David Gibbs Jr - God's Command to Show Compassion

I'm thankful to be here this has been a great great joy for me I've enjoyed all the wonderful music and the great spirit of the conference I have to confess I've never been anywhere where football teams are idolized quite so much and so tomorrow morning I'm gonna preach on love not the world neither the things that are in the world and then I'm gonna preach on set your affection on things above and not on things here and I'm gonna hold an altar call so they can come and put these sports teams on the altar and I don't know who all will respond to that but I know one guy that should Wow I love the spirit I love the joy if God's people can't laugh the world has nothing to laugh about God's people are the only ones who have something to laugh about turn in your Bible please to the Book of Luke chapter 10 the Book of Luke chapter 10 it's the story of the Good Samaritan and this is an amazing story that the world loves to enamor eyes with all 50 states in America have what are by title Good Samaritan laws which is to protect people when they're being a good Samaritan from getting sued it's amazing Google says that about seven hundred thousand people search the word Good Samaritan every month can you imagine that and in my experience it's the second-most thing when I unsaved people who never read the Bible don't know anything when I say what do you know about the Bible they say well the love of money is the root of all evil and I say yeah that's in the Bible all right and there's this story called the Good Samaritan this is one that's know now this is an easy story to read and died but the last five words are critical the last five words change everything because you see you and I are not to know this story we're to be this story Jesus after he gave the story said go thou and do likewise every person here is commanded by God to be the Good Samaritan let's get ready to read this story it starts with a lawyer and you can just see him trying to trap Jesus in his words verse 25 Luke chapter 10 and behold a certain lawyer stood up and tempted him saying master what shall I do to inherit eternal life well he asked the greatest question in all the world and he said unto Him what is written in the law how Reedus now and he answered said thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all their mind with all I strength with all excuse me let me read it again thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy soul with all thy strength with all thy mind and thy neighbor as thyself and he said on 10 now s answered write this do and thou shalt live and by the way if you were perfect you could obey that but no man can the only person who ever obeyed that was Jesus Christ and he willing to justify himself said unto him who is my neighbor he's trying to wiggle his way out of what he got himself into Jesus answering said a certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho now if you go there today this is a stretch of road that's winding extremely deep it runs between two canyons rocks on each side and it was an incredibly dangerous road he said a certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves which stripped them of his raiment and wounded him and departed leaving him half dead Jesus said this man is in serious trouble and by chance there came down that way a certain priest that way and when he saw him he passed by on the other side now get this in your mind here's a guy that's been mortally wounded he's half dead and he's right over here at the side of the road and here comes an incredibly respected member of the religious community and he doesn't pass by he passes by the Bible says on the other side I just don't want to get involved you and I have discovered Christians can be experts at passing by on the other side brother Gibbs you can't help everybody I got problems of my own and who knows why he got molested maybe he's a bad guy but this priest passed by on the other side Jesus goes on and likewise a Levite again the second peer in the community when he was at the place came and looked on the man and passed by on the other side the world is full of people who pass by on the other side when they see somebody in need verse 33 but a certain Samaritan now Jesus is about to make a hero out of a Samaritan and this would have driven the crowd that was their crazy a Samaritan was a half-breed that's what they call though he was a cross between the Assyrians and the Jews when the Assyrians these heathen reprobates invaded some of the Jews married into them and they were hated by the Assyrians and they were hated by the Jews and Jesus about that takes somebody that they held no respect for because you see the two people they respected have passed by on the other side and he's going to make a hero out of a good Samaritan and if I have been there I'd have said Jesus pick another character don't don't do this this is going to be upsetting but a certain Samaritan as he journeyed came where he was and when he saw him he had compassion on him now here comes the first key God says I'm commanding you to care it's not an option how good's your compassion we're commanded to be God's love agents we're commanded to show this world the love of God and you can't show it without compassion brother Gibbs I don't mind doing some but you don't you go and you help people and they don't even appreciate it by the way God never said they would you're just commanded to have compassion my wife has helped me on this countless times she's a list-maker she'll say honey who are we having compassion for right now that's really at the side of the road I will tell you one thing people at the side of the road are everywhere they're in your family they're where you work they're in your community if you don't know anybody go to your pastor and say preacher give me somebody