Subject: Parable fo the Good Samaritan - Evaluate |
Bible Note: You are quite welcome. Of course, it helps that our pastor spoke on this passage the Sunday before last, so the implications of this passage have been turning over in my head a lot the last week and a half. :) Once we take passages like this into account and understand just what it means to please God, it is a very humbling thing. Then to realize that Jesus not only said this, but He DID it in the most complete and perfect sense...well, that is just mind-boggling, and passages like Philippians 2:5-11 and Romans 5:6-8 just reinforce my conviction that people have to have rocks in their head if they think that they have come anywhere close to Jesus' absolute obedience to God's commandments. Grace becomes that much more amazing to me when I realize just how far away I am from God's standard of obedience. There is simply no way I could merit heaven by my works, even as a follower of Jesus Christ. Thanks be to God that Christ accomplished it all on my behalf! "For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit." --Romans 8:3-4 --Joe! |