Episode 6
The Real Jesus - How to Be (North OC)
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."
Transcript
All right, so we're gonna continue going through our sermon series,
Speaker:which has been titled The Real Jesus.
Speaker:All right?
Speaker:And we've been studying out the book of Luke and I made, and we made a
Speaker:lot of observations about Jesus.
Speaker:You know, we've seen that Jesus is not religious but righteous,
Speaker:that Jesus is a world changer and he challenges our worldviews.
Speaker:Last week we learned about how Jesus has real expectations for
Speaker:all of us here in this room.
Speaker:And we also have been having a communal prayer for the church weekly.
Speaker:Last week we prayed that our church to carry our cross and hold
Speaker:to Jesus' expectations for us.
Speaker:And now, uh, this week we're gonna talk about the real Jesus how to be okay.
Speaker:You guys probably like the real Jesus, how to be Daniel.
Speaker:Doesn't make sense.
Speaker:Just be how to be the real Jesus.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Well, guess what?
Speaker:I'm sorry.
Speaker:I just graduated college, right?
Speaker:I'm a criminal justice made.
Speaker:We need to read that much English class here.
Speaker:But before I dive in, I just want to ask you all, what do you value?
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:What do you value?
Speaker:Forgot how to slide there.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:For some of us in this room, we may value our kids.
Speaker:We may value school.
Speaker:We may value work.
Speaker:And assuming that the people who are here in this room today at church, I'm
Speaker:assuming to an extent we value God.
Speaker:And now that you've been thinking about your values, we are now
Speaker:gonna be looking at Jesus' values.
Speaker:So if you don't mind, let's turn our Bibles to Luke 10 25.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:And we'll be looking over the parable of the Good Samaritan.
Speaker:And the Good Samaritan is one of the most popular parables out there.
Speaker:And it doesn't really matter if you are a church goer like yourself
Speaker:here or someone in the world.
Speaker:The Good Samaritan is a popular parable.
Speaker:You know, it's so popular in fact that sociologists refer to this
Speaker:story to, you know, really spur on uh, one another to motivate people
Speaker:to do good deeds and help the poor.
Speaker:And you know, this is my criminal justice side here, but there's even
Speaker:a law called the Good Samaritan Law.
Speaker:And with that, the Good Samaritan law is the duty to help a person who's in
Speaker:danger or in an emergency situation.
Speaker:Now here in California, that law doesn't apply to us.
Speaker:So I guess we'll gonna have to help people in need.
Speaker:No, I'm just kidding, guys.
Speaker:That's a joke.
Speaker:Sorry.
Speaker:Before we go through that, let's go to God in prayer right now.
Speaker:Uh, father God, just thank you for this morning.
Speaker:God, just thank you for this time.
Speaker:We just get to worship you.
Speaker:God worship you in our singing, worship you communion,
Speaker:worship you with our offering.
Speaker:God, uh, God, today, God is pray.
Speaker:You just, uh, speak through me.
Speaker:God, remove me, God, and just, uh, speak whatever, uh, you
Speaker:put on my heart this morning.
Speaker:God.
Speaker:God, I really pray that you minister to each and every person
Speaker:here in this room this morning.
Speaker:You believe so much and Jesus name, amen.
Speaker:Amen.
Speaker:All right, so I'm gonna read verse 10 through 25, or chapter 10, 25 to
Speaker:28 says, on one occasion, an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus.
Speaker:Teacher, he asked, what must I do to inherit eternal life?
Speaker:What is written in the law?
Speaker:Jesus replied, how do you read it?
Speaker:He answered, love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and
Speaker:with all your strength, and with all your mind and love your neighbor as yourself.
Speaker:You have answered correctly.
Speaker:Jesus, uh, replied, do this and you will live.
Speaker:So we see that a lot has happened here just in these three or
Speaker:four verses we just read.
Speaker:We have a expert in the law and Jesus, and we hear expert in the law.
Speaker:I don't want you guys to think about a lawyer, all right?
Speaker:Don't think about a lawyer who's gonna defend a good Samaritan law.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:Think about someone who studies out the Bible, who knows the
Speaker:Bible, who knows the truth.
Speaker:And what says here that on one occasion the expert law stood up to test Jesus.
Speaker:Now it's interesting.
Speaker:Why would he stand up to test Jesus?
Speaker:And not only that, he stand up to test Jesus.
Speaker:He asked him, how do I inherit eternal life?
Speaker:Now it's, I find it very interesting that the expert asked us, because
Speaker:by this question, being an expert, I feel like you know the Bible already.
Speaker:So why are you asking Jesus?
