The Good Samaritan

Q: What does the Bible say about loving your neighbor?

The Bible teaches that loving your neighbor is an essential commandment, summarizing the law given by God. In Scripture, particularly in Luke 10:25-37, Jesus emphasizes that the command to love one's neighbor is integral to the law. The lawyer in the passage asks Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal life, and Jesus points him back to the law, which commands us to love God with all our heart and our neighbor as ourselves. This principle is reinforced throughout Scripture, with Jesus stating that all the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments (Matthew 22:37-40). Loving others, including those outside of our community or who may not love us back, is a reflection of God's love and mercy toward us, exemplified in the Good Samaritan's actions.

Q: How do we know that salvation is by grace and not by works?

Salvation is by grace alone, as no one can perfectly fulfill the law required for eternal life. The doctrine of salvation by grace alone is foundational to Reformed theology. In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus makes it clear that while the law demands perfect obedience, no human being can achieve that perfection due to inherent sinfulness (Romans 3:23). Christ's perfect life, death, and resurrection provide the fulfillment of the law. As Henry Mahan explains, eternal life can only be earned through the perfect performance of Jesus Christ, who met all the requirements of the law on behalf of sinners. Therefore, our salvation is not based on our works but on Christ's righteousness imputed to us through faith (Ephesians 2:8-9).

Q: Why is it important for Christians to show mercy?

Showing mercy reflects God's character and fulfills the law's command to love others. Christians are called to show mercy as a reflection of the mercy they have received from God through Christ. In Luke 10:30-37, the parable of the Good Samaritan illustrates the importance of compassion in action. The Samaritan not only felt compassion but took concrete steps to help the wounded man, demonstrating that true faith is accompanied by acts of mercy (James 2:14-17). Showing mercy is vital because it embodies the love of Christ, who came to heal and restore us. When Christians practice mercy, they not only follow Christ's example but also promote unity within the community and a testimony of God's grace to the world.

