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Luke chapter 17.

Luke chapter 17.

Thank you.

Y'all hungry this morning.

Hope.

So, you're new here.

I said that most every Sunday by that.

I mean, are you hungry to eat and feast upon the milk and meat of the word of God for our souls need?

Luke chapter 17 verses 11 to 19.

You can stay seated for this reading.

The word of God tells us this the on his way to Jerusalem.

Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee.

As he was going into a village ten men who had leprosy met him.

They stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice.

Jesus Master have pity on us.

When he saw, he said go show yourselves to the priests that they went.

They were cleansed one of them.

When he saw me, he was healed.

Came back, praising God, in a loud voice, he threw himself at Jesus's feet and thanked him.

He was a Samaritan.

Jesus asked, we're not all ten cleansed.

Where the other nine has?

No one returned to give praise to God except this Foreigner.

Then he said to him rise and go, your faith has made you.

Well, the word of God for the people of God.

Thanks, be unto God.

How many of you here today?

Remember the show Duck Dynasty.

If you had knowledge, whether it be Affinity or disdain, I'm sure.

You may have heard of the show before.

So I'm familiar with it.

It's Louisiana family that made Millions by making duck calls and it's basically a modern-day real life.

As much as reality, TV can be real life.

It's a Monday real life version of The Beverly Hillbillies just wondering what do country people do with a lot of money.

Now don't be bringing that up is because 10 years ago, I want a t-shirt at a youth party.

I went to buy Duck Dynasty and on the back of the T-shirt, it has three different commands.

If you will that are enumerated from top to bottom, the most important to least important, and those three things on the back of the t-shirts said, fear God.

Love your neighbor hunt ducks.

And it's true.

When you think about it, that's the order upon which we, as Christians should live, it's firstly to fear God, then love our neighbor and then fill in the blank, whatever.

It might be that you enjoy hunting ducks, eating, chocolates, watching a good basketball game, and you fill in the blank.

Whatever you might enjoy.

These are all good gifts from God, if we can be thankful for.

But in the midst of those three came and I hope you see it's not just three commands but they're three opportunities there.

If there's a write the command to hunt Ducks, there's the opportunity to actually hunt ducks on land before.

You can love others, the opportunity is, we can have Fellowship interaction and relationships with other people.

In the same goes with fear and God or loving God, it's not just, we are commanded to do this, but rather we have the opportunity to go before.

God, to come to him with our request are thanksgivings, to confess our sins before him to be, made Anew, to be made clean.

Know, whatever that third gift might be that food opportunity.

That third to your item in your own mind whatever might be, I hope we can all agree upon the fact that nothing compares to the first to the ability to love.

God, have a relationship with him and the ability to have a relationship and fellowship with other human beings.

Those two things are truly the greatest gifts of God.

What are passage today.

We're introduced to 10 individuals who for all intents and purposes have not been able to do either of the first two at least for a while.

And recently they haven't been able to have good fellowship with God or fellowship with other people.

Because a text tells us and verse 12, At least 10 men had leprosy.

The Greek word there simply is translated and in means various skin diseases.

We don't know exactly what plagued their bond is, but we do know it was it was bad and there had to be exercised out of the camp.

Leviticus chapter 13, some of that if that's infamously known as what curtails everybody from their Bible reading plan year after year.

But Leviticus 13, verse 45 and 46.

Tell us what the laws and customs were from men and women for anybody who had leprosy.

The passage tells us anyone with such a defiling disease must wear torn clothes.

Let their hair Beyond can't cover the lower part of their face and cry out, unclean unclean.

As long as they have the disease, they remain on clean.

They must live alone.

They must live outside the camp.

In present-day first century they must live outside of the town outside of the village on the outskirts of society.

The socially and spiritually.

These people had no hope they were cut off right socially.

We can kind of grasp this.

And in this world, we live in the infamous see disease that many of you may have gotten but you know that covid if you didn't know what that was, but you know that if somebody is sniffling has a cough as a little bit of a fever and they got goopy eyes droopy eyes.

They just are not feeling well at all.

What are you?

Do, you go run and embrace them and have a good conversation with him know, keep your distance away from all these people.

Imagine that kind of stigma of that, kind of distancing.

Magnified by at least 10:20.

50 times.

This is the type of attitude that Society had on these people.

You won't want to go near these people.

Socially.

They were outcasts.

This is even close family, right?

Spouses children parents.

If you had this disease, you are on the outside of Camp.

There's no exceptions.

I couldn't go and get a meal.

Can I go to the grocery store?

Nothing.

No. Societal involvement or fellowship with others at all?

But it's not just socially spiritually.

These men were destitute because today we have the privilege of living in under the New Covenant.

We have the privilege of knowing First Peter chapter 2, which is all about the priesthood of the believer, all believers, we can all directly go to God, ask for forgiveness because of all that Jesus did under the old Covenant, how did you have fellowship with God?

You had to go to the temple, you had to go to the priest.

You had to bring your sacrifice, has to be made right with God.

And these men, these people, they could not do that, they couldn't have any fellowship with God.

Practically speaking.

So they were hopeless.

God, do you hear my prayer?

Because I haven't sacrificed in years.

I still send.