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Andy Stanley - Investigating Jesus (Part 4)

November 22, 2025 | 30:10

Andy Stanley - Investigating Jesus (Part 4)
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Your Move with Andy Stanley | Andy Stanley - Investigating Jesus (Part 4) | November 22, 2025
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  • Andy stanley: hi everybody, welcome to "your move" where we
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  • Help you make better decisions and live with fewer regrets.
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  • I'm andy stanley, and i'll be your guide.
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  • Now, do you know who it is virtually impossible not
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  • To like?
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  • The person who went out of their way to help you or to help
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  • Someone you love and didn't require anything in return.
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  • Those people are rare, but when you meet them, you like them and
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  • You wanna be like them, which makes me think you are gonna
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  • Like today's episode of "your move."
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  • Stick around.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Andy: we are in part 4 of our series "investigating jesus:
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  • How we know and why we follow."
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  • Now, as we said throughout this series, this is--these are
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  • Really important issues right here because we're asking the
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  • Question, how do we know there's anything--there's even anything
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  • To the story of jesus?
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  • And if there is something to the story of jesus, why should we
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  • Bother to follow?
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  • Because the invitation to follow jesus is all-encompassing.
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  • It includes your time and your money and your relationships
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  • And your career and your school.
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  • I mean following jesus, it's a--it's an all-or-nothing kind
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  • Of proposition.
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  • So for modern people to consider following jesus, i mean, we
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  • Better have a really, really, really good reason.
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  • And the other reason it's such an important issue is because
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  • Christianity, or i should say the credibility of christianity
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  • Actually rises and falls on the identity of this single
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  • Individual, jesus of nazareth, which means, and we've said this
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  • Each time in this series, which means if you are considering
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  • Faith or if you are reconsidering faith or if you
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  • Are in the process of unconsidering faith, there's
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  • Really just one pertinent question for you to wrestle
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  • With, and the question is not does god exist?
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  • I mean, that's fun to talk about.
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  • The question isn't is the entire bible true?
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  • That's fun to talk about as well.
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  • But the issue when it comes to christianity really boils down
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  • To this: is matthew, mark, luke, or john, a reliable account of
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  • Actual events?
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  • And if any of these one--if any of these four accounts of the
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  • Life of jesus are true, then regardless of what you believed
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  • In the past, or where you've been, or what you've done, you
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  • Should sit up straight.
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  • We should all sit up straight and pay attention because if
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  • These are--any one of these is a reliable account of actual
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  • Events, then what jesus did actually--he actually did or
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  • What it says that jesus did--he actually did, and what he
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  • Taught, he actually taught.
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  • So the issue is one or more of the gospels, all of christianity
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  • Rises and falls on that question.
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  • So in this series, we're actually just exploring one of
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  • The accounts of the life of jesus written by luke, named
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  • Actually for the author, luke, who apparently was the first
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  • Century doctor, who knew the main characters in the story
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  • Of jesus.
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  • He knew peter, he traveled all over the mediterranean rim with
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  • The apostle paul.
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  • He knew james, the brother of jesus, and right up front as
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  • We've said throughout in the--in this gospel, right up front, he
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  • Tells us that he's not writing religious literature.
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  • This isn't sacred religious literature.
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  • He's actually just documenting someone's life, the life of
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  • Jesus of nazareth, and he wasn't alone, because the events
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  • Surrounding the life of jesus were so amazing, were just so
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  • Life changing, and not just life changing but culture shifting,
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  • The story had to be told.
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  • So here's what he says at the very beginning of his account of
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  • The life of jesus.
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  • He says: "many," i'm not the only one and many isn't four,
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  • "many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that
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  • Have been fulfilled," or the things that happened,
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  • "among us."
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  • Right here among us, "just as they were handed down to us by
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  • Those who were from the first eyewitnesses and servants of
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  • The word."
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  • So luke is not writing the bible, luke is just telling us
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  • What happened, and later this first century document would be
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  • Included in the documents that make up what we call the bible.
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  • So he starts off by detailing jesus's birth, then as we said
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  • In part 2, then he introduces us to the warm up act, john the
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  • Baptist, and then he gives us a summary of jesus's entire
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  • Life mission.
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  • He said that jesus said this: "i must proclaim, i must proclaim
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  • The good news.
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  • I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of god, that is why
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  • I was sent."
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  • So luke's like, here's jesus's mission statement: to proclaim
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  • The good news of the kingdom of god and the whole idea of the
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  • Kingdom of god, jesus presenting the kingdom of god.
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  • This represents the reign and the rule of god.
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  • And luke says, this is what was so amazing about jesus.
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  • When jesus talked about god's rule, either on earth or over
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  • The life of a person, it was inviting, it was relational.
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  • It was--it was without borders.
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  • It was as if--luke would tell us, it was as if everybody was
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  • Invited and everybody was included.
