1 00:00:01,630 --> 00:00:05,470 Hey friends, welcome to another episode of the podcast and we 2 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:10,290 are happy that you are here. We have made it into Luke 17 and 3 00:00:10,380 --> 00:00:13,110 Justin, you were preaching, so welcome to the preacher's chair, 4 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:14,530 which is. Today. 5 00:00:14,540 --> 00:00:16,070 Last week. We didn't. 6 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:18,770 We didn't trade. No, no, no, because I have, you 7 00:00:18,780 --> 00:00:20,350 know, I have a camera here that I. 8 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:23,580 Can and a microphone that is set to your voice and the microphone 9 00:00:23,590 --> 00:00:26,630 that's set to my voice. But great to have you preaching 10 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:29,230 and jumping up. So we're going to get into a 11 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:32,100 conversation around Luke 17. If you want to read it, that be 12 00:00:32,110 --> 00:00:34,400 fantastic. If you missed the sermon, you 13 00:00:34,410 --> 00:00:37,380 can always go back and watch it. Yeah, But I think it's a good 14 00:00:37,390 --> 00:00:42,820 conversation around a very specific healing that Jesus does 15 00:00:43,170 --> 00:00:46,680 in in the gospel of Luke, there's 10 lepers. 16 00:00:46,690 --> 00:00:50,300 They come to Jesus, they beg him to be healed and he heals them. 17 00:00:50,310 --> 00:00:52,880 But he does it in in a in a great order. 18 00:00:52,890 --> 00:00:56,560 We see Jesus, Jesus do this a couple times right where he he 19 00:00:56,570 --> 00:00:59,840 doesn't heal the person instantly. 20 00:00:59,930 --> 00:01:02,340 He tells them to go and do something. 21 00:01:02,610 --> 00:01:06,610 And it's a it's a theme that we pick up on later in acts. 22 00:01:06,620 --> 00:01:09,190 Like Luke continues this theme and the church continues this 23 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,710 theme. But so 10 lepers come to Jesus, 24 00:01:13,060 --> 00:01:16,910 they beg to be healed. And he says, just go, like, do 25 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:18,470 the thing. Go and show yourselves to the 26 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:21,790 priests. And it says on the way they were 27 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:23,200 healed. And I loved how you highlighted 28 00:01:23,210 --> 00:01:26,070 that piece for us. And so this this podcast is 29 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:29,370 going to find you on the way somewhere, very likely. 30 00:01:29,420 --> 00:01:32,550 Cleaning your house, Driving to work. 31 00:01:32,610 --> 00:01:35,060 Yeah, yeah. So we hope that it's helpful for 32 00:01:35,070 --> 00:01:39,880 you on the way. One of my favorite writers is, 33 00:01:40,010 --> 00:01:41,810 and I've talked about him before, but a guy named Henry 34 00:01:41,820 --> 00:01:46,810 Allen and I've got a devotional of his and it's called Bread for 35 00:01:46,820 --> 00:01:49,750 the journey. And I, I love that. 36 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,790 So I love that what we get to see here is a picture of these 37 00:01:52,860 --> 00:01:57,220 these guys who are healed on the way on the road and literally as 38 00:01:57,230 --> 00:02:00,090 they travel. This podcast is not going to 39 00:02:00,100 --> 00:02:02,300 heal you as you travel, but we hope that it's encouraging for 40 00:02:02,310 --> 00:02:06,490 you and we hope that it helps you meet Jesus on the road on 41 00:02:06,500 --> 00:02:09,350 the way in, in some small way in your life. 42 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:11,000 So whether you're watching, whether you're listening, 43 00:02:11,009 --> 00:02:13,090 whether you're in your car, whether you are at home, 44 00:02:13,180 --> 00:02:16,710 wherever it is that you are, we just hope that, you know, we're 45 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:19,190 praying for you and we're praying that you meet Jesus on 46 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,800 the way in some small way as we work our way through this 47 00:02:22,810 --> 00:02:25,600 passage and into your day ahead. So we're going to get into it 48 00:02:25,750 --> 00:02:29,160 and jump into some questions. We did have some questions sent 49 00:02:29,170 --> 00:02:34,680 in and kind of discussed our own leading up to recording this. 50 00:02:35,820 --> 00:02:38,500 It's worth noting that we, you know, sometimes have our own 51 00:02:38,510 --> 00:02:40,040 questions. Like even for me as the 52 00:02:40,050 --> 00:02:43,540 preacher, I still have some questions that are lingering 53 00:02:43,550 --> 00:02:45,820 from this passage. Like we're just just worth 54 00:02:45,830 --> 00:02:50,300 naming that like that. We've spent, you know, many 55 00:02:50,310 --> 00:02:55,580 hours in the text writing the thing and the work still isn't 56 00:02:55,590 --> 00:02:58,470 done, you know, and that's, that's just, that's just the 57 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,070 Bible. Yeah, it's, it's, it's the gift 58 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:04,210 of Scripture, which is the that exact fact that, you know, I 59 00:03:04,220 --> 00:03:06,720 think for for you and I like we could preach on the same text 10 60 00:03:06,730 --> 00:03:08,590 times and come out with 10 different sermons. 61 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:09,860 Yeah. And that's the hope. 62 00:03:09,870 --> 00:03:12,470 That's that's the gift of it. That's the joy of it and the 63 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:14,990 challenge in it. But, you know, I think even more 64 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,450 so for our own lives. Like you realize you come back 65 00:03:17,460 --> 00:03:20,130 to passages and you go, I see this differently now. 66 00:03:20,380 --> 00:03:22,740 And I think part of that is that as we age, right. 67 00:03:22,750 --> 00:03:25,790 Like I remember talking to somebody about the Pilgrims 68 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:27,110 progress. Have you read the Pilgrims 69 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:28,790 Progress? Progress when I was a kid. 70 00:03:28,860 --> 00:03:30,300 So OK, so this is this is the point. 71 00:03:30,310 --> 00:03:32,830 Is exactly the point. Many of us read it early on, 72 00:03:32,900 --> 00:03:36,790 like at some point during high school maybe we read that book 73 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:41,680 and then never touch it again. And this person that I was 74 00:03:41,690 --> 00:03:44,970 talking to is making the the argument that, you know, you 75 00:03:44,980 --> 00:03:48,100 read it when you're when you're in your 20s or 30s and it's 76 00:03:48,110 --> 00:03:50,030 different. And then you read it again, like 77 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:52,820 your 50s or 60s and it's a completely different book, Huh. 78 00:03:52,860 --> 00:03:55,190 Read it again later, like in your older decades, maybe like 79 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,090 into your seventies, 80s. And it's a different book for 80 00:03:58,100 --> 00:04:01,820 the third time around. And I just love that that's like 81 00:04:01,830 --> 00:04:04,650 that's the hardest scripture is that you can come back to it 82 00:04:04,660 --> 00:04:06,530 over and over and over again. So we're going to jump in. 83 00:04:06,540 --> 00:04:11,750 It's versus 11 through to 19. And it is this story of Jesus 84 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:14,850 healing the man with leprosy. Pause if you need to go read it, 85 00:04:15,270 --> 00:04:17,829 some great lines in it. Rise, go. 86 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,220 Your faith has made you well, we're going to get into that. 87 00:04:20,230 --> 00:04:23,960 He said go, they're healed all on the way as they went, they 88 00:04:23,970 --> 00:04:27,630 were cleansed. So maybe to jump in just with 89 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:32,280 the first question is there are there are two different 90 00:04:32,350 --> 00:04:36,140 responses to Jesus here. So you highlighted for us on 91 00:04:36,150 --> 00:04:40,090 Sunday that 10 come to Jesus, 10 are asking Jesus to be healed. 92 00:04:40,210 --> 00:04:43,890 He sends 10 away, but then their responses are different. 93 00:04:43,900 --> 00:04:46,190 There's a response of the nine and then there's a response of 94 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:48,520 the one. So maybe let's just revisit 95 00:04:48,530 --> 00:04:51,430 exactly what those responses are. 96 00:04:51,620 --> 00:04:56,210 And I think the question in it is for you, what were some of 97 00:04:56,220 --> 00:05:02,170 the things that you noticed in this guy, the one who returns to 98 00:05:02,180 --> 00:05:03,850 Jesus? I'm spoiling a little bit of the 99 00:05:03,860 --> 00:05:08,490 answer here, but like what makes this dude different from the 100 00:05:08,500 --> 00:05:13,380 other 9? There's a, there's a few things. 101 00:05:13,430 --> 00:05:18,600 I obviously he's a Samaritan and that has a lot of implication 102 00:05:18,610 --> 00:05:19,820 here. Like we, we talked about that. 103 00:05:19,830 --> 00:05:25,140 I went through kind of the, the reasons why a Samaritan was in a 104 00:05:25,150 --> 00:05:27,030 lose, lose situation here. In many ways. 105 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,710 He's, you know, I kind of refer to him as doubly damned in some 106 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:32,150 ways. He was like because of his 107 00:05:32,290 --> 00:05:34,440 disease, because of his ethnicity. 