Jason Robinson – Toward Jerusalem – Class 5 – He Ate Before Them

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Good morning Bible school,
fantastic.

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It’s Thursday, we have already
passed halfway point of Bible

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school.
Unbelievable, unbelievable.

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It’s been a tremendous week
that’s we’ve had with you guys.

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And so thank you very much again
for the invite from yesterday’s

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class.
I just want to quickly go over a

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question I had I got a few times
after yesterday’s session on the

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working together.
If we are journeying toward

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Jerusalem, we do so knowing
brothers and sisters that we are

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heading straight for that city.
New Jerusalem is where we set

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our minds and we set our eyes
and we plow a straight line

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carrier across to get there.
The question came up in a few

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different ways of how do we
learn to work together with

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people or brothers and sisters
who we don’t agree with?

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And it’s, it’s a great question.
If brothers and sisters, if

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people do not align with our
first principles, we do not

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ignore them.
We do not simply abandoned them,

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but we never, ever, ever veer
off course towards New

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Jerusalem.
That is the goal.

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We don’t set our cross aside and
wait.

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We don’t simply show them the
fruits of repentance.

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But if they refuse to eat, we
don’t let ourselves become more

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lost for their sake.
We keep our minds focused on New

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Jerusalem.
We are going to the city.

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We do not veer to the left,
would not veer to the right on

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that path towards New Jerusalem.
So hopefully that answers that

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question for you.
But it is an important lesson we

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do learn to work together, just
like those 12 disciples would

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have many, many, many, many,
many times.

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OK, so today we’re on session #5
He ate before them.

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Does anybody remember from
session numbers one and two the

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journey’s purpose?
So Luke 1831 told us what the

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journey’s purpose was.
A couple seconds to try to jog

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those Thursday morning brains
into gear.

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What was the journey’s purpose?
It was to the 12, he said.

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See, we’re going up to
Jerusalem, and everything that’s

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been written about the Son of
Man by the prophets will be

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accomplished.
And we looked at the gravity of

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that statement.
We looked at how much was

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wrapped into that little
sentence yesterday about

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everything that was written.
Everything that was written

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about the profits must be
accomplished.

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And we saw how he chose the 12
that he did.

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OK, So what we’re going to be
looking at today is a topic

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maybe most of us love.
We’re going to be looking at the

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topic of food in Luke’s gospel.
There is a suspiciously major

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emphasis on this topic, and I’m
just going to go through the

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first few slides here quickly
and we’re going to just kind of

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demonstrate how often food
actually comes up in Luke’s

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gospel.
Most importantly, there seems to

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be what I could count 8 times
that Jesus participates in a

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meal in Luke.
There’s 8 meals that Jesus seems

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to participate in.
He participates in chapter 5

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with Levi.
Further on the 1st Pharisee and

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a woman who comes in.
He feeds the five thousands,

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pharisee #2 and pharisee #3.
He eats with the 12, He eats

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with the two travelers, and he
wraps up in chapter 24 by eating

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with the 10.
So it seems to be 8 meals that

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Christ’s participates in in
Luke’s gospel.

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But not only that, but he also
uses food in his teachings.

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There are 18 different places
that he teaches with food.

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Garments and wineskins, Trees
that produce good or bad fruit,

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the sower and the seed, the Good
Samaritan, the Lord’s Prayer

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friend asking for help at
midnight, The rich fool,

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faithful servants, faithful
manager, the barren fig tree,

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the mustard seed and 11 places
at a wedding banquet table.

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The great supper, the lost son,
unjust steward, rich man and

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Lazarus servants.
Rewards in the wicked tenants.

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All of these teachings he works
food and eating and drinking

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into.
These are a list of everything

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that he says, hey, I know I can
relate and I know you as an

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audience can relate to.
And he uses food, hunger and

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fasting is another one.
Hunger and fasting, which is the

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lack of food and drink he uses 9
times in the gospel of just

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Luke.
He has filled the hungry command

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of the stone to become bred at
his temptation, the severe

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famine.
John’s disciples, they

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frequently fast, but your
disciples, they eat and drink

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David and the show bread.
Blessed are you who are hungry.

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Look, a glutton and a drunkard.
I perish with hunger and fasts

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twice a week.
Not only that, but he actually

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uses food as metaphors in
Scripture.

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We recognize most of these.
Bare fruits, he says, worthy of

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repentance.
Bare fruit He will not taste of

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death.
Beware of the leaven of the

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Pharisees.
Salt is good faith the size of a

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mustard seed that he might sift
you as wheat and remove this cup

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from me and a list we will not
read but is everything that I

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couldn’t figure out a category
for.

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There’s 23 other times in Luke’s
gospel that he references food.

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So you place all of these these
things together and you read

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Luke’s gospel, you come up with
approximately slightly over 65

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different times that Christ is
going to talk about food or

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drink, hungry or fasting, things
like of this nature eating in

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his gospel.
That is roughly 20% of the book

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has to do with food.
Why?

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Why does Luke place such
emphasis on Christ the table?

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One commentator, non
Christadelphian states in Luke’s

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gospel Jesus is either going to
a meal at a meal or coming from

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a meal.
It’s a little bit of a stretch,

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but you read through Luke’s
gospel and that’s right.

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A lot of times there’s a lot to
do with food.

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Look, just eat Jesus’s
introduction into scripture.

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Jesus was born in what city?
close Bethlehem he was born in.

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Bethlehem means House of bread.
What was he placed into as soon

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as he was born is placed in a
Manger that’s used for feeding.

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Mary says when she finds out
she’ll have a son.

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She praises God, saying God have
filled the hungry with good

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things.
His baptism and his temptation.

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As soon as he’s baptized, he
goes into the wilderness and he

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goes 40 days without food and
he’s hungry, it says.

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And then his first temptation,
the first temptation ever

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recorded of Christ, the perfect
man was what turned rocks into

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bread because he was hungry.
His answer?

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Man shall not live by bread
alone.

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He says it’s everywhere in Luke,
the calling of the disciples.

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First four, we’re doing what?
Fishing.

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Matthew gets the call and he
does what?

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He has a great feast and he
invites everyone to his house to

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eat.
You see, this idea is everywhere

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in Luke and we have to say,
well, why?

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Why is it so many places in
Luke’s Gospel?

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Let’s take a look, if we would,
at Jesus’s first meal.

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It happens to be the one with
Matthew as soon as he’s called

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to be his disciple.
This is in Luke chapter 5.

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We’re going to start at verse
27.

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We’ve read this story a couple
times already, but we’re going

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to see it from maybe a different
angle this morning.

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It says in verse 27 in Matthew,
sorry of Luke 5 And after these

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things he went forth, and he saw
a publican named Levi sitting at

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the receipt of custom.
This is Matthew and he said him

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to him, follow me.
And he left all rose up and

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followed him.
So Christ says, follow me.

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He says, Great, I’ll follow you
and come to my house for a great

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feast. 1st 29 Leave.
I made him a great feast in his

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own house, and there was a great
company of publicans and others

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that sat down with him.
So who is at this banquet feast?

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Well, we’re told that there was
the tax collectors and the

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sinners were at this feast.
Now tax collectors and sinners

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is the term not used necessarily
by us, but by the others that

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were present at this feast, and
that’s the Pharisees and the

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scribes.
If you read further it says but

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their scribes and Pharisees
murmured against his disciples

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saying why do you eat and drink
with the publicans and the

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sinners so present?
Not necessarily everybody eating

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but present watching this are
the Christ and his disciples.

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We have the tax collectors who
would have been friends with

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their Co worker Matthew and also
the Pharisees and the scribes

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are peering in from outside.
This was Christ’s first meal in

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this book.
What’s the message of His first

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meal?
He says as we continue to read

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verse 30.
Why do you eat and drink with

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publicans and sinners?
Now who are they asking this

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question to?
Did we read that carefully?

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They murmured against his
disciples.

