The Good Samaritan

Brandon Mildren

Parables • Sermon • Submitted 6 years ago

Luke 10:25–37

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Grace based acceptace is how we fulfill the commands of God

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The Good Samaritan

Intro:

Good morning all, glad to see you here this morning and welcome to our family. I hope the peace of the Lord has reached out and touched you already today. It is going to be a good day and a great sermon today as we finish up our studies on the parables. This is probably one of my favorites and I believe sums the rest of them up by taking the perspective of love for all humanity, which is what Luke is talking about in : Read

Prayer

Video on how we treat people. How do I view people and what lens do I look through? We have all been there, sitting at the light, with the person asking for money. We want to help, its in our hearts to help, but sometimes I don’t even make eye contact. Maybe its because I don’t have money or because I have become numb to the pleas. I don’t want to enable people, but I do want to help. I think in the end if we take the perspective of Christ and look through his lens and love we can never go wrong. We must see through every situation and see Christ in all people. I must be able to not let bias ruin my love for God’s creation and that is what and this parable are all about. This parable defeats our thoughts and tells us to have compassion on our neighbors so that we love as Christ loves and fulfill the commandments of God.

I. The Expert – vs 25 - 29

A. Probably a Pharisee or Scribes

1. Closely tied together, see this in

2. They were the writers and interpreters of the Law

3. They would know it best

B. Testing Jesus on His knowledge

1. Trying to show this man for who He is

a. He is not an official teacher

b. He doesn’t know the Law

2. Smug in attitude as he answers the question

a. Jesus is bringing about this New Covenant

b. Want to try and discredit Jesus and His way

C. Isn’t Satisfied

1. Tries to justify himself

2. Can see that he wasn’t expecting Jesus to know

3. He doesn’t really want to hear the truth

II. The Priest – vs 30 - 31

A. Brief explanation of the man robbed

1. Don’t know who

2. Just know He is suffering

3. He had injustice poured on Him

B. Who

1. Those assigned to do temple work

2. Important that they remained clean

a. Go into temple

b. Do the work

i. Prayer

ii. Offering

iii. Sacrifice

C. Why

1. Uncleanliness

2. Was following Scripture

a. At what cost?

b. Is scripture about words or people

3. Scripture is about the heart and intent

a. ;

b. could’ve helped without touching him

c. Find a way to honor God and love people

4. Have we been there?

a. Homeless

b. Broken down

c. Those in need

d. How do we judge

i. Determine who we help

ii. Do we just walk by

III. The Levite – vs 32

A. This would be an expert on the law

1. Just like the person asking the question

2.This would hit home

3. Jesus has a way of pointing this out

4. God always targets us personally

a. Leaves us without excuse

b. Wants our eyes opened

B. Also walks on by

1. Same excuse to be a lower degree

a. Knows the Law

b. Can uses cleanliness

c. Not as important to be clean as priest

d. Not the same stringent standard

2. Excuses himself from helping

a. Do I excuse myself from helping

b. Entertaining angels –

i. Lady comes in says I am carrot top

ii. Been a rough morning

iii. She was just passing through

iv. Didn’t want anything

c. What about the dirty one who comes in to worship

IV. The Samaritan – vs 33 – 35

A. Understanding Samaritan

1. Dregs of society

2. Hated by the Jew

b. At odds with each other

c. Samaritans where half-breeds

3. Treated as second class

a. Didn’t know how to worship

b. Didn’t understand the true God

B. What He did

1. Helping the enemy

2. Began the Healing process

a. Oil and bandages

b. Oils were expensive

3. Put him on his donkey

a. At great risk

b. Not allowed to associate with Jews

c. Could have been attacked

d. Same as a slave helping a slave owner

4. Put him up and gave money

a. Went far beyond what was required

b. Came from a heart of compassion

c. Didn’t not care about boundaries

d. People were important

V. Go and do likewise – vs 36 – 37

A. Are people my priority

1. All Scripture is aimed at loving people

a. Providing for people

b. People not process are important

2. Don’t use Scripture to justify inhumanity

a. A lot of tough issues right now

i. For us and our children

ii. How we treat people first

b. Social issues

i. Don’t know what we are for

ii. Only what we are against

c. Aren’t people important to us?

B. Let people be first above the “law”

1. That is what he Law was for – repeat vs 27

2. - Sums it up

3. Not about comfort but about love

a. love will move me out of comfort

b. Have to accept people where they are

4. Grace based acceptance

a. New phrase for me

b. Important for us to remember

5. Must show them the way before they can be on the path

a. What loving our neighbor is all about

b. Everyone is our neighbor

i. Every sinner

ii. Repentant or not

iv. Christ even loved the sinner

a. prostitute

b. tax collector

c. priest and Levite

6. Grace based acceptance require my prejudice gone

a. Cannot see the act but the person

b. Cannot see what they are but who they will be

c. Got to see the masterpiece under the sin

i. How Jesus saw people

7. All have to be transformed –

a. Means when see them they are broken

b. Sick looking for the cure

c. Don’t get over being sick in a second

Conclusion:

So, let us put aside the flesh and honor the Spirit inside. We must not judge people by their outward appearance, for even Christ did not do this, but judged by the heart. The only way I know of to get to the heart of someone is to get to know that person. And we cannot get to know people if we run around with judgement outside of Grace. Just like the Priest and the Levite, by passing by on the other side. They would not help because of their religion but the Good Samaritan helped because he remembered this life is about people. People are the most important thing in this world. Everything that God has done it has been for you and for me and for all the lost out there who still need him. Today, I charge us then to go out into our community with the eyes of the Samaritan, I charge us to let down our guard and let others in, and I charge us to go out into a dying world that is broken and full of sin and bring them Jesus.