108 00:05:34,570 --> 00:05:38,570 And he was not even, he was not in a, he was on the border of, 109 00:05:38,650 --> 00:05:43,370 you know, Galicia, Galilee and Samaria, but not in Samaria, 110 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:45,390 right? So he's out of out of his home. 111 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:49,210 He's a he's a foreigner in a foreign land with a bunch of 112 00:05:49,220 --> 00:05:53,070 people that don't like him. But there is something 113 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:54,920 different. That's like the most natural, 114 00:05:54,930 --> 00:05:58,150 obvious outward difference. But there's more, right? 115 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:03,880 There's you see this man that kind of realizes that he has 116 00:06:03,890 --> 00:06:08,940 nowhere else to go, right. So he's sort of come even in his 117 00:06:08,950 --> 00:06:11,560 healing. He's sort of come has come to 118 00:06:11,570 --> 00:06:15,240 the end of himself. You know, where where he's, you 119 00:06:15,250 --> 00:06:17,360 know, got to be thinking like I I don't know. 120 00:06:17,370 --> 00:06:19,240 And again, I kind of highlighted this in the sermons. 121 00:06:19,250 --> 00:06:21,320 You can go back but and listen, but like, he's like, I don't 122 00:06:21,330 --> 00:06:24,920 know if this priest is even gonna like declare me clean, 123 00:06:24,970 --> 00:06:26,700 right? Cause to him, I'm, I'm already 124 00:06:26,710 --> 00:06:28,180 unclean. You know, I'm a, I'm a 125 00:06:28,190 --> 00:06:31,040 Samaritan. And so he's, he gets to the end 126 00:06:31,050 --> 00:06:36,380 himself and of himself, he has to humble himself and return to 127 00:06:36,390 --> 00:06:39,810 the source, right. And, and so I think that that is 128 00:06:39,820 --> 00:06:43,060 another distinct distinguishing factor that this this guy was 129 00:06:43,410 --> 00:06:46,860 forced to in some ways humble himself. 130 00:06:47,610 --> 00:06:50,110 He was already probably quite humbled because of his his 131 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:55,250 affliction with leprosy, but he had to humble himself and he 132 00:06:55,360 --> 00:07:02,390 realized and recognized he had eyes to see who Jesus was in 133 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,630 contrast to the nine who I think you could make an argument 134 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:09,630 either, you know, treated Jesus as a means to an end. 135 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:14,330 At worst, perhaps I think you could make it even worse, 136 00:07:14,340 --> 00:07:19,300 actually. But but they, you know, more 137 00:07:19,310 --> 00:07:23,960 charitably were just more kind of thoughtless, more just in 138 00:07:23,970 --> 00:07:27,440 their own little world, right? And and did not extend that 139 00:07:27,450 --> 00:07:32,140 their gratitude toward the man who you know, was able to have 140 00:07:32,150 --> 00:07:35,020 the power to heal them, right. Yeah. 141 00:07:35,150 --> 00:07:39,370 So I certainly know that like in in my life, and I think we see 142 00:07:39,380 --> 00:07:42,320 this in people who would say this of themselves. 143 00:07:42,510 --> 00:07:48,740 Like, there's something that I resonate with in this one, you 144 00:07:48,750 --> 00:07:50,550 know, which like you always want to be careful. 145 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:53,130 Like don't, don't always, you know, don't always see yourself 146 00:07:53,140 --> 00:07:55,860 only in like the person who has the best outcome in Scripture. 147 00:07:55,870 --> 00:07:57,020 Like. Yeah, right. 148 00:07:57,030 --> 00:07:58,650 Yeah, so and we can we'll get there. 149 00:07:58,660 --> 00:08:02,330 But like I, I do resonate with this idea that like, I think the 150 00:08:02,340 --> 00:08:09,270 leper that this one who returns the Samaritan is so far to the 151 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:14,550 end of himself that he's able to see Jesus differently than these 152 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:18,270 other nine. And you know, whether it's that 153 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:21,660 day for them, the path is clear. Like they go and show themselves 154 00:08:21,670 --> 00:08:23,430 to the priests and they're restored. 155 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,130 They are cleansed like physically, mentally, 156 00:08:26,140 --> 00:08:28,410 emotionally, they're brought back into community. 157 00:08:28,420 --> 00:08:32,220 So they're, they're cleansed socially, religiously, they're 158 00:08:32,230 --> 00:08:36,049 now able to go back and make sacrifices and enter into 159 00:08:36,750 --> 00:08:41,799 rituals of cleansing. And like in in every way 160 00:08:41,809 --> 00:08:47,400 possible, the nine can see a very clear outcome here. 161 00:08:47,570 --> 00:08:53,070 For them, it's like A + B = C if the if Jesus can heal them, then 162 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:55,250 they can return and it's game on. 163 00:08:55,420 --> 00:08:59,820 And for this one Samaritan, it's not A + B = C It's A + B equals 164 00:08:59,830 --> 00:09:04,170 still A in the sense that like he's still got these other like 165 00:09:04,180 --> 00:09:08,870 strikes against him. And so I think he like he's so 166 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,430 far to the end of himself that that he sees in Jesus something 167 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:17,190 so different. And I do think that that can be 168 00:09:17,250 --> 00:09:24,880 a helpful and hard challenge for us that so the the the gospel in 169 00:09:24,890 --> 00:09:27,300 it is. And you said this so well on 170 00:09:27,310 --> 00:09:34,180 Sunday, but like there's no, you can't be too far gone for God to 171 00:09:34,190 --> 00:09:39,700 not show up and, and and write the ship as it were, right? 172 00:09:39,790 --> 00:09:43,710 Like you, this guy has every strike against him and Jesus 173 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,360 doesn't say to him, well, like, I'll, I'll heal these nine 174 00:09:46,370 --> 00:09:50,100 because they qualify. Like prerequisites are checked 175 00:09:50,470 --> 00:09:53,800 and I won't heal you because the prerequisites aren't checked, 176 00:09:53,870 --> 00:09:56,000 right. So same affliction or same 177 00:09:56,050 --> 00:09:58,600 grouping of affliction. Like that's kind of leprosy is 178 00:09:58,610 --> 00:10:02,780 this weird thing. But but there's in Jesus's eyes, 179 00:10:02,790 --> 00:10:06,560 there's no difference between these these 10. 180 00:10:06,860 --> 00:10:11,100 So it's not like he comes and says, well, you know, Samaritan 181 00:10:11,310 --> 00:10:14,080 Jew, I'm going to heal these nine and I'm not going to heal 182 00:10:14,090 --> 00:10:17,040 you. It it for for Jesus. 183 00:10:17,050 --> 00:10:19,810 This guy's not too far gone. And I think there's something 184 00:10:19,820 --> 00:10:24,160 that for us is beautiful in that and and helpful and encouraging 185 00:10:24,170 --> 00:10:27,700 and challenging to hear maybe at times, but like you're not too 186 00:10:27,710 --> 00:10:30,860 far gone. In the same way though, I think 187 00:10:30,870 --> 00:10:35,650 that each of us can identify with moments where we've been 188 00:10:35,660 --> 00:10:39,720 brought to the end of ourselves and where we know there's no way 189 00:10:39,780 --> 00:10:43,830 out of this. A+B doesn't equal C like A + B 190 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,150 still feels like we're in a territory. 191 00:10:46,460 --> 00:10:50,950 And your dependence and reliance on Jesus is different when 192 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:53,790 there's no way forward for you. And, and so like just riffing 193 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:58,170 off that a little bit, like I think that that is a logical end 194 00:10:58,180 --> 00:11:01,720 when we have, you know, when we are in a dark night of the soul 195 00:11:01,730 --> 00:11:04,780 where, where something is, you know, like we're maybe it's a 196 00:11:04,790 --> 00:11:09,000 terminal illness, maybe it's, maybe it's a cancer journey, 197 00:11:09,010 --> 00:11:13,140 maybe it's a, a divorce, maybe it's an addiction. 198 00:11:13,150 --> 00:11:16,840 What like whatever that looks like, you know, you get, you get 199 00:11:16,850 --> 00:11:19,800 to the end of your rope and you realize all I have, all I have 200 00:11:19,810 --> 00:11:23,460 is Jesus, right? So like, that's like, that's a 201 00:11:23,470 --> 00:11:26,580 good turn for someone, right? It's a it's a good thing. 202 00:11:26,860 --> 00:11:29,620 My thought is sometimes like, OK, like go, let's go like a few 203 00:11:29,630 --> 00:11:32,700 steps back for someone. How do we get to the place where 204 00:11:32,710 --> 00:11:36,360 where we can turn to Jesus even before then, right, You know, 205 00:11:36,370 --> 00:11:38,790 because like, like it's, it's, it's tough when it's like, well, 206 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:41,370 you're my only you're my last and only hope Jesus, You know, 207 00:11:41,380 --> 00:11:43,990 like when there's so much and this is kind of, you know, ties 208 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,490 into to the 9. Like, how much better would it 209 00:11:47,500 --> 00:11:51,810 be if we can like, recognize and declare our our utter dependence 210 00:11:51,820 --> 00:11:54,790 on Jesus long before we get to the end of our. 211 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:57,170 Rope. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. 212 00:11:57,620 --> 00:12:01,810 I think the one thing that the one thing that I recognize is in 213 00:12:01,820 --> 00:12:05,210 like in myself is that once you've experienced those like 214 00:12:05,220 --> 00:12:08,900 deepest and darkest nights of the soul, whatever that looks 215 00:12:08,910 --> 00:12:14,440 like, you start to be able to see the flags in yourself a lot 216 00:12:14,450 --> 00:12:16,840 sooner. The other thing though, is that 217 00:12:16,850 --> 00:12:19,460 you start to be able to pick out flags and other people. 