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God teaches us that any one we can help is our neighbor. LESSON STORY: The Lord Jesus told a story to explain this. He said that a man on a journey
what about the fourth term in the pas sage? Does'the word “heart” suggest a fourth element in human nature ? Not at all. “Heart” in Scripture is perhaps the broadest psychological term used of man. It indicates the whole man. Thus to believe with the “heart” means, not merely to believe with the affections as opposed to the intellect, hut to be lieve with both affections and the mind, that is, with the whole of man’s three fold nature. Looking at the passage from this viewpoint, therefore, we see that the command, to love God involves first of all the whole man, that is, the “heart.” Then the command goes on to name the three distinct elements of the whole man, that is, “soul,” “body,” and “spirit.” Paraphrasing the passage, it might he read something like this: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole being, and with every one of its three elements, thy soul, thy strength, and thy mind.” 3. “This do, and thou shalt live” (v. 28). Of course our Lord knew per fectly well, as He knew in the case of the rich young ruler, that no man had ever loved God with his whole being, and his neighbor as himself. But some times, when men are so foolish as to suppose that they can do this, it is well to put them to the test of their own foolish claims. This is what our Lord did, to destroy the lawyer’s self-right eousness. There is in the state of Pennsylvania, along the Allegheny River, in Arm strong .County, a miniature mountain fernery located in a sort of canyon-like gulch that reaches up some miles from the river. It is known as the Nicholson Run, and the road is known as the Nich olson Run Road. This creek and road constitute one of the most perfect il lustrations of love that might be ob served—eleven times, in a short mile or two, the creek crosses the road and the road crosses the creek. If you walk in either way only a little time, you will cross the other way and find yourself in the midst of it. Follow the road a little way, and you have crossed the run; and should you then turn and fol low the creek, in a very little space you will be in the midst of the road. And if xVe could only learn the lesson of God’s holy Book, we would know that on the road of lova to God, we must soon and often cross the road of love to man. —The Bottles of Heaven. Golden Text Illustration L uke 10:27
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in n from Jerusalem to 5 -Division Jericho was robbed a n d wounded by thieves who left him half dead by the roadside. A priest came that way, whose duty it was to help those in trouble. Perhaps he was like others who want their good deeds to be seen of men. No one could see and praise him, so he went by with out helping the wounded man. A Levite who worked in the temple came and looked at the hurt man and then only passed by. If you were hurt, how would you like just to be looked at by some one who did not care? A citizen of Samaria was traveling that same road. He was sorry for the sick man, tenderly bound up his wounds, took him to a hotel, paid the hotel keep er to take care of him, and said that if more money was needed, he would pay when next he came that way. Which of these three men, the priest, the Levite, or the Samaritan, was neigh bor to the man that fell among thieves? The Samaritans were hated by the Jews, and the wounded man was a Jew. The good Samaritan undoubtedly had heard the Lord Jesus say, “Do good to them that hate you.” He tells us to be like the good Samaritan; but we cannot love others as we love ourselves unless we have God’s love in our hearts. He will give us His love if we ask' Him; then we will be kind, even to those who are “mad” at us.
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MEMORY VERSE: “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” (Matt. 22:39). APPROACH: We think the. person living* next door is our neighbor, but
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