The Sermon Destiny's Decisions by David McGee
Aug 28, 2011
Destiny's Decisions (27:51)
Referenced Scriptures: Luke 10:25-37
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Luke 10:25-37
25) Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, "Teacher, what will I do to inherit eternal life?"
26) He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you read it?"
27) He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself."
28) He said to him, "You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live."
29) But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?"
30) Jesus answered, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
31) By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
32) In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.
33) But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,
34) came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
35) On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.‘
36) Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?"
37) He said, "He who showed mercy on him." Then Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."
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Chapter ten versus twenty five to thirty seven. Luke chapter ten versus twenty five the third thirty seven and I entitled the message today, destiny 's decision and that's got him a play on words because if it's destiny is it really a choice, and my challenges that sometimes we hear the word destiny is something that being thrown around a lot and perhaps you see different places in your .net your different places in and in the challenge for us is that because something is our destiny and always feel that destiny is something that is preordained to freeze set up I have time that we have no choices in our life. And that's the furthest thing from the truth because God has a purpose and a will for our lives, but we still have choices. We still have choices to make. And in the arm. Reading today Luke chapter ten versus twenty five thirty seven will read it and all I like to look at that will help back to that aloe, I'm sorry these guys are good. They're quick and so they are not that the government. Both of these decisions. I like that was rated together and loops operate it. You can follow along in Luke chapter ten versus twenty five. Just then, a religious scholar stood up with a question to Jesus to test Jesus. This is the the the precedent of what is taking place is that the person asking the question is trying to challenge Jesus a case testing teenager. What do I need to do to get eternal life. The answer Jesus answered what is written in God 's law hobby winter there he said her name, the lawyer said what to love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and muscle and intelligence, and that you love your neighbor as well as you do yourself good answer, Jesus said Jordan. You will live looking for a loophole. The lawyer asked, and just how would you define neighbor. Jesus answered by telling the story. There was once a man traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho on the way he was attacked by robbers. They took his clothes being him up and went off leaving him half dead. Luckily upraised was on his way down the same road but when he saw him, he angled across to the other side, the Levite, a religious man showed up. He also avoided the injured man, a Samaritan traveling on the road came upon him when he saw the man's condition, his heart went out to him again. And first, a disinfecting and bandaging his wounds. Then he lifted him onto his donkey, and led him to it and and made him comfortable in the morning. He took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper saying. Take good care of him and the cost anymore. Put it on my bill. I'll pay you on my way back. Jesus then ask what you think which of the three became a neighbor to the man attacked by robbers, the one who treated him kindly. The religious scholar responded. And Jesus said, go and do the same. So destiny is often determined are written as a predetermined course of events often held to be a reversible that destiny is an irreversible predetermined course. Now there are theologies than in one of them out illogical times. One of them is as I always like the soundboard the last area predestination is a selected word in the superlattice area predestination is and what that basically means is you have no choice got predetermined and it's already determined whether you're going to heaven or Al, you have no choice. He does not show up at monopoly. This idea that of destiny we use it in sentences. They believed it was their destiny to be together always love that one. And people say while there, my soulmates in your stuff and I'll always I get a little upset with that stuff because when bad times come those soulmates get broken off if I please forgive my cynicism, but the people. People have to be to gather the art to make choices to be together and you and all you don't fall in love, you don't fall out of love to grow one way or the other. And so it is a decision that we make every day to to be in love, or to stay together or to be with people, or to follow through. If the decision is made in good times and bad times of difficulties and in and so on. So there are things that we need to always be looking at in being able to see through the decisions that were making an end, and instead of writing them off as they we see them as choices that we