Speaker:How do you inherit eternal life?
Speaker:You already know that.
Speaker:I feel like the expert here probably isn't even interested in learning something new.
Speaker:He just wants to hear what Jesus has to say.
Speaker:See if it aligns with his own belief here.
Speaker:And we see here that Jesus responded to the question with the question.
Speaker:Pretty much He tells the man, Hey, what is written the law?
Speaker:How do you read it?
Speaker:And then, of course, the ex fed love the Lord you God with without
Speaker:your heart and with all your soul, with all your mind and strength.
Speaker:And he says, love your neighbor as yourself.
Speaker:Now I know.
Speaker:Oh, sorry.
Speaker:So today, sorry.
Speaker:We'll, we'll get two separate points that highlight the greatest commandment.
Speaker:These two greatest commandment.
Speaker:Love the Lord of God and love your neighbor.
Speaker:All right, so we're gonna continue reading, but first,
Speaker:I know it's kind of confusing.
Speaker:I know he says, love your neighbor yourself and do this.
Speaker:The expert asks pretty much, Hey, who is my neighbor?
Speaker:It's a great question.
Speaker:We'll continue reading here in verse three, how Jesus
Speaker:responds to that question.
Speaker:It says here in reply, Jesus said, A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho.
Speaker:When he was attacked by robbers, they stripped him of his clothes, beat him,
Speaker:and went away, leaving him half dead.
Speaker:A priest happened to be going down the same road.
Speaker:And when he saw the man he passed by on the other side.
Speaker:So to a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, uh,
Speaker:pass by on the other side.
Speaker:But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was.
Speaker:And when he saw him, he took pity on him.
Speaker:He went to him and banded his wounds, pouring on oil and wine.
Speaker:Then he put the man in his own donkey, brought him to
Speaker:an inn and took care of him.
Speaker:The next day, he took out two dery and gave them to the inkeeper.
Speaker:Look after them, he said, and when I return, I will reimburse you
Speaker:for an extra expense you may have.
Speaker:Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell
Speaker:into the hands of the robbers?
Speaker:The expert in the law replied, the one who had mercy on him.
Speaker:Jesus told him, go and do like wise.
Speaker:Now, before, uh, you know, we answered the question, who is our neighbor?
Speaker:I wanna give you some context here.
Speaker:So Jesus speaking to the expert, he's speaking to a Jew and a
Speaker:Jew, were God's chosen people.
Speaker:And Jews believed during that time that their neighbors were other Jews.
Speaker:All right?
Speaker:So that gave them an excuse not to love The Samaritans, loved the
Speaker:Gentiles, to love any of them.
Speaker:They only want to love themselves.
Speaker:And I was preparing this lesson, I was kind of like, oh, of course
Speaker:God's people messing up again.
Speaker:Alwa as always, nothing new.
Speaker:But then I realized for myself, I was like, oh, wait, Daniel, you
Speaker:may have the same heart as well.
Speaker:Maybe when you think of love your neighbor, Daniel, that just
Speaker:means loving God's people means loving people in this room.
Speaker:Okay, that's a scary thought church.
Speaker:But Jesus began to speak on this issue and began to tell this story after
Speaker:the man asked him, who is my neighbor?
Speaker:And of course, Jesus tells the story of a, of a man who was walking,
Speaker:Jewish man was walking down the road from Jericho to Jerusalem, and
Speaker:yet he was robbed and beaten and left half to, uh, half to death.
Speaker:And before I break it down, I just wanna sh uh, I don't have the slide
Speaker:anymore, but I just want you to just imagine what this road looked like.
Speaker:I looked it up online.
Speaker:I saw a video of it.
Speaker:The road is literally like a hiking trail, guys.
Speaker:And with hiking trails, you know, you can't really fit two cars on the road.
Speaker:So it's not a road where it's like, you know, there's a crosswalking walk.
Speaker:It's not a big road, it's a hiking trail, which means that, pretty much
Speaker:that whenever the priest and the Levi saw this half dead man on the street,
Speaker:pretty much he saw, uh, they had a close interaction with this man, which
Speaker:means that, you know, they're probably this fur, uh, this much away from
Speaker:the man from me to this table here.
Speaker:So as they pass on the other side of the, the road, as the scripture said,
Speaker:really, they had to look down on him.
Speaker:My side.
Speaker:There it is.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:But then it says here that a Samaritan took pity on him.
Speaker:Okay, well the Jews don't love Samaritans, so why would the Samaritans love this
Speaker:Jew who's left for dead on the road?
Speaker:I don't know why.