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  • That--luke would say, look, luke would tell us and and we'll
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  • Discover as you read the gospel of luke, it's like he said--it's
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  • Like jesus was saying that god doesn't recognize and god has
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  • Little patience for the artificial stratification of the
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  • Human race that every single culture and every single
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  • Generation tries to impose on the human race, that everyone
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  • Was endowed with certain inherent worth.
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  • That everybody had value, that everybody was made in the image
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  • Of god, and wherever jesus's followers stubbornly embraced,
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  • Wherever they stubbornly embraced, defended, and modeled
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  • Jesus's new covenant command to love others as god through
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  • Christ has loved us, people flourished.
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  • The world was a better place, and all the caste systems and
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  • The differentiating of types of people, all of that began to
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  • Fall away.
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  • Andy: hey, thanks so much for watching this episode, but
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  • Andy: so, on one occasion, jesus spoke about this directly, and
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  • Luke documents this occasion where jesus really goes out of
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  • His way to reiterate this new and unique vision for his
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  • Followers, which was a new and unique vision for the world.
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  • And it's like, luke leans in and says, "okay, this is
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  • So important."
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  • This is why i included this.
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  • This is how--this is how epic the the words of jesus--this is
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  • Why this story had to be told.
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  • Here's what he says.
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  • Luke chapter 10.
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  • "on one occasion, on one occasion, an expert in the law,"
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  • A lawyer, "stood up to test jesus."
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  • He did--he had a question, but it was a test, that's important.
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  • "'teacher,' he said, 'what must i do to inherit eternal life?'"
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  • Now, eternal life in the first century judeans,
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  • What he's asking is how do i know i get to participate in
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  • God's future kingdom?
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  • Now he's testing jesus, but he's also genuinely curious because
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  • The answer to the question, how do you reserve a seat in god's
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  • Future kingdom, wasn't all that clear from the law and
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  • The prophets.
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  • But jesus is smart and he knows that this is a test, and he
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  • Knows that there's a question behind the question.
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  • So jesus did what jesus does, he responds with a question.
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  • So he says, "well, you're a lawyer.
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  • What is written in the law?
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  • How do you read it?
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  • In other words, you tell us and you tell me, and we'll
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  • Both know.
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  • I mean, you're a lawyer, you should know this, right?"
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  • So then the lawyer, as you may know, because it's such a
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  • Familiar story, the lawyer recites back to jesus and
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  • Jesus's audience what they were all taught as children is kind
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  • Of the synopsis of the law that somehow should point the way to
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  • Making sure you have a reserved seat in god's future kingdom.
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  • So he says back to jesus, "well, this is how i read it.
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  • This is what i think the answer is: love the lord your god with
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  • All your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength
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  • And with all your mind."
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  • Now, this is an important part of the story.
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  • Earlier, somebody had asked jesus a similar question, and
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  • When jesus--and in that case, jesus actually recited this back
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  • As the answer to the question asked, but he added a part that
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  • We're all familiar with from leviticus 19:18.
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  • He added the phrase, "and your neighbor as yourself."
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  • Because somebody said, "hey, what's the
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  • Greatest commandment?"
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  • Jesus says, "well, there's not greatest commandment.
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  • There's two greatest commandments, and they're
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  • Actually the same commandment because they are actually
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  • Different sides of the same coin."
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  • Now this when jesus added, "and your neighbor as yourself," to
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  • What was kind of a formulaic answer to the first century
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  • Judeans, it caused quite a stir.
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  • But the reason jesus added, "and your neighbor as yourself,"
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  • Because he was making a point, and this is when luke wants to
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  • Lean in and say, "and this is the point."
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  • His point was that love for god is demonstrated by love
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  • For others.
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  • That love for god, this is jesus's--the point of
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  • His ministry.
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  • This is why it's good news.
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  • This is why the reign and rule of god is not something to be
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  • Resisted, that love for god is demonstrated by love for others.
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  • Well anyway, apparently this lawyer was there when jesus
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  • Added on, "and your neighbor as yourself."
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  • So he recites kind of the sunday school answer to the question
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  • Of: how to--how can i know for sure i'm gonna have
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  • Eternal life?
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  • Then he smiles at jesus and he adds, "and i've been listening,
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  • Jesus, and love your neighbor as yourself."
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  • Well, jesus is so happy, somebody is finally paying
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  • Attention and starting to get this right?
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  • And jesus looks at him and says something that jesus almost
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  • Never says in the gospels.
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  • "you have answered correctly," because mostly people answer
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  • Jesus incorrectly.
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  • So this is like, this guy's feeling pretty good
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  • About himself.
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  • Jesus replied, "do this.
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  • Do this."
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  • What's this?
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  • This isn't the love of the lord your god, their heart, soul,
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  • Mind and strength because you can't measure that.
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  • You have no idea.
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  • Do this is referring specifically to the last part,
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  • "and love your neighbor as yourself."
