Amen.
Luke chapter number six beginning verse number one the bible reads
And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first that he went through the corn fields
And his disciples plucked the ears of corn and did eat rubbing them in their hands and certain of the pharisees said unto them
Why do you that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?
And jesus answering them said have you not read so much as this?
What david did when himself was in hungered and they which were with him
How he went into the house of god and to take and eat the showbread and gave also to them that were with him
Which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone
And he said unto them that the son of man is lord also of the sabbath
And he came to pass also on another sabbath that he entered into the synagogue and taught
And there was a man whose right hand was withered and the scribes and pharisees watched him
Whether he would heal on the sabbath day that they might find an accusation against him
But he knew their thoughts and said to the man which had the withered hand rise up
And stand forth in the midst and he rose and stood forth then said jesus unto them
I will ask you one thing. Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good or to do evil?
To save life or to destroy it and looking round about upon them all he said unto the man stretch forth thine hand and he did
So and his hand was restored whole as the other watch this next phrase
And they were filled with madness
I mean, they're just infuriated. They're just enraged
It seems like they're just obsessed with the sabbath
They're overboard on the sabbath where jesus is having to moderate their view of the sabbath and explain to them
Hey in the old testament david ate of the showbread which was technically forbidden and also the priests on the sabbath
They're circumcising children on the eighth day
They're offering sacrifices in the morning and evening for the the sabbath day as well
And he says right after that in verse number
Nine, or i'm sorry number 11. It says they were filled with madness and communed with one another
What they might do to jesus, so I mean they want to hurt him. They want to harm him. They're obsessed with it
Now, what did jesus mean when he says the son of man is lord also of the sabbath?
Well, keep your finger there and go over to john chapter five
Go to john chapter five
And i'm going to show you a similar scripture
In john chapter five regarding jesus and his disciples and the sabbath look at john chapter five verse 16 and therefore did the jews
Persecute jesus and sought to slay him. So they wanted to kill him just like in luke chapter six
They sought to slay him because he had done these things on the sabbath he healed someone
on the sabbath day look at verse 17
But jesus answered them my father worketh hitherto and I work
Therefore the jews sought the more to kill him because he had not only had he broken the sabbath
But said also that god was his father
making himself equal
with god
Now flip over if you would to hebrews chapter number four you see the sabbath
wasn't just
a day that you took off just for the sake of taking the day off and
If you don't do it you die because you know, you just have to have that day off
See the sabbath actually had a deeper meaning and a deeper purpose that the pharisees and the sadducees did not understand at all
So they're so caught up in the ritual
Of just strictly observing the sabbath even going overboard on observing the sabbath to the point where they're
More strict about it than god even is
When god in the flesh walked among them, he thought that they were observing it too strictly. They were being too, uh,
Overboard with it, but they don't even understand what it means. They're missing the whole point
They're just going through the motions with the sabbath. They actually didn't understand the sabbath
Let's read hebrews chapter four and understand what the sabbath even represented
And why it was okay for jesus to work on the sabbath because jesus said when he was called out for doing things on the sabbath
he said
I work
On the sabbath. He said my father worketh hitherto and I work also
So why was it right for jesus to work on the sabbath if work is forbidden on the sabbath?
Well, the reason why is because in luke chapter 6 jesus said that he is the lord of the sabbath
So why did jesus not have to abstain from working on the sabbath?
Well, look at hebrews 4 and it explains why look at verse number one. It says let us therefore fear
Lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest notice that word
Any of you should seem to come short of it for unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them
But the word preached did not profit them not being mixed with faith in them that heard it for we which have believed
Do enter into rest
As he said as I have sworn in my wrath if they shall enter into my rest
Although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. So in these verses we see that
Resting or entering into rest is equivalent to believing on christ
He said we who have believed have entered into rest
Let's keep going look at verse four for he spake in a certain place of the seventh day
On this wise and god did rest the seventh day from all his works and in this place again
If they shall enter into my rest
Seeing therefore remaineth that some must enter therein and they whom who was first preached entered not in because of unbelief
Again, he limited a certain day
Saying and david today after so long a time as it is said today if you will hear his voice
Harden not your hearts for if jesus had given them rest
Then would he not afterward have spoken of another day there remaineth therefore a rest to the people of god why?
four four means because
For he that has entered into his rest
Into god's rest into christ's rest. He also had ceased from his own works
As god did from his let us labor therefore to enter into that rest lest any man fall after the same example of
Unbelief
So over and over again in these verses over and over again
There's believing in christ
and then there's not entering into rest because
Entering into rest is when you believe in christ and when you don't believe you've not entered into rest everybody see that
I mean repeatedly over and over again
The other thing we see is that rest
Goes back to the seven days of creation where god spends six days creating
And then the seventh day he ceases from his own works
So the bible says that he that has entered into his rest he who believes on christ
Has ceased from his own works
Just as god ceased from his works after those six days
Of creation. So what does this all mean?
