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Ed Young - The Good Samaritan

July 8, 2025 | S25 E163 | 29:0

Ed Young - The Good Samaritan
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Good Samaritan | July 8, 2025
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  • Pastor ed young: now we're gonna look at the very familiar
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  • Parable of the good samaritan and we're going to look at it in
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  • A way that i had never really looked at it before.
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  • As you know, if you remember the story, it is a story of rescue,
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  • But it's far, far more than that.
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  • Luke 10:25: "on one occasion an expert in the law stood up to
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  • Test jesus."
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  • The word "test" is the same word was used in the wilderness of
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  • Temptations when jesus was tempted, remember?
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  • "an expert in the law stood up," this was a lawyer.
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  • Now, there are three professions that have more jokes told about
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  • Them than any other professions: preachers, doctors, and lawyers,
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  • Especially lawyers, and you in that profession can figure that
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  • Out for yourself.
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  • But here we have a lawyer who stands up and he'd been charging
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  • $2000 an hour for a lot of years because he was a
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  • Big-time lawyer.
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  • He was a religious lawyer.
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  • He had advocated for the state.
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  • He had advocated the sanhedrin.
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  • He had done relationships for the romans who dominated israel
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  • And therefore he had been in high class, delicate legal
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  • Situations that involved the laws of rome, the laws of
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  • Israel, the laws of god.
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  • It was all connected in that theocracy, which was the order
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  • Of the day.
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  • So this lawyer stood up in the middle of jesus teaching.
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  • And he asked this question to test jesus.
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  • He said, "teacher, what must i do to inherit eternal life?"
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  • Big question, isn't it?
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  • He's saying, what must i do to be rescued from this life which
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  • I know i will die and what must i do to have eternal life, life
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  • After this life?
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  • Big question.
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  • We all ask ourselves this question at different times,
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  • Different places.
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  • And you can get a myriad of answers in the culture in which
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  • We live.
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  • But here he asked jesus, "teacher," by the way that
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  • Indicated he was-- knew something about what jesus
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  • Was doing.
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  • "teacher, what must i do to inherit eternal life?"
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  • Why was he trying to test jesus?
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  • Because jesus had thrown out all barriers.
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  • Jesus was associated, he was related to, the worst kind of
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  • People in all of israel.
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  • Oh, yeah.
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  • I mean, those who didn't go to temple, those who were profane,
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  • Those who worked with their hands and had calluses, the
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  • Common people of all backgrounds.
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  • Jesus was associated with them and i can guarantee you the
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  • Pharisees didn't like it, the sadducees didn't like it.
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  • And i guarantee this teacher was seeing that jesus was doing
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  • Something that they never experienced before because
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  • He taught not like, "well, what do you think about this?"
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  • He spoke with authority as if he were god himself.
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  • "teacher, what must i do to inherit eternal life?"
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  • And jesus looked at this lawyer and said, "what is written in
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  • The law?"
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  • And jesus asked, "well, how do you interpret that?"
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  • And we know the lawyer.
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  • That was an easy lay-up question.
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  • Because do you realize the jew, every morning, the first thing
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  • They would do would quote and listen to the shema,
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  • Deuteronomy 6?
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  • Every morning, deuteronomy 6.
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  • Every afternoon, deuteronomy 6, they'd go over it again.
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  • Every night before they went to bed, every jew, from the time
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  • They could understand, deuteronomy 6, the shema.
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  • Over and over and over and over and over again was pounded in
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  • The heart.
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  • They'd have the shema written over the doorpost.
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  • They had a shema in different places in the house.
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  • So anything everybody knew, every believing, practicing jew
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  • Knew, even a modified practicing jew, they knew what was in
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  • The shema.
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  • On top of that, you can be pretty sure that that very
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  • Religious lawyer had phylactery on his wrist, maybe on his head.
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  • In that phylactery it would be verses from the shema,
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  • Deuteronomy 6.
