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0:00Luke 6:1
0:03Now it happened that he was passing
0:05through some grain fields on a Sabbath,
0:08and his disciples were picking the heads
0:10of grain, rubbing them in their hands,
0:13and eating the grain.
0:15But some of the Pharisees said, "Why do
0:18you do what is not lawful on the
0:21Sabbath?"
0:23And Jesus answering them said, "Have you
0:26not even read what David did when he was
0:29hungry? He and those who were with him?
0:33How he entered the house of God and took
0:35and ate the consecrated bread which is
0:38not lawful for any to eat except the
0:41priests alone." And he gave it to his
0:44companions.
0:46And he was saying to them, "The Son of
0:49Man is Lord of the Sabbath." On another
0:53Sabbath, he entered the synagogue and
0:55was teaching, and there was a man there
0:58whose right hand was withered. The
1:00scribes and the Pharisees were watching
1:02him closely to see if he healed on the
1:06Sabbath, so that they might find reason
1:08to accuse him.
1:11And he knew what they were thinking. And
1:14he said to the man with the withered
1:16hand, "Get up and come forward." And he
1:20got up and came forward. And Jesus said
1:23to them, "I ask you, is it lawful to do
1:27good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to
1:30save a life or to destroy it?" After
1:34looking around at them all, he said to
1:36him, "Stretch out your hand?" And he did
1:39so. And his hand was restored. But they
1:43themselves were filled with rage and
1:46discussed together what they might do to
1:50Jesus.
1:52I've discussed this more fully in
1:54Matthew's gospel, but let's just point
1:58out that
2:00the Pharisees came against Jesus for how
2:03he violated their view of the Sabbath
2:07more than anything else.
2:10But they did not understand that resting
2:14on the seventh day
2:17was pointing toward a time when we would
2:20let God work through us. When we would
2:23cease from what we could do in our own
2:26carnal minds and our own carnal strength
2:30and God would work through us by his
2:33spirit, by his grace. And that's what
2:36the Sabbath was pointing toward. It was
2:39pointing toward a day when men could be
2:42more than what they were without God and
2:45God could work in them to will and do
2:48his good pleasure. The writer of Hebrews
2:51tells us that
2:53the Sabbath is when we cease from our
2:56works just as God ceased from his in the
3:01creation of the world. That's the
3:03Sabbath. It's ceasing from what we can
3:05do in our own strength.
3:08So Jesus was a living, breathing, acting
3:13Sabbath everywhere he went. He was Lord
3:16of the Sabbath. Why? Because he did
3:19nothing on his own strength. He did
3:22nothing except what he heard the father
3:24doing.
3:26He said, "I do nothing of my own
3:28initiative." So his whole life was a
3:30Sabbath.
3:32And when he worked by the power of the
3:34spirit, he was especially operating in
3:37the Sabbath of God's rest because he
3:40wasn't doing what flesh could do. He was
3:43doing only what God could do through
3:46him. So when he performed a miracle that
3:49was ceasing from human works and that
3:52was entering into the works of God.
3:54Jesus would later say, "My father is
3:58always working." So the key is not to
4:01cease from all works, but to cease from
4:04our works, and to enter into those works
4:07that God is doing, not of the flesh, not
4:11of the muscle and will of man, but of
4:14the grace and spirit of God. And so they
4:17are offended at him for breaking the
4:19Sabbath. And they don't understand that
4:21to heal someone is to fulfill the
4:24Sabbath. It's to enter into the grace of
4:27God.
4:28So he gives them this equation. He says,
4:31"Is it lawful to do good or to do evil
4:35on the Sabbath, to save a life or to
4:38kill on the Sabbath?" Is that the
4:41equation that they had in their minds?
4:43They thought it was healing or doing
4:45nothing. But Jesus is clearly saying
4:48that if you don't act when God's given
4:51you the power and the grace to act, you
4:54are sinning through inaction.
4:57So sins of omission, omitting what you
5:01should do, those are as evil as sins of
5:03commission, doing what you shouldn't do.
5:06James would say to him who knows to do
5:08good and does it not, to him it is sin.
5:12So he is saying, if I were like you and
5:15I refuse to help this man, I would be
5:18committing sin. And he's saying that
5:20would be breaking the Sabbath.
