Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Foreign.
[00:00:07] My name is Dean Annan. I'm the discipleship pastor. If I haven't met you yet, I'll be down in front. And a special welcome to those who are visiting for the first time.
[00:00:17] What you've found us in is in the middle of a series, middle of a series called the Questions of Jesus. This is our summer series. As we've said before, Jesus was the master.
[00:00:30] To get at the heart of the matter using perfect questions.
[00:00:36] But first, let's go back to the year 2010.
[00:00:39] Do you remember the story of the Chilean miners?
[00:00:42] In 2010, there was a mine collapse in San Jose, Chile, trapping 33 miners 2,300ft underground.
[00:00:54] 69 days later, all of them were rescued.
[00:00:58] Go back to the last century, 1970, you might remember this phrase, houston, we've had a problem.
[00:01:04] Anybody remember that one?
[00:01:06] There was even a movie on that, a lunar mission. Apollo 13. Three astronauts are going to the moon, and then an oxygen tank explodes and they're slowly losing air. They're 200,000 miles from Planet Earth, and instead of going to the moon now, their only mission is to have enough air to get back to planet earth.
[00:01:25] And all three astronauts were rescued.
[00:01:28] Go back 30 years earlier. It's May 1940. World War II is going on. Hundreds of thousands of Allied troops are trapped around Dunkirk, France. The Nazi army is pushing them into the sea. They're advancing, about to annihilate them. And the English Channel is. Is behind them. They're trapped. They have nowhere to go. And Britain faces the real possibility of a large number of their troops to be wiped out. And yet the majority were rescued.
[00:01:58] None of these people could rescue themselves.
[00:02:02] They were desperate.
[00:02:04] They were helpless. The miners needed rescuers from above. And of course, the astronauts needed NASA. And the soldiers needed hundreds of boats, many of them small commercial vessels that just came, came from England, came from Britain, across the Channel to rescue them. And they all shared something in common, something that I would call a desperate hope.
[00:02:25] They were desperate for rescue.
[00:02:28] Could you imagine how they felt once that they were rescued and safe again?
[00:02:34] Today's passage. You can turn there or you can turn your devices on to Luke, chapter 17. That's where we're going to be. Luke 17, verses 11 through 19. We're going to see Jesus step into a desperate situation, as he often does. And we'll see what he does. We'll see how people respond.
[00:02:52] And then we're going to look at a question of his.
[00:02:56] So I'm going to read, and we're going to have it on the Screen as well. Verse 11, chapter 17 of Luke. On the way to Jerusalem, he Jesus was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered a village, he was met by 10 lepers who stood at a distance and lifted up their voices, saying, jesus, master, have mercy on us.
[00:03:19] When he saw them, he said to them, go and show yourselves to the priests.
[00:03:26] As they went, they were cleansed.
[00:03:30] Verse 15. Then one of them, when he saw he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice, fell on his face at Jesus feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan.
[00:03:45] Then Jesus answered, we're not 10 cleansed.
[00:03:48] Where are the nine?
[00:03:51] Was no one found to return to give praise to God except this foreigner? He said to him, rise and go your way. Your faith has made you well.
[00:04:01] So in this passage, and actually not just here, but as you see Luke write, you're going to see that there are many truths and even some themes, theological principles that people reading Luke's gospel would know by now. They're kind of almost obvious.
[00:04:18] But most of these themes and truths in our passage are not the main point of the passage. And we'll get to that later. Luke expects us to know some of these things. Scholars call them Luke and themes. But some of these things that are important, as Luke writes, is this idea that Jesus is on a mission. He's on a mission to the cross. How do I know that? The third time now in Luke chapter 9, Luke chapter 13. Now Luke chapter 17, we see that Jesus is traveling and he's moving towards Jerusalem. And why is he moving towards Jerusalem?
[00:04:49] To accomplish his mission, to die for sins.
[00:04:54] We also see that's not the only theme that Luke wants us to at least know by now that Jesus is divine and has power and he can heal. And that's been established already.
[00:05:04] Another one is this idea of Jesus compassion, another theme that outcasts matter to Jesus. It's not just the rich and famous. It's not the people who are in the know. It's not that. No, He, Jesus regularly seeks out those who are somehow marginalized or the outcast. And he shows them compassion. He shows them love. He shows them forgiveness. The scholars would call that the great reversal that he seeks out those who are outcasts and he loves them.
