This is Pastor Rick's Daily Home, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Well, today we continue with our series called The Keys to a Blessed Life.

In these lessons, Rick shares the practical steps found in Jesus' sermon on the Mount

that will help you live the hopeful and purpose-filled life God planned for you.

In just a few moments, we're going to tell you how you can go deeper in Pastor Rick's teaching

by getting his video-based Bible study for this series. You can find out more by going to

pastorrick.com or by texting the word daily to 800-600-5,000-4. That's the word daily to 800-600-5,000-4.

Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part two of a message called Your Ministry of Mercy.

A guy came to Jesus one day and he said, Jesus, what's the most important command in the Bible?

Okay, give me the bottom line here. I don't have time to read the whole Bible.

So what is it that matters most? Jesus said, oh, that's really easy. It's two things. Love God

with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself. That's the whole Bible in that show.

Love God with all your heart and love your neighbors yourself. Now, the guy wants to get out of this

and he's kind of a wheeze-ling out of it. He says, so, love your neighbors yourself. Yeah, who's my

neighbor? Jesus says, well, let me tell you a story. And he tells the story, the famous story,

the Good Samaritan, of the man who was going down the road to Jericho and he is robbed and he's

beaten and he's abused and he's left for dead at the side of the road and three guys passed by him

and two of them do nothing. And the third guy of another race and culture stops and helps him,

nurses him back to help, puts him on his donkey, takes him to a hotel or a motel, checks in,

pays the bill for the guy and says that if he has any other bills off when I come back by, I'll pay for it.

And Jesus looks at the guy and says, who's my neighbor? Who do you think was the neighbor?

And the man says, the guy who showed the most mercy, the guy who showed the most mercy.

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