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Sabbath (2) – Rest from burden
Mat 11 : 25 - 30
Mat 12 : 8 - 16
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From previous sermon
Mat 12 : 1-7
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Anyone who are willing to accept
God’s heart of compassion thru Christ
will receive Sabbath from God
They will receive :
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They will not be weary
They will rest
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After Mat 12 : 1-7,
the story of Christ and the Sabbath,
continues …..
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Rest from burden
Mat 12 : 8 - 21
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Mat 11:28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest
Christ’s revelation about God’s heart
Beside our weariness, God also desires to take away our burden
So we can rest
Weariness comes from inside us
Burden comes from outside
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Mat 12:8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.” 9 Departing from there, He went into their synagogue.
Jesus visited the synagogue of the religious Pharisees
What was the condition in a religious place ?
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Mat 12:8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.” 9 Departing from there, He went into their synagogue. 10 And a man was there whose hand was withered. And they questioned Jesus, asking, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—so that they might bring charges against Him.
There was a man with a withered hand
The man was in a synagogue !
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Mat 12:8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.” 9 Departing from there, He went into their synagogue. 10 And a man was there whose hand was withered. And they questioned Jesus, asking, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—so that they might bring charges against Him.
Religious leaders like to use the scripture
to find the mistake of other people
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Mat 12:8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.” 9 Departing from there, He went into their synagogue. 10 And a man was there whose hand was withered. And they questioned Jesus, asking, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—so that they might bring charges against Him.
Religious leaders like to prevent Christ
from healing the man with the withered hand
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This was the situation in a synagogue
Why did the man have a withered hand ?
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Jeroboam and his withered hand
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1 Kings 11:30 Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which was on him and tore it into twelve pieces. 31 And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces; for this is what the Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘Behold, I am going to tear the kingdom away from the hand of Solomon and give you ten tribes 32 (but he shall have one tribe, for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel),
God made Jeroboam a leader of the 10 tribes
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1 Kings 12:26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to the house of David. 27 If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will return to their lord, to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”
Jeroboam desired to preserve his status
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1 Kings 12:28 So the king consulted, and he made two golden calves; and he said to the people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt.” 29 And he set up one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. 30 Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan.
Jeroboam depended on
he 2 places of worships
to carry the burden of his kingdom
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1 Kings 12:32 Jeroboam also instituted a feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves which he had made. And he stationed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made. 33 Then he went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, the month that he had devised in his own heart; and he instituted a feast for the sons of Israel and went up to the altar to burn incense.
Jeroboam tried to worship God
in his own way
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1 Kings 13:1 Now behold, a man of God came from Judah to Bethel by the word of the Lord, while Jeroboam was standing at the altar to burn incense. 2 And he cried out against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, “Altar, altar, this is what the Lord says: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones shall burn on you.’”
God sent a man of God to proclaim
the destruction of the altar of Jeroboam
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1 Kings 13:3 Then he gave a sign on the same day, saying, “This is the sign which the Lord has spoken: ‘Behold, the altar shall be torn to pieces and the ashes which are on it shall be poured out.’” 4 Now when the king heard the statement of the man of God which he cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him!” But his hand which he had stretched out toward him dried up, and he could not draw it back to himself.
Jeroboam followed his own way and refused to hear God’s warning
The hand of Jeroboam became withered
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Jeroboam depended on his own way and religion
to carry the burden of his kingdom
Jeroboam was in a synagogue
Jeroboam’s hand became withered
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It was the religious teaching of the synagogue
which made the man depended on the way of self effort and religion to carry his burden
The reason for the withered hand
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1 Kings 13:5 The altar also was torn to pieces and the ashes were poured out from the altar, in accordance with the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.
God destroyed the altar of religion
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1 Kings 13:6 And the king responded and said to the man of God, “Please appease the Lord your God and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored to me.” So the man of God appeased the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him, and it became as it was before.
After the altar of religion has been destroyed,
the man of God prayed for healing
God healed Jeroboam
God hated the altar of Jeroboam,
but God still loved Jeroboam
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This was the situation in a synagogue
What did Jesus do ?
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Christ’s revelation about Sabbath
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Mat 12:11 But He said to them, “What man is there among you who has a sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it and lift it out?
12 How much more valuable then is a person than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
God considers a man very valuable
More valuable than what a man thinks of a sheep
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Mat 12:12 How much more valuable then is a person than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
Anyone who receives God’s goodness
and then
let God’s goodness to overflow to others
is not considered as working
It is not against the 10 commandments
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Mat 12:12 How much more valuable then is a person than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
After the altar of religion has been destroyed, God’s healing could come
Sabbath has come thru Jesus
By revealing the truth of God’s love in Sabbath,
Jesus destroyed the altar of religion
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Mat 12:13 Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand!” He stretched it out, and it was restored to normal, like the other.
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Christ’s revelation about Sabbath
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Christ’s revelation about Sabbath
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Mat 11:28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
What is the burden of life ?
The burden to minister to our family, our loved ones, our ministry, church etc
Christ has come to bring God’s Sabbath
What has become God’s burden,
is not our burden anymore
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Mat 12:14 But the Pharisees went out and conspired against Him, as to how they might destroy Him. 15 But Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. Many followed Him, and He healed them all, 16 and warned them not to tell who He was.
Jesus will not force Sabbath on the religious
The religious will continue to suffer under
a BURDEN
Jesus will only give Sabbath to those who are willing to accept God’s heart of compassion
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Anyone who are willing to accept
God’s heart of compassion thru Christ
will receive Sabbath from God
They will receive :
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They will not be weary and heavy laden
They will rest
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Today’s discipleship material
Sabbath (3) - God’s justice has come
Mat 12 : 17 - 21
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Topic for next sermon
Good Friday
The beauty of the 7 sayings of Christ on the cross
Luk 23 : 34, 43, 46, Mat 27 : 46
John 19 : 26 – 30