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  • And there would be verses from leviticus 19,
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  • Particularly verse 18.
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  • Put those two verses together and what do you have?
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  • You have exactly the answer that the lawyer gave to jesus.
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  • The lawyer asked the question and jesus said, "well, how do
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  • You interpret this?"
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  • He flipped it back on him and he said, "how do you
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  • Understand that?"
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  • And the lawyer said-- remind you, there's a whole bunch of
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  • People there, perhaps 1000 or so.
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  • The lawyer said, "you shall love the lord thy god with all your
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  • Heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, with all your
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  • Strength, first commandment."
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  • Then he said, "love your neighbor as you love yourself."
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  • And jesus said, "a-plus, you got it right.
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  • That's exactly on target."
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  • Here we see jesus and this lawyer agreeing.
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  • And then jesus said, "go and put it into practice," okay.
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  • "love god with every ounce of everything and love your
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  • Neighbor as you love yourself."
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  • And then you see what happened.
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  • All this had flipped on the lawyer.
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  • Remember i said a parable is a mirror and a window?
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  • Here, all of a sudden, the lawyer was asking the question
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  • And, by the way, an esteemed lawyer will never ask a question
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  • In a court of law unless they know the answer the witness is
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  • Gonna give.
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  • Every lawyer here will tell you that.
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  • Every lawyer here, if they've been in a courtroom, you've
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  • Probably made that mistake and you got an--whoa, i didn't
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  • Want that.
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  • So they always know the answer.
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  • And the lawyer knew phi beta kappa, this answer, it was
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  • A lay-up.
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  • He'd had it all of his life in the shema.
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  • He had it all and probably had it written in phylactery on
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  • His wrist.
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  • Jesus said, "you answer it exactly.
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  • Now, go put it into practice."
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  • Now, here is the trick here that twists us.
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  • Nobody, anywhere, any place, any time in history, would be able
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  • To put that law into practice.
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  • Do you get that?
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  • You can't do it.
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  • The lawyer knew it and certainly jesus knew it.
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  • Love god with everything.
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  • Well, how do you know i love god?
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  • I tell you, love your neighbor as you love yourself.
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  • And then we see the lawyer gets in deeper trouble at all and he
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  • Understands it and verse 29 is so good.
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  • He said, "but he," the lawyer, "wanted to justify himself."
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  • Let's stop right there and let this come home to you and to me.
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  • Do you ever try to justify?
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  • All the time.
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  • Do you try-- yes.
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  • Anybody?
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  • Oh, yes, every one of us.
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  • "well, i didn't go there because i had this.
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  • The real reason was this, though.
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  • You think it's this.
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  • I look bad over here.
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  • I told that lie because i was trying to protect."
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  • I mean, we are experts, every one of us here,
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  • At self-justification.
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  • Anybody who thinks you're not, would you stand up?
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  • I want to see you because you're immediately going to heaven.
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  • So here, the lawyer is trying to justify himself.
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  • Why is he trying to explain this?
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  • He was embarrassed.
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  • He asked a question, he knew the answer to it from the time he
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  • Was 3 years old.
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  • And then jesus flipped it on him and he gave the answer.
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  • And then jesus said, "hey, you are a legalist.
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  • You are a religious legalist, a pharisee, a god-fearing man.
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  • You go and put this in practice."
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  • Remember the question?
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  • "what must i do to inherit eternal life?"
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  • Jesus said, "you go and practice this and you've got life, you've
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  • Got eternal life.
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  • That's what you do.
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  • That's the answer."
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  • And the lawyer was, "i can't do that.
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  • I'm not doing that.
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  • I'm not even trying very hard.
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  • I've given up a long time ago."
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  • So he thought to justify himself by redirecting the conversation.
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  • Anybody do that?
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  • Ever seen that happen?
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  • And then he turned to jesus and look what he said: "but he
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  • Wanted to justify himself, so he asked jesus, 'well, who is
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  • My neighbor?'"
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  • In a debate when you get caught, ask the person to define
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  • Some terms.
