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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Walking to Jericho | June 16, 2026
- Do you ever
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- Try to justify all the time?
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- Do you try?
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- Yes. 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.
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- Every one of us here at self-justification.
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- Anybody who thinks you're not, will you stand up?
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- I want to see you because you love me.
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- Be going to heaven. you.
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- We're going to look
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- At the very familiar parable of the good samaritan.
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- And we're going to look at it in a way that
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- I had never really looked at it before.
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- As you know, if you remember the story, it
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- Is a story of rescue.
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- But it's far, far more than that.
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- Luke 1025 on one occasion,
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- An expert in the law stood up to test jesus.
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- The word test is the same word was used in
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- The wilderness of temptations when jesus was tempted.
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- Remember,
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- An expert in the law stood up.
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- This was a lawyer.
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- And he asked this question to test jesus.
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- He said, teacher, what must
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- 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
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- From this life which i know where i will die?
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- And what would i do
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- To have eternal life, life out of this life?
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- Big question.
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- We all ask ourselves this question at different
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- Times, different places, and you can get a myriad
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- Of answers in the culture in which we live.
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- But here he asked jesus, teacher, by the way,
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- That indicated
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- He was knew something about what jesus 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.
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- He was related to the worst
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- Kind of people in all of israel.
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- Oh, yeah.
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- I mean, those who didn't go to temple.
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- Those who were profaned.
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- Those who worked with their hands and had calluses.
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- The common people of all backgrounds.
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- Jesus was associated with them.
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- And i can guarantee you the pharisees didn't like it.
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- The sadducees didn't like it.
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- And i guarantee
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- This teacher was seeing that jesus was doing something
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- That they never experienced before because he taught
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- Not like, well, what do you think about this?
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- He spoke with a pretty
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- As if he were god himself.
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- Teacher,
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- What must i do to inherit eternal life?
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- And jesus looked at this lawyer
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- And said, what is written in the law?
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- And jesus says, well, how do you interpret that?
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- And we know the lawyer.
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- That was an easy layup question because
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- Do you realize that you every morning, the first thing
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- They would do would quote and listen to the dinner?
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- Artemis six every morning.
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- Deuteronomy six every afternoon.
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- Deuteronomy six.
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- They'd go over it again
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- Every night before they went to bed.
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- Every jew from the time they could understand
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- Due to honor me.
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- Six the ashima over and over and over
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- And over and over again was pounded in the heart.
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- They'd have their shiva written over the door post.
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- They had ashima in different places in the house.
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- So anything everybody knew, every believing,
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- Practicing jew.
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- And you even a modified practice. you.
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- They knew what was in the sheema.
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- On top of that, you can be pretty sure
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- That that very religious lawyer
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- Had flattery on his wrist.
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- Maybe on his head in that film actor,
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- It would be verses from
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- The shiva deuteronomy six, and there would be verses
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- From leviticus 19, particularly verse 18.
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- Put those two verses together.
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- What do you have?
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- You have exactly the answer
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- That the lawyer gave to jesus.
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- The lawyer asked the question.
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- Jesus said, well, how do you interpret this?
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- He flipped it back on him,
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- And he said, how do you understand that?
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- And the lawyer said,
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- Remind you, there's a whole bunch of people there,
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- Perhaps a thousand or so the lord.
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- He said, you shall love the lord thy god
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- With all your heart, with all your soul,
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- With all your mind, with all your strength.
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- First commandment.
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- Then he said, love your neighbor
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- As you love yourself.
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- And jesus said, a-plus.
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- 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
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- Put it into practice,
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- Okay?
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- Love god with every ounce of everything
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- And love your neighbor as you love yourself.
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- And then you see what happened.
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- All this had slipped on the lord.
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- Remember i said, a parable is a a mirror and a window here.
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- All of a sudden the lawyer was asking the question.
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- And by the way,
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- An esteemed lawyer
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- Will never ask a question in a court of law
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- Unless they know the answer the witness is going to give.
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- Every lawyer here
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- Will tell you that
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- Every lawyer here, if they've been a courtroom,
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- You've probably made that mistake.
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- And you got that.
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- Well, i didn't want that.
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- So they always know the answer.
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- And the lawyer and you.
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- Five beta kappa.
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- This answer, it was a layup.
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- He'd had it always life and the way he had it all
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- And probably had it written it for, like he was on 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 a
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- Trick here that twists us.
