April 5, 2025 Morning Devotional
Morning Devotion: Read Luke - A Disabled Woman Healed
Luke 13:10 And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. 11 And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. 12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. 13 And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. 14 And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day. 15 The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? 16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? 17 And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
I would often hear the phrase, ‘look who’s calling the kettle black.” Most people know what that phrase means. It means people do the same thing they accuse others as being wrong.
Romans 2:1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
They were accusing Jesus of working on the sabbath day when they themselves had already worked on the Sabbath day. They loosed their ox or their donkeys from the stalls and took them to the watering hole.
As the Lord was teaching in the synagogue He saw the informed woman. (A good place to hear about Jesus is at church, if it’s the right church. Some churches don’t even preach or teach about Jesus.)
He saw this woman who had an infirmity eighteen years, she had a chronic disease. This was not an emergency wherewith it would have been excusable.
Luke 14:5 And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day? 6 And they could not answer him again to these things.
They are using this event to accuse the Lord Jesus of doing wrong when they themselves were the ones doing wrong. Listen, if you can accuse someone in authority of doing wrong and prove it, you have by attrition taken away their authority whether it be formal or informal authority. When that happens, you make yourself the authority and cause others to follow you rather than the true authority.
People do that all the time with God, they accuse God of not being a loving God thereby choosing not to follow God. When they make that kind of decision they make themselves a god and they make themselves the authority over God.
Jesus healed this poor informed woman on the sabbath. The ruler of the synagogue was incensed and rebuked the Lord in an attempt to make himself the authority. The pharisees, the scribes, the sadducees, and the sanhedrin did this many times trying to discredit the Lord. That is one of the things they accused Him of before crucifying Him.
What they failed to realize was that the sabbath was made for man not man for the sabbath. Also, Jesus is Lord of the sabbath and He can do whatsoever pleases Him. He never violated the law but always fulfilled the law.
Mark 2:27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: 28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
What about you, do you make yourself the authoritative god over God? Do you hypocritically accuse others of the same thing you yourself do?
1Peter 5:6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
The choice is still yours,
Pastor Cook
