"Your Faith has saved you"

My Sunday Scripture 2010.10.10.

{The text:Luke 17:11-19)
Now it happened that on the way to Jerusalem he was travelling in the borderlands of Samaria and Galilee.

As he entered one of the villages, ten men suffering from a virulent skin-disease came to meet him. They stood some way off and called to him, 'Jesus! Master! Take pity on us.'

When he saw them he said, 'Go and show yourselves to the priests.' Now as they were going away they were cleansed.

Finding himself cured, one of them turned back praising God at the top of his voice
and threw himself prostrate at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. The man was a Samaritan.

This led Jesus to say, 'Were not all ten made clean? The other nine, where are they?

It seems that no one has come back to give praise to God, except this foreigner.'

And he said to the man, 'Stand up and go on your way. Your faith has saved you.'


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My Reading Notes:
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This is the repeated message for many times in Bible. And this time one more element was added. Faith itself includes thankfulness. If one is to have faith, no matter how small that faith is, even small as a mustard seed, that faith would save us. And thankfulness is included in the small mustard seed.

And I shall not forget: That which constituted faith, is love. Without love, faith is not faith.