This Sunday Elder Larry Rodriguez brings a Spirit‑filled message rooted in Luke 10:14–37. Many of us know this passage as the story of the Good Samaritan, but it is also one of Scripture’s clearest pictures of radical hospitality in action — compassion that crosses boundaries, love that disrupts exclusion, and mercy that refuses to look away.

Sunday Service: July 12, 2026

Sermon by: Elder Larry Rodríguez

Reading is taken from

Luke, Chapter 10, Verses 14 through 37

(The New International Version)

On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” the expert asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

“What is written in the Law?” Jesus replied. “How do you read it?”

The legal expert 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 replied. “Do this and you will live.”

But the legal expert wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

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 too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed 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 bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him.

The next day the Samaritan took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ the Samaritan said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’

“Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”

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

Jesus told the legal expert, “Go and do likewise.”