This is Luke chapter 10, and
I'll be starting in verse 25. And behold, a certain lawyer
stood up and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit
eternal life? Now this guy here that's speaking,
he calls a lawyer. This isn't a lawyer like you
and I would think of here in our day. It was a man that was
a scribe, and his business was to write the scriptures. That's what they did. They would
take the text they had and rewrite them. It was his business to
be very cautious about how he did that. And he's tempting the
Lord here. You notice it says that. He's
not wanting to know the answer because he really wants to know
the answer. He's trying to catch the Lord Jesus Christ, expose
Him, gain an advantage, Get the applause of men. You get around
people like that. They just want to win an argument.
See if they can't trip you up. The world's full of them. But
he asks the question, what must I do to inherit eternal life?
So right out of the gun, you can see that he does not understand
what the saints of God know that you cannot inherit eternal life
by your doings. This man's wanting to know. He's
wanting to know. And our Lord gives him the right
answer. Look at verse 27. And he answering him said, verse
26, the Lord said to him, what is written in the law? How readest
thou? So he sends it right back to
this guy who's trying to trip him up. He says, what's written
in the law? How do you read the law? He knew
the man knew the law. You're an interpreter of the
law. What does the law say you must do? And listen to his answer. And he answered and said, Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy
soul and with all thy strength and with all thy mind and thy
neighbor as thyself." Now this is actually a part of
what the Jews recited every day. Look at Deuteronomy 6. Turn back
here to Deuteronomy 6. Look here, starting in verse
3. Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it, that it
may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as
the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that
floweth with milk and honey. Verse 4. Hear, O Israel, the
Lord our God is one Lord, and thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all
thy might. And these words, those words
I just said, which I have commanded thee this day, they shall be
in their heart. And thou shalt teach them diligently
to thy children. Thou shalt talk of them when
thou sittest in your house, and when you walkest by the way,
and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou
shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hands, and they shall be
as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them on
the post of thine house and on their gates." You know, the Jews
would have these words written. Love the Lord thy God with all
thy mind." On the doors of their houses, on these phylacteries,
you know the Lord talked about, you made broad thy phylacteries.
The Pharisees would wear these big phylacteries with those words
inscribed, even hanging down on a frontlet between their eyes.
It's interesting that God would have this commandment in front
of them. He says, you want to know what
you need to do to inherit, just read what's right there in front
of your eyes. You've got to love God with all your mind, heart,
soul, and strength. All your life. Infallibly. Sincerely. I mean, without a
moment of insincerity. That's what you've got to do
to inherit eternal life. That's hanging there between
your eyes. Back to the text. In Luke. Verse 28, And he said unto him, Thou hast
answered right this due, and thou shalt live. We're talking about shutting
you up. That just should shut a man up
here. It's not enough for anybody to admire the law of God or even
to talk about it. Even though the Jews were told
to talk about it day and night in their homes and teach their
children. It wasn't enough to talk about
it or admire it. It's not enough even to have
to memorize it. You know, a scribe would have
had to have memorized all 613 of the Old Testament laws. They
had to memorize those things. It just wasn't enough. You have
to do them to live. You have to do them to live.
Romans 5, I'll read this to you. And Zeal won't get it either.
That's what he says here in Romans 5. Look at it. Romans 5. Romans 10, verses 1 through 5. Now, brethren, my heart's desire
and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved.
Isn't that amazing? Religious people needing saved.
I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according
to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's
righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness,
they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone
that believeth. He's the goal of the law. He's
the end of the law to everyone that believes. Look at verse
5. For Moses describes the righteousness which is of the law, that the
man which doeth those things shall live by them. That's it.
It's a do or die situation. And our Lord here tells this
man to go do this and everything will be just fine. And I want
you to know nobody is going to be justified by the works of
the law. Now, that's just a fact. Back
in our text in Luke, look at verse 29. But he willing to justify
himself said unto Jesus, who is my neighbor? Now you know
it's interesting when you look at that. I don't know about you.
