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Ep. 187 - Exploring the Parable of the Good Samaritan · The Living Waters Podcast

• 1:05
  Ray Comfort: This has even a deeper meaning in the sense that we're the lover-neighbors ourselves and we're deeply concerned about the fact that sinners are lying wounded by the enemy and dying, and we're pouring the oil and the wine, the oil of the Holy Spirit and the wine of the of new life in Christ and yet so much of the contemporary church walks across on the other side.
• 1:22
  Ray Comfort: It's as though the unsaved don't even exist because they're too busy doing God's work.
• 1:32
  Emeal Zwayne: Name that sound.
• 1:38
  Oscar Navarro: Easy preaching a sermon.
• 1:39
  Emeal Zwayne: Punk Rock Chicken Ray Covered's.
• 1:44
  Emeal Zwayne: Punk Rock Chicken Ray.
• 1:48
  Emeal Zwayne: Tell me what is your fascination with punk rock chicken.
• 1:51
  Ray Comfort: There's punk rock here-style chicken out there and I saw one of the local chicken factory whatever they call themselves and I said I want to buy that chicken and he said it's not for sale.
• 2:01
  Ray Comfort: And I just about died because I want to surprise Sue with this chicken with a punk rock here-style.
• 2:05
  Oscar Navarro: Was that like a mohawk?
• 2:08
  Ray Comfort: No, it's not like a mohawk, it's just like.
• 2:11
  Emeal Zwayne: I don't know, was that the epitome of hope?
• 2:13
  Emeal Zwayne: Deferred yeah, my heart was sick.
• 2:15
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, I was very excited because we've only got 24 chickens and I won't be satisfied with 25.
• 2:21
  Emeal Zwayne: Seriously, you actually get excited.
• 2:24
  Emeal Zwayne: You've got 24 chickens and excitement runs through your being when you think I want to get one more.
• 2:28
  Oscar Navarro: I want to get 10 more.
• 2:30
  Emeal Zwayne: Some people collect stamps.
• 2:31
  Oscar Navarro: Some people collect baseball cards, ray collects chickens.
• 2:35
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, because they make eggs.
• 2:37
  Emeal Zwayne: We know.
• 2:37
  Emeal Zwayne: Look, you know what I did this morning.
• 2:40
  Emeal Zwayne: I looked up the different breeds of chickens.
• 2:43
  Ray Comfort: I know, this is incredible.
• 2:44
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, so yours.
• 2:45
  Emeal Zwayne: The one you're looking for is either I would think from the pictures I saw a Poland, a Houdan or a Silky.
• 2:50
  Ray Comfort: It's a Poland, ooh my grandfather was a Pole my great grandfather.
• 2:54
  Ray Comfort: Oh, that's why you know he's a tall guy.
• 2:56
  Ray Comfort: No, it wasn't a chicken.
• 2:57
  Mark Spence: Revelation 21 says no cowards will be there.
• 3:00
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, I was going to surprise me with a gift.
• 3:03
  Ray Comfort: Oh, that's great.
• 3:04
  Ray Comfort: What if we were?
• 3:04
  Oscar Navarro: just like, and here you go.
• 3:07
  Emeal Zwayne: Seriously, I'd spray paint, like the top of its head, different colors.
• 3:10
  Ray Comfort: Oh, aren't they cool.
• 3:10
  Ray Comfort: Like a punk rocker, I mean.
• 3:11
  Ray Comfort: I don't know why we have such ordinary chickens.
• 3:13
  Oscar Navarro: Yeah, a little like chicken shaped guitar.
• 3:16
  Ray Comfort: So what did you see?
• 3:17
  Ray Comfort: Lots of different, different, funny.
• 3:19
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, there's all kinds.
• 3:19
  Emeal Zwayne: There's the Frizzle, the Koschamo, the Sussex, the Vorwark.
• 3:23
  Emeal Zwayne: We had a Rhode Island.
• 3:25
  Oscar Navarro: Reds.
• 3:26
  Oscar Navarro: Oh what, what?
• 3:27
  Oscar Navarro: Rhode Island Reds.
• 3:29
  Emeal Zwayne: Oscar, where did you have chickens?
• 3:30
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh, your other house, actually our current house too.
• 3:34
  Oscar Navarro: Because we're in an what is it called an unincorporated land.
• 3:38
  Oscar Navarro: So yeah, we had three chickens at our current house, which I gave to a friend of ours.
• 3:43
  Emeal Zwayne: And that nice manicured association can really have chickens in Easy.
• 3:48
  Emeal Zwayne: Can you do goats and cows and horses?
• 3:51
  Emeal Zwayne: I painted my chicken.
• 3:54
  Emeal Zwayne: I painted my chicken coop.
• 3:57
  Emeal Zwayne: Egg production tripled in only three days.
• 3:59
  Emeal Zwayne: Kfc on the outside.
• 4:01
  Oscar Navarro: It's the same colors as KFC with the Coon, so we're looking at Ray, showing us a picture of somebody who painted their chicken coop to look like a KFC.
• 4:10
  Oscar Navarro: And he says I painted my chicken coop egg production tripled in three days.
• 4:16
  Ray Comfort: I actually had a picture of Colonel Sanders on the inside many years ago.
• 4:19
  Ray Comfort: Did you really In an axe up next to it?
• 4:21
  Ray Comfort: Why'd you remove that, Ray?
• 4:23
  Ray Comfort: That was brilliant.
• 4:23
  Ray Comfort: It faded.
• 4:24
  Ray Comfort: It was just like 15 years ago.
• 4:25
  Ray Comfort: Bring it back.
• 4:26
  Emeal Zwayne: Like all of us, bring it back those chickens in line.
• 4:29
  Emeal Zwayne: But you know, do you guys remember?
• 4:31
  Emeal Zwayne: Years ago, mark and Ray, you should remember this Oscar was not around, I don't know if he was even born back then, but you guys remember, at our old facility I came up with a brilliant idea of novelty dogs.
• 4:42
  Emeal Zwayne: You guys remember that I talked about a website novelty dogs and breeding dogs like a great Dane and a Chihuahua.
• 4:50
  Mark Spence: A German.
• 4:50
  Emeal Zwayne: Shepherd and a little Pickenese.
• 4:52
  Emeal Zwayne: Remember that.
• 4:53
  Emeal Zwayne: That's why Oscar's here, that's what we ended up with, mostly Pickenese.
• 4:56
  Emeal Zwayne: You guys mocked me.
• 4:58
  Emeal Zwayne: You laughed at me.
• 4:59
  Emeal Zwayne: Next thing we knew novelty dogs were the thing.
• 5:01
  Emeal Zwayne: They started popping up everywhere.
• 5:04
  Emeal Zwayne: I should have done it.
• 5:04
  Emeal Zwayne: So, ray, novelty chickens.
• 5:07
  Ray Comfort: Oh, interbreeding them.
• 5:08
  Ray Comfort: I don't know if you could interbreed them.
• 5:09
  Ray Comfort: I'm not sure, of course you could.
• 5:11
  Ray Comfort: I mean a semi-punk rock.
• 5:12
  Oscar Navarro: Brogott and the Ridd.
• 5:13
  Oscar Navarro: My favorite novelty dog is the chili cheese dog.
• 5:17
  Mark Spence: Now Oscar's speaking my language.
• 5:20
  Oscar Navarro: Wait a minute real quick.
• 5:21
  Mark Spence: I got to get this off my chest because I was thinking of Winter Snitzel today and I have something to gripe with them.
• 5:25
  Mark Spence: They don't open until 10 am and sometimes right around 6.30 am.
• 5:30
  Mark Spence: I'm craving a chili cheese dog.
• 5:31
  Oscar Navarro: Yeah, there's nothing like a chili cheese dog with your morning coffee.
• 5:34
  Mark Spence: Just dipping the dog into the coffee.
• 5:36
  Emeal Zwayne: We're going to look into a budget for psychiatric help for these guys.
• 5:40
  Ray Comfort: Oscar, didn't you have a joke?
• 5:41
  Ray Comfort: You forgot.
• 5:42
  Ray Comfort: Oh, I forgot it, you forgot it.
• 5:45
  Emeal Zwayne: It only works when it annoys you.
• 5:47
  Oscar Navarro: Stop it, go, oscar.
• 5:48
  Oscar Navarro: Well, you can't set up a joke by saying I have a joke, so maybe later.
• 5:52
  Emeal Zwayne: Okay, okay, so if you're telling like you're not looking at it.
