What Question Are You Asking? | The Book Of Luke Week 3

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- Today on Crossroads, our friend Paco

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is going to unpack the Good Samaritan story

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found in the Book of Luke

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and tell us exactly why we need good neighbors.

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- And now presenting the parables.

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No, I said parables, not pair of bowls.

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- Oh, sorry.

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- Parables: The Good Samaritan.

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Some experts of the law challenged Jesus

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with the age old question of How do I get to heaven?

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Which led to Jesus telling a pretty surprising story

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about a man beaten and robbed

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and an unlikely hero that came to his aid.

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- Today, our friend Paco

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is going to talk about the Good Samaritan,

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one of the most famous parables in the entire world.

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We're in the series called Stuff Jesus Made Up.

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- And we're looking at the Book of Luke,

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looking at the things He made up,

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which are just parables

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that actually have truth for our lives.

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Listen, one of the truths for our lives is that

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Jesus wants us to practice spiritual disciplines,

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and one of those disciplines is giving.

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And everything that we do in our community

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is made possible by giving.

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But the fact of the matter is that

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less than 10% of people watching this right now

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are going to give.

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- That's right. That's not to alienate anybody,

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it's not to shame anyone.

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It's simply to invite you in

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and let you know that if you enjoy this,

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your support can help more things like this happen.

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- And now with that being said,

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let's jump into the message.

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- The great American villain Rowdy Roddy Piper

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once said, "Just when they think they got the answers,

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I change the questions."

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Now, speaking of questions,

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we all find ourselves asking questions.

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Here are a few of them that you probably shouldn't ask.

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And full disclosure,

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I've actually asked some of these questions.

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Here's one I've asked:

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Are you gaining weight? Are you pregnant?

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Sorry.

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Who would you vote for?

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How's your ex-wife?

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Hey, why are you so moody right now?

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Is it that time of the month or something? What?

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Yeah, that was a bad one.

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Here's a question we all get asked

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at some point in our lives

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and we all say no to at some point in our lives:

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Would you like to install the software update?

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The answer is no, absolutely not.

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Never in my life will I ever.

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Try tonight, if you're lucky.

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Here's a question I start my day with every single day:

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How many times can I hit that snooze button

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and still get up and get ready and get to work on time?

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Life is full of questions.

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And as we unpack the book of Luke,

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what I want to do today is I want to go to a story

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where Jesus tells us parable to a group of people,

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specifically the one guy who was asking a question.

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It's this parable that we often call the Good Samaritan,

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and it's a reaction to a guy asking Jesus the question.

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But what this guy didn't realize

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is he was asking the wrong question.

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So let's pick up the story, Luke 10:26.

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Let's get to it.

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Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem here and verse 25:

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This dude, it's important to note, he's a lawyer.

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That means he's well versed, he's well studied.

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He probably knows his stuff.

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This dude is asking a question

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about inheriting eternal life.

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But here's the thing,

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he most likely already knew the answer.

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What he was trying to do here is

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he was trying to affirm his current opinion,

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the way he was currently living.

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So Jesus kind of picks up on this because

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Jesus is a masterful teacher

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and he's a masterful people person.

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He picks up the vibes this guy sending him,

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and Jesus makes a decision

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to not directly answer his question,

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but to give him a question to chew on.

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Verse 26, he says to him:

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Now, the lawyer here is quoting

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two Old Testament verses,

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one from Deuteronomy, one from Leviticus.

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And I can imagine him like the kid in the front

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of the class that knows the answer

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to the long division problem

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that no one else can figure out.

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He's like, "I'm the smartest kid in the room.

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Thank you all very much."

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He probably was.

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But in verse 28, Jesus says to him:

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He affirms it, he's like, "Yeah,

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you got the right answer, dude. Well done."

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But the guy, he's got a deeper underlying issue

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that he might even realize he needs dealt with.