make. So were many much more motivated by a sense of destiny. That's the another term that people use, but decisions that fulfill our destiny decisions that fulfill our destiny to that we may have a course that we are to follow. We may have a will that God wants us to do. He has a plan and the purpose of our life, but there was still the decisions we are still free moral agents. You operate your life based upon who you are and one. Why is over and we stand before God, we can't blame God. We can't blame our neighbor. We can blame bias files. We can't blame our kids are parents. It is our choice to be where we are at all so deafening, as it turned. Then we have heard a lot about his our life somehow is set up and all we have to do is show up. Not true. God has a plan, but we are here. You are here today because you chose to be here now some of you made the drive here by your parents, but now I is that I go to church. That way you know, I know I have been upset with it with our kids when they were growing up. They supply you know the only reason we have to go to church 's pleasure. The preacher now other people. The church go to church because they are little, all the time, but we have to go three times a week. That was Sunday morning person 's phone# Wednesday night and now is to go three times a week and in a similarly only reason we have to go because were pretty dresses. That's right, I agree with them. And I also said that it was part of who you are. Now whether I have it whenever I was on the farm and growing up on the farm. We were in church. Three nights a week, three times a week Sunday morning Sunday night Wednesday night. We had to travel about fifteen miles to get there and we had a guy I get home from school, get the chores done and get cleaned up as you never left the barn with church people. One set by some of you understand that. Okay, so you know your iso you have a lot of things to do to get there by certain time, and of course you know it was just part of who you were but the ideas it was always kind and David talk about this in Bible school. One of bugs when he was eventual he was in his Bible classes. Kids would ask the music. How do you know all the answers are as of yet all this stuff about the Bible and innocent while I grow the church was that most of the window. We don't know in a stop entities involved, you go to church three times a week. They want no we had his group and David had said through the adult Bible studies in the school and all that stuff and as I have is the better for it. I make sure that I have, but the idea is that we have to make decisions that we make decision. God has a will for our lives. God has a purpose of our life, God will open doors, Roth did not mention doors that no man can close any will close the blinds, we still have to chose we still have an act of our will. We still have that we are part of. We are part of our life, our attitude is part of our life, our decisions are part of our life this week. This week was one of those weeks that had a number of events that just got opened up in an eye. I want a name of this briefly, I was seated at McDonald's having lunch. I was visiting someone and I had some kind of hunger attack. So I ran to McDonald's and sat down there and ate my lunch and as I was eating lunch. Someone came over and sit down and talk to me someone that I've known for number years and they had something that they wanted to discuss. I was seated at Starbucks, Intel, or I go I was dated a Starbucks. Starbucks has a was never dies with an oatmeal Brak low container three little things, but inerrant copy is pretty cheap and at that time. Now I go there sometimes and have my lunch light breakfast and I seated there and somebody I never met before, said are you Fraser that I is ever written on the court and the end. Then we sat down and talked for a while I was sitting, I was seated at my desk in the hospital. I was talking on the phone and I said while this is Robert McGee on the job will when Ross was outside my door with someone visiting their mother who was in our hospice program. I haven't seen Judy Sands, twenty five years ago we were volunteers together when hospice first started when he ate years ago Avenue and Cedar. She moved to Pittsburgh, and everything else I haven't seen her twenty eight years and she happened to be walking by the door when I said my name and I got the beautiful friend by chance, and that's not, unless not all of them. I found that there was this week, there was probably six eight, maybe more publications like that where you cross paths with individual and individuals, and just certain events were coming up. You see we have a choice in every one of those decisions. We have a choice. The choice to leave the choice to interact the choice to the same are to be that light, the lender was speaking about the Scripture that we read here, says this individual came to Jesus and he wanted to know what exactly do I need to do to be rightly informed about getting eternal life. Why exactly do I need to do to be rightly informed about getting eternal life now is a good question, but the motive behind this individual 's question was that Jesus now when Jesus answers your questions James at your tasks that you present to him, will you change your life or will you look for another excuse music. That's why it's it's very and when people leave the house. We cannot. When you witness to someone or talk to someone about the