A Thankful Samaritan
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In Luke 17, Jesus miraculously healed ten lepers—yet only one praised God and returned in gratitude to fall at Jesus’ feet. What did this man realize that the other nine seemed to miss? Find out when you study along with Alistair Begg on Truth For Life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Truth for Life where we are studying the Gospel of Luke, and today |
| 0:29.0 | Alastur Begg is teaching from chapter 17, the story in which Jesus miraculously heals |
| 0:35.1 | 10 lepers, but only one returns, praising God and thanking Jesus. |
| 0:41.3 | What did this man realize that the other nine seem to miss? |
| 0:45.8 | We'll find out today. |
| 0:52.3 | When you read this story, at first glance, it may appear that the incident is in the Bible |
| 0:57.2 | simply to provide us with a lesson in thankfulness. |
| 1:02.0 | Or if you like, the fact that the ingratitude of the nine is proportional, if you like, |
| 1:10.2 | that it is a more common situation than we are prepared to admit. |
| 1:15.7 | You may recall, and you can turn back to chapter one just to verify it, but you may recall |
| 1:20.4 | that in chapter one, as we were introduced to the gospel, we discovered there that Luke was |
| 1:26.2 | telling us that he was bringing his physician's mind to bear upon the subject, conducting a very careful investigation into everything, and making sure that he was writing an orderly account. And the reason he was writing an orderly account was in order that the people might know the certainty of the things |
| 1:45.3 | that they had been taught. Now, it is in light of that that we find in providing information |
| 1:53.0 | here back in chapter 17, which is germane to the subject. So that the opening phrase in verse 11, now on his way to Jerusalem, |
| 2:03.6 | is not filler, you know. We know that for Luke to write this phrase, now on his way to Jerusalem, |
| 2:11.5 | is significant in light of all that he has been unfolding in his gospel. |
| 2:20.6 | And the underlying question that he is answering |
| 2:24.2 | is a question that it will be in the minds of some who are here this morning. |
| 2:29.0 | And it is this, who is Jesus of Nazareth? |
| 2:33.9 | And why did he come? The Gospels are not essentially an unfolding |
| 2:40.8 | chronology. As much as they are a biography, they are a depiction of who Jesus is and what Jesus did. |
| 2:50.7 | And that's why I want to take you in a brief rehearsal of what we |
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