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The Good Samaritan – Part 1

Luke 10:25-37.

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1. The Lord Jesus is here responding to the questions of a lawyer. He is a man considered to be an expert in the Law of God, the Mosaic Law.
The use of the word “certain” indicates the authenticity, the “factualness” of this record!

2. The man was there to test the Saviour. That is what the word “tempt” means. He asks a very vital question. It goes to the very heart of true religion and raises the matter that all men should consider. “Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” Verse 25.
This man was not sincere or genuine but was there to try and trip the Saviour up.

3. Note the word “stood”. He had doubtless been sitting listening to the Saviour preach. But he was not benefitted by the Saviour’s words. His heart was hostile to the Saviour. That is how it is with almost all hearers!

4. Please note the Saviour’s response. “He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?” Verse 26.
The Saviour treated him according to what he claimed to be – an expert in the Law. ‘What then does the Law, of which you are a teacher, say?’ The Word of God was ever the Saviour’s authority and rule!

5. The Lord does not go along with the insincere questions of men! He did not dismiss the man but turned his own question upon himself. You cannot ‘fool’ with God! The Lord Jesus knew all about this man. He was aware of the trap he was seeking to set. He, in turn, sets a trap for the man.

6. The man gives a very good answer. “And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself,” verse 27. He did indeed know what the Law of God taught!

7. The Saviour in turn gives a gracious and wise response. “And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live,” verse 28.
Doubtless, the Saviour’s response frustrated the plan of the man to entrap the Saviour. He was left with an answer which he himself had provided. He could not fault the Saviour. Oh how wise is the Lord!

Parable of the Fishing Net, Matthew 13:47-50, continued.

A DESIGNATED CONCLUSION. When the shore is reached, the catch is examined. “Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away,” verse 48. Presently we are sailing homeward toward the shores of heaven. But when the journey ends, when the fishermen have finished their work, there will be a day of judgment for those in the net. See Hebs 4:1-2.

THE DIVINE AGENTS. “So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth,” verses 49-50. This concurs with Matt 24:30-31. “And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”

A DIVISION EXECUTED. In Matt 24 the angels gather the saints but in our parable the angels gather the wicked. In Matt 24 the Saviour is comforting His people. In Matt 13 He is preaching the gospel and warning the lost of their fate unless they get saved.
This word ‘world’, it is the Greek word aion, or AGE. At the end of this age there will a judgment of ‘Christendom’. This not the judgment of the ‘great white throne’, Rev 20:11-15. That is the judgment of the wicked. Here we are looking at the judgment of the professing church, Matt 25:31-46. Note the reference to the angels, Matt 13:49, 25:31. It is that day when: “God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel,” Rom 2:16. See 2 Cor 5:10; Matt 3:10 (Note HIS floor, HIS wheat); Ps 1:5; 1 Cor 4:5.
I ask the question the Saviour asked. “Have ye understood all these things?” verse 51. WELL, HAVE YOU??

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Parable of the Fishing Net, Matthew 13:47-50, continued.

THERE WERE GOOD AND BAD FISH IN THE NET.

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind,” verse 47.

The word “again” indicates just how keen the Lord is to get this truth across to His hearers. He would have understand the truth concerning His kingdom.

1. Notice the fishing ends when the net is full. “Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, ” verse 48. The Saviour said to Paul on one occasion.: “For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city,” Acts 18:10. See John 10:16; Acts 15:14. The Saviour is seeking to ‘catch’ in the gospel net a certain people, His elect. “God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name,” Acts 15:14. They come from the deepest and darkest places. Out of such the Lord draws many sinners. “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God,” 1 Cor 6:9-11. Not until the net is full will gospel fishing end in this age!

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