Rev. Dan Speckhard, pastor at St. Peter Lutheran Church and School in North Judson, IN, joins host Rev. Timothy Appel to study Luke 10:25-37.
As Jesus continues His journey toward Jerusalem, a lawyer comes to test Jesus with a question concerning how the Law relates to eternal life. Jesus turns the question back on the lawyer, who answers correctly from the Law of Moses. Yet the lawyer wants to justify himself; knowing that he has not loved perfectly, he seeks a loophole in which neighbors he is required to love. Jesus responds with the illustration of the Good Samaritan. The priest and the Levite are caught up in legalistic minutiae of the Law; the Samaritan does what the Law cannot do in showing self-sacrificial love only for the good of the wounded man. By this illustration, Jesus calls the lawyer out of the legalistic interpretation of the Law and into the Gospel of God’s love for sinners, shown to the fullest by Jesus in His life, death, and resurrection.
“The Beloved Physician’s Orderly Account” is a mini-series on Sharper Iron that goes through the Gospel according to St. Luke. The Evangelist wrote his well-researched account of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection so that Theophilus would have certainty concerning the things he had been taught. As we still read the Word of God recorded by St. Luke, our gracious Lord gives us that same certainty that Jesus is our Savior.
