"Sabbath Questions"

Q: What does the Bible say about the Sabbath?

The Sabbath is a day of rest instituted by God, meant for His people to cease from their works and remember His completed creation. The Sabbath, as established in Genesis, is symbolic of God's rest after creation, and serves as a reminder for believers to cease from their labors and find rest in Christ. As highlighted in Hebrews 4, we enter into God's rest by believing in the completed work of Jesus. The Pharisees added burdensome traditions to the Sabbath that conflicted with its God-given purpose, which is to be a blessing rather than a burden.

Q: Why is the Sabbath important for Christians?

The Sabbath serves as a day of rest, reflection, and worship, reminding Christians of their need to rely on God's grace instead of their works. For Christians, the Sabbath represents not just a physical day of rest, but a spiritual rest found in the finished work of Christ. It is a time set apart for worship and reflection on God's grace. By ceasing from our works, we acknowledge that salvation is not based on our performance but on what Christ has accomplished on our behalf. This aligns with the teaching from Matthew that it's lawful to do good on the Sabbath, emphasizing mercy and compassion over legalistic constraints.

Q: How do we know Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath?

Jesus claimed authority over the Sabbath, demonstrating this through His actions of healing and teaching which emphasized mercy. Jesus declared Himself as Lord of the Sabbath, highlighting His authority not just over the day but over the deeper meaning of rest and mercy it represents. By healing on the Sabbath, He showcased that acts of compassion are in line with God's intentions for the Sabbath. His interactions with the Pharisees reveal that their rigid interpretations were missing the heart of the law, which is love, mercy, and grace. Therefore, Christ's lordship over the Sabbath signifies that He fulfills its purpose and brings true rest for believers.

Q: What did Jesus teach about doing good on the Sabbath?

Jesus taught that it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath, prioritizing mercy and compassion over strict adherence to tradition. In His teachings, Jesus challenged the Pharisees' restrictive view of the Sabbath, stating that it is lawful to do good on this day. He used the example of rescuing a sheep in danger to illustrate that mercy should prevail over legalistic interpretations. By healing on the Sabbath, He confirmed that helping others aligns perfectly with the essence of the Sabbath, which is to reflect God's compassionate character. Thus, Jesus redefined the Sabbath as a day for showing love and meeting needs rather than merely refraining from work.

Good morning, let's all stand together and sing hymn number 449. 449. To God be the glory, great things He hath done, So loved He the world that He gave us His Son, Who yielded His life and atonement for sin, and open the life gate that all may go in. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.

Let the earth hear His voice. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. ♪ Let the people rejoice ♪ ♪ O come to the Father ♪ ♪ Through Jesus the Son ♪ ♪ And give him the glory ♪ ♪ Great things he hath done ♪ ♪ O perfect redemption ♪ the purchase of blood, to every believer the promise of God, the vilest offender, who truly he leads that moment from Jesus a pardon receives. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Let the earth hear his voice.

Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. ♪ Let the people rejoice ♪ ♪ O come to the Father ♪ ♪ Through Jesus the Son ♪ ♪ And give him the glory ♪ ♪ Great things he hath done ♪ ♪ Great things he hath taught us ♪ ♪ Great things He hath done ♪ ♪ And great are rejoicing ♪ ♪ Through Jesus the Son ♪ ♪ But purer and higher ♪ ♪ And greater will be ♪ ♪ Our wonder, our transport ♪ ♪ When Jesus we see ♪ Praise the Lord, praise the Lord ♪ Let the earth hear his voice ♪ Praise the Lord, praise the Lord ♪ Let the people rejoice ♪ O come to the Father Be seated we'll sing hymn number 186 186 The Church's one foundation is Jesus Christ, our Lord.

She is His new creation by water and the Word. From heaven he came and sought her to be his holy bride. With his own blood he bought her, and for her life he died. ♪ Elect from every nation ♪ Yet one for all the earth ♪ Her charter of salvation ♪ One Lord, one faith, one word ♪ One holy name she blesses ♪ One heart takes one holy food ♪ ♪ And to one hope she presses ♪ ♪ With every grace endued ♪ ♪ Mid toil and tribulation ♪ and tumult of her war. She waits the consummation of peace forevermore.

