Lord of the Sabbath
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Jesus came to restore right worship
Jesus came to restore right worship
Jesus came to earth to deliver us from our sins. But He also lived a righteous life and showed us what a life looks like that is devoted to God.
The Pharisees had made decrees that you couldn’t do work, in the first passage they were picking grain, rubbing it together and eating it. Jesus and the disciples were harvesting, and threshing according to the pharisees. This was breaking their traditions.
Did Jesus break the laws of God, no but He broke their traditions.
Later He is in the synagogue, and Jesus brings up a man into their midst, not hiding it at all, and heals the man.
According to their traditions you couldn’t help tend to someone this way unless they were about to die.
They were trying to find salvation in strict observance of the law, not seeing that the law was there to draw them to God and reveal to them his character. But because it became only a religious observance and not a change in their lives it disgusted God. Isaiah writes:
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.
God say what He desires later:
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.
Is our worship only observed as a religious obligation, or is it a heartfelt need to express praise to our God?!
Our worship should be evident in every part of our life as we seek to bring God glory
Yahweh is a God of mercy
Yahweh is a God of mercy
Jesus bring up David, who is always a champion for the Jewish people. David violates the law for he eats the showbread which is for the priests.
And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the Lord’s food offerings, a perpetual due.”
The laws are either moral, civil, ceremonial or dietary.
The laws that we keep in the new covenant are those of the moral law, for those deal with the nature of God. When we break those we violate His character.
The law that David broke was a ceremonial law. Ceremonial laws were given as a benefit for the people. David was given allowance because it was for the well being of the person.
Jesus is making the same distinction here; it is for the well being of the disciples.
When there is a man with the withered hand, it is for his well being that He would be healed.
Our God, is a God of mercy, who desires the well being of His people. Instituted the laws like the sabbath for us.
If someone is needing food, needing healing on the Lords day, shouldn’t they get it?
And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
God created the sabbath for us as a time of rest, don’t use it as an excuse to avoid doing what is right.
Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath
Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath
When was the first Sabbath observed?
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
Lord, means that He is the one to which that thing belongs. He is saying that the Sabbath belongs to Him that He is in control of it. To be in control over means that you are the creator of that thing.
In essence, Jesus is saying that He is the creator.
Just as the creator rested on the sabbath, we are called to imitatio Dei or to Imitate God to the best of our ability in all area’s of our life. For His glory and for our joy. So when God sets a day to rest and reflect on His work. We are to set a day aside to rest, to reflect on God. Remembering that sabbath was a gift from God for our benefit.
Filled with fury
Filled with fury
They should have been rejoicing. But they were angry. The Greek word is Anua. Fury that is born of foolishness or a total lack of judgement.
Here is a man, doing the works of the messiah spoken of in Isaiah, healing sins, defeating demons, healing the lame. But they are angry because He doesn’t follow their traditions. He was to liberal. He didn’t meet their expectations of what the messiah should do. This is a foolish anger.
Are you setting up false expectations for Jesus, one’s that He doesn’t promise, and getting mad when He doesn’t fulfil what you believe He should?
If you come to Jesus with a desire to get anything besides Him, it’s idolatry.
Remember that God is merciful and loving. As such His commands are not burdensome, they are there to protect us and keep us on the straight and narrow. Even when we do fail, your forgiven and your still being sanctified but the grace of God for the glory of God.