00:00:00 --> 00:00:06 It'd be great if you can get your Bibles open at Luke chapter 10, if you haven't got there already.
00:00:06 --> 00:00:12 And also the St. Paul's app has an outline for today's message, The Generous Life.
00:00:13 --> 00:00:20 Historical study has revealed that Karl Marx, the self-proclaimed defender of the working class
00:00:20 --> 00:00:31 and the working class public, never truly knew or had any relationship with a single member
00:00:31 --> 00:00:32 of the working class public.
00:00:34 --> 00:00:43 So far as researchers know, he never set foot in a flour mill, in a factory, in a mine,
00:00:43 --> 00:00:47 or any industrial workplace in his entire life.
00:00:47 --> 00:00:55 He lived a carefree, bohemian lifestyle, an intellectual lifestyle.
00:00:56 --> 00:01:04 He knew poverty because of his lifestyle choices, but he always kept company with middle class
00:01:04 --> 00:01:05 intellectuals.
00:01:06 --> 00:01:14 When he created the Communist League, he made sure that working class socialists were eliminated
00:01:14 --> 00:01:18 from any positions of power and influence in the organisation.
00:01:20 --> 00:01:27 It is also clear for all his endeavours to be the social benefactor of humanity, he disliked
00:01:27 --> 00:01:28 people.
00:01:29 --> 00:01:35 And he continuously fought with members of his own family and circle of friends.
00:01:35 --> 00:01:45 Marx lived his life in an atmosphere of verbal violence, quarrelling with everyone with whom
00:01:45 --> 00:01:48 he associated with, with any length of time.
00:01:50 --> 00:01:55 He worked hard, in fact, most of his life to become middle class.
00:01:55 --> 00:02:02 He spent the last two decades of his life in a comfortable middle class homes.
00:02:03 --> 00:02:09 And for the last 10 years of his life, he never had anything less than two servants.
00:02:14 --> 00:02:15 Why do I mention that?
00:02:15 --> 00:02:26 It's because it is so hard for humans to live up to what we champion intellectually.
00:02:27 --> 00:02:33 It is so hard for us to live out what we hold to as being our belief system.
00:02:35 --> 00:02:42 You know, it's not uncommon to love the idea of loving people than actually loving people
00:02:42 --> 00:02:43 themselves.
00:02:43 --> 00:02:50 Now, from a biblical perspective, our love for people is even more revealing.
00:02:52 --> 00:03:00 Because it indicates the authenticity and the health of our relationship with God.
00:03:01 --> 00:03:04 The spiritual logic is clear.
00:03:05 --> 00:03:08 Love for God produces love for people.
00:03:08 --> 00:03:16 And when you turn that spiritual logic around on its head, you can discern a love for God
00:03:16 --> 00:03:20 by the existence of love for others.
00:03:22 --> 00:03:23 That's the correlation.
00:03:25 --> 00:03:28 And it's there in the Old Testament and the New Testament.
00:03:28 --> 00:03:37 And so today we're entering into this new series called Generous God.
00:03:39 --> 00:03:41 And it's going to carry us to the end of term.
00:03:42 --> 00:03:53 And the basic idea is that God's generosity to us in Jesus Christ produces a life of generosity.
00:03:53 --> 00:04:03 Or another way to put that, God's love for us produces a life of love.
00:04:04 --> 00:04:07 Sacrifice produces sacrifice.
00:04:07 --> 00:04:18 Now, when I say generosity, I'm not meaning exclusively or primarily money.
00:04:20 --> 00:04:23 I mean generosity in all of life.
00:04:25 --> 00:04:29 Money is but a means of transaction.
00:04:29 --> 00:04:33 It's a commodity in the same way that my time is a commodity.
00:04:34 --> 00:04:39 Some of us can be generous with finances but not generous at all with our time.
00:04:39 --> 00:04:42 And not generous with our emotional life.
00:04:44 --> 00:04:46 I'm talking here about generosity in all of life.
00:04:46 --> 00:04:50 With times, talents, treasures, testimony, relationships, hospitality, forgiveness.
00:04:51 --> 00:04:52 All of life.
00:04:53 --> 00:04:54 A life of love.
00:04:54 --> 00:05:00 Now, our text for this series is the travel narrative in Luke.
00:05:00 --> 00:05:05 And it's called the travel narrative in Luke because Jesus is traveling.
00:05:07 --> 00:05:08 Who would have thought?
00:05:08 --> 00:05:11 He's on a journey with his disciples.
00:05:12 --> 00:05:18 Starts at Luke chapter 9 verse 51 where Jesus resolutely, it says there,
00:05:18 --> 00:05:20 he set his face to Jerusalem.
00:05:20 --> 00:05:28 And it ends in chapter 19 verse 44 when we discover that Jesus has arrived in Jerusalem.
00:05:29 --> 00:05:33 And all the way along he teaches his disciples what it means to follow him.
00:05:34 --> 00:05:36 And he says some radical stuff.
00:05:38 --> 00:05:42 What we discover in the travel narrative is through the stories Jesus tells
00:05:42 --> 00:05:47 that he turns the thinking of the world upside down and inside out.
00:05:47 --> 00:05:51 Hence the graphic we have in front of us of a wheat field that's upside down.
00:05:51 --> 00:05:52 Not because we're in Australia.
00:05:53 --> 00:05:54 It's because it's upside down.
00:05:55 --> 00:06:03 The travel narrative of all these stories that Jesus tells is he messes with the value system
00:06:03 --> 00:06:04 of the world in which we live.
