Part 3 | A Lawyer, A Priest, A Samaritan, and Jesus…

From Luke 10:25-37

The lawyer was by words.  

📖 Luke 10:20-21 (ESV)  20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.

📖 Luke 10:25b (ESV)  saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

📖 Proverbs 16:2 (ESV)  All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the LORD weights the spirit.

The lawyer was

📖 Luke 10:26-27 (ESV)  26 He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” 27 And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” 

📖 Deuteronomy 6:5 (ESV)  You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Exodus 20:1-20, The Ten Commandments:

  • 1-4 Love God
  • 5-10 Love your neighbor

The is about being a .

📖 Luke 10:28 (ESV)  28 And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.

The lawyer to come to the .

📖 Luke 10:29 (ESV)  29 But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” 

📖 John 5:39 (ESV) 39 You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.

Jesus our .

📖 Luke 10:30 (ESV)  Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. 

📖 Luke 10:31-32 (ESV)  Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he SAW him he passed by on the other side. 32 So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 

📖 Luke 10:33 (ESV)  But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, and when he saw him, he had compassion.

“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.”

Elie Wiesel

We set our for the until see were the .

is the Good Samaritan:

1. is the who sees us.

📖 Luke 10:33a (ESV)  33 But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him,..

2. is the who has for us.

📖 Luke 10:33b (ESV)  33  and when he saw him, he had compassion.

3. is the who the for us.

📖 Luke 10:34 (ESV)  34 He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay.

4. is the who for us.

📖 Luke 10:35b (ESV) 35b …I will repay you when I come back.’ 

5. is the who to .

📖 Luke 10:36-37 (ESV) 36 Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?” 37 He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” And Jesus said to him, “You go, and do likewise.”

HOW CAN WE BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR?

A. We can – Psalm 34:18

B. We can – Mathew 9:36

C. We can – Luke 1:3-4

D. We can – Luke – 16:9

Sermon in a Sentence:

When we as we are, we can rightly follow the of who the .

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