But when I read what's required of me, the first thing that comes
to my mind isn't who's my neighbor. It's have I ever loved God with
all my heart, mind, soul and strength? But this man figured
that nobody can see my heart, so I'm not going to talk about
that. He's looking for a loophole. So he says, well, who's my neighbor?
If I've got to love my neighbor as myself, who's my neighbor?
Now, let me tell you, the Jews believed and their rabbis taught
that Gentiles weren't your neighbor. Your neighbor was somebody that
lived near you, that was of your kin, that was of your blood,
that was of your religion. If you walk by a Gentile and
he was dying and you didn't want to help him, it was not held
against you because he was not considered your neighbor. And
this man's looking for a way out here. He knows nobody can
accuse him of his relationship with God, but you know he's looking
for a way out. A little wiggle room here. A little wiggle room. So our Lord goes on here and
He's going to start teaching about mercy. But really, there's
a much, much bigger thing being spoke of here than just mercy.
Mercy is a wonderful thing. Some people call it a parable,
but the Lord never called it a parable. And some people call it the story
of the Good Samaritan. I call it the Great Samaritan.
Look at this. And Jesus answering it said,
a certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. And he
fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, wounded him,
and departed, leaving him half dead." Now, my friends, Jerusalem's
up on the hill, and the very name of that town is the City
of Peace. And down here, 40 miles away, is Jericho. And Jericho
was the city that, when Joshua fit the battle of Jericho, the
walls came down. And Joshua pronounced a curse
on that city and said, anybody who ever builds it again is a
cursed man. So you got a picture of somebody coming from peace,
from the city of peace, down to the place of the curse. And
my friends, that's Adam. That's me, and that's you, and
Adam. You understand that? We're on
our way. We came down. We came down. That's exactly what happened.
A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell
among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment. Adam fell
among thieves. Satan himself sent, and Satan
took away his raiment. You see that? You know, when
we were created, we were created upright in the Garden of Eden.
We were righteous. That's hard to conceive of, but
I want you to know Adam walked with God in the Garden in the
cool of the day. and was able to converse with
him without any shame. Now, he had a righteousness. It was a losable righteousness,
we know, but he had a righteousness. He had one commandment. That
perfect man in that perfect world with that perfect wife had one
commandment and couldn't keep it. And yet people in our day
think that they can keep the law. Isn't that amazing? This
whole Old Testament with all the do's and don'ts, folks want
to be justified on the basis of that when a perfect man couldn't
keep one rule. I'm sorry, that's a losing game. And we went down and we fell
among thieves. This one who the Lord said was
a murderer from the beginning. Do you remember that? He was
a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth. And
we were robbed of our fellowship with God by this one. We were
stripped of our arraignment. The innocence we once possessed
was gone. It was completely gone. And now we are destitute, without
any righteousness, exposed completely to the law and wrath of God.
That's the way we are the day we come into this world. And look here, and it says, He
wounded him and departed, leaving him half dead. He wounded him. Look at Isaiah 1. Let me read
a verse to you. I like this description. Isaiah
1. Look at verse 5. Why should you
be stricken anymore? You will revolt more and more.
The whole head is sick. The whole heart is faint. From
the sole of the foot, under the head, there is no soundness in
it. Just wounds, bruises, putrefying
sores. They've not been closed, neither
bound up, neither mollified with ointment. That's a picture of
us by birth. And that's that man laying there.
He's been wounded. The one who wounded him has departed,
and he's left him half-dead. Now, someone will say, well,
Dan, I'm more than just half-dead. Yeah, well, I want you to know
you're spiritually dead. We're deader than a box of rocks.
Donnie Bell often says that. Deader than a... We're graveyard
dead, spiritually. Spiritually unable to do anything
for ourselves. We cannot give ourselves life.
