Comparative Study: He Heals All Your Diseases

(5–8 minutes, easy setup)
Provide a dry erase board and a marker.

Point out to learners that one of the best places in the Bible to see examples of thankfulness, praise, and gratitude to God is the Psalms. Explain that Psalm 103:1-5 is an example of thankfulness similar to what the Samaritan leper in today's study must have felt. Read Psalm 103:1-5 and discuss:

In what ways does this Psalm relate to today's passage?
How does meditating on what God has done produce thankfulness?
Is a lack of gratitude sometimes grounded in forgetting what God has done?
Which of the statements in this Psalm can you claim for yourself?
How did Jesus carry out the characteristics that we see of God in this Old Testament passage?