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All right, we'll get there. So moving on, what we got, Jill?
OK, so exciting question here for you.
Did Jesus break the Sabbath? No, I'm going to say no.
OK, because Jesus didn't sin. Well, you know, I think we
first, when someone says something like that to me, I

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think to myself, what's the issue here?
God can do whatever he wants. You know, God's above
everything. Of course God does not sin.
You're right. You know, that must be true.
Interesting. So how do you, how do you make
that fit all together? There's definitely some
accusations being brought to Jesus several times.

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Oh yeah, yeah. I think it's something like 7-7
distinct times, basically about him doing something on the
Sabbath that he should not have been doing.
Well, allegedly. Allegedly should not have been
doing. Allegedly.
Some of those I think you shouldhave been doing.

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Well, we're going to hop throughand.
Apparently Jesus agrees with me so.
We're going to walk through it so that we can help everyone to
learn, you know? OK, through each of these the
Jesus. They're kind of fun too.
Did Jesus break the Sabbath? Yes, yeah, we're at each the
Sabbath breaking events. Yes, we are going to look at it.
OK, I say. I say.

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No, he did not break. That's what I said.
But we're going to go through itcarefully and make sure we do a
good job with the text here. So OK, well, First off, you
know, it is a big issue because God's plan was for Jesus to be
born under the law. So you have like Galatians 4,
four and five. OK, so that's just a quick
snippet that says. But when the fullness of time

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had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under
the law, to redeem those who areunder the law, so that we might
receive adoption of sons. So it's actually super important
that he is submissive and you know, the laws to the law.
Yeah, because otherwise he wouldnot actually be fit to redeem
us. Now he knew what the law said

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though, because he wrote it, so that helps.
He intimately involved, yes. So.
So, yeah, so we have to figure out, OK, so this is a little
piece of the puzzle, right? So he is following the law
correctly. Yeah, you know, so he's, you
need to be sinless. The John 129 John the Baptist

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says, you know, behold, the Lambof God takes away the sin of the
world, right. And so they all knew that he, he
was this, this final sacrifice. You need to be the proper
sacrifice. And the sacrifice had to be
spotless. Yes.
You don't want to just dismiss the question like, you know, it
doesn't really matter. You know, it's like, well, we
fundamentally believe that he couldn't have send in things,

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but let's analyze the text and see what it says for itself, you
know, and, and what's what's being taught here.
So there's a few texts to analyze.
So I'll give you a little extra than what we're actually going
to go through in this episode. So you can you can look up some
stuff yourself. The one that's, you know, the
big work one is plucking grain on the Sabbath, you know, and so

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we're going to go through Matthew 12 one through 8.
That'll be the first one we go through Matthew 12 one through
8. But then.
They probably walked too long that day too.
They're probably, well, they probably did a lot of walking,
probably did. And so it's like.
Didn't they have like how many steps you could walk on a
Sabbath figured out like. Oh, there's the Sabbath day's
journey. If yeah, if you walk too many,
if you took too many steps on the Sabbath, that was work it.

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Was supposed to be, you know, however many the distance it
needed to be for the person farthest away from the Ark of
the Covenant when like Israel's wandering to be able to get to
the ark and back, OK, however long that is, that became a
Sabbath day's journey. So it's not like the full
journey you could do in a day. It was, you know, you guess you
have to go that far to be able to worship and go back home.

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Yeah. And so then that must be an OK
distance. That was the thinking.
Yeah. So.
Which makes sense. I mean how they came up with it.
Makes sense yes, yes not exactlyscriptural command there, but
you know that's what happened sobut there was well.
Since this is things a lot of a lot of the traditions they came
up with, they had like practicalapplication reasons why they

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came up with lots there's. Always a reason.
Whether it's a good one or not, there's always a reason.
There was like, OK, if we're notsupposed to, you know, work on
this app with what's work, well,you know, you do too much
exercise, that's work, you know,so, so how many steps can you
walk and and it not be work? Well, we're commanded to go
worship, so we got to be able togo at least that far.
That makes sense, yeah. We got to figure out what work

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is we. I might remember to deal with
that later. OK, I think I have maybe I have
a note. I'm not sure to deal with that,
but I I remind me of the Sabbath.
Did Jesus break the Sabbath? OK, so the, the plucking grand,
the Sabbath, Matthew 1212 eights, we're going to go
through the parallel Mark 223 through 28 and then Luke 6, one
through 5. But we're trying to go through

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Matthew 12. Then the other ones after that
we're not going to go through, we're going to go through most
of these. But it's it's all about healing
on the Sabbath. Then after that.
And so the man with a withered hand and then the bent over
woman, he was not straight, She was crooked, bent over man with
dropsy. And I'll explain what dropsy is.
You might know a little bit moreabout it by different name, the

