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Defining moments. In life there are moments which set the course and define the way for one’s life. From that defining moment on, things will never be the same again.
2. Tonight, we will study a significant, yet often overlooked, defining moment in the life and ministry of our Savior, Jesus Christ, one which revealed who He is and who His enemies were.

Matthew 12:1-21

Context
1. Last week, we studied the powerful and comforting invitation of Jesus from Matthew 11:28-30, “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
2. God knows that all of humanity is burdened so He sent His Son to free us both from the burden of our sins as well as the burden of religiosity.
3. One of the themes that we see running through the Gospel of Matthew as well as much of the Bible is the question, “How will you respond?”
4. Because God so love the world, He sent His Son so that we might believe in Him and have everlasting life. God sent His Son so that question now is, “How will you respond to Jesus?”
5. In Matthew 12, there are two distinct groups with completely different responses to Jesus. Jesus pointed to their hearts and revealed that there is where the question is truly answered.

I. Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath (1-8)

• The topic of the Sabbath was and is very central to the Jewish religion.
• But what was meant to be a blessing became a burden, so Jesus confronted the problem to restore the Sabbath back to what God originally intended.

A. The Sabbath was made for man
1. Matthew 12 begins with the Pharisees accusing Jesus that His disciples were breaking the Sabbath because they had picked heads of grain and ate them while passing through the grain fields. (2)
2. Jesus responded to their confrontation by confronting them.
3. First, it is important to note that the Sabbath was given as a sign between God and the sons of Israel.

Exodus 31:17, It is a sign between Me and the sons of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day He ceased from labor, and was refreshed.

4. Next, we see that God meant the Sabbath to be a blessing for Israel.

Mark 2:27, Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.”

5. But the scribes and Pharisees had turned the Sabbath into a crushing burden, and defined Israel’s relationship to God according to whether they could carry this terrible man-defined burden.

Matthew 23:4, They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger.

ILLUS – Traveling in Jerusalem on the Sabbath

6. Jesus referenced three passages from God’s Word to confront their ignorance of God’s Word and the error of their traditions.
a. In 1 Samuel 21, David and his men ate the showbread which was reserved for the priests and were not condemned. (3-4)
b. In Numbers 28:9-10, the priests broke on the Sabbath when they offer the prescribed sacrifices to the Lord and were not condemned. (5)
c. Then Jesus quoted from Hosea 6:6 to show the Pharisees were condemning the innocent, ones God had not condemned.

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