After reading the Bible for over 40 years, it was really exciting for me to get a new perspective, and to know that Scripture truly is the living Word of God: That through the revealing of the Holy Spirit, you can be reviewing something that you have seen many times, and all of a sudden, you see it in a new light.
As I continue to share about the New Commandment, I was reflecting about the example that I used in the story of the Good Samaritan. What was intriguing and exciting to me was how this is so much a good and almost perfect example of how the story is representative of the old and new covenants.
In the story, you have the religious who failed to show any love or compassion to the person who was robbed and beat, representing the law of the Old Covenant. Under the law, many rules were made by man to bring people into right standing with God. The problem was that these were man’s ideas, not God’s, and no one could ever fulfill the laws. This did not work, Relative to the story, the man was left beaten in the road with no one to help him.
But then you have the Good Samaritan who showed love and compassion by providing for all the needs the beaten man required – binding his wounds, providing transportation to shelter, giving him shelter, and even to the point where he makes provision for future needs the beaten man may have. The Good Samaritan said that when he returned, he would take care of all the debts the beaten man had incurred while he was away. This is a perfect reflection of Jesus Christ taking care of all our debts and all that we owe for the sin of rejecting Him in our lives. He will eliminate that sin totally and completely as far as the East is from the West. It is an example of Jesus Christ and what He does for everyone. In place of the Law, God provided His perfect plan. He gave us Jesus, crucified on the cross for all our sins. And if we will accept Him and His sacrifice, we will be set free from our sins and be forgiven.
What do you think about this? Is the story of the Good Samaritan representative of the Old and New Covenants? In the future we will be sharing more about the New Commandment. We hope you will follow along and share your thoughts with us.
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