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  • And if you do, jesus said, hey, mr. judean lawyer, you'll have a
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  • Reservation in god's future kingdom, all right, anybody else
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  • Have a question?
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  • But the lawyer didn't sit down because he's not finished.
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  • And the text says, luke tells us because somebody who was there
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  • Told luke, but he, the lawyer, was just like us.
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  • He wanted to justify himself.
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  • Don't we all?
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  • So he didn't sit back down, he says--so he asked jesus.
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  • This is the second part of the question: "okay, all right, if
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  • I'm gonna reserve, you know, spot in god's future kingdom, i
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  • Gotta love my neighbor as myself, but you gotta be more
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  • Specific than that."
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  • And who--here's the famous question: "and who is
  • 00:11:02.146 --> 00:11:06.283
  • My neighbor?"
  • 00:11:06.283 --> 00:11:07.651
  • Now this is how this question was an attempt to
  • 00:11:07.651 --> 00:11:10.154
  • Justify himself.
  • 00:11:10.154 --> 00:11:11.489
  • What he's really asking is what is the minimum amount of
  • 00:11:11.489 --> 00:11:15.092
  • Neighbor-loving required to reserve a spot in god's future
  • 00:11:15.092 --> 00:11:19.029
  • Kingdom, okay?
  • 00:11:19.029 --> 00:11:20.364
  • Don't just tell me, love--that's too open ended.
  • 00:11:20.364 --> 00:11:21.966
  • I want--you gotta be--i wanna know what is the minimum amount.
  • 00:11:21.966 --> 00:11:26.170
  • Now, for first century, not every century, but for first
  • 00:11:26.170 --> 00:11:28.739
  • Century judeans, a neighbor was another judean.
  • 00:11:28.739 --> 00:11:31.909
  • This was very ethnocentric, to love--your neighbors were other
  • 00:11:31.909 --> 00:11:36.514
  • Judeans because they were--you know, rome was there, there were
  • 00:11:36.514 --> 00:11:39.350
  • Different countries that were--had become part of that
  • 00:11:39.350 --> 00:11:41.418
  • Culture and so they're, you know, they're sort of taking
  • 00:11:41.418 --> 00:11:44.188
  • Care of themselves.
  • 00:11:44.188 --> 00:11:45.756
  • So his question is which subset of my judean brothers and
  • 00:11:45.756 --> 00:11:50.194
  • Sisters do i have to love?
  • 00:11:50.194 --> 00:11:52.496
  • Hoping he had already met the requirement.
  • 00:11:52.496 --> 00:11:55.466
  • And then once again, in typical jesus fashion, jesus didn't
  • 00:11:55.466 --> 00:11:58.836
  • Answer the question he asked.
  • 00:11:58.836 --> 00:12:02.039
  • Jesus answers the question that he should have asked, because
  • 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:06.210
  • The real question isn't who is my neighbor.
  • 00:12:06.210 --> 00:12:09.213
  • The real question that jesus wanted him to understand was
  • 00:12:09.213 --> 00:12:12.249
  • This question: what does neighbor love look like?
  • 00:12:12.249 --> 00:12:15.820
  • And what does neighbor love act like?
  • 00:12:15.820 --> 00:12:18.722
  • Because jesus's actual agenda was this question: what is
  • 00:12:18.722 --> 00:12:24.528
  • God like?
  • 00:12:24.528 --> 00:12:26.964
  • And then as many of you know, jesus launches into the most
  • 00:12:26.964 --> 00:12:31.468
  • Disruptive, culturally insensitive, disorienting,
  • 00:12:31.468 --> 00:12:36.440
  • Paradigm-shifting parable of all of his ministry.
  • 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:40.578
  • But more important than knowing the story, jesus's point is
  • 00:12:40.578 --> 00:12:43.047
  • Simply this: "this is what it looks like to follow me, because
  • 00:12:43.047 --> 00:12:47.284
  • This is what your father in heaven is like."
  • 00:12:47.284 --> 00:12:52.556
  • So he smiles.
  • 00:12:52.556 --> 00:12:53.891
  • The man's still standing there, everybody's waiting for an
  • 00:12:53.891 --> 00:12:55.392
  • Answer to the question.
  • 00:12:55.392 --> 00:12:57.061
  • Jesus says: "a man was going down from jerusalem to jericho
  • 00:12:57.061 --> 00:13:02.533
  • When he was attacked by robbers."
  • 00:13:02.533 --> 00:13:05.302
  • And everybody's like, "wait, weren't we just talking
  • 00:13:05.302 --> 00:13:08.172
  • About neighbors?
  • 00:13:08.172 --> 00:13:09.540
  • Now we're talking about robbers?"
  • 00:13:09.540 --> 00:13:10.875
  • But this is what jesus did, because everybody's leaning in
  • 00:13:10.875 --> 00:13:12.476
  • Because they know this is going somewhere.