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paralytic or invalid or whateverother word you know at Bethesda.
And then the man born blind. Now the man born blind, it's a
whole John Chapter 9. So we're going to skip going
through all that and maybe I'll just give a couple highlights
from it. But and then there's another one
that I didn't have this list here that I almost forgot about,
which would have been so disappointing.
One of my favorites since in John 7 we're going to get to

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that toward the end. I'm going to save the best for
last. All right, my opinion.
OK, so Matthew 12 here we are sorry, writing, writing verse
one At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on the
Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and
they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat scandal.
Yes, video evidence. Here it is posting on all sorts

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of social media, the Pharisees verse 2.
But when the Pharisees saw it, Imean, they're they're watching,
they were waiting, they look, they look hungry, but they're
going to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it,
they said to him, look, your disciples are doing what is not
lawful to do on the Sabbath. So the whole the big deal there
is that Jesus being a good rabbishould discipline his disciples

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for disobeying and this would bea public thing.
So now like his honors on the line and stuff and it's a big
deal and you know, so is it sin?Is it not?
If it's you're saying it's OK, then according to them, then you
have broken the law. And then if you say it's not OK
then you've you are also are a bad rabbi for your disciples all

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doing this so blatantly. Breaking the law?
So either way, like, you're justbad.
That was in their minds. They set him up, yeah.
That's back to the whole, like tearing him down.
It's on or down. Yeah, that's what they're trying
to accomplish here. So there's, so I guess First off
there we could go to the actual law.
So there's, there's one about vineyards as well, but that's an

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Exodus 12/16. But the one that we would look
at is Deuteronomy 2324 and 25. Because if you go into your
neighbor's vineyard, well that'smaybe that's the vineyard one.
No, yeah, that one's both. Never mind if you go into your
neighbor's vineyard, you may eatyour fill of grapes as many as
you wish, but you should not putany in your bag.
If you go into your neighbor's standing grain, you may pluck
the ears with your hand, but youshall not put a sickle to your

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neighbor's standing grain. Sure, if you're just walking
down the road and you got the munchies, you grab a little bit.
So you just don't. Basically the idea is you don't
keep. For later, You're not going
there to harvest this field, right?
You're you're getting a snack. Just get getting your food in
your belly. Yeah, yeah, that's all you're
doing. So then we have verse 3 here of
Matthew 12. He he said to them, So Jesus

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says these Pharisees, have you not read That's a big, that's a
big slap in the face. Just saying that because these
guys have all like memorized at least the Torah, but most of the
Old Testament, if not all of it.And so have you not read what
David did when he was hungry andthose who are with him, how he
entered the House of God and atethe bread of the presence, which
it was not lawful. They were like for real, though,

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which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who are with
him, but only for the priests. So that's one of their big
heroes, King David. So the idea is that if they were
to condemn Jesus disciples, they'd first have to condemn
David for this because David didsomething worse he actually went

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against. Scripture or the priest did
whatever you want to say well. He knew better, too.
They were all accomplices. They're all guilty.
But but the fact is, you have the letter in the spirit, right?
I have the law too. Well, the Sabbath was made for
man, not man for the Sabbath, right?
But was. And eating and eating lunch is

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not against the law. I mean, they weren't working.
They're snacking as they're walking down the field.
David showed up starving to death.
What's right for the priest of that?
Nope. I'm going to stick to the letter
of law and let these men die. Or am I going to?
Am I going to help my fellow man?
Well, that might be a false dilemma.
That might, it could be not the only two options, but well, you
know it. Could Jesus have broken the

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letter of the law for the sake of the spirit of the law?
What would you say to that? I'd say Jesus do it everyone.
He wrote the law. Well, he can't break it.
He didn't break it. That, but I'm asking the
question, do you think that he could have broken the letter of
the law and still kept the spirit of the law?
I think the letter law actually reflects the spirit of the law,

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but they were misinterpreting it.
Right. So like, if it is, if it is the
law, then it can't be broken no matter what.
Yeah, so clearly that wasn't thelaw, so.
David sinful. David, sinful, though I'm
calling him out. Jesus did.
I disagree. Hey, Jesus said, let's see, he
says in verse 3, have you not read what David did when he was

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hungry? He knows with him how he
entered, ate the bread of the presents which it was not lawful
for him to eat. Yeah, he said that.
So it's true. So so David and them were.
Those are sinners in that moment.
Taking a hard stance here. But but sanctity of life is more
important than not eating bread.Sometimes there's priorities.