00:06:04 --> 00:06:15 And there's probably no greater story, more controversial story he told
00:06:15 --> 00:06:19 than the story of the Good Samaritan that Nolene just read out for us just then in chapter 10.
00:06:19 --> 00:06:21 So three points today.
00:06:21 --> 00:06:23 The mandate for a generous life, the magnitude of the generous life,
00:06:23 --> 00:06:25 and the motivation for a generous life.
00:06:25 --> 00:06:27 You'll see that on St. Paul's app.
00:06:27 --> 00:06:27 Open that up.
00:06:28 --> 00:06:31 And Luke chapter 10, kicking off with verse 25.
00:06:31 --> 00:06:39 The context of this story and the mandate for the generous life is where an expert in biblical law
00:06:39 --> 00:06:46 asks Jesus what must he do to receive eternal life.
00:06:46 --> 00:06:52 And we are told that he asked Jesus this question because he wants to trap Jesus.
00:06:52 --> 00:07:03 He wants to trap Jesus because Jesus has been doing what they think he shouldn't be doing.
00:07:04 --> 00:07:08 And that is welcoming people, welcoming sinners.
00:07:08 --> 00:07:14 Jesus hanging out with people that he shouldn't be hanging out with.
00:07:15 --> 00:07:18 And in their mind, he's disobeying the law.
00:07:19 --> 00:07:20 Jesus is open.
00:07:20 --> 00:07:21 He is friendly to sinners.
00:07:22 --> 00:07:31 And this scholar in this moment wants to expose Jesus as someone who does not respect the word of God.
00:07:32 --> 00:07:33 That's his intent.
00:07:34 --> 00:07:37 He asked Jesus, what must I do to be saved?
00:07:38 --> 00:07:40 What must I do to be accepted by God?
00:07:40 --> 00:07:46 And he expects Jesus as someone who's not taking God's word seriously to say,
00:07:46 --> 00:07:47 it doesn't matter.
00:07:47 --> 00:07:50 Look, in the end, we'll all get there.
00:07:50 --> 00:07:52 In the end, it'll all be fine.
00:07:53 --> 00:07:55 Just do some good stuff.
00:07:55 --> 00:07:57 That's what he's expecting Jesus to say.
00:07:58 --> 00:08:00 God will accept everyone.
00:08:00 --> 00:08:03 But instead, it's Jesus who traps him.
00:08:04 --> 00:08:06 And it's a good trap.
00:08:06 --> 00:08:08 Never be afraid to be trapped by Jesus.
00:08:09 --> 00:08:11 It will turn out for your ultimate benefit.
00:08:11 --> 00:08:16 The law expert's heart is exposed by Jesus here.
00:08:16 --> 00:08:19 And Jesus asked him, well, what does the law say?
00:08:19 --> 00:08:21 And he gives Jesus a summary of the law.
00:08:21 --> 00:08:24 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength,
00:08:24 --> 00:08:27 with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.
00:08:27 --> 00:08:28 Which is great.
00:08:28 --> 00:08:32 You know, like, it's much better for Luke not to have to record the entire law again,
00:08:32 --> 00:08:34 the whole Torah, and put it in there.
00:08:34 --> 00:08:38 He does a summary version, which is what the Old Testament does.
00:08:38 --> 00:08:40 Deuteronomy 6, Leviticus 18.
00:08:40 --> 00:08:42 Does a summary of the law.
00:08:43 --> 00:08:45 Love God, love your neighbor.
00:08:46 --> 00:08:49 What does it mean to, first of all, love God?
00:08:50 --> 00:08:51 What does that mean?
00:08:51 --> 00:08:56 Archbishop William Temple put it like this.
00:08:57 --> 00:08:59 Your religion is what you do with your solitude.
00:09:00 --> 00:09:02 There's a description of what it means to love God.
00:09:03 --> 00:09:04 Your religion is what you do with your solitude.
00:09:07 --> 00:09:12 In other words, where does your mind go naturally in the moment of quiet?
00:09:12 --> 00:09:15 I know we don't allow ourselves quiet very much nowadays,
00:09:15 --> 00:09:18 but where does it go in a moment of quiet?
00:09:18 --> 00:09:24 In other words, where does it love to dwell?
00:09:27 --> 00:09:29 Where does your mind love to dwell?
00:09:30 --> 00:09:30 Is it God?
00:09:31 --> 00:09:32 Is it his love?
00:09:33 --> 00:09:34 Is it his characteristics?
00:09:34 --> 00:09:35 Is it his attributes?
00:09:35 --> 00:09:36 Is it his excellencies?
00:09:37 --> 00:09:39 You know, when that moment where the TV's off,
00:09:39 --> 00:09:40 and you're not scrolling through Facebook,
00:09:41 --> 00:09:42 and you're not updating your life,
00:09:42 --> 00:09:46 and you have, just, I need 10 minutes to consider the excellencies of God.
00:09:46 --> 00:09:49 There's a go there, naturally.
00:09:50 --> 00:09:53 That's what it means, according to Archbishop William Temple.
00:09:53 --> 00:09:55 It means to love God, is that you are dwelling on him.
00:10:01 --> 00:10:02 So do you love God?
00:10:08 --> 00:10:09 William Temple says,
00:10:09 --> 00:10:13 Where it goes is your real religion,
00:10:14 --> 00:10:15 your real God,
00:10:15 --> 00:10:15 your real faith,
00:10:16 --> 00:10:16 your real salvation,
00:10:16 --> 00:10:17 your real hope.