Lord. Sometimes we use this idea that we got to convince them. There's no convincing is only a day and is only a presenting of the truth. This is what I know all and this is what I see in this is how I put it on the table and the Holy Spirit is the work of God that makes that Realty your life, not me, it's not my ability to give you logical explanations and there are some people and and and and there are those who are. I have swapped less than right now, but they are able to present arguments that and and presentations that that you know that people who debate and argue these things back and forth their individuals who are able to do that. That can talk people into a corner and leave them though no accidents it out there and I can't do that my. My perspective is to present the truth is, I see them as God 's word as I see God 's word, presenting it in putting on the table and allowing God to take into your life and make that real Sony isn't based upon how well I can defeat your arguments is that I believe that God has a purpose and plan for our life anywhere close to present it in his spirit, the spirit of God will touch your life, take the truth of God 's word can make the Realty, your life so that what you believe about God and what you believe about spirit of God and the word of God, not something that I convince you that is something that God makes Realty your life God 's spirit will talk to our spirit and we will agree or will come together so Jesus turns the lawyer versus individual asking for. How do you interpret God 's law, while even if we are directed by a sense of destiny. It still comes down to how do you interpret what God 's word says this lawyer declared in his comments to be loving God with all your heart to love God with all your heart. While that means to look upon God as the best of the two is desirable above all, that our love for God and to God must be sincere and permanent. A lot of that is stronger than life and stronger than death. A love that is understood in everyday life. The love God, and the second answer is the lawyer gave that he would love your neighbor as well as you do yourself. That means wishing well to all and yields a non- blogger neighbors yourself to pray for those who despitefully use you do all the good that we can to all the people we can as long as ever we can lawyer lawyers doing well. And Jesus and Jesus said you didn't do it and you will live. That was the answer, so the lawyer. This is the person giving the inquiry you answer correctly. Love God with all your heart. Love your neighbor as yourself and said do that, you'll let that's it. You found the answer, but the modem of the lawyer. The motive of this person comes to the surface and the teachings and thoughts on the lawyer challenged Jesus as he is one you know I the purpose of the lawyer was the testes is not to find the answer to his question. Jason is my neighbor, the letter that I am obligated to love in our setting. We have a different concept than what this individual setting the neighbor to the Jewish teacher were different then what Jesus was referring to the thought at that time was thou shall love thy neighbor, except all Gentiles, for they are not neighbors, but most only, that are of our own nation and of our own religion that was the neighbor existing whenever we look at the Scripture we look at this text were to love our neighbors are supplicant who is your neighbor. I did the people in Africa. The people in Central America, people in need across the street, going back to what we set another time was that we see in the do we have the ability to fill it or somehow needed help week we talked about world hunger and in Sunday school document will be, and sometimes the questions are you log off, there's a God in heaven wisest wiser hunger while I member of twenty five, twenty years ago Latin American childcare started and that was for twenty dollars you could feed a child twenty dollars of month you could feed a child flow. The child was in the school and this was in Central America and El Salvador and Guatemala. These different countries. We started doing that twenty five twenty eight years ago, and women's forty. At least three children, not more. Throughout all this time and now eighty percent of the people who are educated in in in El Salvador. I've gone through the school system eighty percent of people who are educated in El Salvador gone through the Latin American childcare school system started by the simile. Missionary who whose son is the one who started in law say whose son by our son is working with twenty years ago. It all started as an idea, thank you and thank you so I don't have the fellow will know exactly what time sounds right until then. So what do you do it again we see the choices that we make it. We see the barn and went whenever we heard this idea with the Letson really good idea and who would've ever thought that some of the children who are educated in El Salvador and here's another thought and I have no idea of this answer, but the dude there are twenty five El Salvador hands who work with in-laws say to have their Masters and doctorate degrees, and who worked with David and I've been out just what one of far-reaching water rates would be not yet impossible that these children. These individual driver education now received the German law say and what if the money we sat educated them, and they are now working with David and Dave is working with them to help reach