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Frederick speaking Matthew and Amanda leading
Church @ The Gathering
Matthew: “something greather than the temple is here’s... for the son of man is the ward of the sabbath. Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath.
Basically the Pharisees trying to catch Jesus in his words.
Jesus healed the man.
“The oharisees went out and plotted how to...”
Speaking Amanda Fitzpatrick (Page)
Frederick Skyped in to do the reading.
“No rest on the Sabbath!”
Matthew 12:1-14
Reasons: introducing the inductive study
Structuring the sermon as an inductive study.
Observation, interpretation and application.
Sabbath, two things.
Disciples and Jesus getting framed
And the healing happening
The sabbath is for rest, ancient Jews experienced this but it was more in depth than that.
God recognizing our ability to work too hard.
God caring for his people.
Us hunbling ourselves
And us not claiming that everything is our own
Oharisees antagonists
Jesus and disciples protagonists
The means of applying the law to our daily life.
The disciples “harvesting” on the sabbath
The Pharisees trying to undermine Jesus authority
Again with the mans withered hand
Setting Jesus up to be accused
Pharisees are all about the letter of the law
Story about rules and childhood.
Asking us and discussing the rules we grew up with. Black and white rules.
How many people follow those rules as adults?
None of us.
At this point we’re adult enough to live good lives without the strict rules
We know the intention behind the rules and behave accordingly.
Jesus shows the Pharisees this by showing two examples of the rules being broken and it being okay.
David and his companions were hungry,
“he entered the house of god and ate the bread of the presence, which it was not lawful for him or his companions to est, but only for the priests.”
“On the sabbath the priests in the temple break the sabbath and yet are guiltless?”
Jesus tells us something greater than the temple was here, telling the phariseees that specifically.
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Hosea 6:6
God telling his people that they want them to show mercy live compassion and forgiveness more than he wants his people to follow the letter of the law.
“There is more to the law.”
The laws are meant to care for gods people and to teach them how to live, don’t get bogged down with the words
Second story
Man with a withered hand in the synogogue
If a sheep was in a pit, would you not pull it out?
Common sense says of course,
Jesus says that it is lawful to do good on the sabbath
Jesus didn’t actually answer the question they asked, he bypassed that entirely and went to the root of the “issue” that the pharisees were worried about and totally beat then down
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Live out the good things, be spiritually mature
What type of person are you?
Following the law with the letter? Or to hell with the law?
Usually one or the other.
What are some places in your life where you might want to be more center leaning?
Intention behind the law or following the wrong
That’s all for now!
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