# A Good Neighbor - The Gospels

An episode of [Kids Bible in a Year with Julia Jeffress Sadler](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696638708), 11 Mar 2024, 9:55.

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Join Julia Jeffress Sadler as she takes us on an incredible adventure in Episode 171. When asked how to gain eternal life, Jesus reminded a man of the law's command to love God and one's neighbor. To clarify who one's neighbor is, Jesus shared a story of a man left injured by robbers. While a priest and a Levite ignored him, a Samaritan helped, showing true neighborly kindness. Jesus told the man to act like the Samaritan, teaching that being a neighbor means showing love and compassion to anyone in need. Sign up to receive Kids Bible in a Year devotionals in your inbox every weekday: https://www.kidsbibleinayear.com/ Get ready to experience the Bible designed specifically for children with the official KidsBibleinaYear.com podcast, led by Julia Jeffress Sadler. This captivating audio series presents the age-old wisdom of the Bible in an engaging format that will captivate your kids. Each episode Julia translates biblical teachings into real-life applications, making Bible comprehension a breeze for young minds. And if you want more Christian resources and content, you can download the Pray.com app. Pray.com is the digital destination for faith, offering over 5,000 daily prayers, meditations, bedtime Bible stories, and cinematic stories inspired by the Bible. For more resources on how to live a successful Christian life, visit Julia Jeffress Sadler's website at https://ptv.org/julia/. This episode is sponsored by Little Passports. Visit LittlePassports.com/blessed and use promo code BLESSED to receive 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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[0:00] Speaker 1: You shall love the Lord your God with all your
[0:03] Speaker 1: heart and with all your soul and with all your
[0:06] Speaker 1: mind and with all your strength. This is the first commandment.
[0:10] Speaker 1: The second is like this. You shall love your neighbor
[0:14] Speaker 1: as yourself. Mark 12, 30 through 31. Dear God, you
[0:20] Speaker 1: are teaching us so much about your heart in today's story.
[0:24] Speaker 1: Help us to keep our eyes wide open to see
[0:26] Speaker 1: people the way you see them. Give us hearts to
[0:29] Speaker 1: love others and serve them the way you do. In Jesus' name, amen.
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[1:10] Speaker 1: A good neighbor.
[1:12] Speaker 3: In our last story, Jesus taught on how much we
[1:16] Speaker 3: are to forgive one another, that God forgives us to
[1:19] Speaker 3: the measure we forgive others. In this story, we will
[1:24] Speaker 3: learn about the story of the Good Samaritan as inspired
[1:29] Speaker 3: by the Gospels.
[1:33] Speaker 1: Hi, everyone. It's Julianne Thompson, guest hosting for Julia Jeffress
[1:37] Speaker 1: Sadler here. Welcome back for another story from the Kids
[1:40] Speaker 1: Bible in a Year podcast. What does it mean to
[1:44] Speaker 1: love your neighbor as yourself? That's what we're talking about today.
[1:48] Speaker 1: And as always, Jesus has the perfect story to help
[1:52] Speaker 1: us understand. Let's listen in.
[1:57] Speaker 3: One day, a man who knew the law asked Jesus,
[2:02] Speaker 3: What must I do so I can live forever? Jesus said,
[2:08] Speaker 3: You are an expert. What does the law say you
[2:12] Speaker 3: should do? He replied, Jesus replied, Do that and.
[2:27] Speaker 1: You will live.
[2:29] Speaker 3: But the man was confused and secretly wanted to justify himself.
[2:35] Speaker 3: And so he asked, Who exactly is considered to be
[2:40] Speaker 3: my neighbor? So Jesus told a story and said, There
[2:45] Speaker 3: was a man who was traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho,
[2:48] Speaker 3: and he was beaten up. The people took all his
[2:51] Speaker 3: clothes and left him lying on the ground. The people
[2:55] Speaker 3: who attacked him left him very wounded, and he was
[2:59] Speaker 3: not able to walk. It looked like he was almost
[3:02] Speaker 3: dead from how badly they had beaten him up. A
[3:05] Speaker 3: priest walked by this man and crossed over to the
[3:08] Speaker 3: other side of the road. He did not even stop
[3:12] Speaker 3: to help him. A short time later, a Levite man
[3:15] Speaker 3: also saw him but continued to walk past him. Similar
[3:20] Speaker 3: to the priest, he did not offer to help the
[3:22] Speaker 3: man at all. Then, There was a Samaritan man who
[3:26] Speaker 3: saw him and felt very sad for him. So he
[3:30] Speaker 3: cleaned his cuts, covered his wounds, and placed him on
[3:34] Speaker 3: a donkey. He took the injured man to an inn
[3:38] Speaker 3: and continued to take care of him. He asked the
[3:42] Speaker 3: innkeeper to keep an eye on the man. He paid
[3:45] Speaker 3: the innkeeper and said he would pay more when he returns.