Speaker:Hmm.
Speaker:I mean, you see the priests and the Levi who are also a part of the Jewish
Speaker:culture, you saw that didn't even lift up one finger to help this man.
Speaker:On the road.
Speaker:And I have two points today.
Speaker:And the first I wanna bring up is Jesus wants us to be compassionate.
Speaker:You know, why does he want us to be compassionate?
Speaker:Because compassion is a product of our love.
Speaker:And if we don't have love, we don't have compassion.
Speaker:And compassion is not just a feeling or an idea, it requires action.
Speaker:You know what good is it?
Speaker:If the Samaritan saw this dead man and was like, oh, hey man, I'm so sorry.
Speaker:You look really beat up, man.
Speaker:Ah, best of luck to you.
Speaker:Does that really help?
Speaker:No.
Speaker:I mean, I'm pretty sure the Levite and the priest had compassion.
Speaker:I'm pretty sure they something.
Speaker:Oh man, I'm sorry.
Speaker:But the Samaritan not only had compassion, but he backed it up with action, you know?
Speaker:Um, sorry.
Speaker:And I asked you guys this, how do you like real compassion?
Speaker:I think I, I'm saying real compassion.
Speaker:I'm saying real compassion in a sense of being backed up by your actions.
Speaker:And I feel like, hey, come, I can fall short in so many areas of this, you
Speaker:know, is it in your family towards your coworkers, strangers on the street.
Speaker:But I think a more important question to ask this morning
Speaker:is why we lack real compassion.
Speaker:Is it our arrogance?
Speaker:Is it our pride, our selfishness?
Speaker:Maybe we're too busy, maybe we have a lack of love, lack of spirituality.
Speaker:And if I'm being honest here, church, I know I have no compassion at times.
Speaker:I lack it.
Speaker:And it's evident in how I love and forgive very little.
Speaker:I feel like it's evident in my household.
Speaker:You can ask my roommate at time, keep evident in my relationship.
Speaker:You can ask my girlfriend.
Speaker:It's evident in my workplace and my friendship and effort, so many
Speaker:people around me as a result of it.
Speaker:But church, I am also realizing that real compassion is not just
Speaker:meeting people's needs, physical needs, which I believe church,
Speaker:we've been doing a great job at it.
Speaker:I believe in, uh, meeting each other's physical needs.
Speaker:There's so many people here in this church that are mourning over so many
Speaker:losses and to see all of us rallying up to really be there for the family,
Speaker:for the individuals, I think we've been doing great as a, as a church.
Speaker:Amen.
Speaker:Amen.
Speaker:However, real compassion means that we also meet the spiritual needs as well.
Speaker:It means that we're willing to speak the truth and love and call one another higher
Speaker:so that we can, uh, imitate Christ better.
Speaker:If I can be honest, your church, I feel like we can lack
Speaker:compassion towards each other.
Speaker:You know, as a young man who wants to be zealous for God, I feel that
Speaker:US Church right now, we are afraid to speak the truth to in love to
Speaker:each other for reasons I am not sure.
Speaker:Maybe cuz we're afraid of confrontation.
Speaker:Maybe cuz we're afraid that we're gonna offend someone.
Speaker:Maybe because I don't know, like it'll put a strain on a
Speaker:relationship we feel comfortable in.
Speaker:Or if you're like myself, it may hurt your pride.
Speaker:It'll force you to be humble when others call you higher to the standard of God.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:Real compassion means caring for each other's souls and eternity.
Speaker:And like the man here, uh, who asked the expert, who asked Jesus.
Speaker:Now how do you inherit eternal life?
Speaker:I want that too.
Speaker:All of us in this room wanna inherit eternal life and we
Speaker:will not inherit eternal life.
Speaker:And we are just gonna be surrounded by people who just kind of tell us, you
Speaker:know, oh yeah, you know, it's okay.
Speaker:Pray about it, type of thing.
Speaker:No, I want us to call each other higher church.
Speaker:Amen.
Speaker:Amen.
Speaker:And I believe we can grow in this way if we imitate Christ's example
Speaker:of loving our neighbor as ourselves.
Speaker:And we've seen here so far throughout the Book of Luke that Jesus has not
Speaker:been falling short of this standard of loving your neighbor as yourself.
Speaker:I mean, we see him love the Pharisees.
Speaker:We see him love his own disciples.
Speaker:And I think one lesson that Marcel did, loving the women during this
Speaker:time, you know, Jesus expect us to be compassionate towards our neighbors now.
Speaker:No, I'm saying a lot.
