{"id":70537,"date":"2019-02-17T18:34:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T01:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=70537"},"modified":"2019-02-17T19:18:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T02:18:59","slug":"new-testament-notes-46-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/02\/new-testament-notes-46-47.html","title":{"rendered":"New Testament Notes 46-47"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Unterberger, Josef. \"Christ in the field of grain.\"<\/a>
Josef Unterberger, \u201cChristus im \u00c4hrenfeld\u201d (roughly, \u201cChrist in the Field of Grain\u201d) \u00a0Wikimedia CC image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Matthew 12:1-8<\/a><\/p>\n

Mark 2:23-28<\/a><\/p>\n

Luke 6:1-5<\/a><\/p>\n

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Reading these verses, I\u2019m reminded of a story told (as I recall) by a General Authority some years ago.<\/p>\n

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Again, if I\u2019m remembering the story correctly it occurred back when he was still a local leader. \u00a0He was headed toward a Sunday meeting in a rural area \u2014 perhaps, I vaguely seem to recall, in southeastern Idaho \u2014 and he was running just a bit late. \u00a0Hurtling down the road, he passed a car pulled over to the side. \u00a0As he sped by, he could see that the car had a flat tire. \u00a0And then, in his rear view mirror, he saw that an elderly lady was looking at the flat tire, wondering what she should do and how to do it.<\/p>\n

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He was running just a tiny bit late, though, and he was confident that somebody else would surely stop. \u00a0He wasn\u2019t speaking, but he was presiding and it was important that he be there on time.<\/p>\n

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He traveled on for perhaps a minute.<\/p>\n

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But then it hit him. \u00a0He was headed to a meeting in which they would talk\u00a0about leading a Christlike life. \u00a0How could he simply leave her there, stranded along the side of a fairly isolated road? \u00a0How could he sit primly through a meeting about discipleship, having failed to help her?<\/p>\n

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He knew that he couldn\u2019t. \u00a0Not without feeling hypocritical and awful.<\/p>\n

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So he turned his car around, drove back, got out in his Sunday clothes, changed her tire, saw her on her way, and was quite<\/em> late to his meeting. \u00a0But he had followed the Savior.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI desire mercy, and not sacrifice\u201d (Matthew 12:7).<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath\u201d (Mark 2:27).<\/p>\n

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Powerful teaching.<\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Miracle<\/a>
Healing a young man with a withered hand (Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Matthew 12:9-14<\/a><\/p>\n

Mark 3:1-6<\/a><\/p>\n

Luke 6:6-11<\/a><\/p>\n

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These readings plainly belong with those directly above and continue the same theme, which has Jesus illustrating the proper attitude toward the Sabbath.<\/p>\n

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He doesn\u2019t say that it\u2019s okay to engage in trade on the Sabbath day, let alone to eat out in restaurants or attend movies.<\/p>\n

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But the rules for the Sabbath weren\u2019t intended to free us from service and acts of kindness and charity\u00a0on that day. \u00a0In fact, the spirit of the Sabbath urges quite the contrary:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is lawful,\u201d he says at Matthew 12:12, \u201cto do good on the Sabbath.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Posted from Richmond, Virginia<\/p>\n

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