[00:05:34] Another theme that by now, by the time we get to this passage, this idea of the Old Testament, that the Hebrew scripture matters. Jesus didn't come to throw away the Old Testament scripture, not at all. He came to fulfill the Old Testament law and bring in the new covenant through his Blood. Of course, there's many more things that we should know as we know Luke's gospel. So here we are reading the passage. But we need to look at these events carefully before we get to this question.
[00:06:03] Where are the nine in verse 12? Then going back, he enters a village. What village? We don't know.
[00:06:13] It's. Honestly, it's not that important. So Luke leaves it out. We keep moving on. We see that there's 10 lepers who stood at a distance. There's a lot in that phrase, stood at a distance. You know, first of all, these lepers, this is good. They're following the Old Testament law. So if you know anything about leprosy, this was a broad range of skin diseases, usually very contagious. And so under the Old Testament law, in Leviticus and Numbers, we see that they had to segregate themselves, live apart, and so at a distance. In other words, they're following the Old Testament law. That's good.
[00:06:46] But you can also feel this phrase, can't you, if you just look at it again, I think Luke would want us to see this at a distance because they've lost a lot.
[00:06:59] Family, maybe some of them had kids, a vocation, a profession. Maybe they grew olives or whatever they did. All this stuff's wiped away. It's taken from them. Not now because they have leprosy.
[00:07:11] All that's severed. They have to work together even to survive. So these 10 are in their own group together. Their only way of rejoining society is what is to be healed and then to be called clean by a priest. And then they could go back to their normal lives.
[00:07:28] So can you imagine that? Maybe you're. And you don't have to raise your hands, but maybe you're a hugger.
[00:07:34] I don't know if you have any huggers out there or you like receiving hugs. That's gone.
[00:07:40] That's gone for these people. Imagine you leave your home, you know, and all you knew the place you like to worship. You're not doing that anymore. You don't get to do that anymore. Will this ever end? You don't know. Are you going to get back? What about this? Imagine people being afraid of you.
[00:07:57] Or when they see you and they say unclean people don't want to go near you. Maybe some of you know that feeling already.
[00:08:06] I call this a desperate hope.
[00:08:10] This seems to be in these places, these places of hopelessness where Jesus regularly shows up on the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus says, blessed are the poor in spirit, meaning blessed are those who consistently and Constantly realize that they need God, that they need God and his mercy. And those people will see the kingdom of heaven.
[00:08:31] A desperate hope.
[00:08:34] Is this when there is only one possibility?
[00:08:38] Or it seems there's only one possibility that remains because all of their hope is gone. And that's what they had.
[00:08:43] So when we get to verse 13, we'll put that back on the screen. They say, master.
[00:08:51] They're shouting out to him, master, have mercy on us. And. And how did they know who he was? Because the stories had spread, especially in the North. They had known this guy did miracles. Is he the one?
[00:09:02] His fame has already spread. They see the Good News literally approaching them with his disciples to give them hope.
[00:09:11] They're shouting, master, have mercy on us. This is desperation. But this word Master is not the rabbi, the teacher word. This Master is something different.
[00:09:23] It had authority behind it, authority underneath it. It's this idea that he can do it all. And that implies healing, taking care of them. What they need, a higher rank, a higher view. These guys had, these lepers had. And so they say, have mercy on us. I think that's interesting that they didn't say, heal us. I do think it's implied, have mercy on us. Remember, they're desperate.
[00:09:49] They need to be healed. They want to be healed. Everything's been stripped away. Their place in society is really nothing now. This might be their one chance to be accepted, maybe to be valued again, to just to get better.
[00:10:02] This mercy, though, I think there's something more here to look at. Mercy.
[00:10:07] Why are they crying for mercy? What's underneath this? I think it's that they had nothing to offer Jesus.
[00:10:13] They had nothing in exchange.
[00:10:16] Mercy. They're really asking to be cleansed, to be better, but they have nothing to give him. They have no merit.
[00:10:24] Mercy implies here no merit, nothing of value to deserve anything from Jesus. I think it seems that they. They realized they weren't entitled. It also seems they are showing a heart of humility. I think that's important. I mean, isn't a heart of humility important?
