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Read OnlineJesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath.” Matthew 12:1–2When Moses gave the Ten Commandments to the people, there was a prohibition against working on the Sabbath. The Third Commandment said, in part, that “you shall not do any work” on the Sabbath (Exodus 20:10). By the time of Jesus, the Pharisees had added much commentary to this law and expanded it to include as many as 39 different forms of work that they believed was forbidden. Included in their list were the practices of harvesting and milling of grain. For that reason, when the Pharisees saw that the disciples were picking heads of grain and rubbing the grain off the husks so that they could eat it, the Pharisees condemned them for violating what they interpreted to be an offense against the Third Commandment.The first thing we can note from this passage is that the disciples were hungry. They were exceptionally devoted to Jesus and had been traveling with Him from town to town so that He could preach the Gospel. They had given up occupation, home, family and income so as to be singly devoted to Jesus and His mission. And as a result of this, they were living in poverty and relying upon the generosity of others. It is in this context that they chose to eat the most humble of foods: grain that they picked as they walked. They didn't complain that there wasn't a hot meal waiting for them at their destination. They were accepting of the many long journeys by foot that they made. They were okay with the fact that they did not get to sleep in their own bed every night. But they did have the basic human need for food, so they picked this grain as they walked to fulfill this basic need of hunger.Though there are many lessons we can learn from this passage, one clear lesson is that of the temptation to judge and condemn others. When we fall into the trap of judging others, there are a few things that are common. First, judging and condemning often is based on perceived wrongs that are inflated and exaggerated. The Pharisees clearly inflated and exaggerated this “sin” of the disciples. In our lives, judgmentalness almost always makes the perceived sin of another far more serious than it is, if it is sin at all.Another common temptation that flows from a judgmental and condemning heart is the failure to even understand the condemned party. In this case above, the Pharisees did not even inquire into the reason the disciples were picking and eating grain. They didn't ask if they had been without food for some time or how long they had been traveling. It didn't matter to them that they were hungry, and most likely, very hungry. So also with us, it is common that when we judge and condemn another, we arrive at our verdict without even seeking to understand the situation.Lastly, it needs to be said that judging others is not our right. Doing so is usually reckless and caused by our own self-centeredness. God did not give the Pharisees the authority to expand the Third Commandment into 39 forbidden practices, nor did He give them the authority to apply those interpretations to the perceived actions of the disciples. And God does not give us the authority to judge others either. If another is clearly caught in a cycle of objectively grave sin, we must do all we can to help draw them out of that sin. But even in that case, we have no right to judge or condemn. Reflect, today, upon any tendency you have toward being judgmental and condemning of others. If you see this tendency within yourself, spend time thinking about the Pharisees. Their self-righteousness was ugly and damaging. The negative example they set should inspire us to turn away from such acts of condemnation and to reject those temptations the moment they come. My divine Judge of All, You and You alone know the heart, and You and You alone are capable of acting as Judge. Please exercise Your authority in my life so that I can perceive my own sin. As You do, please also free me from the tendency to judge and condemn. Fill me, instead, with a heart full of mercy and truth toward all. Jesus, I trust in You.Source of content: catholic-daily-reflections.comCopyright © 2024 My Catholic Life! Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission via RSS feed.Featured image above: Christ defends the plucking of the ears of grain on the Sabbath By Marten van Valckenborch, via Wikimedia Commons
We have spent eleven weeks learning about vocation, calling, and career. Now we study God's gift of Sabbath rest. This sermon was preached at Hope Fellowship on June 2, 2024 by Kyle Truman. If you are in the neighborhood we would love to have you gather with us on Sundays at 76 Lewis Mill Rd. in Gatesville at 10 a.m. Please let us know if there is anything we can do for you. Connect with us at: hopegatesville.com hopegatesville@gmail.com Online Giving YouTube Facebook Also, please consider signing the petition to abolish abortion in NC: www.abolishabortionnc.com
Sabbath cannot save you, but Sabbath is a precious gift from God that rejuvenates and restores us and draws us into a deeper relationship with Him.
