The title of this message is Thank You. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. And I'd like to take time for a moment to thank those people out there, Donald Grewar, Marna, all those in the Solomon Islands that I don't even know your names, and Nick Moore. Bill in Chicago, Jim in Arizona, Jay in Arizona also. The Cowan brothers in Alabama, I thank you so much. Mark in New York, Marciel in the Philippines, Nancy in Pennsylvania, Daniel, Nick Moore, Roger, All of you people that pray for us and that send donations at times, I thank you so much. If I can do anything for you, you say. If you need e-books or whatever, just say which ones, whatever you're studying. You'll get them. We're studying thank you. Thank you, Jesus. That's the title of this message. Thank you, Jesus. It starts in the 12th verse. or the 11th verse, that is, of the 17th chapter of Luke. And I don't mean to bore you with the Greek language, but we're teaching from Greek. We're coming to English. If you can just put up with a little Greek reading now and then, and maybe you're learning something by it, I hope. That's the language that the Bible was written in. In the New Testament, the Old Testament was translated in the Septuagint from the Hebrew. But we do teach Greek and Hebrew both. 17 and verse 11 hi again a toe and toe Peru a stay a Jerusalem Chi alto the air kit tail Dia mess on some areas Chi Galileo's Now historically This is the last time Jesus will go from Galilee to Jerusalem before his death This is his last trip. The last trip through Samaria. The last trip through all the little towns all the way. And we're going to follow his footsteps and see how he spent the last days of his life. The last days of his life. And it came to pass, or it began, during our Ento'o Porousay, During the trip, or in the trip, inside of the trip, to go to Jerusalem, Esurus Lama. A little old preposition, page 119, Es, extension and limitation of the autobiographical action. And this time he goes all over Jerusalem, in every little corner of Jerusalem. And he continued to pass through the middle of Samaria. He's in Samaria. This is Verbatim, the forbidden city for a Jew to walk through. They went down the Jordan Rift and Valley instead of going this way, which was a lot easier going this way than through the Jordan Valley. But Jesus had people to see and souls to save, and yet more proofs of his messianic credentials. Through Samaria and Galilee. Galilee, of course, means circle. Verse number 17, And entering for himself, entered a certain village. Jesus went into a certain village. And they met him. Now the word I'll told there is actually in parenthesis, but we know it's there as a practical substance, so it doesn't matter. They met him. Ten lepers, deca lepers, men, the ones they stood afar off. Now you have to realize now, leprosy was sometimes cancer. That leprosy was leprosy, and anyway, it was a disfiguring disease, and it was considered contagious. And a leper, when he saw somebody, if he was traveling from one place to another, if he wasn't in some leper colony, he had to say, unclean, unclean, unclean, unclean. Don't come near me. I'm unclean. Now, these lepers, they stood far off. Now, a leprosy was a disease that is so much like sin in our lives. It can only be supernaturally healed. Only supernaturally healed. Kai alto e son phonen, lagontes esu, epistata ele son himos. And they lifted up their voices, crying out and saying, and they did this over and over and over again. This lagontes there is nomine plural masculine present participle active. They kept on saying this over and over and over and over and over again. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Master, Lord, God, Jehovah. Epistata. That means the Most High God. This means Adonai. Epistata. Kyrios. Adonai Adonaiim. Lord of Lords and King of Kings. They recognized Jesus, who He really was. They knew who He was. And voices were crying out loud, Jesus, Jesus, Master, Adonai, Lord, God, have mercy, You have mercy upon us, please have mercy upon us. No hope. They had no hope. They had no hope at all. None. The only hope was to see Jesus. The only hope was to see and experience the healing power of God the Son, the Messiah, HaMashiach, of Israel and Israel. Verse number 14 now. And having seen them, he said to them, Having gone, you show yourselves to the priest. He said, leave. Having gone, you show yourselves. You point out yourselves. Epidexate. It comes from epi and dexname. It means to point out to the priest yourselves. Go to the priest. Prove to the priest that I am God the Son. Prove to the priest that Hamashiach has come. And you show yourselves to the priest. Now what do they do when they go to the priest? First of all, they're healed now. They will take all of their old clothes off and burn them. And they will put on new clothes. And then they will go to the priest and the priest will inspect them. And the priest will inspect every square inch of their body for leprosy. And these people were known lepers. And the priest would have to document it by the work of the scribe. Now we got the priest, now we got the scribes involved. Now remember, these people are going to crucify Christ. The one that they had to give documentation to that these people were healed. And then, when they have the documentation, they go to the priest, they go and make an offering. An offering is typified by our Christ and our Savior and our Lord. They took two turtledoves. Two turtledoves. They took a pair of turtledoves. One turtledove they would take and they would wring its neck and pull its head. It could not pull its head completely from its body and they would take a basin of water They prepared a basin of running water, river water, spring water, living water, and they would take this dove and as his heart would beat, its last beats, the blood would drip into that basin of water and it would be bloody water. When his heart quit beating and when all the blood was drained, they would take the live dove and they would immerse and dip and baptize that live dove into that bloody water and they would take it and turn it loose. That was the offering of a leper. Because of Jesus' death, burial and resurrection, we are set free. Set free. We are the dove that get to fly away. covered by the blood of Jesus. These lepers were the ones that could go away and would not have to holler, unclean, unclean, unclean. It probably would be very hard for them not to do that when they saw another person for a while, because they'd been hollering unclean for so long. You show yourselves to the priest. and they were cleansed and made clean. Verse number 15. Verse number 15 is the oddball verse. Heis de ek al ton e don. Hote e al thei. Ipes trepsen. Meta phones megales. Dox