[00:10:41] I would say it's so important that it's always the beginning of faith. When I talk of the heart of humility is always the beginning of faith. I think that's important because without a heart of humility, realizing that we need Jesus, it's like this. As I don't have what I need to get what I need most, which is God's mercy. That's kind of what I'm saying. When I have a heart of humility, I need God's Mercy. But I don't have what it takes to get it. But he has it. The lepers knew they had nothing of merit to give Jesus. And so out of a humble faith, they cry out to Jesus for mercy.
[00:11:18] Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.
[00:11:22] When you take mercy and you take merit, they don't live in the same room. They're not even in the same zip code. Right?
[00:11:31] Jesus gives mercy not based on our merit. It was his compassion. And that's important.
[00:11:36] It's Jesus compassion.
[00:11:38] This is why he gives his mercy, his loving kindness. It's not their merit.
[00:11:45] Merit says I receive what I have earned. And mercy says I receive what I do not deserve.
[00:11:53] But mercy is also an attribute of God.
[00:11:57] Mercy is rooted in his nature. And so Jesus isn't merciful based on his actions.
[00:12:03] Jesus, even though it's his attribute, Jesus is merciful because it is nature.
[00:12:08] It is like love is his nature. And you know, I think that the lepers knew this. And how would they know this? How would the lepers know the mercy of the one sent from God, who it looks like they're pointing to in their own minds and heart as the Messiah? How is this even possible? Because of their forefathers.
[00:12:26] They knew the Hebrew scripture. They think of Moses and they think of King David. That's probably all they need to realize that In Exodus chapter 34, Moses records and hears the Lord speaking of who he is. Exodus 34 says the Lord, the Lord, a God, merciful and gracious. They would have known this. Slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. And David writes in Psalm 103, he, meaning God, does not deal with us according to our sins. And isn't that good news? Church nor repay us for our iniquities. That's also good news. So what does Jesus do in our passage today? He shows them mercy. He gives mercy to the helpless out of his compassion because he's merciful.
[00:13:12] So verse 14, here's what he says. He says, go to these lepers, all of them, and show yourselves to the priests. And as they went, they were, were cleansed. Now, remember the Samaritan, we, we heard earlier that one of these lepers was a Samaritan. You might remember that. And so he probably went off to maybe his own priests at Mount Gerizim, wherever the priests were. And then the Jews probably went off to their priests as well, presumably the other, the other nine lepers. But Jesus just gave a command and he just said, go, go and show yourselves to the priest. The lepers would have understood exactly what Jesus was saying. Jesus was simply saying, the priests were will declare you clean because I have healed you. They would have understood that.
[00:13:55] So they go a lot of power. Jesus has a lot of power. And the priests would look at them. This was the idea. They would look at them, they'd be able to declare them clean and they could go back to their lives.
[00:14:08] This is a little different than Luke chapter 5, because Jesus also stretches out his hand in Luke chapter five, touches a leper, and the leper was healed. But here he does it from a distance.
[00:14:19] And we know it says, as they went, meaning to the priest, they were cleansed. Even before they got to the priest, they were healed. And so based on their faith, shown through their obedience, they were healed.
[00:14:36] Don't miss this, though.
[00:14:38] Jesus is testing their faith.
[00:14:41] You do know that Jesus tests our faith, right?
[00:14:45] Jesus tests faith. Here. He's testing their faith.
[00:14:48] Will they obey? In other words, if they believe that Jesus is the master.
[00:14:54] If they believe that, they will go.
[00:14:57] If they believe, they will go on the journey to the priest. Because obedience reveals faith.
[00:15:05] Faith is always followed by obedience.
[00:15:08] Another way to say it in shorthand is faith obeys.
[00:15:12] Faith obeys. Faith that needs what Jesus has obeys what Jesus says.
[00:15:17] What kind of faith doesn't obey?
[00:15:20] That's a rhetorical question.
[00:15:23] They made a decision, these men, to obey. They were healed. That's amazing, right?
[00:15:28] Isn't this beautiful? To see the mercy of Jesus? And that's the end of our passage, right? No, we saw there's more. Of course there's more. So if there's more, then, and this isn't just about the mercy of Jesus, what is Jesus teaching?
