Revival Fires Baptist College

Christian Ethics

Professor: Dr. Dennis Corle

Ethics and the Lord World

I. Luke 10:25-37, “And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master,

what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto him, What is written in the law? how

readest thou? And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,

and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as

thyself. And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live. But he,

willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour? And Jesus answering

said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which

stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by

chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the

other side. And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and

passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was:

and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, And went to him, and bound up his

wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn,

and took care of him. And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave

them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more,

when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour

unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said

Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.”

A. The Jews and the Samaritans had no dealings with each other.

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B. This story was a rebuke to someone who asked who is my neighbor.

II. The Jews gave a real narrow definition of their neighbor.

A. They interpreted it to be just those of the Jewish people

III. Jesus interpreted the neighbor to be anyone in need.

A. Jesus clarified that anyone who is in need is your neighbor.

B. I have a responsibility to people who have a need and I can fulfill that need.

IV. The thieves said, “What is yours is mine and I will take it.”

A. It is unethical to try to take what belongs to someone else.

B. That is stealing.

C. The devil operates this way.

1.He tries to steal what belongs to God.

D. People try to destroy things and never build anything.

E. Crowds of people have the philosophy of what is yours is mine and I am going to try

to figure out a way to get it.

F. It is totally unethical, selfish, self-centered, ungodly, unbiblical, etc.

G. It is unethical to generate money at the expense of someone else.

H. It is unethical to make a profit at someone else’s demise.

V. The priest and the Levite said, “What is mine is mine and I will keep it.”

A. The priest and the Levite passed by on the other side.

B. Most Christians are selfish and hold this philosophy.

C. The world is going to hell and we pass by on the other side.

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D. This is the attitude of the religious crowd.

E. We have the same philosophy.

1.We could help but we decide not to.

2.I am tired.

3.I am busy.

4.I want to do this with my money.

5.I want to do that.

6.I’ll pray about it.

7.I hope someone tells them about Jesus, but I am too busy.

F. Jesus made it clear that I have a responsibility to those who are in need.

1.Whether I know them personally or not.

2.Whether I have an intimate relationship with them or not.

3.Whether I have a family bond or not.

VI. The Samaritan said, “What is mine is yours and I will give it.”

A. Samaritans were the most hated people in Israel.

B. They had no love for one another.

VII. Anybody who is in need is my neighbor.

A. If I am in a position where I can meet the need, it is ethical and right for me to meet

the need.

B. Not meeting the need and passing by on the other side is unethical.

C. General William Booth sent a letter to the delegates of the Salvation Army

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Dear delegates,

Others

Signed, William Booth

VIII. There are thousands who have had heartbreaks like you.

A. If you are in the position to do something about it, you ought to.

B. It is ethical to be unselfish.

C. It is unethical for me to walk by when someone is hurting and not help them.

D. I need to be on the lookout for needs and try to help people when I see they have

needs.

IX. 2 Kings 7:3-9, “And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said

one to another, Why sit we here until we die? If we say, We will enter into the city, then the

famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now

therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live;

and if they kill us, we shall but die. And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of

the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold,

there was no man there. For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of

chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another,

Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the

Egyptians, to come upon us. Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their

tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life. And

when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat

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and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came

again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it. Then they

said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace:

if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that

we may go and tell the king's household.”

A. “We do not well”

B. God will deal with us if we hold our peace and do not tell the starving city.

C. If we enjoy it and do not let them in on it, we do not well.

D. If we consume upon our lusts and do not let them in on it, we do not well.

X. When we came to Jesus Christ, we found great riches.

A. Ephesians 1:7, “In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of

sins, according to the riches of his grace;”

B. Ephesians 1:18, “…that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the

riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,”

C. What do I have in Jesus Christ?

1.Ephesians 3:8, “Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this

grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches

of Christ; “

2.The riches of Christ are unsearchable and inexhaustible.

a. He forgives and has just as much forgiveness left as when he started.

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b. When He exercises forgiveness, he won’t have any less than before He

gave it.

c. He gives His spirit and has just as much left.

d. He gives His grace and has just as much left.

e. He gives eternal life and has just as much before He gave it.

f. He imputes righteousness and has just as much before He gave it.

g. He grants power and has just as much after He grants it.

3.There is far more riches than we could ever use ourselves.

a. They had a responsibility to the king’s household, to the city, to the

starving citizens.

b. We have such unsearchable riches and we are more responsible than

the lepers give it.

c. The riches of Syria were at their disposal, but we have the riches of

Christ.

D. We have a good news message.

1.People can go to Heaven not Hell!

2.This is too good to keep quiet about!

3.I know other people who are lost and need to be saved.

E. We are unethical if we allow a person to remain under the bondage of Satan when we

know how they can be freed.

XI. If we don’t tell what we have in Christ, we do not well.

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A. If we do well, we will be accepted.

B. If we do not well, sin lieth at the door.

C. If you don’t do well, it is sin.

XII. When the crippled person’s friends knew where Jesus was, they did all they could to get Him

to Jesus.

A. They took him on the roof.

B. They uncovered the roof

C. They lowered the man down into the midst.

1.Looked like a public spectacle.

2.Looked like fanatics.

D. They were serious.

XIII. How can you sleep at night when you are not willing to tell people what Jesus has done for

them.

A. Proverbs 24:11, “If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those

that are ready to be slain;”

1.I could have delivered them and I chose not to.

2.He could tell them what is available.

3.He could speak up.

4.He could have given him out of the abundance of what God gave Him.

5.We let them die needlessly

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B. Ezekiel 33:3-8, “If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet,

and warn the people; Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh

not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own

head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be

upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But if the watchman see

the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword

come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his

blood will I require at the watchman's hand. So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a

watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth,

and warn them from me. When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt

surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man

shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.”

1.If the watchmen failed to blow the trumpet, the people’s blood was on his

hands because he failed to warn them.

2.If they perished and he did not warn them, the blood was on his hands.

3.If he blows the trumpet and they don’t take warning, the blood is on their

own head.

4.God has given you the responsibility over the souls of men to warn them.

a. I may not be able to win them, but I can warn them.

b. You might not be a great soul-winner, but you can be a great soul-

warner.

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c. If they don’t take heed, I have fulfilled my obligation and

responsibility.

d. I have been ethical.

e. If I don’t warn them, the blood is on my hands because I did not do

well.

XIV. I must do everything I can do to warn them.

A. If I do not use all of my resources to get them to Jesus, I do not well.

B. If I do not warn them of the dangers of Hell, I do not well.

C. If I am not a neighbor to those who are hurting, I do not well.

D. If we know the riches that are in Christ and do not share it, we do not well.

E. If I see that people are lost and going to destruction without Jesus and don’t do what I

can do to get them to Jesus, I do not well.

XV. Paul said, “I am debtor.”

A. I am a debtor to every man because I have what every man needs.

B. I have a responsibility to them because I have what they desperately need.

C. It is unethical for me to not make it available to them.

D. If we refuse to do what we can do and show them how they cannot go to Heaven, we

are not ethical

E. The ethical thing to do is to at least offer it.

F. It is ungodly.

XVI. Soul-winning is just the decent thing to do.

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A. If I have the solution and you have a need, I should not keep the solution from them.

B. I shouldn’t forbear to deliver you if it is in the power of my hand to do it.

C. Instead of criticizing or finding fault with the lost world, the ethical thing to do is to

tell them how they can be saved.

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