Loving Others the Way Only You Can
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Read - (2 1/2 minutes) - "On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus, ‘Teacher,’ he asked, ‘what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ What is written in the law?’ He replied. ‘How do you read it?’ He answered: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’, and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ‘You have answered correctly,’ Jesus replied. ‘Do this and you will live.’ But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbor?’ ”
(Luke 10:25-29)
Read: Psalm 86:1-12
Dr. Oscar Thompson was a Baptist pastor for twenty years who became a professor of evangelism at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in the mid 1970’s until his death from cancer in 1980. He wrote a book that was published after he died entitled Concentric Circles of Concern. The theme of the book is established in the opening paragraph when Thompson claimed that the most important word in the English language is relationship. Love is the greatest things, but relationship is the track that love moves on.
The expert in the law of God had the wrong idea of salvation in thinking he had to earn eternal life, but when Jesus asked how he read the law, he answered correctly. It doesn’t come through following a list of rules. It is a matter of love in relationships with God, yourself and others. When Jesus affirmed his answer, it hit him that that there were people he didn’t love, so he asked, “Who is my neighbor?” The parable of the Good Samaritan gives the answer to that question. Everyone is your neighbor and God wants you to love others in the way only you can.
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Read - (2 1/2 minutes) - "On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus, ‘Teacher,’ he asked, ‘what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ What is written in the law?’ He replied. ‘How do you read it?’ He answered: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’, and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ‘You have answered correctly,’ Jesus replied. ‘Do this and you will live.’ But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbor?’ ”
(Luke 10:25-29)
Read: Psalm 86:1-12
Dr. Oscar Thompson was a Baptist pastor for twenty years who became a professor of evangelism at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in the mid 1970’s until his death from cancer in 1980. He wrote a book that was published after he died entitled Concentric Circles of Concern. The theme of the book is established in the opening paragraph when Thompson claimed that the most important word in the English language is relationship. Love is the greatest things, but relationship is the track that love moves on.
The expert in the law of God had the wrong idea of salvation in thinking he had to earn eternal life, but when Jesus asked how he read the law, he answered correctly. It doesn’t come through following a list of rules. It is a matter of love in relationships with God, yourself and others. When Jesus affirmed his answer, it hit him that that there were people he didn’t love, so he asked, “Who is my neighbor?” The parable of the Good Samaritan gives the answer to that question. Everyone is your neighbor and God wants you to love others in the way only you can.
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