to show compassion on but we've gotten comfortable passing by this Samaritan had compassion and he went to him now you can't have compassion without going to him who have you gone to the side of the road for and not passed by yeah but brother Gibbs I got troubles of my own my goodness I love what dr. Hiles used to say and he's a hundred percent correct he said the best answer for any problem in your life is for you to be the answer to a problem in somebody else's life for you to be the one with compassion and go to them and go to them he had compassion and went to him and he didn't walk over and say just want you to know buddy I'm praying for you hope you get well maybe you could come to church no no he met his immediate need right then says he bound up his wounds whose immediate needs did you meet last week whose immediate needs today oh I promise you and you say God show me at the side of the road somebody that I can be a blessing to God will show up I was in a motel room and I was talking to a client that was in severe difficulty a church a pastor a youth pastor both of their wives sued desperately and I'm talking to him on the phone and we got other lawyers on the line and I had my earpiece in and the lady that cleans up the room the door was Oh when she came in and I motioned to her come on come on you can clean up real quick but I'm talking on the phone looking out the window and she didn't see that I was on the phone she couldn't see my little ear please and I said boy we got trouble we got to have somebody to help somebody to help this is really bad and she thought I was talking to her what she did next was amazing this little african-american chambermaid gets on her knees and starts praying out loud for me Oh God I don't know what the problem is but this man's in serious trouble and he's got to have you God now God I don't know what I can do but you know I'm commanded to show and then she said these words I'm commanded to show compassion and help and I turned around and she prayed for five minutes on her knees at the bed she was going to straighten out in just a moment praying for me finally I went over by and I said ma'am I I was on the phone talking to oh she said I'm sorry I said no no no you have no idea what you did for me she said mister I don't have a lot of money but she says I'll give you what I have I want to help I wonder if you'd have done it or are we comfortable passing by on the other side Wow he had compassion and he went to him and he bound up his wounds look at what the Bible says he did next he went to him and bound up his wounds pouring in oil and wine that was the medicine that they used in that day and by the way expensive he took the medicine he had and helped them pouring in oil and wine and don't miss these next words and set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn now I have that underlined do you understand the good Samaritan had a ride he had a beast but you know what he did he said you ride I'll walk I'm gonna treat you better than I'm gonna treat me whoa wait a minute brother Gibbs if you think I'm gonna make it better for somebody I'm trying to help than I do for myself read the story he said look you ride I'll walk this story is convicting to the core and took him to an inn and took care of him and on the morrow when he departed he took out two pence and gave them to the host and set on him take care of him and whatsoever thou spendest more when I come again I will repay thee do you realize how open-ended that is when's the last time you said to somebody by faith I'm gonna help you no matter what it costs that's the Good Samaritan I'm gonna treat you better than myself I'm gonna take care of your needs and whatever it takes I'm there look at what he said at the end now which of these three thinkest thou was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves and he said he that showed mercy on him then jesus said unto him say out loud the next five words in unison go and do thou likewise say that out loud again go and do thou likewise who can you show me that you've helped at the side of the road were you said by the grace of God I want to help you more than myself and I want to show you compassion and whatever it takes I'm with you to the end mercy well brother Gibbs my church does that kind of stuff I just don't do it no no this was an individual command your church should do it but you need to do it go thou and do likewise I ask you tonight this question who by the grace of God are you by decision allowed to take advantage of you who are you allowing to have you meet their need when it's not in your interest but you saw a need and you went to it and you had compassion who can you show me can I tell you what I get wherever I tell brother Gibbs I never looked at those last five words I don't know that I've ever done that and then we wonder why the world looks at us through such strange glasses we're commanded to be the good Samaritans to be the ones who make the difference I have four children the youngest of whom is Jonathan he's a lawyer in our ministry now but Jonathan came along 13 years after we thought we were done having kids if you want to do something spiritual have a baby 13 years after you're done having kids I see some women going no no no no we had some dear friends of ours pastor and his wife over our house and the kids were all outside playing and we lived on a small farm and we had cats that used to help keep the mice in the barn away and everything and we would feed them some cat food now and then to keep him around and then the dogs would try to get those cans and lick them out and one of the cans got licked out and taken over into the grass and when a lawnmower drove over it it cut it up some and made it razor-sharp and our kids were outside running around and he stumbled and my son came down on that can and sliced his hand