25th August 2024 - Teaching Service - A Good Neighbour

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So we're going to continue the series about good neighbors.

Oh and uh we're gonna let's started out. This serm

is called from Jerusalem to Jericho. So before we start

the preach, I just pray and then we'll sell the

hoestpil wants to do. Okay, So Holytpook, were welcome with

this one. Please rest on individual person in this room

and those people listening online.

I take there was orning to speak and use them

to your goal, to your end.

To touch people's hearts and change people's lives in Jesus' name.

So from Jerusalem to Jericho. So from Jerusalem to Jericho

it is about eight eighty miles and it's a drop

in the elevation.

I'll drop in height of about two hundred and fifty meters.

The road now as it was then, there's a path

which actually a couple of traffic if you were tracked

through a video and put on YouTube is it's a

barren place and it's a narrow, narrow road. It reminds

me of when and I went to Jordan about fifteen

years ago, we went to a place called Petra, and

we're walking around Petra and it's very rocky, dry, arid place.

There's not a lot of vegetation, and it's very hot.

Forty two degrees was far too hot for me. I

got two black toe That was because my feet swelled

in my walking shoes.

And then you must that's the temperature.

And you know, Jesus wrote told the Samaritan to convey

a message. So I'm going to use that parallel todayday

to convey a message. He spoke to a young lawyer.

I told the power of the man who was robbed

and beaten. At the end of the power, he said

to the young lawyer, who you h But basically.

And the last said to him that the man who

showed mercy.

So, without further further Ado, let's jump into the scripture.

I'm going to read at my pace, but I think

John's going to pull on the screen so you might.

Read more quicker than I'm going to read.

So I'm reading from Luke ten twenty five to thirty seven.

Actually, I'll do this.

Way, okay, John, on my own screen. I feel privileged

and behold a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, teacher,

watch I do to inherit eternal life. And he said

to him, what is written in the law, what is

your reading of it? So he answered and said, you

shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,

with all your soul, and with all your strength, and

with all your.

Mind, and your neighbor as yourself.

And he said to him, you've answered rightly this too,

and you will live. But he, wanting to justify himself,

said to Jesus, and who is my neighbor? And Jesus said, answered,

and said, a certain man went down from Jerusalem to

Jericho and fell among thieves who stripped him of his clothing,

who wounded him and departed, leaving.

Him half dead. Likewise, a levite, when he arrived at

the place, came and looked, and passed by on the

other side. What about the priest by a miss and

script writer, thank you now.

Now, by a chance, a certain priest came down that road,

and when he saw him, he passed on.

The other side. Life was a leaver when he arrived

at that place, came and looked and passed by on

the other side. That's right.

But a certain smiting, as he journeyed, came where he was,

and when he saw him, he had compassion.

So he went to him and banded his wounds, poured

on and wine, and 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 tod An area, which is about

two days, laid a wager for a labor back in

the day, and said to the innkeeper, innkeeper, take care

of him, and whatever more you spend, I will come

again and I will repay him. So which of these

three do you think was neighbor who fell among leaves?

And he said he who showed mercy on him, And

Jesus said go and do.

Likewise, Thanks John.

Now the road runs strong Jerusalem to Jericho, so you're

going downhill basically to Jericho to Jerusalem. It's interesting that

the priest came down from Jerusalem, so he'd done his

service in the temple of going home.

And likewise, the Levi and the amplified bable said he

came down with the NW King.

Javins didn't say that, but very likely he came down

as well. So they were leaving their time of service

and coming down to go home. So it was coming

down to go home. You could have actually stopped and

helped out the guy who was.

Beaten and left half naked, but he didn't. Neither one did.

That's probably because it says in numbers nineteen eleven to thirteen,

he touches a dead body is unclean for seven days,

beefself with water, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So

they chose to stick with a summer ceremonially clean peace

and say.

And left the guy to die. The Smaritan under the

hand bandages his wounds.

The pourding oil falls out like healing and wine to

actually cleanse the wounds. The general room so poureding oil

and wine and toil this land on his own. I

guess mule asks where we had that back in the day,

so that wasn't the car, and paid for him and

tended to him. Jesus important this thing was trying to

get over to the guy who is your neighbor.

And God's gone to get up to us. He is

who is our neighbor. We're also two remind.

Us that he's here to meet us at the point

of our need.

A Samaritan man met the guy had been beaten at

the point of his need. He cleaned him up, he

fed him, he looked after him. The Smaritans and Jews

didn't mix.

