Daily Rhema: THE GOOD SAMARITAN COMPANY

Matthew 22:36-39 KJV
Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

We see a present prophetic truth in the story of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:25-37.

The man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho is symbolic of the Church that is retrogressing from the place of the revelation and operation of the love of God by the Spirit (the New Jerusalem that is from above – Gal. 4.26), to a place of material and financial prosperity without the corresponding spiritual prosperity, symbolized by Jericho.

This kind of church, or Christian, is typified by the Laodicean church in Revelation 3:14-19.

This church or Christian has been robbed (Jn. 10.1,10) by religion (i.e. seeking God man’s way) to seek after material wealth at the expense of their spiritual well being. So they are spiritually poor, naked, wounded and half-dead. This is true of many evangelical and Pentecostal Christians and churches today.

The Levite and the Priest represent those in ministry today: they will not stop to help the church that is half-dead and naked for fear of what will happen to them if they did.

Today this translates to selfishness in the ministry. Many ministers will not risk preaching the pure undiluted Word of God that will heal the wounds, nakedness and spiritual poverty of this half-dead church, for fear of losing the crowd and the money they bring.

The Good Samaritan represents a company in the Church that is developed in the love of God, and so is compassionate, fearless and risks stopping to help the church that is half-dead.

The Good Samaritan pours in oil and wine into the wounds of the half-dead church: which represents the life of God and revelation knowledge.

He carries him on his beast to an inn or hotel and gives the keeper two pence to care for the man, with the assurance that when he comes he will repay whatever extra the innkeeper spends.

The beast represents intercessory prayer that carries the Church into a place of safety, protection and covering which is the inn.

The innkeeper are Christians who are given two pence: revelation of the Word and Spirit by the teachings of the Good Samaritan company. They continue to look after and minister to the half-dead recovering church.

Whatever extra they spend will be supplied by God’s sovereignty and paid for when the Lord comes again to the Church in the fullness of His glory.

To be a Good Samaritan Christian now, you need to:

1) Develop the love of God by the blood, Word and the Spirit, so that it will cast out fear (1Jn 2.5; 4.12-18; 5.6) and selfishness.

2) Through intercession and the ministry of the Word, you can save the present half-dead Church that has been robbed, wounded and stripped of its righteousness by an inaccurate prosperity message.

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