The Sermon Honor by David McGee
Jan 06, 2013
Honor (35:43)
Referenced Scriptures: Romans 12:10; Luke 10:25-37
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Romans 12:10
10) In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;
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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Honor, honor, and the robust after twelve, verse ten, and it's in the NIV. It says the devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another about yourself and the message Bible it says love from the center of who you are. Don't fake it. One for dear life from evil. Hold on for dear life to good be good friends who love deeply practice playing second fiddle practice playing second fiddle while honoring the Old Testament meant meant something heavier weighting is the word also translated as glory. So, it suggests that the magnitude or the greatness of someone. The magnitude of the greatness of someone is or something, especially the glory of God, so it is it is like when people who are held in honor or what we are honoring someone or that we carried out bags of honor. It is waiting or is having because in a sense that we are giving it away. We are sharing it with those around us in the New Testament the Greek word for honor meant to value highly to a steam or not to take likely that's where we come up with doors. The Romans chapter twelve. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another about yourself, so it doesn't mean that we are self abased doormats, it is that we esteem other people. We honor them, we give honor to whom honor is due. So it is this deeply relational experience that we have with life and with people, and it reflects how people in the society people in a group of people in the community relate to one another and relate to God. So as we honor one another. We are paying tribute to them. We all giving honor to them. Now we went to a movie this week. I know years ago with the send for me to go to movies, but if I'm ever when I was a kid growing up. It was sinful and we went this. I want to see what wasn't moving well in my mind a father music, sound, music, I want to see some music and I thought for sure Jesus, Buddha, doesn't go to hell for watching the movie and the film has me where we were forbidden that they go to the movies to help and I was sixteen, seventeen years old and I went to a movie and even when Billy Graham had a picture at the movie theater. It was a big discussion whether we should go see it or not, because whiny how we would see moving this week that it was a lame is now and has a PG-13 and its root is a reason for that, but V the delivery itself. If you like musicals. Now, like musicals. You got a life long musicals, it's almost three hours and is a tearjerker. You got the lifelong musicals that are very emotional life and bought him that there was a will there's a lot of contrast between good and evil. There's a lot of contrasting and good and evil. One of the characters a main character in the movie he is he is in prison for twenty years, basically five years for stealing a loaf of bread and fifteen more years for trying to escape and soul. You know it's it's a very unjust time and he finally his parole and as a parolee, you had to carry a piece of paper and you have to check in every month at the parole officer. While this man was very, very bitter. He was ordinary, common man trying to provide for his family and he couldn't. And so we stole the loaf of bread and because of that thrown in prison that he was very bitter about what it happened to him in his life and in the sequence of the landlord entitlement. We just distance to characters and the he was very better and a minister help him out. I gave him a meal and took care of him while what has he was there that night, young, he woke up, then everybody sleeping so he just packed his bag full of all the silver and in the in the church and takes off. Add in the minister talk to him about forgiveness, and so on. But you know he was. He was too bitter and so on. So he runs off with a silver he's caught he's brought back to the church and the minister says, although I gave at all to him. In fact, he took off before I could given the candlesticks and he put the candlesticks in his bag and this, this individual in the movie had never experienced that type of forgiveness and so there's a whole scene where he's going back and forth with you know, should he go back to his old life and be the be the thief and the robber or should he be committed to something new, and is a whole series of him him going back and forth with this. This whole trauma and finally he he gives in and becomes your gives his life to God and and it makes a big difference changes to about nine years later, and here he is a mayor of a community. He also business needs taking care of people and all this but the guard. The guard who watched over him, said, you know, he was. He's been hunting him for nine years because he broke parole and the guard is an individual that can't accept forgiveness P he can't accept change. You can't accept grace. And he in every time he catches up with the main character the main character always gives them forgiveness. This is all go back with you. You're right. I'll go back to prison, but I've got to do these one feeding you got to watch the whole thing if you want to but because back and forth like this and if it's surprising how that when we are confronted with our life. We have two choices. The confrontation is to take on the negativity of our life and and remain there steadfast and not changing as far as I know the guard. He was the wooden train. She couldn't accept grace he couldn't accept the mercy is likely could not accept the grace and mercy of this other person an interview. She is currently going on in the movie and and or and in the play, and it's been around for, I guess one of the longest running plays are set with the second longest-running play of all time, but now it's a movie in if you want to there it is. But that's is one of the plot. There are many more in the in the hole in the whole scheme of things, but these to your wife. Talk my eye and