If this is what it requires for me to get in heaven, I'm not getting there.

I not only couldn't earn my salvation by loving like that, even as a Christian in whom the love of Christ

has been shed abroad, who has a capacity to love like an unconverted person doesn't have, I still don't love like this.

So we were saved by grace and we are kept by grace, are we not? Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson. The great preacher Charles Spurgeon said that the only thing worth having

is that which I can have forever, that which death cannot tear out of my hand. Well, the fact is you will face death one day and when that day comes

the only thing that will matter is did you receive forgiveness from God and find freedom from the penalty of sin that death can't tear away.

Or to put it another way, what does it take to receive eternal life?

That is precisely the question John MacArthur is helping you answer in his current study titled

What Must I Do to be Saved. With the lesson now here is John MacArthur.

This particular tale, this dramatic tale of the Good Samaritan, is so well known that it has actually

become an idiom for unusual sacrificial kindness and I I think I think we may have

missed the point of this story. Oh we all know the story, but it's the point of

the story that is the reason the story existed, the reason Jesus told it. It is a story for most people about helping someone in need.

That's not really the point.

This is really a story about how one inherits eternal life, because that is the question that

initiated the entire conversation to which this story is the conclusion.

The story is told to a non-believer, a self-righteous man who will not enter the kingdom of God.

The story is told to him as an evangelistic effort to bring him to the true sense of his

sinfulness and consequently to cry for mercy. On the surface the story

seems like a simple story about being kind, it isn't. It is far profounder

than that. Let's look at the story.

Verse 30.

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