WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:13.759 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. Appreciate 4 00:00:13.759 --> 00:00:14.359 you tuning in. 5 00:00:14.439 --> 00:00:15.240 It's good to be back. 6 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:18.000 I am Chris Man. 7 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:20.800 We are the Bible Guys. Oh. 8 00:00:20.839 --> 00:00:23.120 I thought you were gonna shout it. I thought you 9 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:25.239 were going to do the same thing you did the video, right, 10 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:28.480 the Bible Guys. So, hey, we are in the middle 11 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:30.920 of a series called What If Jesus had a podcast? 12 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:34.679 And today his famous saying is go and do likewise? 13 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:37.600 He said that a few times, didn't he Yes, he did. Yeah, 14 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:39.280 So today we're going to talk about one of them. 15 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:42.399 But before we do Hot Take Showdown, Well, we have 16 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:43.719 a brand new segment again. 17 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:45.679 That's right. Well did we did this one before? 18 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:45.960 Oh? 19 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:48.280 Dibbi, Oh yeah, you and I. That's a new segment, 20 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:50.600 the newer. Okay, this is only our second time. 21 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:54.200 Okay, So a Hot Take Showdown. Desiree says, I'll give 22 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:59.280 you a bold, confrontational statement and you must either defend 23 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:01.640 it or debunk it controversial. 24 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:03.640 What did I say confrontational? 25 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:10.159 Oh, they're almost to say as no, middle ground controversial, 26 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:11.120 all in on. 27 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:13.200 One or the other. We cannot be in the middle. 28 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:15.280 Yeah, you can't go. You have to go all or nothing. 29 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:15.680 That's right. 30 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:17.760 Okay, here's the hot take number one. 31 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:22.000 Okay, pineapple belongs on pizza? Yes it does. 32 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:26.359 It does. Really, you know why, because we live in 33 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:33.239 a world where nothing is off limits, right, people mix 34 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:33.879 and match. 35 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:36.680 But it belongs on pizza. That's what it says. 36 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:37.840 Belongs. 37 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:39.359 It doesn't say it has a right to be on. 38 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:42.319 It belongs implies like you need it to be on 39 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:45.879 the opposite means it doesn't belong, which means there's a 40 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:48.439 rule that says you do not belong. And what I'm 41 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:49.959 saying is no such rules should exist. 42 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:50.280 Right. 43 00:01:50.439 --> 00:01:54.400 So am I saying that pineapple should be on every pizza? No, 44 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:57.040 I'm saying it it belongs just as much as pepperoni. 45 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:01.599 Wow, okay it is. I have never ordered. Have you 46 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:03.959 ever ordered pineapple and a pizza for yourself? 47 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:06.159 Dozens of time? 48 00:02:06.239 --> 00:02:11.240 I have never done it. Does I think? I think 49 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:13.360 it's one of those things that shouldn't be happening. 50 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:14.759 Do you really think? 51 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:15.840 Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah? 52 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:17.479 Do you really are you just trying to be No? 53 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:20.360 My daughter orders them, and then I'm like, I'm going 54 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:22.400 to have one, and then I'll take the first bite 55 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:24.879 and go. You know, I forget how much I like 56 00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:28.039 pineapple and pizza. But by the time I get to 57 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:30.840 like the fourth bite, I'm like, why am I eating this? 58 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:33.879 I don't want this? Why am I stupid? 59 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:34.599 Right? 60 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:38.879 And so I rarely finish even a slice, has it? 61 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:41.080 And so yeah, I think you should just be banned. 62 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:43.159 I can eat a whole pizza. 63 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:47.800 Pizzas not Hawaiian. Huh, pizzas not Hawaiian, It's Italian. 64 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:49.039 Yeah, well guess what. 65 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:53.280 So it needs to be Pepperoni's and anchovies and peppers 66 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:55.000 and those kinds of things. That's what needs to be 67 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:55.439 on pizza. 68 00:02:55.520 --> 00:02:58.080 I am Italian, and I'm telling you I have more 69 00:02:58.159 --> 00:02:59.159 right to say. 70 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:02.080 Well that only partly Italian. Let's be honest. 71 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:05.560 I'm fifty Italian, which is a lot, and I'm here 72 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:10.080 to say that pizza should not be bound by certain ingredients. 