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Matthew 12
In our study on the series of Matthew, we come to chapter 12. It's a long chapter. Let's see how far we get to today. I'm Pastor Joe Sye with Witten Baptist Church. Here's Sunday night Bible study. Let's dig in the God's Word.
I'll read this first section at that time. Jesus went through the grain fields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and They began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it they said to him look your disciples are doing what's not lawful do on the Sabbath.
He said to them Have you not read what David did when he was hungry and those who were and those who were with him. How he entered the house Of God and ate the bread of the presence Which it was not lawful him to eat or for those who are with him.
But only for the priest. Have you not read in the law how on the Sabbath the priest and the temple profaned the Sabbath and are guiltless. But I'll tell you something greater than the temples here. If you had known what this means that is our mercy not sacrifice you would not have condemned.
Condemned the guiltless for the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.
So.
The Pharisees as we've discussed before Not only believe in the entire Old Testament, but they believe the oral tradition that later became the Talmud and the Mishnu. That old tradition was also on par with scripture.
So think of it as the study notes. The commentaries on the Torah they treat as equal to scripture. If you have a study Bible I Have several they're great. But if you treat the commentators notes at the bottom as as the oritative as scripture you do no one.
Probably including that commentator any good service and you are on dangerous ground. Now the Sadducees had the opposite problem in a sense. They only treated the books of Moses the first five books of the Bible as fully inspired by God.
So when they say it's not lawful for you to do this There's no actual law on the Torah that says they couldn't pluck the grains and eat them. In fact on the edge of the field It was lawful for them to do this.
It's called gleaning and Leviticus 19 and Deuteronomy 23 express expressly permit travelers to do this. In another passage they get mad because they're not eating. They're washing their hands. They're not washing their hands before they eat.
But only the priests were commanded to do this in the law. So again, just like Matthew says Jesus says in Matthew 15 They are teaching as doctrine the commands of men. That is a damning sentence.
Jesus ends it by saying he quotes um leave. This is Hosea. Let me see if I can check here. Believe verse 7 is a quote from Hosea. Hosea 6 6. It takes a passage that they would probably have memorized and said you don't know you don't know what this means for the Son of Man is courteous is Excuse me.
Son of Man is courteous of the Sabbath. He is the Son of Man who yes.
Who.
Anthropo.
Maybe.
Maybe pal is Lord of the Sabbath. So in the end. Even though we're not breaking the law. I created the Sabbath. I know what I created it for. I am God. I am Lord of the Sabbath.
In.
Matthew then puts in this account of Jesus healing a Man with a withered hand on the Sabbath. He goes and enters the synagogue.
And.
They asked him if it was lawful for him to heal on the Sabbath so that they might accuse him and there's my favorite Greek word henna. They asked him this with the intention so that they might accuse him.
And he said which one of you if you have a sheep and it falls in a pen on the Sabbath will not take hold Of it and lift it out. Is that working according to your definition of How much more value is a man than a sheep?
Yes over and over again Jesus says humans have more value than animals. Sorry PETA doesn't mean they have no value. Just humans have more value. It's always lawful to do good on the Sabbath guys. He heals him.
The Pharisees went out and Conspired against him how to destroy him because he's breaking their oral tradition. They're treating tradition as more important than God's Word. I Fear there are many churches that do the same thing today.
Matthew been quotes Isaiah to show that Jesus is the servant that God has chosen. A bruised read he will not break a smoldering work. He will not quench until he brings justice to victory so He is gentle and lowly of heart.
He is. His yoke is easy and his burden is light. Until he brings justice to victory one day God's mercy will end in a sense and his justice will come to full fruition. That day is coming the scales will bounce and in his name the Gentiles will hope and verse 21.
See if I can see if I can do this. This haha verse 21. Yeah, Isaiah 42. That's what it was. That's a quote from Isaiah 42. So God's plan of salvation from the Gentiles was always there always there. Notice Notice that as with many Old Testament passages Part of the quotation is fulfilled in Jesus's first coming and part of it is fulfilled in his second coming.
Common theme. With New Testament writers quoting the Old Testament. All right now we come upon the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit now. Only a few months ago guys. I made a video on the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit what it is.
So I'm not gonna spend as much detail on this. I want to just skip it all together because I've already been through all this somewhat recently you can find that on Witten media ministry. What is blasphemy the Holy Spirit?
On our YouTube page and it will show up, but I will quickly just give a couple Comments about it. What you have in this passage Matthew 12 22 to 37 that is paralleled by I believe it's Mark chapter 3.
Yeah, more chapter 3 is We have the Pharisees Purposefully calling the works of God in Jesus the works of Satan they know.
They know that.
What he is doing is from God, but they are rejecting it because it Messes with their power and influence. So it's not that they intellectually truly believe Jesus is of Satan. It's that they're calling.
They're calling Jesus's works of the kingdom of God and by the Spirit of God, they're calling it satanic on purpose. So what you have here is them Knowing the truth and rejecting God's plan calling it Satan's on purpose to draw people away from the truth.
They were saying it out loud, but he was knowing in their heart what they really meant and this is why he condemned them. I'll read what I wrote the sin of blasphemy in the Holy Spirit as with all sin begins with the heart.
Sin is first committed in the heart before it's ever committed with the words or the hands.
They are intentionally Confusing the people telling them that his work is from Satan so as to not draw away from their own personal game.
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