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  • You familiar with that?
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  • Well, what do you mean by this?
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  • See, the lawyer was caught, he was captured, he was nailed
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  • Down, it was discovered about his life he wasn't as good and
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  • As smart as erudite
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  • So he tried to justify himself and he did it by asking
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  • Another question.
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  • "well, by the way, who is my neighbor?"
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  • And in that day and time and even to an extent today, when
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  • Serious ethical conversations take place, people want to know
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  • Who is your neighbor.
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  • Who is your neighbor?
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  • And this lawyer had been in all kinds of debate, defining
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  • Neighbor, yeah.
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  • And it's still a debate, by the way.
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  • It'll be a debate when we leave here, until i answer it at
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  • The end.
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  • Is your neighbor, your family?
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  • You're to love him the way you love yourself, your family?
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  • Oh yeah, i'll work on that.
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  • Is your neighbor those that you know?
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  • Are the neighbors are those who believe like you believe?
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  • Is your neighbor the person who has the same education, the same
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  • Color skin, the same background, the same ethnicity, the same
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  • Tastes that you have?
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  • Is that who your neighbor is?
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  • Is your neighbor someone you haven't met?
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  • Who is your neighbor?
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  • And this is a question that is relevant.
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  • I could stand anybody up here as i have stood up myself, as i've
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  • Studied this, and said just exactly who do you think your
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  • Neighbor is?
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  • And jesus answered it with a parable, a true story.
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  • Unbelievable story in that culture.
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  • Listen at it, verse 30: "in reply jesus said, 'a man go down
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  • From jerusalem to jericho.
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  • When he was attacked by robbers, they stripped him of his
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  • Clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead.
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  • A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he
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  • Saw the man, he passed by on the other side.
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  • So too, the levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed
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  • By on the other side.
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  • But a samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; when he
  • 00:12:11.276 --> 00:12:14.846
  • Saw him, he took pity on him.
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  • He went to him, bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine.
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  • Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn,
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  • Took care of him.
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  • The next day he took out two denarii and gave the innkeeper.
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  • "look after him," he said, "and when i return, i will reimburse
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  • You for any extra experience you may have had."'" hello.
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  • The question before the house for all of us, as for that
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  • Lawyer, who in the world is your neighbor?
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  • And the lawyer, the debate that day, was how big a circle do you
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  • Take in for your neighbor?
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  • Where do you draw lines as to who your neighbor is?
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  • Where is the line that is drawn here?
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  • And jesus tells this story and what a story it was.
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  • Listen, the road from jerusalem to jericho is 17 miles.
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  • It's about a 3200-foot drop and 17 miles.
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  • Do you see it?
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  • I've been down the road myself.
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  • It is a winding road.
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  • It was called the road of blood because criminals, robbers,
  • 00:13:31.990 --> 00:13:37.962
  • Would hide behind turns in the road and they would go and jump
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  • Out and knock somebody in the head, take what they have,
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  • And run.
  • 00:13:45.003 --> 00:13:46.504
  • And here comes this jewish man, foolishly going downhill.
  • 00:13:46.504 --> 00:13:50.475
  • Perhaps he had goods with him and robbers come out and they
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  • Take him.
  • 00:13:53.711 --> 00:13:55.280
  • Evidently, he resisted because he was beat up.
  • 00:13:55.280 --> 00:13:57.615
  • They would probably have just taken his stuff, but he wanted
  • 00:13:57.615 --> 00:13:59.684
  • To fight.
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  • That's the reason he thought he was secure.
  • 00:14:01.219 --> 00:14:02.720
  • And man, he was beaten to a pulp.
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  • Have you ever seen anybody really, really, really
  • 00:14:04.255 --> 00:14:07.125
  • Beaten up?
  • 00:14:07.125 --> 00:14:08.526
  • "oh, i've seen a black eye and i--" oh no, no.
  • 00:14:08.526 --> 00:14:10.328
  • Somebody beat to the inch of their life?