alzon ton theon. Little week adversity conjunctive particle that little day there. It's haste day. That day there is a week adversity conjunctive particle. Page 85 in analytical Greek lexicon. And what it means is furthermore, this verse here is tied to the former verses. And it says, furthermore, following after, because of this, one out of them having seen that he was cured. Iathe. Comes from Iathomai. Third person singular, first aorist, indicative passive. He was cured. He did an about-face. Hephaestrepsin. He did an about-face now. Turned around. And with a voice great. Glorifying doxazone. You heard of a doxology? This is a doxology right here. Glorifying God. In a great voice, he kept glorifying God. He said, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Let's go on a little further now in verse number 16. Kai apessin epi prosopon. Paratus podos autu. Eucariston auto kai autos ein samairites. And he fell upon the face beside the feet of Jesus, of him. Continuously thanking, nominating singular mass in the present part of life, he just kept on saying over and over, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. And he, he kept on being a Samaritan. A dog. One of the people that were looked down upon. Very few times in the Bible does Jesus ever condemn the Samaritans. This man was sanctified because he was released from death and isolation. He was in a, what we call, solitary confinement away from his family, away from everything. He could have only had a few years left. to limp along and suffer. A slow, horrible death was on his way. The type of sin that we are, this leperic sin that we are covered with and born with in this world. We are slowly, slowly dying, every one of us. This man would slowly die and starve to death. Slowly starve to death like the Jewish death camps in Germany. Slowly starving to death. Slowly killing him. Now he was released and he was thankful. So thankful. These outcast Samaritan people were an unusual group in their behavior toward Jesus. Whole villages were saved. While the Jews were trying to kill him, they were trying to get him to stay with them. 17, verse number 17 now. Apocrypha's day holy sooths a pen. Okay, Hawaii DECA Ek, sorry, so they song Hawaii day a Naya poo and Jesus We could burst it conjunct and begin and after this Jesus the Jesus having answered he said Weren't there ten? lepers that were cleansed? Weren't there ten lepers that were cleansed? Weren't there ten? But where are the nine? Why, they were released from their sentence of death as this man. Where are the other nine? Should they not have been thankful? Are you thankful? for that sentence of death that you had upon you in sin, that once you died, you don't cease and go out of existence, but you go into that place called Hades, and you stay there until a great white throne judgment, and then you're cast into the lake of fire forever and ever. Are you thankful? Have you said thank you, Jesus? Can we say thank you, Jesus, so many times? We are cleansed. We are cleansed. He bore our sins. Verse 18, Uk yurei theisam. Kipos trepsantes, du et noe, gedoksa tu theu. Eme, ho, alu, genes, autos. And they were found having returned to give glory to the God. Except the stranger, this one. Who are they? Except this stranger. That word there, this oligines. This one born from another way. Born from illegitimate birth. These are illegitimate Jews, according to the Jews. They're strangers to the providence, strangers to the covenants of God. And he's the only one that came back, this stranger, this dog, this alien. Verse number 19. Cai et paen alto anastas. And he said to him, having risen up, you go for yourself. The faith of you, it has saved you spiritually. Whether these other people were saved or not, we do not know. They were healed. But this man was saved body, spirit and soul. He was spiritually born again. Unlike the others, his leprous spirit was also healed. He was double healed. He was doubly released from death and the death camp of leprosy and sin. Let's go back and read all of this now again. In verse number 11, as he won his way to Jerusalem, it occurred that Jesus was passing along the border between Samaria and Galilee. And he was going into one of the villages and he was met by ten lepers, who stood afar off at a distance because that was the wall. They couldn't come near. And they raised up their voices and called Jesus, Master, take pity and have mercy upon us. And when he saw them, he said to them, go at once and show yourselves to the priest. Prove that I am Messiah and I've healed you. Because now you'll be able to go to church. Before they couldn't go to church. Now they'll be able to go to church after they've made the offering and after they've been, had a paper, a documentation that they were healed from leprosy, they could go to church. They could go back to their homes. They could go back to their families. And they went, and they were cured and made clean. Leviticus 14, two through 32 tells the story of this cleansing. Then one of them, upon seeing that he was cured, turned back, recognizing and thanking and praising God with a loud voice. And he fell, prostate at Jesus' feet, thanking him over and over and over. And he kept on being a Samaritan. He was still a Samaritan after he was cured, except he's a saved Samaritan. And the proud and the damned went on. And Jesus asked, were there not 10 cleansed? Where are the nines? Was there no one found in return to recognize and give thanks and praise to God except this alien? This outcast? And he said to him, get up, go your way. Your faith, that is your trust and confidence that sprang from your belief in God has restored you spiritually. Now, he is restored. In every way he is restored. Spiritually and physically. Have you told Jesus thank you lately? Have you said, Jesus, thank you for saving my soul? We need to do that. Jesus, in teaching his church how to pray, he says, our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Lead us, don't let us be led in temptation. Give us this day our daily bread and for tomorrow For thine is the kingdom, the glory, and the power. Amen. Our Father, we send this message out. If there's one out there lost and don't know you, if they do not know you, touch their heart with your spirit and lead them to you. And those that are saved out there that hear this message, may all of them say, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. grow tired of hearing our voices in praise to you and in prayer. Forgive me where I fail you. Forgive us unworthy servants. We do not merit anything you give us, the salvation, nor the peace, nor the food or the water or the air we breathe. The clothes on our back, shoes on our feet, In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.