tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20104292.post115699153964950604..comments2024-02-10T21:04:22.822-05:00Comments on The Familyhood Church: Verse of the Month: My Donkey in a BindKevin Knoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16788817477327510023noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20104292.post-1157025314750859412006-08-31T07:55:00.000-04:002006-08-31T07:55:00.000-04:00Thank you so much for this. I am so tired of legal...Thank you so much for this. I am so tired of legalists preaching moral and theological exactitude to broken people, setting up their own bars and then condemning those who can't jump over them. When we find ourselves needing to justify being merciful to other christians who think we're being "soft", something is hideously wrong. But it is also time to turn the searchlight of grace on the self-righteous legalist hidden in our own hearts..Lynnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10982043538182690871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20104292.post-1157022502230709042006-08-31T07:08:00.000-04:002006-08-31T07:08:00.000-04:00I love your thinking Kevin:I don't know, but may n...I love your thinking Kevin:<BR/><BR/><I>I don't know, but may no law ever keep me from pulling a brother out of a pit.</I><BR/><BR/>Oh that we didn't still have special days ... maybe then each day would be a true sabbath where we serve the Lord by serving each other ... even if a dirty pit is involved :)kc bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17440862813109808755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20104292.post-1157003650816987132006-08-31T01:54:00.000-04:002006-08-31T01:54:00.000-04:00The act of gathering sticks is not sinful, we'd al...The act of gathering sticks is not sinful, we'd all agree but his presumptuousness in doing so is. It must an act God sees as wilful and defying. The laws in those days pertaining to the keeping of Sabbath is very serious indeed and any violation would warrant death. <BR/><BR/>Maybe we can equate it to this analogy: Say someone need to start a fire. He has all the fuel he needs but deliberately burn the flag of his country in view of all people. Maybe not death but he would deserve severe punishment. It is not really a good example but I think the concept is there. Compare it to Jesus' act of healing and pulling a life out of the pit on the holy Sabbath, is like using the flag or even burning just to save someone, if it is the only means of doing so, it will surely be acceptable and he could even be hailed a national hero for using the country's flag to save a life.<BR/><BR/>I think there is a difference between the times of the exodus and the times of the Pharisees. The latter already stooped to a legalistic world that only cares for the letter of the law, and not the heart of the law. But all of us, in the times of exodus, in Jesus' time and we in our time, serve the same Lord. So if Jesus can heal the sick during the Sabbath, so can all of us, the only thing that matters is our heart - is it for God.<BR/><BR/>Good stuff, codepoke.pearliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17142595255771626179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20104292.post-1156997924891193602006-08-31T00:18:00.000-04:002006-08-31T00:18:00.000-04:00I don't know, but may no law ever keep me from pul...I don't know, but may no law ever keep me from pulling a brother out of a pit.<BR/><BR/>Amen BroMillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08676326805474564427noreply@blogger.com