00:10:19 --> 00:10:21 The first test
00:10:21 --> 00:10:23 is love God so much
00:10:23 --> 00:10:26 that he dominates your solitude.
00:10:27 --> 00:10:28 Love him so much
00:10:28 --> 00:10:31 that you are content in any circumstance,
00:10:31 --> 00:10:35 because you will always have what you want the most.
00:10:35 --> 00:10:40 So let me ask you,
00:10:40 --> 00:10:41 anyone here pass that test?
00:10:43 --> 00:10:43 Anyone?
00:10:47 --> 00:10:48 Okay.
00:10:48 --> 00:10:49 Let's leave that.
00:10:50 --> 00:10:51 That's only 50% of the test.
00:10:52 --> 00:10:53 One more to go.
00:10:53 --> 00:10:54 Love your neighbor as yourself.
00:10:56 --> 00:10:58 As yourself.
00:10:58 --> 00:11:03 Meet the needs of your neighbor
00:11:03 --> 00:11:04 with all the force,
00:11:05 --> 00:11:05 all the joy,
00:11:06 --> 00:11:07 all the speed,
00:11:07 --> 00:11:08 all the power
00:11:08 --> 00:11:10 by which you meet your own needs.
00:11:13 --> 00:11:15 Be as happy for them
00:11:15 --> 00:11:17 when their need is met
00:11:17 --> 00:11:19 as when your own is met.
00:11:23 --> 00:11:24 Is that it?
00:11:24 --> 00:11:24 That's all?
00:11:25 --> 00:11:26 Pretty simple.
00:11:26 --> 00:11:26 Well,
00:11:27 --> 00:11:31 when you see the law,
00:11:32 --> 00:11:33 when you see what the law is after,
00:11:34 --> 00:11:34 as opposed to,
00:11:35 --> 00:11:35 I've obeyed that one,
00:11:35 --> 00:11:36 I've obeyed that one,
00:11:36 --> 00:11:37 tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.
00:11:37 --> 00:11:38 When you actually see
00:11:38 --> 00:11:40 what the intent of the law is,
00:11:42 --> 00:11:43 you go,
00:11:44 --> 00:11:45 wow,
00:11:46 --> 00:11:47 I'm starting to feel the force of it now.
00:11:49 --> 00:11:50 It is brilliant
00:11:50 --> 00:11:52 what Jesus does here,
00:11:52 --> 00:11:55 because the law outlines
00:11:55 --> 00:11:56 a way of life
00:11:56 --> 00:11:58 that is right,
00:11:58 --> 00:12:00 but the force of the law
00:12:00 --> 00:12:01 helps me to understand
00:12:01 --> 00:12:02 that I cannot do it.
00:12:05 --> 00:12:08 The law is the way of life,
00:12:08 --> 00:12:10 but it can't be the way to life.
00:12:12 --> 00:12:13 That's the brilliance
00:12:13 --> 00:12:15 of what Jesus does in this moment.
00:12:15 --> 00:12:18 We should live this way,
00:12:18 --> 00:12:20 but when you see the force of it,
00:12:20 --> 00:12:22 you realize you cannot live this way.
00:12:24 --> 00:12:26 And so Jesus traps us.
00:12:29 --> 00:12:31 The mandate to live a life
00:12:31 --> 00:12:32 of radical generosity
00:12:32 --> 00:12:34 and love towards others
00:12:34 --> 00:12:36 is so,
00:12:36 --> 00:12:38 so crucial
00:12:38 --> 00:12:40 that Jesus makes it,
00:12:40 --> 00:12:41 in fact,
00:12:41 --> 00:12:43 the test of genuine love for God
00:12:43 --> 00:12:44 in Matthew 25.
00:12:48 --> 00:12:48 Okay,
00:12:48 --> 00:12:49 so that's the test.
00:12:49 --> 00:12:50 That's the mandate.
00:12:50 --> 00:12:51 And then we get to
00:12:51 --> 00:12:55 grappling with the magnitude of it,
00:12:55 --> 00:12:56 because this is essential.
00:12:56 --> 00:12:58 What does this law expert do
00:12:58 --> 00:13:00 as soon as he hears Jesus say this?
00:13:01 --> 00:13:03 He immediately,
00:13:03 --> 00:13:04 his natural inclination
00:13:04 --> 00:13:05 is to put limits around it.
00:13:07 --> 00:13:08 This religious expert
00:13:08 --> 00:13:10 immediately wants to put limits.
00:13:10 --> 00:13:11 Verse 29,
00:13:11 --> 00:13:13 he wanted to justify himself,
00:13:14 --> 00:13:15 and so he asked Jesus,
00:13:16 --> 00:13:17 hang on,
00:13:17 --> 00:13:19 when you say neighbor,
00:13:20 --> 00:13:21 who is my neighbor?
00:13:22 --> 00:13:23 I mean,
00:13:23 --> 00:13:26 who do I really have to live like this with?
00:13:28 --> 00:13:30 He wants to reduce the force
00:13:30 --> 00:13:31 of the biblical law
00:13:31 --> 00:13:33 so that it's reasonable,
00:13:33 --> 00:13:34 so that it's doable.
00:13:34 --> 00:13:37 You see,
00:13:37 --> 00:13:39 the premise of his life
00:13:39 --> 00:13:41 has always been,
00:13:42 --> 00:13:43 God will accept me
00:13:43 --> 00:13:45 because I am good.
