The Good Samaritan

Mankind's great problem is that we cannot justify our entry into God's eternal kingdom. (1) The Law demands our love for our life (Luke 10:25-29). God's law says that loving God and loving neighbor is the way to eternal life, and Jesus affirms this in verse 28. “You have answered correctly; do this and live.” But (2) We cannot love well enough to earn life. Because the man's motive for his second question is to justify himself, Jesus presents him with a moral example that is so far above the lawyer's power or desire that it will leave him helpless under the demand of love that the law requires. (3) So there are two ways to live – love like this and you can live, or live in Christ and you can love.