Till with the vision glorious her longing eyes are blessed and the great church victorious shall be the church at rest. Yet she on earth hath union with God the Three in One. and mystic sweet communion with those whose rest is won. O happy ones and holy, Lord give us grace that we Luke chapter 6, Luke chapter 6, finished up chapter 5. I pray the Lord be pleased to meet with us today. Let me read this first 11 verses.

And it came to pass on the second Sabbath after the first that he went through the cornfields and his disciples plucked 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? And Jesus answering them and said, Have you not read so much as this? What David did with himself was hungered, and they that were with him, how he went into the house of God, did take and eat the showbread, and gave also to them that were with him, which is not lawful to eat, but for the priest alone. And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath. And it came to pass also on another Sabbath that he entered into the synagogue and taught.

And there was a man whose right hand was withered, and the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the Sabbath day, that they might find an accusation against him. But he knew their thoughts and said to the man which had the withered hand, Rise up and stand forth in the midst. And he arose and stood forth. Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing. Is it lawful on the Sabbath days to do good or to do evil, to save life or destroy it? And looking around about upon them all, he said unto the man, stretch forth thine hand. And he did so. And his hand was restored whole as the other. And they were filled with madness and communed with one another what they might do. to Jesus.

Our God, our great, glorious, blessed one, true God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, by whom are all things, everything that exists is because of you. So Lord, we bless your holy name. Come into your presence. We want to worship today. We want to know the truth. We want to know the truth. We want to worship in the spirit.

We want to leave this flesh aside, lay it aside for just a little while. God help us to do that. Lord, my flesh is so weak, so frail. And I know I'm not any different than anyone else. Lord, our flesh hinders us from our worship, hinders us so much from the reading of the scriptures, read us so much from the hearing of the gospel. So, Lord, please, please enable us, for Christ's sake, to enter into worship for just a little while.

And, Lord, bless these dear saints that's gathered out. I ask you to meet with their hearts, meet with their needs, And, Lord, we pray again for our brothers and sisters who are in a bond of affliction. And so we enter into the prayers with them. God, that you would beat their needs, that you would continue to strengthen them and encourage them. And our blessed Savior, once again, we pray for our children, pray for our grandchildren, pray for our great-grandchildren who are growing up so fast.

Lord, please pity them. Lord, pity him as a father pities his children, knowing that they're just dust, and that's what we are, just dust. And Father, you brought us up out of the clay of the earth, and you made a man out of dirt, out of mud and dirt. You took him up, and you made him, and you made him a living soul. And so, Lord, we have living souls with dying bodies.

So feed our souls today. Feed our souls. Feed our hearts. Feed our minds. and bring glory to yourself. Please cause the gospel to run well here today. We ask this in our blessed Savior's name. Amen. Let's all stand together and sing the hymn of the day in the boys.

In the volume of the book tis written, Jesus died for sin. This the will of God the Father, Jesus died for sin. all his own. Though I come to do thy bidding, not my will but thine be done. His will is his sheep be with him and behold his glorious son jesus said my father's will is all those drawn shall come to me.

He will sanctify them fully. He will build his church with them. Jesus quickens all his people. He will come for them again He will never, never leave them Their steps ordered, sure to him Lord, if thou wilt Thou can make me clean The leper said to him Jesus reached his hand and touched him He said I will be Thou clean Sovereign God in his good pleasure, calls his own sheep to himself.

By his will he chose to save him, by his grace his promisher. Peter said, Will this John do since you told your will to me? If I will that he should tarry till I come, what's that to thee? Follow me, that's all you need know. I will only do what's best. This will's not a burden to you, but a place for you to rest. Be seated.

In the subject that I read this morning, the verses I read, the Pharisees always brought up the Sabbath. And the Sabbath to the Jew was from 6 o'clock Friday evening to 6 o'clock Saturday evening. And a lot of so-called Christians call Sunday the Sabbath now. But the scribes and the Pharisees, that's what we're going to deal with today, Sabbath questions.

