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Sermon Audio: He Is Lord Of All
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Luke 6:1-11
Duration: 22:47
Size: 10.4 MB
Luke-The Investigative Gospel
He Is Lord Of All
Luke 6:1-11
Worship is a means of feeding the soul, there are different ways of doing that, just as there are different ways of feeding the body.
In the text today we see a great confrontation between Jesus with his radical views of worship and the Pharisees and Scribes.
The Sabbath speaks of rest after work and relates to the law, while the Lord’s Day speaks of rest before work and relates to grace.
The Pharisees and scribes turned the Sabbath into a burden instead of the blessing that God intended it to be.
1. Not breaking the law is not the same as being a good moral person.
The fact is that there are many crimes that are not sins and there are many sins that are not crimes.
2. Not doing good is worse than not doing bad.
They knew that Jesus had a compassionate heart and they wanted to goad Him into performing a healing on the Sabbath.
God did not give His laws in order to deprive men of their pleasure but to keep them from harm.
Surely now they would be moved to believe, not so for Luke closes allowing us a glimpse of into the soul of the Pharisees.
The Sabbath was made for us; it is a day we can use to enjoy God and the blessings he has given us.