  • 00:13:12.476 --> 00:13:14.111
  • And this was familiar context for them, because anybody going
  • 00:13:14.111 --> 00:13:18.148
  • Down from jerusalem to jericho, everybody knew that path.
  • 00:13:18.148 --> 00:13:20.384
  • It's about 17 miles, it's rocky, there's caves, there's desert,
  • 00:13:20.384 --> 00:13:25.022
  • It was dangerous, it's always a little bit dangerous.
  • 00:13:25.022 --> 00:13:27.892
  • It was so dangerous back then.
  • 00:13:27.892 --> 00:13:30.327
  • So this man--this is something that happened all the time and
  • 00:13:30.327 --> 00:13:32.897
  • Could have happened to anyone in jesus's audience.
  • 00:13:32.897 --> 00:13:34.932
  • He's on his way from jeri--from jerusalem down to jericho, and
  • 00:13:34.932 --> 00:13:38.636
  • He's set upon by robbers, and then jesus continues, "and they
  • 00:13:38.636 --> 00:13:41.538
  • Stripped him of his clothes, because clothes were
  • 00:13:41.538 --> 00:13:44.275
  • Very valuable.
  • 00:13:44.275 --> 00:13:45.643
  • "they stripped him of his clothes and they beat him and
  • 00:13:45.643 --> 00:13:47.311
  • They went away, leaving him half dead."
  • 00:13:47.311 --> 00:13:50.681
  • Then jesus goes on, now remember this is a parable.
  • 00:13:50.681 --> 00:13:52.650
  • Jesus is making the whole thing up.
  • 00:13:52.650 --> 00:13:53.984
  • This--none of this--this is--this could have happened,
  • 00:13:53.984 --> 00:13:56.053
  • But this is a made up story in order to make a single point and
  • 00:13:56.053 --> 00:13:58.889
  • Everybody's leaning in.
  • 00:13:58.889 --> 00:14:00.224
  • And of course the lawyer's like, "i hope we get back to the
  • 00:14:00.224 --> 00:14:02.192
  • Neighbor thing, but go ahead, this is fascinating," right?
  • 00:14:02.192 --> 00:14:05.596
  • Jesus says, "and then these two religious people," one actually
  • 00:14:05.596 --> 00:14:08.832
  • It appears from what jesus said, coming from jerusalem, so
  • 00:14:08.832 --> 00:14:11.635
  • They're all ceremonially clean and all buttoned up with god.
  • 00:14:11.635 --> 00:14:15.272
  • "these two religious people come by and they see their bruised
  • 00:14:15.272 --> 00:14:19.243
  • And bleeding judean neighbor, and they don't lift a finger.
  • 00:14:19.243 --> 00:14:25.916
  • In fact, they probably thought to themselves, 'well, you
  • 00:14:25.916 --> 00:14:27.785
  • Know what?
  • 00:14:27.785 --> 00:14:29.153
  • He probably deserved this.
  • 00:14:29.153 --> 00:14:30.487
  • I mean this is fate, this is karma.
  • 00:14:30.487 --> 00:14:31.855
  • Besides, the law forbids us to kill anyone, but the law does
  • 00:14:31.855 --> 00:14:35.793
  • Not require us to keep someone from dying,' so they didn't."
  • 00:14:35.793 --> 00:14:40.331
  • Now, if his audience was paying close attention, and i wanna
  • 00:14:40.331 --> 00:14:44.301
  • Make sure we are, if his audience was paying close
  • 00:14:44.301 --> 00:14:46.637
  • Attention and if jesus's greatest hits formula was
  • 00:14:46.637 --> 00:14:51.108
  • Correct, that you love the lord your god, the heart, soul, mind
  • 00:14:51.108 --> 00:14:53.143
  • And strength, and your neighbor as yourself, well, then these
  • 00:14:53.143 --> 00:14:56.046
  • Two guys are doomed.
  • 00:14:56.046 --> 00:14:57.381
  • The two religious guys are doomed because they did not love
  • 00:14:57.381 --> 00:14:59.583
  • Their judean neighbor, which meant they did not love the
  • 00:14:59.583 --> 00:15:04.388
  • Lord their god, even though they were on their way or coming
  • 00:15:04.388 --> 00:15:08.826
  • From the city of jerusalem.
  • 00:15:08.826 --> 00:15:11.328
  • And then jesus pauses for dramatic effect because he's the
  • 00:15:11.328 --> 00:15:14.264
  • Master storyteller, and he says, "but there was another one,
  • 00:15:14.264 --> 00:15:17.868
  • Another person came by, but a samaritan."
