"Anger, Grieved, Withered, Healed, Rage"
22/04/13 11:40
April 22, 2013
“Anger, Grieved, Withered, Healed, Rage”
Blessings Folk!
Today’s reading:
Matthew 12:9-14
Mark 3:1-6
Luke 6:6-11
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Jesus departed from there and went into their synagogue. (I’m intrigued by the oft-repeated phrase in the Word “their synagogue”.)
A man with a withered hand was there.
This man would not have been allowed in the Temple due to his hand.
As was their course of action, the religious attempted to setup Jesus - “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath”. (So much of their strategy of attack centered around adherence to man’s interpretation of observing the Sabbath.)
We need the full counsel of the gospels to see the flow of the conversation.
Jesus gave an example.
Would not any one of us seek to rescue a sheep that falls in a pit on the Sabbath?
Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save life, to destroy it?
How much more valuable is man.
Therefore, Jesus declares that it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.
Did you notice Jesus’ attitude/countenance?
He was angry with the religious.
He was grieved at their hardness of heart.
Angry and grieved, yet without sin!
Jesus then told the man to stretch out his hand.
Interesting.
How does a man with a withered hand stretch it out?
By faith.
By believing.
By obedience to the Word.
Stretch out.
A wondrous event.
The healed rejoiced.
The religious raged.
The religious (Pharisees in this case) went out and conspired with the Herodians as to how to destroy Jesus.
Determine to be a Believer that stretches out in faith.
Do not be numbered among the raging religious.
“Anger, Grieved, Withered, Healed, Rage”
Blessings Folk!
Today’s reading:
Matthew 12:9-14
Mark 3:1-6
Luke 6:6-11
pastedGraphic
Jesus departed from there and went into their synagogue. (I’m intrigued by the oft-repeated phrase in the Word “their synagogue”.)
A man with a withered hand was there.
This man would not have been allowed in the Temple due to his hand.
As was their course of action, the religious attempted to setup Jesus - “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath”. (So much of their strategy of attack centered around adherence to man’s interpretation of observing the Sabbath.)
We need the full counsel of the gospels to see the flow of the conversation.
Jesus gave an example.
Would not any one of us seek to rescue a sheep that falls in a pit on the Sabbath?
Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save life, to destroy it?
How much more valuable is man.
Therefore, Jesus declares that it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.
Did you notice Jesus’ attitude/countenance?
He was angry with the religious.
He was grieved at their hardness of heart.
Angry and grieved, yet without sin!
Jesus then told the man to stretch out his hand.
Interesting.
How does a man with a withered hand stretch it out?
By faith.
By believing.
By obedience to the Word.
Stretch out.
A wondrous event.
The healed rejoiced.
The religious raged.
The religious (Pharisees in this case) went out and conspired with the Herodians as to how to destroy Jesus.
Determine to be a Believer that stretches out in faith.
Do not be numbered among the raging religious.