Speaker:And you don't just wake up one morning, obviously, to be like, I'm gonna
Speaker:be compassionate to everyone else.
Speaker:No, it takes time.
Speaker:But you can become compassionate if you are with Jesus being with Jesus here.
Speaker:And I think to close out here, I want to read a scripture
Speaker:from uh, Luke 10 38 through 42.
Speaker:And it's about Mary and Martha.
Speaker:And this story guys really is so impactful for me personally.
Speaker:It says here, as Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he
Speaker:came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him.
Speaker:She had a sister called Mary who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said.
Speaker:But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made.
Speaker:She came to him and asked, Lord, don't you even care that my sister
Speaker:has left me to do the work by myself?
Speaker:Tell her to help me.
Speaker:Martha.
Speaker:Martha, the Lord answered.
Speaker:You are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed.
Speaker:Or indeed, only one Mary has chosen what is better and it
Speaker:will not be taken away from her.
Speaker:So we see here that Jesus was at the Lord's feet and reading this and going
Speaker:through Luke, I don't know, something, uh, another thought in my mind that
Speaker:happened is like, wow, like they're really worshiping the Lord's feet.
Speaker:And I think about it for me today.
Speaker:I'm like, wow, if I did that to Jesus, like Jesus is not wearing shoes or socks.
Speaker:This man's walking around barefoot and dirt and everything.
Speaker:Yet they're worshiping me at his feet.
Speaker:As we saw the lesson, uh, left previous back, we talked seeing
Speaker:how the woman was crying on his feet and cleaning with her hair.
Speaker:Now here we have Mary Jesus and Mary and Martha's House, who are Mary's
Speaker:worshiping the Lord at his feet.
Speaker:Mary knew what was important here.
Speaker:She knew that Jesus was important.
Speaker:He was in the presence.
Speaker:She was in the presence of Jesus.
Speaker:But Jesus had to remind Martha that few things are needed or indeed only one.
Speaker:And how often do you think we can imitate Martha?
Speaker:Well, we get distracted by so many other things in this life right now.
Speaker:Have a few slides.
Speaker:I'd like to show you some things we are distracted by.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:This is gonna attack some of the young professionals in
Speaker:campus ministry, , social media.
Speaker:Oh my goodness.
Speaker:I don't have social media, but I heard this statistic.
Speaker:Someone told us during a retreat that, uh, my generation, I don't
Speaker:know what generation I am, but we spent over 40 hours a week on social
Speaker:media, just on our phone scrolling.
Speaker:So next time you see us stressed out, it's because we're in school and we also have
Speaker:a full-time job being on social media.
Speaker:Apparently.
Speaker:another one.
Speaker:Oh, this is big for me and some of the guys here.
Speaker:What about sports?
Speaker:Oh man.
Speaker:Here are a few of the, the, yeah.
Speaker:Michael joining the Wizards.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:You see where, uh, I, I see 'em standing in the goat conversation.
Speaker:But look, we see here sports is a big issue.
Speaker:I feel like it's a big distraction.
Speaker:If you don't believe me, you can ask any soccer player here in this
Speaker:room or a soccer fan, what they're doing in December, being up at 5:00
Speaker:AM what they been with the Lord.
Speaker:Hey, possibly.
Speaker:But more likely they're watching the World Cup to be honest with you guys.
Speaker:what about this?
Speaker:Oh, what about we ha we have this to-do lists.
Speaker:Maybe we are waking up early and we're like, Hey, we're
Speaker:gonna spend time with God.
Speaker:We're gonna read our Bible, we're gonna pray.
Speaker:But then as you're doing that, you're like, oh wait, did I send that work email?
Speaker:Ooh, how's my kid doing right now?
Speaker:Oh, did I finish that assignment?
Speaker:Mm.
Speaker:We get distracted by other things.
Speaker:And you know, I feel like we live in a society that is hurried,
Speaker:and I read this book last year.
Speaker:It's called The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, and it's by Pastor John Comer.
Speaker:And he talks about how being busy destroyed his mental health and
Speaker:affected his relationship and weakened his connection to his faith.
Speaker:But he said, by slowing down and limiting his commitments, he gained happiness
Speaker:and wellbeing in every area of his life.
Speaker:Now I wanna talk about the slowing down and living.
Speaker:His commitment when he slowed down and limit his commitment, he didn't
Speaker:say, oh, I'm gonna draw back from God.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:He said, I'm gonna run towards God because all these other things in
Speaker:my life aren't as important because I love the Lord my God, with all
Speaker:my heart, soul, mind, and strength.
Speaker:And I'm gonna live that out cuz that is a commandment that Jesus had for me.
