In Luke 10:25-37, Jesus tells the Parable of the Good Samaritan. The passage speaks of a certain man on his way from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers. The scripture tells us that this man was stripped of his raiment, wounded and left half dead. As he laid there, a priest passed him by, then a Levite  passed him by; neither one stopping to help. But then in verse 33, we see that a certain Samaritan came to him and had compassion on him. This certain Samaritan bound up the man’s wounds, pouring oil and wine, set him up on his beast then brought him to an inn to take care of him.

This parable has more than a surface meaning; it also holds dispensational truths. This certain man left for dead, represents all of mankind. In the Garden of Eden, Adam disobeyed God and ate of the forbidden fruit and he fell into the hands of the Thief (John 10:10), Satan and his demons. Satan took dominion of this earth and left all of mankind stripped (poverty), wounded  (sickness) and half dead (spiritually dead); disconnected from God.

The revelation in the text is that God so loved the world that Jesus, the Good Samaritan was sent for you and I to be redeemed and to restore what we have been robbed of. 

I John 4:10, “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent His son to be the propitiation for our sins.”

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