00:13:46 --> 00:13:48 I'm good enough.
00:13:50 --> 00:13:52 So what's the minimum standard
00:13:52 --> 00:13:53 that God requires?
00:13:56 --> 00:13:57 And that's when Jesus launches
00:13:57 --> 00:13:59 into his most famous story,
00:13:59 --> 00:14:02 and the magnitude of the generous life
00:14:02 --> 00:14:03 becomes very clear.
00:14:04 --> 00:14:05 There's a guy traveling down
00:14:05 --> 00:14:07 from Jerusalem to Jericho.
00:14:08 --> 00:14:09 We are to assume
00:14:09 --> 00:14:11 in this story
00:14:11 --> 00:14:13 that he is a Jewish man.
00:14:14 --> 00:14:15 This man gets robbed,
00:14:15 --> 00:14:16 he gets stripped,
00:14:16 --> 00:14:16 he gets beaten,
00:14:17 --> 00:14:18 and he's left for dead.
00:14:18 --> 00:14:19 By chance,
00:14:19 --> 00:14:20 a Jewish priest
00:14:20 --> 00:14:21 comes wandering by.
00:14:22 --> 00:14:22 Surely,
00:14:22 --> 00:14:23 he will help.
00:14:24 --> 00:14:24 The priest
00:14:24 --> 00:14:25 couldn't be bothered.
00:14:25 --> 00:14:26 He walks on the other side
00:14:26 --> 00:14:27 of the street.
00:14:28 --> 00:14:29 He didn't want to go near him.
00:14:29 --> 00:14:29 Now,
00:14:29 --> 00:14:31 a Levite comes along.
00:14:31 --> 00:14:32 Again,
00:14:34 --> 00:14:35 expert in the law.
00:14:36 --> 00:14:37 Jewish man
00:14:37 --> 00:14:38 comes along.
00:14:39 --> 00:14:39 You would think
00:14:39 --> 00:14:40 he's going to help
00:14:40 --> 00:14:41 a fellow Jew,
00:14:41 --> 00:14:42 but he can't be bothered.
00:14:42 --> 00:14:43 Walks on the other side
00:14:43 --> 00:14:43 of the street
00:14:43 --> 00:14:44 and continues on.
00:14:45 --> 00:14:45 And then along
00:14:45 --> 00:14:47 comes the Samaritan.
00:14:47 --> 00:14:48 And Jesus
00:14:48 --> 00:14:49 telling this story
00:14:49 --> 00:14:50 to a mainly Jewish crowd
00:14:50 --> 00:14:51 and they would have gone,
00:14:51 --> 00:14:52 Samaritan?
00:14:52 --> 00:14:55 How dare he bring
00:14:55 --> 00:14:56 a Samaritan
00:14:56 --> 00:14:57 into this story?
00:15:00 --> 00:15:01 Jews and Samaritan tensions
00:15:01 --> 00:15:04 were incredibly deep
00:15:04 --> 00:15:06 racial tensions
00:15:06 --> 00:15:09 over a very long period of time.
00:15:09 --> 00:15:10 The Samaritans
00:15:10 --> 00:15:12 were despised
00:15:12 --> 00:15:13 more than any other
00:15:13 --> 00:15:15 people group to Jews.
00:15:15 --> 00:15:18 And the majority
00:15:18 --> 00:15:19 of Jews
00:15:19 --> 00:15:20 in Judea
00:15:20 --> 00:15:20 and Galilee
00:15:20 --> 00:15:22 absolutely
00:15:22 --> 00:15:23 detested
00:15:23 --> 00:15:24 Samaritans.
00:15:26 --> 00:15:28 And by the time
00:15:28 --> 00:15:28 of Jesus
00:15:28 --> 00:15:30 in first century
00:15:30 --> 00:15:30 Palestine,
00:15:30 --> 00:15:31 that animosity
00:15:31 --> 00:15:33 between these two groups
00:15:33 --> 00:15:34 had grown
00:15:34 --> 00:15:35 to the point
00:15:35 --> 00:15:36 over several hundred years
00:15:36 --> 00:15:37 where there was
00:15:37 --> 00:15:38 violence
00:15:38 --> 00:15:39 and murdering
00:15:39 --> 00:15:39 of one another.
00:15:43 --> 00:15:44 Genocide even.
00:15:45 --> 00:15:45 In villages.
00:15:48 --> 00:15:49 What's the Samaritan
00:15:49 --> 00:15:50 doing in Jesus'
00:15:50 --> 00:15:51 story here?
00:15:55 --> 00:15:56 The Samaritan
00:15:56 --> 00:15:58 sees the injured Jew
00:15:58 --> 00:15:58 on the side
00:15:58 --> 00:15:59 of the road
00:15:59 --> 00:16:00 and he goes
00:16:00 --> 00:16:01 over to him
00:16:01 --> 00:16:01 and he has
00:16:01 --> 00:16:03 compassion on him.
00:16:05 --> 00:16:06 He cleans him up,
00:16:06 --> 00:16:07 treats his wounds,
00:16:07 --> 00:16:08 puts him on his donkey,
00:16:09 --> 00:16:10 takes him to a local motel,
00:16:10 --> 00:16:11 checks him in,
00:16:11 --> 00:16:13 hands over his credit card,
00:16:13 --> 00:16:13 says,
00:16:13 --> 00:16:14 I'll fix up
00:16:14 --> 00:16:14 whatever the
00:16:14 --> 00:16:15 expenses are
00:16:15 --> 00:16:16 when I come back.
