Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?”
From Background Notes [BN] for November 17th & 18th
written by Pastor Bob Brown:
Here is
the ultimate anti-thanksgiving story.
No need
to tell your servant thank-you. No expectation from the servant that his master
will do so. Instead, the servant must bow and confess that he hasn’t done
enough: only his duty, and as an unworthy servant at that (17:7-10). There’s
not a lot of motivational theory in the parable, but it reveals a lot about the
attitudes of the Pharisee community. They believed good works constituted a claim
on God, putting Him in their debt. By contrast, Jesus will argue in this
week’s text, that the disciples are not supposed to seek thanks, but to give
it instead, for they are servants of the Lord. The parable serves as the
perfect foil for the story that Luke now tells us. [BN, 2]
Join us this week in Study, Worship, Praise and Celebration at Chicago First Church of the Nazarene:
* Saturday 6:00pm
* Sunday 8:30am & 11:00am
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