The picture of the sabbath is that we don't have to do any works for salvation
That's the picture just as god did work for six days and then he
Rested from his own work the bible says that in order for us to get into heaven in order for us to be saved
We have to rest
Not work our way into heaven. We need to rest our way into heaven
Now I think that's good news. That's why the word gospel means good news
I'd much rather rest my way into heaven than to work my way into heaven
It's not because i'm lazy. It's because working my way to heaven would be impossible
Because we've all sinned and come short
Of the glory of god and what's it say in verse one?
Let us therefore fear lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest any of you should seem to come short of it
If you try to labor your way into heaven work your way into heaven, you will come short
You have to rest your way into heaven. You have to rest in the finished work of jesus christ
He that has entered into his rest
Has also ceased from his own works
As god did from his so we cannot trust in our works
That's why the penalty on breaking the sabbath in the old testament was very strict. You'll be put to death
That's a picture of the fact if you don't rest in christ you go to hell
And so that's a pretty strict that's worse than physical death you go to hell if you don't rest in christ
That's why the sabbath had that penalty associated with it
So it makes perfect sense if jesus christ is the one who does all the work for salvation
And we do all the resting
Then wouldn't it make sense for jesus to work on the sabbath?
Why he's the one who does the work of salvation?
We do the resting he did the work
What's interesting as well is that if you and I don't have time to go into all this
But if you study the calendar in the bible and you understand that jesus is crucified on the 14th day of the month abib
Which is the passover
Which is followed by the 15th day, which is the feast of unleavened bread
And then you realize that jesus christ was in the grave for three days and three nights
And that he rose again on the first day of the week
Then that means that he was dead for three days and three nights and those three days were
Thursday what we would call obviously these days didn't exist back then but what we would think of as
Thursday friday saturday
Right, and then the first day of the week
He arose so
Thursday would have been the passover
Friday would have been the feast of unleavened bread and then the seventh day saturday would have been the sabbath
So all three of those days that jesus christ was dead
Were days when the jews were not supposed to do any work
And the message that god's sending there with his crucifixion his death barrel resurrection is that he's doing all the work for salvation
So during the process of christ's death
Burial and resurrection no work was to be done for those three days while he was paying for our sins
While he was paying our way into heaven
Everybody was supposed to be resting
That's not a coincidence that god worked it out that way because he could have come in a different year
Where the passover fell on a different day of the week?
And then that third day wouldn't have been on that sabbath day and he wouldn't have risen on the first day of the week
It was obviously planned that way in his perfect plan just to show us that strong message of resting in the finished work of christ
For our salvation. So that's what the sabbath represented. So here the jews are just fuming
that christ isn't
Keeping the sabbath according to their rules, which they made up their own rules
Not going by god's definition of the sabbath
They're just fuming and then they get angry when they see jesus doing good works on the sabbath such as healing people
They don't realize he's the lord of the sabbath
They don't realize that he's the one who does the work and that if they don't rest in him
They're going to go to hell and most of them did go to hell
They're in hell right now the pharisees and the sadducees by and large rejected the lord. Jesus christ
So when it comes to this issue of the sabbath day in the new testament, we do not observe the seventh day
Sabbath day, we don't observe that in the new testament
Why because the bible is clear in the new testament that that is not enforced go to colossians chapter 2
colossians chapter 2
This sabbath has been fulfilled. This is one of the
carnal ordinances
That we do not observe the meats the drinks the divers washings the carnal ordinances in the new testament. We do not observe
The sabbath days we do not observe the seventh day sabbath nor do we observe the new moons or the feast days or the holy days
of the old testament
and in fact when people
observed these things in
paul's day in in galatia
He said you observe times and months and days and years. He said i'm afraid of you
He was even doubting whether they're even saved
Because they've been so judaized and they're getting circumcised
And they're observing all these holidays
And and they thought that they had to do those things and he was really worried about them
And a lot of them were actually even trusting those things for salvation
And he's saying look christ has become of no effect unto you whosoever of you are justified by the law
You're falling from grace
We through the spirit wait for the hope of righteousness, which is by faith
In christ jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision availeth anything but faith which worketh by love
So in colossians chapter 2 they had the same problem in colossi
Same issue why because the jews were scattered into every nation under heaven
Why because everywhere the early church went even into foreign lands of greece and mastadonia and asia?
