Fourth, Jesus is criticized by Pharisees for doing work on the Sabbath and breaking Sabbath law — 23One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. 24The Pharisees said to him,...
We talked about how the first group missed Jesus because of their prejudice that God could not take human form. The second group missed Jesus because they thought that their religious performance made them better than “sinners.” Now we have a third group...
Second, Jesus is criticized by the Pharisees for having dinner with “sinners” – 15While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and “sinners” were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who...
Today, I want to continue the theme of seeing and hearing the real Jesus. Do you notice a pattern from this chapter? In one short chapter, Jesus is criticized 4 times by 4 different sets of people and each time he defends himself. I want to begin by pointing out that...
So we talked about why it might be that we are hard of hearing when it comes to discerning the voice of God in our lives. There was the example of my son Jeremiah who has massive wax boulders in his ears so that when we speak to him, he can’t hear us, literally....