The scribes and the Pharisees were the greatest enemies of our Lord and his people, greatest enemies they had. They were like dogs, just constantly, constantly barking, nipping at him, nipping at his disciples. And they were, I think they were hounds from hell, that's what I think. and they hated Christ, and religion today, Armenianism, freewillism, anything besides free grace is actually hated by people in this world today.

All you got to do is talk to them about it, and they'll agree with you to a certain part, but then they'll stop. But these Pharisees and Sadducees and all these religious folks, They know how to ask questions. They were good at asking questions, not good at giving answers. Look back over in chapter five in verse 30. You remember the questions they asked over here? But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples saying, why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners? Why do you do that? That's awful. That's absolutely awful. And then look down verse 33.

They ask another question, but they got no answers. And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers? And likewise the disciples of the Pharisees. But yours eat and drink. They had all these questions, but they had no answers. They had no answers. And now there's two Sabbath days. It happens here. and they asked two questions about the Sabbath. They were against Christ, against his disciples, and they used questions to try to trap them, to entice them, to cause them to say something that they could use against them. But look what is said here in verses 1 and 2.

And it came to pass on the seventh Sabbath, after the first, that he went through the cornfields. Now, they call it corn, but it was actually wheat or barley. And they'd go through there, and they'd pick up that stuff, and then they'd rub it between their hands, and the husk would fall off, and they'd eat it. 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 days? Why? And oh, my, against the disciples. They were picking grain, rubbing it in their hands, and eating it. And oh, my, and the thing is, why do ye that which is not lawful? Legalists always want to find fault. They're nitpickers, hypocrites.

And here is the disciples, you know, and the disciples of Jesus, and they're breaking the Sabbath. I want you to look with me at Deuteronomy. 23. Look in Deuteronomy 23. These fellas talking about these people breaking the Sabbath and all these Pharisees and them, the things that God gave them to do was hard enough, but they decided that they wanted to add some things to it. And that's what religion does. Deuteronomy 23 and verse 24. Look what they said here. Now this is what our Lord said. This is what God said.

When you come into a neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat all the grapes you want. Just sit there and eat grapes and eat them and eat them and eat them, but don't you put them, don't take nothing with you and put them in a bucket. Don't put them in a pan. Don't take a nothing with you, don't carry none out there. You eat all you want while you're there, but don't take none away, because that would be stealing. And then when thou comest into the standing corner of thy neighbor, thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand, but thou shalt not move a sickle against thy neighbor's standing corner. Eat all you want, but don't cut any of it down, carry it home with you.

That's what he said. So our Lord told them, you know, here they are, they're finding fault. They could go through that cord and eat all they wanted to according to what the Lord said. And they could eat it all they want to, they just couldn't cut any of it down and carry it to the house with them. They couldn't do that. But oh, why do you that which is not lawful to do?

Hypocrites love trifles. They love little old bitty things to pick at, you know. They're nitpickers, you know, and Bunyan called them muckrakers. You know, they go into muck and rake up all the muck that they can about somebody. You know, find something to fall with, muckrake, muckrake, muckrake. Rake up that old nasty stuff. Rake up that old stinky stuff. Bring everything that you can think about against a believer. And oh, my.

And I tell you, here are these disciples of Jesus and their idea and their mind breaking the law, and he's allowing it. He's permitting it. What in the world's the matter with this man? Well, I'm going to tell you what our Lord said about him. Look in Matthew 23, what our master said about him. You know, that's what's so wonderful about the Bible. If you want an answer to something, you find it in the scriptures. You know, look what he said here in Matthew 23, 23, what our master said here about these people.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! See that exclamation point? Woe unto you, Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe, you pay ten percent of your mint, your anise, and cumin, and have omitted, omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith. These ought you to have done, but don't leave the other undone. Don't leave mercy undone. Don't leave faith undone. Don't leave judgment undone. You blind gods.

