Jesus Makes The Test Simple: Go And Do Likewise

A single question can expose what we really believe: “What should I do to inherit eternal life?” We start in Luke 10 with Jesus refusing debate tactics and pulling us back to the heart of the law, loving God with everything and loving our neighbor as ourselves. From there, the conversation widens into judgment, hope, and why the only solid confidence is Jesus Christ and a name “registered in heaven,” not our status, our arguments, or our ability to control evil.

Then we slow down for the Good Samaritan, because it’s not a children’s story, it’s a mirror. Two religious men see a wounded stranger and create distance; the Samaritan sees him and pays a price. That challenge lands hard in a world of ugly headlines, fear, and outrage. Mercy is not theoretical, and neighbor love is not limited to people who look like us or live like us. Jesus’ command stays blunt: go and do the same.

We also read Psalm 75, Proverbs 12, and Colossians 3 to connect God’s justice to everyday speech, hard work, and the health of Christian households. Finally, we talk about attacks on churches, the pressure against Christianity in the West, a Medal of Honor story of courage, and why American rights were understood as rooted in God rather than the state. If this strengthened you, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find the show.

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Transcript

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Luke 10 25 through 28. One day an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus by asking him this question Teacher, what should I do to inherit eternal life? Jesus replied, What does the law of Moses say? How do you read it? The man answered, You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.

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Right. Jesus told him, Do this, and you will live.

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My example just went away. There it is.

Welcome And Gratitude To Listeners

Prayer For Strength And Peace

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2023 Oxford, UK. Young woman was raped by an Iraqi asylum seeker, Khaliz Ashmery, while he was staying in a migrant hotel. The attack left her traumatized and reportedly wanting to flee Britain. Her name was not publicly released in reports. No kidding. Migrant Hotel, we got a few of those in the U.S., don't we? Hey folks, this is Jesse Cope back with another episode of the American Soul Podcast. Hope y'all are doing well wherever y'all are, whatever part of the day you're in. Sure to appreciate you joining me. For those of y'all who continue to share the podcast and tell others about it, thank you. For those of y'all who continue to pray for me and for the podcast, thank you very much. Very grateful for your prayers. Father, thank you for today.

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Thank you for you, Father, and your son Jesus Christ and your Holy Spirit. Thank you for your love and your mercy, your grace and your forgiveness of sins.

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Thank you for those who listen to and share the podcast and pray for me and for the podcast. Father, please be with them.

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Be with their families. Bless their marriages, bless their children. Help us to trust you completely, Father. Give us wisdom and courage and a strong faith. Help us to do your will. Be with those who are injured and ill, sick, who feel alone and abandoned, who are anxious, depressed, even suicidal.

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Who are brokenhearted.

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Help us to feel your comfort, your peace, and your joy. Even those who are grieving, Father, please, those who have lost.

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Loved ones. A wife. Husband, a child. Some like a friend. Even when we can't see it, even when we don't understand it, to have faith like a child. You promise to bring us home. To you. Please do. In your timing.

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Be with our leaders, be with our military, our law enforcement, firefighters, EMS.

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Be with those who work in our medical industry, Father too. Our doctors, our nurses, and all the staff with them. Give them wisdom and courage and a strong faith.

