Recreate Church, Pastor Michael Shockley—Service, Sunday, March 10, 2024

The REsource and THE Source. Today, Pastor Michael is kicking off on “Scarcity Mentality”, a mindset that forces one to focus on only the lack of resources.  The heart of the message is, “Use the resource, trust the source.”  The source, Jesus, will never run out! Jesus is on His last trip to Jerusalem, coming from Galilee, knowing He will be crucified, rise from the grave, and defeat death and the devil. He is coming down from Samaria with ten men, lepers, who are calling out for mercy. These men had a true scarcity mentality, as lepers of those days had almost no resources available and were shunned by society. Jesus told the men to go and show themselves to the priests, and they were healed.  One, a Samaritan, came back to Jesus and gave thanks.  Jesus asked, “Were not ten cleansed?” as ten were who cried out and Jesus told the ten to go to the priests.  Yet, only one, a Samaritan, a foreigner, came to give thanks for the healing.  Jesus told the man that his faith had made him well.  The other nine used the resource but did not trust the source…the Samaritan trusted THE source: Jesus. (CSB Bible Notes) It is striking that the only one of the ten men who had healed and returned and thanked Jesus was a Samaritan . . . a foreigner. This is in keeping with Luke’s theme of the universal outreach of the gospel. Jesus’s statement your faith has saved you implies that the Samaritan was healed physically and spiritually. Verses can be found in Luke 17: 11-17. Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.