218 00:12:19,830 --> 00:12:22,900 And I do think that that's where you need people, like you need 219 00:12:22,910 --> 00:12:28,120 people around you who can say, hey, like you got some like, not 220 00:12:28,130 --> 00:12:32,860 sure what's going on maybe, but like there are some flags or 221 00:12:32,930 --> 00:12:36,930 even just to say like you need people who know like your best 222 00:12:36,940 --> 00:12:39,970 habits, routines, disciplines and your worst habits, routines 223 00:12:39,980 --> 00:12:42,920 and disciplines and who can see you drifting, right? 224 00:12:42,930 --> 00:12:44,770 You can say hey like. You doing OK? 225 00:12:44,780 --> 00:12:48,170 You, you, you know, you, you're better when you're, when you're 226 00:12:48,180 --> 00:12:50,050 getting up every every morning, right? 227 00:12:50,060 --> 00:12:53,180 You're better when you're not even think of like spouses, like 228 00:12:53,190 --> 00:12:56,070 hey, like you're I mean that's a dangerous thing to say. 229 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:57,490 You're better one. Don't say that. 230 00:12:57,560 --> 00:12:59,430 Pick better language than me, please. 231 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:05,950 But like you need someone and a group of someones, I think, who 232 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:08,640 can hold you accountable to those, those rhythms that, you 233 00:13:08,650 --> 00:13:11,330 know, are just healthy and life giving. 234 00:13:11,340 --> 00:13:14,360 And it's not as simple as just, yeah, I'm going to do the right 235 00:13:14,370 --> 00:13:16,810 thing and then I'll feel great. But like it it is. 236 00:13:16,820 --> 00:13:20,130 I think you need people around you who can help back that that 237 00:13:20,140 --> 00:13:23,410 chain up. I think that's that's yeah, I 238 00:13:23,420 --> 00:13:26,480 agree. Better if we could better we 239 00:13:26,490 --> 00:13:30,010 could recognize dependence, you know, on on God's sooner. 240 00:13:31,570 --> 00:13:34,410 I do think for many of us, we need to be brought to a place 241 00:13:34,420 --> 00:13:36,860 where we let go of ourselves. Like I think that's pretty 242 00:13:36,870 --> 00:13:40,080 typical in the human experience is that we are brought to a 243 00:13:40,090 --> 00:13:42,160 place where we realize that I you can't do it. 244 00:13:42,170 --> 00:13:45,670 I can't do it and that's. OK, and you see it even in like 245 00:13:45,710 --> 00:13:50,060 he he displays like that physically by by like, you know, 246 00:13:50,070 --> 00:13:52,480 becoming prostate at the feet of Jesus, right? 247 00:13:52,490 --> 00:13:55,540 You know, like that there is we often describe that like that. 248 00:13:55,550 --> 00:13:58,630 Like I just like all I have left is just to go to the feet of 249 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:00,120 Jesus, right. And it's like this. 250 00:14:00,130 --> 00:14:03,280 This is the guy that we're kind of modeling that after, right? 251 00:14:03,890 --> 00:14:07,320 And in that language. And, and so like even just in 252 00:14:07,330 --> 00:14:11,380 his, his physicality is displaying this, this humility 253 00:14:11,390 --> 00:14:15,890 and this, this realization, like, hey, you'll, you'll, you 254 00:14:15,900 --> 00:14:19,660 are the source of my, of my hope and my healing and my 255 00:14:19,670 --> 00:14:23,890 restoration into, into the world and into life. 256 00:14:23,940 --> 00:14:26,080 Yeah. So and I would say that the more 257 00:14:26,090 --> 00:14:30,480 you learn to do that in your everyday life when things are 258 00:14:30,490 --> 00:14:34,420 great. So man, it is like the fad. 259 00:14:34,510 --> 00:14:36,990 The fad psychological thing right now is gratitude. 260 00:14:37,060 --> 00:14:39,610 Yeah, but it's so right. It's like, it is so right. 261 00:14:39,620 --> 00:14:41,670 It's such a good. Thing sometimes we like, like 262 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:43,790 pop psychology, we get things wrong, like they like there's a 263 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:45,350 lot of things that go sideways and whatever. 264 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:48,410 But like, that's just such a simple thing like, like to be 265 00:14:48,420 --> 00:14:51,750 able to like even my like very Christian therapist from a 266 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,610 number of years ago, like she would say like, Hey, write out 267 00:14:54,620 --> 00:14:58,710 like 10 things that you like that you can say about yourself 268 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:00,810 when you're like really down yourself, which is like good 269 00:15:00,820 --> 00:15:03,210 could come across as like, you know, you're, you're going to 270 00:15:03,220 --> 00:15:05,640 inflate yourself. But when your ego is like down 271 00:15:05,650 --> 00:15:08,400 here, you know, that's a good thing. 272 00:15:08,410 --> 00:15:10,280 But also like, you know, before you go to bed, think about like 273 00:15:10,290 --> 00:15:12,140 5 things. Think about like 5 things that 274 00:15:12,150 --> 00:15:13,720 are that you're grateful for, that you're thankful for. 275 00:15:13,730 --> 00:15:17,040 And, and you can obviously as a Christian, we can direct that 276 00:15:17,050 --> 00:15:19,510 toward God, which is a benefit. Yeah. 277 00:15:19,710 --> 00:15:22,010 Yeah. And I think that the, the like a 278 00:15:22,020 --> 00:15:25,540 Christian position or posture of gratitude is exactly that. 279 00:15:25,550 --> 00:15:32,310 It's giving thanks to God for the the various moments and 280 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:34,600 blessings that you've experienced throughout the day 281 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:36,880 as opposed saying like, you know, I'm grateful for this. 282 00:15:36,890 --> 00:15:39,150 I'm grateful for that. I'm grateful to like grateful 283 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:42,190 I've got a family. I've I think the the posture is 284 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:44,930 to say thanks Jesus for. Hmm. 285 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:50,840 For AB and C and like that in and of itself is already turning 286 00:15:50,850 --> 00:15:52,930 you toward a posture of humility. 287 00:15:52,940 --> 00:15:55,540 It's like I'm not grateful that I did this God. 288 00:15:55,550 --> 00:15:58,110 I'm grateful for what you've given and placed in my life. 289 00:15:58,500 --> 00:16:01,170 It's also showing dependence because it's again, I'm not 290 00:16:01,180 --> 00:16:02,610 grateful for what I've been able to accomplish. 291 00:16:02,620 --> 00:16:06,470 I'm grateful for what God has put in my way to be able to do. 292 00:16:06,620 --> 00:16:10,900 And so like I, I just think there are there are simple ways 293 00:16:11,390 --> 00:16:14,640 that are really actually like the challenges, consistency and 294 00:16:14,650 --> 00:16:19,340 and learning to do the thing. But there are those sort of 295 00:16:19,350 --> 00:16:21,700 smaller, simpler, and I'm using air quotes here, smaller, 296 00:16:21,710 --> 00:16:27,720 simpler things, uh, that can turn us toward God in moments 297 00:16:27,730 --> 00:16:29,740 where we're not at the end of ourselves. 298 00:16:29,790 --> 00:16:34,260 And it makes gratitude, it makes humility, it makes dependence 299 00:16:34,490 --> 00:16:38,140 easier when we're not, like when we're not at the end of 300 00:16:38,150 --> 00:16:39,980 ourselves. OK, so we've got, let's just 301 00:16:39,990 --> 00:16:42,900 clarify here for us. So we've got the 9:00. 302 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:46,380 Well, I'll back up. We have 10 who come to Jesus 303 00:16:47,430 --> 00:16:50,530 asking to be cleansed. Jesus says go and show 304 00:16:50,540 --> 00:16:54,360 yourselves to the priests. 9 go to the priests. 305 00:16:54,370 --> 00:16:57,560 Presumably we don't see that. Yeah, walked out in Luke, but. 306 00:16:57,650 --> 00:17:00,880 Why would they? Not why would they not 9 go 307 00:17:00,930 --> 00:17:04,400 along the way like on the road as they traveled. 308 00:17:04,410 --> 00:17:10,230 They're healed. 9 Continue and one turns, comes back to Jesus, 309 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:13,970 falls at his feet, gives thanks to God, and then Jesus says to 310 00:17:13,980 --> 00:17:16,210 him, Go, your faith has made you. 311 00:17:16,220 --> 00:17:22,349 Well, we're going to come back to the one in kind of a full 312 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:26,150 circle move, but talk to us a little bit about the 9:00 313 00:17:26,339 --> 00:17:29,090 because on the surface it looks like they're just doing exactly 314 00:17:29,100 --> 00:17:32,250 what Jesus said to do. Jesus says, go and show 315 00:17:32,260 --> 00:17:34,470 yourselves to the priests and they're like, game on. 316 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:36,150 We're going to go and show ourselves to the priest. 317 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:38,540 We have no reason, like we've said to believe they don't do 318 00:17:38,550 --> 00:17:41,020 that. They are also healed along the 319 00:17:41,030 --> 00:17:42,030 way. They're cleansed. 