  • 00:15:17.868 --> 00:15:21.205
  • Now everybody in jesus's audience is like, "ugh," you
  • 00:15:21.205 --> 00:15:23.674
  • Know, because they probably assumed that this was a real
  • 00:15:23.674 --> 00:15:26.043
  • Story, a samaritan is probably who robbed the guy to begin
  • 00:15:26.043 --> 00:15:29.513
  • With, because the judeans and samaritans, as you know, if you
  • 00:15:29.513 --> 00:15:32.282
  • Grew up in church, didn't get along.
  • 00:15:32.282 --> 00:15:33.617
  • In fact, judeans considered samaritans the least respectable
  • 00:15:33.617 --> 00:15:37.554
  • Of all people and consequently, as you would imagine, the
  • 00:15:37.554 --> 00:15:40.791
  • Samaritans kind of returned the favor because of how they were
  • 00:15:40.791 --> 00:15:43.460
  • Looked down on and because of how they were treated.
  • 00:15:43.460 --> 00:15:45.162
  • And now jesus, it looks like he--he's--looks like he's about
  • 00:15:45.162 --> 00:15:48.932
  • To make a samaritan the hero of this parable, "but a samaritan,"
  • 00:15:48.932 --> 00:15:56.740
  • And his audience is thinking, "wait, wait, wait, surely you're
  • 00:15:56.740 --> 00:15:59.777
  • Not about to make him the hero," but he did, but it's even worse
  • 00:15:59.777 --> 00:16:03.547
  • Than that.
  • 00:16:03.547 --> 00:16:04.882
  • If you paid attention to jesus's parables, and i don't know that
  • 00:16:04.882 --> 00:16:06.483
  • If jesus's audience did, but his disciples certainly did, because
  • 00:16:06.483 --> 00:16:09.987
  • In every single parable that jesus would tell, there is
  • 00:16:09.987 --> 00:16:13.123
  • Someone that represents god the father.
  • 00:16:13.123 --> 00:16:16.226
  • And the disciples, peter and the guys are like, "oh no, oh no, oh
  • 00:16:16.226 --> 00:16:20.964
  • No, he's about to make a samaritan the god figure in
  • 00:16:20.964 --> 00:16:24.701
  • The parable.
  • 00:16:24.701 --> 00:16:26.170
  • We're never gonna get this venture off the ground.
  • 00:16:26.170 --> 00:16:28.439
  • Does he not understand our culture?
  • 00:16:28.439 --> 00:16:30.574
  • I mean this is like the worst thing he could do."
  • 00:16:30.574 --> 00:16:34.044
  • But a samaritan, you know this story, as he traveled, came to
  • 00:16:34.044 --> 00:16:37.714
  • Where the man was and when he saw him, he took pity on him, he
  • 00:16:37.714 --> 00:16:43.987
  • Did something.
  • 00:16:43.987 --> 00:16:45.923
  • And then jesus makes this samaritan out to be the
  • 00:16:45.923 --> 00:16:49.326
  • Extra mile.
  • 00:16:49.326 --> 00:16:50.694
  • Are you kidding me?
  • 00:16:50.694 --> 00:16:52.029
  • Who would even think about doing that variety of hero?
  • 00:16:52.029 --> 00:16:55.099
  • In fact, there are six, i counted six.
  • 00:16:55.099 --> 00:16:57.334
  • There may be more, six or more expressions of compassion.
  • 00:16:57.334 --> 00:17:00.904
  • So jesus just--he's just packing it on.
  • 00:17:00.904 --> 00:17:02.873
  • He's just loading it on.
  • 00:17:02.873 --> 00:17:04.208
  • He's just twisting the knife.
  • 00:17:04.208 --> 00:17:05.542
  • He says this, "he went," this imaginary samaritan who came
  • 00:17:05.542 --> 00:17:08.245
  • Upon this imaginary judean who'd been robbed, "he went to him and
  • 00:17:08.245 --> 00:17:11.748
  • He bandaged his wounds," which meant he touched him, "he poured
  • 00:17:11.748 --> 00:17:15.552
  • Oil and wine on the wounds," which means it cost him, "then
  • 00:17:15.552 --> 00:17:18.789
  • He put the man on his own donkey," which meant it--you
  • 00:17:18.789 --> 00:17:21.792
  • Know, he had to go out of his way.
  • 00:17:21.792 --> 00:17:23.127
  • Now he's gonna have to walk and go slower instead of ride, "and
  • 00:17:23.127 --> 00:17:25.562
  • He brought him to an inn and he took care of him."
  • 00:17:25.562 --> 00:17:29.900
  • And the audience is like, wait, wait, wait.
  • 00:17:29.900 --> 00:17:31.568
  • The guy spends the night and jesus just rubs it and this
  • 00:17:31.568 --> 00:17:34.771
  • Wasn't a dump and run.
  • 00:17:34.771 --> 00:17:36.106
  • He spent the night caring for this guy.
  • 00:17:36.106 --> 00:17:38.575
  • "then the next day," i mean, the audience can--this is just
  • 00:17:38.575 --> 00:17:41.912
  • Beyond imagination.