Judgment Day And Real Differences

The Good Samaritan And Mercy

God’s Justice And Wise Speech

Household Duties And Marriage Guidance

Book Review Plus Support Requests

Attacks On Churches And The West

Medal Of Honor Courage Remembered

Faith Roots Rights And The Republic

The Lord’s Prayer And Farewell

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Guide my word here in your Son's name we pray. Amen. Luke 10, 13 through 37. What sorrow awaits you, Korusan and Bethsaida? For if the miracles I did in you had been done in wicked tear and Sidon, their people would have repented in their sins long ago, of their sins long ago, clothing themselves in burlap and throwing ashes on their heads to show their remorse. Yes, tear and Sidon will be better off on Judgment Day than you will. And you, people of Capernaum, will you be honored in heaven? No, you will go down to the place of the dead. Again, when people tell you that everybody's equally good and bad, that just doesn't match up with Scripture, with Jesus Christ's own words. It's going to be better and worse on Judgment Day. The thing that's the same, folks, is we all have to have Jesus Christ in order to get to heaven. That is the same. Then he said to the disciples, Anyone who accepts your message is also accepting me, and anyone who rejects you is rejecting me, and anyone who rejects me is rejecting God who sent me. When the seventy-two disciples returned, they joyfully reported to him, Lord, even the demons obey us when we use your name. Yes, he told them, I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning. Look, I have given you authority over all the power of the enemy, and you can walk among snakes and scorpions and crush them. Nothing will injure you. But don't rejoice because evil spirits obey you. Rejoice because your names are registered in heaven. Cling to that hope, folks, those of us that have accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. He's the only way I'm going to get to heaven. And I am going to because of him, because God's promise through him, I believe in him as the risen Son of God. He died on the cross. I can't explain it, don't understand it, but God raised him back to life. He defeated death. And because of that alone, my name is registered in heaven in the book of life. And if yours isn't, it can be. You just have to turn it over to God and Jesus Christ. That's it. At that same time, Jesus was filled with the joy of the Holy Spirit, and he said, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, thank you for hiding these things from those who think themselves wise and clever, and for revealing them to the child like. Yes, Father, it pleased you to do it this way. My Father has entrusted everything to me. No one truly knows the Son except the Father, and no one truly knows the Father except the Son, and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. Then when they were alone, he turned to the disciples and said, Blessed are the eyes that see what you have seen. I tell you, many prophets and kings long to see what you see, but they didn't see it. And they longed to hear what you hear, but they didn't hear it. One day an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus by asking him this question Teacher, what should I do to inherit eternal life? Jesus replied, What does the law of Moses say? How do you read it? The man answered, You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. Right, Jesus told him, Do this and you will live. The man wanted to justify his actions, so he asked Jesus, And who is my neighbor? Jesus replied with a story. A Jewish man was traveling from Jerusalem down to Jericho, and he was attacked by bandits. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him up, and left him half dead beside the road. By chance a priest came along, but when he saw the man lying there, he crossed to the other side of the road and passed him by. A temple assistant walked over and looked at him lying there, and he also passed by on the other side. Then a despised Samaritan came along, and when he saw the man he felt compassion for him. Going over to him, the Samaritan soothed his wounds with olive oil and wine and bandaged them. Then he put the man on his own donkey and took him to an inn where he took care of him. The next day he handed the innkeeper two silver coins, telling him, Take care of this man. If his bills run higher than this, I'll pay you the next time I'm here. Now which of these three would you say was a neighbor to the man who was attacked by the bandits? Jesus asked. The man replied, The one who showed him mercy. Then Jesus said, Yes. Now go and do the same. Psalm seventy five, verses one through ten. We thank you, O God, we give thanks because you are near. People everywhere tell of your wonderful deeds. God says, At the time I have planned I will bring justice against the wicked. When the earthquakes and its people live in turmoil, I am the one who keeps its foundations firm. I warned the proud, stop your boasting. I told the wicked, don't raise your fists. Don't raise your fists in defiance at the heavens or speak with such arrogance, for no one on earth from east or west or even from the wilderness should raise a defiant fist. It is God alone who judges. He decides who will rise and who will fall. For the Lord holds a cup in his hand that is full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours out the wine in judgment, and all the wicked must drink it, draining it to the dregs. But as for me I will always proclaim what God has done. I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. For God says, I will break the strength of the wicked, but I will increase the power of the godly. Proverbs twelve, twelve through fourteen. Thieves are jealous of each other's loot, but the godly are well rooted and bear their own fruit. The wicked are trapped by their own words, but the godly escape such trouble. Wise words bring many benefits, and hard work brings rewards. Amen to that. I forgot to read the marriage verse, so we'll do that right now. Colossians three, eighteen through twenty-one. Instructions for Christian households. Do we listen to God? Do our households function this way? Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged. As fathers, are we kind to our children? Do we ask them to do more than they can? Do we make them discouraged and bitter? Or not? As children, folks, do we obey our parents in everything? Everything that's godly. They're not saying do something that goes against God, but do we obey our parents even when we don't want to? Husbands, do we love our wives or are we harsh with them? Wives, do you submit yourselves to your husbands? As to the Lord. Countryside. Uh Deserts. That's the name of the individual who left this review on Amazon five-star review. The story is clean, cut, fun. It's interesting, and there's nothing I would have been unhappy to have my own young children or grandchildren read. That's a great review, folks, because that was one of the major reasons I wrote Countryside. I loved science fiction as a kid and fantasy, and there just wasn't a whole lot that I think my parents would really have enjoyed me reading. So that was definitely one of the driving factors. If you get a chance and you can check out the series, there's two books in the series. And if you can leave a review for one or both of them, I would greatly appreciate that. Same thing with the podcast. If you feel like you're getting something out of it, if you can leave a review. And if you have, sadly, the amount of money it takes for a cup of coffee these days, if you have five or ten dollars a month, you can donate to the podcast. Uh there's a link where you can set up that monthly donation, and I would very much appreciate that. I want to go back to a verse that we read on one of the previous podcasts. It struck me, and I saw a story about a church in Europe, I think, recently being burned by a bunch of Muslims, and that's increased a great deal recently in Europe and even in America, I think. But this was Psalm 74, verses 4 through 8. There your enemies shouted their victorious battle cries. There they set up their battle standards, they swung their axes like woodcutters in a forest. With axes and picks, they smashed the carved paneling, they burned your sanctuary to the ground, they defiled the place that bears your name. Then they thought, let's destroy everything. So they burned down all the places where God was worshipped. So I read that the other day on the podcast and then saw a story about this church being this old church being set on fire as the Muslims moved in. And so I went back and I looked up another just randomly from the past few decades, and 2017 popped up, and it was a hammer attack on Notre Dame in Paris. This was June 6, 2017, which I kind of thought fit with the verses too about the axes and picks. Um it was an Algerian Muslim named Farid Eikan, Iken, don't know, uh attacked a police officer with a hammer and shouted, This is for Syria while swinging the ham hammer. Um also attacked, apparently, or tried to the Notre Dame Cathedral, right? It's just it's a reminder, folks, of the threat that Islam and really leftism, socialism, communism, Nazism, fascism, right, because they go hand in hand, hand in glove, if you will. The threat to Western civilization founded on the principles of Christ. Because what they're really, what they really want to attack is Christianity. Medal of Honor for today is Andrew Symes Bryant, sergeant, highest rank sergeant major, U.S. Civil War Alpha Company 46, Massachusetts Infantry, U.S. Army, May 23rd, 1863, New Bern, North Carolina. By his courage and judicious disposition of his guard of 16 men stationed in a small earthwork at the head of the bridge. Bryant held in check and repulsed for a half hour a fierce attack of a strong force of the enemy, thus probably saving the city of New Bern from capture. Accredited to Springfield, Hampton County, Massachusetts, not awarded posthumously, presented August 13, 1873, born March 3rd, 1841, Springfield, County, Massachusetts, or Springfield, Hamden County, died October 6, 1931, buried Springfield Cemetery, M.H. Locust Path, 529, Springfield, Massachusetts. Andrew Symes or Sims Bryant. American Heritage Quote got two from Associate Justice Tom C. Clark, also known as Tom Campbell Clark of the U.S. Supreme Court. The founding fathers believed devoutly that there was a God and that the unalienable rights of man were rooted not in the state, nor the legislature, nor in any other human power, but in God alone. That was from Clark's 1963 article, Religion and the Law, published in the South Carolina Law Review, Volume 15, issue 5. He also has another quote from the Supreme Court case school district of Abington Township versus Schumpf from 1963. The fact that the Founding Fathers believed devoutly that there was a God and that the unalienable rights of man were rooted in him is clearly evidenced in their writings from the Mayflower Compact to the Constitution itself. Folks, we were built, born a Christian republic, and we can only function as such. And if we don't have God and Jesus Christ in the center of our courts and our constitutions, our institutions, education, military, law enforcement, our state constitutions, we are going to fall. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not to temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is a kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen. God bless y'all. God bless your families, your marriages if you're married. God bless your nation around the world, wherever you're listening. God bless America. We'll talk to you all again real soon, folks. Looking forward to it.