320 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:47,190 What like, what is the lesson that we need to learn from them 321 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:53,450 that we miss if we don't come back like this one guy? 322 00:17:53,460 --> 00:17:55,810 And how can we maybe like, what are the ways in which we live 323 00:17:55,820 --> 00:17:59,350 like these nine before we get to this one? 324 00:18:00,340 --> 00:18:06,460 If we say the first thing that comes to mind is that Jesus is 325 00:18:06,470 --> 00:18:12,790 not a genie in a bottle and, and we should not treat Jesus like 326 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:17,390 that, you know, and, and, and so that's at a very superficial 327 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,490 level. You know, these guys ask for, 328 00:18:21,180 --> 00:18:24,510 ask for healing, they ask for pity, they, they get what they 329 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:28,370 asked for. You would think even after 330 00:18:28,380 --> 00:18:33,530 they've gone to the priest to be declared clean, you would think 331 00:18:33,540 --> 00:18:38,090 that, I mean, I, I can only put myself mentally in this 332 00:18:38,100 --> 00:18:42,280 situation because I'm, I'm not in this situation, but I would 333 00:18:42,290 --> 00:18:46,310 hope that my, that my response and reaction would be OK now 334 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:48,020 that I've done what Jesus said to do. 335 00:18:48,270 --> 00:18:50,740 The Samaritan had a reason why he didn't go to the priest, 336 00:18:50,750 --> 00:18:52,400 right? But these guys did what Jesus 337 00:18:52,410 --> 00:18:54,820 told them to. In my mind, I'm like, why 338 00:18:54,830 --> 00:18:58,440 wouldn't they go back to the one who did the thing, right? 339 00:18:58,510 --> 00:19:00,560 Who like the priests did nothing. 340 00:19:00,570 --> 00:19:02,890 They just, they just declared them clean because like you 341 00:19:02,900 --> 00:19:05,200 don't have any skin diseases, you know, great, you're, you're 342 00:19:05,210 --> 00:19:10,660 good to go. And I there, there are some 343 00:19:10,670 --> 00:19:14,060 theories that when you're reading some like commentaries 344 00:19:14,070 --> 00:19:20,370 and whatnot, that they actually did not like that it was Jesus 345 00:19:20,380 --> 00:19:24,310 who did the thing that that because they knew who Jesus was, 346 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:25,440 they, they called out to him, right? 347 00:19:25,450 --> 00:19:30,160 They knew, they knew who he was, likely knew some they like they 348 00:19:30,170 --> 00:19:33,650 had some understanding of, of the reputation that Jesus had 349 00:19:33,660 --> 00:19:37,340 amongst the religious elites, likely had some understanding of 350 00:19:37,350 --> 00:19:41,290 the implications of being a, a disciple of Jesus. 351 00:19:42,140 --> 00:19:45,250 And there's some there's some that kind of pause it like they 352 00:19:45,260 --> 00:19:47,880 actually did not like that it was Jesus. 353 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:53,700 So it was like, it was a pretty kind of like utilitarian move, 354 00:19:53,750 --> 00:19:55,560 hmm. To get what they wanted out of 355 00:19:55,570 --> 00:19:59,790 Jesus. I think that we can treat our 356 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:00,870 faith like that. Like what? 357 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:02,530 What is in this for me? Yeah. 358 00:20:02,540 --> 00:20:04,990 What's in the what can I get out of this? 359 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:07,710 That that's a that's certainly a danger. 360 00:20:07,860 --> 00:20:10,710 Yeah. So I think to just to add to 361 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,460 that, like it, it really just rounds out the entire 362 00:20:14,470 --> 00:20:16,590 conversation that we've been having so far, which is to say, 363 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:19,920 it's a lot easier to recognize that we need Jesus when we 364 00:20:19,930 --> 00:20:22,540 actually need like when, when I shouldn't say when we actually 365 00:20:22,550 --> 00:20:27,080 do, but when we feel like we actually do right when there is 366 00:20:27,090 --> 00:20:29,460 something going on. So one of the most common things 367 00:20:29,470 --> 00:20:33,940 that I'll ask people about their prayer life is like, do you do 368 00:20:33,950 --> 00:20:37,380 you only pray when you need something from God? 369 00:20:38,070 --> 00:20:40,880 Or do you pray as a means of communicating with a God who 370 00:20:40,890 --> 00:20:43,240 loves you and is created you and knows you best and wants you to 371 00:20:43,250 --> 00:20:48,450 know yourself letter and is you know, longing to communicate 372 00:20:48,460 --> 00:20:53,810 with you and build out a relationship where you know Him 373 00:20:53,820 --> 00:20:58,020 better like it is? Do your prayers represent things 374 00:20:58,030 --> 00:21:03,570 that are requests, asks bleeding with begging with God? 375 00:21:03,620 --> 00:21:06,100 Or is it? Can you say that it's more 376 00:21:06,110 --> 00:21:08,610 well-rounded? Yeah, well, and even like, cause 377 00:21:08,620 --> 00:21:10,890 I think we could, you know, say, cause I've been thinking of some 378 00:21:10,900 --> 00:21:13,210 friends that I've been praying for quite a bit. 379 00:21:13,660 --> 00:21:16,940 It's still, even though it's, it's not about me, nothing to do 380 00:21:16,950 --> 00:21:18,650 with me. It's, it's I'm praying, I'm 381 00:21:18,660 --> 00:21:20,710 praying for them. But it can. 382 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:24,170 It's still a request. I need you to do this which is 383 00:21:24,180 --> 00:21:25,660 listen a great. Prayer good. 384 00:21:25,670 --> 00:21:28,450 There's nothing wrong with it. But as you say, like is our, is 385 00:21:28,460 --> 00:21:30,450 our prayer like well-rounded, you know? 386 00:21:30,580 --> 00:21:33,140 Yeah, I just think that it's a litmus test maybe for how we 387 00:21:33,150 --> 00:21:35,860 approach God, right? It's got a tool in your tool 388 00:21:35,870 --> 00:21:38,790 belt and you're like, well, in this situation, I'm going to 389 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:40,690 take this tool out. We're going to try it. 390 00:21:41,010 --> 00:21:43,100 And you know, if that doesn't work, then we've got a bigger 391 00:21:43,110 --> 00:21:44,840 tool. So it's kind of like, do you 392 00:21:44,850 --> 00:21:47,460 have like the Leatherman with like the little like wimpy 393 00:21:47,510 --> 00:21:51,700 screwdriver on it and which are always so, so handy. 394 00:21:51,710 --> 00:21:54,280 And but then you get something and you're like, oh, this, this 395 00:21:54,290 --> 00:21:55,940 little screwdriver isn't doing the thing. 396 00:21:56,020 --> 00:21:57,950 You need the bigger screwdriver. And then that doesn't work in 397 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:00,550 like, maybe you need to drill the thing out like like, you 398 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:05,680 know, listen, I probably shouldn't be giving out 399 00:22:06,110 --> 00:22:09,240 machining advice, mechanical advice, however. 400 00:22:09,310 --> 00:22:12,400 You more than me. However, I do think that that 401 00:22:12,410 --> 00:22:16,060 can be sometimes the way in which we approach God right 402 00:22:16,070 --> 00:22:17,860 where it's OK. I've got this tool in my tool 403 00:22:17,870 --> 00:22:22,600 belt and I'll use it when I think I need it as opposed to, 404 00:22:23,630 --> 00:22:26,560 you know, is, is this is this dynamic and flourishing? 405 00:22:26,570 --> 00:22:30,680 Like are you living all of life inside of you know this the the 406 00:22:30,690 --> 00:22:34,240 context of this relationship with with the God who's created 407 00:22:34,250 --> 00:22:37,560 you. So, OK, so if that's the lesson 408 00:22:37,570 --> 00:22:43,430 that we need to learn from the 9 Yeah, I think part of the turn 409 00:22:43,790 --> 00:22:47,500 is this one leper comes back and he gives thanks. 410 00:22:47,550 --> 00:22:49,280 He falls at his the Jesus's feet. 411 00:22:49,290 --> 00:22:52,520 He gives thanks to God. He recognizes who Jesus is. 412 00:22:53,210 --> 00:22:56,500 Um, what's the lesson that we need to learn from this one? 413 00:22:56,550 --> 00:23:09,720 Hmm. There is something about again, 414 00:23:09,730 --> 00:23:10,860 again, this goes back to this idea. 415 00:23:10,870 --> 00:23:12,940 I mean, he's gone. He's gone to the end of himself. 416 00:23:12,950 --> 00:23:18,750 He has, he has realized his options are very low. 417 00:23:18,820 --> 00:23:20,810 So you could, I mean, you could kind of make a case that this 418 00:23:20,820 --> 00:23:23,960 guy is also being like very utilitarian and like that he has 419 00:23:23,970 --> 00:23:27,660 nowhere else to go really. But I do think that again, he 420 00:23:27,670 --> 00:23:31,390 recognizes who Jesus is. He sees that this, this is more 421 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,750 than just a man, more than just a itinerant preacher. 422 00:23:34,820 --> 00:23:38,570 You know, he is more than that. And so that the difference maker 423 00:23:38,580 --> 00:23:45,530 is in knowing and seeing who Jesus is and, and acting upon 424 00:23:45,540 --> 00:23:48,180 that, right? And that is that that delicate 425 00:23:48,190 --> 00:23:50,880 balance between, you know, Jesus has revealed himself to this 426 00:23:50,890 --> 00:23:53,160 man, right? He's revealed himself to this 427 00:23:53,170 --> 00:23:55,240 man. And this man has responded, 428 00:23:55,250 --> 00:23:56,720 right? And this is, you know, going 429 00:23:56,730 --> 00:24:00,950 back to where, I mean, Jesus declares his, his faith and, and 430 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:05,620 that he has expressed a great deal of faith and he's commended 431 00:24:05,630 --> 00:24:08,760 for his faith. And, and it's not to say that 432 00:24:08,770 --> 00:24:11,100 the, the, the other nine had no faith. 433 00:24:11,110 --> 00:24:14,080 They had some degree of faith, otherwise they wouldn't have 434 00:24:14,130 --> 00:24:16,100 walked toward the village, right? 435 00:24:16,710 --> 00:24:20,410 But this man had perhaps more right? 436 00:24:20,500 --> 00:24:22,770 And it's always like, how do you measure faith? 