73 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:14.120 Okay, yep, okay, Well you're the expert. Then I'll take 74 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:14.439 it back. 75 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:18.360 Oh thank you, Jack, thank you for conceding taking the Italian. 76 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:22.840 I'll take number two. Folding laundry is therapeutic. 77 00:03:25.639 --> 00:03:31.879 How would I know that that is the perfect response. 78 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:36.599 That is a perfect response. How would I know that 79 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:40.400 you have said everything you need to say? There's there's 80 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:47.280 no there's nothing left to say. Case in foot done. Okay. 81 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:50.240 I actually I'm joking, by the way, I actually think 82 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:56.000 partly mostly kind of sort of. I honestly believe that 83 00:03:56.080 --> 00:03:59.919 this is an absolute truth. Really, Oh my goodness, yes, 84 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:02.599 oh wow. In fact, it's more therapeutic to me than 85 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:06.800 washing dishes. I like washing dishes, which is unusual, but 86 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:10.919 folding close I think it is so therapeutic. 87 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:12.360 You know, there's a bunch of men to just turn 88 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:14.800 the thing off right now because they'refraid their wives are 89 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:15.800 going to hear you say this. 90 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:19.759 Now, here's the thing. I don't like folding laundry, so 91 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:21.639 I will do it out of love. Right. So, my 92 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:24.720 wife's love language is acts of service. So every once 93 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:26.639 in a while, I'll say, hey, you know, she'll have 94 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:27.360 a basket something. 95 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:28.959 You should negotiate with her. See if you get her 96 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:30.600 to have a different love language. 97 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:33.759 No doubt, no doubt. But I say, but I say, hey, 98 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:35.920 i'll fold something, and a lot of times she'll no, 99 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:39.240 I just got it or whatever. Or sometimes I'll just 100 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:43.600 do the laundry by myself. But regardless of why I'm folding, 101 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:48.759 that doesn't matter. When I am folding, I actually very 102 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:53.959 much enjoy folding it very nice and neat. I'll button 103 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:57.079 the pants, turn them sideways, make sure that the pants' 104 00:04:57.160 --> 00:05:00.399 legs are decreased, and I'll make sure to you know, 105 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:04.360 I just I think it's very therapeutic, okay, satisfying. 106 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:09.439 I think it's a function that's necessary sometimes sometimes, Yeah, 107 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:10.279 it depends on what it is. 108 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:13.600 Well, is there any laundry that you don't fold? 109 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:17.600 On occasion, if I'm carrying stuff up from the you know, 110 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:20.519 Bonnie will tell me, hey, there's laundry in the in 111 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:22.480 the dryer, grab it, and you know, winds up being 112 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:25.079 mine and it's just underwearing T shirts. Sometimes I'll sneak 113 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:26.279 in and just throw them in the drawer. 114 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:29.639 Oh well okay, all right, yeah yeah on occasion, all right, yeah, 115 00:05:29.639 --> 00:05:30.600 well that's something else. 116 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:32.399 Most things I just prefer to hang up. 117 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:34.360 Yeah, well that is true. 118 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:36.519 Yeah, And we have a big closet, so that works, right, 119 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:40.839 So I just hangs stuff up and then if I 120 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:43.160 fold it. It's just it's a function that needs to 121 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:46.079 be done. But I don't find it therapy like at all. 122 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:48.319 So I'm gone, yeah, not at all. 123 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:50.839 Huh, Well, I so. 124 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:52.480 I made the joke at the beginning. How would I 125 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:52.759 know that? 126 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:53.839 Yeah, that's really fun. 127 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:54.800 I know that. 128 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:57.759 That's like my brother in law every time I like 129 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:00.600 do something like I vacuum or something, and he'll say, 130 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:02.600 he goes, why do you do that? And I said, 131 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:04.079 don't you have to vacuum at home? And he goes, 132 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:05.639 I got a hint for you. He goes, All you 133 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:07.519 have to do whenever your wife asks you to do something, 134 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:08.360 He goes, just do it. 135 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:11.079 Poorly, do it as bad as you can the first Yeah. 136 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:12.560 And then she'll never ask you to do it again, 137 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:14.160 he said, that's his strategy. 138 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:15.959 But you only get away with that a few times. 139 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:18.439 Then she finds out you're not good at anything? Right, right? 