• 5:54
  Ray Comfort: Okay, you just do it.
• 5:55
  Emeal Zwayne: Mos-, mos-, mosker, mosker, mark Mark and Oscar, motherly Oscar, oh, mark and Oscar that sounds like an amazing combination by the way.
• 6:06
  Oscar Navarro: It's an interbreeding.
• 6:08
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh, that's terrible, Mark, seriously, you really don't like Wienerschnitzel.
• 6:15
  Mark Spence: Are you?
• 6:15
  Emeal Zwayne: kidding me the warm bun the melt cheese.
• 6:18
  Emeal Zwayne: Oscar, wait, I can't remember.
• 6:20
  Emeal Zwayne: Hopefully it's just probably, you know, memory loss to protect me because of trauma.
• 6:24
  Emeal Zwayne: You don't really like it.
• 6:26
  Emeal Zwayne: You like it.
• 6:27
  Emeal Zwayne: You actually like Wienerschnitzel.
• 6:28
  Oscar Navarro: I don't like most fast foods.
• 6:31
  Oscar Navarro: The Wienerschnitzel is so weird.
• 6:35
  Emeal Zwayne: You're the man who mocked McDonald's a number of times.
• 6:37
  Emeal Zwayne: I'm at the level entirely.
• 6:39
  Emeal Zwayne: Mcdonald's is like the layman yarn compared to beef jerky Said nobody ever.
• 6:45
  Emeal Zwayne: Are you kidding me?
• 6:46
  Oscar Navarro: Wienerschnitzel.
• 6:47
  Oscar Navarro: Compared to me, wienerschnitzel is a finely crafted German dish.
• 6:51
  Mark Spence: Occasionally I'll get like a little bits of bone or something like that.
• 6:54
  Mark Spence: Yeah, that's what I was about to say.
• 6:55
  Emeal Zwayne: I can't get the bits of bone.
• 6:56
  Mark Spence: And I spit it out and I keep on going, yeah.
• 6:59
  Oscar Navarro: It is so good.
• 7:00
  Oscar Navarro: The cat hair is great for flossing afterwards, right.
• 7:04
  Ray Comfort: Oscar, did you know anything for us?
• 7:05
  Ray Comfort: Did I what?
• 7:06
  Ray Comfort: Anything impromptu for us?
• 7:08
  Ray Comfort: Impromptu, yeah, like a joke or something.
• 7:10
  Ray Comfort: Forget it.
• 7:12
  Emeal Zwayne: We're not getting the one today.
• 7:13
  Emeal Zwayne: All right, that sounded like a springboard.
• 7:19
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh a comment.
• 7:21
  Emeal Zwayne: Best use of time, squirrel.
• 7:24
  Emeal Zwayne: Best podcast in the world.
• 7:26
  Emeal Zwayne: This is from Best Use of Time.
• 7:27
  Emeal Zwayne: That's a handle, I guess, isn't that, your wife?
• 7:29
  Emeal Zwayne: Best podcast in the world.
• 7:32
  Emeal Zwayne: If you have ever sinned, you have to listen to this podcast Because they can relate.
• 7:38
  Emeal Zwayne: This is one of the best comments we've ever gotten.
• 7:41
  Emeal Zwayne: Seriously, thank you so much.
• 7:43
  Emeal Zwayne: Best Use of Time, and I loved it.
• 7:45
  Emeal Zwayne: You used your time very wisely.
• 7:47
  Emeal Zwayne: This was very piffy, piffy, piffy, but straight to the point and we get it.
• 7:52
  Emeal Zwayne: If you've ever sinned which is everyone you have to listen to this Both because, oscar, you haven't sinned.
• 7:58
  Mark Spence: Now why you forget about Jesus, Jesus, hello.
• 8:01
  Emeal Zwayne: Wow, yeah, there are always those exceptions that you should never have to mention.
• 8:05
  Emeal Zwayne: What's your favorite book?
• 8:06
  Emeal Zwayne: Well, except for the Bible, of course, man, I love myself today and every day this podcast is brought to you.
• 8:18
  Ray Comfort: I thought you had a pain in the neck.
• 8:20
  Ray Comfort: Ah, I did, it's gone.
• 8:21
  Ray Comfort: Oh yeah, it's gone.
• 8:24
  Emeal Zwayne: This is brought to you by the Bibles.
• 8:26
  Emeal Zwayne: Four gospels, ray, you remember I got really excited about.
• 8:30
  Emeal Zwayne: Did I give you this idea?
• 8:31
  Ray Comfort: No.
• 8:32
  Emeal Zwayne: No, I felt like I did.
• 8:33
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah.
• 8:34
  Emeal Zwayne: He said like well, with my jokes, yeah, I got excited about it, though I remember, and it became a reality.
• 8:39
  Emeal Zwayne: So, friends, get it.
• 8:41
  Emeal Zwayne: It's the Bible's four gospels.
• 8:42
  Mark Spence: Don't they already have the four gospels Pretty?
• 8:44
  Emeal Zwayne: self-explanatory.
• 8:45
  Emeal Zwayne: No, I mean seriously.
• 8:47
  Emeal Zwayne: What a cool thing to give an unbeliever you know.
• 8:49
  Emeal Zwayne: Here are the accounts of Jesus his life, birth, death, resurrection, just all in one.
• 8:53
  Mark Spence: I have to play devil's advocate, because somebody's listening to you and they're saying the four gospels.
• 8:57
  Oscar Navarro: I know I feel like the I have the four gospels.
• 8:58
  Oscar Navarro: Yeah, I feel like the advertisement should be like the four gospels.
• 9:01
  Emeal Zwayne: I heard of a product To give to unbelievers.
• 9:03
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, it's like Is it a book?
• 9:04
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a single book.
• 9:06
  Emeal Zwayne: Yes, yes.
• 9:06
  Ray Comfort: For the four gospels and it's the size of a pocket so you can put it in your pocket.
• 9:10
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, very small pocket size and it's got the four gospels in it.
• 9:14
  Emeal Zwayne: And, ray, you wrote some blurb before it.
• 9:16
  Emeal Zwayne: I think it has a gospel.
• 9:18
  Oscar Navarro: It's the gospel presentation.
• 9:19
  Emeal Zwayne: It has the gospel and the gospels.
• 9:21
  Ray Comfort: I think it mentions things like never man spoke like this man.
• 9:24
  Ray Comfort: This is the life of Jesus.
• 9:25
  Ray Comfort: This is where you've got to look at.
• 9:26
  Oscar Navarro: Yeah, I feel like we should.
• 9:27
  Oscar Navarro: The title for the four gospels advertisement should be like the four gospels, like the Bible, but less good but much worse.
• 9:35
  Emeal Zwayne: So yeah, friends, check it out.
• 9:36
  Emeal Zwayne: Great, great thing to give to an unbeliever.
• 9:39
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, man, and oh well, I'll put it on the video.
• 9:44
  Mark Spence: Could you say that again?
• 9:45
  Mark Spence: Oh man, well, it's better than you singing.
• 9:49
  Emeal Zwayne: And I just want you to know that I love you, my heart.
• 9:53
  Mark Spence: Why I have to say easy my kids have told me time and time again that they absolutely love your singing.
• 10:00
  Oscar Navarro: Are.
• 10:00
  Oscar Navarro: Your children are brilliant.
• 10:01
  Oscar Navarro: I sing with you.
• 10:01
  Mark Spence: No, they're not messing with me.
• 10:03
  Emeal Zwayne: They actually like his singing Children are brilliant.
• 10:07
  Ray Comfort: It makes me feel better about my singing.
• 10:11
  Emeal Zwayne: I love Mark's children so much.
• 10:17
  Mark Spence: They will bring it to me when you sing.
• 10:18
  Mark Spence: They'll go Dad, you got to listen to this.
• 10:20
  Mark Spence: Yeah, they're going to bring this one to you.
• 10:21
  Mark Spence: It's total mockery, but they love it.
• 10:22
  Mark Spence: All right, could you say that again it's total mockery, but they love it.
• 10:26
  Emeal Zwayne: Wow, all right friends forget what they said.
• 10:30
  Emeal Zwayne: The Bible's for Gospels.
• 10:31
  Emeal Zwayne: Don't forget the Living Waters Mock the Evidence Study Bible.
• 10:35
  Oscar Navarro: By the way, we love seeing our listeners post and send images of them drinking coffee out of their mugs.
• 10:42
  Ray Comfort: It's really cool.