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Verse 29, the man says:

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Hmm, that's an interesting question because

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this dude knew the intellectual answer

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to how do I do this eternal life thing?

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How do I live for God thing?

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And the question that actually is

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eating at him underneath that is,

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who is my neighbor? Who qualifies as my neighbor?

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That's a question we should probably be able

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to answer now, but it's a little confusing, right?

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You live in an apartment building.

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Is the person on your left or your right your neighbor?

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What about the person above you or below?

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Are they your neighbor?

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Okay, you live in a neighborhood,

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is the person across the street your neighbor?

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How about across the street two houses,

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are they your neighbor?

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What about the weird person in the neighborhood

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that has the yard signs that are like super left

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or super right leaning, are they?

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What about the person who never cuts their grass

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and is dropping the property value

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of every house on the block,

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is that person your neighbor?

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You see, the only reason that this guy

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is asking that question is because he's looking

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to qualify people from being his neighbor.

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He's looking to put people in chunks of,

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"Hey, this person qualifies as my neighbor

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and this person doesn't."

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And so Jesus in His masterful way, He tells a parable.

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And we're going to pick it up in Luke 10:30,

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Jesus replies to him, He says:

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Now, this dude was headed down

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from Jerusalem to Jericho, it's about a day's trip.

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He's headed down there.

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He's walking this road.

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He probably has an animal with him.

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He comes across some bad company.

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They take all this stuff. They beat him half dead.

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He's in a really bad spot,

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most likely on the side of the road.

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Verse 31:

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This is fascinating to me, because what I often do

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is I often take my, you know, modern American context

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and I put Bible stories around it.

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So I imagine, like when I read the story,

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I often imagine like a guy walking down a highway,

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right, and across the four lanes of the highway

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he sees a dude on the side of the road.

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And he goes, "Oh, man, it's a little too far

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to see what's going on over there,

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but I've got to keep it moving,

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and plus crossing all these lanes,

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it's going to be tricky.

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Let me just keep it moving. Right?

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That actually wasn't what happened here.

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This priest would most likely be going

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from Jerusalem to Jericho,

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probably headed towards a little bit of vacation,

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a little bit of time off.

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Also important note, the size of these roads

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back in the day, they weren't four lane highways,

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they weren't even two way roads.

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They were small little trails that probably

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could hold one person and maybe an animal.

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So for a priest to come walking by and see a person

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and cross to the other side,

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it didn't look like them going very far.

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It probably looked like them doing this

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and stepping over the dude on the ground.

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Could you imagine that, this religious leader?

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You might be broken on the side of the road

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and this religious leader like, "Oh look, a priest,

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finally someone can help me."

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And he comes, he looks and you and goes,

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"Whew, that doesn't look good."

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He kind of shields his eyes,

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doesn't make eye contact and walks around you.

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It's messed up, man.

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Let's continue the story, though, verse 32.

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A Levite, another person who's supposed to be

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down religiously comes walking down the road,

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sees the dude and goes, "Ah! Not a good day for him.

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Let me keep it moving."

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Verse 33:

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Let's stop right there.

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This Samaritan comes walking down the same road

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that the two leaders in the religious world

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we're walking and pass by the dude.

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He sees him, he goes, "I can't leave this dude here."

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So what does he do?

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He takes out his own oil, his own wine,

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and he binds up the dude's wounds,

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puts him on his own animal, takes him to an inn.

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This dude is on a trip, right?

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So he says, "Look, you can stay here.

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Here's two denarii, pay for it.

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When I come back, we'll cover the rest of it.

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But take care of the dude."

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Now, when you read this story,

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it's easy to find a meaning here, right?

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It's easy to be like, "Well, yeah,

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you should help people.

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Like you shouldn't leave people who are hurting

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on the side of the road. You should help them.

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You should be like the Good Samaritan."

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And most people take this passage

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to simply mean that and nothing else.

