{"id":7551,"date":"2025-07-02T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=7551"},"modified":"2015-06-07T22:58:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T19:58:31","slug":"the-parable-good-samaritan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/the-parable-good-samaritan\/","title":{"rendered":"The parable about the good Samaritan"},"content":{"rendered":"Welcome, dear friends!\r\n\r\nMay the mercy and peace from the Father God and our Lord Jesus Christ be multiplied unto you! Yesterday we spoke about how God helps us to develop divine compassion for other people and transforms us into likeness of Christ through our ministry.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nLet’s read the parable about the good Samaritan, written in the Gospel of Luke.\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00abBehold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, \u201cTeacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?\u201d He said to him, \u201cWhat is written in the law? How do you read it?\u201d He answered, \u201cYou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbour as yourself.\u201d He said to him, \u201cYou have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.\u201d But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, \u201cWho is my neighbour?\u201d Jesus answered, \u201cA certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he travelled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion, came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, \u2018Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.\u2019 Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbour to him who fell among the robbers?\u201d He said, \u201cHe who showed mercy on him.\u201d Then Jesus said to him, \u201cGo and do likewise.\u201d\u00bb\u00a0(Luke 10:25-37).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nWe can see four types of people in this parable: the victim, the robbers, the indifferent and the compassionate people.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nA Victim<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 is a person who has suffered from the hands of mean people. This type of person represents those miserable and injured people around us, those people to whom God wants to show His love and mercy. In this parable the victim is the man who\u00a0was travelling from Jerusalem to Jericho<\/strong>.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nRobbers<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 are those who constantly humiliate other people, take their property away, thinking that all that belongs to others belongs to them as well, so they keep on looking for opportunity to embezzle or seize other people\u2019s stuff. This type of people abuses others in order to achieve their own goals. In this parable robbers are represented by bandits,\u00a0who both stripped the stranger and beat him, and then departed, leaving him half dead.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nHere we can see the picture of the highest level of selfishness and the true condition of the unbelieving heart. Those robbers had a need of something that they found in the hands of their victim. They needed what the man had right on the spot and at the same moment they met their victim. Robbers do not care about how their needs are met; any means is good for them. That’s why they attacked an innocent person, took everything away from him and left him half dead on the road. This is the picture of what is happening in our world today. Selfishness causes people to do evil things such as, killing, cheating, and robbery, abusing others an so on.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nMeanwhile, there is another type of people, – the indifferent\u00a0people<\/strong>. Indifferent are those who believe that everything they possess belongs to them alone. They are focused purely on themselves. In this parable indifferent people are represented by the priest and the Levite. They saw the half dead man bleeding and despite that they walked past him.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThere are many reasons why people are indifferent to others. Haste is one reason why people have no time to slow down and help others around them who are in need. \u201cI’ve got no time, I am in a hurry!\u201d \u2013 that is how many people reply when somebody turns to them asking for help. Indifferent people are only concerned about their own problems and they are constantly in their own world thinking about how to solve their own problems. God acts in a totally different way. His grace and compassion is poured out on everyone who approaches Him.\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00ab\u00a0Come to me, all you who labour and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest\u00a0.\u00bb\u00a0(Matthew 11:28).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nTomorrow we will talk about the fourth category of people represented in this parable \u2013 the\u00a0compassionate people.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nMay you recognize the opportunities granted to you by God to manifest His love and compassion towards other people today!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nRemember, it\u2019s better to give than to receive.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nRufus AJiboye, pastor","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00abBehold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, \u201cTeacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?\u201d He said to him, \u201cWhat is written in the law? How do you read it?\u201d He answered, \u201cYou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbour as yourself.”","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pexels-photo-4874515-1024x683.jpeg",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/rufus-ajiboye\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39543,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551\/revisions\/39543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}