00:16:16 --> 00:16:17 No limitation.
00:16:17 --> 00:16:17 It's one of those
00:16:17 --> 00:16:19 American Express
00:16:19 --> 00:16:20 platinum black thing,
00:16:21 --> 00:16:21 you know,
00:16:21 --> 00:16:22 no limit.
00:16:23 --> 00:16:23 Hands it over.
00:16:24 --> 00:16:24 Go for broke.
00:16:29 --> 00:16:30 This story
00:16:30 --> 00:16:31 is socially charged.
00:16:32 --> 00:16:33 It is offensive
00:16:33 --> 00:16:34 for the Jew
00:16:34 --> 00:16:35 to hear this story.
00:16:35 --> 00:16:38 So imagine
00:16:38 --> 00:16:40 I get an invitation
00:16:40 --> 00:16:45 to address
00:16:45 --> 00:16:46 a neo-Nazi
00:16:46 --> 00:16:48 far-right
00:16:48 --> 00:16:49 white supremacist
00:16:49 --> 00:16:50 rally in Australia.
00:16:50 --> 00:16:54 and I get up there
00:16:54 --> 00:16:56 and I tell this story
00:16:56 --> 00:16:58 about this
00:16:58 --> 00:17:00 Australian SAS soldier
00:17:00 --> 00:17:01 who's been blown up
00:17:01 --> 00:17:02 on the side
00:17:02 --> 00:17:02 of the road
00:17:02 --> 00:17:04 by a bomb
00:17:04 --> 00:17:06 in Afghanistan.
00:17:06 --> 00:17:07 He's lying there
00:17:07 --> 00:17:08 on the side
00:17:08 --> 00:17:08 of the road.
00:17:09 --> 00:17:09 He is
00:17:09 --> 00:17:12 dying.
00:17:13 --> 00:17:13 Australian
00:17:13 --> 00:17:14 military medic
00:17:14 --> 00:17:15 comes along,
00:17:15 --> 00:17:16 sees the man,
00:17:16 --> 00:17:17 walks on the side
00:17:17 --> 00:17:17 of the road,
00:17:17 --> 00:17:18 continues on.
00:17:20 --> 00:17:21 Australian
00:17:21 --> 00:17:22 army chaplain
00:17:22 --> 00:17:23 walks by,
00:17:23 --> 00:17:24 sees the man
00:17:24 --> 00:17:26 and continues on
00:17:26 --> 00:17:27 and leaves him
00:17:27 --> 00:17:28 there to die.
00:17:29 --> 00:17:29 But friends,
00:17:29 --> 00:17:30 let me tell you
00:17:30 --> 00:17:33 about the ISIS
00:17:33 --> 00:17:34 terrorist
00:17:34 --> 00:17:35 who came along,
00:17:36 --> 00:17:36 saw the man,
00:17:37 --> 00:17:37 treats his wounds,
00:17:38 --> 00:17:38 picks him up,
00:17:39 --> 00:17:40 puts him in his
00:17:40 --> 00:17:41 Humvee,
00:17:41 --> 00:17:42 takes him
00:17:42 --> 00:17:43 to a medical
00:17:43 --> 00:17:44 facility,
00:17:45 --> 00:17:45 treat and end,
00:17:46 --> 00:17:46 hands are over,
00:17:46 --> 00:17:48 pays for all the costs,
00:17:48 --> 00:17:49 but also
00:17:49 --> 00:17:50 pays for his
00:17:50 --> 00:17:51 military pension.
00:17:54 --> 00:17:55 Do you think
00:17:55 --> 00:17:56 they're going to
00:17:56 --> 00:17:57 invite me back?
00:17:59 --> 00:18:00 Do you think
00:18:00 --> 00:18:01 I'm going to
00:18:01 --> 00:18:02 get out of there
00:18:02 --> 00:18:05 unscathed?
00:18:05 --> 00:18:11 That's the context
00:18:11 --> 00:18:12 of Jesus here
00:18:12 --> 00:18:13 right in this
00:18:13 --> 00:18:13 moment.
