Title: Thank You for Falling on Your Feet
Contents
A. Introduction
1. ‘But where are the nine?’
1) When the Lord was going up to Jerusalem and was passing between Samaria and Galilee
2) Raising their voices in a loud voice, 10 lepers shouted ‘Please have mercy’ from a distance of at least 450 meters.
3) On the way, only one Samaritan, one of the 10 who were cleansed, fell down at Jesus' feet and gave thanks.
4) Today, the Lord is asking, 'But where are the nine?'
B. Body
1. Gratitude Identity
1) God does not want partial thanksgiving, but wants the whole to be thankful for the grace of the cross.
(1) He wants to use not only the tithe, but also the remaining 9/10 of the material according to the will of God.
(2) He wants God to work hard not only on one day of the week, but also on the remaining 6 days.
2) Even if the only son died, ‘God has given me a better heaven.’ A grateful mother’s faith and gratitude
2. Audit Obligation
1) Not a single Jewish leper thanked
2) Jesus asks with a voice of rebuke, ‘Where are the nine?’ and ‘Where did the people who received more grace go?’
3) Jesus who wants to give thanks and is waiting
3. The superiority of gratitude
1) Jesus is telling us that if we have been healed of a cursed disease, ‘thank you first’.
2) Where did the nine people who left without thanks go and what did they do?
(1) Do you want to drink? (2) Do you want to dance? (3) To your family? (4) Do you want to find the traitor and get revenge?
3) When there is something to be grateful for, let’s give thanks first
4. Integrity of audit
1) “Your faith has made you well.”
2) He came to give thanks and accomplished the completion of salvation
(1) Healing of physical diseases → Healing of cursed diseases
(2) Up to the salvation of the soul → “Your faith has made you well” (Completion of salvation)
C. Conclusion
1. If you give thanks for the light of the stars, you will receive moonlight, if you give thanks for the light of the moon, you will receive sunlight, and if you give thanks for the light of the sun, you will be given an eternal world where there is neither day nor night. (Spurgeon)
2. Let's imitate the gratitude of a dumb person who is grateful for not being blind.
3. Just as you cannot make bread without wheat, you cannot create a life of faith without gratitude.
1) Let's give the best to God.
2) Let's give thanks with a clean heart.
3) Let's give while taking care of our poor neighbors.
4) Recall the more difficult times and give thanks for the present blessings.
5) Let's give thanks to God for the blessings of the past.