Join us as we take a one week break from the Sermon on the Mount Series to explore the Sabbath.
We would like to offer you a welcome to the whole Word. More and more people are realizing the WHOLE Bible is true and applicable to all in the faith today. If this describes you, then you may have a lot of questions. In this 2-part video we will be taking a brief look at a lot of topics. Here is what we will be covering in part 1: What instructions from our Creator should I be following that I am not currently? The Sabbath (Exodus 20:8) Dietary Instructions (Leviticus 11) Circumcision Tzitzits (Tzitziyot/Tassels - Numbers 15:38-41) Mixing Thread (Deuteronomy 22:11) Christmas and Easter (Deuteronomy 12:32) The Appointed Times (The Mo'edim - Leviticus 23) Teaching Torah (Deuteronomy 6:6-7) Tradition vs. Actual Commandments Laws of Niddah (Women's Menstrual Time - Lev. 15:19-24)
Series: The Ten Commandments
I Am the Sabbath - Exodus 16:22-36 Jesus Christ is the True Sabbath and He commands us to rest in Him every Sabbath Day
Tom Watts Series: Gods Top 10 Exodus 20:8-11; Mark 10:17-22 St John's Downshire Hill - 24th September 2023, 10:30am
More on the Sabbath Exodus 31:12-18 God is adamant about the Sabbath Severity of punishment for profaning Exodus 31:14 Punishment: death and…
After the instructions for the Tabernacle and its articles have been given, God enables two men to oversee its construction. The Sabbath is also given.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/lets-talk-scripture/donations
Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath.” Matthew 12:1–2When Moses gave the Ten Commandments to the people, there was a prohibition against working on the Sabbath. The Third Commandment said, in part, that “you shall not do any work” on the Sabbath (Exodus 20:10). By the time of Jesus, the Pharisees had added much commentary to this law and expanded it to include as many as 39 different forms of work that they believed was forbidden. Included in their list were the practices of harvesting and milling of grain. For that reason, when the Pharisees saw that the disciples were picking heads of grain and rubbing the grain off the husks so that they could eat it, the Pharisees condemned them for violating what they interpreted to be an offense against the Third Commandment.The first thing we can note from this passage is that the disciples were hungry. They were exceptionally devoted to Jesus and had been traveling with Him from town to town so that He could preach the Gospel. They had given up occupation, home, family and income so as to be singly devoted to Jesus and His mission. And as a result of this, they were living in poverty and relying upon the generosity of others. It is in this context that they chose to eat the most humble of foods: grain that they picked as they walked. They didn't complain that there wasn't a hot meal waiting for them at their destination. They were accepting of the many long journeys by foot that they made. They were okay with the fact that they did not get to sleep in their own bed every night. But they did have the basic human need for food, so they picked this grain as they walked to fulfill this basic need of hunger.Though there are many lessons we can learn from this passage, one clear lesson is that of the temptation to judge and condemn others. When we fall into the trap of judging others, there are a few things that are common. First, judging and condemning often is based on perceived wrongs that are inflated and exaggerated. The Pharisees clearly inflated and exaggerated this “sin” of the disciples. In our lives, judgmentalness almost always makes the perceived sin of another far more serious than it is, if it is sin at all.Another common temptation that flows from a judgmental and condemning heart is the failure to even understand the condemned party. In this case above, the Pharisees did not even inquire into the reason the disciples were picking and eating grain. They didn't ask if they had been without food for some time or how long they had been traveling. It didn't matter to them that they were hungry, and most likely, very hungry. So also with us, it is common that when we judge and condemn another, we arrive at our verdict without even seeking to understand the situation.Lastly, it needs to be said that judging others is not our right. Doing so is usually reckless and caused by our own self-centeredness. God did not give the Pharisees the authority to expand the Third Commandment into 39 forbidden practices, nor did He give them the authority to apply those interpretations to the perceived actions of the disciples. And God does not give us the authority to judge others either. If another is clearly caught in a cycle of objectively grave sin, we must do all we can to help draw them out of that sin. But even in that case, we have no right to judge or condemn. Reflect, today, upon any tendency you have toward being judgmental and condemning of others. If you see this tendency within yourself, spend time thinking about the Pharisees. Their self-righteousness was ugly and damaging. The negative example they set should inspire us to turn away from such acts of condemnation and to reject those temptations the moment they come. My divine Judge of All, You and You alone know the heart, and You and You alone are capable of acting as Judge. Please exercise Your authority in my life so that I can perceive my own sin. As You do, please also free me from the tendency to judge and condemn. Fill me, instead, with a heart full of mercy and truth toward all. Jesus, I trust in You.Source of content: catholic-daily-reflections.comCopyright © 2023 My Catholic Life! Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission via RSS feed.
