Now, this story was recorded three times in the gospel. I wrote down facts, and I wrote this message of truth,
established by three gospel people. Let's look at it again. Look at verse five. The purpose
of these writings, verse five, Christ says at the end that the
Son of Man is Lord also of the Son. That's what he is teaching
us here, that Christ is Lord over all, Lord of them all. And it's much to see here. All
right, look at it. Verses 1 and 2. He came and passed
on the second Saturday after the first. And he went through
the cornfields, and his disciples plucked the ears of corn and
did eat, rubbing them in their hands. And certain of the Pharisees
said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on
the Sabbath day? Now, was this a Sabbath day or
days? Sabbath day or days? Paul said that there are some
who desire to be teachers of the law. Some desire to be teachers
of the law. Some desire to be under the law.
Remember that? The two passengers that Paul
wrote about, he said, telling you to desire to be under the
law. Don't you hear it? No, they don't. They didn't write about any one
desire to be under the law. They don't hear it. They don't.
And though there are those, as he says, that tend to desire
to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they're saying nor
whereof they are. In other words, they don't know
what they're talking about. That's what Paul said. Those,
there are many who desire to be hundreds, they don't realize
what they're wanting to be hundreds. And that there are some who desire
to teach it. But there isn't enough. They
don't have the strength and the energy to do what they want to do. Paul did.
Now, Paul was a lawmaker. But, see, the Sabbath. Now, listen. According to God's law, the Sabbath
was not just limited to that day. A day of the week. There was a day of the week,
certainly, but the Lord instituted several Sabbaths, plural, which involved many days
running, or many Sabbaths that the people were strictly observed. Not just one day. If we observe
one day, if anyone attempts to observe one day, They better
observe all those seconds, right? James says, to offend in one
point is to kill the other. And the
other needs the desire to know that all comes to the ear in
one point. One point, where the other Now, listen, turn over to Galatians
chapter four, and I hope you'll, I hope the Lord will give you
an undivided attention to this. You'll get a lesson out of this,
but there's some instructions you have to do. And turn to the book, and turn
to the Sabbath. Galatians chapter four, I asked,
was the Sabbath a day or days of both? And if we look at Galatians
4, beginning with verse 4, it says, When the fullness of time
has come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under
the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might
receive the adoption of sons. All right, read on down to verse
9, Now after you've known God, or rather are known God, How
turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements? Turn back
to the weak and beggarly elements, or rudiments. Where unto you
desire identity and bondage? Now look at this. You observe
days, and months, and times, and years. I'm afraid of that.
Afraid of that. See, there's days. You observe
days. Christ spoke of the Sabbath several times. Several times
He spoke of the Sabbath. I don't recall if I said that. I should have. But He spoke of the Sabbath several
times, and every time it was in answer to the Pharisees. And
every time it was in derision of them. Every time Sabbath was brought
up by him, when he was in the religion of the Pharisees, he
prided himself in keeping it. And back in, now listen, when
the Lord gave this, the Sabbath day, uh, well that's in, in the
beginning, but next to this chapter 20, where the Ten Commandments
are found, verse 11, verse 11 reads this at the end of the,
when he's talking about the Sabbath day, it says the Lord blessed
the Sabbath day and hour. What Lord? It was the same Lord. Same yesterday,
today, forever. Same Lord who blessed it. That's
the Lord Jesus Christ today. Christ says He blessed it. He
made it today. He cleared the desert. All right? He blessed the Sabbath day. He
hallowed it. All right? The Lord Jesus Christ. All right? And when the Lord came here,
did he do away with or destroy the law? Did he do away with
it? No. He didn't. He said, I am
going to destroy the law. He said, but who came here? And
when he was talking to John, he said that it behooves us to
fulfill all righteousness. Perfect. You know, John, me and all, we're going
to do it together. It behooves us, but we can't
do it again. So Christ was magnified, made
under the law, and redeemed under the rule of the law, from the
curse. Alright? Christ came and fulfilled
the law every jot and till. Every law we all know. Alright? And delivered us from its curse. Like I said, those, as I've always
said, those who desire to be under the law don't hear it. It's a curse. All of you, listen
to my voice. You say, I'm under the law. You say, I was alive without
the law. Well, I was. I was even when the commandment
of Kennedy said the law was scary. What curse? The Christ delivered
from the curse of law a curse. In Galatians 3.10, It's this
person is everyone that is continuous, not in all things written in
the law to do this. All things, A-W-L, all things,
person is everyone, a continuous thought, and all things which
are written in the book of the law of good, all things, every,
just and typical, person, person, person, that's all the law does
today, person, person, person, Christ and the book of the system. I'll quote it to you. It's a
curse, it's a curse, it's a curse. And the law is spiritual, it
requires perfection. Now you start with first of all,
guilty. I shall not say the name of the Lord thy God in that any
other ever spoken God's name. Amen. I'm not talking about cursing
with it, I'm talking about abusing it, ever abusing the name, ever
even speaking the name that it wasn't in absolute worship and
reverence and respect. Guilty. We had to get one law, from the
first to the last, and I tell you the deal, he who is the first
and the last, he who is the author and the inventor. the author of the law. Yes, Your Honor. That's me. That's me. Yes, you are, Mary.
