Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

If you're like me and grew up in the church, you might be really good at the whole right answer game.

Like, you know the vocabulary, you know the verses, and you know that the answer to

about 90% of Sunday school questions is, well, Jesus. And the other 10% is usually something like

love or Jesus died for my sins or something like that. You know what? I think God is paying me back

for all my years of being a smart aleck kid because now I lead a group of high school students who also grew up in the church and they have a running joke where they answer all my questions with Jesus's love is fulfilling. No matter what I ask, they answer. Jesus's love is fulfilling. I think that can be a temptation for all of us though though. Like, we might have the theology down. We might

know the right answer, but there is a massive, dangerous gap between having a correct theology

in our heads and having a transformed heart that actually lives it out. You can be a world-class

expert on the Bible and still be completely blind to the person bleeding out right in

front of you. In fact, that's what's going to happen in our story today. Today, we're in Luke

Chapter 10, and we're meeting a man who was the undisputed champion of the right answer game.

He's a lawyer, a professional interpreter of God's word. So he's not like a courtroom lawyer. He's a lawyer in the

sense that he knows God's law. And he's going to ask Jesus a question about eternal life that leads to one

of the most famous parables ever told. But what's fascinating is that this man and Jesus actually agree

on a lot. They both look at the same law and come to the exact same conclusion

about what matters most. The problem isn't the man's information, it's his application.

Before we dive in, let's pray. Father, thank you that your word doesn't just inform us,

it confronts us, it convicts us, it transforms us. Would you help us to stop playing games with your commands?

Don't let us settle for only right answers today. Give us the right heart. In Jesus' name we pray.

Amen. We pick up in verse 25 of chapter 10 with the lawyer standing up to put Jesus to the test.

Now here's a quick tip for all of us. If you're

ever going to try to test Jesus, you should probably do that sitting down because you won't

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