Now listen to this, what he said about straining a gnat. Gnats are awful. They're awful. Bunch of gnats get around you, you know, and you're doing this, trying to get them. He said, you strain at that gnat when he gets around you. Strain at him. And then you turn around and swallow a whole camel. They said that's how ridiculous you are in your life and in your law keeping and in your religion. That's how foolish you are. You'll strain it a gnat and you'll take a whole camel and eat that thing. And oh my, that's what he said about them. Strain it a gnat, swallow a camel. And, oh, these fellows, that's what they love. They love trifles. They love trifles. But look how our Lord graciously answers these fellows, answering for His disciples what He says in verse 3 and 4 back over in our text.

And Jesus answering them said, Have you not read? You all are reading all the time, telling us what the law says. Have you not read some other things? All you read is law. All you read is traditions. All you read is commandments. All you read is negative things, telling people what not to do. He said, Have you not read, so much as this, what David did, when himself was hungry, and they which were with him?

And how he went into the tabernacle, into the house of God, And he did take this showbread, there's 12 loaves of bread in there. And it was just strictly for the priest to eat. Take it home, put a new bunch out at the next, right after immediately. And he took that, did take that showbread and also gave to them which were with him. And which is not lawful to eat, but for the priest alone. But now watch this. And he said unto them that the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath. You know, there's an accuser of the brethren, and that's what these fellas did. They wanted to always accuse somebody of something.

And over in Revelations 10.10, it says, we have an accuser of the brethren that stands day and night, day and night, accusing the brethren.

And oh, my. And I tell you, myself, I give him plenty of ammunition because of the infirmity of this old rotten, corrupt flesh. And how much does he justly accuse us? But thank God, thank God we don't have to answer for ourselves. Oh, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. Come on, accuse me. Law, find something to do with me. Tell me I'm doing something unlawful. Christ will say, I died for him. Christ will say, I paid for his sins. I prayed for everything he ever did wrong in his life, every sin he ever committed, I done paid for it. Go ahead and accuse him.

But you'll have to answer to me. And that's what I love about the gospel. We don't have to answer for ourselves. Christ already answered for us. He's the righteous, Jesus Christ, the righteous. I'll tell you, that's why I said, who's he that condemneth? It's God that justified us. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It's Christ that died for them.

My and I'll tell you what And that's what our first thing our Lord said to and have you not read Y'all claimed up you you you've got five books. That's all you got to read We got 39 books, but all the Jews had to read was five They called the penitent five books. I And all they found was law, law, law, law, law, you know, regulations, don't do, don't do, don't do, don't do. And he said, David, you not read.

You remember, you read back there where David was fleeing from Saul. And he got hungry. Him and his men got hungry. He went into the tabernacle, he went in there and took that table of showbread and teared it all outside and sat there and him and his men ate that showbread. And it was strictly for the priest. But he said he ate it. He ate it.

And you know, I'll tell you one thing. Our Lord says, search the scriptures. Search them. Search them. For in them you think you have eternal life. And if you read them right and search them right, they'll tell you about me. They'll tell you about me. And I'll tell you what, there's a greater than David here, you know. He ate the showbread. And, oh, my, behold, a greater than David is here, David's Lord. And now, I'll tell you what, look what our Master said here in verse 5.

He said, Under them the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath. Anybody here know when the Sabbath was created? First day, you know, when the Sabbath was first created? Sabbath actually means rest. That's what it means. It means rest. The first mention of the Sabbath is after God created the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day, he rested. Did he need rest? He rested and he called it the Sabbath and he blessed it. He blessed it.

God did not need to rest for many. He's never needed to rest. He's always controlling everything in this world. There's not a breath you take that God doesn't give it to you. Not a heart that beats that God don't cause it to beat. Not any blood goes through your body that God don't cause it to flow. He can take you out and the old Scott Richman used to say, he can choke you to death on your own spit.

And I'm telling you, he can do things like that. God can do, listen, God does not need to rest. That's the point. But he finished his work. And what he's telling you is the work is done. The work is finished. Stop working. When Adam and Eve was created, the first day they entered into was a day of rest.