And what's the matter? He says to us, that's what we're
to do. Everyone, Mary, sit back. In
the Sermon on the Mount, listen to me. In the Sermon on the Mount,
in dealing with the law, you remember how the Christ dealt
with the law? He dealt with adultery, he dealt with murder, he dealt
with anything. He never mentioned Satan. Why? He is the Satan. He never lives in the Satan. He makes him rise. And his apostles, listen now,
listen. His apostles. After the Lord left him, you
know how the Lord, he instructed his apostles to do it. The apostles
said everything that Christ told them to say. Right? They didn't
teach or go around and prove anything other than what Christ
taught them. Is that about it? They built
upon that foundation of what Christ said. It's founded upon. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Christ
taught them fully and sent his Holy Spirit to teach them even
further in the truth and lead them, God, other than the truth.
All right? They wrote a letter one time
to the Gentiles. Now, this is us. We're Gentiles here. They
wrote a letter one time to the Gentiles. You see, it was the
Jews that said that if we've got a certain type, we'll be
Gentiles. They've got to eat a lot. I guarantee you, the Sabbath
ate a lot. and Paul, and Barnabas, and ended
with Insomniac. But they said, no, no, no. Peter,
remember Peter said, stood up and said, hey, God saved them
without the law. He's already saved them. We wouldn't
preach to them without the law. They said, you can't save them
without the law. Peter said, and I tell
you what, we're only saved just like that, by grace. You remember
that? This is Acts 16. Well, finally,
they all got together on this and said, we must write a letter
to the Gentile church. We'll write a letter, and in
that letter, we'll tell them what the steps are. Alright,
this is what they say in the letter. This is it! They wrote
letters to the Gentile church and said, now you have to stay
in them. Don't! Don't be carried away with idols. Keep away from idols, and God
bless you. That's it. And it says, people
who read that, the Gentiles who read that, they were filled with
joy. You mean, you don't have to do this? No, just stay away
from that. Just watch out for that. You've
got to be prepared for that. Hey, free from the awful practice
of the Gentiles. Oh, he was already under Philadelphia. When I began studying this, I
thought it was many, many people were in bombings right now. It
was a yokel of bombings. I mean, we invaded the elements.
We don't know the truth. We don't know the truth, you
see. Oh, we went under absolutely
underscored bombings. You hadn't been in any of them. And then the Americans had the
bombings. Not loud, but... Couldn't help but be sad for the people,
so many people. This is the thing, Christ rose
in the 12th. Christ laid in the grave on Saturday. That's how it's all we need to
know. Well, do you know why he laid
in the grave on Saturday? Well, as he is, so are we. He was us, wasn't he? Wasn't
he our representative? Well, we're dead. We're not. And we were both on the first
day of the week, and so did we. To serve, Paul said, in newness.
What does that mean? I don't know what that means,
but Paul said, in newness. And then Christ rose on the first
day of the week, and his disciples began to meet on that day. From
then on, they began to meet on the first day of the week. From then on, they showed that
we're new creatures in Christ Jesus. Not us, but all of us.