If you read a parable in Scripture
or an allegory or a story, especially in Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John,
read the preceding verses and find out to whom the Lord is
speaking, the occasion for the story. It will help us so much,
the occasion, what caused him to say what he said. So let's
go back to verse 25, Luke 10, 25. And behold, a certain lawyer
stood up. Now this lawyer was also a scribe. He was known as a scribe, a man
who in the Jewish nation was a teacher of the law. This man
was a teacher of the law, a leader among the Jewish people. And
he stood up. Someone said evidently There
were several people there, and they were seated listening to
the Lord Jesus speak. And this man stood up, had something
to say to the Lord Jesus. And it was not a sincere request,
because it said, this certain lawyer, teacher, scribe, teacher
of the law, stood up and tipped at him. And tipped at him. His purpose was to test Christ
in front of these people. His purpose was to see whether
Christ, and they were constantly trying to do this, to see if
he would deny the law of Moses. They always wanted him to deny
the law of Moses so they could turn the people against him.
And so he stood up to test him, to try him in front of all these
people, to see if he would say anything against the law. That's
the reason they brought in that woman who was found in the act
of adultery. They said to him, Moses says
stoner. What do you say? What do you
say? And they weren't seeking information.
This man's not seeking information. This man's question was consistent
with his purpose. His purpose was to agitate Christ,
to test Him, to try Him, to try to humiliate Him in front of
the people. This man was seeking salvation
by the law, by works and by ceremony, himself as a Jew. And so he asked
this question. He stood up in front of the people,
tested, tempted Christ, and said, Master, what shall I do? What shall I do to inherit the
eternal life? Well, our Lord knows the thoughts
of men. He knows the motive. He knows
the heart of all men, hearts of all men. And he's going to
allow this man to choose the ground on which he'll stand before
God. He's going to present a question
to this man. The man stood up in front of
the people and was going to test the Lord, present him a question.
Now the Lord is going to present him a question and allow him
to choose the ground he wants to stand on before God, openly. I wish I could use this kind
of wisdom. You know, the Lord came to Adam
in the garden after Adam had sinned and Listen to Satan. And the first thing he said to
Adam, the first thing, when he approached him, he asked him
a question. Where are you? Let's hear it from you. Where
are you? The Lord knew where he was. The
Lord knew what he'd done. The Lord knew what had taken
place. But he filled that wisdom, that heavenly wisdom, where are
you? Let's hear it from you. You know, when Abel slew, when
Cain slew Abel, the Lord didn't come down in vengeance and power
and get all over him. He came down and said to Cain,
where's your brother? Where's your brother? Let's hear
it from you. And the rich young ruler, you
know, he came to our Lord and said, what shall I do to inherit
eternal life? And the Lord Jesus said, you
know the law? And here this man, our Lord said
to him in verse 26, he said to him, listen, what's written in
the law? How readest thou? What's written
in the law? What do you read in the law?
You're a teacher of the law. What does the law say? And the young man answering 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 was part of their daily
recitation. This is taken from the book of
Deuteronomy and Leviticus, and it's something that they taught
their children, something that they went over constantly. Let's turn to Deuteronomy chapter
6. Let me show you something. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers.
Turn to Deuteronomy 6. Deuteronomy chapter 6. This was something that they
went over constantly. He was speaking what all of Israel
had been taught. Deuteronomy 6 verse 4. Listen
to this. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our
God is one Lord, and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these
words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart,
and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and thou shalt,"
like I said, daily recitation, of them when you sit down in
your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie
down, and when you rise up. And thou shalt bind them for
a sign upon thine hand, thou shalt be, they shall be as frontlets
between thine eyes, and thou shalt write them upon the post
of thy house and on thy gate. Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, mind, soul, and strength. You say,
he added, thy neighbor is thyself. Well, turn to Leviticus 19, verse
18. That was also taught. Leviticus
19, verse 18. Leviticus 19, verse 18. I shall not avenge nor bear any
grudge against the children of thy people, but I shall love
thy neighbors thyself. I am the Lord." So this man,
and our Lord Jesus, gave this as a summary of the whole law.
If you want to turn to Matthew 22, listen to what the Master
said. You know the man came to Him when they were asking all
those questions the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the lawyer.
And that's what this scribe, this lawyer, asked in Matthew
22. Matthew 22, verse 35. Listen to this. Then one of them,
which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and
said, Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law? And Jesus
