Are We a Good Neighbor?
Robert Dawson
Luke 10.25-37
Sometimes we have difficulty understanding what the Bible. We struggle to grasp the meaning and significance of the ancient text. For many people that is a struggle that begins early in life. That's why it is good for parents to talk with their children about the things they learn in Sunday School.
One Sunday while they were riding home from church Roscoe's mom asked what the teacher talked about in Sunday School today. Roscoe said their story came from Luke 10 and the teacher talked about two preachers who saw a man in a ditch, but they didn't stop because he had already been robbed.
More than having difficulty understanding Scripture, most of us have difficulty obeying what we do understand. In this parable - one that most of us are very familiar with and that Roscoe so eloquently messed up - there are some truths that will challenge us, truths that our Savior wants us to live by.
This passage opens with what I consider to be an almost comical attempt on the part of the Scribes and Pharisees to trap and discredit Jesus. It was something they tried unsuccessfully to do throughout the gospel narratives. It is kind of like a roadrunner and Wylie Coyote cartoon. The coyote trying to trap the road runner but finding himself caught in his own trap.
The story begins with a lawyer, a keeper of the religious law, asking a good question but with a bad motive.
'And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested Him, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?' (25) Now that is a question everyone should be asking. It is life's greatest question. How can I take part in eternal life?
Now oddly enough Jesus does not answer the man's question, instead He asks Him a question. 'He said to Him, 'What is written in the law? What is your reading of it?' (26).
- Now Jesus did not answer the man because this man did not really want to know. Whenever someone came to Jesus with an honest question ...
Robert Dawson
Luke 10.25-37
Sometimes we have difficulty understanding what the Bible. We struggle to grasp the meaning and significance of the ancient text. For many people that is a struggle that begins early in life. That's why it is good for parents to talk with their children about the things they learn in Sunday School.
One Sunday while they were riding home from church Roscoe's mom asked what the teacher talked about in Sunday School today. Roscoe said their story came from Luke 10 and the teacher talked about two preachers who saw a man in a ditch, but they didn't stop because he had already been robbed.
More than having difficulty understanding Scripture, most of us have difficulty obeying what we do understand. In this parable - one that most of us are very familiar with and that Roscoe so eloquently messed up - there are some truths that will challenge us, truths that our Savior wants us to live by.
This passage opens with what I consider to be an almost comical attempt on the part of the Scribes and Pharisees to trap and discredit Jesus. It was something they tried unsuccessfully to do throughout the gospel narratives. It is kind of like a roadrunner and Wylie Coyote cartoon. The coyote trying to trap the road runner but finding himself caught in his own trap.
The story begins with a lawyer, a keeper of the religious law, asking a good question but with a bad motive.
'And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested Him, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?' (25) Now that is a question everyone should be asking. It is life's greatest question. How can I take part in eternal life?
Now oddly enough Jesus does not answer the man's question, instead He asks Him a question. 'He said to Him, 'What is written in the law? What is your reading of it?' (26).
- Now Jesus did not answer the man because this man did not really want to know. Whenever someone came to Jesus with an honest question ...
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