437 00:24:22,780 --> 00:24:24,430 Like how do you, I don't know, how do you, how do you measure 438 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:29,570 like I, I have like 99% faith and you have 92. 439 00:24:29,580 --> 00:24:33,030 Like, I don't know how that works, you know, like, but, but 440 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,750 clearly this man had something more going on for him, right? 441 00:24:36,870 --> 00:24:41,470 And, and Jesus says your faith has made you well, right. 442 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,590 And, and we talked about that being salvific, that there is 443 00:24:44,900 --> 00:24:47,370 that there is something more than just all of them were made 444 00:24:47,380 --> 00:24:50,030 well physically. And, and, and this man was made 445 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:58,550 well wholly from a holistic faith, salvation physically, all 446 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,610 the things, right. And so, so the difference maker 447 00:25:01,620 --> 00:25:05,710 is that he he recognized the source. 448 00:25:05,780 --> 00:25:07,880 Yeah. One of the interesting things 449 00:25:07,890 --> 00:25:11,960 about this passage is that Lucas positioning Jesus is the temple. 450 00:25:12,450 --> 00:25:15,620 Yeah, right. So you get, you get the you get 451 00:25:15,630 --> 00:25:18,720 the Jews who worship in Jerusalem at the temple and 452 00:25:18,730 --> 00:25:20,660 like, you know, in synagogues around. 453 00:25:20,670 --> 00:25:24,140 Yeah, as microcosms of. The temple, but but their lives 454 00:25:24,150 --> 00:25:27,710 were directed toward the temple. Samaritans have Mount Gerizim. 455 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:32,040 Exactly. And so for both of these groups 456 00:25:32,050 --> 00:25:37,490 who worshipped in very different places, feeling and access to 457 00:25:37,500 --> 00:25:40,630 God and God's healing would have been considered something that 458 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:45,150 happened in those places. For that to now happen in the 459 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:50,710 person of Jesus is really, I think Jesus positioning himself 460 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:57,850 and Luke showing us that Jesus is fulfilling the role of temple 461 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,270 and priest. So we talk about threefold 462 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:05,370 office of of Christ of Jesus role as prophet, as priest, as 463 00:26:05,380 --> 00:26:10,320 king, and this is a priestly role that Jesus is fulfilling 464 00:26:10,330 --> 00:26:13,380 that he's stepping into that he's not only the priest, he is 465 00:26:13,390 --> 00:26:15,800 embodying the temple. Hmm. 466 00:26:16,130 --> 00:26:22,480 God's presence is is in him and alive through him in in the same 467 00:26:22,490 --> 00:26:26,040 way that we would articulate as Christians now that you are 468 00:26:27,270 --> 00:26:32,800 God's temple and no longer is it connected to a specific place or 469 00:26:32,810 --> 00:26:36,260 time. It is the Spirit of God 470 00:26:36,310 --> 00:26:40,150 breathing life and dwelling in followers of Jesus. 471 00:26:40,930 --> 00:26:43,890 So Jesus is demonstrating what it means to be what it looks 472 00:26:43,900 --> 00:26:47,880 like to fulfill that he's acting as priest. 473 00:26:47,890 --> 00:26:52,340 He is fulfilling the role of temple where where these people 474 00:26:52,350 --> 00:26:54,720 are healed. And I think it's that in some 475 00:26:54,730 --> 00:26:58,260 ways that that this guy is seeing like, it's like God gives 476 00:26:58,270 --> 00:27:02,390 him eyes to see the thing as it really is, as it's unfolding 477 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,230 before him. And so, you know, these, these 478 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:10,780 9, even if they do go to the synagogue or if they do go to 479 00:27:10,790 --> 00:27:14,100 the temple and worship, they're still worshipping in the temple. 480 00:27:14,170 --> 00:27:15,760 Yeah. And this Samaritan, he doesn't 481 00:27:15,770 --> 00:27:21,290 go back to to his people and to their their place of worship. 482 00:27:21,930 --> 00:27:26,180 He goes back to Jesus. He's able to see Jesus as this 483 00:27:28,100 --> 00:27:33,710 place, time, power, presence, all of it rooted in in a in a 484 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:35,080 person and so. Cool. 485 00:27:35,090 --> 00:27:36,930 Like it's I I just love it. Yeah. 486 00:27:36,940 --> 00:27:38,070 Yeah, it's very, very. Cool. 487 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:42,350 It's a great image of really what it looks like for God's 488 00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:45,990 presence and power to be unleashed beyond the walls of 489 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,710 the temple. We always talk about when Jesus 490 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,650 dies, the temple, like the curtain of the temple is torn 491 00:27:50,740 --> 00:27:54,070 and it's not torn from the bottom like it's from the top, 492 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:57,050 just like straight down route, like opening up. 493 00:27:57,100 --> 00:28:01,920 But Jesus is revealing these types of like moves that God is 494 00:28:01,930 --> 00:28:05,980 making long before, yeah, that temple curtain is torn and it's 495 00:28:05,990 --> 00:28:07,710 like God's presence is released into the world. 496 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:13,920 No, Jesus is is revealing that as he goes on the road and this 497 00:28:13,930 --> 00:28:19,440 is one of those really kind of hinge or like paramount moments 498 00:28:19,790 --> 00:28:22,720 where we get to glimpse Jesus for who he truly. 499 00:28:22,730 --> 00:28:26,180 Is and it's cool to see the the way that that theology develops 500 00:28:26,190 --> 00:28:29,700 over even in Paul's time when, when you know, Paul would talk 501 00:28:29,710 --> 00:28:33,950 about us as as temples of, you know, we are, we are the body of 502 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:35,960 Christ. We are, we are temples, our 503 00:28:35,970 --> 00:28:37,980 bodies are temples all that kind of thing. 504 00:28:38,030 --> 00:28:40,280 But even when you go back and this is I'm going to I'm going 505 00:28:40,290 --> 00:28:44,540 to bring back this passage in in second kings, just briefly. 506 00:28:44,550 --> 00:28:50,100 We'll, we'll go here. So this, this story of, of the 507 00:28:50,110 --> 00:28:55,150 leper, the 10 lepers that are healed, it would call to mind a 508 00:28:55,160 --> 00:29:01,090 story centuries prior with Elisha the prophet and this, 509 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,060 this Gentile by the name of Naaman. 510 00:29:03,460 --> 00:29:05,240 And this is in second Kings chapter 5. 511 00:29:05,250 --> 00:29:06,990 You can read it there. And there's just a couple 512 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,570 passages that highlighted just because I, I think that it's 513 00:29:09,580 --> 00:29:11,710 cool to look forward to the way that the temple theology 514 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:13,810 develops, but then to look back and say this was actually 515 00:29:13,820 --> 00:29:19,050 happening before as well, where Elijah, this guy named and has 516 00:29:19,060 --> 00:29:21,960 has leprosy. Elijah is basically go wash 517 00:29:21,970 --> 00:29:26,080 yourself in the Jordan 7 times and your flesh will be restored 518 00:29:26,090 --> 00:29:28,840 and you'll be cleansed. So here we have this guy doing 519 00:29:28,850 --> 00:29:30,850 the thing outside of the temple, right? 520 00:29:31,740 --> 00:29:36,620 This prophet and then so skip a few verses, verse 14, he says, 521 00:29:36,730 --> 00:29:39,630 and so he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan 7 times as 522 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,430 the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and 523 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,210 became clean like that of a young boy. 524 00:29:44,270 --> 00:29:46,480 And it's kind of a funny image like it's like comes out and 525 00:29:46,490 --> 00:29:51,180 he's like got like smooth skin. Then Naaman and his attendance 526 00:29:51,190 --> 00:29:53,320 went back to the man of God and he stood before him. 527 00:29:53,330 --> 00:29:54,760 And this is what's so interesting. 528 00:29:54,770 --> 00:29:58,080 You get this, this Gentile, he says, now I know that there is 529 00:29:58,090 --> 00:30:01,400 no God in all the world except in Israel. 530 00:30:01,650 --> 00:30:06,210 So you get this guy who declares God as God, right? 531 00:30:06,220 --> 00:30:09,540 Who, who has been healed and recognizes the God of the 532 00:30:09,550 --> 00:30:16,290 universe, You know, long before, long before Jesus, that was on 533 00:30:16,300 --> 00:30:17,490 earth. Like it's just a it's a 534 00:30:17,500 --> 00:30:23,280 fascinating little parallel that in some ways the the hearers, 535 00:30:23,290 --> 00:30:25,940 the early hearers of these words, the Jewish hearers of 536 00:30:25,950 --> 00:30:29,750 these words should have called to mind it should have reminded 537 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,080 them of this passage. Oht God's been doing this thing 538 00:30:32,090 --> 00:30:33,830 with Gentiles for a real long time. 539 00:30:33,900 --> 00:30:37,800 God's been operating outside of the kind of the the Kingdom or 540 00:30:37,810 --> 00:30:40,990 the temple, the bounds of the temple. 541 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,320 God's been doing stuff outside of that for a long. 542 00:30:43,330 --> 00:30:46,170 Time I almost wonder if the 9 they're like, Hey, should we be 543 00:30:46,180 --> 00:30:48,750 like jumping in the river as we go like 7 times? 