Jews would always be falling after them
And persecuting them even following them into strange cities remember saul followed them into strange cities before he became
Paul and all throughout the book of acts you see the jews are everywhere synagogues are everywhere
There's a synagogue in every town, you know, somebody brought up to me recently. They said hey, you know
There's no way this scripture and colossians could be talking about the judaizers because colossi is a thousand miles from jerusalem
But what you got to understand is if you read acts there's a synagogue in all these places
And if you understand the jews have been scattered into all nations under heaven
And when you realize that in acts the jews persecute the christians in all places, okay
Look at what colossians says it's similar to what galatians says it says in verse 14 blotting out the handwriting of ordinances
That was against us which was contrary to us and took it out of the way nailing it to his cross
And having spoiled principalities and powers. He made a show of them openly triumphing over the minute
Let no man therefore judge you
in meat
Or in drink or in respect of unholy day or of the new moon or of the sabbath days
Which are a shadow of things to come but the body is of christ
That's the same language as in hebrews 9 when it talks about the law having a shadow of good things to come
But not the very image of those things could never make the comers
They're on too perfect and it talks about the carnal ordinances the meats drinks divers washings
Were only imposed on them until the time of reformation
Which is defined as the coming of christ in hebrews 9 verses 10 and 11
So here we see the same type of language as hebrews 9 saying that the ordinances were nailed to the cross with christ
therefore
And look what it says in verse 16. Let no man therefore when you see a therefore always figure out what it's there for
Okay, the word therefore
Is tying it to what was just said he's saying because of verse 4 verses 14 and 15 therefore verse 16
Okay, so because of the fact that the ordinances were nailed to the cross with christ the carnal ordinances if we compare with hebrews 9 and 10
Because the ordinances were nailed to the cross therefore let no man judge you
in meat
That means when you eat that pork sandwich don't let anybody tell you
That that's sin
Don't let anybody judge your carnitas burrito. Don't let anybody judge your chorizo breakfast burrito
Don't let anyone judge you
For your surf and turf
And lobster and shrimp if you can afford it, right?
but
Don't let them judge you in meat or in drink
And that's not saying don't let them judge and drink, you know
Obviously the bible teaches against drunkenness, but this is talking about, you know along the lines of the drink offering
He says meet or drink or in respect of an holy day also known as holiday
That's where we get that word or of the new moon
or of the sabbath days
Which are a shadow of things to come but the body is of christ therefore we don't observe the sabbath
We don't observe the new moon. We don't blow the trumpet in the new moon
Those things have symbolic meanings, but we do not observe these things carnally in the new testament now
I've heard an interpretation out there from these hebrew roots types who just don't want to let go of this stuff
They want to be brought back into bondage. They are the spiritual children of hagar that want to
Uh judeis and circumcise
and and teach the torah observing type of christianity and
And they usually want to get people to speak hebrew even though they don't even speak hebrew
You should ever I encourage everybody just to learn a couple sentences in hebrew
Just a couple sentences just so that when somebody comes up to you with all their
torah observing
You can just walk up to them and just basically start talking a little hebrew to them and then they get really embarrassed really fast
Because they don't speak the language but they pretend like they know every you know, they desire to be teachers of the law
And all torah means is just law. It's just hebrew for law. There's your first hebrew word
Desiring to be teachers of the law understanding neither what they say nor where of they affirm
They can't even order a bagel with cream cheese in hebrew
But they act like they went deep and they know all the gematrea and the hebrew and all this stuff
But i've heard them
You know respond to this because this passage is clear
It's crystal clear. Here's how they respond to this. No, no, no. No, this verse is saying the opposite
Of what it appears to be saying it's telling you don't let anybody judge you because you're doing the new moon
And because you're doing the sabbath and because you're doing the holidays because you're doing the meets
But that's just crazy because verse 14 says
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances therefore
Don't let them judge. So why would he say blotting out the handwriting of ordinances?
Which was against us nailing it to his cross. And so therefore don't let pagans judge you for being a jew
But that's what they try to turn this thing around who's heard that interpretation of this
Yeah, a couple people i've heard it believe me many times
I've heard it
I think the first time I heard it was probably six or seven years ago
You know when the hebrew roots things start really blowing up and i've heard it a lot since
It's false
Same thing with galatians. It's it's mind-blowing where it's a flip over to gla and I know i'm spending a lot of time on this
but
A lot of the chapter was about the sabbath and I want to cover this real quick go to galatians chapter number
Three and you find something similar to this
And you know, they they try to do the same thing with this verse. I'm sorry. It's in chapter four verse
Nine he says
But or let's start in verse eight to get some context here how be it then when you knew not god
You did service unto them which by nature are no gods
But now after the ye have known god or rather are known of god
How turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage
You observe days and months and times and years i'm afraid of you lest i've bestowed upon you labor in vain
Here's what the hebrew roots crowd will do with this first. They'll say oh he's talking about they're worried about their horoscope
They're worried about pagan dates
They're looking at the scorpio and the leo and the torus and the aries and all that
It you know, it's not the jewish calendar that we should all be observing
That's what they say
Because they say well because in verse nine it talks about how they or verse eight talks about them worshiping other gods
Here's what he's saying friend and and this goes back to taking the bible in context because guess what galatians chapter one is about
How the jews religion is a false religion. Guess what chapter two is about?
How the jews religion is a false religion. Guess what chapter three is about how the jews are not god's chosen people
But we are guess what chapter four is about about how the jews are hagar and and we're uh, you know
The children of sarah the children of isaac guess what chapter five's about verse one stand fast
Therefore in the liberty wherewith christ has made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage
Behold, I paul say unto you that if you be circumcised christ shall profit you nothing. What's the bondage?
