2000.13.1.10 Some Thoughts On Luke 6:11 "But They (The Pharisees) Were Filled With Bitterness And Discussed With Each Other What To Do With Jesus" Will We Be Able To See What God Does This Passover? Or Will We Be Like The Pharisees? Created by James3 on 6/29/2019 12:15:24 PM Some Thoughts On Luke 6:11 "But They (The Pharisees) Were Filled With Bitterness And Discussed With Each Other What To Do With Jesus" Will We Be Able To See What God Does This Passover? Or Will We Be Like The Pharisees?
(Continuation from thoughts on Luke 4:34)
To all who call themselves by the name of Christ and truly seek to serve Him with all their hearts, all their souls, all their minds and all their strength.
Greetings in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
This morning (19 April 2000) I awoke early again and returning to my Bible where I left off yesterday, I was immediately drawn to Luke 6:11 "but they (the pharisees) were filled with bitterness and discussed with each other what to do with Jesus" (Lamsa's translation), the New King James says "But they were filled with rage, and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus."
As I contemplated this story of the pharisees condemning Jesus for healing on the Sabbath it struck me that this passage, and in fact, many of the books from Matthew onwards are in stark contrast to what is reported in most of the books from Genesis to Malachi.
In many of the books from Genesis to Malachi we constantly read reports of God's people (Israel and Judah) ignoring and violating the commandments of God and relying on their own strength and understanding. In the process they repeatedly fall into extreme fornication and apostasy, right through to Malachi where we see them bringing second rate offerings.
Suddenly, in Jesus' day, it seems they have got the message (or else we are dealing with a section of the people that have not received much mention previously). They have really got the message that the Word of God is the final authority. They are zealous for the things of God but they are still relying on their own strength and understanding and they are still missing God by completely opposing Jesus.
Jesus came that we might have His Spirit and the Holy Spirit dwell in us and guide us and yet, today, we still lean to our own strength and our own understanding and look to the things that are seen and so often miss God!
There seems to be a tremendous parallel. Jesus came about 2000 years after God cut covenant with Abram and for most of that time the children of Abraham did not serve God with all their hearts, all their minds and all their souls apart from brief periods of revival and small numbers of people. 2000 years ago, God cut covenant with man through the Man, Jesus, and for most of the last 2000 years those called by the name of Christ have not served God with all their hearts, all their minds and all their souls apart from brief periods of revival and small numbers of people.
Shortly before Jesus' birth men became zealous for the Word of God but when the Word of God was fulfilled in their sight, most of them missed God. In the past few centuries men have become zealous for the Word of God again.
Surely, as God seeks to draw us back to Himself and to deliver us from the bondage of fallen man, there is a distinct possibility that He is about to do a NEW THING which will not conform to our understanding of His Word?
The passage in Luke 6:11 cited above is immediately followed by what is commonly referred to as "The Sermon on the Mount" or "The Beatitudes" where Jesus draws out the essence of the Abrahamic and Mosaic Covenants and lays the foundation for the New Covenant by focusing on the Spirit of the Torah (Law), thereby progressing from the Letter of the Torah (Law).
Immediately He challenges everything our own strength and own understanding would have us do and believe based on our own interpretation of Torah.
If Passover 2000 is, indeed, a significant date then we must surely ask ourselves, "in what way is The Lord (Yahweh1) about to challenge our strength and our understanding once more as He seeks to draw those who will listen closer to Him?"
We must also ask ourselves whether we will see Jesus or whether we will be filled with bitterness and rage towards what He is doing!
Luke 6:1-49:
1 Now it happened on the second Sabbath after the first that He went through the grainfields. And His disciples plucked the heads of grain and ate them, rubbing them in their hands.
2 And some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?"
3 But Jesus answering them said, "Have you not even read this, what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him:
4 "how he went into the house of God, took and ate the showbread, and also gave some to those with him, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat?"
5 And He said to them, "The Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath."
6 Now it happened on another Sabbath, also, that He entered the synagogue and taught. And a man was there whose right hand was withered.
7 So the scribes and Pharisees watched Him closely, whether He would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against Him.
8 But He knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered hand, "Arise and stand here." And he arose and stood.
9 Then Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one thing: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy?"
10 And when He had looked around at them all, He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he did so, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.
11 But they were filled with rage, and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.
12 Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
13 And when it was day, He called His disciples to Himself; and from them He chose twelve whom He also named apostles:
14 Simon, whom He also named Peter, and Andrew his brother; James and John; Philip and Bartholomew;
15 Matthew and Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called the Zealot;
16 Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot who also became a traitor.
17 And He came down with them and stood on a level place with a crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear Him and be healed of their diseases,
18 as well as those who were tormented with unclean spirits. And they were healed.
19 And the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all.
20 Then He lifted up His eyes toward His disciples, and said: "Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
21 Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.
22 Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude you, and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.
23 Rejoice in that day and leap for joy! For indeed your reward is great in heaven, for in like manner their fathers did to the prophets.
24 "But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.
25 Woe to you who are full, for you shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.
26 Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
27 "But I say to you who hear: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
28 "bless those who curse you, and pray for those who spitefully use you.
29 "To him who strikes you on the one cheek, offer the other also. And from him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic either.
30 "Give to everyone who asks of you. And from him who takes away your goods do not ask them back.
31 "And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise.
32 "But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
33 "And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
34 "And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much back.
35 "But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil.
36 "Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.
37 "Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
38 "Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you."
39 And He spoke a parable to them: "Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into the ditch?
40 "A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is perfectly trained will be like his teacher.
41 "And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not perceive the plank in your own eye?
42 "Or how can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck that is in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the plank that is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother's eye.
43 "For a good tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.
44 "For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.
45 "A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
46 "But why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do the things which I say?
47 "Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like:
48 "He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock.
49 "But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great." (NKJ)
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