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- Nobody anywhere
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- In place, any time in history,
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- Would be able 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,
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- 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 pray you love your neighbors.
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- You love yourself.
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- And then we see the lawyer
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- Gets in deeper trouble at all and he understands it.
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- And verse 29 is so good.
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- He says, but he, the lawyer,
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- Wanted to justify himself.
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- Let's stop right there
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- And let this come home to you and to me.
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- Do you ever try to justify all the time?
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- Do you try?
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- Yes. 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.
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- Every one of us here at self-justification.
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- Anybody who thinks you're not, will you stand up?
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- I want to see you because you love me.
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- Be going to heaven. you.
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- So here the lawyer is trying to justify and say,
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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.
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- He knew the answer to it.
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- The time he was three years old.
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- And then jesus flipped it on him and he
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- 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.
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- You've 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, woo,
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- 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
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- 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.
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- But he wanted to justify himself.
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- So he asked jesus, well, who is my neighbor in a debate?
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- When you get caught as a person to define some terms
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- You've made with it?
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- Well, what do you mean by this?
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- See, the lawyer was caught.
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- He was captured. he was nailed down.
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- It was discovered about his life.
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- He wasn't as good and smart his ever died.
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- So he tried to justify himself.
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- And he did it by asking another question.
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- Well, by the way, who is my neighbor?
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- And in that day and time,
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- And even in the extent today, when serious
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- 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
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- Defending neighbor.
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- Yeah. and it's still a debate, by the way.
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- It'll be a debate when we leave here.
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- Until i answer at the end,
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- Is your neighbor, your family?
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- You do love him the way you love yourself, your family?
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- Yeah, i work on it.
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- Is your neighbor.
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- Those that you know or the neighbors are those
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- Who believe like you believe is your neighbor.
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- The person
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- Who has the same education, the same color of skin,
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- The same background, the same, the same taste that you have.
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- Is that who your neighbor is,
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- Or 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
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- As i've studied this and said, just exactly who do you think
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- Your neighbor is?
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- And jesus answered it
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- With a parable,
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- A true story,
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- Unbelievable story in that culture.
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- Listen at it.
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- Verse 30.
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- 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 robert.
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- They stripped him of his clothes
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- Beating and went away, leaving him half dead.
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- A priest happened to be going down the same road,
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- And when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.
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- So to the levite, when he came to the place,
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- And saw him pass by on the other side.
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- But a samaritan, as he traveled, came
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- Where the man was.
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- When he saw him, he took pity on him.
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- He went to him, bandaged his wounds, pouring on all in wine.
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- Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an end,
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- Took care of him.
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- The next day he took out to dinner and gave the innkeeper
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- Look after him.
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- He said, and when i return, i will reimburse you
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- For any extra experience you may have had.
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- Hello.
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- The question before the
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- House for all of us.
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- As for that lawyer, who in the world is
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- Your neighbor
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- Marriage is one of god's greatest gifts.
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- You might say, next to the gift of our salvation, christ.
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- It's number one.
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- But let's be honest, it also brings real challenges.
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- Every couple of face disagreements, miscommunication
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- Or financial pressure, family tensions, and seasons
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- Of frustration in the whole area of marriage.
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- You know, saying that if you're married, left unchecked,
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- Those struggles can slowly erode into
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- Even a marriage that should be great.
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- Into a marriage, that's just okay.
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- But that does not have to be your story.
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- In the ten commandments of marriage,
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- I share biblical truth, practical wisdom,
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- And a little humor drawn from more than 50
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- Years of ministry and marriage experience.
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- These ten timeless principles are designed to help husbands
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- And wives protect what matters most and strengthen
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- That relationship, and build a marriage
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- Based on love and joy, and a lasting commitment
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- That's filled with laughter and pleasure and excitement.
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- Listen, god never intended marriage to be.
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- Let's just survive and hang on.
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- He attended it to sing and to thrive.
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- Listen, if you really want a healthier,
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- Christ centered marriage that still has warmth, passion,
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- And purpose, these ten commandments of marriage
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- Is just for you.
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- Call them on your screen or visit the website below
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- To regress your copy of the ten commandments of marriage.
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- Do it today.
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- How big a
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- Circle do you 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 pulp.
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- Have you ever seen anybody really, really,
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- Really beaten up or. i've seen a black eye.
