 This video was taken Wednesday in a Home Depot parking lot in La Habra after a Brea police officer tried to pull over a driver for a traffic violation. When the ex-football player cop eventually caught up to the running driver, things quickly escalated. Lieutenant Chris Harvey says the suspect even asked this woman who was in the car with him to help him get the officer's gun. It may sound extreme to say the officer was fighting for his life, but under the circumstances, you have to consider what is the suspect's intention in grabbing the officer's gun. I don't think the suspect was trying to steal the officer's gun. I think he was trying to take the officer's gun to kill him or kill other people. So yeah, that's absolutely a fight for your life. Thankfully, the woman never intervened, but this Good Samaritan did. And now Brea police want to know who he is so they can thank him. One Good Samaritan came over. We don't know who the guy is. He left before we could get his name. We'd really like to talk to him and recognize him for what he did, but he came and helped the officers to do the suspect. Without him, who knows what would have happened. An officer down video moments after he took a hard fall, but don't worry, he's okay. And before help arrived, he had someone else by his side keeping watch. Sergeant Greg Baldwin is on desk duty and he hates it. Hopefully I'll have good news from the doctor next month. He got in the business to lock up criminals. That's exactly what he was trying to do in October of last year. When I went to put cuffs on him, he took off running. That's Baldwin in full strength. All right. Pacing a man wanted on warrants, Baldwin goes down hard. I first thought I'd been shot because of the pain and the feeling in my leg. Watch again. Baldwin tore a ligament in his leg. His hip popped out of socket. Stay still. Try to stay still. Important because of the good that came out of a terrible injury. I grew up in a medical home. My mom is a orthopedic nurse. The same body camera video captures a mom of two, Elizabeth Neore, coming to the officer's help. I just, I just wanted to just make him stop being in pain. Neore is a massage therapist. She comforted Baldwin until paramedics arrived. I just thought about he's in pain. Just tried to calm him down. I'm scared of officers. I'm not going to lie to you, but I had to look past that to help him, you know? Two months after the injury, it's clear how much this moment impacted both of them. You're a true hero in my heart. And here in this screaming, the fighting of the sirens, for you to have the courage to not lock your doors and come out to help me, it says a lot. It also means a lot to the woman who is scared of cops. Maybe not so much anyway. We shouldn't be scared of police officers. The humans like us, we should be able to help them when they're in need. Welcome to the BCV channel. I'm your host, Pastor Seco Woods. Please do the following. 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All right, so Let's get into the into the the study on tonight Again, I have If you've been following this channel, you know for quite some time I have been addressing the issue of abuse and addressing the the situations regarding John MacArthur grace to you and so forth and this this topic or this issue I Believe as Christians we should take serious because God takes it serious We are his image bearers, but we are also his children if we have been redeemed by the blood of Christ Therefore when we see injustice of any kind, I'm not talking about the injustice that the world tries to manufacture and concoct I am talking about legit Factual actual justice when we see these types of behaviors occur Unfortunately, it occurs even in the church. Well because you have people who still have a signature in the church It's because a person is saved does not mean they're not they're not going to sin That's where accountability That's what we hold each other to the standard of God's word and when we find those standards diminished when we find those standards to be Push back or the goal posts of those standards to be moved then it is our Responsibility as brothers and sisters in Christ and I want to say particularly to us as men It is your responsibility in mind to protect our women to protect our children To protect our sisters To protect our mothers our aunts our cousins The elderly it is our responsibility those two clips that you saw Regarding these good Samaritans these people assisted Those who needed help Even without them asking for it And how much more for us you and I as brothers and sisters in Christ when we see wrong when we see injustice when we see abuse and For us to just walk on by It says something about our love for our neighbor It says something about our love for our brothers and sisters It says something about our testimony It says something about who we represent And who we represent it's supposed to be Christ his kingdom And so as Kingdom ambassadors as Kingdom representatives, we are to represent him well Not perfectly because we're not gonna do that on this side of the of the cross on this side of eternity But we should strive We should do everything we can To ensure that when we see wrong we speak up and speak out regardless of who it is So if you saw the thumbnail the text that I'm going to be Coming from would be Luke chapter 10 Versus 30 through 37 Luke chapter 10 versus 30 through 37 So let's jump right into the text And if you have your Bibles, hopefully you have them if not you can read along here on the screen Jesus replied and said a man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among robbers and they stripped him and beat him and Went away leaving him half dead And by chance a priest was going down on that road and when he saw him He passed by on the other side Likewise a Levite also when he came to the place and saw him passed by on the other side But a Samaritan who was on a journey came upon him and when he saw him he felt compassion and Came to him and bandaged up his wounds pouring oil and wine on them and He put him on his own beast and brought him to an end and took care of him on The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper and said Take care of him and whatever more unit you spend when I return. I will repay you Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers hands? And he said the one who showed mercy Then Jesus said to him go and do the same One of the read that past is a scripture because in its context Jesus is having a conversation with the lawyer and This lawyer is basically inquiring if you want to use that term But the lawyer was asking Jesus what must he do to inherit eternal life and we know that he was asking him to test him It wasn't from a place of sincerity and so Jesus told him what was written in what is written in law? What I mean, how does it read to you? In fact, let's just go there so that way you can see the context yourself. You don't have to take my word for it Verse 25 and a lawyer stood up and put him to the test saying teacher. What shall I do to inherit eternal life? And he said to him what is written in the law? How does it read to you? And he answered you should 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 your neighbor as yourself And he said to him you have answered correctly Do this and you will live but wishing to justify himself