brought to my attention. This idea of honor and the idea of honor is something that is heavy and we in the Old Testament, heavy or waiting, so it is a duty in our forgiveness to forgive think that doesn't come easy to have a day. That's a heavy burden, not necessarily may be the wrong word, but it's a heavy having is that we have to carry that we are going to let people go for their sins. Their wrongdoing to us. Sometimes it's very difficult and so you can imagine this man being imprisoned for twenty years for stealing a loaf of bread. Use a very bitter man his family 's longest children of God. Everything is gone is very bitter man. Forgiveness is letting go honor at the happiness that you have to know that for someone has done this to me again. The Scripture. The other script I wanted to chapter ten versus twenty five to thirty seven, which after ten twenty five thirty seven just that, a religious scholar stood up with a question to test Jesus teacher, what do I need to do to get eternal life answerable what's written in God 's law. How do you interpret. He said while that you 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 answers that Jesus do it and you will live looking for a loophole love people who look for loopholes that reminds me of some of our politicians, but I will talk about those off. But we digress, but we know that that's not. Not everyone is a politician look for loopholes we all know good and you will then looking for link only ask and just how would you define neighbor. Jesus answered by telling a story. There was once a man traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho on the way he was attacked by robbers. They took his clothes beat him up and went off leaving the half dead, leaving him half dead. Luckily, a priest was on his way down to the same road but when he saw him, he added across to the other side than the Levite religious man showed up. He also avoided the injured man, a Samaritan traveling the road came on him when he saw the man's condition, his heart went out to him he gave him for a disinfecting and bandaging his wounds. They looked at him onto his donkey, let him to and in mayhem, comfortable in the morning. He took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper saying. Take good care and the cost anymore. Put it on my bill. I'll pay you on my way back. What do 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 honor on earth, sometimes without thought of as an abstract concept. You know what is it mean to honor one another. What does it mean to have this code of honor, but we see here Jesus made it something that isn't abstract the latest something that was very much on quality of life very much of quality in which you are honoring someone by taking care of them that we look at this honor that people have sometimes it is that it be he comes reflective of while there are social status if he was a man were caring for, than I would care for him. That type of wrongness of the owner. That's what the religious, the Pharisee who was trying to find a loophole they religious person trying to find a loophole was looking for a loophole that he would be able to get out of Yahoo 's my neighbor to find that for me so God can change people though, and that's the challenge that goes on inside of us, it doesn't necessarily mean that we are completely changed overnight. I gave my life to Jesus and I go to church, and I'm completely changed, but without ever falling out without ever going backwards and it happens but rarely but most the time to change the God brings about in our life. The situation by situation by situation by situation by situation, it seems coming to live in the life that we live in the places that we go and we find that this honor that God is that God has us involved in his honor that we find in Christ himself, even towards us. God can change us. He changes us from the inside out. You see the problem. Those who were in God can change people problem. Those who work to possess honor did not. That was what we found in the two religious individuals who went across the side across the other side of the road and left the man have to they were supposed to be people of honor, but their actions prove that they were not identity depends on our character, and these people were identified as religious leaders, but their character was not something that brought that religious leadership to an elevation where they were willing to care so depends on our character and let's say what sets us apart from others. Are we willing to end and in this and this case. I look at this in in in time may be mixed up manner, the person who was beaten and left on the side of the road. What did this make the kind of change the spring in his life if he challenges us, but sometimes we are the ones that are beaten and left on the side of the road and we chose us over you. You need to be the good Samaritan United. A lot of these are the two religious individuals using it on I sometimes we are the person who unjustly is unjustly accused, unjustly punished unjustly beaten and we find that we we call there an end. We find this place there, perhaps, were waiting on someone to come and help us and they do someone may or may not, and as we look at our life in the past as we look out for our life has there been one individual who came and rescued you okay and as you were beaten as you work. Love may be physically beaten and lay on the side of the road, but emotionally OR somehow in your life in despair and on the side of the road and the religious people showed up and they didn't. They weren't people upon because they walked by the man beaten and robbed the Samaritan saved him made a difference in his life. Is there one man or woman that you've met whose kindness inspired you and save you. And this person that touched your life. It was just an ordinary person doing an extraordinary act of kindness perhaps forgiving, perhaps finding good showing extraordinary kindness in a very exceptional circumstances, willingness to accept us for who we are and as we have found that place and that person. Now we must accept responsible to change the method honor that is in our life that we take