544 00:30:48,870 --> 00:30:51,430 Like remember that story? But the so the the one 545 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:56,130 difference that I love in these two accounts is you get so it's 546 00:30:56,140 --> 00:30:59,540 it's a Leisha here, right? So you get a Leisha who tells 547 00:30:59,610 --> 00:31:05,240 Naaman to go and cleanse himself in the river 7 times and then 548 00:31:05,250 --> 00:31:08,920 you get Jesus who just says go, you're already made. 549 00:31:08,930 --> 00:31:13,700 Well, more powerful there is. No, like there's no, there's no 550 00:31:13,710 --> 00:31:16,100 sacrifice they have to make. There is no step they have to 551 00:31:16,110 --> 00:31:18,260 take. All, all they need to do is turn 552 00:31:18,270 --> 00:31:22,180 and go. And so it is like, while I mean 553 00:31:22,190 --> 00:31:25,280 it, it, it, it's meant to be very similar. 554 00:31:25,290 --> 00:31:28,090 Like we're meant to see these as connections and we're meant to 555 00:31:28,100 --> 00:31:29,630 see the distinctions between the two. 556 00:31:29,690 --> 00:31:31,830 Yeah. And I just, I love that, you 557 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:38,230 know, for, for Jesus here in his role, he is able to say, hey, 558 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,370 you don't even have to, you don't even have to jump in the 559 00:31:40,380 --> 00:31:45,040 river 7 times anymore. Like those sacrifice on your 560 00:31:45,050 --> 00:31:50,540 behalf at this point has not literally been made, but inside 561 00:31:50,550 --> 00:31:54,120 of the scheme of salvation history, yeah, has been made. 562 00:31:54,170 --> 00:31:55,720 This side of the cross has been made. 563 00:31:55,730 --> 00:32:01,620 So I you know, it it, it again just points us toward Jesus as 564 00:32:01,630 --> 00:32:03,960 the ultimate fulfillment of all of these. 565 00:32:03,970 --> 00:32:08,560 So Jesus is standing as prophet and he's standing as priest and 566 00:32:08,610 --> 00:32:11,660 fulfilling this role as temple. So let's talk about then just 567 00:32:11,670 --> 00:32:15,840 really briefly, because I think that the Naamans story does 568 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,630 double down on this idea that there's something different 569 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:24,050 about the Samaritan who is healed. 570 00:32:24,100 --> 00:32:27,410 Jesus says to him, rise and go. Your faith has made you well. 571 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:33,450 And I'm so in in my like NIV translation here in 14 where he 572 00:32:33,460 --> 00:32:38,520 says initially to them, go show yourselves to the priests as 573 00:32:38,530 --> 00:32:42,470 they went, they were cleansed and then rise go your faith has 574 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,100 made you well. Did you and your study notice 575 00:32:45,110 --> 00:32:49,120 differences between those two, those two words, the 576 00:32:49,130 --> 00:32:52,100 implications of them? I know we talked about how your 577 00:32:52,110 --> 00:32:54,920 faith has made you well means far more. 578 00:32:54,980 --> 00:32:58,000 I think Naaman story double s down on it because he sees he 579 00:32:58,010 --> 00:33:02,000 names God as the true God. And so that implication is there 580 00:33:02,010 --> 00:33:05,320 also for the Samaritan that he's naming God as the true God and 581 00:33:05,430 --> 00:33:11,210 kind of rejecting other forms of God, the gods worship, etcetera. 582 00:33:11,220 --> 00:33:13,830 He's like he's zeroed in on the real deal here. 583 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,650 Yeah. So talk to us a little bit about 584 00:33:15,660 --> 00:33:17,230 the difference that happens there. 585 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,510 So, so cleansed. I don't recall. 586 00:33:19,580 --> 00:33:21,370 I don't think I looked up that word exactly. 587 00:33:21,380 --> 00:33:24,140 It's not the same or it's, it's, it's not, it's certainly not the 588 00:33:24,150 --> 00:33:32,430 same because the idea of made well, which I looked up, I 589 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:37,310 looked up the Greek in my, I have these, I have these like 590 00:33:37,420 --> 00:33:41,990 they're like King James Bible like that. 591 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,360 You look up the word in the King James and then you, it's a very 592 00:33:44,370 --> 00:33:45,860 old school. You can just, you can just do it 593 00:33:45,870 --> 00:33:47,380 online. But I, I sometimes like the 594 00:33:47,390 --> 00:33:50,710 physicality of like I'm going to look up the, the, the word in, 595 00:33:50,750 --> 00:33:53,460 in the, the gold King James and then look it up in this like 596 00:33:53,470 --> 00:33:58,280 big, thick, like 3 inch thick lexical, you know, dictionary 597 00:33:58,370 --> 00:34:01,420 and you go in and the word, whatever it was, I can't recall 598 00:34:01,430 --> 00:34:03,960 exactly. It took up about 3 pages. 599 00:34:03,970 --> 00:34:05,640 So. So yeah. 600 00:34:06,860 --> 00:34:08,659 Yes, yes, yeah. I mean, you know, more than I 601 00:34:08,670 --> 00:34:11,639 do, but it like it took up so much space. 602 00:34:11,710 --> 00:34:16,100 And I was like, this is clearly very complicated in terms of 603 00:34:16,110 --> 00:34:20,060 like, in terms of its use case, in terms of its, you know, like 604 00:34:20,070 --> 00:34:23,020 the complexity of of how it's used. 605 00:34:23,250 --> 00:34:29,420 So there's a lot going on. Most scholars would say the ten 606 00:34:29,429 --> 00:34:32,159 were all healed of their affliction, their physical 607 00:34:32,170 --> 00:34:39,190 affliction. The Samaritan was saved right 608 00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:43,210 in, in, in the sense in the, in the, the sense in which we think 609 00:34:43,219 --> 00:34:47,159 of someone being saved today, someone receives Jesus, as you 610 00:34:47,170 --> 00:34:49,620 know, like the classic, like evangelical evangelical 611 00:34:49,630 --> 00:34:51,989 language, like receive Jesus as Lord and Savior, right? 612 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,270 And that's what happens here, right? 613 00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:57,350 That is there. This is a a turning point and a 614 00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,050 salvation moment for the Samaritan. 615 00:35:00,660 --> 00:35:03,270 And, and even in the language and I highlighted this, you 616 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,660 know, this, this yesterday of like the rise and go language 617 00:35:05,670 --> 00:35:09,840 being being resurrection language that that is like, yes, 618 00:35:09,990 --> 00:35:12,400 I know that he's literally at the at Jesus's feet. 619 00:35:12,450 --> 00:35:15,700 Yeah, but but he's he's saying like, hey, like get up. 620 00:35:15,710 --> 00:35:19,280 This is you are you are rising into new life. 621 00:35:19,650 --> 00:35:23,520 Like it's so it's so profound and so intentional. 622 00:35:23,530 --> 00:35:25,410 The way that Jesus speaks to this man. 623 00:35:25,420 --> 00:35:28,300 He's like, get up. You have a new lease on life. 624 00:35:28,370 --> 00:35:31,640 You are, you are being raised to life in a new way into a new 625 00:35:31,650 --> 00:35:34,680 life in the same way that in in, you know, the Gospel of John, 626 00:35:34,750 --> 00:35:38,570 Jesus describes with with Nicodemus this idea of, of being 627 00:35:38,580 --> 00:35:40,990 born again. This this Samaritan has been 628 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,380 born again. He has been not just made well, 629 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:47,270 physically, you know, with, with new baby skin like naming. 630 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:51,630 Yeah, yeah, yeah. But but he has been saved. 631 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:53,270 Yeah, yeah. That's good. 632 00:35:53,580 --> 00:35:55,090 Yeah. It's interesting to me that that 633 00:35:55,100 --> 00:35:57,630 word so. So So that word in Greek is 634 00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:01,440 translated as healed and saved and all. 635 00:36:01,450 --> 00:36:02,520 It gets confused. Exactly. 636 00:36:02,530 --> 00:36:06,690 The only difference is the immediate context, but the 637 00:36:06,700 --> 00:36:09,900 implication is that you you're never reading 1 without the 638 00:36:09,910 --> 00:36:10,960 other. Yeah, right. 639 00:36:10,970 --> 00:36:14,080 Like that's the implication of that word is that to be healed 640 00:36:14,090 --> 00:36:16,060 is to be saved. To be saved is to be healed. 641 00:36:16,070 --> 00:36:22,240 Like it all of the the person is implicated in the thing. 642 00:36:22,510 --> 00:36:25,130 Your spiritual life, your physical life, your emotional, 643 00:36:25,140 --> 00:36:29,840 relational, social, all of the things are meant to be 644 00:36:29,890 --> 00:36:32,400 integrated into what Jesus does when he gets hold of you. 645 00:36:32,450 --> 00:36:34,880 I love this. So this is it's baptism language 646 00:36:34,950 --> 00:36:38,840 is what you're saying. Like like rise and go is 647 00:36:39,030 --> 00:36:43,110 language of baptism like to to be raised with Christ. 648 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:46,490 Plug for baptisms on June. 7th baptism Sunday. 649 00:36:46,500 --> 00:36:48,160 Yeah. And we will dunk you in the 650 00:36:48,170 --> 00:36:50,370 tank, Yeah. And then we will raise you up, 651 00:36:50,380 --> 00:36:52,840 and then we'll say to you, God. Like, not if your baby though. 652 00:36:53,240 --> 00:36:57,460 Well, within reason, right? How young is too young to be 653 00:36:57,470 --> 00:36:58,980 dunked? That's that's that's what I'm 654 00:36:58,990 --> 00:37:00,560 thinking. Podcast for another. 