Sabbath - Exodus 20:8-11 July 2, 2023
The Fourth Commandment is the most debated and misunderstood in our day. What are we to do with it and what is it all about? We will examine the Sabbath day from Exodus to Genesis to the New Testament to our lives today. Though the stringent details are no longer applied to us, the overarching principles should affect the way we live.
Join us this week as we pause our series in Acts, to look at the gift of pausing itself, the sabbath. We look at what the Bible teaches about honoring the sabbath and look at how we may set apart a holy day of rest to protect us in a culture of business and distraction.
Sermon By: Pastor Roman Folia (Sermon Series: The Ten Commandments)
This week we talk Dungeons and Dragons, Fundraising Banquets, Tuning pastors out, and of course, Exodus 23:12-18. Our main topic is Sabbath; a sacred practice for rest, worship, and witness.
Practical teaching on the Fourth Commandment to -Remember the Sabbath- Exodus 20-8
I Samuel 16:7 The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. Proverbs 19:2 Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way. Blind desires will cause you to miss GOD'S WAY. Proverbs 21:5 The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty surely comes to poverty. A BUSY HEART: Creates STRESS Cancels JOY Crushes PRODUCTIVITY Corrodes CONNECTION I Corinthians 10:23-24 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive. No one should seek their own good, but the good of others. Don't increase your PACE because of another person's SPEED. God didn't create you to live BUSY. When My Heart Is Busy: 1. SIMPLIFY “Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us walk in the Spirit.”—A.W. Tozer Philippians 4:11 I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. Practical Step: Learn to say NO God didn't call us to say yes to everything and EVERYONE. He called us to say yes to HIM. 2. SLOW DOWN Ecclesiastes 3:1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: Ecclesiastes 4:6 Better one handful with tranquillity than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind. Practical Step: Select a SABBATH Exodus 20:11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. God's commandments aren't to PUNISH us, but to PROTECT us. 3. SEEK GOD Practical Step: Prioritize time with God DAILY. Time with God is never time WASTED. Proverbs 19:2 Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way. Titus 2:11-12 For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coastalchurch/message
Join us today as Pastor John begins our new series on the Sabbath. There are three foundations that we need to look at as we begin this process. 1) We need to set the sabbath apart as Holy. 2) We need to STOP. 3) We need to abide with God.Come and listen!
