We get several accounts of the disciples eating wheat on the Sabbath. Gleaning, as we mentioned before, was perfectly legal. They weren't harvesting. Ironic that the Pharisees planned Jesus' death...do you think that was "legal" on the Sabbath.
Again, on the Sabbath, Jesus healed a man's withered hand. Jesus knew exactly what the Pharisees were thinking. Jesus again fufills words that Isaiah prophesied
I was intrigued with Mark's account of the man with the withered hand....He speaks of emotion that Jesus felt...He felt anger and he was deeply distressed. It is not a sin to be angry...it is what you do with that anger. Jesus chose to correct a problem. Jesus had been doing his ministry and people followed him....he moves into selection of the 12 disciples....interesting that there were 12 tribes. Coincidence? My study Bible sees it as continuity between the old ways and the new.
Can you imagine anyone accusing Jesus of being under Satan's power???? We know how the story ends......Good triumphs over evil......Jesus says, "how can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided agaist itself, that kingdom cannot stand. If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. And if Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand; his end has come...and finally:
But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin......this is the continual act of rejection and unbelief along with unrepentance.
Luke moves into the Beatitudes or blessings...notice how the fathers treated the prophets and the false prophets.
And here is something that gets me everytime I read it:
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even "sinners" love those who love them.....this is all in the Loving Your Enemies section...BECAUSE IT IS HARD! Our flesh does not want to do this...
Look what comes up from the depths of the sea.
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When they tell him he should not heal someone on the Sabbath, I love how he asks them if they had a sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, would they not get it out?
ReplyDeletevery important verse:: Mark 3:28-30 whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not have forgiveness........
In luke 6, is this the blessings that Mary jean was talking about in the last book study we had?
Oh, I really like this chapter in Luke.....I now see some of the things I have heard before...
Yep, Ms Mary Gene was referring to these Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount!
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