We continue our series on "The Real Jesus." Our Campus Ministry intern Daniel Sumoge delivers a message on how Jesus shows us "how to be."

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All right, so we're gonna continue going through our sermon series,

which has been titled The Real Jesus.

All right?

And we've been studying out the book of Luke and I made, and we made a

lot of observations about Jesus.

You know, we've seen that Jesus is not religious but righteous,

that Jesus is a world changer and he challenges our worldviews.

Last week we learned about how Jesus has real expectations for

all of us here in this room.

And we also have been having a communal prayer for the church weekly.

Last week we prayed that our church to carry our cross and hold

to Jesus' expectations for us.

And now, uh, this week we're gonna talk about the real Jesus how to be okay.

You guys probably like the real Jesus, how to be Daniel.

Doesn't make sense.

Just be how to be the real Jesus.

Okay.

Well, guess what?

I'm sorry.

I just graduated college, right?

I'm a criminal justice made.

We need to read that much English class here.

But before I dive in, I just want to ask you all, what do you value?

All right.

What do you value?

Forgot how to slide there.

All right.

For some of us in this room, we may value our kids.

We may value school.

We may value work.

And assuming that the people who are here in this room today at church, I'm

assuming to an extent we value God.

And now that you've been thinking about your values, we are now

gonna be looking at Jesus' values.

So if you don't mind, let's turn our Bibles to Luke 10 25.

All right.

And we'll be looking over the parable of the Good Samaritan.

And the Good Samaritan is one of the most popular parables out there.

And it doesn't really matter if you are a church goer like yourself

here or someone in the world.

The Good Samaritan is a popular parable.

You know, it's so popular in fact that sociologists refer to this

story to, you know, really spur on uh, one another to motivate people

to do good deeds and help the poor.

And you know, this is my criminal justice side here, but there's even

a law called the Good Samaritan Law.

And with that, the Good Samaritan law is the duty to help a person who's in

danger or in an emergency situation.

Now here in California, that law doesn't apply to us.

So I guess we'll gonna have to help people in need.

No, I'm just kidding, guys.

That's a joke.

Sorry.

Before we go through that, let's go to God in prayer right now.

Uh, father God, just thank you for this morning.

God, just thank you for this time.

We just get to worship you.

God worship you in our singing, worship you communion,

worship you with our offering.

God, uh, God, today, God is pray.

You just, uh, speak through me.

God, remove me, God, and just, uh, speak whatever, uh, you

put on my heart this morning.

God.

God, I really pray that you minister to each and every person

here in this room this morning.

You believe so much and Jesus name, amen.

Amen.

All right, so I'm gonna read verse 10 through 25, or chapter 10, 25 to

28 says, on one occasion, an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus.

Teacher, he asked, what must I do to inherit eternal life?

What is written in the law?

Jesus replied, how do you read it?

He answered, love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and

with all your strength, and with all your mind and love your neighbor as yourself.

You have answered correctly.

Jesus, uh, replied, do this and you will live.

So we see that a lot has happened here just in these three or

four verses we just read.

We have a expert in the law and Jesus, and we hear expert in the law.

I don't want you guys to think about a lawyer, all right?

Don't think about a lawyer who's gonna defend a good Samaritan law.

No.

Think about someone who studies out the Bible, who knows the

Bible, who knows the truth.

And what says here that on one occasion the expert law stood up to test Jesus.

Now it's interesting.

Why would he stand up to test Jesus?

And not only that, he stand up to test Jesus.

He asked him, how do I inherit eternal life?

Now it's, I find it very interesting that the expert asked us, because

by this question, being an expert, I feel like you know the Bible already.

So why are you asking Jesus?

How do you inherit eternal life?

You already know that.

I feel like the expert here probably isn't even interested in learning something new.

He just wants to hear what Jesus has to say.

See if it aligns with his own belief here.

And we see here that Jesus responded to the question with the question.

Pretty much He tells the man, Hey, what is written the law?

How do you read it?

And then, of course, the ex fed love the Lord you God with without

your heart and with all your soul, with all your mind and strength.

And he says, love your neighbor as yourself.

Now I know.

Oh, sorry.

So today, sorry.

We'll, we'll get two separate points that highlight the greatest commandment.

These two greatest commandment.

Love the Lord of God and love your neighbor.

All right, so we're gonna continue reading, but first,

I know it's kind of confusing.

I know he says, love your neighbor yourself and do this.

