Thursday
The Daily Dig – On the road to Jericho (Luke 10:25-37) Religious people have struggled through the years with understanding how to maintain purity in a world of “contamination.” The Priest and the Levite (ministers of the Temple) who came upon this badly beaten man on the road passed by from a distance in order to maintain their purity. Let me explain, if this badly beaten man was dead (he most likely looked it) and these men stopped to help, it would cause them to be ceremonial unclean, impure. This would then nullify their ability to minister in the Temple. This was according to the Law. So the real question is what is more important? How does someone answer this question. Jesus clearly answers this question. Remember the expert wanted to know how to inherit eternal life. It was answered long ago, “To obey is better than sacrifice,” 1 Samuel 15:22. Any opportunity to show compassion and love is the way of God and the true spirit of the Law. That is obedience.
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