Huh? Look over at Hebrews 4. I just remembered this. Look over at Hebrews 4. You know, Sabbath is made for a rest. What a rest we have. Look at Hebrews four. Look what he said. Look what he said in verse three. For we wish have believed to enter in to rest. As he said, Now he told the Jews this, says, I've sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest.

Now listen to this, although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. And he spake again of another day, the seventh day, and God did rest the seventh day from all his works. Now what he says down here, now I want you to go down to verse eight, talking about Joshua now. Joshua, for if Jesus or Joshua had given them rest that he would not afterwards spoke of another day, there remaineth a rest, therefore a Sabbath, that's what it says in the margin, the keeping of the Sabbath for the people of God.

For the he that is entered into his rest hath also ceased from his own works as God did his. Now that's, you can't make it no plainer, that ceased from your works, and rest. You know, that's one of the hardest things for human nature to do. It's to rest in Christ, to rest in what he accomplished, to rest to what he did. That's one of the hardest things for human race, the human nature to do. We always feel like we're not doing enough. I'm not praying enough. I'm not reading enough. I'm not devoted enough. Always something we're not doing enough of. Don't do anything. Rest. Rest. Christ took our guilt, so why feel guilty? Christ took our shame, so why feel shame? Christ took our sin. Why worry about our sin? Christ was punished for us. Why do we worry about God ever thinking about God ever punishing us?

Never happened. It'll never happen. Oh, my. And I tell you what, you know, these people, this is a day of grace for they entered into the rest. God finished the work. Man enters into the rest that God provided. And you know, These fellas made it a burden. You know, but I tell you, God made it a blessing. God said they blessed that day. Men have to eat on the Sabbath. You know, Arthur Pink, I've got everything that man's ever done. I've got every hardback book. I've searched all over the place and I've got every hardback book that Arthur Pink. I like Arthur Pink.

But I'll tell you something about him that was really wrong. He had a lot of He believed in Sunday being the Sabbath. His wife would cook on Saturday so she wouldn't have to do nothing on Sunday. And you know how many people today are the same way? They believe that Sunday is the day that you keep the Sabbath. You ever heard of Seventh-day Adventist? They meet on Saturday. You know why it's called Sunday for us? Because Christ was crucified on Friday, and he rose the first day, and that was on a Sunday morning. And this now is called Sunday. The first, you know, that's the day Christ risen from the dead. We are trusting the Christ who rose again from the dead because he finished the work that he did.

Let's rest in him. You know, I like to think about reposing your soul. We got these recliners. They're just as quick as I get in them. You don't have to pull a lever or nothing. You just push a button. And I lay back. And you know what I'm doing? I'm resting. I'm relaxing. And I tell you what, that's exactly what I'm doing in Christ. But I don't have to push no buttons. I don't have to do a thing. I don't have to get up and turn on the lights or nothing.

Christ is our light. Christ is our Sabbath. Christ is our rest. I love it. I just absolutely love it. But men make the Sabbath of the Sunday to be a burden, not a blessing. The Pharisees did just like Adam did. They destroyed the works, the rest by works, traditions, and ceremonies. And people still do the same thing.

You know, I read a thing on a bulletin board the other day that said, let Jesus be your, what was it? Oh, let Jesus be your, let him be your surety or something like that. Let him do something. But I, Lord, don't let anybody do anything. He does it all. He's already did it. We ain't gonna let him do nothing. You know, Christ now, Christ himself is our Sabbath.

I rest. And a man, when he enters into the rest, he stops working. He stops working. When you get to the end of your day, when you go out and labor all day long, you come home, you take a shower, and you rest. You rest. Back when I used to work public works, I'd come home, I'd eat a bite of supper, lay on the couch and go sound asleep. You know why? Because I was done with my day. That's why men want to retire, so they can quit working, so they can really rest. All right, let me get on with it.

So Christ said, I'm Lord of the Sabbath. I'm Lord of the Sabbath. Now look what he said back over here in verse 6 again. Chapter 6 again, I'm sorry. Look what he says now. And it came to pass also on another Sabbath that he entered into a synagogue and taught. He was teaching there. And there was a man whose right hand was withered. Now watch what happens here.