on that responsibility that someone went out of their way to touch our life and that gave us the name event is our wounds and took care of myself away. That put us on the road again and were able to find rest for a solemn rest of our life and a new beginning, and even in the movie. Then the guy who was arrested for twenty euros spent twenty years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread. He found this in this clergyman. This pastor that didn't press charges against them for stealing silver that went beyond it, and gave him candlesticks and throughout the play. These candlesticks are always evident in this man's life because it was something that spoke to him of life and of change in and I was thinking of it in the context of our own life. One article one individual or what circumstance speaks to us of the change that has picnic came to us in a very difficult time of our life. I wonder if the man on the road heavy had some bandage or some piece of cloth for some something that reminded him of this good Samaritan. The kindness of others. The kindness of others, leads us to a place of taking on inspiration that changes our life that we are inspired inside of us that there is good in our society that there is good in the human race, taking on kindness taking on the understanding that we will shell to other people forgive as we have been forgiven. I believe God is a work in our lives to bring influence to us. I believe that God is at work in our life to bring change the road that leads to being beaten and robbed and left for dead common road we read about it every day in our newspapers. We see it every night in the news that there are victims of violence and victims of shootings and victims of things that shouldn't even happen in our society and the life that we live has this social conditions that place extraordinary pressure upon people upon victims that these families that their children were killed, shot by this crazy person that they somehow have to get over this and move on that life comes at us with these difficulties. These despairs and hopelessness and bitterness in the anger and the injustice, but with God things that take on with God. Things take on a different perspective. You see, whenever this man is challenging Jesus know what I have to do. Love God, love your neighbor as my neighbor. Well, what make the difference in this, the story, a Samaritan, who was considered lower than dirt had honor in his life that he was willing to see the value in a person on the side of the road. I wonder sometimes if the Samaritan was able to identify with this man he was a Samaritan. All that he had been outcasts on the society that he was now traveling in the outcast of how Catholic Jewish society and is traveling in an and the Jewish nation, so he knows what it's like to be an outcast in the know, but it is likely begin browsing and an pushed to the side of the road and whatever he found someone who was along the side of the road. It was moved with compassion for him. He was moved with the honor that he possessed to make a difference in this individual 's life is the with God. Things take on a different perspective. There is a honor the code along for those who are lovable of forgiveness. It goes to those who don't deserve forgiveness. There is a something that goes on in our life that is able to transcend see and what we feel with God. Things take a different perspective and God comes to us and we see in ourselves our sins and our failures and God doesn't look at those sins and failures in, say, David, your real desktop person to upset my said in my failures and says David, I know it when I put inside of you and he says in these failures are not put your life is about my gift things are what your life is about, and my gift things in your life are therefore divine purpose and these problems the sand than these failures that come to the surface. There just to let you know that my gift things are greater than the that might give things for your life are greater than him under that you'll ever face in your life, and when I give continuing these circumstances, and you find coming to you are not the problem. They're just there is opportunities to bring my gift things out. We see in Christ we see his love and his compassion. This do in remembrance of me. He doesn't see our sin. He sees the way for their for their removal. It also see our failures. These days, the opportunity for the gift things to come and become greater than the failure forgiveness as hell forgiveness. Jesus is forgive as I've forgiven you love as I have loved you reflect what I have given to you through the situations of your life who knows whether you come to the kingdom of God for such a time as this is the circumstances of life have brought you to this place where you are a takes a past life. See it for what it is passed from we encounter Christ on the road in our Road of life easy. He buys up the wounds, the places you upon his donkey. He gives you his provision. He pays for your lodging. Dupree paid the price for our redemption. The injustice that was done for the individual is not the circumstances, not the problem. The social injustice of robbery. The social injustice up on how people who are supposedly two to ten him individuals below it hasn't the injustice that is here is the honor of the individual who care you wonder sometimes the crime when committed the crime of walking on the road where the robbers were what was the crime of those children not they were in a room in school like normal. They had no crime but yet there was an injustice. What crime did Jesus commit that he must come inside for us not to see the resident justice that that is very sometimes what happens to us in life isn't something that we can put our finger on safe David, you get this wrong. That's why this is happen. I used to be a an opening that happen in on the Old Testament it all in it. When Job and his problems. Aces, while the others. Friends come in job you got it done something wrong or there's these probably be here, and John says no, that's not right. I am, I encounter. My understanding of God is this a job had nothing to read the note. No