5:23So the Sabbath is not about a certain
5:26day. It's not about a certain time of
5:29day at sunset. It's about coming into a
5:33life where we can say with Paul, by the
5:37grace of God, I am what I am. And his
5:39grace toward me did not prove vain. For
5:42I worked harder than them all, but it
5:44was not I, but the grace of God that was
5:47in me. That's Sabbath. Sabbath is when
5:51we can fulfill Jesus's promise that when
5:54we are brought before rulers and kings,
5:57do not worry about what you will say or
5:59how you will say it. For in that very
6:01hour, my father will give you what to
6:03say and it will not be you saying it.
6:06That's Sabbath. when God is working
6:09through us. But when we suppress that
6:12that grace of his work through us, then
6:15we are violating the Sabbath in the
6:17worst way. Because the Sabbath ritual
6:20was a shadow of the Sabbath life and the
6:23Sabbath life was lived by Jesus every
6:25single day.
6:29It was at this time that he went off to
6:31the mountain to pray and he spent the
6:33whole night in prayer to God. And when
6:36day came, he called his disciples to him
6:39and chose 12 of them whom he also named
6:42as apostles.
6:45The word apostle means sent and it means
6:48sent with authority.
6:52Simon, whom he had named Peter, and
6:55Andrew his brother, and James and John,
6:57and Philip and Bartholomew, and Matthew
7:00and Thomas, James the son of Alfus, and
7:04Simon, who was called the Zealot, Judas
7:06the son of James, and Judas a Scariot,
7:09who became a traitor.
7:12Jesus came down with them and stood on a
7:14level place. And there was a large crowd
7:17of his disciples and a great throng of
7:21people from all Judea and Jerusalem and
7:24the coastal region of Ty and Siden who
7:27had come to hear him and to be healed of
7:30their diseases.
7:32And those who were troubled with unclean
7:34spirits were being cured, and all the
7:37people were trying to touch him, for
7:39power was coming from him and healing
7:42them all.
7:45And turning his gaze toward his
7:46disciples, he began to say, "Blessed are
7:50you who are poor, for yours is the
7:53kingdom of God. Blessed are you who
7:56hunger,
7:58for you shall be satisfied.
8:01Blessed are you who weep, for you shall
8:04laugh. Blessed are you when men hate you
8:07and ostracize you and insult you and
8:12scorn your name as evil for the sake of
8:14the Son of Man. Be glad in that day and
8:18leap for joy. For behold, your reward is
8:22great in heaven. For in the same way
8:25their fathers used to treat the
8:27prophets. But woe to you who are rich,
8:31for you are receiving your comfort in
8:33full. Woe to you who are well-fed now,
8:37for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who
8:40laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.
8:43Woe to you when all men speak well of
8:46you, for their fathers used to treat the
8:49false prophets in the same way. But I
8:53say to you who hear, "Love your enemies.
8:56Do good to those who hate you. Bless
8:59those who curse you. Pray for those who
9:02mistreat you. Whoever hits you on the
9:05cheek, offer him the other also. And
9:08whoever takes away your coat, do not
9:10withhold your shirt from him either.
9:12Give to everyone who asks of you. And
9:15whoever takes away what is yours, do not
9:18demand it back. Treat others the same
9:21way you want them to treat you.
9:25If you love those who love you, what
9:28credit is that to you? For even sinners
9:31love those who love them.
9:34If you do good to those who do good to
9:36you, what credit is that to you? For
9:38even sinners do the same. If you lend to
9:42those from whom you expect to receive,
9:44what credit is that to you? Even sinners
9:47lend to sinners in order to receive back
9:50the same amount.
9:53But love your enemies and do good and
9:55lend and expect nothing in return. and
9:59your reward will be great, and you will
10:02be sons of the most high, for he himself
10:06is kind to ungrateful and evil men. Be
10:10merciful, just as your father is
10:12merciful. Do not judge and you will not
10:15be judged. Do not condemn and you will
10:17not be condemned. Pardon, and you will
10:20be pardoned. Give and it will be given
10:23to you. They will pour into your lap a
10:26good measure. pressed down, shaken
10:28together, and running over. For by your
10:32standard of measure, it will be measured
10:34to you in return. This is Luke's
10:37condensed version of the biatitudes, but
10:40it's the same message that we find in
10:42the others.