And the scribes and Pharisees watched him. Watched him. Watched him. whether he would heal on the Sabbath day, and this is why they watched him, that they might find an accusation against him." Huh? Oh, my. He's in the synagogue sitting down there teaching, and a man's in there with a paralyzed hand, shrunken hand, and they watched him. They watched him. And, oh, my, they watched him.

What's he going to do now? Is he going to break the Sabbath? Is he going to go against Moses? Is he going to go against the law? And it says there that they might accuse him. Oh, how malicious can these people be? How much of hatred can they have? How much envy can they have that they would maliciously sit and watch him that they might have a reason to accuse him? To accuse him. Oh, he had the authority to forgive sins. He did eat with publicans and sinners. His disciples didn't fast. And this man's healing can't wait. Can it wait till the Sabbath is over? Just wait. Won't you wait so you won't break the Sabbath? Won't you wait so you won't go against Moses? Won't you wait? And when our Lord asks a question, the answer's in the question. These folks ask questions. with no answers. Our Lord, when He asked the questions, the answers in the question itself. Now watch what He says here in verse 8, But he knew their thoughts.

And he said to the man that which had the withered hand, Rise up and stand forth in the midst. And he arose and stood forth. Now he's in this synagogue. And this synagogue's full of people. Christ is teaching. Get up here. Come up here in front of all these people. Stand in the midst of all these people. Come right up here, stand right here. I want you to stand right here where everybody can see you. I want you to stand here. Then our Lord asked them a question. I will ask you one thing.

Is it lawful on the Sabbath days to do good or to do evil? To save life or to destroy it? Do men not do evil on the Sabbath? These fellas on the Sabbath day here, they had hatred in their heart. They had maliciousness in their heart. What did they think they were doing? You think they were breaking God's law? Love your neighbors yourself. Did they have any idea what they was doing? Huh? Oh, my. He asked them questions. Is it lawful? I'm asking you fellas.

You know what's right and you know what's wrong. You're always sitting in judgment on somebody. You're always telling us what's right to do and what's wrong to do. He said, I'm going to ask you what's right and what's wrong. I'm going to ask you, can you heal somebody on the Sabbath day, kill somebody on the Sabbath day, destroy a life, or save a life? Can you do evil or you do good on the Sabbath day? Which one is it right to do? Oh, my. And I tell you, give me your opinion. That's what our Lord's asking.

Oh my, is it wrong to be evil on other days? There's an old song in one of these books that I said, you know, lie on Sunday, lie on Monday, lie on Tuesday, lie on Wednesday, but don't lie on Sunday. All the things you do all during the week, but don't do it on Sunday. Is it right to do good things On other days? Is it right to save life on other days or to destroy life? Why not today to save life? Why not today to do something good? Why not today to show kindness? Why not today to show love? Why not today to show compassion? Why not today to show mercy? Why not today? Here's a man who stands here. He's got a withered hand. He's only got one hand he can use. He can't use his other hand. He can't use it. And here he is standing here in this condition.

And oh my. Here's an opportunity to express God's love on the Sabbath. Now look, keep Luke 6 here. Go over to Matthew 12. Look what our master said over here about him. About this same situation. Same place. But he deals with it in a different way. And you know, They all, all these men wrote what they seen, what they understood. Look what our master said here in verse 10 of Matthew 12. And behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath days that they might accuse him?

And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the Sabbath day, will he not lay hand on it and lift it out? You'd have mercy. You'd treat a sheep better than you would this man here. If your sheep got loose and got in a ditch and couldn't get itself out, you'd go on the Sabbath day and pick that thing up and get it out of the ditch.

But you want to find fault with me because I want to heal on the Sabbath day? Oh my. Now look what he said in verse 12. How much more then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it's lawful to do well on the Sabbath day. Oh my. And here he goes back over in our text again. Oh my.

Look what he says down here in verse 8. Again, but he knew their thoughts. That, you know, that should humble us. This is our Lord's omniscience. He's God. He reads the thoughts. He has perfect knowledge of man's thoughts. Perfect knowledge of them. You know, if vain thoughts, he knows it. Worldly thoughts, he knows it. Covetous thoughts, he knows it.