scripts to read it only has relational experience with midblock to draw upon and from that relational experience you have with God. He was able to look at his friends and go against everything that society everything that they as religious individuals would say instead. That's not right as God is not that way anything when we come to this place in our life, we find that God is here. It isn't the crimes we have done whether we done them or haven't done them whether we are unjustly accused by unjust people see the robbers. The victims. The Samaritan the injustice I look at this story of the good Samaritan. It's really the honor, but this American has that he recognizes the value of someone who is hurting and this individual who is hurting, will he now change to become like the Samaritan demand wounded and robbed and left by the side of the road. What will he become, will he become angry because the religious people that he trusted in didn't come through or will he become like the Samaritan who recognize the value of another person. The honor that he has sometimes we are the ones left by the side of the road. Sometimes we are that individual. The grace and mercy to help the care that is received is now given I was the victim. Now I am the good Samaritan. I was the victim, but now I am the good Samaritan. What has happened. Someone has brought grace and mercy into my life and I have changed and everyone of us have that individual. Every one of us have someone who has brought good into our life, and that goodness is something that we reflect whether it is an individual that we can look at and called them by name or whether it is Jesus Christ himself was shot up in our life and tossed our life in a very real way is changed us from the inside oh, the grace and mercy to help when the care that we receive is a gift loss because of honor that we have found the events that surround our life. Perhaps beaten, robbed left alongside the road for dead. The events are they simply to open the door for the potential for good, that is inside us. This is the guy think this is the challenge of this. This passage that no matter what happens to us. They give things that God has placed inside a bus need to come out and what one has to happen. What will trigger the opening of the door for us to change what will trigger those gifting is coming to the surface. What will cause all of that good that God has put inside of us to finally be opened up and be the overcoming person that I need to be is if these difficulties that we face will be led by the side of the road and curse the religious individuals or we recognize the good Samaritan who has saw the honor and the good in our life, and by and gave us the care that we need in our hurting place. That's where we find ourselves godly qualities seek godly qualities will help us direct the expression of hope that is found in devastating places that the godly qualities of God, the qualities of forgiveness. The qualities of love, the qualities of grace and mercy will will change the devastating places in our life when we respond to them with those qualities we will find God working through us. We will find the honor that God has in himself and in would we be able to fulfill our potential fulfill our destiny fulfill art, all calling if we didn't have those roadside experiences the roadside experiences where we are either the one on the side of the road, or we are the one finding someone on the side of the road. It isn't the unjust things brought by unjust people. It is the grace and mercy. The honor that God has for us that touches our lives and makes a difference in this life and in eternity. It is God who has given us the privilege of the love one another is to see the face of God to love one another is to see the face of God, who is my neighbor. It is not a loophole. It is a declaration that people who are in need receive God 's gifts through me and if I am in need, God will be my provision to meet my needs. It was my neighbor, who is my neighbor, not a loophole with others, then it isn't something that I'm going to be able to look at and say, you know, I thought I have finally arrived. I put somebody on my donkey and I paid for them to stay the night. It isn't that it's more than if the honor that and guess what the honor that we find in God is the honor that God had in each of his creations and the honor of God, the value that he sees is placed in each one of us. The B honor that we have for him and all of the majesty that God is God has placed that in each one of us in the circumstances. In the end justice of our society and of life and of people can never cancel out the greatness and the gift things that God has placed in us in these circumstances, simply open the door for the greater gift things to come out and deal with it to deal with the blessings of life. So let us face forgiveness for what it is God 's gift to us, so we spent this do in remembrance of me. God honored his creation. He honored us so much that he died for us that the honor that he doubted in the way we are the ones laid on the side of the road in our sin and in our loss Jesus walks down the road and he tosses our life raises us up changes us from the inside out. He honors us the value that he sees in us by his touch upon our life. Jesus, thank you, thank you Lord that you have made a difference. Thank you Lord that you have made a difference in us that Lord we are changed from the inside out. The Lord all of the difficulties are just simply opportunities the openings of doors to bring out the gift things that are already there inside of us. So Lord help us to see the greatness that you have in us and help us Lord to unlock that potential than others, and whatever we may see in whatever we may do. God may we give your blessing and give your honor in your grace and your mercy, we pray. Bless this day. Bless our lives, our families bless our tomorrows, Lord in the events that come and go in our life. Let your hand be upon them. Your wisdom and understanding in our life that we may see the opportunities that lie in each situation. God, we thank you for your touch upon our life, we thank you for your love that