Sermon Tone Analysis

Luke 6:1-5

Theme: The Lordship of Christ

Key verse: v.7

49 verses; 1229 words

Grade level: 4.4

Outline

I. The Controversies on the Sabbaths.

Verses 1-11

II.

The Choice of His Servants.

Verses 12-19

III.

The Challenge of His Sermon.

Verses 20-49

Jesus was not known for personal wealth.

He was known for powerful sermons, healings, and taking a stand against fake religious people.

Here we are alerted to the POSSESSIONS of Jesus.

I. His Sojourn.

v. 1

And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.

All the scholars will swear on a stack of lexicons that the word “corn” here should be “grain” because actual corn (“maize”) was supposed to be unknown in Egypt or Palestine.

Of course, this is a “red herring” to mislead the reader into doubting his Bible and trusting scholarship.

The word corn in an English dictionary can be used of the kernel of any cereal plant (wheat, barley, oats, etc.), including “corn on the cob.”

This is how the word is defined in a King James Bible in John 12:24, where you read “a corn OF WHEAT.”

You can have a corn of wheat, a corn of barley, a corn of oat, or a corn of corn.

Genesis 41:5–7 and Mark 4:26–29, though, talk about “ears of corn” and “corn in the ear,” which has nothing to do with the kernel at all, and in 2 Samuel 17:28 and Amos 8:5, the “wheat” and the “corn” are given as two separate things.

So I teach that when the Bible says “corn,” it certainly could refer to “corn on the cob.”

Now the fact about corn in the Bible is that “corn corn” has been found sealed in pottery in Egyptian tombs, but because the scholars approached such evidence from the prejudice that “New World corn” wasn’t in the “Old World” until Columbus brought it over, the find was dismissed as a fraud planted by a Moslem guide.

But in 2008, an archaeologist named Gunnar Thompson published his findings that “Indian corn” was well documented in Egyptian temples, tombs, and scrolls 3,000 years before Columbus sailed in 1492, and that its farming spread throughout the Mediterranean area (Ancient Egyptian Maize, 2010).

Now what the disciples were doing in verse 1 is allowed under the Law.

“When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour’s standing corn” (Deut.

23:25).

II.

His Skeptics.

v. 2

And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?

Who were the Pharisees?

They were a religious sect with Judaism.

The were known for…

Strict literal interpretation of the Books of Moses.

Using their traditions as equal and sometimes higher authority than Scripture.

They are classified as legalists by modern preachers looking to create a straw man out of their opposition.

Serious problems arise from this:

Usually those saying this are chained to a denomination that is steeped in tradition over the Bible.

While promoting their own “liberty” they cover it in covetousness to a denominational retirement fund.

III.

His Scriptures. vs. 3–4

The authority of the Bible.

V.3

3 And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;

The importance of Bible reading.

The importance of Bible study.

The application of the Bible.

V.4

4 How he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?

The place David resorted.

The people David replenished.

IV.

His Sabbath.

v. 5

And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

The Sabbath is for the Jew.

It is not for the church.

Jesus Christ is the One True Deity.

Jesus Christ is the organizer of days.

Conclusion:

All four of these things belong to Jesus.

Do you belong to Him?