• 10:44
  Oscar Navarro: I just saw one the other day of a 10-year-old drinking her hot chocolate out of a Living Waters mug, so thank you guys for posting when you get them.
• 10:51
  Emeal Zwayne: I noticed the hot chocolate had spelled over and covered your face.
• 10:54
  Mark Spence: Yeah, it's a, it's fair.
• 10:56
  Mark Spence: Yeah, in order to do that, it has to go through your face.
• 10:59
  Emeal Zwayne: No, it went around.
• 11:00
  Emeal Zwayne: It's magical hot chocolate.
• 11:02
  Emeal Zwayne: All right, friends.
• 11:03
  Emeal Zwayne: Enough of that, no, not enough.
• 11:05
  Ray Comfort: The other day, Mark was flicking my face during one of our podcasts on the mug, which I found.
• 11:10
  Ray Comfort: Oh, the mug itself.
• 11:12
  Mark Spence: No, I still do that.
• 11:13
  Oscar Navarro: I completely forgot about that, but I will do that I don't know if you know this or not, Ray, but we made the mugs so that you can easily scratch off Mark's face.
• 11:20
  Ray Comfort: Oh yeah, oh, scratch and sniff.
• 11:21
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, they're also known as boo-doo mugs.
• 11:23
  Ray Comfort: You don't want to?
• 11:23
  Emeal Zwayne: sniff, that's for sure.
• 11:24
  Mark Spence: If we had a needle, we can just start poking the person speaking.
• 11:27
  Emeal Zwayne: All right, stop it enough.
• 11:28
  Emeal Zwayne: All right, friends.
• 11:29
  Emeal Zwayne: Today on the Living Waters podcast, we're going to explore the parable of the good Samaritan.
• 11:36
  Emeal Zwayne: He wasn't good at all, ray.
• 11:38
  Emeal Zwayne: Why do you always say that every time they get to mention that?
• 11:40
  Ray Comfort: Because he wasn't good at all.
• 11:41
  Ray Comfort: It's the parable of the story of the Samaritan.
• 11:43
  Ray Comfort: It's nothing to do with someone being good.
• 11:45
  Ray Comfort: It's our requirement to love our neighbors ourselves.
• 11:49
  Ray Comfort: It's a command Love your neighbors, you love yourself.
• 11:51
  Ray Comfort: In fact, when Jesus said to the lawyer that asked about this, he said go and do likewise.
• 11:57
  Ray Comfort: That word likewise in the Greek means continue to do this.
• 12:02
  Ray Comfort: It's not just a one-time thing and that leaves us all with our face and the dirt.
• 12:06
  Ray Comfort: None of us love our neighbors ourselves.
• 12:07
  Ray Comfort: If you think you love your neighbors yourself, drive the freeway.
• 12:11
  Mark Spence: Yeah, ray, it's a 91.
• 12:12
  Ray Comfort: Seriously, if our heart was made manifest when we're driving the freeway.
• 12:15
  Ray Comfort: We're like a gaitling gun on the hood of our car because people make you mad when you're driving freeway so cut you off and overtake you and dangerous speeds and that.
• 12:23
  Ray Comfort: So we've got to love our neighbor and love our enemies so we fall short.
• 12:27
  Ray Comfort: That's why we need to save you, ray you mentioned face and dirt.
• 12:31
  Emeal Zwayne: Have you ever I don't know this just kind of popped in my mind right now have you ever talked about a face and chocolate cake?
• 12:38
  Ray Comfort: Yes, we've talked about before.
• 12:40
  Ray Comfort: That'd be my heart's desire to put my face in the top of moist chocolate cake While swimming and milk with cereal and swimming pool with milk and cereal.
• 12:47
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, and so please, we don't know the date of the coming of the Lord, because if I did, I'd pig out the day before On chocolate cake, all the all for 24 hours.
• 12:56
  Oscar Navarro: Speaking of sweet things, you guys know I love honey, I love local honey.
• 13:00
  Oscar Navarro: Locally sourced, Locally sourced, local honey.
• 13:02
  Oscar Navarro: And somebody down the street for me has a bee farm and they I bought a dozen bees from them but they gave me 13 and I was like, hey, you gave me an extra bee and he said, oh, that's a freebie.
• 13:14
  Ray Comfort: That was it Good work.
• 13:17
  Emeal Zwayne: We can carry on with the Oscar, the pleasure of waiting.
• 13:20
  Oscar Navarro: It's better when it annoys you.
• 13:23
  Ray Comfort: We need.
• 13:23
  Ray Comfort: We need audience laughter.
• 13:24
  Ray Comfort: But the guys in the Italian, we need a button.
• 13:26
  Ray Comfort: Yeah.
• 13:27
  Emeal Zwayne: Back in the day when we did on the box.
• 13:29
  Ray Comfort: we had a button, we had a comfort zone.
• 13:31
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, it was on the box.
• 13:31
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, it was laughter, instant laughter.
• 13:33
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah.
• 13:33
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, all right, so the good that would go.
• 13:35
  Ray Comfort: Good for you just to carry permanently, so people would laugh for you.
• 13:39
  Emeal Zwayne: Inspire laughter, because it's not natural for people with me.
• 13:41
  Emeal Zwayne: All right, friends.
• 13:43
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, the good Samaritan, he wasn't good at all.
• 13:45
  Emeal Zwayne: All right, luke 10, 30 to 37.
• 13:48
  Emeal Zwayne: I'm going to read it.
• 13:49
  Emeal Zwayne: Then Jesus answered and said a certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him and departed, leaving him half dead.
• 13:58
  Emeal Zwayne: Now, by chance, a certain priest came down that road and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.
• 14:04
  Emeal Zwayne: Likewise, a Levite, when he arrived at the place, came and looked and passed by on the other side.
• 14:09
  Emeal Zwayne: But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was and when he saw him he had compassion.
• 14:15
  Emeal Zwayne: So he went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine, and he set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn and took care of him.
• 14:23
  Emeal Zwayne: On the next day, when he departed, he took out two Denari, gave them to the innkeeper and said to him take care of him and whatever more you spend, when I come again I will repay you.
• 14:32
  Emeal Zwayne: So which of these three do you think was neighbor to him who fell among the thieves?
• 14:37
  Emeal Zwayne: And he said he who showed mercy on him.
• 14:39
  Ray Comfort: Then Jesus said to him go and do likewise, I think it's good to read in context the previous verse yeah, we will.
• 14:46
  Oscar Navarro: I was just about to say that because it's actually a pet peeve of mine when preachers preach on this verse and start at 30 and don't get into 25.
• 14:54
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, they're just these annoying Arabs.
• 14:55
  Emeal Zwayne: See there, 30.
• 14:56
  Emeal Zwayne: Look what comes in.
• 14:58
  Oscar Navarro: X 25 to get into the Bible.
• 15:00
  Emeal Zwayne: I was confident in you.
• 15:01
  Emeal Zwayne: So yeah, so there's context to this and it is as Ray alluded to earlier.
• 15:07
  Emeal Zwayne: There's a lawyer involved here.
• 15:09
  Ray Comfort: Whenever a lawyer is involved Experiencing God's law, yeah, a lawyer Rather than a civil lawyer, that's what we tend to think.
• 15:14
  Ray Comfort: Very good, ray, thank you.
• 15:16
  Emeal Zwayne: And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying teacher, what shall I?
• 15:20
  Emeal Zwayne: This is verses 25 to 28,.
• 15:21
  Emeal Zwayne: What shall I do to inherit eternal life?
• 15:22
  Emeal Zwayne: He said to him what is written in the law?
• 15:24
  Emeal Zwayne: What is your reading of it?
• 15:25
  Emeal Zwayne: So he answered and said 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.
• 15:31
  Emeal Zwayne: And he said to him you have answered rightly, do this and you will live.
• 15:35
  Emeal Zwayne: And then we jump in.
• 15:37
  Oscar Navarro: Can I hop into some background here and why that's important?
• 15:39
  Oscar Navarro: Like we just talked about, 25 to 30 is very important in context and, oh you know, anytime we approach areas of the scriptures, it's really important that we do it in context of what's going on, especially with the parables, because often what happens is we just read the parables as though they're just like this separate TV episode sitcom that you can watch as a one off, not in the context of everything that's going on around it.
• 16:05
  Oscar Navarro: All of chapter 10 is actually important At the beginning of chapter 10.
• 16:09
  Ray Comfort: Nine is important too, so yeah.
