10G# The Parable of the Good Samaritan

Luke 10:25-37 The Good Samaritan - Story Summary:

 Jesus Christ's parable of the Good Samaritan was prompted by a question from a lawyer: And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" (Luke 10:25, ESV)

Jesus asked him what was written in the law, and the man responded: "You shall 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 your neighbor as yourself." (Luke 10:27, ESV)

 Pressing further, the lawyer asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?"

 In parable form, Jesus told of a man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho. Robbers attacked him, took his possessions and clothes, beat him, and left him half dead.

 A priest came down the road, saw the injured man, and passed by him on the other side. A Levite passing by did the same.

 A Samaritan, a race hated by the Jews, saw the hurt man and had compassion on him. He poured oil and wine on his wounds, bound them up, then put the man on his donkey. The Samaritan took him to an inn and cared for him.

 The next morning, the Samaritan gave two denarii to the innkeeper for the man's care and promised to repay him on his way back for any other expenses.

 Jesus asked the lawyer which of the three men had been a neighbor. The lawyer answered that the Samaritan was the one who showed mercy and so was a neighbor.

 Then Jesus told him, "You go and do likewise." (Luke 10:37, ESV)

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Samaritans are still out there btw    I mean the people, they still exist in the Middle East though probably not for long the way ISIS is going.  Historically Samaritan is the the name given to the new and mixed inhabitants whom Esarhaddon (B.C. 677), the king of Assyria, and devotee of Bal, brought from Babylon and other places and settled in the cities of Samaria, displacing the original inhabitants ( 2 Kings 17:24 ; Compare Ezra 4:2 Ezra 4:9 Ezra 4:10 )

The bitter enmity between the Jews and Samaritans continued in the time of our Lord: the Jews had "no dealings with the Samaritans" ( John 4:9 ; Compare Luke 9:52 Luke 9:53 ). Our Lord was in contempt called "a Samaritan" ( John 8:48 ), hence the pun here in this parable to those listening.

10# Chapter i.33-41 The necessity of Christ

[Pryr-1.1-33] Now that the Soul, once fallen, is in a real State of Death. It is a a Doctrine not only plain from the whole Tenor of Scripture, but affirmed in all of Divinity. For all hold, and teach, that Man unredeemed, must have fallen into a State of Misery, like that of the fallen Angels and "That Man in his fallen State, and unredeemed, must have been eternally lost."




[Pryr-1.1-34] On the other Hand, Jesus Christ helps this Fall Soul to a new Birth, this time of the Light and Spirit of God, which was extinguished by his Fall. For Redemption, or Recovery of Man, means Regeneration so that Man's Misery at having lost the Life and Light of Heaven from his Soul, could be Delivered from his fallen State.




[Pryr-1.1-35] If Angels had come down from Heaven to assure him, that God had no Anger at him, he would still have been in the same helpless State; if instead they ad they told him, that God had Pity and Compassion towards him, would good would that do? He would still have been yet been unhelped; because knowing the situation would not have changed the outcome of Life which he had lost.




[Pryr-1.1-36] The Gospel tells us of a certain Man who fell among Thieves, who stripped him, and wounded him, and left him half dead; that first a Priest, then a Levite coming that Way, both of them avoided the poor Man, by passing on the other Side.




[Pryr-1.1-37] Here it is plain that this Priest and Levite left the poor Man in the same helpless State in which they found him. Let it now be supposed, that instead of going on the other Side of the Road, they had come up to him, and poured Oil and Wine into his Wounds, but only figuratively and that they had spoken such Words to him, Words so soft, so oily, and reviving, that in a just Figure of Speech, they might be as though pouring of Wine and Oil into his Wounds. Now that they had done this, isn't it true that the poor Man's Wounds and his Nakedness were still literally there? Yes, because the poor Man was naked, and wounded, not in a figurative Sense of the Words, but really and truly, and therefore could have no Help or Benefit, from figurative oils, but would need literal ones.