makes a difference in the house to one another is to see the face of God. May we see your face and everyone we touch. We pray in Jesus name. Everyone said amen. God bless youHonor, honor, and the robust after twelve, verse ten, and it's in the NIV. It says the devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another about yourself and the message Bible it says love from the center of who you are. Don't fake it. One for dear life from evil. Hold on for dear life to good be good friends who love deeply practice playing second fiddle practice playing second fiddle while honoring the Old Testament meant meant something heavier weighting is the word also translated as glory. So, it suggests that the magnitude or the greatness of someone. The magnitude of the greatness of someone is or something, especially the glory of God, so it is it is like when people who are held in honor or what we are honoring someone or that we carried out bags of honor. It is waiting or is having because in a sense that we are giving it away. We are sharing it with those around us in the New Testament the Greek word for honor meant to value highly to a steam or not to take likely that's where we come up with doors. The Romans chapter twelve. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another about yourself, so it doesn't mean that we are self abased doormats, it is that we esteem other people. We honor them, we give honor to whom honor is due. So it is this deeply relational experience that we have with life and with people, and it reflects how people in the society people in a group of people in the community relate to one another and relate to God. So as we honor one another. We are paying tribute to them. We all giving honor to them. Now we went to a movie this week. I know years ago with the send for me to go to movies, but if I'm ever when I was a kid growing up. It was sinful and we went this. I want to see what wasn't moving well in my mind a father music, sound, music, I want to see some music and I thought for sure Jesus, Buddha, doesn't go to hell for watching the movie and the film has me where we were forbidden that they go to the movies to help and I was sixteen, seventeen years old and I went to a movie and even when Billy Graham had a picture at the movie theater. It was a big discussion whether we should go see it or not, because whiny how we would see moving this week that it was a lame is now and has a PG-13 and its root is a reason for that, but V the delivery itself. If you like musicals. Now, like musicals. You got a life long musicals, it's almost three hours and is a tearjerker. You got the lifelong musicals that are very emotional life and bought him that there was a will there's a lot of contrast between good and evil. There's a lot of contrasting and good and evil. One of the characters a main character in the movie he is he is in prison for twenty years, basically five years for stealing a loaf of bread and fifteen more years for trying to escape and soul. You know it's it's a very unjust time and he finally his parole and as a parolee, you had to carry a piece of paper and you have to check in every month at the parole officer. While this man was very, very bitter. He was ordinary, common man trying to provide for his family and he couldn't. And so we stole the loaf of bread and because of that thrown in prison that he was very bitter about what it happened to him in his life and in the sequence of the landlord entitlement. We just distance to characters and the he was very better and a minister help him out. I gave him a meal and took care of him while what has he was there that night, young, he woke up, then everybody sleeping so he just packed his bag full of all the silver and in the in the church and takes off. Add in the minister talk to him about forgiveness, and so on. But you know he was. He was too bitter and so on. So he runs off with a silver he's caught he's brought back to the church and the minister says, although I gave at all to him. In fact, he took off before I could given the candlesticks and he put the candlesticks in his bag and this, this individual in the movie had never experienced that type of forgiveness and so there's a whole scene where he's going back and forth with you know, should he go back to his old life and be the be the thief and the robber or should he be committed to something new, and is a whole series of him him going back and forth with this. This whole trauma and finally he he gives in and becomes your gives his life to God and and it makes a big difference changes to about nine years later, and here he is a mayor of a community. He also business needs taking care of people and all this but the guard. The guard who watched over him, said, you know, he was. He's been hunting him for nine years because he broke parole and the guard is an individual that can't accept forgiveness P he can't accept change. You can't accept grace. And he in every time he catches up with the main character the main character always gives them forgiveness. This is all go back with you. You're right. I'll go back to prison, but I've got to do these one feeding you got to watch the whole thing if you want to but because back and forth like this and if it's surprising how that when we are confronted with our life. We have two choices. The confrontation is to take on the negativity of our life and and remain there steadfast and not changing as far as I know the guard. He was the wooden train. She couldn't accept grace he couldn't accept the mercy is likely could not accept the grace and mercy of this other person an interview. She is currently going on in the movie and and or and in the play, and it's been around for, I guess one of the longest running plays are set with the second longest-running play of all time, but now it's a movie in if you want to there it is. But that's is one of the plot. There are many more in the in the hole in the whole scheme of things, but these to your wife. Talk my eye and brought to my attention. This idea of honor and the idea of honor is something that is heavy and we in the Old Testament, heavy or waiting, so it is a duty in our forgiveness