SabbathWho Made That Rule? Hearing God’s Voice in Luke 6:1-5 | Daily Devotional and Bible Study

Who Made That Rule? Hearing God's Voice in Luke 6:1-5 | Daily Devotional and Bible Study

Hungry men picked a handful of grain while they walked, and the religious leaders saw three violations of a capital law before breakfast.

Today in our daily Bible study we start Luke 6 with the Sabbath. Before we get to the grain field, I want you to understand why these men were so rigid, because their grandparents had died for this day. Then we'll look at what Jesus actually broke, which was never the command in Scripture. It was the list that had been built on top of it. This one ends with a question worth asking about your own life: who made that rule?

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Questions we answer today

What does the word Sabbath actually mean, and what was the first thing in Scripture called holy? Why did God give two different reasons for resting? How seriously did Israel take the Sabbath, and what did it cost them? Was picking grain in someone's field stealing? What exactly did Jesus break, and what didn't He break?

Timestamps

00:00 Back in Luke 6 and picking up the Sabbath
02:04 Reading Luke 6:1-11
03:28 Prayer
04:33 Sabbath starts in Genesis, before the law
05:00 Shabbat simply means to stop
05:36 The first thing called holy in the Bible
06:05 Rest is a decision, not a reward for finishing
07:03 Two reasons God gave for the Sabbath
07:41 Rest because you are not property anymore
08:09 How the manna trained them to stop
09:55 Hobby Lobby, Chick-fil-A, and the Salvation Army
11:56 Even the land was given rest
12:53 When breaking the Sabbath carried a death penalty
14:19 Losing the land because it was never allowed to rest
15:03 Nehemiah shuts the gates
15:20 A thousand died in caves rather than break it
16:29 Guarding something their grandparents died for
17:20 The thirty-nine categories of forbidden work
18:32 When the protection became the law
20:13 This was not theft
21:44 Reaping, threshing, and winnowing by hand
22:49 Three violations before breakfast
23:17 What religion does when it gets it wrong
23:43 The communion wafers I ate as a kid
26:51 The Pop-Tart argument
28:47 Religion, relationship, and whose rule it was
29:13 Prayer

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