Going back under all this jewish stuff
Well that guess what that's the same bondage in verse nine of chapter three or four look at chapter four verse nine
At the end where until you desire again to be in bondage
You observe days and months and times and years guess what chapter six is about
Hey
The circumcision doesn't avail anything chapter five says it's not about being circumcised
You're a debtor to do the whole law. You can't keep the whole torah. It's not going to happen
It's faith in christ we're justified by faith. We're god's chosen people by faith
It's not the jews chapter one two three four five and six. They all hammer that same truth all of them
It's the whole book of galatians
Every chapter and then somebody just says oh well here he's just worried about them checking their horoscope now
Look i'm against checking your horoscope. Amen
But that's not what this is about
This is about observing days and months and times and year like when you're following the jewish calendar
Like when you're observing sabbath days feast days holy days and you're circumcising
And going under the the law
And so forth we should be uh, not circumcising our children
We should not be abstaining from meats and drinks and and the carnal ordinances. We are to
Observe the new testament
And this is very clear
And of course the hebrew roots will just complete crowd. They'll take this just so out of context. It's mind-numbing
How they could get that out of chapter 4
Verse 10. It's like they're just isolating it all by itself
They forgot about the other six chapters that are surrounding it
It's a classic example of that and so colossians 2
There's no way around it
Galatians 4 there's no way around it
Romans chapter 14 verse 5 says one man esteemeth one day above another another esteemeth every day alike
Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. Therefore if we had to observe
The sabbath and these holidays then why would he say?
You could esteem every day alike and be a hundred percent right with god
You can celebrate no holidays you can treat all 365 days identical to each other and be right with god
right
You look you don't have to celebrate any holiday. You don't have to celebrate christmas
You don't have to celebrate thanksgiving. You don't have to celebrate memorial day
You don't have to celebrate the fourth of july. You don't have to celebrate valentine's day
You don't have to celebrate new year's day or saint patrick's day or valentine's day or india
You don't have to celebrate easter. You don't have to celebrate anything. There is no commandment in the bible that commands you
to observe
Any holiday now, I don't believe that holidays are bad
I think that holidays are good except for the jewish holidays because I don't want the apostle paul to be up in heaven getting scared
about me
I don't want paul to be like man. I'm afraid of steven anderson
When I see him with that shofar blowing the trumpet on the new moon i'm afraid of him
I don't want him to be afraid. I want him to to to rest in peace. Amen
So let's go back to luke chapter six that was a little bit of a rabbit trail
but don't don't
Be fearful because what i'm what i'm going to do is i'm just going to preach as far as I get in this tonight
And then i'm just going to finish it on sunday night. So i'll just finish this on my sunday night sermon
Because I want to make sure that because these chapters in luke are long
And they're and they're so good
I mean some of the best chapters in the bible
I love uh the four gospels and so we don't I don't want to just gloss anything over but I don't want to uh
Keep you too long tonight
So I might do this on some weeks on this luke series is just to push push some of the material to sunday night
So, uh, let's jump back into the chapter here because I want to cover all this
It says in verse number 11 they were filled with madness
And communed with one another what they might do to jesus because of the fact that
He didn't have the same view of the sabbath that they did now the jews today are still overboard on the sabbath
Did you know that many jews believe that it is a sin to flip on the lights on the sabbath?
Because they claim that that's kindling a fire
Because the bible said the bible said you weren't supposed to kindle a fire on the sabbath
Because god didn't want them out there chopping wood and stacking firewood and lighting a fire, you know
He's building a fire his work and he didn't want them cooking food and everything
He wanted him to cook the food in advance
To rest and relax and take it easy on the sabbath day
So they weren't supposed to kindle a fire, but they say well if you flip a switch that's kind of like kindling a little fire
Because that little spark or that little electricity
and then there are also
Uh sabbath mode on elevators elevators have a special sabbath module installed in certain areas where a lot of jews live
Because pushing the button
Is kindling a little fire
Just pushing that button
I mean what it seems like it'd be more work to take the stairs. It seems like you're saving work
Because there was the sabbath day's journey. I mean you could go a little distance on the sabbath, right?
So the elevator is a labor saving device, but these people have missed the point
So they have a sabbath mode for an elevator
Where basically they start the thing running before the sabbath starts and it just runs
So on sabbath mode the thing just goes up down up down up down and the door just opens every floor
I think my kids would probably love sabbath mode because i've seen them
When we go to hotels where they get in they push all the buttons
And sort of they do a little sabbath mode ride through the elevator through the hotel
So, you know, it's just it's just a lot of man-made laws
These people can't see the forest for the trees. They look at the bible. They don't see jesus christ
They don't see the true god. They don't see the lord. All they see is a bunch of empty ritual
And just a bunch of self-righteous
Actions that they can go through to feel like they're right with god when in reality
They are anti-christ for having rejected the very son of god
And so as it was then so it is now
Today's jew is a pharisee or a sadducee
By nature it says in verse 12 and it came to pass in those days that he went out into a mountain to pray
And continued all night in prayer to god
And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples and of them he chose 12 whom also he named apostles
simon
Whom he also named peter now, what does the word apostle mean?