to forgive think that doesn't come easy to have a day. That's a heavy burden, not necessarily may be the wrong word, but it's a heavy having is that we have to carry that we are going to let people go for their sins. Their wrongdoing to us. Sometimes it's very difficult and so you can imagine this man being imprisoned for twenty years for stealing a loaf of bread. Use a very bitter man his family 's longest children of God. Everything is gone is very bitter man. Forgiveness is letting go honor at the happiness that you have to know that for someone has done this to me again. The Scripture. The other script I wanted to chapter ten versus twenty five to thirty seven, which after ten twenty five thirty seven just that, a religious scholar stood up with a question to test Jesus teacher, what do I need to do to get eternal life answerable what's written in God 's law. How do you interpret. He said while that you 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 answers that Jesus do it and you will live looking for a loophole love people who look for loopholes that reminds me of some of our politicians, but I will talk about those off. But we digress, but we know that that's not. Not everyone is a politician look for loopholes we all know good and you will then looking for link only ask and just how would you define neighbor. Jesus answered by telling a story. There was once a man traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho on the way he was attacked by robbers. They took his clothes beat him up and went off leaving the half dead, leaving him half dead. Luckily, a priest was on his way down to the same road but when he saw him, he added across to the other side than the Levite religious man showed up. He also avoided the injured man, a Samaritan traveling the road came on him when he saw the man's condition, his heart went out to him he gave him for a disinfecting and bandaging his wounds. They looked at him onto his donkey, let him to and in mayhem, comfortable in the morning. He took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper saying. Take good care and the cost anymore. Put it on my bill. I'll pay you on my way back. What do 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 honor on earth, sometimes without thought of as an abstract concept. You know what is it mean to honor one another. What does it mean to have this code of honor, but we see here Jesus made it something that isn't abstract the latest something that was very much on quality of life very much of quality in which you are honoring someone by taking care of them that we look at this honor that people have sometimes it is that it be he comes reflective of while there are social status if he was a man were caring for, than I would care for him. That type of wrongness of the owner. That's what the religious, the Pharisee who was trying to find a loophole they religious person trying to find a loophole was looking for a loophole that he would be able to get out of Yahoo 's my neighbor to find that for me so God can change people though, and that's the challenge that goes on inside of us, it doesn't necessarily mean that we are completely changed overnight. I gave my life to Jesus and I go to church, and I'm completely changed, but without ever falling out without ever going backwards and it happens but rarely but most the time to change the God brings about in our life. The situation by situation by situation by situation by situation, it seems coming to live in the life that we live in the places that we go and we find that this honor that God is that God has us involved in his honor that we find in Christ himself, even towards us. God can change us. He changes us from the inside out. You see the problem. Those who were in God can change people problem. Those who work to possess honor did not. That was what we found in the two religious individuals who went across the side across the other side of the road and left the man have to they were supposed to be people of honor, but their actions prove that they were not identity depends on our character, and these people were identified as religious leaders, but their character was not something that brought that religious leadership to an elevation where they were willing to care so depends on our character and let's say what sets us apart from others. Are we willing to end and in this and this case. I look at this in in in time may be mixed up manner, the person who was beaten and left on the side of the road. What did this make the kind of change the spring in his life if he challenges us, but sometimes we are the ones that are beaten and left on the side of the road and we chose us over you. You need to be the good Samaritan United. A lot of these are the two religious individuals using it on I sometimes we are the person who unjustly is unjustly accused, unjustly punished unjustly beaten and we find that we we call there an end. We find this place there, perhaps, were waiting on someone to come and help us and they do someone may or may not, and as we look at our life in the past as we look out for our life has there been one individual who came and rescued you okay and as you were beaten as you work. Love may be physically beaten and lay on the side of the road, but emotionally OR somehow in your life in despair and on the side of the road and the religious people showed up and they didn't. They weren't people upon because they walked by the man beaten and robbed the Samaritan saved him made a difference in his life. Is there one man or woman that you've met whose kindness inspired you and save you. And this person that touched your life. It was just an ordinary person doing an extraordinary act of kindness perhaps forgiving, perhaps finding good showing extraordinary kindness in a very exceptional circumstances, willingness to accept us for who we are and as we have found that place and that person. Now we must accept responsible to change the method honor that is in our life that we take on that responsibility that someone went out of their way to touch our life and that gave us the name event is our wounds and took care of myself away. That put us on the