El Salvador to reach the rural communities in El Salvador to help meet the needs of hunger and poverty and and and and healthcare water projects what it choices that we make. I hear people speak of a divine destiny that God has for his children and that God 's will, his purpose will be accomplished. No matter what while it is true, but the privilege still but the premise brings responsibility the privilege of knowing God brings the responsibility to love God and I loving someone who lives you entirely more than you could ever imagine. So everywhere saying I'm going to love God. It isn't an obligation. It is a response to that which we have already received bizarre place. It's our privilege that it then that we have in our relationship with Jesus Christ to go to do right and doesn't do it, and it is said so in our lives if we knowledge of the good things and back away from it. It becomes a center because that which separates us from our purpose. Verse thirty and thirty two Jesus answered by telling a story. There was once a man traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho down the field on the land that logistics of this Jerusalem sign up on a high elevation, and Jerrica always down in the Valley and its dishonorably thousands of the Downs Valley down the hillside. We drove up this on a bus. I was never so frightened in my life is the writing up this Jericho Road because the bus was going up this one lane road in which other people were coming down, and if you and the bus would go out the front end. There were no guard rails. The Friday would go out over and you would look down and it was five hundred thousand feet over the click packages, see the headlines fourth last of the report after an front seat perishes so this was the route. Now this was the way that they traveled from Jerusalem to Jericho and had an advised of the desolate area. There were no houses stop on this Ali was just performed the Jericho Road and so on this drizzle the Jericho Road. This man was attacked by robbers. They took his clothes, beat them up when the leaving him half dead. Likely a priest was on the way on the same road down. But when he saw him, he angled across the road on the other side in the Levite, a religious man showed up. He also avoided the injured man. So, who is my neighbor, who is my neighbor, Teresa Levite are religious people. They are the people who have the right credentials. They're the ones who should be motivated by love and respect then and help and what are they due, they walk away. It is always who we think is going to be responsible for meeting the needs of others. We often think that there is people that need, but somebody else will meet their needs. In this case, the Levites and the praise they should've done that but they did, and one translation as it that the Levi that the phrase the praise he saw the diabetes walk on the other side eating at fine for an remember going back to the. The law that the a lot said that the oh on your neighbor was only a fellow Jew Jewish individual and anybody other than that no but go on here, where there was a Jewish individual. These two Jewish individuals who are leaders in their community saw another person on their own faith and of their own nation and still walk by the other side is not miss this opportunity seat choices. We don't want to miss opportunities. Read on a Samaritan traveling on the road. Now remember Samaritans were individual supplies nation from the despised reason reason of the country. They were individuals who want to be shone at all costs, and they were. They were there land was not even to be stepped on K unity walk through their country is a member when Jesus said I must needs go to Samaria, Samaria, and he met the woman at the well, that was a Samaritan. While this American man saw this his heart was moved out to him, gave him first aid and took care of him put them on his own donkey took them to begin and paid his price is a life is full of missed opportunities that look like problems decisions determine destiny. What you decide to do with what happens to you in your life is you get up one more time than you fall down. It is not our destiny to fail. It is our destiny to succeed and succeed means that every time we fall down. We get up every time something goes wrong, we search for what is right. We are motivated by love and by serving others are motivational part is to change our world one person at a time to make a difference in the lives of the people around us, one person at a time is the will of God that nonbeing parish. It is the will of God, and every one of us touched someone form for God from love verse thirty three to thirty five, says that we read that about the Samaritans, but in verse thirty six, Jesus says what you think which of the three became a neighbor to the man that was attacked. Which of phrase really is motivated by love and by and by being a neighbor while the one who treated him kindly and Jesus said, go into the same estate yesterday 's prejudices for the Samaritan yesterday 's pain would not influence today's actions yesterday 's prejudices in yesterday 's paying the people of Samaria were despised by the Jewish individuals and the Jewish people despise us Americans. They hated each other, but that will not influence his actions toward the person in the it was moved by compassion. His decision to change the destiny of a man who was raw. His decision changed our opinion of all Samaritans. Your