Luke 6:1-5

Luke 6:1-5

1. We should notice what excessive importance hypocrites attach to trifles.
2. We should notice how graciously our Lord Jesus Christ pleaded the cause of His disciples, and defended them against their accusers.
3. We should notice the clear light which our Lord Jesus Christ throws on the real requirements of the fourth commandment.

"It is a bad symptom of any man's state of soul, when he begins to put the second things in religion in the first place, and the first things in the second, or the things ordained by man above the things ordained by God. Let us beware of falling into this state of mind."

"How many grounds of accusation we give him, by reason of our infirmity! How many charges he may justly lay against us before God! But let us thank God that believers "have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous," who is ever maintaining the cause of His people in heaven, and continually making intercession for them. Let us take comfort in this cheering thought."

"And He argues from David's case, that He who permitted His own temple rules to be infringed, in cases of necessity, would doubtless allow work to be done on His own Sabbath days, when it was work for which there was really a need."

Questions:

1. As we think about the Pharisees who prized certain commands over others, are their sins we overlook in light of ones we deem as worse? Do we emphasize the inward working or only the external?

2. Do we lean more towards thinking our sins are so great that God could not, or at least begrudgingly, forgive us? What does this truth of Jesus being an Advocate for our souls do to our hearts?

3. Whatever your view of the Sabbath, the one option we don’t have is to throw it into the wind as if it never existed. Why do you practice what you do regarding the Sabbath?