655 00:37:00,570 --> 00:37:04,390 Day. So it is the IT is the rise and 656 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:08,050 then go, the go of vocation. Like the go your life is now. 657 00:37:08,060 --> 00:37:12,710 Like you're being sent, your life is released to be lived 658 00:37:12,720 --> 00:37:14,670 differently. And I'd love to know what this 659 00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,490 guy's life is life like after, you know, like, like what his 660 00:37:17,500 --> 00:37:21,290 what Like, does he go back to Samaria like you? 661 00:37:21,300 --> 00:37:23,930 I kind of assume he does. Like, I kind of assume he goes 662 00:37:23,940 --> 00:37:27,040 back to Samaria and and I mean, again, that's where he's going 663 00:37:27,050 --> 00:37:31,000 to be accepted for, you know, and not rejected as unclean and 664 00:37:31,010 --> 00:37:34,030 whatnot. But like I just what is his life 665 00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:35,940 look like? Does he, is he like the, you 666 00:37:35,950 --> 00:37:39,900 know, the woman at the well and John four that that's that she 667 00:37:39,910 --> 00:37:42,900 becomes a little evangelist for for Jesus once she's received 668 00:37:42,910 --> 00:37:47,180 salvation, you know, does he go back home and and live like that 669 00:37:47,190 --> 00:37:49,560 woman? You know, like, yeah. 670 00:37:49,610 --> 00:37:52,280 It, I mean, it does. I asked the same question it 671 00:37:52,290 --> 00:37:55,800 reminds me of So an axe. There's the story of the 672 00:37:55,810 --> 00:38:04,130 Ethiopian Munich and so it's in eight Acts chapter 8 and it, you 673 00:38:04,140 --> 00:38:06,520 know, if we were to just continue from Luke into Acts, 674 00:38:06,530 --> 00:38:08,790 we'll get there eventually. We'll see. 675 00:38:09,300 --> 00:38:11,450 But. I gave a little wink on. 676 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:13,820 I've hinted at that. We're not going, we're not going 677 00:38:13,830 --> 00:38:16,450 to go immediately into Acts, but we are, we are going to, we'll, 678 00:38:16,460 --> 00:38:20,230 we'll do Acts at some point. And so in Acts Chapter 8, we get 679 00:38:20,240 --> 00:38:24,350 Philip in Samaria. So you get like the very similar 680 00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:25,940 location to this. Moment. 681 00:38:25,950 --> 00:38:29,790 I had forgotten about that. And then so he interacts with 682 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:35,570 this dude, Simon the sorcerer. And then so in, in like partway 683 00:38:35,580 --> 00:38:41,490 through 8, the an Angel says to Philip go South to the road, the 684 00:38:41,500 --> 00:38:44,830 desert Rd. that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. 685 00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:48,170 And so he starts out and he meets this Ethiopian eunuch and 686 00:38:48,180 --> 00:38:50,750 he, the Ethiopian eunuch is baptized. 687 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,990 So again, we get this very similar story that doesn't have 688 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,030 leprosy, but he is a, he is a gentile. 689 00:38:56,040 --> 00:39:01,230 He is outside of the bounds of, of Judaism and what that 690 00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:04,110 understanding of covenant people would have looked like. 691 00:39:04,180 --> 00:39:10,710 He, he there's this great line where the, the Ethiopian eunuch 692 00:39:10,720 --> 00:39:15,070 is reading the book of Isaiah and Phillips understand. 693 00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,210 Yeah, Phillips, like, do you understand what you're eating, 694 00:39:17,220 --> 00:39:18,630 dude? Like, how could I possibly 695 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:19,970 unless someone explains it to me? 696 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:24,870 And then on the road, So Philip ran up to the chariot and heard. 697 00:39:24,940 --> 00:39:28,730 And then he says he So he like, it's like he hops in dudes like, 698 00:39:28,740 --> 00:39:31,950 OK, he he invites the Ethiopian eunuch, invited Philip to come 699 00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:36,610 up and sit with him. And then on the road, Phillip 700 00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,530 explains what this guy's been reading. 701 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,810 He gets baptized. Is like, look, here's water. 702 00:39:42,900 --> 00:39:44,630 Can we go do the thing right now? 703 00:39:44,730 --> 00:39:48,460 I I love the way you phrases it. What can stand in the way of my 704 00:39:48,470 --> 00:39:49,990 being baptized? Like it's. 705 00:39:50,030 --> 00:39:51,290 It's so fun. Like like. 706 00:39:51,300 --> 00:39:54,340 Yeah, surely nothing, right. And he's like, there's water 707 00:39:54,350 --> 00:39:56,920 right here and so let's do the thing. 708 00:39:56,930 --> 00:39:59,520 And then he gets baptized. And I, I love this. 709 00:39:59,530 --> 00:40:03,560 It's a similar kind of. You know, he, he keeps like the 710 00:40:03,570 --> 00:40:05,940 the Ethiopian eunuch on his on his way. 711 00:40:06,010 --> 00:40:09,020 Yeah. But man, do we know from church 712 00:40:09,030 --> 00:40:14,020 history how Christianity exploded and where it went and 713 00:40:14,030 --> 00:40:16,760 how it traveled. And I go, who knows what this 714 00:40:16,770 --> 00:40:20,840 guy took with him as he went. And I I so I read, you know, I 715 00:40:20,850 --> 00:40:24,760 read this Luke 17, the story of the Samaritan in the same way. 716 00:40:24,770 --> 00:40:30,500 And I go, man, like we, we can't grasp or comprehend the impact 717 00:40:30,510 --> 00:40:34,530 that a single person whose life is grabbed, told of by Jesus, 718 00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:38,950 healed in a very real way, and then released is going to have 719 00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:41,240 on the people around that person. 720 00:40:41,340 --> 00:40:45,830 So man, like that's if for me, I read it and I go, I, I wish I 721 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:47,550 knew. And then you kind of read back 722 00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:49,750 into church history. You see where Christianity 723 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,530 explodes and moves to and you go, you know what? 724 00:40:52,540 --> 00:40:57,230 We kind of don't have to know because it's very probable. 725 00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,490 I mean, and again, this one person, how many people? 726 00:40:59,500 --> 00:41:05,150 But like, we see him at his life, his rise go, your faith 727 00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,680 has made you well. And you go that dude, his life 728 00:41:07,690 --> 00:41:08,700 was changed. Yeah. 729 00:41:08,790 --> 00:41:10,790 And he carried that with him wherever he went. 730 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:12,820 Doesn't matter where the where the where was. 731 00:41:12,830 --> 00:41:15,030 Yeah, whether he went back home, whether he stuck around 732 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:16,260 somewhere else, you know, and there. 733 00:41:16,270 --> 00:41:17,330 Yeah. So like there's this 734 00:41:17,370 --> 00:41:20,300 missiological component that we didn't really get into in the in 735 00:41:20,310 --> 00:41:24,060 the sermon itself and even in this passage in in Acts 8, 736 00:41:24,070 --> 00:41:26,520 right. Of of like, hey, the, the, the 737 00:41:26,530 --> 00:41:29,400 gospel is exploding all over the place. 738 00:41:29,690 --> 00:41:34,390 And, and, you know, we, we need to be aware of, we need, we 739 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:38,630 wanted to notice what Jesus is doing and with whom. 740 00:41:38,690 --> 00:41:41,630 And that matters, right? Because sometimes Jesus is going 741 00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:48,950 to use very unlikely people and situations to, to, to further 742 00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:52,690 the Kingdom in, in these unexpected places, you know, 743 00:41:52,700 --> 00:41:57,850 like North America, the West doesn't have the keys to the 744 00:41:57,860 --> 00:42:02,050 Kingdom, you know, and, and there is something that, you 745 00:42:02,060 --> 00:42:05,780 know, we need to be humbled in this, right? 746 00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:09,560 And even when you think about just the way that the gospels 747 00:42:09,570 --> 00:42:12,260 popping off in, in, in so many other parts of the world right 748 00:42:12,270 --> 00:42:16,580 now, it is, it is a very humbling reminder that that God, 749 00:42:16,650 --> 00:42:19,600 you know, God is going to use me and God's going to use you, but 750 00:42:19,610 --> 00:42:21,800 he doesn't like, he doesn't need me or doesn't need you. 751 00:42:21,810 --> 00:42:24,180 Like he's doing his thing all all over the world, right? 752 00:42:24,190 --> 00:42:27,800 And the profound way. So talk to us about as a final 753 00:42:27,810 --> 00:42:33,780 point, this arc, this big arc that you mentioned on Sunday, 754 00:42:33,790 --> 00:42:38,380 which is that in some way, so we get these lepers, this colony of 755 00:42:38,390 --> 00:42:42,380 people who all are suffering from variations of affliction. 756 00:42:43,170 --> 00:42:49,390 And you know, we have, we've got for people who are Jewish, we've 757 00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:53,120 got Samaritans, we've got presumably others. 758 00:42:53,990 --> 00:42:57,810 Um, at the beginning, they're all living life together. 759 00:42:58,530 --> 00:43:02,980 It's like the their illness breaks down these social 760 00:43:02,990 --> 00:43:04,280 barriers. Yeah. 761 00:43:04,350 --> 00:43:09,660 And then throughout the majority of the story, they're they're 762 00:43:09,670 --> 00:43:11,730 like, OK, are we, are we together? 