We can't even seek God. We don't aspire to seek God by
our natural state. But we are alive physically,
so we've been left half-dead. That's exactly right. Been left
half-dead here. Verse 31 says, And by chance
there came down a certain priest that way, and when he saw him,
he passed by on the other side. And I know here you read things
like this, by chance. That word doesn't mean by chance. Everything in this world is ordered
by God Almighty, directed and governed by His providence. And
this priest, though, saw this man laying there naked in this
bloody condition, and he didn't want to risk becoming unclean
by having anything to do with him. You know, if you came upon
a dead body and you touched it, you had a seven-day ceremony
getting out of your state of uncleanliness. And here's this
priest. He's probably been up there,
you know, they worked in what they called the courses of the
priesthood. Generally, they'd go up for two
weeks or a month. And he's going back to Jericho,
which was now a city where the priest lived. He'd been away
from the house for a month. He's going home. He looks over,
here's this wounded man, and he says, I don't want to touch
that guy. He might die while I'm holding him. I'd be unclean. That's a rough way to go home.
I want you to see there, though, the heartlessness of this man,
the lack of compassion of this man, and all the religion of
that man. He was a priest, yet he was heartless,
and without compassion. And it says here, look here at
verse 32, And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, he
came and looked on him and passed by on the other side. He looked
on him. That was it. No relief, not even
a word of comfort. A priest and a Levite. Now, what
do I want you to see here? I want you to see these two men
as representing the law of God. That's what they represent. The
moral and ceremonial law of God. There's no mercy to be expected
there. You got religion? You got a hard
heart? There's just no mercy. Listen
to me. As a matter of fact, the law leaves a man as naked as
he finds him. You see that? And he saw one
of them looked on him, looked on him. I want to show you, look
at, I want you to know the law has no mild side to it. Look
at Romans 3. Romans 3. Paul has been talking
about how the Gentiles had, how they had been punished in the
first couple chapters. for their unrighteousness. And
in chapter 3, look at verse 9, he starts talking and he says,
Well, what then? Are we better than they? Are
the Jews any better than the Gentiles? Well, no, and no wise,
for we have before proved both Jew and Gentile that they are
all under sin. As it is written, there's none
righteous, no, not one. There's none that understandeth.
There's none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of
the way. They together become unprofitable. There's none that doeth good,
no, not one. Listen, he starts describing
it, and he uses almost everything in your body to understand how
corrupt you are. Their throat is an open sepulcher.
Their tongue they've used to see. The poison of asp is under
their lips. Their mouth is full of cursings
and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed
blood. Destruction and misery are in
their ways, and the way of peace they have not known. There's
no fear of God before their eyes. Now, we know that whatsoever
things the law saith, it saith to them that are under the law.
Well, who's that? that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become
guilty before God. Therefore, by the deeds of the
law there shall no flesh be justified in His sight, for by the law
is the knowledge of sin." All the law could do when it looks
at you is to give you the knowledge of sin. Couldn't do a thing for
that man laying there. As a matter of fact, if the law
could have got a hold of him, it would have probably opened
his wounds up more. See, righteousness cannot be had by the deeds of
the law. If it could, it would absolutely disannul the death
of Christ. Paul said that in Galatians 2.
I do not frustrate the grace of God. If righteousness comes
by the law, Christ died in vain. That's how serious it is. That's
how serious the matter is. But, back in the text, I like
this. But a certain Samaritan, as he
journeyed. Now listen, I tell you, I want
you to understand me here. Our Lord Jesus Christ was not
a Samaritan. But in this story, He's the Samaritan.
He's the Samaritan. You remember what the Jews said
to our Lord in John 8, verse 48? They said, Say we not well,
thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil? And you remember what
he said? He went ahead to say, his answer to him was, let me
see if I can find it here. Jesus answered and said, I have
not a devil. He didn't even talk about it.
I'm not going to address the Samaritan issue because that's, see what
I'm saying? Why did he pick a Samaritan?