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We are going to notice way too
often Christ reads the minds of

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those at his dinner table.
How uncomfortable would it have

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been to sit at a seat at a table
with Jesus?

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Let’s keep reading verse 30.
There are scribes and Pharisees

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murmured against his disciples
saying why do you eat and drink

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The public and the sinners Jesus
answering them said they that

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are holding not a physician, but
they that are sick.

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I came to call the right not I’m
sorry I came not to call the

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righteous but sinners to
repentance.

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He says the theme my message is
I have come to call the right,

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not the righteous, but sinners
to repentance.

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The sick need doctors, not to
the healthy Now as we learned in

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class number three, session 3,
everybody’s a Sinner.

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Everybody needs a doctor,
everyone’s lost.

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Everyone needs to find
repentance.

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The tax collectors, the sinners,
the Pharisees, the scribes.

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So brothers and sisters, Jesus
is going in his gospel.

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He is going to eat with all.
We will see him eating with

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sinners.
We will see him eating with

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disciples.
We will see him eating with

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Pharisees.
He eats with all because all

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need repentance, all are lost,
all need a doctor.

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And so he sits down with
everybody in Luke’s gospel, when

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he eats with them all, He feeds
others.

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He creates food for thousands.
He plays hosts to a meal, he as

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a guests at other meal.
He has come to call everybody to

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repentance.
Is it any different with us,

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brothers and sisters?
When we partake of the bread,

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when we partake of the fruit of
the vine, we do so in

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remembrance of Him.
We do so as a type.

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We do so looking to the example
of the perfect man because we

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come to that table as sinners
and Christ has shared that with

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us.
He gave His life for us

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according to Scripture and you
can see this theme come out

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meals and particularly where you
ate at the meal showed your

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social status.
This was a big deal for the

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Pharisees.
It says in Luke 14, you don’t

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need to turn it up just a few
pages over if you’d like to.

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But Luke chapter 14, it says in
verse 7, and he put forth a

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parable to those which were
bidden when he marked how they

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chose out the chief rooms.
So Christ is sitting at the

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table.
We’re going to we’re going to

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look at the story in detail in a
few minutes.

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He’s sitting at the table and
he’s he’s watching these people,

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these Pharisees scurry around
trying to get the best seat and

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they’re shoving and they’re
pushing and they’re sitting down

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before somebody else and he’s
watching this take place.

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And then he gives us the
principle.

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He says in verse 10, But when
you are bidden, go and sit down

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in the lowest room.
And when he that bade thee

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cometh, he may go up to thee and
say, friend, go up higher.

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Then shalt thou have worship in
the presence of them that sat at

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meet with you.
So we sang, really sit in the

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lowest.
Then what will happen is if

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you’re worthy, you’ll be moved
up and you’ll be in honor.

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The presence of all who sit at
the table with you, brothers and

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sisters who sat at the table
with him was Lord Jesus Christ.

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We can have honor with him if we
show that humility.

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Status is also brought to us in
Matthew’s Gospel, Matthew’s

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Gospel in Matthew chapter 23
there’s a few verses to read

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from that chapter Matthew 23
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scribes and the Pharisees, they
sit in Moses seat all therefore

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whatsoever they bid you observe
that observe and do but don’t do

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after their works, for they say
and they do not verse 5 but all

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their works they do to be seen
of men.

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They make broad their
phylacteries enlarge the borders

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of their garments.
They love the uppermost rooms at

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feasts and the chief seats in
the synagogues where you sat at

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these meals showed the status
that you had at the table and

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these meals that Christ
participates in, where was his

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rightful seat?
It would have been the highest.

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It would always been the highest
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But they’re all scurrying.
They’re all fighting over that

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most precious seat.
We’re going to take a brief

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pause here and just remind
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We haven’t really looked at the
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to Jerusalem.
We’ve seen the the problems,

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we’ve looked introspectively,
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paid attention to these guys a
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So let’s take a look then.
Does anybody remember the

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chapter that we looked at in
Ezekiel’s prophecy that showed

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us the failure of the shepherds
of Israel?

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Where was that one?
Ezekiel 34?

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Perfect.
Ezekiel 34 says that these

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shepherds of Israel, and when we
come on to the scene, John the

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Baptist calls them out.
You brood of Vipers bring forth

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fruits worthy of repentance.
But what we saw from Ezekiel 34

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was the weak they didn’t
strengthen, the sick they didn’t

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heal, the injured they didn’t
bind up, the strayed they didn’t

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bring back and the lost they
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According to the law of the
Pharisees, holiness came from

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doing less.
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If I can figure out a way for
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less and less and less, that
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You see, good works according to
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I will do good works unless it
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Cross that off my list, unless
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If there’s any form of lepers in
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those things.
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I don’t deal with the unclean
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I don’t touch them, I don’t let
them get near me, so on and so

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forth.
Good works.

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According to the Pharisees they
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in from from helping so much
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their involvement with the
people.

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This was Ezekiel 34.
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They had found rules in the law.
They had found loopholes,

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exceptions that said look.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Come on over for.
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Well, sorry.
We’ll catch you next time.

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Oh, Monday works.
Oh, you were around a leper the

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other day.
It’s just not going to work.

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Sorry.
Maybe we’ll we’ll go get it.

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And they have found their way to
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look the part.
And Christ says don’t do

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anything that they do.
So these are the Pharisees that

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we’re dealing with.
And I thought it would just be a

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fun little quick exercise to
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evolution, I guess of where
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and where we get to pre journey.
I don’t know if you guys

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remember, but in class 3, we
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in class 3.
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wanted to come down through
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He wanted to come down this
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He was up here in Nazareth,
sorry Galilee area and he wanted

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to come down South straight into
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He tried to go through Samaria.
They said not sorry, not today.

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Your face as though is it was as
going to Jerusalem not going to

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work.
He’s forced to cut E come down

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South of on the Jordan, come
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One of the biggest reasons he
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Samaria is they were trying to
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So if he comes through Samaria,
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He doesn’t in the end, he’s
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But one of the reasons was this.
Now let’s look at the again,

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evolutions.
Not the word I’m looking for,

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but it is the word we’re going
to use of the Pharisees.

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Come with me to Luke chapter 5.
Let’s start at the beginning

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here.
Luke chapter 5.

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This is pre pre journey.
We’re a few chapters away from

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him steadfastly setting his face
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Luke 5 starting in verse 18, it
says and behold, men brought in

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a bed, a man which was taken
with a palsy, and they sought

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means to bring him in and to lay
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We know the story.
When they could not find in

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which way they might bring him
in, they came in through the

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roof.
Jesus when he saw their faith.

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Verse 20 said to them, man, your
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So here’s a man who’s sick and
Christ, the first thing he says

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is your sins are forgiven you.
Now who’s listening?

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Who’s watching?
It says and the scribes and the

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Pharisees verse 21 began to
reason saying who is this which

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speaketh blasphemies?
Who can forgive sins but God

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alone?
Now what does Jesus do?

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Verse 22 we’ve already seen it
when Jesus perceives their

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thoughts, he answering said to
them, what reason ye in your

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hearts I’m reading your mind.
He says whether it is easier to

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say your sins are forgiven you
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So what we have in Luke 529 is
noticing they go who is this guy

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who’s saying these blasphemous
words your sins are forgiven you

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sure we saw the healing.
Sure we saw you have the the

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gifts, but come on, you can’t
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So they notice him further on in
the chapter verse 27 a different

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time it says and after these
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So we’ve progressed after these
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He went forth and saw a publican
named Levi sitting at the

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receipt of custom.
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We’ve gone over the story.
This is the the meal at

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Matthew’s house.
Verse 30.

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But the scribes and the
Pharisees murmured against his

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disciples.
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They noticed him further on the
chapter they begin to murmur.

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Chapter 6 put the page to verse
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It came to pass in the second
Sabbath after the first, that he

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went through the cornfields.
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ears of corn to eat, rubbing
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Notice this is, by the way, our
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having to do with food.
It’s beside the point, but

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certain of the Pharisees said to
them.