And that is satisfying. He laid in the grave on the Sabbath,
rose on the first day of the week. And one of the old guys,
the leader of the black community, said, now this is the way believers
do it. They rest first. And then they work. They don't work, work,
work, work, work, they never rest. How come they rest in five
days? That's good. Alright, so now
Sundays aren't Saturdays. No rain. No sun. Christ. Now, today, this is a
separation, is it not? Christ and our Savior, today,
just as He was yesterday, and will be forever. Amen. Scripture says, He that has entered
into His place And Luke 4 says, "...he that is entered into his
breast, he also that sits from God's Word hath got a different
view." Now, let's lay it over here in a minute. Don't let anybody
bring you down to that level, Paul. And I know somebody here
is just thinking, why would you turn again if we can figure it
out? Christ is searching for the truth. Now, look here in 2 Thessalonians.
It says that he and his disciples went through the foreign field. Whose foreign field? His own
son. Was he? Well, the son of man
should have been anywhere next to him. All right? And the disciples,
they didn't go far. Who appreciates this? Whose foreign
field was it? Did he ever leave? No. It's the son of a nasty lord
over cornfields too. One time there was a, he needed
a pony to, a coat to ride on. He said, go tell that fella,
I need that coat. Yeah, he's nasty. The lord's
a nasty. Cattle on a thousand hills, or hills, let me tell
you what, the hill on which the cattle are on. Fields. He said, here's a cornfield,
let's take a seat. Nobody confronted him. Hey, you
can't do that. I won't let you. You better let
the Lord do the talking. What's he doing with the soccer
boys and girls? He's his. Huh? Well, they went
to this cornfield, he and his disciples, and it says that they
plucked years of corn and rubbed them in their hands. And I, I'm
not sure this identity is so dead, but he got the husk off
of one of them. I'm sure he's done that before
when everybody shoved corn into his hands. He got the husk off
of him. But I thought about how when you get something good to
eat from a scripture, you can take it. Good to eat. When the Lord provides you something
to eat, you just rub your hands together with delight. All right,
we're going to verse 2. It says that a certain pharisee,
why don't you do that with me, and I'll walk a little faster.
No, it's a pharisee. And they said it to his disciples
and to him. And most of the disciples, many
of them, they were afraid of him. And why did they do it?
Because the Lord said so. And they did whatever the Lord
said they did. See, Moses, the law came by Moses.
Praise the Lord. Hey, you can be under the law,
you can follow Moses if you want. I tell you what, everybody did,
they didn't go any further. And they're out. And nobody followed
Moses except Joshua and Peter, which is fine. Joshua was brought
in. The same name as Jesus. He brought in everybody. Now, I haven't heard, what? Followed Moses first, and followed
Moses very often. He didn't boast in any way. This
thing, Moses didn't make it. My Lord made it for me. Well, look
at verses 3 and 4, I've got them together. Jesus answered and
then said, I thought the lady there was
a Pharisee. Haven't you come here yet? Haven't you read this
much? That's what he's saying, isn't
he? Haven't you read this much? This is why I say it all down
there, they were filled with madness. I mean, they're all
the things, and every night they were coming out and crying in their grave. That is not a
prison. They prided themselves on how
it was described as a prison. But he questioned him. In another
place he said, you do not know your church. You don't know the
power of God. You don't know the church. He
said, God is your father. Where is he living now? He's living over there. Oh, he made him mad, didn't he?
The fact that he made him do that. I'm going to be worried
if every Pharisee's got that in hand. Every Pharisee gets
mad. Every sinner gets mad. I said again, Paul, the next
time the call arises, we need none argue with it. And oh, how
the Lord exposed the ignorance of these Bible scholars. Bible
scholars. He said, haven't you not read
so much as is what David did? Haven't you read what David did? Now, I want you to turn back
to this story, alright? 1 Samuel chapter 21 is this story. Less than a story, which speaks
of Christ. He said, haven't you not read
what David did? Now, if anybody knows Christ,
they'll know something about David. Oh yeah. And whenever they read
David, they'll see Christ. Oh yeah. If anybody reads the
scriptures and knows the scriptures, knows the author of the scriptures,
they'll see, they'll see Christ. They'll see, they'll see what
David did. And they'll see what David did
as representing what Christ did. Oh yeah. Those that don't see
it, go ahead and never read it. I'm less sorry than I am. I'll tell you many topics that
I've been looking at. Don't take these off the test,
don't talk to people that's not on there, and you're going to
notice it's a big story. First thing you're going to want
to look at, first one, any day of the day you're going to nod.
