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The Law of Moses (Love)
For many years I read the Hebrew Bible (english version, what we call the Old Testament) in certain ways:
It was a description of how the world came to be
It was about a nation called Israel
It was about laws that they were to follow
It was about their failure
It was about wars between Israel and others
It has poetry I did not understand
It was about a man that unfairly lost everything
It had a book about love and sex
It had prophecies that told us the future
You may or may not agree with those, that is okay, I am only showing you what I used to believe.
Some of you might have believed this too, or you might still believe this.
What I never considered was the HB, the Tanak, gave an answer to this question...
Luke 10:25
Perhaps you never considered it either.
How is it a lawyer, and expert in the Hebrew Bible, the only Bible that existed at that time, could arrive at this question?
Now, it is a trick question.
We know this because this lawyer wants to put Jesus to the test.
His question also revolves around a debate, a split in Judaism about life after death.
Some believed in it, some did not.
Jesus answers the question with a question.
I believe he knows the heart of this person.
As if this lawyer was going to school Jesus.
And we all know how this goes.
We sit around and solve world problems all the time, rendering out own opinions, holding court with anyone who will listen!
Luke 10:26
Jesus gives him this opportunity to explain his belief.
Now I LOVE THIS!
I often run into people who have opinions about scripture but have not read it.
Some read it, but they don’t think about it.
Fewer will read it and think about it.
And it seems only a handful will read it, think about it, and see what others have to say about it, before they form an opinion.
Do you think the lawyer had an answer in his mind?
We don’t know for sure, but knowing how “smart” people think, I am confident he did.
Jesus essentially says, prove to me you don’t know the answer?
Tell me what you think.
Everyone who follows Jesus should adopt this method:
What is written?
How do you read it?
The lawyer answered...
Luke 10:27
This is taken from Deut 6:5 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.”
It is the Shema.
But he also adds Lev 19:18 “You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.”
Notice, there is nothing about eternal life.
The question was, “what must I do...”
How did he do with his answer?
Luke 10:28
The bells go off, and he gets the showcase showdown prize!
And....DO YOU EVER DO THIS...
You just DON’T KNOW WHEN TO SHUTUP?
Luke 10:29
What a fascinating question.
Who is my neighbor?
Think about that question for a moment...
What is he asking?
Have you asked this question?
Anyone you would consider not your neighbor?
Consider this: If the commandment is to love our neighbor, then certainly God would not want us to love un-neighbors, correct?
Jesus has an answer for this...
Luke 10:30-35
Some of your bibles might have “a Jewish man,” but that is not in the text.
It is assumed because the man was coming from Jerusalem.
Jericho: There are two Jericho’s.
There is one that is just northwest of Jerusalem, part of Herod’s empire.
There is the ancient Jericho, to the east of Jerusalem.
Either location required traveling through a wilderness or a desert.
This man was traveling in the wilderness, not really relevant to this story, but interesting.
QUESTION: What does the half-dead man need?
The man is in need of a neighbor
WHO IS GOING TO BE A NEIGHBOR?
The victim is wondering, who will be my neighbor.
The Priest
The Levite
The Samaritan
MANY WILL FOCUS ON:
The priest as a representative of the religious leadership
The levite as a representative of the religious guild
The samaritan as a representative of the unworthy.
SAMARITAN:
He had compassion.
He put himself into the situation of the half-dead man.
What would I want someone to do for me?
He treated his wounds, right there, on the road.
He could have stopped there, but he didn’t.
He brought him to a shelter and cared for him, overnight.
He could have stopped there, but he didn’t
He CONSIDERED the innkeeper, and gave him what would be about two weeks worth of money.
He could have stopped there, but he didn’t.
He is going to return and pay for this mans bills, whatever it takes.
He is not trying to help an entire people group, he has focused in on a single wounded man.
A distinction in this story is how you can be so close to God, working in and around his temple, in and around the scrolls and teaching, and be so very far away from having the courage to love God and love others.
People want to argue hospitality, the sin of not being a good, neighborly host.
Yes, that was and is important in their culture.
But, we are not talking about hospitality; we are talking about what is written in scripture, the instructions given.
Whereas the Samaritan gets personally involved.
Then he provides monetary support to the other person.
Then he comes back to check on man and how he has been cared for.
The judgement does lay on the priest and the levite.
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