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Said to who?
The disciples, Why do you that

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which is not lawful to do on the
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And who answers them?
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No, Jesus.
He knows what’s going on in

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their minds, man, it would have
been scary to be around Jesus

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and to be his enemy.
Verse 3 And Jesus answered them,

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said have you not read so much
as this?

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What David did when he himself
was hungry and they which were

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with him, how he went into the
House of God.

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He did take and eat of the
showbread and gave ulcers to

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them which were with him, which
is not lawful to eat but for the

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priests alone.
So what do they do?

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They put a challenge to him in
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Look at verse 7.
And the scribes and the

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Pharisees watched him, whether
he would heal on the Sabbath

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day, that they might find an
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So now not only are they
noticing him, they’re murmuring

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against him, they’re challenging
him.

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But what they’re doing is
they’re now lying in wait to

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trap him.
This guy, he’s good, but he’s

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going to make a mistake.
We’ll catch him.

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Look at verse 10.
Nope, let’s go.

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Verse 8 But he know their
thoughts, of course, said to the

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man which had the withered hand,
rise up, stand forth in the

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midst.
And he rose and stood forth,

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then said Jesus unto them, I
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Is it lawful in the Sabbath days
to do good or to do evil, to

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save life or to destroy it?
Verse 11 And they were filled

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with madness, and communed one
with another what they might do

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to Jesus.
So now we’ve the state we’re at

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is their scheming against him.
Matthew as a little bit more to

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the story.
And if you don’t have it written

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down in in your margin, it’s
good to jot this one down.

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This is the parallel account in
Matthew, Matthew chapter 12,

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verse 14.
Then the Pharisees went out and

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held a council against him.
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It says in Matthew 12.
This is the the, the the

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progress, not the word.
This is the evolution that we’ve

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taken.
Now for these Pharisees, they

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noticed, they murmured, they
challenged, they trap, they

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scheme, and now they’re meeting
in secret to talk about how to

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destroy him.
This is all pre journey.

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This is one of the reasons he
would have preferred to go

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through Samaria is because these
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How they can bring this man
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Why the Pharisees thrived on
doing less on finding their

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loopholes in the law.
That said, you know what, look,

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I found another one.
We actually can do XY and Z

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because this law here
contradicts that one perfect put

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in the rules and Christ came and
preached a new Kingdom, a new

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law, a better way.
And they go, this is this is

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total.
This is more work.

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Who’s this guy?
See, the Pharisees expected a

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Messiah to come on the scene and
to look at them and to say you

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guys are masters of the law.
Well done, well done, scribes

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and Pharisees.
You have worked the law

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perfectly.
And here comes this man claiming

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to be the Messiah and saying
completely the opposite.

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This guy’s not the Messiah.
They said this guy’s fake.

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And so they noticed, they
murmured, they challenged, they

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trapped, they schemed, and they
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So these are the Pharisees that
we’re going to look at in our

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session today.
In Luke’s account, we saw

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already there are three
instances of meals that Christ

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has with the Pharisees.
The first we’re going to look at

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He’s touched by a Sinner.
The second we’re going to look

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at He didn’t wash before eating.
How dare he?

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The next we’re going to look at
is he sits down with the chief

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Pharisee, and the chief Pharisee
watches as he does work on the

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Sabbath.
We’re going to look at these

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three accounts now.
It’s important to remember Jesus

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came to heal the sick, to seek
the lost, to bring fruits to

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repentance to everyone.
Everyone was lost.

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Christ eats with sinners and He
eats with Pharisees who forsake

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a confusion.
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Hopefully we’re aware of that.
He eats with everyone because

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everyone who comes to the table
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But remember, the Pharisees were
this group that we categorized

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earlier as super lost.
When Christ would speak a

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parable at the table, they would
say, man, I really hope the

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sinners are listening right now.
They could learn a lot from this

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guy, but we would, we would
never do that, would we?

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Would we come to the table of
Christ?

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So Jesus again has eight
specific meals and three of them

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are with Pharisees.
Keep in mind, the mindset of the

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Pharisees at this time is what
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This is this is the progress
that they’ve made it in their

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minds what they might do, how
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Let’s take a look at the first
meal.

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Luke Chapter 7 we enter the
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Keep in mind the context.
Luke 7 verse 31 and the Lord

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said whereunto shall I like in
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What do they like?
He says they’re like the

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children sitting in the
marketplace and calling 1 to

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another verse 33 John the
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He didn’t eat, he didn’t even
drink.

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00:25:56,520 –> 00:25:59,160
Now what do you call him?
You say he has a devil.

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00:26:00,320 –> 00:26:02,440
Interesting.
He doesn’t eat or drink and you

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00:26:02,440 –> 00:26:05,160
say he’s got a devil.
I come, son of man comes verse

434
00:26:05,160 –> 00:26:08,720
34, eating and drinking, and you
say, look, he’s a glutton and a

435
00:26:08,720 –> 00:26:12,000
drunkard, a friend of publicans
and sinners.

436
00:26:12,000 –> 00:26:13,880
What wisdom is justified of all
her children?

437
00:26:14,120 –> 00:26:17,520
Food is everywhere in Luke.
It’s all over the place.

438
00:26:18,800 –> 00:26:22,600
We keep talking about the food,
the eating, the drinking.

439
00:26:23,240 –> 00:26:27,160
So we come then to the House of
the first Pharisee, verse 36 and

440
00:26:27,160 –> 00:26:31,920
one of the Pharisees desired him
that he would eat with him.

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00:26:31,920 –> 00:26:34,920
Keep in mind the mindset where
are we at as as the Pharisees?

442
00:26:35,680 –> 00:26:37,640
Well, we’re we’re in a scheming
phase.

443
00:26:37,640 –> 00:26:38,720
How are we going to trap this
guy?

444
00:26:39,720 –> 00:26:41,680
He desired Him that He would eat
them and he went into the

445
00:26:41,680 –> 00:26:45,760
Pharisees house and he sat down
to meet to behold a woman of the

446
00:26:45,760 –> 00:26:51,360
city, which was a Sinner, when
she knew that Jesus sat at me at

447
00:26:51,360 –> 00:26:54,440
the Pharisees house, brought an
alabaster box of ointment.

448
00:26:54,800 –> 00:26:58,840
She stood at his feet behind him
weeping and began to wash his

449
00:26:58,840 –> 00:27:01,920
feet with tears.
She wiped them with the hairs of

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00:27:01,920 –> 00:27:04,400
her head and kissed his feet and
anointed them with the ointment.

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00:27:05,320 –> 00:27:10,480
This is the story of an amazing
sign of repentance, this woman

452
00:27:10,480 –> 00:27:15,600
here she entered the house.
Do you think she knew how the

453
00:27:15,600 –> 00:27:18,080
Pharisees viewed her?
Of course she did.

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00:27:18,840 –> 00:27:22,360
Do you think it took tremendous
courage and brought tremendous

455
00:27:22,360 –> 00:27:26,560
shame for her to do that act?
Of course it did.

456
00:27:27,400 –> 00:27:29,600
It didn’t matter.
That man could bring

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00:27:29,600 –> 00:27:33,600
forgiveness, and she knew she
needed to repent.

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00:27:34,000 –> 00:27:38,160
So she comes in, she anoints
him, she washes his feet with

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00:27:38,160 –> 00:27:44,560
her hair and her tears.
And the Pharisee looks at this

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00:27:44,560 –> 00:27:54,600
and says, this man, if he were
actually a prophet, who would

461
00:27:54,600 –> 00:28:01,200
have known who in what manner of
woman this is that touches him,

462
00:28:03,000 –> 00:28:07,520
for she is a Sinner.
And he thinks this in his mind.

463
00:28:08,080 –> 00:28:09,880
Now we’ve already seen
instances.

