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Advent Challenge Day 6


Luke 6



One of the major contentions in today’s world involves working on Sundays – but it isn’t a new issue!  Jesus and his disciples were walking through a field and picked some heads of wheat and ate them – constituting working on a Sabbath!  When the Pharisees challenged him, Jesus’ answer astounded them, “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”



On another Sabbath, Jesus was preaching in a synagogue, and a man with a withered (paralysed) hand appeared.  The Pharisees watched closely, but Jesus wasn’t to be deterred, and healed the man!  Notice at this point that the Pharisees were already plotting to see what they could do about Jesus – early into his ministry.



Having chosen his twelve disciples, Jesus goes to a plain, and delivers the Sermon on the Mount – with Luke recording the Beatitudes, albeit in a shorter fashion, before warning against judging others, lest we too would be judged.



Finally, Jesus explains that we need to listen to his words and put them into practice,  like the person who builds their house upon a foundation of bedrock, able to withstand the flood when it comes.  How are your own flood defences? 



Note v46 – “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord’ and don’t do what I tell you?”  This could be Jesus’ very message to today’s world – or more specifically, to the very Church itself!  Perhaps we all need to consider our obedience to God.

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