Well an apostle is a messenger or one who sent think about the word post office, right?
Apostle it's like postal why because he's bringing a message. So these are
special
messengers
That god is going to use to accomplish his mission here. So he took his disciples
And the disciples are those who learn from him people who follow him and learn from him. So there's more than 12
Obviously, there's the 12 main disciples, but there are lots of other disciples because out of the pool of disciples he chooses 12
That he gives this distinction of being apostles
Okay, so these people are a special messenger
That he gives power over unclean spirits and so forth. It says that these are the names verse 14 simon
whom he also named peter and andrew his brother james and john philip and bartholomew
Matthew and thomas james the son of alpheus and simon called zelotes
And judas the brother of james and judas iscariot
which also was the traitor and he came down with them and stood in the plane and
the company of his disciples and a great multitude of people out of all judaea and jerusalem
And from the sea coast of tyron zidon which came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases
And they that were vexed with unclean spirits and they were healed and the whole multitude sought to touch him
For there went virtue out of him and healed them all
And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples and said blessed be ye poor
For yours is the kingdom of god blessed are ye that hunger now for ye shall be filled
And as we get into this you'll clearly recognize what we know as the sermon on the mount
from matthews chapters five six
And seven a lot of the same subject matter this series of blessed this and blessed that
Is known as the beatitudes and then after that he talks about being persecuted
Same thing in the sermon on the map. He talks about loving your enemies same thing at the end of matthew chapter five, right?
Then he talks about uh
down at the bottom there
Not beholding the moat in your brother's eye, but considering not the beam in your own eye
So he says judge not and you should not be judged that's from matthew chapter seven verse one, right?
And then as we go even further we find more things from chapter seven of matthew
Uh, the the good tree bringing forth good fruit the evil tree bringing forth corrupt fruit
And then we end up with the the idea of the the house that's built on the rock versus the house that's built on the sand
And the storm coming that's how chapter seven ends
So it starts the same way chapter five starts and it ends the same way chapter seven ends
There's a lot of the same material but a lot of it's different. First of all, a lot of it's worded a little bit differently
There are things that are not here. There are things that are added. There are things that are removed
Now a lot of people will try to compare stuff like this and say well see these guys aren't really that accurate
You know when they're reporting, you know matthew mark luke and john
They forgot stuff the bible is just written by man. It's got mistakes in it. They're not trusting that it's inspired by god
First of all, here's the proof
That the book of luke is inspired by god because it's the greatest book known to mankind
And if it wasn't written by god, well, we've had 2 000 years for somebody to write something better and they haven't right
And there have been a few people who've tried
mohammed
joseph smith
Plenty of other weirdos have written all kinds of books and none of them can even hold a candle to matthew mark luke and john
These four amazing books. That's how we know that they're god's word man. Can't write a book like this
Man doesn't have this knowledge this wisdom man's words don't have the power that god's word has
So you have to have faith to believe that the bible here is god's word. Here's the true
Here's the true story look what it says in verse 17 he came down with them and stood in the plane
So in this chapter he goes down and stands in a plane
And in matthew chapter 5 he goes up into a mountain
That's why it's called the sermon on the mountain. This is the sermon in the plane, right?
So don't confuse the sermon on the mount with the sermon in the plane now
It's so you know if people call this the sermon on the mount
I get that because in a sense that's accurate to say that luke six is the sermon on the mount because it's the same sermon
It'd be sort of like if I got up and preached a sermon called without our dogs, right?
And then I went and traveled to some distant city and I preached on without our dogs
It's not going to be exactly the same is it?
It's not going to be identical
It's actually especially the way that I preach it would be a lot different
Because my sermons are very unscripted
I don't you know, i'm not one of these pastors that just has every word plan. It's all written
I mean look at all the notes I have up here tonight
I have no notes tonight
None, there's nothing up the sleeve nothing
so a lot of times I have sermon notes and beginner preachers don't try this at home because
When I started out I always use notes, but i'm very unscripted i'm preaching off the cuff because I I got the material in my heart
And then i'm preaching from the heart. Okay, so I I learned the bible I understand it and then I preach it
Okay, so i'm not just this scripted performer up here
With all these jokes and illustrations and everything all scripted out and there are preachers that are like that
It's almost like an actor
Reading his lines
And and the internet is starting to expose these people
Because these big name preachers they come through the evangelists so and so
He writes 10 sermons for the whole year only 10
And what he does he just preaches those same sermons at the over and over again and they're like identical
I mean you could almost and i've downloaded some and just experimented with them
Like going to different minute and second markers and they're saying it's almost to the second it's creepy
Preach thousands of miles apart and it's like to the second
I mean 15 minutes in they're on the same joke and they try to make it seem like the joke is spontaneous
And you know, it's it's not and they're drowning on stage usually
Because you know what when you plan jokes, they're not funny
You know jokes have to just happen
Humor has to happen on the fly
whenever pastors plan and you young preachers
Don't plan jokes in your sermon
The worst thing ever is when a preacher gets up and the first thing he does is tells a joke
But it's totally scripted and totally planned 99 of time it falls flat
When you have a planned joke
And plus, you know, it's not a comedy routine. It's a sermon
Right
This is why comedy routines are usually stupid and ridiculous and not funny
They're usually not funny. You get a lot more laughs from just real life. Just things that happen
Especially when you have nine kids, there's a lot of laughs
You get laughs from just life funny things happen unexpected things happen
Somebody thinks that something says something ha ha you had to be there
It can't be planned. It can't be scripted
That's why 99 of stand-up comics rely on smut to get a laugh
Because scripted jokes usually aren't funny
So they have to just get a guaranteed laugh by going to the bedroom humor and the bathroom humor because that's a guaranteed laugh
So they go to junior high locker room style humor like our buddy jeff durbin over here at apostasia church
With his late night tv show or whatever
I mean a pastor with a late night comedy show
Patterned after what are the what? So what are the what are the the late night, uh comedy shows?
