A Helping Hand!

I may stretch to the max but I will not break!

Stretch - a large and unbroken expanse or distance

right and hand together is mentioned 132 times in the Bible.

right hand symbolized power, authority, help, right hand of fellowship, working ability.

The purpose of the sabbath was not to stop working for God, it was to stop working naturally.

Second Sabbath after the First. Sabbaths after Passover. 7 before Pentecost.

Capernaum Synagogue - Jairus was the leader in that synagogue

Hold us in the palm of his hand....

Sheep cannot stretch out for help? They can make noises. Sheep have very good memories. They can remember at least 50 individual sheep or humans. They have a similar neural process and part of the brain that humans use to remember. They are known to show emotion.

How much more? Man is valuable!

Psalm 8:4-5 What is man that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour

Psalms 40:2-3 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God:

John 10:27-28 - My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

John 8:36 - If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

Isaiah 41:13 For I the the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand...

Ephesians 4:8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

John 10:9-11 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. 10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. 11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

Man with the withered hand? Matthew 12:9. Marks version in chapter 3 says Jesus entered again into the synagogue.

Man with withered hand - Limb that is deprived. Dried up. Lifeless!

Stonemason- built things using stones. Castles, Pyramids in the Bible day etc.

-From worker to begger

Acts 3:6-16 (Peter and John) Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ....And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up:

Isaiah 40:29-31 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength…vs.31 but they that wait...

The enemy wanted to stop the next generation. Kill, steal and DESTROY (influence)....so it wouldn’t spread! Remember Herod slew all the babies in Jerusalem to stop Jesus fas a babe Matthew 2:13

Matthew 2:13 KJV 1900

And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.

Grab hands analogy....