Minister: Rev. Olon M. Lindemood

Outline:

1. Good Samaritan is the core of Chapter 10 of Luke…. “Go and do likewise!”
2. Chapter 10 starts with seventy being sent out! Share the news… “The Kingdom of God has come near!” Go as lambs among wolves…
3. All power of the Holy Spirit is unleashed as they are out doing the work of Jesus…
4. JESUS REJOICES!  (how cool is that… Jesus REJOICES!  Don’t rejoice that the miracles happened… Rejoice that your names are written in heaven!
5. Now … Disciples Verses: 23, 24…”blessed are the eyes that see what you see!”
6. That is the moment that the lawyer steps up and says … what must I do to inherit eternal life….?
7. OH How we know this moment!  But Jesus … what must we do… Every thing seems so unfair!  We are broken / beaten … we can’t seem to get things right
   1. THE APOSTLE PAUL weighs in here!
   2. ROMANS: 8:35 and following
   3. 1CORINTHIANS: 11-13
   4. OH HOW we know that struggle that when our hearts are afraid…
   5. THIS PASTOR knows one truth … Nothing Separates us… from the Love of God through Christ Jesus our Lord.
8. What must we do… What must we do… Jesus is steady and the story unfolds… I am not going to tell you that story again… But … it is obvious that Jesus shows us that there are those who getting it done … and some are not… “Love the Lord your God with HEART, SOUL, STRENGTH, and MIND… and neighbor as yourself.” 
9. GO AND DO LIKEWISE…
10. YEAH… YEAH … like a locker room with raving mad football players ready to go out and conquest their opponents!  Growl!
11. After the Parable of the Good Samaritan is Jesus visiting the home of Mary and Martha…. Remember that moment…
12. Martha hosting … Mary sitting at Jesus feet..
13. HERE IT IS …. Here it is!  Martha, Martha, you are worried distracted by many things” …. Mary made the right choice…
14. THERE IS NEED OF ONLY ONE THING.
15. REVEALED IN PRAYER!
16. REVEALED IN PRAYER!
17. Sitting at the feet of Jesus!  But … But Jesus… I am doing so much … and She should be doing too!
18. YOU TOLD US TO DO!  SO we are DOING!  … Now you say sit at the your feet. 
19. FRIENDS! One option......Our lives belong to Jesus Christ....SUNRISE CHURCH belongs to Jesus Christ.
    1. Like You, I am wondering,
    2. like you, I hurt
    3. Like you, I am asking God, “What do you have in mind with what’s going on?”
    4. Like you, I don’t understand.
20. AND LIKE YOU...As Pastor...I trust Jesus Christ our Lord to bring life. It trust Jesus Christ to carry us into our new day. I trust Jesus Christ to declare his Glory through Sunrise Church. I trust Jesus Christ to reveal to us the spirit that is significant for us…
21. Jesus … you want us to go out in as the seventy did?  Yes … we will!
    1. Jesus you want us to have eyes to see and rejoice with you?  Yes we will!
    2. You want us to love the Lord!  Yes we will?
    3. You want us to sit at your feet and not be all busy?  Yes … we will…
22. REVEALED in prayer… Sitting at Jesus Feet … that will be the moment when we here our turn to GO and do Likewise!?

Yes… REVEALED in Prayer… our future together with Jesus!

Luke 10: 25 -37

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

25 Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus.* ‘Teacher,’ he said, ‘what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ 26He said to him, ‘What is written in the law? What do you read there?’ 27He answered, ‘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 neighbour as yourself.’ 28And he said to him, ‘You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.’

29 But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbour?’ 30Jesus replied, ‘A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead. 31Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. 32So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33But a Samaritan while travelling came near him; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity. 34He went to him and bandaged his wounds, having poured oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 35The next day he took out two denarii,* gave them to the innkeeper, and said, “Take care of him; and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more you spend.” 36Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbour to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?’ 37He said, ‘The one who showed him mercy.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Go and do likewise.’

Romans 8: 35-39

³⁵Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶As it is written,
‘For your sake we are being killed all day long;
we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.’
³⁷No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, ³⁹nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Corinthians 1: 10-13

Divisions in the Church

10 Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters,^* by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you should be in agreement and that there should be no divisions among you, but that you should be united in the same mind and the same purpose. ¹¹For it has been reported to me by Chloe’s people that there are quarrels among you, my brothers and sisters.^{* 12}What I mean is that each of you says, ‘I belong to Paul’, or ‘I belong to Apollos’, or ‘I belong to Cephas’, or ‘I belong to Christ.’ ¹³Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

1 Corinthians 1:10-17