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  • If you've never seen that, you can't understand this.
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  • Teeth knocked out, eye closed, cut, bleeding, head, arms
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  • Broken, bones.
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  • And it says these robbers took everything he had and left him
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  • Half dead in the pit, in the ditch, by the road.
  • 00:14:29.414 --> 00:14:37.221
  • Beat up and then coming down the road, going down to jericho.
  • 00:14:37.221 --> 00:14:42.994
  • By the way, jericho was like going to florida in that day.
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  • You didn't know that.
  • 00:14:45.797 --> 00:14:47.332
  • In jericho, the hasmoneans who'd rule, they had a
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  • Palace there.
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  • Herod had four palaces in jericho with a swimming pool,
  • 00:14:52.537 --> 00:14:56.240
  • A sunken garden.
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  • You see, it got cold and windy up in jerusalem and they went
  • 00:14:57.842 --> 00:15:01.312
  • Down to jericho, to florida, and that was sort of resort area.
  • 00:15:01.312 --> 00:15:05.583
  • So evidently, this priest was going for a resort.
  • 00:15:05.583 --> 00:15:10.955
  • He'd been working in the temple, sacrificing, praying, killing
  • 00:15:10.955 --> 00:15:14.959
  • Animals, putting his hands on people.
  • 00:15:14.959 --> 00:15:17.395
  • He was worn out and he was going down for a little r and r and he
  • 00:15:17.395 --> 00:15:22.000
  • Was going down to jericho and he saw as he was going down the
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  • Road, this guy who was-- looked like he was dead.
  • 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:33.611
  • But you know, if he, as a priest, as a holy man, would
  • 00:15:33.611 --> 00:15:38.282
  • Have gone and touched that man and he died, he would be
  • 00:15:38.282 --> 00:15:41.686
  • Ceremonially unclean.
  • 00:15:41.686 --> 00:15:43.454
  • He couldn't do his job for several weeks.
  • 00:15:43.454 --> 00:15:45.957
  • "whoa, man, i'm a holy man."
  • 00:15:45.957 --> 00:15:49.093
  • So he saw this man beaten up and he went by on the other side.
  • 00:15:49.093 --> 00:15:57.335
  • Coming along behind him, now a priest was the highest tribe of
  • 00:15:57.335 --> 00:16:02.040
  • Aaron, levite man, highest, beautiful robes.
  • 00:16:02.040 --> 00:16:05.143
  • I mean, when you saw him coming, you didn't say, "i wonder who
  • 00:16:05.143 --> 00:16:08.079
  • That is."
  • 00:16:08.079 --> 00:16:09.814
  • You could tell.
  • 00:16:09.814 --> 00:16:11.749
  • Coming behind him was a levite who was-- led the music in the
  • 00:16:11.749 --> 00:16:15.386
  • Temple or had the business of the temple.
  • 00:16:15.386 --> 00:16:18.189
  • He was coming right behind the priest, and he went over a
  • 00:16:18.189 --> 00:16:22.060
  • Little closer and saw the man was beaten up.
  • 00:16:22.060 --> 00:16:24.262
  • But he said, "you know, he may be dead, he may not be dead."
  • 00:16:24.262 --> 00:16:28.166
  • And he just followed the priest who went on ahead of him.
  • 00:16:28.166 --> 00:16:33.538
  • Now think about the person in the pit, beaten up.
  • 00:16:33.538 --> 00:16:37.708
  • I'm sure he saw the priest come, and he said, "boy, am i lucky?
  • 00:16:37.708 --> 00:16:41.679
  • Here comes a man of god who has been taught all of his life to
  • 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:47.518
  • Minister to people."
  • 00:16:47.518 --> 00:16:50.455
  • But he went by.
  • 00:16:50.455 --> 00:16:51.956
  • "well, i'm lucky the levite-- i guess he asked him to take care
  • 00:16:51.956 --> 00:16:54.992
  • Of the--" he went by on the other side too, if the man
  • 00:16:54.992 --> 00:16:59.030
  • Happened to be conscious.