00:18:16 --> 00:18:16 Remember,
00:18:16 --> 00:18:17 this story
00:18:17 --> 00:18:19 is the answer
00:18:19 --> 00:18:20 to a question
00:18:20 --> 00:18:21 and the question
00:18:21 --> 00:18:21 is,
00:18:21 --> 00:18:22 who is
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00:20:00 --> 00:20:00 You know,
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00:28:58 --> 00:29:02 it's not the response Jesus wants from you
00:29:02 --> 00:29:10 Jesus is not trying to make the lawyer feel guilty
00:29:10 --> 00:29:15 Jesus has put something in this parable
00:29:15 --> 00:29:18 that points to a different motive
00:29:18 --> 00:29:22 the key to the parable
00:29:22 --> 00:29:28 is to understand which of the four characters in the parable
00:29:28 --> 00:29:33 does Jesus want this lawyer to understand he is
00:29:33 --> 00:29:40 which of the four characters is Jesus saying to this lawyer
00:29:40 --> 00:29:43 you are that person in this story
00:29:43 --> 00:29:49 most people read it as if the lawyer
00:29:49 --> 00:29:51 Jesus wants the lawyer to be the good Samaritan
00:29:51 --> 00:29:55 that's not what Jesus is doing here
00:29:55 --> 00:29:58 and I'll get to it in a moment
00:29:58 --> 00:30:04 he puts the lawyer on the side of the road as the dying man
00:30:04 --> 00:30:06 that's who he is
00:30:06 --> 00:30:11 he puts the hated Samaritan in the rescue chopper
00:30:11 --> 00:30:18 the hated Samaritan in the rescue chopper
00:30:18 --> 00:30:21 the Jewish lawyer was meant to ponder
00:30:21 --> 00:30:24 not what he needed to do for eternal life
00:30:24 --> 00:30:28 but what has been done for him for his life
00:30:28 --> 00:30:31 that's what he needed to understand
00:30:31 --> 00:30:36 he needed to see that his life was ebbing away
00:30:36 --> 00:30:38 that he could not save himself
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00:31:01 --> 00:31:03 from someone who owes you nothing
00:31:03 --> 00:31:05 but rejection
00:31:05 --> 00:31:12 you see Jesus isn't giving this Jewish scholar
00:31:12 --> 00:31:13 a to-do list
00:31:13 --> 00:31:16 he's actually giving him a dynamic
00:31:16 --> 00:31:18 not a to-do list
00:31:18 --> 00:31:19 a dynamic
00:31:19 --> 00:31:21 a grace dynamic
00:31:21 --> 00:31:22 that can change his heart
00:31:22 --> 00:31:25 it's not until this lawyer sees
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00:31:27 --> 00:31:28 bleeding out
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00:31:30 --> 00:31:32 but saved by an act of grace
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00:31:33 --> 00:31:34 who he has rejected
00:31:34 --> 00:31:38 is he then able to be
00:31:38 --> 00:31:39 that person to others
00:31:39 --> 00:31:41 in other words
00:31:41 --> 00:31:43 he will never be
00:31:43 --> 00:31:44 a good Samaritan
00:31:44 --> 00:31:47 until he has received grace
00:31:47 --> 00:31:49 from the good Samaritan
00:31:49 --> 00:31:54 and where would he get
00:31:54 --> 00:31:55 something like that
00:31:55 --> 00:31:59 notice how Jesus turns the story around
00:31:59 --> 00:32:00 at the end
00:32:00 --> 00:32:03 let me point out to you
00:32:03 --> 00:32:05 the lawyer starts off
00:32:05 --> 00:32:07 by asking
00:32:07 --> 00:32:09 who is my neighbor
00:32:09 --> 00:32:12 but at the end of the text
00:32:12 --> 00:32:14 Jesus asks
00:32:14 --> 00:32:16 which of the three
00:32:16 --> 00:32:19 was the neighbor
00:32:19 --> 00:32:23 he uses his language
00:32:23 --> 00:32:24 and reapplies it
00:32:24 --> 00:32:26 not who
00:32:26 --> 00:32:26 who
00:32:26 --> 00:32:28 who was the neighbor
00:32:28 --> 00:32:29 but who was the neighbor
00:32:29 --> 00:32:30 in other words
00:32:30 --> 00:32:31 which of the three
00:32:31 --> 00:32:33 was neighborly
00:32:33 --> 00:32:37 and the law expert
00:32:37 --> 00:32:38 can't even bear
00:32:38 --> 00:32:40 to say the word Samaritan
00:32:40 --> 00:32:41 but he gets out
00:32:41 --> 00:32:43 the one who had shown mercy
00:32:43 --> 00:32:46 what's the point of this story
00:32:46 --> 00:32:47 who is the good Samaritan
00:32:47 --> 00:32:49 who is neighborly
00:32:49 --> 00:32:50 to those in need
00:32:50 --> 00:32:51 who is the neighbor
00:32:51 --> 00:32:52 to those
00:32:52 --> 00:32:52 who
00:32:52 --> 00:32:54 who's been rejected
00:32:54 --> 00:32:54 by others
00:32:54 --> 00:32:55 but is
00:32:55 --> 00:32:56 the neighbor
00:32:56 --> 00:32:57 to
00:32:57 --> 00:32:59 the one who needed
