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*Warning: Danger Ahead! (Luke 6:1-11)*
*Intro: Fire drills at High School and in College.
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* *One of the things we have in our world to keep us out of danger is alarms.
Alarms may be a nuisance to our ears, but they are usually our friends.
Fire alarms alert us to the danger of fire.
Burglar alarms alert us of the danger of theft and violence.
Our alarm clocks alert us of the danger of being late for school or work.
If we do not heed them, then we could be out of a job.
“An alarm may be annoying but, face it, most alarms are your friend.
*God has given us His Word to sound off an alarm for us.
God’s Word helps us to know when we are in danger.
It helps us understand what dangers we face.
God’s word not only instructs and encourages us, it also warns us.
And while, there is no explicit warning in the passage today, as we apply it to our lives, it issues a warning.*
*Give Background.
*Today we look at the last two of three controversies.
The first was about fasting, these are about the Sabbath.
And while they take place on two different Sabbaths, they go together.
In the last message, we saw that Jesus received opposition over the issue of fasting, but in the two stories in our text today, Christ receives opposition concerning the Sabbath.
*Read Luke 6:1-11* Let’s look at five dangers that we all face.
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*1. **The Danger of Rules Righteousness (1-2)*
a.
The Pharisees had taken God’s religion and made it a rules righteousness.
They were more concerned with their rules than the hunger of the needy.
Their rules impugned the disciples at four points.
b. God has always been concerned with the heart.
The OT law pointed to the fact that people cannot get right with God without God’s intervention.
c.
I am afraid that sometimes we are guilty of making rules, as “church people,” that God does not even make.
*App:* You cannot earn God’s favor by doing good works.
You cannot go to heaven following a set of rules.
Perhaps you think you will get to heave this way.
Jesus said that there is only one way to the father and that is through Jesus Himself.
He lived, died, and rose again.
He lived to provide a righteousness which we cannot have on our own.
He died because our sin creates a debt we cannot pay.
He rose again so we can have a new life that we can never earn.
If you want to have eternal life, then you must turn from you sin and trust in Jesus Christ.
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**The Danger of misunderstanding who Jesus Is (3-5)*
*a. *Jesus responds to the scribes and Pharisees by giving a warning.
The scribes and Pharisees confronted Jesus and His disciples and phrased their question in such a way as to warn them that they were in violation of their rules.
*b. *Ultimately, Jesus says that He is above the law because He came to fulfill the Law and He is the author of the law.
He is also above the law in that He can interpret the law perfectly, yet they did so imperfectly.
*c. *The disciples had a need.
They placed their rules above the needs of people.
They understood neither the intent of the law, which was for the good of man, nor that the Jesus was God.
They misunderstood who Jesus was.
*ILL: *Doctors are so busy nowadays.
More and more of them are running their practices like an assembly line.
Doc Blakely tells about a fellow who walked into a doctor's office and the receptionist asked him what he had.
He said, "Shingles."
So she took down his name, address, medical insurance number and told him to have a seat.
Fifteen minutes later a nurse's aide came out and asked him what he had.
He said, "Shingles."
So she took down his height, weight, a complete medical history and told him to wait in an examining room.
A half-hour later a nurse came in and asked him what he had.
He said, "Shingles."
So she gave him a blood test, a blood pressure test, an electrocardiagram, told him to take off all his clothes, and wait for the doctor.
An hour later the doctor came in and asked him what he had.
He said, "Shingles."
The doctor said, "Where?"
He said, "Outside in the truck.
Where do you want 'em?"
*App: *Do you know this Jesus?
He is the Lord of the Sabbath.
He is the Lord of Lords and King of Kings.
He is God.
Do you know Him?
The danger of rules righteousness flows right into the danger of misunderstanding who Jesus is.
If you think you can follow a set of rules to get to heaven you won’t understand who Jesus is.
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*3. **The Danger of Self-RighteousNess (6-7)*
*a. *The scribes and Pharisees did not have righteousness that came from truly knowing God or Jesus.
Their righteousness was from keeping their own rules.
But, their joy was not in keeping the rules, but in catching other people breaking their rules.
*b. *This is one of the greatest dangers for “church people.”
We get so good at appearing to be right with God, that we begin to be God’s police.
Trying to catch people breaking the rules that we have added to God’s Way.
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The hardest people to lead in the church are the ones who never do anything wrong.
As a matter of fact, they are so righteous that they don’t even worry about themselves any more they watch out for others.
These people set themselves up above the pastor and other church leaders.
They feel like it is their job to make sure everybody else is doing things their way, according to their rules.
*App: *Are you falling in to the trap of self-righteousness?
When I preach the word of God, do your find yourself applying it to others.
Do you find yourself saying I wish so and so had been here this morning, they really needed that?
Do you find yourself talking about other people, and how bad they are?
Do your criticize people a lot because they don’t do things YOUR way?
If you answer yes, the you are in a danger zone.
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*4. **The Danger of Misunderstanding What God is doing (8-10)*
a. Jesus responded to the Pharisees by giving a healing sign confirming God’s favor with Jesus.
Then He spoke of the true intent of the Sabbath.
The Sabbath commandment was never intended to bring harm to men.
The Sabbath was intended for good and to give life.
*b. *Perhaps the saddest thing about these two stories, is that the ones who should have recognized the heart of God, missed it.
The ones that should have understood that Jesus was the Messiah, didn’t.
These were the religious establishment of the day.
These were the Israelites, the people of God, the leaders who know the Word of God better than anyone else, but they missed what God was doing.
They just didn’t get it.
c. Oh how said it is for me to see “church” people who just don’t get it.
They don’t get what God is doing.
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