• 16:11
  Emeal Zwayne: You know now that I'm thinking about it let's start where we should Genesis one one, yeah, and real quick.
• 16:18
  Emeal Zwayne: The verse that sets us up, which is the one right after 28, is but he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus and who is my neighbor?
• 16:26
  Emeal Zwayne: And that's what brought that in.
• 16:27
  Oscar Navarro: So let's start at chapter 10, verse one, because that's actually valuable too which?
• 16:32
  Oscar Navarro: Jesus sends out 72.
• 16:34
  Oscar Navarro: Keep that number in the back of your mind.
• 16:36
  Oscar Navarro: Jesus sends out 72.
• 16:38
  Oscar Navarro: The 72 go out and they eat and they drink and they spend time with unbelievers and sinners, and you also see in verse nine that they heal the sick, they preach the gospel and they continue to discuss the kingdom of God.
• 16:50
  Oscar Navarro: That is also a very important aspect.
• 16:52
  Oscar Navarro: In verse nine, jesus gives them authority.
• 16:56
  Oscar Navarro: Then we get to the parable of the Good Samaritan and, as you alluded to, a lawyer stood up.
• 17:02
  Oscar Navarro: Now, what is a lawyer?
• 17:03
  Oscar Navarro: You mentioned it A lawyer.
• 17:05
  Oscar Navarro: This isn't a lawyer like we think of a lawyer today.
• 17:07
  Oscar Navarro: This is a Sanhedrin.
• 17:09
  Oscar Navarro: There are 72 of them at that time, and so essentially what's going on here is that God Jesus is showing how his kingdom, the kingdom of God, is usurping the religious kingdom authority.
• 17:23
  Oscar Navarro: At that time, he has a new 72, and one of the 72 is now coming up and approaching him.
• 17:29
  Oscar Navarro: This is not by accident, it's with intentionality.
• 17:32
  Oscar Navarro: What is this lawyer?
• 17:34
  Oscar Navarro: As you mentioned, this is the theologian of the day.
• 17:37
  Oscar Navarro: This one was a master of, especially the books written by Moses.
• 17:43
  Oscar Navarro: They were the ones that you went to to certainly solve civil issues, but, more importantly, to understand how to live your life in light of what God had said.
• 17:53
  Oscar Navarro: This is the religious authority.
• 17:55
  Oscar Navarro: This is a lawyer.
• 17:57
  Oscar Navarro: One commentary that I was reading in preparation for this called them the lawyer theologian.
• 18:01
  Oscar Navarro: This is the guy that knew the Bible, the authority of the day.
• 18:04
  Oscar Navarro: He is a moralist, he is a religious or religious type, and the Sanhedrin had an accusation against Jesus because he kept talking about the kingdom of God.
• 18:14
  Oscar Navarro: What we would call this accusation today is easy believism.
• 18:18
  Oscar Navarro: They were looking at Jesus as like well, what about the moral law?
• 18:22
  Oscar Navarro: Well, what about the moral law?
• 18:23
  Oscar Navarro: You're not talking about the moral law.
• 18:24
  Oscar Navarro: And Jesus shows this guy and we're going to get into the details here.
• 18:28
  Oscar Navarro: He shows this guy how he thinks as a moralist.
• 18:31
  Oscar Navarro: He thinks he has a high view of the law, but Jesus shows him how, actually, he has a low view of the law.
• 18:37
  Oscar Navarro: He says, essentially, I take the law more serious than you because you think you can keep it and I know you can't.
• 18:46
  Oscar Navarro: That's the essence of why Jesus is using this parable.
• 18:51
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, yeah, and and you know it's important to know, I think a lot of people see it as a parable related to how we need to treat people and be kind.
• 19:01
  Emeal Zwayne: Sure, it has those applications and implications, but but really, I think MacArthur put it well, he did a masterful job on expositing this text.
• 19:09
  Emeal Zwayne: He talks about how really this is an evangelistic encounter and it's, it's the opening the eyes of this religious hypocrite to, to, to what, what it really means to truly know God right and right.
• 19:24
  Emeal Zwayne: It's related to the first two commandments, which are really what summarize the law.
• 19:29
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, the lawyer stood up and tempted Jesus KJV, or tested him, so it shows the spirit that that was motivating him.
• 19:37
  Ray Comfort: He was a proud, arrogant, self-righteous man, so Jesus gave him the essence of the law.
• 19:41
  Ray Comfort: What I mean?
• 19:42
  Ray Comfort: Unbelievers, I like to say you believe in God?
• 19:44
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, what do you think God requires of you?
• 19:46
  Ray Comfort: And then share this with them.
• 19:48
  Ray Comfort: You shall love the Lord, your God, with your heart, mind, soul and strength, and your neighbor as yourself and the the.
• 19:54
  Ray Comfort: The reason the law is so important is because it shows us that we haven't kept it.
• 19:58
  Ray Comfort: When we see it in truth, the Living Bible brought brings out more clearly the effect of the law on that man.
• 20:04
  Ray Comfort: This is straight from Hell's Best Kept Secret, Word for Word.
• 20:06
  Ray Comfort: The man willing to, to wanting to justify his lack of love for some kinds of people, said which neighbors he was trying to say I've kept it.
• 20:16
  Ray Comfort: But yeah, I only like Jews, I don't like, I don't like Samaritan.
• 20:19
  Ray Comfort: So that's when Jesus, it seems, gave him the story of the good Samaritan.
• 20:23
  Ray Comfort: Is it a parable?
• 20:24
  Ray Comfort: Is it parableic?
• 20:25
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, it's a parable, it's not an actual account.
• 20:28
  Emeal Zwayne: Okay, yeah, and it's interesting.
• 20:30
  Emeal Zwayne: Macarthur was talking about how he read a number of commentaries on it when he was preparing and how so many of them were trying to give justification to why the priest passed on the other side, you know.
• 20:43
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh, he thought it was a dead body.
• 20:45
  Emeal Zwayne: He didn't want to defile himself.
• 20:46
  Emeal Zwayne: Others said, no, well, he was on his way to Jericho, not Jerusalem.
• 20:49
  Emeal Zwayne: If he was going to Jerusalem I would have all these things.
• 20:51
  Emeal Zwayne: He's like uh, it doesn't matter, the guy didn't exist.
• 20:53
  Emeal Zwayne: You know, jesus was, was was trying to, to make a broader point there.
• 20:58
  Emeal Zwayne: And, mark, really, there is that self justification in people always.
• 21:04
  Emeal Zwayne: I think that's a good point to camp on.
• 21:05
  Emeal Zwayne: Come out on for a minute.
• 21:07
  Emeal Zwayne: Man will always try to justify himself.
• 21:11
  Emeal Zwayne: He was pricked, obviously, in what Christ was trying to convey here, pricked by, uh, love your neighbors yourself.
• 21:17
  Emeal Zwayne: Well, who's my neighbor, mark?
• 21:22
  Emeal Zwayne: That was my, that was a question.
• 21:23
  Emeal Zwayne: Who is my neighbor?
• 21:24
  Emeal Zwayne: Do you know my neighbor?
• 21:25
  Mark Spence: Well, oscar's, closest to you Right, you are hitting it Right.
• 21:28
  Mark Spence: So here, here is the idea that we can always justify anything and everything.
• 21:33
  Mark Spence: So if you go to somebody for advice, if you don't like that advice, keep going until you find somebody with the advice that you want.
• 21:38
  Mark Spence: And this is why we need to approach the Bible with our guard down and saying Lord, whatever you want to do, you know there was a Princeton seminary experiment where the students are put inside of this preparatory room to prepare for a message on the good Samaritan, but the actual oral discourse was supposed to happen on the other side of the campus.
• 21:57
  Mark Spence: So what happened was you'd have somebody inside of that preparatory room and saying hey, you're on, I'm sorry, you're late, you need to go right now and go across the campus and get there.
• 22:07
  Mark Spence: But all the while, there was a test that was to take place.
• 22:09
  Mark Spence: They were going to come across somebody down the pathway where somebody was inside of need and they were.
• 22:15
  Mark Spence: They needed help.
• 22:16
  Mark Spence: Well, they had to hurry up and get to their class in order to give their oral discourse, and so the majority of the students passed by the person that was in need, and they all failed, but one who stopped to help them and threw their assignment to the side to help the person that was in need.
• 22:35
  Mark Spence: So the test was not giving the oral dissertation on the good Samaritan, but rather helping the person on the side of the road Right.