140 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:20.600 Right? Then why does she need you divorced? Yeah? 141 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:22.480 Yeah, why does she need you? Can not get anything? 142 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:24.360 That's terrible? 143 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:25.319 All right? 144 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:30.839 Well, uh go ahead, I don't go ahead talk about 145 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:33.480 not being good at anything. There are these guys that 146 00:06:33.560 --> 00:06:35.360 were so bad at life that all they could do 147 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:40.319 is rob people, okay, and they beat up this bad 148 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:44.000 guy or this good guy. I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, 149 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:45.399 do you have one? Do you have a better one? 150 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:50.560 I was gonna say, uh that that debate was brutal. 151 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:55.680 It was brutal. You know what else was brutal? Uh 152 00:06:55.879 --> 00:06:56.839 to beat down the. 153 00:06:56.920 --> 00:07:00.319 Two thieves that beat down the goods or they them, 154 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:02.000 and then until the good submaritan came along. 155 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:04.120 Well, we're telling the story of the good smart That 156 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:08.879 was a better transition, better bad transition? Mine, good job, Well, Luke. 157 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:11.759 Chapter ten is where we're at verse twenty five, and 158 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:14.720 we're gonna read twenty five through thirty seven, and this 159 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:17.160 is the only place Jesus tells the story in the Bible, 160 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:21.120 which is pretty interesting. It's such a significant story you'd 161 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:22.079 think it shot up with you. 162 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:23.879 I mean well, I mean think about it. Even in 163 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:27.639 our culture today, whenever there's a do gooder, we still 164 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:29.959 use the phrase, oh, you're such a good Samaritan. 165 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:32.560 Yeah, And it's always a surprise when a good smartan 166 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:34.480 stops on the side of the road to help somebody 167 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:36.639 and then they get hurt or you know, write right, 168 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:39.240 a good samaritan steps in and intervenes and getting shot 169 00:07:39.319 --> 00:07:41.040 or something, so yeah, they call him on the news. 170 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:41.639 Is a good smart. 171 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:46.000 Yes, and it's It's interesting, isn't it How the Bible 172 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:49.279 used to be way more ingrained in culture than it 173 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:52.720 is now. Right, And by the way, I remember reading, 174 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:58.600 I remember watching an old movie with Dudley Moore. Come on, 175 00:07:58.759 --> 00:08:02.759 it been Dazzled. Now, Brendan Fraser redid that with Elizabeth 176 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:05.480 Hurley where she's the devil and he makes a deal 177 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:07.680 with the devil and she kind of okay, Well, it's 178 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:10.399 a remake from the seventies version of Dudley Moore was 179 00:08:10.439 --> 00:08:14.199 Bedazzled and so basically racal Welsh was in it. Anyway, 180 00:08:14.279 --> 00:08:17.279 the point is is that that was a movie from 181 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:22.199 the seventies and you would be shocked how many Bible 182 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:25.680 jokes they make that aren't biblical teaching things. I mean, 183 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:27.360 obviously this is just a Hollywood thing. 184 00:08:27.319 --> 00:08:29.079 Right, but everybody knew the joke. 185 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:32.679 But everybody knew the jokes. And he's like, well, you 186 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:37.240 know the seven things that God hates, and everybody's laughing 187 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:39.759 or whatever, and then they're all listing them and then 188 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:42.120 they're like, well, it's not at least you're not Jonah, 189 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:45.799 And everybody's like, oh, I'm thinking, dude, they're making Bible 190 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:50.759 jokes in a Hollywood movie because the world knew the scriptures, right, 191 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:54.039 the culture understood. But now we have remnants. 192 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:56.000 Well there's still yeah, there's still a lot of phrases 193 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:58.639 in terminology in our culture, and this is one of them. 194 00:08:58.639 --> 00:08:59.799 The good Samaria we. 195 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:03.320 Have gave and Goliath references right, things like that. Yep. 196 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:06.360 So in Luke, chapter ten, verse twenty five says, one 197 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:08.720 day an expert in religious laws stood up to test 198 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:12.159 Jesus by asking him this question, Teacher, what should I 199 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:15.320 do to inherit eternal life? Jesus replied, what does the 200 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:17.559 law Moses say? How do you read it? The man answered, 201 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:19.799 you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, 202 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:21.720 all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind. 203 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:24.840 And love your neighbor as yourself. Right, Jesus told him, 204 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:26.840 do this and you will