Lawd Of The Sabbath Series

JUST JESUS: CHAPTER BY CHAPTER THRU LUKE

Lawd of the Sabbath

LUKE 6:1-11

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INTRODUCTION… faithgateway.com/blogs/christian-books/christian-cuss-words

As I started to prepare my sermon, I read through Luke 6, which is where we will be today, and I noticed the word “lord” in 6:5. I wondered briefly if misusing the word ‘lord’ was a curse word. To me, saying “Good Lord” as an expression is probably not a good thing and is just an alternative to using God’s Name in vain, but then I wondered about saying: “Lordy Lordy look whose 40.” What about misspelling the word like “l-a-w-d”… does that get us around misusing the word? So, I did what any Bible-toting God-fearing Jesus-loving Spirit-led individual should never do… I googled it.

Tim Hawkins is a Christian comedian and wrote an article on the Faith Gateway website all about Christian curse words. He talks about our mouths and the obsession that many Christians have with not cursing which is a good solid Biblical command. He wanted to come up with “a list of the top 100 Christian cuss words that will suffice to help you express yourself, yet not develop too much of a testimony while doing so. The best method is to read this as fast as possible out loud in order to really gain a feel for flow and discover which ones work best for you.”

Here they are, listed in his article, in random order: “shucks, rats, gadzooks, shizzle, toot, crapola, holy moly, holy stinking moly, holy guacamole, holy mackerel, holy cow, holy smokes, holey buckets, bucket head, turd, fiddlesticks, fiddle faddle, flippin, horse hockey, horse feathers, horse patootie, phooey, bull twinkies, shut the front door, criminy, criminitly, cripes, good gravy, good grief, great googley moogley, great Caesar’s ghost, h-e double hockey sticks, bleep, son of a biscuit, son of a biscuit eater, son of a Baptist preacher, son of a bacon bit, son of a nutcracker, son of a motherless goat, for heaven’s sake, for the love of Pete, for Pete’s sake, for crying out loud, jumpin Jehoshaphat, raza fraza raza fraza, crud, crud muffin, gee willikers, mother of pearl, shucky darn, nerts, Fahrvergnügen, heavens to Betsy, Mylanta, what the hey, snot, bull snot, booger snot, fartknocker, jeepers, geeze Louise, Mother Francis, Judas Priest, Bob Saget, Pat Sajak, sheesh, booty, shut your pie hole, kiss my grits, malarkey, doo doo, caca, Bolshevik, gosh, what the what, what the devil, wingnut, ticked off, jackwagon, heck, shoot, dang, darn, darnit, dad burnit, dag nabbit, con sarnit, confound it, doggonnit, dad blame it, dad gummit, dad blast it, and suck eggs.”

Now, I am not trying to teach you to curse or to use these phrases, but I noticed in that list that the word “lord” or any sort of word like “lord” or misspelled l-a-w-d is not listed. The word “lord” is in our passage for today and that is what got me thinking about all this. I then asked Kristian and Lily who happened to be around as I was beginning my sermon and they weren’t so sure about “Lordy Lordy look whose 40” but they would not say it. They called in Melanie who wasn’t sure, but didn’t think there was anything wrong with it per se because you aren’t talking about God. I texted Kelly who said that it is taking the Lord’s Name in vain. I then decided that if I started preparing the sermon and all I was thinking about was curse words and how to curse without sinning that perhaps I needed to pray some more because obviously my mind was in the wrong place. So, I did that.

Let’s read from Luke 6. There is much in Luke 6. Luke 6 mentions the apostles by name, some of the beatitudes which are repeated from Matthew 5, teaching about love for our enemies, and important teaching about judging others. Most of us definitely need to read Luke 6:37-42 about judging others and apply it to our lives and our social media posts. Yet, it was the first 11 verses that caught my heart and mind and where we will focus our attention today.

READ LUKE 6:1-11 (ESV)

On a Sabbath, while He was going through the grain fields, His disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands. 2 But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?” 3 And Jesus answered them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: 4 how he entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those with him?” 5 And He said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.” 6 On another Sabbath, He entered the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was withered. 7 And the scribes and the Pharisees watched Him, to see whether He would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might find a reason to accuse Him. 8 But He knew their thoughts, and He said to the man with the withered hand, “Come and stand here.” And He rose and stood there. 9 And Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to destroy it?” 10 And after looking around at them all He said to him, “Stretch out your hand.” And he did so, and his hand was restored. 11 But they were filled with fury and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.