#healed on the Sabbath

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Let's Break Some Rules

The other day, I blogged about a brave young man who got in trouble for mentioning Jesus in his graduation speech. Now, I’m pretty sure Jesus was up there clapping for him. Why? Because Jesus was the ultimate rule breaker. Not the “Thou shalt nots,” but the rules made by the hypocrites. I remember being 15 when my dad died just before Christmas. I told a friend, “You’re so lucky. You still have…

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03/17/2023

Are you allowed to bicker on the Sabbath?

JOKE-OGRAPHY: Jesus cures a blind man on the Sabbath.  Doing certain work on the Sabbath is forbidden by Jewish law, and so the Pharisees discuss this "Jesus" fellow.  In the Bible, the Pharisees are split on whether Jesus is a sinner (because He did work on the Sabbath) or a true holy man (because a sinner couldn't work such signs).  In this cartoon, they're instead split on whether Jews are allowed to take baths on the Sabbath, because it'd be ironic if they weren't allowed to take a bath on a day that has the word "bath" in part of its name ("sabBATH").

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath

1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat.

2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.

3 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;

4 How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?

5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

6 But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.

7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.

9 And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:

10 And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.

11 And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?

12 How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

13 Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.

14 Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.

15 But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;

16 And charged them that they should not make him known:

17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,

18 Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.

19 He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.

20 A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.

21 And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.

22 Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.

23 And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?

24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.

25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

26 And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?

27 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.

28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.

29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.

30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.

39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:

40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.

42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.

44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.

45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

46 While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.

47 Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.

48 But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?

49 And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!

50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. — Matthew 12 | King James Version (KJV) The King James Version Bible is in the public domain Cross References: Leviticus 24:8-9; Leviticus 24:16; Deuteronomy 23:25; 1 Samuel 15:22; 1 Samuel 21:4; 1 Samuel 21:6; 1 Samuel 24:13; 1 Kings 10:1; 2 Kings 14:25; 2 Chronicles 6:18; Proverbs 10:20-21; Proverbs 11:24; Proverbs 18:21; Isaiah 42:1,2 and 3; Isaiah 66:1-2; Hosea 6:6; Matthew 3:17; Matthew 4:23; Matthew 8:3-4; Matthew 8:20; Matthew 9:30; Matthew 10:31; Matthew 11:7; Matthew 12:22; Matthew 12:32; Matthew 26:4; Mark 2:23-24; Mark 3:1; Mark 3:7; Mark 14:1; Luke 6:2; Luke 6:6; Luke 9:35; Luke 13:14; Luke 14:3; Luke 14:5; John 3:34; Acts 28:8; Romans 15:12; Hebrews 6:4; 2 Peter 2:20; 1 John 3:8

What does Matthew chapter 12 mean?

Key Events in Matthew 12

1. Jesus reproves the blindness of the Pharisees concerning the Sabbath, 3. by scripture, 9. by reason, 13. and by a miracle. 22. He heals a man possessed that was blind and mute; 24. and confronting the absurd charge of casting out demons by Beelzebub, 32. he shows that blasphemy against the Holy Spirit shall never be forgiven. 36. Account shall be made of idle words. 38. He rebukes the unfaithful, who seek after a sign, 46. and shows who is his brother, sister, and mother.

[theprayingteacher]

#Strength

[biblebloodhound]

What Will You Do with Jesus? (John 5:1-18)

“I do not understand at all the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.” Anne Lamott

Healing the Paralytic, by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1670 Sometime later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an…

[quotesfromscripture]

Yeshua was teaching in one of the synagogues on Shabbat. A woman came up who had a spirit which had crippled her for eighteen years; she was bent double and unable to stand erect at all. On seeing her, Yeshua called her and said to her, "Lady, you have been set free from your weakness!" He put his hands on her, and at once she stood upright and began to glorify God.

Luke 13:10-13 CJB (1998)

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Idioms

Manakedu Mukku

Manakedu Mukku (idlers junction) is used to describe our village. People idle there and waste their time.

Manekedu Muku as an idiom stands for wasting and idling time.

There are many Memekledu mukus in the world.

Idioms

Santa’s Bag

Santa’s bag as an idiom stands for money coming in from unexpected quarters.

Yes, I would like to receive Santa’s bag.

Sara’s Laughter

Sara is the wife of Abraham the Old Testament patriarch and when an angel said she will give birth, she laughed.