said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, with all thy soul, with all thy mind. This is the first
and great commandment, the second is likened to it, I shall love
thy neighbors thyself, and on these two commandments hang all
the law and the prophets. All right, back to our text,
Luke 10. Now this young man said, what shall I do to inherit eternal
life? to gain eternal life. And our
Lord said, What does the law say? And he told him. And verse
28, And he said to him, The Master said to him, Thou hast answered
right. This doest, and thou shalt live. That's right. If that's the ground
you choose to stand on before God on the law, then do it and
live. That's so. That's what Eternal
life can be earned. It can be earned by what you
do. It can be. Yes, it can. Christ
said it could. He said that to Adam. Just do
and live. Eat the fruit and die, but obey
me and live. Isn't that what Christ said?
Isn't that what God said to Adam? Just what he's saying here. Just
do. Eternal life can be earned by a perfect performance. a perfect
performance, a perfect heart, a perfect life, a perfect walk. In fact, that's how Christ Jesus
earned life for you. Isn't that right? That's how
he earned your right to stand before God. He came down here
as a man, was born of a woman, without And he knew no sin, he
did no sin, he had no sin. And in his perfect life and perfect
righteousness, you and I have acceptance with God. That's exactly
right. That's how we have eternal life.
We earned it in Christ. He did it for us, but nevertheless,
he was made of a woman, made under the law that we might be
made the righteousness of God in him. That's just so, and that's
what Christ is saying to this fellow. He's saying to him. He
says, you want to do something to inherit eternal life? Then
do it. Live perfectly. Absolutely perfect
before. But no human beings have ever
done that, or ever will, or ever can. We start bad. So I probably
was born in Zen. We come forth from the womb speaking
lies. Our opportunity to earn life
is gone when we're one breath old. That's right. It's gone. We're sinners. Well,
I want you to listen. This poor man takes no notice
of the commandment to love God perfectly. Notice he doesn't
say a word about that. Christ asked him, what's the
law? He said, love God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength.
And Christ said, well, do it and live. Well, that shut his
mouth. That whittled him down. He knew he didn't love God with
all his heart, mind, soul, and strength, and he knew he didn't
love his neighbor. But listen, he's willing to justify himself. Oh, how good we are at that.
I'll tell you, if we could just quit doing that, he's willing
to justify himself. Find a loophole. That's what
he's going to try to do here. Find a loophole. Find a way around
it. And he said, well, who is my
neighbor? Now, he ignored this loving God
with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength, and he's going
to give himself a little room. He took for granted that he belonged
to God because he was a Jew, but he knew he had messed up
on this neighbor business, and he said, well, who's my neighbor?
And here's the reason he asked that. The Jewish concept of neighbor
was another Jew. That's right. You say, well,
surely they didn't believe that. Oh, yes, they did. They were
not required to love a Gentile. We know the woman at the well
says the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. A Jew was
not required to love a Gentile. One of their writers said this.
This Dr. Gill reported this. One of the
Jewish writers said, If a Gentile fall into the sea, you need not
take him up. If he's a Jew, all right, but
not if he's a Gentile. And that's what he's getting
at. This is what this man's doing. He's trying to find a loophole
in the law of God, trying to find a way around it. So he asked,
who is my neighbor? And because he wasn't required
to love a Gentile. Surely that doesn't exist. Well,
it does too. I heard a message, and Doris
did too, she'll remember it when I mention it, from a dear friend
of mine, a sovereign grace preacher, who was trying to get around this neighbor business and taught
that Christ commanded us to love the brotherhood. the brotherhood,
that we didn't have to love unsaved people and unbelievers. Brotherly love, brotherly love. You can't, that's not what he's
saying. He's saying, the law says, love God with all your
heart, mind, soul, and strength, and your neighbor, as you said. Now, who is my neighbor? Oh,
that's when Christ answered. That's when our Lord gave this
parable. That's what he gave. Turn with
me to Luke 6. Luke chapter 6, verse 27. Luke 6, 27. Now, this is what
the law says. This is what God's Word teaches.
Luke 6, 27. Our Lord, in this Scripture here,
interprets what the law is saying. I say unto you, Luke 6, verse
27, love your enemies. Do good to them that hate you.
Bless them that curse you, pray for them which despitefully use
you. And unto him that smiteth thee on one cheek, offer also
the other. Him that taketh away thy cloak,
forbid not to take thy coat also. Give to every man that asketh
of thee. And unto him that taketh away thy goods, ask them not
again. And as you would that men should do to you, do ye also
to them likewise. Now, if you love them that love
you, This brotherly love sort of thing, you know, this Jewish
Israelite love, this birds of a feather love. If you love them
that love you, listen, what thank have you? Sinners also love those
that love them. In other words, that's a common
practice among heathen. They love them that love them.
Verse 33, if you do good to them which do good to you, what thank