  • 00:16:59.030 --> 00:17:01.799
  • And then here comes-- jesus tell the story.
  • 00:17:01.799 --> 00:17:04.869
  • And i'm sure the audience all, "he's gonna say, 'well, here
  • 00:17:04.869 --> 00:17:07.505
  • Comes an ordinary jew comes out.'"
  • 00:17:07.505 --> 00:17:09.540
  • Oh no, he shocked them.
  • 00:17:09.540 --> 00:17:13.344
  • Here comes this samaritan.
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  • In luke 10, where this story's told, look in the chapter before
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  • And you'll see that a samaritan had mistreated, not given
  • 00:17:24.122 --> 00:17:28.059
  • Hospitality to james and john, two of jesus's apostles, and
  • 00:17:28.059 --> 00:17:31.729
  • James and john said, "let me call down lightning on
  • 00:17:31.729 --> 00:17:35.233
  • That samaritan."
  • 00:17:35.233 --> 00:17:37.502
  • Samaritan was the bottom of the bottom of the bottom of
  • 00:17:37.502 --> 00:17:40.071
  • The bottom.
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  • Hey, remember who the samaritans were?
  • 00:17:41.439 --> 00:17:42.907
  • You may not.
  • 00:17:42.907 --> 00:17:45.076
  • In 722 syria came and took over israel and took a whole 22,000
  • 00:17:45.076 --> 00:17:51.782
  • People out of the northern kingdom.
  • 00:17:51.782 --> 00:17:54.051
  • Some jews were left and then syria came in and they inhabited
  • 00:17:54.051 --> 00:17:58.456
  • That kingdom and they intermarried.
  • 00:17:58.456 --> 00:18:02.660
  • Jew married with a non-jew, with a pagan, and that's who the
  • 00:18:02.660 --> 00:18:06.898
  • Samaritans were.
  • 00:18:06.898 --> 00:18:09.033
  • In fact, the jews thought they're not only heretics, they
  • 00:18:09.033 --> 00:18:13.471
  • Were not pleasing to god, and the samaritans built their own
  • 00:18:13.471 --> 00:18:17.208
  • Place of worship on mount gerizim.
  • 00:18:17.208 --> 00:18:21.179
  • They didn't believe-- mount gerizim, that's where
  • 00:18:21.179 --> 00:18:23.281
  • We worship.
  • 00:18:23.281 --> 00:18:24.849
  • And so they hated one another, they despised one another, they
  • 00:18:24.849 --> 00:18:28.786
  • Had nothing to do with one another.
  • 00:18:28.786 --> 00:18:30.955
  • And of all things, jesus is telling this story and said,
  • 00:18:30.955 --> 00:18:34.625
  • "well, here's the priest and here is the levite went by on
  • 00:18:34.625 --> 00:18:39.697
  • The other side, and now a samaritan stops, goes down into
  • 00:18:39.697 --> 00:18:48.306
  • The pit.
  • 00:18:48.306 --> 00:18:50.208
  • Oh, and ministers to the man.
  • 00:18:50.208 --> 00:18:54.478
  • Took wine, washed all of his wounds.
  • 00:18:54.478 --> 00:18:58.416
  • He went on and took some oil and tried to comfort him."
  • 00:18:58.416 --> 00:19:02.486
  • Well, that ought to be enough.
  • 00:19:02.486 --> 00:19:03.955
  • Don't-- you know, how far you have to go?
  • 00:19:03.955 --> 00:19:05.957
  • This guy hates me, and then he picked him up and he put him on
  • 00:19:05.957 --> 00:19:12.496
  • His donkey.
  • 00:19:12.496 --> 00:19:14.865
  • Well, that's enough.
  • 00:19:14.865 --> 00:19:16.434
  • And he walked all the way, with a man on his donkey, all the way
  • 00:19:16.434 --> 00:19:20.738
  • To an inn, checked the man in, paid for 2 denarii.
