{"id":11980,"date":"2020-10-16T20:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T03:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/luke_17_1-10-copy\/"},"modified":"2020-10-11T13:12:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T20:12:47","slug":"luke_17_11-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/luke_17_11-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Unlocks God’s Power in Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luke 17:11-19 Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Luke 17:11-19. \u00a0Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Luke 17:11-14 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n11 \u00a0Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus\u00a0<\/em>traveled<\/em>\u00a0along the border between Samaria and Galilee.
\n12 \u00a0As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance
\n13 \u00a0and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!”
\n14 \u00a0When he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 11-14: Notice that Jesus doesn\u2019t touch the lepers or command their healing out loud. Instead, Jesus simply tells them to go show themselves to the priests. Why? It\u2019s because when a leper was cleansed of his leprosy, he would show himself to a priest who would examine him and if satisfied that the leprosy was gone, would announce that the leper was now reinstated back into society.\u00a0So when Jesus tells the ten lepers here to go and show themselves to the priests without having touched them or prayed for them, Jesus was expecting these ten lepers to go in faith and rely simply on Jesus\u2019 word alone to heal them.\u00a0And as they went, they were healed.<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this?\u00a0Faith is the key that unlocks God\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>wonder working<\/strong>\u00a0power in our lives \u2013 not just faith in anything or anyone, but\u00a0<\/strong>specifically<\/strong>\u00a0faith in the word God speaks to us<\/strong>.\u00a0Faith is spelled R-I-S-K. Faith is taking Jesus at His Word and not requiring that you have complete understanding before you move forward with Him.\u00a0If you insist on receiving a miracle before you exercise any faith, you won\u2019t experience much of God at all. For God loves to work His miracles in the context of faith.<\/p>\n

Luke 17:15-16 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n15 \u00a0One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice.
\n16 \u00a0He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him–and he was a Samaritan.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 15-16: One of the ongoing themes in Luke is that Jesus came not just for the Jewish people but for all people, even groups that the Jews historically despised. We see that theme here again as a Samaritan is the only one who comes back to thank Jesus for the healing he received.<\/p>\n

Luke 17:17-19 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n17 \u00a0Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?
\n18 \u00a0Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?”
\n19 \u00a0Then he said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.”<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 17-19:\u00a0From these verses I learn the following truths:<\/p>\n

1. \u00a0When God does something good in our lives, our proper response is to go out of our way to thank Him<\/strong>. God watches the way we respond to His goodness in our lives. Will we respond to God with gratitude and praise, or will we respond with spoiled indifference?<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0Once again we see that faith is the key that unlocks God\u2019s wonder working power (\u201cRise and go; your faith has made you well\u201d \u2013 v19).<\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, thank You for all the ways You have been so good to me. May I live by faith today and experience Your power working in my life. In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Luke 17:11-19. \u00a0Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Luke 17:11-14 (NIV)\u00a0
\n11 \u00a0Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus\u00a0traveled\u00a0along the border between Samaria and Galilee.\u00a0
\n12 \u00a0As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance\u00a0
\n13 \u00a0and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!”\u00a0
\n14 \u00a0When he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed.<\/p>\n

On verses 11-14: Notice that Jesus doesn\u2019t touch the lepers or command their healing out loud. Instead, Jesus simply tells them to go show themselves to the priests. Why? It\u2019s because when a leper was cleansed of his leprosy, he would show himself to a priest who would examine him and if satisfied that the leprosy was gone, would announce that the leper was now reinstated back into society.\u00a0So when Jesus tells the ten lepers here to go and show themselves to the priests without having touched them or prayed for them, Jesus was expecting these ten lepers to go in faith and rely simply on Jesus\u2019 word alone to heal them.\u00a0And as they went, they were healed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11981,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980\/revisions\/11981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}