have you? Sinners also do the same. If
you lend to them of whom you hope to receive, what thank have
you? Sinners also lend to sinners
to receive as much again. But love your enemies. Do good
and lend, hoping for nothing again. Your reward shall be great.
You shall be the children of the highest, for he is kind to
the unthankful and to the evil. Be ye therefore merciful as your
Father in heaven is perfect. It's merciful. This is the law.
This is what it requires. This is what it requires, and
this is what our Lord, this is the situation and the setting
when he gave this parable of the Samaritan. But our Lord in
this scripture, as in all scripture, illustrates his love for us,
and his mercy to us, and his redemptive work in giving to
us that perfect righteousness before the Lord. Now, I don't
fulfill this, and you don't either. And the law requires it. But
my Lord fulfilled it for me. And when he gives this allegory
or parable or story or illustration or whatever it is about the Good
Samaritan, he's not only showing this scribe, this lawyer, who
his neighbor is. and the true interpretation of
the law of God, but he's showing us how he came as the good Samaritan. He's my neighbor, Christ is my
neighbor, my good neighbor, my friend, my brother. So what's
this? As I show you this in Luke 10,
beginning with verse 30, I show you how it illustrates Christ's
redemption. He enables us to stand before
God, perfect before the law, because of what he did for us.
And then, also, he gives us a reason to love our neighbor, because
he loved us. See, in other words, he gives
us... Bob brought a message on this
recently. You be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving
one another, as God, for Christ's sake, forgave you. And we see
the work of Christ here is that not only, and I know we can't
do it perfectly, but we sure would like to. See what I'm saying? Go ye and do likewise, go ye
and do likewise. All right, watch this now, verse
30. And Jesus answering said, A certain man, who's a certain
man? Well, Adam, a certain man, the
man, the first mans of the earth, earthly, went down. Adam's fall,
he went down. From Jerusalem to Jericho. What
is Jerusalem? City of God. City of God. The capital of worship. He went down. He left Jerusalem. City of God. He went down. What
is Jericho? Well, it's cursed by Joshua and
destroyed by God. Jericho is a city of evil, a
city of iniquity. And this man, this certain man,
went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among thieves. I
tell you, Bob, that fellow said this wasn't an allegory, but
I tell you it's amazing how it fits the story. He fell among
thieves. Who are these thieves? Satan?
Sin? Fell among these thieves who
would rob God of His glory? Satan said, I will be like God. I will exalt my throne above.
the stars of God. I will ascend into the north.
I will. And he said to Adam, you will.
And to Eve, take this fruit, be like God. He would rob God
of his glory. A thief already perished himself
because of robbing God of his glory. He would convince man
to do the same. He fell among thieves and they
stripped him. Stripped him of his How did God
create us? How did He create Adam? He created
Adam in the image of God, clothed in the holiness, the beauty of
holiness and righteousness, and he appeared before God. But these
thieves came and stripped him naked, stripped him naked, and
wounded him, wounded him, pierced him with many left him diseased,
left him full of darkness, diseases, sorrow, and death, wounded him,
and departed, leaving him half dead. And somebody says, well,
that destroys your parable. No, no, it doesn't, either. No,
it doesn't. You stay with them. That destroys
your picture. To begin with, a parable is an
earthly story. with a heavenly meaning, and
it's impossible for a parable to perfectly illustrate a heavenly
story. Impossible. That's the reason
the sons of Aaron were not perfect types of Christ. Melchizedek
was. And that's the reason God gave
Melchizedek, is that perfect picture of Christ, perfect type
of Christ, that pre-incarnation appearance of Christ. But this
parable cannot perfectly tell the story, but actually, they
did leave him half-dead. Now, I know Adam wasn't left
half-dead. Adam was left dead in trespasses and sin. But if
this man had been dead, then the illustration would have ended
right here. The Samaritan couldn't have helped him. Follow me? He had to be half-dead. He had
to have some life for the Samaritan to come by and lift him and help
him and take him somewhere. So it's got to be, if the man
had been in the illustration had been dead, the Samaritan
could not have helped him. But this man, what he's showing
here is that this man was left helpless. He was left in the
ditch, in the gutter, helpless. And that's the way we are. You
might say we're half dead, we're dead spiritually, but we're alive
physically. I'm not dead physically, I can
hear. I can speak, I can see, but Adam
was left dead, spiritually, as in Adam all die, the dead. You have to be quick in who were
dead in trespasses and sin. All right, let's look at the
next verse. All right, this man, picture of our fall in Adam.
Certain man left Jerusalem, went down to Jericho, fell among thieves,
destroyed him, wounded and left him in the gutter half dead.
Verse 31, And by chance there came down a certain priest that
way. Two men came by, a priest, and
we saw him, and he passed by on the other side. And likewise
a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him
and passed by on the other side. Now here two men came by. They offered no help. They walked