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Obedience, Obedience to God, if it is obedience to God, would be
higher than my own comfort, my own life.
But the priest gave him the bread.
David didn't take it. He.
Knew, he knew. Yeah, he asked for food and they
gave him some. That bump, by the way, for
everyone that's interested, First Samuel 21 would be this

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narrative with David. So you read it.
You read a verse of the law about taking food on someone's
garden as you walk down the road.
Yeah, but what does the the lawson the Sabbath, how do those
apply to this? That, that is it.
That's that's for the Sabbath. That was that was described in

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the. Sabbath 2324 and 25.
That's for the Sabbath, so it literally.
Says you can eat as you're walking down someone's field.
Yes, exactly. So why are they even saying
anything at? All well, that's my point is he
did not break the letter to the law.
That was never the letter of. Law.
So you guys are just making up alie?
Correct. OK, that's the idea.
That's fair. So like, so in other words, I
just want to make sure we're of the same mind of breaking the

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law is sin, but the real law, God's law, you know, so they
made-up their own, they added toit and they made it equal to
Scripture. That's like the biggest no, no,
that's a big problem. Like I can, I can put rules in
my own life to help me to honor God better.
So I can't just then take those same rules and say, now all of
you must obey this or your sinners, you know, And that's

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basically what was going on. And we do that a lot.
Yeah, sometimes, yeah. Subconsciously, you just don't
really think about it. It's always best, you know, why
do I do or don't do anything? It's got to be a center of.
Scripture. You're not as good as a
Christian as me because I've putmyself under more self-imposed
laws than you. Right, right.
And then we judge each other about it.
All right, so then let's let's continue on with Matthew 12.

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So then we'll pick it back up here in verse 5 says or have you
not read in the law? So once again, smack smack how
on the Sabbath, the priest in the temple profane the Sabbath
in our guiltless. OK, which is really interesting.
So then what is he talking about?
So you might remember Matthew's very Jewish centered, you know,
so he doesn't explain a lot of different things.

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He just his audience knows. A lot of these things wrote this
to the Jews. Yeah.
And, you know, sometimes you, you, you know, we all assume
things we don't realize. We're assuming all the time, you
know, So it's one of those dealshere where you have to why you
study, study, study. It's always good because you
might find some detail that's helpful somewhere.
But the, the, you know, there was no chairs for the priests

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ever. They were always, that was her
biggest work day, the Sabbath, because they're the ones having
to run all the sacrifices and everything for everybody, doing
all the cleaning up, setting up,tearing down the entire day.
They were on their feet working like dogs, basically.
These priests, you know, and that's the idea.
Yet they're guiltless for it. And so then that makes them all

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of a sudden it's like that hits them in their heads, you know,
real, real time. It's like all of a sudden they
realize, oh, like we forgot about the priests.
Like there's, you know, how does, how does this all fit
together now? I don't understand.
See, God's law is actually very,what do you call it?
What's the word I'm looking for?There's no contradictions or

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anything. It's very fluid.
It all works together. Whereas, you know, throw man's
law on there and things get a bit more fuzzy, you know, so
his, his, it actually does make sense that the priest can do
this. And it does make sense for other
things too. We're going to cover here as we
go through more Sabbath blunders.
OK, But maybe that's to be the title of your blunders of the
Sabbath. I don't know.

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But it's Speaking of the Pharisees anyways.
So yeah, it's kind of interesting because they now
they can condemn all the prieststoo, because they're working,
you know, they're working on theSabbath.
So you're worried about them just filling their bellies.
What about this whole team of priests not just working, but
working harder than any other day on the Sabbath, and yet

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they're OK. Yeah.
You got to figure that one out. You know, that was really cool.
So then verse 6 is I tell you something greater than the
temples here. Of course he's referring to
himself and it says, and if you had known what this means, I
desire mercy and not sacrifice. He's quoting Hosea 66.
And so that's basically the gist.

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You go to the context. I think you'll appreciate the
words a bit more. But that's that's the big point
that he communicated there. He quotes that verse.
I think it's either two or threetimes.
It might be 3 times that's recorded in scripture.
He quotes that verse the Pharisees.
He's like, figure it out, guys, figure it out guys.
You know, he's, he's trying to get him to figure it out.

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Read Hosea, I guess where it's from.
You think about the picture there of Israel being, you know,
the lady of the night and then going back to the market and
then Hosea even buying your backstill at the, the, you know,
clearance price because, you know, this is just coded
language here, you know, keepingit pretty general.
But yeah. And so showing you the kind of

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really sad situation there. And it's like, yeah, God still
takes you back and this is what you're doing, you know?
And so he's, he's trying to remind them that, hey, God
desires mercy. And we've mentioned this before
too. That's his big thing, loves
giving mercy. He's not sacrifice.
You know, the sacrifice is good when you have the right faith,
you know the right hearts, you know, all that sort of thing.