  • 00:19:20.738 --> 00:19:25.543
  • That would be 24 days of food and said, "look after him."
  • 00:19:25.543 --> 00:19:31.415
  • He said, "i'm gonna come back," this is a samaritan now, "and if
  • 00:19:31.415 --> 00:19:35.853
  • There's any overcharges, anything i missed to take care
  • 00:19:35.853 --> 00:19:38.823
  • Of him, i will pay you when i return."
  • 00:19:38.823 --> 00:19:41.692
  • Hello, ladies and gentlemen, we go by on the other side all the
  • 00:19:41.692 --> 00:19:47.131
  • Time, every one of us, because we've discovered when you go
  • 00:19:47.131 --> 00:19:52.136
  • Down in the pit and you try to help and love and restore,
  • 00:19:52.136 --> 00:19:56.841
  • It's dangerous.
  • 00:19:56.841 --> 00:19:59.277
  • Maybe it's a setup.
  • 00:19:59.277 --> 00:20:00.678
  • Maybe the-- maybe somebody's not really hurt and they're waiting
  • 00:20:00.678 --> 00:20:02.480
  • To rob me.
  • 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:04.282
  • It's dangerous.
  • 00:20:04.282 --> 00:20:06.517
  • It is forbidden.
  • 00:20:06.517 --> 00:20:08.252
  • You don't have to do it.
  • 00:20:08.252 --> 00:20:10.988
  • And man, it sure is costly of time, energy, and money if you
  • 00:20:10.988 --> 00:20:15.593
  • Really get down like the samaritan did in order to
  • 00:20:15.593 --> 00:20:20.398
  • Rescue someone.
  • 00:20:20.398 --> 00:20:25.303
  • We all understand that.
  • 00:20:25.303 --> 00:20:28.172
  • And the bottom line is that jericho road goes right down in
  • 00:20:28.172 --> 00:20:31.275
  • The middle of every step i take and every step you take every
  • 00:20:31.275 --> 00:20:34.945
  • Day of the life.
  • 00:20:34.945 --> 00:20:36.347
  • And we're more like the priest and the levite, most of us, than
  • 00:20:36.347 --> 00:20:39.617
  • We are the good samaritan.
  • 00:20:39.617 --> 00:20:42.119
  • Anybody want to debate that?
  • 00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:47.358
  • And then we come to the end of the story.
  • 00:20:47.358 --> 00:20:52.830
  • Powerful, powerful ending of the story.
  • 00:20:52.830 --> 00:20:57.802
  • Jesus said, "which of these three do you think was a
  • 00:20:57.802 --> 00:21:01.072
  • Neighbor to the man who fell at the hand of robbers?"
  • 00:21:01.072 --> 00:21:05.276
  • Let me tell you what happens with our rationalization when
  • 00:21:05.276 --> 00:21:08.479
  • How we discover and deal with people who are in the pit.
  • 00:21:08.479 --> 00:21:12.917
  • And by the way, how big is the circle?
  • 00:21:12.917 --> 00:21:16.554
  • How-- where is the line of love as to who our neighbors is?
  • 00:21:16.554 --> 00:21:20.925
  • That line of love is the same line of love that god has.
  • 00:21:20.925 --> 00:21:26.297
  • And god doesn't leave out anybody, anytime, anywhere.
  • 00:21:26.297 --> 00:21:36.207
  • Once a man fell into a pit, he couldn't get himself out.
  • 00:21:37.775 --> 00:21:41.045
  • Man, beat up in the pit.
  • 00:21:41.045 --> 00:21:43.280
  • A sensitive person came along and said, i feel for you down
  • 00:21:43.280 --> 00:21:47.485
  • There, and look in the mirror, folks.
  • 00:21:47.485 --> 00:21:52.390
  • A practical person came along and said, "i knew you were gonna
  • 00:21:52.390 --> 00:21:56.627
  • Crawl in that pit sooner or later."