by on the other side of the road. One was a priest, and one was
a Levite. Now then, the priest represented
the sacrifices of the Old Testament. The priest represented the many
washings and baptisms and sin offerings which can never take
away sin. He passed by on the other side,
and one man suggested, turn to Numbers 19, that this old He
had several reasons for passing by on the other side. He didn't
want to help him. He didn't want to offer him any
help, but Numbers 19, verse 16 lets us know that if this man
had been dead, when he looked at this man lying in the ditch,
if this man had been dead, that priest would have been unclean
for seven days if he touched him. Number is 1916, and whosoever
toucheth one that is slain with a sword in an open field, or
a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean
seven days. And this priest was taken up
with his sacrifice, and with his washing, and with his ceremony,
with his ordinances, and he came by and looked at that man. He
couldn't do anything for him, wouldn't do anything for him.
All of the sacrifices and sin offerings cannot lift a man from
the state of sin and ruin. Can't do it. The priest couldn't
help it. So he went back on the other side. And then came a Levite. Now, the Levite represents all
the law, the ceremonial law, the moral law, and all the law
of God. And he came and looked at it.
Turn to Hebrews 10. Let's see about this. this moral
law, this Levitical law, this ceremonial law with its feast
days and so forth. Listen to it in Hebrews 10. Hebrews
10 verse 1, For the law, having a shadow of good things to come,
and not the very image of the things, can never, with these
sacrifices which are offered year by year continually, make
the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have
ceased to be offered? because the worshippers once
purged would have no more sacrifice, no more conscience of sin. But
in those sacrifices, there's a remembrance again made of sin
every year. It's not possible that the blood
of bulls and goats should take away sin. So the Levite, the
law, passed down the other side. There he lies. There he lies,
helpless himself. The priest couldn't help him.
The law couldn't help him. Now watch this, next verse, verse
33. But a certain Samaritan, and
you know over in the book of John what those Pharisees called
our Lord? A Samaritan. They said, you're
a Samaritan. They hated Samaritans. They called
him a Samaritan. And our Lord said a certain Samaritan
came by as he journeyed, first of all, now, I'm not going to
wear you out, but I want you to look at this carefully. It
said a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where the
man was. Our Lord came where we are. He
was made in the likeness of our flesh. He was made in the habit
or form of a servant. He came down exactly where we
are. The Word was made flesh and dwelt
among us. This Samaritan didn't pass by
on the other side. This American actually came down
where this man was and knelt beside him. Came where he was. And when he saw him, you know,
Hadrian sitting out there in the wilderness said, God, God,
see it's me. God, God, see it's me. He saw
him. And when he passed by the baby in the open field, he said,
and I saw you. I saw you. And it was a time
of love. Listen, he had compassion on him. He had compassion on
Him. He loved Him. We didn't love
Him. He loved us. He had compassion on Him. And
He went to Him. He went to Him. Turn to Luke
4. Let me show you something over
here. This, our Lord was giving to those people down in Nazareth
His mission from Isaiah 61. And He said this in verse 18
of Luke 4. The Spirit of the Lord is upon
me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.
He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the
captive, recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty
them that are broken." He came to us. This was his mission. This is why he came. He came
to him, came right down there where he was, went to him. And
what did he do? He bound up his wounds. bound
up his wounds, healed the brokenhearted, gave sight to the blind. He poured
in oil and wine. What is oil? That's the grace
of the Spirit. What is wine? It's the blood
of Christ. Take this straight. This is my
blood shed for you. Poured in oil, the grace of the
Spirit. Poured in wine, the very blood
of Christ. And then what did he do? He set
him on his beast. Just like when our Lord went
out and found the lost sheep and picked him up and put him
on his shoulders. Lifted him up and put him on
his beast. And he brought him to the inn.
What's that inn? That's the church. That's the
family of believers. He brought him here. Brought
him here. And took care of him. How do
you take care of a fellow like that? Well, you teach him the
Word. preached him the gospel, revealed the truth. God reveals
the truth. This is healing. This is what
heals the wounds and the bruises and the broken hearts and brings
the wanderer back. He brings him to the church,
finds a home. The Ian. I saw this picture here. He came to the Ian. Ian's got
plenty of room. And Ian's got plenty of room.
They got room there. It wasn't a little cave he took
him to. It was an inn. It had some room. That's what
it was for. Hospitality. That's what it's for. Hospitality.
Where will a sinner find a welcome? At the inn. At the church. That's what it's for. It's for
the wanderers. It's for the travelers. It's
for the pilgrims on their journey to stop at the inn. I was up in Ohio preaching last
week and found this motel, travel lodge, had about 80 rooms, plenty
of room. And I went in and told them,
asked the man if I could have a room. He said, that's what