That are on right now
The daily show what else a worldly ones. No, i'm just kidding. What what is it?
Is that still around the late late show? I guess with a name like that. It's timeless
Fallon
I've never seen any of that, but i've seen the old ones back
You know when I in my worldly days
It's all new guys same junk new face
But you know back back in the day. It was uh, j lenno and david letterman, right or is that going back too far?
Johnny carson's before my time buddy. I'm not that old
And then the red-haired guy that was like super late where it was like why am I up at this time?
Okay, so the point is that you know these late night comedy shows
They're not clean
Okay, first of all a lot of it's off the cuff and most of it's not clean
So then this guy durbin he wants to do a christian version. He wants to be a christian comedian
late night talk for so he basically just
Sat up and just watched hours and hours and hours of this junk of the world
taking notes
How he can make his show look like that
Except he did a bad job on the laugh track
That laugh track needs some work
He's got like three people in there
as a live studio audience and they're like
Or they're like
Yeah
It's just like it's like what in the world
At least use a recorded fake laugh track then at least it would sound like a hundred people instead of two
Or five or whatever
What a joke look you come up when you try to copy the world you come off looking like a clown
That's why all this christian rock and christian rappers and stuff. They all look like clowns
Is bogus and you know what the teenagers think give me the real stuff
You know what the teenagers think they're not just like oh I can't wait for the next episode of durbin's comedy show
No, all they're gonna do
Is just get a taste for that. They're gonna want the real stuff
They're gonna want the the Fallon or the daily show or whatever and they're gonna laugh at all the smut and dirty
Oh wait, that's on durbin's show the dirty jokes
But the point is that you know comedy is is often smutty because of the fact that
Scripted humor is 99 of the time not funny
And so that's why they have to rely on dirty jokes to get it done
Now what in the world does any of this have to do with luke chapter 6 i'll tell you what i'll tell you right now what?
What it has to do with luke chapter 6 is the fact that jesus is preaching the same sermon in two different locations
And it came out different
Just like if I preach the same sermon or if you preach the same sermon in two different locations
It's going to be different. You're going to include different illustrations make different points
I mean look if a week from now somebody said preach on luke 6 it would be unrecognizable as this sermon
It'd be a completely different sermon. So that's the way it is with jesus here. He's preaching two different sermons
Now i'm glad that he did
Because now we have more word of god, I mean if this was identical to matthew chapter 5
6 and 7
What do we even need it for?
We already have it. We are it's like i've already read this. I have this back in matthew
So god in his wisdom records different
different versions of different sermons
in different gospels
To fit into that gospel and to make those points
Because there are a lot of points that you can get from luke 6 that you'll never get from matthew 5 through 7 and vice versa
They're both necessary. They're both independently necessary, but it's clearly the same sermon
So jesus had a message that he preached that covered these points
He preached it in the mount and then he preached it in the plane
Same sermon two different occasions and that's where a lot of these contradictions in the bible are answered. It's just different events
Jesus preached every day for three and a half years
And we only have a tiny fraction of his sermons
And every sermon he preached was not completely unique
Why because people need to hear the same things?
You know, I mean what if what if I never repeated anything?
Once I preached on something I never preached on it again. I never covered that point. I never used that material
What about people that just joined the church?
I was like, sorry buddy. I covered that 10 years ago. Where were you?
We need to keep refreshing things and teaching things again
So jesus is teaching some of the same material again in luke chapter 6 that he taught in matthew 5 through 7
It's two totally different occasions and locations, but it's the same topic
same sermon
In one sense different sermon in another sense. So so if somebody said luke 6 is the sermon on the mount
They'd be correct in the sense that jesus is using that same sermon from the sermon on that
That's what he's preaching but technically it's the sermon on the plane. All right, everybody got that
So let's jump into this a little bit here with the little bit of time that we have left
He lifted up his eyes on the disciples and said blessed be ye poor for yours is the kingdom of god
Blessed are ye that hunger now
For ye shall be filled
Blessed are ye that weep now
For ye shall laugh now this goes directly to what I was just preaching about on sunday
Where we talked about suffering now and enjoying later and what's that called starts with a p?
patience
Waiting on the lord. And so the bible says here we're blessed if we hunger now
I'd rather hunger now and be filled later than to be filled now with all the world's good and and be hungering
Later or even to be hungering for all eternity because you think that there's food in hell
Do you think that in hell they're serving up meal times?
