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Cleansing Ten Lepers from Samaria

Cleansing Ten Lepers from Samaria
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Luke 17:11 And as He was going to Jerusalem, He passed between
Samaria and Galilee. (12) And as He entered into a certain
village, ten leprous men, who stood at a distance, met Him.
(13) And they raised their voice, saying, Jesus, Master, have
mercy on us! (14) And when He saw them, He said to them, Go and
show yourselves to the priests. And as they went, they were
cleansed. (15) And one of them, when he saw that he was healed,
returned, glorifying God with a loud voice; (16) And he fell on
his face at His feet, thanking Him. And he was a Samaritan.
(17) And Jesus answered and said, Were not the ten cleansed?
But the nine, where are they? (18) Were none found who returned
to give glory to God except this foreigner? (19) And He said to
him, Rise up and go; your faith has healed you.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Words of Ministry~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In 17:11-19 we have the record of the Man-Savior's cleansing
ten lepers in Samaria. Instead of making any selection, the
Lord immediately healed them all. Actually, He did not say to
them, "Be healed!" He said, "Go and show yourselves to the
priests. And it came about as they were going away, they were
cleansed." Only one of the ten--a Samaritan--remembered the One
who had healed him and came back to say something to Him (vv.
15-16). The important point is that this record reveals the
highest standard of morality in the Lord's saving grace.

We know from chapter ten of the Gospel of Luke that while the
Lord was on the way through Samaria, He was rejected in
Samaria. The Lord must have realized that the majority of the
ten lepers in 17:11-19 were Samaritans. If I had been the Lord,
I might have said, "You Samaritans rejected Me and now you come
to Me for cleansing. You must regret the wrong that you did to
Me and apologize, and then I will heal you." The Man-Savior,
however, did not calculate matters in this way. On the
contrary, He acted in the highest standard of morality to
exercise His saving grace. As soon as the ten appealed to Him
for mercy, He healed them all without preference. This displays
His high standard of morality in His salvation.
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(c) 2007 Living Stream Ministry. Bible verses are taken from
the Recovery Version of the Bible (RcV) and Words of Ministry,
from Watchman Nee, Messages for Building Up New Believers, pp.
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What's Really Important, by Paul Faulkner

I heard recently from a man in his fifties. He said, "I've learned that
the challenge of life is to find out what's important, and to disregard
everything else."

Not bad advice! It's really a shame to think about wasting your life on
cotton candy, soda pop, television and accumulating stuff, while doing
without what's really important. But, so many folks actually live this
way, totally missing out on the important things of life.

Have you learned what really counts?

Missing the point can happen to dedicated and religious people, too.
Jesus came down awfully hard on the people who spent a lot of time
worrying about how to tithe tiny bits of spices but never bothered
about the greater matters of the law: justice, mercy, love, and faith (Matthew
23:23-24).

I guess the question is, have you learned what really counts? Do you
know how to disregard the other stuff? God's Word is a pretty good
guide in that search. So is seeking after the heart and wisdom of God!
Only God can help us find the path to what's truly important!

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own
understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make
your paths straight (Ecclesiastes 3:5-6 TNIV).

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MORNING:

"He arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of
that meat forty days and forty nights."
-- 1 Kings 19:8

All the strength supplied to us by our gracious God is meant for
service, not for wantonness or boasting. When the prophet Elijah found
the cake baked on the coals, and the cruse of water placed at his head,
as he lay under the juniper tree, he was no gentleman to be gratified
with dainty fare that he might stretch himself at his ease; far
otherwise, he was commissioned to go forty days and forty nights in the
strength of it, journeying towards Horeb, the mount of God. When the
Master invited the disciples to "Come and dine" with him, after the
feast was concluded he said to Peter, "Feed my sheep"; further adding,
"Follow me." Even thus it is with us; we eat the bread of heaven, that
we may expend our strength in the Master's service. We come to the
passover, and eat of the paschal lamb with loins girt, and staff in
hand, so as to start off at once when we have satisfied our hunger.
Some Christians are for living on Christ, but are not so anxious to
live for Christ. Earth should be a preparation for heaven; and heaven
is the place where saints feast most and work most. They sit down at
the table of our Lord, and they serve him day and night in his temple.
They eat of heavenly food and render perfect service. Believer, in the
strength you daily gain from Christ labour for him. Some of us have yet
to learn much concerning the design of our Lord in giving us his grace.
We are not to retain the precious grains of truth as the Egyptian mummy
held the wheat for ages, without giving it an opportunity to grow: we
must sow it and water it. Why does the Lord send down the rain upon the
thirsty earth, and give the genial sunshine? Is it not that these may
all help the fruits of the earth to yield food for man? Even so the
Lord feeds and refreshes our souls that we may afterwards use our
renewed strength in the promotion of his glory.

