Jesus healed a woman in Sabbath.
14 The meeting-place president, furious because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the congregation, “Six days have been defined as work days. Come on one of the six if you want to be healed, but not on the seventh, the Sabbath.”
For the Synagogue leader, Jesus didn't show respect for the Lord because, in his tradition, Sabbath is not a day for healing.
Jesus answered him:
15-16 But Jesus shot back, “You frauds! Each Sabbath every one of you regularly unties your cow or donkey from its stall, leads it out for water, and thinks nothing of it. So why isn’t it all right for me to untie this daughter of Abraham and lead her from the stall where Satan has had her tied these eighteen years?”
For the synagogue leader, God is honored by following rules. The rules must not be broken. The more detailed the rule the better, because detailed rules are easier to check as "DONE".
For Jesus, God is honored by pleasing him; so it is necessary to know the Lord as a person. The Lord is the Father. The Father loves his children. He wants that one child loves and supports another one.
Jesus shot to everyone listen: people who think as the synagogue leader are frauds. They seem to honor the Lord, but in fact, don't.
May I not be a fraud. Certainly that we have a great trend to be like the synagogue leader, specially on the church.
We show that the Lord is important, not by following little rules (very specific and easy to be checked), but by knowing the Lord as the Father who cares about his children.
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Luke 13: Showing how the Lord is important
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