Luke 14: 1-6
Jesus at a Pharisee’s House
14 One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, he was being carefully watched. 2 There in front of him was a man suffering from abnormal swelling of his body. 3 Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?” 4 But they remained silent. So taking hold of the man, he healed him and sent him on his way.
5 Then he asked them, “If one of you has a child or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull it out?” 6 And they had nothing to say.
There are times when the Law must bend to accommodate a legitimate need, as Jesus points out to the rigid Pharisees. They could not answer him,, for he made eminent sense. Jesus set the bar for us, to use good common sense, while at the same time, not fall into Lawlessness. The rule of thumb: the Law of Charity takes precedence over the letter of the Law.
Bro. Rene
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