In ancient Israel, traveling from one city to another could be dangerous.

Predators and robbers would hide in the hills along the way,

and if they would see somebody coming unprotected,

it was not uncommon for them to attack them as happened in this case.

And Jesus said, this single man is making the journey from Jerusalem to Jericho,

and on the way, he fell among thieves.

Jesus used familiar scenarios like this to make his point.

Everyone understood the hazards of traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho,

and everyone could imagine the terror and the helplessness that man felt.

Welcome to renewing your mind.

Each Lord's Day, we are pleased to feature a sermon from a series

that Dr. R. C. Sproul preached from the Gospel of Luke.

Welcome to this well-known story found in Luke 10, verse 25.

It says in my Bible above the text that I've just read in bold letters,

the parable of the good Samaritan.

Now these subheadings are not part of the actual biblical texts,

but they are helps for us, rendered for us by the editors of the scriptures.

And this is certainly a legitimate topic, adding the parable of the good Samaritan

because that's what it is.

And I think I would like to change it a little bit and call it the contest

between the lawyer and the teacher, as we have two people engaged in conversation here,

and not only in conversation, but in a thinly veiled debate,

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