When He saw them, He said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they were going, they were cleansed. Luke 17:14 NAS
Though brief, Luke gives us a clear picture of what James exhorts the Church in his letter. He tells us that those who hear only–are somehow misleading, even deceiving themselves. In so doing, they are missing out on the fullness of promise. These are those who we hear saying, “Oh, I tried that and it just didn’t work for me.”
But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. James 1:22
The lepers received in the doing. The clear implication is that, in doubt, they would not have received, being what James tells us is a double-minded man, unable to receive and would have gone away, not only still leprous, with a wrong understanding of God – deluded. (James 1:6-8)