  • 00:21:56.627 --> 00:22:00.030
  • A pharisee came: "only bad people fall into a pit."
  • 00:22:00.030 --> 00:22:05.803
  • A mathematician calculated how far he fell.
  • 00:22:05.803 --> 00:22:10.574
  • A news reporter won an exclusive story on his pit.
  • 00:22:10.574 --> 00:22:15.946
  • An irs agent asked if he were paying taxes on the pit.
  • 00:22:15.946 --> 00:22:22.286
  • A politician dropped an absentee ballot and a free cell phone
  • 00:22:22.286 --> 00:22:26.223
  • Down into the pit.
  • 00:22:26.223 --> 00:22:34.865
  • So true.
  • 00:22:34.865 --> 00:22:36.500
  • A self-pitying person-- a self-pitying person said, "you
  • 00:22:36.500 --> 00:22:39.770
  • Haven't seen anything until you've seen my pit."
  • 00:22:39.770 --> 00:22:44.108
  • A mystic said, "just imagine you're not in a pit."
  • 00:22:44.108 --> 00:22:49.647
  • The optimist said, "things could be worse."
  • 00:22:49.647 --> 00:22:53.617
  • A pessimist said, "things will get worse."
  • 00:22:53.617 --> 00:23:02.860
  • And then the real twist hits our lawyer friend: which one of
  • 00:23:02.860 --> 00:23:09.633
  • These were a neighbor?
  • 00:23:09.633 --> 00:23:11.635
  • And the expert in the law replied, "the samaritan who had
  • 00:23:11.635 --> 00:23:17.708
  • Mercy on him," and jesus said, "go and do likewise."
  • 00:23:17.708 --> 00:23:23.314
  • He already said if-- the question began, "what does it
  • 00:23:23.314 --> 00:23:26.283
  • Take for me to have eternal life?"
  • 00:23:26.283 --> 00:23:28.919
  • And jesus said, "keep this law, number one.
  • 00:23:28.919 --> 00:23:32.156
  • Number two, perfectly.
  • 00:23:32.156 --> 00:23:33.691
  • Number one, love god with all you have."
  • 00:23:33.691 --> 00:23:35.626
  • That's the vertical relationship, love your neighbor
  • 00:23:35.626 --> 00:23:38.395
  • As you love yourself.
  • 00:23:38.395 --> 00:23:39.864
  • That's the horizontal relationship.
  • 00:23:39.864 --> 00:23:42.433
  • And the lawyer knew he couldn't do it and we know no human being
  • 00:23:42.433 --> 00:23:45.369
  • Can do it.
  • 00:23:45.369 --> 00:23:46.904
  • And then you decide who is my neighbor and my neighbor is
  • 00:23:46.904 --> 00:23:51.175
  • Anybody, anywhere, anytime, that we're able to go and love and
  • 00:23:51.175 --> 00:23:56.046
  • Minister and seek to help and heal and to rescue them in life.
  • 00:23:56.046 --> 00:24:06.090
  • It says he had compassion on him.
  • 00:24:07.258 --> 00:24:10.060
  • What is compassion?
  • 00:24:10.060 --> 00:24:12.997
  • It's my pain in your heart.
  • 00:24:12.997 --> 00:24:15.933
  • Did you get a definition?
  • 00:24:15.933 --> 00:24:17.635
  • Compassion is your pain in my heart or my pain in your--
  • 00:24:17.635 --> 00:24:22.406
  • That is compassion.
  • 00:24:22.406 --> 00:24:24.174
  • But compassion isn't enough.
  • 00:24:24.174 --> 00:24:25.809
  • Mercy is we have compassion and we respond to that compassion by
  • 00:24:25.809 --> 00:24:30.147
  • Getting down in the pit and trying to rescue that person,
  • 00:24:30.147 --> 00:24:34.084
  • Lead them to christ, minister to their life, let them know that
  • 00:24:34.084 --> 00:24:37.721
  • God loves them, and let them know by our actions
  • 00:24:37.721 --> 00:24:42.493
  • That we love them too.