A nod means proof, a place where produce fruit that makes sure
of all the things. David came to Nile where a place
where there was fruit and says that he came to an Imalek, a
priest, and Imalek was afraid of the meeting of day. He feared.
He came and said unto him, Why art thou alone? And no man looked
at him. Why art thou alone? Now, he was
alone in the answer. when he went into the bathroom,
he was alone. But he wasn't alone, he was on
the outside. His, his, his, uh, his fellows, they were on the
outside. But what he was doing on the
inside was for them on the outside. You see, the fifth period, Christ
came to power. He came to bear fruit. To the
glory of the Father, he came alone. He came alone. When he went into the Father,
he went in by himself, the way I'm speaking. When He went into
the Father, He was made man for us, bread for us. Nobody could
eat it. Now, who did it for us? Is it
for the heart or the tooth? They had said unto Him who left
the fruit, the king hath commanded me of business. The same king had commanded me.
Why here did the king send me on business? And said unto me,
look at this, let no man know anything of the business whereof
I ascended. And what I commended you, let
nobody know. And I appointed my servants unto
such and such a life. In other words, nobody should
know the innocence of you and whomever you have created. You hear that? So Christ came
on business. Father sent him on business.
And he came here to do something that nobody knows what he came
to do except to be with me. Yes, sir. All right, first of
all. And it says, now therefore, here's what they can say. It
says to them, first, what is unto thy hand? What do you have
here? He said, give me. He didn't ask
you. He didn't so ask anybody. Right? Give me five loaves of bread. Just ask me. Five loaves. I don't
want to feed these disciples of mine out here. I need five
loaves of perfect bread. All right? In my name. Give them
to me on every prayer. given to them, merciful, and
appreciates your danger. He said, well, there's no common
way, in my opinion. There doesn't have to be a way
here. But if the young men have kept themselves at least from
women, if they're purified, and David said, they're here. They're with me. They came with
me. They're here. No common way. So David gives
me an answer. Take a break. King is mockingly
crude. King is mockingly crude. Who
are these? Who are these? There's an inscription
of them here in chapter 22, it goes across the page. Chapter
22, verse 2, it says, everyone that was in the streets, everyone
that was in debt, everyone who was disintended, He added to
the sermons that if it is needed, the King would answer. That describes the King's purpose. Distress and death, this is the
end of it. The end of it. The devil, the caravan, the children,
the cycle, the brawl of man and the devil, and the two of them. The season of the brawl. They fall. They fall and they
lose. How many other warriors do you
reckon are on the outside? Ten or so. I guarantee this year,
there will be twelve. Guaranteed that. Just a guarantee. How do you know that? Alright,
now we'll go back to Matthew 12. This same story is reported,
well, what's reported in most of the statements is reported
in Matthew 12 and Mark 3. Matthew 12 goes a little more
in depth in Luke 6. I want you to look at it. So here comes, here comes the
king. The king of kings. King of kings. Lord of lords. King of kings
is coming. And it says in Luke verse 3. It's got it in Matthew
12 verse 3. He sent up to these Pharisees, have you not read
what David did? Have you not read what the son
of David did? Oh, he did. Yes, I have. He's done it all, hasn't he? He's paid it off. He did it all.
And David were with him. It says when he was hungry and
David were with him, what he did with them that were with
him. Have you not read? What he did. Have you read it? Well, read on. How he entered
into the house of God. And did he, the shelled bread,
he enter into the house of God? And did he, the shelled bread,
which is not lawful for him to eat, had he not written, had
Christ entered into the house of God, and became so shelled
bread, and became sin for us? We do not know sin. Had he not
became God, had he not written? We don't know. And it says that
it was not all for them to eat, but only for the priest. Only
for the priest. Only the priest could eat this
bread. Well, Christ you see is the Christ. And Revelation 1
verse 6 says this. He made us into praise. Christ is truly verse five. Have
ye not read the law, having on the Sabbath days, days, the priests
in the temple proclaim the Sabbath, and are blameless? Have ye not read that the priests
are blameless? That all things are lawful, the
priests Have you not heard that? Have you not heard the law? That
which for Christ to see on the Sabbath. Christ is the Sabbath. Christ the lawgiver, the law
fulfiller, Christ our King, tabernacled among us, made us kings and priests,
delivered us from the curse of the law, made all things lawful
for us. And all things are not exceeding
us, but all things are lawful. I'll say that over and out loud
from the bottom of my heart. And it presents us, you might
say, all of us, for the first time. In this place, Oh, I knew this place. Standing
right there, talking to those Pharisees, was the temple of
God. You remember how he talked about
it too? He said, destroy this temple in three days, I'll raise
it up. Ha, ha, ha, ha. And they didn't
know what he was talking, they wasn't going to be contented.
