
On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?” He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “
• Deuteronomy 6:5 “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength”
• Leviticus 19:18 “Love Your neighbor as yourself”
No Appreciation For Salvation
No Application Of Salvation
• Luke 6:46 ““Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?” (
• “A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. Luke 10:30
• Isaiah 61:3 “To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;…”
• “All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.”2 Corinthians 5:18-19
THE ROBBERS:
They used people.
They manipulated others.
They saw the man as aTHE PRIESTS & Levites:
They were law keepers.
They were pure.
They saw the man as aTHE SAMARITAN:
He was despised.
He knew how it felt to be ignored.
He saw the man as a