[00:15:44] What is Jesus teaching during this event? And why did Luke include it?
[00:15:49] Remember, as he's traveling to the cross to save humanity, literally, from their sins, he's teaching.
[00:16:00] He's teaching that there's something great on the other side of faith and obedience. There's something great in this event, even in some ways bigger than the mercy of Jesus. Look what happens next.
[00:16:14] Or at least in response to the mercy of Jesus. Verse 15, verse 16.
[00:16:21] We read it before. What do we see? We see the one Samaritan come back to Jesus with a heart of gratitude. But notice that it doesn't say, and Luke doesn't include Samaritan until the end of verse 16.
[00:16:35] Remember the Jews and the Samaritans, you might know this from history. They didn't get along. They didn't like each other.
[00:16:41] And so here it is, the hated Samaritan the only one, the only one who seemed to understand that mercy received ought to produce gratitude to God.
[00:16:55] Mercy received ought to produce gratitude to God. It seemed that the Samaritan understood this. And so the Samaritan who's the outcast of the outcast, he turns back, he comes to Jesus first. He realized he was healed. The what? What happened to him? He was healed. He stopped in his tracks and he went back. To who? He went back to Jesus. He stopped, went back directly to Jesus, and then he praised him with a loud voice. It's audible. Gratitude is audible with a loud voice. A personal faith is never meant to be a private faith. A personal faith is always meant to be a public faith.
[00:17:27] And he fell at the face of Jesus. So it's not just audible gratitude, it's visible gratitude. He fell in reverence. That's what he's doing. He's worshiping Jesus here at the feet of Jesus. The Samaritan had a personal and public faith that worshiped Jesus, and he just followed his feet. Well, let me read the slide. Gratitude turns our personal, private faith into a public faith, a life that points people to Jesus.
[00:17:54] I hope that's true of me.
[00:17:56] I hope that's true of us.
[00:17:57] Of course he gave Jesus thanks, you know, but what's important about thanks is this. It's not this idea of that. And you hear this sometimes a heart of gratitude is good for mental health and this and that and the other thing. Well, sure, but that. We're not talking about that here. This is different than that. This is.
[00:18:18] It is and it isn't. Who are we grateful for?
[00:18:22] To whom are we grateful? To Jesus. We see, the good Samaritan is thankful to Jesus. He recognized who it is. And of course, for what?
[00:18:33] He knew it, he could name it, he feel it, because he was just cleansed. He was just clean. Specifically, the mercy of Jesus is what he was thankful for. The who and the what. Thanksgiving acknowledges God as the source of every good gift rather than taking his blessings for granted.
[00:18:52] Psalm 50 says this.
[00:18:54] The one who offers thanksgiving as a sacrifice. Isn't that interesting.
[00:19:00] Glorifies me.
[00:19:02] So the Lord God says, a thankful heart is. Is just as great as any sacrifice in an offering to him. And it glorifies him.
[00:19:13] Your thankful heart, your gratitude glorifies him and is like a pleasing sacrifice to the Lord.
[00:19:21] So we saw all 10 of these, carried out the task, right? The lepers, they all went where they were supposed to go. They all went to the priest. They started the trip to the priest. But only one thanked Jesus only one showed gratitude. Why?
[00:19:34] I think it matters why.
[00:19:36] It seems that Jesus was concerned about the why because it didn't stop here. There's more in this dialogue. It keeps going on verse 17, the why. Jesus says this. We're not 10 cleansed. Where are the nine?
[00:19:51] That's our question. Where are the nine? Was no one found a return to give praise to God except this foreigner? There's three rhetorical questions, they basically all work together. Our question, where are the nine? It's like Jesus is saying, seriously, did they get lost?
[00:20:04] Are they late for a plane? I don't really know what he would say in today's language, but are they late for a plane? Where are they? Where are these guys? In that day, what we saw and we'll see in other passages in the Gospels, we'll see that sometimes the Jewish crowd, I'm not talking necessarily about those who pursued Jesus as Messiah, but so many love the show, they loved the benefits, they loved the free lunch, they loved his miracles, they loved all the food. They got all these things.
[00:20:34] They just loved the benefits. But what about these nine? Presumably these are Jews, the other one's a Samaritan. And they did not come back to Jesus, but they did the task they were supposed to do, but they didn't come back to Jesus.