through I don't mean he cut it a small piece of skin right here is the only thing that kept the hand attached to him he came in the house yelling and screaming blood was flying everywhere miraculously the pastor's wife was an RN a nurse and she immediately put him down and tourniquet and tried to get the blood to stop because we put him on the kitchen table and blood was flying it went up and kept hitting the ceiling as she said this is a massive injury we wrapped it up and immediately ran to the little local hospital in our town and we got there this doctor came out and he said this is not savable you got a need here beyond us nobody can save this you should give us permission to cut your son's hand off I said whoa wait whoa whoa whoa I said before you do that I want somebody else to look at this I called the doctor friend of mine and he said David ninety miles away there's a specialist but now it's 9:00 at night and he's bleeding profusely we can't get it to stop he said I'll try to get him to come race up that 90 miles to that hospital and we did the specialist came in he looked at my son's hand and he said down this is serious beyond anything you can think he said to attach this I got to redo all the nerves all the tendons I got to put all the muscles back in place and here's the problem my surgical team has just finished 18 hours of surgery we're exhausted and I've sent them all home and he said for me to call them back but if you don't do this now the nerves will all die my wife looked at him and said please help us help us the day will come when you need somebody's mercy when you need somebody's compassion that doctor looked at us had dark circles under his eyes he turned to the resident there and he said get the team in here this surgery is going to take about 15 hours but get the team here he said if we lose it's not going to be because we didn't show compassion that's the word he used isn't it funny when we want compassion oh we want somebody to respond well God's commanded you and me to be the people of compassion little by little they assembled that team at midnight they had them all there and I watched him walk in some 15 of them and they started the surgery they came out and they said we just want you to know he's working diligently to try to put feeling back in the hand so it doesn't just hang there but he's got thousands of nerves to connect and he's got to trace them all out and he's working under this microscope that's exhausting we said police thank him the surgery took longer than they thought finally this doctor came out 20 hours after he started and he said your son's hand is gonna be almost completely restored and then he looked at me and he said mr. Gibbs I come out here to thank you I said thank me he said yeah I said no no no I'm here to plead thank you thank you doctor and he brought the team out and he said we all want to say thank you to you I said I don't get this he said you see I didn't become a doctor to live in a big house I didn't become a doctor he said to drive a fancy car he said I became a doctor to do what I did tonight and when you gave me the privilege to serve you I thank you I thank you that doctor wrote me a letter and he said I thank you again for letting me have compassion for your family this is why I became a doctor as a child of God hear me and I'm done when you help somebody when you do the Good Samaritan it's not them that gets the blessing it's you this is why you're a child of God so that you can meet the needs of people at the side of the road people who need your help and who needs your care if you look at my son's hand now it's got a nasty scar on it but it functions completely and every time I see that hand I say thank you thank you God for a doctor who had compassion on us go thou and do likewise it's a command you'll never be the Good Samaritan by accident and it is an amazing in the story that the man at the side of the road that got all the help all the aid never thanked the Good Samaritan but Jesus did he said this is the model for you as my child go and do likewise for the kids I don't have a lot of money doesn't take a lot of money to be a good Samaritan all it takes is God show me somebody that needs some compassion who's hurting that little chambermaid she didn't know me from Adam but when she thought I had a need she said you see in my faith we're commanded to have compassion and she said every day in this motel I ask God show me somebody that needs God who needs compassion and I thought it was you I said i'ma tell you you've helped me who could look at you and say so that's a good Samaritan that lady that man that grandma that grandpa well brother Gibbs I'm a senior citizen I want to encourage you I don't care how old you are God's not through with you by the way you'll know when God's through with you because you'll be looking at him how many of you understand what I just said you'll be looking at the Lord but until then don't stop being the Good Samaritan Lee Roberson pastor Highland Park Baptist Church Tennessee temple schools great great man of God I can't tell you the number of times I'd see him and he'd say David are you being a good Samaritan it's not an accident show me somebody at the side of the road who has a need and I want to have compassion and go to them and help meet their need and I'm gonna make it better for them than me I have a ride you ride I'll walk Wow and I'm not going to excuse myself out and then I'm going to stay with them till it's done when I come back on tomorrow I'll pay the rest open-ended help how's your Good Samaritan I have to confess to you I don't ever look at this passage that I'm not under conviction personally and I beg yet tonight this world needs to see the Good Samaritan in you and in me because it's commanded

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Published: Tue Oct 01 2019