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I want you to know you should absolutely

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every time you can help someone who is hurting,

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especially, especially if you see them in pain.

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But if the point of the story was just

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to be nice to everybody then the victim of the crime,

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the person who was broke on the side of the road,

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Jesus would have told that as that person

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being a Samaritan, and the hero in the story,

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the person who helps him

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would have been most likely a Jewish leader.

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Looking past the cultural differences,

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helping less fortunate people out.

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It's an important aspect of living out our faith.

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But if you leave this parable with that,

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you've missed the bigger picture.

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If you leave this parable asking the question

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that the lawyer asked, "Who is my neighbor?"

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My friend, you are asking the wrong question.

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So that leads us to

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what is the question we should be asking?

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- On August 14th of 2021,

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while the country of Haiti was starting their day,

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a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck,

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devastating the already fragile infrastructure

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and killing thousands.

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[speaking Haitian]

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Our hearts were broken for our friends and neighbors,

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and while COVID, political unrest,

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and unstable weather were deterrents,

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our love was much greater.

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tarps for immediate shelters,

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immediate aid for the hardest hit communities.

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- Haitians are resilient,

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enduring many difficult circumstances,

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many of which have been out of their control.

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As the poorest nation in our hemisphere,

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God calls us to serve the least.

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This is why we run after our neighbors.

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- So this whole interaction starts

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with a guy asking Jesus a question.

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Jesus responds with a question.

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The guy goes, okay, cool, asks another question.

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Jesus tells the whole story about

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a guy on the side of the road,

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two people walking by him,

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one person finding it good in him to get up

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and help him, and we're finally getting to the answer.

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It starts in Luke 10:36, Jesus then finishing the story

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ask this question:

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Now this seems like a pretty easy interaction,

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like, to understand, but it's important.

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It's so important that we realize that Jesus here,

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He's super prescriptive.

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He says exactly what He wants the guy to do,

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"Go and do likewise."

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In tons of other parables Jesus is leaving it open ended

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and leaving it a little bit harder to interpret.

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But for some reason, in this one He says,

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"You go and do likewise."

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Do do what likewise?

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Well, do what verse 36 says: Be a good neighbor.

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Go and be a good neighbor.

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See, this lawyer's problem was not that he was,

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you know, trying to know it all, be a smarty pants.

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This lawyer is problem was that

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he was asking the wrong questions.

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So many of us are asking the question,

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"Who is my neighbor?"

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And what we're essentially saying there is:

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Who qualifies for my love?

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Who qualifies for me to serve them?

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Who qualifies for me to do that?

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Who, more importantly, doesn't qualify for my love?

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And this guy is so entrenched

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in this us versus them mentality that

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he doesn't even acknowledge the Samaritan in the story.

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What does he say?

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He says the one who showed compassion, right? The one.

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That, my friend,

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is a ton of underlying us versus them mentality

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because the lawyer who asked the question,

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he was Jewish.

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This person in the story is a Samaritan.

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Jews and Samaritans did not get along.

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Clashed big time. Why?

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Because there were in different camps.

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See, because they probably in that time

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saw each other as others, saw each other as them.

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Didn't see each other as neighbors.

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It's wild that we still do that today.

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I'm guilty of it, and so are you.

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I'm a church guy. I love the local church.

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I love the church.

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But here's the thing,

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there's some weird subcultures of church.

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And regardless of if you worship with or without guitars

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or music or drums, or if you like flag ladies

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doing the thing in the front or not or whatever.

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Guess what? You're my neighbor. We are neighbors.

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I can easily us versus them you,

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and you can easily us versus them me.

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But listen, when we see each other as neighbors,

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we're following the ways of Jesus.

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I love my family.

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I think that starting a family is one of

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the most important things a man can do in his life,

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probably one of the most powerful,

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long lasting legacy things a guy can do.

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I believe raising kids a certain way

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and all that kind of stuff.

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You know what that means?