live. The man wanted to 205 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:29.480 justify his actions, so he asked Jesus, and who is 206 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:33.559 my neighbor. Jesus replied with the story. A Jewish man 207 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:36.200 was traveling from Jerusalem down to Jericho and he was 208 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:39.240 attacked by bandits. They stripped him of his clothes, beat 209 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:41.519 him up, and left him half dead beside the road. 210 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:44.399 By chance, a priest came along, but when he saw 211 00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:46.840 the man lying there, he crossed to the other side 212 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:50.080 of the road and passed him by. A temple assistant 213 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:52.240 walked over and looked at him lying there, but he 214 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:55.039 also passed by on the other side. Then a despised 215 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:57.120 Samaritan came along, and when he saw the man, he 216 00:09:57.159 --> 00:09:59.879 felt compassion for him, going over to him. The samar 217 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:02.320 and soothed his wounds with olive oil and wine and 218 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:04.480 bandaged them. And then he put the man on his 219 00:10:04.519 --> 00:10:07.120 own donkey and took him to an inn where he 220 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:09.399 took care of him. The next day, he handed the 221 00:10:09.399 --> 00:10:12.320 innkeeper two silver coins, telling him take care of this man. 222 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:14.480 If this bill runs higher than this, I'll pay you 223 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:17.720 the next time I'm here. So which of these three 224 00:10:17.879 --> 00:10:19.879 would you say was a neighbor to the man who 225 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:23.120 was attacked by the bandits, Jesus asked. The man replied, 226 00:10:23.159 --> 00:10:25.919 the one who showed him mercy. Then Jesus said, yes, 227 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:27.320 Now you go and do the same. 228 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:32.159 Oh yeah, there's a bunch of hidden stuff there. 229 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:33.720 There's a bunch of stuff in this world. 230 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:37.240 So the Quest Study Bible has a side note here, 231 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:41.360 and it says it's entitled priest, Levite, Samaritan. Jesus included 232 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:44.720 these three kind of individuals in his story, raising three 233 00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:49.440 kinds of expectations among his listeners. A priest was God's representative, 234 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:55.600 A levite his assistant, so called examples of righteousness. Jesus's 235 00:10:55.639 --> 00:10:58.840 listeners would have expected them to help. Samaritans, on the 236 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:04.159 other hand, despised for their ethnic and religious impurities, would 237 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:07.240 have been expected to walk on by. So it's it's 238 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:12.159 an interesting thing how he very strategically makes the victim 239 00:11:12.200 --> 00:11:16.080 a Jewish Man, right, And that's on purpose, yes, because 240 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:19.000 the guy who's asking the question is a Jewish Man. 241 00:11:19.519 --> 00:11:22.559 But not only that, but he's an expert in the law, right, 242 00:11:23.159 --> 00:11:25.919 so so he an expert in the law, would have 243 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:28.080 been what a sadducy? What would he have been? 244 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:31.960 Would would have been an expert in the law. 245 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:36.120 So so, but either way, it doesn't say. But an 246 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:38.240 expert in the law, probably a Pharisee or. 247 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:40.240 At least a lawyer. He would have been a lawyer 248 00:11:40.840 --> 00:11:45.360 because you had the Sanhedrin. The Sanhedrin were all they were, 249 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:49.159 essentially the supreme court of Israel. They weren't all Pharisees, 250 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:50.399 but they were all experts. 251 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:51.799 In the law, scribes experts as well. 252 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:53.960 Scribes were writers. 253 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:57.480 Oh okay, they weren't educators, they were just writers. Okay. 254 00:11:57.720 --> 00:12:02.879 So so either way, this man, who is also Jewish, 255 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:07.440 you know it has uh, probably the same disdain toward 256 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:10.519 the word Samaritan that everybody else has, right. And so 257 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:14.240 here comes the Samaritan coming along, and everybody you know 258 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:18.200 who's from the Bible understands that Jews did not like Samaritans. 259 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:21.639 So here comes this man coming along showing compassion. And 260 00:12:21.639 --> 00:12:23.879 then he says, who is the neighbor? And did you 261 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:26.159 notice that the expert of the law couldn't even say 262 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:26.919 the word Samaritan? 263 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:28.080 Yeah yeah at the end. 264 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:30.159 Yeah, well just I mean, Jesus referred him as a 265 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:33.360 Samaritan the whole time, right, And so he said, who 266 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:36.639 is the neighbor? And that man reflied the one who 267 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:40.480 had mercy. Yeah, he didn't even want to utter the words. 268 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:43.440 The Samaritan was the name literally one of those people, 269 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:46.519 right right, right. He didn't want to say the name. 270 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:47.519 He didn't want to say the word. 271 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:50.320 Yeah, yeah, which is which is really hilarious. 