:42:35.250 So it's it's a consistent life of thanksgiving. Not just 0:42:35.250 --> 0:42:38.940 constant but consistent in all circumstances. Eva, you have a 0:42:38.940 --> 0:42:39.660 verse that you wanted. 0:42:39.719 --> 0:42:44.880 Well, I was I am struck by in Hebrews chapter 13, 0:42:44.880 --> 0:42:48.720 verse 15 and 16, it says through Jesus. Then let 0:42:48.719 --> 0:42:53.700 us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, 0:42:53.730 --> 0:42:56.489 that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to 0:42:56.520 --> 0:43:01.080 his name. That the process of thanking God is like 0:43:01.080 --> 0:43:04.800 what was like equivalent to like, the sacrificial system. It's 0:43:04.800 --> 0:43:08.340 just it's our gift that we give to him. And, 0:43:08.340 --> 0:43:12.390 and and so that offering thanks is not just something 0:43:12.390 --> 0:43:15.690 that we toss off unimportantly, but it is very valuable 0:43:15.690 --> 0:43:17.640 and precious to God. Things that we say. 0:43:17.670 --> 0:43:18.630 And sacrificial. 0:43:18.630 --> 0:43:19.590 And sacrificial. 0:43:19.620 --> 0:43:21.720 And speaking of that, I want to jump over to 0:43:21.750 --> 0:43:28.200 Psalm 107, uh, verse 22. It says in the NIV, 0:43:28.230 --> 0:43:32.100 let them sacrifice thank offerings and tell of his works 0:43:32.100 --> 0:43:36.090 with songs of joy. So it obviously we sing our thanks, 0:43:36.090 --> 0:43:39.060 but we give gifts. In the Old Testament they gave 0:43:39.090 --> 0:43:42.210 thank offerings. And I think one of the best ways 0:43:42.210 --> 0:43:45.719 to express our gratitude is through giving. It's one of 0:43:45.719 --> 0:43:49.169 the reasons that we give to God. I think every 0:43:49.170 --> 0:43:52.590 gift that we give, monetary gift we give to God, 0:43:52.590 --> 0:43:55.469 it is an expression of our gratitude to him. That's 0:43:55.469 --> 0:43:57.360 why I say when we give to God, we ought 0:43:57.360 --> 0:44:02.590 never to give Grudgingly, but also, but always with an 0:44:02.590 --> 0:44:06.100 attitude of gratitude. That's how we express thanks to God. 0:44:06.219 --> 0:44:07.450 Uh, yeah, I. 0:44:07.450 --> 0:44:10.510 Have I have another one in Psalm 69. It's, uh, 0:44:10.510 --> 0:44:14.440 verse 32, it says, this is after David has praised 0:44:14.440 --> 0:44:16.300 the name of God with a song and how he 0:44:16.300 --> 0:44:19.480 gives thanks. Um, when the humble see it, they will 0:44:19.480 --> 0:44:22.510 be glad. You who seek God, let your hearts revive. 0:44:22.540 --> 0:44:25.870 Just the idea that Thanksgiving can spread, similar to how 0:44:25.870 --> 0:44:31.810 complaining can kind of multiply with within a community, that 0:44:31.810 --> 0:44:36.850 everyone starts complaining that Thanksgiving can spread to others too, 0:44:36.850 --> 0:44:40.540 and that Thanksgiving is refreshing. That it can. It helps, 0:44:40.540 --> 0:44:42.460 you know, it's refreshing. It revives. 0:44:42.460 --> 0:44:45.250 You. So we looked at at Hebrews 1315 in the 0:44:45.250 --> 0:44:48.460 follow up verses. It plugs right into these ideas, for 0:44:48.460 --> 0:44:52.509 it says, and do not neglect doing good and sharing. 0:44:52.510 --> 0:44:55.750 For with such sacrifices God is pleased. So we give, 0:44:55.780 --> 0:44:59.720 we give thanks, and we also take action. We help others. 0:44:59.870 --> 0:45:03.530 And it it pleases God and it refreshes the community. 0:45:03.980 --> 0:45:06.470 I think that this is one of the reasons I 0:45:06.469 --> 0:45:09.500 think we should give thanks all the time, every day alone. 0:45:09.500 --> 0:45:13.069 But it says in Psalm 35, I will give you 0:45:13.100 --> 0:45:17.870 thanks in the great assembly among throngs of people. I 0:45:17.870 --> 0:45:20.750 will praise you. And it's why we gather for worship 0:45:20.750 --> 0:45:23.960 to say thank you to God. And you know I 0:45:23.960 --> 0:45:28.969 agree with you, Tricia. It's just like complaining is is contagious. 0:45:29.150 --> 0:45:33.529 Thanksgiving is contagious. It's why we gather gathered in our 0:45:33.530 --> 0:45:36.350 homes on Thursday. That's why we did it. So that 0:45:36.350 --> 0:45:38.660 we can gather together and say thank you to God. 0:45:38.660 --> 0:45:42.169 It's also why we gather with with God's people. And 0:45:42.170 --> 0:45:45.350 we say collectively, thank you to God. It's why we 0:45:45.350 --> 0:45:51.770 shouldn't neglect getting together to collectively thank God. I think 0:45:51.770 --> 0:45:55.939 that that's so crucial for us. We can't forget that 0:45:55.940 --> 0:45:58.489 it is contagious to thank God, and that's why we 0:45:58.489 --> 0:46:00.680 need to get together and do it. And I can't 0:46:00.680 --> 0:46:06.710 believe our hour is up. So glad for Eva Radonich 0:46:06.710 --> 0:46:10.550 joining me today and also for Tricia McMillan. So glad 0:46:10.550 --> 0:46:14.900 for all of you who listened in. Really appreciate that. Uh, 0:46:14.900 --> 0:46:18.800 and thanks, Courtney, for being our engineer. And remember, keep 0:46:18.800 --> 0:46:20.810 in touch with Open Line during the week by going 0:46:20.810 --> 0:46:24.560 to our web page, which is Open Line radio.org. 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