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But that's why he says above allmercy.
I like that. So he said and and you would not
have condemned the guiltless hisdisciples for the Son of Man is
Lord of the Sabbath. Now it's interesting there he's
also quoting Scripture, that one.
That's what's that's quoted in Hosea 2.
I think it's Psalm one O 8 or Psalm 8.
Maybe it's just Psalm 8. I think it's Psalm 8.

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And so I do believe the originalcontext there is Son of Man
being us, like God has given us dominion over over the earth,
over the Sabbath, over all sort of things.
But then Jesus is like the ultimate Son of man who is the
ultimate fulfillment of all those things.
OK, so just just to throw that out there.

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And yeah, that's Psalm 8. And yeah, quoted in Hebrews 2.
And so that's applied to Jesus there as well.
But OK, anyways, off on so many rabbit trails here.
But that's, that's Matthew 12. OK, so the law being
investigated is found in Deuteronomy 2324 and 25.
So we see it's actually OK, they're allowed to pick and eat,
but just no storage. The Sabbath was designed for us

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to rest or say trust in God as arefreshing, enjoyable time.
So of course the Pharisees couldn't condemn the disciples
without first condemning King David and all the priests.
Or was there sin not washing their hands when they ate?
Oh, that's another one. But that's not a Sabbath day
thing. That was just in general and.
So I did, I almost, I almost do that in here, but I was like,

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well, let's let's stick to the topic.
But I was actually looking at that one already too.
OK. All right.
Yeah. So we'll have to.
That'll be another thing more, you know, pharisaical fallacies.
Well, yeah, let's let's patent that right now.
OK. So then Matthew 12 continuing 9
through 14 is the second one. This is the withered hand man.
Oh man, he healed on the Sabbath.

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Yep. Well, you know what a scoundrel.
Now it's all the healing offenses.
That's work, right? Because healing was work.
Yeah, that's what they're tryingto say.
That's what they're trying to say anyways.
But let's see if it's actually OK, even as work.
OK, so Matthew 12/9 was that that's a good cliffhanger.

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How was it? OK, He he went on from there and
entered their synagogue. So he's just like same day,
same, you know, he's still on the.
They're on the way to the synagogue on the Sabbath.
They're just. They're just.
The guys are This is like the police pulling you over on your
way to church. Have you?
Ever had to like, go to the gas station?
For going for going the speed limit.
Yeah, yeah. OK.

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So it says in verse 10, and a man was there with a withered
hand and they asked him, is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?
So they might accuse him. So they do this over and over
again. You'll notice where they kind of
plant. So they suppose these guys just
went with them on the way to thesynagogue and they get there and
like, oh, hey, there's a guy with a with a hat.
Is it OK to heal him? Yeah, they're like right in

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front of them. Wait till you get there.
OK. And now ask the question, is it
lawful to you on the Sabbath? Yeah.
So it's like, obviously this is a trap.
Like they're. They are.
That's their intent. Yeah, and their minds are
setting up a trap, but it will spring on them.
So, so they might accuse him. So verse 11, he said to them,

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which one of you who has a sheepthat falls into a pit on the
Sabbath will not take hold of itand lift it out of how much more
value is a man than a sheep? So it is lawful to do good on
the Sabbath. That's a really interesting idea
there. And so I'll finish the passage

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and then I'll come back to that sort of thing.
So then he said to the man, stretch out your hand.
And the man stretched it out andit was restored, healthy like
the other. But the Pharisees went out and
conspired against him. How to destroy him.
So as yeah, they're like this. Guy's just missing the point,
right? Like he's missing the point.
Yeah, well that's what I've saidthis before, but the word
hypocrite, the idea of it, you know, went below the radar.

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It's under your judgement, the 2words under and judgement put
together. And so it's like, you know,
you've missed the point. That was the whole idea.
So that's when he's yelling at him as hypocrites, like you've
missed. You've read all the Bible, you
know, basically. You've you've devoted your life
to religious things with the onetrue God, but you missed the
whole point of everything. So this is back to the from our

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our Bible studies series, the the practical theology.
Yeah, they got the knowledge, but they don't all apply to
their life. Right.
You know, I know about God, kindof, but I've I've missed the
point. Yeah, that happens all the time.
All the time. And these guys, they missed it.