272 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:53.200 And Jesus says it how many times, two or three times? 273 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:53.759 Oh at least. 274 00:12:53.840 --> 00:13:00.799 Yeah, yeah, despise Samaritan, the Samaritan. Yeah, wow, Yeah. 275 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:06.720 It's interesting, and yet, you know the message overall, it 276 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:10.679 was kind of a dig, right, but really the emphasis 277 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:17.039 is on showing love and compassion for all people. Right, 278 00:13:17.480 --> 00:13:19.679 So you know he did it on purpose because what 279 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:23.120 he's saying is he's saying, a neighbor doesn't have to 280 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:27.440 be people who are like you, right. A neighbor doesn't 281 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:31.000 have to be those who you are friends with, or 282 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:33.759 those who you have a treaty with, or those who 283 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:37.960 you have good relationships with. A neighbor is anyone who 284 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:43.639 loves and shows compassion on God and others, regardless of 285 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:47.200 who they are. And so the emphasis is just show 286 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:50.720 love and compassion on everybody, and then you're a neighbor. 287 00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:53.799 Well, the Life Application Study Bible, which we always like 288 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:57.360 to highlight, says in this story, the legal expert viewed 289 00:13:57.360 --> 00:13:59.679 the wounded So the wounded man being kind of the 290 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:04.120 core the story, the legal expert viewed the wounded man 291 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:08.440 just as a topic for discussion. Well, that poor guy. Yeah, 292 00:14:08.519 --> 00:14:12.480 the bandits saw him as a victim to exploit, the 293 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:15.799 priest saw him as a problem to avoid, and the 294 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:20.360 temple assistant as an object of curiosity. Right, So there's 295 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:23.559 all kinds of things, all kinds of ways that we 296 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:27.639 respond to people of different races and cultures and different 297 00:14:27.720 --> 00:14:32.600 problems and circumstances. For this parable, From this parable, we 298 00:14:32.679 --> 00:14:35.759 learned three principles about loving our neighbor. Only the Samaritan 299 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:39.440 treated him as a person to love. And it says 300 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:42.960 one we learned that lack of love is often easy 301 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:46.120 to justify, even though it's never right. It's easy to 302 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:48.759 justify it. For the priest, he's on the way to 303 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:52.440 the temple, if he touches, if that man's dead, he 304 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:54.240 would be unclean, wouldn't be able to do his job. 305 00:14:55.759 --> 00:14:58.200 The levite also wouldn't have been able to do his job. 306 00:14:58.360 --> 00:15:00.960 So while he was curious, I wonder if he's still breathing, 307 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:04.759 he would be unclean. He wouldn't be able to go 308 00:15:04.759 --> 00:15:06.200 in and do the work of the temple. And so 309 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:09.279 both these guys can justify, well, the work I'm doing 310 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:12.840 in the temple is more important than any one man, right, 311 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:15.759 That's how they're justifying it. So lack of love is 312 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:18.480 often easy to justify, even though it's never right. Secondly, 313 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:21.440 our neighbor is anyone of any race, creed, or social 314 00:15:21.480 --> 00:15:25.480 background who's in need. So you have a Samaritan and 315 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:30.480 a Jew who would normally be arch enemies. But in 316 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:33.960 the moment, this Samaritan looked beyond his race and creed 317 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:36.639 and religion and just looked at here's a desperate man 318 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:39.200 that if I don't help him, he's going to die, right, 319 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:41.679 And so in that moment, he just was a man 320 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:44.279 in need and that's what he saw. And then love 321 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:48.360 means acting to meet the person's need. Wherever you live, 322 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:50.480 people in need are close by, don't cross to the 323 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:53.679 other side. Instead, show Jesus love to them. And so 324 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:56.919 Jesus said, love your enemies, pray for your enemies. Those 325 00:15:56.919 --> 00:16:00.679 things are easy. But here in this story Jesus is saying, actually, love, 326 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:02.799 love does right. 