10:44He says, "Blessed are you when you're
10:46poor." This word blessed means thankful,
10:51exceedingly happy, overjoyed.
10:54Blessed are you when you are poor. And
10:56the word poor means bankrupt, ruined.
11:00He's saying when all
11:04of this world has become bankruptcy to
11:07you, when all that you were striving for
11:10and all the false riches of a false
11:13world have failed you, you can be happy
11:16because that can be the starting place
11:19of you becoming fulfilled and happy in
11:22God.
11:23Blessed are you when you hunger, for you
11:26will be satisfied.
11:28What he's saying is the people in this
11:31world who've lost their hunger won't
11:32find God. But the people in this world
11:35who can be dissatisfied with the things
11:38of this world will find God. He says,
11:41"Blessed are you when men hate you and
11:44ostracize you and insult you and scorn
11:49your name as evil." This is what we're
11:53This is what's going to happen to
11:54Christians. They're going to be hated.
11:58They're going to be ostracized. That
12:00means excluded, pushed out of the circle
12:04of acceptance.
12:08They're going to be insulted.
12:10You're a cult. You're weird.
12:14You believe falsehoods
12:17and scorn your name. Oh my, you're part
12:22of such and such. You belong to that. Oh
12:26my goodness.
12:28Have you ever felt people scorn your
12:30name, ostracize you? You will you will
12:34feel those things. They will insult you,
12:37they will hate you. But in that moment,
12:40Jesus is saying there's a blessing.
12:43Don't miss it.
12:45Stop and ask why. Why is this happening?
12:49What does this mean?
12:52There's a blessing in that. He says, "Be
12:55glad in that day and leap for joy. Go
13:00running across the yard and jump up and
13:04praise God. For behold, your reward is
13:08great in heaven." He's saying in that
13:11day of pain, in that day of rejection,
13:14in that day of hatred and insult, let
13:17something rise up in your heart that
13:20says, "Wait a minute. I'm being counted
13:24with the righteous. I'm being counted
13:27with Jesus."
13:29Because this is how they treated him.
13:33And he says, "Woe to you who are rich,
13:37for you are receiving your comfort in
13:38full." People who put their blessing in
13:42riches, who think that that's the
13:44measure of life's joy and success, it's
13:47going to be a curse. It's going to be a
13:48woe because there's no more comfort
13:51coming. This is about relationship with
13:54God and each other. This isn't about
13:56things. It's not about money.
14:00And then he says this one, "Woe to you
14:03when all men speak well of you. If you
14:07don't have enemies, you're a fraud. If
14:09you don't have enemies, you're not part
14:11of Jesus. You're not with him. Woe to
14:15you when all men speak well of you."
14:17Because he says that's the way they
14:19treated a very specific kind of group,
14:22the false prophets.
14:25If you don't have enemies, if you don't
14:27have people who call you false, who hate
14:30you, who insult you, who ostracize you,
14:34then that is a proof to you that you are
14:37part of the false prophets.
14:40But I say to you
14:42who hear,
14:44love your enemies.
14:47And he begins to tell us how we should
14:49treat people exactly opposite as we
14:52automatically treat them. Why? Why? So
14:56that we would be sons of our father. The
14:59implication is I'm going to show you how
15:02your father treats people. And if you
15:05can treat people like that, you can be
15:07part of him. So your father
15:11loves his enemies.
15:13When did our father love his enemies?
15:17God was in Christ reconciling the world
15:20to himself. When when we were yet
15:22sinners, when we were hostile in our
15:26minds through evil works, God came and
15:30loved us in Jesus. He loved his enemies.
15:36Do good to those who hate you. Bless
15:39those who curse you. When did our father
15:41bless those who cursed him? God in
15:44Christ said, "Father, forgive them for
15:47they know not what they are doing.
15:51Whoever hits you on the cheek, offer him
15:54the other also. When did God give his
15:57cheek to the one who struck him? Do you
16:00remember with Jesus? They pulled out his
16:03beard. They struck him with a reed on
16:06the head. And it says in Isaiah, he gave
16:09his cheek to the one who struck him.
16:13Give to everyone who asks of you.
16:16Whoever takes away what is yours, do not
16:19demand it back. Did they take away his
16:21clothes? Did they take away his honor?
