Luke 17:11 - 18:14 (30th October) - Andrew

Luke 17:11 - 37
Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem when he met ten lepers, crying out to him to heal them. And when they were healed, only one of them, a Samaritan returned to Jesus to thanks him.
“Does only this foreigner return to give glory to God?” And Jesus said to the man, “Stand up and go. Your faith has mad you well.”
- verse 18 – 19

When Jesus blessed us, we tend to be excited about it, sometimes even forget to thanks Jesus about it. Do not be like the nine other lepers, who after being healed by Jesus, did not return to thanks him. But be like the one Samaritan who remembers Jesus is the one who healed him.

Always give thanks to God first thing when you are being healed or blessed by Him.
Then Jesus talked about the coming of God’s kingdom.

“When the Son of Man returns, the world will be like the people were in Noah’s day. In those days before the flood, the people enjoyed banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat and flood came to destroyed them all.”
- verse 26 – 27

“And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot. People went about their daily business – eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and building – until the morning Lot left Sodom. The fire and burning sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
- verse 28 – 29

And Jesus comes again, people will be judged.

Luke 18:1 – 14
“Even he rendered a just decision in the end, so don’t you think God will surely give justice to his chosen people who plead with him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?”
- verse 7

Be perseverance in our prayers. When we want something badly, God will surely grant our prayer request, just like how the judge, who was godless, gave in to the persistent widow.
“…For the proud will be humbled, but the humble will be honoured.”
- verse 14

Let us not be like the proud Pharisee who thanks God that he’s not a sinner and scorned everyone else, especially the tax collector. Instead, be like the tax collector who asked God to forgive him as he admitted his a sinner. God will honour those who admit himself a sinner.