For breakfast lunch and dinner you if a person goes to hell they'll never eat again
And they'll never take a drink again and think about how enjoyable it is to eat good food
And how about a cold glass of water or a cold glass of lemonade on a hot day?
You'll never experience that again if you go to hell
Hell is a place with no food and no drink that enjoyment is just a memory that will torment those who are there forever
It says blessed
Be ye poor for yours of the kingdom of god blessed are you the hunger now for ye shall be filled blessed
Are you that weep now?
For ye shall laugh the bible says weeping may endure for the night
But joy cometh in the morning you might be going through a sad time right now and weeping
But the laughter will come the joy will come the lord is faithful
He's going to bring you through the trials and tribulations and get you to the other side safely where you can have joy
Unspeakable and full of glory the bible said in verse 20 blessed be ye poor. Is that what the world says?
That being poor is a blessing
I mean the world will teach you the opposite
There was this guy who uh had a license plate on a on like a jaguar
Or or some kind of a mercedes or some kind of a really fancy car
Back when I was in chicago and it just said blessed
B-l-e-s-t blessed and it was a super expensive car because if you live in chicago
And if you ask a black person, how are you doing?
And if they're go to like a missionary baptist church or that style of christianity, they'll say i'm blessed by the best
Who's ever heard that before who's ever been in chicago right lots of hands i'm blessed by the best
Or sometimes they'll just give the short version i'm blessed i'm blessed. How you doing blessed blessed
so
That's pretty that's a pretty common thing. So this guy was a preacher though. He's a pastor and he had a
Super expensive car. It was over overboard
You know, he's not he's not uh
Living a humble life
Right. He's he's basically trying to just make himself fat off of the flock, right?
So he's driving this a super fancy car with the license plate blessed
So then my my friend mike said that he had because he had a really junky car
He said he was going to get the license plate mo blessed
Just with a totally messed up car mo blessed
So, you know, you're blessed blessed be he poor
So it's not it's not bad to be poor
You know as long as you're an honest person if you if you work hard now it is bad
To not work and you're poor because you're lazy the book the whole book of proverbs is about that
How how being lazy makes you poor that's a bad kind of poor
or brother segura did that sermon at the camping trip called
Poverty the good the bad and the ugly and he explained the fact how you know if you're poor because you're lazy
Or because you're living in sin, then that's bad
But you know if you work an honest living at a blue-collar job, and maybe you're just poor you don't have fancy things
You don't have great riches. That's okay be humble
And christ said you're you're more blessed you're blessed blessed be poor for yours is the kingdom of god
It's a blessing to be hungry
It's a blessing to weep the bible says in verse 22 blessed are ye when men shall hate you
But according to joel osteen and kenneth copeland, you know, the real blessing is to have a lot of money
for everybody to love you
For you to be full of food and for you to be laughing your head off at some laughing revival
Right down in lakeland florida or whatever
But he said no you're blessed when men hate you
And when they shall separate you from their company and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evil for the son of man
sake rejoice ye in that day and leap for joy
For behold your reward is great in heaven for in like manner they did did their fathers unto the prophets but woe unto you that
are rich
For ye have received your consolation
Again back to sunday morning sermon, you know, you don't want to have the enjoyment now and suffering later
That's not the way to live your life verse 25 woe unto you that are full
For you shall hunger woe unto you that laugh now
For you shall mourn and weep woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you for so did their fathers
to the false prophets
And so we have different ideas today in america about what it means to be blessed by god than what jesus taught
We need to understand that the blessing of god
Is not a fancy car a fancy house
Everything going great. We smile and laugh all day with no problems. No suffering. No pain. We never skip a meal
That's not the real blessing of god
You know, I would say that the apostle paul was greatly blessed by god
Who thinks the apostle paul was blessed by god?
For sure
Okay, but what did he have poverty?
beatings
incarceration
famine persecution fasting but he he had great joy, too
And you know what else he had a lot of friends good friends
Look at the romans chapter 16 for crying out loud
How many shout outs in that chapter just on and on right?