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00:28:10,360 –> 00:28:17,640
What can Jesus do?
He can read the minds and he is

465
00:28:17,640 –> 00:28:22,280
thinking if this man were
actually who he says he was, he

466
00:28:22,280 –> 00:28:25,120
would know that this woman is
disgusting.

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00:28:26,320 –> 00:28:29,680
He would not allow this to
happen.

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00:28:31,160 –> 00:28:37,360
And Jesus answering his thoughts
says Simon, I have something to

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00:28:37,360 –> 00:28:41,280
say to you.
And he says, Master say on Jesus

470
00:28:41,280 –> 00:28:45,120
introduces the conversation.
Jesus starts it and he says

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00:28:45,360 –> 00:28:48,000
there was a certain creditor
which had two debtors.

472
00:28:48,480 –> 00:28:50,720
There we have a creditor and two
debtors.

473
00:28:51,240 –> 00:28:55,880
You guess who’s who In this
parable, the one owed 500 pence

474
00:28:55,880 –> 00:28:58,000
and the other 50.
When they had nothing to pay,

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00:28:58,120 –> 00:29:01,680
they both couldn’t pay.
He frankly forgave them both.

476
00:29:01,840 –> 00:29:04,160
Tell me therefore, Simon, which
of them will love him the most?

477
00:29:04,160 –> 00:29:08,280
Simon answered and said, Well, I
suppose that he to whom he

478
00:29:08,280 –> 00:29:11,440
forgave the most, he said,
you’re rightly judged.

479
00:29:11,720 –> 00:29:15,800
And he turns to the woman, and
what does he say?

480
00:29:18,440 –> 00:29:24,160
He says, Simon, you see this
woman, I entered your house.

481
00:29:24,600 –> 00:29:26,200
You gave me no water from my
feet.

482
00:29:26,400 –> 00:29:31,920
But she’s washed them with her
tears, she’s wiped them with the

483
00:29:31,920 –> 00:29:34,480
hairs of her head.
You gave me no kiss, this woman,

484
00:29:34,480 –> 00:29:38,880
since the time I came, and hath
not ceased to kiss my feet, my

485
00:29:38,880 –> 00:29:40,880
head.
He didn’t anoint you with oil,

486
00:29:41,120 –> 00:29:43,640
but this woman anointed my feet
with ointment.

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00:29:45,400 –> 00:29:50,600
Wherefore I say unto thee, Her
sins, which are many, are

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00:29:50,640 –> 00:29:54,520
forgiven.
When you eat with Christ.

489
00:29:55,040 –> 00:29:57,840
He comes to call all to
repentance.

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00:29:58,120 –> 00:30:03,280
He comes to heal the sick, for
she loved much, but to whom

491
00:30:03,280 –> 00:30:05,320
little is forgiven, the same
loveth little.

492
00:30:05,320 –> 00:30:08,840
He said to her, your sins are
forgiven.

493
00:30:09,480 –> 00:30:11,560
And they that sat with him at
the table said, who is this that

494
00:30:11,560 –> 00:30:17,600
forgive sins?
Also, We had two debtors, one

495
00:30:17,600 –> 00:30:21,880
who owed 500 pence, the other
who owed 50.

496
00:30:22,920 –> 00:30:25,440
Does he forgive the one who owes
500?

497
00:30:25,640 –> 00:30:29,160
And say to the one with 50, it’s
only 50, You can make it up.

498
00:30:29,520 –> 00:30:31,520
I know you could pay that back,
just work a little harder.

499
00:30:31,600 –> 00:30:32,840
Is that what he does in the
parable?

500
00:30:34,120 –> 00:30:35,960
He says both of them are
forgiven.

501
00:30:36,320 –> 00:30:41,000
Who is this parable directed to?
Mostly it’s to Simon, the one

502
00:30:41,000 –> 00:30:44,320
who owed 50.
He says, Simon, it’s your chance

503
00:30:44,320 –> 00:30:47,960
now to repent.
Both were forgiven.

504
00:30:47,960 –> 00:30:53,480
The debt, This woman here who
owed 500, she’s forgiven.

505
00:30:54,560 –> 00:30:56,600
Do you want to be the man who
owes 50?

506
00:30:57,680 –> 00:31:02,880
And what does the Pharisee do?
I’m not a Sinner.

507
00:31:03,880 –> 00:31:08,120
I don’t need repentance.
He had the opportunity there to

508
00:31:08,120 –> 00:31:13,080
fall down and repent and be
forgiven, but he loved little.

509
00:31:14,960 –> 00:31:19,120
The principle is that if if you
have 1000 sins or 10 sins,

510
00:31:19,200 –> 00:31:21,880
everyone needs forgiveness.
That’s why Christ came.

511
00:31:22,600 –> 00:31:25,520
Forgiveness comes down to the
attitude that you have.

512
00:31:26,400 –> 00:31:30,720
Is your attitude one of man?
I really hope that that person

513
00:31:30,720 –> 00:31:33,680
there knows forgiveness is an
option.

514
00:31:34,520 –> 00:31:38,280
Or is it?
I’d be lost without forgiveness.

515
00:31:39,720 –> 00:31:42,400
Let’s look at our second meal.
Our second meal is in Luke

516
00:31:42,400 –> 00:31:44,360
Chapter 11.
Again, we’re going to eat with a

517
00:31:44,360 –> 00:31:46,680
Pharisee.
Luke Chapter 11.

518
00:31:46,680 –> 00:31:52,360
It says in Luke 11 verse 37 it
says and as he spake, a certain

519
00:31:52,360 –> 00:31:55,320
Pharisee besought him to dine
with him and he went in and sat

520
00:31:55,320 –> 00:31:59,360
down to meet and when the
Pharisees sought he marvelled

521
00:31:59,360 –> 00:32:02,640
that he had not first washed
before dinner.

522
00:32:02,920 –> 00:32:07,480
So this Pharisee says come on in
and he watches Jesus.

523
00:32:08,480 –> 00:32:10,360
Remember what the Pharisees
mindset was.

524
00:32:10,480 –> 00:32:16,960
He watches Jesus and says, this
man didn’t wash before dinner,

525
00:32:17,760 –> 00:32:23,160
and when the Pharisees sought,
he marvelled verse 39, the Lord

526
00:32:23,160 –> 00:32:27,120
said unto him again, maybe
there’s some mind reading going

527
00:32:27,120 –> 00:32:30,720
on here.
Now do you Pharisees make clean

528
00:32:30,720 –> 00:32:33,960
the outside of the cup and of
the platter?

529
00:32:34,240 –> 00:32:37,480
But your inward part is full of
ravening and wickedness.

530
00:32:39,200 –> 00:32:42,800
Ye fools, did not he that made
that which is without make that

531
00:32:42,800 –> 00:32:46,040
which is within also.
Now the principle we’re going to

532
00:32:46,080 –> 00:32:49,120
just dash through this one.
The principle of this Pharisee

533
00:32:49,120 –> 00:32:53,640
is that the good on that shows
on the outside must match the

534
00:32:53,640 –> 00:32:55,200
inside.
Christ taught that the

535
00:32:55,200 –> 00:32:59,320
Pharisees, you, you, you don’t
ever do as they do, even though

536
00:32:59,400 –> 00:33:02,000
you listen to what they say.
That was His principle at the

537
00:33:02,000 –> 00:33:05,320
beginning of Luke.
But what they do, do not, for

538
00:33:05,320 –> 00:33:06,960
they do their works to be seen
of men.

539
00:33:07,080 –> 00:33:09,280
They do things to be seen of
men.

540
00:33:09,320 –> 00:33:15,960
They look great on the outside,
but inside is disgusting.

541
00:33:16,400 –> 00:33:23,800
And so Christ comes in unwashing
Unwashen, but his inside was

542
00:33:24,080 –> 00:33:27,800
perfect.
He demonstrates this principle.

