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Intro
Were any of you here for the Vacation Bible School opening sessions?
Can we get a show of hands.
Perhaps you will remember this.
Every night of Vacation Bible School started with a skit shown on video, to introduce the lesson of the day.
In the skit, the narrator would introduce the story, then we would travel back in time to watch the story unfold.
The picture on the screen would blur and become a spiral, weird time machine music would play, and the children were supposed to stand up and spin around while they traveled back in time.
(Are there any kids here today?
If you want to help us out, you can be our time machine.
So when I tell you, You are going to stand up and spin around and say back in time!-Do have that?
Do you want to practice?
Play slide)
Today, we are going to start a one point in Scripture, in the New Testament, and then we are going to travel back in time to the Old Testament.
Our first scripture reading this morning is from .
In , Jesus and his followers are walking through a grain field.
It is a Sabbath, the day of rest.
They are not supposed to be doing any work.
Jesus’s enemies are watching Him, and his disciples, watching Jesus carefully to see if he breaks the law.
The long time enemies of Jesus are the Pharisees.
The Pharisees obey every minute detail of the Law, They meditate on it day and night, as scripture says to do, so they are laser focused watching spying waiting for a slip up, so they can pounce.
As jesus and his followers walk along on the sabbath through the grainfields, they are hungry.
So they pull off some stalks, rub the kernels between their hands and eat the Kernels, and the spying Pharisees jump on it!
Now the law even has a provision for this activity in Deut.
But that is not good enough for the Pharisees.
They are trying to put a greater restriction on the law than it demands.
They are placing a restriction that this is harvesting on the Sabbath.
Hey look see these are guys are no good, they are harvesting on the Sabbath, they are doing work!
And they question Jesus.
And Jesus answered them.
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Jesus tells the Pharisees that there is something bigger here.
Jesus says, He is God even over the day of rest.
He is the one whom the law is based on, the one the law points to.
He is the fulfillment of the Law.
It is really a fairly straightforward message.
There are those that oppose Jesus, and the things of God, those are the Pharisees, and Jesus is Lord over it all.
In that response of Jesus, He defends his position with scripture.
Jesus asks his enemies if they have ever read the Story about David and his companions and the consecrated bread.
That story in in , our second scripture reading.
Perhaps, if they understood they would understand that the bigger picture is that Jesus is Lord, and to try and set your self against the Lord’s anointed is pointless.
Jesus and His disciples were on a mission to try and bring the Gospel to the world, and to set yourself against Jesus the Lord’s anointed is pointless
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In a minute we are going to travel back in time.
But before we do, I want us to take two things with us.
The first thing is that Jesus-Messiah is the Lord’s Anointed.
He is the God-man the anointed one of God the Father, and the true king.
The other thing we are going take along is that The Pharisees are the ones who oppose the Lord’s anointed.
The major point here tod.
One the law is a matter of the heart.
So, if we are ready lets travel back in time to the Story of David and the consecrated bread in 1 Samuel chapter 21. (Kids are you ready?
Let’s go Back in time!)
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It’s a matter of the Heart
David shows up at the priestly compound of Nob.
The tabernacle has been moved here from Shiloh, where it was at the beginning of 1 Samuel, and the priests have set up camp here.
Ahimelek is a distant relative of Levi, so his corrupt family line is still infecting the priesthood, and Ahimelek is afraid.
The mighty warrior David has appeared alone, something is rotten in Denmark, so he worried.
But David calms his fears with a little falsehood.
Now know this.
Commentators argue about whether or not David is telling a lie.
Some say, well because elsewhere David has referred to Yahweh as king, therefore the king he is describing is God, the mission God has sent him on is secret.
So therefore, technically David is not lying.
This view does a couple of things, it reserves David as being good, technically he is not a lier.
Secondly, the Bible does not risk condoning lying as way to save your life.
In fact some false religions, like Islam and even in Judaism you will a concept of justifiable lying for the greater good.
Now, I do not believe the Bible teaches that.
I believe that the Bible teaches a sin is a sin, no matter what purpose you have in doing it.
See even if David was “technically” not sinning with his words, which is possible, the intention of his heart is not right.
Ahimelek is thinking that the King David is referring to is Saul.
Perhaps David is cleverly using his words to refer to God, but nonetheless he is still misleading Ahimelek intentionally.
His heart is to mislead, therefore it is a sin.
Jesus taught that it is the intention of the heart is what determines sin, in Matthew chapter 5.
Matthew 5:2
I believe that David intentionally misled Ahimelek, and as result was guilty of sinning.
One thing we learn from Jesus’s teaching is that the act of sinning or not sinning is a matter of the heart.
The Sabbath was created to bring men to God
Then David asks the priests for some bread.
Some, don’t like to assign a sin to David, and they are fearful that people will jump to the conclusion that the Bible is saying it is ok to lie.
SO here again we get into a technical conundrum with matters of law.
So far the text has been crawling with it.
The problem goes like this.
Every Sabbath, the Priests take 12 fresh loaves of bread into the sanctuary.
They are displayed before Yahweh, separated only by a curtain.
Because they are so close to God, they become Holy.
They stay there until the next Sabbath, and then they are replaced with fresh loves.
The old loaves because they are Holy are then eaten by the Priests within the Holy place.
The Priest, the intermediary between God and men is going to deviate from standard practice for the following reasoning.
He can give David the bread, because David is the Lord’s anointed, he is on a Holy Mission, and provided that David and his men are Holy, by abstaining from those things that would make them unclean.
So we start to see the parallel situation coming into focus a little.
Jesus the Lord’s anointed, and His disciples are on a Holy Mission walking through the grainfield and are seemingly violating the Sabbath.
David the Lord’s anointed, and His men, are on a Holy Mission, the priests are feeding them with God’s bread in a seeming violation.
But the parallel grows from there.
Just like the Pharisees were watching Jesus, someone is watching David.
Doeg the Edomite, was there.
Someone from the opposition is there watching .
It is Saul’s chief Shepherd.
David was a shepherd.
The Chief Shepherd of the opposition is there to spy on the Shepherd that the Lord anointed.
And not just the Chief Shepherd of the enemy but an enemy of the Lord’s people by blood as well.
An Edomite.
The feud between the Edomites and the Israelites was a bit like the Hatfield’s and the McCoy’s on steroids.
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