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• Jesus' parable of the Good Samaritan is a shielded autobiography.
• Jesus delivers the parable as a response to an individual's search for significance and meaning in life.

• Those who begin a ministry feel that their talents and resources are adequate to meet their new responsibilities.
  
  -Illustration: A group of freshman in seminary
  march under the banner, "This University has waited 150
  years for us!"

• Many Christians are experts at using a smiling face to cover up a bleeding spirit.
• Our self-confidence has caused a lot of damage in the past.
  
  -Illustration: America suffered through slavery
  and the Civil War because of its confidence in its own
  morality.

• Jesus is the Good Samaritan who came down a dangerous road and found the sons and daughters of men beaten and half-dead by the roadside.
• Jesus promised to reward us in heaven for whatever we give, in his name, to help those who have been beaten and robbed of their life's significance.
  
  -Matthew 19:29
• Big Idea: Jesus restores and replenishes us now when we give ourselves to do his work.
  
  -Illustration: Taylor has experienced the
  fulfillment of Jesus' promise throughout his 50 years
  of ministry.

• Jesus will provide all that we need in life.
  
  -Illustration: Taylor concludes with a line from
  the hymn, "There Is a Balm in Gilead," and the
  doxology.