• 22:41
  Mark Spence: So there's a spirit of the law and there's a letter of the law and we need to be careful on how we just handle the things that we come across.
• 22:47
  Mark Spence: We pride ourselves in wanting to be a doer of the word and not just a hear only, but in reality, every step we take, every decision we make, it balances on a razor's edge.
• 22:58
  Mark Spence: We need to be careful on how we take in the word and how we implement the word.
• 23:03
  Mark Spence: On my way today to work, I was praying To a winter snitzel.
• 23:06
  Mark Spence: I wanted to go to winter snitzel.
• 23:08
  Mark Spence: I actually was going back and forth in my prayer between winter snitzel.
• 23:11
  Mark Spence: Why are they not open at 6.30 AM?
• 23:14
  Ray Comfort: And.
• 23:14
  Mark Spence: I was just thinking to myself.
• 23:15
  Mark Spence: I was also Lord.
• 23:16
  Mark Spence: I have mercy on me.
• 23:17
  Mark Spence: I want to have eyes to see what you want me to see today, because we get so focused on our to do list and our task list that we never end up being focused on what the Lord has for us.
• 23:30
  Mark Spence: And there's a saying you want to make God laugh?
• 23:32
  Mark Spence: Show them your to do list?
• 23:33
  Mark Spence: All right, because God's not on our same timetable.
• 23:37
  Mark Spence: So we just need to be careful, we need to slow down and we need to be quick to allow rabbit trails to happen inside of our lives.
• 23:46
  Emeal Zwayne: I that's great, Thank you.
• 23:49
  Mark Spence: Ray, we're thank you so much.
• 23:50
  Mark Spence: I think Oscar wants to say something right now.
• 23:54
  Oscar Navarro: I want to go back to something that you said earlier, easy quoting MacArthur.
• 23:58
  Oscar Navarro: I see his point, and it's valuable to recognize that this is a parable, that it didn't actually happen.
• 24:03
  Oscar Navarro: However, it is really valuable, as readers of God's word, that we understand the significance of titles used, especially by Jesus when he uses them, because it gives us a context which increases the gravity of where conviction lies in a moment like this, and so I don't think it's for nothing that he uses a priest, a Levi and a Samaritan in this story.
• 24:31
  Oscar Navarro: It's actually very significant because it points us to who are the ones that should actually be convicted in this.
• 24:36
  Oscar Navarro: You mentioned the idea of moving back and forth with the priest.
• 24:40
  Oscar Navarro: The reason why Jesus used the priest one might say commentaries would say the reason why Jesus uses a priest in this context is because the priest had an excuse.
• 24:49
  Oscar Navarro: He could have said you know, I have been cleansed and I am clean.
• 24:53
  Oscar Navarro: If I touched this wounded, destroyed body, and this body would have been left naked, they would have taken his clothes, it would have been essentially a bleeding flesh and meat on the ground.
• 25:03
  Oscar Navarro: And so for the priest to go in to help, they could have said well, I would be unclean, I wouldn't be able to serve in my duties at the temple.
• 25:10
  Oscar Navarro: I just got myself cleansed, and so they would walk around, the priest would talk about how busy is, and so they have every religious excuse not to help the person that has been robbed.
• 25:24
  Oscar Navarro: And the reason why also one of the important aspects for us to understand is what is a Samaritan and how were they viewed in cultural context at that time?
• 25:34
  Oscar Navarro: A Samaritan was essentially a downcast half-breed.
• 25:38
  Oscar Navarro: What I mean by that is the Babylonians came and when they sacked and took tribute from Israel.
• 25:45
  Oscar Navarro: What they would do is they would take all of the religious elites, all of the political figures, all of the wealthy, and they would leave behind the poor and the beggars.
• 25:55
  Oscar Navarro: And the reason why they would do that in the Old Testament is because it was kind of the idea of cutting off the head of the snake in order to make sure that there wasn't an uprising in Israel.
• 26:05
  Oscar Navarro: Once you took over the land, whether you were Babylon or Rome, you would take the head of the snake away and what was left is the poor and the beggars there to make do with what's at the land During that season.
• 26:15
  Oscar Navarro: Those poor that were left behind end up intermarrying with Samaritans.
• 26:21
  Oscar Navarro: So the Samaritan people that were there were looked down upon politically, socially and religiously because they were half-breeds, and in that process the Samaritans grew disdain for the Israelites as well.
• 26:34
  Oscar Navarro: They created their own temples, they denied most of the Old Testament, and so the Samaritan is viewed as the most outcast at that time.
• 26:45
  Oscar Navarro: In other words and it's so interesting that the lawyer can't even bring himself to use the name Samaritan at the end of these verses right, because it's essentially to our day it's like this.
• 26:57
  Oscar Navarro: It's like Jesus saying there is a pastor, a theologian and a transgendered left-wing person who worked for the Clinton Foundation walking down the street, which one of them did the right thing and he can't even bring himself to say the Samaritan because he is so disgusted by that thought and so he just says, almost begrudgingly, the one who showed him mercy.
• 27:23
  Oscar Navarro: He couldn't bring himself to say Samaritan.
• 27:26
  Oscar Navarro: And so I do think there's value here in understanding the context of these people.
• 27:30
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, macarthur's point in that was that they were acting like it really happened.
• 27:35
  Emeal Zwayne: And it's a parable.
• 27:37
  Emeal Zwayne: And the point is not the priest could have done this, could have done that.
• 27:40
  Emeal Zwayne: The reality is Jesus was drawing a greater point in what he was saying and, yeah, the Samaritans were radically, radically despised.
• 27:49
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean there was intense hatred between them.
• 27:51
  Emeal Zwayne: And I love what Christ demonstrates when he talked to the Samaritan woman.
• 27:56
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean that was massive.
• 27:58
  Emeal Zwayne: He didn't just do something, he didn't just give a parable like this and speak of someone showing kindness to a Samaritan.
• 28:03
  Emeal Zwayne: He did it.
• 28:05
  Emeal Zwayne: And in connection with the gospel Mark, you sent me a quote the other day in light of what you were talking about earlier, and it was by Nate St.
• 28:13
  Emeal Zwayne: He said if God would grant us the vision, the word sacrifice would disappear from our lips and thoughts.
• 28:18
  Emeal Zwayne: We would hate the things that seem now to so dear to us.
• 28:21
  Emeal Zwayne: Our lives would suddenly be too short.
• 28:24
  Emeal Zwayne: We would despise time robbing distractions and charge the enemy with all our energies.
• 28:29
  Emeal Zwayne: In the name of Christ, may God help us to judge ourselves by the entreaties that separate the Aukas from the comprehension of Christmas and him who, though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor so that we might, through his poverty, be made rich.
• 28:43
  Emeal Zwayne: Lord, god, speak to my own heart and give me to know thy holy will and the joy of walking in it.
• 28:49
  Emeal Zwayne: In a sense, this is the kind of sacrifice that was being displayed by this Samaritan, and that's where our hearts need to be as we look at the lost, to be willing to bring in the gospel, to be like Jesus and touch the leper and go among the sinners.
• 29:06
  Ray Comfort: I think you've touched on something so important there that this has even a deeper meaning, in the sense that we're the love of neighbors ourselves and we're deeply concerned about the fact that sinners are lying wounded by the enemy and dying.
• 29:17
  Ray Comfort: We're pouring the oil and the wine, the oil of the Holy Spirit and the wine of the of new life in Christ, and yet so much of the contemporary church walks across on the other side.
• 29:26
  Ray Comfort: It's as though the unsaved don't even exist because they're too busy doing God's work.
• 29:32
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, oh, that's so good yeah.
• 29:36
  Mark Spence: Mark, you were gonna.
• 29:36
  Mark Spence: I just liked the line in there about being saved from time robbing distractions.
• 29:41
  Mark Spence: How many times are we just distracted by stuff that is trivial?
• 29:47
  Mark Spence: How many times do we hear from people saying I just don't have time Right, Time's not a friend of mine.
• 29:54
  Mark Spence: I don't have the ability to do what you're doing because I'm so busy.
• 29:58
  Mark Spence: Well, what are you busy with?
• 29:59
  Mark Spence: Or I mean, just pause and take inventory on what fills your time with.
• 30:03
  Mark Spence: There was a guy who said it's easy to have 13 months in a year.
• 30:09
  Mark Spence: Everybody can have 13 months in a year.
• 30:11
  Mark Spence: All you need to do is get up one hour earlier than you normally do, and that equates to an extra month by the end of the year.