543
00:33:28,520 –> 00:33:30,960
The good that shows on the
outside has to match what’s on

544
00:33:30,960 –> 00:33:32,640
the inside.
And that’s the point of the

545
00:33:32,640 –> 00:33:34,880
second Pharisee.
Let’s go to into our third, our

546
00:33:34,880 –> 00:33:39,880
final meal with a Pharisee.
We’re in Luke chapter 14, midway

547
00:33:39,880 –> 00:33:43,840
through the journey, according
to the text first one, and it

548
00:33:43,840 –> 00:33:46,560
came to pass as he went into the
House of one of the chief

549
00:33:46,560 –> 00:33:48,720
Pharisees.
We’ve now elevated ourselves to

550
00:33:48,720 –> 00:33:51,520
chief Pharisees inviting us over
for a meal.

551
00:33:54,120 –> 00:34:03,240
It’s the Sabbath day, verse one,
and they’re watching him, verse

552
00:34:03,240 –> 00:34:04,440
2.
And behold, there was a certain

553
00:34:04,440 –> 00:34:06,800
man before him which had the
dropsy.

554
00:34:08,840 –> 00:34:12,639
How do you suppose a man with
the disease was planted there?

555
00:34:14,800 –> 00:34:18,600
How do you suppose a man like
that found his way to a banquet

556
00:34:19,040 –> 00:34:22,560
with not just any Pharisee, but
the chief Pharisee?

557
00:34:23,600 –> 00:34:24,920
And what are they doing?
Watching.

558
00:34:24,920 –> 00:34:29,920
What are they watching him for?
Look at where the Pharisees have

559
00:34:29,920 –> 00:34:33,520
gotten now.
They’ve put this man and they’re

560
00:34:33,520 –> 00:34:37,040
watching him carefully build.
This was a great idea.

561
00:34:37,040 –> 00:34:39,800
We’re going to get him today.
It’s the Sabbath, He’s going to

562
00:34:39,800 –> 00:34:41,400
heal and this is just who Jesus
is.

563
00:34:41,719 –> 00:34:43,520
Man.
They missed who Jesus was.

564
00:34:43,960 –> 00:34:47,800
Here’s a man who could heal on
the Sabbath and they’re trying

565
00:34:47,800 –> 00:34:51,760
to catch him for it.
Man, brothers and sisters, we

566
00:34:51,760 –> 00:34:53,320
really need to look inside
sometimes.

567
00:34:54,719 –> 00:34:56,880
There was a certain man before
then which had the dropsy and

568
00:34:56,880 –> 00:35:00,160
Jesus, he breaks the ice.
He introduces the topic before

569
00:35:00,160 –> 00:35:02,640
they can say a word and says
it’s unlawful to heal on the

570
00:35:02,640 –> 00:35:04,160
Sabbath day.
What do they say?

571
00:35:05,920 –> 00:35:10,120
You’re right, nothing.
They say absolutely nothing

572
00:35:10,200 –> 00:35:13,280
because if they say yes, he
would say perfect.

573
00:35:13,400 –> 00:35:15,520
If they say no, he would say
prove it.

574
00:35:15,600 –> 00:35:18,240
And what would they say?
Right Again, nothing.

575
00:35:18,880 –> 00:35:24,440
The law says nothing about this.
So he says, verse four.

576
00:35:24,440 –> 00:35:28,960
They held their peace and by
their silence they knew and they

577
00:35:28,960 –> 00:35:36,320
showed there was no law.
And he took him, healed him, let

578
00:35:36,320 –> 00:35:37,520
him go.
Verse four.

579
00:35:38,840 –> 00:35:42,440
And then he says, which of you
shall have an ass or an ox fall

580
00:35:42,440 –> 00:35:43,880
into a pit?
Well, not straightway.

581
00:35:43,880 –> 00:35:45,840
Pull him out of the Sabbath day
again and guess what they say

582
00:35:45,840 –> 00:35:51,760
now, right again, nothing.
This was a pretty one sided

583
00:35:51,760 –> 00:35:56,520
conversation this evening.
It would have been the most

584
00:35:56,520 –> 00:35:58,440
humbling thing to have a meal
with Christ.

585
00:35:59,480 –> 00:36:08,480
The most humbling thing, but He
brings to them a law.

586
00:36:10,000 –> 00:36:13,520
Which of you shall have an
astronauts fall into a pit, will

587
00:36:13,520 –> 00:36:15,880
not straightway pull them out on
the Sabbath day.

588
00:36:16,640 –> 00:36:22,680
Now did anybody here see in
verse three who He directs the

589
00:36:22,680 –> 00:36:26,520
question to?
Who comes first?

590
00:36:28,880 –> 00:36:31,120
It’s the lawyers and the
Pharisees.

591
00:36:31,120 –> 00:36:35,440
It’s those people who claim to
be experts in the law who also

592
00:36:35,440 –> 00:36:36,560
join him for this dinner
tonight.

593
00:36:36,560 –> 00:36:38,560
Of course, you need experts in
the law if you’re going to try

594
00:36:38,560 –> 00:36:40,720
to catch him on the Sabbath, a
thing of the law.

595
00:36:40,960 –> 00:36:43,840
So they bring the experts, the
law, the lawyers, and they bring

596
00:36:43,840 –> 00:36:45,960
the Pharisees.
And he says to the lawyers and

597
00:36:45,960 –> 00:36:48,960
the Pharisees these questions.
What he’s doing is he’s quoting

598
00:36:48,960 –> 00:36:51,080
a verse from Deuteronomy.
Come with me, if you would, to

599
00:36:51,080 –> 00:36:53,600
Deuteronomy chapter 22.
We probably have this in our

600
00:36:53,600 –> 00:36:54,880
margin.
If you don’t, it’s worth jotting

601
00:36:54,880 –> 00:36:57,240
it down.
Deuteronomy 22 He’s going to

602
00:36:57,240 –> 00:37:02,720
fight the law with the law.
Deuteronomy 22 first 4 verses

603
00:37:04,480 –> 00:37:07,240
You shall not see your brother’s
ox or his sheep go astray and

604
00:37:07,240 –> 00:37:10,400
hide thyself from them.
Thou shalt in any case bring

605
00:37:10,400 –> 00:37:18,080
them again to your brother.
If you see brother Pete, his ox

606
00:37:18,080 –> 00:37:22,920
going astray and you go, that’s
Pete’s ox again.

607
00:37:23,680 –> 00:37:26,000
What you don’t do is you don’t
say, I didn’t see it.

608
00:37:28,000 –> 00:37:29,240
I’m not going to do anything
about it.

609
00:37:29,280 –> 00:37:33,560
The law says you get it and you
bring it back to Brother Pete.

610
00:37:35,160 –> 00:37:38,880
Verse 2.
And if thy brother be not nigh

611
00:37:38,880 –> 00:37:42,200
unto thee, or if you don’t know
him, then thou shalt bring it

612
00:37:42,200 –> 00:37:44,560
unto your own house, and it
shall be with you until your

613
00:37:44,560 –> 00:37:47,040
brother seek after it, and thou
shalt restore it to him again.

614
00:37:47,640 –> 00:37:52,640
So if you’re walking and you see
and you go, I actually have no

615
00:37:52,640 –> 00:37:56,600
idea whose ox this is.
What you don’t do is hope they

616
00:37:56,600 –> 00:38:01,360
find it.
You bring it home and you pay

617
00:38:01,360 –> 00:38:05,160
for the food.
You take care of it until Uncle

618
00:38:05,160 –> 00:38:07,920
Pete comes and says, hey, you’ve
seen an extra cow roaming

619
00:38:07,920 –> 00:38:10,680
around.
Yeah, I, I, I have it.

620
00:38:10,800 –> 00:38:12,720
Here it is.
That’s the law.

621
00:38:14,200 –> 00:38:16,400
Verse 3.
In like manner shalt thou do

622
00:38:16,400 –> 00:38:19,560
with his donkey, and so shall
you do with his clothes and with

623
00:38:19,560 –> 00:38:21,840
every lost thing of your
brothers which he hath lost.

