Luke 10:25-37 “ Don’t pick and choose who you will help “

Luke 10:25–37 CSB

25 Then an expert in the law stood up to test him, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 “What is written in the law?” he asked him. “How do you read it?” 27 He answered, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,” and “your neighbor as yourself.” 28 “You’ve answered correctly,” he told him. “Do this and you will live.” 29 But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” 30 Jesus took up the question and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him up, and fled, leaving him half dead. 31 A priest happened to be going down that road. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. 32 In the same way, a Levite, when he arrived at the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan on his journey came up to him, and when he saw the man, he had compassion. 34 He went over to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on olive oil and wine. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 35 The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, ‘Take care of him. When I come back I’ll reimburse you for whatever extra you spend.’ 36 “Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?” 37 “The one who showed mercy to him,” he said. Then Jesus told him, “Go and do the same.”

“ Don’t pick and choose who you will help “

Subtitle: “ No evidence of just leaving church “

This Priest and this Levite

Had a choice to help this man

that was beaten and half dead

But choose not to

And most church folks

Are just like this Priest & Levite

They pick and choose

Who they will help

But then on the other hand

This Priest & Levite has just left the Temple

And now comes across this

Beaten & half dead man

And shows NO EVIDENCE of just leaving the Temple

And today

This Priest & Levite

Is still in the church

Because church folks

Are leaving the church every Sunday

With no evidence of having been to church

Question : Do you PICK & CHOOSE who you will help

Note: The scripture says love you neighbor

Note: The Word of God has to be the FINAL AUTHORITY in your life

Note: Your neighbor — a person who lives ( or is located ) near another

Verse 27 — Love ( agapao ) — to have a great affection or care for or loyalty towards.

Different types of love

Agape — The God type of love

Eros ( exotic ) — this type of love is what a man supposed to have for a woman and a woman for man

Phileo — brotherly love, people that we deal with, like our friends

Storge — family kind of love

Question : Do you PICK & CHOOSE who you will help and if you do how do you pick or what do you go by???????

[ We pick & choose based on ]

1st Who they are / whether you know them or not

2nd If you like them or not

3rd If they can pay you back if it’s money or can they do for you as well

4th If it’s going to make you look good / The Spot light

5th If you have the mindset that when you do for someone that God will automatically reward you for that / you’re doing only because you’re hoping for a return and not from the heart

6th Because they know it’s going to be something in it for them DOWN THE ROAD

7th Because they want to hold something over your head

8th Because some people have the mindset that [ I got mine you get yours ]

9th Because they see some people less or beneath them

Our help towards people

Should be based on

Our Love for God

And God along

Statement : If our vertical relationship with God is DAMAGE or BROKEN we can never LOVE nor HELP properly which is our Horizontal relationship with others

Explain: The Text

Luke 10:25 CSB

25 Then an expert in the law stood up to test him, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

Note: This lawyer wants to test Jesus

The question in this case was not sincere, as can be seen from two points in the text:

(1) The lawyer wanted to test Jesus. (He called Jesus “Teacher,” didaskale, Luke’s equivalent of a Jewish Rabbi.)

(2) After Jesus answered the man’s question, Luke recorded that the man wished to justify himself (Luke 10:29).

Jesus answered his question with two other questions (v. 26),

driving the Law expert back to the Old Testament Law.

The expert answered correctly by quoting from Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18.

One must love … God and one’s fellowman in order to keep the Law properly.

Jesus affirmed that if the man did this, he would live.

The man’s response should have been to ask,

“How can I do this?

“ I am not able.

“I need help.”

Instead, he tried “to justify himself,” that is, to defend himself against the implications of Jesus’ words.

So he tried to move the focus off himself by asking, And who is my neighbor?

Quote: Tony Evans says “ we try to see how far we can go without sinning not realizing the whole time we have been sinning instead of just trying to be better christians “

Note: The Lawyer wanted to DO SOMETHING to inherit eternal life.

Note: Is the lawyer asking only about “getting saved” or is he asking a broader question about pleasing God and receiving all that God has to offer him?

Luke 10:26 CSB

26 “What is written in the law?” he asked him. “How do you read it?”

There is a note of irony in this reversal: he will expound what stands written (γέγραπται, gegraptai) by God, because Jesus has asked him for scriptural support.

Luke 10:26 Jesus responds with a question

about the law (νόμος, nomos),

which is the expression

of God’s revealed will

for that time

By responding this way,

Jesus identifies himself

not as a radical/root

who wishes to deny

the teaching of Jewish tradition

but as one

who wishes to reflect on what God requires

Quote: But let it never be forgotten that what the law demands of us, the gospel produces in us.

Luke 10:27 CSB

27 He answered, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,” and “your neighbor as yourself.”

The heart (emotions),

The soul (consciousness),

strength (motivation).

The Synoptic Gospels all have “heart” and “soul,”

Matthew omits strength, and all add “mind” (intelligence).

Luke 10:27 (BECNT Lk 9:51-24:53):

The lawyer answers the question

about receiving life

in the future

in concrete terms

of love and devotion,

not in an abstract sense.

Both God and humans

are to receive love.

Such love is not marked by

the presence of great feeling

but is objectively manifested in considerate responsiveness.

The depth of one’s devotion

is emphatically underlined

by the repeated reference

to the various parts

of the person

that contribute energy to this love.

Heart, soul, strength, and mind—

the whole person—

contribute to this response.

Mark and Luke

are distinct in having

four terms where Deut. 6:5 and Matthew have three.

In addition,

devotion to God

is expressed by devotion to others,

so that there is no distinction

between devotion to God

and treatment of people.

They go together.

Jesus encourages total love for God and humankind.

Luke 10:28 CSB

28 “You’ve answered correctly,” he told him. “Do this and you will live.”

10:28 do this and you will live. Cf. Leviticus 18:5; Ezekiel 20:11.

“Do and live”

is the promise of the law.

But since no sinner

can obey perfectly,

the impossible demands

of the law

are meant to drive us

to seek divine mercy (Gal. 3:10–13, 22–25).

This man

should have responded

with a confession

of his own guilt,

rather than self-justification (v. 29).

Luke 10:29 CSB

29 But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

10:29 wanting to justify himself.

This reveals

the man’s self-righteous character.

who is my neighbor?

The prevailing opinion

among scribes and Pharisees

was that one’s neighbors

were the righteous alone.

According to them,

the wicked—

including rank sinners

(such as tax collectors and prostitutes),

Gentiles, and especially Samaritans—

were to be hated

because they were the enemies of God.

Statement: Remember this Priest & Levite have just left the Temple

Remember this Priest & Levite have just left the Temple

1st There was no Devotion to the Word of God

Note: If they had devotion with the word of God it would have been displayed in this moment

Note: What’s in you is going to come out you

Remember this Priest & Levite have just left the Temple

1st There was no Devotion to the Word of God

2nd There was no Demonstration of Worship to God

Note: True biblical worship is a lifestyle

Remember this Priest & Levite have just left the Temple

1st There was no Devotion to the Word of God

2nd There was no Demonstration of Worship to God

3rd There was no Discernment of the Will of God

Note: They had NO discernment of God’s will

Luke 10:30-37

1st. He rearrange his schedule

2nd. He render his service

3rd. He release his silver

10:33 Samaritan. For a Samaritan to travel this road was unusual. The Samaritan himself was risking not only the thieves, but also the hostility of other travelers.

MacArthur, J. F., Jr. (2005). The MacArthur Bible Commentary (Lk 10:33). Thomas Nelson.