The Good Samaritan – Luke 10  

The final message used the Good Samaritan to show the downward path of a soul that leaves God’s presence. Like the man traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho, anyone who departs from God always goes down—into danger, into wounds, into scars that sin never fails to leave behind. The thieves represent the enemy waiting for distance, waiting for someone to wander just far enough from God to be cut off and attacked. Yet the heart of the message was the compassion of the Samaritan, a picture of Christ Himself, who finds us stripped, wounded, and half‑dead, lifts us up, binds our wounds, and carries us to safety. It is a reminder that while sin takes everything from us, Jesus restores what we cannot fix on our own.  

Whitwell, Tennessee — Fairview Union Church