The Jericho Road

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The Jericho Road

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Parenting Tip of the weekExercise good sense
during those field trips
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Wondering about decorating the house for
Christmas?

• But cant compete with your mega-decorating
  neighbors?

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Look for the questions that prompted the Lords
answer

• The Good Samaritan
• Luke 10 25-29
• Luke 10 30-37
• What was the Lord saying to the lawyer?

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1st Century Understanding of the Parable

• Early Christian Interpretation
• Jesus Christ
• Man wounded with sin (Us)
• Paradise
• World
• Law of Moses
• Prophets
• Christs body
• Church

• Symbol
• Good Samaritan
• Victim
• Jerusalem
• Jericho
• Priest
• Levite
• Beast
• Inn

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• Luke 10
• A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho
• And fell among thieves
• Which stripped him of his raiment
• And wounded him
• Leaving him half dead

• Genesis 37
• And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto
  his brethren, 
• that they stript Joseph out of his coat of many
  colours that was on him
• And they took him, and cast him in a pit.

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The Koran

• Children of Adam, We have created for you raiment
  which covers your nakedness and is a source of
  elegance but the raiment of righteousness is the
  best. . . .
• Let not Satan seduce you, even as he turned your
  parents out of the garden, stripping them of
  their raiment that he might show them their
  nakedness.

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On the other hand

• Can we clothe ourselves in other types of
  destructive raiment?

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1991 Movie- City Slickers

• The search for the ONE THING

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The One Thing

• 38 Now it came to pass, as they went,
  that he entered into a certain village and
  a certain woman named Martha received him
  unto her house
• 39 And she had a sister called Mary,
  which also sat at Jesus feet, and heard
  his word.
• 40 But Martha was cumbered about much serving,
  and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not
  care that my sister hath left me to serve alone?
  bid her therefore that she help me.
• 41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha,
  Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many
  things
• 42 But one thing is needful and Mary
  hath chosen that good part, which shall not be
  taken away from her.

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Michael Wilcox

• More times than we like to admit, we "need" to
  sit quietly and rest while we listen to the words
  of our Lord and Master. As strange as it sounds,
  we sometimes need to stop serving in order to
  listen more.
• Eventually, this will help us serve more
  effectively. In the Kirtland Temple dedicatory
  prayer, we are told that in the temple we would
  be prepared to "obtain every needful thing."
• Obviously "every needful thing" encompasses
  our need to sit, rest, and listen at the feet of
  Jesus. This is "that good part which shall not be
  taken away.House of Glory Finding Personal
  Meaning in the Temple ( 1995)

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The Return of the King(The Triumphal Entry)

• Matthew 21 1-9
• What is the purpose of Spreading their garments
  in the way?
• Might there be a difference between spreading
  palm branches and garments?

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Title of Liberty

• Alma 46
• Now this was the covenant which they made, and
  they cast their garments at the feet of Moroni,
  saying
• We covenant with our God, that we shall be
  destroyed, even as our brethren in the land
  northward, if we shall fall into transgression
• yea, he may cast us at the feet of our enemies,
  even as we have cast our garments at thy feet to
  be trodden under foot, if we shall fall into
  transgression.

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J. Reuben ClarkTo them of the Last Wagon

• I would like to say something about the
  last wagon in each of the long wagon trains
  that toiled slowly over the plains, up mountain
  defiles, down steep, narrow canyons, and
  out into the valley floor that was to be
  home..
• The Saints buoyed up the Brethren out in
  front with encouragement, with praise,
  and sometimes even with adulation. Knowing
  the Brethren were prophets of God, the Saints
  gave them full confidence, daily, almost
  hourly, expressed. The Brethren lived in a
  world of commendation from friends and the tried
  and true Saints. Rarely was their word or
  their act questioned by the faithful
  Saints. This was as it should be and had to be to
  carry out the Lords purposes.
• But back in the last wagon, not always could they
  see the Brethren way out in front, and the blue
  heaven was often shut out from their sight by
  heavy, dense clouds of the dust of the earth. Yet
  day after day, they of the last wagon pressed
  forward, worn and tired, footsore, sometimes
  almost disheartened, borne up by their faith that
  God loved them, that the restored gospel was
  true, and that the Lord led and directed the
  Brethren out in front.
• Sometimes, they in the last wagon glimpsed, for
  an instant, when faith surged strongest, the
  glories of a celestial world, but it seemed so
  far away and the vision so quickly vanished
  because want and weariness and heartache and
  sometimes discouragement were always pressing so
  near.

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J. Reuben ClarkTo them of the Last Wagon

• When the vision faded, their hearts sank. But
  they prayed again and pushed on, with little
  praise, with not too much encouragement, and
  never with adulation. For there was nearly
  always something wrong with the last wagon or
  with its teamthe off ox was a little lame in the
  right front shoulder the hub of the left front
  wheel was often hot the tire of the hind wheel
  on the same side was loose.
• So corrective counsel, sometimes strong reproof,
  was the rule, because the wagon must not delay
  the whole train. But yet in that last wagon there
  was devotion and loyalty and integrity, and above
  and beyond everything else, faith in the Brethren
  and in Gods power and goodness.
• For had not the Lord said that not even a sparrow
  falls unnoticed by the Father see Matt.
  1029, and were they not of more value than
  sparrows? And then they had their testimony,
  burning always like an eternal fire on a holy
  altar, that the restored gospel was true, that
  Joseph was a prophet of God, and that Brigham was
  Josephs chosen successor. (July, 1997 Ensign)