He said to Jesus and who is my neighbor and there you have the story that Jesus gives The parable of the story of the good Samaritan, which we will be spending our time here this evening And so what I would like to do is cover this and and four points Five we add verses thirty six or thirty seven But I want to cover this in four points first thing I want to cover is the assailants you find that in verse 30 The eight claws of verse 30 The second thing I want to cover is the abuse you find that in the B clause of verse 30 Then in verse 31 through 32 You find the apathetic the apathetic and Then in verses 33 to 35 you find the attentive and then like I said in verses 36 to 37 You can we can basically add that the answer and application. So again Number one. We're gonna talk about the assailants the abused the apathetic The attentive and then lastly you can add the fifth one The answer and the application. So let's jump right in Let's jump right in First thing we want to talk about is the assailants the assailants We know the assailants are the ones that if we find in verse 30 and in verse 30 it reads a Man was going down from Jerich from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among robbers Notice is more than one It's more than one and they stripped him and Beat him and went away Leaving him have dead. So this wasn't just a one-time Assault they were beating this man almost to death and you see here verse 30 again it says He was going down to Jerusalem to Jerusalem, excuse me To Jericho and fell among robbers. He wasn't looking for trouble trouble found him Let me just say this to all of you None of us are exempt from abuse. None of us are exempt from Tragedy none of us are exempt from misfortune none of us are exempt from bad things happening to us You and I could be going about our very own business and people get out of nowhere Try to harm you. This is why it is important and this is why I always try to teach my wife and my children To always look in and be aware of your surroundings always When I go somewhere, I'm always making sure that I leave myself and out I always make sure by God's grace as much as I possibly can that if something jump off or something happens That I'm able to respond and ill and try to be on the alert When I'm sitting in places of or establishments of business I'm always trying to sit facing the window or facing the door With my back to a wall When I'm walking in the parking lot and I'm walking with my family and what I'm looking at cars Looking between cars looking under cars Always keeping my eyes moving Doing everything I can and also making sure that my my children are doing everything they can to protect themselves And we know how sometimes women can be They can be focusing on things looking at the phone, you know fixing their face and all that kind of stuff, but nonetheless It doesn't exempt us From evil doesn't exempt us from bad things happening This man was going about his business. This man was going about his own way and He was assaulted by a sailor. Let's look again at the text again He fell among robbers and they stripped him and beat him and went away leaving him have naked So the first thing we notice about assailants is this Assailants they prey on the unsuspecting and unaware They pray on the unsuspecting and unaware they always try to get somebody that's not looking Somebody that that's going to trust them even sometimes as well because most abusers They abuse those who don't expect for them to be abused They're not aware of it It's the little things. It's the subtle things that could happen But nonetheless they prey on the unsuspecting and the unaware and most abuse happens From those that are family or close friends of family. These are the things that happen So that's the first thing we see that they prey on the unsuspecting and unaware the second thing We did that we see in his text is that they possess? No, I'm sorry. That's not the right one. Where am I girl? Here we go. Yes, they possess a lack of compassion and concern of those they accost They possess lack of compassion and concern of those that they accost. Let's look again at the text again These robbers they came and fellow month they fell among he fell among robbers. They stripped him Beat him and went away leaving him half naked. They don't care. They didn't care about this man's Well-being They humiliated this man by stripping him They assaulted this man by repeatedly beating him. You see here in the text in verse 30 They beat him and then left him half dead They did not care whether he lived or died the guy whatever they wanted from him and left him half dead almost devoid of life and That is what abusers do as well too. They take whatever they can from you for women It is their purity their innocence their virginity their dignity their self-esteem They humiliate them making them feel less than than nothing leaving them half dead some some cases and sometimes those things happen Where a person can be assaulted and abused to the point where as they almost die And some would just want to die but for the assailant they don't care They prey on those who are unsuspecting those who are unaware Those that they thought that they kept they have garnered trust with them They lack compassion. They lack concern. They lack care Once they get what they get from you. They're gone and on to the next one These people are heartless. These people are godless These people don't have a love For their neighbor let alone Their own brothers and sisters and sometimes in the body of Christ brothers and sisters in the body of Christ So that is that is the the first thing we see the second one we want to talk about is the abused verse 30 Again the B clause of verse 30. Let's look at it again. Who are the abused? the abused are De victimized This person fell among Robbers he didn't go looking for it. It happened at a particular point in time He fell among robbers And they Plural stripped him beat him and went away leaving him half naked of those who are abused those who are abused These are the ones that are the victimized These are the ones that are victimized these are the ones that are Victims these are the ones that are Mistreated these are the individuals That are innocent They're not the victimizer They're the victimized They're the ones that are assaulted and there are the ones that are supposed to be protected But they become victimized they become prey they become a person's source of sadistic pleasure This man was stripped probably almost naked if not Taken for everything that he had And not only that they beat this man almost half to death and then leave him To die this is what abusers and assailants do so the abused are not those That are Or should not be those that are Mistreated Not that not the abused not the victimized They're the ones that should be cared for not the victimizer The victimizer's should not be covered and protected the victimizer's should not have ministries paying for their books and their Commissary and having churches still support them while they are still Pleading innocence although they are guilty That's how the mentality has been inverted Those who are abused are victimized and not only are they victimized But they're violated voiceless and Vulnerable They're the violated ones. They're the voiceless ones and they're the vulnerable These are the individuals