763 00:43:11,740 --> 00:43:13,050 Are we not together? Yeah. 764 00:43:13,100 --> 00:43:14,980 Or you get the nine who go, you get the one who comes away. 765 00:43:14,990 --> 00:43:16,590 And then they, they kind of separate. 766 00:43:17,220 --> 00:43:22,890 And then we get what Jesus is doing, which transcends barrier 767 00:43:23,060 --> 00:43:27,150 and division that we would construct and see and make and 768 00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:33,310 naturally experience. So it it, it talks to us about 769 00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:39,150 how like you alluded to the, the leper colony in some way almost 770 00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:43,680 representing and fuller measure the Kingdom, like the community 771 00:43:43,730 --> 00:43:46,240 within the Kingdom of God, what Jesus wants to do. 772 00:43:46,310 --> 00:43:51,320 Yeah, on like the other side of the narrative arc here, when 773 00:43:51,330 --> 00:43:56,030 things are made well, like they are for this Samaritan. 774 00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:57,810 Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, OK. 775 00:43:57,860 --> 00:44:00,810 And I didn't use this analogy in the sermon, but it did keep 776 00:44:00,820 --> 00:44:02,510 coming to mind. And it's coming to mind again, 777 00:44:03,300 --> 00:44:08,520 this idea of like a bunch of like teenagers that go away for 778 00:44:08,530 --> 00:44:10,290 like summer camp. Hmm. 779 00:44:10,330 --> 00:44:12,380 And, and, and just like work with me here. 780 00:44:12,390 --> 00:44:17,140 So, so like you get kids from all sorts of backgrounds, all 781 00:44:17,150 --> 00:44:19,100 sorts of eight, like stages of life. 782 00:44:19,110 --> 00:44:21,560 And you know, like, like they're all within a, you know, a 783 00:44:21,570 --> 00:44:22,700 relative age bracket or whatever. 784 00:44:22,710 --> 00:44:25,460 But like they're all coming from all over the province or even 785 00:44:25,470 --> 00:44:28,340 the country or whatever. And they all come together and 786 00:44:28,350 --> 00:44:30,640 it's just this weird mishmash of people, right. 787 00:44:30,750 --> 00:44:35,320 And like, invariably by the end of the week, hopefully, you 788 00:44:35,330 --> 00:44:39,090 know, if, if they if things have gone well, these kids from all 789 00:44:39,100 --> 00:44:42,670 these like, crazy backgrounds and house and, and houses and 790 00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,570 families and situations, they are like, they're all singing, 791 00:44:45,580 --> 00:44:47,460 you know, proverbial kumbaya together. 792 00:44:47,470 --> 00:44:50,120 And like, they, like, there's something so beautiful about 793 00:44:50,130 --> 00:44:51,190 that. And we experience that. 794 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:53,170 I work. I know you worked at Fair Havens 795 00:44:53,180 --> 00:44:56,770 when you were a teenager. I worked at the rival Muskoka. 796 00:44:57,970 --> 00:45:00,850 Yeah. And, And so like, similar 797 00:45:00,860 --> 00:45:01,940 things. And obviously there's always 798 00:45:01,950 --> 00:45:03,890 like, tensions and some challenges, especially like if, 799 00:45:03,900 --> 00:45:06,150 you know, people start dating and then they break up and all 800 00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:08,060 that. But like, there is something 801 00:45:08,070 --> 00:45:10,400 like this, this little bubble, this little bubble that they 802 00:45:10,410 --> 00:45:13,460 were in that we were in. There's something really 803 00:45:13,470 --> 00:45:14,880 beautiful. I remember coming home, I was 804 00:45:14,890 --> 00:45:17,760 16, from, like, my first summer. And I just like, started crying 805 00:45:17,770 --> 00:45:19,650 because I was just like, I was tired and emotional, but I was 806 00:45:19,660 --> 00:45:21,560 just like, I just miss all my friends, you know? 807 00:45:21,570 --> 00:45:23,590 Like there was this beautiful community in this beautiful 808 00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:25,920 connection that was built. And there's like this like, 809 00:45:25,990 --> 00:45:27,340 yeah, something beautiful about that. 810 00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,680 That was like a little like, I just was thinking about that as 811 00:45:31,690 --> 00:45:33,380 I thought about this leper colony. 812 00:45:33,390 --> 00:45:35,600 Yeah, yeah. And also because you know, 813 00:45:35,750 --> 00:45:38,430 there's lies. Was just gonna say head lice. 814 00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:40,460 Everybody throws up at the same time. 815 00:45:40,470 --> 00:45:43,650 He ever gets gastro? Living in close quarters at all 816 00:45:43,660 --> 00:45:45,840 just goes around. Yeah. 817 00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:50,250 So there's, there's some overlap, but, but no, like from 818 00:45:50,260 --> 00:45:53,300 a, from a biblical perspective, the first thing that comes to 819 00:45:53,310 --> 00:45:56,350 mind escalations theory, you know, and when Paul is, is 820 00:45:56,360 --> 00:46:00,720 writing about what the Kingdom of God looks like and, and, and 821 00:46:00,730 --> 00:46:04,080 who we are as God's children. So I think it's just worth 822 00:46:04,090 --> 00:46:10,480 reading the end of Galatians 3. So in Christ Jesus you are all 823 00:46:10,490 --> 00:46:14,470 children of God through faith, for all of you are baptized into 824 00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,220 Christ. And who clothe yourself with 825 00:46:16,230 --> 00:46:18,160 Christ. There is neither Jew nor 826 00:46:18,170 --> 00:46:19,640 Gentile. That's obviously the most 827 00:46:19,650 --> 00:46:22,820 important thing for us here. Neither slave nor free, nor is 828 00:46:22,830 --> 00:46:27,120 nor is there male and female. For you are one in Christ Jesus. 829 00:46:27,230 --> 00:46:32,080 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs 830 00:46:32,150 --> 00:46:36,780 according to their promise. And that's like, that is a whole 831 00:46:36,790 --> 00:46:40,060 other episode, like just unpacking what what Paul means 832 00:46:40,070 --> 00:46:44,420 by if you are in Christ, you are, you are a part of the line 833 00:46:44,430 --> 00:46:47,960 of Abraham, right? And and and like, I don't think 834 00:46:48,150 --> 00:46:52,440 the the Jewish lepers would have necessarily agreed with that, 835 00:46:52,530 --> 00:46:56,100 right? But yet they were functionally 836 00:46:56,110 --> 00:46:59,520 living in a way that was saying, Hey, we're all in this together. 837 00:47:00,510 --> 00:47:04,140 We are all we're, we're, we're all dealing with the same 838 00:47:04,150 --> 00:47:06,980 affliction. We are all humbled right now. 839 00:47:07,570 --> 00:47:11,070 And so there is something significant about even even if 840 00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:14,020 it didn't stay that in the same way that, you know, summer camp, 841 00:47:14,030 --> 00:47:15,290 you all gotta go home at some point. 842 00:47:15,300 --> 00:47:17,930 Yeah. Like, these guys all were healed 843 00:47:17,940 --> 00:47:21,470 and went their own way. There's something significant 844 00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:25,810 about the fact that they were living in this, in this 845 00:47:25,820 --> 00:47:31,300 community together, all sharing their lives together. 846 00:47:31,590 --> 00:47:33,120 Yeah. They were, they were living. 847 00:47:33,130 --> 00:47:35,700 Here's here's the language that I find hits for me. 848 00:47:35,710 --> 00:47:37,260 They were living as though it were true. 849 00:47:38,030 --> 00:47:40,320 Yes, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Already, Yeah. 850 00:47:40,390 --> 00:47:43,240 And I think that's like that's the invitation for us is like to 851 00:47:43,250 --> 00:47:46,020 live as though it was. It's already true, yes, because 852 00:47:46,030 --> 00:47:47,840 it doesn't feel it all the time. No. 853 00:47:47,850 --> 00:47:50,640 And we still see. But like there's a choice to 854 00:47:50,650 --> 00:47:54,570 live as though it is true. And I think that's that's a 855 00:47:54,580 --> 00:47:56,740 that's a great place. That's a hopeful place, I think, 856 00:47:56,750 --> 00:48:02,150 to end our episode for today. And even just to say like to 857 00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:07,550 that end, yes, there can be like an idealism, like a naivete in 858 00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:10,350 some ways. And yet I have to believe, I 859 00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:16,030 have to believe that God wants for us to to live out this 860 00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:19,230 reality of there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor 861 00:48:19,240 --> 00:48:21,810 free nor male or female. Not that our differences don't 862 00:48:21,820 --> 00:48:23,500 matter. Our differences exist, they're 863 00:48:23,510 --> 00:48:26,730 plain to see, but that in Christ we are one. 864 00:48:26,740 --> 00:48:30,350 And that is, that is the goal that we will strive for until 865 00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,890 the end. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. 866 00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:36,680 So we hope that this episode has been encouraging to you and 867 00:48:36,780 --> 00:48:39,610 challenges you to live as though it were true today. 868 00:48:39,620 --> 00:48:46,370 We believe it is and that life is better when we work toward 869 00:48:46,700 --> 00:48:49,850 community in this way. So again, please know that we're 870 00:48:49,860 --> 00:48:52,230 praying for you. We hope that you have a great 871 00:48:52,240 --> 00:48:54,960 rest of the week and we will catch you in our next episode.