Greet this person greet this greet this one. Greet this. Hey, let me tell you all the people now
I'm going to tell you who's going to greet you. It's just so many greetings
He had
Friends he had great rewards in heaven. He had joy
Unspeakable and full of glory and you know what? There are some great joys in the christian life
That will blow out of the water. Just you know what it's like to ride around in a fancy car
And you know what
I've ridden in some fancy cars. I mean i've never ridden in like a super duper fancy car
But okay, i've never ridden a fancy car I confess no i'm just kidding no, but but i've rented some cars
That were like a convertible
I thought that was pretty cool
I rented a pt cruiser convertible
No, no, I no I rented a mustang convertible
All right, and I rented a chrysler sebring convertible for because sometimes I was renting an economy car
And it was just upgraded because they didn't have anything else in stock or whatever
So, you know i've driven some fancy cars and you know what it felt kind of good driving that mustang with the top down
Yeah, I could I could get used to this
But you know what though?
That gets old fast. Yeah. I mean if that's what you live for you live a sad life
You live a sad life because after a couple weeks, you know, it's going to be your car whether you're driving a pento
Or whether you're driving a pt cruiser or whether you're driving a mercedes it just becomes your car after a while
It's just a car. It just gets you from point a to point b. I don't live for cars
I don't live for houses and look I remember i'd go to a friend's house. They live in a mansion it impressed you
the first time
Once you'd been there a few times. It's just their house
It got old everything gets old vanity of vanity. Say it the preacher all is vanity, right?
The real joy the real blessing
Is not a fancy car a fancy, you know what the real blessing is
The real blessing is a husband or wife that loves you
The real blessing is children that grow up and serve the lord
That's the real that I mean, that's what I I mean you think I want some fancy car
And say well, you know, okay if my kids go to the devil fine, but what am I gonna be driving?
No, you know, the real blessing is, you know having a church filled with people who love the lord
That can motivate you and encourage you and be a blessing to you. That's a blessing
Okay, you know what the the real curse is
When you don't have these things that are that are that are you know, the the real joys in life
They're people they're relationships. They're a walk with god
They're reading the bible and having tears coming down your face
Or singing hymns and having tears coming down your face. It's watching your children grow up and live for the lord
I mean look that's the real blessing
That's the kind of things we should seek after
And we should seek after the kingdom of god and his righteousness
Seek after knowing the bible having the wisdom of god
Seek after loving our families and you say well, I don't have a wife. I don't have a husband
I don't have kids, you know, you can love your brothers and sisters. You can love your friends
You can love your brothers and sisters in christ, and you know what you can go beget spiritual children by winning a soul and discipling them
And so seek the true riches
Seek that which has eternal value
So what if you're poor so what if you're hungry, you know what being hungry is good
Because then you enjoy your meal like twice as much
When you're not that hungry nothing tastes that good
Starve a while skip some meals and then everything tastes good
I you know, i've been to the point where I was so hungry where I craved that which I hate
I'm serious. I mean think about it think about a food right now everybody get a food in your mind that you hate
All right, just think about the food that you hate the most. What do you hate the most somebody tell me
You hate onions onions
That's in everything
Broccoli you hate broccoli
Apple cider vinegar. All right. I'm with you on that one. Give me five. I hate apple cider vinegar, too
Who else what do you hate?
Liver never had it
Fish whoa
What do you what
Yeah, I don't like mayonnaise either well, okay, why would anyone use mayonnaise when you can use butter for all the same stuff
When I go to a restaurant if there's mayonnaise I just say replace my mayonnaise with real butter
All right. I got one amen on that. So look like think about think about those foods that you hate, right?
Look, i'll tell you what I hate because I I have a pretty broad palette. I hate mustard
I don't like mustard
That's pretty much the only thing I hate anything else I can put up with. I just I hate mustard
I hate mustard. I mean I can eat it to save my life, but I hate it
That's that's the only thing I can think of that I even hate
But you know what? I remember one time I was so hungry that I thought to myself
Just a sandwich or a burger with a ton of mustard like I would eat that in a heartbeat
Because i'm so hungry right now. I mean there are people in the bible who ate a lot worse than that
Because they're starving. I mean they look i'm telling you I started thinking man, that would be good think about that food you hate
Think about how hungry you'd be where you said that sounds good right now
Or you're so thirsty that glass of apple cider vinegar water
Would hit the spot
But you know what if you get hungry enough and thirsty enough you will get there
So the point is people who just get everything they want all the time. They get so picky
They don't want to hardly eat anything and then when they get even that unicorn food given to them. They don't even enjoy it
It's it was oh, you know, you're like hey, how was that bacon cheeseburger, you know, you give them like the ultimate food
How was that bacon cheeseburger with fries and ketchup and a coke and they're just like it was okay
Are you nuts what are you talking about? It's okay
But you know why because the full soul loatheth in honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet
so hunger
Has its place why blessed are you when you hunger why not because hunger is fun
It's when you get filled
That's the fun part
So we need to get off the world's program for happiness and joy and how to live our lives
We need to get on christ program
And we'll finish this on sunday night. Let's bow our heads in a word of prayer
Father we thank you so much for your word lord, and we thank you so much for
Uh these sermons from jesus christ
Uh the sermon on the mount the sermon on the plane lord the great teaching lord some of the most precious
teachings in the whole new testament lord, I pray that we would
Meditate on them day and night and live our lives by these words in jesus name. We pray. Amen