16:25Did they strip him of his dignity? And
16:28did he say, "Give that back to me?" No.
16:31He had the power to call 12 legions of
16:33angels. But he didn't. He never used his
16:37power to protect himself. He used his
16:41power to love and free us. Treat others
16:45the way you want them to treat you.
16:49Don't focus on how they're treating you.
16:51Don't focus on how wrong this is. People
16:55are going to treat you wrong. You're
16:57going to give of your time. And people
16:59are going to walk away and act like it
17:01came from them. You're going to give of
17:04your ideas. You're going to give of your
17:06heart and soul. And some people are
17:08going to walk away and not thank you and
17:12not reward you. Don't focus on what
17:14you're losing. Say, "How do I want
17:18people to treat me? That's how I'm going
17:20to treat others." Be the change you want
17:23to receive from others. That's what he's
17:26saying. Be the change you want to get
17:29from others.
17:32Every time you feel hurt, every time you
17:33feel wounded, every time you want to get
17:35offended at the way people don't love
17:37you, you just turn that around and say,
17:40"God, help me to love in the way I want
17:42to be loved. Be merciful." And then he
17:46pulls it back into the father. He says,
17:49"Love your enemies." It's the second
17:51time he said it. Love your enemies and
17:55do good and lend expecting nothing in
18:01return. There's a way of loving people
18:03where you're hoping I think I'll get
18:06something big if I do this. I think
18:09they'll appreciate me and I need that.
18:12But then there's a way of loving where
18:13you say, "God, I am expecting nothing in
18:16return, but because of how you loved me,
18:20I am going to love expecting nothing in
18:23return."
18:25Love your enemies and do good and lend
18:27expecting nothing in return. and your
18:31reward will be great and you will be
18:35sons of the most high for he himself is
18:40kind to ungrateful
18:44and evil men.
18:47God sends rain on the just and on the
18:51unjust alike. He is kind. He gives us
18:54chances. He gives us forgiveness. He
18:57gives us mercy. And if we want to be
18:59like him, we have to give expecting
19:03nothing in return.
19:05Then he says it again, be merciful just
19:08as your father is merciful.
19:11Do not judge and you will not be judged.
19:14So the biatitudes are not about how to
19:17be superior than everybody else. The
19:20biatitudes are a lesson on how to be
19:23like God. They are a penetrating
19:26terrifying insight into how we treat God
19:30and how he loves us. And that's why
19:35Matthew says, "Be perfect as your father
19:37in heaven is perfect." Which is simply
19:39to say, "Love people who don't
19:44reciprocate your love.
19:46Love people when they are unlovable."
19:51That's perfection.
19:54And he spoke a parable to them. A blind
19:56man cannot guide a blind man, can he?
20:00Will they not both fall into a pit? A
20:03pupil is not above his teacher. But
20:06everyone, after he has been fully
20:09trained, will be like his teacher.
20:13Why do you look at the speck that is in
20:16your brother's eye, but do not notice
20:18the log that is in your own eye?
20:22Or how can you say to your brother,
20:24"Brother, let me take out the speck
20:27that is in your eye when you yourself do
20:31not see the log that is in your own eye.
20:35You hypocrite. First take the log out of
20:38your own eye, and then you will see
20:40clearly to take out the speck that is in
20:44your brother's eye.
20:47For there is no good tree which produces
20:50bad fruit, nor on the other hand a bad
20:53tree which produces good fruit. For each
20:56tree is known by its fruit. For men do
20:59not gather figs from thorns, nor do they
21:02pick grapes from a brier bush. That's a
21:05tongue twister.
21:07The good man out of the good treasure of
21:09his heart brings forth what is good. And
21:11the evil man out of the evil treasure
21:14brings forth what is evil. for his mouth
21:17speaks from that which fills his heart.
21:22Okay. So, how does this parable relate
21:25to the biatitudes?
21:27He starts by telling us we're supposed
21:29to be like our father. So, does that
21:31sound like a guide to you? Huh? Love
21:36like your father loves. Be perfect like
21:38your father's perfect. Forgive like your
21:40father forgives.
21:42Okay. But then he says he told them a
21:45parable. A blind man cannot guide a
21:49blind man. You say, okay, how does this
21:52relate to the biatitudes? Who's the
21:54blind man and who is he guiding?