Sara’s laughter as an idiom stands for the happening of a pleasant unexpected.

Yes, I would like to experience Sara’s laughter.

Healing on the Sabbath

When Jesus healed on the Sabbath, he met with a barrage of criticism from the scribes and Pharisees. Jesus very skillfully maneuvered their caustic remarks by saying which of you, will not lift your goat fallen in the well.

Healing on the Sabbath as an idiom means responding to criticism.

[yahiyshmatthyah613]

[thechembow]

Alpine slopes face snow shortage in unseasonably warm winter

Jan. 2, 2023 - AP

Because of so many problems with the logic of this article and a lack of understanding of the climate correction underway (and a non-acknowledgement of our work to correct the climate with orgone energy), I don’t feel like posting the “highlights” of the article here without also including my own commentary. I will just hit a few points with my own corrections and comparisons to the situation in the US.

As the jet stream has normalized after gifting Salt Lake City (removing the energetic blockage to the OR flow), we are also having slightly warmer temperatures throughout the mountains of the US west. We have had much more rain than snow at lower elevations, and because orgone energy restores what is natural, we can see that these more temperate and livable conditions are actually beneficial for places that were previously unbearably cold.

At the same time, orgone energy brings cooler temperatures to places that were too hot, like the desert. This is the re-balancing of the climate, which has been out of whack for longer than we’ve been alive. No one actually knows what is “normal” because there has been too much interference in the Earth’s energy field and natural OR generators for thousands of years. Just because we’re used to something does not make it normal.

First, the title. The word “shortage” is used to create panic over something that isn’t a problem, except for people who want to make money off the snow.

“Much of the Alps just don't look right for this time of year. Sparse snowfall and unseasonably warm winter weather in Europe’s central mountains are allowing grass to blanket hillsides across the region, causing headaches for ski slope operators and aficionados of Alpine white.”

Wilhelm Reich would say that “allowing grass to blanket hillsides” is the goal of geo-restoration. I’m sure the grazing animals of the region are overjoyed at the improvement in conditions.

“On a swath stretching from France to Poland, but with the Alps at the center, many parts of Europe were enjoying short-sleeve weather. A weather map showed Poland racking up daily highs in the double digits Celsius — or more than 50 Fahrenheit — in recent days.”

My overweight neighbor wears shorts and a T-shirt when it’s 30 degrees out. In LA, even in the winter, the temperatures can be in the 60s and 70s on some days, which is short sleeve weather even for LA people. The climate of California is similar to many southern areas of Europe.

“Swiss state forecaster MeteoSuisse pointed to some of the hottest temperatures ever this time of year. A weather station in Delemont, in the Jura range on the French border, already hit a record average daily temperature of 18.1 degrees Celsius (nearly 65 Fahrenheit) on the first day of the year, over 2-1/2 degrees Celsius higher than the previous record high for January.“

Notice they say “hottest” instead of “warmest.” 65 degrees is warm. This is not Las Vegas in July! And a 2 degree difference from a previous high is hardly cause to sound the alarm.

“Forecaster Anick Haldimann of MeteoSuisse said a persistent weather system that brought in warmer air from the west and southwest has lingered, locking in warmer temperatures expected to last through the week. While slopes above 2,000 meters (over 6,500 feet) have gotten snow, lower down, ‘the order of the day is patience’ for skiing buffs, she said.”

The warmer air from the west and southwest also caused rain rather than snow in our mountains of Southern California. This is part of the restoration of natural jet streams that don’t have wild swings, but move steadily around the globe. We also have had snow about 6000 feet, but at 5000 feet it’s been more rain and just a little snow so far.

“The shortage has been particularly burdensome around Switzerland’s Adelboden, which is set to host World Cup skiing on Saturday, and generally draws 25,000 fans for a single day of racing.”

I think I’ll get some grief for mentioning that God doesn’t allow us to have skiing races on Saturday, but please don’t kill the messenger. I don’t care what your religion has told you or what personal opinion is. It’s against the law regardless of how anyone justifies that it’s OK. Against the law simply means, it won’t work out because that’s not how the universe was set up. We are restoring God’s world the way it was created, and that includes resting on Saturday. Of course they are going ahead with the race using artificial snow anyway.