road again and were able to find rest for a solemn rest of our life and a new beginning, and even in the movie. Then the guy who was arrested for twenty euros spent twenty years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread. He found this in this clergyman. This pastor that didn't press charges against them for stealing silver that went beyond it, and gave him candlesticks and throughout the play. These candlesticks are always evident in this man's life because it was something that spoke to him of life and of change in and I was thinking of it in the context of our own life. One article one individual or what circumstance speaks to us of the change that has picnic came to us in a very difficult time of our life. I wonder if the man on the road heavy had some bandage or some piece of cloth for some something that reminded him of this good Samaritan. The kindness of others. The kindness of others, leads us to a place of taking on inspiration that changes our life that we are inspired inside of us that there is good in our society that there is good in the human race, taking on kindness taking on the understanding that we will shell to other people forgive as we have been forgiven. I believe God is a work in our lives to bring influence to us. I believe that God is at work in our life to bring change the road that leads to being beaten and robbed and left for dead common road we read about it every day in our newspapers. We see it every night in the news that there are victims of violence and victims of shootings and victims of things that shouldn't even happen in our society and the life that we live has this social conditions that place extraordinary pressure upon people upon victims that these families that their children were killed, shot by this crazy person that they somehow have to get over this and move on that life comes at us with these difficulties. These despairs and hopelessness and bitterness in the anger and the injustice, but with God things that take on with God. Things take on a different perspective. You see, whenever this man is challenging Jesus know what I have to do. Love God, love your neighbor as my neighbor. Well, what make the difference in this, the story, a Samaritan, who was considered lower than dirt had honor in his life that he was willing to see the value in a person on the side of the road. I wonder sometimes if the Samaritan was able to identify with this man he was a Samaritan. All that he had been outcasts on the society that he was now traveling in the outcast of how Catholic Jewish society and is traveling in an and the Jewish nation, so he knows what it's like to be an outcast in the know, but it is likely begin browsing and an pushed to the side of the road and whatever he found someone who was along the side of the road. It was moved with compassion for him. He was moved with the honor that he possessed to make a difference in this individual 's life is the with God. Things take on a different perspective. There is a honor the code along for those who are lovable of forgiveness. It goes to those who don't deserve forgiveness. There is a something that goes on in our life that is able to transcend see and what we feel with God. Things take a different perspective and God comes to us and we see in ourselves our sins and our failures and God doesn't look at those sins and failures in, say, David, your real desktop person to upset my said in my failures and says David, I know it when I put inside of you and he says in these failures are not put your life is about my gift things are what your life is about, and my gift things in your life are therefore divine purpose and these problems the sand than these failures that come to the surface. There just to let you know that my gift things are greater than the that might give things for your life are greater than him under that you'll ever face in your life, and when I give continuing these circumstances, and you find coming to you are not the problem. They're just there is opportunities to bring my gift things out. We see in Christ we see his love and his compassion. This do in remembrance of me. He doesn't see our sin. He sees the way for their for their removal. It also see our failures. These days, the opportunity for the gift things to come and become greater than the failure forgiveness as hell forgiveness. Jesus is forgive as I've forgiven you love as I have loved you reflect what I have given to you through the situations of your life who knows whether you come to the kingdom of God for such a time as this is the circumstances of life have brought you to this place where you are a takes a past life. See it for what it is passed from we encounter Christ on the road in our Road of life easy. He buys up the wounds, the places you upon his donkey. He gives you his provision. He pays for your lodging. Dupree paid the price for our redemption. The injustice that was done for the individual is not the circumstances, not the problem. The social injustice of robbery. The social injustice up on how people who are supposedly two to ten him individuals below it hasn't the injustice that is here is the honor of the individual who care you wonder sometimes the crime when committed the crime of walking on the road where the robbers were what was the crime of those children not they were in a room in school like normal. They had no crime but yet there was an injustice. What crime did Jesus commit that he must come inside for us not to see the resident justice that that is very sometimes what happens to us in life isn't something that we can put our finger on safe David, you get this wrong. That's why this is happen. I used to be a an opening that happen in on the Old Testament it all in it. When Job and his problems. Aces, while the others. Friends come in job you got it done something wrong or there's these probably be here, and John says no, that's not right. I am, I encounter. My understanding of God is this a job had nothing to read the note. No scripts to read it only has relational experience with midblock to draw upon and from that relational experience you have with God. He was able to look at his friends