Jesus Cared about the Lord’s Day. A lot.
The Lord's Day Morning November 21, 2010 Luke 14:1-6 “Jesus Cared about the Lord's Day. A lot.” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to the gospel of Luke, chapter 14, as we continue our way through this great gospel. And we come to a passage where Jesus is addressing a group of Pharisees with whom He is dining and the subject of the Sabbath comes up — the Old Testament Sabbath, the Hebrew Sabbath, the seventh day of rest which was appointed by God, commanded in Exodus and in Deuteronomy, a sign that set Israel apart from the nations around them. But especially in the five hundred years previous to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, a very, very important religious institution, around which a lot of manmade commandments had…