EVENING:

"He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved."
-- Mark 16:16

Mr. MacDonald asked the inhabitants of the island of St. Kilda how a
man must be saved. An old man replied, "We shall be saved if we repent,
and forsake our sins, and turn to God." "Yes," said a middle-aged
female, "and with a true heart too." "Aye," rejoined a third, "and with
prayer"; and, added a fourth, "It must be the prayer of the heart."
"And we must be diligent too," said a fifth, "in keeping the
commandments." Thus, each having contributed his mite, feeling that a
very decent creed had been made up, they all looked and listened for
the preacher's approbation, but they had aroused his deepest pity. The
carnal mind always maps out for itself a way in which self can work and
become great, but the Lord's way is quite the reverse. Believing and
being baptized are no matters of merit to be gloried in-they are so
simple that boasting is excluded, and free grace bears the palm. It may
be that the reader is unsaved-what is the reason? Do you think the way
of salvation as laid down in the text to be dubious? How can that be
when God has pledged his own word for its certainty? Do you think it
too easy? Why, then, do you not attend to it? Its ease leaves those
without excuse who neglect it. To believe is simply to trust, to
depend, to rely upon Christ Jesus. To be baptized is to submit to the
ordinance which our Lord fulfilled at Jordan, to which the converted
ones submitted at Pentecost, to which the jailer yielded obedience the
very night of his conversion. The outward sign saves not, but it sets
forth to us our death, burial, and resurrection with Jesus, and, like
the Lord's Supper, is not to be neglected. Reader, do you believe in
Jesus? Then, dear friend, dismiss your fears, you shall be saved. Are
you still an unbeliever, then remember there is but one door, and if
you will not enter by it you will perish in your sins.

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My Utmost For His Highest : "The Bias Of Degeneration"

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THE BIAS OF DEGENERATION

Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and
death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that
all have sinned.

Romans 5:12

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The Bible does not say that God punished the human race for one man's
sin; but that the disposition of sin, viz., my claim to my right to
myself, entered into the human race by one man, and that another Man
took on Him the sin of the human race and put it away (Heb. 9:26) -
an infinitely profounder revelation. The disposition of sin is not
immorality and wrong-doing, but the disposition of self-realization -
I am my own god. This disposition may work out in decorous morality
or in indecorous immorality, but it has the one basis, my claim to my
right to myself. When Our Lord faced men with all the forces of evil
in them, and men who were clean living and moral and up right, He did
not pay any attention to the moral degradation of the one or to the
moral attainment of the other; He looked at something we do not see,
viz., the disposition.

Sin is a thing I am born with and I cannot touch it; God touches sin
in Redemption. In the Cross of Jesus Christ God redeemed the whole
human race from the possibility of damnation through the heredity of
sin. God nowhere holds a man responsible for having the heredity of
sin. The condemnation is not that I am born with a heredity of sin,
but if when I realize Jesus Christ came to deliver me from it, I
refuse to let Him do so, from that moment I begin to get the seal of
damnation. "And this is the judgment" (the critical moment), "that
the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather
than the light."

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Mustard Seed Thought: Loaves, Part 5

"I Am the bread of life. Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die. I Am the living bread that came down from Heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." John 6:48-51 NIV

God did a miracle among the Israelites and it was good. He fed them daily with manna and quail and it was good. Jesus did a miracle among the people and it was good. He fed the multitudes with five loaves and two fish and it was good. Please don't let that be the end of your thoughts on these miracles. There is so much more.

Often God does something in our life, such as blesses us with a child, or helps us get a new job, and we thank Him for the gift, but we never fully understand the reality of the blessing. We understand that it is God Himself who is doing the blessing, but we tend to look at the blessing and not the Blessor!

When God fed the Israelites in the wilderness, and when Jesus fed the 5,000 plus women and children, it wasn't just God doing a miracle for the people, it was God giving the people Himself. And that is the greatest miracle of all!

