From 80093d3fbabfac4e1770ea8724f125b8ae86a80e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lyle Mantooth Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2022 08:32:43 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Luke 6:1-5 --- content/bible_journal/luke_6:1-5.md | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/bible_journal/luke_6:1-5.md diff --git a/content/bible_journal/luke_6:1-5.md b/content/bible_journal/luke_6:1-5.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6b0fb12 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/luke_6:1-5.md @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ ++++ +title = "Luke 6:1–5" +date = "2022-11-07" ++++ + +### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk6.1-5) + +Now we get to the heart of what was wrong with the Pharisees' way of thinking. +They had read the Prophets and the Histories and saw that God had brought +judgement on their people because they did not follow God's commands (which is +true). So they decided that in order to get God's blessing they needed to +follow the Law perfectly. But there are over 600 commands in the Torah, and +some of them are fairly obscure and subtle. They memorized them anyway. And for +some, they put up fences around what God had said: the Sabbath is a day of rest +and you are not to do any work ([_Ex. +20:8–11_](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Ex20.8-11). But what is "work"? How are +you going to obey the command if you don't know? The extra rules that the +Pharisees created were intended to help people obey the Law, but in reality +just made life harder. (E.g.: Cover your mirrors on the Sabbath, because if +your wife looks and sees a gray hair she might pull it out, which would be +work.) + +Back to our passage. Jesus and His disciples were going through a field, and +somebody got peckish and started eating the grain. This is allowed in the Law +of Moses ([_Deut. 23:25_](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Dt23.25)). However the +way this works is to take the ear off the stalk, then rub it between your hands +so that the seeds separate from the chaff so that you can blow it away. +According to the Pharisees, you can pick up food to eat it, but that is like +threshing, which is clearly work. + +Some Pharisees see what Jesus's disciples have done. (How, I wonder? Why were +they out in the fields on the Sabbath?) When they confront Jesus about it, He +reminds them of the time David and his men ate the bread that had been +dedicated to God. According to the Law, only priests and their families should +have been allowed to eat this bread ([_Lev +24:5–9_](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Le24.5-9)) but the priest there gave it +to David for he and his men were on the run from King Saul and had no +provisions ([_1 Sam 21:3–6_](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/1Sa21.3-6)). + +Jesus then says something extraordinary. "The Son of Man is lord of the +Sabbath." (_v. 5_) "Son of Man" is how Jesus most often refers to Himself, and +it is how Daniel describes the Messiah when He is given dominion and authority +over the nations in Daniel 7. The Sabbath was created by God when He rested on +the seventh day of Creation, but Jesus is claiming authority over it. +Effectively, He says it's not up to the Pharisees to decide what's lawful to do +on the Sabbath, but Him. + +* * * + +Let us read Your Word with clarity, so that we may do precisely what is says, +and not cling to our traditions which were created by fallible men.