  • 00:17:41.912 --> 00:17:43.247
  • Nobody would do this.
  • 00:17:43.247 --> 00:17:44.615
  • "then the next day, he took out two denarii and gave them to the
  • 00:17:44.615 --> 00:17:48.152
  • Innkeeper," and immediately they do the math in their mind.
  • 00:17:48.152 --> 00:17:50.754
  • They're like, are you kidding?
  • 00:17:50.754 --> 00:17:52.156
  • This would take care of the guy for like two weeks.
  • 00:17:52.156 --> 00:17:54.424
  • You just pay like two weeks of room and board for someone you
  • 00:17:54.424 --> 00:17:57.327
  • Don't even know.
  • 00:17:57.327 --> 00:17:59.997
  • And in the parable, the samaritan says to the innkeeper,
  • 00:17:59.997 --> 00:18:03.834
  • "hey, i gotta go, but i want you to look after him.
  • 00:18:03.834 --> 00:18:08.672
  • And when i return," "oh no, you're gonna come back?"
  • 00:18:08.672 --> 00:18:13.810
  • "oh yeah, i'm gonna come back and check on this guy."
  • 00:18:13.810 --> 00:18:16.180
  • "when i return, i will reimburse you for any extra expense you
  • 00:18:16.180 --> 00:18:19.383
  • May have."
  • 00:18:19.383 --> 00:18:21.151
  • Silence.
  • 00:18:21.151 --> 00:18:22.653
  • Nobody--this is beyond the pale, and what in the world does this
  • 00:18:22.653 --> 00:18:25.289
  • Have to do with neighbors?
  • 00:18:25.289 --> 00:18:26.623
  • Okay, this is just--you just made up a story no one could
  • 00:18:26.623 --> 00:18:28.492
  • Ever believe.
  • 00:18:28.492 --> 00:18:29.826
  • You lost us as soon as he touched the guy, right?
  • 00:18:29.826 --> 00:18:32.429
  • The lawyer's confused.
  • 00:18:32.429 --> 00:18:35.866
  • If you're not a christian, if you're not a jesus follower, you
  • 00:18:35.866 --> 00:18:38.368
  • Walked away.
  • 00:18:38.368 --> 00:18:39.803
  • I don't even know how to put words around this next moment,
  • 00:18:39.803 --> 00:18:44.374
  • But it's undeniable what i'm about to say because this
  • 00:18:44.374 --> 00:18:46.577
  • Actually happened, but again, it's just a reminder of the
  • 00:18:46.577 --> 00:18:50.514
  • Weight of jesus teaching and how it has shaped culture, cultures
  • 00:18:50.514 --> 00:18:55.052
  • All over the world.
  • 00:18:55.052 --> 00:18:56.887
  • What jesus did next, his immediate audience would not
  • 00:18:56.887 --> 00:19:01.758
  • Live long enough to appreciate because jesus was about to
  • 00:19:01.758 --> 00:19:08.765
  • Redefine neighbor for everyone, and every generation, and in
  • 00:19:08.765 --> 00:19:16.273
  • Every nation.
  • 00:19:16.273 --> 00:19:17.641
  • Neighbor would no longer be primarily about ethnicity,
  • 00:19:17.641 --> 00:19:21.945
  • Proximity, "do you like me?"
  • 00:19:21.945 --> 00:19:26.750
  • Jesus expands the idea of neighbor beyond judea
  • 00:19:26.750 --> 00:19:30.654
  • And galilee.
  • 00:19:30.654 --> 00:19:32.489
  • He expands it beyond people you know and don't know.
  • 00:19:32.489 --> 00:19:35.392
  • In fact, he expands it beyond the borders of
  • 00:19:35.392 --> 00:19:38.328
  • Their scripture.
  • 00:19:38.328 --> 00:19:41.698
  • And what's so brilliant, this is why nobody could make this up,
  • 00:19:41.698 --> 00:19:44.234
  • And jesus does all of that for every generation and every
  • 00:19:44.234 --> 00:19:47.371
  • Nation with one perfectly timed, perfectly created, perfectly
  • 00:19:47.371 --> 00:19:55.212
  • Delivered question, and it's a question that forces me, and
  • 00:19:55.212 --> 00:20:00.584
  • It's a question that forces you, and it's a question that forces
  • 00:20:00.584 --> 00:20:03.287
  • Everybody everywhere to examine
  • 00:20:03.287 --> 00:20:05.656
  • Their hearts, our hearts, and our prejudices, and our contempt
  • 00:20:05.656 --> 00:20:13.597
  • For folks who don't look like us and who don't live like us, who
  • 00:20:13.597 --> 00:20:18.235
  • Don't believe like us, who don't act like us, who don't worship
  • 00:20:18.235 --> 00:20:22.139
  • Like us, who don't vote like us, who are basically nothing
  • 00:20:22.139 --> 00:20:27.744
  • Like us.
