Southpointe Community Church Sermons

Luke 10:25-37 | The Good Samaritan Generosity is Love compelling me to live sacrificially for the betterment of others. 1 The ways we try to limit loving our neighbor a.) We limit the WHO b.) We limit the WHEN Objection: "I don’t have to help when they have brought it on themselves." Edwards: "Christ loved you, pitied you, and greatly laid himself out to relieve you from all that want and misery you brought on yourself by your own folly. Should we not love others as Christ loved us? If Jesus had looked own from heaven and said: I only want to help deserving sinners with my blood he could have saved a trip. Because none of us deserve it and we’ve brought it on ourselves." c.) We limit the HOW MUCH Objections: “I can’t afford to help.” Edwards: Galatians 6:2 “Bear one another’s burdens.” "The Gospel obliges us to give to others when by doing so we suffer ourselves. How else is that rule of bearing one another’s burdens fulfilled? If we never are obliged to relieve other’s burdens except when we can do it wi