Samaritans were half gentile half jew but in Samaria did

their own thing. Works worked in Samaria. The Jews didn't

like the Smaritans didn't get on. So Jesus using this

type person shows the fact that we have the religious guys,

the Levite and the priests, who should do what's necessary.

But the Samaritan, the guy who know they liked to

blame him and love to hate if like they didn't.

He wasn't, He wasn't.

Try to think a Monde equivalent, but I can't think

some of his on drugs a drug pusher. He did

the right thing. Jesus wants us to do the right thing.

Jesus is full of compassion.

That's what he is. That's why the bottle says, for

God so loved the world that he gave He's only

begotten son that ever believed in him shall.

Not perish, but have everlasting life. That's just the way

he does things, That's just just his character. He does

it his way, not our, And sometimes you just can

move us with compassion, such people to miss the people's needs.

I remember Dave telling the story so in my embarrasship

for me when David was into town, into London.

For work and he was walking through London and he

saw a guy begging on the side of the street,

put his head down to Dave being Dave, obviously, when

I sat down next to him and start the chatting

two and remember day of saying that there's a different

perspective when you're sitting down on the phone looking up

with the handle. I think they give him some money.

Had to chat with him and then he departed. Dave

was moving with compassion. Who knows what that seed that

was sown will bring a harvest plater or we do

know to sew seeds.

So like the person Themitan who walked down that rocky road,

God wants us to be a good neighbor to those people.

It puts on our hearts. We all can't touch everybody,

but one by one, one life at the time, we

can make a difference. Yah. Just look at my notes

took got on the wrong way around.

I'm going to read from John for now, so I

when to tie these these these two things together. John

four is the account of Jesus leaving Jerusalem and I'm

going to Samaria.

Or the fire samarit's way to his destination back to Gallaghan.

I know Jesus only did what he saw his father

doing John five nineteen, And he only said what he

heard his father say. And you know that's that's the

place we need to get to.

Sometimes are full of our own words and full of

our own ideas because we have a.

Mental map that we've learned.

I'm nothing wrong with having a mental map when to

get lost here, But sometimes a holst bit may make

an intervention and say, that's true, but this is a

what I wanted to do. So we need to be

always listening, always ready. When you're a young mother and

you've got a baby next to you in the car

at the bottom of the bed, you listen very intently

to that baby. When you first get that baby home,

you listen very intent to that baby. When they get older,

this is very intent when they come into the house

and you say, well why do you come to the

house just late?

Oh mum, you listen. We need to listen to what

the holyt Birit is saying so.

We don't miss the opportun humanity that is in front

of us. Opportunities come, opportunities, go one John one night

that if you confess your sins, it's faithful and just

to forgive your say.

And cleanse you from all unrighteousness. Yeah, that's that's a fact,

faith fact. But if you draw, if you make a mistake,

God will forgive us.

Yeah, but it's better to hear, not to fall into

condemnation and do what comes in front of us at

the time.

It's our body, but it's his life. The life I

live in aff I live by faithless and the God

who loved me and getting himself for me. Yeah, it's

not in the scriptures me mhmm, No one knows. It's

his life. It's not body. You must to pour the

life out of those to those people around us because

we carry something other people don't carry. We carry that

zobe life of God's life. One work from God can

change somebody's life forever. One kind act from us, save

reference the Bible, giving can change some of his life.

So those encouragingness to be good neighbors, to be listening

as we walked down the street.

Or walk around our office. People have a mask.

It's the imok mask they don't have, hopefully be around

to go. I'm filling a rough mask as so as

the IOK mask. But God can see through that, and

you can be an agent for change in that person's life,

to take him from where they are where they are

to where don't want them to be. And that's what

Jesus really did in John fam Let's just read that scripture.

So we came to a city of Samaria, which is

called Psycha, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave

to his son Joseph.

Jacob's well was there.

Jesus, therefore, being wearied from his journey, sat thus.

By the well.

It was about the six hour, that's that's midday in

our world. A woman of Samaria came to draw water.

She said to her, Jesus said to her, give me

a drink with disciples. I'd gone away from the city

to buy food. The woman of Samaria said to him,

how is it that you, being a Jew, asked a

drink from me, a Samaritan woman, For though I know

for the Jews have no deemings with the Samaritans. Jesus

answered and said to her, if you knew the gift

of God and who it is who saves to you

give me a drink? Who had asked him, and he

had given you a living water? No one said to him, sir,

you've nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.

Where then do you get in that living water? Are

you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us as

well and drank for it himself, as well as his

sons and his livestock. Jesus answered and said to her,

whoever drinks of this water were first?