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They get so caught up on all these do's and all these don'ts,
and they're right. You forget to be good to people.
Yeah. So that's actually one of the
biggest points with this I wanted to bring out.
First off, there is allowance inthe law to help animals in
distress. So distress means they need to
eat a drink. OK, you're still supposed to

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feed your lifestyle. Or or they're in the ditch, in
fact, that thing. Wasn't a sin.
It's a sin not to take care of your animals.
Right. Yeah, You're supposed to Yeah.
Yeah. So you're supposed to take care
of them. And so it was natural.
You're supposed to do it even onthe Sabbath, you know, because
the whole point is is you're, you know, you promote life.
You promote life. You know, that's, that's the
idea. And so here.

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You just asked a simple question.
Aren't people more important than animals?
Yeah, well, in the things like you would save a sheep.
Yeah. So the idea is like, well, then
obviously save a person, you know, that's like, come on.
And so, yeah, this this sheep that falls into a pit that the
difference is why they why did they save the sheep?
Because the sheep for them was money.

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That's currency back in those days.
And so when they looked at that guy with the withered hand, for
example, they saw no value. He was a drain on society.
They sound they saw more value in that one sheep than they do
in this this human being. And so that's that's where, you
know, it's like, like we do. We are to value life.
We are to treasure it and take care of it, be responsible,

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things like that, help promote it, make it more, you know,
productive or whatever. But then, but then always human
life would be more whatever it is.
Human life is more. Yeah, yeah, that's all.
But yeah, so they missed the whole point of the value of
life. Yeah.
Completely. So so where?
Where do they find a lolly not supposed to help anyone?

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Is it actually say in the law, don't go on the Sabbath?
No, not at all. Or is it, is it back to like
don't do any work and seeing a doctor's work?
Let's see, I got 2 passengers here.
Let me, let me, I'll pop them up.
I didn't have these guys out ahead of time.
Exodus 23, four and five, that'sthe first thing.

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Then I got 1 Deuteronomy. Because if you meet your enemy's
ox, even your enemy, you meet your enemy's ox where his donkey
going astray, you shall bring itback to him.
You see the donkey of one of of one who hates you lying down
under its burden like distress. Whatever you shall refrain from
leaving him with it, you shall rescue it with him.
That's and that's your enemy, your enemy's ox or sheep.

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And even then, Deuteronomy 22 isthe other part.
And so that's like that's on theSabbath, you shall not see your
brother's ox or his sheep as Deuteronomy 22.
You shall not see your brother'sox or his sheep going astray and
ignore them, shall take them back to your brother.
If he does not live near you andyou do not know who he is, you
shall bring it home to your house and shall stay with you

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until your brother seeks it. Then you shall restore it to
him. And you shall do the same with
his donkey or with his garment or any lost, angry brothers
which he, you know, just goes on.
And so the idea is you, you helpthem, you lift them up, whatever
it is. And so is it just one of those
things that that I assume that if the law says you can, you can
help your animals if they're in distress on the Sabbath, then

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obviously you can help people. Yes, and that and that's the
application that Jesus brings. Yeah.
So we would actually see him doing good Bible study where he
brings out the proper application because he had the
right interpretation. So he he was exposed to the word
of God, understood it, lived it out, applied it, shared it, the

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whole deal. So anyways, yeah, so that's,
that's the big one. So that it does allow for that.
And so, you know, she says I'll see this one.
Maybe I'm getting I, I looked atso many of these, I think I'm
going to get a little bit confused.
No, no, no. Verse 12.
So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.
A reminder that love, grace, mercy, goodness, those don't

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take a day off. Those are those are good.
Love God and love your neighbor like that's doesn't that doesn't
have a day off. No, it's a Sabbath.
I'm taking today off. It's kind of interesting how it
works, you know, they kind of just apply what they want and
little. Bits back.
You're just missing the point. Like they completely missed the
point. Like literally completely.

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And then they did this whift. They, they focus so much on what
you can't do, even to the point of adding things that they
totally didn't even think about what you can do and what you
should do. And that's a whole other thing
about what you do on a Sabbath, which is actually a pretty
enjoyable. Deal, which is apparently do
good things. Yeah, good.
We know that's on the list. Do good things indeed.

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Man, you know, it's amazing. The Pharisees were so twisted
here that they they tried to getJesus to sin.
They thought this was a gotcha question.
He's just like. But like, you know where?
What are you guys talking about man?
If you're in some kind of religious ministry type
leadership and you get to a point where you're trying to set
someone up to send publicly, youprobably missed something.

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You're you're missing them take.Take a couple steps back.
Yeah, you're. Yeah, well, they're clearly
missing things, OK. Yeah, definitely.
All right, what's, what's the next one?
Is it lawful? OK, so then the next one's in
Luke 13. Yeah.
All right. Go ahead.
Sorry. What do you want to say?
No. No.
I'll, I'm sure I'll have more opportunities.