327 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:07.039 This is so silly, I'm hesitant to mention it. But 328 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:10.440 yesterday my wife wanted Chili's and she said, Hey, let's 329 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:12.519 order from Chili's and we'll go pick it up, you know, 330 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:15.240 and by that she means me, go pick it up. Yes, 331 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:19.840 so mean yeah, will means me. So she texted me 332 00:16:19.879 --> 00:16:21.399 the order. I call it in, they say, I'd be 333 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:24.039 writing fifteen minutes. I'm like great, So I get in 334 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:26.159 my car. I head there get it, and I'm loading 335 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:28.600 my car. And as i'm loading, you know the stuff 336 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:32.519 in my car it's actually my wife's car. There's a 337 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:35.240 box of tissues on the ground. It's like one of 338 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:37.600 those small clean X boxes, right. I don't know why 339 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:39.799 she has a box of tissues on the ground, but 340 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:42.440 she does. So it's uh, you know, sometimes she has 341 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:44.759 she always has tissues, by the way, but usually they're 342 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:48.000 in the little packets right in the console. But in 343 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:50.559 this case she must have needed them and grabbed them anyway. 344 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:52.960 So I was going to set this really big bag 345 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:54.960 of Chili's on the ground, but this box of tissues 346 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:57.200 was in the way, so I picked it up, set 347 00:16:57.200 --> 00:16:59.559 it down the chair and or you know, on the seat, 348 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:01.039 and then I setting it in and I closed the door, 349 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:03.279 and I walked around to the driver's side. And as 350 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:05.240 I was walking around, I kid you not, there was 351 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:09.960 two like eighteen year olds and they're they're arguing about something, 352 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:13.799 and one kid sneezes and says, oh, I don't have 353 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:18.079 any tissues, and so I'm like, I'm like, okay, that's hilarious. 354 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:21.279 So I open the driver's door. I reach over and 355 00:17:21.319 --> 00:17:23.519 I grabbed this box and I come walking out like 356 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:26.119 this magic genie, right, And I walk over to this 357 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:28.200 guy and I go, here you go. And he looks 358 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:31.359 at me and he goes, I can't believe you have tissues. 359 00:17:31.839 --> 00:17:33.759 And I said, yeah, I said, I just sorry, I 360 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:35.759 just overheard you and you said you needed tissues, and 361 00:17:35.799 --> 00:17:38.519 he goes, I can't believe that you're offering me tissues 362 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:41.440 because that's hilarious. She reaches over and grabs them, and 363 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:43.759 I said, hey, no problem. And I'm walking back to 364 00:17:43.799 --> 00:17:45.480 my car and he goes, hey, man, I go back 365 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:49.119 and he goes, that was awesome. That's what he's said, 366 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:50.400 that was awesome. 367 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:52.039 Well, you're a super awesome person, Chris. 368 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:54.400 Well, no, here's what I'm saying. I'm saying I have 369 00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:56.720 a point, Jeff, besides that, I'm. 370 00:17:56.599 --> 00:18:00.640 Also you're super awesome. Is that people say you're not 371 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:02.960 saying you're awesome. People have said I've. 372 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:05.359 Heard it has been said, I've heard I'm pretty awesome. 373 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:09.599 It has been said, No, that's not the point of 374 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:09.880 the story. 375 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:10.599 Yeah, okay. 376 00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:14.079 The point of the story is is that it wasn't 377 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:18.319 obviously as big as finding somebody who was an inch, 378 00:18:19.039 --> 00:18:21.759 you know, within their life and taking care of them. 379 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:24.519 But it is being a neighbor to somebody who is 380 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:28.400 of a different race, of a different generation, and quite frankly, 381 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:30.119 even a different side of town. Because I was on 382 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:32.359 the whole different side of town. So it's like, so 383 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:35.960 I was most likely never going to see this person again, 384 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:38.880 you know, most likely I would never talk to this person. 385 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:44.319 But yet I just it was neighborly. And I think, 386 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:47.799 I really truly think, based on that kid's reaction, he 387 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:51.000 was like, Wow, there's good in the world, right, People 388 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:54.839 are good, right, And and I just I just love 389 00:18:54.920 --> 00:18:57.160 the fact that it's the small things as. 390 00:18:56.960 --> 00:18:59.319 Well as he'll probably be driving around and here's Mercedes 391 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:03.319 when he's fifty years old with with tissues in his car, 392 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:08.000 and some kid's gonna sneeze, I've got I've got it. 393 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:11.839 I've got a tissue. And then he's gonna turn to 394 00:19:12.279 --> 00:19:13.599 the person sitting in the car and say, you know, 395 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:16.799 there was this wise man. I was just a teenager, 396 00:19:16.839 --> 00:19:20.119 good looking man, and good looking man, very very kind, awesome, 397 00:19:20.319 --> 00:19:22.880 let me tell you how awesome this is. And and 398 00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:26.400 he'll probably carry tissues now thinking there's going to be 399 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:27.640 a day when I can serve somebody else. 400 00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:29.839 Okay, thank you for poking front of my story. 401 00:19:29.960 --> 00:19:30.960