4/7/2018 Service - Steve Kinnard/Ryan Erbe

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Service: The Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) 
-red road/bloody road - actually notorious dangerous road 
-man was not only stripped and robbed but beaten and left half dead 
-priest represented people before God - had to to be decsendant of Aaron 
-scared - didn't trust man- thought he would Rob him - can think of if the man is dead can't touch him because he would become unclean 
-levite - servant to the priest - holy people in Israelite 
-could be thinking the same as the priest  
-both had opportunity to live out the title of what they are - both focused on what the outcome would be  
-had opportunity to do God's work but didn't want to tarnish there rep 
-we do the same - we shy away from what Jesus would do 
-Sirach - "two nation's my soul detests, and the third is not even a people. Those who live in Seir, and the Philistines, and the foolish people that live in Schechem"  
-the hate for the Samaritans - similar to Nazis and Jew but not intense like Holocaust 
-the Samartian in the parable is suppose to be the one that is suppose to be the bad guy - it's like Jesus talking to a Yankee fan (the lawyer) and then other Yankee fans are walking by (of course they are gonna help - preist and levite) but a red Sox fan walks by (of course he won't help because red Sox fans are horrible - Samaritan- but he helps) -"this is the ah-ha moment" 
-how to be more neighborly - we are all neighbors - we can't choose our neighbors 
-Shows mercy, shows love - what we have to do - "do like wise" 
-Howard Thurman book - we allow three things that holds us back is: fear, deception, and hate  
-the only thing that can defeat all these: love - Jesus  
-dont make barriers - tear them down - don't divide - love one another - be the sledgehammer - be the difference maker  
-love is the answer - Jesus is the answer 
-church was and still is the most segregated time of day - goes against Jesus-"almost beyond redemption" 
-jesus's love and light sees no color 
-we are all the same - we are all made in the image of God  

Sermon Notes: https://nyccoc.net/sermon/the-parable-of-the-good-samaritan/

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