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- Oh, no. no.
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- Somebody beat to the ends 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,
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- I closed cut, bleeding
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- Head, arms, 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.
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- Beat up.
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- And then coming down the road.
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- Going down to jericho.
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- By the way, jericho was like going to florida in that day.
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- You didn't know that in jericho the his who drew?
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- They had a palace there.
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- Herod had four palaces in jericho
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- With a swimming pool, a sunken garden.
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- You see, it
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- Got cold
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- And windy up in jerusalem, and they went down to
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- Jericho, to florida.
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- And that was sort of resort area.
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- So evidently
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- This priest was going for a resort.
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- He'd been working in the temple, sacrificing,
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- Praying, killing animals, putting his hands on people.
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- He was worn out and he was going down for a little r&r,
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- And he was going down to jericho.
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- And he saw as he was going down the road
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- This guy who was looked like he was dead.
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- But, you know,
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- If he, as a priest, as a holy man, would have gone
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- And touched that man and he died,
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- He would be ceremony unclean.
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- He couldn't do his job for several weeks.
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- Whoa, man.
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- I'm a holy man.
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- So he saw this man beaten up, and he.
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- He went by on the other side.
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- Coming along behind him.
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- Now, priest was the highest tribe of aaron.
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- Levite man, highest beautiful robe.
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- I mean, when you saw him coming, you didn't say.
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- I wonder who that is.
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- You could tell.
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- Coming behind him was a levite who was led
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- The music in the temple.
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- Or it had the business of the temple.
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- He was coming to right behind the priest.
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- And and he
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- Went over a little closer and saw the man was beaten up.
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- But he said, you know, he may be dead.
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- He may not be dead.
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- And he just followed the priest who went on ahead of him.
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- Now think about it.
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- The person to pit beaten up.
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- I'm sure he saw the priest coming.
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- He said. boy, am i lucky.
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- Here comes a man of god who has been taught
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- All of his life to minister to people.
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- But he went by him.
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- Well, i'm lucky that levite.
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- I guess he asked him to take care of them.
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- He went by on the other side, too.
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- If the man happened to be conscious.
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- And then here comes jesus tells the story,
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- And i'm sure the audience
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- He's going to say, well, here comes an ordinary jew
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- Comes down.
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- Oh, no, he shocks them.
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- Here comes this
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- Samaritan.
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- In luke ten, where this story is told.
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- Look in the chapter before, and you'll see that
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- A samaritan had mistreated, not given hospitality
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- To james and john, two of jesus apostles, and james.
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- And john said, let me call down lightning on that samaritan.
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- Samaritan was the
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- Bottom of the bottom of the bottom of the bottom.
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- Hey, remember the samaritans were you may not.
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- In 722
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- Syria came and took over israel
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- And took a whole 22,000 people out of the northern kingdom.
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- Some jews were left, and then syria came in
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- And they inhabited that kingdom and they intermarried.
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- Jew married with a nun, jew with a pagan.
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- And that's who the samaritans were.
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- In fact, the jews thought
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- They not only heretics, they were not pleasing to god.
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- And the samaritans built their own place
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- Of worship on mount garrison.
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- It didn't believe the mount gerizim.
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- That's where we worship.
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- And so they hated one another.
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- They despised one another.
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- They had nothing to do with one another.
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- And of all things, jesus is telling this story and said,
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- Well, here's the priest, and ere is
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- The levite went by on the other side.
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- And now a samaritan stops,
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- Goes down into the pit
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- Ho and ministers to the man,
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- Took wine, washed all of his wounds.
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- He went on and took some all, and tried to comfort him.
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- Well, that ought to be enough.
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- Don't you know how far you have to go?
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- This guy hates me.
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- And then he picked him up.
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- Oh, and he put him on his donkey.
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- Well, that's enough.
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- And he walked all the way
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- With a man on his donkey all the way to an end.
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- Check.
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- The man in paid for two denarii.
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- That would be 24 days of food and said, look after him.
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- He said, i'm going to come back.
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- This is a samaritan now.
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- And if it's any overcharges, anything i missed to
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- Take care of him.
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- I will pay you when i return.
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- Hello, ladies and gentlemen.
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- We go by on the other side all the time, every one of us.
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- Because we've discovered when you go down in the pit
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- And you try to help and love and restore, it's dangerous.
