Evangelist DeWayne GoLightlys Evangelism & Missions Connectional Bible Study Hello Saints, When was the last time you and your family set down at the dinner table and opened the bible. These lessons are great for the whole family to gather once a week around the Word of God. Print, copy, and pass out. If the family that prays together, stays together is true, then the family that studies together, grows together. One of the goals for the Connectional bible study is to connect Christians from all over the world to sit together and study the Word of God. The second goal is to fulfill the Great Commission, and make Disciples. Discipleship always begins at the foot of the Master. We have recipients in Jamaica, Zambia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, England, and throughout the U.S.A. You could always find the disciples at Jesus feet listening, learning, growing and maturing. 1st Peter 2:2 reminds us As newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the Word that ye may grow thereby. KJV I want to encourage all of you to turn off the TV, turn down the radio, remove the headphones, and take back your spiritual life. Set aside just one hour a week to sit at the Lords table with Saints from all over the world and feast on the words of the Master. Enjoy the journey! Jesus awaits you! If you dont have a bible, the scriptures are provided for your review after the questions. For those who enjoy a deeper study of the Word, commentary is provided after the scriptures. *Note to the Presiding Elders* Please invite your pastors to join the Connectional Bible Study. Im sure they could use an extra tool in the field. Many pastors have limited libraries and study aides. Hint* (For Groups) The Open questions are to get a response from everyone in your group to break the ice. Hint** I find it helpful to read the scriptures before starting the lesson, located at the end of the questions. Be blessed everyone and be a blessing, Evangelist DeWayne GoLightly Bible Study: Lesson 63 A Crippled Woman Healed on the Sabbath - Luke 13:10-17 Open It 1. When has someone criticized you for doing something good? _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ 2. What rules about Sunday have you heard? _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Explore It 3. Whom did Jesus see in the synagogue? (13:11) _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ 4. What did Jesus do when He saw the crippled woman? (13:12) _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ 5. How did the woman respond to what Jesus had done? (13:13) _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ 6. Why was the synagogue ruler indignant? (13:14) _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ 7. What rule did the synagogue ruler announce to the crowd? (13:14) _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ 8. What did Jesus think of the religious leaders? (13:15) _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ 9. What example did Jesus give to justify His healing of the woman? (13:15-16) _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ 10. What had caused the womans malady? (13:16) _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Get It 11. How did the Jewish leader view the Sabbath? _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ 12. What must it have taken for the crippled woman to go to the synagogue? _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ 13. What restrictions do we foolishly put on Gods work? _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ 14. What opportunities to free others from physical or emotional pain do you know about? _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Apply It 15. When can you evaluate your use of Sundays to make sure you allow for doing good? _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ 16. What self-imposed rule or tradition do you need to modify to allow for Gods work? _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ 17. How can you help or comfort a person in pain this week? _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ scriptURES JESUS HEALS ON THE SABBATH Luke 13:10-17 (NCV) 10 Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day. 11 A woman was there who, for eighteen years, had an evil spirit in her that made her crippled. Her back was always bent; she could not stand up straight. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, Woman, you are free from your sickness. 13 Jesus put his hands on her, and immediately she was able to stand up straight and began praising God. 14 The synagogue leader was angry because Jesus healed on the Sabbath day. He said to the people, There are six days when one has to work. So come to be healed on one of those days, and not on the Sabbath day. 15 The Lord answered, You hypocrites! Doesnt each of you untie your work animals and lead them to drink water every day-even on the Sabbath day? 16 This woman that I healed, a daughter of Abraham, has been held by Satan for eighteen years. Surely it is not wrong for her to be freed from her sickness on a Sabbath day! 17 When Jesus said this, all of those who were criticizing him were ashamed, but the entire crowd rejoiced at all the wonderful things Jesus was doing. Luke 13:10-17 (AMP) 10 Now Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. 11 And there was a woman there who for eighteen years had had an infirmity caused by a spirit (a demon of sickness). She was bent completely forward and utterly unable to straighten herself up or to look upward. 12 And when Jesus saw her, He called [her to Him] and said to her, Woman, you are released from your infirmity! 13 Then He laid [His] hands on her, and instantly she was made straight, and she recognized and thanked and praised God. 14 But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, There are six days on which work ought to be done; so come on those days and be cured, and not on the Sabbath day. 15 But the Lord replied to him, saying, You playactors (hypocrites)! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or his donkey from the stall and lead it out to water it? 16 And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day? 17 Even as He said this, all His opponents were put to shame, and all the people were rejoicing over all the glorious things that were being done by Him. COMMENTARY IS PROVIDED BELOW FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN A DEEPER STUDY OF THE LESSON. R. People vs. Religion: Which is More Important? 13:10-17 (13:10-17) Introduction: one of the great tragedies of religion is that religion is so often placed before man and his needs. Jesus met this problem head-on. 1. Jesus taught in the synagogue on the Sabbath (v.10). 2. The woman was a worshipper of God (v.11-13). 3. The ruler (religionist) was a worshipper of God (v.14-16). 4. The effect of Jesus works and words (v.17). 1. (13:10) Jesus Christ, Worship of: Jesus taught in the synagogue on the Sabbath. Three significant facts need to be seen in this point. 1. This was the last time Jesus was ever in a synagogue as far as we know. From this point on He was such a controversial figure that no synagogue would allow Him in the pulpit. 2. This healing miracle took place on the Sabbath, and healing was not allowed on the Sabbath. It was considered work unless it was a matter of life and death. The fact that Jesus broke the Sabbath law was what caused the present dispute. 3. Note that both the woman and the religionist were worshippers of God (Luke 13:11-16). Thought 1. Jesus was worshipping on the Sabbath, doing exactly what He should have been doing. Thought 2. There is a difference between worshippers. This is seen in the woman and the man (Luke 13:11-16). She sought to draw near the Lord for deliverance, whereas the man only practiced his ceremony and ritual. 2. (13:11-13) Salvation- Worship- Jesus Christ, Heals- Compassion: the woman was a worshipper of God. Note five things about her. 1. She was worshipping. It was her habit to worship, to seek the face of God in looking after her life. Therefore, she was where she was supposed to be on this particular Sabbath: in worship. And because she was there, she was to receive a very special touch from God. She did not know it yet, but she was. Why her? Because she was sincere, ever so sincere in seeking God and His care. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve (Matthew 4:10). God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness (1 Chron. 16:29). Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever (Psalm 23:6). LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth (Psalm 26:8). One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple (Psalm 27:4). Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple (Psalm 65:4). My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God (Psalm 84:2). For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness (Psalm 84:10). I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD (Psalm 122:1). 2. She had a curvature of the spine. This sounds like some form of arthritis where the joints of the spine fuse together. Luke, the physician, gives the medical description of his day for the disease. She had been deformed for eighteen yars. Two facts need to be noted. a. She had been afflicted with a spirit of infirmity. Jesus said the spirit was an evil spirit of infirmity: [She was] a daughter...whom Satan hath bound (Luke 13:16). Thus, the woman needed spiritual healing as well as physical healing. b. She was in worship despite her deformity, and note her deformity was severe. She was all bent over and unable to rise up. The pain was sometimes severe. Yet, her habit was to attend worship and to seek the favor and help of God upon her life. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you (Matthew 6:33). And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened (Luke 11:9-10). That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not afar from every one of us (Acts 17:27). Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore (Psalm 105:4). Seek ye me, and ye shall live (Amos 5:4). 3. She was seen and called by Jesus. The womans faithfulness in the worship of God, despite deformity and pain, attracted Jesus. He knew both her condition with all its pain and inconvenience and the great sacrifice she made to worship God. He was moved with compassion. Note: she did not have to call to Him for help; Jesus called her to Him. But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto childrens children (Psalm 103:17). In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old (Isaiah 63:9). For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin (Hebrews 4:15). Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (Romans 8:35). Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you (1 Peter 5:7). It is of the LORDS mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not (Lament. 3:22). 4. She received Jesus Word and touch. This was crucial. Jesus had called her to come to Him. She had to respond to His call; He could not come for her. She had to take the step of coming herself. When she obeyed, Jesus spoke the Word, the good news to her: Thou art loosed from thine infirmity. (Keep in mind that her problem had been both spiritual and physical.) Jesus reached out and touched her and she was made straight. She stood upright. She experienced both the power of Jesus Word and touch. But note: It was because she came when Jesus called, and she was able to hear Jesus call because she was worshipping God and seeking His grace and care. Thought 1. The Lord alone can heal those who are bowed down. The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous (Psalm 146:8). Thought 2. Souls that are bent or bowed down can be lifted up by Jesus, no matter what it is that has caused the bowing: ⇒ humiliation & shame ⇒ sin ⇒ lack of education ⇒ loss of everything ⇒ accident ⇒ disease ⇒ appearance & looks ⇒ personality I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me (Psalm 38:6-10). Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many (Matthew 20:28). When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses (Matthew 8:16-17). And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance (Luke 5:31-32). How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him (Acts 10:38). For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall (Isaiah 25:4). Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted (Isaiah 53:4). 5. She glorified God first. Note the word immediately. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Cor. 15:57). For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are Gods (1 Cor. 6:20). Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift (2 Cor. 9:15). Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (Ephes. 5:20). In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you (1 Thes. 5:18). By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name (Hebrews 13:15). But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light (1 Peter 2:9). Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people (1 Chron. 16:8). Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings (Psalm 9:11). Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High (Psalm 50:14). Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee (Psalm 67:3). Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation (Psalm 68:19). It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High (Psalm 92:1). 3. (13:14-16) Religionists- Tradition- Hypocrisy: the ruler (religionist) was a worshipper of God. He was the head of the synagogue . He was a different kind of worshipper than the deformed woman. Whereas the woman sought God through her need and dependency, to favor and help her personally, the ruler sought God through form and ritual, ceremony and rules. There is a vast difference between the two approaches. The one thing God teaches is that a man has to approach Him as a child, dependent and needy. Note four faults or sins of the religionist. 1. The ruler got angry with people. In fact, the very people with whom he became angry were his neighbors, the very persons who sat in worship with him every week. He allowed his temper to run wild. The people were merely seeking help, for they were in desperate need, especially the woman; and he knew it. However, because he differed with them, he flared up against them. Thought 1. How many have hot tempers! How many strike out when they differ! How few control themselves! Thought 2. Note two things. 1) The man lost his temper in the presence of Jesus. Every flare-up is seen by God, and He knows the sin being committed. 2) The man was really upset with Jesus as well as the people. However, he feared to take Jesus on, for he felt Jesus was stronger and more able than himself. So he struck out against the weaker persons. How like the angry person! 2. The ruler misunderstood and corrupted Gods law (Sabbath). In his mind, Jesus had committed a serious crime. He had healed on the Sabbath day. 3. He refused to acknowledge the Messiah, Gods Son who actually stood right before him. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven (Matthew 7:21). Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven (Matthew 10:32-33). Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (John 14:6). For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time (1 Tim. 2:5-6). And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment (1 John 3:23). 4. He was hypocritical. He placed both animals and man-made religious rules above people. He allowed tradition and ritual, ceremony and rules to become more important than meeting the basic needs of human life: the need for God and the need for spiritual, physical, and mental help-all were to take a back seat to religious form. The religionists offense was serious. Note the woman was... * a daughter of Abraham, a professed believer in God. * a woman who had a spiritual need. She had been bound by Satan. * a woman who had suffered for eighteen years. But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day (Matthew 12:7-8). Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself (Matthew 22:36-39). Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead mens bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity (Matthew 23:25-28). He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition (Mark 7:6-9). And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? (Luke 6:46). Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law (Romans 13:10). Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ (Col. 2:8). Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away (2 Tim. 3:5). They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate (Titus 1:16). Rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth (Titus 1:13-14). Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world (James 1:27). Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoso hath this worlds good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him (1 John 3:16-19). For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings (Hosea 6:6). He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? (Micah 6:8). 4. (13:17) Jesus Christ, Impact: the effect of Jesus work and words was the humiliation of those who opposed Him and the rejoicing of those who were open to Him. Preachers Outline and Sermon Bible - Commentary - The Preachers Outline & Sermon Bible - Luke. Please share the lesson with others and invite others to be part of our study. They can send their emails to my email address, revrap06@yahoo If you missed any of the earlier lessons, you can go to my Evangelism website Cmevangelize.org and download previous lessons. Invite your family, friends, students, co-workers, church members and others to join us at the Lords table. These lessons will change their lives. Youth and children are invited to visit my gospel rap ministry website at revrap and you can listen to my gospel raps. Send me a email to revrap06@yahoo and include your address and I will send you a cd at no charge and the lyrics. However I would like for you to make copies of the cd and give them to your youth and children. Please tell their parents they have my permission to make copies and give them away to family and friends. Twelve and under is my target group. Lets increase the Word in the hearts and minds of as many children and youth throughout the world. Be blessed. Evangelist DeWayne GoLightly Former General Secretary of Evangelism and Missions of the CME Church : )
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