July 13, 2025 – Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

July 13, 2025 – Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

The Law commands that you shall “love your neighbor as yourself” (Lev. 19:18). Christ Jesus is the Good Samaritan, who with divine compassion, takes your sin and death upon Himself and bears these in His body to the cross. He binds up your wounds with the healing balm of His Gospel, and He brings you into His Church, where He takes care of you at His own expense (Luke 10:34–35). Therefore, “you go, and do likewise” (Luke 10:37). By “your faith in Christ Jesus” and “because of the hope laid up for you in heaven” (Col. 1:4–5), you have the same love for others as the Lord Jesus has for you.