that don't have a platform like you and I may have these are individuals Where no one wants to believe them nor hear them when their stories are trying to be told these are the Victimized these are the Violated the voiceless and the vulnerable again. Let's look at the text again verse 30 the B clause they stripped him beat him and Left or leaving him half dead. They left him in a vulnerable position No one can hear him. He's been violated. He's been stripped He's been beat down Probably to without strength. He's voiceless and he's left Vulnerable this is what happens to those who are abused it happens to them Physically and it also can happen in the spiritual sense as well if you remember reading and listening to the story that I read to you last night just briefly from Karen Caldwell the humiliation and the shame and the dehumiliation and the outright disrespect of A woman by men who are supposed to protect her This woman went through and you would think again Those that are supposed to protect are those that are ones that take and make prey out of the innocent so again You see the assailants in verse 30 You see the abused in the B clause of verse 30 That's the second one. The third one we want to talk about are the apathetic the apathetic Versus 31 through 32 the apathetic Versus 31 through 32. Let's look at the text and by chance a Priest was going down on that road and when he saw him he passed by on the other side verse 32 Likewise a Levite also When he came to the place and saw him passed by on the other side notice these people The apathetic ones a Priest and a Levite Let's just bring the cookies down from the top shelf shall we these are the religious folk These are the church folk. These are the ones that you would think That would be caring and concerned About us and about those that are abused those that are voiceless those who are Violated those who have been left in vulnerable situations You see them you hear them You read their stories You've seen their photos and you see their Their image fellow image bearers their dignity and self-worth Have been basically spiritually emaciated but these these individuals the priest and the Levite You know a priest is a person who are supposed to represent God to the people and also represent the people to God Levites were responsible for the ceremony Activities and the in the constructs of the of the temple basically they were the ones that would be and Involved in how we worship God So basically you have leaders of High position Having a posture of apathy They don't care the text says they see this man And a vulnerable position they see this man Have been violated he's been stripped Pretty much of everything that he probably has a value has been gone and taken away He has no one to hear his side of the story and he would think that The priest and the Levite that represents God and and shows us how we are to worship and approach God would care Just enough to be able to remove this individual from a violent dangerous vulnerable situation and what do they do look at the text Verse 31 when he saw when the priest saw him he passed by on the other side likewise Levite also When he came to the place and saw him passed by on the other side these people the apathetic these individuals The first thing we see about the apathetic is this they lack love for the abused They lack love for the abused They can sing I love you Jesus. I love you more than anything, but what about your brother? What about your sister? What about those who cry out for justice those who cry out for protection those who cry out for help in the church Do you love them enough to defend them? Do you know love them enough to hear their cry to hear their cause? Or do you have this attitude of apathy and You are so insuciant that you don't care. Why because it's not your toothache. It's not your daughter. That's been raped violated sexually assaulted molested It's not your niece. It's not your granddaughter It's not sure aren't It's not your wife. It's not your mother. So why would I care? the The apathetic people are nonchalant again. They are insuciant. That means they don't care. They just like a egg. Hey, man Look, I mean, you know, hey, let me I don't want to get involved in that They're they're carefree about the cares of other individuals they don't care and How do we know they don't care by how they respond when you see abuse? That's how you know when a person is apathetic. They are indifferent They don't they don't see themselves as One who could be in that situation So what do they do they keep scrolling Keep moving to the next post Keep moving to the next article Keep moving to the next situation because again after all It's not my issue. It's not my toothache. So why should I say ouch? So again, they lack love for the abused Also, they lack sympathy and empathy for the abused They lack sympathy and empathy for the abused again Let's just take a peek at the text again because I want you to see this Both of these men both of these leaders see the same thing and You would think at least one of them would stop at least one of them Would not worry about being inconvenienced and now involve themselves in A situation that they too could be in themselves No, no They they lack sympathy And and for the record, I wanted to put the definitions up here for those who may because sometimes we get them confused sometimes we Confused the terms here. And so what I want to do is give you the definitions of the Of the two sympathy is to feel someone's sorrow And or pain that is what sympathy means or to be sympathetic you you you not only do you Understand that's what empathy means empathy means I understand but sympathy now Do we understand but you've experienced that so you you know how it feels to be? Violated you know how it feels to be in a vulnerable situation You know how it feels to lose a loved one You know how it feels to lose a job, you know, you know how it feels so when someone else Experiences it you too have now put yourself in that same persons shoes that's sympathy and I pray God's people would practice that for those who have gone through empathy means to understand Someone sorrow and or pain you may not you may not have experienced it But at least you can understand you can imagine why you know what I can I can only imagine how you how this makes you feel I can only imagine how this has caused you pain you you may not have gone through it But at least you can understand at least You can understand some of us actors though. We can't we can't relate to either one We lack sympathy And we lack empathy or We've gone through it But because we don't want anyone to see us and how it made us look We don't want to tell our story Because how it may look make us appear to see and what it make us appear to be before other people Not knowing that your story your trial your experience could be a blessing for someone else To be encouraged and I tell people this all the time what you and I go through is not always for us It's for someone else It's for someone else Any and everything we go through It is for someone else You may not ever see it But God does not waste trials God is not Waste suffering To make us more and more like him and his son for nothing trust and believe Everything that we you and I go through it is a message to communicate to someone else That if we have gotten through