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Applying the Law
You see a sign that says “Speed Limit 25 m.p.h.”
What does that mean?
If you don’t do something you can get a ticket or cause an accident.
If that happens you’ll have a problem w/ a sheriff’s deputy and one of your neighbors.
Again, what does it mean?
You always get to, you need to, you have to drive 25?
Then, you see this: (Loose gravel, fresh oil)
What happens when you drive 25 thru loose gravel?
You chip your paint and maybe the paint and windows of those driving behind you.
Loose oil?
You end up w/ little black spots on your car.
We have the right to drive 25 thru it all but you run the risk of ruining your own car’s paint and the paint of your friends and neighbors.
The sign says “limit”.
it’s okay to slow down.
Adapt the law to your circumstance.
The law, 25 mph, provides you the opportunity to maintain good relationships w/ your neighbors.
It’s up to you how you apply it and whether or not it’s successful.
I mentioned last week, Sara and I have a rule, as a couple, that we protect Friday mornings.
That rule simply provides us w/ an opportunity.
What we do w/ that time determines whether or not our marriage stays strong.
We could spend it fighting, reading in separate places, or doing our own chores around the house.
These do little to improve or even maintain our marriage.
Or, we can go out to breakfast, go on a hike, enjoy time together where we can talk and do things we both like to do.
The rule only provides an opportunity.
Just keeping the rule does not necessarily help us accomplish the intended goal; which is our relationship.
Life as it is, from time to time we need to revisit the rule and make adjustments to get back to what we originally intended w/ our Friday mornings.
Rules simply provide opportunities for good relationships.
Keeping the rules doesn’t help much.
But, taking advantage what the rule provides can help a lot.
We don’t serve the rules.
The rules are intended to serve us and help us get along w/ God and each other better.
Miracle #9.
A man with a withered hand came to the synagogue on the Sabbath.
The religious leaders set Jesus up.
Generally, it’s a bad idea to try to entrap God.
As you may imagine, Jesus turned the tables on them and publicly humiliated them.
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Context
Luke 6:1-
Sabbath
“One Sabbath...”
The Sabbath was so much more than just a day to rest.
Observing the Sabbath was a sign to the world of the promise God had made w/ Israel.
By resting 1 day/week it set them apart from the rest of the world.
No one else in the world took a day/week off.
Make more money.
Wealthy had more.
The poor eased their stress.
Israel agreed to work less, make less money than possible, make their relationship w/ Him a priority, and trust Him to take care of them.
God promised to not only meet their needs but prosper them if they lived faithfully and obediently.
God knew they needed a rule so that they wouldn’t get so busy that they squeezed Him out of their lives.
Prepare ahead of time, so that the entire day can be devoted to God, family and friends.
Eat leftovers, don’t worry about the crops, lights on for the night, don’t worry about the bank account balance.
No distractions or projects that will take you away from God and the people that matter most in your life.
But the rabbis added rules thinking that rule-keeping was the way to be right w/ God.
God gave us a few.
And if a few are good, then a lot are better.
But, the original intent for the rules was to encourage time w/ God.
Now the keeping their rules
While their rules kept them from doing any work on the Sabbath.
Their rules-keeping now squeezed God out of their lives.
We’re about a year into Jesus’ ministry.
Early on there was an excitement about what He was doing.
Yet there was some reservation about what He was saying.
As time went on, reservation grew into rage.
People were listening to Jesus and leaving the synagogues prompting jealousy and anger.
People were drawn to the power and freedom that Jesus brought to them.
The charges of blasphemy weren’t gaining any traction.
People didn’t care that He was claiming to be God.
What He was doing seemed to be signs that He might be.
Many people had been healed and their lives improved dramatically by Jesus.
And, the rank and file seemed also to enjoy watching their aloof religious leaders get schooled and humiliated by Jesus.
So, when they couldn’t get the blasphemy charges to stick they changed tactics and went after Him as a Sabbath law-breaker.
Jesus is now calling them out on their rules.
We’re in a section of the gospels where there are a number of confrontations between Jesus and the Pharisees regarding His actions on the Sabbath.
Last week I talked about the Sabbath laws and the burden created by the Pharisees.
Now, Jesus is encouraging people to break their laws.
The man who’d been bed-ridden for 38 years.
Pick up your mat and walk by the temple in front of the enforcers broke the law by carrying his mat.
Jesus is showing little regard for their rules.
Thus creating even more conflict between them.
Jesus is not backing down from the “In your face” confrontations.
He’s even initiating a little.
So, when Jesus did
By resting 1 day/week it set them apart from the rest of the world.
No one else in the world took a day/week off.
Make more money.
Wealthy had more.
The poor eased their stress.
Conflicts between Leaders
Jesus and the disciples are traveling, preaching and healing, it’s the Sabbath and they’re hungry.
Walking thru a field they pick some heads of grain, rub them in their hands and eat the kernels.
Harvesting broke a Sabbath rules of the Pharisees so they called Jesus out on it.
Jesus didn’t back down.
He gave them 5 reasons why it was okay for them to do this.
The original law gave people permission to do this if they needed the provision in order to continue in God’s work.
Not even if you were starving, but just needed food to do what God had called you to do.
The orig law gave them permission to do this if they were working in service to God.
David was in the middle of a mission when he did it.
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