• 30:21
  Ray Comfort: Well, get up three hours.
• 30:24
  Mark Spence: Three.
• 30:24
  Mark Spence: I'm not going to bed, no but.
• 30:26
  Mark Spence: If you get up at 7 am typically.
• 30:28
  Mark Spence: If you get up at six now, that equates to a whole another month.
• 30:33
  Mark Spence: Well, what can you do with a whole another month?
• 30:35
  Mark Spence: Because I guarantee you 20 years from now.
• 30:37
  Mark Spence: If you could ask yourself hey, I want to give you an extra month back when you were this age, what would you do with it?
• 30:43
  Ray Comfort: You'd have more energy you'd be, more focused.
• 30:47
  Mark Spence: I would sleep with that amount of time, but it may we redeem the time, you know, knowing the days are evil.
• 30:53
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, yeah, and I think that we can relate to that disdain that the priest had for that man.
• 31:04
  Emeal Zwayne: It's like in our culture and in our society there are certain people that have been pigeonholed because of their appearance, because of their lifestyle, because of their social status and I think that we are just prone, naturally, to want to stay away.
• 31:25
  Emeal Zwayne: And one of the principles and if you guys remember I did the whole alphabet literated thing one of them is a W and that's witness willingly to whosoever, because everyone needs the gospel.
• 31:38
  Emeal Zwayne: That's really good.
• 31:39
  Oscar Navarro: I think it's important here to have a good theological understanding as to why God calls us to care for the poor and the reason why and this might sound controversial if you don't have a good theological understanding of Imago Dei but hang in there with me you better define Imago Dei for me.
• 31:58
  Oscar Navarro: I'm going to in just a second.
• 31:59
  Oscar Navarro: So a theological reason for caring for the poor is not so that we can preach the gospel to them.
• 32:05
  Oscar Navarro: Okay, what I mean by that is that God calls us to care for the poor because they are image bearers of God, because there is something in them that reflects the glory of God, and so when you love them, you love God.
• 32:20
  Oscar Navarro: Matthew 25, verse 40, for I was hungry and you gave me food.
• 32:24
  Oscar Navarro: I was thirsty and you gave me drink.
• 32:26
  Oscar Navarro: I was a stranger and you welcomed me.
• 32:28
  Oscar Navarro: I was naked and you clothed me.
• 32:29
  Oscar Navarro: I was sick and you visited me.
• 32:31
  Oscar Navarro: I was in prison and you came to me.
• 32:33
  Oscar Navarro: Then the righteous will answer him saying Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?
• 32:39
  Oscar Navarro: When did we see you, a stranger, and welcome you, or naked and clothed you?
• 32:43
  Oscar Navarro: And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you, and the king will answer them Truly.
• 32:50
  Oscar Navarro: I say to you, as you did to one of the least of these, my brothers, you did it to me.
• 32:57
  Oscar Navarro: He is not saying I'm going to secretly show up and clothe myself as a poor person because you never know when I'm going to surprise you.
• 33:02
  Oscar Navarro: That'd be bad theology if you thought that's what he was saying.
• 33:05
  Oscar Navarro: What he's saying is that every single one of these people out here are image-bearers, and when you clothe and sick and care for their needs, you care for me, because I was the one that came in human form and so this is important for because this is ultimately what happens there are some people who diminish the value of caring for the sick and emphasize only preaching the gospel, and then there are those who de-emphasize preaching the gospel and all they care about is caring for the sick.
• 33:34
  Oscar Navarro: But God's command to us to go into the world.
• 33:37
  Oscar Navarro: He gives us two feet and one of those feet is the preaching of the gospel and the other of those feet is caring for the sick, and those two things are two sides of the same coin that we have to be doing at all times.
• 33:50
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, for sure, mark.
• 33:52
  Emeal Zwayne: I'd love for you to comment on the element within the Christian realm today where people are stirred to go and do good things but not do what Oscar said and hit both sides of that.
• 34:07
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean, you remember when Paul was Paul and Barnabas were commissioned and Galatians, he said the only thing they asked us is that we remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do.
• 34:15
  Emeal Zwayne: So there is that element, unquestionably.
• 34:18
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean, when Jesus had compassion on the multitude in Mark 6, he began to teach them, but then he told the disciples to feed them.
• 34:24
  Emeal Zwayne: He had compassion on them because they were weary, they'd been following them, listening to them.
• 34:27
  Emeal Zwayne: So, yeah, both sides of that coin.
• 34:30
  Emeal Zwayne: But there are movements today that just no, no, no, let's just love them and hopefully they'll realize that we were Christians and then they fail to share the gospel, you're saying yeah, yeah.
• 34:41
  Mark Spence: I honestly think one needs to lead to the other, because if you are going to be loving on someone, the absolute best thing you can do is to give them what they need the most, which is the gospel.
• 34:54
  Mark Spence: Right, and this is why Greg Bonson was such a firm believer.
• 34:58
  Mark Spence: When talking to the unbeliever and you get into an apologetical certified, you never get to the gospel, you're cruel and you're proud.
• 35:03
  Mark Spence: We have to get to the gospel, because the gospel is what sets people free.
• 35:08
  Mark Spence: It's that word you on Gileon.
• 35:09
  Mark Spence: It means good news.
• 35:11
  Mark Spence: It creates a joy inexpressible and full of glory inside of someone once they realize that their sins are forgiven.
• 35:19
  Mark Spence: So, make no mistake about it.
• 35:21
  Mark Spence: I want to be rich in good works.
• 35:22
  Mark Spence: We are rich in good works towards friends and family and our neighbors, but when I'm in a conversation with someone or when I'm rich in a good work, I'm leading to something.
• 35:31
  Mark Spence: Yeah, there's a reason, honestly, why I'm talking to you, and that is because I want to get to the gospel.
• 35:36
  Mark Spence: I don't want to just fill your mouth with food.
• 35:38
  Mark Spence: I don't want to just do that, though.
• 35:40
  Mark Spence: I want you to be satisfied to some degree.
• 35:42
  Mark Spence: I want you to be set free from a life of sin that will ultimately lead to death, and if I don't want to get there, if something is lacking because of that, then there's something lacking in me.
• 35:56
  Mark Spence: I used to think, when I'd borrow my parents' car when they weren't a Christian, that if I set their preset radio stations to Christian stations, that's kind of the way of me sharing the gospel.
• 36:05
  Mark Spence: Or when I would tell somebody God bless you, that was my way of sharing the gospel, but that's so false.
• 36:13
  Mark Spence: You know that the gospel is the life, death, burial, resurrection of Jesus Christ, and if you don't get to that, well then you're holding back that which they need the most.
• 36:21
  Mark Spence: And the food is actually to be despised for the sake and the cost of what the gospel is actually worth.
• 36:26
  Ray Comfort: You gotta leave the radio on the podcast, yeah, podcast, yeah.
• 36:29
  Ray Comfort: What were you thinking?
• 36:31
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, to me, one of the most detestable thoughts is that I do something for someone and they walk away thinking what a nice person.
• 36:41
  Mark Spence: See, there is good in the world.
• 36:43
  Emeal Zwayne: Right Rather than oh.
• 36:44
  Emeal Zwayne: That's associated with that gospel.
• 36:48
  Emeal Zwayne: That's why this person is loving me and caring for me in this way.
• 36:51
  Ray Comfort: You show them, I'll go back and slap their face.
• 36:53
  Ray Comfort: This reason I did this is for the gospel sake.
• 36:55
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, the world standard of the Good Samaritan is so different than the biblical understanding of it.
• 37:02
  Ray Comfort: Christmas usually they'll show on television a Good Samaritan giving $100 bills away to people and they say what a Good Samaritan, because he's kind of rich and that's why he's doing it.
• 37:11
  Ray Comfort: But I like the fact that you mentioned was to Denario.
• 37:14
  Ray Comfort: He gave to the innkeeper.
• 37:16
  Ray Comfort: That's two days wages.
• 37:18
  Mark Spence: Yeah, two days wages, that's a lot of money Two days wages, like Jeff Bezos wages, of course.
• 37:23
  Mark Spence: That's what I was thinking.
• 37:25
  Ray Comfort: How much is that?
• 37:26
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, it's relative.
• 37:28
  Ray Comfort: But then when he said I'll pay back anything he spends, no, he's got a check account and he can just go for it.
• 37:34
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, and you know, there was something in this lawyer, obviously, that recognized hey, this is right, and he should have known this.
• 37:43
  Emeal Zwayne: He should have been familiar with God's word, with the law.
