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The Parable of the Good Samaritan
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.”
29 But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
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.’
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.”
Introduction
General Overview
Tonight we will take a look at something that has probably affected each of us in some way.
If it hasn’t affected you yet it will at some point in the future.
Statistics say that 3 out of 4 people at some point in their lifetime will face a mental health crisis.
In a given year, 1 in 4 adults will experience a mental health crisis.
This rate is even higher amongst women.
Historically, the church has not done a great job of understanding or embracing the world of mental health.
In fact, we may have been antagonistic to those who have been suffering from mental health issues.
So let us look at this passage found in .
Summary of Passage
The Man
We don’t know much about the man except that he was traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho.
We don’t know his race, occupation, or reason for travelling.
But this trip from Jerusalem to Jericho was a normal trip that a normal person would take.
There is nothing special or out of the ordinary about this individual or this trip that we notice.
The Issue
The man on his journey was attacked, robbed, stripped, and left stranded by a group of thieves.
The Response
The Priest
The first person that passes by is a priest.
He was a pastor.
He walks by.
The Levite
The Levites carried out the day to day operations of the temple.
These were the small group leaders.
Does he stop and help?
No.
He keeps walking by.
Both the Priest and the Levite worked in the temple.
For all they knew, the man could be a Gentile.
Or he could be dead.
Touching a corpse resulted in ritual impurity.
In basic terms, they were too good to work with Gentiles and didn’t want to get dirty from dealing with the man in the ditch.
The Samaritan
The Samaritan represented everything the Jews hated.
But yet in this instance, the Samaritan becomes the hero of the story.
Sound familiar?
It’s the same response that we have seen repeated for centuries.
Transition
This is a story that many of you can relate to.
Many of you find yourselves in broken, painful situations.
There is hurting, pain, and suffering.
Each one of you in here finds yourself in one of three situations.
You pain and suffering may come from mistakes you have made, bad choices, and sin from your past or present.
Your pain and suffering may come from something someone else has done to you, of no fault of your own.
And for some of you, your pain and suffering is just the result of living in a fallen world.
If you cannot relate to one of these situations, you know someone who can and more than likely, you probably will at some point in your life find yourself in one of these situations.
You are not alone.
The Bible is full of examples of people with mental illness, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, addictions, fear, anger and a myriad of other mental health concerns.
Tonight, we are going to take a look at a few of these examples.
Trauma and Abuse
The first situation that many of you find yourself in is one of a victim of trauma and abuse from someone else.
Definition of Trauma
Tim Clinton
Trauma is an event in life that causes pain that goes deep and lasts a long time.
Trauma is a situation beyond control, one that shakes a person to the core.
Trauma can often lead to mental disorders or suicide.
For many, trauma may not actually be remembered but it can still influence people in unhealthy ways often causing them to make unhealthy decisions.
Symptoms of trauma include anxiety and panic disorders, depression, intense fear, anger, loneliness, attachment disorders, flashbacks, helplessness, loss of control, and threat of annihilation.
Many of these symptoms are often labeled under the diagnosis of PTSD.
Traumatic memory becomes encoded in an abnormal form of memory, which breaks spontaneously into consciousness, both as flashbacks and nightmares.
Traumatic memory is not a verbal linear narrative but can have a frozen wordless quality which causes high levels of adrenaline and other stress hormones to circulate deeply imprinting the memories.
Traumatic memory may also be suppressed The intrusion of the memory and the constriction form a dynamic that does not provide a way to resolve the experience of the event and achieve balance.
Types of Trauma
There are two main types of trauma a person experiences.
Statistics say that 3 out of 4 people will experience an event in life that could be described as traumatic.
25% of those will develop symptoms of Post traumatic Stress Disorder:
Invasion Trauma
In invasion trauma, something happened to a person that creates damage.
This can occur by emotional invasion, when others criticize, shame, and blame either verbally or nonverbally.
Physical invasion occurs when a person is physically abused.
This type of trauma can cause permanent physical damage as well.
Sexual invasion speaks for itself. 1 out of 4 women has been sexually abused.
And those are only the ones that are reported.
Spiritual invasion takes the place when people are led to believe that they are unworthy of God’s love and grace.
Often this occurs in fear-based religious teaching, even if it is well intended.
This results in shame that people can’t seem to shake.
Abandonment Trauma
Abandonment trauma occurs when something that should have happened did not happen to a person, such as feeling loved, protected, and nurtured.
This can often be harder to recognize because the person doesn’t know what he or she is missing, having never had it.
This takes the form of emotional abandonment when love, attention, care, nurture, and affirmation are not given.
This often results in profound loneliness.
Physical abandonment happens when people’s basic needs for food, shelter, and clothing aren’t met.
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