and go against everything that society everything that they as religious individuals would say instead. That's not right as God is not that way anything when we come to this place in our life, we find that God is here. It isn't the crimes we have done whether we done them or haven't done them whether we are unjustly accused by unjust people see the robbers. The victims. The Samaritan the injustice I look at this story of the good Samaritan. It's really the honor, but this American has that he recognizes the value of someone who is hurting and this individual who is hurting, will he now change to become like the Samaritan demand wounded and robbed and left by the side of the road. What will he become, will he become angry because the religious people that he trusted in didn't come through or will he become like the Samaritan who recognize the value of another person. The honor that he has sometimes we are the ones left by the side of the road. Sometimes we are that individual. The grace and mercy to help the care that is received is now given I was the victim. Now I am the good Samaritan. I was the victim, but now I am the good Samaritan. What has happened. Someone has brought grace and mercy into my life and I have changed and everyone of us have that individual. Every one of us have someone who has brought good into our life, and that goodness is something that we reflect whether it is an individual that we can look at and called them by name or whether it is Jesus Christ himself was shot up in our life and tossed our life in a very real way is changed us from the inside oh, the grace and mercy to help when the care that we receive is a gift loss because of honor that we have found the events that surround our life. Perhaps beaten, robbed left alongside the road for dead. The events are they simply to open the door for the potential for good, that is inside us. This is the guy think this is the challenge of this. This passage that no matter what happens to us. They give things that God has placed inside a bus need to come out and what one has to happen. What will trigger the opening of the door for us to change what will trigger those gifting is coming to the surface. What will cause all of that good that God has put inside of us to finally be opened up and be the overcoming person that I need to be is if these difficulties that we face will be led by the side of the road and curse the religious individuals or we recognize the good Samaritan who has saw the honor and the good in our life, and by and gave us the care that we need in our hurting place. That's where we find ourselves godly qualities seek godly qualities will help us direct the expression of hope that is found in devastating places that the godly qualities of God, the qualities of forgiveness. The qualities of love, the qualities of grace and mercy will will change the devastating places in our life when we respond to them with those qualities we will find God working through us. We will find the honor that God has in himself and in would we be able to fulfill our potential fulfill our destiny fulfill art, all calling if we didn't have those roadside experiences the roadside experiences where we are either the one on the side of the road, or we are the one finding someone on the side of the road. It isn't the unjust things brought by unjust people. It is the grace and mercy. The honor that God has for us that touches our lives and makes a difference in this life and in eternity. It is God who has given us the privilege of the love one another is to see the face of God to love one another is to see the face of God, who is my neighbor. It is not a loophole. It is a declaration that people who are in need receive God 's gifts through me and if I am in need, God will be my provision to meet my needs. It was my neighbor, who is my neighbor, not a loophole with others, then it isn't something that I'm going to be able to look at and say, you know, I thought I have finally arrived. I put somebody on my donkey and I paid for them to stay the night. It isn't that it's more than if the honor that and guess what the honor that we find in God is the honor that God had in each of his creations and the honor of God, the value that he sees is placed in each one of us. The B honor that we have for him and all of the majesty that God is God has placed that in each one of us in the circumstances. In the end justice of our society and of life and of people can never cancel out the greatness and the gift things that God has placed in us in these circumstances, simply open the door for the greater gift things to come out and deal with it to deal with the blessings of life. So let us face forgiveness for what it is God 's gift to us, so we spent this do in remembrance of me. God honored his creation. He honored us so much that he died for us that the honor that he doubted in the way we are the ones laid on the side of the road in our sin and in our loss Jesus walks down the road and he tosses our life raises us up changes us from the inside out. He honors us the value that he sees in us by his touch upon our life. Jesus, thank you, thank you Lord that you have made a difference. Thank you Lord that you have made a difference in us that Lord we are changed from the inside out. The Lord all of the difficulties are just simply opportunities the openings of doors to bring out the gift things that are already there inside of us. So Lord help us to see the greatness that you have in us and help us Lord to unlock that potential than others, and whatever we may see in whatever we may do. God may we give your blessing and give your honor in your grace and your mercy, we pray. Bless this day. Bless our lives, our families bless our tomorrows, Lord in the events that come and go in our life. Let your hand be upon them. Your wisdom and understanding in our life that we may see the opportunities that lie in each situation. God, we thank you for your touch upon our life, we thank you for your love that makes a difference in the house to one another is to see the face of God. May we see your face and everyone we touch. We pray in Jesus name. Everyone said amen. God bless you