decision will change the opinions of people 's lives because someone cares because you because you touched their lives. You pray for them you care for them. You made a difference in her life because you gave them a phone call. You told him that you missed you let them know the value who they are. Best of these decisions don't go together. Both the time we look at this destiny is that which is fixed and can't be changed, but our destiny is made by our decisions in our decisions to make a difference in the lives of others because we've allowed Jesus Christ taught trauma shows thatChapter ten versus twenty five to thirty seven. Luke chapter ten versus twenty five the third thirty seven and I entitled the message today, destiny 's decision and that's got him a play on words because if it's destiny is it really a choice, and my challenges that sometimes we hear the word destiny is something that being thrown around a lot and perhaps you see different places in your .net your different places in and in the challenge for us is that because something is our destiny and always feel that destiny is something that is preordained to freeze set up I have time that we have no choices in our life. And that's the furthest thing from the truth because God has a purpose and a will for our lives, but we still have choices. We still have choices to make. And in the arm. Reading today Luke chapter ten versus twenty five thirty seven will read it and all I like to look at that will help back to that aloe, I'm sorry these guys are good. They're quick and so they are not that the government. Both of these decisions. I like that was rated together and loops operate it. You can follow along in Luke chapter ten versus twenty five. Just then, a religious scholar stood up with a question to Jesus to test Jesus. This is the the the precedent of what is taking place is that the person asking the question is trying to challenge Jesus a case testing teenager. What do I need to do to get eternal life. The answer Jesus answered what is written in God 's law hobby winter there he said her name, the lawyer said what to love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and muscle and intelligence, and that you love your neighbor as well as you do yourself good answer, Jesus said Jordan. You will live looking for a loophole. The lawyer asked, and just how would you define neighbor. Jesus answered by telling the story. There was once a man traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho on the way he was attacked by robbers. They took his clothes being him up and went off leaving him half dead. Luckily upraised was on his way down the same road but when he saw him, he angled across to the other side, the Levite, a religious man showed up. He also avoided the injured man, a Samaritan traveling on the road came upon him when he saw the man's condition, his heart went out to him again. And first, a disinfecting and bandaging his wounds. Then he lifted him onto his donkey, and led him to it and and made him comfortable in the morning. He took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper saying. Take good care of him and the cost anymore. Put it on my bill. I'll pay you on my way back. Jesus then ask what you think which of the three became a neighbor to the man attacked by robbers, the one who treated him kindly. The religious scholar responded. And Jesus said, go and do the same. So destiny is often determined are written as a predetermined course of events often held to be a reversible that destiny is an irreversible predetermined course. Now there are theologies than in one of them out illogical times. One of them is as I always like the soundboard the last area predestination is a selected word in the superlattice area predestination is and what that basically means is you have no choice got predetermined and it's already determined whether you're going to heaven or Al, you have no choice. He does not show up at monopoly. This idea that of destiny we use it in sentences. They believed it was their destiny to be together always love that one. And people say while there, my soulmates in your stuff and I'll always I get a little upset with that stuff because when bad times come those soulmates get broken off if I please forgive my cynicism, but the people. People have to be to gather the art to make choices to be together and you and all you don't fall in love, you don't fall out of love to grow one way or the other. And so it is a decision that we make every day to to be in love, or to stay together or to be with people, or to follow through. If the decision is made in good times and bad times of difficulties and in and so on. So there are things that we need to always be looking at in being able to see through the decisions that were making an end, and instead of writing them off as they we see them as choices that we make. So were many much more motivated by a sense of destiny. That's the another term that people use, but decisions that fulfill our destiny decisions that fulfill our destiny to that we may have a course that we are to follow. We may have a will that God wants us to do. He has a plan and the purpose of our life, but there was still the decisions we are still free moral agents. You operate your life based upon who you are and one. Why is over and we stand before God, we can't blame God. We can't blame our neighbor. We can blame bias files. We can't blame our kids are parents. It is our