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Luke chapter 13 verses 10 through 17. Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath

and behold there was a woman who had a disabling spirit for 18 years. She was been over and could

not fully straighten herself. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her,

woman, you are freed from your disability and he laid his hands on her and immediately she was

made straight and she glorified God. But the ruler of the synagogue indignant because Jesus

had healed on the Sabbath said to the people, there are six days in which work ought to be done.

Come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day then the Lord answered him,

you hypocrites. Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger

and lead it away to water it and ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound

for 18 years. Be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day. As he said these things, all his

adversaries were put to shame and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done

by him. So we usually just read one verse or maybe two for this podcast but I want to read this

whole story. There's obviously so much here that we could talk about but the thing I want to

emphasize most is Jesus' love for this woman, his compassion for this woman in her disability

that led him to heal her even when he knew that would make the religious leaders indignant,

mad at him and a way they would ultimately lead to them wanting to crucify, to kill him. But Jesus

loves like that. He loves people in a way that is totally counterculture to the world around us

as well as sometimes the religious world around us. And I just want to encourage us to look around

and see others today with Jesus' compassion like this, to love like Jesus loves and even specifically

to do so with men and women and children who have a variety of disabilities for us to be a reflection

of Jesus' love for everyone around us. And especially today in light of Luke 13, those who have

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