Again?

The herd drinks of the water that I shall give

him will never first. But the water that I shall

give him shall become in him a fountain of water

springing up into everlasting life.

Woman said to him, Sir, give me this water. I

am I not first, nor come here to draw.

Jesus said to her, go call your husband and come.

Woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said

to her, you have well said I have no husband

for you about five husbands, and the one with whom

you now have is not your husband.

In that you've spoken truly.

Woman said to him, Sir, I perceive you are a

prophet our father's workships on this mountain, and you Jews

said that injured in.

This place where we ought to worship. Jesus said to.

Her, woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you

will near the worship on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem

worship the Father. You worship what you do not know.

We worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews.

But the hour is coming, and now is when the

true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth.

But the Father is seeking such to worship him. God

is a spirit, and those who worship Hi must worshiping

in spirit and in truth.

The woman said to him, I know Messiah. It's called

the Christ is coming. When he comes, he will tell

us all things. Jesus said to her, I who speak

to you am He. At this point disciples came back

and then marveled.

They talked to a woman. No one said anything, what

do you seek or what you want to talk to her?

For the one left her water pot and went into

the city and said to the men, come and see

a man who told.

Me all things, all the things I ever did?

Could this be the Christ? And they went out of

the city and came to him. In the meantime, Disciple

was urging Rabbi eat. He said to them, I have

food to eat, which you do not know. Therefore disciples

said to another, having brought in food, having brought anything

to eat, and Jesus said, my food is to do

the will have him her sent me, and to finish

this work. You do not say, do not say, that's

still four months and then comes the harvest. Behold, I

say to you, lift up your eyes and look at

the fields.

They are already white. And he who reaps receives wages

and gathers fruit for eternal life. That both he who

sows and hugh reaps may rejoice. But this is the same.

For they're saying, it's true one reaps or reaps. I

sent you to reap about which you have not labored,

or let us have labored and invented into their labors.

And many other smitans. So that's city believe in him

because of his word. The one that said, he told

me all that I ever did. So when he decides

that come to him, the hes him to stay, and

he stay on them for two days. And the more

believe in his word. Then they said to the woman,

now we believe not because of what you said. We

ourselves have heard him and we know this is indeed

the christ long scripture reading, but it's pertinent, so hopeing

it not offer them them.

So Jesus traveled through some area he had an appointment.

We all have appointments of destiny. We've got to be

in the right place at the right time. Jesus didn't

have a watch, he didn't have a PDA. You have

a smartphone. It up with a diary. It was always

in the right place at the right time.

Because he heard, always heard, and always saw. I always

did what he heard and saw his father doing. He

walked in the river miracles because that sort of guy

he is, and that's what he wants us to do,

to be in the right place at the right time.

So when the woman.

That five husbands I was dipping another giant gent wasn't

her husband ropped up to the well at midday because

very likely she was a bit of an outcast with

the female community in that town. He was to have

a conversation with her, and Jesus being Jesus used what

was in front of him, give me a drink while

you speaking to me.

I told you about the Jews and the writers not talking.

So he's crossing cultural barriers here, he's doing the taboo things.

He's talking to the sinners. He's telling people who shouldn't

be speaking to being a rabbi. But Jesus only did

and said what.

He saw and heard his father doing. So he was

on firm ground.

And sometimes we have to do something which is unconventional

and might be uncomfortable. But as long as you've heard

the only spirit and you know it's not flak I

have had too much cheese in the night before or

whatever you though, it's not flak.

A, you can do something and God will move.

That's how Jesus drow you in through give me a drink.

I said, I'm going to give you some living water.

And she thought, oh that's to come anymore. That's great,

give me some water. But she was talking about earthly things.

He was talking about heavenly things.

You know, God is a spirit. We are spirit, but

we live in this body.

Must learn not to confuse things of the spirit and

things of the flesh. Must know the difference. He draws

this woman in. God gave him a question, go call

your husband. Did Jesus know the answer to the question

or just following the Holy Spirit? Sometimes just step out

and say something to somebody might just give you one

word or one sentence, and then by their.

Response God to to something else. God, I'm going to go.

He's Santosh.

He is a script for today, mate, take it with

you page two, which makes me going to speak to

so and so.

I wing to learn that bit.

He doesn't do that. He says, step out. Let me

fill your mouth with one way to say so. I

drew this lady in and brought her to a place

where she could receive from him. Jesus met her at

the point of her need. She was an outcast. He

gave her hope. It's interesting she went into the city

and spoke to the men. She spoke to the men.