The expert asks pretty much, Hey, who is my neighbor?

It's a great question.

We'll continue reading here in verse three, how Jesus

responds to that question.

It says here in reply, Jesus said, A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho.

When he was attacked by robbers, they stripped him of his clothes, beat him,

and went away, leaving him half dead.

A priest happened to be going down the same road.

And when he saw the man he passed by on the other side.

So to a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, uh,

pass by on the other side.

But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was.

And when he saw him, he took pity on him.

He went to him and banded his wounds, pouring on oil and wine.

Then he put the man in his own donkey, brought him to

an inn and took care of him.

The next day, he took out two dery and gave them to the inkeeper.

Look after them, he said, and when I return, I will reimburse you

for an extra expense you may have.

Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell

into the hands of the robbers?

The expert in the law replied, the one who had mercy on him.

Jesus told him, go and do like wise.

Now, before, uh, you know, we answered the question, who is our neighbor?

I wanna give you some context here.

So Jesus speaking to the expert, he's speaking to a Jew and a

Jew, were God's chosen people.

And Jews believed during that time that their neighbors were other Jews.

All right?

So that gave them an excuse not to love The Samaritans, loved the

Gentiles, to love any of them.

They only want to love themselves.

And I was preparing this lesson, I was kind of like, oh, of course

God's people messing up again.

Alwa as always, nothing new.

But then I realized for myself, I was like, oh, wait, Daniel, you

may have the same heart as well.

Maybe when you think of love your neighbor, Daniel, that just

means loving God's people means loving people in this room.

Okay, that's a scary thought church.

But Jesus began to speak on this issue and began to tell this story after

the man asked him, who is my neighbor?

And of course, Jesus tells the story of a, of a man who was walking,

Jewish man was walking down the road from Jericho to Jerusalem, and

yet he was robbed and beaten and left half to, uh, half to death.

And before I break it down, I just wanna sh uh, I don't have the slide

anymore, but I just want you to just imagine what this road looked like.

I looked it up online.

I saw a video of it.

The road is literally like a hiking trail, guys.

And with hiking trails, you know, you can't really fit two cars on the road.

So it's not a road where it's like, you know, there's a crosswalking walk.

It's not a big road, it's a hiking trail, which means that, pretty much

that whenever the priest and the Levi saw this half dead man on the street,

pretty much he saw, uh, they had a close interaction with this man, which

means that, you know, they're probably this fur, uh, this much away from

the man from me to this table here.

So as they pass on the other side of the, the road, as the scripture said,

really, they had to look down on him.

My side.

There it is.

All right.

But then it says here that a Samaritan took pity on him.

Okay, well the Jews don't love Samaritans, so why would the Samaritans love this

Jew who's left for dead on the road?

I don't know why.

Hmm.

I mean, you see the priests and the Levi who are also a part of the Jewish

culture, you saw that didn't even lift up one finger to help this man.

On the road.

And I have two points today.

And the first I wanna bring up is Jesus wants us to be compassionate.

You know, why does he want us to be compassionate?

Because compassion is a product of our love.

And if we don't have love, we don't have compassion.

And compassion is not just a feeling or an idea, it requires action.

You know what good is it?

If the Samaritan saw this dead man and was like, oh, hey man, I'm so sorry.

You look really beat up, man.

Ah, best of luck to you.

Does that really help?

No.

I mean, I'm pretty sure the Levite and the priest had compassion.

I'm pretty sure they something.

Oh man, I'm sorry.

But the Samaritan not only had compassion, but he backed it up with action, you know?

Um, sorry.

And I asked you guys this, how do you like real compassion?

I think I, I'm saying real compassion.

I'm saying real compassion in a sense of being backed up by your actions.

And I feel like, hey, come, I can fall short in so many areas of this, you

know, is it in your family towards your coworkers, strangers on the street.

But I think a more important question to ask this morning

is why we lack real compassion.

Is it our arrogance?

Is it our pride, our selfishness?

Maybe we're too busy, maybe we have a lack of love, lack of spirituality.

And if I'm being honest here, church, I know I have no compassion at times.

I lack it.

And it's evident in how I love and forgive very little.

I feel like it's evident in my household.

You can ask my roommate at time, keep evident in my relationship.

You can ask my girlfriend.

It's evident in my workplace and my friendship and effort, so many

people around me as a result of it.

But church, I am also realizing that real compassion is not just

meeting people's needs, physical needs, which I believe church,

we've been doing a great job at it.