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- Maybe it's a setup, maybe the that maybe somebody
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- Not really hurt and they're waiting to rob me.
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- It's dangerous.
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- It is forbidden.
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- You don't have to do it.
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- And man, it sure is costly of time, energy and money.
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- If you really get down like the samaritan did in order
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- To rescue someone.
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- We all understand that.
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- And the bottom line is, the jericho road
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- Goes right down in the middle of every step i take
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- And every step you take every day of the life.
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- And we're more like the priest and the levites,
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- Most of us, than we are the good samaritan.
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- Anybody want to debate that?
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- And then we come to the
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- Into the story
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- Powerful, powerful
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- Ending of the story.
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- Jesus said, which of these three
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- The you think was a neighbor
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- To the man who fell the hand of robbers?
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- Let me tell you what happens with our rationalization
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- When how we discover and deal with people who are in the pit.
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- And by the way, how big is the circle?
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- How worry is a line of love as to who our neighbors is.
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- That line of love is the same line of love that god has,
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- And god doesn't leave out
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- Anybody, any time, anywhere.
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- Once a
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- Man fell into a pit, he couldn't get himself out.
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- Man beat up in the pit.
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- A sensitive person came along and said,
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- I feel for you down there.
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- And look in the mirror, folks.
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- A practical person came along and said,
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- I knew you will call him that pit.
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- Sooner or later.
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- A pharisee came.
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- Only bad people fall into a pit.
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- A mathematician calculated
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- How far he fell.
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- A news reporter want
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- An exclusive story on his pit,
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- And i are as agent, as if he were paying
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- Taxes on the pit.
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- A politician dropped an absentee
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- Ballot and a free cell phone down into the pit.
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- So true.
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- A self-pitying person, a self-pitying person said,
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- You ever seen anything and said, you've seen my pit?
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- A mystic said,
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- Just imagine you're not in a pit.
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- The optimist said, things could be worse.
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- A pessimist said things will get worse.
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- And then the real twist
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- Hits our lawyer friend.
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- Which one of these were a neighbor?
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- And the expert in the law?
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- Replied, the samaritan, who had mercy on him.
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- And jesus said, go and do likewise.
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- He already said, the question began,
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- What does it take for me to have eternal life?
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- And jesus said, keep this law number one.
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- Number two perfectly. number one.
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- Love god with all you have.
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- That's a vertical relationship.
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- Love your neighbor as you love yourself.
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- That's a horizontal relationship.
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- And the lawyer knew he couldn't do it.
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- And we know no human being can do it.
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- And then you decide who is my neighbor and my neighbor?
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- Is anybody, anywhere, anytime
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- That we're able to go and love and minister
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- And seek to help and heal and to rescue them in life.
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- It says he had compassion on him.
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- What is compassion?
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- It's my pain in your heart.
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- You get a definition.
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- Compassion is your pain in my heart or my pain in your.
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- That is compassion.
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- But compassion is enough.
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- Mercy is
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- We have compassion, and we respond
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- To that compassion by getting down in the pit
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- And trying to rescue that person, lead them to christ,
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- Minister to their lives,
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- Let them know that god loves them,
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- And let them know by our actions
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- That we love them to.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, if we who name
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- The name of jesus would do just a microscopic
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- Example of what jesus is telling us to practice,
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- It would change everything.
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- Everything.
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- Marriages today face more pressures than ever.
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- Many couples live
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- With stress, disappointment, distance and discouragement,
- 00:26:11.348 --> 00:26:15.185
- Wondering if the joy they want shared can ever return.
- 00:26:15.185 --> 00:26:19.123
- But god's design for marriage has not changed.
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- In doctor young's the ten commandments of marriage,
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- You'll find practical biblical principles that can help
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- Transform your relationship from the inside out.
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- Whether you've been married for months or decades,
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- These truths can help you communicate better, grow closer
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- Spiritually, resolve conflict in a healthy way,
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- And to rediscover the love that first brought you together.
- 00:26:43.647 --> 00:26:48.152
- A strong marriage doesn't happen by accident.
- 00:26:48.152 --> 00:26:51.188
- It grows when a husband and wife choose
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- To build their relationship god's way with christ.
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- At the center of your home,
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- There is always hope, healing, and a path forward.
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- If you want to strengthen your marriage and build
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- A relationship that honors god and blesses your family.
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