• 37:45
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean.
• 37:45
  Emeal Zwayne: Leviticus 1934, the stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself for your strangers in the land of Egypt.
• 37:55
  Emeal Zwayne: Good work, mark.
• 37:56
  Emeal Zwayne: That's what Mark's doing, vindication.
• 38:00
  Emeal Zwayne: But you know what I'm saying.
• 38:01
  Emeal Zwayne: Like there was an understanding of that, calling to love, like that.
• 38:05
  Emeal Zwayne: You know Psalm 137, 21,.
• 38:07
  Emeal Zwayne: The wicked borrows and does not pay back, but the righteous is gracious and gives.
• 38:11
  Emeal Zwayne: Micah 6, 8, he has told you, oh man, what is good and what does the Lord require of you?
• 38:17
  Emeal Zwayne: But to do justice, to love, kindness and to walk humbly with your God.
• 38:22
  Emeal Zwayne: So so you know, in the parable crisis conveying that this man should have understood this of anyone who you know, who's a lawyer, and he's driving home that point to him of hey, you profess to be a lover of God, you're not.
• 38:38
  Emeal Zwayne: It's evidenced by the fact you don't love your neighbor.
• 38:41
  Emeal Zwayne: You know, when Jesus talked about we have see other accounts of this in the other gospels, but when he talked about this, he said to love your neighbor as yourself.
• 38:49
  Emeal Zwayne: He said the second like it.
• 38:51
  Emeal Zwayne: Like it is this he interrelates love of God with love of people and it should be manifested and demonstrated in that way.
• 39:00
  Emeal Zwayne: We love like this.
• 39:03
  Ray Comfort: And Jesus and giving him the essence of God's law was laying the weight of the law on his shoulders so that it would bring him, broken, to the foot of the cross.
• 39:12
  Ray Comfort: That's the purpose of the law to show us that we haven't pleased God.
• 39:16
  Ray Comfort: In our own efforts.
• 39:17
  Ray Comfort: We can't do it.
• 39:17
  Ray Comfort: None of us have loved our neighbors as self.
• 39:19
  Ray Comfort: None of us love God with heart, mind, soul and strength, and that should bring us to a point of self.
• 39:23
  Ray Comfort: Oh God, I've been a wretch.
• 39:24
  Ray Comfort: I've been an unthankful, unloving wretch and I need your mercy.
• 39:29
  Ray Comfort: I need a new heart.
• 39:30
  Ray Comfort: You know the love of Christ will dwell on me.
• 39:32
  Oscar Navarro: You know, if I'm being honest, I and I think, I.
• 39:37
  Oscar Navarro: That's true.
• 39:38
  Oscar Navarro: If I'm being honest, which I'm always being honest I have a hard time with this.
• 39:42
  Oscar Navarro: I think I may have shared on this podcast before, but maybe not.
• 39:45
  Oscar Navarro: When I first became a Christian, one of the first things that I signed up for was giving food to the homeless.
• 39:50
  Oscar Navarro: Like it was like one Friday a month we would go and hand out sandwiches and we'd get in conversations with them, we'd share the gospel with them.
• 39:57
  Oscar Navarro: We were doing it the right way, praying for them.
• 40:00
  Oscar Navarro: One thing that I noticed personal observation is is that the homeless were incredibly manipulative.
• 40:05
  Oscar Navarro: I remember one time this guy walks up, I hand him a sandwich and he's like thank you so much, thank you.
• 40:13
  Oscar Navarro: And I was like hey, man, can I just tell you why we're out here?
• 40:15
  Oscar Navarro: And I share the gospel with him and he starts weeping and he's just like thank you so much.
• 40:20
  Oscar Navarro: He's giving me a hug and he's like, man, this changed my life forever.
• 40:24
  Oscar Navarro: Like, hey, but man, could I get one more sandwich for my friend?
• 40:27
  Oscar Navarro: I'm like, yeah, sure, here you go.
• 40:28
  Oscar Navarro: And he leaves and I was like Cloud nine, you know, like this guy just got saved.
• 40:33
  Oscar Navarro: Like I gave him a sandwich and share the gospel with them and he said he's going to transform his life and the next Friday that we were out there, I'm in, I'm like I got a line in front of me and there's another line and I see him in that line and I'm like all excited for him.
• 40:46
  Oscar Navarro: I'm hoping that I get to have a conversation to see how his month has been.
• 40:49
  Oscar Navarro: You know now that he's a believer and he gets to the front and he, he like, asked the person hey, what are you guys out here for?
• 40:55
  Oscar Navarro: And my buddy shares the gospel with him and he starts crying.
• 40:58
  Oscar Navarro: He's like man I never heard it before.
• 41:00
  Oscar Navarro: This changed my life he gives him a big old hug and he's like, could I get one more sandwich from you?
• 41:05
  Oscar Navarro: And he gives him the extra sandwich.
• 41:06
  Oscar Navarro: And I was just like so defeated, you know, just so discouraged and, to be honest with you, that affected the way I viewed giving to the homeless for a really long time, or caring for those who are sick, not to mention.
• 41:20
  Oscar Navarro: It's in our capitalistic nature to look at those who are poor and think man, you got to pick yourselves up by your bootstraps, you put yourself in that situation and you got to get yourself out of it.
• 41:32
  Oscar Navarro: There's plenty of help around you.
• 41:33
  Oscar Navarro: You got to help yourself.
• 41:36
  Oscar Navarro: And I came across this quote by this Scottish preacher and it hit me like a ton of bricks.
• 41:41
  Oscar Navarro: He says now, dear Christians, some of you pray night and day to be branches of the true vine.
• 41:47
  Oscar Navarro: You pray to be made all over in the image of Christ.
• 41:51
  Oscar Navarro: If so, you must be like him in giving.
• 41:54
  Oscar Navarro: Though he was rich, yet for our sakes, he became poor.
• 41:58
  Oscar Navarro: Objection my money is my own.
• 42:00
  Oscar Navarro: Answer Hmm, well, christ might have said my blood is my own, my life is my own.
• 42:06
  Oscar Navarro: Then, where should you have been?
• 42:08
  Oscar Navarro: Objection the poor are undeserving.
• 42:11
  Oscar Navarro: Answer Well, christ might have said they were wicked rebels.
• 42:15
  Oscar Navarro: Shall I lay down my life for these?
• 42:18
  Oscar Navarro: I will give to the good angels and the deserving poor.
• 42:21
  Oscar Navarro: But no, he left the ninety-nine and came after the lost.
• 42:25
  Oscar Navarro: He gave his blood for the undeserving.
• 42:27
  Oscar Navarro: Objection If I give my charity to the poor, they may abuse it.
• 42:32
  Oscar Navarro: Answer Christ might have said the same thing with far greater truth.
• 42:37
  Oscar Navarro: Christ knew that thousands would trample his blood under their feet, that most would despise it, that many would make an excuse for sinning more, and yet he gave his own blood.
• 42:47
  Oscar Navarro: He goes on to say my dear Christians, if you would be like Christ, give much, give often, give freely To the vile and the poor, the thankless and the undeserving.
• 42:58
  Oscar Navarro: Christ is glorious and happy, and so will you be.
• 43:03
  Oscar Navarro: It is not your money he wants, but your happiness.
• 43:06
  Oscar Navarro: Remember his own words it is more happy, it is more blessed to give than to receive.
• 43:13
  Ray Comfort: That's so good, Oscar.
• 43:14
  Ray Comfort: You should have done that in a Scottish accent.
• 43:16
  Ray Comfort: Oh, you know what to do.
• 43:20
  Emeal Zwayne: You know, mark, in my message that I preach on compassion, I often talk about how, you know, it's easy for us to look at like the homeless person like Oscar's talking about, and to have that attitude of they're just a shyster, they're just ripping people off, they're lazy, they're.
• 43:37
  Emeal Zwayne: Or, you know, we can look at the homosexual or the transgender so they're just so immoral, that's just so depraved.
• 43:43
  Emeal Zwayne: Or even at the rich person oh, they're just.
• 43:46
  Emeal Zwayne: You know, they're arrogant and they think they're better than everyone else.
• 43:49
  Emeal Zwayne: But none of that changes the fact.
• 43:51
  Emeal Zwayne: No matter who we're talking about, doesn't change the fact that they're lost.
• 43:56
  Emeal Zwayne: They still need compassion in the gospel, no matter even if they are being deceptive, even if they are arrogant, even if they are in grotesques.