The fact that the same God who created the heavens and the earth would choose to share Himself with sinners like you and me is indeed a miracle. If we get hung up on the miracle, and fail to recognize that fact, we have missed the most incredible part of this journey with God.

It isn't about the miracles. It is about who He is that does the miracles! It isn't about what He does in our life, but about the fact that He is involved in our lives. It isn't about whether He will do great miracles. It is about that He can, and that He is planning a great victory for the children of God! God's greatest miracle is saving a wretch like me! One day He will show Himself great again when He calls me to meet Him face to face. Until then, my job is to trust Him each and every day, not for the bread, but because He is the Bread! He is the Bread of Life.

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Praying with Paul : "Altar of Worship"

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Hebrews 13:10-21

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Dear Father,

Thank you for providing an altar of worship for me and all those
who have faith in Jesus. Thank you that our Lord Jesus was willing
to suffer outside the gate in order to call to himself a people
sanctified through his blood. Thank you that I am one of these!

Let me therefore go to him outside the camp, bearing abuse for
him. Father, here I have no lasting city, no permanent country, but
I seek the city which is to come, that you are preparing.

Through Christ therefore I offer up to you a continual sacrifice
of praise, the fruit of my lips which acknowledge your name.

My Lord, help me never to neglect to do good and to share what I
have, for I know these sacrifices are pleasing to you.

Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

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WJD! -- The Attitude of a Servant -- Luke 17:7-10

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The Attitude of a Servant

"Suppose one of you has a servant that has been working in
the field. The servant has been plowing the ground or caring
for the sheep. When he comes in from work, what would you say
to him? Would you say, 'Come in and sit down to eat'? No! You
would say to your servant, 'Prepare something for me to eat.
Then get dressed and serve me. When I finish eating and
drinking, then you can eat.' The servant should not get any
special thanks for doing his job. He is only doing what his
master told him to do. It is the same with you. When you do
all the things you are told to do, you should say, 'We are
not worthy of any special thanks. We have only done the work
we should do.'"

-- Luke 17:7-10 (ERV)

KEY THOUGHT:
In Jesus' day, a servant did not have the rights of an owner, an heir,
or a citizen. A servant had to do what pleased his or her master
regardless of thanks or praise. A servant had no right to expect
approval or commendation. When a servant worked hard and completed a
long list of demands, there was no expectation of praise; that servant
only did what was expected. Jesus is Lord, Master, and Savior. He has
called us to follow and serve him. Of course the incredible blessing is
that when we come to him as a servant, he welcomes us as a sister or
brother and friend.

TODAY'S PRAYER:
Father, as I come and offer myself to your Son as a servant for his
work and his glory, thank you for accepting me as your child and making
me a sibling, a joint heir, with your precious Son and my Savior. In
his name, Jesus Christ the Lord, I pray. Amen.

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Today's Verse : 1 Samuel 12:15

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VERSE:
If you do not obey the LORD, and if you rebel against his
commands, his hand will be against you, as it was against your
fathers.
-- 1 Samuel 12:15

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THOUGHT:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer said more than 50 years ago that grace had
become cheapened. I wonder what he would say today? I'm all for
grace, but I'm horrified at the cost by which it came. I can't for
the life of me understand how we can so often claim to have
received it and yet bear no resemblance in character to the one who
gave it. God's Word through Samuel is a harsh one. Yet it is one
that I believe we must include in our triumphant song of grace. You
see, true grace changes us. It will make us gracious and more like
the Grace-giver himself. If not, what we call grace is impotent,
powerless, and false. Paul called this a form of religion that
denied God's true power in us (2 Timothy 3:5). Let's return
obedience back to the pantheon of virtues and rescue it from the
attic of our religious past.

PRAYER:
Father, I know that you are disappointed with my sin and yet
your grace still flows and covers it. But Father, I NEVER want to
presume on that grace. You and I know the deepest struggles of my
character and the things I only want to "kinda" give up. Please
work your perfection in me through the Holy Spirit, conforming me
to be more and more to be like my Savior Jesus, in whose name I
pray. Amen.

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Today's KJV Verse : 1 Samuel 12:15

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VERSE:
But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against
the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be
against you, as it was against your fathers.
-- 1 Samuel 12:15

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