we're here for. I said, well, that's good. I said, I just want
a single. He said, just you. I said, that's
right. I handed him a card. He said, I'll give you business
rates. I said, that's nice. He said, a lot cheaper that way.
He just gave me hospitality. He said, is there a coffee pot
in your room? I said, we got plenty of eats out here. Just
make yourself at home. Well, that's the way we want
to be. That's in the church, you know, with these pilgrims
traveling through. The inn, hospitality, plenty
of room, provisions. I like for nothing. I lies there
for two days and and a knife. Plenty of provisions, lodging,
hospitality for the weary traveler. The Lord brought him to the end. You see that? There he lay. Bob, there's got
to be a picture of Christ in his words. There he lay. The law couldn't help him. And
the sacrifice, the old priest couldn't help him. He wasn't
used to him stopping. He couldn't do anything for him. But Christ
came where he was. Came right where he was. He came
down where we are, went to us, healed it, bound up his wounds,
poured in oil and wine, gave him the grace of the Spirit and
the blood of Christ, put him on his knees. He didn't say,
now meet you down at the church. No, he took him. He brought him
here, brought him to the church, brought him to the church. And
they opened the doors for him, took care of him. Now, on the
mother of verse 35, See what you do with this preacher. All
right, I get a lot of help, you know. It's not original. All
that ain't original about me is my singing. It's original
singing. It's all mine. I invented every one of them. And on the next day when he departed, he took out two pence and gave
them to the host. He said, now you take care of
him. Oh, I tell you, when the Lord
He brings one of his sheep, finds one and rescues him and redeems
him, brings him here. What an awesome
responsibility is mine and yours if the Lord is pleased to bring
one of his wounded sheep, one of his lost, found sheep, and
brings them here to us. to feed, and to teach, and to
encourage, and to love, and to care for, and he goes back to
glory, and the right hand of God. He's the shepherd, but we're
under shepherds. He's the host, but we're the
stewards. We're stewards of the grace of
God. And you know, I hear preachers, all-time preachers on stewardship,
but this stewardship of the grace of God is not money. It's stewards
of the grace of God. You understand what I'm saying?
It's stewards of the grace of God. It's hospitality, and meekness,
and kindness, and love, and generosity, and grace, and kindness, and
mercy, and helping one another, and forgiving one another, and
forbearing one another, and healing the wounds where you smart, you
know, heal it, where they hurt. Help them. Well, he said you
take this is a wounded man. Take care of him. Treat him like
a sick man Treat him like a wounded man. Treat him like a hurt man.
Treat him like somebody the world kicked around And he hadn't found
any peace and he ought to come here and find it it ought to
be a haven a place of hospitality and healing and and and you know
that I feel that deeply as a preacher Well, what's this two pence?
He gave him two pence. Somebody says baptism in the
Lord's table. Well, that's all right. Baptism
confesses Christ in the Lord's table. Why don't we do that Wednesday
night, Russell? Have the Lord's table this coming
Wednesday night. That's fine. But I believe he
gave him the Old and New Testament. You know, healing comes through
the Word. Comfort through the Word. Faith through the Word. All of these things by the word,
and these two pence, they're of equal value. Aren't they? Equal value. One's just as valuable
as the other. And I believe he's given to me,
and to you elders, and your teachers, this weapon, and left his sheep
to be cared for, and he said, you take these two pence, the
old and new testament, and teach them, and help them. Encourage
him. Now watch this next line. Take
care of him. Boy, I tell you, that puts a
responsibility on us, doesn't it? Take care of him. Take care
of him. He's my sheep. I love him. Take
care of him. You take care of him. Now watch
this. And whatsoever you spend more, when I come again, I'll
repay you. He always has, hasn't he? I asked
the men in the study tonight for a sizable gift over the next
few months for another church to help them. And I asked knowing
that they'd say, do it. And I asked knowing that God,
whatever you spend, He'll repay. He always has. He always will. Whatever he left his sheep there
in that inn, and left his child in that church, you feed him,
you help him, you encourage him, and whatever it takes, I'll provide
it. You won't spend anything I won't
give you. Listen to this, but my God, Philippians 4.19, shall
supply all your needs according to his riches in glory through
Christ Jesus. Well, is that a story? Is that a parable? Is that an
allegory? Who is my neighbor? That's who
my neighbor is. But I tell you the neighbor of
all neighbors, and that's our Lord Jesus Christ who came and
redeemed us by his blood. I hope that's a blessing. I feel
that's the way that that ought to be preached.

The Good Samaritan

What does the Bible say about loving your neighbor?

How do we know that salvation is by grace and not by works?

Why is it important for Christians to show mercy?

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What does the Bible say about loving your neighbor?

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Why is it important for Christians to show mercy?

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