Excuse Me, But Your Meanness is Showing - Luke 6.1-11
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Luke 6:1-11
Pages 861-862 in our guest Bibles.
Today’s Scripture:
Have you noticedthat we live in a MEAN world?
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What was
JESUSknown for
?
“Excuse Me, ButYour MEANNESS
Is Showing”
The Gospel of Luke6:1-11
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1 a SCARY THING about HUMAN BEINGS
a NEW WAY of BEING HUMAN2
“Excuse Me, ButYour MEANNESS
Is Showing”
The Gospel of Luke6:1-11
SCENE #1
Luke 6:1-5
On a Sabbath, while he was going
LUKE 6:1
through the grainfields, his disciplesplucked and ate some heads ofgrain, rubbing them in their hands...
But some of the Pharisees said,
LUKE 6:2
“Why are you doing what isnot lawful on the Sabbath...?”
And Jesus answered them, “Have
LUKE 6:3-4
you not read what David did whenhe was hungry, he and those whowere with him....
...how he entered the the house of
LUKE 6:3-4
God and took and ate the breadof the Presence which is not lawful
also gave it to those who were withfor any but the priests to eat, and
with him...?
Matthew 12:7
[ And if you had known what
sacrifice,’ you would not have this means, ‘I desire mercy, not
condemned the guiltless...” ]
And he said to them, “The Son of
LUKE 6:5
Man is Lord of the Sabbath....”
SCENE #2
Luke 6:6-11
On another Sabbath, he entered
LUKE 6:6-7
the synagogue and was teaching,and a man was there whose right
and the Pharisees watched him, tohand was withered. And the scribes
the Sabbath, so that they might
LUKE 6:6-7
find a reason to accuse him....
see whether he would heal on
But he knew their thoughts, and
LUKE 6:8
he said to the man with the witheredhand, “Come and stand here....”
And Jesus said to them, “I ask you,
LUKE 6:9
is it lawful on the Sabbath to dogood or to do harm, to save life orto destroy it...?”
“Their HEARTS are as SHRIVELED
as the man’s hand….
They’re TRIBAL, JUDGMENTAL, and
SELF-OBSESSED
instead of caring
about the man.”
“If anyone...sees his brother in need, yet CLOSES HIS HEART
against him,how does
GOD’S LOVE ABIDEin him?
~ 1 John 3:17
around at them all he said to him,
LUKE 6:10
“Stretch out your hand.” And he didso, and his hand was restored....
[ And he looked around at them withanger, grieved at their hardness ofheart. - Mark 3:5 ] And after looking
But they were filled with fury and
LUKE 6:11
discussed with one another whatthey might do to Jesus....
It was partly because
JESUS BROKE ONE
of their
PRECIOUS RULES,
but it was more because
he EXPOSED their
LACK OF LOVE
for people in need.
They were using the
very law of God
AS AN EXCUSE
for not showing mercy.
Mark 3:6
The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.
Why does Luke include thesestories in his historical biography of Jesus?
Important Question
Jesus redefines our humanity for usso that we will want to relate to others
less by lists of silly rules and more by
LOVE and COMPASSION
Don’t just be a fan.1
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“…in the end you can’t simply like anybody who makes claims like those of Jesus. Either he’s a WICKED LIAR or a CRAZY PERSON and you should have nothing to do with him, or he is who he says heis and your WHOLE LIFE has toREVOLVE around him and youhave to throw everything at his feet and say,‘COMMAND ME.’”
~ Tim Keller, The King’s Cross
Admit something scary about yourself.
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Change your clothing.3
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PUT ON then, as God’s
chosen ones, holy and
beloved, COMPASSION,
KINDNESS, HUMILITY,
MEEKNESS, and
PATIENCE....
~ Colossians 3:12, 14
And above all these PUT ON LOVE,
which bind everything together in
PERFECT HARMONY.~ Colossians 3:12, 14
“PUT ON the Lord
Jesus Christ...”
~ Romans 13:14
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