Parables Week 2
Parables • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
0 ratings
· 1 viewNotes
Transcript
Announcements
Announcements
Grow Group: September 25th: 6 PM girls, 6:30 PM boys. James Chapter 1
Merch! Hats cost $20, sweatshirts cost $30! Money and sign up must be turned in by October 4th!
Dodgeball tournament! October 7th at North! $300 prize for the winning team! Teams can have up to 7 players. No team can have more than 5 guys on it, however it can have as many girls on it as you would like!
Xtreme Winter ‘23! December 27th-29th, the trip costs a total of $170! A deposit of $50 is due on October 15th!
Trunk-or-Treat! October 28th from 4-6 PM! This is a great way to come and serve! If you have a car sign up to do a trunk! Or sign up to help run a game!
Intro
Intro
We are continuing our series on Parables
What is a parable
What is a parable
A reminder of what a parable is
Parables are one of the primary ways that Jesus teaches His disciples
A Parable is a short story meant to illustrate a truth
Jesus would use parables to teach the disciples, religious leaders, or whoever His audience was a truth about God, Himself, or the issue/sin at hand
Last week we looked at the parable of the lost sheep
Showing that you are never to far from God
Today we are looking at another famous parable
The Good Samaritan
The Good Samaritan
The test
The test
25 And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” 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.” 28 And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”
Jesus is teaching to a crowd of people and a lawyer steps up to challenge him
The lawyer isn’t what we think today, he is someone who studies the Levitical law, not someone that takes people to court
He asks Jesus a question, ultimately challenging his authority
Challenging if Jesus is truly the son of God the one He says He is
Jesus answers the Lawyer by asking what the law says
The lawyer tells him that he is to love God and love others
Jesus says that is correct!
29 But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
The lawyer now seeks to justify himself
To ensure that he is doing the right thing without having to do anything that costs to much effort
He asks Jesus who is my neighbor?
This is the set-up for the parable that Jesus tells!
The lawyer is asking who is my neighbor because he wants to be able to do the bare minimum
The parable
The parable
30 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. 31 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. 33 But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. 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 you when I come back.’
Jesus tells the parable of the Good Samaritan
In the parable we see that a man has been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road
The road he is taking is a dangerous and winding road that is often took so that Jews can avoid Samaria
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
Jews and Samaritans didn’t get a long, so they used this winding path when going from Jerusalem to Jericho to avoid the Samaritans
They were mortal enemies, yet in the parable Jesus tells you see that the Samaritan is the only one that helps the man
The priest is someone who should help the man, yet as we see he leaves the man for dead
The Levite is also someone who should help the man
A Levite is someone who works in the Temple, they are often lawyers, just like this man, yet he too leaves him for dead
Yet it is the Samaritan that decides to do all he can for the man that is dying
He lets him ride his donkey, he bandages his wounds, and he even spares his own money to help the man that is in need
He spares no expense when it comes to helping the man
Then Jesus finishes the parable with a question
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.”
He asks the lawyer, which one was a neighbor to the man?
The lawyer responded by saying it was the one who showed him mercy
Jesus follows that by saying go and do the same
Concluding Parable
Concluding Parable
This parable is one of the most famous parables Jesus told
It’s one that we have looked at before, and one that I think we need to start applying more to our everyday life
In the parable Jesus teaches us three important things
Don’t avoid people
Don’t avoid people
The first thing Jesus shows us is
Don’t avoid people
Jesus tells us that in the parable the man is taking a winding road which causes him to be mugged
The reason he took the road was to avoid the Samaritan people
The people that the Jews believed were less than
Jesus is adding this detail because there is no reason that the man should be avoiding Samaria
Jesus himself in John 4, when he talks to the woman at the well, purposefully goes into Samaria
3 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 4 And he had to pass through Samaria.
He is modeling that we shouldn’t be avoiding people simply because of who they are
We shouldn’t avoid people
Just because people are different, think different, act different we shouldn’t avoid them
Even if they are sinners and are far from God we shouldn’t avoid them
Instead we should be going to them
Don’t judge people
Don’t judge people
The second thing is this
Don’t judge people
The priest and the Levite both looked at the man that was half dead and didn’t offer any help
They left him
Jesus tells us that they both came up to the same place the man was, saw him, and then left him
They saw him, and in that moment determined that he was to far gone/not worth their time
They decided not to help
I believe we do this all the time
We look at people that are far from God and we determine that they are to far gone
That they aren’t worthy of coming to God
We become judge of their eternity
This does not mean that we shouldn’t call out sin, that we shouldn’t seek to have people repent and come back to God
What it does mean is that we shouldn’t look at someone and based solely off their actions say they are not worthy of God
Because sin is all sin in God’s eyes
Do all you can to reach someone
Do all you can to reach someone
The last thing Jesus is teaching is
Do all you can to reach someone
We should be doing all we can to bring people to Jesus
The Samaritan went far above what he needed to do to help this man
He walked while the man rode on his donkey
He used up oil and wine that are extremely valuable in that time to bandage up the mans wounds
He paid for a hotel for the night for the man
He then told the innkeeper to take care of the man - whatever he needed - and he would come back and pay it all off
It cost the man A LOT to help the wounded man
The same is true for us when it comes to those who are lost are far from God
We should be seeking them and doing all we can to reach them
We should be sacrificing to bring our friends to Jesus
We should be begging them to come to Jesus
We need to do whatever we can to get them to come to Jesus
Conclusion
Conclusion
The lawyer was told to go and do the same
To go and show love to someone like the Samaritan did - to do what ever it takes to help someone
That’s the same thing Jesus is calling us to do
We are to be good Samaritans to those who are lost and far from God