Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

It's day 300 for some of you. And for the rest of you, tomorrow will mark four whole weeks of

being with us in this plan.

Congrats to both of you. Today I had to look up Dropsy to see what it is. Apparently it's swelling, like edema. Today Jesus meets a man who is afflicted with this, and wouldn't you

know it, it's the Sabbath. Not only that, but Jesus meets this man when he's invited to a

Pharisee's house for dinner. Do you smell a

trap? Or is the fist just burning? The Pharisees likely wouldn't have allowed this man in their home

otherwise because of how they associated sickness with sin. Jesus is the one who brings it up. He asks

if it's legal to heal on the Sabbath, as if he doesn't know A, the truth, and B, that they don't

believe the truth.

He regularly asks questions he knows the answers to. They don't respond because now they feel

trapped, so Jesus just heals the guy and sends him home. Then Jesus takes the opportunity to give

some insight into kingdom values. He tells them to humble themselves, or they will be humbled.

Humility is coming, one way or another.

Then he turns to the host and says, when you have dinner parties like this, try inviting the

poor and the sick, the people you consider to be sinners. You might not get any sort of repayment

for it on earth, but that's not the point. In the long run, that is the path to blessing.

Jesus' statement probably makes things pretty awkward,

so someone else at the dinner party pipes up, either to smooth things over or as a rebuttal,

and says, everyone will be blessed to eat and drinks in the kingdom of God. But Jesus tells a

parable about what the kingdom of God is like. He illustrates how the discarded and poor

know they need God's provision,

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