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OK, so Luke 13, the the whole thing is 10 through 17.
Now that we've kind of set the foundation, this can go a little
faster. So now he was teaching in one of
the synagogue's on the Sabbath. That's Luke 1310.
And behold, there was a woman who had a disabling spirit for
18 years. She was bent over and could not
fully straighten herself. When she just saw her, He called

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her over and said to her, woman,you are freed from your
disability. And he laid his hands on her and
immediately she was made straight and she glorified God.
But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant, angry, right,
indignant because he said healedon the Sabbath, said to the
people just like announces, yells out to the crowd, there

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are 6 days in which work ought to be done, Come on those days
and be healed and not on the Sabbath day.
Oh my goodness. So verse 15 Then the Lord
answered him, you hypocrites, wetalked about that.
Missed the point. Does not each of you on the
Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the Manger and lead

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it away to water it? And not this woman, a daughter
of Abraham, you know, one of theJews whom Satan bound for 18
years. Apparently there was a demonic
oppression there be loosed from this bond on.
The side crippling spirit, Yeah.Yeah, it's, it's interesting
because it's like, you know, theSabbath is for rest.
Why can't she rest? Why why?

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Why is that not? Important.
She's she's, she has a literallya crippling spirit.
It's like everyone just stand back and let me have my rest
day. You know is he ain't had much
rest. Yeah, not good.
For 18 years, he's like any rest.
You'll you'll untie that big dumb ox to get a little water,
but but you're not willing to untie her from this spiritual

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bond of oppression to have rest.I love, I love how he just like
states the obvious. Yes, just that's all he's doing.
You're. Right.
It's just like, yeah, dude, you guys missed it again.
You know, you untie here Hawks, I'm a tie in a person what has
more value before God, right? Yeah, that's all.
You're relating to the Dodger ofAbraham, right?

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It's pretty blunt. It's not even like it's a
Pharisee guy. I mean not a Pharisee, but one
of those scoundrel Romans or something.
The dogs, Gentile dogs. I mean this is.
One of you guys. Then verse 17 wraps up like this
way. And he said these things.
As he said these things, all hisadversaries were put to shame

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and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that
were done by him. They just all had to shut up and
either leave or just stand there, you know, with the SO.
They tried to put him to shame, but instead they were put to
shame. So it's pretty straightforward
teaching the one with the crooked back, OK, if you are
willing to help an animal, one out of person, right above all,
a Jew even you know, that's verymuch in their context there.

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They did not consider the necessity for this laid rest on
the Sabbath. So we each we learn different
things about the Sabbath actually as you go through this.
And it's a lot of correcting teaching.
And so we see the value of humanlife and stuff and how it's
meant to be a blessing to peopleand relationships are important.
People are important. And it's not just focused on my

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personal rest and enjoyment, butyou're concerned about other
people. You know, are, are they resting?
Are they have, are they enjoyinglife?
You know, is life good kind of athing?
So we have really missed the point.
We got to come back to that sortof idea of valuing people.
And it's not about what can you do for me.

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Then Luke 14, Luke 14 is anotherone.
And this is the the man with Drop Shay.
Drop Shay. So that's that.
I I afraid I'm mispronouncing this, but the the edema edema
EDEMA is that this that thing I've I've known about before
where you know, there's something based on your body.
It's a swelling. And so there's like there's like

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water just kind of sitting there.
So the, the, the Greek words kind of interesting, but it just
basically means like water showed up and stayed basically.
That's my, my dumb version of it.
And so there's, yeah, some kind of like water is sitting there.
It could be anywhere in the body.
So who knows, you know, I mean. This guy got got a swelling
problems. So, yeah, some kind of a, it

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seems to be a big deal, whateverit is.
I mean, even could be on the brain, you know, who knows water
in the brain and that that's a whole other level of importance.
So Luke 14 says one Sabbath, when he went to dine at the
House of a ruler of the Pharisee.
What is this? Sorry, Luke 14 verse one.
That's where I'm starting at oneSabbath when he went to dine at

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the House of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching
him carefully, normal. And behold, there was a man
before him who had dropsy. And Jesus responds to the
lawyers and Pharisees saying, isit lawful to heal on the Sabbath
or not? So it's so funny how Jesus cut
him to the chase this time and he's going to ask the question.
He didn't wait, hey, is it lawful to heal or not?

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Because here's another setup. Behold, there was a man before
him with the banqueting. Everyone had a sign seating.
Yeah, every this is this was so orchestrated, it's crazy.
You can't get around it how theydid this.
And so Jesus goes, is it lawful to heal a Sabbath or not?
Like figure it out, guys. But they remain silent.
Verse 4, Then he took him and healed him and sent him away.

