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This is God’s Word for God’s People, Hear it And Believe
Pray
The Question
One day, a lawyer approached jesus and asked how to inherit eternal life.
The lawyer knew the law inside and out.
His question was simple and valid.
We are all going to die one day and it is important for us to know what we must do in order to spend eternity with God.
Now Jesus being a master teacher answers the question with a question… “What does God’s Word say?”
The Answer
The lawyer, knowing the answer, shares his immense knowledge and answers the question.
“Love God and your neighbor.”
Jesus surprises the lawyer by saying He answered correctly.
So Jesus agrees with the law.
I can imagine the lawyer saying to himself, “Great, now I know what I need to do.
I have my to-do list for how to have eternal life.”
But something was nagging at the lawyer.
In order to fulfill the law it must be done perfectly.
No haphazardness allowed.
God demands perfect obedience.
In order to be in perfect obedience it might help to know who our neighbor is, so he asks Jesus.
Who was his neighbor?
So he asks Jesus.
Jesus responds with a story.
The Lost and the Law
There was a man traveling from Jericho to Jerusalem and is attacked by robbers and left for dead on the side of the road.
This man, because he chose the path he did and chose to do it alone, has been beaten and cast aside.
He is hopelessly lying on the side of the road unable to save himself.
Jesus adds two new characters to his tale.
A priest and a Levite both come along on the road but pass by the man on the other side of the road.
These men represent the Law of Moses and its role in the world.
Both are good, informative, and directive, but neither one can save man, or change the human heart.
The Law is like a mirror.
It shows you your sin, but no matter how much you hold the mirror or rub it on your face, you are still dirty.
The Samaritan
We are then introduced to the Samaritan.
I am sure the lawyer thought that the Samaritan would act exactly like the priest and the Levite, but Jesus surprises him.
The Samaritan takes action and helps the wounded man by putting him on his own donkey and taking him to the closest inn.
He pays a year’s salary to take care of the man and promises more if it is needed.
The Real Question
The real question of this story is not “Who is my neighbor?”
The real question is “What kind of neighbor are you?”
Our tendency when we hear the parable of the Good Samaritan is to see ourselves in the role of the Samaritan.
The hero of the story.
The only thing we would do is give him a cape.
But the reality is that we are the man beaten by the robbers.
You and I attempt to live out the law in perfect righteousness with our filthy rags.
We try to do the impossible.
Only Jesus can fulfill the law perfectly.
Jesus is the only one who inherits eternal life and by the Grace of God offers it to us through our believe in Him.
When Jesus was on the cross he said, “It is finished.”
These three words allow us to die to ourselves.
We need to stop protecting this idea that self-improvement will make us acceptable before God.
We need to stop trying to make everyone, including ourselves, think that we have it all together.
We need to stop trying to make everyone, including ourselves, think that we have it all together.
In other words we cannot save ourselves, let alone live in perfect obedience without help.
John 15:5
We must understand that we cannot reach those around us without Jesus, without Jesus.
We must be like Christ.
We cannot reach the world with a list of do’s and dont’s and expect them to change overnight.
We must avoid the worldly attitude of - they got themselves into this situation, they deserve to suffer.
The man beaten down by robbers on the side of the road did not overcome his issues before the Samaritan man helped him.
The Samaritan helped the man where he was.
We must understand why we need to be
As former robbed and beaten men and women saved by Jesus, the Good Samaritan, we must understand that we too must become like Jesus.
Our Mission and Motive
In another setting, Jesus is asked about the greatest commandment in the law
In another setting, Jesus is asked about the greatest commandment in the law
And then in Jesus tells us
These two statements alone encompass the greatest of all commitments modeled by our Savior.
During His early ministry, jesus loved God, loved people and made disciples.
The great commandment of speaks to the motive for our disciple-making.
We are motivated by love of God and love for people.
The Great Commission of Matthew 28 speaks to our mission.
We are sent to make disciples.
Two Commands & Three Verbs
The Great Commission contains two commands and three action words.
The first command is to make disciples.
This was the driving force of Jesus’s life
He poured His life into a few people and taught them to make other disiciples.
17 times we see Jesus with the masses, but 46 times we see Him with His disicples.
Within a few years, these disciples would fill Jerusalem with Jesus’s teaching.
Within 18 years they turned their world upside down.
Within 18 years they turned their world upside down.
In 28 years the Gospel was growing
Acts
The commission continues with three verbs
The first is go.
Or more correctly translated as you go.
In other words, as we live our lives we are to be living out the great commission.
It is not something we only do on occasion.
It is something we live.
We are to walk as Jesus walked.
The second verb is baptize.
This is a critical element of disciple-making.
When a person come to faith in Christ, they must then be baptized to publically identify externally with a change that has taken place internally.
The third verb is teaching others to obey.
We are to teach others to obey everything that Jesus commanded.
So we need to know what Jesus commanded.
Jesus gives 400 commands in the gospels and more than 1/2 are disciple-making commands.
It is not about completing a curriculum.
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