  • 00:20:27.744 --> 00:20:29.246
  • Who don't even like us.
  • 00:20:29.246 --> 00:20:30.881
  • And 2,000 years later, 2,000 years later,
  • 00:20:30.881 --> 00:20:34.718
  • The weight of this annoying question still rests on
  • 00:20:34.718 --> 00:20:40.891
  • Our shoulders.
  • 00:20:40.891 --> 00:20:42.225
  • I--it's annoying.
  • 00:20:42.225 --> 00:20:43.593
  • It's annoying because we all know the answer to the question
  • 00:20:43.593 --> 00:20:45.395
  • And it's inescapable.
  • 00:20:45.395 --> 00:20:47.597
  • So jesus looks at the lawyer after he finishes the parable
  • 00:20:47.597 --> 00:20:51.301
  • And he says this, "okay, i got a question for you.
  • 00:20:51.301 --> 00:20:53.203
  • You've been asking me questions.
  • 00:20:53.203 --> 00:20:56.606
  • Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man
  • 00:20:56.606 --> 00:21:03.413
  • Who fell into the hands of robbers?"
  • 00:21:03.413 --> 00:21:07.317
  • Now, if they've been paying attention and if you've been
  • 00:21:07.317 --> 00:21:09.419
  • Paying attention, and if we've been paying attention, the
  • 00:21:09.419 --> 00:21:11.822
  • Implication behind this question go way beyond the excitement
  • 00:21:11.822 --> 00:21:15.992
  • And the drama of the parable.
  • 00:21:15.992 --> 00:21:18.495
  • Here's what the question really comes down to: which of these
  • 00:21:18.495 --> 00:21:24.234
  • Three loved god?
  • 00:21:24.234 --> 00:21:28.038
  • Which of these three loved god with all his heart, soul, mind,
  • 00:21:28.038 --> 00:21:31.108
  • And strength by loving a stranger as himself?
  • 00:21:31.108 --> 00:21:37.547
  • And the problem for the lawyer standing there is this: if he
  • 00:21:39.383 --> 00:21:42.986
  • Answers this question out loud, he's accountable to his answer.
  • 00:21:42.986 --> 00:21:49.092
  • It's worse than that.
  • 00:21:49.092 --> 00:21:51.528
  • If you answer this question out loud, or if you answer this
  • 00:21:51.528 --> 00:21:54.698
  • Question out loud, or if i answered this question out loud,
  • 00:21:54.698 --> 00:21:58.068
  • I'm accountable to my answer for the question.
  • 00:21:58.068 --> 00:22:01.405
  • And the lawyer surrounded by judeans primarily, he can't even
  • 00:22:01.405 --> 00:22:05.675
  • Bring himself to answer the question directly.
  • 00:22:05.675 --> 00:22:08.812
  • The text as luke tells us, "the expert in the law replied,"
  • 00:22:08.812 --> 00:22:13.483
  • Jesus said, "which one of the three?
  • 00:22:13.483 --> 00:22:14.985
  • There's just three.
  • 00:22:14.985 --> 00:22:16.353
  • There's two that walk by and there's one that helps.
  • 00:22:16.353 --> 00:22:17.687
  • Which one of the three was a neighbor?"
  • 00:22:17.687 --> 00:22:19.022
  • And he's like, "the, you know, the other one, the one," can't
  • 00:22:19.022 --> 00:22:25.562
  • Even say samaritan.
  • 00:22:25.562 --> 00:22:27.964
  • "but you know, the one who had mercy on him.
  • 00:22:27.964 --> 00:22:32.669
  • The one who saw a need, met it.
  • 00:22:32.669 --> 00:22:35.639
  • The one that saw there was something to do that they could
  • 00:22:35.639 --> 00:22:38.241
  • Do and they did it.
  • 00:22:38.241 --> 00:22:40.544
  • The one that didn't talk themselves out of it."
  • 00:22:40.544 --> 00:22:46.450
  • Jesus smiles.
  • 00:22:46.450 --> 00:22:48.585
  • Looks at him, looks at his audience, looks at me, looks at
  • 00:22:48.585 --> 00:22:51.822
  • You, looks at us.
  • 00:22:51.822 --> 00:22:53.890
  • He says, "all right.
  • 00:22:53.890 --> 00:22:55.692
  • Tell you what, go.
  • 00:22:55.692 --> 00:22:58.361
  • Just do that.
  • 00:22:58.361 --> 00:23:01.498
  • Do you wanna participate in the kingdom of god on earth?
  • 00:23:01.498 --> 00:23:05.735
  • Do you wanna live your life in sync with god's activity in
  • 00:23:05.735 --> 00:23:09.005
  • The world?
  • 00:23:09.005 --> 00:23:10.373
  • Then just go do that.
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  • When you see a need, you can meet, meet it.