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And he said to them, Which of you having a sun or an ox that
has fallen to a well on a Sabbath day will not immediately
pull him out? And they could not reply to
these things. It's answer every time it's
like, hey, you get sticker your ox right?
Like every one of these cases crazy this idea that they put
people or animals above people this albums today.

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Oh yeah, it definitely does. Yeah, there are people that get
way more uptight about killing apuppy than killing babies, and
it's true. Yep, you're a Pharisee if that's
what you believe. There's, there's, you know, of
course more protective rights for certain animal offspring
than than our own. So and dropsy is a swelling of a

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swelling of a body cavity or extremity due to internal fluid
buildups. Exactly what you said.
Dropsy or edema. Edema and some.
Of the more common word. So yeah, whatever reason that
causes it, it's just your leg swells up.
That's dropsy. That can be extremely painful.

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Yeah, I would have been in the hospital for a couple weeks with
drop CI guess a couple couple years ago that was that was
rough. Doesn't sound good.
I had. Some causes of the drop C
Basically my leg was three timesthe size it should have been and
that hurt all. Right.
I'll tell you what, for time's sake, I'm just going to do one

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more. So the one I'm going to tell you
what I'm skipping John 5 two through 18, that's the paralytic
or invalid. What I want to say, the person
with a disability that's John 5/2 through 18, so.
He. He picks up his bed, rises and
walks. Hey, what are you doing?
So you can kind of talk about like what work is necessarily.

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Oh yeah, cuz that's what's carrya bed.
Yeah, kind of. I mean, so it's one of those
things once again. That's right.
Yeah. It's not actually like really
there. But the idea is he just, I mean,
God just heal them. And he's, you know, and
literally told him go do this thing.
And so, yeah, that's an interesting one to walk through.
Then there's all of John 9, which is the man that was blind

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from birth. A man.
Born in Hawaii. And it's just really cool to
even see like the progression ofhis belief where he's like, he's
a man, he's a prophet, He's counted as a disciple of his.
And then he's the Son of man andworshiped him, you know, at the
end. And so it's really neat how CG
just like defend. It's like the longer he thinks

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about it, the longer he and the more he's like.
When it was the all the Pharisees questioning him and
stuff and he's like, he's like learning more and figuring it
all out. He's like, oh, you guys want to
be one of the disciples too. He.
Starts putting it all together and he's like, oh wait a minute,
I think I know who this guy. Actually makes sense.
OK, So we're going to jump to John Seven, OK.

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And it's the one that you mentioned that I said like, Oh
yeah, I kind of had to throw it in.
I almost missed that one, but yeah, so John 7, we'll just do.
Have some value. You have lots of value to me.
We'll start John 719. I mean, you're you're in the
you're in a big conversation. And so you got to cut off
something somewhere. Yeah.

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So it's just how it is. But John 719 to 24 is what I'm
aiming for here. And it says, oh, wait, what
verse did I just say? I just said.
It says 7/19. 1919 OK Has not Moses given you the law yet none
of you keeps the law why do you seek to kill me?
The crowd answered. Because it's like more and more

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crowd coming back and. Forth and you got a demon.
You have a demon who is seeking to kill you.
That's. The response?
Just yeah. Why do you seek to kill me?
You have a demon. I was like, OK, Barney, calm
down, you know? OK, So Jesus answered them.
I did one work, and you all marvel at it.

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So he's talking about healing onthe Sabbath.
OK I did one work and you all marvel at it jaws hitting the
floor. Moses gave you circumcision and
then a quick note here from their author.
Not that it is from Moses, but from the Father's because it
really start with Abraham, but it was part of the law with
Moses. That's.
The idea? He wrote it in the law.
So he goes, Most gave you circumcision, and you circumcise

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a man on the Sabbath because what?
What day does the baby boy have to be circumcised?
8th day? 8th day, right?
And so the 8th day falls in Sabbath.
Which law do you follow? Right.
What do you? Do and, and, and that's some of
the points that Jesus is bringing up.
Some things are more important and so.

