Week 18 Day 3

The Daily Take 10

The Gospel of John

Week 18 Day 3

Introduction…We should seek to glorify God with our words, actions and life, as did Jesus. When Jesus healed the man on the Sabbath, it was to glorify God. See Galatians 3:24, where it tells us that the Law of God, given to Moses, was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ. Why? Because “by the deeds of the law, no person will be justified (declared righteous) in God’s sight…” See Romans 3:20. No one, not one of us can keep the law and thereby be saved, be acceptable to God. So we all need forgiveness, salvation and we all need Jesus.

Read John 7:19-24 “Did not Moses give you the law and not one of you really keeps it? Why do you try to kill me?’ The crowd answered,  ‘You are mad! Who is trying to kill you?’ Jesus answered them, ‘I have done only one deed and you are all astonished by it. Moses gave  you the rite of circumcision (not that it had its origin in Moses, it came down from your fathers) and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. If a man can be circumcised on the Sabbath, without breaking the law of Moses, are you angry at me for making the entire body of a man whole on the Sabbath? Stop judging by appearances and make your judgment just.”

Bible Study

• The Jewish faith, like all religions, added requirements to God’s expectations of us, making it difficult and confusing to please God. Religion is all about ‘do’.
• But Christianity is not what we ‘do’ but what has been ‘done’. Through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. What God wants is a relationship with us of mutual love. Where we recognize Him for who He is…Creator and the Living God, so thank and praise Him.
• It was God who said keep the Sabbath Day holy. What does that mean? It was a day God set aside for us to rest and remember Him. What the Jews made it was a stringent and difficult day that burdened people instead of freeing them which is what God intended. “God desires mercy, not sacrifice…” Matthew 12:7. Healing a person on the Sabbath was indeed work, but it was the work of mercy!
• Because Jesus challenged the established religion and religious practices with what was truly the heart of God, the religious leaders who had power and prestige became defensive, hated Jesus and wanted to get rid of Him.
• In Mark 7:6-7, Jesus responded to the religious leaders and at the same time spoke to the crowd, when Jesus quoted from the prophet Isaiah saying, “these people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.”
• Jesus condemned people worshipping God based upon human rules and regulations. Jesus went on to say, “you have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men.” Mark 7:8.
• Romans 3:23 says, “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God”
• Romans 6:23 says, “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
• Every person that has ever lived has sinned before God. Because of Christ, when we confess our sin, God is faithful and just and will forgive us.

Application

• Are we listening to Jesus?
• In the natural world all around us, He is speaking. In the universe, the worlds are sustained by His Word. Yes, He is speaking with power. The Church, the true believers, are sustained by His voice and Jesus will return for His Church and call them to Himself. So listen and know His voice. Teaching that does not have His sound is not sound doctrine, or the true teaching of Jesus.
• Spiritual Discernment is the true test of spiritual maturity.

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