Every one thought we ever thought. Self-righteous thoughts. Angry thoughts. And these fellas thought in their hearts. And our Lord reads our thoughts. He knows our thoughts. And oh, what that should humble us. That should humble us. Oh my, thoughts that pass through our mind. Eyes never see what goes through our mind. You never see what goes on in my mind. My thoughts, and I don't see your thoughts, but Christ does. Christ does. Oh my. ears don't hear them. Christ knows them. He said, keep me back from secret faults. God said, I've set your secrets. David said, you set my secret sins before you. Before you.

But now look what happens in verse 5. Excuse me, verse, he told the man there in verse 8, to stand forth, rise up and stand forth in the midst. And he rose up and stood forth. Now look what our master told him to do. Now in verse 10, and looking round about upon them all, he looked around and everybody in that place, he looked around everybody. He looked at them. His eyes went over that crowd, went over all those people. And he said unto the man, stretch forth thy hand, What happened?

He did. He did. He couldn't, but he did. And he did so. And his hand was just like the other. He had all five fingers on both hands. and open his hands. He could use a hand he hadn't been able to use all his life. He could use that hand. Oh, our Lord done his miracles in the open.

No deception, no trickery. Stand forth in the mist. I want everybody to see what's going to happen here. I want everyone to see this right here. And looking on him, there's his enemies who watched him. He says, stretch forth your hand. And he can't, but he did. And I'm going to tell you why he did.

When God gives the commandment to do something, he gives the power to do it. When he told Lazarus to come forth from the dead, dead men come alive. With the commandment comes the power to do it. Lazarus could not get out of that grave by himself, but when Christ told him to get out of it, with that commandment came the ability and the power to live. And with our Lord, told this man, stretch forth your hand, with the commandment came the ability to do what Christ told him to do. If Christ tells you to believe, He's going to give you the faith to believe. Oh, Christ spoke and the man believed Him. His hand was restored.

And oh, look what these Pharisees did now in verse 11. And they were filled with madness. And that madness, you know, they put people that's mad in asylums. Why didn't they put these fellas in asylums? They were filled with madness. They actually lost their minds. That's what that word madness means. They lost their minds. Their minds were so filled with madness.

Oh, my. And they got together and said, now what in the world are we going to do with this man, Jesus? Oh, my. You know, they called them lawbreakers. They were doing evil. This is proof. Now, listen to me. This is proof that sin is in the nature. Sin is in the heart. These men had such much sin in their heart and such hatred in their hearts, they wanted to do something against Christ. That shows you that sin is in here.

But you know how it manifests itself? Out of here and with ease. That's how it manifests itself. And over in Mark chapter 3, the same thing says there, he looked on them with anger. Anger. I wonder how long them Pharisees and Sadducees that hated Christ have been in hell. And they just got started.

Our Father, in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ, thank you for meeting with us today. Thank you for your gospel. Thank you for your blessed truth. Lord, we search the scriptures and we find you in them. We find your power. We find your glory. We find your mercy. We find your grace. We find you righteousness. We find you Godhead. We find you humanity. We find you as you are in all your glory and all your power, all your kindness and all your pity and all your compassion.

Oh, Lord, I'm so grateful, so thankful that I know you and that you know me. You know me, Lord. You know me. You know my thoughts. You know my heart. And oh, Lord, I thank you that you do. And yet you hold nothing against me. You find no fault with me. You find no fault with your people. You find no fault with them. You sanctified them. You made them pure, made them pure in heart. Give them faith. Give us faith to believe you day in and day out. Always believe you, trust you, look to you.

Oh Lord, thank you. Thank you and blessed be your name. In Christ's Lord's name, our Lord, amen. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, there's just something about That name, Master, Savior. Jesus, like the fragrance after the rain. Jesus, Jesus. Jesus, those done and earth proclaim. Kings and kingdoms will all pass away. But there's something about that name. And there really is. Salvation's in it. All power's in it. All God's glory's in it. Everything we need for time and eternity is in Him. See you Wednesday. Lord bless you.

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