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You have no. It's back to the latter versus
the spirit. You know some sometimes you have
to make judgement calls and and err on the side of doing what's
right. Well, it never says don't
circumcise on the Sabbath, you know, I mean, it's just one of
those things where. But don't do any work and rest
well, Yeah, okay, but here you go.
You're breaking the Sabbath, guys.
But with work that really is more like career, I'm doing this

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to. Not for these guys.
They thought Eden and washed your hands and going for a walk.
And that's another thing healingpeople will all work like.
So he's just bringing out their their hypocrisy and their double
standard. Yeah, it's.
Just pointed out. So he's just, yeah, he's he's
this is something that's always been OK, you know, it's never
been wrong to do. But he's reminding them that
they do it. Because then here's the big part

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though. This is the big part.
OK, The thing that's not said there says if verse 23, if on
the Sabbath a man receives circumcision so that the law of
Moses may not be broken. Are you angry with me because
I'm a Sabbath? I made a man's whole body.
Well, so the idea is that they had to practice first aid, they

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had to do some healing because of the circumcision.
And so as you actually say, it'sgood and you're not breaking the
law to heal a little part of a person.
I just healed the entire body ofa person and and you think that
I committed the greater offense like the Does it make sense?

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Or you can just say, yeah, you did a medical procedure, so did
I. Basically, yeah, being the great
physician, yeah. And then however you however you
want to describe this, but yeah.Yeah, so it's it's that's it's,
I love that one because it's so witty.
It's so just I love how he just turns like the same.
He uses the same exact topic andturns it on its head 100% of the

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time every single time. Like it doesn't matter what game
to. Chase and just points out the
the the double standard that they have.
Here, here's the actually the obvious thing.
And then so I think like a lot of those challenges, Jesus
entertained it because he was gaining followers through it,
because then it had everyone's attention and they're listening.
They're like, yeah, that is likethe word of God.
That's right. That makes so much sense.

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Now that makes sense. Yeah, so wonderful thing there.
Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with
righteous judgement. The last so verse 24 there,
yeah. So John 7 and which is really
cool because it's like, hey, look, you know, you, you, you,
you have to judge with truth. Essentially, this is the only
way a good judgement happens is that, you know, truth and

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morality, right? So in in their purest forms,
that would be the best judge. And so here they were judging by
their own, you know, situation. They made-up themselves.
And so they they're not looking at the heart of the issue, the
importance of the issue, nothing, just the pure surface
level. Here's our black and white

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thing. We made-up and you broke it.
No questions. You're just wrong, you know, And
it's like, come on, guys. And there's with one simple
question. They're all like you got us
again. I hate you.
Yeah. Where did I figure out how to
kill you? Yeah.
So many times they ran off to dothat.
That was like their next favorite hobby.
Yeah, yeah. Plotting his death.

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They spend the rest of the time after.
After he makes him look foolish.He's trying to figure out how to
kill him. Crazy stuff.
All right, so wrapping up just clear and obvious, did Jesus
right break the Sabbath? I'd have to go with a no heart
pass on this one. OK, Yeah, he did not.
And he? Didn't break the letter of the

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law even like correct everyone their accusations.
I don't think you can even find the law.
Like they were just making theselaws up.
Yep, it's always important when someone says something like you,
when they're accusing God or something, whatever I said, you
know, can you show me where that's at?
And, and at least half the time that stops it right there, they
can't or they show me something.So then we start to study that

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passage, you know, see what it is in its full context.
And so that usually solves aboutanything there is right those
two things. And then it is lawful to do
good. It actually is.
So yeah, it's good to do good things.
Oh yeah, it's going to. People have more value than
animals. Absolutely.

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Yeah, What? We're going to say one more
thing. So, yeah, that's right.
Because, you know, no one ever talks about, like, what you can
do on a Sabbath. Good.
It's always about right. That's one of the things.
So here's a little list I have. And you can eat grain as you
walk down the road. I just don't store for the Yeah.
Now this is all under the Mosaiccovenant kind of Sabbath.
Sure. OK, so there's more to it than
that. But you you are to build and

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enjoy relationships with God andother people.
So that means, you know, with, you know, building relationship
with God and things, you know, you spend time on the word, you
know, pray you can do so as a family, perhaps even, you know,
just adoring him and enjoy creation.
Love people's very general reference, like do good and the
relationship stuff, but just in general, just love people, be

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merciful and gracious to life, just in general life worship and
glorify our creator. You know, it's like a lot of
that's kind of repetitive, a lotof overlap, but just kind of
gets a point across. Those are like, it's a great
time where God says, you know what, you can just trust in me.
Just don't try to provide for yourself for one day and you'll
watch. Have some rest.

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Yeah, have some rest Enjoy God. And you can do that on other
days too. It's OK to enjoy God and have
rest and be good, good to others.
Have fellowship with others. You don't just have to do it on
the Sabbath, which we don't evendo like a Sabbath anymore.
We're really that's our Sunday now, right?
Which that's a whole nother podcast.

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I just try to take a day of resta week.
That's my goal. But.
And that's good. It's good to have have some
rest. So all right, we are wrapping
up. But Jesus did not break the
Sabbath. Fact.
That is a fact. And if you think so, you should
go read some more. All right, thank you all for

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