it and if God has brought us through it, then you and I can go through it as well By the grace power and spirit of God and this is why I tell us this is why I tell people all the time This is why it is important for us to be able to have at least one person at least somebody that you and I can go to Praise god if you have at least one friend one confidant that you can Share and have your burdens bearing with born with and they can bear Your burdens too and vice versa This is why my wife and I we talk about body life Because it's more than a concept It should be the christian's culture It should be how we live it should be how we carry ourselves When we see our brothers and sisters go through We should want to do something about it and sometimes it's just being there That would do more of a world of good to that individual or individuals Than us thinking that nobody wants to hear my story. Nobody wants to know what I've gone through nobody. It's not about you It's not about you. It's not about me It's about our brothers and sisters The reason why we can talk about the eileen gray situation is because eileen gray talked about it And by her now sharing her story other people have shared their story So that number one people don't feel like they're the only ones going through They don't feel like they're the only ones that's been left for dead In vulnerable situations that they don't have a voice And so now when you speak or when I speak about what god has done and the things that he has brought us through It brings encouragement and hope to our fellow brothers and sisters Please do not hide The candle of your suffering under a bushel Don't do that Because you're not helping anyone if anything you're hurting them more because you don't know what god can do And what god will do if you step out in faith and share what god has helped and is helping you Go through and be deliberate from and have delivered you from but these people here The apathetic they can't sympathize because they haven't been in it And since they haven't been in it they don't understand But there's somebody here that is watching this live and somebody that will be watching this replay That know exactly what i'm talking about And so this lesson is for you this teaching is for people like yourself You may have people around you That that don't care but god cares And there are people that god is is waiting to bring in your life To show you that they care These priests or this priest and this Levite they saw a man suffering In the throes of death and they kept passing by And it's unfortunate that is what our church and churches have become we become like the priest and the Levites That jesus is talking about where they can see clears day Suffering and injustice and say nothing about it. And not only do you listen if you look at the text let's look at the text again Not only did they see this man, but they did nothing they didn't even get anyone else to help this man Do y'all see this? it's one thing To know that you're not helping me But then it's another thing to walk by me and go and go on the other side of the road and not call anyone else to help me How cold hearted can a person be? again, the apathetic They like love for the abused They like love for them They like sympathy and empathy for them How can you be a priest and not act like or not practice what the great high priest jesus christ did Hebrews chapter four and verse 15 See jesus is not like us. He says the writer says For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize Who can't feel what we feel Who can't experience what we experience no no no the writer says no, we don't we don't have that kind of high priest But we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses But one who has been tempted in all things as we are yet without sin. That's who we have We have jesus The great high priest the ultimate high priest The priest of all priests jesus to christ Now does he have sympathy for us because he's been he's been through what we've gone through. He's experienced it But he also understands What we go through He understands if you have been abused What it's like to be abused What it's like to be mistreated what it's like to be humiliated publicly shamed outcast dehumanized mocked Oh, he understands he's not like the priest in the In the Levite so the the priests and the pastors and the and the elders of our day No, sir. No, ma'am. He cares And you know how he cares And some of the ways let me just share with you how you know, he cares is when he has Individuals who speak out and speak up on your behalf That's one of the ways he shows that he cares One of the ways he shows that he cares is in platforms like this Well, you're able to come and be able to see other people who have gone through And it emboldens and it encourages you To keep pressing and to know that you have a purpose and you have a you have a calling that god has on your life And a mission that god has called you to fulfill. I'm not speaking psychobab. I'm speaking scripture The fact that you and I are still here means that there's there's work for us to be done And there's work for us to do so no matter what has happened to you God allowed you to make it to encourage others and let them know that they can make it as well, too But these two guys in this text The apathetic unfortunately, ladies and gentlemen, we have it in our churches today right now Oh, they'll say that they care Until it's time to show that they care Oh, they'll say that they care Until it's time To live out what they claim To have been saying with their lips Yes First John chapter 3 verse 17 And 18 says this first John 3 versus 17 and 18 But whoever has the world's goods And sees his brother in need You know Violated victimized voiceless and vulnerable those people They're brother you see notice and sees his brother they they intently see and know that this person has a need And closes his heart against him. How does the love of God abide in him answer? It does not Little children let us not love with the word or with tongue Like David rector just said yeah, I'll pray for you When you can do more than just pray for a person He says let us not love with word or with tongue but indeed And truth these two men that represents leadership church leadership Should have known that But they didn't care because it was not it was not their toothache. It wasn't their relative It wasn't their struggle. It wasn't them laying on the side of the road half dead first John 4 verse 20 to 21 If someone says I love God and hates his brother He is a liar for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen And this commandment we have from him that the one who loves God should love his brother also These people were apathetic brothers and sisters they were they were It didn't care. They were nonchalant Again, these are the ensucian ones. These are the individuals that Don't see themselves You know in the shoes of other individuals or have not experienced anything. They're carefree They could care less about what another person has gone through Answer and how do you know that because of how they responded when help was needed When it was a life and death situation these two men went the other way They went the other way and you know how how else you can go the other way. You can go the other way by not talking about it You can go the