The Lord's Day Morning May 31, 2009 Luke 6:1-11 “Lord of the Sabbath” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Turn with me to Luke 6, as we continue our way through the Gospel of Luke. This is a passage in which one of the familiar encounters between Jesus and the Pharisees occurs. Over and over in the Gospels we find places where the Pharisees criticize Jesus’ and the disciples’ practice of the observance of the Sabbath Day. You know that the Sabbath command was a distinctive mark and sign of Israel. In Exodus, God told the children of Israel that the Sabbath was one thing that was going to set them apart from the nations. It had been given to them in the Ten Commandments as a blessing. You remember the children of Israel were a nation of slaves, and that meant that they had lived in forced…