Sermon Tone Analysis

Luke 17

Psalm 103:1-5

Ephesians 1:

Colossians

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Phillipians 4:6-7

Romans 1:21

anesthetizes

Phillipioans 4:8

Find the reason why Jesus was sending them to the High Priest

Probably has something to do with verse 11 he was headed to Jerusalem for the final time before His crucifixtion

What is the connection to the Law?

Jesus fullfilling the Law

Hone in on verse 14 “while they were on their way they were healed”

The priest acted as a kind of health inspector to certify that the cure had in fact taken place (.).

Jesus was putting their faith to the test by asking these men to act as though they had been cured.

Morris, L. (1988).

Luke: an introduction and commentary (Vol.

3, p. 275).

Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.

ONLY ONE RETIURNED AND HE WAS A SAMARITIAN

SAMARITANS WERE HALF BREEDS, THEY WERE SELL OUTS TO THE NATIONS

ONLY ONE RETURNED

There are several times when Jesus would emphasis Samaritans.

That a samaritin

Today we use Samaritan as a positive title, but back then it was not

Leperosy was seen as a Divine Curse

And also, undoes what the people would have assumed would be a divine curse.

As we learned through the gospel record, the people had the idea that sickness came as a result of sin.

And leprosy, of all things, so horrific, was viewed as a divine judgment

Talk about how the devil can really beat you up with things from your past.

I deserve this, this is happening to me because of this sin

from the perspective of love and mercy, but also from the divine reversal of the curse

Luke 17:

MacArthur, J. F., Jr. (2014).

John MacArthur Sermon Archive.

Panorama City, CA: Grace to You.

This is such a serious and such a communicable disease that the Old Testament made prescriptions about people who had it.

And, in fact, this is a very ancient disease.

It has been found in mummies, so it goes way back.

Medical historians believe that leprosy originated in Egypt where it was found in a very ancient mummy.

And also, undoes what the people would have assumed would be a divine curse.

As we learned through the gospel record, the people had the idea that sickness came as a result of sin.

And leprosy, of all things, so horrific, was viewed as a divine judgment

Verse 14 Jesus Commands them to go back to the High Priest

This is such a serious and such a communicable disease that the Old Testament made prescriptions about people who had it.

And, in fact, this is a very ancient disease.

It has been found in mummies, so it goes way back.

Medical historians believe that leprosy originated in Egypt where it was found in a very ancient mummy.

Leviticus 13 and 14 lays out a very long and careful prescription for determining whether somebody had this disease.

And the local health inspectors were the priests, that was part of their function.

Since they were responsible to know the Law of God and apply the Law of God and since this was laid out in the Law of God, if you had a skin disease of any kind, you went to the priest and you went through a process of all that was required in Leviticus 13 and 14 so there could be a determination as to what exactly you had.

And if it is discovered that you have that communicable disease called leprosy that’s so horrific, you were then removed from all social contact and the only people you could ever associate with were other lepers

IT WAS SO BAD THAT THEY WERE EXPELLED FROM QUARANTINED and the only other contacts they had were with other lepers.

make connection to how most people who havent been in church for a while feels.

You have a friend in us

you couldn’t come near the people you loved the most

you were an alien for all of life and left with others living in the same misery

You know you can do that, thats the reason you need a community of believers

they felt like they were cursed by God and cursed by man

TO HELP YOU TO TRULY UNDERSTAND THEIR PLIGHT LET ME GIVE YOU WHAT HAPPENS TO LEPERS FROM A MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE

Medical explanation of the effects of Leprocy

Let me just tell you a little bit about leprosy without going into unnecessary detail.

This severe type of leprosy is caused by a bacteria.

It attacks the nerves and the skin.

It anesthetizes the body and the limbs so that feeling is lost.

And then the potential for serious injury becomes large.

It starts, we’re told, with a whiter pink patch of skin usually on the brow, the nose, the ear, the cheek, the chin and the head.

The patch then begins to spread in all directions, a portion of the eyebrows disappears, spongy tumorous swellings grow, first of all, all over the face and then begin to descend all over the body as the disease becomes systemic.

It becomes also involved with the internal organs as well as the skin.

Fingers and toes can be absorbed into the body, literally absorbing themselves into the body because of the bacillus invading the bone marrow, impairing blood supply causing the bones to shrivel and the rest of the body to shrivel as well.

With the accompanying loss of feeling in the body due to nerve disease, the victim destroys his own tissue because he has no feeling.

The bacillus can destroy the eye, causing blindness.

Penetrates the teeth so they fall out, penetrates all the bodily organs and affects the larynx so that one winds up with a weak and raspy voice.

The skin loses its original color, becomes thick, glossy, and scaly.

As the sickness progresses, the thickened spots become dirty sores and ulcers due to poor blood supply.

The skin, especially around the eyes and ears, begins to bunch with deep furrows between the swelling so that the face of the afflicted individual begins to resemble that of a lion.

Fingers drop off or are absorbed.

Toes are affected similarly.

Eyebrows and eyelashes drop out.

By this time, one can see the person in this pitiable condition is truly a leper.

By the touch of the finger one can feel it, one can even smell it for a leper emits a very unpleasant odor, open sores.

Morever, in view of the fact that the disease-producing agent frequently attacks the larynx, says this writer, the leper’s voice acquires a grating quality.

On this next part describe how sin can make us knumb to the things that may be dangerous to us

Dr. Paul Brand is the modern world-renown expert on leprosy, gives us some wonderful insight in a modern up-to-date look.

It’s called Hansen’s Disease, HD, it is cruel, not at all the way other diseases are.

It primarily acts as an anesthetic, numbing the pain cells of hands, feet, nose, eyes, ears.

Not so bad really, one might think, most diseases are felt because of their pain.

What makes a painless disease so horrible?

Hansen’s Disease’s numbing quality is precisely the reason it is so horrible.

For thousands of years people thought this disease caused the ulcers on hands and feet and face which eventually led to rotting flesh and loss of limbs.

Mainly through Dr. Brand’s research, it’s been established that in 99 percent of the cases HD only numbs the extremities, the destruction follows solely because the warning system of pain is gone.

Basically people destroy their own limbs.

How does the decay happen?

In villages of Africa and Asia, a person with HD has been known to reach directly into a charcoal fire to retrieve a dropped potato, nothing in his body tells him not to.

Patients at Brand’s hospital in India would work all day gripping a shovel with a protruding nail or extinguish a burning wick with their bare hands or walk on splintered glass.

Watching them Brand began formulating his radical theory that HD was chiefly anesthetic and only indirectly a destroyer.

On one occasion he tried to open the door of a little storeroom but a rusty padlock would not yield.

A patient, an undersized malnourished ten-year-old approached him smiling, “Let me try, Sahib Doctor,” he offered and reached for the key.