624
00:38:22,040 –> 00:38:26,400
Interesting, isn’t it?
Anything that your brother’s

625
00:38:26,400 –> 00:38:34,440
lost and which you have found
shalt you do likewise.

626
00:38:34,680 –> 00:38:39,920
Thou mayest not hide yourself.
So what is he doing with genomic

627
00:38:39,920 –> 00:38:43,200
22 one through three?
Well, is this the exact way that

628
00:38:43,200 –> 00:38:46,400
he phrases it in Luke 14?
No, no, he says.

629
00:38:46,400 –> 00:38:48,960
If you find your own, of course
you’re going to pick it up.

630
00:38:49,040 –> 00:38:53,800
What does the law say?
You find your brothers, you pick

631
00:38:53,800 –> 00:38:56,520
it up.
Of course you’d pick up your

632
00:38:56,520 –> 00:38:58,640
own, but the law says you
actually also get your brothers.

633
00:38:59,320 –> 00:39:02,480
Verse 4.
Thou shalt not see your

634
00:39:02,480 –> 00:39:09,960
brother’s ass or his ox fall
down, by the way, and hide

635
00:39:09,960 –> 00:39:16,000
yourself from them.
Thou shalt surely help him to

636
00:39:16,000 –> 00:39:20,640
lift them up again.
So as he poses this question to

637
00:39:20,640 –> 00:39:25,680
the experts in the law, of
course they couldn’t answer him

638
00:39:25,680 –> 00:39:28,400
anything.
The law said, not only do you of

639
00:39:28,400 –> 00:39:29,400
course going to pick up your
own.

640
00:39:29,400 –> 00:39:31,640
That’s common sense.
But if you see your brothers,

641
00:39:31,720 –> 00:39:34,040
you pick him up.
So as this man with the dropsy

642
00:39:34,040 –> 00:39:39,520
comes in, who’s actually failing
that evening, it was the

643
00:39:39,520 –> 00:39:42,280
Pharisees and the and the
lawyers, They were the ones who

644
00:39:42,280 –> 00:39:45,280
were supposed to help this man.
The law says care for your

645
00:39:45,280 –> 00:39:47,760
brother.
Don’t pretend like you don’t

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00:39:47,760 –> 00:39:53,880
notice it.
He’s lost, you help him, says

647
00:39:53,880 –> 00:39:57,760
the law.
It would have been very humbling

648
00:39:59,440 –> 00:40:02,080
to have a meal with Jesus,
wouldn’t it?

649
00:40:06,240 –> 00:40:10,720
And he put forth a parable to
those which were bidden when he

650
00:40:10,800 –> 00:40:15,240
saw how they chose the chief
rooms, the chief seats.

651
00:40:15,240 –> 00:40:19,360
He’s saying to them when you’re
bidden of any man to a wedding.

652
00:40:20,160 –> 00:40:22,480
Sit not down in the highest
room, lest a more honorable man

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00:40:22,480 –> 00:40:24,440
than thou be bidden of thee of
bidden of him.

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00:40:24,440 –> 00:40:27,960
And he that bade thee and him
come and say to thee, give this

655
00:40:27,960 –> 00:40:30,440
man place, and you know you have
shame, have to take a lower

656
00:40:30,440 –> 00:40:32,920
seat.
And when you are bidden, you sit

657
00:40:32,920 –> 00:40:36,800
in the lower, so that you may be
honored and elevated for.

658
00:40:36,800 –> 00:40:38,640
Verse 11.
For whosoever exalted themselves

659
00:40:38,640 –> 00:40:41,200
should be a based, neither
humbleth himself shall be

660
00:40:41,200 –> 00:40:42,440
exalted.
This was the principle of

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00:40:42,440 –> 00:40:43,680
yesterday learning to work
together.

662
00:40:45,360 –> 00:40:49,360
And the principle is salvation’s
offered to everyone.

663
00:40:49,360 –> 00:40:51,240
That’s what the law claims.
It’s for your brother.

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00:40:51,320 –> 00:40:54,200
It’s for everybody at the table
who comes with Christ.

665
00:40:54,240 –> 00:40:56,880
Now, we don’t have time to go
over them, but there are two

666
00:40:56,880 –> 00:40:59,960
parables right after this.
The parable of the wedding

667
00:40:59,960 –> 00:41:04,920
feast, about eating.
The parable of the great

668
00:41:04,920 –> 00:41:08,560
banquet, Guess what?
That’s about eating.

669
00:41:10,280 –> 00:41:15,000
Jesus watched all these most
important people at the meal

670
00:41:15,440 –> 00:41:18,000
scurrying around trying to get
the best seat nearest to this

671
00:41:18,080 –> 00:41:19,840
chief rabbi who’s hosting the
meal.

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00:41:19,840 –> 00:41:22,320
And he gives him the parable,
the wedding feast.

673
00:41:22,800 –> 00:41:26,160
And then he, he sees this
continue and he gives the

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00:41:26,160 –> 00:41:29,960
parable, the great banquet.
He says, don’t invite people to

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00:41:29,960 –> 00:41:32,760
your meal who will invite you
back.

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00:41:33,320 –> 00:41:35,040
That’s not why you do these
things.

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00:41:36,040 –> 00:41:39,680
The whole theme of the Sabbath,
this was a Sabbath feast.

678
00:41:40,840 –> 00:41:42,920
This is the day of giving back
to Yahweh.

679
00:41:44,000 –> 00:41:47,120
That’s the Sabbath’s about.
And he then invites.

680
00:41:47,920 –> 00:41:50,400
He then goes over the parable of
the great banquet and further,

681
00:41:51,600 –> 00:41:55,000
and just like the chief Pharisee
holds a banquet and invites many

682
00:41:55,000 –> 00:41:58,960
guests, He says, what if nobody
showed up for your banquet?

683
00:42:00,120 –> 00:42:03,480
He says, just like the parable
of the great banquet, he goes

684
00:42:03,480 –> 00:42:06,120
out and he finds anybody who
would come in.

685
00:42:07,400 –> 00:42:09,400
Again, we don’t have time to go
over those in too much detail.

686
00:42:09,400 –> 00:42:14,520
So we look at these three.
The first, Christ is touched by

687
00:42:14,520 –> 00:42:17,720
a Sinner.
The second he didn’t wash, and

688
00:42:18,200 –> 00:42:20,600
then the third, he did work on
the Sabbath.

689
00:42:20,760 –> 00:42:27,640
He was really showing that he
was breaking all these terrible

690
00:42:27,640 –> 00:42:33,360
laws.
No came to heal everybody.

691
00:42:33,360 –> 00:42:36,000
He called the poor, He called
the sick, He called the sinners,

692
00:42:36,080 –> 00:42:38,520
He called the lost.
The invitation is accepted to

693
00:42:38,600 –> 00:42:42,280
everybody.
It’s comforting to know, isn’t

694
00:42:42,280 –> 00:42:46,000
it?
The invitation is open to

695
00:42:46,080 –> 00:42:49,840
everybody.
It was in a love for all.

696
00:42:49,960 –> 00:42:52,640
He didn’t ignore certain groups
of people.

697
00:42:52,680 –> 00:42:54,240
He didn’t even ignore the
Pharisees.

698
00:42:54,280 –> 00:42:57,520
He does dine with them now.
Jesus could dine with anybody He

699
00:42:57,520 –> 00:43:02,440
needed to for one purpose
because he brought with him

700
00:43:03,120 –> 00:43:06,440
salvation.
That’s why Jesus could dine.

701
00:43:06,560 –> 00:43:09,720
He brought with him salvation.
He says if you want to come to

702
00:43:09,720 –> 00:43:15,640
this table, come looking for
forgiveness, come with fruits of

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00:43:15,640 –> 00:43:19,480
repentance.
When Jesus sat down with dine to

704
00:43:19,480 –> 00:43:22,360
dine with people, he would never
degrade.