“Here are some of the bad things that Christians have done over the past twenty centuries: – killing witches – killing apostates – killing Muslims and Jews – imprisoning and killing scientists – killing native populations and stealing their land – promoting slavery – harassing and killing LGBTQ – practicing misogyny – abandoning family members who disbelieve – harassing and killing abortion providers – sexually abusing children – child marriages – extorting money from the poor who can't afford it – extreme corporal punishment – promoting a prosperity gospel – promoting firearms – fighting against other Christian denominations – discriminating against foreigners and immigrants – damaging democratic norms – fighting against scientific discoveries – promoting white supremacy.” “The Bible commands us to: Kill adulterers (Leviticus 20:10) Kill all witches (Exodus 22:18) Kill blasphemers (Leviticus 24:14) Kill false prophets (Zechariah 13:3) Kill fortune tellers (Leviticus 20:27) Kill anyone who sins (Ezekiel 18:4) Kill the curious (1 Samuel 16:18-19) Kill gays (Leviticus 20:13, Romans 1:21-32) Kill all non-Hebrews (Deuteronomy 20:16-17) Kill sons of sinners (Isaiah 14:21) Kill non-believers (2 Chronicles 15:12-13) Kill anyone who curses God (Leviticus 24:16) Kill any child who hits his parent (Exodus 21:15) Kill children who disobey parents (Deuteronomy 21:20) Kill those who work on the Sabbath (Exodus 31:15) Kill disobedient children (Exodus 21:17, Matthew 7:10).” Kill strangers close to a church (Numbers 1:48-51) Kill all males after winning battles (Deuteronomy 20:13) Kill those who curse father or mother (Leviticus 20:9) Kill men who have sex with other men (Leviticus 20:13) Kill any bride discovered not a virgin (Deuteronomy 22:21) Kill those who worship the wrong god (Numbers 25:1-9) Kill anyone who does not observe the Sabbath (Exodus 31:14) Kill everyone in a town that worships the wrong god (Deuteronomy 16:13-16) and: Kill anyone who kills anyone (Leviticus 24:17)." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/support
Exodus 16:22–30 (KJV 1900)22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. 23 And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning. 24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein. 25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the Lord: to day ye shall not find it in the field. 26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none. 27 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none. 28 And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws? 29 See, for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
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December 18, 2022 AM, Genesis 17:1-27.At least three of the Biblical covenants have “signs” associated with them. These signs serve as reminders of God's faithfulness and covenant requirements on His people. The Covenant with Noah has the sign of the rainbow (Gen. 9:16-17). The Covenant with Abraham has as a sign male circumcision (Gen. 17:11, Rom. 4:11). We will see this as we study Genesis 17. The Covenant with Moses is signified by the Sabbath (Exodus 31:13, Ezek. 20:12, 20). Of these three signs, the rainbow is still operational and relevant; male circumcision is not required; Sabbath observation is not required either. Jewish people are free to maintain the latter two signs if they wish. But neither Jews nor Gentiles are under the Law of Moses today, because it has been fulfilled in Christ and replaced by the Law of Christ. Stop and think if there are any similar “signs” that we have in the church era of God's program. What does all this mean for us? Obviously, we can anticipate that God keeps His promises. Remember that the Abrahamic Covenant impacts us in Christ. God can do things that seem impossible. God even blesses those outside the boundaries of the covenant—not with all the provisions of the covenant, but with some blessings nonetheless. Our Scripture reading was found in Luke 1:1-80.
I may step on a few toes here. And chase a few rabbits
Embrace God's gift of sabbath.
The sixteenth in a series of sermons on the book of Exodus: Speaker: Mike McKinley
In our society we value busyness and productivity and struggle to Sabbath because it seems downright wrong and countercultural. When I use the word, “Sabbath” I'm not talking about taking a day for yourself. I'm talking about taking a day to be with God, in His presence, to remember who He is and what He has done for you, to enter His rest. https://mtownchurch.ca/
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Pastor to Young Adults, Philip Jackson takes us through Exodus 31 as we look at how God relates to His people.
The Fourth Commandment: The Purpose of the Sabbath (Exodus 20:8-11) The first four commandments reflect our instruction to love God. Commandments five through ten reflect our instruction to love our neighbor. There is only One true God and He is worthy to be worshiped in the way that He has revealed. We are to honor Him in thought, word, and deed. This final commandment in the first section that deals with our love for God meets the greatest amount of The post The Purpose of the Sabbath appeared first on Grace Presbyterian Church (PCA).
The Fourth Commandment: Remember the Sabbath (Exodus 20:8-11) There are plenty of ceremonial laws that were not inherently right or wrong in and of themselves. They were temporary laws meant for a specific people in a specific time and place. An example would be how certain food was forbidden under the Mosaic dietary laws, but are now permitted (1 Cor. 10:31; 1 Tim. 4:3-5). Ceremonial laws have been fulfilled, moral laws are permanently binding on all people. A summary of The post Remember the Sabbath appeared first on Grace Presbyterian Church (PCA).
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