The In Touch Daily Devotional. Now available in easy to read large print. Order yours today. male announcer: “In Touch,” the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley. Next on “In Touch,” “A Modern-Day Samaritan.” Dr. Charles Stanley: Our text is one of the most familiar in all the Bible. In fact, people know about this text, who are not even Christians who know very little about the Bible, but they have heard of the Good Samaritan.
So I want us to look at this passage of scripture from the modern-day perspective, because these are certainly days when the spirit of the Samaritan needs to be absolutely evident in all of us who are believers. So if you’ll turn to the 10th chapter of Luke, I want us to read it so we’ll have a good background and you understand where we’re headed here.
The title of this message is “The Modern-Day Samaritan.” That’s us, we, all of us. So beginning in this 10th chapter, and let’s start with verse 25, Jesus was speaking. “And a lawyer stood up and put Him to the test,” putting Jesus to the test, “saying, ‘Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?'” Now this passage is not about how to get saved.
It’s about revealing to this man what his true attitude was and helping him to see what the issue was in his life while he thought it was something else. “He said, ‘What must I do to inherit eternal life?’ And so He said to him, ‘What is written in the law? How does it read to you?’ And he answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.
‘” It’s interesting that Jesus said it that way. “And so He said to him, ‘You have answered correctly; do this and you shall live.’ But wishing to justify himself, he said to Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbor?'” Jesus knew exactly what the problem was. And so, when you look at that, it’s a beautiful setting for what Jesus wanted to teach this man, and that is, it’s not just a matter of being good and following laws and so forth, it’s a matter of the heart.