I believe in, uh, meeting each other's physical needs.

There's so many people here in this church that are mourning over so many

losses and to see all of us rallying up to really be there for the family,

for the individuals, I think we've been doing great as a, as a church.

Amen.

Amen.

However, real compassion means that we also meet the spiritual needs as well.

It means that we're willing to speak the truth and love and call one another higher

so that we can, uh, imitate Christ better.

If I can be honest, your church, I feel like we can lack

compassion towards each other.

You know, as a young man who wants to be zealous for God, I feel that

US Church right now, we are afraid to speak the truth to in love to

each other for reasons I am not sure.

Maybe cuz we're afraid of confrontation.

Maybe cuz we're afraid that we're gonna offend someone.

Maybe because I don't know, like it'll put a strain on a

relationship we feel comfortable in.

Or if you're like myself, it may hurt your pride.

It'll force you to be humble when others call you higher to the standard of God.

Right?

Real compassion means caring for each other's souls and eternity.

And like the man here, uh, who asked the expert, who asked Jesus.

Now how do you inherit eternal life?

I want that too.

All of us in this room wanna inherit eternal life and we

will not inherit eternal life.

And we are just gonna be surrounded by people who just kind of tell us, you

know, oh yeah, you know, it's okay.

Pray about it, type of thing.

No, I want us to call each other higher church.

Amen.

Amen.

And I believe we can grow in this way if we imitate Christ's example

of loving our neighbor as ourselves.

And we've seen here so far throughout the Book of Luke that Jesus has not

been falling short of this standard of loving your neighbor as yourself.

I mean, we see him love the Pharisees.

We see him love his own disciples.

And I think one lesson that Marcel did, loving the women during this

time, you know, Jesus expect us to be compassionate towards our neighbors now.

No, I'm saying a lot.

And you don't just wake up one morning, obviously, to be like, I'm gonna

be compassionate to everyone else.

No, it takes time.

But you can become compassionate if you are with Jesus being with Jesus here.

And I think to close out here, I want to read a scripture

from uh, Luke 10 38 through 42.

And it's about Mary and Martha.

And this story guys really is so impactful for me personally.

It says here, as Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he

came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him.

She had a sister called Mary who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said.

But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made.

She came to him and asked, Lord, don't you even care that my sister

has left me to do the work by myself?

Tell her to help me.

Martha.

Martha, the Lord answered.

You are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed.

Or indeed, only one Mary has chosen what is better and it

will not be taken away from her.

So we see here that Jesus was at the Lord's feet and reading this and going

through Luke, I don't know, something, uh, another thought in my mind that

happened is like, wow, like they're really worshiping the Lord's feet.

And I think about it for me today.

I'm like, wow, if I did that to Jesus, like Jesus is not wearing shoes or socks.

This man's walking around barefoot and dirt and everything.

Yet they're worshiping me at his feet.

As we saw the lesson, uh, left previous back, we talked seeing

how the woman was crying on his feet and cleaning with her hair.

Now here we have Mary Jesus and Mary and Martha's House, who are Mary's

worshiping the Lord at his feet.

Mary knew what was important here.

She knew that Jesus was important.

He was in the presence.

She was in the presence of Jesus.

But Jesus had to remind Martha that few things are needed or indeed only one.

And how often do you think we can imitate Martha?

Well, we get distracted by so many other things in this life right now.

Have a few slides.

I'd like to show you some things we are distracted by.

All right.

This is gonna attack some of the young professionals in

campus ministry, , social media.

Oh my goodness.

I don't have social media, but I heard this statistic.

Someone told us during a retreat that, uh, my generation, I don't

know what generation I am, but we spent over 40 hours a week on social

media, just on our phone scrolling.

So next time you see us stressed out, it's because we're in school and we also have

a full-time job being on social media.

Apparently.

another one.

Oh, this is big for me and some of the guys here.

What about sports?

Oh man.

Here are a few of the, the, yeah.

Michael joining the Wizards.

Yeah.

You see where, uh, I, I see 'em standing in the goat conversation.

But look, we see here sports is a big issue.

I feel like it's a big distraction.

If you don't believe me, you can ask any soccer player here in this

room or a soccer fan, what they're doing in December, being up at 5:00

AM what they been with the Lord.

Hey, possibly.

But more likely they're watching the World Cup to be honest with you guys.

what about this?

Oh, what about we ha we have this to-do lists.