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That means that I'm still neighbors with people

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who let their kids stay up all night

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and ride bikes after dark when they should be inside.

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I can easily make it a us versus them thing,

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or I can look at it and go, "You know what?

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That's my neighbor."

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I care about money.

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I know it's weird, I said it at a church thing.

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I care about money.

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Are you allowed to do that? Yes.

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I believe that money is a tool from God

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and God has given it to me to steward well

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and to serve people well.

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You know what that means?

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That means that I'm neighbors with people,

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even if they have what I would call bad spending habits.

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So let's ask a better question.

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Let's ask the question: am I a neighbor?

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Do I love people without qualification?

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Because that's what this Good Samaritan did.

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And what made him a good neighbor

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was not just that he stopped,

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it's that he loved that cost to himself.

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He went out of his way and provided for

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this hurting, broken person beyond expectation.

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And if we're going to be good neighbors,

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we have got to love the same way because

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being a good neighbor costs something.

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It costs time. It definitely costs convenience.

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It costs money at times. It cost opportunity.

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It costs. It cost us something, even sleep.

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I want to be a good neighbor.

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I want to love people around me at cost to myself

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because I know it pleases Jesus.

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But here's the real truth,

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the ugly of the whole thing is

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I'm not qualified to be a good neighbor.

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There's no way I can "Go and do likewise."

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I can't love everyone at cost of myself.

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I can't care for people on a consistent basis.

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There's so many times where I'm locked in

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and focused on what I'm doing,

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I forget there are other people even in the same room.

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There's no way I'm going to be able to pull this off.

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And neither are you.

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We can't do this by ourselves. We can't do this on our own.

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We need a rescue.

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We need to help if we are going to be good neighbors.

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And the beautiful part about that is that Jesus,

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He models this perfectly for us

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because Jesus tells this story.

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He's qualified to tell this story because

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Jesus is the ultimate good to us.

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I mean, think about it.

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He sacrifices at cost to Himself

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so we wouldn't be stuck, hurt, broken.

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He pays the costs for us and He provides for us ongoing.

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Yeah, that's the ultimate good.

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Now, when you hear a message like this,

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you might relate to certain people in the story.

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Some of you might relate to the lawyer

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who is asking questions and thinking,

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"Man, I've got to ask better questions."

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Some of you might relate and connect with

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the Jewish leader who is focused in and locked in

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and zoned in on what he's doing and doesn't care

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or need to care about things around him.

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Some of you might think, you know what,

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you connect more with the Levite

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who might care deep inside, but feeling like,

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"I've got other things I got to do."

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Some of you, some of you might connect more

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with the person on the side of the road hurting.

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Some of you when you look around at your life,

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you might see brokenness and pain and heartache

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and thinking, "How am I ever going to get out of this?

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I was headed somewhere and somehow something happened

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and bam, now it feels like life was at a standstill

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and this might be how it ends for you."

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I want to give you the best news of all right now:

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No matter who you are, this is about you.

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This isn't about just helping people.

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This isn't about us being good.

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This is about being saved, and anyone can be saved.

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It doesn't matter the good. It doesn't matter the bad.

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There is salvation for all of us.

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And when you understand what it's like to be picked up

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off the side of the road and cared for,

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it fundamentally transforms

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the way you interact with hurting people.

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Because you know what it's like to be there,

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you know what it's like to be hurt.

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I'm sitting here with you because of good neighbors

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who saw me hurting, who saw me broken,

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who saw me in pain and said,

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"You know what? I'm going to help you."

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Because of the love that they had for God,

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that love transformed into their love for me.

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I'm here because of people like April, like Kevin,

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like David, like Jonas, like Ruby, like Jesse.

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I'm here for because of people like that

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who saw a young person hurting and in pain

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and decided, "You know what?

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I'm going to be a good neighbor."

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Not, is this person my neighbor?

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They didn't ask that question, thankfully.