00:32:59 --> 00:32:59 a neighbor
00:32:59 --> 00:33:01 the Christian faith
00:33:01 --> 00:33:03 says it's Jesus Christ
00:33:03 --> 00:33:06 the core of the Christian faith
00:33:06 --> 00:33:07 the gospel
00:33:07 --> 00:33:08 says that
00:33:08 --> 00:33:10 every single human being
00:33:10 --> 00:33:11 like this law expert
00:33:11 --> 00:33:14 is a self-justifier
00:33:14 --> 00:33:16 we are all
00:33:16 --> 00:33:17 self-justifiers
00:33:17 --> 00:33:20 whatever it is
00:33:20 --> 00:33:22 that we set our heart on
00:33:22 --> 00:33:23 to justify ourselves
00:33:23 --> 00:33:24 and to feel worthy
00:33:24 --> 00:33:24 and good and acceptable
00:33:24 --> 00:33:25 ultimately
00:33:25 --> 00:33:26 is the thing
00:33:26 --> 00:33:27 that controls us
00:33:27 --> 00:33:30 it drives us
00:33:30 --> 00:33:30 it's caused us
00:33:30 --> 00:33:31 to do anything for it
00:33:31 --> 00:33:33 and make us miserable
00:33:33 --> 00:33:35 because that thing
00:33:35 --> 00:33:36 whatever it is
00:33:36 --> 00:33:36 and for some people
00:33:36 --> 00:33:37 it's religion
00:33:37 --> 00:33:39 whatever it is
00:33:39 --> 00:33:39 will never
00:33:39 --> 00:33:41 ever deliver on its promises
00:33:41 --> 00:33:44 it will kill us
00:33:44 --> 00:33:46 for instance
00:33:46 --> 00:33:47 power will only
00:33:47 --> 00:33:48 cause us to want
00:33:48 --> 00:33:49 more of it
00:33:49 --> 00:33:51 and the fear of losing it
00:33:51 --> 00:33:54 the more power we have
00:33:54 --> 00:33:55 the more insecure
00:33:55 --> 00:33:56 we will feel
00:33:56 --> 00:33:59 have a chat with
00:33:59 --> 00:34:00 Vladimir Putin
00:34:00 --> 00:34:01 about that
00:34:01 --> 00:34:04 if we set our hearts
00:34:04 --> 00:34:05 on power
00:34:05 --> 00:34:09 in order to be significant
00:34:09 --> 00:34:11 power will ultimately
00:34:11 --> 00:34:12 control us
00:34:12 --> 00:34:13 and enslave us
00:34:13 --> 00:34:15 you see
00:34:15 --> 00:34:16 if it's not God
00:34:16 --> 00:34:17 whatever it is
00:34:17 --> 00:34:19 that you set your heart on
00:34:19 --> 00:34:20 if it's not God
00:34:20 --> 00:34:22 it will beat you up
00:34:22 --> 00:34:23 and it will fill you
00:34:23 --> 00:34:24 with fears
00:34:24 --> 00:34:25 and discouragement
00:34:25 --> 00:34:26 and failure
00:34:26 --> 00:34:28 and the Christian faith
00:34:28 --> 00:34:29 says that
00:34:29 --> 00:34:30 Jesus Christ
00:34:30 --> 00:34:31 God the Son
00:34:31 --> 00:34:32 the creator of all
00:34:32 --> 00:34:32 that is
00:34:32 --> 00:34:34 the author of life
00:34:34 --> 00:34:34 itself
00:34:34 --> 00:34:36 the one who owes us
00:34:36 --> 00:34:37 nothing
00:34:37 --> 00:34:37 except us
00:34:37 --> 00:34:38 experience
00:34:38 --> 00:34:39 nothing
00:34:39 --> 00:34:40 but rejection
00:34:40 --> 00:34:43 from the humanity
00:34:43 --> 00:34:44 that he has created
00:34:44 --> 00:34:49 Jesus Christ
00:34:49 --> 00:34:50 came into the brokenness
00:34:50 --> 00:34:51 of our road
00:34:51 --> 00:34:52 and had compassion
00:34:52 --> 00:34:53 on us
00:34:53 --> 00:34:54 the word compassion
00:34:54 --> 00:34:56 is there in verse 33
00:34:56 --> 00:34:57 and verse 34
00:34:57 --> 00:34:59 not literally
00:34:59 --> 00:35:00 translated in English
00:35:00 --> 00:35:02 in every translation
00:35:02 --> 00:35:03 but it's there in verse 33
00:35:03 --> 00:35:04 and verse 34
00:35:04 --> 00:35:05 and it's a word
00:35:05 --> 00:35:06 that's used
00:35:06 --> 00:35:08 more often
00:35:08 --> 00:35:09 than any other word
00:35:09 --> 00:35:09 in the Bible
00:35:09 --> 00:35:11 to describe
00:35:11 --> 00:35:12 Jesus' emotional life
00:35:12 --> 00:35:17 Jesus knew
00:35:17 --> 00:35:18 that to come to us
00:35:18 --> 00:35:18 on the road
00:35:18 --> 00:35:19 to rescue us
00:35:19 --> 00:35:20 wasn't to risk
00:35:20 --> 00:35:21 his life
00:35:21 --> 00:35:22 it was in fact
00:35:22 --> 00:35:23 to give his life
00:35:23 --> 00:35:26 as the good Samaritan
00:35:26 --> 00:35:27 came down the road
00:35:27 --> 00:35:28 and lifted up
00:35:28 --> 00:35:29 his enemy
00:35:29 --> 00:35:30 onto his horse
00:35:30 --> 00:35:31 so Jesus
00:35:31 --> 00:35:32 came down
00:35:32 --> 00:35:33 to us
00:35:33 --> 00:35:34 and pulled us
00:35:34 --> 00:35:35 up to his place
00:35:35 --> 00:35:37 I keep going back
00:35:37 --> 00:35:37 to this verse
00:35:37 --> 00:35:38 again and again
00:35:38 --> 00:35:38 and again
00:35:38 --> 00:35:39 but I just want to say
