What Jesus Did

[When Jesus healed the man with the deformed hand on the Sabbath], the enemies of Jesus were wild with rage and began to discuss what to do with him.

—Luke 6:11 NLT

Key Thought​

Doing right doesn't mean we will always be treated right. Most of us know this truth from our own experience. We certainly see this principle proved true repeatedly in the life of Jesus and then in his death. Some people become angry and hostile when others do what is righteous and good. John the...

 

[After Jesus' confrontation with the Jewish leaders about healing on the Sabbath, he] looked around at them one by one and then said to the man [with the deformed hand], "Hold out your hand." So the man held out his hand, and it was restored!

—Luke 6:10 NLT

Key Thought​

Jesus refused to let his critics determine his course of action. [1] His ministry was determined by the will of God and the mission God had given him to do. Part of that mission was to bless those who needed...

 

The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely. If he healed the man's hand, they planned to accuse him of working on the Sabbath.
But Jesus knew their thoughts. He said to the man with the deformed hand, "Come and stand in front of everyone." So the man came forward. Then Jesus said to his critics, "I have a question for you. Does the law permit good deeds on the Sabbath, or is it a day for doing evil? Is this a day to save life or to destroy it?"

—Luke 6:7-9...

 

On another Sabbath day, a man with a deformed right hand was in the synagogue while Jesus was teaching. The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely. If he healed the man's hand, they planned to accuse him of working on the Sabbath.

—Luke 6:6-7 NLT

Key Thought​

What a sad story and what a waste of a wonderful opportunity for genuine worship. Here are religious folks who have presumably gone to honor God but then have totally false agendas: They've gone...

 

[After answering the Pharisees' legalistic accusation against his disciples concerning the Sabbath,] Jesus added, "The Son of Man is Lord, even over the Sabbath."

—Luke 6:5 NLT

Key Thought​

There were four great attributes of the Jewish faith in Jesus' day: the Temple in Jerusalem, circumcision of all Jewish males, "keeping kosher" with dietary/health restrictions, and keeping the Sabbath. There is no way to emphasize how radical Jesus' statement would have sounded in the ears...

 

One Sabbath day as Jesus was walking through some grainfields, his disciples broke off heads of grain, rubbed off the husks in their hands, and ate the grain. But some Pharisees said, "Why are you breaking the law by harvesting grain on the Sabbath?"

Jesus replied, "Haven't you read in the Scriptures what David did when he and his companions were hungry? He went into the house of God and broke the law by eating the sacred loaves of bread that only the priests can eat. He also gave some to...

 

[Jesus continued,] "But no one who drinks the old wine seems to want the new wine. 'The old is just fine,' they say."

—Luke 5:39 NLT

Key Thought​

The Israelites in the wilderness are a great example of it, but we all have a tendency to do it — we look back on the past, what we once had or did, with nostalgia and imagine it better than it was. The Israelites had been slaves in Egypt but wanted to go back to Egypt because they imagined it was better than what they were facing in...

 

Then Jesus gave them this illustration: "No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and uses it to patch an old garment. For then the new garment would be ruined, and the new patch wouldn't even match the old garment.
"And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the new wine would burst the wineskins, spilling the wine and ruining the skins. New wine must be stored in new wineskins."

—Luke 5:36-38 NLT

Key Thought​

Jesus' point is clear. Don't try to limit the new...

 

One day some people said to Jesus, "John the Baptist's disciples fast and pray regularly, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees. Why are your disciples always eating and drinking?"
Jesus responded, "Do wedding guests fast while celebrating with the groom? Of course not. But someday the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast."

—Luke 5:33-35 NLT

Key Thought​

Jesus was basically telling folks that his presence meant that it wouldn't be "business as...

 

Later, as Jesus left [###], he saw a tax collector named ### sitting at his tax collector's booth. "Follow me and be my disciple," Jesus said to him. So ### got up, left everything, and followed him.
Later, ### held a banquet in his home with Jesus as the guest of honor. Many of ###'s fellow tax collectors and other guests also ate with them. But the Pharisees and their teachers of religious law complained bitterly to Jesus' disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with such scum?"

Jesus...