Well, there was a time when he met a woman at a well in Samaria
and she looked at him and said, how is it that thou being a Jew
askest the drink of me? I'm a woman of Samaria. The Jews
have no dealings with the Samaritans. There was nobody more hated than
the Samaritans. And our Lord uses this man, this
Samaritan, because the Jews had called him a Samaritan, and he
was a man despised more than any other man. So he uses this
great Samaritan here as a picture of himself. Yeah. That's right. That's right. And he went on a journey. You
see that? He went on as he journeyed. Oh, you can talk about the journey
of the Lord Jesus Christ. I love that song we used to sing
years ago. It sounded like O Sole Mio, but the song was, Down from
His glory the Savior came. You talk about the eternal Son
of God who lived in eternity past in the presence of His Father
in light so glorious that we can't conceive of it. The angels
veil their faces in that place. And then he came down here and
robed himself in a body, just like our bodies, yet without
sin. And he had a human nature. He journeyed. He journeyed. Look here. And came where he
was. See that? See that in the text? He came where he was. He assumed human nature. descended
from glory above down here where we were, this defiled bunch. 2 Corinthians 8-9 gives you a
good verse to describe this. 2 Corinthians 8-9. For you know the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes
he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich." My
goodness, there's no way to explain how he journeyed and what all
was involved when he came here. We read about it This one who
thought it not robbery to be equal with God. It was no robbery
to be equal with God. He wasn't taking anything away
from the Father to be equal with Him. And yet, he humbled himself
and he was found in the fashion of man, became obedient even
unto death. Even unto death. What the sacrifice
of this one. Certain Samaritan, as he journeyed,
came where he was and when he saw Him. Now, listen to me. He's
seen us in eternity past. We were seen in the elect before
the world began. But what I like to see here is
in this picture here, he's looking at this man laying by the road
that's covered with blood, wounded, stripped naked. He saw him. He saw that man or this man as
he was, a sinner, defiled, ungodly, without hope in this world. A
child of wrath even as others. He saw. He saw them. And He saw us in eternity pass
that way. Do you understand that? There
was nothing in us to commend us to Him. And yet the next verse
is, He had compassion on us. I'm telling you now, this is
the Gospel. He had compassion on us. He clothed Himself with our nature.
came here as our representative to fulfill the law, not just
to... I know He died and I'm thankful the Lord Jesus Christ
died on that cross for my sins, but He kept the law for me too.
He kept the law. All these people preaching want
me to do this and not do that. My Lord did that and didn't do
that. You know what I'm saying? I heard some stuff coming down
today on the radio. It's unbelievable. He fulfilled
the law for me and for His people, and He bore our sins in His own
body on a tree. And He put them away completely.
And when He saw him, He had compassion on him. As I was saying, we were
seen from eternity past. He saw us back at Proverbs 28,
and I don't know if you've ever read that, Proverbs 8. If you've
ever read through that chapter, and I'm sure you have, There's
someone being spoken of as wisdom there. Now we know who wisdom
is. Wisdom is the Lord Jesus Christ. He's called the wisdom
of God. And he describes himself here
in Proverbs 8. Listen, he starts talking about
this in verse 22. The Lord possessed me in the
beginning of His way, before His works of old. And I was set
up, the word there is anointed, from everlasting, from the beginning,
wherever the earth was, When there were no depths, I was brought
forth. When there were no fountains abounding with water. Before
the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth.
While as yet he had not made the earth nor the fields or the
highest parts of the dust of the world. When he prepared the
heavens, I was there. And when he set a compass upon
the face of the depth, and when he established the clouds above,
when he strengthened the fountains of the deep, when he gave to
the sea his decree that the water should not pass his commandment,
When He appointed the foundations of the earth, then was I by Him,
as one brought up with Him. I was daily His delight." The
Father daily delighted in the Son. And rejoicing always before
Him, the Son rejoiced in the Father. The joy. Rejoicing in the habitable part
of His earth. Now, you know, some people think
that means He looked and saw that one day the earth would
be inhabited. No, I don't think so. I think the habitable part
of His earth was talking about the womb He was going to enter.
He was going to inhabit a womb and be made of flesh. And He
was rejoicing in the habitable parts of the earth. And My delights..."
Listen to this, "...were with the sons of men before the world
began." Who's that? He's talking about the elect.
The delights of the sons of men. "...Now therefore you hearken
to Me, O you children, for blessed are they that keep My way. Hear
instruction and be wise and refuse it not. Blessed is the man that
heareth me, watching daily at my gate, waiting at the post
of my doors, like a little child waiting for the school doors
to open in the morning. I got a son-in-law teaching school
now, and the kids like him so much, one little girl brought
him a whole sack of apples. I think she's got a crush on
him. This man's waiting at the doors
for whosoever, now you read this and tell me who this is. Whosoever
findeth me, findeth life, and shall obtain favor of the Lord.
