The Parable of the Good Samaritan

Location: Ballard Campus
Preacher: Bill Clem
Date:9/5/10
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Tags: Compassion, Slavery
Luke 10:25-
The Parable of the Good Samaritan
Lawyers are high on the food chain, expert in the Law - Trying to Test (provoke an argument to trap Jesus) Jesus, Asks a personal question
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Jesus is not asking this man to do something He hasn't done
Jesus imaging the Father well:
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Loving the Father with all his
Loving the Father with all his strength - he even

Jesus is telling him to be prefect by loving the father fully.
The man tries to shrink the world down by asking who his neighbor is
PARABLE
We all get a picture of who someone is by what they wear
Rich guys or Poor guys here there is no indication of the victim's social status
The Father sets a level field for all, so don't treat anyone different based on their garb
James says don't give the best seat to the dude based on wealth
The Priest, Levite, and Samaritan don't know if the guy is rick or not, he is only a beaten human
Priest - doesn't help he isn't at the temple so he doesn't act like a priest
Levite is an assistant to the priest
Mentored by a professional priest to be a professional Levite and not to care for a human
Samaritan - has Compassion (a life changing compulsion to do good and act selflessly)
Two week to a month paid for the man to be cared for
He even provided so that the man can heal uponly to become a slave to pay off the debt
Prefigures Jesus who became spiritually poor so that we could become spiritually rich
Jesus is the Samaritan - he has set us free to be free.
The neighbor turns out not to be the man by rather the Samaritan
Theme - It's not your hand or your desire to be a neighbor it's your heart He is after.
Changed lifes are used by God to Change lives