[3:49] Speaker 3: He wanted to make sure that he covered all the
[3:52] Speaker 3: expenses that it would take to get this man feeling better. So,
[3:57] Speaker 3: which man from this story was a neighbor to the
[4:00] Speaker 3: injured man? The man who knew the law replied, the
[4:05] Speaker 3: one who took care of him and helped him. Jesus said,
[4:10] Speaker 3: go and be like that man. Whoo!
[4:19] Speaker 1: That was another powerful story that teaches us so much
[4:23] Speaker 1: about the heart of Jesus. I want to love people
[4:26] Speaker 1: the way he does. Let's unpack the story Jesus told
[4:29] Speaker 1: his friend about a man we call the Good Samaritan.
[4:34] Speaker 1: So we open with a guy who was an expert
[4:36] Speaker 1: in the law coming to visit Jesus. He knew everything
[4:40] Speaker 1: there was to know about being a good person. But
[4:43] Speaker 1: it seems to me like his heart was stirring. He
[4:46] Speaker 1: was smart. had money, a good job, but he knew
[4:50] Speaker 1: there was more to life. Jesus was about to show him,
[4:53] Speaker 1: and there is much more to following him than just
[4:56] Speaker 1: knowing the law. He wants us to live it out.
[5:01] Speaker 1: When this lawyer asked Jesus how to live forever, Jesus
[5:05] Speaker 1: reminded him of what Moses told God's people years and
[5:08] Speaker 1: years before. He said to love God with everything you
[5:12] Speaker 1: have and love others the way you would want to
[5:15] Speaker 1: be loved. Then Jesus told him the story of a
[5:18] Speaker 1: man who was traveling to Jericho and was attacked, beaten, robbed,
[5:22] Speaker 1: and left to die on the side of the road.
[5:25] Speaker 1: The road from Jerusalem to Jericho was a very dangerous
[5:29] Speaker 1: path to take. There were many criminals and robbers along
[5:32] Speaker 1: the way, so this was not unusual. We then heard
[5:36] Speaker 1: Jesus tell of a priest and a Levite, both religious
[5:40] Speaker 1: leaders who should probably care about a fellow Jew, hurt
[5:43] Speaker 1: and bleeding on the side of the road. But what
[5:46] Speaker 1: did they do? They just walked on by. Jesus said
[5:51] Speaker 1: the next person to come by was a Samaritan. Now,
[5:55] Speaker 1: Jews and Samaritans in this day were not friends, not
[5:59] Speaker 1: even close. In fact, for many silly reasons, they hated
[6:05] Speaker 1: each other. They never spoke or had anything to do
[6:08] Speaker 1: with each other. Jews did not even allow Samaritans inside
[6:13] Speaker 1: of the temples. So when Jesus said that a Samaritan
[6:17] Speaker 1: stopped to help a Jew, I'm sure it got this
[6:22] Speaker 1: lawyer's attention. He said that the Samaritan came to where
[6:26] Speaker 1: he was. So in other words, he went out of
[6:29] Speaker 1: his way to go and help. He didn't just stop
[6:32] Speaker 1: where he was. He went to help. Jesus then says
[6:37] Speaker 1: that the Samaritan felt sad for the Jew and had
[6:40] Speaker 1: compassion on him.
[6:42] Speaker 3: Compassion?
[6:43] Speaker 1: That's a word we've heard before that describes the heart
[6:47] Speaker 1: of God. It's another word for love. He felt sad
[6:51] Speaker 1: and didn't want to leave this poor man there to die.
[6:55] Speaker 1: So he cleaned up his cuts with wine and oil,
[6:59] Speaker 1: threw him up over a donkey, and took him to
[7:01] Speaker 1: an inn, which is kind of like a cross between
[7:04] Speaker 1: a hotel and a hospital. He got him settled. gave
[7:08] Speaker 1: him medicine, and paid the innkeeper enough money to take
[7:12] Speaker 1: care of him for two to three weeks. Then it's
[7:16] Speaker 1: as if Jesus looked straight into the heart of this
[7:19] Speaker 1: lawyer when he said, which man in this story was
[7:23] Speaker 1: a neighbor? He knew the answer. It was the Samaritan
[7:26] Speaker 1: who stopped to take care of this Jew he didn't
[7:29] Speaker 1: even know. Jesus was saying, it's good that you know
[7:32] Speaker 1: and understand the law, but the greatest law of all,
[7:36] Speaker 1: is to love God and love people. Are you loving people?
[7:42] Speaker 1: Are you going out of your way to help those
[7:44] Speaker 1: in need? Are you giving your time and money to
[7:47] Speaker 1: someone who.
[7:48] Speaker 2: Is desperate for help?
[7:50] Speaker 1: That's how you show me you love me. And that's
[7:53] Speaker 1: what I desire more than knowing and keeping every law. Today,
[7:58] Speaker 1: let's make sure we aren't like that priest or Levite,
[8:01] Speaker 1: passing by someone who is hurt, needing help, sad, or
[8:05] Speaker 1: having a bad day. only thinking of themselves. Instead, be
[8:10] Speaker 1: like this Samaritan, showing God we love him by the
[8:13] Speaker 1: way we love each other. It's usually not convenient. It's
[8:18] Speaker 1: rarely easy, but it's always worth it. Thanks for listening.
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