choice to be where we are at all so deafening, as it turned. Then we have heard a lot about his our life somehow is set up and all we have to do is show up. Not true. God has a plan, but we are here. You are here today because you chose to be here now some of you made the drive here by your parents, but now I is that I go to church. That way you know, I know I have been upset with it with our kids when they were growing up. They supply you know the only reason we have to go to church 's pleasure. The preacher now other people. The church go to church because they are little, all the time, but we have to go three times a week. That was Sunday morning person 's phone# Wednesday night and now is to go three times a week and in a similarly only reason we have to go because were pretty dresses. That's right, I agree with them. And I also said that it was part of who you are. Now whether I have it whenever I was on the farm and growing up on the farm. We were in church. Three nights a week, three times a week Sunday morning Sunday night Wednesday night. We had to travel about fifteen miles to get there and we had a guy I get home from school, get the chores done and get cleaned up as you never left the barn with church people. One set by some of you understand that. Okay, so you know your iso you have a lot of things to do to get there by certain time, and of course you know it was just part of who you were but the ideas it was always kind and David talk about this in Bible school. One of bugs when he was eventual he was in his Bible classes. Kids would ask the music. How do you know all the answers are as of yet all this stuff about the Bible and innocent while I grow the church was that most of the window. We don't know in a stop entities involved, you go to church three times a week. They want no we had his group and David had said through the adult Bible studies in the school and all that stuff and as I have is the better for it. I make sure that I have, but the idea is that we have to make decisions that we make decision. God has a will for our lives. God has a purpose of our life, God will open doors, Roth did not mention doors that no man can close any will close the blinds, we still have to chose we still have an act of our will. We still have that we are part of. We are part of our life, our attitude is part of our life, our decisions are part of our life this week. This week was one of those weeks that had a number of events that just got opened up in an eye. I want a name of this briefly, I was seated at McDonald's having lunch. I was visiting someone and I had some kind of hunger attack. So I ran to McDonald's and sat down there and ate my lunch and as I was eating lunch. Someone came over and sit down and talk to me someone that I've known for number years and they had something that they wanted to discuss. I was seated at Starbucks, Intel, or I go I was dated a Starbucks. Starbucks has a was never dies with an oatmeal Brak low container three little things, but inerrant copy is pretty cheap and at that time. Now I go there sometimes and have my lunch light breakfast and I seated there and somebody I never met before, said are you Fraser that I is ever written on the court and the end. Then we sat down and talked for a while I was sitting, I was seated at my desk in the hospital. I was talking on the phone and I said while this is Robert McGee on the job will when Ross was outside my door with someone visiting their mother who was in our hospice program. I haven't seen Judy Sands, twenty five years ago we were volunteers together when hospice first started when he ate years ago Avenue and Cedar. She moved to Pittsburgh, and everything else I haven't seen her twenty eight years and she happened to be walking by the door when I said my name and I got the beautiful friend by chance, and that's not, unless not all of them. I found that there was this week, there was probably six eight, maybe more publications like that where you cross paths with individual and individuals, and just certain events were coming up. You see we have a choice in every one of those decisions. We have a choice. The choice to leave the choice to interact the choice to the same are to be that light, the lender was speaking about the Scripture that we read here, says this individual came to Jesus and he wanted to know what exactly do I need to do to be rightly informed about getting eternal life. Why exactly do I need to do to be rightly informed about getting eternal life now is a good question, but the motive behind this individual 's question was that Jesus now when Jesus answers your questions James at your tasks that you present to him, will you change your life or will you look for another excuse music. That's why it's it's very and when people leave the house. We cannot. When you witness to someone or talk to someone about the Lord. Sometimes we use this idea that we got to convince them. There's no convincing is only a day and is only a presenting of the truth. This is what I know all and this is what I see in this is how I put it on the table and the Holy Spirit is the work of God that makes that Realty your life, not me, it's not my ability to give you logical explanations and there are some people and and and and there are those who are. I have swapped less than right now, but they are able to present arguments that and and presentations that that you know that people who debate and argue these things back