How Jesus restores the ten lepers not just physically

mcarans · Oct 14, 2019

The sermon text for this Sunday was Luke 17:11-19. My Pastor focused on the extent of the healing, a raising from death to society and restoration to friends and family.

What did your Pastor preach about?

A more detailed explanation is here:
How Jesus restores the ten lepers not just physically : cruciformity

Shrewd Manager · Oct 14, 2019

mcarans said:
The sermon text for this Sunday was Luke 17:11-19. My Pastor focused on the extent of the healing, a raising from death to society and restoration to friends and family.

What did your Pastor preach about?

A more detailed explanation is here:
How Jesus restores the ten lepers not just physically : cruciformity)

That's interesting, because the sermon at my church this Sunday across the world from you was also on the 10 lepers. The pastor focused on the importance of gratitude.

He noted that the returned leper was a Samaritan and suggested the others were Jews. Made me think if that's the case, then the HS might also be implying that shared suffering breaks down traditional boundaries and conflicts.

The suggestion in your link that it's a type of resurrection (from unclean to clean to healed) also makes me think of the prophesied time of restoration/ renewal/ regeneration of all things (Acts 3;21, Mt 19:28, Rev 21:5), when the nations will be cleansed in the holy fire (Rev 20:9) and come to Christ (Rev 21:24-28) for healing (Rev 22:2).

Grace to you.

Bob Crowley · Oct 14, 2019

This was the Catholic reading for the weekend just gone as well. We discussed it tonight at a Saint Vincent de Paul meeting, since we normally have a spiritual discussion as part of it.

I remember a comment made by my old Presbyterian pastor years ago on this episode, regarding the nine who didn't come back. As he put it (more or less), "They'd just been healed - well, so what? Why give thanks for that?? They'd been ostracized for years!! They had families to catch up with, jobs and careers to look for, clothing and food to find, social contacts to re-establish! Healing was only the beginning!"

I think if the same thing happened to ten Christians today who had leprosy, we'd probably act in the same way. Nine out of ten of us would not have bothered to come back either, and the one who did would probably be somebody who had been rejected even by the other lepers.

I wonder if the Samaritan leper had been relegated to the outer circle of the company of good, kosher Jewish lepers? If so, He'd have had more reason to thank Christ. At least now he had someone who accepted him.

mcarans · Oct 14, 2019

Bob Crowley said:
This was the Catholic reading for the weekend just gone as well. We discussed it tonight at a Saint Vincent de Paul meeting, since we normally have a spiritual discussion as part of it.

I remember a comment made by my old Presbyterian pastor years ago on this episode, regarding the nine who didn't come back. As he put it (more or less), "They'd just been healed - well, so what? Why give thanks for that?? They'd been ostracized for years!! They had families to catch up with, jobs and careers to look for, clothing and food to find, social contacts to re-establish! Healing was only the beginning!"

I think if the same thing happened to ten Christians today who had leprosy, we'd probably act in the same way. Nine out of ten of us would not have bothered to come back either, and the one who did would probably be somebody who had been rejected even by the other lepers.

I wonder if the Samaritan leper had been relegated to the outer circle of the company of good, kosher Jewish lepers? If so, He'd have had more reason to thank Christ. At least now he had someone who accepted him.

I think healing being only the beginning is a good point - physical healing that is. Restoring each leper's life (family, friends, community etc.) is another aspect of the healing Jesus performed.

tz620q · Oct 15, 2019

mcarans said:
I think healing being only the beginning is a good point - physical healing that is. Restoring each leper's life (family, friends, community etc.) is another aspect of the healing Jesus performed.

The interesting thing I got from this thread is that it seems a lot of non-demon churches use the Revised Common Lectionary. The first reading for last Sunday told the episode of Naaman, the Assyrian general, being cured of leprosy. I found it interesting that Elisha seems to have been in Samaria at the time Naaman came to see him. Also interesting is that the Assyrians conquered Israel and brought in 5 tribes from Assyrian to populate the area. This mixture of the Jewish inhabitants with these 5 tribes is what became the Samaritans of Jesus' time.

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