'While Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem, He was passing [along the border] between Samaria and Galilee. As He entered a village, He was met by ten lepers who stood at a distance; and they raised their voices and called out, “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 [miraculously] healed and made clean. One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying and praising and honoring God with a loud voice; and he lay face downward at Jesus’ feet, thanking Him [over and over]. He was a Samaritan. Then Jesus asked, “Were not ten [of you] cleansed? WHERE are the [other] NINE?
Was there no one found to return and to give thanks and praise to God, except this foreigner?” Jesus said to him, “Get up and go [on your way]. Your faith [your personal trust in Me and your confidence in God’s power] has restored you to health.' Luke 17:11-19 (AMP).
The 9 lepers who didn't return...do you think they kept their good health? Do you think they were grateful? Do you think they inherited the Kingdom? Nope.
Let me tell you friends, God (Jesus Christ) is very much into justice and fairness.
God loves all believers, some just show by their lifestyle...that they don't love Him.
What some believers still have not realized is this revelation...the 9 ungrateful lepers (believers) were not cleansed of their leprosy (SIN NATURE). Leprosy is a metaphor for the SIN NATURE, ok.
Brethren...9/10 is not a good ratio...
'Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for JESUS had slipped away [unnoticed] since there was a crowd in that place. Afterward, JESUS found him in the temple and said to him, “SEE, YOU ARE WELL! STOP SINNING or SOMETHING WORSE MAY HAPPEN TO YOU.' John 5:13-14 (AMP)
Christ finished everything on the cross...and now it's up to the self-professing Christians to continue His work if they want to reap supernatural blessings that Christ has already finished.
So many boast in 'Christ's finished work'...why is there sickness and death? It makes no sense to me...but it was the SAMARITAN WHO BELIEVED?
This is not preaching works, it's preaching life and life more abundantly. Some will make an entire doctrine out of Ephesians 2:8-9 and wander off into destructive heresies.
'But [in those days] false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will SUBTLY introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their shameful ways, and because of them the way of TRUTH will be maligned.
And in their greed they will exploit you with false arguments and twisted doctrine. Their sentence [of condemnation which God has decreed] from a time long ago is not idle [but is still in force], and their destruction and deepening misery is not asleep [but is on its way]' 2 Peter 2:1-3 (AMP)