other way by not telling anybody else About it. That's going that's going another way Going another way is it is acting as though you didn't see the abuse That's going another way Going other way is minimizing what you did see Going the other way could be blaming the individual who has gone through that What you're doing on this Jericho road in the first place, you know, you should be on this Jericho road You must have done something to be abused You must have done something Those men wouldn't have jumped on you for no reason That's apathy That's callous That's loveless That is a display of lack of love for one's brother or sister or neighbor So it's more than just you Uh spatially or geographically going in a different direction It's also the position and disposition of one's heart where you can go in a different direction in your mind And in your heart toward the individual So again, you see the assailants. You see the abuse. You see the apathetic But we also see the fourth thing We see the attentive We see the attentive thank god for The attentive ones those who care And I don't do they care But they show it Because again You can tell me that you love me you can tell me that you care about me all you want But if you don't show it It's all talk verse 33 through 35 But a Samaritan who was on a journey notice A Samaritan who that was on who was on a journey came upon him And when he saw him He felt compassion man Same journey as the other two men Same place as the other two men The the attentive ones The individuals who care Is on that same road And can I just say this to you Those of you who are who have been abused And people have passed you by God has a way of bringing those who will attend to you God has a way of bringing people who would care about you God has a way of bringing people that's not just going to just See what's happening, but they're going to do something about what has happened That's what we see in this text Because not only did he see this man But he felt compassion He felt compassion But but we got we got to focus on this first this first thing that we see about this this individual again in verse 33 notice The kind of person who it was A Samaritan Jesus is trying to make a point here Jesus is making a point Who should have helped the who should have helped this abused person who should have helped this person that was accosted and violated And taken for everything that he had It should have been The jewish people His own people didn't help His own people didn't even help him But notice This Samaritan the bible says Who was on a journey Came upon him Just like the other two did Just like the priest in the levi did came upon him And when he saw him he felt compassion. The first thing I want us to see is this Here's the first thing I want us to see About those who are attentive Number one They are incognizant of one's gender ethnicity Social political spiritual socioeconomic status when they see someone in need they don't care They don't they don't they don't Think about Whether or not this person Is male or female they don't think about whether this person is white or black or or whether this person is Is from this side of the of the of the tracks or whether this person is a democrat or republican Whether this person voted for trump or voted for biden they don't think I worry about whether or not this person could afford to Pay for their own Health care or or pay for their own well-being. No, no, no the attendant Their focus is on those that have been abused those who need help. That is what you see right here in the text Again verse 33 But a Samaritan man But a Samaritan Who was on a journey Came upon him, you know, he had somewhere to go to But this but this man stopped This man stopped he came upon him and when he saw him He saw him. He put himself in the same place Where this man was We don't know. Maybe he had been beaten up before we don't know but nonetheless the man did something about it He saw him felt compassion for him verse 34 says And came to him and bandaged up his wounds Pouring oil and wine in them And he put him on his own beast. Do you see that? So not only do we find the attentive that they are incognizant of one's gender Ethnic social political and so forth, right? They're not they don't concern themselves with that. They're not they're not thinking about that What they're thinking about is how can I help this person which brings me to the second point? Those are those who are attentive Are intentionally involved. Do you see that in verse 34? They are intentionally involved They know they can do something about it and they do They don't put it off on someone else Or somebody else can probably be able to do it when they can do it themselves. No They are intentionally involved He saw him felt compassion but he also came to him Didn't care about how he looked didn't care about whether or not the individual may have been Bladed and beaten to a pulp. He didn't care about that. He came to him the text says bandaged up his wounds pouring oil and wine notice Oil and wine is used as a medicinal agent oil soothes And wine can be is used to cleanse brings healing and help Just pouring oil and wine on his wounds And notice And put him on his own beast Yes, he's he's intentionally involving himself in the care Of this Wounded and left for dead man This is what Jesus is showing you or not How do we respond? How do we respond when we see and hear? The abused how do we respond when we could help Those who need our help without them asking this man could not ask for help He was in a position where he had no strength to get help for himself Help had to come to him And I'll just say this. This is for free When there are situations in our lives and we know we can do something about it and we don't we're going to have a given account for that to God Because there's an opportunity That we may have squandered because we value the god of convenience More than we value the god of creation I mean we we we act as though What we do is more important what god wants us to do this man Was traveling down the same road in the same path of those other two as the priest in the Levite Pretty sure he had some way to go as well too but love for his neighbor Would not let him go Any further and so he did what he needed to do To make sure that this fellow image bearer Was taken care of which brings me To the third point which brings me to the third point the attentive They are invested personally in the welfare of others They are invested personally in the welfare of others again, let's look at the text verse 34 is for to recap in the context he came to him That is the Samaritan came to him bandaged up his wounds Pouring oil and wine on them put him on his own beast and notice brought him to an end This man is personally investing in the welfare of his neighbor He brought him to an end and took care of him verse 35 on the next day He took out two denarii two days worth of wages and gave them to the end keeper and said Notice and said take care of him so not only Let me just say this to you as well I just was thinking about this one I don't know this man personally invest In the welfare of someone he did not know but he entrusted the care of someone else That he did not know for someone who he did not know Look at the text the next day He took out two denarii gave them to the end keeper