• 44:05
  Emeal Zwayne: And they need compassion and we need to bring them the gospel.
• 44:09
  Mark Spence: That's exactly right.
• 44:10
  Mark Spence: Listen, when we give, we're not giving to people as much as we are giving to Jesus.
• 44:17
  Mark Spence: When Oscar read that, the way I interpret that is what they do it.
• 44:22
  Mark Spence: That is completely up to them.
• 44:23
  Mark Spence: I cannot give my money when I tie them, give it to the church, or I give money towards different other nonprofit organizations and then tell them how exactly they are to spend that money.
• 44:33
  Mark Spence: Right, when I give it, I give it as on to the Lord.
• 44:36
  Mark Spence: So if they choose to do good with it or to do bad with it, whatever, that's none of my business.
• 44:41
  Mark Spence: The motive is everything.
• 44:43
  Mark Spence: Why are you doing what you're doing?
• 44:45
  Mark Spence: Now, easy, you used to live off of a street called Liverpool, which I then moved into the same apartment that you live in when you moved out.
• 44:52
  Mark Spence: But I remember it was just an apartment.
• 44:54
  Mark Spence: You did not own this apartment and you had some really terrible linoleum inside of this apartment and I remember you spending your own money to put in some really nice tile inside of this apartment and I remember looking at that and I remember going to you and saying easy, what are you thinking?
• 45:13
  Mark Spence: This is not your apartment, why would you do this?
• 45:16
  Mark Spence: This is a transitionary place where you're going to move on to a different place.
• 45:20
  Mark Spence: Why are you doing this?
• 45:21
  Mark Spence: And I remember you responding I don't know if you remember this whole encounter, but I remember you responding and saying listen, the money that is in my possession, the stuff that I have, it's not mine.
• 45:30
  Mark Spence: I pass it on.
• 45:31
  Mark Spence: Who's to say this isn't going to be a witness for the next person that's going to live here?
• 45:34
  Mark Spence: And to Alice, who was the one who was in charge of that place.
• 45:38
  Mark Spence: And I remember just walking away, just kind of going this poor guy doesn't know what he's doing.
• 45:42
  Mark Spence: Who's going to be the beneficiary?
• 45:45
  Mark Spence: And even know that you did this Not knowing that I was the person who moved into that apartment and was now enjoying the tile that you had paid for to be put inside of an apartment that somebody else owned.
• 45:58
  Mark Spence: So when we give, we give not to a landlady or to a poor person or to somebody else.
• 46:04
  Mark Spence: We're giving as on the Lord, and what the Lord does with it is completely up to him, and it's okay with us whatever he wants to do, Is it not his anyways?
• 46:11
  Mark Spence: So amen, Amen.
• 46:14
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, the bill is still coming for that tile.
• 46:19
  Ray Comfort: I was going to say the line in our kitchen is wearing out.
• 46:21
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, it's so important for us to step back and examine our hearts when it comes to you know how we are.
• 46:31
  Emeal Zwayne: As I said, the parable Jesus is conveying really true regeneration here and, like I said, it's manifested by how we truly fulfill the greatest commandments loving God, which is evidence through loving people.
• 46:44
  Emeal Zwayne: And I love what CS Lewis had said.
• 46:46
  Emeal Zwayne: You know he said we oftentimes justify not loving individuals by loving humanity with a capital H.
• 46:54
  Emeal Zwayne: Loving people in general rather than specifically, like I love them over there.
• 47:00
  Emeal Zwayne: Those are people I love, they are individuals I care about versus I love him, I love her, and really what that ends up translating into is the sacrifice of our time and our comfort and our energy.
• 47:16
  Emeal Zwayne: And we don't end money and our money, yeah, and we don't naturally gravitate toward that.
• 47:21
  Emeal Zwayne: We gravitate toward self gratification and my prayer is that we'll come to a place where we recognize what we need to do.
• 47:28
  Emeal Zwayne: You know, I just watched a movie last night with Rachel, my daughter that is.
• 47:32
  Emeal Zwayne: It's probably the most haunting movie I've ever seen.
• 47:36
  Emeal Zwayne: It's called the Sound of Freedom and it's about the sex trade that's going on.
• 47:41
  Emeal Zwayne: And I'm aware of the sex trade but, to my shame, I'm not as aware of it as I should be, and that's why we went to see the movie.
• 47:48
  Emeal Zwayne: It's one of the.
• 47:49
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean, it's one of the times we made an exception.
• 47:52
  Emeal Zwayne: We almost never do when there's profanity in a movie and things like that.
• 47:55
  Emeal Zwayne: There's maybe three or four.
• 47:56
  Emeal Zwayne: A couple of them are in Spanish but subtitled.
• 47:59
  Emeal Zwayne: But we made that exception because we wanted it to really grasp us and understand it.
• 48:04
  Emeal Zwayne: And I started crying for probably the first 30 seconds of the movie and it broke me.
• 48:09
  Emeal Zwayne: What's going on out there?
• 48:11
  Emeal Zwayne: But the, but the.
• 48:11
  Emeal Zwayne: It's a true story.
• 48:12
  Emeal Zwayne: But the main character in there, when his boss was telling him they had to end the mission because he worked for the you know, for the government, he said why, why are you doing this.
• 48:22
  Emeal Zwayne: And he looked at him with tears in his eyes and he said because I care, because I care, he sacrificed his career, he quit his job, did it as a private citizen, sacrificed you know, almost sacrificed his life to go into these crazy territories to save these kids.
• 48:37
  Emeal Zwayne: And it just, it touched me, it convicted me and I think we, as Christians, need to stop and think.
• 48:43
  Emeal Zwayne: What are we doing for the sake of the gospel?
• 48:46
  Emeal Zwayne: What are we doing in our love for the lost?
• 48:49
  Emeal Zwayne: We have the perfect example, and that was Jesus.
• 48:51
  Emeal Zwayne: He paid the highest price ever paid to redeem us.
• 48:54
  Emeal Zwayne: What are we going to do?
• 48:56
  Oscar Navarro: It's really good.
• 48:56
  Oscar Navarro: I think it would be easy to listen to this podcast and feel convicted about what you haven't done and I love the way you just finished that, because the thing about the gospel it's not about what you're not doing, what you need to do.
• 49:12
  Oscar Navarro: The truth about the gospel and the truth about the gospel and the good Samaritan is also about what has been done.
• 49:18
  Oscar Navarro: And I think verse 35 is a light into where Christ is in this gospel and that is it says in the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying take care of him and whatever more you spin, I will repay you when I come back.
• 49:34
  Oscar Navarro: That's the part, because the thing is, back then, if he, if this person, had cured a debt, he would end up a slave.
• 49:41
  Oscar Navarro: He would end up a slave to the innkeeper until he had to pay off that debt.
• 49:46
  Oscar Navarro: And what this person is doing in that moment is stopping at no ends to make sure this person is not only healed, cleansed, cleaned, but saved from slavery.
• 49:57
  Oscar Navarro: And it is Jesus that is our good Samaritan.
• 49:59
  Oscar Navarro: It is Jesus that we are a helpless flesh of meat because of our sins, with no gain of his own.
• 50:07
  Oscar Navarro: He comes alongside and he pours out his grace and love on us.
• 50:11
  Oscar Navarro: He cleans us up widest snow and he saves us from the enslaving, reigning power of sin by paying a debt that we could not pay.
• 50:21
  Oscar Navarro: And so why do we go out and love others?
• 50:25
  Oscar Navarro: It's not to prove our salvation, it's not to earn it, it's not to gain it or keep it, it's not because we feel guilty.
• 50:34
  Oscar Navarro: It's because so much has been poured out on us that, essentially, it's just an overflow of love and grace and compassion that we receive from God.
• 50:44
  Oscar Navarro: Amen.
• 50:45
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, demonstration of our gratitude.
• 50:47
  Emeal Zwayne: All right, friends, there you have it.
• 50:49
  Emeal Zwayne: Wow, we went longer than normal today, but for good reason, and so I'll make this ending short.
• 50:55
  Emeal Zwayne: Remember to check out the Bible's four Gospels, the Living Waters Mug, the Adventist Bible at LivingWaterscom.
• 51:00
  Emeal Zwayne: Email us at podcastLivingWaterscom and continue to shine for the Lord.
• 51:05
  Emeal Zwayne: Thank you for joining us.
• 51:06
  Emeal Zwayne: We'll see you here next time on the Living Waters podcast, where we have no idea what we're doing.