{"id":7096,"date":"2015-11-09T00:05:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T08:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=7096"},"modified":"2015-11-08T22:41:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T06:41:00","slug":"what-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2015\/11\/09\/what-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"What Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

One Sabbath when Jesus and his disciples were walking through some wheat fields, the disciples picked some wheat. They rubbed the husks off with their hands and started eating the grain. <\/p>\n

\tSome Pharisees said, \u201cWhy are you picking grain on the Sabbath? You\u2019re not supposed to do that!\u201d <\/p>\n

\tJesus answered, \u201cYou surely have read what David did when he and his followers were hungry. He went into the house of God and took the sacred loaves of bread that only priests were supposed to eat. He not only ate some himself, but even gave some to his followers.\u201d <\/p>\n

\tJesus finished by saying, \u201cThe Son of Man is Lord over the Sabbath.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tOn another Sabbath Jesus was teaching in a Jewish meeting place, and a man with a crippled right hand was there. Some Pharisees and teachers of the Law of Moses kept watching Jesus to see if he would heal the man. They did this because they wanted to accuse Jesus of doing something wrong. <\/p>\n

\tJesus knew what they were thinking. So he told the man to stand up where everyone could see him. And the man stood up. Then Jesus asked, \u201cOn the Sabbath should we do good deeds or evil deeds? Should we save someone\u2019s life or destroy it?\u201d <\/p>\n

\tAfter he had looked around at everyone, he told the man, \u201cStretch out your hand.\u201d He did, and his bad hand became completely well. <\/p>\n

\tThe teachers and the Pharisees were furious and started saying to each other, \u201cWhat can we do about Jesus?\u201d (Luke 6:1-11)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\tWhat\u2019s the meaning of \u201cis?\u201d That\u2019s the sort of question that the religious leaders in Israel enjoyed puzzling over. The Pharisees, the Sadducees, the scribes\u2014they concerned themselves with riddles regarding the Law. The commandment to \u201ckeep the Sabbath\u201d was not as simple as it appeared. When God said that one must not work on Saturday, what did he mean by \u201cwork?\u201d Was harvesting grain work? Obviously. How about threshing grain? Also obviously. But then what was \u201charvesting?\u201d What was \u201cthreshing?\u201d By simply plucking a few ears of wheat from a field, the disciples had \u201charvested\u201d the wheat. By rubbing the husks off in their hands, they had \u201cthreshed\u201d it. <\/p>\n

\tYou can almost hear Jesus rolling his eyes in response to this line of reasoning. He responded by pointing out that their line of reasoning took them to an absurdity when they tried to use it on the people in the Bible. Jesus wanted them to understand that in interpreting the Bible, it was important to pay attention to the whole thing. If you get lost in the details, you may simply get lost.<\/p>\n

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