705
00:43:23,120 –> 00:43:25,720
He would never belittle the
commandments of God in this

706
00:43:25,720 –> 00:43:28,560
book.
He would never compromise on

707
00:43:28,560 –> 00:43:31,040
divine principles.
When he sat down to eat.

708
00:43:31,480 –> 00:43:34,840
He would uphold them perfectly,
and he would use the principles

709
00:43:34,840 –> 00:43:38,400
in this law to challenge others.
That was why he sat down.

710
00:43:40,000 –> 00:43:42,480
Brother Thomas, In his letters
Back and forth with Alexander

711
00:43:42,480 –> 00:43:44,960
Campbell, 1835, he writes
something interesting.

712
00:43:44,960 –> 00:43:49,400
He says, Did he Christ bear arms
for the destruction of men?

713
00:43:49,840 –> 00:43:53,640
Did he mingle as a political
agitator in the paltry questions

714
00:43:53,840 –> 00:43:59,000
of human policy, although he ate
with sinners?

715
00:43:59,960 –> 00:44:04,760
Did he make the swearer, the
fornicator, the debauchee, the

716
00:44:04,760 –> 00:44:08,040
companions of his solitude?
Did he make these people the

717
00:44:08,040 –> 00:44:13,800
companions of his solitude?
Did he degrade the image of God

718
00:44:13,800 –> 00:44:17,920
by such conduct as this, by
corrupt communications, by

719
00:44:17,960 –> 00:44:20,280
unholy deeds?
The answer?

720
00:44:20,400 –> 00:44:24,000
Of course, no, neither must the
Christian if he would be an

721
00:44:24,000 –> 00:44:26,680
acceptable imitator of the good
one.

722
00:44:27,200 –> 00:44:29,680
But the Thomas points out that
we have the same responsibility

723
00:44:29,680 –> 00:44:34,280
in our lives.
What we’re not saying is that

724
00:44:34,280 –> 00:44:37,280
we’ll be corrupted if we
participate in these things.

725
00:44:37,280 –> 00:44:40,280
We’re not saying we need to
degrade the commandments of God

726
00:44:40,280 –> 00:44:41,560
to do so.
We’re not saying that we

727
00:44:41,560 –> 00:44:43,280
compromise the biblical
principles.

728
00:44:43,280 –> 00:44:45,080
Neither did Christ when he sat
down and we ate with all these

729
00:44:45,080 –> 00:44:48,440
people.
The principle for us is we show

730
00:44:48,440 –> 00:44:50,680
love knowing everyone is
sinners.

731
00:44:52,360 –> 00:44:54,400
The only one perfect is the Lord
Jesus Christ who brought

732
00:44:54,400 –> 00:45:02,400
forgiveness.
Would it be neat if you hadn’t

733
00:45:02,720 –> 00:45:05,040
spoken with a brother or sister
in years?

734
00:45:05,040 –> 00:45:08,280
You haven’t communicated with
somebody because of an issue

735
00:45:08,280 –> 00:45:12,600
that we had since such and such
an event happened, or since such

736
00:45:12,600 –> 00:45:14,240
and such a person said this or
that?

737
00:45:15,280 –> 00:45:20,520
What if we were forced just to
have them over for dinner?

738
00:45:24,000 –> 00:45:26,200
What would happen if every time
we had a spat or disagreement

739
00:45:26,200 –> 00:45:28,800
with someone, we were forced to
cook a meal for them?

740
00:45:28,800 –> 00:45:32,840
We were forced to sit down
across and talk?

741
00:45:36,120 –> 00:45:38,320
What would happen?
Forget about committees.

742
00:45:38,320 –> 00:45:40,880
Forget about perfectly worded
emails and red tape.

743
00:45:41,360 –> 00:45:42,720
What if you cooked dinner and
talked?

744
00:45:42,720 –> 00:45:48,160
It’d be an interesting world,
wouldn’t it?

745
00:45:49,000 –> 00:45:53,760
And so Christ dined with all.
Did he take the word and say,

746
00:45:53,760 –> 00:45:55,880
you know, I’m going to pause on
1st principles for a while?

747
00:45:56,000 –> 00:45:58,520
No, he upheld everything in this
book.

748
00:45:58,880 –> 00:46:01,560
And he ate with sinners, He ate
with his disciples, He ate with

749
00:46:01,560 –> 00:46:06,240
Pharisees, He ate with anybody
who was willing, and he sat down

750
00:46:06,320 –> 00:46:09,480
with them.
So we have a few meals.

751
00:46:09,480 –> 00:46:13,160
And Luke, again, we’ve gone over
a few of these.

752
00:46:16,640 –> 00:46:18,280
Seriously, only three minutes
left.

753
00:46:18,680 –> 00:46:22,080
All right, we’ve made it to Luke
19.

754
00:46:24,480 –> 00:46:28,720
Guess what happens in Luke 19?
We get to Jerusalem.

755
00:46:29,200 –> 00:46:32,120
We’ve made it, brothers and
sisters, we have made it to

756
00:46:32,200 –> 00:46:34,800
Jerusalem.
We have 3 minutes to get into

757
00:46:34,800 –> 00:46:36,320
Jerusalem.
Let’s, let’s talk about it.

758
00:46:36,320 –> 00:46:40,840
Luke 19.
We haven’t lost the Pharisees

759
00:46:40,840 –> 00:46:43,280
yet.
They’re still interested.

760
00:46:43,720 –> 00:46:49,480
They will end up causing quite a
stir in a few chapters, but

761
00:46:49,680 –> 00:46:53,600
Jerusalem is on the horizon.
Verse 28 to 35 we have the two

762
00:46:53,600 –> 00:46:55,640
disciples.
They collect the cult.

763
00:46:56,080 –> 00:47:01,400
Verses 36 Luke 1936 And as they
went to spread their clothes in

764
00:47:01,400 –> 00:47:03,640
the way and when he was come
nigh, even now at the desert of

765
00:47:03,640 –> 00:47:06,160
the Mount of Olives, the whole
multitude of the disciples began

766
00:47:06,160 –> 00:47:09,000
to rejoice and praise God with a
loud voice for all the mighty

767
00:47:09,000 –> 00:47:11,920
works that they had seen,
saying, Blessed be the king that

768
00:47:11,920 –> 00:47:14,520
cometh in the name of the Lord,
peace in heaven and glory in the

769
00:47:14,520 –> 00:47:17,680
highest.
The Pharisees, guess what they

770
00:47:17,680 –> 00:47:20,520
say to the disciples, They say
to Christ, Master, tell your

771
00:47:20,520 –> 00:47:25,120
disciples to be quiet.
They’re still here.

772
00:47:25,600 –> 00:47:27,280
They’re following us all the way
to Jerusalem.

773
00:47:28,360 –> 00:47:30,160
And he says something
fascinating.

774
00:47:30,160 –> 00:47:34,840
He says verse 40, I tell you
that if they held their peace,

775
00:47:35,800 –> 00:47:40,080
quoting Habakkuk 2 as your
margin says, the stones of this

776
00:47:40,080 –> 00:47:43,040
wall would cry out in their
place.

777
00:47:44,480 –> 00:47:47,520
He says this is a joyous day,
even though nobody here

778
00:47:47,520 –> 00:47:50,680
recognizes why I’m entering
Jerusalem, even though everybody

779
00:47:50,680 –> 00:47:53,440
here assumes I come with a sword
to deliver you from the Romans.

780
00:47:54,040 –> 00:47:58,240
This is a joyous day.
And he in verse 41 beheld the

781
00:47:58,240 –> 00:48:07,320
city and cries.
That’s his entry into Jerusalem.

782
00:48:07,600 –> 00:48:10,240
He sees it and he knows what
awaits it.