00:35:39 --> 00:35:39 it one more time
00:35:39 --> 00:35:41 for today
00:35:41 --> 00:35:43 2 Corinthians 5 21
00:35:43 --> 00:35:44 God made him
00:35:44 --> 00:35:45 who had no sin
00:35:45 --> 00:35:46 to be sin for us
00:35:46 --> 00:35:47 so that in him
00:35:47 --> 00:35:47 we might become
00:35:47 --> 00:35:48 the righteousness of God
00:35:48 --> 00:35:49 didn't just deal
00:35:49 --> 00:35:50 with our sin
00:35:50 --> 00:35:51 but lifted us up
00:35:51 --> 00:35:53 if we see Jesus
00:35:53 --> 00:35:54 as the good Samaritan
00:35:54 --> 00:35:56 the one who has
00:35:56 --> 00:35:58 radically
00:35:58 --> 00:36:00 generously
00:36:00 --> 00:36:01 neighboured you
00:36:01 --> 00:36:04 it will change
00:36:04 --> 00:36:05 you forever
00:36:05 --> 00:36:08 it is the dynamic
00:36:08 --> 00:36:09 and the only dynamic
00:36:09 --> 00:36:11 that begins
00:36:11 --> 00:36:12 the process
00:36:12 --> 00:36:13 of changing us
00:36:13 --> 00:36:14 as people
00:36:14 --> 00:36:15 who overflow
00:36:15 --> 00:36:17 into radically
00:36:17 --> 00:36:19 generous lives
00:36:19 --> 00:36:22 the evidence
00:36:22 --> 00:36:23 that we have been
00:36:23 --> 00:36:24 radically
00:36:24 --> 00:36:25 neighboured
00:36:25 --> 00:36:26 loved
00:36:26 --> 00:36:28 mercy
00:36:28 --> 00:36:30 of Jesus Christ
00:36:30 --> 00:36:31 generous life
00:36:31 --> 00:36:34 to our neighbours
00:36:34 --> 00:36:35 everyone
00:36:35 --> 00:36:38 is the evidence
00:36:38 --> 00:36:39 that we have been
00:36:39 --> 00:36:40 radically neighboured
00:36:40 --> 00:36:43 only when we see
00:36:43 --> 00:36:44 the true neighbour
00:36:44 --> 00:36:46 do we become
00:36:46 --> 00:36:47 true neighbours
00:36:47 --> 00:36:48 in such a way
00:36:48 --> 00:36:50 that our actual neighbours
00:36:50 --> 00:36:51 must look
00:36:51 --> 00:36:52 to the true neighbour
00:36:52 --> 00:36:54 to come to grips
00:36:54 --> 00:36:56 with what they are
00:36:56 --> 00:36:57 experiencing
00:36:57 --> 00:36:57 in radical
00:36:57 --> 00:36:58 generosity
00:36:58 --> 00:36:58 from us
00:36:58 --> 00:37:01 only then
00:37:01 --> 00:37:04 I wonder
00:37:04 --> 00:37:07 are you still
00:37:07 --> 00:37:07 feeling guilty
00:37:07 --> 00:37:12 are you still
00:37:12 --> 00:37:12 feeling guilty
00:37:12 --> 00:37:18 if you are
00:37:18 --> 00:37:20 then
00:37:20 --> 00:37:20 do
00:37:20 --> 00:37:21 what Jesus
00:37:21 --> 00:37:22 wants you
00:37:22 --> 00:37:23 to do
00:37:23 --> 00:37:24 with that guilt
00:37:24 --> 00:37:26 what did
00:37:26 --> 00:37:26 Jesus
00:37:26 --> 00:37:27 want
00:37:27 --> 00:37:27 the law
00:37:27 --> 00:37:28 expert
00:37:28 --> 00:37:28 to do
00:37:28 --> 00:37:29 with his
00:37:29 --> 00:37:29 guilt
00:37:29 --> 00:37:31 he wanted
00:37:31 --> 00:37:32 him to
00:37:32 --> 00:37:32 feel the
00:37:32 --> 00:37:33 weight
00:37:33 --> 00:37:33 of sin
00:37:33 --> 00:37:34 and expectations
00:37:34 --> 00:37:35 he wanted
00:37:35 --> 00:37:35 him to see
00:37:35 --> 00:37:36 that his
00:37:36 --> 00:37:36 goodness
00:37:36 --> 00:37:37 was not
00:37:37 --> 00:37:37 good enough
00:37:37 --> 00:37:38 that his
00:37:38 --> 00:37:39 generosity
00:37:39 --> 00:37:40 was not
00:37:40 --> 00:37:40 good enough
00:37:40 --> 00:37:43 he wanted
00:37:43 --> 00:37:44 him
00:37:44 --> 00:37:46 to run
00:37:46 --> 00:37:47 to Jesus
00:37:47 --> 00:37:48 with his
00:37:48 --> 00:37:48 guilt
00:37:48 --> 00:37:50 until we
00:37:50 --> 00:37:51 are crushed
00:37:51 --> 00:37:52 by the
00:37:52 --> 00:37:53 mandate
00:37:53 --> 00:37:54 and the
00:37:54 --> 00:37:54 magnitude
00:37:54 --> 00:37:56 of
00:37:56 --> 00:37:57 generosity
00:37:57 --> 00:37:58 that God
00:37:58 --> 00:37:59 requires
00:37:59 --> 00:37:59 from us
00:37:59 --> 00:38:00 until we
00:38:00 --> 00:38:01 are crushed
00:38:01 --> 00:38:02 by that
00:38:02 --> 00:38:06 we will
00:38:06 --> 00:38:07 not be
00:38:07 --> 00:38:07 humble enough
00:38:07 --> 00:38:08 to receive
00:38:08 --> 00:38:08 the mercy
00:38:08 --> 00:38:09 and the
00:38:09 --> 00:38:10 generosity
00:38:10 --> 00:38:11 that he
00:38:11 --> 00:38:13 offers us
00:38:13 --> 00:38:15 in Jesus
00:38:15 --> 00:38:19 a generosity
00:38:19 --> 00:38:19 offers us
00:38:19 --> 00:38:21 in the
00:38:21 --> 00:38:22 not good
00:38:22 --> 00:38:22 Samaritan
00:38:22 --> 00:38:23 but the
00:38:23 --> 00:38:24 great
00:38:24 --> 00:38:24 Samaritan
00:38:24 --> 00:38:25 Jesus
00:38:25 --> 00:38:26 Christ