and forth their individuals who are able to do that. That can talk people into a corner and leave them though no accidents it out there and I can't do that my. My perspective is to present the truth is, I see them as God 's word as I see God 's word, presenting it in putting on the table and allowing God to take into your life and make that real Sony isn't based upon how well I can defeat your arguments is that I believe that God has a purpose and plan for our life anywhere close to present it in his spirit, the spirit of God will touch your life, take the truth of God 's word can make the Realty, your life so that what you believe about God and what you believe about spirit of God and the word of God, not something that I convince you that is something that God makes Realty your life God 's spirit will talk to our spirit and we will agree or will come together so Jesus turns the lawyer versus individual asking for. How do you interpret God 's law, while even if we are directed by a sense of destiny. It still comes down to how do you interpret what God 's word says this lawyer declared in his comments to be loving God with all your heart to love God with all your heart. While that means to look upon God as the best of the two is desirable above all, that our love for God and to God must be sincere and permanent. A lot of that is stronger than life and stronger than death. A love that is understood in everyday life. The love God, and the second answer is the lawyer gave that he would love your neighbor as well as you do yourself. That means wishing well to all and yields a non- blogger neighbors yourself to pray for those who despitefully use you do all the good that we can to all the people we can as long as ever we can lawyer lawyers doing well. And Jesus and Jesus said you didn't do it and you will live. That was the answer, so the lawyer. This is the person giving the inquiry you answer correctly. Love God with all your heart. Love your neighbor as yourself and said do that, you'll let that's it. You found the answer, but the modem of the lawyer. The motive of this person comes to the surface and the teachings and thoughts on the lawyer challenged Jesus as he is one you know I the purpose of the lawyer was the testes is not to find the answer to his question. Jason is my neighbor, the letter that I am obligated to love in our setting. We have a different concept than what this individual setting the neighbor to the Jewish teacher were different then what Jesus was referring to the thought at that time was thou shall love thy neighbor, except all Gentiles, for they are not neighbors, but most only, that are of our own nation and of our own religion that was the neighbor existing whenever we look at the Scripture we look at this text were to love our neighbors are supplicant who is your neighbor. I did the people in Africa. The people in Central America, people in need across the street, going back to what we set another time was that we see in the do we have the ability to fill it or somehow needed help week we talked about world hunger and in Sunday school document will be, and sometimes the questions are you log off, there's a God in heaven wisest wiser hunger while I member of twenty five, twenty years ago Latin American childcare started and that was for twenty dollars you could feed a child twenty dollars of month you could feed a child flow. The child was in the school and this was in Central America and El Salvador and Guatemala. These different countries. We started doing that twenty five twenty eight years ago, and women's forty. At least three children, not more. Throughout all this time and now eighty percent of the people who are educated in in in El Salvador. I've gone through the school system eighty percent of people who are educated in El Salvador gone through the Latin American childcare school system started by the simile. Missionary who whose son is the one who started in law say whose son by our son is working with twenty years ago. It all started as an idea, thank you and thank you so I don't have the fellow will know exactly what time sounds right until then. So what do you do it again we see the choices that we make it. We see the barn and went whenever we heard this idea with the Letson really good idea and who would've ever thought that some of the children who are educated in El Salvador and here's another thought and I have no idea of this answer, but the dude there are twenty five El Salvador hands who work with in-laws say to have their Masters and doctorate degrees, and who worked with David and I've been out just what one of far-reaching water rates would be not yet impossible that these children. These individual driver education now received the German law say and what if the money we sat educated them, and they are now working with David and Dave is working with them to help reach El Salvador to reach the rural communities in El Salvador to help meet the needs of hunger and poverty and and and and healthcare water projects what it choices that we make. I hear people speak of a divine destiny that God has for his children and that God 's will, his purpose will be accomplished. No matter what while it is true, but the privilege still but the premise brings responsibility the privilege of knowing God brings the responsibility to love God and I loving someone who lives you entirely more than you could ever imagine. So everywhere saying I'm going to love God. It