and said Take care of him. He's entrusting this man to make sure that he takes care of the stranger The text doesn't show that he'd know this man He's an end keeper Possibly did but we don't know Well, let's just say that he didn't nonetheless. He entrusted the he entrusted this man to take care of someone that was abused and not only that not only did he invest personally in the welfare of this abused image bear but the other thing he did Which shows and which proves that this man was a good Samaritan Let's look at his character This man's character This man was a person of integrity see those who are Those who are attentive are people of integrity Yeah The people of integrity They say what they mean and mean what they say. Look at the text again He says gave him to denarii told the end keeper take care of him And whatever you spend when I return listen when I return I will repay you I will repay you. That's a person of integrity That's the person whose word is their bond That's the person whose character Who knows this person say yeah that man. Oh, yeah, he good for if he tell you gonna do it. He's gonna do it If he says he's gonna protect you he's gonna protect you If he says he's gonna he got your back or she got your back You can count on it. You can take that to the bank They word ain't gonna bounce God give us people of integrity in the body of Christ who protect the innocent who protect the violated Who protect the voiceless and the vulnerable and the victimized God give us more people like that Because lord knows those who are abused need to know that there are people who are A man and woman of their word and and displays and shows integrity Remember we're supposed to be ambassadors for christ We're supposed to be people of truth. This man said Take care of him Whatever you spend while i'm gone when I come back. I got you I got you I'll make good on my word But you take care of him You make sure whatever this man needs you you do it for me and when I get back I'll take care of it. Oh, yeah Let me let me let me make it practical for you for some of us Who have god entrusted in our care? And told us to take care of them until I get back Hmm You notice what he told us right there is a day When he returns we're going to have to give him back what he has entrusted to us Yes, there is a day when The ultimate good shepherd the one who gave his life he is going to Demand an accounting for what we have been entrusted with Our spouses our children Our ministries there is a day what god says take care of this I'm entrusting this to you. I'm entrusting him to you. I'm entrusting her to you I'm entrusting those children to you. They're all on loan I've already given you my spirit as a deposit. I already put something on you But when I get back I'm going to expect What I've inspected I'm going to expect good From what I've given to you What does you do To that person who needed your help How did you treat them? How did you respond to them? Did you just shrug them off? You put it on someone else to do it when you could have done it yourself What did you do? God says when I when I return I'm going to expect Good on what I've given you There are a lot of pastors That's going to have to give an account For the people that god has entrusted to their care And they have not made good with what god entrusted to them The John McArthur's of the world The SBC's of the world There's a day of reckoning There's a day of an accountability And none of us will miss that date None of us But this man in the text Says take care of him Take care of him Take care of him the same way I would Do for him provide for him Treat him the same way I treat you Give him whatever he needs and when I get back I'll take care of it. I got you Those who are attentive Are not like the apathetic They're not like the assailants The attentive Are people of integrity They make good on their word And if it's something they can't do and they know they can't do it They're not going to tell you they can do it when they know they can't do it Proverbs chapter 3 verse 27 And 28 Proverbs chapter 3 Verse 27 to 28 The bible says do not withhold good From those to whom it is due when it is in your power to do it Do not say to your neighbor go and come back and tomorrow I would give it when you have it with you That's not integrity It says do not withhold good from those to whom it is due When you know you can help somebody When you know you can help the abuse when you know you can help those who have been abandoned those have been mistreated by the church And you have the means or the resources or the ability or the skills Or the counseling or the words to say god says don't withhold that from these people Don't do that Whatever it is Do not withhold good From those to whom it is due listen. We're all old to love each other That's a debt that we would never pay off We're to love each other. We have to treat each other the same way. We want to be treated We don't put it off on someone else And we don't put off taking care of somebody else till later the text says verse 28 Do not say to your neighbor go and come back and tomorrow I would give it when you have it with you First of all, we don't know tomorrow's promise to us. Hello James He says do not boast of tomorrow for you and I do not know What the day may bring for how many people have told Someone that you're going to do something for them and they're still waiting for you to do it And we're Christians and you know that person could need and and need your help and you have Acted as though they never asked you and you owe them You at least owe them An explanation You at least owe them something so they don't they don't assume well, dang I mean did I not ask them for help or whatever? far too many Christians Claim that they are men and women of integrity when it's time to show it This is what they do verse 27 and 28 of Proverbs 3 they withhold good Knowing that they have the ability to help somebody know they have the ability to to bless somebody's ministry Know they have the ability ability to bless somebody's marriage bless somebody's relationships Maybe bring someone into their home Maybe take time out of their quote unquote busy schedule to talk to someone listen I'm not I'm not saying that we have to be that we can't be there for everybody But we know we know when the spirit of God is it's telling us yeah, you need you need to do this you need to do this You need to do this And isn't it something when we do it we feel much better when we do it? That's the spirit of God that's the spirit of God but Those who are attentive and verses 33 to 35 Of Luke 10 these people They don't they don't concern themselves about How a person looks They are intentionally involved. They don't they don't concern themselves about how a person looks They have no problem personally investing and giving up themselves for others And they have integrity ladies and gentlemen They have integrity They don't they don't write emails to people saying they're gonna do something and they don't do it When they know they have the power to help someone This is this is this is serious y'all This is not a game Lives and souls Are affected by what we do to others So again just to review The assailants the abused the apathetic and the attentive Again, let's look at the last portion Look at the last portion remember I say we probably