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  • When there's something you know you can do, do it.
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  • Don't talk yourself out of it.
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  • Just go," they hated this part, this is maybe why he didn't
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  • Say it.
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  • These are my words not his just, he was basically saying, "just
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  • Go be the samaritan in the parable."
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  • And suddenly neighbor love has no boundaries.
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  • And neighbor love didn't because god's love doesn't.
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  • And this is when luke just wants to come off the page and grab me
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  • By the collar and put his hand behind your head and pull you up
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  • Close and say, "can you believe this?
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  • Nobody thought this way, nobody lived this way.
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  • Nobody could even imagine a community like that.
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  • Nobody could imagine a world like that."
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  • And jesus asked this perfect question, and by the time luke
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  • Writes his gospel, it's already having ripple effects through
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  • Judea and galilee and samaria, and the apostle paul and others
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  • Are gonna take it to the outermost parts of the earth.
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  • And what was not self-evident in the ancient world is so
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  • Self-evident to us because of the teaching and the life
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  • Of jesus.
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  • And somehow luke knew this is the story that has to outlive me
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  • And outlive my generation.
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  • Because when you hear the story, you know that if we live that
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  • Way, the world would change.
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  • It would change everything.
  • 00:24:42.732 --> 00:24:46.536
  • So back to us.
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  • "so which one of the three do you think," do i think, "which
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  • One of the three do you think was a neighbor to the man who
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  • Fell into the hands of robbers?"
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  • Don't answer it out loud or you'll be accountable.
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  • But if you wanna see god's kingdom come and see god's will
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  • Be done, if you are a jesus follower and not just an
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  • Admirer, jesus does not need any more admirers, he has plenty of
  • 00:25:12.762 --> 00:25:16.733
  • Admirers, he has plenty of believers, he needs doers,
  • 00:25:16.733 --> 00:25:20.136
  • Because it's the doers that change the world.
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  • It's the doers, not even the prayers, that change the way you
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  • Can walk by a wounded man and pray that somebody will stop and
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  • Help him, and that is not loving the lord your god.
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  • And i know this is challenging, and i know it's like how far do
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  • We take it, and again, we wanna justify ourselves.
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  • I get it, i wanna justify myself.
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  • But do you wanna change the world?
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  • Do you wanna change the community?
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  • Do you wanna see change? it's very simple.
  • 00:25:43.960 --> 00:25:45.328
  • Jesus gave us the formula.
  • 00:25:45.328 --> 00:25:48.765
  • He wraps it up in that horrible, wonderful question.
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  • You wanna see?
  • 00:25:52.702 --> 00:25:54.037
  • For those of you, faith has gotten boring for you, church
  • 00:25:54.037 --> 00:25:56.006
  • Has gotten boring for you.
  • 00:25:56.006 --> 00:25:57.374
  • In fact, one of the reasons you're losing faith is because
  • 00:25:57.374 --> 00:25:58.842
  • There's just nothing to it.
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  • You know why there's nothing to it?
  • 00:26:00.176 --> 00:26:01.511
  • You're not doing it.
  • 00:26:01.511 --> 00:26:02.879
  • You're just believing it, or disbelieving it, or debating it,
  • 00:26:02.879 --> 00:26:06.650
  • But you step into a realm when you see something that needs to
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  • Be done, do it, and when there's a need you think you can meet,
  • 00:26:09.185 --> 00:26:11.287
  • You meet it, and you get in a little deep and a little bit
  • 00:26:11.287 --> 00:26:13.657
  • Over your head and suddenly you're praying like never
  • 00:26:13.657 --> 00:26:15.859
  • Before, and suddenly your faith comes to life like maybe it's
  • 00:26:15.859 --> 00:26:18.928
  • Never been alive before.
  • 00:26:18.928 --> 00:26:20.697
  • This is the life jesus invites us into.
  • 00:26:20.697 --> 00:26:24.768
  • And to live any other kind of life is to simply be religious.
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  • You wanna see your faith come to life, come back to life, "go."
  • 00:26:32.409 --> 00:26:35.378
  • This is jesus's words, not mine, "go do likewise."
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  • Do you know who it is virtually impossible not to like?
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  • Do you know who it is virtually impossible not to want to
  • 00:26:48.658 --> 00:26:52.796
  • Be like?
  • 00:26:52.796 --> 00:26:54.998
  • Do you know whose influence is virtually impossible to resist?
  • 00:26:54.998 --> 00:27:01.071
  • Let's be those people.
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  • Let's be that person.
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  • Let's be the samaritan.
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  • Let's change the world.
  • 00:27:12.615 --> 00:27:17.687
  • And we will pick it up right there next time in part 5 of
  • 00:27:17.687 --> 00:27:21.891
  • "investigating jesus:
  • 00:27:21.891 --> 00:27:23.727
  • Here's how we know and here's why we follow."
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