783
00:48:10,400 –> 00:48:14,480
This city isn’t why he came.
He came to bring a new

784
00:48:14,480 –> 00:48:16,800
Jerusalem.
This city would be the cause of

785
00:48:16,800 –> 00:48:20,920
his death and as many people as
had come and assumed that they

786
00:48:20,920 –> 00:48:25,560
had put him to death, Christ
came and did it willingly.

787
00:48:28,040 –> 00:48:33,560
So we’ll quickly end.
He has the meal with his

788
00:48:33,560 –> 00:48:36,240
disciples.
Luke, interestingly, is the one

789
00:48:36,240 –> 00:48:38,000
that mentions 2 cups instead of
1.

790
00:48:43,480 –> 00:48:47,200
But you see, brothers and
sisters eating, it’s been the

791
00:48:47,200 –> 00:48:50,760
theme since the very, very,
very, very beginning.

792
00:48:53,320 –> 00:48:54,920
It’s been the theme since the
very, very beginning.

793
00:48:54,920 –> 00:48:57,800
Well, the first things the
Elohim instructed Adam was you

794
00:48:57,800 –> 00:48:59,640
can eat of everything.
You can eat of everything, but

795
00:48:59,640 –> 00:49:02,240
don’t eat of one tree.
What is it?

796
00:49:02,240 –> 00:49:05,800
The one thing that mankind does?
They eat of that tree.

797
00:49:05,800 –> 00:49:09,840
It’s always been about that.
And so when Christ comes after

798
00:49:09,840 –> 00:49:13,640
the fall, when Christ comes into
Jerusalem, he sets a meal before

799
00:49:13,640 –> 00:49:15,280
them.
He sets a meal before his

800
00:49:15,280 –> 00:49:17,440
disciples and he says, eat with
me and live.

801
00:49:20,160 –> 00:49:24,240
And once he was done with that
meal, once he was done giving

802
00:49:24,240 –> 00:49:28,520
the meal to his disciples, what
he does is he puts himself on a

803
00:49:28,520 –> 00:49:36,560
tree for the life of the whole
world, to eat of his flesh, to

804
00:49:36,560 –> 00:49:40,080
drink of His blood in
remembrance of Him.

805
00:49:40,720 –> 00:49:43,040
This is why He goes to
Jerusalem.

806
00:49:43,200 –> 00:49:46,520
This is what awaited him there.
The entire religious

807
00:49:46,520 –> 00:49:49,920
organization of Jerusalem tried
to take his life since chapter

808
00:49:49,920 –> 00:49:56,400
5, but Jesus willingly gave it.
He was on that tree hung for the

809
00:49:56,400 –> 00:50:00,840
world to witness, and he says,
partake of my body and my blood

810
00:50:00,840 –> 00:50:04,720
and live.
I’m coming to Jerusalem to undo

811
00:50:04,720 –> 00:50:10,680
the results of eating that tree
in that garden by putting myself

812
00:50:10,680 –> 00:50:14,560
on a tree willingly.
For all this do in remembrance

813
00:50:14,560 –> 00:50:19,640
of me.
And so we eat every week at the

814
00:50:19,640 –> 00:50:23,280
table, and we do these things in
remembrance of Him.

815
00:50:23,680 –> 00:50:26,280
Blessed are they that do His
commandments that they may have

816
00:50:26,280 –> 00:50:29,560
rights to the tree of life and
may enter into the gates of the

817
00:50:29,560 –> 00:50:34,600
city.
I’m going to ask for two

818
00:50:34,600 –> 00:50:39,240
minutes, I promise, just to.
There’s one time that Jesus

819
00:50:39,240 –> 00:50:44,080
specifically eats in Luke.
He has had eight meals.

820
00:50:44,640 –> 00:50:47,480
Which one do you think he
actually puts food into his

821
00:50:47,480 –> 00:50:50,280
mouth in?
With Levi?

822
00:50:50,440 –> 00:50:55,280
No, with Levi it says they were
reclining at the table with the

823
00:50:55,280 –> 00:50:57,280
Pharisee.
No, he taught them reclined at

824
00:50:57,280 –> 00:51:00,760
the table the 5000.
No, he fed 5000 other people,

825
00:51:00,760 –> 00:51:03,160
not himself, reclined to the
table with the Pharisee.

826
00:51:03,160 –> 00:51:04,840
He reclined to the table with
the third Pharisee.

827
00:51:04,960 –> 00:51:08,640
With the 12 he fed them with the
two travellers, He fed them.

828
00:51:08,720 –> 00:51:13,520
When is the first time that
scripture says specifically that

829
00:51:13,520 –> 00:51:19,680
he actually ate?
It’s when he didn’t need to.

830
00:51:21,520 –> 00:51:27,840
It’s an as an immortal man, he
had been dining with people

831
00:51:27,840 –> 00:51:32,880
since chapter 3 and four.
He had been had his first meal

832
00:51:32,880 –> 00:51:43,520
in chapter 5 and it says in
chapter 24 verse 41, he took it

833
00:51:44,360 –> 00:51:50,920
and he ate.
Why does he wait until the very

834
00:51:50,920 –> 00:51:52,800
end?
Why does he wait until an

835
00:51:52,800 –> 00:51:56,440
immortal being who doesn’t even
need to eat anymore to

836
00:51:56,440 –> 00:52:00,320
specifically eat before them?
He has shared meals with people

837
00:52:00,320 –> 00:52:04,080
the whole book and now not only
does he eat, but he eats before

838
00:52:04,080 –> 00:52:05,680
them.
He eats by himself.

839
00:52:06,640 –> 00:52:10,280
Why?
It’s to prove a point.

840
00:52:10,360 –> 00:52:13,040
What point is Christ trying to
prove?

841
00:52:13,560 –> 00:52:20,200
Come with me to verse 42. 41 And
while they yet believe not for

842
00:52:20,200 –> 00:52:23,720
joy and wonder, he said to them,
do you have anything to eat?

843
00:52:26,640 –> 00:52:29,760
They said we’ve broiled fish, a
piece of honeycomb.

844
00:52:29,760 –> 00:52:34,040
And he took it, and He did eat
before them.

845
00:52:35,440 –> 00:52:38,160
Why does He eat?
He has to prove that what they

846
00:52:38,160 –> 00:52:40,760
see isn’t a ghost, it’s actually
Jesus.

847
00:52:40,880 –> 00:52:43,400
But what is it He says?
What’s the reason He says He

848
00:52:43,400 –> 00:52:46,440
actually eats?
Verse 44 It’s going to blow your

849
00:52:46,440 –> 00:52:50,520
brains.
And he said into them, These are

850
00:52:50,520 –> 00:52:53,640
the words which I spake unto you
while I was at with you, that

851
00:52:53,840 –> 00:53:00,000
all things must be fulfilled,
which were spoken of in the law

852
00:53:00,000 –> 00:53:05,240
of Moses, which were spoken of
in the prophets and in the

853
00:53:05,240 –> 00:53:08,760
Psalms concerning me.
Do you remember, disciples, when

854
00:53:08,760 –> 00:53:15,000
I told you that I’m going to eat
now to prove that all of that’s

855
00:53:15,000 –> 00:53:19,000
done?
I’m not some ghost like you

856
00:53:19,000 –> 00:53:21,400
think I am.
Give me some food.

857
00:53:22,360 –> 00:53:27,120
And he eats it, and says, This
is proof that all the things the

858
00:53:27,120 –> 00:53:32,320
prophet spoke about me have been
accomplished, And so we ate

859
00:53:32,560 –> 00:53:37,800
before them, brothers and
sisters, we conclude verse 45.

860
00:53:40,240 –> 00:53:43,440
Then opened he their
understanding what an event that

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would have been, that they might
understand the Scriptures, and

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said unto them, Thus is written.
And thus it was needful for

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Christ to suffer and to rise
from the dead the third day, and

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that repentance and remission of
sins should be preached in His

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name among all nations,
beginning where beginning

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Jerusalem.