Conventiently Inconvenienced
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Conventiently Inconvenienced
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I would like to teach you a well known scripture and at the end share a story how I feel I failed God.
On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Expert in the Jewish law
Well educated
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.’”
This Lawyer just summed up the 10 commandments. The first part of the commandments is how we relate to God and the second part is how relate to others.
“You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”
But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
to justify — to pronounce a verdict that someone is in full accordance with the requirements of the law (of God).
The Lawyer wanted every one to know just how amazing and right with God he was.
A neighbor to a Jewish pharise and scribe during this time would be anyone like themselves. Ppl like sinners , tax collectors, prostitutes, gentiles and the hated samaritains were not neighbors in the mind of this lawyer.
So Jesus does what Jesus does… Tells a story to put the lawyer in his place.
In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead.
Jerusalem to Jericho: Treacherous descent / 3,000 ft / 17 miles / Notorish for being dangerous
Now put yourself in the story / Other side of valley / Binoculars
To be “Conventiantly Inconvenenced” there will be a need God wants You to fill on His behalf.
A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.
Priest / apply your fav pastor growing up / Binoculars
So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
Levite: someone who would assit the preist at the temple / Like a church board memeber
Binoculars / Pass board chair Don King / Surly he will stop and help
But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him.
Then Jesus picks the one person the jewish lawyer would have never picked. - A Samaritain?
Binoculars / Your arch nemesis growing up
He saw the man...
Being “Conventiantly Inconvenenced” God will show you a person or situation He wants you to engage for His glory.
He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn and took care of him.
Being “Conventiantly Inconvenenced” God will move your heart to act.
The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’
Took care of the man all night. Then took care of the mans bills.
Being “Conventiantly Inconvenenced” God might ask you to show lavish love.
“Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”
Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”