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul, and all
they that hate me..." I can only tell you one thing. They must
love death. That's the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's the Lord Jesus Christ. "...and He saw us before the
world began. And He came and had compassion
upon us while we were ungodly sinners, children of wrath. And
He shed His blood for our own sins and our stead. And He has
made us Spotless. I love that. Without blemish,
we've been redeemed. Washed by the blood of the Lamb.
He's done that. And here, here, and He went to
him. He didn't just see him. He went
to him. You didn't come to Christ. I get so tired. Senator, will
you come to Christ? Let me tell you something. Christ
will come to you. You'll come to Christ. He went to Him. He went to Him. And He bound up His wounds. That's what Isaiah said about
Him. Isaiah 66, 61. Listen, verse 1. I'll read this
to you. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me. You ever heard
that verse before? Because the Lord hath anointed
me to preach good tidings unto the meek, He has sent me to bind
up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and
the opening of the prison to them that are bound, to proclaim
the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of the vengeance
of our God, to comfort all that mourn, and to appoint unto them
that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for their ashes,
and the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for
the spirit of heaviness, that they might be called trees of
righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified."
Now, that's one who binds up. He came, he went to him, he bound
up his wounds, bound them up, pouring in oil and wine. Now, you know. You know what
that is. You're probably sitting there
thinking, I could preach this sermon. Well, I think you should.
The oil and wine, brother, is the blood of Christ and the grace
of His Spirit. That's what that is. Throughout
the Bible, wine is used to cheer the heart. Oil, it revives. And that's what's needed for
a man who's half dead. That's exactly what's needed.
And I like the fact he says he pours it in. Pouring in. He applies
this. He applies this. One day, He
comes to this scarred up, tore up old sinner. And He starts
pouring in the truth concerning Himself. He pours in the Gospel. This righteousness that's to
be had by the righteousness of Christ. He pours this in. I'll
never forget when I first saw the truth of Christ actually
bearing my sins. and putting them all away. Do
you remember that? I mean, it was like a light went
on. It's like a stone was rolled
away from a door. I'm telling you, He pours this
in. He applies the truth of His death, His burial, His resurrection. Free grace that's to be had in
Christ. How He sovereignly regenerates
people. Makes them new. Makes them really,
truly righteous. I'm not talking about some Put
on righteousness. I'm talking about a real, true
righteousness of God Almighty. One that He'll accept. That's
ours in Christ Jesus. Now that's... He pours that in. And I'll tell you, a man can't
pour it in. He's got to do it. And listen here, He set Him on
His own beast. Set Him on His own beast. I don't
know what the beast is. I just want you to know, whatever
that servant was, That man that was on that ground had been helped
up on that beast and he was under the care and he was being born
by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. That's what I want you to see.
One that got him out of that ditch and the one that was bearing
him up was the Great Samaritan. Great Samaritan. And listen here,
He brought him to an end. Do you see that? You know, we're
travelers too. Our Lord was on a journey. We're
on a journey. And He brings us to an end. Now, I'm going to
tell you what the end is here. I really believe the end is the
church of the Lord Jesus Christ. I just believe that. It's a place of provision. It's
a place where you can get bread, milk, wine, lodging, dwelling,
quiet habitation. Well furnished, a place for recuperating travelers. And I love this next
line, look here. He took him there, and look at
this, the end of it, and he took care of him. I told some folks, you can just
put that on your tombstone, if you're one of his. From the time
you came into this world, there was not a hair on your head at
any point in time that was not numbered. And I don't care how
many of them you lost, because a few of us have had a running
tally. And it didn't matter if your
hair was black and you were 40 pounds thinner. To the day of
your hoary hair, he said, I'm going to carry you. You remember
that verse? I'm going to carry you even when you've got hoary
hairs on your head. There'll be a time, and many
of us may live to where we don't remember our names. We don't
remember the scriptures we read for years. I knew a man for years
that went to 13th Street and could quote the Bible left and
right, Count von Zindendorf. He had a stroke one night and
I went to the nursing home to visit him. He didn't know me.
