In this episode we continue studying the Book of Exodus. In this episode. The children of Israel are reminded to keep the Sabbath.

Moses told the people that the commandments he received are from the Lord and they should do them. We note that God said, the Sabbath was a sign between Him and the Israelites forever:

Here’s the text:

Exodus 31:16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

Exodus 31:17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

The Lord worked, he labored and created the earth and everything in it in six days.

After six days, he stopped working, he stopped creating fish, birds, plants, flowers and trees, and four legged animals, he’s no longer making mountains, and hills, or new oceans and seas, he has finished the works of creation, that’s all done.

He made a beautiful place for man to live in and rested, from those works. Now he’s sustaining and maintaining the things he created.

When the Jews, confronted Jesus for healing a man on the Sabbath, He told them the Father works, and He even works on the Sabbath.

And as His son, He worked on the sabbath too, He was working to sustain His father’s creation. He had come to take care of the people God created in his image.

God made the earth for people and the sabbath was made for people, and God’s people were sick and needed to be healed, even on the Sabbath.

They were physically and morally sick, and some were physically blind and others were spiritually blind, held under bondage because of erroneous teachings and the traditions of men, and he was working to deliver them.

He would heal them and deliver them, the process would end with his death but it would begin with his teachings.

He would teach the people everything the father told him to teach. Then he would die for their sins, and the doors of heaven would be open to them.

We note that when Jesus healed someone, especially on the Sabbath, He taught the people a divine kingdom principle.

Once when He healed a paralzyed man on the Sabbath, He taught the people that sickness may come from sin. (John 5:1-17)

Once he cast out devils and told the people if he cast out devils by the Spirit of God, it meant that the Kingdom of God had come to them. ( Matthew 12: 28)

Once he healed a lady in a synagogue on the Sabbath. He called her a daughter of Abraham, and this daughter of Abraham had been afflicted for 18 years with a spirit of infirmity. (Luke 13:11-17)

Jesus said, Satan had bound her, revealing, that sometimes infirmities come from the devil and that even the sons and daughters of god maybe afflicted by Satan's infirmities.


That although they attend church or a synagogue Satan can afflict them and church leaders should be willing to heal them, even on the Sabbath.

Yet, it appears the leaders were like, the shepherds God condemned in Ezekiel chapter 34 verse 4, when he said, the diseased they had not strengthened, nor healed the sick, nor bound the broken, nor brought again those who were driven way, nor sought those who were lost but ruled over the people with force and cruelty.

We note that when Moses asked those of a willing heart to give an offering to the Lord, they gave abundantly.

We also note that Paul used, this model when he collected an offering from the church in Corinth.
Corinth was a prosperous city and Paul was hoping the people would be willing to share their abundance with those in need.

He wanted them to give but said, he wanted them to be of a willing mind. He wanted them to give of their own free will.

He also told them, he wanted them to give according to what they had and not according to what they didn’t have. As some would be more prosperous than others.

And he didn’t want to ease others while they were burdened and suffered lack.

Here's the text:

2 Corinthians 8:12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.

2 Corinthians 8:13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

2 Corinthians 8:14 But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:

But we note that sometimes people love God so much that they want to give to him, although they have very little and will be uneased or suffer lack. Such is the case with the widow’s offering, that Jesus noted.

Here’s the text:

Mark 12:41 And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.

Mark 12:42 And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.

Mark 12:43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:

Mark 12:44 For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.

So here Jesus reveals, God knows about our finances, he knows how much money we put in the offering plate because he is watching. And he determines the value of the gift and His standards are different from ours.

The rich outwardly gave more than she did but He said, she gave more than they did because she gave all she had. She didn’t have any more money, she couldn’t even buy food afterwards.

When she gave, her money to God, she gave Him her heart, she gave Him her trust, she gave Him herself. She showed her love for God by giving Him all the money she had.

And if she gave her all to God and they misused her gift, and spent it on their lusts, instead of helping other poor widows, orphans, or the sick or imprisoned, they would receive the greater condemnation on judgment day.