[00:20:50] Maybe it's because they took for granted their heritage.
[00:20:55] You know, they had the Old Testament law, they were given the promises of God. And that's great and amazing to steward that, to steward that.
[00:21:06] But maybe they took for granted their heritage.
[00:21:10] Maybe they were spoiled. I mean like a.
[00:21:14] I don't mean any offense. Are there any 16 year old girls here? It's like a 16 year old girl who gets a new car for her birthday. And it's not just a new car, it's a Porsche.
[00:21:25] And she gets the keys and she runs out to the driveway and she jumps in and she goes, gets three friends and goes to the ice cream shop.
[00:21:34] Never thanking the parents.
[00:21:37] That sounds entitled.
[00:21:41] Our idea that I think Jesus is driving towards is God deserves our highest gratitude always.
[00:21:48] He deserves our highest gratitude. Because I'll tell you this, the good works you do for Christ are important.
[00:21:55] They point back to who you love and that the world can see and it grows our faith. We do good works, we do these tasks, we do things. But they're always gonna be there.
[00:22:05] Those things will be there.
[00:22:07] Jesus wants your heart. He wants your heart. He gave you his heart.
[00:22:13] He died on a cross. He gave everything for us, for me, for you. He wants your heart.
[00:22:20] That's what this is about, a thankful heart. A grateful heart. That's what he wants. God deserves our highest gratitude. And we began this passage, if you remember, with these lepers at a distance, you remember that a desperate hope crying out for mercy to the one they see the good news, the one who brings healing, who brings miracles. Jesus, they cry out. But we end with just. Actually, even after the healings, we end with one just the Samaritan coming back with a grateful heart, showing his gratitude for mercy at the feet of Jesus, from a distance to the feet of Jesus.
[00:23:05] Ingratitude. So what we can do with this? What can we do with this?
[00:23:09] I would say the first thing which is then very fun is examine our hearts for ingratitude. This is not a fun exercise. Anybody want to do this today? This is not fun, but it's necessary, maybe examine your past. Have you been entitled in some way? Is this a tendency you have to forget, just to forget to thank the Lord for what he has done, his love, his mercy?
[00:23:34] Paul says in First Corinthians 4, 7, and he's striking directly at this entitlement idea. When he says, what do you have that you did not receive?
[00:23:44] He's striking at this entitlement idea. Paul's saying, it's all from God. So let's think right about this.
[00:23:51] All good is from God. Obviously, we know that ingratitude can come from a sense of entitlement. But it's not only entitlement. We look through Scripture, we see there's other reasons sometimes for being ungrateful. It can be things like pride, sin of pride.
[00:24:08] You know, that's another. That's a lunchtime conversation. You could ask somebody. Where do you see pride? In my heart. When we do these things, we open ourselves up, we build relationships, transparency, and we begin to move forward in our faith. Pride can stand in the way of ingratitude or of gratitude. Discontentment, that's another thing. Discontentment. Or maybe you have more of a tendency not just to be discontent, but you're a real complainer. It's really hard for complaining and gratitude to exist in the same space.
[00:24:39] Are you discontent as a normal thing? Daily life pride. That was one I mentioned before. How about this one? Forgetfulness.
[00:24:48] Why do I say forgetfulness? Well, forgetfulness, especially forgetting the faithfulness of God.
[00:24:57] How can we build a muscle of gratitude?
[00:25:00] Let me go to the next. So what, really, it's by knowing God deeply and practicing gratitude. And yes, when I say practicing gratitude, I mean practicing gratitude. We go deep with God and practice gratitude. No, we wouldn't want Jesus to say this about us village church, would we? Was no one found to return and give praise to God? I hope that's not me.
[00:25:20] I hope I'm not an ungrateful person. The Samaritan, here's kind of the key. The Samaritan in this passage, I think he understood the law.
[00:25:30] In other words, he understood the commands of God.
[00:25:33] He understood them not just in his head. He understood what was behind them. What's behind them is the love of God.
[00:25:39] God's commands are good and they're good for us. And he got that. He understood the love of God and so he ran back to the feet of Jesus with a heart of gratitude.
