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In Montana, it is illegal for married women to go fishing alone on Sundays, and illegal for unmarried women to fish alone at all.
It is a felony for a wife to open her husband’s mail
No person shall raise pet rats.
(This is a Billings law).
It is illegal to annoy passersby on sidewalks with a revolving water sprinkler.
(This one is for Helena
All pool tables must be able to be viewed from the street outside a billiard hall where they are located.
(Kalispell,
It is a misdemeanor to show movies that depict acts of felonious crime.
It is illegal to have a sheep in the cab of your truck without a chaperone.
In Whitehall - It is illegal to operate a vehicle with ice picks attached to the wheels.
I am sure the stories behind these are entertaining.
What would have caused Whitehall to make a law that you can’t operate a vehicle with ice picks attached to the wheels?
Some of these laws may still be on the books, but are not likely enforced.
In Luke we come upon a similar type of situation.
There is a law which was a good and genuine law.
It was a law commanded by God.
In fact, this law was one of God’s Ten Commandments in Exodus 20.
It was not a crazy law like the ones we just looked at.
But over time, it became crazy.
Keeping the law became ridiculous.
It didn’t become this way because of anything God did or said, but because man got involved and tried to improve on God’s law.
God made a very good and practical law He wanted his people to obey, but they turned it upside down, and twisted it into something impractical and impossible to obey.
In sending His son Jesus, we see redemption of that law.
We see that Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath.
Just a quick overview observation of the text, we have two Sabbath days and two points of contention.
As we jump into our text this morning we need to gain some cultural perspective on the just what the sabbath is and what it was.
For many christians today, there seems to be a general amount of indifference towards the sabbath that really puts us at a disadvantage in understanding the importance of the sabbath in Judaism.
We will begin by gaining some insight into the day, and pharisees understanding of the day.
The Pharisees and the Sabbath.
The basis, the foundations for the sabbath can be traced back to creation.
I found it interesting in studying that the Sabbath as we think of it today is not present for quite some time in the OT.
If we read the creation account, Genesis 1 through 2:3 we read of God’s creation.
If you read with me
The word rest there in the text is not the word Sabbath.
(Sabat)
שָׁבַת S7673 TWOT2323, 2323c GK869771 vb.
cease, desist, rest
While very similar, and likely the root for the word sabbath
Sabot is slightly different - a very minute difference, sabot - translated sabbath specifically references the seventh day, or other places a period of seven.
The significance of the day is not only in the rest, but in that God blessed it and made it holy, because it was on that day that creation was completed.
God didn’t rest because he was weary or tired.
He rested because the work of creation was finished.
Interestingly as well if we look at the pattern of creation, what do we see at the end of each day of creation?
There is a formula denoting the the day.
For instance at the end of Gen 1 we see
Each of the first six days has this, but it is not there present on the 7th.
We shouldn’t interpret this as God being inactive though.
Jesus affirms that God is in fact at work.
The fact that God rested when he was finished is symbolic in the sense of God’s relationship with Adam and Eve.
They lived in fellowship rest with God, with the one rule, not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
They lived not amongst chaos, but within God’s rest.
This is a beautiful picture of what God has in store for hise people.
This is what we are to be restored to.
The world was all broken up because of the fall.
But in His rest is where God will bring us back to.
And it is a reality that we can live in today.
We can live in God’s rest because of our relationships with Jesus as our Lord and savior.
God, through creation, and through his resting on the 7th day set a precedent for rest.
And specifically set out his purpose in rest, being relationship and life with Him.
The sabbath was initially about relationship!
As we trace the Sabbath through the OT.
Even after the fall though, we don’t see any evidence of a Sabbath as we understand it.
Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob - we do not see any of these men observing a sabbath as we might prescribe.
We see other covenants being made.
Think of the rainbow, the sign of the covenant God made with Noah, a sign we can still see today.
But Noah didn’t rest when he completed the ark, he had animals to get onboard.
We also find the covenant of circumcision given, marking people as the Lord’s.
There is rest involved there but that has to do with healing.
From the time of creation, all the way up until the time Moses, we do not see a Sabbath being prescribed.
And especially not the type of Sabbath that the Pharisees were proclaiming.
The clear command to rest on the sabbath was not given until the mosaic law was given.
Something esle we don’t necessarily think about is that the law was given as a covenant.
A promise between God and his people.
A promise, that if God’s people would keep is commands, they would prosper, they would have the type of rest that was present at the end of creation.
The lwas was meant for relationship.
Within that, we know that the Sabbath was meant to be a sign, like the rainbow, like circumcision.
The actual command we first find given in ex 20
This is that actual word for Sabbath, remember the seventh day.
The precedent laid out through God’s resting on the seventh day is now commanded as a means of remembrance.
For relationship.
If you stop to think about it, what had the Hebrews just been brought out from?
Slavery to the Egyptians.
Reading in the beginning of Exodus, the Pharaoh now did not know Joseph.
The Egyptians were afraid of their slaves.
So they dealt shrewdly with them and afflicted them with heavy burdens.
They worked ruthlessly as slaves.
Does it sound like any rest is taking place there?
The Sabbath was to be a reminder of the rest they were given, having been brought out of slavery.
They were now to take a day and worship the Lord and rest because of what He did for them.
God prohibited Israel, his people, from working on the Sabbath.
The ban included everyone, women, children, slaves, and animals.
Exodus gives specifics as to what constituted work.
Gathering manna, plowing and harvesting, lighting a fire, gathering wood, buying or selling merchandise.
Some duties of the priests though were excluded.
It’s purpose was to protect the lower class and oppressed in a nation afflicted with greed.
Sound familiar?
That is why we have overtime laws in our country today.
The penalty for breaking the sabbath was clearly stated as well.
We can find examples of this in Numbers where a man went out and gathered wood on the sabbath and was stoned to death.
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