  • 00:24:42.493 --> 00:24:46.864
  • Ladies and gentlemen, if we who name the name of jesus would do
  • 00:24:46.864 --> 00:24:50.668
  • Just a microscopic example of what jesus is telling us
  • 00:24:50.668 --> 00:24:56.974
  • To practice, it would change everything,
  • 00:24:56.974 --> 00:25:02.980
  • Everything, everything.
  • 00:25:02.980 --> 00:25:06.016
  • Pastor ed: everybody in the world is hungry for something
  • 00:25:07.251 --> 00:25:09.820
  • That gives them assurance about the future and comfort about
  • 00:25:09.820 --> 00:25:13.824
  • What we are facing right today.
  • 00:25:13.824 --> 00:25:17.328
  • What all of us are looking for can only be found in god's word.
  • 00:25:17.328 --> 00:25:22.833
  • That's why now's the time to do all we can to share the proven
  • 00:25:22.833 --> 00:25:28.105
  • Truth of scripture with as many people as possible.
  • 00:25:28.105 --> 00:25:32.776
  • And so, with a gift today which will be worth double
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  • Thanks to a special matching grant, we can help reach
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  • Millions through the broadcast and resources of "the winning
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  • Walk," and it's a winning walk, as you know, with jesus christ.
  • 00:25:44.221 --> 00:25:49.193
  • I'm excited about today, i'm excited about tomorrow,
  • 00:25:49.193 --> 00:25:52.730
  • And thank you, through your contributions, through your
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  • Prayers, we scatter seeds of god's truth everywhere
  • 00:25:55.733 --> 00:26:01.338
  • And lives are changed.
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  • Congratulations, thank you for being a part
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  • Of "the winning walk" family.
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  • Ed: i remember a bible study group that consisted of doctors
  • 00:26:08.746 --> 00:26:12.316
  • And attorneys and ceos and
  • 00:26:12.316 --> 00:26:14.184
  • Vice presidents and presidents of corporations,
  • 00:26:14.184 --> 00:26:17.521
  • Entrepreneurial geniuses and a street sweeper.
  • 00:26:17.521 --> 00:26:21.792
  • In the initial meeting, the group leader asked
  • 00:26:21.792 --> 00:26:24.094
  • Each to identify himself.
  • 00:26:24.094 --> 00:26:26.530
  • First one said, 'i'm a physician,'
  • 00:26:26.530 --> 00:26:28.666
  • Another, 'i'm an attorney,'
  • 00:26:28.666 --> 00:26:31.502
  • 'i'm vice president of operations' answered a third.
  • 00:26:31.502 --> 00:26:34.938
  • And finally it was the street sweeper's turn.
  • 00:26:34.938 --> 00:26:38.342
  • I was a little apprehensive about what he'd say.
  • 00:26:38.342 --> 00:26:40.944
  • He said, 'i am a son of the king'.
  • 00:26:40.944 --> 00:26:46.283
  • He had no identity in the world in which he could boast,
  • 00:26:46.283 --> 00:26:50.487
  • But he knew his core identity.
  • 00:26:50.487 --> 00:26:52.956
  • The others were clouded by their earthly titles, position,
  • 00:26:52.956 --> 00:26:57.294
  • But the street sweeper knew he was chosen by the king of kings
  • 00:26:57.294 --> 00:27:01.131
  • To be a son with all the privileges and honors, man,
  • 00:27:01.131 --> 00:27:06.303
  • Of that high position.
  • 00:27:06.303 --> 00:27:08.038
  • Remember, as sons and daughters of god
  • 00:27:08.038 --> 00:27:11.208
  • Who you are in jesus christ right now, today.
  • 00:27:11.208 --> 00:27:15.746
  • There's not a higher position in anybody's kingdom.
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  • ♪♪♪
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