isn't an obligation. It is a response to that which we have already received bizarre place. It's our privilege that it then that we have in our relationship with Jesus Christ to go to do right and doesn't do it, and it is said so in our lives if we knowledge of the good things and back away from it. It becomes a center because that which separates us from our purpose. Verse thirty and thirty two Jesus answered by telling a story. There was once a man traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho down the field on the land that logistics of this Jerusalem sign up on a high elevation, and Jerrica always down in the Valley and its dishonorably thousands of the Downs Valley down the hillside. We drove up this on a bus. I was never so frightened in my life is the writing up this Jericho Road because the bus was going up this one lane road in which other people were coming down, and if you and the bus would go out the front end. There were no guard rails. The Friday would go out over and you would look down and it was five hundred thousand feet over the click packages, see the headlines fourth last of the report after an front seat perishes so this was the route. Now this was the way that they traveled from Jerusalem to Jericho and had an advised of the desolate area. There were no houses stop on this Ali was just performed the Jericho Road and so on this drizzle the Jericho Road. This man was attacked by robbers. They took his clothes, beat them up when the leaving him half dead. Likely a priest was on the way on the same road down. But when he saw him, he angled across the road on the other side in the Levite, a religious man showed up. He also avoided the injured man. So, who is my neighbor, who is my neighbor, Teresa Levite are religious people. They are the people who have the right credentials. They're the ones who should be motivated by love and respect then and help and what are they due, they walk away. It is always who we think is going to be responsible for meeting the needs of others. We often think that there is people that need, but somebody else will meet their needs. In this case, the Levites and the praise they should've done that but they did, and one translation as it that the Levi that the phrase the praise he saw the diabetes walk on the other side eating at fine for an remember going back to the. The law that the a lot said that the oh on your neighbor was only a fellow Jew Jewish individual and anybody other than that no but go on here, where there was a Jewish individual. These two Jewish individuals who are leaders in their community saw another person on their own faith and of their own nation and still walk by the other side is not miss this opportunity seat choices. We don't want to miss opportunities. Read on a Samaritan traveling on the road. Now remember Samaritans were individual supplies nation from the despised reason reason of the country. They were individuals who want to be shone at all costs, and they were. They were there land was not even to be stepped on K unity walk through their country is a member when Jesus said I must needs go to Samaria, Samaria, and he met the woman at the well, that was a Samaritan. While this American man saw this his heart was moved out to him, gave him first aid and took care of him put them on his own donkey took them to begin and paid his price is a life is full of missed opportunities that look like problems decisions determine destiny. What you decide to do with what happens to you in your life is you get up one more time than you fall down. It is not our destiny to fail. It is our destiny to succeed and succeed means that every time we fall down. We get up every time something goes wrong, we search for what is right. We are motivated by love and by serving others are motivational part is to change our world one person at a time to make a difference in the lives of the people around us, one person at a time is the will of God that nonbeing parish. It is the will of God, and every one of us touched someone form for God from love verse thirty three to thirty five, says that we read that about the Samaritans, but in verse thirty six, Jesus says what you think which of the three became a neighbor to the man that was attacked. Which of phrase really is motivated by love and by and by being a neighbor while the one who treated him kindly and Jesus said, go into the same estate yesterday 's prejudices for the Samaritan yesterday 's pain would not influence today's actions yesterday 's prejudices in yesterday 's paying the people of Samaria were despised by the Jewish individuals and the Jewish people despise us Americans. They hated each other, but that will not influence his actions toward the person in the it was moved by compassion. His decision to change the destiny of a man who was raw. His decision changed our opinion of all Samaritans. Your decision will change the opinions of people 's lives because someone cares because you because you touched their lives. You pray for them you care for them. You made a difference in her life because you gave them a phone call. You told him that you missed you let them know the value who they are. Best of these decisions don't go together. Both the time we look at this destiny is that which is fixed and can't be changed, but our destiny is made by our decisions in our decisions to make a difference in the lives of others because we've allowed Jesus Christ taught trauma shows that