can cover it just the last two verses here Um The answer in the application The answer in the application but look at verses 35 I mean 36 and 37 Verse 36 and 37 Which of these three Jesus says do you think proved to be A neighbor to the man Who fell into the robber's hands? He's asking a question. Jesus knows the answer But he's testing the so-called smart alecky lawyer who tried to test Jesus So which of these three you think proved notice not pronounced to be Loving their neighbor. Mm-hmm. No Jesus says which of these three do you think proved To be a neighbor to the man who fell into the robber's hands Verse 37 You see the answer The one who showed mercy the one who showed mercy toward them Jesus said to him Exactly go and do likewise. See remember. I told you all Remember, I told you That the gospel is more than an event Remember I said that the gospel is more than an event the gospel is about The effects. How does it change your life? How does it cause you and I to think? How does it cause you and I to treat our neighbor? And our neighbor is anyone we come in contact with Thank you, my brother. David. Thank you for the super chat That's who our neighbor is It is anyone Who by God's providence and sovereignty we And our paths Intersect with There's a need and we know we can meet it. God expects for us to meet it There are so many people who need our help And we can do it the question is which one are we? Are we like the priest? Are we like to leave these these church leaders? Don't want to get themselves dirty don't want to involve themselves in the mess Of abuse because you know after all, you know, it's just it just you know I'm just here on one side. Okay. We'll get both sides. Let's let's let's let's let's get out to the mud Let's get into the mess of this. Let's work this stuff out You're supposed to be for the people, right? You're supposed to represent God to the people and represent the people to God, right? So that means you're supposed to be a people person Mr. Levi, you're supposed to be the one that's in charge of how we are to come before God Well kind of hard to do that if you're not coming for God correctly by treating his fellow uh image bearers Less than dirt Kind of a bad witness. Don't you think? And so we need to ask ourselves Which one are we? What do we fall into this? I had put up a poll question in the chat on youtube And I said when you hear stories of abuse or domestic abuse in the church Which of the individuals or which one do you find yourself? That describes you The priest or the Levite Or the the good Samaritan I mean you have to be honest with yourself. I can't I can't discern your heart only you can But this this situation with Eileen gray and wendy gray and with elder honcho it has shown me That there's three kinds of people in God's kingdom Three That when we see abuse and injustice We follow one of those three categories This there's not a fourth. There's only three Either we love God Love our neighbor Or we don't Simple as that. Are we going to get it perfect? Absolutely not. Can we strive for it? We better We should Because we see here in the text. It is what God expects of us This is what he expects of us Give one point of principle in Two questions of application And here's the overall principle those You would expect and assume to be the ones to help you in time of trouble and distress Sometimes are the very ones who inflict the most pain than the abuse and or abuse of themselves That's what I see the overarching principle in this text this man Should have expected should have received the help from The priest and the Levite, but he didn't He received it from an unlikely source he received it from someone that Was surprised any of us if we were Jewish in that culture in context and time But it's it's those who sometimes inflict the most and worst abuse When they're the ones who should be able to help us and they don't And it's not that they can't they won't The text says that these two men They saw this man and they went on the other side So it's not that they couldn't Is that they wouldn't help They had the ability to do something and they didn't they left this man to die And how many of us are guilty of that in today's church and today's Society we see people at the throes of death spiritually It can be sometimes physically And we see these people crying out for help And what do we do we go the other way? We keep scrolling We keep it moving which brings me to this question Have you closed your eyes to the ear? Have you closed your eyes and ears to the pain and cries of the abuse left for dead by the church? Have you done that? Are you are you like the the priest and the Levite Are you like John MacArthur and grace community church? Are you like his defenders? Are you like the mob? Will you see the stories you read the reports but because it's julie rois it can't be true Because it's Brent death while it it can't be true Because it's christianity today it can't be true Have you closed your eyes and your ears? To the pain and the cries of the abuse left for dead by the church And some of you who may be watching this man saying this dude is tripping It ain't that serious really it's not Tell that to those who have gone through this Tell that to those who have been left for dead tell that to those who Don't have a voice because their voice has been taken away. They've been excommunicated. They've been put out. They've been shunned Tell that to them tell that to them I'm pretty sure they have a different take on it than you We have that we have to ask ourselves that question Because I've seen a lot of cold hearted attitudes toward The individuals that I had aforementioned The island grays of the world the windy grays of the world The caring car wells of the world And there are many others recently One report that we that we that we heard having years ago, but it just came to the surface because of how Uh, eileen gray's story has has caused and a domino effect of others to come forward Anytime you have the risk of jumping out of a car and losing your life to get away from your Assailant and your abuser and yet the church does nothing about it. That is telling to me That is very telling to me And knowing that this person has had a pattern of abuse of young people And yet they're still a part Of a church whose reputation is supposed to be of sound biblical doctrine That says a lot more than what we want to believe But that's one question of application. We need to ask ourselves Have we have you have I Have we close our ears and eyes to the pain and cries of the abused Left for dead by the church I can't speak for you. You can only speak for yourself But we've seen examples of this Just a year ago and counting People are closing their eyes and ears to the cries of those who have been abused Because it's not their toothache or Have you Close your eyes and ears so that your heart can see the pain And hear the cries of the abused Left for the church. See there's a difference There's a difference The first category of people they don't want to hear anything. They don't want to they don't want to know nothing They want to act like it never happened They want to diminish it. They want to they want to minimize it. They want to they want to ignore it. They want to shoot away They want to block you if you say anything about it on social media They want to