Not Just Another Day at the Synagog
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Backdrop:
Jesus popularity is off the chart
Jesus is trying to help the Pharisees see how off track the people of God had become. He is also offering them a new relationship with God which is the fulfillment of the promise of God.
Last Chapter Jesus taught the need to pursue richness in God over worldly desires.
Instead of getting it, the Pharisees are fuming with Jealousy and hypocrisy.
In chapter 13 Jesus begins to correct the Pharisees wrong teachings concerning tragedy in life. The Pharisees were constantly teaching that any bad thing that happened was the result of the persons sin.
The 18 whom Pilate killed were no greater sinners than all of them and all need to repent. The ones on whom the tower fell were no greater sinners than all of them and all need to repent.
In verses 10-17 Jesus was teaching on the Sabbath in the Synagog and it would not be just another Sabbath at the Synagog.
I love this passage. It is a passage about a very simple healing and so much more.
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And He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And there was a woman who for eighteen years had had a sickness caused by a spirit; and she was bent double, and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, He called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your sickness.” And He laid His hands on her; and immediately she was made erect again and began glorifying God. But the synagogue official, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, began saying to the crowd in response, “There are six days in which work should be done; so come during them and get healed, and not on the Sabbath day.” But the Lord answered him and said, “You hypocrites, does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the stall and lead him away to water him? And this woman, a daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years, should she not have been released from this bond on the Sabbath day?” As He said this, all His opponents were being humiliated; and the entire crowd was rejoicing over all the glorious things being done by Him.
Before we dive into some questions that I think will help us understand what God wants us to learn from this passage, I want to confirm some things we know to be true.
How many believe God is a good God?
How many believe God is all powerful?
How many believe God always wants the best for us?
Back to the passage, how about tough questions?
1. Why did this lady have to struggle for 18 years?
1. Why did this lady have to struggle for 18 years?
We struggle with this?
We sometimes wonder if God is somehow not good because we can’t figure out why He allows suffering.
McArthur clip
Consider this lady
18 yrs at church
judged all this time
sought help
prayed, many times
All this time oppressed
Was she evil (no more than the rest of us according to 1-6)
The Jews asked Jesus in
As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
Wild story
Boy is grilled by Pharisees (again on sabbath)
Parents grilled
Jesus called a sinner and boy says, you say He is but He healed me.
Later the boy confesses His faith in Jesus as Messiah
2. Why was this the day that she was delivered from her sickness?
2. Why was this the day that she was delivered from her sickness?
We want to know this most because we want to figure it out so we can duplicate it in our situation.
Was her faith stronger?
Did Jesus pray special phrases?
Did He pray louder and more authoritative?
What was different this day?
Jesus called her!
Jesus was there and He called her!
He called and she was humble enough to respond. (Though she had sought help many times.)
Jesus often said
And He was saying, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;
3. Why did they come to synagog anyway?
3. Why did they come to synagog anyway?
By doing things like this at the Synagog, Jesus was revealing this is what Church is all about. Coming to worship, listen and respond.
Some people don’t like that because it may be a little different.
But the synagogue official, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, began saying to the crowd in response, “There are six days in which work should be done; so come during them and get healed, and not on the Sabbath day.” But the Lord answered him and said, “You hypocrites, does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the stall and lead him away to water him? And this woman, a daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years, should she not have been released from this bond on the Sabbath day?” As He said this, all His opponents were being humiliated; and the entire crowd was rejoicing over all the glorious things being done by Him.
Pharisees were upset (how rediculus)
What better day?
This lady had come to worship, listen and respond.
The presence of the Lord was there! He called to her and she responded!
Why did you come today?
Do you have concerns?
Maybe for your soul!
Maybe you feel God is revealing to you that you are being oppressed by the devil?
Did you know God can set you free?
Maybe God is calling you to seek prayer once again for healing? (this lady 18 years)
Jesus ended this chapter with
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it! Behold, your house is left to you desolate; and I say to you, you will not see Me until the time comes when you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”
The Lord is here today. Is He calling you?
To be saved from your sin?
To be set free from the oppressor?
To be healed?
Not a show…
Simple obedience…
