Chiuta Mwana: Buku la Musambiri

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CHIUTA MWANA

Yesu na bakavu (Mwakulutirizga)

“Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.” [3] He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him: [4] how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? [5] Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? [6] I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. [7] And if you had known what this means, ‘I DESIRE MERCY, AND NOT SACRIFICE,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. [8] For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.” 1. Disciples snacking on corn on the Sabbath 2. The Pharisees disputation: “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath.” 3. Jesus’ retort: “I desire mercy and not sacrifice.”

a. Mercy to the poor and broken, not ritual faithfulness b. Compassion for the broken, not religious discipline

C. Ministry to the poor is the litmus test of authentic salvation.

IV. Jesus Identifies Himself Unreservedly with the Poor.

A. Those who cannot repay you, Luke 14.11-15 Luke 14.11-14 (ESV) - “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” [12] He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. [13] But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, [14] and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”