Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning, you guys. Yes, good morning. We're

rounding out what day five of our showing empathy devotional in the Bible app. As always,

there's a link to that in the description of this podcast if you guys want to follow along

with us and get ready for the next several days. We're also going to be doing a Easter devotional,

which we're super excited about. But that further ado, we're going to jump in this one. The

scripture is all up in it. So Tori is going to take it from here. Perfect. Let's do it. Today's

devotional is titled The Good Samaritan and it says, the story of the good Samaritan is one that

is familiar to people, whether they're Christians or not. It's a story about a man who happened to be

a quote unquote expert in the law. Later in the verse, he asked Jesus a question that was meant

to test the Messiah. What must I do to inherit eternal life? In true Jesus fashion, he responded

to the question with a question, what is written in the law? And the expert responded, love the

Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all

your mind and love your neighbor as yourself. That's Luke 1027. The man knew the law but needed clarity

on just who this neighbor is. At this time, Jesus went into the story about a man who was beaten by

thieves and left for dead on the side of the road. Two men of God, a priest and a Levite both passed

him by. Then a Samaritan who was despised by the Jewish people came near and when he saw the broken

beaten man, he felt pity for him, but he didn't stop there. He actually did something about it.

In today's language, what the Samaritan did for the man would be equivalent to a seen a wounded

person putting them in our car and driving them to a local emergency room. Then once they're

bandaged and doing better, we take them to a hotel in order for them to heal and rest and we

stay that night to help. If that's not enough, we give the hotel manager more money to provide

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