Speaker:And when reading the book, I started to make connections for myself and
Speaker:my generation and my generation.
Speaker:They struggled to pay attention for more than 10 seconds.
Speaker:You know what that means?
Speaker:I'm talking to you, campus young professionals.
Speaker:That means that when I got up here and said, hi, my name is Daniel.
Speaker:You guys tuned out right after that,
Speaker:Just kidding.
Speaker:Love you.
Speaker:Campus . We guys think about, Martha was no different.
Speaker:She was so worried and consumed with distractions that she didn't even
Speaker:take time to be with God in the flesh.
Speaker:We can be the same way.
Speaker:Jesus reminded her that the most important thing is to be with him.
Speaker:Do you church have the value?
Speaker:That being with Jesus is number one for us to even have compassion,
Speaker:gift to others and build God.
Speaker:Church must be connected to the Son.
Speaker:And I love how this story of Mary Martha comes after the Good Samaritan.
Speaker:Cause we see her at the Good Samaritan.
Speaker:It showed how important it was to give to our neighbors, to
Speaker:give to those who are in need.
Speaker:But this story, Martha and Mary, it shows two things to me.
Speaker:First one, it shows that Jesus was compassionate to Martha, that he
Speaker:wasn't upset that she was doing.
Speaker:Other things.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:But I think that, uh, you know, Jesus calling, responding to her.
Speaker:I mean, think about it.
Speaker:I think I have the slide.
Speaker:I have the slide.
Speaker:Cool.
Speaker:I have the slide here.
Speaker:Uh, where is it?
Speaker:Oh, you literally have Martha pretty much screaming at the
Speaker:Lord, like, tell her to help me.
Speaker:I saw the exclamation point.
Speaker:I was like, dang, she's really screaming at Jesus right now in the presence of him.
Speaker:But guess what?
Speaker:Jesus calm responded, being compassionate, validating her while also, you
Speaker:know, lifting her up in the process.
Speaker:And I think for me, I want that response from you.
Speaker:Church.
Speaker:I want you guys to lift me higher to make me recognize that wow,
Speaker:like what you're going through is, you know, nothing comparison to
Speaker:being the presence of the Lord.
Speaker:And a little side note here.
Speaker:You know, I think that, you know, with Kyle and Jasmine, uh, our campus
Speaker:ministers here, they've been great and I feel like they've been calling me
Speaker:higher in so many areas of my life.
Speaker:Quick story here.
Speaker:This past summer we had a, our roommate Justice move in and uh, where's Ja?
Speaker:He's up there doing av, but uh, yeah, so Justice was moving in and
Speaker:obviously our house would, at first we were like, being clean roll,
Speaker:you know, we're clean, we're great.
Speaker:And then we started lacking towards the summer when Justin started moving in.
Speaker:I remember Kyle, Jasmine, a few other sisters, they came into our household
Speaker:and they were like, this is a mess.
Speaker:This is filthy.
Speaker:You know, get this outta here.
Speaker:I'm like, start cleaning.
Speaker:And I remember like, man, like, who are you guys at?
Speaker:Like, I woke in like, my home.
Speaker:Are you gonna start questioning like my apartment right now?
Speaker:I was getting mad, but then at the same time, I realized afterwards
Speaker:I was like, you know what?
Speaker:They're right.
Speaker:So we start cleaning and stuff like that.
Speaker:And, you know, justice moved in.
Speaker:It was great.
Speaker:Obviously we didn't do a good job because his mom had a call made to
Speaker:clean his part of the room, so we didn't do that much of a great job.
Speaker:But guys, I want us church to, you know, be like that.
Speaker:I mean, I know that was like a small little, but I want us to call
Speaker:each other out when we're in sin.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:And lastly, just how, as important it's to give just like the Good Samaritan
Speaker:giving to this man who was dead on the road, you know, left for dead.
Speaker:It's important for the give.
Speaker:It's also important that we receive as well.
Speaker:You know, we give out love, we give an encouragement, but I feel like we need
Speaker:to receive and love the encouragement, but most of all receive Jesus.
Speaker:Now, I'd like to close out here with the few action steps, action
Speaker:steps, and prayer for the week.
Speaker:All right, the first action step.
Speaker:I want us to take time to view scriptures about Jesus' life.
Speaker:And I know, you know, we've been going through it here on Sunday service by, you
Speaker:know, I hope we've been doing this, uh, throughout our own times with God as well.
Speaker:And lastly, church.
Speaker:I want us to pray daily for the church to become more compassionate.
Speaker:Amen.
Speaker:Love you church.
