“And Jesus answering spoke unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?” Commentary: The religious leaders and the lawyers were watching Jesus carefully trying to find some flaw in him! You would think that group of people would be the most interested in helping people? The Sabbath day is a day of rest ceasing from work and giving thanks to God for his goodness and faithfulness to us! It is an intermission time or half time at the beginning of the new week for reflection on his goodness to us! God created this world we live in and all that we see in six days! Then he rested on the seventh day! If God needs rest how about us? So Jesus asked them is it lawful to heal this crippled man on the Sabbath? But they held their peace and would not answer him? How is it men will not answer God and repent of their sins? So Jesus went ahead and did the merciful thing and healed this crippled man! Then Jesus asked them if a cow or ox you own falls into a ditch will you not get him out on the Sabbath day? Jesus is really asking us is the law made for man or is man made for the Sabbath? Is the earth made for man or is man made for the earth? The planet worshippers the green new deal has everything with men rejecting the God of creation! The law is given for the benefit of man! To protect us from man who has a propensity to sin! Jesus said I am the Lord of the Sabbath! The law sets our boundaries of behavior! The law teaches that we cannot keep the law and need a Savior! All of us have failed to keep the law! If you have to hurt people to keep the law then you are worshipping the law rather than worshipping God! God is love! For the Christian the Sabbath day was moved to Sunday! Jesus rose from the dead on Sunday on the third day! Sunday is the first day of the week for the Christian! Jesus conquered the law of sin and death! Only Jesus kept the law completely because he was more than a man he was God! So we set apart Sunday to honor God and worship him on the Sabbath! We start the new week with God! We honor him with our tithes and offerings! We think on his goodness! Jesus kept the law and went on the Cross for our sin and our inability to keep the law! The penalty for breaking the law is death! He became the sacrifice for us! The one without sin became sin for us! He purchased our redemption with his own blood! Jesus conquered death on Sunday! If we believe the law can save us then we do bad things in the name of the law! Jesus said if you love me keep my commandments! Keeping them through his name! His power and redemption! His resurrection from the dead! We have hope beyond the grave! He will raise us also from the dead! He will raise everyone from the dead the living and the dead some to everlasting life and some to judgment! God will heal you on any day of the week but Jesus had to remind the Pharisees and lawyers that when they worship the law then bad things or evil things are done in the name of the law! Redemption comes in the name of Jesus! Name above every name! James & Hamsa Sasse. WhoisGod.in