shun you they want to remove any type of influence if you open your mouth and talk about this But there are people Like this group Who have closed their eyes and ears so that they can So that they can hear That they can see and hear the pains and the cries of the abused why because they know that they are part of the body And some know what it feels like because they've experienced it and some know although they may not have experienced it that they can understand They sympathize and they empathize we have sympathizers and empathizers in god's church And these are the ones who make up the true body of christ Because they know that their high priest jesus christ Sympathizes with them and how could they not if they've gone through What their brothers or sisters or neighbors have gone through not sympathize And even if they haven't gone through how could they not have an understanding heart And have an understanding ear to at least Listen to the cries and the cares and the pains and the hurts of those who have been abused because again the bible says in first Corinthians chapter 12 in verse 26 And if one member suffers All the members suffer with it if one member is honored All the members are honored with it Now you are christ's body and individually members of it in verse 27 So i ask you Which one are you? Which one are you? Are you like the priests and the Levites? Who see it don't care and if you see it Like apostasy file said you blame the victim instead of holding the victimizer Accountable you don't put the victimized out the church you protect them The victimizer you put them out They don't repent you put them out you take them to justice So that those who have been victimized and violated Can be protected the church is supposed to be the place Where women and children Gods sheep Are protected and when the world provides more protection than the church We have a problem We have a huge problem And i'm telling you You don't want to be of the first group Because if that is your pattern of behavior where you are heartless And cold and callous to the cries of those who are abused Then god will deal And his judgment Is perfect And he has not left us here to do what we want To whoever we want And think that god is going to say well done thou good and faithful slave. No, he will not No, he will not This is serious I wasn't going to go here, but I this for a moment I want to Read Read a passage here um Luke chapter 12 verse 35 And we'll wrap it up Luke chapter 12 verse 35 I'll start there The context is about being ready Being in a state in position of readiness Be dressed in readiness and keep your lamps lit Be like men who are waiting for their master when he returns From the wedding feast so that they may immediately open the door to him when he comes and knocks Blessed are those slaves whom the master will find on the alert when he comes Truly I say to you that he will gird himself to serve and have them recline at the table and will come up and wait on them Whether he comes in the second watch or even in the third And finds them so blessed are those slaves, but be sure of this That if the head of the house had not known and the head of the house had known At what hour the thief was coming he would not have allowed his house to be broken into you too Be ready for the son of man is coming at an hour that you do not expect Peter said lord are you addressing this parable to us or to everyone else as well? And the lord said who then is the faithful and sensible steward whom his master would put in charge of the servants to give them their rations at the proper time Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions verse 45 But if that slave says in his heart My master will be a long time in coming and notice and begins to beat the slaves. Can we either say abuse? Can we just say that? And begins to beat the slaves abuse the slaves both men and women And to eat and drink and get drunk The master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him And at an hour he does not know And will cut him in pieces And assign him a place with the unbelievers And that slave who knew his master's will and did not get ready or acting according with his will will receive many lashes But the one who did not know And committed deeds worthy of a flogging will receive But few from everyone who has much Who has been given much much would be required And to whom they entrusted much Of him they will ask all the more Can't claim that you're saving you do whatever you want to do the guys people think you're gonna make it He says i'm he's gonna cut your pieces and sign your place with the unbeliever. He don't do that to believers He don't do it to sheep He do it to those who claim to be sheep, but they're not she The wolves in sheep's clothing. Well, I didn't know about I didn't notice. I didn't I didn't know. Okay. Well, you're still getting something No one gets away No one You remember the example of a person where you know, if you've been in the house for a long period of time And you know the rules of the house or somebody may be new to your house They put their feet on the on the table They may be told, you know, you know, you mind putting your feet down But those of us who's been in the house, we know we've been not put our feet on on that table We know we've been I put our feet in that chair on our couch. We we know because we know the house rules Too many act like you don't know the house rules When god says you do know the house rules and i'm going to treat you as though you know the house rules and again my appeal to those of us Who are seeing what is happening before our eyes regarding abuse If you're struggling to relate to this not that you're not insensitive like Like the the first group like the The the the the priests in the the Levites You're not you're not treating it like it ain't no big deal. You you're you're struggling trying to You don't know who to believe you don't know what the thing. Okay Then close your eyes Reminded me of my brother zex was talking in the the example we were talking about in regarding this whole situation Was the movie time to kill We know the movie Samuel duck jackson's daughter was was savagely beaten and raped as a little girl Unable to have children anymore in the movie And Matthew McConaughey played the lawyer And in that movie You had a I believe an all-white jury. I believe that's what it was mostly. I think it was all white all right jury in that time In order for him to bring that case Home he had to put that situation to where they themselves can see what The father saw He told them to close your eyes And he gave in graphic description with their eyes closed How that little girl Was treated mistreated abused assaulted violated Made vulnerable And was voiceless she didn't have a voice And at the end of all of that Tears beginning to flow through some of the jurors eyes From their eyes and he said what if that Little girl was white Like I said to some of you last night in the last life What if eileen gray Was your relative What if wendy gray Was your relative What if karin cardwell Was your relative What if the young teenage girl who had to jump out of a moving vehicle? To get what get away from her rapist Was your relative What if eldehan show Was your relative What would you do? What would you do? 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