Profiles In Compassion: The Good Samaritan: Luke 10:25-37

Compassion Goes the Distance

Exodus 34:6-7 YAHWEH is Compassionate, Gracious, Slow to Anger, Full of Lovingkindness & Truth, Keeping Loving-kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity & sin.

1st A Question: What Must I do to Inherit Eternal Life?

2nd Another Question: Who Is My Neighbor?

Matthew 9:10-13 Love and Compassion Over Sacrifice:

The 5th person of the Story is the Samaritan: 33-55

3rd Still Another Question: Who Proves to Be the Neighbor? 36
The Compassionate One!

Romans 5:1-5: The Jesus Way, Precedes His Love

4th The Imperative: Go and Do the Same: 37

It’s What We Do:

¬ We See the One in Need!
¬ In Empathy, We Are Compassionate.
¬ We Draw Near to the One in Need.
¬ WE Embrace the Need as God’s Invitation to Make a Difference!
¬ We Go the Distance!
¬ We Promise to Return.

We Love Our Neighbor, our brothers and sisters.

1 John 4:7-11; 19-21: Loving God and Loving Your Neighbor

¬ Proves You are Born of God and Knows God. 7-8
¬ Proceeds God Loving You. 10
¬ Is Your Response To God’s Love For You! 19
¬ Assures That You Love God! 20

1 John 4:20 If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

If I say, “I love God,” and am consistently impatient with my brother, could I be a liar?

If I say, “I love God,” and am consistently unkind to my brother, could I be a liar?

If I say, “I love God,” and am consistently Jealous of my brother, could I be a liar?

If I say, “I love God,” and am consistently provoked by my neighbor

If I say, “I love God,” and consistently take into an account a wrong suffered by my brother, could I be a liar?

If I say, “I love God,” and consistently seeks my own above my brother’s, could I be a liar?
If I say, “I love God,” and consistently not bear all things for the sake of my brother, could I be a liar?