Maybe we are waking up early and we're like, Hey, we're

gonna spend time with God.

We're gonna read our Bible, we're gonna pray.

But then as you're doing that, you're like, oh wait, did I send that work email?

Ooh, how's my kid doing right now?

Oh, did I finish that assignment?

Mm.

We get distracted by other things.

And you know, I feel like we live in a society that is hurried,

and I read this book last year.

It's called The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, and it's by Pastor John Comer.

And he talks about how being busy destroyed his mental health and

affected his relationship and weakened his connection to his faith.

But he said, by slowing down and limiting his commitments, he gained happiness

and wellbeing in every area of his life.

Now I wanna talk about the slowing down and living.

His commitment when he slowed down and limit his commitment, he didn't

say, oh, I'm gonna draw back from God.

No.

He said, I'm gonna run towards God because all these other things in

my life aren't as important because I love the Lord my God, with all

my heart, soul, mind, and strength.

And I'm gonna live that out cuz that is a commandment that Jesus had for me.

And when reading the book, I started to make connections for myself and

my generation and my generation.

They struggled to pay attention for more than 10 seconds.

You know what that means?

I'm talking to you, campus young professionals.

That means that when I got up here and said, hi, my name is Daniel.

You guys tuned out right after that,

Just kidding.

Love you.

Campus . We guys think about, Martha was no different.

She was so worried and consumed with distractions that she didn't even

take time to be with God in the flesh.

We can be the same way.

Jesus reminded her that the most important thing is to be with him.

Do you church have the value?

That being with Jesus is number one for us to even have compassion,

gift to others and build God.

Church must be connected to the Son.

And I love how this story of Mary Martha comes after the Good Samaritan.

Cause we see her at the Good Samaritan.

It showed how important it was to give to our neighbors, to

give to those who are in need.

But this story, Martha and Mary, it shows two things to me.

First one, it shows that Jesus was compassionate to Martha, that he

wasn't upset that she was doing.

Other things.

All right.

But I think that, uh, you know, Jesus calling, responding to her.

I mean, think about it.

I think I have the slide.

I have the slide.

Cool.

I have the slide here.

Uh, where is it?

Oh, you literally have Martha pretty much screaming at the

Lord, like, tell her to help me.

I saw the exclamation point.

I was like, dang, she's really screaming at Jesus right now in the presence of him.

But guess what?

Jesus calm responded, being compassionate, validating her while also, you

know, lifting her up in the process.

And I think for me, I want that response from you.

Church.

I want you guys to lift me higher to make me recognize that wow,

like what you're going through is, you know, nothing comparison to

being the presence of the Lord.

And a little side note here.

You know, I think that, you know, with Kyle and Jasmine, uh, our campus

ministers here, they've been great and I feel like they've been calling me

higher in so many areas of my life.

Quick story here.

This past summer we had a, our roommate Justice move in and uh, where's Ja?

He's up there doing av, but uh, yeah, so Justice was moving in and

obviously our house would, at first we were like, being clean roll,

you know, we're clean, we're great.

And then we started lacking towards the summer when Justin started moving in.

I remember Kyle, Jasmine, a few other sisters, they came into our household

and they were like, this is a mess.

This is filthy.

You know, get this outta here.

I'm like, start cleaning.

And I remember like, man, like, who are you guys at?

Like, I woke in like, my home.

Are you gonna start questioning like my apartment right now?

I was getting mad, but then at the same time, I realized afterwards

I was like, you know what?

They're right.

So we start cleaning and stuff like that.

And, you know, justice moved in.

It was great.

Obviously we didn't do a good job because his mom had a call made to

clean his part of the room, so we didn't do that much of a great job.

But guys, I want us church to, you know, be like that.

I mean, I know that was like a small little, but I want us to call

each other out when we're in sin.

All right.

And lastly, just how, as important it's to give just like the Good Samaritan

giving to this man who was dead on the road, you know, left for dead.

It's important for the give.

It's also important that we receive as well.

You know, we give out love, we give an encouragement, but I feel like we need

to receive and love the encouragement, but most of all receive Jesus.

Now, I'd like to close out here with the few action steps, action

steps, and prayer for the week.

All right, the first action step.

I want us to take time to view scriptures about Jesus' life.

And I know, you know, we've been going through it here on Sunday service by, you

know, I hope we've been doing this, uh, throughout our own times with God as well.

And lastly, church.

I want us to pray daily for the church to become more compassionate.

Amen.

Love you church.