Contented. The more he said something like
that, they were contented. Not only is he the temple, but
we are the temple of God. No. And a day that was a mass
of God's people, never mind if they're born silent, but a people
of God, a mass, in the name of the Son of Man. You know what I mean? Now, can they
re-raise the person? No. That word I gave you last
year. You know how strict the Sabbath
was, and I guarantee you that most who think they're in church
don't realize it. The story over there exists where
a man picked up sticks on the Sabbath day. I mean, he did it. He just picked up some sticks
and Moses, God said, killed him. They stoned him to death. He didn't have six. Tell me who's in the dark now.
We all want to hear it. Huh? It's Curtis. Curtis. Aren't you glad? The Lord is
our Saviour. Huh? We all get stoned all the
time now. If not, we're stoned later. Christ
is greater than the law. He wrote it. He wrote it. He's greater than
the Sabbath. He is it. Greater than the temple. The whole book of Hebrews is
about how much greater than that. He's greater than the high priest.
He is a high priest, he's a sacrifice, he's a show of grace, he's all
in all. And verse 7, look at that, here our Lord really sums
it up a little bit. If you had known, if you had
known what this meant, and quoting Hosea 6 verse 6 here, if you
had known what this meant, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. Oh, I know
what that means, and it blesses my soul. Huh? If you're the chief
of sinners, you know what this means. God says, I will have
mercy. And it is the verse I'm talking
about. And the mercy of God is in my eyes. There's no mercy
outside. No mercy in the law. You stop
them from breaking one law and picking up one. I'm so glad you came to redeem
me from the curse, huh? He said, I'll have mercy and
not sacrifice. He said, if you'd known that,
you would not have condemned the guiltless. Now, they all wrote the sacrifice,
huh? Well, who says that? The Lord did. Here comes this
woman. They brought this woman in guilty
of adultery, the Lord said. Yes, sir. What? We called her
a red-handed. God sees me red-handed. God sees me red-handed. I say
she goes first. But she broke the law. I say, who is he to condemn her? It's God that justifies. Who
should lay anything in charge of who that God is electing?
Christ is our Savior. It's all somebody else's doing. A son of man, he would not condemn
the guilt, but let me tell you something. If a person knows
Christ, They know His business. If they
know why He came, what His business will become. If they know Christ,
listen to this, I'm with, I'm from, it's this. If a person
knows Christ, and they know the gospel, which is Christ, they
know the truth, they'll be set free from the laws, and they
won't condemn forgiveness. The only person that will condemn
is himself. All right? And we'll do this,
just look at there, let's say, oh, maybe she's a man or not. He's not. He's the Son of Man,
Lord of the Saints. He wrote the Bible. And whatever
He says, that's what we do. And whatever He did, that's what
we do. And that's the government. Thank God He redeemed us from
that curse. All right, stand with me. Our Heavenly Father, we thank
You for sending Your Son. Made a woman, made under the
law, to redeem us from the curse. Curse, curse, curse, curse, curse,
curse, curse. All the laws of the curse. Lord,
thank you for revealing him to us and in us, and him being revealed
for us. Here, Lord, if it please Thee,
use this not only in our midst, but maybe at some point in time,
in some form, somewhere, that may hear it, either by a tape
or word of mouth, use it and set them free from the law. Oh, what a happy condition. Lord, use it. Call
your sheep. The sun shall set us free. We breathe
again. We are no longer under tithers,
but schoolmasters, but we're under grace of the sun. Thank you, Lord, for revealing
this to us. We don't deserve it, but we thank
you. Now, let us not forgive these
things, but rather rejoice in them. In Christ's name, we let
together. Amen.