Luke 13:10-16,
10 And He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.
11 And behold, there was a woman who for eighteen years had had a sickness caused by a spirit; and she was bent double, and could not straighten up at all.
12 And when Jesus saw her, He called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your sickness.”
13 And He laid His hands upon her; and immediately she was made erect again, and began glorifying God.
14 And the synagogue official, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, began saying to the multitude in response, “There are six days in which work should be done; therefore come during them and get healed, and not on the Sabbath day.”
15 But the Lord answered him and said, “You hypocrites, does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the stall, and lead him away to water him?
16 “And this woman, a daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years, should she not have been released from this bond on the Sabbath day?”
Colossians 2:16-17,
16 Therefore let no one act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day
17 — things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but
the substance belongs to Christ.
Galatians 5:14; 18; 22-23,
14 For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.”
18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Romans 7:5-6,
4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit for God.
5 For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.
Jesus is our Sabbath, our place of rest from our own works.
In repentance and rest you shall be saved, in quietness and trust is your strength, Isaiah 30:15.
The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath. Rest in Him, trust in Him, that you may do the will of God through the works He has prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Jon David Banks, God’s most unworthy servant
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