And I started one of the old quotations from Zindendorf that
he knew. And he just looked at me like
I was out of my mind. But I'm telling you, if you're
one of his, he knows you. He'll always run. He took care
of him. And verse 35, On the morrow when
he departed, there was a day that great Samaritan went back
to heaven. That's right. He departed. He
took out two pence and gave them to the host, and said unto him,
Take care of them, and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come
again, I'll repay you. So what is this? Now, we're talking
about the church here a moment ago. The Lord puts us in an inn
because we are a flock, we're a gathered people. There are
no lone rangers. I know people that can go without
hearing the Word of God for months, months, and months, and they
still consider themselves Christians. I'm sorry, I just don't buy it. I know that if I start missing
meals, and I'm not eating, and I get down to where I'm 80 pounds, if my appetite's gone, there's
something wrong with me. So the Lord takes us and puts
us in a church to be taken care of, to be clothed with His righteousness,
fed with His choice Word, revived by the wine of His love and His
exceeding great promises, and then He departed and took these
two pens, which I think are the Old and New Testaments, okay?
This host here at this thing is the ministers in the church.
It's the ministers. Look at a verse with me here
in Matthew 13, 52. Matthew 13, 52. That's why when
we get together here, we don't do like so many people do and
all sit around and share. You know why we don't share?
Because we're here to hear God's Word, okay? Matthew 13, 52. Then He said unto them, Therefore
every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is
likened to a man that is a householder. He's in charge of a house. He's
in charge of his home. Which bringeth forth out of his
treasure things new and things old. You see that? This is the
two-pence. This is the ministry of the Gospel.
been left to be taken place in this inn, people preaching from
the Old and New Testament, providing for the souls of His people.
And He tells this man, this host, if you spend more than I gave
you, I'll repay you. Now, what does that mean? Does
that mean that the preacher is going to get a bigger house in
glory than everybody else? Does that mean that? Does it
mean he's going to have a special honor in heaven? I don't think
so. I'll tell you what I think is
being said here, since this whole parable is not about that host.
This whole parable is about the Samaritan and that man that they
brought up out of the ditch. And he says, when I come back,
if there's anything owed, I'm taking care of it. So you see
what he's saying here. This is what I want you to see.
That this poor lost soul, this defiled creature that was found
along the road, When the Lord returns, that man will not be
responsible for any of his debts. I want you to know that his body
and soul and spirit was bought by the blood of the Son of God
for sin's past, for sin's present, for sin's future. If there's
anything that comes up along the road when I come back here,
you can bet that account's going to be settled by me, not him. You see that? That's the Great
Samaritan. That's the Great Samaritan there.
That's exactly right. And when before the throne I
stand in Him complete, Jesus died my soul to save, my lips
shall still repeat, Jesus paid it all, all the debt I owe."
I like it that way. I know it was written, all to
Him I owe, that's true too, but it's all the debt I owe. Sin
had left a crimson stain. Jesus, my Lord, washed it white
as snow. So our Lord here returns back
to this man and looks at him and says in verse 36, Now, which
of these three thinkest thou was a neighbor unto him that
fell among the thieves? This man said, well, he that
showed mercy on them, then he said Jesus to him, said, you
go and do likewise. Listen to me, there's nothing
wrong with mercy and teaching to be merciful. But that's not
the whole thing here. I tell you, if you can do what
that man did in that story, you're going to be like Christ. And
if you ever like Christ, it's going to be because he made you
that way. He's conformed you into that image. That's exactly
right. I want you to know the Lord has
done this perfectly. He's kept the law for His people.
He has loved God with all His heart, mind, soul, and strength.
And He has loved His neighbor as Himself. And I'm thankful
for the great, the great Samaritan. Father, I pray You bless this
Word today. Keep Your hand upon these people. Bless this work. Give us grace. as we travel. Revive us in this time, Lord,
these dark days. May Your Word prosper, I pray.
I ask it all for Your great namesake. Amen.