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mowing the law, or other servant-led tasks may give you access to an individual (through relationship) who otherwise wouldn't listen. Paul tells us "I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings." What's Paul's goal? it's not "doing all things" (i.e. cutting grass), doing all things is a mechanism to reach the goal, the goal is "so that by all possible means I might save some". knocking on someone's door and directly telling the gospel may work sometimes, but often times it's unwanted even to the point that people become hostile. If that approach causes the person to move away from Christ, and even become hostile to the gospel, we need to find another approach. However, something like cutting grass or another servant-led task may have a different outcome.
I think you missed something here. Christ tells us it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. So if said action is good, it is lawful (ergo not sin). Thus I'm suggesting to only teach lawful actions and never once claimed unlawful actions. I get you may disagree with me, but you must see how simply claiming it's sinful is not really engaging the point. As per Christ, if it's good, it's lawful. Can you point to the flaw in this logic without just labeling it as sinful or man's wisdom? Anyone can say those things (I can fire it right back at you) but they are meaningless without critical engagement.
....and pulling sheep out of pits. Christ uses these as a segue to show that goodness breaks through the sabbath divide and even explicitly concludes in v12 "Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath". He did not stop at healing, or to save life, he said it is lawful to do good. You are reducing Christ's comments back to his explicit examples when he very clearly uses a word above these examples to show that goodness itself is lawful. But regardless even if you demand the explicit examples what exactly to you think pulling sheep out of pit is? saving sheep biblical speaking is the most obvious hint that Christ is not actually talking about sheep, he's talking about salvation. So how do we pull souls out of spiritual pits they themselves are unable to get out of? Have you every tried showing love and kindness to people? it works, and breaks through the heart, and gives you access to be able to speak the gospel. The goal is sharing the gospel, or pulling sheep out of pits. What part of what do you disagree with?
I think you missed something here. Christ tells us it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. So if said action is a sin it is not good. Thus we are suggesting to only teach lawful actions and never claimed unlawful actions as per Scripture and not our own surmising. I get you may disagree, but you must see how simply claiming it's good is not really engaging the point. As per God what sin is, Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 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: But as per Christ through God, if it's good, it's lawful as per HIS EXAMPLE. For it is written, He healed and spoke of not ignoring emergencies and things that are needful. For He said, , Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go; 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? Or on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?
The Mission is to lead to Christ who saves us from a life of sinning through His indwelling. So if we use sin to try to show Christ and His Way, we are not actually showing Christ and His Way we are showing them us and our way. In that they will be worse off than they were before. In that they will think they are and in reality they are not. For they will still be in their sin. Because the one who try to lead did so in their own surmising and will, and not through Christ.
Jesus said the Sabbath was made for humans, He could have said Jew but didn’t . Mark 2:27
The context is that a man was not supposed to be a slave to Sabbath (it was made for men, not men for Sabbath).
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A human-being is not the word for Jew which is what you inserted there. I'm a human-being and I am assuming you are too, therefore the Sabbath is made for us.
Whatever, we can brainstorm what the word means here all day, however, the main point is that the context is nothing related to your usage of the verse.
I understand this passage, which does not say anything about the Sabbath being made for Jews. Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath because He created everything including the Sabbath that He said to keep holy. Exodus 20:8
But they need context.
Agreed, not what Jesus said. The Sabbath was made for man- not just Jews
The Pharisees were adding their rules to God's commandments and was making the Sabbath a burden when it's meant to be a delight. Isaiah 58:13-14 There is no law that one cannot eat on the Sabbath. Jesus was correcting them on how to keep the Sabbath, that Jesus said was made for humans and Jesus is Lord of, so He knows who it was made for and the purpose of the Sabbath and how to correctly keep it and not once ever mentioning it was no longer to be kept.
Jesus knows what He is doing. He knew people would come after His Sabbath and would make one argument after another on why it doesn't apply to them. Your argument that the Sabbath commandment does not apply to you (gentile), Jesus made this abundantly clear it does in Mark 2:27 Isaiah 56:6-7, Isaiah 66:22-23 and even in the Sabbath commandment where it singles out foreigners Exodus 20:8-11