21:58Well, what he's saying is don't take
22:02other people as your measure of love
22:06when those people are blind.
22:10You're like, "Oh, well, who is that
22:11person who shouldn't be a guide? It's
22:14me. It's you."
22:18Because who what are we blinded by? We
22:21are blinded by the log in our eye.
22:25He says, "You think you're somebody
22:28else's guide because you go and tell
22:31them how to get the speck out of their
22:32eye, but you are blinded by the log
22:36protruding out of your own eye. You
22:39don't know how to love. His whole point
22:42is you're not the standard of love.
22:48God is the standard of love. If you say,
22:52"I know how to teach someone to love."
22:55Look, that person has a problem in their
22:58life. Let me go pull the speck out of
22:59their life, out of their eye.
23:02You don't see the log that is in your
23:04own eye.
23:05You don't see how blind you are to
23:08people's needs. You don't see how you're
23:10a unicorn knocking people over with the
23:13protruding judgment that is coming out
23:15of your head.
23:17Amen. You're the blind guide. I'm the
23:19blind guide. And we have to let God take
23:23the beam of judgment out of our eye so
23:27that we can see clearly. not to give
23:30them our standard of love, but to give
23:33them God's standard of love.
23:38And then he says, "There is no good tree
23:40that produces bad fruit."
23:43So what does what is this bad fruit
23:47refer to? Does that mean that you have a
23:51tree full of love, but you've got one,
23:54you know, a tree full of good peaches,
23:56but there's one peach that that went
23:58rotten. Is that what that means? Oops. A
24:01bird got one of my peaches. I'm a
24:03failure.
24:04Is that what it means?
24:07Jesus teaches us the difference between
24:10good fruit and bad fruit. It's not
24:12whether you have a ton of peaches and
24:14one peach went bad. We're all failures.
24:17We all make mistakes. It's whether you
24:21are supposed to be a grape vine, but
24:25briars are growing on you. It's whether
24:28you are supposed to be a fig tree, but
24:31thistles and thorns are growing on you.
24:34So, the fruit that he's talking about is
24:36a a question of kind,
24:39not a question of whether a fig rotted,
24:42but whether a thistle grew instead of a
24:44fig. So, what would the thistle be on
24:47the fig tree if he's ministering to us
24:50about love and he's telling us we don't
24:52know how to love like the father? What
24:55would the thistle be? It would be
24:57judgment.
25:01It would be criticism.
25:03It would be unforgiveness.
25:06It would be pride. He's telling us don't
25:09start growing thistles. Don't start
25:12growing thorns.
25:14Don't start developing
25:16rationalizations.
25:18Don't start fostering and producing from
25:21your life these thorns, these hurts,
25:27these ways of
25:29stabbing and disappointing and hurting
25:32others. Why do you call me Lord, Lord,
25:36and do not what I say?
25:39Everyone who comes to me and hears my
25:41word and acts on them, I will show you
25:45whom he is like. He is like a man
25:48building a house who dug deep and laid a
25:51foundation on the rock. And when a flood
25:54occurred, the torrent burst against that
25:57house and could not shake it because it
26:00had been well built. But one who has
26:03heard and has not acted accordingly is
26:06like a man who built a house on the
26:08ground without any foundation and the
26:12torrent burst against it and immediately
26:15it collapsed and the ruin of that house
26:18was great.
26:21So here we have the biatitudes tell us
26:24how we should live. The blind guide
26:27warns us that we cannot be our own
26:30measure. We cannot guide others until
26:33we've had the beam of our judgments
26:35removed and we can see like God sees
26:38others through the eyes of love. And
26:41then the foundations parable tells us
26:44that if we just hear him and we don't
26:47act on what he says, then we're not
26:48letting him be our guide. We are
26:51building houses that are going to
26:53collapse. We're thinking we're
26:55different. We're thinking we're saved.
26:57We're thinking we're Christians, but we
26:59are building on sand. Only if we act on
27:03his word. If we start forgiving, if we
27:06start if we start lending, expecting
27:08nothing in return, if we start turning
27:11the other cheek, if we start rejoicing
27:13in our pain, only then are we acting on
27:17his word. Only then are we letting him
27:19be the guide as the beam is cast out and
27:23we're starting to walk in the light of
27:25his love.

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