She was used to speaking to the men that would

suggest and they listened to her.

So she was used to converse with a gentleman, or

maybe not a gentlemen. Anyway, she was just speaking to

these guys, and they came out of the city to

meet Jesus. One word from God shameed that woman's life.

We don't believe because of what you said. We believe

because of what we have heard. Jesus was an agent

for change in that situation. Was in the right place

at the right time. Like the smritis in the right

place at the right time. We can be a good

neighbor by offering help to people, which then sows a seed,

would be a good neighbor by administering God's work to

somebody who was in a typicult position. Nobody is out

of reach for God, nobody. Jesus met this lady at

the point of her need.

That's what he does for everybody. It's in the right

place at the right time.

And we too can be in the right place at

the right time if we take the time every day to.

Listen and to follow that still small voice. God is moving.

God is moving.

It starts with a ripple, and it builds, and it

builds and it builds.

Do you get your some army. But God is moving.

He wants us to be part of that move. So

be open to hearing what there this spirit is saying

to you.

Not even be in tescos. It doesn't matter, does it?

What matters? Do we hear and we do something. I

can make a mistake or repent. We get it right.

We're sowing the seed. Remember, someday sows a seed, someday.

Reaps the harvest. You may have been that person who's

sewing the seed, or maybe that person's going to read

that harvest. It doesn't matter. All that matters will be

walk in that rhythm. Miracles when people's lives are changed,

one word, one day at a time.

Kah zachar A four, verse six, very familiar scripture. I'm

sure it's not by might.

Nor by power, by my spirit, says the Lord. In

other words, it's not me, me, me, me, me, about

to sing. It's him in it's our body where it's

his life. So it's a it's a surrender moment when

we surrender.

Every day and do the things we do not want

to do. I go to a place we do not

want to go for it simply God wants the conscious to.

Walk in love, follow the direction of the Holy Spirit

it so.

It can be a successful neighbor. Interesting concept, but that's

this sort of thing. So wraps up very shortly. I'm

just listening.

So as a smitem met the physical needs of the man,

as Jesus meant the spiritual needs of that woman. God

wants to meet you at the point of your need today.

Well that's a physical need, and then she'll need a

social need or an emotional need.

Go wants to meet you with the point of your need.

All right, So.

That means you need to release your faith believe God

to do.

Something for you. Yeah, So what he wants me to

do is pray a prayer of faith. So I'll do that.

Thank God. I'll meet you with the point of your need.

Now I'm not interested what your need is under my business,

but he knows, and you can speak to him.

Now that a crack man speaking. Well, I'm going to

ask anybody in this room. I'm watching online.

I'll watch him later because God there's a spirit. But

you will have had that John for scripture.

If you want God to meet the part of me,

the part of your need. Faith is an act, but

faith is the fact because you know you've got.

To do something. So if you've got need, you wan't

got to meet that need. And I ask you to

stand when I pray, not because I'm interested who was

standing up, but as as a statement of faith that

you're interested in God doing something for you that I need.

Mm hmm bother me.

So I'm going to pray now and we're out of

the preach and I'm back to today. If you want

God to meet you at the point of your need.

Right now, stand up, I'll pray and give it back today. Okay,

so far that in the name of Jesus.

I know you're here. Dad asked me to do. Starting

to do it. Father, for all those people who are.

Standing in this room, standing on the.

Online or listening and standing later. I pray now in

the name of Jesus, you meet them at the point

of their need.

But that's the physical need, a financial need, a social need,

or an emotional need.

Father, you know, and I believe now in the name

of Jesus for the least of that meeting of those needs. Father,

in the name of Jesus, right now, in the name

of Jesus, and I thank you for answering these people's prayers. Father,

in the name of Jesus, I thank you for meeting

at the point of their need. Father, in Jesus name,

I thank you you are a spirit and that nothing

is impossible to you.

The Word of God says, and behold, I am the Lord,

the God of all flesh. Is there anything too heart

for me? So you've got on anything you need to

give it to God because nothing it's too heart for him?

So receive what you need by faith and thank God

for doing.

What you're asking to do. Remember it's not about me,

it's not about you. It's about what God is doing

for you. So don't look around, look at Him and

receive what you need now in the name of Jesus.

What happens immediately or later, it doesn't matter. What matters

is that you believe you receive, and I believe I

receive when I pray for these people. Father, in the

name of Jesus, do what you need to do, Lord,

do it now in Jesus' name.