[Pryr-1.1-38] This is true also for as Adam, who had extinguished the Light and Spirit of God in himself.
[Pryr-1.1-39] And once the Soul is dead, that which we receive from God, there are No Powers, no Abilities of the highest Order of Creatures, could kindle the least Spark of it in Adams, or help him to the least Glimpse of that heavenly Light which he had lost, because in the same Reality, they were as born of Flesh as he and could not give what they did not have.

[Pryr-1.1-40] But tell me, if this is new Birth is not just a Part, but instead the Whole Reason of our Salvation, how then is not Every Thing in Religion, from the Beginning to the end of Time, only for the Sake of it. Nothing does us any Good, but either as it helps bring forward our Regeneration.

[Pryr-1.1-41] So all the glad Tidings of the Gospel, all the Benefits of our Saviour, however variously expressed in Scripture, all center in this one Point, that he is our Light, our Life, our Resurrection, our Holiness and Salvation; that we are in Him new Creatures, created again unto Righteousness, born again of Him, from above, of the Spirit of God. Every Thing in the Gospel is for the Sake of this new Creature, Man in Christ Jesus, and nothing is without it. 

#9.1. Figuratively speaking

This poem Mother to Son by Langston Hughes, is a great example of figurative writing.

Well, son, I'll tell you:

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

It's had tacks in it,

And splinters,

And boards torn up,

And places with no carpet on the floor—

Bare.

But all the time

I'se been a-climbin' on,

And reachin' landin's,

And turnin' corners,

And sometimes goin' in the dark

Where there ain't been no light. 

So, boy, don't you turn back.

Don't you set down on the steps.

'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.

Don't you fall now—

For I'se (I is) still goin', honey,

I'se still climbin',

And life for me ain't been no crystal stair. 

#9 A literal redemption is required.

[Pryr-1.1-26] So there was nothing that kept Adam out of the Hell of Fallen Angels, and now  his Body was as mortal as it was in the Beasts, and so now he lay at the Mercy of a thousand Accidents, that could any  Moment take his life from him, and this is was his fallen State, standing as it were on the Brinks of Hell, liable every Moment to be pushed into it.


[Pryr-1.1-27] So there is now an absolute Necessity that a new Birth, must be of Word, a Son, and of Spirit , that Scripture speaks  of , because our  new Soul, was now dead to, and separate from the Kingdom of Heaven, having lost the Light and Spirit of God on its own account.  Therefore  it is now incapable of entering into Heaven, until by a  new Birth, a new Soul receives from on High,  its first Heavenly Nature.


[Pryr-1.1-28] If you have  nothing of this New Birth when thy Body dies, then you have only the  Root of Life in Thee, the same as which the Devils have, and so you are  as far from Heaven,  as they are; and thy Nature is their Nature, and therefore  their result and habits must also be yours.  For there is nothing that can possibly hinder thy Union with Fallen Angels, when thou die, 


[Pryr-1.1-29] How pitiable, therefore, or rather how hurtful is that Learning, which uses all its Art of Words, avoids and loses the true Sense of our Saviour's Doctrine concerning the new Birth, which is necessary to fallen Man, by holding, that the Passages asserting the new Birth, are only figurative, and not really a Birth, or Growth of a new Nature, and that just embracing or declaring a Baptism of the Spirit one is whole with God.


[Pryr-1.1-30] ...because a metaphorical  Meaning is accepted, no matter how Skillful in Words they are, they are also utterly inconsistent with the plain, and fundamental Doctrines of Scripture.


Pryr-1.1-31] Let it be supposed, that a human Body had lost the Light, and Air of this World, and was in a State of Death, could we tell them that  Birth, Light and Air, are sometimes, and upon some Occasions, only just a metaphor and that symbolically they have Light and Air and Life, and have plenty to breathe, if they would breathe it metaphorically.  Would that be of comfort & help them?  I doubt that man grasping for air 20 fathoms beneath the sea would acquiesce to that idea and take delight, and how could they?


[Pryr-1.1-32] This is exactly the Case of the Fallen Soul,who is in  the same State of Death until  anew Birth of the Light,  filled with the Spirit of God can be brought forth into it again. Therefore it is a Neccessity  that understanding these Words in their literal Meaning is imperative for a new life, just like the the Absurdity of a figurative  or metaphorical Sense makes it Impossible.