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

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

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

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

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Questions we answer today

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

Timestamps

00:00 Back in Luke 6 and picking up the Sabbath

02:04 Reading Luke 6:1-11

03:28 Prayer

04:33 Sabbath starts in Genesis, before the law

05:00 Shabbat simply means to stop

05:36 The first thing called holy in the Bible

06:05 Rest is a decision, not a reward for finishing

07:03 Two reasons God gave for the Sabbath

07:41 Rest because you are not property anymore

08:09 How the manna trained them to stop

09:55 Hobby Lobby, Chick-fil-A, and the Salvation Army

11:56 Even the land was given rest

12:53 When breaking the Sabbath carried a death penalty

14:19 Losing the land because it was never allowed to rest

15:03 Nehemiah shuts the gates

15:20 A thousand died in caves rather than break it

16:29 Guarding something their grandparents died for

17:20 The thirty-nine categories of forbidden work

18:32 When the protection became the law

20:13 This was not theft

21:44 Reaping, threshing, and winnowing by hand

22:49 Three violations before breakfast

23:17 What religion does when it gets it wrong

23:43 The communion wafers I ate as a kid

26:51 The Pop-Tart argument

28:47 Religion, relationship, and whose rule it was

29:13 Prayer

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