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They asked, "How can I be a good neighbor

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to this person?"

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It's the same question that Jesus is asking you,

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not who is your neighbor,

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but how can you be a good neighbor?

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Because He is the ultimate good to us.

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He has gone all the way for us.

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He's done more than you could even think, ask or imagine,

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all the way to the cross for us.

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All the way to death for us.

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All the way into the grave for us, and

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all the way up out of that grave in resurrection for us.

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Why? Because He is the ultimate good

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and He finds you and I worthy and worth it to be saved.

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The writer in Romans 3 puts it in an interesting way.

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I want to read it to you:

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Do you see it there?

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You and I, we all fall short.

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None of us master this idea of being a good neighbor.

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Right?

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But the beautiful part is we have

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Jesus as the model of what it looks like.

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And it's a gift of grace that you and I

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can tap into that power and lean into it

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to transform people around us.

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So, we can ask the question, Who is my neighbor?

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And we can continue to segment ourselves out

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and have different camps,

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or we can ask a better question:

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How can I be a good neighbor?

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And we can lean on the power of Jesus Christ

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to give us the strength and the power

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to live that out every single day.

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And when we build our life on that as a foundation,

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let me just tell you, the way that you interact

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on the day to day fundamentally changes.

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When I get out of my own head and my own narrow focus

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of what I want to do with my day, and I start to realize

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I've got to love like Jesus loves,

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I start to see different things

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start unlocking in my life in a beautiful way.

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And I want the same for you.

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So, let me pray for you.

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God, thank You for Your word.

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Thank You for the beautiful teachings of Jesus

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and how they still apply to our lives, even today.

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And Lord, would You come near to us, God?

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Would You help us to see just how good You are to us?

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And for those of us who are locked in

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and narrow focused on us, and only us, God,

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that we would have our eyes open,

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that You'd lift the veil off of our eyes to see

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that you have called us to so much more

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and that more than we could even imagine on our own.

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God, unlock that for us, God.

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And for for people who are feeling broken and hurt

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and just in disaster on the side of the road,

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God, I pray that You would show them

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that You are the ultimate good.

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And God, that you would put people in their path,

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even right now, to reflect that love

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and to reflect that service and reflect that goodness.

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And God, for those of us who are asking questions,

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God, help us to to keep bringing those questions.

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God, we know that You can handle all of our questions.

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And we are we are thankful that You have been good to us.

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Jesus, you have been so good to us.

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And God, we declare right now, even in this moment,

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right now, that we don't want to build our life

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on anything other than You and Your Word.

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God, we want that to be a foundation

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for all that our life is built on.

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God, we want that to be a foundation

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for everything that's built, God,

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we want You to be that foundation. Amen.

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So as we listen to this song,

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I got one more question for you today:

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What are you build in your life on?

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- Thanks for that, Paco. That was awesome stuff.

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- Hey, like we said earlier,

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you can support messages just like this one

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simply by giving here at Crossroads.

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One of the simplest way to do that is to get in the app.

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You just go to your profile, you click the gear shift

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and then you click Give. It's that simple?

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- Maybe for you, you've been struggling

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with this idea of giving.

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I was there as well. I get it.

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It always felt to me like

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I was going to end up with less. - Yeah.

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- And then I realized giving is actually about

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me wanting to communicate to God

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He gets more of my heart.

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- And if you want to hear a story about

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what you're giving actually does around this place,

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I want you to stay tuned.

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- Hi, I'm Christina Dronen from Finally Family Homes.

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I just want to say thank you to all the givers

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at Crossroads for your support.

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Because of you, we are able to help youth

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who are aging out of foster care without a home,

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by partnering with them

00:27:39

to build their own tiny homes on wheels.

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[music]

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- Can we skip to the good part?

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- What Jesus trying to do here

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is He's trying to get our attention

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and He's trying to tell us we get God's attention

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based on how we use our money.

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