[00:25:52] So as Christians today, we need to know his word, what he has done, to never forget what he has done and go deep and see what he has done, understand what he has done. And how does that matter even today? Because it does. And so we go deep so we can show gratitude. Gratitude glorifies God, but it also grows our faith. I'm going to say that again.
[00:26:13] Gratitude glorifies God, but it also grows our faith.
[00:26:18] So James says this. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.
[00:26:25] Almost another way to say what I said before.
[00:26:28] Gratitude glorifies God, so we worship Him. This is what we want to do. We want to worship together. Not just privately, but together. It's the only proper response to the salvation that we receive from Jesus Christ. The only proper response to the Gospel is that we worship him together.
[00:26:44] Paul writes this in Colossians and I'll just read it. This is Colossians 1:12 through 14.
[00:26:50] Paul says this. Giving thanks to the Father, that's a command. That's something we're to do. Giving thanks to the Father for what?
[00:26:58] Says here, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light? He has delivered us from the domain of darkness. I love this imagery from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son in whom we have redemption and forgiveness of sins. And that's something to be thankful for.
[00:27:20] But gratitude also destroys our pride. We talked about pride, discontentment, entitlement, complaining. How about self centeredness? You know, when we practice gratitude, we're going to fix our expectations that are broken. Because sometimes, frankly, our expectations are just off in life of other people, of God, whatever it is. Gratitude redirects our attention away from ourself.
[00:27:47] Gratitude redirects our attention away from what we lack.
[00:27:51] Gratitude redirects our attention back to God's blessings in our lives.
[00:27:57] And so our expectations begin to get fixed.
[00:28:02] But also, I talked about faithfulness before.
[00:28:04] Gratitude reminds us of God's faithfulness. Have you spent time lately not just thanking God, but deeply thinking about the things of God and what he has done in the past in your life.
[00:28:19] Philippians 4:6 says this. Some of you have this memorized. Philippians 4:6,7 says, do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God.
[00:28:36] So we go to God, even in the hard time, with gratitude.
[00:28:43] Let me end with this last so what?
[00:28:48] Let Jesus cleanse your soul from sin if yours today. If you're a believer in Christ, and maybe you haven't felt that you've been as grateful to him as you need to, for whatever reason, you can just come to him and confess and repent. He loves you. You know that. You know that he loves you. Come to him. But maybe today you're sitting here and you feel this idea of a desperate hope because you've never had your sins forgiven.
[00:29:14] You're still not sure. And you're hearing this mercy from God himself, from Jesus Christ today, and you have a desperate hope. You know you need God's mercy. But like the leper who could not cure himself, God will give you mercy and he will not give you what your sins deserve, which is condemnation and hell.
[00:29:36] He will forgive your sins. He will bring you into his family. He will save you today if you tell him I am sorry.
[00:29:44] Believe in Jesus as God. Believe he died on the cross personally for you to take the penalty for your sins and raised again from the dead three days later. And this is the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
[00:29:56] This is something we can be thankful for. Do you need to be cleansed?
[00:30:01] In the book of titus, Paul writes Titus 3, verse 5.
[00:30:07] Paul says, Jesus saved us not because of our works. In other words, not because of good things about us, not at all. Not by works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own. Here's the word mercy, his mercy. The gospel is something we can all be grateful for.
[00:30:25] So if you're sitting here today and you know your need, sins forgiven, never received the mercy of Jesus Christ. You have this desperate hope. You feel far from God and don't know him as Savior. You can today ask him to forgive your sins. Go to him as Savior.
[00:30:40] Go to him as Lord. Go to him as master, knowing he has you, he can secure your salvation. And then, just like the one leper who came back to the feet of Jesus, Jesus will say to you. Rise.
[00:30:57] Go on your way.
[00:30:58] Your faith has made you well.
[00:31:01] Let's pray.
[00:31:04] Lord, as we examine our own hearts, we ask that you'll show us our own sin.
[00:31:11] God, if we struggle with ingratitude today, would you just help us?
[00:31:15] Show us a big picture again of who you are. Change our hearts, change our minds. Teach us, help us praise you and thank you and go deeper in what it means to be grateful for what you have done in and through Jesus Christ. Because we're healed by Jesus, we're freed by him, we are saved by his mercy. And it's in the name of Jesus we pray.
[00:31:39] Amen.