“Next door in France, national weather agency Meteo France said 2022 ended with some of the warmest weather the country has ever experienced at this time of year -- capping an exceptionally warm year that saw temperature records broken and rampant forest fires and drought conditions.“

There is not much more to say about this article. It ends with propaganda and lies. Forest fires in France were set by the government just like here in the US. Every year temperature records are broken, whether cold or warm. That is the purpose of keeping records, to keep track of the weather. This is more global warming hysteria, as our world balances and cold places get warmer and warm places get cooler.

[avonlady44]

Today, when we accept Jesus as our Savior that doesn’t mean our lives will be free from troubles or sorrows or struggles. But it does mean that Jesus will always be faithful to help us when we need Him. When we trust in the Jesus with all of our hearts, seeking His will, He will show us the way. And like a tree planted by the water, our lives can still bear fruit for His kingdom.

You can Depend on God.

I Believe

We can do Better

JEREMIAH 17:7–8

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Using Power for Mercy

Photo by Ave Calvar on Unsplash Over the next several posts, I’ll be sharing a series of reflections I wrote for my church from the Gospel of Mark. These devotionals covered passages which would not be preached on in our sermon series. If you would like to listen to sermons from this series, you can find recordings of them here and here. This devotional covers Mark 3:1-12.  1 Again he entered…

[heartofashepherd]

How to Respond When Critics Want to Destroy You (Matthew 12) - From www....

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Two Sabbath Incidents

1 Not long afterward Jesus was walking through some wheat fields on a Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, so they began to pick heads of wheat and eat the grain. 2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to Jesus, “Look, it is against our Law for your disciples to do this on the Sabbath!”

3 Jesus answered, “Have you never read what David did that time when he and his men were hungry? 4 He went into the house of God, and he and his men ate the bread offered to God, even though it was against the Law for them to eat it—only the priests were allowed to eat that bread. 5 Or have you not read in the Law of Moses that every Sabbath the priests in the Temple actually break the Sabbath law, yet they are not guilty? 6 I tell you that there is something here greater than the Temple. 7 The scripture says, ‘It is kindness that I want, not animal sacrifices.’ If you really knew what this means, you would not condemn people who are not guilty; 8 for the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

9 Jesus left that place and went to a synagogue, 10 where there was a man who had a paralyzed hand. Some people were there who wanted to accuse Jesus of doing wrong, so they asked him, “Is it against our Law to heal on the Sabbath?”

11 Jesus answered, “What if one of you has a sheep and it falls into a deep hole on the Sabbath? Will you not take hold of it and lift it out? 12 And a human being is worth much more than a sheep! So then, our Law does allow us to help someone on the Sabbath.” 13 Then he said to the man with the paralyzed hand, “Stretch out your hand.”

He stretched it out, and it became well again, just like the other one. 14 Then the Pharisees left and made plans to kill Jesus. — Matthew 12:1-14 | Good News Translation (GNT) Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition) © 1992 American Bible Society. All rights reserved. Cross References: Leviticus 24:8-9; Deuteronomy 23:25; 1 Samuel 15:22; 1 Samuel 21:4; 1 Samuel 21:6; 2 Chronicles 6:18; Isaiah 66:1-2; Hosea 6:6; Matthew 8:3; Matthew 8:20; Matthew 10:31; Matthew 12:32; Matthew 26:4; Mark 2:23-24; Mark 3:1; Mark 14:1; Luke 6:2; Luke 6:6; Luke 13:14; Luke 14:3; Luke 14:5; Acts 28:8

[theprayingteacher]

#Prayer Against #Negativity

[itsfarmerphil]

W10D5: How long is a full and complete Sabbath rest after 30 years?

This morning’s verse of the day from Bible.com triggered today’s title. The verse comes from Hebrews 4:9 which says: “So there remains a [full and complete] Sabbath rest for the people of God.” These weeks have definitely given me time to look to God, reflect, and rest. What types of Sabbath’s does the Bible talk about? How long do they last and what is their purposes? The dogs wanted to go out…

[quotesfromscripture]

Shouldn’t she be freed?

“But the president of the synagogue, indignant that Yeshua had healed on Shabbat, spoke up and said to the congregation, ‘There are six days in the week for working; so come during those days to be healed, not on Shabbat!’ 

However, the Lord answered him, ‘You hypocrites! Each one of you on Shabbat -- don’t you unloose your ox or your donkey from the stall and lead him off to drink? This woman is a daughter of Avraham, and the Adversary kept her tied up for eighteen years! Shouldn’t she be freed from this bondage on Shabbat?’ ” 

- Luke 13:14-16 CJB (1998)