THE SERVANT PROVES HIS DEITY CONT.
LESSON 3 C
C. FALSE doctrine NOT to Be PATCHED with Truth, vv. 21-22.
1. The old garment and the old bottle are APOSTATE JUDAISM.
2. The new cloth and the new wine are TRUE CHRISTIANITY.
3. We are NOT TO MIX things that are ESSENTIALLY different. Jesus came to teach NEW TRUTH, NOT TO PATCH UP THE OLD, Luke 5:36, “And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.”
4. The modern ecumenical movement is guilty of disregarding these words of Jesus. This CONDEMNS ANY COMPROMISING WORLD RELIGION of our day.
5. Salvation is NOT A PATCHING UP of one’s life.
a. It is a complete new robe of righteousness, Isaiah 61:10, “I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.”
b. We are made RIGHTEOUS IN JESUS, 2 Corinthians 5:21, “For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
III. THE SON OF MAN IS LORD OF THE SABBATH vv. 23-28
A. The Danger of Following Human Tradition, vv. 23-24.
1. The HUNGRY DISCIPLES eat in the field on the Sabbath, v. 23.
a. The Law DID NOT FORBID the plucking and eating of a neighbor’s corn in the field. (Corn in the Bible is wheat). Deuteronomy 23:25, “When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour’s standing corn.”
b. The Law FORBIDS WORK, but NOT this kind of eating on the Sabbath day. Exodus 20:8-11, “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.”
c. There is NO RECORD that God ever gave the Sabbath to the Gentiles.
2. The Pharisees CRITICIZE on the Sabbath day, v. 24.
a. The Jews had ADDED HUMAN TRADITION to the Law and DEBATED over the smallest trifles.
b. Example: Should an egg laid on the Sabbath be eaten. In laying the egg, the hen had worked, etc.
B. The VALUE of KNOWING the Scriptures, vv. 25-28.
1. When David and his men were hungry and fleeing for their life, they ate the SHEWBREAD which was RESERVED for the priests, vv. 25-26; 1 Samuel 21:6, “So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.”
2. David did what was RIGHT EXCEPT in the matter of Uriah the Hittite, I Kings 15:5, “Because David did [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any [thing] that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.”
3. The Sabbath was NEVER MEANT to be DETRIMENTAL to the health and welfare of man or beast, v. 27.
NOTE: Mechilta on Exodus 31:13, “Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.” says: “The sabbath is delivered unto you and ye are not delivered unto the sabbath.” “Christianity has had to fight this same battle about institutionalism. The church itself is for man, not man for the church.”—A. T. Robertson’s Word Pictures.
NOTE: By “MAN,” is NOT MEANT ALL MANKIND; for the sabbath was never appointed for all mankind, nor binding upon all; only the Jews, who are emphatically called “man,” or “men”, Ezekiel 34:30, “Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD. 31 And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, ARE MEN, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.” —John Gill’s Expositor.
4. The Lord of the Sabbath could SWEEP OUT HUMAN TRADITION and HE DID, v. 28; Revelation 1:13, “And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.”
Note: “Son of man” occurs 88 times in the New Testament and always refers to Christ.