On the second Sabbath JC and his disciples went into the corn fields and started to pick, eat and rub the corn in their hands. What’s that practice. The Pharisees were upset about and told them it was against the law. JC tells them how David broke the law when he was hungry, and ate the bread right out of the house of God. Only the priests can eat that bread. JC tells them the Son of man is the Lord of the Sabbath too.
On another Sabbath, JC taught at the synagogue. There was a guy with a withered hand. The scribes and Pharisees, were just waiting to see if JC would heal on the Sabbath. I mean that would go against god, healing on his holy day and all. As the man with the withered hand stepped up JC asked the folks, is it legal to do good or evil on the Sabbath? Should you save a life or destroy it? JC healed the hand. Oh the Pharisees and Scribes were pissed off. They talked about what they might do to JC. Normally I think the Pharisees are just an inquisitive lot, but come on guys, healing on the Sabbath is your big issue with this guy? He's being nice when he does that.
JC goes to the mountain to pray and prayed all night. In the daylight, he chose twelve of his disciples and made them his Apostles. Simon who he named Peter, his brother Andrew, James and John, Phillip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alpaeus, his brother Judas, Simon called Zelotes, and the traitor Judas Iscariot. He came down from the mountain with his disciples and a big crowd from, Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the coast of Tyre and Sidon, came to see JC so they could be healed. And he healed them. Everyone wanted to touch JC because the virtue was just flowing him out him. Woo hoo free virtue! And he healed them all.
Oh snap! I’ve stumbled into the sermon on the plain, it’s the sermon on the mount all over again.
Blessed are the poor, for the kingdom of God is theirs. Blessed are the hungry, for they will be full. Blessed are those who weep, for they will laugh. Blessed are those who men hate, when they leave and reproach them and cast out their names as evil for the Son of man’s sake. Okay break in formula how where they blessed? The crying laugh, the hungry are full, the poor get the kingdom of God and the those who are hated get… reproached and their names cast out? Nice reward.
Woe to the rich, they have received their comfort. Woe to the full, you’ll hunger. Woe to those who laugh for you will cry! Who to those who men speak well of, so did their fathers to the false prophets. What if you are a nice rich person who gives to the poor? What about God’s precious hero King David, I doubt he was poor.
Love your enemies, be good to those who hate you, bless the ones who curse you, pray for those who use you. If someone slaps you turn the other cheek and offer them the other and let him steal your cloak and coat! Wait what? Hypothermia serious, keep you cloak and coat if it’s really cold out. Don’t listen to JC on this one. Give to everyone who asks, and ask those who take your goods not to do it again.
If you love those who love you what do you have? I know! I know! You have love and it’s wonderful! Sinners also love those who love them. Yay sinners get love too! Oh wait JC says it like it’s a bad thing. If you do good to the folks you love what do you have? The satisfaction of helping the people you love! Yay! Hurray for love! Sinners do the same. Yay sinners aren’t all bad! Oh snap JC says that likes it’s a bad thing too. If you lend to people with the hope you will receive something what do you have? The hope that someday someone returns the favor? Sinners do that too. Oh wait. I get. I’m a sinner!
But if you love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing and your reward will be great, and you will be the children of Highest, because he is kind to the unthankful and evil. Right he loves the unthankful and evil but frowns on those who love the people who love them. So try to be as merciful as your Father. Don’t judge and you won’t be judged, don’t condemn and you won’t be condemned, forgive and you will be forgiven. Give and it will be given to you. However generous you are, that’s how generous it will be given back to you. Um that’s cool but you just frowned on people lending with the idea of getting something in return. Whatever.
Ooo a parable! Can the blind lead the blind? Or will they both fall in the ditch? Blind people aren’t idiots folks, and blind people often teach blind people how to do things blind. The disciple isn’t above the master, but if you are perfect you be as the master. You might see a speck in yout brother’s eye but not the big beam in your eye. You are a hypocrite, pull the beam out of your eye before you offer to pull the speck out of his eye.
A good tree has good fruit and a bad tree has bad fruit, you won’t find good fruit on a bad tree and vise versa. Every tree is known by his fruit. Figs don’t have thorns, and you can’t get grapes form a bramble bush. But yummy raspberries grow on thorny brambly bushes! I don’t know that they knew about raspberries at that time.
A good man brings the good treasure out of his heart, and the evil an brings evil treasure out of his heart. We speak from the heart. Why do you call me Lord and you don’t do as I say. If you come to me and hear what I say, and doe as I say… let me show you what I am talking about. He’s like a man who built a house, dug a deep foundation on a rock. When flood rose up his house house was nice and strong. But the person who hears me and doesn’t listen is like a house without a foundation. When the water hit that house it collapsed.
Wait, why is it bad that sinners love those who love them? Shouldn't we all love each other? I'm not good at it, but it's always been a goal of mine.
ReplyDeleteJust when JC seems to be preaching in a direction that I can get inot, it seems like he always throws me a curve ball, that I just don't buy.